To exempt persons with disabilities from the prohibition against providing section 8 rental assistance to college students.

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 13, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends provisions of the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 concerning the tenant-based rental assistance program to exempt certain disabled students who were receiving such assistance as of November 30, 2005, from the prohibition against providing Section 8 assistance to college students.

[109th Congress Public Law 249]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 109-249
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
    To exempt persons with disabilities from the prohibition against 
providing section 8 rental assistance to college students. <<NOTE: July 
                       27, 2006 -  [H.R. 5117]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. <<NOTE: Housing.>> EXEMPTION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
            FROM SECTION 8 RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROHIBITION.

    Subsection (a) of section 327 of Public Law 109-115 (119 Stat. 2466) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such term is 
        defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act 
        of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving 
        assistance under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; and''.

    Approved July 27, 2006.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5117
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 109-500 (Comm. on Financial Services).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 152 (2006):
            June 13, considered and passed House.
            July 18, considered and passed Senate.

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