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

Amends the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, relating to the tenant-based rental assistance program, to exempt certain students with disabilities from the prohibition against providing Section 8 assistance to college students.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2591 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2591

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 6, 2006

 Mr. DeWine (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Harkin, and Mr. Voinovich) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


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

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

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES FROM SECTION 8 RENTAL 
              ASSISTANCE PROHIBITION.

    Section 327(a) 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 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''.
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