Disabled Veteran Housing Simplification Act of 2007

Disabled Veteran Housing Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to exempt from the community service requirement applicable to adult residents of a public housing project an individual who has been determined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled, and who is unable to comply with such requirement, or is a primary caretaker of such individual.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 403 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 403

  To amend section 12(c) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to 
 exempt residents of public housing who are determined by the Veterans 
    Administration to be permanently and totally disabled from the 
               requirement to perform community service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2007

  Ms. Carson (for herself, Mr. Israel, Mr. Clay, Ms. Corrine Brown of 
 Florida, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Filner, Ms. Lee, Mr. Hare, and 
Mr. Gutierrez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 12(c) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to 
 exempt residents of public housing who are determined by the Veterans 
    Administration to be permanently and totally disabled from the 
               requirement to perform community service.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disabled Veteran Housing 
Simplification Act of 2007''.

SEC. 1. EXEMPTION FROM COMMUNITY SERVICE REQUIREMENT.

    Subsection (c)(2) of section 12 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437j(c)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E) as 
        subparagraphs (D), (E), and (F), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(C) has been determined by the Secretary of 
                Veterans Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled 
                for purposes of chapter 15 of title 38, United States 
                Code, and who is unable to comply with the requirement 
                under paragraph (1), or is a primary caretaker of such 
                individual;''.
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