Stop Tenant Organizing Promotion Act

Stop Tenant Organizing Promotion Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from carrying out, supporting, or otherwise providing any assistance to the Tenant Resource Network Program authorized under the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.

Amends the Act to repeal the Secretary's authority to provide funding for the Program.

Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any funds currently allocated under the Program. Requires the funds to be covered into the General Fund of the Treasury and used only for reducing the federal budget deficit.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 224 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 224

   To terminate the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
  Development to provide assistance under the Tenant Resource Network 
                                Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2013

  Mrs. Black introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To terminate the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
  Development to provide assistance under the Tenant Resource Network 
                                Program.

    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 ``Stop Tenant Organizing Promotion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE UNDER THE TENANT 
              RESOURCE NETWORK PROGRAM.

    (a) Termination of Authority.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development may not carry out, support, or otherwise 
provide any assistance to the Tenant Resource Network Program 
authorized under section 514(f)(3) of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-65; 111 Stat. 1392).
    (b) Repeal of Funding Provision for the Tenant Resource Network 
Program.--Section 514(f)(3) of the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1998 is repealed.
    (c) Deficit Reduction.--Any funds made available under section 
514(f)(3) of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 that 
have been allocated for use, but not yet obligated as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act, for the Tenant Resource Network Program 
shall not be available for obligation or expenditure under such 
Program, but should be covered into the General Fund of the Treasury 
and should be used only for reducing the budget deficit of the Federal 
Government.
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