FAIR Assistance Act of 2014

Fairness and Accountability In Rental Assistance Act of 2014 or the FAIR Assistance Act of 2014 - Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 with respect to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Moving to Work demonstration program.

Limits the payment standard used in connection with a voucher for tenant-based rental assistance under the program, for FY2015 and thereafter, to 120% of the fair market value rental established under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for the applicable market area and size of dwelling unit.

Exempts from this limitation any family that:

• is elderly or disabled; or
• resides, at the time of a declared major disaster, and before the first adjustment to the fair market rental after the disaster declaration, in a principal residence located within the disaster area that meets other conditions and requirements as the HUD Secretary may provide.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5374 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5374

To establish a maximum limitation on the amount of the payment standard 
that may be used with respect to housing choice vouchers provided under 
   the Moving to Work program of the Department of Housing and Urban 
                              Development.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2014

  Mr. Schock introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To establish a maximum limitation on the amount of the payment standard 
that may be used with respect to housing choice vouchers provided under 
   the Moving to Work program of the Department of Housing and Urban 
                              Development.

    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 ``Fairness and Accountability In 
Rental Assistance Act of 2014'' or the ``FAIR Assistance Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON MOVING TO WORK PROGRAM PAYMENT STANDARDS.

    Section 204 of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f note; Public Law 104-134; 110 Stat. 1321-281) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Limitation on Rental Assistance Payment Standards.--
            ``(1) Limitation.--In no case may the payment standard used 
        in connection with a voucher for tenant-based rental assistance 
        provided under the demonstration under this section on behalf 
        of any family that is not a family described in paragraph (2) 
        exceed 120 percent of the fair market rental established 
        pursuant to section 8(c) of the United States Housing Act of 
        1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(c)) for the applicable market area and 
        size of dwelling unit.
            ``(2) Excluded families.--A family described in this 
        paragraph is--
                    ``(A) an elderly family (as such term is defined in 
                section 3(b)(3) of the United States Housing Act of 
                1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3));
                    ``(B) a disabled family (as such term is defined in 
                such section 3(b)(3)); or
                    ``(C) a family that resides, at the time of a major 
                disaster declared pursuant to section 401 of the Robert 
                T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
                Act (42 U.S.C. 5170), in a principal residence that is 
                located within an area for which such major disaster 
                was declared, and meets such other conditions and 
                requirements as the Secretary may provide, except that 
                this subparagraph shall not apply with respect to any 
                area after the first adjustment to the fair market 
                rental for such area occurring after the declaration of 
                such major disaster.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall apply with respect to rental 
assistance provided under the Moving to Work program pursuant to 
section 204 of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f note; Public Law 104-134; 110 Stat. 1321-281) during 
fiscal year 2015 and thereafter.
                                 <all>