Protecting Our Elderly Residents Act of 2020

Protecting Our Elderly Residents Act of 2020

This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to issue guidance limiting nonemergency and nonresident access to public housing and supportive housing for the elderly to limit the spread of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6295 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6295

 To require issuance of guidance by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
  Development regarding protecting the homeless who reside in certain 
federally assisted properties from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
                      19), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require issuance of guidance by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
  Development regarding protecting the homeless who reside in certain 
federally assisted properties from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
                      19), and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Our Elderly Residents Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. GUIDANCE ON ACCESS TO PROPERTIES.

    Not later than the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall issue guidance setting forth limitations on non-
emergency and non-resident access to public housing (as such term is 
defined in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437a(b))) and projects for supportive housing for the elderly 
assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) 
designed to limit the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
19).
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