PHA Public Health Flexible Funding Act of 2020

PHA Public Health Flexible Funding Act of 2020

This bill allows public housing agencies to use certain federal funding to carry out certain operation and management activities that are designed to prevent or address the spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6296 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6296

  To provide for the use of Public Housing Operating and Capital Fund 
 amounts to address public health emergencies, 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 provide for the use of Public Housing Operating and Capital Fund 
 amounts to address public health emergencies, 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 ``PHA Public Health Flexible Funding 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. USE OF OPERATING AND CAPITAL FUND AMOUNTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any public housing 
agency plan of any public housing agency, during any fiscal year a 
public housing agency may use any amounts allocated under section 9 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) for such fiscal 
year for such agency for eligible activities under subsections (d)(1) 
and (e)(1) of such section 9 that are designed to prevent the spread of 
or address an immediate threat to the health or welfare of a community 
from infectious diseases, including the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
(COVID-19) regardless of the fund under such section 9 from which the 
amounts were allocated and provided.
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