Pets Belong With Families Act

Pets Belong With Families Act

This bill prohibits public housing agencies from imposing breed restrictions on pets owned by residents of public housing units. The bill continues to allow public housing agencies to prohibit ownership of dangerous animals in public housing, but prohibits classification as dangerous by breed and requires that any such classification be based on specific behaviors or actions of the animal.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5828 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5828

To prohibit public housing agencies from imposing breed restrictions on 
household pets owned by residents of dwelling units in public housing, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 2, 2021

Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Underwood, and Ms. Bush) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit public housing agencies from imposing breed restrictions on 
household pets owned by residents of dwelling units in public housing, 
                        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 ``Pets Belong With Families Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON BREED RESTRICTIONS.

    Section 31 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437z-3) is amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following:
    ``(b) Reasonable Requirements.--
            ``(1) In general.--The reasonable requirements referred to 
        in subsection (a) may include--
                    ``(A) limitations on the number of animals in a 
                unit, based on unit size;
                    ``(B) prohibitions on types of animals that are 
                classified as dangerous, provided that classification 
                is based on specific behaviors or actions by the animal 
                and is not based on the breed of the animal; and
                    ``(C) restrictions or prohibitions based on size 
                and type of building or project, or other relevant 
                conditions.
            ``(2) Limitation.--The reasonable requirements referred to 
        in subsection (a) may not include prohibitions on breeds of 
        animals.''.
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