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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4133 

To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to ensure accountability 

in the provision of public housing, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 30, 2015 

Mr. BYRNE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to ensure 

accountability in the provision of public housing, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Public Housing Ac5 countability Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. INCOME REVIEWS. 

7 Section 3(a) of the United States Housing Act of 

8 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)) is amended— 

9 (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1)— 


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1 (A) by striking ‘‘at the time of their initial 

2 occupancy of such units.’’; and 

3 (B) by inserting a period after ‘‘low-income 

4 families’’; 

5 (2) by amending the second sentence of para6 graph (1) to read as follows: ‘‘Reviews of family in7 come shall be made at the time of their initial occu8 pancy of such units, at least annually, and as re9 quired by paragraph (6)’’; and 

10 (3) by adding at the end the following new 

11 paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(6) REVIEWS OF FAMILY INCOME.—Reviews of 

13 family income for purposes of this section shall be 

14 made at any time the income or deductions (under 

15 subsection (b)(5)) of the family change by an 

16 amount that is estimated to result in an increase of 

17 10 percent or more in annual adjusted income, or 

18 such other amount as the Secretary may by notice 

19 establish, except that a public housing agency or 

20 owner may elect not to conduct such review in the 

21 last three months of a certification period.’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO OCCUPANCY BY OVER-INCOME 

2 FAMILIES IN CERTAIN PUBLIC HOUSING. 

3 Paragraph (5) of section 3(a) of the United States 

4 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)) is amended 

5 to read as follows: 

6 ‘‘(5) OCCUPANCY BY OVER-INCOME FAMILIES IN

7 CERTAIN PUBLIC HOUSING.— 

8 ‘‘(A) NOTICE.—If a public housing agency 

9 determines that a family residing in a dwelling 

10 unit in public housing is an over-income family 

11 because of an income review conducted under 

12 this subsection, the public housing agency shall 

13 notify such family of that determination. 

14 ‘‘(B) TERMINATION OF TENANCY.—Within 

15 30 days of receipt of a notice described in sub16 paragraph (A), an over-income family residing 

17 in a dwelling unit in public housing— 

18 ‘‘(i) may submit an appeal of deter19 mination that includes additional docu20 mentation that was not included during 

21 the income review to confirm eligibility for 

22 tenancy in public housing; or 

23 ‘‘(ii) shall vacate the dwelling unit. 

24 ‘‘(C) PHA APPEALS DETERMINATION.—A 

25 public housing agency shall review an appeal 

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1 tify the over-income family about the results of 

2 an appeal within 30 days of receipt of the ap3 peal. If the public housing agency finds in such 

4 review that the over-income family is ineligible 

5 for tenancy in public housing, the family shall 

6 vacate the dwelling unit within 30 days of re7 ceipt of the results of an appeal. 

8 ‘‘(D) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 

9 paragraph, the term ‘over-income family’ means 

10 an individual or family ineligible to reside in a 

11 dwelling unit in public housing because such 

12 family is not a low-income family at the time— 

13 ‘‘(i) an annual income review is con14 ducted under paragraph (1); or 

15 ‘‘(ii) a review is conducted pursuant 

16 to paragraph (6).’’. 

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