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[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 27 Introduced in House (IH)]

108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 27

 To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt small public 
  housing agencies from the requirement of preparing an annual public 
                          housing agency plan.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2003

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

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt small public 
  housing agencies from the requirement of preparing an annual public 
                          housing agency plan.

    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 ``Small Public Housing Authority 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY PLANS FOR SMALL PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.

     Section 5A of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437c-1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) Exemption for small phas.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1) or 
                any other provision of this Act--
                            ``(i) the requirement under paragraph (1) 
                        shall not apply to any small public housing 
                        agency; and
                            ``(ii) any reference in this section or any 
                        other provision of law to a `public housing 
                        agency' shall not be considered to refer to any 
                        small public housing agency, to the extent such 
                        reference applies to the requirement to submit 
                        a public housing agency plan under subsection 
                        (b).
                    ``(B) Definition.--For purposes of this paragraph, 
                the term `small public housing agency' means a public 
                housing agency that--
                            ``(i) administers 100 or less public 
                        housing dwelling units; and
                            ``(ii) is not designated pursuant to 
                        section 6(j)(2) as a troubled public housing 
                        agency.''; and
            (2) in subsection (k)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                    (C) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (C) as 
                paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, and by realigning 
                such paragraphs (as so redesignated) so as to be 
                indented 2 ems from the left margin.
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