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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1717 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum 

allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness Program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 23, 2017 

Mr. WELCH (for himself and Mr. CRAMER) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount 

of minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance 

in Transition from Homelessness Program. 

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 ‘‘PATH Fairness Act 

5 of 2017’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MINIMUM ALLOTMENTS UNDER THE PROJECTS 

2 FOR ASSISTANCE IN TRANSITION FROM 

3 HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM. 

4 Section 524 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

5 U.S.C. 290cc–24) is amended to read as follows: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 524. DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF ALLOTMENT. 

7 ‘‘(a) DETERMINATION UNDER FORMULA.—Subject 

8 to subsection (b), the allotment required by section 521 

9 for a State for a fiscal year is the product of— 

10 ‘‘(1) an amount equal to the amount appro11 priated under section 535 for the fiscal year; and 

12 ‘‘(2) a percentage equal to the quotient of— 

13 ‘‘(A) an amount equal to the population 

14 living in urbanized areas of the State involved, 

15 as indicated by the most recent data collected 

16 by the Bureau of the Census; and 

17 ‘‘(B) an amount equal to the population 

18 living in urbanized areas of the United States, 

19 as indicated by the sum of the respective 

20 amounts determined for the States under sub21 paragraph (A). 

22 ‘‘(b) MINIMUM ALLOTMENT.— 

23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 

24 the allotment for a State under section 521 for a fis25 cal year shall, at a minimum, be the greater of— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the amount the State received under 

2 section 521 for fiscal year 2016; and 

3 ‘‘(B) $750,000 for each of the several 

4 States, the District of Columbia, and the Com5 monwealth of Puerto Rico, and $100,000 for 

6 each of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American 

7 Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 

8 Mariana Islands. 

9 ‘‘(2) CONDITION.—If the funds appropriated 

10 for any fiscal year under section 535 are insufficient 

11 to ensure that States receive a minimum allotment 

12 in accordance with paragraph (1), then— 

13 ‘‘(A) no State shall receive less than the 

14 amount received by the State in fiscal year 

15 2016; and 

16 ‘‘(B) any funds remaining after amounts 

17 are provided under subparagraph (A) shall be 

18 used to meet the requirement of paragraph 

19 (1)(B), to the maximum extent possible.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

21 Section 535(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

22 U.S.C. 290cc–35(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘$64,635,000 

23 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022’’ and inserting 


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1 ‘‘$150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 

2 2022’’. 

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