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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6378 

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 

NOVEMBER 17, 2016 

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 2016’’. 


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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 in 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 in fiscal year 2015; 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 in 

10 any fiscal year under section 535 are insufficient to 

11 ensure that States receive a minimum allotment in 

12 accordance with paragraph (1), then— 

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

14 amount they received in fiscal year 2015; and 

15 ‘‘(B) any funds remaining after amounts 

16 are provided under subparagraph (A) shall be 

17 used to meet the requirement of paragraph 

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

19 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 535 of 

21 the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc–35) is 

22 amended by striking ‘‘$75,000,000 for each of the fiscal 

23 years 2001 through 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$150,000,000 

24 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 


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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 521 of the 

2 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc–21) is amend3 ed by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1991 through 1994’’ and in4 serting ‘‘fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 

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