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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5177 

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to expand 

certain service coordinator programs, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 8, 2023 

Mr. SMITH of Washington (for himself, Ms. BONAMICI, and Mrs. BEATTY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 

Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 

in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act 

of 1992 to expand certain service coordinator programs, 

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 ‘‘Expanding Service Co5 ordinators Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF COVERED SERVICE COORDINATOR 

2 PROGRAMS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 671 of the Housing and 

4 Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13631) 

5 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(g) PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL REQUIRE7 MENTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if 

8 a covered federally assisted housing project is eligible to 

9 receive amounts under this title to employ or retain a serv10 ice coordinator, the Secretary may not subject such cov11 ered federally assisted housing project to any additional 

12 requirements in exchange for such amounts.’’. 

13 (b) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVICE CO14 ORDINATORS.—Subtitle E of title VI of the Housing and 

15 Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13631 

16 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘SEC. 678. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS. 

18 ‘‘(a) FUNDING FOR SERVICE COORDINATOR TRAIN19 ING.—An owner of a federally assisted housing project 

20 shall, each year, reserve not less than $2,500 of amounts 

21 received to carry out a covered service coordinator pro22 gram for use by a service coordinator to access training 

23 in areas described in section 802(d)(4) of the Cranston24 Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 

25 8011(d)(4)). 


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1 ‘‘(b) SERVICE COORDINATOR TRAINING REPORTING

2 REQUIREMENT.—A service coordinator operating pursu3 ant to a covered service coordinator program shall, on an 

4 annual basis, submit to the Secretary information, as de5 termined appropriate by the Secretary, with respect to 

6 training completed by the service coordinator in the pre7 ceding year. 

8 ‘‘(c) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—The Secretary may not 

9 require an applicant for a grant under a covered service 

10 coordinator program to use all of the amounts available 

11 to the applicant prior to submitting an application for 

12 such grant. 

13 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

14 is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for the 

15 operation of covered service coordinator programs and the 

16 continuation of existing congregate service grants for resi17 dents of federally assisted housing projects $225,000,000 

18 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028. 

19 ‘‘(e) COVERED SERVICE COORDINATOR PROGRAM

20 DEFINED.—The term ‘covered service coordinator pro21 gram’ means the service coordinator programs established 

22 pursuant to— 

23 ‘‘(1) this subtitle; 

24 ‘‘(2) section 802 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na25 tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8011); 


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1 ‘‘(3) section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 

2 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); and 

3 ‘‘(4) section 8 of the United States Housing 

4 Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).’’. 

5 (c) PROVISION OF SERVICES.—Section 202(g)(3) of 

6 the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(g)(3)) is 

7 amended by inserting ‘‘, including with respect to the cal8 culation of initial rents’’ after ‘‘eligible cost under sub9 section (c)(2)’’. 

10 SEC. 3. PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN FORGIVENESS ELIGIBILITY. 

11 Section 455(m)(3)(B)(i) of the Higher Education Act 

12 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)(B)(i)) is amended by in13 serting ‘‘public service as a service coordinator,’’ after 

14 ‘‘school-based services,’’. 

15 SEC. 4. EXPANSION OF FUNDING FOR SERVICES FOR PUB16 LIC AND INDIAN HOUSING RESIDENTS. 

17 Section 34 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 

18 (42 U.S.C. 1437z–6) is amended by adding at the end 

19 the following: 

20 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

21 is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 

22 out this section $45,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 

23 through 2028.’’. 


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1 SEC. 5. STUDY ON RURAL SERVICE COORDINATION. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

3 date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller 

4 General of the United States shall conduct a study regard5 ing the coordination of the provision of supportive services 

6 (in this section referred to as ‘‘service coordination’’) by 

7 one or more individuals (in this section referred to as a 

8 ‘‘service coordinator’’) in rural covered federally assisted 

9 housing projects, which shall include the following: 

10 (1) An identification of the number of service 

11 coordinators that work in rural covered federally as12 sisted housing projects. 

13 (2) An identification of the number of rural 

14 covered federally assisted housing projects that do 

15 not employ a service coordinator. 

16 (3) A description of the effect of service coordi17 nators on the well-being of residents of rural covered 

18 federally assisted housing projects. 

19 (4) A comparison of the met and unmet needs 

20 of residents of rural covered federally assisted hous21 ing projects— 

22 (A) that employ a service coordinator; and 

23 (B) that do not employ a service coordi24 nator. 


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1 (5) A description of models of service coordina2 tion that are used in programs other than rural cov3 ered federally assisted housing projects. 

4 (6) A description of barriers, if any, to the op5 eration of service coordinators in rural covered fed6 erally assisted housing projects. 

7 (7) A description of promising service coordina8 tion practices that should be explored for use by 

9 service coordinators in rural covered federally as10 sisted housing projects, including the following: 

11 (A) Multi-site service coordination. 

12 (B) Part-time service coordination. 

13 (C) Remote service coordination. 

14 (b) REPORT.—Upon completion of the study required 

15 under subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the 

16 United States shall submit to the appropriate congres17 sional committees a report regarding the results of such 

18 study. 

19 (c) COVERED FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING DE20 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘covered federally as21 sisted housing’’ means— 

22 (1) federally assisted housing, as such term is 

23 defined in section 683(2) of the Housing and Com24 munity Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 

25 13641(2)); and 


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1 (2) housing that is assisted under section 514, 

2 515, 516, or 538 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 

3 U.S.C. 1484, 1485, 1486, or 1490p–2). 

4 SEC. 6. HRSA GRANTS FOR SERVICE COORDINATORS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

6 Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the 

7 Health Resources and Services Administration, shall es8 tablish a program to award 150 grants to eligible prop9 erties to fund service coordinators. 

10 (b) GRANT PERIOD.—A grant awarded under this 

11 section shall be for a period of 3 years, and may be re12 newed. 

13 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

14 (1) ELIGIBLE PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘eligible 

15 property’’ means a housing project with respect to 

16 which a person has claimed a credit under section 

17 42(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 

18 (2) SERVICE COORDINATOR.—The term ‘‘serv19 ice coordinator’’ has the meaning given the term in 

20 section 671 of the Housing and Community Devel21 opment Act of 1992. 

22 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

23 authorized to be appropriated in fiscal year 2024 to carry 

24 out this section $37,000,000. 

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