I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6149 
To enhance housing and emergency assistance to victims of Hurricanes 
Katrina, Rita, and Wilma of 2005, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 
Mr. AL GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Ms. 
CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. CONYERS, 
Ms. CARSON, Mr. HONDA, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. STARK, and Mr. 
GRIJALVA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Financial Services and the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To enhance housing and emergency assistance to victims 
of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma of 2005, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gulf Coast Housing 
Accessibility Act of 2006’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall allocate additional assistance for project- 
based housing vouchers under section 8(o)(13) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)) for individuals and households located with-
in the area in which assistance to individuals has been au-
thorized by the President under a declaration of a major 
disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act, as a consequence of Hurricane 
Katrina, Rita, or Wilma of 2005. 
(b) AUTHORIZED USES.—The Secretary shall make 
funds available under this section for project-based vouch-
ers used to support— 
(1) affordable housing in repaired or rebuilt 
housing that has been damaged or destroyed as a 
consequence of Hurricane Katrina, Rita, or Wilma 
of 2005; or 
(2) to support affordable housing in new hous-
ing structures in the affected areas created under 
the low income housing tax credit under section 42 
or section 1400N(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986. 
(c) FUNDS.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Of amounts authorized 
under this section, funds shall be made available for 
4,500 project-based vouchers for— 
(A) support of housing units for persons, 
including adults and children, with disabilities; 
(B) elderly families; and 
(C) individuals and families who were 
homeless prior to the occurrence of the disaster. 
(2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this subsection: 
(A) DISABILITY.—The term ‘‘disability’’ 
has the same meaning as in section 422(2) of 
the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11382(2)). 
(B) HOMELESS.—The term ‘‘homeless’’ 
has the same meaning as the term ‘‘homeless 
children and youths’’ as defined in section 
725(2) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a(2)), except that 
such term shall also include any adult indi-
vidual who is homeless. 
(d) REQUESTS
FOR ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall award the project-based vouchers authorized under 
this section to a State agency designated by the Governor 
of the State, upon submission of a request to the Sec-
retary, in such form and containing such information as 
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the Secretary may require. If a State agency is unable to 
provide such a request, a local housing agency may submit 
the request for funds to implement project-based vouchers 
under this section. If a State agency enters into an agree-
ment with 1 or more local housing agencies to transfer 
the administration of vouchers after commitment to a par-
ticular development, the Secretary shall make the appro-
priate transfer. 
(e) EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN LIMITATIONS.—The 
limitation provided for in section 8(o)(13)(B) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)(B)) shall not apply to the project-based 
vouchers allocated and administered under this section. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary $200,000,000 for pur-
poses of allocating and administering project-based 
assistance under section 8(o)(13) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)), which shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
(2) PURPOSE.—Such funds are authorized for 
the purpose of ensuring that 25 percent of the units 
created, repaired, or refurbished under the low in-
come housing tax credit under section 42 or section 
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1400N(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, are 
affordable to very low-income and extremely low-in-
come individuals and households. 
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall become ef-
fective upon appropriation of the necessary funds to carry 
out this section. 
(h) OFFSET.—Section 843(a) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by— 
(1) inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(a)’’; and 
(2) adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) The Attorney General shall collect a user fee 
from each licensee under this section of $0.02 per pound 
for any commercial, non-military explosive material manu-
factured in or imported into the United States by that 
licensee.’’. 
SEC. 3. FEMA HOUSING ASSISTANCE. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO STAFFORD DISASTER RELIEF 
AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE ACT.—Section 408(c)(1) 
of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174(c)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in the paragraph heading, by inserting 
‘‘SEMIPERMANENT, AND PERMANENT’’ after ‘‘TEM-
PORARY’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B) 
(A) in clause (i)— 
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