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agency, or entity any personally identifying in-
formation about any client if the Secretary, re-
cipient, or subgrantee believes, based upon rea-
sonable evidence, that the client is— 
‘‘(i) a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking; 
‘‘(ii) the parent or guardian of a 
minor victim of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or 
‘‘(iii) the dependent or minor child of 
a victim of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(B) OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary shall not require or ask 
a recipient or subgrantee of any other Federal 
or State program to disclose personally identi-
fying information about any clients if the per-
sons, agencies, or entities implementing those 
programs believe, based upon reasonable evi-
dence, that those clients are— 
‘‘(i) victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking; 
‘‘(ii) the parents or guardians of 
minor victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or
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‘‘(iii) the dependents or minor chil-
dren of victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(C) HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMA-
TION
SYSTEMS.—The Secretary shall instruct 
any recipient or subgrantee under this sub-
section or any recipient or subgrantee of any 
other Federal or State program participating in 
any homeless management information system 
funded in whole or in part under this subsection 
that personally identifying information about 
any client may only be submitted to a homeless 
management information system if the program 
seeking to disclose such information has ob-
tained informed, reasonably time-limited, writ-
ten consent from the client to whom the infor-
mation relates. The Secretary may require or 
ask any recipient or subgrantee to share non-
personally identifying data in the aggregate re-
garding services to clients and nonpersonally 
identifying demographic information in order to 
comply with the data collection requirements of 
homeless management information systems. 
‘‘(D) DEFINITION.—As used in this para-
graph, the term personally identifying informa-
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tion means information from or about an indi-
vidual that could be used to identify such indi-
vidual, including— 
‘‘(i) first and last name; 
‘‘(ii) a home or other physical address, 
including street name, name of city or 
town, and ZIP code; 
‘‘(iii) an email address or other online 
contact information, such as an instant 
messaging user identifier or a screen name 
that reveals an individual’s email address; 
‘‘(iv) a telephone number; 
‘‘(v) a social security number; 
‘‘(vi) an Internet Protocol address or 
host name that identifies an individual; 
‘‘(vii) a persistent identifier, such as a 
customer number held in a ‘cookie’ or 
processor serial number, that is combined 
with other available data that identifies an 
individual; and 
‘‘(viii) any other information, includ-
ing grade point average, date of birth, aca-
demic or occupational interests, athletic or 
extracurricular interests, racial or ethnic 
background, or religious affiliation, that, in
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combination with any of the above, would 
serve to identify any individual.’’. 
SEC. 606. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOW INCOME HOUSING AS-
SISTANCE VOUCHER PROGRAM. 
Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by inserting 
after ‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and 
that an incident or incidents of actual or 
threatened domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, or stalking will not be construed 
as a serious or repeated violation of the lease by 
the victim or threatened victim of that violence 
and will not be good cause for terminating a 
lease held by the victim of such violence’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1)(B)(iii), by inserting 
after ‘‘termination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘, 
except that (I) criminal activity directly relating 
to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of 
a tenant’s household or any guest or other per-
son under the tenant’s control shall not be 
cause for termination of the tenancy, if the ten-
ant or a minor child of the tenant is a victim
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of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking and, as a result, could not 
control or prevent the criminal activity; (II) 
nothing in subclause (I) may be construed to 
limit the authority of an owner or manager, 
consistent with applicable State law, to evict or 
the public housing agency or assisted housing 
provider to terminate voucher assistance to in-
dividuals who engage in criminal acts of phys-
ical violence against family members or others; 
and (III) nothing in subclause (I) may be con-
strued to limit the authority of an owner or 
manager, consistent with applicable State law, 
to evict or the public housing agency or assisted 
housing provider to terminate voucher assist-
ance to any tenant if the owner, manager, pub-
lic housing agency, or assisted housing provider 
can demonstrate an acctual and imminent 
threat to the larger community if that tenant is 
not evicted or terminated from assistance’’; 
(2) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (6) by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7) by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and
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(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(8) the term ‘domestic violence’ has the same 
meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2); 
‘‘(9) the term ‘dating violence’ has the same 
meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2); and 
‘‘(10) the term ‘sexual assault’ has the same 
meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2).’’; 
(3) in subsection (o)— 
(A) by inserting at the end of paragraph 
(6)(B), the following new sentence: ‘‘That an 
applicant is or is perceived to be, or has been 
or has been perceived to be, a victim of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, or stalking is not 
an appropriate basis for denial of program as-
sistance by a public housing authority.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7)(C), by inserting after 
‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and that 
an incident or incidents of actual or threatened
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domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking will not be construed as a se-
rious or repeated violation of the lease by the 
victim or threatened victim of that violence and 
will not be good cause for terminating a lease 
held by the victim of such violence’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (7)(D), by inserting after 
‘‘termination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘; ex-
cept that (i) criminal activity relating to domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s 
household or any guest or other person under 
the tenant’s control shall not be cause for ter-
mination of the tenancy, if the tenant or imme-
diate member of the tenant’s family is a victim 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking and, as a result, could not 
control or prevent the criminal activity; (ii) 
nothing in clause (i) may be construed to limit 
the authority of an owner or manager, con-
sistent with applicable State law, to evict or the 
public housing agency or assisted housing pro-
vider to terminate voucher assistance to individ-
uals who engage in criminal acts of physical vi-
olence against family members or others; and
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(iii) nothing in clause (i) may be construed to 
limit the authority of an owner or manager, 
consistent with applicable State law, to evict or 
the public housing agency or assisted housing 
provider to terminate voucher assistance to any 
tenant if the owner, manager, public housing 
agency, or assisted housing provider can dem-
onstrate an accutal and imminent threat to the 
larger community if that tenant is not evicted 
or terminated from assistance’’; 
(4) in subsection (r)(5) by inserting after ‘‘vio-
lation of a lease’’ the following: ‘‘, except that a fam-
ily may receive a voucher from a public housing 
agency and move to another jurisdiction under the 
tenant-based assistance program if the family has 
moved out of the assisted dwelling unit in order to 
protect the health or safety of an individual who is 
or has been the victim of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking and who reason-
ably believed he or she was imminently threatened 
by harm from further violence if he or she remained 
in the assisted dwelling unit’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(ee) CERTIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY.—
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‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An owner, manager, 
public housing agency, or assisted housing pro-
vider responding to subsections (d)(1)(B(ii), 
(d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), and (r)(5) 
may request that an individual certify that the 
individual is a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and 
that the incident or incidents in question are 
bona fide incidents of such actual or threatened 
abuse and meet the requirements set forth in 
the aforementioned paragraphs. The individual 
shall provide a copy of such certification within 
a reasonable period of time after an owner, 
manager, public housing agency, or assisted 
housing provider requests such certification. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—An individual may sat-
isfy the certification requirement of subpara-
graph (A) by— 
‘‘(i) providing the requesting owner, 
manager, public housing agency, or as-
sisted housing provider with documentation 
signed by an employee, agent, or volunteer 
of a victim service provider, an attorney, a 
member of the clergy, a medical profes-
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sional, or any other professional, from 
whom the victim has sought assistance in 
addressing domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking or the ef-
fects of the abuse; or 
‘‘(ii) producing a Federal, State, trib-
al, territorial, or local police or court 
record. 
‘‘(C) LIMITATION.—At their discretion, the 
owner, manager, public housing agency, or as-
sisted housing provider may provide benefits to 
an individual based solely on the individual’s 
statement or other corroborating evidence but is 
not mandated to do so. 
‘‘(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—All information pro-
vided to an owner, manager, public housing 
agency, or assisted housing provider pursuant 
to paragraph (1), including the fact that an in-
dividual is a victim of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking, shall be re-
tained in the strictest confidence by such owner, 
manager, public housing agency, or assisted 
housing provider, and shall neither be entered 
into any shared database, nor provided to any
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related entity, except to the extent that disclo-
sure is— 
‘‘(i) requested or consented to by the 
individual in writing; or 
‘‘(ii) otherwise required by applicable 
law. 
‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION.—An individual must 
be notified of the limits of such confidentiality 
and informed in advance about circumstances 
in which the person or entity will be compelled 
to disclose the individual’s information.’’. 
SEC. 607. AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING PRO-
GRAM. 
Section 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437d) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by redesignating para-
graph (3) and (4), as paragraphs (4) and (5), re-
spectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) the public housing agency shall not deny 
admission to the project to any applicant on the 
basis that the applicant is or is perceived to be, or 
has been or has been perceived to be, a victim of do-
mestic violence, dating violence, or stalking’’;
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(3) in subsection (l)(5), by inserting after 
‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and that an in-
cident or incidents of actual or threatened domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking 
will not be construed as a serious or repeated viola-
tion of the lease by the victim or threatened victim 
of that violence and will not be good cause for termi-
nating a lease held by the victim of such violence’’; 
(4) in subsection (l)(6), by inserting after ‘‘ter-
mination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘; except that 
(A) criminal activity directly relating to domestic vi-
olence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, 
engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or 
any guest or other person under the tenant’s control 
shall not be cause for termination of the tenancy, if 
the tenant or immediate member of the tenant’s 
family is a victim of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking and, as a result 
could not control or prevent the criminal activity; 
(B) nothing in subparagraph (A) may be construed 
to limit the authority of a public housing agency, 
consistent with applicable State laws, to evict or the 
public housing agency or assisted housing provider 
to terminate voucher assistance to individuals who 
engage in criminal acts of physical violence against
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family members or others; ‘‘; and (C) nothing in 
subparagraph (A) may be construed to limit the au-
thority of a public housing agency, consistent with 
applicable State law, to terminate the tenancy of any 
tenant if the public housing agency can demonstrate 
an actual and imminent threat to the larger commu-
nity if that tenant’s tenancy is not terminated’’; and 
(5) by inserting at the end of subsection (t) the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(u) CERTIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A public housing 
agency responding to subsection (l) (5) and (6) 
may request that an individual certify that the 
individual is a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and 
that the incident or incidents in question are 
bona fide incidents of such actual or threatened 
abuse and meet the requirements set forth in 
the aforementioned paragraphs. The individual 
shall provide a copy of such certification within 
a reasonable period of time after the public 
housing agency requests such certification.