I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 576 
To amend the definition of ‘‘homeless person’’ under the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act to include certain homeless children and youth, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2015 
Mr. STIVERS (for himself, Mr. LOEBSACK, and Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial 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 juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the definition of ‘‘homeless person’’ under the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to include cer-
tain homeless children and youth, 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 ‘‘Homeless Children and 
Youth Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE MCKINNEY-VENTO HOME-
LESS ASSISTANCE ACT. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11301 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 103— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (5)(A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘are sharing’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘charitable 
organizations,’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘14 days’’ each 
place that term appears and inserting 
‘‘30 days’’; 
(III) in clause (i), by inserting 
‘‘or’’ after the semicolon; 
(IV) by striking clause (ii); and 
(V) by redesignating clause (iii) 
as clause (ii); and 
(ii) by amending paragraph (6) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(6) unaccompanied youth and homeless fami-
lies with children and youth defined as homeless 
under other Federal statutes who— 
‘‘(A) are certified as homeless by the direc-
tor or designee of a director of a program fund-
ed under any other Federal statute; or 
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‘‘(B) have been certified by a director or 
designee of a director of a program funded 
under this Act or a director or designee of a di-
rector of a public housing agency as lacking a 
fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime resi-
dence, which shall include— 
‘‘(i) temporarily sharing the housing 
of another person due to loss of housing, 
economic hardship, or other similar reason; 
or 
‘‘(ii) living in a room in a motel or 
hotel.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘other Federal statute’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 401; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘public housing agency’ means an 
agency described in section 3(b)(6) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(6)).’’; 
(2) in section 401— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(C)— 
(i) by striking clause (iv); and 
(ii) by redesignating clauses (v), (vi), 
and (vii) as clauses (iv), (v), and (vi); 
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(B) in paragraph (7)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Federal statute other 
than this subtitle’’ and inserting ‘‘other 
Federal statute’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘of’’ before ‘‘this 
Act’’; 
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (14) 
through (33) as paragraphs (15) through (34), 
respectively; and 
(D) by adding after paragraph (13) the 
following: 
‘‘(14) OTHER FEDERAL STATUTE.—The term 
‘other Federal statute’ includes— 
‘‘(A) the Runaway and Homeless Youth 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.); 
‘‘(B) the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 
et seq.); 
‘‘(C) subtitle N of the Violence Against 
Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e et 
seq.); 
‘‘(D) section 330(h) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(h)); 
‘‘(E) section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act 
of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786); 
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‘‘(F) the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.); and 
‘‘(G) subtitle B of title VII of this Act.’’; 
(3) by inserting after section 408 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 409. PUBLIC REPORT ON HMIS DATA. 
‘‘The Secretary shall aggregate and publicly report 
information provided to the Secretary pursuant to section 
402(f)(3) and shall ensure that any public report does not 
contain personally identifiable information.’’; 
(4) in section 422— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) RESTRICTION.—In awarding grants under 
paragraph (1), the Secretary may not consider or 
prioritize the specific homeless populations intended 
to be served by the applicant if the applicant dem-
onstrates that the project— 
‘‘(A) would meet the priorities identified in 
the plan submitted under section 427(b)(1)(B); 
and 
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‘‘(B) is cost-effective in meeting the overall 
goals and objectives identified in that plan.’’; 
and 
(B) by striking subsection (j); 
(5) in section 424(d), by striking paragraph 
(5); 
(6) in section 427(b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in clause (vi), by adding 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in clause (vii), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(III) by striking clause (viii); 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in clause (iii), by adding 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in clause (iv)(VI), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(III) by striking clause (v); 
(iii) in subparagraph (E), by adding 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iv) by striking subparagraph (F); and 
(v) by redesignating subparagraph (G) 
as subparagraph (F); and 
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(B) by striking paragraph (3); and 
(7) by amending section 433 to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 433. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall submit to 
Congress an annual report, which shall— 
‘‘(1) summarize the activities carried out under 
this subtitle and set forth the findings, conclusions, 
and recommendations of the Secretary as a result of 
the activities; and 
‘‘(2) include, for the year preceding the date on 
which the report is submitted— 
‘‘(A) data required to be made publically 
available in the report submitted under section 
409; and 
‘‘(B) data on programs funded under any 
other Federal statute, as such term is defined 
in section 401. 
‘‘(b) TIMING.—A report under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted not later than 4 months after the end of each 
fiscal year.’’. 
Æ 
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