I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8866 
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 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 
Mr. SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee 
on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in 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. 
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 ‘‘Expanding Service Co-
ordinators Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF COVERED SERVICE COORDINATOR 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVICE CO-
ORDINATORS.—Subtitle E of title VI of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13631 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 678. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘(a) FUNDING FOR SERVICE COORDINATOR TRAIN-
ING.—An owner of a federally assisted housing project 
shall, each year, reserve not less than $2,500 of amounts 
received to carry out a covered service coordinator pro-
gram for use by a service coordinator to access training 
in areas described in section 802(d)(4) of the Cranston- 
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8011(d)(4)). 
‘‘(b) SERVICE COORDINATOR TRAINING REPORTING 
REQUIREMENT.—A service coordinator operating pursu-
ant to a covered service coordinator program shall, on an 
annual basis, submit to the Secretary information, as de-
termined appropriate by the Secretary, with respect to 
training completed by the service coordinator in the pre-
ceding year. 
‘‘(c) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—The Secretary may not 
require an applicant for a grant under a covered service 
coordinator program to use all of the amounts available 
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to the applicant prior to submitting an application for 
such grant. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for the 
operation of covered service coordinator programs and the 
continuation of existing congregate service grants for resi-
dents of federally assisted housing projects $225,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. 
‘‘(e) COVERED SERVICE COORDINATOR PROGRAM 
DEFINED.—The term ‘covered service coordinator pro-
gram’ means the service coordinator programs established 
pursuant to— 
‘‘(1) this subtitle; 
‘‘(2) section 802 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8011); 
‘‘(3) section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 
(12 U.S.C. 1701q); and 
‘‘(4) section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).’’. 
(b) PROVISION OF SERVICES.—Section 202(g)(3) of 
the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(g)(3)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, including with respect to the cal-
culation of initial rents’’ after ‘‘eligible cost under sub-
section (c)(2)’’. 
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