IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1675 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 23, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under 
such section for supportive housing for persons with dis-
abilities. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 
2009’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Except as otherwise expressly 
provided, wherever in this Act an amendment or repeal 
is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, 
section 811 or any other provision of section 811, the ref-
erence shall be considered to be made to section 811 of 
the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 
(42 U.S.C. 8013). 
SEC. 2. TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH 
CERTIFICATE FUND. 
(a) TERMINATION OF MAINSTREAM TENANT-BASED 
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—Section 811 is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking the first subsection des-
ignation and all that follows through the end of 
subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(b) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE.—The 
Secretary is authorized to provide assistance to private 
nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities, which shall be pro-
vided as— 
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‘‘(1) capital advances in accordance with sub-
section (d)(1); and 
‘‘(2) contracts for project rental assistance in 
accordance with subsection (d)(2).’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘assistance under this 
paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistance under 
this subsection’’; 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (4); 
and 
(3) in subsection (l), by striking paragraph (1). 
(b) RENEWAL THROUGH SECTION 8.—Section 811 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(p) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR SEC-
TION 8 ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated for tenant-based rental assistance 
under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for persons with dis-
abilities in fiscal year 2010 the amount necessary to 
provide a number of incremental vouchers under 
such section that is equal to the number of vouchers 
provided in fiscal year 2009 under the tenant-based 
rental assistance program under subsection (d)(4) of 
this section (as in effect before the date of the enact-
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ment of the Frank Melville Supportive Housing In-
vestment Act of 2009). 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS
UPON
TURNOVER.—The 
Secretary shall develop and issue, to public housing 
agencies that receive voucher assistance made avail-
able under this subsection and to public housing 
agencies that received voucher assistance under sec-
tion 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for non-elderly disabled fami-
lies pursuant to appropriation Acts for fiscal years 
1997 through 2002 or any other subsequent appro-
priations for incremental vouchers for non-elderly 
disabled families, guidance to ensure that, to the 
maximum extent possible, such vouchers continue to 
be provided upon turnover to qualified persons with 
disabilities or to qualified non-elderly disabled fami-
lies, respectively.’’. 
SEC. 3. MODERNIZED CAPITAL ADVANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACTS.— 
Section 811 is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)(2)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(A) INITIAL
PROJECT 
RENTAL
ASSISTANCE
CONTRACT.—’’ 
after 
‘‘PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE.—’’; 
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(B) in the first sentence, by inserting after 
‘‘shall’’ the following: ‘‘comply with subsection 
(e)(2) and shall’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘annual contract amount’’ 
each place such term appears and inserting 
‘‘amount provided under the contract for each 
year covered by the contract’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) RENEWAL OF AND INCREASES IN CON-
TRACT AMOUNTS.— 
‘‘(i) EXPIRATION OF CONTRACT TERM.— 
Upon the expiration of each contract term, sub-
ject to the availability of amounts made avail-
able in appropriation Acts, the Secretary shall 
adjust the annual contract amount to provide 
for reasonable project costs, and any increases, 
including adequate reserves and service coordi-
nators, except that any contract amounts not 
used by a project during a contract term shall 
not be available for such adjustments upon re-
newal. 
‘‘(ii) EMERGENCY
SITUATIONS.—In the 
event of emergency situations that are outside 
the control of the owner, the Secretary shall in-
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