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(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and all 
that follows through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘fiscal 
year 2016.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September’’ and all that 
follows through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘September 
30, 2016.’’. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds in this Act provided to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development may be used to make 
a grant award unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business days 
before any project, State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit 
organization, or other entity selected to receive a grant award 
is announced by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 230. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 231. None of the funds made available by this Act nor 
any receipts or amounts collected under any Federal Housing 
Administration program may be used to implement the Home-
owners Armed with Knowledge (HAWK) program. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government 
National Mortgage Administration, or the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal 
guarantee of any mortgage or mortgage backed security that 
refinances or otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject 
to eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, munici-
pality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 233. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to terminate the status of a unit of general local government 
as a metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with 
respect to grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 234. Amounts made available under this Act which are 
either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, 
or transferred to the Office of Policy Development and Research 
in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and func-
tions thereof, for research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and 
which are unexpended at the time of completion of a contract, 
grant, or cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall 
immediately become available and may be reobligated in that fiscal 
year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, evaluation, 
or statistical purposes for which the amounts are made available 
to that Office subject to reprogramming requirements in section 
405 of this Act. 
SEC. 235. Subsection (b) of section 225 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12755) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Such 30-day 
waiting period is not required if the grounds for the termination 
or refusal to renew involve a direct threat to the safety of the 
tenants or employees of the housing, or an imminent and serious 
threat to the property (and the termination or refusal to renew 
is in accordance with the requirements of State or local law).’’. 
SEC. 236. None of the funds under this title may be used 
for awards, including performance, special act, or spot, for any 
employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
who is subject to administrative discipline in fiscal year 2016, 
including suspension from work.
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SEC. 237. The language under the heading ‘‘Rental Assistance 
Demonstration’’ in the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55) is amended: 
(1) In proviso eighteen, by inserting ‘‘for fiscal year 2012 
and hereafter,’’ after ‘‘Provided further, That’’; and 
(2) In proviso nineteen, by striking ‘‘, which may extend 
beyond fiscal year 2016 as necessary to allow processing of 
all timely applications,’’. 
SEC. 238. Section 526 (12 U.S.C. 1735f–4) of the National 
Housing Act is amended by inserting at the end of subsection 
(b): 
‘‘(c) The Secretary may establish an exception to any minimum 
property standard established under this section in order to address 
alternative water systems, including cisterns, which meet require-
ments of State and local building codes that ensure health and 
safety standards.’’. 
SEC. 239. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall increase, pursuant to this section, the number of Moving 
to Work agencies authorized under section 204, title II, of the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public 
Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321) by adding to the program 100 public 
housing agencies that are designated as high performing agencies 
under the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) or the Section 
Eight Management Assessment Program (SEMAP). No public 
housing agency shall be granted this designation through this sec-
tion that administers in excess of 27,000 aggregate housing vouchers 
and public housing units. Of the agencies selected under this sec-
tion, no less than 50 shall administer 1,000 or fewer aggregate 
housing voucher and public housing units, no less than 47 shall 
administer 1,001-6,000 aggregate housing voucher and public 
housing units, and no more than 3 shall administer 6,001–27,000 
aggregate housing voucher and public housing units. Of the 100 
agencies selected under this section, five shall be agencies with 
portfolio awards under the Rental Assistance Demonstration that 
meet the other requirements of this section, including current des-
ignations as high performing agencies or such designations held 
immediately prior to such portfolio awards. Selection of agencies 
under this section shall be based on ensuring the geographic diver-
sity of Moving to Work agencies. In addition to the preceding 
selection criteria, agencies shall be designated by the Secretary 
over a 7-year period. The Secretary shall establish a research 
advisory committee which shall advise the Secretary with respect 
to specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation 
for the demonstration. The advisory committee shall include pro-
gram and research experts from the Department, a fair representa-
tion of agencies with a Moving to Work designation, and inde-
pendent subject matter experts in housing policy research. For 
each cohort of agencies receiving a designation under this heading, 
the Secretary shall direct one specific policy change to be imple-
mented by the agencies, and with the approval of the Secretary, 
such agencies may implement additional policy changes. All agen-
cies designated under this section shall be evaluated through rig-
orous research as determined by the Secretary, and shall provide 
information requested by the Secretary to support such oversight 
and evaluation, including the targeted policy changes. Research 
and evaluation shall be coordinated under the direction of the
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Secretary, and in consultation with the advisory committee, and 
findings shall be shared broadly. The Secretary shall consult the 
advisory committee with respect to policy changes that have proven 
successful and can be applied more broadly to all public housing 
agencies, and propose any necessary statutory changes. The Sec-
retary may, at the request of a Moving to Work agency and one 
or more adjacent public housing agencies in the same area, des-
ignate that Moving to Work agency as a regional agency. A regional 
Moving to Work agency may administer the assistance under sec-
tions 8 and 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f and g) for the participating agencies within its region pursu-
ant to the terms of its Moving to Work agreement with the Sec-
retary. The Secretary may agree to extend the term of the agree-
ment and to make any necessary changes to accommodate regional-
ization. A Moving to Work agency may be selected as a regional 
agency if the Secretary determines that unified administration of 
assistance under sections 8 and 9 by that agency across multiple 
jurisdictions will lead to efficiencies and to greater housing choice 
for low-income persons in the region. For purposes of this expansion, 
in addition to the provisions of the Act retained in section 204, 
section 8(r)(1) of the Act shall continue to apply unless the Secretary 
determines that waiver of this section is necessary to implement 
comprehensive rent reform and occupancy policies subject to evalua-
tion by the Secretary, and the waiver contains, at a minimum, 
exceptions for requests to port due to employment, education, health 
and safety. No public housing agency granted this designation 
through this section shall receive more funding under sections 
8 or 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 than it otherwise 
would have received absent this designation. The Secretary shall 
extend the current Moving to Work agreements of previously des-
ignated participating agencies until the end of each such agency’s 
fiscal year 2028 under the same terms and conditions of such 
current agreements, except for any changes to such terms or condi-
tions otherwise mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and any 
such agency and such extension agreements shall prohibit any 
statutory offset of any reserve balances equal to 4 months of oper-
ating expenses. Any such reserve balances that exceed such amount 
shall remain available to any such agency for all permissible pur-
poses under such agreement unless subject to a statutory offset. 
In addition to other reporting requirements, all Moving to Work 
agencies shall report financial data to the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development as specified by the Secretary, so that 
the effect of Moving to Work policy changes can be measured. 
SEC. 240. (a) AUTHORITY.—Subject to the conditions in sub-
section (d), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may 
authorize, in response to requests received in fiscal years 2016 
through 2020, the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, 
tenant-based assistance, capital advances, debt, and statutorily 
required use restrictions from housing assisted under section 811 
of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013) to other new or existing housing, which may include 
projects, units, and other types of housing, as permitted by the 
Secretary. 
(b) CAPITAL ADVANCES.—Interest shall not be due and repay-
ment of a capital advance shall not be triggered by a transfer 
pursuant to this section. 
(c) PHASED AND PROPORTIONAL TRANSFERS.—
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(1) Transfers under this section may be done in phases 
to accommodate the financing and other requirements related 
to rehabilitating or constructing the housing to which the assist-
ance is transferred, to ensure that such housing meets the 
conditions under subsection (d). 
(2) The capital advance repayment requirements, use 
restrictions, rental assistance, and debt shall transfer propor-
tionally from the transferring housing to the receiving housing. 
(d) CONDITIONS.—The transfers authorized by this section shall 
be subject to the following conditions: 
(1) the owner of the transferring housing shall demonstrate 
that the transfer is in compliance with applicable Federal, 
State, and local requirements regarding Housing for Persons 
with Disabilities and shall provide the Secretary with evidence 
of obtaining any approvals related to housing disabled persons 
that are necessary under Federal, State, and local government 
requirements; 
(2) the owner of the transferring housing shall demonstrate 
to the Secretary that any transfer is in the best interest of 
the disabled residents by offering opportunities for increased 
integration or less concentration of individuals with disabilities; 
(3) the owner of the transferring housing shall continue 
to provide the same number of units as approved for rental 
assistance by the Secretary in the receiving housing; 
(4) the owner of the transferring housing shall consult 
with the disabled residents in the transferring housing about 
any proposed transfer under this section and shall notify the 
residents of the transferring housing who are eligible for assist-
ance to be provided in the receiving housing that they shall 
not be required to vacate the transferring housing until the 
receiving housing is available for occupancy; 
(5) the receiving housing shall meet or exceed applicable 
physical standards established or adopted by the Secretary; 
and 
(6) if the receiving housing has a mortgage insured under 
title II of the National Housing Act, any lien on the receiving 
housing resulting from additional financing shall be subordinate 
to any federally insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed 
on, such housing, except that the Secretary may waive this 
requirement upon determination that such a waiver is nec-
essary to facilitate the financing of acquisition, construction, 
or rehabilitation of the receiving housing. 
(e) PUBLIC NOTICE.—The Secretary shall publish a notice in 
the Federal Register of the terms and conditions, including criteria 
for the Department’s approval of transfers pursuant to this section 
no later than 30 days before the effective date of such notice. 
SEC. 241. (a) Of the unobligated balances, including recaptures 
and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development under the heading ‘‘Gen-
eral and Special Risk Program Account’’, and for the cost of guaran-
teed notes and other obligations under the heading ‘‘Native Amer-
ican Housing Block Grants’’, $12,000,000 is hereby permanently 
rescinded. 
(b) All unobligated balances, including recaptures and carry-
over, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development under the headings ‘‘Rural 
Housing and Economic Development’’, and ‘‘Homeownership and