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Union Calendar No. 858 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1511 
[Report No. 115–1026, Part I] 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to meet the needs 
of homeless children, youth, and families, and honor the assessments 
and priorities of local communities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2017 
Mr. STIVERS (for himself and Mr. LOEBSACK) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addi-
tion to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Financial Services with amendments 
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic] 
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 
Referral to the Committee on Education and the Workforce extended for a 
period ending not later than December 28, 2018 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. WALZ, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. JAYAPAL, 
Mr. LIPINSKI, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. POCAN, Ms. MOORE, Ms. 
BONAMICI, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. YOUNG of Iowa, Ms. HANABUSA, Mr. 
CARBAJAL, Mr. BACON, Mr. POSEY, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS 
of Illinois, Mr. CLAY, Mr. HILL, and Mr. BERA 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged; committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered 
to be printed 
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A BILL 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
meet the needs of homeless children, youth, and families, 
and honor the assessments and priorities of local commu-
nities. 
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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 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE MCKINNEY-VENTO HOME-
LESS ASSISTANCE ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act is amended— 
(1) in section 103 (42 U.S.C. 11302)— 
(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: 
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‘‘(6) a child or youth defined as homeless under 
another Federal program who, without further ac-
tion by the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment, has been verified as homeless under an-
other Federal program by the director, designee of 
the director, or other person responsible for the im-
plementation of a program established under this 
Act or any other Federal statute.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘child or youth defined as home-
less under another Federal program’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 401; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘other Federal statute’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 401. 
‘‘(g) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may not— 
‘‘(1) promulgate any rule with respect to the 
definition of the terms ‘homeless’, ‘homeless indi-
vidual’, and ‘homeless person’ in subsection (a); or 
‘‘(2) issue non-regulatory guidance or set forth 
in an application, a notice of funding availability, or 
other publication or advisory any statement or provi-
sion that— 
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‘‘(A) has the effect of restricting eligibility 
for assistance for any individual defined as 
‘homeless’ under subsection (a) for any pro-
gram or program component under this Act; or 
‘‘(B) purports to be legally binding.’’; 
(2) in section 401 (42 U.S.C. 11360)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(C)— 
(i) by striking clauses (ii) and (iv); 
(ii) by redesignating clauses (iii), (v), 
(vi), and (vii) as clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), and 
(v), respectively; and 
(iii) by striking the flush text fol-
lowing clause (v), as so redesignated; 
(B) by striking paragraph (7); 
(C) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(2) 
through (6) as paragraphs (3) through (7), re-
spectively; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) CHILD OR YOUTH DEFINED AS HOMELESS 
UNDER
ANOTHER
FEDERAL
PROGRAM.—The term 
‘child or youth defined as homeless under another 
Federal program’ means— 
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