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(2) actions that the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development is taking to protect tenants of such identified 
properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative recommendations to 
further improve the living conditions at properties covered 
under a housing assistance payment contract. 
This report shall be due to the Senate and House Committees 
on Appropriations no later than 30 days after the enactment of 
this Act, and on the first business day of each Federal fiscal year 
quarter thereafter while this section remains in effect. 
SEC. 223. None of the funds made available by this Act, or 
any other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with 
respect to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 
9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et 
seq.), may be used by any public housing agency for any amount 
of salary, including bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual 
rate of basic pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule at any time during any public housing agency fiscal year 
2018. 
SEC. 224. Notwithstanding section 24(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may, until September 30, 2018, obligate 
any available unobligated balances made available under the 
heading ‘‘Choice Neighborhoods Initiative’’ in this Act or any prior 
Act. 
SEC. 225. 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. 226. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 227. 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. 228. 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. 229. 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,
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or statistical purposes for which the amounts are made available 
to that Office subject to reprogramming requirements in section 
405 of this Act. 
SEC. 230. None of the funds provided in this Act or any other 
act may be used for awards, including performance, special act, 
or spot, for any employee of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development who has been subject to administrative discipline 
in fiscal years 2017 or 2018, including suspension from work. 
SEC. 231. Funds made available in this title under the heading 
‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ may be used by the Secretary to 
participate in Performance Partnership Pilots authorized under sec-
tion 526 of division H of Public Law 113–76, section 524 of division 
G of Public Law 113–235, section 525 of division H of Public 
Law 114–113, and such authorities as are enacted for Performance 
Partnership Pilots in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2018: 
Provided, That such participation shall be limited to no more than 
10 continuums of care and housing activities to improve outcomes 
for disconnected youth. 
SEC. 232. With respect to grant amounts awarded under the 
heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fiscal years 2015, 2016, 
2017, and 2018 for the continuum of care (CoC) program as author-
ized under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act, costs paid by program income of grant recipients 
may count toward meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, 
provided the costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the recipi-
ent’s CoC program. 
SEC. 233. (a) From amounts made available under this title 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, the Secretary 
may award 1-year transition grants to recipients of funds for activi-
ties under subtitle C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum 
of Care program component to another. 
(b) No more than 50 percent of each transition grant may 
be used for costs of eligible activities of the program component 
originally funded. 
(c) Transition grants made under this section are eligible for 
renewal in subsequent fiscal years for the eligible activities of 
the new program component. 
(d) In order to be eligible to receive a transition grant, the 
funding recipient must have the consent of the Continuum of Care 
and meet standards determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 234. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to direct a grantee to undertake specific changes to existing zoning 
laws as part of carrying out the final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively 
Furthering Fair Housing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) 
or the notice entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 
Assessment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 2014)). 
SEC. 235. Section 218(g) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12748(g)) shall not apply with 
respect to the right of a jurisdiction to draw funds from its HOME 
Investment Trust Fund that otherwise expired or would expire 
in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020 under that section. 
SEC. 236. Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing 
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is 
amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2017’’ each place it appears and 
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘October 1, 2022’’.
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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), as amended 
by Public Law 113–76, Public Law 113–235, Public Law 114–113, 
and Public Law 115–31, is amended— 
(1) in the second proviso, by striking ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’; 
(2) in the matter preceding the first proviso, by inserting 
the following before the colon: ‘‘(herein the ’First Component’)’’; 
(3) in the fourth proviso, by striking ‘‘225,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘455,000’’; 
(4) in the fourteenth proviso, by— 
(A) inserting ‘‘or nonprofit’’ before ‘‘entity, then a 
capable entity,’’; and 
(B) striking ‘‘preserves its interest’’ and inserting ‘‘or 
a nonprofit entity preserves an interest’’; 
(5) in the eighteenth proviso, by— 
(A) inserting ‘‘or with a project rental assistance con-
tract under section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959,’’ 
after ‘‘section 8(o) of the Act,’’; 
(B) inserting ‘‘the subordination, restructuring, or both, 
of any capital advance documentation, including any note, 
mortgage, use agreement or other agreements, evidencing 
or securing a capital advance previously provided by the 
Secretary under section 202(c)(1) of the Housing Act of 
1959 as necessary to facilitate the conversion of assistance 
while maintaining the affordability period and the designa-
tion of the property as serving elderly persons, and,’’ fol-
lowing ‘‘including but not limited to’’; 
(C) inserting ‘‘or assistance contracts’’ after ‘‘for such 
vouchers’’; 
(D) striking ‘‘of Housing and Urban Development’’ after 
‘‘Secretary’’; and 
(E) inserting the following before the colon: ‘‘(herein 
the ’Second Component’)’’; 
(6) by inserting the following provisos after the eighteenth 
proviso: 
‘‘Provided further, That contracts provided to properties converting 
assistance from section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1965 or section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act located 
in high-cost areas shall have initial rents set at comparable market 
rents for the market area: Provided further, That conversions of 
assistance under the Second Component may not be the basis 
for re-screening or termination of assistance or eviction of any 
tenant family in a property participating in the demonstration 
and such a family shall not be considered a new admission for 
any purpose, including compliance with income targeting:’’; 
(7) in the twenty-first proviso, as reordered above, by 
striking ‘‘the previous proviso’’ and all that follows through 
the end of the proviso and inserting ‘‘the Second Component, 
except for conversion of section 202 project rental assistance 
contracts, shall be available for project-based subsidy contracts 
entered into pursuant to the Second Component:’’; 
(8) in the twenty-second proviso, as reordered above, by 
striking ‘‘the previous two provisos’’ and inserting ‘‘the Second 
Component, except for conversion of section 202 project rental 
assistance contracts,’’;
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(9) in the twenty-third proviso, as reordered above, by 
striking ‘‘the three previous provisos’’ and inserting ‘‘the Second 
Component, except for conversion of section 202 project rental 
assistance contracts,’’; and 
(10) by inserting the following proviso before the final 
proviso: 
‘‘Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer amounts made 
available under the heading ‘Housing for the Elderly’ to the accounts 
under the headings ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ or ‘Tenant- 
Based Rental Assistance’ to facilitate any section 202 project rental 
assistance contract conversions under the Second Component, and 
any increase in cost for ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ or ‘Tenant- 
Based Rental Assistance’ associated with such conversion shall 
be equal to amounts so transferred:’’. 
SEC. 238. None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be used to interfere with State and local inspections of public 
housing dwelling units. 
SEC. 239. The Promise Zone designations and Promise Zone 
Designation Agreements entered into pursuant to such designations, 
made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 
prior fiscal years, shall remain in effect in accordance with the 
terms and conditions of such agreements. 
SEC. 240. Section 153 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2018 (as added by section 2001(2) of Public Law 115–120) is 
repealed. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 
$8,190,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds received 
for publications and training expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission 
as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 
as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), including services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 
31 U.S.C. 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $27,490,000: Provided, That not to 
exceed $2,000 shall be available for official reception and represen-
tation expenses.