I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6483 
To provide assistance under the Emergency Solutions Grants program of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development for responding 
to needs of those without homes, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2020 
Mr. NEGUSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide assistance under the Emergency Solutions Grants 
program of the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment for responding to needs of those without 
homes, 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 ‘‘CARE Act for Those 
Without Homes’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
In addition to any other amounts made available for 
fiscal year 2020 for grants under the Emergency Solutions 
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Grants program under subtitle B of title IV of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11371 et 
seq.), 
there 
is 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated 
$11,500,000,000 for grants under such subtitle made in 
accordance with this Act to respond to needs arising from 
the public health emergency relating to Coronavirus Dis-
ease 2019 (COVID-19). 
SEC. 3. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
(a) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—In addition to eligible 
activities under section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11374(a)), amounts 
made available pursuant to section 2 of this Act may be 
used for costs of the following activities: 
(1) Costs of providing hotel or motel rooms for 
homeless individuals who are experiencing symptoms 
that may be related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 
but who do not require hospitalization or for home-
less individuals who are asymptomatic to support so-
cial distancing measures, or both. 
(2) Costs of providing handwashing stations 
and personal hygiene products, including hand sani-
tizer, soap, and personal protective equipment, for 
homeless individuals. 
(3) Costs of providing medical stations that are 
deployable healthcare facilities, similar to Federal 
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Medicals Stations of the Department of Health and 
Human Services as the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall provide, that can provide 
surge beds for homeless individuals to support 
healthcare systems that are impacted by the public 
health emergency referred to in section 2. 
(b) TREATMENT.—In applying subtitle B of title IV 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11371 et seq.) with respect to amounts made avail-
able pursuant to section 2 of this Act, any reference to 
activities under section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act shall be considered to include the 
activities under subsection (a) of this section. 
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