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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3679
To prohibit any increase in the amount of a security deposit paid by a
low-income family for rental of a dwelling unit receiving Federal rental
housing assistance during the occupancy of the family in the unit.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 19, 1996
Mrs. MINK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Banking and Financial Services
A BILL
To prohibit any increase in the amount of a security deposit
paid by a low-income family for rental of a dwelling
unit receiving Federal rental housing assistance during
the occupancy of the family in the unit.
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 ‘‘Low-Income Housing
Tenants Security Act’’.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF SECURITY DEPOSIT INCREASES.
During the occupancy of a tenant in a covered dwell-
ing unit, the tenant may not be required to pay as a secu-
rity deposit (in connection with the rental of the dwelling
unit) any amount in addition to the amount required to
be paid upon initial occupancy of the dwelling unit or upon
execution of the initial lease for the dwelling unit. This
section may not be construed to limit any authority to pro-
vide for payment of a security deposit in connection with
the rental of a covered dwelling unit under any gradual
or installment payment plan.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions
shall apply:
(1) COVERED
DWELLING
UNIT.—The term
‘‘covered dwelling unit’’ means any dwelling unit—
(A) for which financial assistance is pro-
vided under a rental housing assistance pro-
gram; or
(B) that—
(i) is located in a building for which
assistance is provided under a rental hous-
ing assistance program; and
(ii) pursuant to such program, is sub-
ject to occupancy limitations based on the
income of the tenant.
(2) RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—
The term ‘‘rental housing assistance program’’
means—
(A) the rural rental housing loan program
under section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949;
(B) the rural rental assistance payments
program under section 521(a)(2);
(C) the tenant-based rental assistance pro-
grams under subsections (b) and (o) of section
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937;
(D) the programs for project-based rental
assistance under section 8 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (including the project-
based certificate program, the loan management
set-aside program, and the property disposition
program);
(E) the new construction or substantial re-
habilitation program under section 8(b)(2) of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (as in
effect before October 1, 1983);
(F) the moderate rehabilitation program
under section 8(e)(2) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937;
(G) section 23 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (as in effect before January 1,
1975);
(H) the preservation program under the
Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation
Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Pres-
ervation and Resident Homeownership Act of
1990;
(I) the rent supplement program under
section 101 of the Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act of 1965;
(J) section 236(f)(2) of the National
Housing Act; and
(K) the public and Indian housing pro-
grams under the United States Housing Act of
1937.
SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY.
This Act shall apply to any tenant occupying a cov-
ered dwelling unit upon the date of the enactment of this
Act or thereafter.
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