and Urban Development shall take appropriate ac-
tions to increase accountability in their provision of, 
and grants awarded for, homelessness assistance and 
transitional living programs. These actions shall in-
clude, to the extent permitted by law— 
(A) ending support for ‘‘housing first’’ 
policies that deprioritize accountability and fail 
to promote treatment, recovery, and self-suffi-
ciency; 
(B) increasing competition among grantees 
through broadening the applicant pool; and 
(C) holding grantees to higher standards 
of effectiveness in reducing homelessness and 
increasing public safety. 
(2) REQUIREMENT
FOR
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE 
TREATMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.—The 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, 
as appropriate, take steps to require recipients of 
Federal housing and homelessness assistance to in-
crease requirements that persons participating in the 
recipients’ programs who suffer from substance use 
disorder or serious mental illness use substance 
abuse treatment or mental health services as a con-
dition of participation. 
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(3) DUTIES
WITH
RESPECT
TO
DRUG
SITES 
AND DISTRIBUTION.—With respect to recipients of 
Federal housing and homelessness assistance that 
operate drug injection sites or ‘‘safe consumption 
sites’’, knowingly distribute drug paraphernalia, or 
permit the use or distribution of illicit drugs on 
property under their control— 
(A) the Attorney General shall review 
whether such recipients are in violation of Fed-
eral law, including section 416 of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 856), and bring civil 
or criminal actions in appropriate cases; and 
(B) the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, in coordination with the Attorney 
General, shall review whether such recipients 
are in violation of the terms of the programs 
pursuant to which they receive Federal housing 
and homelessness assistance and freeze their 
assistance as appropriate. 
(4) STOPPING
SEX
OFFENDERS.—The Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
take appropriate measures and revise regulations as 
necessary to allow, where permissible under applica-
ble law, federally funded programs to exclusively 
house women and children and to stop sex offenders 
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who receive homelessness assistance through such 
programs from being housed with unrelated children. 
(5) DATA
COLLECTION.—The Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, in consultation 
with the Attorney General and the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, shall, as appropriate 
and to the extent permitted by law— 
(A) allow or require the recipients of Fed-
eral funding for homelessness assistance to col-
lect health-related information that the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development 
identifies as necessary to the effective and effi-
cient operation of the funding program from all 
persons to whom such assistance is provided; 
and 
(B) require those funding recipients to 
share such data with law enforcement authori-
ties in circumstances permitted by law and to 
use the collected health data to provide appro-
priate medical care to individuals with mental 
health diagnoses or to connect individuals to 
public health resources. 
(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed— 
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(1) to impair or otherwise affect the functions 
of the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or leg-
islative proposals; or 
(2) to create any right or benefit, substantive or 
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any 
party against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person. 
Æ 
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