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there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available 
until expended, funds received from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources 
for expenses incurred for training, for reports publication 
and dissemination, and for travel expenses incurred in per-
formance of hazardous materials exemptions and approvals 
functions. 
PIPELINE SAFETY 
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND) 
(OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND) 
For expenses necessary to carry out a pipeline safety 
program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to dis-
charge the pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pol-
lution Act of 1990, $168,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2022, of which $23,000,000 shall be derived 
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which 
$137,000,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety 
Fund; and of which $8,000,000 shall be derived from fees 
collected under 49 U.S.C. 60302 and deposited in the Un-
derground Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account for 
the purpose of carrying out 49 U.S.C. 60141: Provided, 
That not less than $1,058,000 of the funds provided under 
this heading shall be for the One-Call State grant program.
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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS 
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Emergency 
Preparedness Grants program, not more than $28,318,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2022, from 
amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), and 5128(b) 
and (c): Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 
5116(h)(4), not more than 4 percent of the amounts made 
available from this account shall be available to pay admin-
istrative costs: Provided further, That notwithstanding 49 
U.S.C. 5128(b) and (c) and the current year obligation lim-
itation, prior year recoveries recognized in the current year 
shall be available to develop a hazardous materials response 
training curriculum for emergency responders, including 
response activities for the transportation of crude oil, eth-
anol and other flammable liquids by rail, consistent with 
National Fire Protection Association standards, and to 
make such training available through an electronic format: 
Provided further, That the prior year recoveries made avail-
able under this heading shall also be available to carry out 
49 U.S.C. 5116(a)(1)(C), 5116(h), 5116(i), and 5107(e). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General
1044 
Act of 1978, as amended, $94,600,000: Provided, That the 
Inspector General shall have all necessary authority, in car-
rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the Department of Transportation. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applica-
ble appropriations to the Department of Transportation 
shall be available for maintenance and operation of air-
craft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; pur-
chase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in 
foreign countries on official department business; and uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902). 
(b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appro-
priations to the Department and its operating administra-
tions shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, oper-
ation, and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems that 
advance the Department’s, or its operating administra-
tions’, missions.
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(c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased or pro-
cured by the Department prior to the enactment of this Act 
shall be deemed authorized. 
SEC. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for the 
Department of Transportation shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for 
an Executive Level IV. 
SEC. 182. (a) No recipient of funds made available in 
this Act shall disseminate personal information (as defined 
in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3)) obtained by a State department of 
motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record 
as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as provided in 18 
U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee 
if a State is in noncompliance with this provision. 
SEC. 183. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than 125 political 
and Presidential appointees in the Department of Trans-
portation: Provided, That none of the personnel covered by 
this provision may be assigned on temporary detail outside 
the Department of Transportation. 
SEC. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration and Federal Railroad Administration from
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States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, 
and private sources for expenses incurred for training may 
be credited respectively to the Federal Highway Adminis-
tration’s ‘‘Federal-Aid Highways’’ account and to the Fed-
eral Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Operations’’ 
account, except for State rail safety inspectors participating 
in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 20105. 
SEC. 185. (a) None of the funds provided in this Act 
to the Department of Transportation may be used to make 
a loan, loan guarantee, line of credit, or discretionary grant 
unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 
full business days before any project competitively selected 
to receive any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, 
loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of cred-
it commitment, or full funding grant agreement is an-
nounced by the Department or its modal administrations: 
Provided, That the Secretary gives concurrent notification 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds from the emergency relief pro-
gram: Provided further, That no notification shall involve 
funds that are not available for obligation. 
(b) In addition to the notification required in sub-
section (a), none of the funds made available in this Act 
to the Department of Transportation may be used to make
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a loan, loan guarantee, line of credit, cooperative agreement 
or discretionary grant unless the Secretary of Transpor-
tation provides the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations a comprehensive list of all such loans, loan 
guarantees, lines of credit, cooperative agreement or discre-
tionary grants that will be announced not less the 3 full 
business days before such announcement: Provided, That the 
Department shall provide the list required in this subsection 
prior to the notification required in subsection (a): Pro-
vided further, That the requirement to provide a list in this 
subsection does not apply to any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds 
from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That 
no list shall involve funds that are not available for obliga-
tion. 
SEC. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor 
fees and other funds received by the Department of Trans-
portation from travel management centers, charge card pro-
grams, the subleasing of building space, and miscellaneous 
sources are to be credited to appropriations of the Depart-
ment of Transportation and allocated to elements of the De-
partment of Transportation using fair and equitable cri-
teria and such funds shall be available until expended. 
SEC. 187. Amounts made available in this or any 
prior Act that the Secretary determines represent improper 
payments by the Department of Transportation to a third-
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an appropriate account, which shall be available 
for the purposes and period associated with the 
account so credited; or 
(B) if no such appropriation remains avail-
able, shall be deposited in the Treasury as mis-
cellaneous receipts: Provided further, That prior 
to depositing such recovery in the Treasury, the 
Secretary shall notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations of the amount 
and reasons for such transfer: Provided further, 
That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘im-
proper payments’’ has the same meaning as that 
provided in section 2(e)(2) of Public Law 111– 
204. 
SEC. 188. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject 
to a reprogramming action that requires notice to be pro-
vided to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions, transmission of said reprogramming notice shall be 
provided solely to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, and said reprogramming action shall be ap-
proved or denied solely by the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation may provide notice to other congressional 
committees of the action of the House and Senate Commit-
1050 
tees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not 
sooner than 30 days following the date on which the re-
programming action has been approved or denied by the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 189. Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Sec-
retary for the costs related to assessments or reimbursable 
agreements only when such amounts are for the costs of 
goods and services that are purchased to provide a direct 
benefit to the applicable modal administration or adminis-
trations. 
SEC. 190. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to carry out a program that establishes uniform stand-
ards for developing and supporting agency transit pass and 
transit benefits authorized under section 7905 of title 5, 
United States Code, including distribution of transit bene-
fits by various paper and electronic media. 
SEC. 191. The Department of Transportation may use 
funds provided by this Act, or any other Act, to assist a 
contract under title 49 U.S.C. or title 23 U.S.C. utilizing 
geographic, economic, or any other hiring preference not 
otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a rule, regulation, 
policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of a Federal 
Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administra-
tion grant from imposing such hiring preference on a con-
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tract or construction project with which the Department of 
Transportation is assisting, only if the grant recipient cer-
tifies the following: 
(1) that except with respect to apprentices or 
trainees, a pool of readily available but unemployed 
individuals possessing the knowledge, skill, and abil-
ity to perform the work that the contract requires re-
sides in the jurisdiction; 
(2) that the grant recipient will include appro-
priate provisions in its bid document ensuring that 
the contractor does not displace any of its existing 
employees in order to satisfy such hiring preference; 
and 
(3) that any increase in the cost of labor, train-
ing, or delays resulting from the use of such hiring 
preference does not delay or displace any transpor-
tation project in the applicable Statewide Transpor-
tation Improvement Program or Transportation Im-
provement Program. 
SEC. 192. Section 502(b)(3) of the Railroad Revital-
ization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (45 U.S.C. 
822(b)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘only during the 4-year 
period beginning on the date of enactment of the Passenger 
Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015’’ and inserting 
‘‘until September 30, 2020’’.
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SEC. 193. The Secretary of Transportation shall co-
ordinate with the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure 
that best practices for Industrial Control Systems Procure-
ment are up-to-date and shall ensure that systems procured 
with funds provided under this title were procured using 
such practices. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation Appropriations Act, 2020’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
EXECUTIVE OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Of-
fices, which shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, 
Deputy Secretary, Adjudicatory Services, Congressional 
and Intergovernmental Relations, Public Affairs, Small 
and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the Center for 
Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $14,217,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2021: Provided, 
That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made available 
under this heading shall be available to the Secretary for 
official reception and representation expenses as the Sec-
retary may determine.
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ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative 
Support Offices, $563,378,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading— 
(1) $73,562,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Financial Officer; 
(2) $103,916,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the General Counsel, of which not less than 
$18,700,000 shall be for the Departmental Enforce-
ment Center; 
(3) $206,849,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Administration; 
(4) $39,827,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Human Capital Officer; 
(5) $57,861,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Field Policy and Management; 
(6) $19,445,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Procurement Officer; 
(7) $4,242,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; and 
(8) $57,676,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Information Officer: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
may be used for necessary administrative and non-adminis-
1054 
trative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, not otherwise provided for, including pur-
chase of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds ap-
propriated under this heading may be used for advertising 
and promotional activities that directly support program 
activities funded in this title: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall provide the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations quarterly written notification regarding 
the status of pending congressional reports: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall provide in electronic form all 
signed reports required by Congress: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available under this heading for 
the Office of the Chief Financial Officer for the financial 
transformation initiative shall be available for obligation 
until after the Secretary has published all mitigation allo-
cations made available under the heading ‘‘Department of 
Housing and Urban Development—Community Planning 
and Development—Community Development Fund’’ in 
Public Law 115–123 and the necessary administrative re-
quirements pursuant to section 1102 of Public Law 116– 
20: Provided further, That only after the terms and condi-
tions of the previous proviso have been met, not more than
1055 
10 percent of the funds made available under this heading 
for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer for the financial 
transformation initiative may be obligated until the Sec-
retary submits to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, for approval, a plan for expenditure that in-
cludes the financial and internal control capabilities to be 
delivered and the mission benefits to be realized, key mile-
stones to be met, and the relationship between the proposed 
use of funds made available under this heading and the pro-
jected total cost and scope of the initiative. 
PROGRAM OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Program Of-
fices, $847,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this 
heading— 
(1) $227,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Public and Indian Housing; 
(2) $124,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Community Planning and Development; 
(3) $384,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Housing, of which not less than $12,300,000 shall 
be for the Office of Recapitalization; 
(4) $28,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Policy Development and Research;
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(5) $75,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; and 
(6) $9,000,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the working capital fund for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development (referred to in this para-
graph as the ‘‘Fund’’), pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act 
(42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred, including reim-
bursements pursuant to section 7(f), to the Fund under this 
heading shall be available only for Federal shared services 
used by offices and agencies of the Department, and for any 
such portion of any office or agency’s printing, records 
management, space renovation, furniture, or supply serv-
ices the Secretary has determined shall be provided through 
the Fund, and the operational expenses of the Fund: Pro-
vided, That amounts within the Fund shall not be available 
to provide services not specifically authorized under this 
heading: Provided further, That upon a determination by 
the Secretary that any other service (or portion thereof) au-
thorized under this heading shall be provided through the 
Fund, amounts made available in this title for salaries and 
expenses under the headings ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Adminis-
1057 
trative Support Offices’’, ‘‘Program Offices’’, and ‘‘Govern-
ment National Mortgage Association’’, for such services 
shall be transferred to the Fund, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary shall notify 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of its 
plans for executing such transfers at least fifteen (15) days 
in advance of such transfers: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may transfer not to exceed an additional 
$5,000,000, in aggregate, from all such appropriations, to 
be merged with the Fund and to remain available until ex-
pended for any purpose under this heading. 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of ten-
ant-based rental assistance authorized under the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’ herein), not otherwise provided for, 
$19,874,050,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2019 (in addition to the 
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading 
that shall be available on October 1, 2019), and 
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2020: Provided, That the 
amounts made available under this heading are provided 
as follows:
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(1) $21,502,000,000 shall be available for renew-
als of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual con-
tributions contracts (including renewals of enhanced 
vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such 
assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) and includ-
ing renewal of other special purpose incremental 
vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, from amounts provided under this 
paragraph and any carryover, the Secretary for the 
calendar year 2020 funding cycle shall provide re-
newal funding for each public housing agency based 
on validated voucher management system (VMS) leas-
ing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by 
applying an inflation factor as established by the Sec-
retary, by notice published in the Federal Register, 
and by making any necessary adjustments for the 
costs associated with the first-time renewal of vouch-
ers under this paragraph including tenant protection 
and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers: Provided further, 
That none of the funds provided under this paragraph 
may be used to fund a total number of unit months 
under lease which exceeds a public housing agency’s 
authorized level of units under contract, except for 
public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
demonstration, which are instead governed by the
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terms and conditions of their MTW agreements: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall, to the extent 
necessary to stay within the amount specified under 
this paragraph (except as otherwise modified under 
this paragraph), prorate each public housing agency’s 
allocation otherwise established pursuant to this para-
graph: Provided further, That except as provided in 
the following provisos, the entire amount specified 
under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified 
under this paragraph) shall be obligated to the public 
housing agencies based on the allocation and pro rata 
method described above, and the Secretary shall notify 
public housing agencies of their annual budget by the 
latter of 60 days after enactment of this Act or March 
1, 2020: Provided further, That the Secretary may ex-
tend the notification period with the prior written 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided further, That public housing 
agencies participating in the MTW demonstration 
shall be funded pursuant to their MTW agreements 
and shall be subject to the same pro rata adjustments 
under the previous provisos: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may offset public housing agencies’ cal-
endar year 2020 allocations based on the excess 
amounts of public housing agencies’ net restricted as-
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sets accounts, including HUD-held programmatic re-
serves (in accordance with VMS data in calendar 
year 2019 that is verifiable and complete), as deter-
mined by the Secretary: Provided further, That public 
housing agencies participating in the MTW dem-
onstration shall also be subject to the offset, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, excluding amounts subject to 
the single fund budget authority provisions of their 
MTW agreements, from the agencies’ calendar year 
2020 MTW funding allocation: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall use any offset referred to in the 
previous two provisos throughout the calendar year to 
prevent the termination of rental assistance for fami-
lies as the result of insufficient funding, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the 
proration of renewal funding allocations: Provided 
further, That up to $100,000,000 shall be available 
only: (1) for adjustments in the allocations for public 
housing agencies, after application for an adjustment 
by a public housing agency that experienced a signifi-
cant increase, as determined by the Secretary, in re-
newal costs of vouchers resulting from unforeseen cir-
cumstances or from portability under section 8(r) of 
the Act; (2) for vouchers that were not in use during 
the previous 12-month period in order to be available
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to meet a commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of 
the Act; (3) for adjustments for costs associated with 
HUD–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD– 
VASH) vouchers; (4) for public housing agencies that 
despite taking reasonable cost savings measures, as 
determined by the Secretary, would otherwise be re-
quired to terminate rental assistance for families as 
a result of insufficient funding; (5) for adjustments in 
the allocations for public housing agencies that (i) are 
leasing a lower-than-average percentage of their au-
thorized vouchers, (ii) have low amounts of budget au-
thority in their net restricted assets accounts and 
HUD-held programmatic reserves, relative to other 
agencies, and (iii) are not participating in the Mov-
ing to Work demonstration, to enable such agencies to 
lease more vouchers; and (6) for public housing agen-
cies that have experienced increased costs or loss of 
units in an area for which the President declared a 
disaster under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5170 et seq.): Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall allocate amounts under the previous proviso 
based on need, as determined by the Secretary; 
(2) $75,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental as-
sistance for relocation and replacement of housing
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units that are demolished or disposed of pursuant to 
section 18 of the Act, conversion of section 23 projects 
to assistance under section 8, the family unification 
program under section 8(x) of the Act, relocation of 
witnesses in connection with efforts to combat crime 
in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request 
from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, en-
hanced vouchers under any provision of law author-
izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act, 
Choice Neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and vol-
untary conversions, and tenant protection assistance 
including replacement and relocation assistance or for 
project-based assistance to prevent the displacement of 
unassisted elderly tenants currently residing in sec-
tion 202 properties financed between 1959 and 1974 
that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106–569, 
as amended, or under the authority as provided under 
this Act: Provided, That when a public housing devel-
opment is submitted for demolition or disposition 
under section 18 of the Act, the Secretary may pro-
vide section 8 rental assistance when the units pose 
an imminent health and safety risk to residents: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary may only provide 
replacement vouchers for units that were occupied 
within the previous 24 months that cease to be avail-
1063 
able as assisted housing, subject only to the avail-
ability of funds: Provided further, That of the 
amounts made available under this paragraph, up to 
$5,000,000 may be available to provide tenant protec-
tion assistance, not otherwise provided under this 
paragraph, to residents residing in low vacancy areas 
and who may have to pay rents greater than 30 per-
cent of household income, as the result of: (A) the ma-
turity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or section 202 
loan that requires the permission of the Secretary 
prior to loan prepayment; (B) the expiration of a 
rental assistance contract for which the tenants are 
not eligible for enhanced voucher or tenant protection 
assistance under existing law; or (C) the expiration of 
affordability restrictions accompanying a mortgage or 
preservation program administered by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That such tenant protection assist-
ance made available under the previous proviso may 
be provided under the authority of section 8(t) or sec-
tion 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)): Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall issue guidance to implement the pre-
vious provisos, including, but not limited to, require-
ments for defining eligible at-risk households within 
60 days of the enactment of this Act: Provided fur-
1064 
ther, That any tenant protection voucher made avail-
able from amounts under this paragraph shall not be 
reissued by any public housing agency, except the re-
placement vouchers as defined by the Secretary by no-
tice, when the initial family that received any such 
voucher no longer receives such voucher, and the au-
thority for any public housing agency to issue any 
such voucher shall cease to exist: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may provide section 8 rental as-
sistance from amounts made available under this 
paragraph for units assisted under a project-based 
subsidy contract funded under the ‘‘Project-Based 
Rental Assistance’’ heading under this title where the 
owner has received a Notice of Default and the units 
pose an imminent health and safety risk to residents: 
Provided further, That to the extent that the Secretary 
determines that such units are not feasible for contin-
ued rental assistance payments or transfer of the sub-
sidy contract associated with such units to another 
project or projects and owner or owners, any remain-
ing amounts associated with such units under such 
contract shall be recaptured and used to reimburse 
amounts used under this paragraph for rental assist-
ance under the preceding proviso;
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(3) $1,977,000,000 shall be for administrative 
and other expenses of public housing agencies in ad-
ministering the section 8 tenant-based rental assist-
ance program, of which up to $30,000,000 shall be 
available to the Secretary to allocate to public hous-
ing agencies that need additional funds to administer 
their section 8 programs, including fees associated 
with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the 
administration of disaster related vouchers, HUD– 
VASH vouchers, and other special purpose incre-
mental vouchers: Provided, That no less than 
$1,947,000,000 of the amount provided in this para-
graph shall be allocated to public housing agencies for 
the calendar year 2020 funding cycle based on section 
8(q) of the Act (and related Appropriation Act provi-
sions) as in effect immediately before the enactment 
of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act 
of 1998 (Public Law 105–276): Provided further, 
That if the amounts made available under this para-
graph are insufficient to pay the amounts determined 
under the previous proviso, the Secretary may de-
crease the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform 
percentage applicable to all agencies receiving fund-
ing under this paragraph or may, to the extent nec-
essary to provide full payment of amounts determined
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under the previous proviso, utilize unobligated bal-
ances, including recaptures and carryovers, remain-
ing from funds appropriated to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development under this heading 
from prior fiscal years, excluding special purpose 
vouchers, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That 
all public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
demonstration shall be funded pursuant to their MTW 
agreements, and shall be subject to the same uniform 
percentage decrease as under the previous proviso: 
Provided further, That amounts provided under this 
paragraph shall be only for activities related to the 
provision of tenant-based rental assistance authorized 
under section 8, including related development activi-
ties; 
(4) $229,050,000 for the renewal of tenant-based 
assistance contracts under section 811 of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013), including necessary administrative ex-
penses: Provided, That administrative and other ex-
penses of public housing agencies in administering 
the special purpose vouchers in this paragraph shall 
be funded under the same terms and be subject to the 
same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for
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administrative and other expenses to public housing 
agencies under paragraph (3) of this heading: Pro-
vided further, That upon turnover, section 811 special 
purpose vouchers funded under this heading in this or 
prior Acts, or under any other heading in prior Acts, 
shall be provided to non-elderly persons with disabil-
ities; 
(5) $1,000,000 shall be for rental assistance and 
associated administrative fees for Tribal HUD–VASH 
to serve Native American veterans that are homeless 
or at-risk of homelessness living on or near a reserva-
tion or other Indian areas: Provided, That such 
amount shall be made available for renewal grants to 
recipients that received assistance under prior Acts 
under the Tribal HUD–VASH program: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall be authorized to 
specify criteria for renewal grants, including data on 
the utilization of assistance reported by grant recipi-
ents: Provided further, That such assistance shall be 
administered in accordance with program require-
ments under the Native American Housing Assistance 
and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and modeled 
after the HUD–VASH program: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall be authorized to waive, or 
specify alternative requirements for any provision of
1068 
any statute or regulation that the Secretary admin-
isters in connection with the use of funds made avail-
able under this paragraph (except for requirements 
related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor 
standards, and the environment), upon a finding by 
the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative re-
quirements are necessary for the effective delivery and 
administration of such assistance: Provided further, 
That grant recipients shall report to the Secretary on 
utilization of such rental assistance and other pro-
gram data, as prescribed by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may reallocate, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, amounts returned or recap-
tured from awards under prior Acts; 
(6) $40,000,000 for incremental rental voucher 
assistance for use through a supported housing pro-
gram administered in conjunction with the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs as authorized under section 
8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall make such funding available, not-
withstanding section 203 (competition provision) of 
this title, to public housing agencies that partner with 
eligible VA Medical Centers or other entities as des-
ignated by the Secretary of the Department of Vet-
1069 
erans Affairs, based on geographical need for such as-
sistance as identified by the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency ad-
ministrative performance, and other factors as speci-
fied by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment in consultation with the Secretary of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may waive, or specify alternative requirements for (in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or reg-
ulation that the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment administers in connection with the use of 
funds made available under this paragraph (except 
for requirements related to fair housing, non-
discrimination, labor standards, and the environ-
ment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any such 
waivers or alternative requirements are necessary for 
the effective delivery and administration of such 
voucher assistance: Provided further, That assistance 
made available under this paragraph shall continue 
to remain available for homeless veterans upon turn- 
over; 
(7) $25,000,000 shall be made available for the 
family unification program as authorized under sec-
1070 
tion 8(x) of the Act: Provided, That the amounts 
made available under this paragraph are provided as 
follows: 
(A) $5,000,000 shall be for new incremental 
voucher assistance: Provided, That the assistance 
made available under this subparagraph shall 
continue to remain available for family unifica-
tion upon turnover; and 
(B) $20,000,000 shall be for new incre-
mental voucher assistance to assist eligible youth 
as defined by such section 8(x)(2)(B): Provided, 
That assistance made available under this sub-
paragraph shall continue to remain available for 
such eligible youth upon turnover: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount made available 
under this subparagraph, up to $10,000,000 
shall be available on a noncompetitive basis to 
public housing agencies that partner with public 
child welfare agencies to identify such eligible 
youth, that request such assistance to timely as-
sist such eligible youth, and that meet any other 
criteria as specified by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall review utiliza-
tion of the assistance made available under the 
previous proviso, at an interval to be determined
1071 
by the Secretary, and unutilized voucher assist-
ance that is no longer needed shall be recaptured 
by the Secretary and reallocated pursuant to the 
previous proviso: 
Provided further, That for any public housing agency 
administering voucher assistance appropriated in a 
prior Act under the family unification program, or 
made available and competitively selected under this 
paragraph, that determines that it no longer has an 
identified need for such assistance upon turnover, 
such agency shall notify the Secretary, and the Sec-
retary shall recapture such assistance from the agency 
and reallocate it to any other public housing agency 
or agencies based on need for voucher assistance in 
connection with such specified program or eligible 
youth, as applicable; 
(8) $25,000,000 shall be made available for the 
mobility demonstration authorized under section 235 
of division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2019 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note; Public Law 116–6; 133 
Stat. 465), of which up to $5,000,000 shall be for new 
incremental voucher assistance and the remainder of 
which shall be available to provide mobility-related 
services to families with children, including pre- and 
post-move counseling and rent deposits, and to offset
1072 
the administrative costs of operating the mobility 
demonstration: Provided, That incremental voucher 
assistance made available under this paragraph shall 
be for families with children participating in the mo-
bility demonstration and shall continue to remain 
available for families with children upon turnover: 
Provided further, That for any public housing agency 
administering voucher assistance under the mobility 
demonstration that determines that it no longer has 
an identified need for such assistance upon turnover, 
such agency shall notify the Secretary, and the Sec-
retary shall recapture such assistance from the agency 
and reallocate it to any other public housing agency 
or agencies based on need for voucher assistance in 
connection with such demonstration; and 
(9) the Secretary shall separately track all spe-
cial purpose vouchers funded under this heading. 
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carry-
over, remaining from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development under this head-
ing, the heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Hous-
ing’’ and the heading ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’, 
for fiscal year 2020 and prior years may be used for re-
1073 
newal of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts 
and for performance-based contract administrators, not-
withstanding the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated: Provided, That any obligated balances of contract 
authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been 
terminated shall be rescinded: Provided further, That 
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the 
current fiscal year, from section 8 project-based contracts 
from source years fiscal year 1975 through fiscal year 1987 
are hereby rescinded, and an amount of additional new 
budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is 
hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, 
for the purposes set forth under this heading, in addition 
to amounts otherwise available. 
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND 
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to 
carry out capital and management activities for public 
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the 
‘‘Act’’) $2,869,893,812, to remain available until September 
30, 2023: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2020, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may not dele-
gate to any Department official other than the Deputy Sec-
retary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
1074 
Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) 
regarding the extension of the time periods under such sec-
tion: Provided further, That for purposes of such section 
9(j), the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with respect to amounts, 
that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement that 
will result in outlays, immediately or in the future: Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount made available 
under this heading, up to $14,000,000 shall be to support 
ongoing public housing financial and physical assessment 
activities: Provided further, That of the total amount made 
available under this heading, up to $1,000,000 shall be to 
support the costs of administrative and judicial receiver-
ships: Provided further, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, not to exceed $64,650,000 shall be avail-
able for the Secretary to make grants, notwithstanding sec-
tion 203 of this Act, to public housing agencies for emer-
gency capital needs including safety and security measures 
necessary to address crime and drug-related activity as well 
as needs resulting from unforeseen or unpreventable emer-
gencies and natural disasters excluding Presidentially de-
clared emergencies and natural disasters under the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 2020, of which 
$34,650,000 shall be available for public housing agencies 
under administrative and judicial receiverships or under
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the control of a Federal monitor: Provided further, That 
of the amount made available under the previous proviso, 
not less than $10,000,000 shall be for safety and security 
measures: Provided further, That in addition to the amount 
in the previous proviso for such safety and security meas-
ures, any amounts that remain available, after all applica-
tions received on or before September 30, 2021, for emer-
gency capital needs have been processed, shall be allocated 
to public housing agencies for such safety and security 
measures: Provided further, That for funds provided under 
this heading, the limitation in section 9(g)(1) of the Act 
shall be 25 percent: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may waive the limitation in the previous proviso to allow 
public housing agencies to fund activities authorized under 
section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall notify public housing agencies requesting waiv-
ers under the previous proviso if the request is approved 
or denied within 14 days of submitting the request: Pro-
vided further, That from the funds made available under 
this heading, the Secretary shall provide bonus awards in 
fiscal year 2020 to public housing agencies that are des-
ignated high performers: Provided further, That the Depart-
ment shall notify public housing agencies of their formula 
allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That of the total amount provided under this head-
1076 
ing, $45,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants 
to public housing agencies to evaluate and reduce lead-based 
paint hazards and other housing-related hazards including 
carbon monoxide and mold in public housing: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts available under the previous pro-
viso, no less than $25,000,000 shall be for competitive 
grants to public housing agencies to evaluate and reduce 
lead-based paint hazards in public housing by carrying out 
the activities of risk assessments, abatement, and interim 
controls (as those terms are defined in section 1004 of the 
Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 
1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851b)): Provided further, That for pur-
poses of environmental review, a grant under the previous 
two provisos shall be considered funds for projects or activi-
ties under title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) for purposes of section 26 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437x) and shall be subject to the regulations 
implementing such section: Provided further, That for funds 
made available under the previous three provisos, the Sec-
retary shall allow a PHA to apply for up to 20 percent 
of the funds made available under the first two provisos 
and prioritize need when awarding grants. 
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND 
For 2020 payments to public housing agencies for the 
operation and management of public housing, as authorized
1077 
by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), $4,549,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That of the total 
amount available under this heading, $25,000,000 shall be 
available to the Secretary to allocate pursuant to a need- 
based application process notwithstanding section 203 of 
this title and not subject to the Operating Fund formula 
at part 990 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations to pub-
lic housing agencies that experience financial insolvency, 
as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That after 
all such insolvency needs are met, the Secretary may dis-
tribute any remaining funds to all public housing agencies 
on a pro-rata basis pursuant to the Operating Fund for-
mula at part 990 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations. 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For competitive grants under the Choice Neighborhoods 
Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise speci-
fied under this heading), for transformation, rehabilitation, 
and replacement housing needs of both public and HUD- 
assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of poverty 
into functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods 
with appropriate services, schools, public assets, transpor-
tation and access to jobs, $175,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022: Provided, That grant funds may
1078 
be used for resident and community services, community 
development, and affordable housing needs in the commu-
nity, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties 
to affordable housing: Provided further, That the use of 
funds made available under this heading shall not be 
deemed to be public housing notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) 
of such Act: Provided further, That grantees shall commit 
to an additional period of affordability determined by the 
Secretary of not fewer than 20 years: Provided further, That 
grantees shall provide a match in State, local, other Federal 
or private funds: Provided further, That grantees may in-
clude local governments, tribal entities, public housing au-
thorities, and nonprofits: Provided further, That for-profit 
developers may apply jointly with a public entity: Provided 
further, That for purposes of environmental review, a grant-
ee shall be treated as a public housing agency under section 
26 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437x), and grants under this heading shall be subject to 
the regulations issued by the Secretary to implement such 
section: Provided further, That of the amount provided, not 
less than $87,500,000 shall be awarded to public housing 
agencies: Provided further, That such grantees shall create 
partnerships with other local organizations including as-
sisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident organi-
zations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall consult
1079 
with the Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transportation, 
Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, 
the Attorney General, and the Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage 
other appropriate Federal resources: Provided further, That 
no more than $5,000,000 of funds made available under this 
heading may be provided as grants to undertake com-
prehensive local planning with input from residents and 
the community: Provided further, That unobligated bal-
ances, including recaptures, remaining from funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Revitalization of Severely Dis-
tressed Public Housing (HOPE VI)’’ in fiscal year 2011 
and prior fiscal years may be used for purposes under this 
heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall issue the Notice of Funding Availability for 
funds made available under this heading no later than 90 
days after enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall make grant awards no later than one year 
from the date of enactment of this Act in such amounts that 
the Secretary determines: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 24(o) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), the Secretary may, until Sep-
tember 30, 2023, obligate any available unobligated bal-
1080 
ances made available under this heading in this, or any 
prior Act. 
SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance related to Self-Sufficiency 
Programs, to remain available until September 30, 2023, 
$130,000,000: Provided, That the amounts made available 
under this heading are provided as follows: 
(1) $80,000,000 shall be for the Family Self-Suf-
ficiency program to support family self-sufficiency co-
ordinators under section 23 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u), to promote 
the development of local strategies to coordinate the 
use of assistance under sections 8 and 9 of such Act 
with public and private resources, and enable eligible 
families to achieve economic independence and self- 
sufficiency: Provided, That the Secretary may, by 
Federal Register notice, waive or specify alternative 
requirements under subsections (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(5), 
or (c)(1) of section 23 of such Act in order to facili-
tate the operation of a unified self-sufficiency pro-
gram for individuals receiving assistance under dif-
ferent provisions of the Act, as determined by the Sec-
retary: Provided further, That owners of a privately 
owned multifamily property with a section 8 contract 
may voluntarily make a Family Self-Sufficiency pro-
1081 
gram available to the assisted tenants of such prop-
erty in accordance with procedures established by the 
Secretary: Provided further, That such procedures es-
tablished pursuant to the previous proviso shall per-
mit participating tenants to accrue escrow funds in 
accordance with section 23(d)(2) and shall allow own-
ers to use funding from residual receipt accounts to 
hire coordinators for their own Family Self-Suffi-
ciency program; 
(2) $35,000,000 shall be for the Resident Oppor-
tunity and Self-Sufficiency program to provide for 
supportive services, service coordinators, and con-
gregate services as authorized by section 34 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437z– 
6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et 
seq.); and 
(3) $15,000,000 shall be for a Jobs-Plus initia-
tive, modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration: Pro-
vided, That funding provided under this paragraph 
shall be available for competitive grants to partner-
ships between public housing authorities, local work-
force investment boards established under section 107 
of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 
2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and other agencies and orga-
1082 
nizations that provide support to help public housing 
residents obtain employment and increase earnings: 
Provided further, That applicants must demonstrate 
the ability to provide services to residents, partner 
with workforce investment boards, and leverage serv-
ice dollars: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
allow public housing agencies to request exemptions 
from rent and income limitation requirements under 
sections 3 and 6 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437d), as necessary to im-
plement the Jobs-Plus program, on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may approve upon a find-
ing by the Secretary that any such waivers or alter-
native requirements are necessary for the effective im-
plementation of the Jobs-Plus initiative as a vol-
untary program for residents: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal 
Register any waivers or alternative requirements pur-
suant to the preceding proviso no later than 10 days 
before the effective date of such notice. 
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities and assistance authorized under title I 
of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et
1083 
seq.), title I of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974 with respect to Indian tribes (42 U.S.C. 
5306(a)(1)), and related training and technical assistance, 
$825,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2024, unless otherwise specified: Provided, That the 
amounts made available under this heading are provided 
as follows: 
(1) $646,000,000 shall be available for the Native 
American Housing Block Grants program, as author-
ized under title I of NAHASDA: Provided, That, not-
withstanding NAHASDA, to determine the amount of 
the allocation under title I of such Act for each In-
dian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula 
under section 302 of such Act with the need compo-
nent based on single-race census data and with the 
need component based on multi-race census data, and 
the amount of the allocation for each Indian tribe 
shall be the greater of the two resulting allocation 
amounts: Provided further, That the Department will 
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 
days of the date of enactment of this Act; 
(2) $2,000,000 shall be available for the cost of 
guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized 
by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided, That such costs, 
including the costs of modifying such notes and other
1084 
obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to sub-
sidize the total principal amount of any notes and 
other obligations, any part of which is to be guaran-
teed, not to exceed $32,000,000; 
(3) $100,000,000 shall be available for competi-
tive grants under the Native American Housing Block 
Grants program, as authorized under title I of 
NAHASDA: Provided, That the Secretary shall obli-
gate this additional amount for competitive grants to 
eligible recipients authorized under NAHASDA that 
apply for funds: Provided further, That in awarding 
this additional amount, the Secretary shall consider 
need and administrative capacity, and shall give pri-
ority to projects that will spur construction and reha-
bilitation: Provided further, That a grant funded pur-
suant to this paragraph shall be not greater than 
$10,000,000: Provided further, That up to 1 percent 
of this additional amount may be transferred, in ag-
gregate, to ‘‘Program Offices—Public and Indian 
Housing’’ for necessary costs of administering and 
overseeing the obligation and expenditure of this addi-
tional amount and of additional amounts provided in 
prior years, to remain available until September 30,
1085 
2025: Provided further, That any funds transferred 
pursuant to the previous proviso in prior Acts may 
also be used for the purposes described in the previous 
proviso; 
(4) $70,000,000 shall be available for grants to 
Indian tribes for carrying out the Indian Community 
Development Block Grant program under title I of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, of 
which, notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including section 203 of this Act), up to $4,000,000 
may be used for emergencies that constitute imminent 
threats to health and safety: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds appro-
priated under this paragraph shall be expended for 
planning and management development and adminis-
tration: Provided further, That funds provided under 
this paragraph shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022; and 
(5) $7,000,000 shall be available for providing 
training and technical assistance to Indian tribes, In-
dian housing authorities and tribally designated 
housing entities, to support the inspection of Indian 
housing units, contract expertise, and for training 
and technical assistance related to funding provided
1086 
under this heading and other headings under this Act 
for the needs of Native American families and Indian 
country: Provided, That of the funds made available 
under this paragraph, not less than $2,000,000 shall 
be available for a national organization as authorized 
under section 703 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4212): 
Provided further, That amounts made available under 
this paragraph may be used, contracted, or competed 
as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal 
Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act of 1977 (31 
U.S.C. 6301–6308), the amounts made available 
under this paragraph may be used by the Secretary 
to enter into cooperative agreements with public and 
private organizations, agencies, institutions, and 
other technical assistance providers to support the ad-
ministration of negotiated rulemaking under section 
106 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4116), the administra-
tion of the allocation formula under section 302 of 
NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the administration 
of performance tracking and reporting under section 
407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167): Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this 
paragraph, not more than $1,000,000 shall be avail-
able to support utilization, outreach, and capacity
1087 
building with tribes and tribal housing organizations 
for the Tribal HUD-VASH program. 
INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sec-
tion 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a), $1,100,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That an additional $500,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be available for administra-
tive contract expenses including management processes to 
carry out the loan guarantee program: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may subsidize total loan principal, any 
part of which is to be guaranteed, up to $1,000,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
for any unobligated balances (including amounts of uncom-
mitted limitation) remaining from amounts made available 
under this heading in Public Law 115–31, Public Law 
115–141, and Public Law 116–6, and for any recaptures 
occurring in fiscal year 2019 or in future fiscal years of 
amounts made available under this heading in prior fiscal 
years, the second proviso of each such heading shall be ap-
1088 
plied as if ‘‘these funds are available to’’ was struck and 
‘‘the Secretary may’’ was inserted in its place. 
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT 
For the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant pro-
gram, as authorized under title VIII of the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $2,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2024: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 812(b) of such Act, the Department of Hawaiian Home 
Lands may not invest grant amounts provided under this 
heading in investment securities and other obligations: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available under this 
heading in this and prior fiscal years may be used to pro-
vide rental assistance to eligible Native Hawaiian families 
both on and off the Hawaiian Home Lands, notwith-
standing any other provision of law. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), 
$410,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 
854(c)(5) of such Act shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew
1089 
all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing 
that initially were funded under section 854(c)(5) of such 
Act from funds made available under this heading in fiscal 
year 2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program re-
quirements before awarding funds for new contracts under 
such section: Provided further, That the Department shall 
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days 
of enactment of this Act. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For carrying out the community development block 
grant program under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301 et 
seq.)(‘‘the Act’’ herein), $3,425,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022, unless otherwise specified: Pro-
vided, That unless explicitly provided for under this head-
ing, not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be expended for plan-
ning and management development and administration: 
Provided further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, 
unit of general local government, or insular area that di-
rectly or indirectly receives funds under this heading may 
not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of 
such funds to another such entity in exchange for any other 
funds, credits or non-Federal considerations, but must use 
such funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act:
1090 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of 
the Act, no funds provided under this heading may be pro-
vided to a for-profit entity for an economic development 
project under section 105(a)(17) unless such project has 
been evaluated and selected in accordance with guidelines 
required under subsection (e)(2): Provided further, That of 
the total amount provided under this heading, $25,000,000 
shall be for activities authorized under section 8071 of the 
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 
115–271): Provided further, That the funds allocated pursu-
ant to the previous proviso shall not adversely affect the 
amount of any formula assistance received by a State under 
this heading: Provided further, That the Secretary shall al-
locate the funds for such activities based on the percentages 
shown in Table 1 of the Notice establishing the funding for-
mula published in 84 FR 16027 (April 17, 2019): Provided 
further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 
formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOAN GUARANTEES PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, during fiscal year 2020, commitments to guarantee 
loans under section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5308), any part of 
which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total principal
1091 
amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in sub-
section (k) of such section 108: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall collect fees from borrowers, notwithstanding subsection 
(m) of such section 108, to result in a credit subsidy cost 
of zero for guaranteeing such loans, and any such fees shall 
be collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such 
commitment authority funded by fees may be used to guar-
antee, or make commitments to guarantee, notes or other 
obligations issued by any State on behalf of non-entitlement 
communities in the State in accordance with the require-
ments of such section 108: Provided further, That any State 
receiving such a guarantee or commitment under the pre-
vious proviso shall distribute all funds subject to such guar-
antee to the units of general local government in nonentitle-
ment areas that received the commitment. 
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM 
For the HOME Investment Partnerships program, as 
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act, as amended, $1,350,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2023: Provided, That 
notwithstanding the amount made available under this 
heading, the threshold reduction requirements in sections 
216(10) and 217(b)(4) of such Act shall not apply to alloca-
1092 
tions of such amount: Provided further, That the Depart-
ment shall notify grantees of their formula allocation with-
in 60 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
section 218(g) of such 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 other-
wise expired or would expire in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 
2020, 2021, or 2022 under that section: Provided further, 
That section 231(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)) shall 
not apply to any uninvested funds that otherwise were de-
ducted or would be deducted from the line of credit in the 
participating jurisdiction’s HOME Investment Trust Fund 
in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022 under that section. 
SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY 
PROGRAM 
For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Op-
portunity Program, as authorized under section 11 of the 
Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as 
amended, $55,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2022: Provided, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be made available to 
the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program as au-
thorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Pro-
gram Extension Act of 1996, as amended: Provided further, 
That of the total amount provided under this heading,
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$36,000,000 shall be made available for the second, third, 
and fourth capacity building activities authorized under 
section 4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 
U.S.C. 9816 note), of which not less than $5,000,000 shall 
be made available for rural capacity building activities: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading, $5,000,000 shall be made available for capac-
ity building by national rural housing organizations with 
experience assessing national rural conditions and pro-
viding financing, training, technical assistance, informa-
tion, and research to local nonprofits, local governments, 
and Indian Tribes serving high need rural communities: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading, $4,000,000, shall be made available for a pro-
gram to rehabilitate and modify the homes of disabled or 
low-income veterans, as authorized under section 1079 of 
Public Law 113–291: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided under the previous proviso shall be awarded within 
180 days of enactment of this Act. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For the Emergency Solutions Grants program as au-
thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; the Continuum of 
Care program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of 
such Act; and the Rural Housing Stability Assistance pro-
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gram as authorized under subtitle D of title IV of such Act 
$2,777,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2022: Provided further, That not less than $290,000,000 of 
the funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able for such Emergency Solutions Grants program: Pro-
vided further, That not less than $2,350,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 
for such Continuum of Care and Rural Housing Stability 
Assistance programs: Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, up to $50,000,000 shall 
be made available for grants for rapid re-housing projects 
and supportive service projects providing coordinated entry, 
and for eligible activities the Secretary determines to be 
critical in order to assist survivors of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking: Provided further, 
That such projects shall be eligible for renewal under the 
continuum of care program subject to the same terms and 
conditions as other renewal applicants: Provided further, 
That up to $7,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this 
heading shall be available for the national homeless data 
analysis project: Provided further, That for all match re-
quirements applicable to funds made available under this 
heading for this fiscal year and prior fiscal years, a grantee 
may use (or could have used) as a source of match funds 
other funds administered by the Secretary and other Fed-
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eral agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory 
prohibition on any such use of any such funds: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided under this heading 
shall be available to provide funding for new projects, except 
for projects created through reallocation, unless the Sec-
retary determines that the continuum of care has dem-
onstrated that projects are evaluated and ranked based on 
the degree to which they improve the continuum of care’s 
system performance: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall prioritize funding under the Continuum of Care pro-
gram to continuums of care that have demonstrated a ca-
pacity to reallocate funding from lower performing projects 
to higher performing projects: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall provide incentives to create projects that co-
ordinate with housing providers and healthcare organiza-
tions to provide permanent supportive housing and rapid 
rehousing services: Provided further, That any unobligated 
amounts remaining from funds appropriated under this 
heading in fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project- 
based rental assistance for rehabilitation projects with 10- 
year grant terms may be used for purposes under this head-
ing, notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds 
were appropriated: Provided further, That all balances for 
Shelter Plus Care renewals previously funded from the Shel-
ter Plus Care Renewal account and transferred to this ac-
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count shall be available, if recaptured, for Continuum of 
Care renewals in fiscal year 2020: Provided further, That 
the Department shall notify grantees of their formula allo-
cation from amounts allocated (which may represent initial 
or final amounts allocated) for the Emergency Solutions 
Grant program within 60 days of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That up to $80,000,000 of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading shall be to implement 
projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to 
serving homeless youth, age 24 and under, in up to 25 com-
munities with a priority for communities with substantial 
rural populations in up to eight locations, can dramatically 
reduce youth homelessness: Provided further, That of the 
amount made available under the previous proviso, up to 
$10,000,000 shall be available to provide technical assist-
ance on improving system responses to youth homelessness, 
and collection, analysis, use, and reporting of data and per-
formance measures under the comprehensive approaches to 
serve homeless youth, in addition to and in coordination 
with other technical assistance funds provided under this 
title: Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to 
10 percent of the amount made available under the previous 
proviso to build the capacity of current technical assistance 
providers or to train new technical assistance providers 
with verifiable prior experience with systems and programs
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for youth experiencing homelessness: Provided further, That 
amounts made available for the Continuum of Care pro-
gram under this heading in this and prior Acts may be 
used to competitively or non-competitively renew or replace 
grants for youth homeless demonstration projects under the 
Continuum of Care program, notwithstanding any conflict 
with the requirements of the Continuum of Care program: 
Provided further, That youth aged 24 and under seeking 
assistance under this heading shall not be required to pro-
vide third party documentation to establish their eligibility 
under 42 U.S.C. 11302(a) or (b) to receive services: Pro-
vided further, That unaccompanied youth aged 24 and 
under or families headed by youth aged 24 and under who 
are living in unsafe situations may be served by youth-serv-
ing providers funded under this heading: Provided further, 
That persons eligible under section 103(a)(5) of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act may be served by any 
project funded under this heading to provide both transi-
tional housing and rapid re-housing: Provided further, 
That when awarding funds under the Continuum of Care 
program, the Secretary shall not deviate from the FY 2018 
Notice of Funding Availability with respect to the tier 2 
funding process, the Continuum of Care application scor-
ing, and for new projects, the project quality threshold re-
quirements, except as otherwise provided under this Act or
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as necessary to award all available funds or consider the 
most recent data from each Continuum of Care. 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of 
project-based subsidy contracts under the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’), 
not otherwise provided for, $12,170,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be available on October 1, 
2019 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously appro-
priated under this heading that became available October 
1, 2019), and $400,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be available on October 1, 2020: Provided, 
That the amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for expiring or terminating section 8 project- 
based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate reha-
bilitation contracts), for amendments to section 8 project- 
based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate reha-
bilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for 
units in projects that are subject to approved plans of action 
under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation 
Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation and 
Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administra-
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tive and other expenses associated with project-based activi-
ties and assistance funded under this paragraph: Provided 
further, That of the total amounts provided under this head-
ing, not to exceed $345,000,000 shall be available for per-
formance-based contract administrators for section 8 
project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): 
Provided further, That the Secretary may also use such 
amounts in the previous proviso for performance-based con-
tract administrators for the administration of: interest re-
duction payments pursuant to section 236(a) of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent supple-
ment payments pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 
236(f)(2) rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z– 
1(f)(2)); project rental assistance contracts for the elderly 
under section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q); project rental assistance contracts for sup-
portive housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance con-
tracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 
(Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 
Stat. 667): Provided further, That amounts recaptured 
under this heading, the heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for
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Assisted Housing’’, or the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate 
Fund’’, may be used for renewals of or amendments to sec-
tion 8 project-based contracts or for performance-based con-
tract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for 
which such amounts were appropriated: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the 
request of the Secretary, project funds that are held in resid-
ual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 
8 project-based Housing Assistance Payments contract that 
authorizes HUD or a Housing Finance Agency to require 
that surplus project funds be deposited in an interest-bear-
ing residual receipts account and that are in excess of an 
amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted 
to the Department and deposited in this account, to be 
available until expended: Provided further, That amounts 
deposited pursuant to the previous proviso shall be available 
in addition to the amount otherwise provided by this head-
ing for uses authorized under this heading. 
HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY 
For capital advances, including amendments to cap-
ital advance contracts, for housing for the elderly, as au-
thorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as 
amended, for project rental assistance for the elderly under 
section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amendments to con-
tracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts
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for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, for senior pres-
ervation rental assistance contracts, including renewals, as 
authorized by section 811(e) of the American Housing and 
Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, as amended, and for 
supportive 
services 
associated 
with 
the 
housing, 
$793,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2023: Provided, That of the amount provided under this 
heading, up to $100,000,000 shall be for service coordina-
tors and the continuation of existing congregate service 
grants for residents of assisted housing projects: Provided 
further, That amounts under this heading shall be available 
for Real Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspec-
tion-related activities associated with section 202 projects: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the provi-
sions of section 202 governing the terms and conditions of 
project rental assistance, except that the initial contract 
term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in dura-
tion: Provided further, That upon request of the Secretary, 
project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for 
any project subject to a section 202 project rental assistance 
contract, and that upon termination of such contract are 
in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, 
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this 
account, to remain available until September 30, 2023: Pro-
vided further, That amounts deposited in this account pur-
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suant to the previous proviso shall be available, in addition 
to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading, for the 
purposes authorized under this heading: Provided further, 
That unobligated balances, including recaptures and carry-
over, remaining from funds transferred to or appropriated 
under this heading shall be available for the current pur-
poses authorized under this heading in addition to the pur-
poses for which such funds originally were appropriated: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for a program to be estab-
lished by the Secretary to make grants to experienced non- 
profit organizations, States, local governments, or public 
housing agencies for safety and functional home modifica-
tion repairs to meet the needs of low-income elderly home-
owners to enable them to remain in their primary residence: 
Provided further, That of the total amount made available 
under the previous proviso, no less than $5,000,000 shall 
be available to meet such needs in communities with sub-
stantial rural populations: Provided further, That bene-
ficiaries of the grant assistance provided in the previous 
two provisos under this heading in the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2019 
(Public Law 116–6) shall be homeowners.
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HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
For capital advances, including amendments to cap-
ital advance contracts, for supportive housing for persons 
with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013), as amended, for project rental assistance for sup-
portive housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of such Act, for project assistance contracts pursu-
ant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public 
Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667), including amendments to con-
tracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts 
for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, for project rent-
al assistance to State housing finance agencies and other 
appropriate entities as authorized under section 811(b)(3) 
of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Housing Act, and for 
supportive services associated with the housing for persons 
with disabilities as authorized by section 811(b)(1) of such 
Act, $202,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2023: Provided, That amounts made available under this 
heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment Cen-
ter inspections and inspection-related activities associated 
with section 811 projects: Provided further, That, upon the 
request of the Secretary, project funds that are held in resid-
ual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 
811 project rental assistance contract, and that upon termi-
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nation of such contract are in excess of an amount to be 
determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the De-
partment and deposited in this account, to remain available 
until September 30, 2023: Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso 
shall be available in addition to the amounts otherwise pro-
vided by this heading for the purposes authorized under this 
heading: Provided further, That unobligated balances, in-
cluding recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds 
transferred to or appropriated under this heading shall be 
used for the current purposes authorized under this heading 
in addition to the purposes for which such funds originally 
were appropriated. 
HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding 
loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, $53,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2021, including 
up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract services and 
up to $3,000,000 for the certification of housing counselors 
as required under 12 U.S.C. 1701x: Provided, That grants 
made available from amounts provided under this heading 
shall be awarded within 180 days of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That funds shall be used for providing 
counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both cur-
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rent and prospective, with respect to property maintenance, 
financial management or literacy, and such other matters 
as may be appropriate to assist them in improving their 
housing conditions, meeting their financial needs, and ful-
filling the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership; for 
program administration; and for housing counselor train-
ing: Provided further, That for purposes of providing such 
grants from amounts provided under this heading, the Sec-
retary may enter into multiyear agreements, as appro-
priate, subject to the availability of annual appropriations. 
RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
For amendments to contracts under section 236(f)(2) 
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) in State- 
aided, noninsured rental housing projects, $3,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That such 
amount, together with unobligated balances from recaptured 
amounts appropriated prior to fiscal year 2006 from termi-
nated contracts under such section of law, and any unobli-
gated balances, including recaptures and carryover, re-
maining from funds appropriated under this heading after 
fiscal year 2005, shall also be available for extensions of 
up to one year for expiring contracts under such section 
of law.
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PAYMENT TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING FEES TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses as authorized by the National 
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards 
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to $13,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $13,000,000 
is to be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees Trust 
Fund: Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be available from the gen-
eral fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur 
obligations and make expenditures pending the receipt of 
collections to the Fund pursuant to section 620 of such Act: 
Provided further, That the amount made available under 
this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as such 
collections are received during fiscal year 2020 so as to re-
sult in a final fiscal year 2020 appropriation from the gen-
eral fund estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such sec-
tion 620 shall be modified as necessary to ensure such a 
final fiscal year 2020 appropriation: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall issue a final rule to complete rulemaking initiated by 
the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Manufactured Housing Pro-
gram: Minimum Payments to the States’’ published in the 
Federal Register on December 16, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 
91083): Provided further, That for the dispute resolution 
and installation programs, the Secretary may assess and
1107 
collect fees from any program participant: Provided further, 
That such collections shall be deposited into the Fund, and 
the Secretary, as provided herein, may use such collections, 
as well as fees collected under section 620, for necessary ex-
penses of such Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
the requirements of section 620 of such Act, the Secretary 
may carry out responsibilities of the Secretary under such 
Act through the use of approved service providers that are 
paid directly by the recipients of their services. 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee single family loans in-
sured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not 
exceed $400,000,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That during fiscal year 2020, 
obligations to make direct loans to carry out the purposes 
of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, 
shall not exceed $1,000,000: Provided further, That the fore-
going amount in the previous proviso shall be for loans to 
nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with 
sales of single family real properties owned by the Secretary 
and formerly insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance 
Fund: Provided further, That for administrative contract 
expenses 
of 
the 
Federal 
Housing 
Administration, 
$130,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
1108 
2021: Provided further, That to the extent guaranteed loan 
commitments exceed $200,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 
2020, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract ex-
penses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata 
amount for any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case 
shall funds made available by this proviso exceed 
$30,000,000: Provided further, That notwithstanding the 
limitation in the first sentence of section 255(g) of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(g)), during fiscal 
year 2020 the Secretary may insure and enter into new 
commitments to insure mortgages under section 255 of the 
National Housing Act only to the extent that the net credit 
subsidy cost for such insurance does not exceed zero: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2020, the Secretary shall 
not take any action against a lender solely on the basis 
of compare ratios that have been adversely affected by de-
faults on mortgages secured by properties in areas where 
a major disaster was declared in 2017 or 2018 pursuant 
to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.). 
GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee loans insured under 
the General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as author-
ized by sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act
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(12 U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed 
$30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 
30, 2021: Provided, That during fiscal year 2020, gross ob-
ligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as au-
thorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of the 
National Housing Act, shall not exceed $1,000,000, which 
shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities 
in connection with the sale of single family real properties 
owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such 
Act. 
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN 
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the 
purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as 
amended 
(12 
U.S.C. 
1721(g)), 
shall 
not 
exceed 
$550,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021: Provided, That $30,500,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021, shall be for necessary salaries 
and expenses of the Office of Government National Mortgage 
Association: Provided further, That to the extent that guar-
anteed loan commitments exceed $155,000,000,000 on or be-
fore April 1, 2020, an additional $100 for necessary salaries 
and expenses shall be available until expended for each
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$1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan commitments 
(including a pro rata amount for any amount below 
$1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by 
this proviso exceed $3,000,000: Provided further, That re-
ceipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pur-
suant to title III of the National Housing Act, as amended, 
shall be credited as offsetting collections to this account. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and 
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized 
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including carrying out 
the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 
2 of 1968, and for technical assistance, $98,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That 
with respect to amounts made available under this heading, 
notwithstanding section 203 of this title, the Secretary may 
enter into cooperative agreements with philanthropic enti-
ties, other Federal agencies, State or local governments and 
their agencies, Indian tribes, tribally designated housing 
entities, or colleges or universities for research projects: Pro-
vided further, That with respect to the previous proviso,
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such partners to the cooperative agreements must contribute 
at least a 50 percent match toward the cost of the project: 
Provided further, That for non-competitive agreements en-
tered into in accordance with the previous two provisos, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall comply 
with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability 
and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–282, 31 
U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section 102(a)(4)(C) 
with respect to documentation of award decisions: Provided 
further, That prior to obligation of technical assistance 
funding, the Secretary shall submit a plan to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations on how it will 
allocate funding for this activity at least 30 days prior to 
obligation: Provided further, That none of the funds pro-
vided under this heading may be available for the doctoral 
dissertation research grant program. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not other-
wise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing 
Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$70,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021: 
Provided, That grants made available from amounts pro-
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vided under this heading shall be awarded within 180 days 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may assess and col-
lect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training 
Academy, and may use such funds to develop on-line 
courses and provide such training: Provided further, That 
no funds made available under this heading shall be used 
to lobby the executive or legislative branches of the Federal 
Government in connection with a specific contract, grant, 
or loan: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading, $350,000 shall be available to the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development for the creation 
and promotion of translated materials and other programs 
that support the assistance of persons with limited English 
proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY 
HOMES 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author-
ized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $290,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2022, of which $50,000,000 
shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sec-
tions 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development
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Act of 1970, which shall include research, studies, testing, 
and demonstration efforts, including education and out-
reach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other 
housing-related diseases and hazards: Provided, That for 
purposes of environmental review, pursuant to the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such 
Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, or the 
Lead Technical Studies program under this heading or 
under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under 
this heading, shall be considered to be funds for a special 
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily 
Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994: Pro-
vided further, That not less than $95,000,000 of the 
amounts made available under this heading for the award 
of grants pursuant to section 1011 of the Residential Lead- 
Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 shall be pro-
vided to areas with the highest lead-based paint abatement 
needs: Provided further, That $64,000,000 of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading shall be for the implementa-
tion of projects in not more than ten communities to dem-
onstrate how intensive, extended, multi-year interventions 
can dramatically reduce the presence of lead-based paint 
hazards in those communities: Provided further, That each 
project shall serve no more than four contiguous census
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tracts in which there are high concentrations of housing 
stock built before 1940, in which low-income families with 
children make up a significantly higher proportion of the 
population as compared to the State average, and that are 
located in jurisdictions in which instances of elevated blood 
lead levels reported to the State are significantly higher 
than the State average: Provided further, That such projects 
shall be awarded not less than $6,000,000 and not more 
than $9,000,000: Provided further, That funding awarded 
for such projects shall be made available for draw down con-
tingent upon the grantee meeting cost-savings, productivity, 
and grant compliance benchmarks established by the Sec-
retary: Provided further, That each recipient of funds for 
such projects shall contribute an amount not less than 10 
percent of the total award, and that the Secretary shall give 
priority to applicants that secure commitments for addi-
tional contributions from public and private sources: Pro-
vided further, That grantees currently receiving grants 
made under this heading shall be eligible to apply for such 
projects, provided that they are deemed to be in compliance 
with program requirements established by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That of the amount made available for 
the Healthy Homes Initiative, $5,000,000 shall be for the 
implementation of projects in up to 5 communities that are 
served by both the Healthy Homes Initiative and the De-
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partment of Energy weatherization programs to dem-
onstrate whether the coordination of Healthy Homes reme-
diation activities with weatherization activities achieves 
cost savings and better outcomes in improving the safety 
and quality of homes: Provided further, That each appli-
cant shall certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to 
the Secretary to carry out the proposed use of funds pursu-
ant to a notice of funding availability: Provided further, 
That amounts made available under this heading in this 
or prior appropriations Acts, still remaining available, 
may be used for any purpose under this heading notwith-
standing the purpose for which such amounts were appro-
priated if a program competition is undersubscribed and 
there are other program competitions under this heading 
that are oversubscribed. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND 
For the development, modernization, and enhancement 
of, modifications to, and infrastructure for Department- 
wide and program-specific information technology systems, 
for the continuing operation and maintenance of both De-
partment-wide and program-specific information systems, 
and 
for 
program-related 
maintenance 
activities, 
$280,000,000, of which $260,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2021, and of which $20,000,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2022: Provided, That
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any amounts transferred to this Fund under this Act shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appro-
priated by previously enacted appropriations Acts may be 
used for the purposes specified under this Fund, in addition 
to any other information technology purposes for which 
such amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That 
not more than 10 percent of the funds made available under 
this heading for development, modernization and enhance-
ment may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, for ap-
proval, a plan for expenditure that—(A) identifies for each 
modernization project: (i) the functional and performance 
capabilities to be delivered and the mission benefits to be 
realized, (ii) the estimated life-cycle cost, and (iii) key mile-
stones to be met; and (B) demonstrates that each moderniza-
tion project is: (i) compliant with the Department’s enter-
prise architecture, (ii) being managed in accordance with 
applicable life-cycle management policies and guidance, 
(iii) subject to the Department’s capital planning and in-
vestment control requirements, and (iv) supported by an 
adequately staffed project office. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of In-
spector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act
1117 
of 1978, as amended, $128,200,000: Provided, That the In-
spector General shall have independent authority over all 
personnel issues within this office: Provided further, That 
the Office of Inspector General shall procure and rely upon 
the services of an independent external auditor(s) to audit 
the fiscal year 2020 and subsequent financial statements of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development in-
cluding the financial statements of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration and the Government National Mortgage Asso-
ciation: Provided further, That in addition to amounts 
under this heading otherwise available for the purposes 
specified in the previous proviso, $10,000,000 to remain 
available until September 30, 2021, shall be available only 
for such specified purposes. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts
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of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded 
or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
finance agencies or local governments or local housing agen-
cies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for which settlement occurred after 
January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwith-
standing the previous sentence, the Secretary may award 
up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured 
and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide 
project owners with incentives to refinance their project at 
a lower interest rate. 
SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2020 to investigate 
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise law-
ful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including 
the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, 
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 203. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pur-
suant to title II of this Act shall be made on a competitive 
basis and in accordance with section 102 of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 
(42 U.S.C. 3545).
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SEC. 204. Funds of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall 
be available, without regard to the limitations on adminis-
trative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, 
and for utilizing and making payment for services and fa-
cilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Gov-
ernment National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Fed-
eral Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home 
Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended 
(12 U.S.C. 1811–1). 
SEC. 205. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap-
propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall be available for any program, project or 
activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to Congress. 
SEC. 206. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are subject 
to the Government Corporation Control Act are hereby au-
thorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available to each such cor-
poration or agency and in accordance with law, and to
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make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such 
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the budget for 2020 for such corporation or agency 
except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections 
of these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan 
or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent ex-
pressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in 
support of other forms of assistance provided for in this or 
prior appropriations Acts), except that this proviso shall 
not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty operations 
of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United 
States Government. 
SEC. 207. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall provide quarterly reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all uncom-
mitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each 
program and activity within the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment and shall submit additional, updated budget informa-
tion to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 208. No funds provided under this title may be 
used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage As-
sociation that makes applicable requirements under the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
1121 
SEC. 209. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, subject to the conditions listed under this section, for 
fiscal years 2020 and 2021, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may authorize the transfer of some or 
all project-based assistance, debt held or insured by the Sec-
retary and statutorily required low-income and very low- 
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more 
multifamily housing project or projects to another multi-
family housing project or projects. 
(b) PHASED TRANSFERS.—Transfers of project-based 
assistance under this section may be done in phases to ac-
commodate the financing and other requirements related to 
rehabilitating or constructing the project or projects to 
which the assistance is transferred, to ensure that such 
project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c). 
(c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject 
to the following conditions: 
(1) NUMBER AND BEDROOM SIZE OF UNITS.— 
(A) For occupied units in the transferring 
project: The number of low-income and very low- 
income units and the configuration (i.e., bed-
room size) provided by the transferring project 
shall be no less than when transferred to the re-
ceiving project or projects and the net dollar 
amount of Federal assistance provided to the
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transferring project shall remain the same in the 
receiving project or projects. 
(B) For unoccupied units in the transfer-
ring project: The Secretary may authorize a re-
duction in the number of dwelling units in the 
receiving project or projects to allow for a recon-
figuration of bedroom sizes to meet current mar-
ket demands, as determined by the Secretary and 
provided there is no increase in the project-based 
assistance budget authority. 
(2) The transferring project shall, as determined 
by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or eco-
nomically nonviable. 
(3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or 
exceed applicable physical standards established by 
the Secretary. 
(4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials. 
(5) The tenants of the transferring project who 
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the re-
ceiving project or projects shall not be required to va-
cate their units in the transferring project or projects
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until new units in the receiving project are available 
for occupancy. 
(6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is 
in the best interest of the tenants. 
(7) If either the transferring project or the re-
ceiving project or projects meets the condition speci-
fied in subsection (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving 
project resulting from additional financing obtained 
by the owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-in-
sured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such 
project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary 
may waive this requirement upon determination that 
such a waiver is necessary to facilitate the financing 
of acquisition, construction, and/or rehabilitation of 
the receiving project or projects. 
(8) If the transferring project meets the require-
ments of subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of 
the receiving project or projects shall execute and 
record either a continuation of the existing use agree-
ment or a new use agreement for the project where, 
in either case, any use restrictions in such agreement 
are of no lesser duration than the existing use restric-
tions. 
(9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
1124 
of 1974(2 U.S.C. 661a)) of any FHA-insured mort-
gage, except to the extent that appropriations are pro-
vided in advance for the amount of any such in-
creased cost. 
(d) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the statute 
and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following condi-
tions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure including projects 
undergoing mark to market debt restructuring 
under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Housing Act; 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q); 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q), as such section existed before the enact-
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ment of the Cranston-Gonzales National Afford-
able Housing Act; 
(E) housing that is assisted under section 
811 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Afford-
able Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013); or 
(F) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ means— 
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(b)); 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as 
such section existed immediately before October 
1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); 
(D) interest reduction payments under sec-
tion 236 and/or additional assistance payments 
under section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing 
Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1);
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(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q(c)(2)); and 
(F) assistance payments made under section 
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ 
means the multifamily housing project or projects to 
which some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, 
and statutorily required low-income and very low-in-
come use restrictions are to be transferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring 
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and 
the statutorily required low-income and very low-in-
come use restrictions to the receiving project or 
projects; and 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
(e) RESEARCH REPORT.—The Secretary shall conduct 
an evaluation of the transfer authority under this section, 
including the effect of such transfers on the operational effi-
ciency, contract rents, physical and financial conditions, 
and long-term preservation of the affected properties.
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SEC. 210. (a) No assistance shall be provided under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f) to any individual who— 
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 
higher education (as defined under section 102 of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)); 
(2) is under 24 years of age; 
(3) is not a veteran; 
(4) is unmarried; 
(5) does not have a dependent child; 
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 
under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; 
(7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 14 
or older and is at risk of becoming homeless; and 
(8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 
parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, 
to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 
(b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a per-
son to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial as-
sistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition and any
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other required fees and charges) that an individual receives 
under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 
et seq.), from private sources, or an institution of higher 
education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered 
income to that individual, except for a person over the age 
of 23 with dependent children. 
SEC. 211. The funds made available for Native Alas-
kans under paragraph (1) under the heading ‘‘Native Amer-
ican Programs’’ in title II of this Act shall be allocated to 
the same Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients that 
received funds in fiscal year 2005, and only such recipients 
shall be eligible to apply for funds made available under 
paragraph (3) of such heading. 
SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in fiscal year 2020, in managing and disposing of any mul-
tifamily property that is owned or has a mortgage held by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and dur-
ing the process of foreclosure on any property with a con-
tract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or 
other Federal programs, the Secretary shall maintain any 
rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 and other programs that are 
attached to any dwelling units in the property. To the ex-
1129 
tent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the ten-
ants and the local government, that such a multifamily 
property owned or held by the Secretary is not feasible for 
continued rental assistance payments under such section 8 
or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs 
of rehabilitating and operating the property and all avail-
able Federal, State, and local resources, including rent ad-
justments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing 
Reform 
and 
Affordability 
Act 
of 
1997 
(‘‘MAHRAA’’) (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) and (2) environ-
mental conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effec-
tive fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation with the 
tenants of that property, contract for project-based rental 
assistance payments with an owner or owners of other exist-
ing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance. 
The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure 
that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to fore-
closure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement rem-
edies to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major 
threats to health and safety after written notice to and in-
formed consent of the affected tenants and use of other avail-
able remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. 
After disposition of any multifamily property described 
under this section, the contract and allowable rent levels
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on such properties shall be subject to the requirements under 
section 524 of MAHRAA. 
SEC. 213. Public housing agencies that own and oper-
ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt 
from any asset management requirement imposed by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in connec-
tion with the operating fund rule: Provided, That an agency 
seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under 
the operating fund formula shall not be exempt from asset 
management requirements. 
SEC. 214. With respect to the use of amounts provided 
in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital 
improvement and management of public housing as author-
ized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the Secretary 
shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to 
asset management that restricts or limits in any way the 
use of capital funds for central office costs pursuant to sec-
tion 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Provided, That a pub-
lic housing agency may not use capital funds authorized 
under section 9(d) for activities that are eligible under sec-
tion 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the operating 
fund in excess of the amounts permitted under section 
9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2).
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SEC. 215. No official or employee of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated as 
an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer has determined that such allotment holder has im-
plemented an adequate system of funds control and has re-
ceived training in funds control procedures and directives. 
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a 
trained allotment holder for each HUD appropriation 
under the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Administrative 
Support Offices’’, ‘‘Program Offices’’, ‘‘Government Na-
tional Mortgage Association—Guarantees of Mortgage- 
Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account’’, and 
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ within the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 216. The Secretary of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2020, notify 
the public through the Federal Register and other means, 
as determined appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of 
the availability of assistance or notice of funding avail-
ability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund ad-
ministered by the Secretary that is to be competitively 
awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
fiscal year 2020, the Secretary may make the NOFA avail-
able only on the Internet at the appropriate Government
1132 
web site or through other electronic media, as determined 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 217. Payment of attorney fees in program-related 
litigation shall be paid from the individual program office 
and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses appro-
priations. The annual budget submission for the program 
offices and the Office of General Counsel shall include any 
such projected litigation costs for attorney fees as a separate 
line item request. No funds provided in this title may be 
used to pay any such litigation costs for attorney fees until 
the Department submits for review a spending plan for such 
costs to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 218. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds ap-
propriated for any office under the headings ‘‘Administra-
tive Support Offices’’ or ‘‘Program Offices’’ to any other 
such office or account: Provided, That no appropriation for 
any such office or account shall be increased or decreased 
by more than 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, 
without prior written approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall provide notification to such Committees 3 
business days in advance of any such transfers under this 
section up to 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less.
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SEC. 219. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance 
payments shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary condi-
tions, as determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’), and comply with any standards under applicable 
State or local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations relat-
ing to the physical condition of any property covered under 
a housing assistance payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection 
(c) when a multifamily housing project with a section 8 
contract or contract for similar project-based assistance— 
(1) receives a Uniform Physical Condition 
Standards (UPCS) score of 60 or less; or 
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary 
within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety de-
ficiencies identified by the inspector at the project 
have been corrected. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 
projects with assistance attached to the units under section 
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f), but do not apply to such units assisted under section 
8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to public housing units 
assisted with capital or operating funds under section 9 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g).
1134 
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the REAC in-
spection, the Secretary must provide the owner with a No-
tice of Default with a specified timetable, determined by the 
Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary 
must also provide a copy of the Notice of Default to the 
tenants, the local government, any mortgagees, and any 
contract administrator. If the owner’s appeal results in a 
UPCS score of 60 or above, the Secretary may withdraw 
the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting 
all deficiencies specified in the Notice of Default, if 
the owner fails to fully correct such deficiencies, the 
Secretary may— 
(A) require immediate replacement of 
project management with a management agent 
approved by the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which 
shall be used solely for the purpose of supporting 
safe and sanitary conditions at applicable prop-
erties, as designated by the Secretary, with pri-
ority given to the tenants of the property affected 
by the penalty; 
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including 
partial abatement, as determined by the Sec-
retary, until all deficiencies have been corrected;
1135 
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an 
owner, approved by the Secretary under estab-
lished procedures, which will be obligated to 
promptly make all required repairs and to ac-
cept renewal of the assistance contract as long as 
such renewal is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract 
to another project or projects and owner or own-
ers; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, includ-
ing suspensions or debarments from Federal pro-
grams; 
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver 
to manage the property and cure all project defi-
ciencies or seek a judicial order of specific per-
formance requiring the owner to cure all project 
deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other 
related party to stabilize the property in an at-
tempt to preserve the property through compli-
ance, transfer of ownership, or an infusion of 
capital provided by a third-party that requires 
time to effectuate; or
1136 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual 
remedies available as deemed necessary and ap-
propriate by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to 
ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject 
to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist 
relocation of tenants for major threats to health and safety 
after written notice to the affected tenants. To the extent 
the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 
and the local government, that the property is not feasible 
for continued rental assistance payments under such section 
8 or other programs, based on consideration of— 
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the 
property and all available Federal, State, and local 
resources, including rent adjustments under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and 
Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 
may contract for project-based rental assistance pay-
ments with an owner or owners of other existing hous-
ing properties, or provide other rental assistance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all prop-
erties covered by this section that are assessed through the 
Real Estate Assessment Center and have UPCS physical in-
1137 
spection scores of less than 60 or have received an unsatis-
factory management and occupancy review within the past 
36 months. The report shall include— 
(1) the enforcement actions being taken to ad-
dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 
money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 
identify properties that have such conditions multiple 
times; 
(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 rec-
ommendations to further improve the living condi-
tions at properties covered under a housing assistance 
payment contract. 
This report shall be due to the Senate and House Commit-
tees on Appropriations no later than 30 days after the en-
actment of this Act, and on the first business day of each 
Federal fiscal year quarter thereafter while this section re-
mains in effect. 
SEC. 220. 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
1138 
housing agency for any amount of salary, including bo-
nuses, 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 Execu-
tive Schedule at any time during any public housing agen-
cy fiscal year 2020. 
SEC. 221. None of the funds in this Act provided to 
the Department 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, lo-
cality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or 
other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced 
by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 222. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 223. 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 re-
places a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain
1139 
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any 
other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 224. 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 sec-
tion 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to grants under sec-
tion 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 225. Amounts made available under this Act 
which are either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a re-
imbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy De-
velopment and Research in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development and functions thereof, for research, 
evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are unex-
pended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or 
cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall imme-
diately become available and may be reobligated in that fis-
cal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, eval-
uation, or statistical purposes for which the amounts are 
made available to that Office subject to reprogramming re-
quirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 226. None of the funds provided in this Act or 
any other act may be used for awards, including perform-
ance, special act, or spot, for any employee of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development subject to admin-
1140 
istrative discipline (including suspension from work), in 
this fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not be effective 
prior to the effective date of any such administrative dis-
cipline or after any final decision over-turning such dis-
cipline. 
SEC. 227. 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 section 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, sec-
tion 525 of division H of Public Law 115–31, section 525 
of division H of Public Law 115–141, section 524 of divi-
sion B of Public Law 115–245 and such authorities as are 
enacted for Performance Partnership Pilots in an appro-
priations Act for fiscal year 2020: Provided, That such par-
ticipation shall be limited to no more than 10 continuums 
of care and housing activities to improve outcomes for dis-
connected youth. 
SEC. 228. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fiscal 
years 2015 through 2020 for the continuum of care (CoC) 
program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs paid by 
program income of grant recipients may count toward
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meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, provided the 
costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the recipient’s 
CoC program. 
SEC. 229. (a) From amounts made available under 
this title under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, 
the Secretary may award 1-year transition grants to recipi-
ents of funds for activities under subtitle C of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et 
seq.) to transition from one Continuum of Care program 
component to another. 
(b) In order to be eligible to receive a transition grant, 
the funding recipient must have the consent of the Con-
tinuum of Care and meet standards determined by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 230. 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 Hous-
ing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) or the notice 
entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assess-
ment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 2014)). 
SEC. 231. (a) Amounts recaptured from funds appro-
priated for this or any succeeding fiscal year under the 
heading ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
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ment—Community Planning and Development—Homeless 
Assistance Grants’’ shall become available until expended 
not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last 
fiscal year for which such funds are available and shall be 
available, in addition to rental assistance amounts that 
were recaptured and made available until expended under 
such heading by any prior Act, and in addition to such 
other funds as may be available for such purposes, for the 
following purposes: 
(1) For grants under the Continuum of Care 
program under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et 
seq.); 
(2) For grants under the Emergency Solutions 
Grant program under subtitle B of title IV of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.); 
(3) Not less than 10 percent of the amounts shall 
be used only for grants in rural areas under the Con-
tinuum of Care program, to include activities eligible 
under the Rural Housing Stability Assistance pro-
gram under section 491 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
11408) that are not otherwise eligible under the Con-
tinuum of Care program; and
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(4) Not less than 10 percent of the amounts shall 
be for emergency solutions grants for disaster areas as 
authorized by subsection (c). 
(b) Prior to the use of any recaptured amounts referred 
to in subsection (a), including competing, awarding, or ob-
ligating such amounts, the Secretary shall submit a plan 
in accordance with subsection (a) that specifies the planned 
use of any such amounts to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and 
receive prior written approval of such plan, except that use 
of amounts in the plan for the purposes specified in sub-
section (a)(4) may begin once such plan is submitted to 
such Committees. 
(c)(1) The Secretary may make grants under the 
Emergency Solutions Grants program under subtitle B of 
title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11371 et seq.) to States or local governments to ad-
dress the needs of homeless individuals or families or indi-
viduals or families at risk of homelessness in areas affected 
by a major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act, whose needs are not otherwise served or fully met 
by existing Federal disaster relief programs, including the
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Transitional Sheltering Assistance program under such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170b). 
(2) For purposes of grants under paragraph (1), the 
Secretary may suspend all consultation, citizen participa-
tion, and matching requirements. 
SEC. 232. 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 agree-
ments. 
SEC. 233. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to establish and apply review criteria, in-
cluding rating factors or preference points, for participa-
tion in or coordination with EnVision Centers, in the eval-
uation, selection, and award of any funds made available 
and requiring competitive selection under this Act, except 
with respect to any such funds otherwise authorized for En-
Vision Center purposes under this Act. 
SEC. 234. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall make available to grantees under pro-
grams included under the Department’s Consolidated Plan-
ning Process, not later than the expiration of the 90-day 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the prepopulated up-to-date housing and economic data and
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data for both broadband and resilience assessment require-
ments, as referred to in the HUD Response to the third com-
ment under section III.A. of the Supplementary Informa-
tion included with the final rule entitled ‘‘Modernizing 
HUD’s Consolidated Planning Process To Narrow the Dig-
ital Divide and Increase Resilience to Natural Hazards’’, 
published by the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment in the Federal Register on Friday, December 16, 
2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 91000). 
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall require such grantees to incorporate the broadband 
and resilience components into the Consolidated Plan proc-
ess not later than the expiration of the 270-day period be-
ginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 235. None of the funds made available by this 
or any prior Act may be used to require or enforce any 
changes to the terms and conditions of the public housing 
annual contributions contract between the Secretary and 
any public housing agency, as such contract was in effect 
as of December 31, 2017, unless such changes are mutually 
agreed upon by the Secretary and such agency: Provided, 
That such agreement by an agency may be indicated only 
by a written amendment to the terms and conditions con-
taining the duly authorized signature of its chief executive: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may not withhold
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122 Stat. 324) (as amended by section 1203 of Public Law 
111–32; 123 Stat. 1859) are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 238. Any public housing agency designated as a 
Moving to Work agency pursuant to section 239 of (Public 
Law 114–113) may, upon such designation, use funds (ex-
cept for special purpose funding, including special purpose 
vouchers) previously allocated to any such public housing 
agency under section 8 or 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, including any reserve funds held by the public 
housing agency or funds held by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, pursuant to the authority for use 
of section 8 or 9 funding provided under such section and 
section 204 of title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs 
and Housing and Urban Development and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–134), 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds were ap-
propriated. 
SEC. 239. None of the amounts made available by this 
Act or by Public Law 116–6 may be used to prohibit any 
public housing agency under receivership or the direction 
of a Federal monitor from applying for, receiving, or using 
funds made available under the heading ‘‘Public Housing 
Capital Fund’’ for competitive grants to evaluate and re-
duce lead-based paint hazards in this Act or that remain 
available and not awarded from prior Acts, or be used to
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prohibit a public housing agency from using such funds to 
carry out any required work pursuant to a settlement agree-
ment, consent decree, voluntary agreement, or similar docu-
ment for a violation of the Lead Safe Housing or Lead Dis-
closure Rules. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2020’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as author-
ized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 
amended, $9,200,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, there may be credited to this appro-
priation funds received for publications and training ex-
penses: Provided further, That of this amount, $800,000 
shall be for activities authorized under section 432 of Public 
Law 115–254. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Com-
mission 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
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motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b); and uni-
forms or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902, $28,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$2,000 shall be available for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to 
carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $24,274,000: Provided, That the Inspec-
tor General shall have all necessary authority, in carrying 
out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations of 
fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 
enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 
and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws and 
regulations that govern the obtaining of such services within 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided 
further, That the Inspector General may select, appoint,
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and employ such officers and employees as may be nec-
essary for carrying out the functions, powers, and duties 
of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the applicable 
laws and regulations that govern such selections, appoint-
ments, and employment within the Corporation: Provided 
further, That concurrent with the President’s budget request 
for fiscal year 2021, the Inspector General shall submit to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a 
budget request for fiscal year 2021 in similar format and 
substance to those submitted by executive agencies of the 
Federal Government. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transportation 
Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but 
at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902), 
$110,400,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may be used 
for official reception and representation expenses. The 
amounts made available to the National Transportation 
Safety Board in this Act include amounts necessary to 
make lease payments on an obligation incurred in fiscal 
year 2001 for a capital lease.
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NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as 
authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $157,500,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro-
gram: Provided, That an additional $1,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2023, shall be for the pro-
motion and development of shared equity housing models. 
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation 
Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$37,100,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees estab-
lished by the Chairman of the Surface Transportation 
Board shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting 
collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced on a 
dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections are re-
ceived during fiscal year 2020, to result in a final appro-
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priation from the general fund estimated at no more than 
$35,850,000. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rent-
al of conference rooms, and the employment of experts and 
consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code) of the United States Interagency Council on Home-
lessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title II 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amend-
ed, $3,800,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings fund-
ed in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fis-
cal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein.
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SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through a procurement 
contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing 
law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training 
that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, 
skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the perform-
ance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels 
of emotional response or psychological stress in some 
participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the training 
and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Employ-
ment Opportunity Commission Notice N–915.022, 
dated September 2, 1988; or
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(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, partici-
pants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the work-
place. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous 
appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in fiscal year 2020, or provided from any accounts in the 
Treasury derived by the collection of fees and available to 
the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds 
that— 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity by either the House or Senate Committees on 
Appropriations for a different purpose;
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(5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activi-
ties by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, 
division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, 
administration, or department different from the 
budget justifications submitted to the Committees on 
Appropriations or the table accompanying the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying this Act, which-
ever is more detailed, unless prior approval is re-
ceived from the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided, That not later than 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, each agency 
funded by this Act shall submit a report to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the 
House of Representatives to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authori-
ties for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That 
the report shall include— 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a 
separate column to display the prior year en-
acted level, the President’s budget request, adjust-
ments made by Congress, adjustments due to en-
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acted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal 
year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each ap-
propriation and its respective prior year enacted 
level by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in this Act, the table accom-
panying the explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act, accompanying reports of the 
House and Senate Committee on Appropriations, 
or in the budget appendix for the respective ap-
propriations, whichever is more detailed, and 
shall apply to all items for which a dollar 
amount is specified and to all programs for 
which new budget (obligational) authority is 
provided, as well as to discretionary grants and 
discretionary grant allocations; and 
(C) an identification of items of special con-
gressional interest. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
maining available at the end of fiscal year 2020 from ap-
propriations made available for salaries and expenses for 
fiscal year 2020 in this Act, shall remain available through 
September 30, 2021, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to
1157 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support 
any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the 
power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is em-
ployed only for a public use: Provided, That for purposes 
of this section, public use shall not be construed to include 
economic development that primarily benefits private enti-
ties: Provided further, That any use of funds for mass tran-
sit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects, as well 
as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public 
(including energy-related, communication-related, water-re-
lated and wastewater-related infrastructure), other struc-
tures designated for use by the general public or which have 
other common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve 
the general public and are subject to regulation and over-
sight by the government, and projects for the removal of an 
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownfields 
as defined in the Small Business Liability Relief and 
Brownfields Revitalization Act (Public Law 107–118) shall 
be considered a public use for purposes of eminent domain.
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SEC. 408. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly 
held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces 
of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his 
or her period of active military or naval service, and has 
within 90 days after his or her release from such service 
or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his or her former position and has been certified 
by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to 
perform the duties of his or her former position and has 
not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 410. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act 
may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that 
in expending the assistance the entity will comply with sec-
tions 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 
8301–8305, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’). 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any per-
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son or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy 
American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305). 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier per-
mit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, United 
States Code, or exemption application under section 40109 
of that title of an air carrier already holding an air opera-
tors certificate issued by a country that is party to the U.S.- 
E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such 
approval would contravene United States law or Article 17 
bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agree-
ment. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or 
otherwise preclude the Secretary of Transportation from 
granting a foreign air carrier permit or an exemption to 
such an air carrier where such authorization is consistent 
with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agree-
ment and United States law. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance 
of more than 50 employees of a single agency or department
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of the United States Government, who are stationed in the 
United States, at any single international conference unless 
the relevant Secretary reports to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance 
that such attendance is important to the national interest: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring out-
side of the United States attended by representatives of the 
United States Government and of foreign governments, 
international organizations, or nongovernmental organiza-
tions. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used by the Surface 
Transportation Board to charge or collect any filing fee for 
rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an 
amount in excess of the amount authorized for district court 
civil suit filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Transportation, the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, or any 
other Federal agency to lease or purchase new light duty 
vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet in-
ventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memo-
randum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011.
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SEC. 417. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 418. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to deny an Inspector General funded under 
this Act timely access to any records, documents, or other 
materials available to the department or agency over which 
that Inspector General has responsibilities under the In-
spector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), or to prevent 
or impede that Inspector General’s access to such records, 
documents, or other materials, under any provision of law, 
except a provision of law that expressly refers to the Inspec-
tor General and expressly limits the Inspector General’s 
right of access. 
(b) A department or agency covered by this section 
shall provide its Inspector General with access to all such 
records, documents, and other materials in a timely man-
ner. 
(c) Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance 
with statutory limitations on disclosure relevant to the in-
1162 
formation provided by the establishment over which that In-
spector General has responsibilities under the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
(d) Each Inspector General covered by this section 
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 calendar 
days any failures to comply with this requirement. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractors whose performance has been 
judged to be below satisfactory, behind schedule, over budget, 
or has failed to meet the basic requirements of a contract, 
unless the Agency determines that any such deviations are 
due to unforeseeable events, government-driven scope 
changes, or are not significant within the overall scope of 
the project and/or program unless such awards or incentive 
fees are consistent with 16.401(e)(2) of the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulations. 
SEC. 420. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any 
reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this division shall be 
treated as referring only to the provisions of this division. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 5309(d)(2) of 
title 49, United States Code.
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SEC. 422. None of the funds made available by this 
division may be used to issue rules or guidance in con-
travention of section 1210 of Public Law 115–254 (132 
Stat. 3442) or section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155). 
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available by this 
division may be used in contravention of section 2635.702 
of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 424. Of the unobligated balances of funds remain-
ing from— 
(1) Public Law 91–605, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Rail Crossings Demonstration 
Projects’’ account under Treasury Account Fund 
Symbol 69X0555, a total of $517,220.20 is hereby 
permanently rescinded; 
(2) Public Law 92–18, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Darien Gap Highway’’ account 
under Treasury Account Fund Symbol 69X0553, a 
total of $2,037,034.50 is hereby permanently re-
scinded; 
(3) Public Law 93–87, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Alaska Highway’’ account under 
Treasury Account Fund Symbol 69X0537, a total of 
$62,861.61 is hereby permanently rescinded;
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(4) Public Law 94–387, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Railroad-Highway Crossings Dem-
onstration Projects’’ account under Treasury Account 
Fund Symbol 69X0557, a total of $2,035,137.12 is 
hereby permanently rescinded; 
(5) Public Law 97–257, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Access Highways to Public Recre-
ation Areas on Certain Lakes’’ account under Treas-
ury Account Fund Symbol 69X0503, a total of 
$352,333.19 is hereby permanently rescinded; 
(6) Public Law 99–190, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Highway Beautification’’ account 
under Treasury Account Fund Symbol 69X0540, a 
total of $488,909.57 is hereby permanently rescinded; 
(7) Public Law 101–164, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Highway Demonstration Projects- 
Preliminary Engineering’’ account under Treasury 
Account 
Fund 
Symbol 
69X0583, 
a 
total 
of 
$2,601,431.71 is hereby permanently rescinded; 
(8) Public Law 101–516, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Highway Demonstration Projects’’ 
account under Treasury Account Fund Symbol 
69X0598, a total of $1,341 is hereby permanently re-
scinded;
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(9) Public Law 102–143, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Highway Studies Feasibility, De-
sign, Environmental, Engineering’’ account under 
Treasury Account Fund Symbol 69X0533, a total of 
$262,204.01 is hereby permanently rescinded; 
(10) Public Law 103–331, and any other Act, 
appropriated 
to 
the 
‘‘Surface 
Transportation 
Projects’’ account under Treasury Account Fund 
Symbol 69X0505, a total of $573,097.13 is hereby 
permanently rescinded; and 
(11) Public Law 107–87, and any other Act, ap-
propriated to the ‘‘Miscellaneous Highway Project’’ 
account under Treasury Account Fund Symbol 
69X0641, a total of $11,003,637 is hereby perma-
nently rescinded. 
SEC. 425. (a) Section 127(l)(3)(A) of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), in the 
first sentence, by striking ‘‘clause (i) or (ii)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘clauses (i) through (iv)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) The Wendell H. Ford (Western 
Kentucky) Parkway (to be designated as a 
spur of Interstate Route 69) from the inter-
change with the William H. Natcher Park-
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way in Ohio County, Kentucky, west to the 
interchange of the Western Kentucky Park-
way 
with 
the 
Edward 
T. 
Breathitt 
(Pennyrile) Parkway. 
‘‘(iv) 
The 
Edward 
T. 
Breathitt 
(Pennyrile) Parkway (to be designated as a 
spur of Interstate Route 69) from Interstate 
24, north to Interstate 69.’’. 
(b) DESIGNATION AS HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR.— 
Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–240; 105 Stat. 
2032; 131 Stat. 797) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(91) The Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) 
Parkway from the interchange with the William H. 
Natcher Parkway in Ohio County, Kentucky, west to 
the interchange of the Western Kentucky Parkway 
with the Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway.’’. 
(c) DESIGNATION AS FUTURE INTERSTATE.—Section 
1105(e)(5)(A) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Ef-
ficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–240; 109 Stat. 597; 
131 Stat. 797) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
‘‘and subsection (c)(90)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)(90), 
and subsection (c)(91)’’.
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(d) 
NUMBERING
OF
PARKWAY.—Section 
1105(e)(5)(C)(i) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–240; 109 Stat. 598; 
126 Stat. 426; 131 Stat. 797) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ‘‘The route referred to in subsection 
(c)(91) is designated as Interstate Route I–569.’’. 
(e) EXEMPTION.—Notwithstanding section 111 of title 
23, United States Code, if the segment of highway described 
in paragraph (91) of section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Sur-
face Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 
102–240; 105 Stat. 2032; 131 Stat. 797) is designated as 
a route on the Interstate System, any commercial establish-
ment operating legally in a rest area on that segment before 
the date of that designation may continue to operate in the 
Interstate right-of-way, subject to the Interstate access 
standards established under section 111 of that title. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, 
Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2020’’. 
DIVISION I—EXTENSIONS 
TITLE I 
IMMIGRATION EXTENSIONS 
SEC. 101. Section 401(b) of the Illegal Immigration 
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8
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U.S.C. 1324a note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2020’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 
SEC. 102. Subclauses 101(a)(27)(C)(ii)(II) and (III) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(27)(C)(ii)(II) and (III)) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 
SEC. 103. Section 220(c) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (8 U.S.C. 1182 
note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ 
for ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 
SEC. 104. Section 610(b) of the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1993 (8 U.S.C. 1153 note) shall 
be applied by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ for ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2015’’. 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding the numerical limitation 
set forth in section 214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(1)(B)), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, after consultation with the Secretary 
of Labor, and upon the determination that the needs of 
American businesses cannot be satisfied in fiscal year 2020 
with United States workers who are willing, qualified, and 
able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor, may in-
crease the total number of aliens who may receive a visa 
under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
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1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) in such fiscal year above such limi-
tation by not more than the highest number of H–2B non-
immigrants who participated in the H–2B returning work-
er program in any fiscal year in which returning workers 
were exempt from such numerical limitation. 
TITLE II 
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM 
EXTENSION 
SEC. 201. Sections 1309(a) and 1319 of the National 
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a) and 4026) 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ for 
‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
TITLE 
III—SECURE 
RURAL 
SCHOOLS 
AND 
COMMUNITY 
SELF-DETERMINATION 
EX-
TENSION 
SEC. 301. EXTENSION OF THE SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS 
AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION ACT 
OF 2000. 
(a) SECURE PAYMENTS FOR STATES AND COUNTIES 
CONTAINING FEDERAL LAND.— 
(1) SECURE PAYMENTS.—Section 101 of the Se-
cure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determina-
tion Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7111) is amended, in 
subsections (a) and (b), by striking ‘‘and 2018’’ each
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place it appears and inserting ‘‘2018, 2019, and 
2020’’. 
(2) PAYMENTS TO STATES AND COUNTIES.— 
(A) 
ELECTION
TO
RECEIVE
PAYMENT 
AMOUNT.—Section 102(b) of the Secure Rural 
Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7112(b)) is amended— 
(i) in paragraph (1)(D)— 
(I) in the subparagraph heading, 
by striking ‘‘FOR FISCAL YEARS 2017 
AND 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘FOR EACH OF 
FISCAL
YEARS
2017
THROUGH
2020’’; 
and 
(II) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years 
2017 or 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘for each 
of fiscal years 2017 through 2020’’; 
and 
(ii) in paragraph (2), in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B), by striking ‘‘for fiscal 
years 2017 and 2018’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘for each of fiscal years 2017 
through 2020’’. 
(B) EXPENDITURE
RULES
FOR
ELIGIBLE 
COUNTIES.—Section 102(d) of the Secure Rural
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Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7112(d)) is amended— 
(i) in paragraph (1)(F)— 
(I) in the subparagraph heading, 
by striking ‘‘FOR FISCAL YEARS 2017 
AND 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘FOR EACH OF 
FISCAL
YEARS
2017
THROUGH
2020’’; 
and 
(II) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years 
2017 and 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2020’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (3)(D)— 
(I) in the subparagraph heading, 
by striking ‘‘FOR FISCAL YEARS 2017 
AND 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘FOR EACH OF 
FISCAL
YEARS
2017
THROUGH
2020’’; 
and 
(II) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years 
2017 and 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2020’’. 
(C) DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS TO ELIGI-
BLE COUNTIES.—Section 103(d)(2) of the Secure 
Rural Schools and Community Self-Determina-
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tion Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7113(d)(2)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘through and for fiscal 
years 2017 and 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘through 
2015 and for each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2020’’. 
(b) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SPECIAL 
PROJECTS ON FEDERAL LAND.— 
(1) EXISTING ADVISORY COMMITTEES.—Section 
205(a)(4) of the Secure Rural Schools and Commu-
nity Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 
7125(a)(4)) is amended by striking ‘‘September 29, 
2018’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘December 
20, 2021’’. 
(2) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—Section 208 
of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-De-
termination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7128) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘2020’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2022’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘2021’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2023’’. 
(c) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO EXPEND COUNTY 
FUNDS.—Section 304 of the Secure Rural Schools and 
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 
7144) is amended—
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(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘2020’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2022’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘2021’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2023’’. 
TITLE IV—EXPORT-IMPORT 
BANK EXTENSION 
SEC. 401. AUTHORIZATION PERIOD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 7 of the Export-Import 
Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635f) is amended by striking 
‘‘September 30, 2019’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2026’’. 
(b) EXPOSURE LIMIT.—Section 6(a)(2) of such Act (12 
U.S.C. 635e(a)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘for each of fis-
cal years 2015 through 2019’’ and inserting ‘‘for each of 
fiscal years 2020 through 2027’’. 
SEC. 402. PROGRAM ON CHINA AND TRANSFORMATIONAL 
EXPORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Export-Import 
Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) PROGRAM ON CHINA AND TRANSFORMATIONAL 
EXPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Bank shall establish a 
Program on China and Transformational Exports to 
support the extension of loans, guarantees, and insur-
ance, at rates and on terms and other conditions, to
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the extent practicable, that are fully competitive with 
rates, terms, and other conditions established by the 
People’s Republic of China or by a covered country, 
that aim to— 
‘‘(A) directly neutralize export subsidies for 
competing goods and services financed by official 
export credit, tied aid, or blended financing pro-
vided by the People’s Republic of China or by a 
covered country; or 
‘‘(B) advance the comparative leadership of 
the United States with respect to the People’s Re-
public of China, or support United States inno-
vation, employment, and technological stand-
ards, through direct exports in any of the fol-
lowing areas: 
‘‘(i) Artificial intelligence. 
‘‘(ii) Biotechnology. 
‘‘(iii) Biomedical sciences. 
‘‘(iv) Wireless communications equip-
ment (including 5G or subsequent wireless 
technologies). 
‘‘(v) Quantum computing. 
‘‘(vi) Renewable energy, energy effi-
ciency, and energy storage.
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‘‘(vii) Semiconductor and semicon-
ductor machinery manufacturing. 
‘‘(viii) 
Emerging 
financial 
tech-
nologies, including technologies that facili-
tate— 
‘‘(I) financial inclusion through 
increased access to capital and finan-
cial services; 
‘‘(II) data security and privacy; 
‘‘(III) payments, the transfer of 
funds, and associated messaging serv-
ices; and 
‘‘(IV) efforts to combat money 
laundering and the financing of ter-
rorism. 
‘‘(ix) Water treatment and sanitation, 
including technologies and infrastructure to 
reduce contaminants and improve water 
quality. 
‘‘(x) High performance computing. 
‘‘(xi) Associated services necessary for 
use of any of the foregoing exports. 
‘‘(2) COVERED COUNTRIES.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘covered country’ means any country that—
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‘‘(A) the Secretary of the Treasury des-
ignates as a covered country in a report to the 
Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Development of the Senate; 
‘‘(B) is not a participant in the Arrange-
ment on Officially Supported Export Credits of 
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development (in this subsection referred to as the 
‘Arrangement’); and 
‘‘(C) is not in substantial compliance with 
the financial terms and conditions of the Ar-
rangement. 
‘‘(3) FINANCING.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—It shall be a goal of the 
Bank to reserve not less than 20 percent of the 
applicable amount (as defined in section 6(a)(2)) 
for support made pursuant to the Program on 
China and Transformational Exports. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury may reduce or eliminate the 20 percent 
goal in subparagraph (A), on reporting to the 
Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate that
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the People’s Republic of China is in substantial 
compliance with— 
‘‘(i) the financial terms and conditions 
of the Arrangement; and 
‘‘(ii) the rules and principles of the 
Paris Club. 
‘‘(C) SUNSET AND REPORT.—The program 
established under paragraph (1) shall expire on 
December 31, 2026. Not later than 4 years after 
enactment of this subsection, the President of the 
Bank shall submit a report to the Committee on 
Financial Services of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs of the Senate assessing the 
following: 
‘‘(i) The capacity and demand of 
United States entities to export goods and 
services in the areas described in paragraph 
(1)(B), as assessed in consultation with the 
Secretary of Commerce. 
‘‘(ii) The availability of private-sector 
financing for exports in the areas. 
‘‘(iii) The feasibility and advisability 
of continuing the goal of subparagraph (A)
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of this paragraph with respect to paragraph 
(1)(B) after December 31, 2026. 
‘‘(D) NATIONAL
ADVISORY
COUNCIL
ON 
INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY
AND
FINANCIAL 
PROBLEMS.—The National Advisory Council on 
International Monetary and Financial Problems 
shall ensure that Bank authorizations pursuant 
to the Program on China and Transformational 
Exports are considered or reviewed expeditiously, 
consistent with the other credit standards re-
quired by law.’’. 
(b) REQUIRED REPORTING.—Section 8 of such Act (12 
U.S.C. 635g) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) REPORT ON AUTHORIZATIONS UNDER THE PRO- 
GRAM ON CHINA AND TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPORTS.—The 
Bank shall include in its annual report to Congress under 
subsection (a) a narrative and financial summary of the 
authorizations made under the Program on China and 
Transformational Exports.’’. 
(c) RULE
OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in section 
2(l)(1)(B) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 shall be 
construed to weaken any export controls affecting critical 
technologies (as defined in section 721(a)(6)(A) of the De-
fense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(a)(6)(A))).
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SEC. 403. SMALL BUSINESS POLICY. 
Section 2(b)(1) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 
(12 U.S.C. 635(b)(1)) is amended by striking subparagraph 
(E)(i)(I) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(E)(i)(I) It is further the policy of the United States 
to encourage the participation of small business (including 
women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, vet-
eran-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with 
disabilities, and businesses in rural areas) and start-up 
businesses in international commerce, and to educate such 
businesses about how to export goods using the Bank.’’. 
SEC. 404. INCREASE IN SMALL BUSINESS THRESHOLD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2(b)(1)(E)(v) of the Ex-
port-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(1)(E)(v)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘25’’ and inserting ‘‘30’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on January 1, 2021. 
SEC. 405. EXCLUSION OF UNUTILIZED INSURANCE AUTHOR-
ITY 
IN 
CALCULATING 
SMALL 
BUSINESS 
THRESHOLD. 
Section 2(b)(1)(E)(v) of the Export-Import Bank Act 
of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(1)(E)(v)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ‘‘For the purpose of calculating 
the amounts of authority required under this clause, the 
Bank shall, with respect to insurance, exclude unutilized 
authorizations that terminated during the fiscal year.’’.
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SEC. 406. ANTI-FRAUD REFORMS. 
Section 2 of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 
U.S.C. 635) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (f), by striking the period and 
inserting: ‘‘, and shall deny an application for assist-
ance if the end user, borrower, lender, or exporter has 
been convicted of an act of fraud or corruption in 
connection with an application for support from the 
Bank made in the preceding 5 years. The Bank may 
proceed with an application described in this sub-
section only if an end user, borrower, lender, or ex-
porter can be fully excluded from the transaction.’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘should re-
quire’’ and inserting ‘‘shall require’’. 
SEC. 407. FINANCING FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENERGY 
EFFICIENCY, AND ENERGY STORAGE TECH-
NOLOGIES. 
Section 2(b)(1)(K) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 
1945 (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(1)(K)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, 
energy efficiency (including battery electric vehicles, bat-
teries for electric vehicles, and electric vehicle charging in-
frastructure), and energy storage. It shall be a goal of the 
Bank to ensure that not less than 5 percent of the applicable 
amount (as defined in section 6(a)(2)) is made available 
each fiscal year for the financing of renewable energy, en-
1181 
ergy efficiency (including battery electric vehicles, batteries 
for electric vehicles, and electric vehicle charging infrastruc-
ture), and energy storage technology exports’’ before the pe-
riod. 
SEC. 408. REPORTING ON FINANCING RELATED TO CHINA. 
(a) NATIONAL INTEREST REPORT.—Before author-
izing a loan or guarantee for a transaction in an amount 
greater than $25,000,000 for which the end user, lender, or 
obligor is the government of China, the President of the Ex-
port-Import Bank of the United States (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Bank’’) shall— 
(1) report to the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of 
the Senate that the Bank has consulted with the Sec-
retary of State and any other relevant department or 
agency, as deemed appropriate by the President of the 
United States, to assess any risks posed by the entity 
or the transaction to the national interest of the 
United States; and 
(2) include a summary of the transaction and 
the consultation. 
(b) FORM OF REPORT.—The report described in sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
include a classified annex.
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(c) RELATED POLICIES.— 
(1) The Board of Directors of the Bank shall pre-
scribe policies for the Bank with respect to— 
(A) procedures required by the consultation 
described in subsection (a)(1); 
(B) establishment of a period of not less 
than 25 days to complete the consultations de-
scribed in subsection (a) during which time con-
sulted parties may submit any appropriate in-
formation to the Bank; and 
(C) efforts by the Bank to assess and deter-
mine ownership or control by the government of 
China pursuant to the requirements of subsection 
(a). 
(2) In prescribing the policies described under 
paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Board of Direc-
tors of the Bank shall— 
(A) consult with the Secretary of State with 
respect to the procedures referred to in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of this sub-
section, and seek to ensure that the procedures— 
(i) are consistent, wherever appro-
priate, with national interest determina-
tions made under section 2(b)(1)(B) of the 
Export-Import Bank Act of 1945; and
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(ii) include coordination between the 
Secretary of State and the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, wherever appropriate; 
and 
(B) consult with the Secretary of the Treas-
ury with respect to the efforts described in para-
graph (1)(C) of this subsection. 
(d) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘government of China’’ means any person that the 
Bank has reason to believe is— 
(1) the state and the government of China, as 
well as any political subdivision, agency, or instru-
mentality thereof; 
(2) any entity controlled, directly or indirectly, 
by any of the foregoing, including any partnership, 
association, or other entity in which any of the fore-
going owns a 50 percent or greater interest or a con-
trolling interest, and any entity which is otherwise 
controlled by any of the foregoing; 
(3) any person that is or has been acting or pur-
porting to act, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf 
of any of the foregoing; and 
(4) any other person which the Secretary of the 
Treasury has notified the Bank is included in any of 
the foregoing.
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(e) SUNSET.—This section shall have no force or effect 
on the earlier of-— 
(1) December 31, 2026; or 
(2) the date that is 30 days after the date that 
the President of the United States reports to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs of the Senate that China is in sub-
stantial compliance with— 
(A) the financial terms and conditions of 
the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export 
Credits of the Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development; and 
(B) the rules and principles of the Paris 
Club. 
SEC. 409. ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES DURING QUORUM 
LAPSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3(c)(6) of the Export-Im-
port Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635a(c)(6)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(6)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B)(i) If there is an insufficient number of directors 
to constitute a quorum under subparagraph (A) for 120 
consecutive days during the term of a President of the 
United States, a temporary Board, consisting of the fol-
1185 
lowing members, shall act in the stead of the Board of Di-
rectors: 
‘‘(I) The United States Trade Representa-
tive. 
‘‘(II) The Secretary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(III) The Secretary of Commerce. 
‘‘(IV) The members of the Board of Direc-
tors. 
‘‘(ii) If, at a meeting of the temporary Board— 
‘‘(I) a member referred to in clause (i)(IV) is 
present, the meeting shall be chaired by such a mem-
ber, consistent with Bank bylaws; or 
‘‘(II) no such member is present, the meeting 
shall be chaired by the United States Trade Rep-
resentative. 
‘‘(iii) A member described in subclause (I), (II), or 
(III) of clause (i) may delegate the authority of the member 
to vote on whether to authorize a transaction, whose value 
does not exceed $100,000,000, to— 
‘‘(I) if the member is the United States Trade 
Representative, the Deputy United States Trade Rep-
resentative; or 
‘‘(II) if the member is referred to in such sub-
clause (II) or (III), the Deputy Secretary of the de-
partment referred to in the subclause.
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‘‘(iv) If the temporary Board consists of members of 
only one political party, the President of the United States 
shall, to the extent practicable, appoint to the temporary 
Board a qualified member of a different political party who 
occupies a position requiring nomination by the President, 
by and with the consent of the Senate. 
‘‘(v) The temporary board may not change or amend 
Bank policies, procedures, bylaws, or guidelines. 
‘‘(vi) The temporary Board shall expire at the end of 
the term of the President of the United States in office at 
the time the temporary Board was constituted or upon res-
toration of a quorum of the Board of Directors as defined 
in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(vii) With respect to a transaction that equals or ex-
ceeds $100,000,000, the Chairperson of the temporary 
Board shall ensure that the Bank complies with section 
2(b)(3).’’. 
(b) TERMINATION.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall have no force or effect after December 31, 
2026.
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TITLE V—TERRORISM RISK IN-
SURANCE PROGRAM EXTEN-
SION 
SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Terrorism Risk Insur-
ance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 502. 7-YEAR EXTENSION OF TERRORISM RISK INSUR-
ANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) TERMINATION DATE.—Section 108(a) of the Ter-
rorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 6701 note) 
is amended by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting ‘‘2027’’. 
(b) TIMING OF MANDATORY RECOUPMENT.—Section 
103(e)(7)(E)(i) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 
(15 U.S.C. 6701 note) is amended— 
(1) in subclause (I)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting 
‘‘2022’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘2024’’; 
(2) in subclause (II)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting 
‘‘2023’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘2024’’ and inserting 
‘‘2029’’; and
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(C) by striking ‘‘2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘2024’’; and 
(3) in subclause (III)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2024’’ and inserting 
‘‘2029’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘2024’’. 
(c) ONGOING REPORTS REGARDING MARKET CONDI-
TIONS FOR TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE.—Paragraph (2) 
of section 104(h) of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 
2002 (15 U.S.C. 6701 note) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through 
(E) as subparagraphs (C) through (F), respectively; 
and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) an evaluation of the availability and 
affordability of terrorism risk insurance, which 
shall include an analysis of such availability 
and affordability specifically for places of wor-
ship;’’. 
(d) STUDY AND REPORT ON CYBER TERRORISM.—Not 
later than the expiration of the 180-day period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall conduct a study and re-
1189 
port to the Committee on Financial Services of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Hous-
ing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, which shall— 
(1) analyze and address— 
(A) overall vulnerabilities and potential 
costs of cyber attacks to the United States public 
and private infrastructure that could result in 
physical or digital damage; 
(B) whether State-defined cyber liability 
under a property and casualty line of insurance 
is adequate coverage for an act of cyber ter-
rorism; 
(C) whether such risks can be adequately 
priced by the private market; and 
(D) whether the current risk-share system 
under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 
(15 U.S.C. 6701 note) is appropriate for a cyber 
terrorism event; and 
(2) set forth recommendations on how Congress 
could amend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 
2002 (15 U.S.C. 6701 note) to meet the next genera-
tion of cyber threats.
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TITLE VI—NASA ENHANCED USE 
LEASING EXTENSION 
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘NASA Enhanced Use 
Leasing Extension Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 602. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO 
LEASES OF NON-EXCESS PROPERTY OF THE 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMIN-
ISTRATION. 
Section 20145(g) of title 51, United States Code, is 
amended, in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘December 31, 
2019’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2021’’. 
TITLE VII—INKSNA EXTENSION 
SEC. 701. EXEMPTION FROM THE IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AND 
SYRIA NONPROLIFERATION ACT. 
Section 7(1) of the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Non-
proliferation Act (Public Law 106–178; 50 U.S.C. 1701 
note) is amended, in the undesignated matter following sub-
paragraph (B), by striking ‘‘December 31, 2020’’ and in-
serting ‘‘December 31, 2025’’. 
TITLE VIII—BRAND USA 
EXTENSION 
SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Brand USA Extension 
Act’’.
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SEC. 802. THE CORPORATION FOR TRAVEL PROMOTION. 
Subsection (b) of the Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (22 
U.S.C. 2131(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(A)— 
(A) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or 
foodservice’’ after ‘‘restaurant’’; 
(B) in clause (v), by inserting ‘‘, such as 
outdoor recreation’’ before the semicolon at the 
end; and 
(C) in clause (viii), by inserting ‘‘commer-
cial or private’’ before ‘‘passenger air sector’’; 
(2) in paragraph (5)(A)— 
(A) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘speaking 
conventions, 
sales 
missions,’’ 
after 
‘‘trade 
shows,’’; 
(B) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(C) in clause (v), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(vi) to promote tourism to the United 
States through digital media, online plat-
forms, and other appropriate medium.’’; 
and 
(3) in paragraph (7)(C), by striking ‘‘3 days’’ 
and inserting ‘‘5 days’’.
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SEC. 803. ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES. 
Subsection (c) of the Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (22 
U.S.C. 2131(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘$500,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$450,000’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraph (I) as 
subparagraph (K); 
(B) in subparagraph (H)(iii), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(C) 
by 
inserting 
after 
subparagraph 
(H)(iii) the following: 
‘‘(I) a list of countries the Corporation 
identifies as emerging markets for tourism to the 
United States; 
‘‘(J) a description of the efforts the Corpora-
tion has made to promote tourism to rural areas 
of the United States; and’’. 
SEC. 804. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR BRAND USA. 
Subsection (d) of the Travel Promotion Act of 2009 
(22 U.S.C. 2131(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘2020’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2027’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii), by striking ‘‘70 per-
cent’’ and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’; and
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(3) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking ‘‘2020’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2027’’. 
SEC. 805. PERFORMANCE PLAN. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Corporation for Travel Promotion shall 
make the performance metrics established pursuant to sub-
section (f)(1)(A) of the Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (22 
U.S.C. 2131(f)(1)(A)) publicly available on the website of 
the Corporation. 
SEC. 806. ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR TRAVEL AUTHORIZA-
TION FEE INCREASE. 
Section 217(h)(3)(B)(i)(I) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(h)(3)(B)(i)(I)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$10’’ and inserting ‘‘$17’’. 
TITLE IX—DC OPPORTUNITY 
SCHOLARSHIP EXTENSIONS 
SEC. 901. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR OPPORTUNITY AND RE-
SULTS. 
(a) Section 3014(a) of the Scholarships for Oppor-
tunity and Results Act (sec. 38–1853.14, D.C. Official 
Code) is amended by striking ‘‘through fiscal year 2019’’ 
and inserting ‘‘through fiscal year 2023’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect on September 30, 2019.
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DIVISION J—FOREIGN POLICY 
TITLE I—VENEZUELA 
ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLES. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Venezuela Emergency 
Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 
2019’’ or the ‘‘VERDAD Act of 2019’’. 
Subtitle A—Support for the Interim 
President of Venezuela and Rec-
ognition of the Venezuelan Na-
tional Assembly 
SEC. 111. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF 
THE INTERIM PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Venezuela’s electoral event on May 20, 2018 
was characterized by widespread fraud and did not 
comply with international standards for a free, fair, 
and transparent electoral process. 
(2) Given the fraudulent nature of Venezuela’s 
May 20, 2018 electoral event, Nicola´s Maduro’s tenure 
as President of Venezuela ended on January 10, 2019. 
(3) The National Assembly of Venezuela ap-
proved a resolution on January 15, 2019 that termi-
nated Nicola´s Maduro’s authority as the President of 
Venezuela.
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(4) On January 23, 2019, the President of the 
National Assembly of Venezuela was sworn in as the 
Interim President of Venezuela. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress— 
(1) to support the decisions by the United States 
Government, more than 50 governments around the 
world, the Organization of American States, the 
Inter-American Development Bank, and the Euro-
pean Parliament to recognize National Assembly 
President Juan Guaido´ as the Interim President of 
Venezuela; 
(2) to encourage the Interim President of Ven-
ezuela to advance efforts to hold democratic presi-
dential elections in the shortest possible period; and 
(3) that the Organization of American States, 
with support from the United States Government and 
partner governments, should provide diplomatic, tech-
nical, and financial support for a new presidential 
election in Venezuela that complies with international 
standards for a free, fair, and transparent electoral 
process.
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SEC. 112. RECOGNITION OF VENEZUELA’S DEMOCRAT-
ICALLY ELECTED NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that Venezuela’s uni-
cameral National Assembly convened on January 6, 2016, 
following democratic elections that were held on December 
6, 2015. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that Venezuela’s democratically elected National Assembly 
is the only national level democratic institution remaining 
in the country. 
(c) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States to 
recognize the democratically elected National Assembly of 
Venezuela as the only legitimate national legislative body 
in Venezuela. 
(d) ASSISTANCE TO VENEZUELA’S NATIONAL ASSEM-
BLY.—The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Ad-
ministrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, shall prioritize efforts to provide technical as-
sistance to support the democratically elected National As-
sembly of Venezuela in accordance with section 143. 
SEC. 113. ADVANCING A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO VEN-
EZUELA’S CRISIS. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that—
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(1) direct, credible negotiations led by the In-
terim President of Venezuela and members of Ven-
ezuela’s democratically elected National Assembly— 
(A) are supported by stakeholders in the 
international community that have recognized 
the Interim President of Venezuela; 
(B) include the input and interests of Ven-
ezuelan civil society; and 
(C) represent the best opportunity to reach 
a solution to the Venezuelan crisis that in-
cludes— 
(i) holding a new presidential election 
that complies with international standards 
for a free, fair, and transparent electoral 
process; 
(ii) ending Nicola´s Maduro’s usurpa-
tion of presidential authorities; 
(iii) restoring democracy and the rule 
of law; 
(iv) freeing political prisoners; and 
(v) facilitating the delivery of humani-
tarian aid; 
(2) dialogue between the Maduro regime and rep-
resentatives of the political opposition that com-
menced in October 2017, and were supported by the
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Governments of Mexico, of Chile, of Bolivia, and of 
Nicaragua, did not result in an agreement because the 
Maduro regime failed to credibly participate in the 
process; and 
(3) negotiations between the Maduro regime and 
representatives of the political opposition that com-
menced in October 2016, and were supported by the 
Vatican, did not result in an agreement because the 
Maduro regime failed to credibly participate in the 
process. 
(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States to 
support diplomatic engagement in order to advance a nego-
tiated and peaceful solution to Venezuela’s political, eco-
nomic, and humanitarian crisis that is described in sub-
section (a)(1). 
Subtitle B—Humanitarian Relief 
for Venezuela 
SEC. 121. HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOR THE VENEZUELAN 
PEOPLE. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that— 
(1) the United States Government should expand 
efforts to peacefully address Venezuela’s humanitarian 
crisis; and 
(2) humanitarian assistance—
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(A) should be targeted toward those most in 
need and delivered through partners that uphold 
internationally recognized humanitarian prin-
ciples; and 
(B) should not be passed through the control 
or distribution mechanisms of the Maduro re-
gime. 
(b) HUMANITARIAN RELIEF.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in co-
ordination with the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, shall 
provide— 
(A) humanitarian assistance to individuals 
and communities in Venezuela, including— 
(i) public health commodities and serv-
ices, including medicines and basic medical 
supplies and equipment; 
(ii) basic food commodities and nutri-
tional supplements needed to address grow-
ing malnutrition and improve food security 
for the people of Venezuela, with a specific 
emphasis on the most vulnerable popu-
lations; and 
(iii) technical assistance to ensure that 
health and food commodities are appro-
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priately selected, procured, targeted, and 
distributed; and 
(B) Venezuelans and hosting communities, 
as appropriate, in neighboring countries with 
humanitarian aid, such as— 
(i) urgently needed health and nutri-
tional assistance, including logistical and 
technical assistance to hospitals and health 
centers in affected communities; 
(ii) food assistance for vulnerable indi-
viduals, including assistance to improve 
food security for affected communities; and 
(iii) hygiene supplies and sanitation 
services. 
(2) AID
TO
VENEZUELANS
IN
NEIGHBORING 
COUNTRIES.—The 
aid 
described 
in 
paragraph 
(1)(B)— 
(A) may be provided— 
(i) directly to Venezuelans in neigh-
boring countries, including countries of the 
Caribbean; or 
(ii) indirectly through the communities 
in which the Venezuelans reside; and 
(B) should focus on the most vulnerable 
Venezuelans in neighboring countries.
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(c) HUMANITARIAN
ASSISTANCE
STRATEGY
UP-
DATE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination 
with the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, shall submit, to the appropriate 
congressional committees, an update to the Venezuela hu-
manitarian assistance strategy described in the conference 
report accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act 
(Public Law 116–6), to cover a 2-year period and include— 
(1) a description of the United States humani-
tarian assistance provided under this section; 
(2) a description of United States diplomatic ef-
forts to ensure support from international donors, in-
cluding regional partners in Latin America and the 
Caribbean, for the provision of humanitarian assist-
ance to the people of Venezuela; 
(3) the identification of governments that are 
willing to provide financial and technical assistance 
for the provision of such humanitarian assistance to 
the people of Venezuela and a description of such as-
sistance; and 
(4) the identification of the financial and tech-
nical assistance to be provided by multilateral insti-
tutions, including the United Nations humanitarian 
agencies, the Pan American Health Organization, the
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Inter-American Development Bank, and the World 
Bank, and a description of such assistance. 
(d) DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT.—The Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, shall work 
with relevant foreign governments and multilateral organi-
zations to coordinate a donors summit and carry out diplo-
matic engagement to advance the strategy required under 
subsection (c). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $400,000,000 for fiscal year 
2020 to carry out the activities set forth in subsection (b). 
(f) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate; 
(2) the Committee on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate; 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(4) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives.