I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 840 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate the 
housing assistance programs for homeless persons under title IV of 
such Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 6, 2007 
Ms. CARSON (for herself, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Ms. LEE, and Mr. RENZI) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
consolidate the housing assistance programs for homeless 
persons under title IV of such Act, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition 
to Housing Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. 
Sec. 3. Definition of homeless individual. 
TITLE I—HOUSING ASSISTANCE GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 101. Definitions. 
Sec. 102. Community homeless assistance planning boards. 
Sec. 103. Technical assistance and performance reports. 
Sec. 104. Protection of personally identifying information by victim service pro-
viders. 
Sec. 105. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM 
Sec. 201. Grant assistance. 
Sec. 202. Amount and allocation of assistance. 
Sec. 203. Eligible activities. 
Sec. 204. Repeals. 
TITLE III—CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM 
Sec. 301. Continuum of care. 
Sec. 302. Eligible activities. 
Sec. 303. Program requirements. 
Sec. 304. Allocation amounts and funding. 
TITLE IV—REPEALS AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 401. Repeals. 
Sec. 402. Conforming amendments. 
Sec. 403. Amendment to table of contents. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
(1) a lack of affordable housing and limited 
scale of housing assistance programs are the pri-
mary causes of homelessness; and 
(2) homelessness affects all types of commu-
nities in the United States, including rural, urban, 
and suburban areas. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to consolidate the separate homeless assist-
ance programs carried out under title IV of the 
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McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (con-
sisting of the supportive housing program and re-
lated innovative programs, the safe havens program, 
the section 8 assistance program for single-room oc-
cupancy dwellings, the shelter plus care program, 
and the rural homeless housing assistance program) 
into a single program with specific eligible activities; 
and 
(2) codify in Federal law the continuum of care 
planning process as a required and integral local 
function necessary to generate the local strategies 
for ending homelessness. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL. 
Section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this Act, the 
terms ‘homeless’, ‘homeless individual’, and ‘homeless per-
son’— 
‘‘(1) mean an individual who lacks a fixed, reg-
ular, and adequate nighttime residence; and 
‘‘(2) include— 
‘‘(A) an individual who— 
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‘‘(i) is sharing the housing of other 
persons due to loss of housing, economic 
hardship, or a similar reason; 
‘‘(ii) is living in a motel, hotel, or 
camping ground due to the lack of alter-
native adequate accommodations; or 
‘‘(iii) is living in an emergency or 
transitional shelter; 
‘‘(B) an individual who has a primary 
nighttime residence that is a public or private 
place not designed for or ordinarily used as a 
regular sleeping accommodation for human 
beings; 
‘‘(C) an individual who is living in a car, 
park, public space, abandoned building, sub-
standard housing, bus or train station, or simi-
lar setting; and 
‘‘(D) an individual living in an institution 
that provides a temporary residence for individ-
uals intended to be institutionalized.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or otherwise detained’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting after the period at the end 
the following: ‘‘Such term includes individuals 
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who have been released from prison on proba-
tion or parole.’’ 
TITLE I—HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 
Subtitle A of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking the subtitle heading and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘Subtitle A—General Provisions’’; 
(2) by redesignating sections 401 and 402 (42 
U.S.C. 11361, 11362) as sections 403 and 406, re-
spectively; and 
(3) by inserting before section 403 (as so redes-
ignated by paragraph (2) of this section) the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 401. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘For purposes of this title: 
‘‘(1) COLLABORATIVE
APPLICANT.—The term 
‘collaborative applicant’ means— 
‘‘(A) an entity, which may or may not be 
a Board, that serves as the applicant for project 
sponsors who jointly submit a single application 
for a grant under subtitle C with the approval 
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of, and in accordance with the collaborative 
process established by, a Board, and, if award-
ed such grant, receives such grant directly from 
the Secretary; or 
‘‘(B) an individual project sponsor who is 
an eligible entity under subtitle C and submits 
an application for a grant under subtitle C, 
with the approval of, and in accordance with 
the collaborative process established by, a 
Board, and, if awarded such grant, receives 
such grant directly from the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION.—The term 
‘collaborative application’ means an application for a 
grant under subtitle C that— 
‘‘(A) satisfies the requirements of section 
422 (including containing the information de-
scribed in subsections (a) and (c) of section 
426); and 
‘‘(B) is submitted to a Board and then to 
the Secretary by a collaborative applicant. 
‘‘(3) COMMUNITY BOARD.—The term ‘commu-
nity board’ means a community homeless assistance 
planning board established in accordance with sec-
tion 402. 
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‘‘(4) CONSOLIDATED
PLAN.—The term ‘Con-
solidated Plan’ means a comprehensive housing af-
fordability strategy and community development 
plan required in part 91 of title 24, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
‘‘(5) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-
tity’ means, with respect to a subtitle, a public or 
private entity eligible to receive directly grant 
amounts under that subtitle. 
‘‘(6) GEOGRAPHIC
AREA.—The term ‘geo-
graphic area’ means a State, metropolitan city, 
urban county, town, village, or other nonentitlement 
area, or a combination or consortia of such, in the 
United States, as described in section 106 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5306). 
‘‘(7) HOMELESS
INDIVIDUAL
WITH
A
DIS-
ABILITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘homeless 
individual with a disability’ means an individual 
who is homeless, as defined in section 103, and 
has a disability that— 
‘‘(i)(I) is expected to be long-con-
tinuing or of indefinite duration; 
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‘‘(II) substantially impedes the indi-
vidual’s ability to live independently; 
‘‘(III) could be improved by the provi-
sion of more suitable housing conditions; 
and 
‘‘(IV) is a physical, mental, or emo-
tional impairment, including an impair-
ment caused by alcohol or drug abuse; 
‘‘(ii) is a developmental disability, as 
defined in section 102 of the Develop-
mental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of 
Rights Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002); or 
‘‘(iii) is the disease of acquired im-
munodeficiency syndrome or any condition 
arising from the etiologic agency for ac-
quired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
‘‘(B) RULE.—Nothing in clause (iii) of 
subparagraph (A) shall be construed to limit 
eligibility under clause (i) or (ii) of subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(8) 
HOMELESSNESS
PREVENTION
ACTIVI-
TIES.—The term ‘homelessness prevention activities’ 
means activities designed to help individuals and 
families avoid becoming homeless, including— 
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‘‘(A) providing financial assistance to indi-
viduals and families who have received eviction 
notices, foreclosure notices, or notices of termi-
nation of utility services, if— 
‘‘(i) the inability of the individual or 
family to make the required payments is 
due to a sudden reduction in income; 
‘‘(ii) the assistance is necessary to 
avoid eviction, foreclosure, or the termi-
nation of services; and 
‘‘(iii) there is a reasonable prospect 
that the individual or family will be able to 
resume payments within a reasonable pe-
riod of time; 
‘‘(B) carrying out relocation activities (in-
cluding providing security or utility deposits, 
rental assistance for a final month or residence 
at a location, assistance with moving costs, or 
rental assistance for not more than 6 months) 
for moving into transitional or permanent hous-
ing individuals and families who— 
‘‘(i) lack housing; 
‘‘(ii) are being discharged from a pub-
licly funded facility or institution (such as 
a health care or treatment facility or insti-
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tution, child welfare or youth facility, or 
juvenile or adult correctional institution) or 
are being terminated from services pro-
vided by such facility or institution; and 
‘‘(iii) have plans, developed collabo-
ratively by the public entities involved and 
the individuals and families, for securing 
or maintaining housing after any funding 
provided under this title is used; 
‘‘(C) providing family support services that 
promote reunification of— 
‘‘(i) youth experiencing homelessness, 
with their families; and 
‘‘(ii) children or youth involved with 
the child welfare or juvenile justice sys-
tems, with their parents or guardians; and 
‘‘(D) carrying out relocation activities (as 
described in subparagraph (B)) and providing 
victim services and other supportive services to 
individuals who are victims of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and 
are in danger of becoming homeless because of 
the violence or abuse 
‘‘(8) 
INDEPENDENTLY
OWNED.—The 
term 
‘independently owned’, used with respect to rental 
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assistance, means assistance provided pursuant to a 
contract that— 
‘‘(A) is between— 
‘‘(i) the recipient or a project sponsor; 
and 
‘‘(ii) an independent entity that— 
‘‘(I) is a private organization; 
and 
‘‘(II) owns or leases dwelling 
units; and 
‘‘(B) provides that rental assistance pay-
ments shall be made to the independent entity 
and that eligible persons shall occupy such as-
sisted units. 
‘‘(9) LOW-DEMAND PROGRAM.—The term ‘low- 
demand program’ means a program that does not 
require, but offers, in a non-coercive manner— 
‘‘(A)(i) health care services, mental health 
services, and substance abuse services; and 
‘‘(ii) other supportive services, which may 
include medication management, education, 
counseling, advocacy, job training, and assist-
ance in obtaining entitlement benefits or in ob-
taining such supportive services; and 
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‘‘(B) referrals for services described in 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(10) METROPOLITAN
CITY; URBAN
COUNTY; 
NONENTITLEMENT AREA.—The terms ‘metropolitan 
city’, ‘urban county’, and ‘nonentitlement area’ have 
the meanings given such terms in section 102(a) of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)). 
‘‘(11) NEW.—The term ‘new’, used with respect 
to housing, means housing for which no assistance 
has been provided under this title. 
‘‘(12) OPERATING COSTS.—The term ‘operating 
costs’ means expenses incurred by a recipient or 
project sponsor operating— 
‘‘(A) transitional housing or permanent 
housing under this title, with respect to— 
‘‘(i) the administration, maintenance, 
repair, and security of such housing; 
‘‘(ii) utilities, fuel, furnishings, and 
equipment for such housing; or 
‘‘(iii) conducting an assessment under 
section 426(c)(2); and 
‘‘(B) supportive housing for homeless indi-
viduals or homeless families under this title, 
with respect to— 
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‘‘(i) the matters described in clauses 
(i), (ii), and (iii) of subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(ii) coordination of services as need-
ed to ensure long-term housing stability. 
‘‘(13) OUTPATIENT
HEALTH
SERVICES.—The 
term ‘outpatient health services’ means outpatient 
health care services, mental health services, and out-
patient substance abuse services. 
‘‘(14) PERMANENT HOUSING.—The term ‘per-
manent housing’ means community-based housing 
without a designated length of stay, and includes 
both permanent supportive housing and permanent 
housing without supportive services. 
‘‘(15) PERMANENT
HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT 
ACTIVITIES.—The term ‘permanent housing develop-
ment activities’ means activities— 
‘‘(A) to construct, lease, rehabilitate, or ac-
quire structures to provide permanent housing; 
‘‘(B) involving tenant-based, independently 
owned, and project-based flexible rental assist-
ance for permanent housing; 
‘‘(C) described in paragraphs (1) through 
(4) of section 423(a); or 
‘‘(D) involving the capitalization of a dedi-
cated project account from which payments are 
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allocated for rental assistance and operating 
costs of permanent housing. 
‘‘(16) PERSONALLY
IDENTIFYING
INFORMA-
TION.—The term ‘personally identifying information’ 
means individually identifying information for or 
about an individual, including information likely to 
disclose the location of a victim of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(A) a first and last name; 
‘‘(B) a home or other physical address; 
‘‘(C) contact information (including a post-
al, e-mail or Internet protocol address, or tele-
phone or facsimile number); 
‘‘(D) a social security number; and 
‘‘(E) any other information, including date 
of birth, racial or ethnic background, or reli-
gious affiliation, that, in combination with any 
other non-personally identifying information, 
would serve to identify any individual. 
‘‘(17) PRIVATE
NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION.— 
The term ‘private nonprofit organization’ means an 
organization— 
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‘‘(A) no part of the net earnings of which 
inures to the benefit of any member, founder, 
contributor, or individual; 
‘‘(B) that has a voluntary board; 
‘‘(C) that has an accounting system, or has 
designated a fiscal agent in accordance with re-
quirements established by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(D) that practices nondiscrimination in 
the provision of assistance. 
‘‘(18) PROJECT.—The term ‘project’, used with 
respect to activities carried out under subtitle C, 
means eligible activities described in section 423(a), 
undertaken pursuant to a specific endeavor, such as 
serving a particular population or providing a par-
ticular resource. 
‘‘(19) PROJECT-BASED.—The term ‘project- 
based’, used with respect to rental assistance, means 
assistance provided pursuant to a contract that— 
‘‘(A) is between— 
‘‘(i) the recipient or a project sponsor; 
and 
‘‘(ii) an owner of a structure that ex-
ists as of the date the contract is entered 
into; and 
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‘‘(B) provides that rental assistance pay-
ments shall be made to the owner and that the 
units in the structure shall be occupied by eligi-
ble persons for not less than the term of the 
contract. 
‘‘(20) PROJECT SPONSOR.—The term ‘project 
sponsor’, used with respect to proposed eligible ac-
tivities, means the organization directly responsible 
for carrying out the proposed eligible activities. 
‘‘(21) RECIPIENT.—Except as used in subtitle 
B, the term ‘recipient’ means an eligible entity 
who— 
‘‘(A) submits an application for a grant 
under section 422 that is approved by the Sec-
retary; 
‘‘(B) receives the grant directly from the 
Secretary to support approved projects de-
scribed in the application; and 
‘‘(C)(i) serves as a project sponsor for the 
projects; or 
‘‘(ii) awards the funds to project sponsors 
to carry out the projects. 
‘‘(22) SAFE
HAVEN.—The term ‘safe haven’ 
means a facility— 
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‘‘(A) that provides 24-hour residence for 
an unspecified duration for persons who, on 
entry to the facility, are unwilling or unable to 
participate in mental health or substance abuse 
services, or to receive other supportive services; 
‘‘(B) that provides private or semi-private 
accommodations; 
‘‘(C) that may provide for the common use 
of kitchen facilities, dining rooms, and bath-
rooms; 
‘‘(D) that may provide supportive services, 
on a drop-in basis, to eligible persons who are 
not residents; and 
‘‘(E) in which overnight occupancy is lim-
ited to no more than 25 persons. 
‘‘(23) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘Secretary’ 
means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment. 
‘‘(24) SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL.—The term 
‘seriously mentally ill’ means having a severe and 
persistent mental illness or emotional impairment 
that seriously limits a person’s ability to live inde-
pendently. 
‘‘(25) SOLO APPLICANT.—The term ‘solo appli-
cant’ means an entity that is an eligible entity, di-
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rectly submits an application for a grant under sub-
title C to the Secretary, and, if awarded such grant, 
receives such grant directly from the Secretary. 
‘‘(26) STATE.—Except as used in subtitle B, 
the term ‘State’ means each of the several States, 
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(27) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—The term ‘sup-
portive services’ means— 
‘‘(A) the establishment and operation of a 
child care services program for families experi-
encing homelessness; 
‘‘(B) the establishment and operation of an 
employment assistance program, including pro-
viding job training; 
‘‘(C) the provision of outpatient health 
services, food, and case management; 
‘‘(D) the provision of assistance in obtain-
ing permanent housing, employment counseling, 
and nutritional counseling; 
‘‘(E) the provision of outreach services, ad-
vocacy, life skills training, and housing search 
and counseling services; 
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‘‘(F) the provision of mental health serv-
ices, trauma counseling, and victim services; 
‘‘(G) the provision of assistance in obtain-
ing other Federal, State, and local assistance 
available for residents of supportive housing 
(including mental health benefits, employment 
counseling, and medical assistance, but not in-
cluding major medical equipment); 
‘‘(H) the provision of legal services for 
purposes including requesting reconsiderations 
and appeals of veterans and public benefit claim 
denials and resolving outstanding warrants that 
interfere with an individual’s ability to obtain 
and retain housing; and 
‘‘(I) the provision of— 
‘‘(i) transportation services that facili-
tate an individual’s ability to obtain and 
maintain employment; 
‘‘(ii) income assistance; 
‘‘(iii) health care; and 
‘‘(iv) other supportive services nec-
essary to obtain and maintain housing. 
‘‘(28) 
TENANT-BASED.—The 
term 
‘tenant- 
based’, used with respect to rental assistance, means 
assistance that— 
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‘‘(A) allows an eligible person to select a 
housing unit in which such person will live 
using rental assistance provided under subtitle 
C, except that if necessary to assure that the 
provision of supportive services to a person par-
ticipating in a program is feasible, a recipient 
or project sponsor may require that the person 
live— 
‘‘(i) in a particular structure or unit 
for not more than the first year of the par-
ticipation; 
‘‘(ii) within a particular geographic 
area for the full period of the participation, 
or the period remaining after the period 
referred to in subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(B) provides that a person may receive 
such assistance and move to another structure, 
unit, or geographic area if the person has com-
plied with all other obligations of the program 
and has moved out of the assisted dwelling unit 
in order to protect the health or safety of an in-
dividual who is or has been the victim of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking, and who reasonably believed he or she 
was imminently threatened by harm from fur-
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ther violence if he or she remained in the as-
sisted dwelling unit. 
‘‘(29) TRANSITIONAL
HOUSING.—The term 
‘transitional housing’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 424(b), and includes transitional 
supportive housing. 
‘‘(30) 
UNDERSERVED
POPULATIONS.—The 
term ‘underserved populations’ includes populations 
underserved because of geographic location, under-
served racial and ethnic populations, populations un-
derserved because of special needs (such as language 
barriers, disabilities, alienage status, or age), and 
any other population determined to be underserved 
by the Secretary, as appropriate. 
‘‘(31) VICTIM SERVICE PROVIDER.—The term 
‘victim service provider’ means a private nonprofit 
organization whose primary mission is to provide 
services to victims of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. Such term includes 
rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters, do-
mestic violence transitional housing programs, and 
other programs. 
‘‘(32) VICTIM
SERVICES.—The term ‘victim 
services’ means services that assist domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking vic-
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tims, including services offered by rape crisis centers 
and domestic violence shelters, and other organiza-
tions, with a documented history of effective work 
concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, or stalking.’’. 
SEC. 102. COMMUNITY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PLANNING 
BOARDS. 
Subtitle A of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amended 
by inserting after section 401 (as added by section 101(3) 
of this Act) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 402. COMMUNITY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PLANNING 
BOARDS. 
‘‘(a) BOARDS.—A community homeless assistance 
planning board shall be established for a geographic area 
by the relevant parties in that geographic area, or des-
ignated for a geographic area by the Secretary in accord-
ance with subsection (c), to lead a collaborative planning 
process to design, execute, and evaluate programs, poli-
cies, and practices to prevent and end homelessness. 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.—A community board established 
under subsection (a) shall be composed of persons— 
‘‘(1) who are from a particular geographic area; 
‘‘(2) not less than 51 percent of whom are— 
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‘‘(A) persons who are experiencing or have 
experienced homelessness (with not fewer than 
2 persons being individuals who are experi-
encing or have experienced homelessness); 
‘‘(B) persons who act as advocates for the 
diverse subpopulations of persons experiencing 
homelessness, including advocates for homeless 
veterans, persons who are mentally ill, persons 
with physical disabilities, youth, victims of do-
mestic violence, and underserved populations; 
‘‘(C) persons or representatives of organi-
zations who provide assistance to the variety of 
individuals and families experiencing homeless-
ness, including organizations serving the geo-
graphic area which have been awarded funds 
through Federal Government programs targeted 
to persons experiencing homelessness; or 
‘‘(D) one or more local educational agency 
liaisons 
designated 
under 
section 
722(g)(1)(J)(ii) (42 U.S.C. 11432(g)(1)(J)(ii)); 
and 
‘‘(3) the remainder of whom are selected from 
among— 
‘‘(A) government officials, particularly 
those officials responsible for administering 
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funding under programs targeted for persons 
experiencing homelessness and other programs 
for which persons experiencing homelessness 
are eligible, including law enforcement officials 
responsible for persons on parole or probation; 
‘‘(B) members of the business community; 
‘‘(C) members of the religious community 
or faith-based organizations; 
‘‘(D) members of neighborhood advocacy 
organizations; and 
‘‘(E) representatives within the geographic 
area of the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
the Social Security Administration. 
‘‘(c) EXISTING PLANNING BODIES.—The Secretary 
may designate an entity to be a community board if such 
entity has, prior to the date of enactment of the Homeless 
Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing 
Act of 2007, engaged in coordinated, comprehensive local 
homeless housing and services planning and applied for 
Federal funding to provide homeless assistance. 
‘‘(d) REMEDIAL ACTION.—If the Secretary finds that 
a community board for a geographic area does not meet 
the requirements of this section, the Secretary may take 
remedial action to ensure fair distribution of grant 
amounts under this title to eligible entities within that 
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area. Such measures may include designating another 
body as a community board or permitting eligible entities 
to apply directly for grants. 
‘‘(e) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to displace conflict of interest or government 
fair practices laws, or their equivalent, that govern appli-
cants for grant amounts under subtitles B and C. 
‘‘(f) DUTIES.—A community board established under 
subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1)(A) design a collaborative process, estab-
lished jointly and complied with by its members, for 
evaluating, reviewing, and prioritizing projects and 
applications for grants under subtitles B and C sub-
mitted by eligible entities, in such a manner as to 
ensure that the entities further the goal of pre-
venting and ending homelessness in the geographic 
area involved; 
‘‘(B)(i)(I) review relevant policies and practices 
(in place and planned) of public and private entities 
in the geographic area served by the community 
board to determine if the policies and practices fur-
ther or impede the goal described in subparagraph 
(A); 
‘‘(II) in conducting the review, give priority to 
the review of— 
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‘‘(aa) the discharge planning and service 
termination policies and practices of publicly 
funded facilities or institutions (such as health 
care or treatment facilities or institutions, child 
welfare or youth facilities, or juvenile or adult 
correctional institutions), and entities carrying 
out publicly funded programs and systems of 
care (such as health care or treatment pro-
grams or State programs funded under part A 
of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.; relating to Temporary Assistance 
for Needy Families)), to ensure that such a dis-
charge or termination does not result in imme-
diate homelessness for the persons involved; in 
conducting the review the community board 
shall provide an estimate of the numbers of in-
dividuals discharged from such publicly funded 
facilities or institutions in the geographic area 
or applicable State to a homeless situation; 
‘‘(bb) the access and utilization policies 
and practices of the entities carrying out main-
stream programs as identified by the Govern-
ment Accountability Office in the February 
1999 report entitled, ‘Homelessness: Coordina-
tion and Evaluation of Programs are Essential’, 
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to ensure that persons at risk of or experiencing 
homelessness are able to access and utilize the 
programs; 
‘‘(cc) local policies and practices relating to 
zoning and enforcement of local statutes, to en-
sure that the policies and practices allow rea-
sonable inclusion and distribution in the geo-
graphic area of special needs populations and 
families with children and the facilities that 
serve the populations and families; 
‘‘(dd) policies and practices relating to the 
school selection and enrollment of homeless chil-
dren and youths (as defined in section 725) to 
ensure that the homeless children and youths, 
and their parents, are able to exercise their 
educational rights under subtitle B of title VII; 
‘‘(ee) policies and practices relating to the 
placement of families with homeless children 
and youths (as so defined) in emergency or 
transitional shelters, to ensure that the children 
and youths are placed as close as possible to 
their school of origin in order to facilitate con-
tinuity of, and prevent disruption of, edu-
cational services; 
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‘‘(ff) laws, ordinances, or policies of the 
applicable States and units of general local gov-
ernment that (AA) penalize homeless individ-
uals and families based upon their status as 
homeless, or (BB) establish status offenses 
which may result in runaway and homeless 
youths being adjudicated as delinquent; and 
‘‘(gg) policies and practices penalizing vic-
tims of domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, stalking, and placing them at risk 
of becoming homeless; and 
‘‘(III) in conducting the review, determine the 
modifications and corrective actions that need to be 
taken, and by whom, to ensure that the relevant 
policies and practices do not stimulate, or prolong, 
homelessness in the geographic area, or penalize 
homeless individuals and families, including runaway 
and homeless youth, based upon their status as 
homeless; 
‘‘(ii) inform the entities of the determinations 
described in clause (i); and 
‘‘(iii) once every 3 years, prepare for inclusion 
in any application reviewed by the community board 
and submitted to the Secretary under section 422, 
the determinations described in clause (i), in the 
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form of an exhibit entitled ‘Assessment of Relevant 
Policies and Practices, and Needed Corrective Ac-
tions to End and Prevent Homelessness’; and 
‘‘(C) if the community board designs and car-
ries out the projects, design and carry out the 
projects in such a manner as to further the goal de-
scribed in subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(2) require, consistent with the Government 
Performance and Results Act of 1993 and amend-
ments made by that Act, that recipients and project 
sponsors who are funded by grants received under 
this title implement and maintain an outcome-based 
evaluation of their projects that measures effective 
and timely delivery of housing or services and wheth-
er provision of such housing or services results in 
preventing or ending homelessness for the persons 
that such recipients and project sponsors serve; 
‘‘(3) require, consistent with the Government 
Performance and Results Act of 1993 and amend-
ments made by that Act, outcome-based evaluation 
of the community board’s homeless assistance plan-
ning process to measure the community board’s per-
formance in preventing or ending the homelessness 
of persons in the community board’s geographic 
area; 
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‘‘(4) participate in the Consolidated Plan for 
the geographic area served by the community board; 
and 
‘‘(5) describe a targeted plan for ensuring hous-
ing and services for veterans experiencing homeless-
ness, including coordination with services offered di-
rectly by or with the financial support of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs’’ 
SEC. 103. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND PERFORMANCE RE-
PORTS. 
Subtitle A of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amended by insert-
ing after section 403 (as so redesignated by section 101(2) 
of this Act) the following new sections: 
‘‘SEC. 404. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make avail-
able technical assistance to— 
‘‘(1) States, metropolitan cities, urban counties, 
and counties that are not urban counties, to imple-
ment effective planning processes for preventing and 
ending homelessness, to improve their capacity to 
prepare collaborative applications, and to adopt and 
provide best practices in housing and services for 
persons experiencing homeless; and 
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‘‘(2) community boards or their predecessor 
homeless planning bodies in States, metropolitan cit-
ies, urban counties, and counties that are not urban 
counties, to improve their capacity to prepare col-
laborative applications. 
‘‘(b) RESERVATION.—The Secretary shall reserve not 
more than 1 percent of the funds made available for any 
fiscal year for carrying out subtitles B and C, to provide 
technical assistance under subsection (a). 
‘‘SEC. 405. PERFORMANCE REPORTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each community board shall 
submit to the Secretary an annual performance report re-
garding the activities carried out with grant amounts re-
ceived under subtitles B and C in the geographic area 
served by the community board, at such time and in such 
manner as the Secretary determines to be reasonable. 
‘‘(b) CONTENT.—The performance report described 
in subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) describe the number of persons provided 
homelessness prevention assistance, and the number 
of individuals and families experiencing homelessness 
who were provided shelter, housing, or supportive 
services, with the grant amounts awarded in the fis-
cal year prior to the fiscal year in which the report 
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was submitted, including measurements of the num-
ber of persons experiencing homelessness who— 
‘‘(A) entered permanent housing, and the 
length of time such persons resided in that 
housing, if known; 
‘‘(B) entered transitional housing, and the 
length of time such persons resided in that 
housing, if known; 
‘‘(C) obtained or retained jobs; 
‘‘(D) increased their income, including in-
creasing income through the receipt of govern-
ment benefits; 
‘‘(E) received mental health or substance 
abuse services in an institutional setting and 
now receive that assistance in a less restrictive, 
community-based setting; 
‘‘(F) received additional education, voca-
tional or job training, or employment assistance 
services; 
‘‘(G) received additional physical, mental, 
or emotional health care; 
‘‘(H) were children under the age of 18 
during the year at issue, including the number 
of— 
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‘‘(i) children who were not younger 
than 2 and not older than 4, or were in-
fants or toddlers with disabilities (as de-
fined in section 632 of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 
1432)); 
‘‘(ii) children described in clause (i) 
who were enrolled in preschool or were re-
ceiving services under part C of such Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.); 
‘‘(iii) children who were not younger 
than 5 and not older than 17; 
‘‘(iv) children described in clause (iii) 
who are enrolled in elementary school or 
secondary school (as such terms are de-
fined in section 9101 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 7801)); and 
‘‘(v) children under the age of 18 who 
received child care, health care, mental 
health care, or supplemental educational 
services; and 
‘‘(I) were reunited with their families; 
‘‘(2) estimate the number of persons experi-
encing homelessness in the geographic area served 
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by the community board who are eligible for, but did 
not receive, services, housing, or other assistance 
through the programs funded under subtitles B and 
C in the prior fiscal year; 
‘‘(3) indicate the accomplishments achieved 
within the geographic area to prevent the homeless-
ness of persons discharged from publicly funded in-
stitutions or systems of care (such as health care fa-
cilities, child welfare or other youth facilities or sys-
tems of care, institutions or systems of care relating 
to the temporary assistance to needy families pro-
gram established under part A of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), and juve-
nile or adult corrections programs and institutions); 
‘‘(4) indicate the accomplishments achieved 
within the geographic area that involved the use of 
the grant amounts awarded in the prior fiscal year, 
regarding efforts to coordinate services and pro-
grams within the geographic area; 
‘‘(5) indicate the accomplishments achieved 
within the geographic area to increase access, by 
persons experiencing homelessness, to programs that 
are not targeted for persons experiencing homeless-
ness (but for which persons experiencing homeless-
ness are eligible), including mainstream programs 
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identified by the Government Accountability Office 
report entitled ‘Homelessness: Coordination and 
Evaluation of Programs are Essential’ issued in 
February 26, 1999, and by the Government Ac-
countability Office report entitled ‘Homeless Bar-
riers to Using Mainstream Programs’, issued in July 
6, 2000; 
‘‘(6) assess the consistency and coordination be-
tween the programs funded under subtitles B and C 
in the prior fiscal year and the Consolidated Plan; 
and 
‘‘(7) indicate the accomplishments within the 
applicable States and units of general local govern-
ment of the geographic area to repeal or modify 
laws, ordinances, or policies of the applicable States 
and units of general local government that— 
‘‘(A) penalize homeless individuals and 
families based upon their status as homeless; 
‘‘(B) establish status offenses which may 
result in runaway and homeless youths being 
adjudicated as delinquent; or 
‘‘(C) disallow reasonable inclusion and dis-
tribution in the geographic area of special needs 
populations and families with children and the 
facilities that serve the populations and families 
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‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may grant a waiver to 
any community board that is unable to provide informa-
tion required by subsection (b). Such community board 
shall submit a plan to provide such information within a 
reasonable period of time.’’. 
SEC. 104. PROTECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING IN-
FORMATION BY VICTIM SERVICE PROVIDERS. 
Subtitle A of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.), as amended by the 
preceding provisions of this title, is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 407. PROTECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING IN-
FORMATION BY VICTIM SERVICE PROVIDERS. 
‘‘In the course of awarding grants or implementing 
programs under this title, the Secretary shall instruct any 
victim service provider that is a recipient or subgrantee 
not to disclose for purposes of the Homeless Management 
Information System any personally identifying informa-
tion about any client. The Secretary may, after public no-
tice and comment, require or ask such recipients and sub-
grantees to disclose for purposes of the Homeless Manage-
ment Information System non-personally identifying infor-
mation that has been de-identified, encrypted, or otherwise 
encoded. Nothing in this section shall be construed to su-
persede any provision of any Federal, State, or local law 
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that provides greater protection than this subsection for 
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking.’’. 
SEC. 105. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Subtitle A of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.), as amended by the 
preceding provisions of this title, is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 408. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
title II and this title $2,500,000,000 for fiscal year 
2008and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.’’. 
TITLE II—EMERGENCY SHELTER 
GRANTS PROGRAM 
SEC. 201. GRANT ASSISTANCE. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended by striking section 412 (42 U.S.C. 11372) and 
inserting the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 412. GRANT ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make grants 
to States and local governments (and to private nonprofit 
organizations providing assistance to persons experiencing 
homelessness, in the case of grants made with reallocated 
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amounts) for the purpose of carrying out activities de-
scribed in section 414. 
‘‘(b) COORDINATION WITH COMMUNITY BOARDS.— 
An entity that receives a grant under this section and 
serves an area that includes one or more geographic areas 
(or portions of such areas) served by community boards 
that submit applications under subtitle C, shall allocate 
the funds made available through the grant to carry out 
activities described in section 414, in consultation with 
such community boards.’’. 
SEC. 202. AMOUNT AND ALLOCATION OF ASSISTANCE. 
Section 413 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11373) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘amounts appropriated’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘for any’’ and in-
serting ‘‘amounts appropriated under section 
408 and made available to carry out this sub-
title for any’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (b)’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘subsection 
(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
(3) by redesignating subsections (a) through (e) 
as subsections (b) through (f), respectively; and 
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(4) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re-
designated by paragraph (3) of this section) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS USED FOR EMER-
GENCY SHELTER.—Of the amount made available to carry 
out this subtitle and subtitle C for a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall allocate nationally for use under this subtitle 
an aggregate amount not exceeding 15 percent of such 
total amount.’’. 
SEC. 203. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended by striking section 414 (42 U.S.C. 11374) and 
inserting the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 414. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘Assistance provided under section 412 may be used 
for the following activities: 
‘‘(1) The renovation, major rehabilitation, or 
conversion of buildings to be used as emergency 
shelters. 
‘‘(2) The provision of essential services, includ-
ing services concerned with employment, health, or 
education, family support services for homeless 
youth, substance abuse services, victim services, or 
mental health services, if— 
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‘‘(A) such essential services have not been 
provided by the local government during any 
part of the immediately preceding 12-month pe-
riod or the Secretary determines that the local 
government is in a severe financial deficit; or 
‘‘(B) the use of assistance under this sub-
title would complement the provision of those 
essential services. 
‘‘(3) Maintenance, operation, insurance, provi-
sion of utilities, and provision of furnishings. 
‘‘(4) For homelessness prevention activities.’’. 
SEC. 204. REPEALS. 
Sections 417 and 418 of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11377, 11378) are hereby 
repealed. 
TITLE III—CONTINUUM OF CARE 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 301. CONTINUUM OF CARE. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended— 
(1) by striking the subtitle heading for subtitle 
C of title IV (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) and inserting 
the following: 
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‘‘Subtitle C—Continuum of Care 
Program’’; and 
(2) by striking section 422 (42 U.S.C. 11382) 
and inserting the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 422. CONTINUUM OF CARE APPLICATIONS AND 
GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.—In this section, the 
term ‘eligible applicant’ means a collaborative applicant or 
solo applicant. 
‘‘(b) PROJECTS.—The Secretary shall award grants 
to eligible applicants to carry out homeless assistance and 
prevention projects. 
‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY.— 
The Secretary shall release a notification of funding avail-
ability for grants awarded under this subtitle for a fiscal 
year not later than 3 months after the date of enactment 
of the appropriate Act making appropriations for the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development for such fis-
cal year. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under 
subsection (b), an eligible applicant shall submit an 
application for the grant to a community board in 
accordance with the collaborative process established 
by the board, as described in section 402, and have 
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such application reviewed, approved, and prioritized 
by such community board, except that a solo appli-
cant may submit such application to the Secretary 
without participating in such process if the applicant 
includes information in such application regarding 
why the applicant has not participated. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—To receive the grant, after 
receiving approval from the community board for the 
application, the eligible applicant shall submit an ap-
plication to the Secretary at such time and in such 
manner as the Secretary may require, and con-
taining— 
‘‘(A) the application submitted to the com-
munity board; and 
‘‘(B) other information that, in addition to 
including the information described in sub-
sections (a) and (c) of section 426, shall— 
‘‘(i) describe the establishment and 
function of the community board, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(I) the nomination and selection 
process for such board, including the 
names and affiliations of all such 
board members; 
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‘‘(II) all meetings held by such 
board in preparing the collaborative 
application, including identification of 
those meetings that were public; 
‘‘(III) all meetings between board 
representatives, and persons respon-
sible for administering the consoli-
dated plan; and 
‘‘(IV) documentation of efforts 
undertaken to ensure the participation 
of all community organizations pro-
viding services to homeless individuals 
and of organizations representing un-
derserved communities; 
‘‘(ii) outline the range of housing and 
service programs available to persons expe-
riencing homelessness or imminently at 
risk of experiencing homelessness and de-
scribe the unmet needs that remain in the 
geographic area for which the collaborative 
applicant seeks funding regarding— 
‘‘(I) prevention activities, includ-
ing providing assistance in— 
‘‘(aa) 
making 
mortgage, 
rent, or utility payments; or 
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‘‘(bb) accessing permanent 
housing and transitional housing 
for individuals (and families that 
include the individuals) who are 
being discharged from a publicly 
funded facility, program, or sys-
tem of care, or whose services 
(from such a facility, program, or 
system of care) are being termi-
nated, including discharge from a 
child welfare or juvenile correc-
tions program; 
‘‘(II) outreach activities to assess 
the needs and conditions of persons 
experiencing homelessness; 
‘‘(III) emergency shelters, includ-
ing the supportive and referral serv-
ices the shelters provide; 
‘‘(IV) transitional housing with, 
as needed, appropriate supportive 
services to help persons experiencing 
homelessness who are not yet able or 
prepared to make the transition to 
permanent housing and independent 
living; 
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‘‘(V) permanent housing to help 
meet the long-term needs of individ-
uals and families experiencing home-
lessness; and 
‘‘(VI) needed supportive services; 
‘‘(iii) prioritize the projects for which 
the collaborative applicant seeks funding 
according to the unmet needs in the fiscal 
year in which the applicant submits the ap-
plication as described in clause (ii); 
‘‘(iv) identify funds from private and 
public sources, other than funds received 
under subtitle B and this subtitle, that the 
State, units of general local government, 
recipients, project sponsors, and others will 
use for homelessness prevention, emer-
gency shelter, supportive services, transi-
tional housing, permanent housing, and 
permanent supportive housing that will be 
integrated with the assistance provided 
under subtitle B and this subtitle; 
‘‘(v) identify funds provided by the 
State and units of general local govern-
ment under programs targeted for persons 
experiencing homelessness, and other pro-
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grams for which persons experiencing 
homelessness are eligible, including pro-
grams identified by the General Account-
ing Office in the February 1999 report en-
titled ‘Homelessness: Coordination and 
Evaluation of Programs Are Essential’; 
‘‘(vi) explain— 
‘‘(I) how the collaborative appli-
cant will meet the housing and service 
needs of individuals and families expe-
riencing homelessness in the appli-
cant’s community; and 
‘‘(II) the strategy of the State, 
units of general local government, and 
private entities in the geographic area 
over the next 5 years to prevent and 
end homelessness, including, as part 
of that strategy, a work plan for the 
applicable fiscal years; 
‘‘(vii) report on the outcome-based 
performance of programs for homeless per-
sons within the geographic area served by 
the collaborative applicant that were fund-
ed under this title in the fiscal year prior 
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to the fiscal year in which the application 
is submitted; 
‘‘(viii) include any relevant required 
agreements under this subtitle; 
‘‘(ix) contain a certification of consist-
ency with the consolidated plan pursuant 
to section 403; 
‘‘(x) contain a certification that the 
applicable States and units of general local 
government are not penalizing homeless in-
dividuals and families— 
‘‘(I) through laws, ordinances, or 
policies based upon their status as 
homeless; 
‘‘(II) by using zoning laws, ordi-
nances, or policies to prevent the 
siting of facilities designed to serve 
homeless persons; or 
‘‘(III) through laws that establish 
status offenses which may result in 
runaway and homeless youths being 
adjudicated as delinquent; 
‘‘(xi) contain such certifications and 
assurances to ensure that— 
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‘‘(I) project sponsors for all 
projects for which collaborative appli-
cant seeks funding through the grant 
will establish policies and practices 
that are consistent with, and do not 
restrict the exercise of rights provided 
by, subtitle B of title VII (42 U.S.C. 
11431 et seq.), and other laws relat-
ing to the provision of educational and 
related services to individuals experi-
encing homelessness; and 
‘‘(II) the strategy referred to in 
clause (vi)(II) will take the edu-
cational needs of children into account 
when families are placed in emergency 
or transitional shelter and will, to the 
maximum extent practicable, place 
families with children as close to pos-
sible to their school of origin so as not 
to disrupt such children’s education; 
and 
‘‘(xii)(I) in the case of a collaborative 
applicant, include an exhibit described in 
section 402(f)(1)(B)(iii) and prepared by 
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the community board in accordance with 
that section; or 
‘‘(II) in the case of a solo applicant, 
include an exhibit described in section 
402(f)(1)(B)(iii) and prepared by the ap-
plicant. 
‘‘(3) CONSIDERATION
OF
VETERANS
AFFAIRS 
ASSESSMENTS.—In outlining the programs and de-
scribing the needs referred to in clause (ii) of para-
graph (2)(B), the applicant shall take into account 
the findings and recommendations of the most re-
cently completed annual assessments, conducted pur-
suant to section 2034 of title 38, United States 
Code, of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
centers or regional benefits offices whose service 
areas include the geographic area for which the ap-
plicant seeks funding. 
‘‘(4) ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS.—The Sec-
retary shall announce, not later than 5 months after 
the last date for the submission of applications de-
scribed in this subsection for a fiscal year, the 
grants awarded under subsection (b) for that fiscal 
year. 
‘‘(5) OBLIGATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND UTILIZA-
TION OF FUNDS.— 
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‘‘(A) REQUIREMENTS FOR OBLIGATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 9 
months after the announcement referred to 
in paragraph (4), each recipient or project 
sponsor seeking the obligation of funds for 
a grant announced under paragraph (4) 
shall meet all requirements for the obliga-
tion of those funds, including site control, 
matching funds, and environmental review 
requirements, except as provided in clause 
(ii). 
‘‘(ii) ACQUISITION, REHABILITATION, 
OR
CONSTRUCTION.—Not later than 15 
months after the announcement referred to 
in paragraph (4), each recipient or project 
sponsor seeking the obligation of funds for 
acquisition of housing, rehabilitation of 
housing, or construction of new housing 
for a grant announced under paragraph 
(4) shall meet all requirements for the obli-
gation of those funds, including site con-
trol, matching funds, and environmental 
review requirements. 
‘‘(iii) EXTENSIONS.—At the discretion 
of the Secretary, and in compelling cir-
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cumstances, the Secretary may extend the 
date by which a recipient or project spon-
sor shall meet the requirements described 
in clause (i) if the Secretary determines 
that compliance with the requirements was 
delayed due to factors beyond the reason-
able control of the recipient or project 
sponsor. Such factors may include difficul-
ties in obtaining site control for a proposed 
project, completing the process of obtain-
ing secure financing for the project, or 
completing the technical submission re-
quirements for the project. 
‘‘(B) OBLIGATION.—Not later than 45 
days after a recipient or project sponsor meets 
the requirements described in subparagraph 
(A)(i), the Secretary shall obligate the funds for 
the grant involved. 
‘‘(C) DISTRIBUTION.—A recipient that re-
ceives funds through such a grant— 
‘‘(i) shall distribute the funds to 
project sponsors (in advance of expendi-
tures by the project sponsors); and 
‘‘(ii) shall distribute the appropriate 
portion of the funds to a project sponsor 
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