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SEC. 112. USE OF VOUCHERS FOR MANUFACTURED HOUS-
ING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(o)(12) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(12)) is 
amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking the period 
at the end of the first sentence and all that follows 
through ‘‘of’’ in the second sentence and inserting 
‘‘and rents’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘the rent’’ 
and all that follows and inserting the following: 
‘‘rent shall mean the sum of the monthly pay-
ments made by a family assisted under this 
paragraph to amortize the cost of purchasing 
the manufactured home, including any required 
insurance and property taxes, the monthly 
amount allowed for tenant-paid utilities, and 
the monthly rent charged for the real property 
on which the manufactured home is located, in-
cluding monthly management and maintenance 
charges.’’; 
(B) by striking clause (ii); and 
(C) in clause (iii)— 
(i) by inserting after the period at the 
end the following: ‘‘If the amount of the 
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monthly assistance payment for a family 
exceeds the monthly rent charged for the 
real property on which the manufactured 
home is located, including monthly man-
agement and maintenance charges, a pub-
lic housing agency may pay the remainder 
to the family, lender or utility company, or 
may choose to make a single payment to 
the family for the entire monthly assist-
ance amount.’’; and 
(ii) by redesignating such clause as 
clause (ii). 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development shall issue notice to implement 
the amendments made by subsection (a) and such amend-
ments shall take effect upon such issuance. 
SEC. 113. PREFERENCE FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENS OR 
NATIONALS. 
Section 214(a)(7) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a(a)(7)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘such alien’’ and all that follows 
through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘any citizen 
or national of the United States shall be entitled to a pref-
erence or priority in receiving financial assistance before 
any such alien who is otherwise eligible for assistance.’’. 
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SEC. 114. EXCEPTION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY RESI-
DENT BOARD MEMBER REQUIREMENT. 
Subsection (b) of section 2 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘paragraph 
(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) EXCEPTION
FOR
CERTAIN
JURISDIC-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(A) EXCEPTION.—A covered agency (as 
such term is defined in subparagraph (C) of 
this paragraph) shall not be required to include 
on the board of directors or a similar governing 
board of such agency a member described in 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) ADVISORY BOARD REQUIREMENT.— 
Each covered agency that administers Federal 
housing assistance under section 8 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f) that chooses not to include a member 
described in paragraph (1) on the board of di-
rectors or a similar governing board of the 
agency shall establish an advisory board of not 
less than 6 residents of public housing or recipi-
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ents of assistance under section 8 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f) to provide advice and comment to the 
agency or other administering entity on issues 
related to public housing and section 8. Such 
advisory board shall meet not less than quar-
terly. 
‘‘(C) COVERED AGENCY OR ENTITY.—For 
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘covered 
agency’ means a public housing agency or such 
other entity that administers Federal housing 
assistance for— 
‘‘(I) the Housing Authority of the 
county of Los Angeles, California; or 
‘‘(ii) any of the States of Alaska, 
Iowa, and Mississippi.’’. 
TITLE II—RURAL HOUSING 
SEC. 201. DELEGATION OF GUARANTEED RURAL HOUSING 
LOAN APPROVAL. 
Subsection (h) of section 502 of the Housing Act of 
1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(18) DELEGATION OF APPROVAL.—The Sec-
retary may delegate, in part or in full, the Sec-
retary’s authority to approve and execute binding 
Rural Housing Service loan guarantees pursuant to 
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this subsection to certain preferred lenders, in ac-
cordance with standards established by the Sec-
retary.’’. 
SEC. 202. GUARANTEED UNDERWRITING USER FEE. 
Section 502 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 
1472) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(i) GUARANTEED UNDERWRITING USER FEE.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY; 
MAXIMUM
AMOUNT.—The 
Secretary may assess and collect a fee for a lender 
to access the automated underwriting systems of the 
Department in connection with such lender’s partici-
pation in the single family loan program under this 
section and only in an amount necessary to cover the 
costs of information technology enhancements, im-
provements, maintenance, and development for auto-
mated underwriting systems used in connection with 
the single family loan program under this section, 
except that such fee shall not exceed $50 per loan. 
‘‘(2) CREDITING; AVAILABILITY.—Any amounts 
collected from such fees shall be credited to the 
Rural Development Expense Account as offsetting 
collections and shall remain available until expended, 
in the amounts provided in appropriation Acts, sole-
ly for expenses described in paragraph (1).’’. 
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