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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5757 
To provide appropriations for certain tribal programs during a period of 
a lapse in discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 14, 2025 
Mr. RUIZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Appropriations 
A BILL 
To provide appropriations for certain tribal programs during 
a period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tribal Housing Con-
tinuity Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Federal government has a trust respon-
sibility to support tribal nations and their citizens. 
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(2) The Native American Housing Assistance 
and Self-Determination Act of 1996 provides the 
primary Federal support for affordable housing in 
tribal communities. 
(3) Lapses in appropriations and lapses in or-
ders, from the Office of Personnel Management re-
lating to requests for information, risk delaying or 
halting critical tribal housing projects. 
(4) Tribal governments do not have access to fi-
nancial assistance from States or units of local gov-
ernment, making the continuity of Federal programs 
essential. 
SEC. 3. APPROPRIATIONS DURING PERIOD OF A LAPSE IN 
DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is appropriated for fiscal 
year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $1.6 billion during any period of a lapse in 
discretionary appropriations with respect to the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development during such fiscal 
year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of 
this section, for any period of such lapse to pay for the 
salaries and expenses necessary to— 
(1) to issue, process, and respond to requests 
for information and notices of funding opportunity 
that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
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ment determines are necessary to implement any 
program authorized under the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 
1996; 
(2) take administrative actions that the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development deter-
mines are necessary to implement any program au-
thorized under the Native American Housing Assist-
ance and Self Determination Act of 1996; 
(3) to guarantee and pay under guarantees as 
required to carry out the program for loan guaran-
tees for Indian housing under section 184 and of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992; 
(4) to guarantee and pay under guarantees as 
required to carry out the program for loan guaran-
tees for Native Alaskan housing under section 184A 
and of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1992; and 
(5) to administer amounts obligated to tribes 
under the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self Determination Act of 1996. 
(b) REPORT.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall, not later than 90 days after the start 
of any period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations, 
submit a report to the Congress that describes the actions 
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the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development took 
using the amounts appropriated under subsection (a). 
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