(D) facilitating access by families and indi-
viduals to programs and services that help re-
duce health hazards in housing. 
(3) To identify knowledge gaps, research needs, 
and policy and program deficiencies associated with 
inadequate housing conditions and housing-related 
illnesses and injuries. 
(4) To help identify best practices for achieving 
and sustaining healthy housing. 
(5) To help improve the quality of existing and 
newly constructed housing and related programs and 
services, including those programs and services 
which serve low-income families and individuals. 
(6) To establish an ongoing system of coordina-
tion among and within such agencies or organiza-
tions so that the healthy housing needs of families 
and individuals are met in a more effective and effi-
cient manner. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—The Council shall be composed of 
the following members: 
(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices. 
(2) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment. 
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(3) The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency. 
(4) The Secretary of Energy. 
(5) The Secretary of Labor. 
(6) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 
(7) The Secretary of the Treasury. 
(8) The Secretary of Agriculture. 
(9) The Secretary of Education. 
(10) The head of any other Federal agency as 
the Council considers appropriate. 
(11) Six additional non-Federal employee mem-
bers, as appointed by the President to serve terms 
not to exceed 2 years, of whom— 
(A) 1 shall be a State or local Government 
Director of Health or the Environment; 
(B) 1 shall be a State or local Government 
Director of Housing or Community Develop-
ment; 
(C) 2 shall represent nonprofit organiza-
tions involved in housing or health issues; and 
(D) 2 shall represent for-profit entities in-
volved in the housing, banking, or health insur-
ance industries. 
(d) CO-CHAIRPERSONS.—The co-Chairpersons of the 
Council shall be the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
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velopment and the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices. 
(e) VICE CHAIR.—Every 2 years, the Council shall 
elect a Vice Chair from among its members. 
(f) MEETINGS.—The Council shall meet at the call 
of either co-Chairperson or a majority of its members at 
any time, and no less often than annually. 
SEC. 5. FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. 
(a) RELEVANT ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the ob-
jectives described in section 4(b), the Council shall— 
(1) review Federal programs and services that 
provide housing, health, energy, or environmental 
services to families and individuals; 
(2) monitor, evaluate, and recommend improve-
ments in programs and services administered, fund-
ed, or financed by Federal, State, and local agencies 
to assist families and individuals in accessing 
healthy housing and make recommendations about 
how such agencies can better work to meet the 
healthy housing and related needs of low-income 
families and individuals; and 
(3) recommend ways to— 
(A) reduce duplication among programs 
and services by Federal agencies that assist 
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families and individuals in meeting their 
healthy housing and related service needs; 
(B) ensure collaboration among and within 
agencies in the provision and availability of pro-
grams and services so that families and individ-
uals are able to easily access needed programs 
and services; 
(C) work with States and local govern-
ments to better meet the needs of families and 
individuals for healthy housing by— 
(i) holding meetings with State and 
local representatives; and 
(ii) providing ongoing technical assist-
ance and training to States and localities 
in better meeting the housing-related needs 
of such families and individuals; 
(D) identify best practices for programs 
and services that assist families and individuals 
in accessing healthy housing, including model— 
(i) programs linking housing, health, 
environmental, human, and energy serv-
ices; 
(ii) housing and remodeling financing 
products offered by government, quasi-gov-
ernment, and private sector entities; 
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(iii) housing and building codes and 
regulatory practices; 
(iv) existing and new consensus speci-
fications and work practices documents; 
(v) capacity building and training pro-
grams that help increase and diversify the 
supply of practitioners who perform assess-
ments of housing-related health hazards 
and interventions to address housing-re-
lated health hazards; and 
(vi) programs that increase commu-
nity awareness of, and education on, hous-
ing-related health hazards and available 
assessments and interventions; 
(E) develop a comprehensive healthy hous-
ing research agenda that considers health, safe-
ty, environmental, and energy factors, to— 
(i) identify cost-effective assessments 
and treatment protocols for housing-re-
lated health hazards in existing housing; 
(ii) establish links between housing 
hazards and health outcomes; 
(iii) track housing-related health prob-
lems including injuries, illnesses, and 
death; 
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(iv) track housing conditions that may 
be associated with health problems; 
(v) identify cost-effective protocols for 
construction of new healthy housing; and 
(vi) identify replicable and effective 
programs or strategies for addressing 
housing-related health hazards; 
(4) hold biannual meetings with stakeholders 
and other interested parties in a location convenient 
for such stakeholders, or hold open Council meet-
ings, to receive input and ideas about how to best 
meet the healthy housing needs of families and indi-
viduals; 
(5) maintain an updated website of policies, 
meetings, best practices, programs, and services, 
making use of existing websites as appropriate, to 
keep people informed of the activities of the Council; 
and 
(6) work with member agencies to collect and 
maintain data on housing-related health hazards, ill-
nesses, and injuries so that all data can be accessed 
in 1 place and to identify and address unmet data 
needs. 
(b) REPORTS.— 
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(D) any new data collected by the agency 
relating to the healthy housing needs of families 
and individuals. 
(2) BY THE COUNCIL.—Each year, the Council 
shall prepare and transmit to the President and the 
Congress, a report that— 
(A) summarizes the reports required in 
paragraph (1); 
(B) utilizes recent data to assess the na-
ture of housing-related health hazards, and as-
sociated illnesses and injuries, in the United 
States; 
(C) provides a comprehensive and detailed 
description of the programs and services of the 
Federal Government in meeting the needs and 
problems described in subparagraph (B); 
(D) describes the activities and accomplish-
ments of the Council in working with Federal, 
State, and local governments, nonprofit organi-
zations and for-profit entities in coordinating 
programs and services to meet the needs de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) and the resources 
available to meet those needs; 
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(E) assesses the level of Federal assistance 
required to meet the needs described in sub-
paragraph (B); and 
(F) makes recommendations for appro-
priate legislative and administrative actions to 
meet the needs described in subparagraph (B) 
and for coordinating programs and services de-
signed to meet those needs. 
SEC. 6. POWERS OF THE COUNCIL. 
(a) HEARINGS.—The Council may hold such hear-
ings, sit and act at such times and places, take such testi-
mony, and receive such evidence as the Council considers 
advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
(b) INFORMATION FROM AGENCIES.—Agencies which 
are represented on the Council shall provide all requested 
information and data to the Council as requested. 
(c) POSTAL SERVICES.—The Council may use the 
United States mails in the same manner and under the 
same conditions as other departments and agencies of the 
Federal Government. 
(d) CONTRACTS AND INTERAGENCY AGREEMENTS.— 
The Council may enter into contracts with State, Tribal, 
and local governments, public agencies and private-sector 
entities, and into interagency agreements with Federal 
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agencies. Such contracts and interagency agreements may 
be single-year or multi-year in duration. 
SEC. 7. COUNCIL PERSONNEL MATTERS. 
(a) STAFF.— 
(1) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.—The Council shall 
appoint an Executive Director at its initial meeting. 
The Executive Director shall be compensated at a 
rate not to exceed the rate of basic pay payable for 
level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(2) COMPENSATION.—With the approval of the 
Council, the Executive Director may appoint and fix 
the compensation of such additional personnel as the 
Executive Director considers necessary to carry out 
the duties of the Council, except that the rate of pay 
for any such additional personnel may not exceed 
the rate of basic pay payable for level V of the Exec-
utive Schedule under section 5316 of such title. 
(b) TEMPORARY AND INTERMITTENT SERVICES.—In 
carrying out its objectives, the Executive Director with the 
approval of the Council, may procure temporary and inter-
mittent services of consultants and experts under section 
3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at rates for individ-
uals which do not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual 
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rate of basic pay payable for level V of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5316 of such title. 
(c) DETAIL OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.—Upon 
request of the Council, any Federal Government employee 
may be detailed to the Council with reimbursement, and 
such detail shall be without interruption or loss of civil 
service status or privilege. 
(d) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.—The Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall provide the Coun-
cil with such administrative (including office space) and 
support services as are necessary to ensure that the Coun-
cil can carry out its functions in an efficient and expedi-
tious manner. 
SEC. 8. GAO REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF FEDERAL 
HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AT 
RISK OF LEAD POISONING. 
Not later than the expiration of the 12-month period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to 
the Congress a report analyzing the same issues as, and 
updating the findings and conclusions of, the report of the 
Comptroller General to the Ranking Minority Member, 
Committee on Government Reform, House of Representa-
tives of January 1999 entitled ‘‘Lead Poisoning: Federal 
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Health Care Programs Are Not Effectively Reaching At- 
Risk Children’’ (GAO/HEHS–99–18). 
SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act, $750,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2015 through 2019. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts authorized to be appro-
priated by subsection (a) shall remain available for the 2 
fiscal years following such appropriation. 
Æ 
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