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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3501 
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 
assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized hous-
ing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary 
caregivers of children that are related to such persons. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2013 
Mr. SERRANO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment to provide assistance to eligible nonprofit organiza-
tions to provide specialized housing and supportive serv-
ices for elderly persons who are the primary caregivers 
of children that are related to such persons. 
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 ‘‘Generational Resi-
dences and Nurturing Dwellings Act’’ or the ‘‘GRAND 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. HOUSING FOR ELDERLY CAREGIVERS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development a pro-
gram to provide assistance to eligible nonprofit organiza-
tions to expand the supply of specialized housing for quali-
fied relatives raising a child. 
(b) APPLICATION.—To receive assistance under the 
program under this section, an eligible nonprofit organiza-
tion shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as 
the Secretary may require, which in the case of an applica-
tion for assistance to be provided as described in sub-
section (e)(2) shall include such provisions ensuring co-
ordination with a public housing agency that will admin-
ister such assistance as the Secretary shall require. 
(c) NEED-BASED; COMPETITION.—Assistance pro-
vided under the program under this section shall be need- 
based and made available on a competitive basis. 
(d) LIMIT ON ORGANIZATIONS SELECTED.—For each 
fiscal year, the Secretary may select not more than 5 eligi-
ble organizations to receive assistance under the program 
under this section. 
(e) FORMS
OF ASSISTANCE.—Under the program 
under this section, assistance shall be made available in 
the following forms: 
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(1) NEW
HOUSING.—Financing for the con-
struction, reconstruction, moderate or substantial re-
habilitation, or acquisition of a structure or a por-
tion of a structure to be used as specialized housing 
in accordance with the program. 
(2) RENTAL VOUCHER ASSISTANCE.—To pro-
vide tenant-based rental assistance under section 
8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for use only by qualified relatives 
who are raising a child and are eligible for such as-
sistance for rental of a dwelling unit that qualifies 
as specialized housing. 
(3) ELDERLY HOUSING PROJECT RENTAL AS-
SISTANCE.—To provide project rental assistance 
under section 202(b)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 
(12 U.S.C. 1701q(b)(2)) in connection with dwelling 
units that qualify as specialized housing and are 
made available for occupancy only by qualified rel-
atives who are raising a child and are eligible for oc-
cupancy in such housing; and notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, any qualified relative who is 
raising a child who is otherwise eligible for occu-
pancy in such housing may not be excluded from 
such occupancy because the household includes such 
child. 
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(4) OPERATIONAL EXPENSES AND SUPPORTIVE 
SERVICES.—Assistance for ongoing operational ex-
penses of any specialized housing, including costs of 
supportive services required for such housing. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CHILD.—The term ‘‘child’’ means an indi-
vidual who— 
(A) is not attending school and is not more 
than 18 years of age; or 
(B) is attending school and is not more 
than 19 years of age. 
(2) ELDERLY PERSON.—The term ‘‘elderly per-
son’’ means a person who is 60 years of age or 
more. 
(3) ELIGIBLE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘eligible non-
profit organization’’ means an organization 
that— 
(i) provides specialized housing and 
social services for qualified relatives who 
are raising a child; and 
(ii) is described in section 501(c)(3) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is 
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exempt from tax under section 501(a) of 
such Code. 
(B) POLITICAL
DIVISIONS
INCLUDED.— 
Such term includes organizations that provide 
such services in each of the several States, the 
District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, 
territory, or possession of the United States. 
(4) QUALIFIED RELATIVE.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘qualified 
relative’’ means, with respect to a child, an in-
dividual who is— 
(i) an elderly person; 
(ii) is not a parent of the child by 
blood or marriage; and 
(iii) is a relative of the child by blood 
or marriage. 
(B) ADOPTED CHILDREN.—In the case of 
a child who was adopted, the term includes an 
individual who, by blood or marriage, is a rel-
ative of the family who adopted the child. 
(5) RAISING A CHILD.—The term ‘‘raising a 
child’’ means, with respect to an individual, that the 
individual— 
(A) resides with the child; and 
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(B) is the primary caregiver (or is, to-
gether with a spouse or other household mem-
ber, a primary caregiver) for the child— 
(i) because the biological or adoptive 
parents of the child do not reside with the 
child or are unable or unwilling to serve as 
the primary caregiver for the child; and 
(ii) regardless of whether the indi-
vidual has a legal relationship to the child 
(such as guardianship or legal custody) or 
is caring for the child informally and has 
no such legal relationship with the child. 
(6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
(7) SPECIALIZED
HOUSING.—The term ‘‘spe-
cialized housing’’ means housing that— 
(A) is affordable (as the Secretary shall 
define for purposes of this Act) for low-income 
families (as such term is defined in section 3(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437a(b)); 
(B) is restricted to occupancy only by low- 
income families; 
(C) is designed to meet the special physical 
needs of elderly persons; 
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(D) accommodates the provision of sup-
portive services that are expected to be needed, 
either initially or over the useful life of the 
housing, by elderly persons and children that 
the housing is intended to serve; and 
(E) provides a range of such services that 
are tailored to the needs of elderly persons and 
children occupying such housing. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
2018. 
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