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Union Calendar No. 261 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 27 
[Report No. 108–458] 
To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt small public 
housing agencies from the requirement of preparing an annual public 
housing agency plan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2003 
Mr. BEREUTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
APRIL 2, 2004 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
A BILL 
To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt 
small public housing agencies from the requirement of 
preparing an annual public housing agency plan. 
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 ‘‘Small Public Housing 
Authority Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY PLANS FOR SMALL PUB-
LIC HOUSING AGENCIES. 
Section 5A of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437c–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) EXEMPTION FOR SMALL PHAS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding para-
graph (1) or any other provision of this Act— 
‘‘(i) the requirement under paragraph 
(1) shall not apply to any small public 
housing agency; and 
‘‘(ii) any reference in this section or 
any other provision of law to a ‘public 
housing agency’ shall not be considered to 
refer to any small public housing agency, 
to the extent such reference applies to the 
requirement to submit a public housing 
agency plan under subsection (b). 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term ‘small public housing agen-
cy’ means a public housing agency that—
‘‘(i) administers 100 or less public 
housing dwelling units; and 
‘‘(ii) is not designated pursuant to 
section 6(j)(2) as a troubled public housing 
agency.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (k)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(B) by striking subparagraph (B); and 
(C) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
and (C) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, 
and by realigning such paragraphs (as so redes-
ignated) so as to be indented 2 ems from the 
left margin. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Public Housing 
Authority Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY PLANS FOR CERTAIN 
SMALL PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES. 
Section 5A(b) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c–1(b)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN SMALL PHAS FROM 
FILING REQUIREMENT.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding para-
graph (1) or any other provision of this Act— 
‘‘(i) the requirement under paragraph 
(1) shall not apply to any qualified small 
public housing agency; and 
‘‘(ii) any reference in this section or 
any other provision of law to a ‘public 
housing agency’ shall not be considered to 
refer to any qualified small public housing 
agency, to the extent such reference applies 
to the requirement to submit a public hous-
ing agency plan under this subsection. 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term ‘qualified small public hous-
ing agency’ means a public housing agency that 
meets all of the following requirements: 
‘‘(i) The sum of (I) the number of pub-
lic housing dwelling units administered by 
the agency, and (II) the number of vouchers 
under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) 
administered by the agency, is 100 or fewer. 
‘‘(ii) The agency is not designated pur-
suant to section 6(j)(2) as a troubled public 
housing agency.
‘‘(iii) The agency provides assurances 
satisfactory to the Secretary that notwith-
standing the inapplicability of the require-
ments under this section relating to resident 
advisory boards and public hearings and 
notice, residents of public housing adminis-
tered by the agency will have an adequate 
and comparable opportunity for participa-
tion and notice regarding establishment of 
the goals, objectives, and policies of the pub-
lic housing agency.’’.
Union Calendar No. 261 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 27 
[Report No. 108–458] 
A BILL 
To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 
to exempt small public housing agencies from the 
requirement of preparing an annual public hous-
ing agency plan. 
APRIL 2, 2004 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed