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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1733
To amend title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing
Act to reserve amounts made available to participating jurisdictions under
subtitle A of such title to provide smoke detectors and other fire safety
devices in single room occupancy housing that qualifies as affordable
rental housing.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 20, 1993
Mr. GUTIERREZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
A BILL
To amend title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Afford-
able Housing Act to reserve amounts made available
to participating jurisdictions under subtitle A of such
title to provide smoke detectors and other fire safety
devices in single room occupancy housing that qualifies
as affordable rental housing.
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 ‘‘Single Room Occu-
pancy Housing Fire Safety Enhancement Act’’.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBLE USES OF INVESTMENT.
Section 212(a) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12742(a)) is amend-
ed—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and to pro-
vide tenant-based rental assistance’’ and inserting
‘‘to provide tenant-based rental assistance, and to
provide fire safety devices in single room occupancy
rental housing that qualifies as affordable housing’’;
and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(4) FIRE SAFETY DEVICES IN SRO HOUSING.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A participating juris-
diction may use funds provided under this sub-
title for providing fire safety devices for, and in-
stalling such devices in, single room occupancy
housing for rental that qualifies as affordable
housing under this title.
‘‘(B) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this
paragraph:
‘‘(i) The term ‘fire safety devices’
means (I) automatic sprinkler systems, as
such term is defined in section 31(a) of the
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act
of 1974, (II) smoke detectors, as such
term is defined in such section, including
hard-wired or battery-operated smoke de-
tectors, or (III) mechanical devices to
automatically close doors.
‘‘(ii) The term ‘single room occupancy
housing’ means housing composed pri-
marily or exclusively of dwelling units for
occupancy by 1 person, including units
containing food preparation or sanitary fa-
cilities, or both.’’.
SEC. 3. RESERVATION OF AMOUNTS.
Section 218 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12748) is amended—
(1) in subsection (h), by inserting before the pe-
riod at the end the following: ‘‘and the status of any
amounts reserved under subsection (h)’’;
(2) by redesignating subsection (h) (as amended
by paragraph (1)) as subsection (i); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (g) the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(h) RESERVATION OF AMOUNTS FOR FIRE SAFETY
IN SRO HOUSING.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For any participating juris-
diction whose approved housing strategy or annual
update for a fiscal year does not include a certifi-
cation under section 105(b)(20), the Secretary shall
reserve 0.5 percent of any amounts allocated to the
HOME Investment Trust Fund of the jurisdiction
for the fiscal year for use only for the purpose under
section 212(a)(4) and may permit a participating ju-
risdiction to draw funds from such amounts reserved
only after providing certification under subsection
(d) that the funds will be used for such purpose.
‘‘(2) 
EXPIRATION
OF
RESERVATION.—Any
amounts reserved under this subsection that are not
placed under binding commitment for use under sec-
tion 212(a)(4) within 6 months after the last day of
the month in which such funds are deposited in the
participating jurisdiction’s HOME Investment Trust
Fund shall be available for use by the participating
jurisdiction for any purpose authorized under section
212(a), subject to the other provisions of this title.’’.
SEC. 
4. 
COMPREHENSIVE 
HOUSING 
AFFORDABILITY
STRATEGY.
Section 105(b) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12705(b)) is amended
by adding after paragraph (17) (as added by section
220(b)(3) of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–550; 106 Stat. 3761) and
redesignated by section 220(c)(1) of such Act (106 Stat.
3762)), the following new paragraph:
‘‘(20) in the case of any jurisdiction in which
any single room occupancy rental housing in the ju-
risdiction that qualifies as affordable housing is ade-
quately protected by fire safety devices (as such
term is defined in section 212(a)(4)(B)) or any ju-
risdiction having no single room occupancy housing,
a certification that such housing is so protected and
that reservation of amounts under section 218(h) is
unnecessary.’’.
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