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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3424 
To provide for extension of agreements between the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development and public housing agencies participating in 
the Moving to Work Demonstration Program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2015 
Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California (for herself and Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Finan-
cial Services 
A BILL 
To provide for extension of agreements between the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development and public housing 
agencies participating in the Moving to Work Demonstra-
tion Program, 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 ‘‘Moving to Work Re-
form Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. TERMS OF MOVING TO WORK AGREEMENTS. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may not enter into or extend any Moving to Work agree-
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ment for any public housing agency for participation in 
the demonstration established under section 204 of the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321), unless 
such agreement is subject to the following terms and con-
ditions for the entire duration of such agreement: 
(1) 
EVALUATION
OF
MAJOR
POLICY 
CHANGES.—A public housing agency may not newly 
establish any rent policy that raises rent burdens for 
a significant portion of participating families, any 
time limitation on the term of housing assistance, or 
any policy that conditions receipt of housing assist-
ance from program funds on employment status, un-
less— 
(A) the policy change will be subject to a 
detailed evaluation using a rigorous research 
methodology which includes, at least in part, 
random assignment to treatment and control 
groups to compare the impact on assisted fami-
lies (including families that cease to receive as-
sistance during the term of the evaluation) to 
similar families not subject to such policy 
change; and 
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(B) the Secretary determines that ade-
quate Federal or other resources are available 
to undertake the required evaluation. 
(2) USE
OF
TENANT-BASED
RENTAL
ASSIST-
ANCE FUNDS.—A public housing agency may use 
funds appropriated for renewal of tenant-based rent-
al assistance only for payments to or on behalf of el-
igible families that assist such families with housing 
costs, except that up to 10 percent of such funds 
may be used for other eligible purposes, subject to 
such requirements as the Secretary shall establish. 
(3) DETERMINATION OF TENANT-BASED RENT-
AL ASSISTANCE FUNDING.—A public housing agency 
shall receive funding for renewal of tenant-based 
rental assistance determined using the same formula 
applied to public housing agencies that do not par-
ticipate in the demonstration, except that up to 10 
percent of such funds may be renewed by adjusting 
the prior year’s funding by an inflation factor deter-
mined by the Secretary. 
(4) PROHIBITION OF REDUCTION IN NUMBER 
OF FAMILIES ASSISTED.—A public housing agency 
shall provide ongoing housing assistance resulting in 
average cost burdens no higher than those of fami-
lies assisted under sections 8 and 9 of the United 
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States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f, 
1437g) to substantially the same number of eligible 
low-income families as the agency could assist if it 
expended the full amount of funding it receives 
under such sections 8 and 9 pursuant to the require-
ments of such sections. 
(5) HOUSING CHOICE.—If the Secretary deter-
mines that a disproportionately low share of families 
assisted by a public housing agency using funds ap-
propriated pursuant to sections 8 and 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 lives in neigh-
borhoods with low crime, high-performing schools, or 
other indicators of high opportunity, the public hous-
ing agency shall develop and implement a plan to ex-
pand families’ access to such neighborhoods. 
(6) DETERMINATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING OP-
ERATING FUNDING.—A public housing agency shall 
receive funding for operation and management of 
public housing determined using the same formula 
applied to public housing agencies that do not par-
ticipate in the demonstration, except that, for an 
agency that currently receives such funding under 
an alternative formula established by its Moving to 
Work agreement, the Secretary shall phase in the re-
quirements of this paragraph in a manner sufficient 
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