I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6378 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum 
allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Home-
lessness Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 17, 2016 
Mr. WELCH (for himself and Mr. CRAMER) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount 
of minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance 
in Transition from Homelessness Program. 
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 ‘‘PATH Fairness Act 
of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. MINIMUM ALLOTMENTS UNDER THE PROJECTS 
FOR 
ASSISTANCE 
IN 
TRANSITION 
FROM 
HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM. 
Section 524 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290cc–24) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 524. DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF ALLOTMENT. 
‘‘(a) DETERMINATION UNDER FORMULA.—Subject 
to subsection (b), the allotment required in section 521 
for a State for a fiscal year is the product of— 
‘‘(1) an amount equal to the amount appro-
priated under section 535 for the fiscal year; and 
‘‘(2) a percentage equal to the quotient of— 
‘‘(A) an amount equal to the population 
living in urbanized areas of the State involved, 
as indicated by the most recent data collected 
by the Bureau of the Census; and 
‘‘(B) an amount equal to the population 
living in urbanized areas of the United States, 
as indicated by the sum of the respective 
amounts determined for the States under sub-
paragraph (A). 
‘‘(b) MINIMUM ALLOTMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the allotment for a State under section 521 for a fis-
cal year shall, at a minimum, be the greater of— 
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‘‘(A) the amount the State received under 
section 521 in fiscal year 2015; and 
‘‘(B) $750,000 for each of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, and the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, and $100,000 for 
each of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American 
Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(2) CONDITION.—If the funds appropriated in 
any fiscal year under section 535 are insufficient to 
ensure that States receive a minimum allotment in 
accordance with paragraph (1), then— 
‘‘(A) no State shall receive less than the 
amount they received in fiscal year 2015; and 
‘‘(B) any funds remaining after amounts 
are provided under subparagraph (A) shall be 
used to meet the requirement of paragraph 
(1)(B), to the maximum extent possible.’’. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 535 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc–35) is 
amended by striking ‘‘$75,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2001 through 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$150,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 521 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc–21) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1991 through 1994’’ and in-
serting ‘‘fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 
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