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reasonable efforts not to disclose to any person, 
agency, or entity any personally identifying in-
formation about any client where the Secretary, 
recipient, or subgrantee believes based upon 
reasonable evidence that the client is either a 
minor or an adult victim of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or is 
the parent or guardian of a minor victim of do-
mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
or stalking. The Secretary shall not require or 
ask a recipient or subgrantee of any other Fed-
eral or State program to disclose personally 
identifying information about any clients where 
the persons, agencies, or entities implementing 
those programs believe based upon reasonable 
evidence that those clients either are minor or 
adult victims of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking or are the par-
ents or guardians of minor victims of domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking. The Secretary shall instruct any re-
cipient or subgrantee under this subsection or 
any recipient or subgrantee of any other Fed-
eral or State program participating in the 
Homeless Management Information System
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that personally identifying information about 
any client may only be disclosed if the program 
seeking to disclose such information has ob-
tained informed, reasonably time-limited, writ-
ten consent from the client to whom the infor-
mation relates. The Secretary may require or 
ask any recipient or subgrantee to share non-
personally identifying data in the aggregate re-
garding services to clients and nonpersonally 
identifying demographic information in order to 
comply with the data collection requirements of 
the Homeless Management Information System. 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—As used in this para-
graph, the term ‘personally identifying informa-
tion’ means individually identifying information 
from or about an individual including— 
‘‘(i) first and last name; 
‘‘(ii) a home or other physical address, 
including street name and name of city or 
town; 
‘‘(iii) an email address or other online 
contact information, such as an instant 
messaging user identifier or a screen name 
that reveals an individual’s email address; 
‘‘(iv) a telephone number;
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‘‘(v) a social security number; 
‘‘(vi) an Internet Protocol (‘IP’) ad-
dress or host name that identifies an indi-
vidual; 
‘‘(vii) a persistent identifier, such as a 
customer number held in a ‘cookie’ or 
processor serial number, that is combined 
with other available data that identifies an 
individual; and 
‘‘(viii) any other information, includ-
ing, but not limited to, grade point aver-
age, date of birth, academic or occupa-
tional interests, athletic or extracurricular 
interests, racial or ethnic background, or 
religious affiliation, that, in combination 
with any of the above, would serve to iden-
tify any individual.’’. 
SEC. 606. AMENDMENTS TO THE LOW INCOME HOUSING AS-
SISTANCE VOUCHER PROGRAM. 
Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by inserting 
after ‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and 
that an incident or incidents of actual or
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threatened domestic violence, dating violence, 
sexual assault, or stalking will not be construed 
as a serious or repeated violation of the lease by 
the victim or threatened victim of that violence 
and will not be good cause for terminating a 
lease held by the victim of such violence’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1)(B)(iii), by inserting 
after ‘‘termination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘, 
except that (I) criminal activity directly relating 
to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of 
a tenant’s household or any guest or other per-
son under the tenant’s control shall not be 
cause for termination of the tenancy, if the ten-
ant or a minor child of the tenant is a victim 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking and, as a result, could not 
control or prevent the criminal activity; (II) 
nothing in subclause (I) may be construed to 
limit the authority of an owner or manager, 
consistent with applicable State law, to evict or 
the public housing agency or assisted housing 
provider to terminate voucher assistance to in-
dividuals who engage in criminal acts of phys-
ical violence against family members or others;
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and (III) nothing in subclause (I) may be con-
strued to limit the authority of an owner or 
manager, consistent with applicable State law, 
to evict or the public housing agency or assisted 
housing provider to terminate voucher assist-
ance to any tenant if the owner, manager, pub-
lic housing agency, or assisted housing provider 
can demonstrate an acctual and imminent 
threat to the larger community if that tenant is 
not evicted or terminated from assistance’’; 
(2) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (6) by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7) by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(8) the term ‘domestic violence’ has the same 
meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2); 
‘‘(9) the term ‘dating violence’ has the same 
meaning given the term in section 2003 of title I of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–2); and