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as an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer has determined that such allotment holder 
has implemented an adequate system of funds control and 
has received training in funds control procedures and di-
rectives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that 
there is a trained allotment holder for each HUD appro-
priation under the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Ad-
ministrative Support Offices,’’ as well as each account re-
ceiving appropriations under the general heading ‘‘Pro-
gram Office Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Government Na-
tional Mortgage Association—Guarantees of Mortgage- 
Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account’’, 
and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ within the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 218. The Secretary of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2019, 
notify the public through the Federal Register and other 
means, as determined appropriate, of the issuance of a no-
tice of the availability of assistance or notice of funding 
availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary 
fund administered by the Secretary that is to be competi-
tively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for fiscal year 2019, the Secretary may make the 
NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate 
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Government web site or through other electronic media, 
as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 219. Payment of attorney fees in program-re-
lated litigation shall be paid from the individual program 
office and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses 
appropriations. The annual budget submission for the pro-
gram offices and the Office of General Counsel shall in-
clude any such projected litigation costs for attorney fees 
as a separate line item request. No funds provided in this 
title may be used to pay any such litigation costs for attor-
ney fees until the Department submits for review a spend-
ing plan for such costs to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 220. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds 
appropriated for any office under the heading ‘‘Adminis-
trative Support Offices’’ or for any account under the gen-
eral heading ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’ to 
any other such office or account: Provided, That no appro-
priation for any such office or account shall be increased 
or decreased by more than 10 percent or $5,000,000, 
whichever is less, without prior written approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall provide notification 
to such Committees three business days in advance of any 
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such transfers under this section up to 10 percent or 
$5,000,000, whichever is less. 
SEC. 221. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance 
payments shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary condi-
tions, as determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Secretary’’), and comply with any standards under appli-
cable State or local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations 
relating to the physical condition of any property covered 
under a housing assistance payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection 
(c) when a multifamily housing project with a section 8 
contract or contract for similar project-based assistance— 
(1) receives a Uniform Physical Condition 
Standards (UPCS) score of 60 or less; or 
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary 
within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety de-
ficiencies identified by the inspector at the project 
have been corrected. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 
projects with assistance attached to the units under sec-
tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply to such units assisted 
under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to 
public housing units assisted with capital or operating 
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funds under section 9 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g). 
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the REAC 
inspection, the Secretary must provide the owner with a 
Notice of Default with a specified timetable, determined 
by the Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. The Sec-
retary must also provide a copy of the Notice of Default 
to the tenants, the local government, any mortgagees, and 
any contract administrator. If the owner’s appeal results 
in a UPCS score of 60 or above, the Secretary may with-
draw the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all 
deficiencies specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner 
fails to fully correct such deficiencies, the Secretary may— 
(A) require immediate replacement of project 
management with a management agent approved by 
the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be 
used solely for the purpose of supporting safe and 
sanitary conditions at applicable properties, as des-
ignated by the Secretary, with priority given to the 
tenants of the property affected by the penalty; 
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including par-
tial abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until 
all deficiencies have been corrected; 
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(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, 
approved by the Secretary under established proce-
dures, which will be obligated to promptly make all 
required repairs and to accept renewal of the assist-
ance contract as long as such renewal is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to 
another project or projects and owner or owners; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including 
suspensions or debarments from Federal programs; 
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
or seek a judicial order of specific performance re-
quiring the owner to cure all project deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other re-
lated party to stabilize the property in an attempt 
to preserve the property through compliance, trans-
fer of ownership, or an infusion of capital provided 
by a third-party that requires time to effectuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual 
remedies available as deemed necessary and appro-
priate by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps 
to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, 
subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies 
to assist relocation of tenants for major threats to health 
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and safety after written notice to the affected tenants. To 
the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with 
the tenants and the local government, that the property 
is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments 
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consid-
eration of— 
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the 
property and all available Federal, State, and local 
resources, including rent adjustments under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 
may contract for project-based rental assistance pay-
ments with an owner or owners of other existing 
housing properties, or provide other rental assist-
ance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all prop-
erties covered by this section that are assessed through 
the Real Estate Assessment Center and have UPCS phys-
ical inspection scores of less than 60 or have received an 
unsatisfactory management and occupancy review within 
the past 36 months. The report shall include— 
(1) the enforcement actions being taken to ad-
dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 
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money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 
identify properties that have such conditions mul-
tiple times; 
(2) actions that the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants 
of such identified properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative rec-
ommendations to further improve the living condi-
tions at properties covered under a housing assist-
ance payment contract. 
This report shall be due to the Senate and House Commit-
tees on Appropriations no later than 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act, and on the first business day of 
each Federal fiscal year quarter thereafter while this sec-
tion remains in effect. 
SEC. 222. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
tion 8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assist-
ance program) and section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used by 
any public housing agency for any amount of salary, in-
cluding bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds 
the annual rate of basic pay payable for a position at level 
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IV of the Executive Schedule at any time during any pub-
lic housing agency fiscal year 2019. 
SEC. 223. None of the funds in this Act provided to 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development may 
be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary noti-
fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organi-
zation, or other entity selected to receive a grant award 
is announced by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 225. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Administration, or the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to in-
sure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any 
mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or 
otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to 
eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, mu-
nicipality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 226. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of gen-
eral local government as a metropolitan city (as defined 
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in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 227. Amounts made available under this Act 
which are either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a 
reimbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy 
Development and Research in the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development and functions thereof, for re-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are 
unexpended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, 
or cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall 
immediately become available and may be reobligated in 
that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the re-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which the 
amounts are made available to that Office subject to re-
programming requirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 228. None of the funds provided in this Act or 
any other act may be used for awards, including perform-
ance, special act, or spot, for any employee of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development subject to ad-
ministrative discipline (including suspension from work), 
in this or the prior fiscal year, but this prohibition shall 
not be effective prior to the effective date of any such ad-
ministrative discipline or after any final decision over- 
turning such discipline. 
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SEC. 229. Funds made available in this title under 
the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ may be used 
by the Secretary to participate in Performance Partner-
ship Pilots authorized under section 526 of division H of 
Public Law 113–76, section 524 of division G of Public 
Law 113–235, section 525 of division H of Public Law 
114–113, and such authorities as are enacted for Perform-
ance Partnership Pilots in an appropriations Act for fiscal 
year 2019: Provided, That such participation shall be lim-
ited to no more than 10 continuums of care and housing 
activities to improve outcomes for disconnected youth. 
SEC. 230. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fis-
cal years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for the con-
tinuum of care (CoC) program as authorized under sub-
title C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act, costs paid by program income of grant recipients 
may count toward meeting the recipient’s matching re-
quirements, provided the costs are eligible CoC costs that 
supplement the recipient’s CoC program. 
SEC. 231. (a) From amounts made available under 
this title under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance 
Grants’’, the Secretary may award 1-year transition 
grants to recipients of funds for activities under subtitle 
C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
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U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum 
of Care program component to another. 
(b) No more than 50 percent of each transition grant 
may be used for costs of eligible activities of the program 
component originally funded. 
(c) Transition grants made under this section are eli-
gible for renewal in subsequent fiscal years for the eligible 
activities of the new program component. 
(d) In order to be eligible to receive a transition 
grant, the funding recipient must have the consent of the 
Continuum of Care and meet standards determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake spe-
cific changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying 
out the final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair 
Housing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) or the 
notice entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 
Assessment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 
2014)). 
SEC. 233. Section 218(g) of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12748(g)) 
shall not apply with respect to the right of a jurisdiction 
to draw funds from its HOME Investment Trust Fund 
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that otherwise expired or would expire in 2016, 2017, 
2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021 under that section. Section 
231(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)) shall not apply 
to any uninvested funds that otherwise were deducted or 
would be deducted from the line of credit in the partici-
pating jurisdiction’s HOME Investment Trust Fund in 
2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021 under that section. 
SEC. 234. Amounts made available in title II of divi-
sion K of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 
2003 (Public Law 108–7) under the heading ‘‘Indian 
Housing Loan Guarantee Fund Program Account’’ for 
necessary expenses of the Land Title Report Commission 
are rescinded. 
SEC. 235. (a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development (in this section referred to 
as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may carry out a mobility demonstra-
tion program to enable public housing agencies to admin-
ister housing choice voucher assistance under section 8(o) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)) in a manner designed to encourage families re-
ceiving such voucher assistance to move to lower-poverty 
areas and expand access to opportunity areas. 
(b) SELECTION OF PHAS.— 
(1) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish requirements for public housing agencies to 
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participate in the demonstration program under this 
section, which shall provide that the following public 
housing agencies may participate: 
(A) Public housing agencies that to-
gether— 
(i) serve areas with high concentra-
tions of holders of rental assistance vouch-
ers under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) 
in poor, low-opportunity neighborhoods; 
and 
(ii) have an adequate number of mod-
erately priced rental units in higher-oppor-
tunity areas. 
(B) Planned consortia or partial consortia 
of public housing agencies that— 
(i) include at least one agency with a 
high-performing Family Self-Sufficiency 
(FSS) program; and 
(ii) will enable participating families 
to continue in such program if they relo-
cate to the jurisdiction served by any other 
agency of the consortium. 
(C) Planned consortia or partial consortia 
of public housing agencies that— 
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(i) serve jurisdictions within a single 
region; 
(ii) include one or more small agen-
cies; and 
(iii) will consolidate mobility focused 
operations. 
(D) Such other public housing agencies as 
the Secretary considers appropriate. 
(2) SELECTION CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall 
establish competitive selection criteria for public 
housing agencies eligible under paragraph (1) to 
participate in the demonstration program under this 
section. 
(3) RANDOM
SELECTION
OF
FAMILIES.—The 
Secretary may require participating agencies to use 
a randomized selection process to select among the 
families eligible to receive mobility assistance under 
the demonstration program. 
(c) REGIONAL HOUSING MOBILITY PLAN.—The Sec-
retary shall require each public housing agency applying 
to participate in the demonstration program under this 
section to submit a Regional Housing Mobility Plan (in 
this section referred to as a ‘‘Plan’’), which shall— 
(1) identify the public housing agencies that 
will participate under the Plan and the number of 
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vouchers each participating agency will make avail-
able out of their existing programs in connection 
with the demonstration; 
(2) identify any community-based organizations, 
nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other enti-
ties that will participate under the Plan and describe 
the commitments for such participation made by 
each such entity; 
(3) identify any waivers or alternative require-
ments under subparagraph (e) requested for the exe-
cution of the Plan; 
(4) identify any specific actions that the public 
housing agencies and other entities will undertake to 
accomplish the goals of the demonstration, which 
shall include a comprehensive approach to enable a 
successful transition to opportunity areas and may 
include counseling and continued support for fami-
lies; 
(5) specify the criteria that the public housing 
agencies would use to identify opportunity areas 
under the plan; 
(6) provide for establishment of priority and 
preferences for participating families, including a 
preference for families with young children, as such 
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NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $23,274,000: Provided, That the In-
spector General shall have all necessary authority, in car-
rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 
enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 
and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws 
and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That the Inspector General may select, ap-
point, and employ such officers and employees as may be 
necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du-
ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli-
cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap-
pointments, and employment within the Corporation: Pro-
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