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‘‘(10) the term ‘sexual assault’ 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).’’; 
(3) in subsection (o)— 
(A) by inserting at the end of paragraph 
(6)(B), the following new sentence: ‘‘That an 
applicant is or is perceived to be, or has been 
or has been perceived to be, a victim of domes-
tic violence, dating violence, or stalking is not 
an appropriate basis for denial of program as-
sistance by a public housing authority.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7)(C), by inserting after 
‘‘other good cause’’ the following: ‘‘, and that 
an incident or incidents of actual or threatened 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, or stalking will not be construed as a se-
rious 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 
(C) in paragraph (7)(D), by inserting after 
‘‘termination of tenancy’’ the following: ‘‘; ex-
cept that (i) criminal activity relating to domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or
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stalking, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s 
household or any guest or other person under 
the tenant’s control shall not be cause for ter-
mination of the tenancy, if the tenant or imme-
diate member of the tenant’s family 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 clause (i) may be construed to limit 
the authority of an owner or manager, con-
sistent with applicable State law, to evict or the 
public housing agency or assisted housing pro-
vider to terminate voucher assistance to individ-
uals who engage in criminal acts of physical vi-
olence against family members or others; and 
(iii) nothing in clause (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 any 
tenant if the owner, manager, public housing 
agency, or assisted housing provider can dem-
onstrate an accutal and imminent threat to the 
larger community if that tenant is not evicted 
or terminated from assistance’’;
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(4) in subsection (r)(5) by inserting after ‘‘vio-
lation of a lease’’ the following: ‘‘, except that a fam-
ily may receive a voucher from a public housing 
agency and move to another jurisdiction under the 
tenant-based assistance program if the family has 
moved out of the assisted dwelling unit in order to 
protect the health or safety of an individual who is 
or has been the victim of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking and who reason-
ably believed he or she was imminently threatened 
by harm from further violence if he or she remained 
in the assisted dwelling unit’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(ee) CERTIFICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An owner, manager, 
public housing agency, or assisted housing pro-
vider responding to subsections (d)(1)(B(ii), 
(d)(1)(B)(iii), (o)(7)(C), (o)(7)(D), and (r)(5) 
may request that an individual certify that the 
individual is a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and 
that the incident or incidents in question are 
bona fide incidents of such actual or threatened
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abuse and meet the requirements set forth in 
the aforementioned paragraphs. The individual 
shall provide a copy of such certification within 
a reasonable period of time after an owner, 
manager, public housing agency, or assisted 
housing provider requests such certification. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—An individual may sat-
isfy the certification requirement of subpara-
graph (A) by— 
‘‘(i) providing the requesting owner, 
manager, public housing agency, or as-
sisted housing provider with documentation 
signed by an employee, agent, or volunteer 
of a victim service provider, an attorney, a 
member of the clergy, a medical profes-
sional, or any other professional, from 
whom the victim has sought assistance in 
addressing domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking or the ef-
fects of the abuse; or 
‘‘(ii) producing a Federal, State, trib-
al, territorial, or local police or court 
record. 
‘‘(C) LIMITATION.—At their discretion, the 
owner, manager, public housing agency, or as-