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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1511 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to meet the needs 
of homeless children, youth, and families, and honor the assessments 
and priorities of local communities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2017 
Mr. STIVERS (for himself and Mr. LOEBSACK) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addi-
tion to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
meet the needs of homeless children, youth, and families, 
and honor the assessments and priorities of local commu-
nities. 
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 ‘‘Homeless Children and 
Youth Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE MCKINNEY-VENTO HOME-
LESS ASSISTANCE ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act is amended— 
(1) in section 103 (42 U.S.C. 11302)— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (5)(A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘are sharing’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘charitable 
organizations,’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘14 days’’ each 
place that term appears and inserting 
‘‘30 days’’; 
(III) in clause (i), by inserting 
‘‘or’’ after the semicolon; 
(IV) by striking clause (ii); and 
(V) by redesignating clause (iii) 
as clause (ii); and 
(ii) by amending paragraph (6) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(6) a child or youth defined as homeless under 
another Federal program who, without further ac-
tion by the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment, has been verified as homeless under an-
other Federal program by the director, designee of 
the director, or other person responsible for the im-
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plementation of a program established under this 
Act or any other Federal statute.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘child or youth defined as home-
less under another Federal program’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 401; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘other Federal statute’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 401. 
‘‘(g) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may not— 
‘‘(1) promulgate any rule with respect to the 
definition of the terms ‘homeless’, ‘homeless indi-
vidual’, and ‘homeless person’ in subsection (a); or 
‘‘(2) issue non-regulatory guidance or set forth 
in an application, a notice of funding availability, or 
other publication or advisory any statement or provi-
sion that— 
‘‘(A) has the effect of restricting eligibility 
for assistance for any individual defined as 
‘homeless’ under subsection (a) for any pro-
gram or program component under this Act; or 
‘‘(B) purports to be legally binding.’’; 
(2) in section 401 (42 U.S.C. 11360)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(C)— 
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(i) by striking clauses (ii) and (iv); 
(ii) by redesignating clauses (iii), (v), 
(vi), and (vii) as clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), and 
(v), respectively; and 
(iii) by striking the flush text fol-
lowing clause (v), as so redesignated; 
(B) by striking paragraph (7); 
(C) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(2) 
through (6) as paragraphs (3) through (7), re-
spectively; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) CHILD OR YOUTH DEFINED AS HOMELESS 
UNDER
ANOTHER
FEDERAL
PROGRAM.—The term 
‘child or youth defined as homeless under another 
Federal program’ means— 
‘‘(A) a homeless child or youth, as defined 
in section 725, including any parent or guard-
ian with whom the child or youth is living; and 
‘‘(B) a youth who— 
‘‘(i) is not more than 22 years of age; 
‘‘(ii) cannot live safely with a parent, 
legal guardian, or relative; and 
‘‘(iii) has no other safe alternative liv-
ing arrangement.’’; 
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(iii) by inserting ‘‘trafficking,’’ after 
‘‘concerning’’; 
(3) in section 402(f) (42 U.S.C. 11360a(f))— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting 
‘‘considering the prevalence and needs of home-
less individuals, as defined under any provision 
of section 103’’ after ‘‘involved’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3)(D)— 
(i) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(ii) by redesignating clause (vi) as 
clause (vii); and 
(iii) by inserting after clause (v) the 
following: 
‘‘(vi) the submission of HMIS data to 
the Secretary on at least an annual basis; 
and’’; 
(4) by inserting after section 408 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 409. AVAILABILITY OF HMIS DATA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The community-wide homeless 
management information system (in this section referred 
to as ‘HMIS’) data provided to the Secretary under sec-
tion 402(f)(3)(D)(vi) shall be made publically available on 
the Internet website of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development. 
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‘‘(b) REQUIRED DATA.—The data publically available 
under subsection (a) shall be updated on at least an an-
nual basis and shall include— 
‘‘(1) a cumulative count of the number of home-
less individuals and families, as defined under any 
provision of section 103; 
‘‘(2) a cumulative assessment of the patterns of 
assistance provided under subtitles B and C for the 
each geographic area involved; 
‘‘(3) a count of the number of homeless individ-
uals and families, as defined under any provision of 
section 103, that are documented through the HMIS 
by each collaborative applicant; and 
‘‘(4) a count of the number of homeless women, 
as defined under any provision of section 103 and 
both unaccompanied and accompanied, including a 
breakout of the count by— 
‘‘(A) age range; 
‘‘(B) disability; 
‘‘(C) trauma experience, such as child 
abuse, sexual assault, or interpersonal violence 
experienced during the lifetime of the woman 
and during the preceding year, and if the 
woman is a veteran (as defined in section 101 
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of title 38, United States Code), during the pe-
riod of service; and 
‘‘(D) length of time experiencing homeless-
ness.’’; 
(5) in section 422 (42 U.S.C. 11382)— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) 
RESTRICTIONS.—In 
awarding 
grants 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary— 
‘‘(A) may not award greater priority, 
points, or weight in scoring based solely on the 
specific homeless populations proposed to be 
served by the applicant, or the proposed pro-
gram component or housing or service model; 
and 
‘‘(B) shall ensure that scoring is based pri-
marily on the extent to which the applicant 
demonstrates that the project and program 
components— 
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‘‘(i) would meet the priorities identi-
fied in the plan submitted under section 
427(b)(1)(B); and 
‘‘(ii) are cost-effective in meeting the 
overall goals and objectives identified in 
that plan.’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) 
RESTRICTIONS.—Each 
notification 
of 
funding availability described in paragraph (1) shall 
comply with the restrictions described in subsection 
(a)(2).’’; 
(C) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking 
‘‘establish’’ and inserting ‘‘demonstrate local, 
needs-based’’; and 
(D) by striking subsection (j); 
(6) in section 424(d) (42 U.S.C. 11384(d)), by 
striking paragraph (5); 
(7) in section 425(c) (42 U.S.C. 11385(c)), by 
striking ‘‘and (G) providing’’ and inserting ‘‘(G) pro-
viding transportation to employment, early care and 
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education programs, career and technical education 
programs, and health and mental health care serv-
ices, and (H) providing’’; 
(8) in section 426(b) (42 U.S.C. 11386(b))— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by amending sub-
paragraph (D) to read as follows: 
‘‘(D) in the case of programs providing 
housing or services to families or youth, they 
will designate a staff person to be responsible 
for ensuring that children and youth being 
served in the program are— 
‘‘(i) enrolled in school and connected 
to appropriate services in the community, 
including Head Start, part C of the Indi-
viduals with Disabilities Act, programs au-
thorized under the Child Care and Devel-
opment Block Grant Act of 1990, career 
and technical education, and services pro-
vided by local educational agency liaisons 
designated under subtitle B of title VII of 
this Act; and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of an unaccompanied 
youth, as defined in section 725, informed 
of their status as an independent student 
under section 480 of the Higher Education 
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Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087vv) and re-
ceive verification of such status for pur-
poses of the Free Application for Federal 
Student Aid described in section 483 of 
such Act (20 U.S.C. 1090); and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (6), by inserting ‘‘the ac-
tual compliance with the certifications required 
under paragraph (4) and’’ after ‘‘Secretary’’; 
and 
(C) in paragraph (7)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘and youth’’ after 
‘‘needs of children’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or unaccompanied 
youth’’ after ‘‘when families’’; 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘and unaccompanied 
youth’’ after ‘‘with children’’; and 
(iv) by striking ‘‘such children’s’’ and 
inserting ‘‘such children and youth’s’’; 
(9) in section 427(b) (42 U.S.C. 11386a(b))— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in clause (vi), by adding 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in clause (vii), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
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