I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3897 
To amend section 12 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to treat 
income changes resulting from welfare program requirements for families 
residing in housing receiving project-based subsidies under section 8 
of such Act similarly to such changes for families residing in public 
housing or receiving tenant-based assistance under such section. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2009 
Mr. GALLEGLY (for himself and Mr. LAMBORN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend section 12 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 to treat income changes resulting from welfare 
program requirements for families residing in housing 
receiving project-based subsidies under section 8 of such 
Act similarly to such changes for families residing in 
public housing or receiving tenant-based assistance under 
such section. 
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 ‘‘Removing Reward for 
Section 8 Fraud Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF INCOME CHANGES RESULTING 
FROM WELFARE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 12 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437j) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ‘‘or 
in a dwelling unit covered by a contract for 
project-based assistance under section 8’’ after 
‘‘public housing dwelling unit’’; 
(B) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘or, in 
the case of a family residing in a dwelling unit 
assisted with project-based assistance, the con-
tract administrator for the contract for such as-
sistance,’’ after ‘‘on behalf of the family’’; 
(C) in paragraph (5), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘or to au-
thorize the Secretary or any public housing 
agency to establish any time limit on tenancy in 
a dwelling unit covered by a contract for 
project-based assistance under section 8’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (7)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘and the contract 
administrator for a contract for 
project-based assistance under section 
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8’’ before ‘‘shall make its best ef-
forts’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘, contract ad-
ministrator,’’ after ‘‘assist a public 
housing agency’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘or contract ad-
ministrator’’ after ‘‘A public housing 
agency’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘, or to families 
residing in a dwelling unit assisted 
with project-based assistance under 
section 8, respectively,’’ after ‘‘section 
8,’’; 
(2) in subsection (e), by adding after the period 
at the end the following: ‘‘A contract administrator 
shall incorporate into housing assistance payments 
contracts for project-based assistance under section 
8 provisions incorporating the conditions under sub-
section (d).’’; 
(3) in subsection (f)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or in a dwelling unit cov-
ered by a contract for project-based assistance 
under section 8’’ after ‘‘resides in public hous-
ing’’; and 
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