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(2) identification of actions that the Depart-
ment 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. 
The first report shall be submitted to the Senate and 
House Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 
days after the enactment of this Act, and the second re-
port shall be submitted within 180 days of the transmittal 
of the first report. 
SEC. 220. 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 
IV of the Executive Schedule at any time during any pub-
lic housing agency fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 221. None of the funds made available by this 
Act and provided to the Department of Housing and 
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Urban Development may be used to make a grant award 
unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business 
days before any project, State, locality, housing authority, 
Tribe, nonprofit organization, or other entity selected to 
receive a grant award is announced by the Department 
or its offices: Provided, That such notification shall list 
each grant award by State and congressional district. 
SEC. 222. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Association, 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. 223. 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 
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. 224. Amounts made available by this Act that 
are appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable 
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basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy Development 
and Research of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development and functions thereof, for research, evalua-
tion, or statistical purposes, and that are unexpended at 
the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately be-
come available and may be reobligated in that fiscal year 
or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, evaluation, 
or statistical purposes for which the amounts are made 
available to that Office subject to reprogramming require-
ments in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 225. 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 fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not be effec-
tive prior to the effective date of any such administrative 
discipline or after any final decision over-turning such dis-
cipline. 
SEC. 226. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fis-
cal years 2015 through 2024 for the Continuum of Care 
(CoC) program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs 
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paid by program income of grant recipients may count to-
ward meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, pro-
vided the costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the 
recipient’s CoC program. 
SEC. 227. (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 
U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum 
of Care program component to another. 
(b) 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. 228. The Promise Zone designations and Prom-
ise Zone Designation Agreements entered into pursuant 
to such designations, made by the Secretary in prior fiscal 
years, shall remain in effect in accordance with the terms 
and conditions of such agreements. 
SEC. 229. Any public housing agency designated as 
a Moving to Work agency pursuant to section 239 of divi-
sion L of Public Law 114–113 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note; 
129 Stat. 2897) may, upon such designation, use funds 
(except for special purpose funding, including special pur-
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pose vouchers) previously allocated to any such public 
housing agency under section 8 or 9 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, including any reserve funds held by 
the public housing agency or funds held by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the 
authority for use of section 8 or 9 funding provided under 
such section and section 204 of title II of the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development 
and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(Public Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–28), notwith-
standing the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated. 
SEC. 230. None of the amounts made available by 
this Act may be used to prohibit any public housing agen-
cy under receivership or the direction of a Federal monitor 
from applying for, receiving, or using funds made available 
under the heading ‘‘Public Housing Fund’’ for competitive 
grants to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in 
this Act or that remain available and not awarded from 
prior Acts, or be used to prohibit a public housing agency 
from using such funds to carry out any required work pur-
suant to a settlement agreement, consent decree, vol-
untary agreement, or similar document for a violation of 
the Lead Safe Housing or Lead Disclosure Rules. 
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based subsidy contract under section 8 of the Act, which 
shall be eligible for renewal under section 524 of the Mul-
tifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act 
of 1997, or assistance under section 8(o)(13) of the Act, 
but only if the property meets any additional requirements 
established by the Secretary to facilitate conversion: Pro-
vided further, That to facilitate the conversion of assist-
ance under the preceding proviso, the Secretary may 
transfer an amount equal to the total amount that would 
have been allocated for tenant protection voucher assist-
ance for properties that have requested such conversions 
from amounts made available for tenant protection vouch-
er assistance under the heading ‘Tenant-Based Rental As-
sistance’ to the heading ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’: 
Provided further, That at properties with assistance pre-
viously converted hereunder to assistance under the head-
ing ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance,’ which are also sep-
arately assisted under section 8(o)(13) of the Act, the Sec-
retary may, with the consent of the public housing agency 
and owner, terminate such project-based subsidy contracts 
and immediately enter into one new project-based subsidy 
contract under section 8 of the Act, which shall be eligible 
for renewal under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997, subject 
to the requirement that any residents assisted under sec-
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tion 8(o)(13) of the Act at the time of such termination 
of such project-based subsidy contract shall retain all 
rights accrued under section 8(o)(13)(E) of the Act under 
the new project-based subsidy contract and section 
8(o)(13)(F)(iv) of the Act shall not apply: Provided fur-
ther, That to carry out the previous proviso, the Secretary 
may transfer from the heading ‘Tenant-Based Rental As-
sistance’ to the heading ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ 
an amount equal to the amounts associated with such ter-
minating contract under section 8(o)(13) of the Act:’’; 
(4) in the thirteenth proviso, as so reordered by the 
preceding provisions of this section— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘ ‘Public Housing Fund’, ‘Self- 
Sufficiency Programs’, ‘Family Self-Sufficiency’, 
‘Housing for the Elderly’,’’ after ‘‘ ‘Public Housing 
Operating Fund’,’’ ;and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or the ongoing availability of 
services for residents’’ after ‘‘effective conversion of 
assistance under the demonstration’’; 
(5) after the twenty-third proviso, as so reordered by 
the preceding provisions of this section, by inserting the 
following proviso: ‘‘Provided further, That owners of prop-
erties with a senior preservation rental assistance contract 
under section 811 of the American Homeownership and 
Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q 
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note), shall be eligible, subject to requirements established 
by the Secretary as necessary to facilitate the conversion 
of assistance while maintaining the affordability period 
and the designation of the property as serving elderly fam-
ilies, and tenant consultation procedures, for conversion 
of assistance available for such assistance contracts to as-
sistance under a long-term project-based subsidy contract 
under section 8 of the Act’’; 
(6) in the twenty-eighth proviso, as so reordered by 
the preceding provisions of this section, by inserting ‘‘, 
section 811 of the American Homeownership and Eco-
nomic Opportunity Act of 2000,’’ after ‘‘Housing Act of 
1959’’; and 
(7) in the thirty-third proviso, as so reordered by the 
preceding provisions of this section, by striking ‘‘any sec-
tion 202 project rental assistance contract or section 811 
project rental assistance contract conversions’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘the conversion of assistance from section 202(c)(2) 
of the Housing Act of 1959, section 811 of the American 
Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, 
or section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act’’. 
SEC. 233. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
proposed rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair 
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Housing’’ published by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development in the Federal Register on February 
9, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 8516), or to direct a grantee to 
undertake specific changes to existing zoning laws as a 
part of carrying out the interim final rule entitled ‘‘Restor-
ing Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Definitions 
and Certifications’’ published by such Department in the 
Federal Register on June 10, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 30779). 
SEC. 234. For fiscal year 2024, if the Secretary de-
termines or has determined, for any prior formula grant 
allocation administered by the Secretary through the Of-
fices of Public and Indian Housing, Community Planning 
and Development, or Housing, that a recipient received 
an allocation greater than the amount such recipient 
should have received for a formula allocation cycle pursu-
ant to applicable statutes and regulations, the Secretary 
may adjust for any such funding error in the next applica-
ble formula allocation cycle by (a) offsetting each such re-
cipient’s formula allocation (if eligible for a formula alloca-
tion in the next applicable formula allocation cycle) by the 
amount of any such funding error, and (b) reallocating 
any available balances that are attributable to the offset 
to the recipient or recipients that would have been allo-
cated additional funds in the formula allocation cycle in 
which any such error occurred (if such recipient or recipi-
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ents are eligible for a formula allocation in the next appli-
cable formula allocation cycle) in an amount proportionate 
to such recipient’s eligibility under the next applicable for-
mula allocation cycle: Provided, That all offsets and re-
allocations from such available balances shall be recorded 
against funds available for the next applicable formula al-
location cycle: Provided further, That the term ‘‘next appli-
cable formula allocation cycle’’ means the first formula al-
location cycle for a program that is reasonably available 
for correction following such a Secretarial determination: 
Provided further, That if, upon request by a recipient and 
giving consideration to all Federal resources available to 
the recipient for the same grant purposes, the Secretary 
determines that the offset in the next applicable formula 
allocation cycle would critically impair the recipient’s abil-
ity to accomplish the purpose of the formula grant, the 
Secretary may adjust for the funding error across two or 
more formula allocation cycles. 
SEC. 235. The Secretary may transfer from amounts 
made available for salaries and expenses under all head-
ings in this title (excluding amounts made available under 
the heading ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’) to the heading 
‘‘Information Technology Fund’’ for information tech-
nology needs, including for additional development, mod-
ernization, and enhancement, to remain available until 
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September 30, 2026: Provided, That the total amount of 
such transfers shall not exceed $5,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That this transfer authority shall not be used to fund 
information technology projects or activities that have 
known out-year development, modernization, or enhance-
ment costs in excess of $500,000: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide notification to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations no less than three 
business days in advance of any such transfer. 
SEC. 236. The Secretary shall comply with all process 
requirements, including public notice and comment, when 
seeking to revise any annual contributions contract. 
SEC. 237. There is hereby established in the Treasury 
of the United States a fund to be known as the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development Nonrecurring 
Expenses Fund (the Fund): Provided, That unobligated 
balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated in 
this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund 
of the Treasury to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development by this or any other Act may be transferred 
(not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the 
last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the 
purposes for which they were appropriated) into the Fund: 
Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund 
shall be available until expended, in addition to such other 
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funds as may be available for such purposes, for capital 
needs of the Department, including facilities infrastruc-
ture and information technology infrastructure, subject to 
approval by the Office of Management and Budget: Pro-
vided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated 
only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 
days in advance of the planned use of funds. 
SEC. 238. For the fiscal year 2024 allocation of 
amounts under the Native American Housing Block 
Grants program, as authorized under title I of Native 
American Housing and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
(25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), the number of qualifying low- 
income housing dwelling units under section 302(b)(1) of 
such Act (25 U.S.C. 4152(b)(1)) shall not be reduced due 
to the placement of a Native American veteran assisted 
with amounts provided under the Tribal HUD-VASH Pro-
gram within any such qualifying unit. 
SEC. 239. (a) Subsection (a) of section 184 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 
U.S.C. 1715z–13a(a)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—To provide access to sources of 
private financing to Indian families, Indian housing au-
thorities, and Indian tribes, who otherwise could not ac-
quire housing financing because of the unique legal status 
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of Indian lands and the unique nature of tribal economies; 
and to expand homeownership opportunities to Indian 
families, Indian housing authorities and Indian tribes on 
fee simple lands, the Secretary may guarantee not to ex-
ceed 100 percent of the unpaid principal and interest due 
on any loan eligible under subsection (b) made to an In-
dian family, Indian housing authority, or Indian tribe on 
trust land and fee simple land.’’. 
(b) Paragraph (2) of section 184(b) of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 
1715z–13a(b)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE
HOUSING.—The loan shall be 
used to construct, acquire, refinance, or rehabilitate 
1- to 4-family dwellings that are standard housing.’’. 
SEC. 240. Section 105 of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) SPECIAL ACTIVITIES BY INDIAN TRIBES.—In-
dian tribes receiving grants under section 106(a)(1) of this 
Act are authorized to carry out activities described in sub-
section (a)(15) of this section directly.’’. 
SEC. 241. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of existing Federal law 
regarding non-citizen eligibility and ineligibility for occu-
pancy in federally assisted housing or for participation in 
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and assistance under federal housing programs, including 
section 214 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) and title IV of the Per-
sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). 
SEC. 242. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 
made available under the heading ‘‘Office of Lead Hazard 
Control and Healthy Homes’’ from prior Acts making ap-
propriations for the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, $564,200,000 are hereby permanently re-
scinded. 
SEC. 243. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development in this 
or prior Acts may be used to issue a solicitation or accept 
bids on any solicitation that is substantially equivalent to 
the draft solicitation entitled ‘‘Housing Assistance Pay-
ments (HAP) Contract Support Services (HAPSS)’’ post-
ed to www.Sam.gov on July 27, 2022. 
SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to provide Federal funds to a local juris-
diction that refuses to comply with a request from the De-
partment of Homeland Security to provide advance notice 
of the scheduled release date and time for a particular ille-
gal alien in local custody. 
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au-
thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 
(29 U.S.C. 792), $9,955,000. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 46107 of title 46, 
United States Code, including services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles as authorized by section 1343(b) of 
title 31, United States Code; and uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code, $43,720,000, of which $2,000,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, 
That not to exceed $3,500 shall be for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
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 
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