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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 214
To amend the Social Security Act to reinstate requirements regarding Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development access to certain information
of State agencies, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
to allow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to reveal
certain income tax return information to public housing agencies, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 7, 1997
Mr. KNOLLENBERG introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on
Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
A BILL
To amend the Social Security Act to reinstate requirements
regarding Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment access to certain information of State agencies,
and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
allow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
to reveal certain income tax return information to public
housing agencies, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Public Housing Tenant
Integrity Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. REINSTITUTION OF REQUIREMENTS REGARDING
HUD ACCESS TO CERTAIN INFORMATION OF
STATE AGENCIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (i) of section 303 of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 503(i)) is amended by
striking paragraph (5).
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall apply to requests for information made
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY HUD TO PUBLIC
HOUSING AGENCIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (7) of section 6103(l)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to con-
fidentiality and disclosure of returns and return informa-
tion) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subparagraph:
‘‘(E) RETURN
INFORMATION
FROM
DE-
PARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOP-
MENT.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development may,
upon written request by any public housing
agency administering a program described
in subparagraph (D)(ix), disclose return
information from returns which have been
disclosed to the Department of Housing
and Urban Development under this para-
graph to such public housing agency.
‘‘(ii) RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE.—
The Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall disclose return information
under this subparagraph only for purposes
of, and to the extent necessary in, deter-
mining eligibility for, or the correct
amount of, benefits under a program re-
ferred to in subparagraph (D)(ix).
‘‘(iii) PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY.—For
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘pub-
lic housing agency’ has the meaning given
such term by section 3(b) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937.’’
(b) REPEAL OF TERMINATION REGARDING HOUSING
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.—Subparagraph (D) of section
6103(l)(7) of such Code is amended by striking the last
sentence.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Clause (ix) of sec-
tion 6103(l)(7)(D) of such Code is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(or, for purposes of subpara-
graph (E), by a public housing agency)’’ after ‘‘Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development’’, and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or a public housing agency’’
after ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment’’ the second place that it appears.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to requests for information made
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 3. CONSENT TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION AND PRO-
TECTIONS AGAINST IMPROPER USE OF IN-
FORMATION.
Section 904 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless
Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 3544) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(3)—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘participant’’ the
following: ‘‘, and authorizing the Secretary to
release 
information 
pursuant 
to 
section
6103(l)(7)(E) of such Act with respect to such
applicant or participant,’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘or public housing agency
(as applicable)’’ before ‘‘verifying’’; and
(2) in subsection (c)—
(A) in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter
preceding clause (i)—
(i) 
by 
striking 
‘‘section
6103(l)(7)(D)(ix)’’ and inserting ‘‘subpara-
graph 
(D)(ix) 
or 
(E) 
of 
section
6103(l)(7)’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘or the Secretary of
the Treasury’’ and inserting ‘‘, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development’’; and
(iii) by inserting ‘‘or 6103(l)(7)(E)’’
after ‘‘such section 303(i)’’; and
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘section
6103(l)(7)(D)(ix)’’ each place it appears and in-
serting ‘‘subparagraph (D)(ix) or (E) of section
6103(l)(7)’’.
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