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fund in excess of the amounts permitted under section 
9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
SEC. 220. No official or employee of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated as 
an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer has determined that such allotment holder has im-
plemented an adequate system of funds control and has re-
ceived training in funds control procedures and directives. 
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a 
trained allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under the 
accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Administrative Support 
Offices,’’ as well as each account receiving appropriations 
for ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Government 
National Mortgage Association—Guarantees of Mortgage- 
Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account’’, and 
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ within the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 221. The Secretary of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2017 and 
hereafter, notify the public through the Federal Register and 
other means, as determined appropriate, of the issuance of 
a notice of the availability of assistance or notice of funding 
availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund 
administered by the Secretary that is to be competitively 
awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
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fiscal year 2017 and hereafter, the Secretary may make the 
NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate 
Government web site or through other electronic media, as 
determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 222. Payment of attorney fees in program-related 
litigation shall be paid from the individual program office 
and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses appro-
priations. The annual budget submission for the program 
offices and the Office of General Counsel shall include any 
such projected litigation costs for attorney fees as a separate 
line item request. No funds provided in this title may be 
used to pay any such litigation costs for attorney fees until 
the Department submits for review a spending plan for such 
costs to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 223. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever is less, of funds ap-
propriated for any office under the heading ‘‘Administra-
tive Support Offices’’ or for any account under the general 
heading ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’ to any 
other such office or account: Provided, That no appropria-
tion for any such office or account shall be increased or 
decreased by more than 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever 
is less, without prior written approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
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That the Secretary shall provide notification to such Com-
mittees three business days in advance of any such transfers 
under this section up to 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever 
is less. 
SEC. 224. For fiscal year 2017 and hereafter the Dis-
aster Housing Assistance Programs, administered by the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be 
considered a ‘‘program of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development’’ under section 904 of the McKinney 
Act for the purpose of income verifications and matching. 
SEC. 225. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance 
payments shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary condi-
tions, as determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’), and comply with any standards under applicable 
State or local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations relat-
ing to the physical condition of any property covered under 
a housing assistance payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection 
(c) when a multifamily housing project with a section 8 
contract or contract for similar project-based assistance— 
(1) receives a Uniform Physical Condition 
Standards (UPCS) score of 30 or less; 
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary 
within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety de-
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ficiencies identified by the inspector at the project 
have been corrected; or 
(3) receives a UPCS score between 31 and 59 
and has received consecutive scores of less than 60 on 
UPCS inspections. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and 
noninsured projects with assistance attached to the 
units under section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply to 
such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)) or to public housing units assisted with 
capital or operating funds under section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g). 
(c)(1) The Secretary shall notify the owner and pro-
vide an opportunity for response within 15 days after the 
results of the UPCS inspection are issued. If the violations 
remain, the Secretary shall develop a plan to bring the 
property into compliance within 30 days after the results 
of the UPCS inspection are issued and must provide the 
owner with a Notice of Default with a specified timetable, 
determined by the Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. 
The Secretary must also provide a copy of the Notice of 
Default to the tenants, the local government, any mortga-
gees, and any contract administrator. If the owner’s appeal 
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results in a UPCS score of 60 or above, the Secretary may 
withdraw the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all defi-
ciencies specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner fails 
to fully correct such deficiencies, the Secretary may— 
(A) require immediate replacement of project 
management with a management agent approved by 
the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be 
used solely for the purpose of supporting safe and 
sanitary conditions at applicable properties, as des-
ignated by the Secretary, with priority given to the 
tenants of the property affected by the penalty; 
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including par-
tial abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until 
all deficiencies have been corrected; 
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, 
approved by the Secretary under established proce-
dures, which will be obligated to promptly make all 
required repairs and to accept renewal of the assist-
ance contract as long as such renewal is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to an-
other project or projects and owner or owners; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including 
suspensions or debarments from Federal programs; 
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(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
or seek a judicial order of specific performance requir-
ing the owner to cure all project deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other related 
party to stabilize the property in an attempt to pre-
serve the property through compliance, transfer of 
ownership, or an infusion of capital provided by a 
third-party that requires time to effectuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual rem-
edies available as deemed necessary and appropriate 
by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to 
ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject 
to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist 
relocation of tenants for major threats to health and safety 
after written notice to and informed consent of the affected 
tenants and use of other remedies set forth above. To the 
extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the 
tenants and the local government, that the property is not 
feasible for continued rental assistance payments under 
such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration 
of (1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property 
and all available Federal, State, and local resources, includ-
ing rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily 
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Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 
(‘‘MAHRAA’’) and (2) environmental conditions that can-
not be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 
may, in consultation with the tenants of that property, con-
tract for project-based rental assistance payments with an 
owner or owners of other existing housing properties, or 
provide other rental assistance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all prop-
erties covered by this section that are assessed through the 
Real Estate Assessment Center and have UPCS physical in-
spection scores of less than 60 or have received an unsatis-
factory management and occupancy review within the past 
36 months. The report shall include— 
(1) the enforcement actions being taken to ad-
dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 
money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 
identify properties that have such conditions multiple 
times; 
(2) actions that the Department 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 assistance 
payment contract. 
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SEC. 226. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under section 
8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assistance 
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, including bo-
nuses, 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 Execu-
tive Schedule at any time during any public housing agen-
cy fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 227. Section 24 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year’’ and all that follows through the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September’’ 
and all that follows through the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘September 30, 2017.’’. 
SEC. 228. None of the funds in this Act provided to 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development may 
be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not 
less than 3 full business days before any project, State, lo-
cality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or 
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other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced 
by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 230. None of the funds made available by this 
Act nor any receipts or amounts collected under any Fed-
eral Housing Administration program may be used to im-
plement the Homeowners Armed with Knowledge (HAWK) 
program. 
SEC. 231. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Administration, or the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to insure, 
securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any mortgage 
or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise re-
places a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain 
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any 
other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of general 
local government as a metropolitan city (as defined in sec-
tion 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to grants under sec-
tion 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
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SEC. 233. Amounts made available under this Act 
which are either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a re-
imbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy De-
velopment and Research in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development and functions thereof, for research, 
evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are unex-
pended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or 
cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall imme-
diately become available and may be reobligated in that fis-
cal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, eval-
uation, or statistical purposes for which the amounts are 
made available to that Office subject to reprogramming re-
quirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 234. None of the funds under this title may be 
used for awards, including performance, special act, or 
spot, for any employee of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development who is subject to administrative dis-
cipline in fiscal year 2017, including suspension from work. 
SEC. 235. Funds made available in this title under 
the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ may be used by 
the Secretary to participate in Performance Partnership 
Pilots authorized under section 526 of division H of Public 
Law 113–76, section 524 of division G of Public Law 113– 
235, section 525 of division H of Public Law 114–113, and 
such authorities as are enacted for Performance Partnership 
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Pilots in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017: Pro-
vided, That such participation shall be limited to no more 
than 10 continuums of care and housing activities to im-
prove outcomes for disconnected youth. 
SEC. 236. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fiscal 
years 2015, 2016, and 2017 for the continuum of care (CoC) 
program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs paid by 
program income of grant recipients may count toward 
meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, provided the 
costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the recipients 
CoC program. 
SEC. 237. Unobligated balances, including recaptures 
and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development for ad-
ministrative costs of the Office of Community Planning and 
Development associated with funds appropriated to the De-
partment for specific disaster relief and related purposes 
and designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, in-
cluding information technology costs and costs for admin-
istering and overseeing such specific disaster related funds, 
shall be transferred to the Program Office Salaries and Ex-
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penses, Community Planning and Development account for 
the Department, shall remain available until expended, and 
may be used for such administrative costs for administering 
any funds appropriated to the Department for any disaster 
relief and related purposes in any prior or future act, not-
withstanding the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated: Provided, That the amounts transferred pursuant 
to this section that were previously designated by Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act are designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be transferred only 
if the President subsequently so designates the entire trans-
fer and transmits such designation to the Congress. 
SEC. 238. (a) Section 302 of the Lead-Based Paint 
Poisoning Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 4822) is amended in 
subsection (e)— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘handicapped’’ and inserting 
‘‘persons with disabilities, or any 0-bedroom 
dwelling’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or’’ after ‘‘expected to re-
side;’’; and 
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(iii) by striking ‘‘less than 7 years of age’’ 
and inserting ‘‘under age 6’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-
serting ‘‘.’’; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (3). 
(b) Section 1004 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851b) is amend-
ed in paragraph (27)— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘or any 0-bedroom dwelling’’ 
after ‘‘disabilities,’’; and 
(2) by deleting ‘‘housing for the elderly or per-
sons with disabilities) or any 0 bedroom dwelling’’ 
and inserting ‘‘housing)’’. 
(c) Section 401 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2681) is amended in paragraph (17)— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘or any 0-bedroom dwelling’’ 
after ‘‘disabilities,’’; and 
(2) by deleting ‘‘housing for the elderly or per-
sons with disabilities) or any 0 bedroom dwelling’’ 
and inserting ‘‘housing)’’. 
SEC. 239. (a) CAPITAL FUND REPLACEMENT RE-
SERVES.—Section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
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‘‘(7) TREATMENT OF REPLACEMENT RESERVE.— 
The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to 
funds held in replacement reserves established pursu-
ant to subsection (n).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(n) 
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
REPLACEMENT
RE-
SERVES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Public housing agencies shall 
be permitted to establish a replacement reserve to 
fund any of the capital activities listed in subsection 
(d)(1). 
‘‘(2) SOURCE AND AMOUNT OF FUNDS FOR RE-
PLACEMENT RESERVE.—At any time, a public hous-
ing agency may deposit funds from such agency’s 
Capital Fund into a replacement reserve, subject to 
the following: 
‘‘(A) At the discretion of the Secretary, pub-
lic housing agencies may transfer and hold in a 
replacement reserve funds originating from addi-
tional sources. 
‘‘(B) No minimum transfer of funds to a re-
placement reserve shall be required. 
‘‘(C) At any time, a public housing agency 
may not hold in a replacement reserve more than 
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the amount the public housing authority has de-
termined necessary to satisfy the anticipated 
capital needs of properties in its portfolio as-
sisted under this section, as outlined in its Cap-
ital Fund 5-Year Action Plan, or a comparable 
plan, as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(D) The Secretary may establish, by regu-
lation, a maximum replacement reserve level or 
levels that are below amounts determined under 
subparagraph (C), which may be based upon the 
size of the portfolio assisted under this section or 
other factors. 
‘‘(3) TRANSFER OF OPERATING FUNDS.—In first 
establishing a replacement reserve, the Secretary may 
allow public housing agencies to transfer more than 
20 percent of its operating funds into its replacement 
reserve. 
‘‘(4) EXPENDITURE.—Funds in a replacement 
reserve may be used for purposes authorized by sub-
section (d)(1) and contained in its Capital Fund 5- 
Year Action Plan. 
‘‘(5) MANAGEMENT AND REPORT.—The Secretary 
shall establish appropriate accounting and reporting 
requirements to ensure that public housing agencies 
are spending funds on eligible projects and that funds 
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in the replacement reserve are connected to capital 
needs.’’. 
(b) FLEXIBILITY OF OPERATING FUND AMOUNTS.— 
Paragraph (1) of section 9(g) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(1)’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘—Of’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) FLEXIBILITY IN USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(A) FLEXIBILITY
FOR
CAPITAL
FUND 
AMOUNTS.—Of’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(B) FLEXIBILITY
FOR
OPERATING
FUND 
AMOUNTS.—Of any amounts appropriated for 
fiscal year 2017 or any fiscal year thereafter 
that are allocated for fiscal year 2017 or any fis-
cal year thereafter from the Operating Fund for 
any public housing agency, the agency may use 
not more than 20 percent for activities that are 
eligible under subsection (d) for assistance with 
amounts from the Capital Fund, but only if the 
public housing plan under section 5A for the 
agency provides for such use.’’. 
SEC. 240. Section 8(x)(2) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(x)) is amended by striking 
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‘‘(B)’’ and all that follows up to the period and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(B)(i) for a period not to exceed 36 
months, otherwise eligible youths who have at-
tained at least 18 years of age and not more 
than 24 years of age and who, at age 16 or older, 
have left or will leave foster care within 90 days, 
in accordance with a transition plan described 
in section 475(5)(H) of the Social Security Act, 
and is homeless or is at risk of becoming home-
less, or (ii) except that an applicant may extend 
the 36-month period, if the applicant enrolls an 
eligible youth in a program authorized under 
section 23, in accordance with the length of the 
contract of participation for that eligible youth 
under section 23(c)(3)’’. 
SEC. 241. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development may establish, through 
notice in the Federal Register, a demonstration program 
to incentivize public housing agencies, as defined in section 
3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (in this 
section referred to as ‘‘the Act’’), to implement measures to 
reduce their energy and water consumption. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—Public housing agencies that oper-
ate public housing programs that meet the demonstration 
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requirements, as determined by the Secretary, shall be eligi-
ble for participation in the demonstration. 
(c) INCENTIVE.—The Secretary may provide an incen-
tive to an eligible public housing agency that uses capital 
funds, operating funds, grants, utility rebates, and other re-
sources to reduce its energy and/or water consumption in 
accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary. 
(1) BASE
UTILITY
CONSUMPTION
LEVEL.—The 
initial base utility consumption level under the ap-
proved plan shall be set at the public housing agency’s 
rolling base consumption level immediately prior to 
the installation of energy conservation measures. 
(2) FIRST YEAR UTILITY COST SAVINGS.—For the 
first year that an approved plan is in effect, the Sec-
retary shall allocate the utility consumption level in 
the public housing operating fund using the base util-
ity consumption level. 
(3) SUBSEQUENT YEAR SAVINGS.—For each sub-
sequent year that the plan is in effect, the Secretary 
shall decrease the utility consumption level by one 
percent of the initial base utility consumption level 
per year until the utility consumption level equals the 
public housing agency’s actual consumption level that 
followed the installation of energy conservation meas-
ures, at which time the plan will terminate. 
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(4) USE OF UTILITY COST SAVINGS.—The public 
housing agency may use the funds resulting from the 
energy conservation measures, in accordance with 
paragraphs (2) and (3), for either operating expenses, 
as defined by section 9(e)(1) of the Act, or capital im-
provements, as defined by section 9(d)(1) of the Act. 
(5) DURATION OF PLAN.—The length in years of 
the utility conservation plan shall not exceed the 
number of percentage points in utility consumption 
reduction a public housing agency achieves through 
the energy conservation measures implemented under 
this demonstration, but in no case shall it exceed 20 
years. 
(6) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary may 
establish such other requirements as necessary to fur-
ther the purposes of this demonstration. 
(7) EVALUATION.—Each public housing agency 
participating in the demonstration shall submit to 
the Secretary such performance and evaluation re-
ports concerning the reduction in energy consumption 
and compliance with the requirements of this section 
as the Secretary may require. 
(d) TERMINATION.—Public housing agencies may 
enter into this demonstration for 5 years after the date on 
which the demonstration program is commenced. 
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SEC. 242. Section 211 of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2008, is re-
pealed. 
SEC. 243. (a) AUTHORITY.—To encourage families to 
move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to oppor-
tunity areas, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment (hereafter referred to as ‘‘Secretary’’) may implement 
a mobility demonstration to administer Housing Choice 
Voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (hereafter referred to as ‘‘1937 Act’’) 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for fiscal year 2017 through fiscal year 
2021. 
(b) DEMONSTRATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary must establish 
the competitive selection criteria and requirements for 
participation in the demonstration. The Secretary 
may require participating PHAs to use a randomized 
selection process among the families eligible to receive 
mobility assistance under this demonstration. 
(2) REGIONAL HOUSING MOBILITY PLAN.—Appli-
cant PHAs must submit a Regional Housing Mobility 
Plan (hereafter referred to as ‘‘the Plan’’). 
(A) The Plan must meet all requirements 
established by the Secretary and must identify— 
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(i) the PHAs that will participate in 
the regional housing mobility program and 
the number of vouchers each participating 
PHA will make available out of its existing 
programs in support of the mobility dem-
onstration; 
(ii) any community-based organiza-
tions, nonprofit organizations, businesses, 
and other entities that commit to partici-
pate; 
(iii) any waivers or alternative re-
quirements requested for the execution of the 
Plan; and 
(iv) specific actions that the PHAs and 
other entities will undertake to accomplish 
the goals of the demonstration, which must 
include a comprehensive approach to enable 
a successful transition to opportunity areas 
and may include counseling and continued 
support for families. 
(B) The Plan may also establish preferences 
for participating families, including a preference 
for families with children, based on regional 
housing needs and priorities. 
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(C) The Plan may provide for the use of ex-
ception payment standards that do not exceed 
110 percent of the HUD-published small area 
Fair Market Rent for the covered exception pay-
ment standard area. 
(D) Units contributed by a PHA partici-
pating in a regional housing mobility program 
to a pool of vouchers that will be project-based 
within the jurisdiction of that program are ex-
empt from the percentage limitation in section 
8(o)(13)(B) of the 1937 Act. 
(c) FUNDING FOR MOBILITY-RELATED SERVICES.—In 
order to provide mobility-related services, PHAs partici-
pating in this demonstration may use administrative fees 
under section 8(q) of the 1937 Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f(q)), 
their administrative fee reserves, and funding from private 
entities. Mobility-related services may include but are not 
limited to such things as counseling, portability coordina-
tion, landlord outreach, and administrative activities asso-
ciated with establishing and operating a regional housing 
mobility program. 
(d) WAIVERS OR ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) In order to allow for PHAs to implement 
and administer their Plans, the Secretary may waive 
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or specify alternative requirements for the following 
provisions of the 1937 Act: 
(A) Sections 8(o)(7)(A) and 8(o)(13)(E)(i) 
(related to the term of a family’s assisted lease 
and associated mobility requirements). 
(B) Section 8(o)(13)(C)(i) (related to the 
ability of a PHA participating in a regional 
housing mobility program to administer assist-
ance contributed to the program consistent with 
the Plan identified in paragraph (2)). 
(C) Section 8(o)(13)(F) (related to the term 
of a housing assistance payments (HAP) con-
tract). 
(D) Section 8(r)(2) (related to the ability of 
a PHA participating in a regional housing mo-
bility program to administer assistance under 
section 8(o) anywhere within the jurisdiction of 
that program). 
(E) Section 8(x)(2) (related to the length of 
time a PHA may provide assistance under sec-
tion 8(o) to youth participating in the Family 
Unification Program (FUP)). 
(2) The Secretary must publish by notice in the 
Federal Register any waivers or alternative require-
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ments for statutory provisions no later than 10 days 
before the effective date of such notice. 
(e) IMPLEMENTATION BY NOTICE.—The Secretary may 
implement the demonstration, including its terms, proce-
dures, requirements, and conditions, by notice. 
(f) EVALUATION.—No later than five years following 
implementation of the regional housing mobility programs, 
the Secretary must publish an evaluation of the effectiveness 
of the demonstration, subject to the availability of funding 
to conduct the evaluation. 
SEC. 244. The language under the heading Rental As-
sistance Demonstration in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 
112–55), is amended— 
(1) in the undesignated paragraph before the 
first proviso, by inserting the following before the 
colon: ‘‘(‘First Component’ herein)’’; 
(2) in the second proviso, by striking ‘‘until Sep-
tember 30, 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘for fiscal year 2012 
and thereafter’’; 
(3) in the fourth proviso, by striking ‘‘185,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘250,000’’; 
(4) in the fourteenth, by— 
(A) inserting ‘‘or nonprofit’’ before ‘‘entity, 
then a capable entity,’’; and 
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(B) striking ‘‘preserves its interest’’ and in-
serting ‘‘or a nonprofit entity preserves an inter-
est’’; 
(5) by amending the eighteenth proviso to read 
as follows— 
‘‘ Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012 
and hereafter, owners of properties assisted or 
previously assisted under section 101 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, 
section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act, or 
section 8(e)(2) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937, for which a contract expires or termi-
nates due to prepayment on or after October 1, 
2006 has caused or results in the termination of 
rental assistance or affordability restrictions or 
both and the issuance of tenant protection vouch-
ers under section 8(o) or section 8(t) of the Act, 
or with a project rental assistance contract 
under section 202(c)(2) of Housing Act of 1959, 
shall be eligible, subject to requirements estab-
lished by the Secretary, including but not lim-
ited to tenant consultation procedures, for con-
version of assistance available or provided for 
such vouchers or assistance contracts, to assist-
ance under a long-term project-based subsidy 
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contract under section 8 of the Act, which shall 
have a term of no less than 20 years, which shall 
have initial rents set at comparable market rents 
for the market area, with subsequent rent adjust-
ments only by an operating cost factor estab-
lished by the Secretary, and which shall be eligi-
ble for renewal under section 524 of the Multi-
family Assisted Housing Reform and Afford-
ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), or, 
subject to agreement of the administering public 
housing agency, to assistance under section 
8(o)(13) of the Act, to which the limitation 
under subparagraph (B) of section 8(o)(13) of 
the Act shall not apply and for which the Sec-
retary may waive or alter the provisions of sub-
paragraphs (C) and (D) of section 8(o)(13) of the 
Act (‘‘Second Component’’ herein):’’; 
(6) by inserting the following proviso before the 
nineteenth: ‘‘Provided further, That conversions of as-
sistance under the Second Component may not be the 
basis for re-screening or termination of assistance or 
eviction of any tenant family in a property partici-
pating in the demonstration:’’; 
(7) in the twentieth, as amended (reordered) 
above, by striking ‘‘previous proviso’’ and all that fol-
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lows through the end of the proviso and inserting 
‘‘Second Component, except for conversion of Section 
202 project rental assistance contracts, shall be avail-
able for project-based subsidy contracts entered into 
pursuant to the Second Component:’’; 
(8) in the twenty-first proviso, as amended (reor-
dered) above, by striking ‘‘previous two provisos’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Second Component, except for conversion 
of section 202 project rental assistance contracts,’’; 
(9) in the twenty-second proviso, as amended 
(reordered) above, by striking ‘‘three previous pro-
visos’’ and inserting ‘‘Second Component, except for 
conversion of section 202 project rental assistance 
contracts,’’; 
(10) by inserting the following proviso before the 
twenty-third proviso, as amended (reordered) above: 
‘‘Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer 
amounts made available under the heading ‘Housing 
for the Elderly’ to the accounts under the headings 
‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ or ‘Tenant-Based 
Rental Assistance’ to facilitate any Section 202 
project rental assistance contract conversions under 
the Second Component, and any increase in cost for 
‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ or ‘Tenant-Based 
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Rental Assistance’ associated with such conversion 
shall be equal to amounts so transferred:’’; and 
(11) in the twenty-fourth proviso, as amended 
(reordered) above, by striking ‘‘previous four pro-
visos’’ and inserting ‘‘Second Component, as applica-
ble,’’. 
SEC. 245. The Secretary shall establish by notice such 
requirements as may be necessary to implement section 
78001 of title LXXVIII of the Fixing America’s Surface 
Transportation Act (Public Law 114–94), and the notice 
shall take effect upon issuance: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall commence rulemaking based on the initial notice no 
later than the expiration of the 6-month period following 
issuance of the notice and the rulemaking shall allow for 
the opportunity for public comment. 
SEC. 246. For fiscal year 2017 and hereafter, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may use 
amounts made available for the continuum of care program 
under the ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ heading under this 
title to renew the grant originally awarded under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Development— 
Permanent Supportive Housing’’ in chapter 6 of title III 
of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 
110–252; 122 Stat. 2351) in the continuum of care pro-
gram, authorized under subtitle C of title IV of the McKin-
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