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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2243
To amend section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
to ensure improved access to employment opportunities for low-income people.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 19, 2001
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To amend section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development
Act of 1968 to ensure improved access to employment
opportunities for low-income people.
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 ‘‘Housing and Employ-
ment Opportunities Reform Act’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development
Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and
(g) as subsections (g), (h) and (i), respectively;
(2) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by in-
serting after paragraph (2) the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(3) ONE-STOP DELIVERY SYSTEM.—The term
‘one-stop delivery system’ has the meaning given
that term in section 134(c) of the Workforce Invest-
ment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2864(c)).’’; and
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsections:
‘‘(e) REQUIREMENT FOR HIRING OF NEW EMPLOY-
EES.—
‘‘(1) 
THIRTY
PERCENT
REQUIREMENT.—It
shall be a condition of any contract awarded by a
public or Indian housing agency for work to be per-
formed in connection with development assistance
provided from the Capital Fund under section 9(d)
of the United States Housing Act of 1937, or from
the Operating Fund under section 9(e) of such Act,
that, except as provided in paragraph 2(B), a min-
imum of 30 percent of all new employees hired by
a contractor for work in connection with such con-
tract will be low- or very low-income persons.
‘‘(2) COMPLIANCE.—As a condition of any con-
tract awarded for the work described in paragraph
(1), any contractor awarded such a contract shall—
‘‘(A)(i) immediately before beginning work
under such contract, submit evidence to the sat-
isfaction of the public or Indian housing agency
showing that a minimum of 30 percent of all
new employees hired for work in connection
with such contract are low- or very low-income
persons; and
‘‘(ii) submit evidence to the satisfaction of
the public or Indian housing agency showing
that a minimum of 30 percent of all subse-
quently hired new employees hired for work in
connection with such contract are low- or very
low-income persons; or
‘‘(B) if such contractor cannot meet the re-
quirement imposed by paragraph (1)—
‘‘(i) submit evidence to the satisfac-
tion of the public or Indian housing agency
showing that such contractor has given no-
tice of such contract to the one-stop deliv-
ery system for the area which the housing
subject to the contract is located, including
the particular skills and qualifications
needed by potential new employees for
work under such contract; and
‘‘(ii) provide to the public or Indian
housing agency evidence, as the Secretary
shall by regulation require, sufficient to
show that no newly hired employees who
are not low- or very low-income persons
are performing work in place of skilled
low- or very low-income persons who were
provided by either the public or Indian
housing agency or by the one-stop delivery
system.
‘‘(3) TRAINING.—Any contractor awarded a
contract for the work described in paragraph (1)
may not provide on-the-job training to any new em-
ployee for work under such contract unless such new
employee is a low- or very low-income person.
‘‘(f) RECRUITMENT, REFERRAL, AND TRAINING RE-
QUIREMENTS.—Public and Indian housing agencies
shall—
‘‘(1) maintain a registry of eligible low- and
very low-income persons who reside in the public
housing which is the site of a contract referred to
in this section;
‘‘(2) provide to any contractor awarded such a
contract names and applications from appropriately
skilled low- and very low-income persons;
‘‘(3) refer any low- or very low-income persons
seeking qualifying skills to the one-stop delivery sys-
tem for the area in which the housing subject to a
contract is located;
‘‘(4) consult with contractors to ensure that ap-
propriately skilled low- and very low-income persons
are not passed over in hiring; and
‘‘(5) provide to the one-stop delivery system for
the area in which the housing subject to a contract
is located a detailed description of the work to be
done on all projects for which it is accepting, or will
be accepting, bids so that eligible low- and very low-
income persons may be appropriately trained.’’.
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