Safe at Home Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.7911 | Sponsor: Rep. Axne, Cynthia (D-IA)
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Safe at Home Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture to issue regulations concerning inspections of federally assisted housing.
In particular, the departments must jointly (1) review state and federal requirements for inspecting housing to ensure safety, habitability, and other aspects of housing quality; (2) identify the most stringent requirements; and (3) issue regulations to apply the identified requirements to certain housing programs administered by the departments.

To unify and strengthen the health and safety inspection standards for 
housing assisted under programs of the Departments of Housing and Urban 
          Development and Agriculture, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe at Home Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. UNIFORM INSPECTION STANDARDS.

    (a) Identification.--Not later than the expiration of the 12-month 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall jointly carry out a review of all Federal and State 
statutes, regulations, guidelines, standards, and other requirements 
applicable to housing assisted under any programs administered by the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of 
Agriculture, respectively, including single-family and multifamily 
housing, that provide for inspections to ensure or promote the safety, 
healthiness, decency, habitability, sanitariness, or quality of the 
housing, and shall identify the requirements that are most stringent in 
providing protection to residents of the housing.
    (b) Uniform Standards.--Not later than the expiration of the 12-
month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall jointly issue regulations that, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law or Federal regulation, apply the requirements 
identified pursuant to subsection (a) to all housing assisted under any 
programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development and the Department of Agriculture, with any such variations 
and exemptions as may be necessary to account for differences in types 
of assisted housing structures. The regulations issued pursuant to this 
subsection shall take effect upon the expiration of the 6-month period 
beginning upon issuance of such regulations.
    (c) Covered Housing.--The term ``housing assisted under any 
programs administered the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
and the Department of Agriculture'' includes--
            (1) public housing, as such term is defined in section 3(b) 
        of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b));
            (2) housing assisted with project-based assistance under 
        section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
        1437f);
            (3) housing assisted with tenant-based assistance under 
        section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
        U.S.C. 1437f(o));
            (4) housing assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act 
        of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q);
            (5) housing assisted under section 811 of the Cranston-
        Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013);
            (6) housing assisted under subtitle D of title VIII of the 
        Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
        12901 et seq.);
            (7) housing assisted under the HOME Investment Partnerships 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.);
            (8) housing assisted under section 236 of the National 
        Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1);
            (9) housing assisted under the program under paragraph (3) 
        of section 221(d) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
        1715l(d)) that bears interest at a rate determined under the 
        proviso under paragraph (5) of such section 221(d);
            (10) rural housing assisted under section 514, 515, 516, 
        521, 533, 538, or 542 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 
        1484, 1485, 1486, 1490a, 1490m, 1490p-2, or 1490r); and
            (11) housing assisted under any other programs administered 
        by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the 
        Secretary of Agriculture, as identified by such Secretaries.
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