Title: PATH Fairness Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
PATH Fairness Act of 2017
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, which provide services to individuals who: (1) are suffering from serious mental illness, or are suffering from serious mental illness and from substance abuse; and (2) are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. The minimum allotment of program funding for each state and territory is increased on the condition that appropriations are sufficient to provide the minimum allotment to all states and territories.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1717 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1717

To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum 
    allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from 
                         Homelessness Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2017

 Mr. Welch (for himself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum 
    allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from 
                         Homelessness Program.

    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 ``PATH Fairness Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM ALLOTMENTS UNDER THE PROJECTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN 
              TRANSITION FROM HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM.

    Section 524 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc-24) 
is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 524. DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF ALLOTMENT.

    ``(a) Determination Under Formula.--Subject to subsection (b), the 
allotment required by section 521 for a State for a fiscal year is the 
product of--
            ``(1) an amount equal to the amount appropriated under 
        section 535 for the fiscal year; and
            ``(2) a percentage equal to the quotient of--
                    ``(A) an amount equal to the population living in 
                urbanized areas of the State involved, as indicated by 
                the most recent data collected by the Bureau of the 
                Census; and
                    ``(B) an amount equal to the population living in 
                urbanized areas of the United States, as indicated by 
                the sum of the respective amounts determined for the 
                States under subparagraph (A).
    ``(b) Minimum Allotment.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the allotment 
        for a State under section 521 for a fiscal year shall, at a 
        minimum, be the greater of--
                    ``(A) the amount the State received under section 
                521 for fiscal year 2016; and
                    ``(B) $750,000 for each of the several States, the 
                District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto 
                Rico, and $100,000 for each of Guam, the Virgin 
                Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 
                Northern Mariana Islands.
            ``(2) Condition.--If the funds appropriated for any fiscal 
        year under section 535 are insufficient to ensure that States 
        receive a minimum allotment in accordance with paragraph (1), 
        then--
                    ``(A) no State shall receive less than the amount 
                received by the State in fiscal year 2016; and
                    ``(B) any funds remaining after amounts are 
                provided under subparagraph (A) shall be used to meet 
                the requirement of paragraph (1)(B), to the maximum 
                extent possible.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 535(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290cc-
35(a)) is amended by striking ``$64,635,000 for each of fiscal years 
2018 through 2022'' and inserting ``$150,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2022''.
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