Title: GRAND Act
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Generational Residences and Nurturing Dwellings Act or the GRAND Act
This bill establishes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide assistance for each fiscal year to up to five eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized housing and social services for qualified elderly relatives, age 60 or older, who are raising a child of whom they are not a parent either by blood or marriage.
Nothing in this bill shall preclude a recipient of such assistance from applying for or receiving financial assistance under any other HUD program.
The assistance must be in the form of:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1260 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1260

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 
 assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized 
housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary 
        caregivers of children that are related to such persons.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2017

 Mr. Serrano introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 
 assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized 
housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary 
        caregivers of children that are related to such persons.

    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 ``Generational Residences and 
Nurturing Dwellings Act'' or the ``GRAND Act''.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR SPECIALIZED HOUSING FOR ELDERLY CAREGIVERS.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development a program to provide assistance to 
eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized 
housing for qualified relatives raising a child.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act shall preclude a 
recipient of assistance under a program established under subsection 
(a) from applying for or receiving financial assistance under any other 
program established in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
    (c) Application.--
            (1) In general.--To be eligible to receive assistance under 
        the program established under subsection (a), an eligible 
        nonprofit organization shall submit an application to the 
        Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such 
        information as the Secretary may require, which shall include a 
        description of how the eligible nonprofit organization will 
        serve the housing needs of low-income families in a particular 
        geographic area.
            (2) Tenant-based rental assistance.--To be eligible to 
        receive assistance to provide tenant-based rental assistance as 
        described in subsection (d)(2), an application submitted under 
        paragraph (1) shall include assurances that the eligible 
        nonprofit organization will coordinate with a public housing 
        agency in administering any such assistance received under this 
        Act, as required by the Secretary.
    (d) Priority.--In providing assistance under this section, the 
Secretary shall give priority to eligible nonprofit organizations that 
plan to use such assistance as described in paragraph (1) or (2) of 
subsection (f).
    (e) Limit on Organizations Selected.--For each fiscal year, the 
Secretary may select not more than 5 eligible nonprofit organizations 
to receive assistance under the program under this section.
    (f) Use of Funds.--A recipient of assistance under this program 
shall use such assistance for the following purposes:
            (1) New housing.--To finance the construction, 
        reconstruction, moderate or substantial rehabilitation, or 
        acquisition of a structure or a portion of a structure to be 
        used as specialized housing.
            (2) Operational expenses and supportive services.--To 
        provide assistance for ongoing operational expenses of any 
        specialized housing, including costs of supportive services 
        required for such housing.
            (3) Rental voucher assistance.--To provide tenant-based 
        rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for entities that meet 
        the requirements under such section for use only by qualified 
        relatives who are raising a child and are eligible for such 
        assistance for rental of a dwelling unit that qualifies as 
        specialized housing.
            (4) Elderly housing project rental assistance.--To provide 
        project rental assistance under section 202(c)(2) of the 
        Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(b)(2)) for entities that 
        meet the requirements under such section in connection with 
        dwelling units that--
                    (A) qualify as specialized housing; and
                    (B) are made available for occupancy only by 
                qualified relatives who are raising a child and are 
                eligible for occupancy in such housing, except that 
                notwithstanding section 202(k)(1) of the Housing Act of 
                1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(k)(1)), such qualified relatives 
                may include elderly persons (as such term is defined in 
                section 3 of this Act).

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Child.--The term ``child'' means an individual who--
                    (A) is not attending school and is not more than 18 
                years of age; or
                    (B) is attending school and is not more than 19 
                years of age.
            (2) Elderly person.--The term ``elderly person'' means a 
        person who is 60 years of age or more.
            (3) Eligible nonprofit organization.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``eligible nonprofit 
                organization'' means an organization that--
                            (i) provides specialized housing and 
                        supportive services for qualified relatives who 
                        are raising a child; and
                            (ii) is described in section 501(c)(3) of 
                        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt 
                        from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.
                    (B) Political divisions included.--Such term 
                includes organizations that provide such services in 
                each of the several States, the District of Columbia, 
                and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the 
                United States.
            (4) Low-income families.--The term ``low-income families'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 3(b) of the United 
        States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)).
            (5) Qualified relative.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``qualified relative'' 
                means an individual who is an elderly person and, with 
                respect to a child, who--
                            (i) is not a parent of the child by blood 
                        or marriage; and
                            (ii) is--
                                    (I) a relative of the child by 
                                blood or marriage; or
                                    (II) a legal guardian of the child.
                    (B) Adopted children.--In the case of a child who 
                was adopted, the term includes an individual who, by 
                blood or marriage, is a relative of the family who 
                adopted the child.
            (6) Raising a child.--The term ``raising a child'' means, 
        with respect to an individual, that the individual--
                    (A) resides with the child; and
                    (B) is the primary caregiver (or is, together with 
                a spouse or other household member, a primary 
                caregiver) for the child--
                            (i) because the biological or adoptive 
                        parents of the child do not reside with the 
                        child or are unable or unwilling to serve as 
                        the primary caregiver for the child; and
                            (ii) regardless of whether the individual 
                        has a legal relationship to the child (such as 
                        guardianship or legal custody).
            (7) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Housing and Urban Development.
            (8) Specialized housing.--The term ``specialized housing'' 
        means housing that--
                    (A) is affordable (as the Secretary shall define 
                for purposes of this Act) for low-income families;
                    (B) is restricted to occupancy only by low-income 
                families;
                    (C) is designed to meet the special physical needs 
                of elderly persons;
                    (D) accommodates the provision of supportive 
                services that are expected to be needed, either 
                initially or over the useful life of the housing, by 
                elderly persons and children that the housing is 
                intended to serve; and
                    (E) provides a range of such services that are 
                tailored to the needs of elderly persons and children 
                occupying such housing.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021.
                                 <all>