Title: Emergency Housing Assistance for Older Adults Act of 2020
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Emergency Housing Assistance for Older Adults Act of 2020
This bill authorizes additional assistance for supportive housing for the elderly.
Among other things, the bill authorizes additional rental assistance for low-income elderly persons and additional grants to certain federally assisted housing projects to provide service coordinators to prevent, prepare for, or respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4177 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4177

   To authorize supplemental funding for supportive housing for the 
                    elderly, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 2, 2020

 Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Brown, Ms. Warren, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. 
 Sinema, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Sanders, 
Mr. Markey, Mr. Casey, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. 
Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
        to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize supplemental funding for supportive housing for the 
                    elderly, 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 ``Emergency Housing Assistance for 
Older Adults Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $1,202,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 for assistance for 
supportive housing for the elderly, of which--
            (1) $845,000,000 shall be for rental assistance under 
        section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) or 
        section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
        1437f), as appropriate, and for hiring additional staff and for 
        services and costs, including acquiring personal protective 
        equipment, to prevent, prepare for, or respond to the public 
        health emergency relating to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
        19) pandemic for--
                    (A) projects for which assistance is provided under 
                a project rental assistance contract under section 
                202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
                1701q(c)(2));
                    (B) projects for which a direct loan under section 
                202 of such Act was made and for which assistance is 
                provided under section 8 of the United States Housing 
                Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f); and
                    (C) projects for which project-based assistance is 
                provided under such section 8 in which more than 80 
                percent of tenants are 62 years of age or older;
            (2) $50,000,000 shall be for installation of, and service 
        fees for, wireless internet services in projects and individual 
        units described in paragraph (1);
            (3) $7,000,000 shall be for a 1-year extension of the 
        Supportive Services Demonstration of the Department of Housing 
        and Urban Development authorized under the heading ``housing 
        for the elderly'' under the heading ``Housing Programs'' under 
        the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'' in 
        title II of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
        Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76; 128 Stat. 618); 
        and
            (4) $300,000,000 shall be for grants under section 676 of 
        the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 
        13632) for costs of providing service coordinators for purposes 
        of coordinating services to prevent, prepare for, or respond to 
        the public health emergency relating to Coronavirus Disease 
        2019 (COVID-19).
    (b) Eligibility of Supportive Housing for Persons With 
Disabilities.--For purposes of subsection (a), section 676(a) of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13632(a)) 
shall be applied by substituting ``(G), and (H)'' for ``and (G)''.
    (c) Service Coordinators.--
            (1) Hiring.--
                    (A) In general.--In the hiring of staff using 
                amounts made available pursuant to this section for 
                costs of providing service coordinators, grantees shall 
                consider and hire, at all levels of employment and to 
                the greatest extent possible, a diverse staff, 
                including by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability 
                status.
                    (B) Report.--Not later 120 days after the date on 
                which the emergency declared on March 13, 2020, by the 
                President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
                and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4121 et seq.) 
                relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) 
                pandemic terminates, each grantee described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall submit to the Secretary of 
                Housing and Urban Development a report describing 
                compliance with that subparagraph.
            (2) One-time grants.--Grants made using amounts made 
        available pursuant to subsection (a) for costs of providing 
        service coordinators shall not be renewable.
            (3) One-year availability.--Any amounts made available 
        pursuant to this section for costs of providing service 
        coordinators that are allocated for a grantee and remain 
        unexpended upon the expiration of the 12-month period beginning 
        upon such allocation shall be recaptured by the Secretary.
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