Title: To provide for a comfortable and safe temperature level in dwelling units receiving certain Federal housing assistance, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
This bill allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development to require units in public housing and supportive housing for the elderly, as well as dwellings receiving low-income housing choice voucher assistance, to maintain a temperature level ranging from 71 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 235 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 235

  To provide for a comfortable and safe temperature level in dwelling 
   units receiving certain Federal housing assistance, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

Ms. Wilson of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a comfortable and safe temperature level in dwelling 
   units receiving certain Federal housing assistance, 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. COMFORTABLE AND SAFE TEMPERATURE LEVEL IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED 
              HOUSING.

    (a) Public Housing and Project-Based Assistance.--The United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)), by adding 
        at the end the following:
                    ``(P) Maintaining temperature level in units.--The 
                Secretary may require the owner of a dwelling unit 
                receiving assistance under a housing assistance payment 
                contract under this paragraph to ensure that the 
                dwelling unit maintains a comfortable and safe 
                temperature level ranging from 71 degrees to 81 degrees 
                Fahrenheit.''; and
            (2) in section 9 (42 U.S.C. 1437g), by adding at the end 
        the following:
    ``(p) Use of Funds To Maintain Temperate Level in Units.--With 
respect to a public housing dwelling unit, the Secretary may use 
amounts in the Capital Fund or the Operating Fund to ensure that the 
dwelling unit maintains a comfortable and safe temperature level 
ranging from 71 degrees to 81 degrees Fahrenheit.''.
    (b) Supportive Housing for the Elderly.--Section 202 of the Housing 
Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) is amended by striking the first and 
second subsections (m) and inserting the following:
    ``(m) Maintaining Temperature in Units.--The Secretary may require 
the owner of housing assisted under this section to ensure that each 
unit in that housing maintains a comfortable and safe temperature level 
ranging from 71 degrees to 81 degrees Fahrenheit.''.
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