Title: Informed Resident Notification Act of 2020
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Informed Resident Notification Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish guidelines, requirements, and procedures for public housing agencies to promptly notify residents if any resident of the public housing project has tested positively for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6297 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6297

  To require public housing agencies to inform residents of a public 
housing project when a resident of such project tests positive for the 
      Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require public housing agencies to inform residents of a public 
housing project when a resident of such project tests positive for the 
      Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 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 ``Informed Resident Notification Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF COVID-19 CASES IN PUBLIC HOUSING.

    (a) Requirement.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish such 
guidelines and requirements as may be necessary to require, and to 
establish a procedure for, each public housing agency that operates or 
administers 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))) to promptly 
inform residents of a public housing project, upon acquisition of 
reliable information that any resident of the project has been 
determined by a qualified health agency to have tested positive for the 
coronavirus or the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), that a resident 
of the project has so tested positive.
    (b) Means of Notification.--The guidelines and requirements 
required under subsection (a) shall specify the manner by which 
residents of a public housing project are provided information required 
under such subsection.
    (c) Removal of Personally Identifiable Information.--In making the 
information required under subsection (a) available to the public, the 
Secretary shall ensure that appropriate administrative and physical 
safeguards are in place to remove all personally identifiable 
information.
    (d) Issuance; Effective Date.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall issue the guidelines and requirements required under 
subsection (a) not later than the expiration of the 30-day period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, which guidelines 
and requirements shall take effect upon issuance.
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