Title: CARE Act for Those Without Homes
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
CARE Act for Those Without Homes
This bill authorizes additional grants under the Emergency Solutions Grants program, administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for states, local governments, and private nonprofit organizations to assist individuals and families experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness arising from the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. Specifically, recipients of these grants may, among other things, use such funds to provide (1) hotel or motel rooms for homeless individuals experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, and (2) deployable medical stations to provide surge beds for homeless individuals.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6483 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6483

 To provide assistance under the Emergency Solutions Grants program of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development for responding to needs 
            of those without homes, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide assistance under the Emergency Solutions Grants program of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development for responding to needs 
            of those without homes, 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 ``CARE Act for Those Without Homes''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

     In addition to any other amounts made available for fiscal year 
2020 for grants under the Emergency Solutions Grants program under 
subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.), there is authorized to be appropriated 
$11,500,000,000 for grants under such subtitle made in accordance with 
this Act to respond to needs arising from the public health emergency 
relating to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

SEC. 3. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Additional Activities.--In addition to eligible activities 
under section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11374(a)), amounts made available pursuant to section 2 of this 
Act may be used for costs of the following activities:
            (1) Costs of providing hotel or motel rooms for homeless 
        individuals who are experiencing symptoms that may be related 
        to Coronavirus Disease 2019 but who do not require 
        hospitalization or for homeless individuals who are 
        asymptomatic to support social distancing measures, or both.
            (2) Costs of providing handwashing stations and personal 
        hygiene products, including hand sanitizer, soap, and personal 
        protective equipment, for homeless individuals.
            (3) Costs of providing medical stations that are deployable 
        healthcare facilities, similar to Federal Medicals Stations of 
        the Department of Health and Human Services as the Secretary of 
        Housing and Urban Development shall provide, that can provide 
        surge beds for homeless individuals to support healthcare 
        systems that are impacted by the public health emergency 
        referred to in section 2.
    (b) Treatment.--In applying subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.) with respect to 
amounts made available pursuant to section 2 of this Act, any reference 
to activities under section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act shall be considered to include the activities under 
subsection (a) of this section.
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