Title: Protecting Renters from Evictions Act of 2021
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Protecting Renters from Evictions Act of 2021
This bill extends through December 31, 2021, the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention titled Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the Further Spread of COVID–19 and published on September 4, 2020.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4791 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4791

   To extend the moratorium on residential evictions, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2021

   Ms. Waters (for herself, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Ms. 
 Pressley, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Green of Texas, Mr. Cleaver, 
Mr. Pallone, Ms. Strickland, Ms. Adams, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Brown, 
   Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Raskin, Mr. 
   Horsford, Mr. Takano, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Cooper, Ms. 
McCollum, Mr. Carson, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Barragan, 
  Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Wilson of 
  Florida, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. Underwood, Ms. 
Williams of Georgia, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Sherman, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Jeffries, 
  Mr. Beyer, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Escobar, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Veasey, Mr. 
Evans, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
 Doggett, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Lawson of Florida, 
 Mr. Vargas, Mr. Payne, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. 
 Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Omar, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Sewell, Ms. 
   Clarke of New York, Ms. Speier, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Ms. Ocasio-
   Cortez, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Yarmuth, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. 
Jacobs of California, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. 
  DeLauro, Mr. Rush, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Meng, Mr. Torres of New 
  York, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. 
 Roybal-Allard, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Castro of 
Texas, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Khanna, 
Ms. Leger Fernandez, Ms. Titus, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Matsui, 
  Mr. Jones, Ms. Chu, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Ross, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. 
 Meeks, Mr. Himes, Ms. Dean, Mr. San Nicolas, Mrs. Axne, and Mr. David 
Scott of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To extend the moratorium on residential evictions, 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 ``Protecting Renters from Evictions 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF EVICTION MORATORIUM.

    The order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264), 
entitled ``Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the 
Further Spread of COVID-19'' (85 Fed. Reg. 55292 (September 4, 2020)) 
is extended through December 31, 2021, notwithstanding the effective 
dates specified in such Order.
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