Bringing America Home Act

Bill: 108-hr-2897
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Affordable housing
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholism
Alien labor
Ambulatory care
Apprenticeship
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Authorization
Block grants
Building construction
Business education
Capital gains tax
Charities
Checks
Child health
Child support
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Coinsurance
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Community development
Community health services
Community organization
Compensatory education
Comprehensive health care
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Continuum of care
Cooperative housing
Cost of living adjustments
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Day care
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Veterans Affairs
Depressed areas
Directories
Disabled
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug industry
Drugs and youth
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Employment agencies
Entrepreneurs
Eviction
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Food stamps
Foreclosure
Forfeiture
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Health planning
Home ownership
Homeless
Hours of labor
Housing authorities
Housing discrimination
Housing finance
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Immigration
Income tax
Infrastructure
Injunctions
Interest
Job hunting
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Labor unions
Landlord and tenant
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Legislation
Licenses
Limitation of actions
Local laws
Lockouts
Low-income housing
Marriage counseling
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentally disabled
Minimum wages
Minorities
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Motor vehicle safety
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Patients' rights
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Planning
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Postal service
Preventive medicine
Probation
Public housing
Punitive damages
Quality of care
Relocation
Rent
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Revolving funds
Runaway children
Rural economic development
Rural housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary mortgage market
Security measures
Shelters for the homeless
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Supplemental security income program
Surplus government property
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Telephone
Temporary employment
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Urban affairs
Veterans' benefits
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance
Wage restitution
Wages
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients
Welfare work participation
Whistle blowing
Wife abuse
Women
Workers' compensation
Working poor
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Bringing America Home Act - Recognizes housing as a basic human right, and declares Congress' goal to end homelessness in the Unites States.
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to establish the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which shall be used to fund specified housing and related programs.
 
Authorizes appropriations for specified housing and related programs.
 
Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association Act - Establishes the Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association (Hollie May), which shall provide housing and homeownership opportunities for the homeless in cooperative housing associations.
 
Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to: (1) provide for the use of surplus Federal property to assist the homeless; and (2) revise and consolidate specified homeless assistance programs.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Emergency Rent Relief Fund.
 
Exempts work performed in public housing from consideration as income under specified housing programs. Sets forth conditions for postal delivery service for the homeless. Authorizes grants for public housing police forces.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit; (2) limit mortgage interest deductions; and (3) repeal the exclusion of gain on a principal residence sale.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress against local ordinances that disadvantage the homeless.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) every person in the United States should have access to affordable and comprehensive medical care; and (2) Medicaid should be expanded.
 
Authorizes appropriations for specified health and homeless programs.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act, with respect to substance abuse, mental health services, and the homeless, to: (1) require the establishment of Federal plans on addiction, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and homelessness; (2) provide grants for treatment; (3) revise the projects for assistance in transition from homelessness (PATH) program; (4) revise the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990.
 
Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding the right to a living wage or similar benefits.
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize grants for a homebuild program for affordable housing construction and apprenticeship.
 
Authorizes a Department of Labor apprenticeship program for working people experiencing homelessness.
 
Sets forth day laborer and temporary worker employment and related provisions.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to: (1) require supplemental security income (SSI) and old age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) outreach programs for the homeless; and (2) increase SSI asset limits, and provide presumptive eligibility for persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House