Bringing America Home Act

Bill: 109-hr-4347
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2005-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Administrative procedure
Affordable housing
Agriculture and Food
Apprenticeship
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction workers
Continuum of care
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Employee rights
Eviction
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to housing
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Health
Homeless
Housing subsidies
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Landlord and tenant
Legislation
Local laws
Low-income housing
Medicaid
Mental health services
Mental illness
Minimum wages
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Preventive medicine
Public housing
Rent
Residential rehabilitation
Runaway children
Rural economic development
Rural housing
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Surplus government property
Tax credits
Taxation
Temporary employment
Veterans' benefits
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: 
Bringing America Home Act - Declares that it is a national goal to fulfill the basic human need of shelter by ending homelessness in the United States.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
 
Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) incremental rental assistance; (2) housing program funding; (3) rural housing and economic development; and (4) veterans homeless comprehensive services programs. 
 
Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association Act - Establishes the Federal Hopelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association (Hollie Mae) which may develop mutual housing (generally, a nonprofit cooperative ownership housing association) that is affordable for low-income individuals and families.
 
Provides for: (1) use of federal property to assist the homeless; (2) preservation of HOPE VI public housing units; and (3) establishment of an Emergency Rent Relief Fund.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit.
 
Revises assistance provisions under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, including establishing a continuum of care program.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the need to expand Medicaid and keep it affordable to beneficiaries.
 
Authorizes appropriations, and sets forth program provisions, for mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
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: 2005-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Introduced in House