CARE Act for Those Without Homes

Bill: 116-hr-6483
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2020-04-10
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health facilities and institutions

Health programs administration and funding

Health technology, devices, supplies

Homelessness and emergency shelter

Housing and community development funding

Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latest action: action_date: 2020-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-04-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>CARE Act for Those Without Homes</b></p> <p>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)&nbsp;deployable medical stations to provide surge beds for homeless individuals. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6483 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 10, 2020 Mr. Neguse introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the CARE Act for Those Without Homes . 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). 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.