Ensuring Safe Housing for Homeless During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6890
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2020-05-15
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Executive agency funding and structure

Homelessness and emergency shelter

Housing and community development funding

Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ensuring Safe Housing for Homeless During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill allows homeless assistance grants provided in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic to be used to rent hotel or motel rooms even when an emergency shelter is available.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6890 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 15, 2020 Mrs. Beatty introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To authorize the use of certain homeless assistance amounts to rent hotel and motel rooms, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Safe Housing for Homeless During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act of 2020 . 2. Use of CARES Act assistance for homeless families The matter under the heading Department of Housing and Urban Development—Community Planning And Development—Homeless Assistance Grants in title XII of division B of the CARES Act ( Public Law 116–136 ) is amended by inserting before the final proviso the following: Provided further , That notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available under this heading may be used to provide a voucher for rental of a hotel or motel room for a homeless individual or household without regard to any existing requirement under law or regulation conditioning such use on the unavailability of an appropriate emergency shelter: .