Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2007
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-06-27
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Homelessness and emergency shelter

Housing and community development funding

Housing discrimination

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Latest action: action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-27
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from implementing, administering, enforcing, or in any manner making effective the proposed rule titled <i>Revised Requirements Under Community Planning and Development Housing Programs</i>, published by HUD in Spring 2019, or any final rule based substantially on such proposed rule.</p> <p>The rule allows, among other things, shelter providers under HUD programs that permit certain single-sex or sex-segregated facilities to establish a policy by which such providers may consider an individual's sex to determine accommodation within or admission to a shelter or its facility.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2007 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 27, 2019 Mr. Schatz (for himself, Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Brown , Mr. Markey , Ms. Cortez Masto , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Reed , Mr. Booker , Ms. Harris , Ms. Warren , and Ms. Klobuchar ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from implementing a proposed rule regarding requirements under Community Planning and Development housing programs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act of 2019 . 2. Prohibition The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may not implement, administer, enforce, or in any manner make effective the proposed rule entitled Revised Requirements Under Community Planning and Development Housing Programs , published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Spring 2019 (Docket No. FR–6152), or any final rule based substantially on such proposed rule.