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Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Department of Housing and Urban
Development Elimination Act of 1995''.

TITLE I--ELIMINATION OF DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

SEC. 101. ELIMINATION OF DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

(a) Elimination.--The Department of Housing and Urban Development
Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 et seq.) is hereby repealed.
(b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect on January 1,
1998.

SEC. 102. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prior
to January 1, 1998, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
(hereafter in this title referred to as the ''Secretary'') shall take
such actions as may be necessary to--
(1) consolidate the programs administered by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development into a block grant program;
(2) convert all funding for public and assisted housing
under the United States Housing Act of 1937 to tenant-based
rental assistance;
(3) convert the Federal Housing Administration into a
government-controlled corporation, which would provide mortgage
insurance only to low- and moderate-income persons under risk-
sharing agreements with private mortgage insurers; and
(4) otherwise provide for the complete elimination of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to section
101.
(b) Submissions to Congress.--
(1) Strategic plan.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the
Congress a plan to carry out subsection (a), which shall
include any recommendations for--
(A) legislation necessary to carry out subsection
(a);
(B) transfers of functions and activities,
including all existing obligations to other existing or
successor Federal or State agencies.
(2) Privatization of fha.--Not later than 180 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit
to the Congress a report which shall include--
(A) recommendations and a strategic plan for the
complete privatization of the Federal Housing
Administration; and
(B) a description of the projected cost savings to
the Federal Government that would be achieved through
the complete privatization of the Federal Housing
Administration.

SEC. 103. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE RECOMMENDATIONS.

Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall submit to the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs of the Senate a list of recommendations for minimizing the cost
of Federal housing and community development programs through the
elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SEC. 104. GAO REPORT.

Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs of the Senate a report which shall include recommendations for
the most efficient means of achieving--
(1) the complete elimination of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development; and
(2) the transfer of the functions of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development to other existing or successor
Federal or State agencies.

TITLE II--TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS.

For purposes of this title, unless otherwise provided or indicated
by the context--
(1) the term ''Federal agency'' has the meaning given to
the term ''agency'' by section 551(1) of title 5, United States
Code;
(2) the term ''function'' means any duty, obligation,
power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, activity,
or program; and
(3) the term ''office'' includes any office,
administration, agency, institute, unit, organizational entity,
or component thereof.

SEC. 202. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.

There are transferred to the Department of Justice all functions
which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development exercised before
the date of the enactment of this title (including all related
functions of any officer or employee of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development) relating to the Fair Housing Act or the rights
granted under the Fair Housing Act.

SEC. 203. DETERMINATIONS OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS BY THE OFFICE OF
MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.

If necessary, the Office of Management and Budget shall make any
determination of the functions that are transferred under section 202.

SEC. 204. PERSONNEL PROVISIONS.

(a) Appointments.--The Attorney General may appoint and fix the
compensation of such officers and employees, including investigators,
attorneys, and administrative law judges, as may be necessary to carry
out the respective functions transferred under this title. Except as
otherwise provided by law, such officers and employees shall be
appointed in accordance with the civil service laws and their
compensation fixed in accordance with title 5, United States Code.
(b) Experts and Consultants.--The Attorney General may obtain the
services of experts and consultants in accordance with section 3109 of
title 5, United States Code, and compensate such experts and
consultants for each day (including travel time) at rates not in excess
of the rate of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section
5315 of such title. The Attorney General may pay experts and
consultants who are serving away from their homes or regular place of
business travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates
authorized by sections 5702 and 5703 of such title for persons in
Government service employed intermittently.

SEC. 205. DELEGATION AND ASSIGNMENT.

Except where otherwise expressly prohibited by law or otherwise
provided by this title, the Attorney General may delegate any of the
functions transferred to the Attorney General by this title and any
function transferred or granted to such Attorney General after the
effective date of this title to such officers and employees of the
Department of Justice as the Attorney General may designate, and may
authorize successive redelegations of such functions as may be
necessary or appropriate. No delegation of functions by the Attorney
General under this section or under any other provision of this title
shall relieve such Attorney General of responsibility for the
administration of such functions.

SEC. 206. REORGANIZATION.

The Attorney General is authorized to allocate or reallocate any
function transferred under section 202 among the officers of the
Department of Justice, and to establish, consolidate, alter, or
discontinue such organizational entities in the Department of Justice
as may be necessary or appropriate.

SEC. 207. RULES.

The Attorney General is authorized to prescribe, in accordance with
the provisions of chapters 5 and 6 of title 5, United States Code, such
rules and regulations as the Attorney General determines necessary or
appropriate to administer and manage the functions of Department of
Justice.

SEC. 208. TRANSFER AND ALLOCATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PERSONNEL.

Except as otherwise provided in this title, the personnel employed
in connection with, and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property,
records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations,
allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, arising from,
available to, or to be made available in connection with the functions
transferred by this title, subject to section 1531 of title 31, United
States Code, shall be transferred to the Department of Justice.
Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used
only for the purposes for which the funds were originally authorized
and appropriated.

SEC. 209. INCIDENTAL TRANSFERS.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, at such time
or times as the Director shall provide, is authorized to make such
determinations as may be necessary with regard to the functions
transferred by this title, and to make such additional incidental
dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, contracts,
property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from,
available to, or to be made available in connection with such
functions, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
title. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
provide for the termination of the affairs of all entities terminated
by this title and for such further measures and dispositions as may be
necessary to effectuate the purposes of this title.

SEC. 210. EFFECT ON PERSONNEL.

(a) In General.--Except as otherwise provided by this title, the
transfer pursuant to this title of full-time personnel (except special
Government employees) and part-time personnel holding permanent
positions shall not cause any such employee to be separated or reduced
in grade or compensation for one year after the date of transfer of
such employee under this title.
(b) Executive Schedule Positions.--Except as otherwise provided in
this title, any person who, on the day preceding the effective date of
this title, held a position compensated in accordance with the
Executive Schedule prescribed in chapter 53 of title 5, United States
Code, and who, without a break in service, is appointed in the
Department of Justice to a position having duties comparable to the
duties performed immediately preceding such appointment shall continue
to be compensated in such new position at not less than the rate
provided for such previous position, for the duration of the service of
such person in such new position.
(c) Termination of Certain Positions.--Positions whose incumbents
are appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, the functions of which are transferred by this title, shall
terminate on the effective date of this title.

SEC. 211. SAVINGS PROVISIONS.

(a) Continuing Effect of Legal Documents.--All orders,
determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agreements, grants,
contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, privileges, and other
administrative actions--
(1) which have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to
become effective by the President, any Federal agency or
official thereof, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, in
the performance of functions which are transferred under this
title, and
(2) which are in effect at the time this title takes
effect, or were final before the effective date of this title
and are to become effective on or after the effective date of
this title,
shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified,
terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by
the President, the Attorney General or other authorized official, a
court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
(b) Proceedings Not Affected.--The provisions of this title shall
not affect any proceedings, including notices of proposed rulemaking,
or any application for any license, permit, certificate, or financial
assistance pending before the Department of Housing and Urban
Development at the time this title takes effect, with respect to
functions transferred by this title but such proceedings and
applications shall be continued. Orders shall be issued in such
proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be
made pursuant to such orders, as if this title had not been enacted,
and orders issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect
until modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized
official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to prohibit the
discontinuance or modification of any such proceeding under the same
terms and conditions and to the same extent that such proceeding could
have been discontinued or modified if this title had not been enacted.
(c) Suits Not Affected.--The provisions of this title shall not
affect suits commenced before the effective date of this title, and in
all such suits, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments
rendered in the same manner and with the same effect as if this title
had not been enacted.
(d) Nonabatement of Actions.--No suit, action, or other proceeding
commenced by or against the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, or by or against any individual in the official capacity
of such individual as an officer of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this title.
(e) Administrative Actions Relating to Promulgation of
Regulations.--Any administrative action relating to the preparation or
promulgation of a regulation by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development relating to a function transferred under this title may be
continued by the Department of Justice with the same effect as if this
title had not been enacted.

SEC. 212. SEPARABILITY.

If a provision of this title or its application to any person or
circumstance is held invalid, neither the remainder of this title nor
the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances
shall be affected.

SEC. 213. TRANSITION.

The Attorney General is authorized to utilize--
(1) the services of such officers, employees, and other
personnel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
with respect to functions transferred to the Department of
Justice by this title; and
(2) funds appropriated to such functions for such period of
time as may reasonably be needed to facilitate the orderly
implementation of this title.

SEC. 214. REFERENCES.

Reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule,
regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or relating
to--
(1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with
regard to functions transferred under section 202, shall be
deemed to refer to the Attorney General; and
(2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development with
regard to functions transferred under section 202, shall be
deemed to refer to the Department of Justice.

SEC. 215. ADDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

(a) Recommended Legislation.--After consultation with the
appropriate committees of the Congress and the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget, the Attorney General shall prepare and submit
to the Congress recommended legislation containing technical and
conforming amendments to reflect the changes made by this title.
(b) Submission to the Congress.--No later than 6 months after the
effective date of this title, the Attorney General shall submit the
recommended legislation referred to under subsection (a).

SEC. 216. EFFECTIVE DATE.

This title shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment
of this Act.
Output:
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Elimination of Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Title II: Transfer of Functions and Savings Provisions
Department of Housing and Urban Development Elimination Act of 1995 -
Title I: Elimination of Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Eliminates the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Title II: Transfer of Functions and Savings Provisions -
Transfers all functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development relating to the Fair Housing Act to the Department of Justice.