Rural Housing Accessibility Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Rural Housing Accessibility Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies. The main policy domain is Housing, Transportation, Civil Rights.
Who Benefits and How
homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section id3deb1425891540bf8e1bacb6f7c2df0e: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Housing Accessibility Act.
- Section id885abd6d66a448b19f0569c2febf1dc0: 2. Requiring certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in vouchers and limiting billing initial public housing agencies beyond 12 months Section 8(o) of...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Rural Housing Accessibility Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Transportation, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
This bill, Rural Housing Accessibility Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies
Sponsors
Joni Ernst
R-IA | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Ernst (for herself and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a public housing agency that, in a given fiscal year, utilizes less than 95 percent of the budget authority available to the public housing agency
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