Housing Voucher Improvement Act of 2002
Latest action · Jul 11, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 11, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Permits PHAs to use unutilized section 8 funds, or reserve funds in cases of no such unutilized funds, to help families find housing. Establishes the Voucher Success Fund to assist certain PHAs with no unutilized funds.
Authorizes PHAs to make limited increases in maximum rents.
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide PHAs with lists of rental units in their metropolitan areas that were given low-income housing tax credits or were built under the HOME Investments Partnership Act.
Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate chronically unutilized section 8 vouchers through designated metropolitan administrators.
Permits families in project-based section 8 units to participate in specified self-sufficiency programs.
Sets forth grant and income exclusion work incentives.
Authorizes a welfare-to-work housing voucher program.
Authorizes PHAs to: (1) begin rental payments before inspection under specified circumstances; and (2) use technical assistance funds and other means to establish electronic transfer systems for rental payments.
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Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 11, 2002 to Nov 18, 2002, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Original | Jul 11, 2002 |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Jul 18, 2002 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Sep 3, 2002 | |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Nov 18, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 11, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Jul 11, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Jul 11, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6651-6655)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Affordable housing
- Aid to dependent children
- Apartment houses
- Business income tax
- Cash welfare block grants
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Commuting
- Counseling
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Disabled
- Earnings
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic benefits transfers
- Families
- Federal aid to housing
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Home ownership
- Home repair and improvement
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing authorities
- Housing discrimination
- Housing for the disabled
- Housing subsidies
- Income tax
- Labor and Employment
- Landlord and tenant
- Law
- Low-income housing
- Metropolitan areas
- Public housing
- Rent
- Rent subsidies
- Rental housing
- Residential rehabilitation
- Rural housing
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
- Urban affairs
- Urban housing
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare-to-work
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