Samaritan Initiative Act of 2004
Latest action · Jul 13, 2004 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedMar 30, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Samaritan Initiative Act of 2004 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to establish a program through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under which a participating Federal agency shall make grants to eligible entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, for permanent housing (provision of housing or rental assistance) and related treatment (including health and drug and alcohol treatment) and support services for chronically homeless persons.
Requires: (1) a participating Federal agency to establish an interagency implementation and monitoring team; and (2) a grantee to establish a homeless management information system.
Obligates specified authorizations of appropriations for: (1) HUD; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (3) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Authorizes the participation of other Federal agencies.
Cosponsors 30
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 30, 2004 to Oct 8, 2004; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KY | Anne M. Northup | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-OH | Deborah Pryce | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| D-UT | Jim Matheson | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-CT | Nancy L. Johnson | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-OH | Patrick J. Tiberi | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-CT | Rob Simmons | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-OH | Robert W. Ney | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-NY | Thomas M. Reynolds | Original | Mar 30, 2004 |
| R-NC | Richard Burr | Apr 21, 2004 | |
| R-WI | Mark Green | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| R-CA | Jerry Lewis | May 5, 2004 | |
| R-NY | Peter T. King | May 5, 2004 | |
| R-PA | Melissa A. Hart | May 6, 2004 | |
| R-IL | Judy Biggert | May 11, 2004 | |
| R-PA | James C. Greenwood | May 13, 2004 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | May 19, 2004 | |
| R-PA | Phil English | May 19, 2004 | |
| R-MN | Jim Ramstad | Jul 6, 2004 | |
| R-CA | Howard P. "Buck" McKeon | Jul 8, 2004 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Jul 13, 2004 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | Jul 13, 2004 | |
| R-NE | Doug Bereuter | Jul 19, 2004 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Jul 20, 2004 | |
| R-MN | Mark R. Kennedy | Sep 21, 2004 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Sep 23, 2004 | |
| R-MN | John Kline | Oct 5, 2004 | |
| R-NH | Jeb Bradley | Oct 8, 2004 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Mar 30, 2004 |
| Housing and Insurance Subcommittee | Referred Apr 20, 2004Hearings Jul 13, 2004 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 13, 2004Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Apr 20, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
- Mar 30, 2004Introduced in House
- Mar 30, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 3
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 108-99 | H.R. 4057182 pages | Financial Services Committee | Jul 13, 2004 |
| — | DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005118 pages | Appropriations Committee | Apr 1, 2004 |
| S. Hrg. 108-776 | DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005610 pages | Appropriations Committee | Feb 26, 2004–Apr 8, 2004 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a grant program administered under an agreement among the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness through coordinated provision of housing, health care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, supportive and other services, including assistance in accessing non-homeless specific benefits and services, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Samaritan Initiative Act of 2004
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Affordable housing
- Alcoholism
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Auditing
- Case management
- Church and social problems
- Continuum of care
- Counseling
- Data banks
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to housing
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health counseling
- Homeless
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing authorities
- Housing subsidies
- Information services
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Leases
- Management information systems
- Medical tests
- Mental health services
- Nonprofit organizations
- Performance measurement
- Preventive medicine
- Psychotherapy
- Psychotropic drugs
- Religion
- Rental housing
- Residential rehabilitation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Veterans' benefits
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 30, 2004Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.