Bringing America Home Act
Latest action · Mar 27, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
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.
- IntroducedNov 16, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Bringing America Home Act - Declares that it is a national goal to fulfill the basic human need of shelter by ending homelessness in the United States.
Establishes in the Treasury the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) incremental rental assistance; (2) housing program funding; (3) rural housing and economic development; and (4) veterans homeless comprehensive services programs.
Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association Act - Establishes the Federal Hopelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association (Hollie Mae) which may develop mutual housing (generally, a nonprofit cooperative ownership housing association) that is affordable for low-income individuals and families.
Provides for: (1) use of federal property to assist the homeless; (2) preservation of HOPE VI public housing units; and (3) establishment of an Emergency Rent Relief Fund.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit.
Revises assistance provisions under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, including establishing a continuum of care program.
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the need to expand Medicaid and keep it affordable to beneficiaries.
Authorizes appropriations, and sets forth program provisions, for mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness programs.
Cosponsors 37
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 16, 2005 to Sep 7, 2006; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Original | Nov 16, 2005 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Dec 16, 2005 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Dec 16, 2005 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Jan 31, 2006 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Jan 31, 2006 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Jan 31, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Feb 7, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Apr 26, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | May 2, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | May 2, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | May 9, 2006 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 9, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | May 15, 2006 | |
| D-AL | Artur Davis | May 18, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Jun 6, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Sep 7, 2006 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Sep 7, 2006 |
Committees 7
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 Nov 16, 2005 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jan 3, 2006 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2006 | |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2006 | |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2006 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
| Economic Opportunity Subcommittee | Referred Jan 3, 2006 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Nov 16, 2005 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Mar 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Mar 27, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Jan 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- Jan 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To end homelessness in the United States.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Bringing America Home Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Administrative procedure
- Affordable housing
- Agriculture and Food
- AIDS (Disease)
- Apprenticeship
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction workers
- Continuum of care
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug addiction
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency housing
- Emergency Management
- Employee rights
- Eviction
- Ex-offenders
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to housing
- Food stamps
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government statistics
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Homeless
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing subsidies
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Human rights
- Income tax
- Labor and Employment
- Landlord and tenant
- Legislation
- Local laws
- Low-income housing
- Medicaid
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Minimum wages
- Mortgages
- Nonprofit organizations
- Old age, survivors and disability insurance
- Preventive medicine
- Public housing
- Rent
- Residential rehabilitation
- Runaway children
- Rural economic development
- Rural housing
- Shelters for the homeless
- Social Welfare
- Supplemental security income program
- Surplus government property
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Temporary employment
- Veterans' benefits
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2005Introduced in House
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