Housing Assistance Efficiency Act
Latest action · Dec 3, 2014 Received in the Senate and 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 23, 2013
- Passed HouseDec 2, 2014
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Housing Assistance Efficiency Act - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to allow (in addition to a state, local government, or public housing agency) a private nonprofit organization to administer permanent housing rental assistance provided through the Continuum of Care Program under the Act.
Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), at least once (currently, twice) during each fiscal year, to reallocate any housing assistance provided from the Emergency Solutions Grants Program that is unused or returned or that becomes available after the minimum allocation requirements under the Act.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 23, 2013 to Dec 2, 2014; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Original | Jul 23, 2013 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Sep 18, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Sep 18, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Sep 18, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Sep 18, 2013 | |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Sep 26, 2013 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Oct 16, 2013 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Feb 26, 2014 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Dec 2, 2014 |
Committees 2
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 Jul 23, 2013 |
| Senate | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Referred Dec 3, 2014 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 3, 2014Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Dec 2, 2014Mr. Pearce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Dec 2, 2014Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8254-8255)
- Dec 2, 2014DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2790.
- Dec 2, 2014Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8254)
- Dec 2, 2014Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jul 23, 2013Introduced in House
- Jul 23, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H8254, H8255Text printed H8254 | Gwen Moore D-WI, Scott H. Peters D-CA, Stevan Pearce R-NM | Dec 2, 2014 |
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H4979.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize private nonprofit organizations to administer permanent housing rental assistance provided through the Continuum of Care Program under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Housing Assistance Efficiency Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Housing Assistance Efficiency Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 3, 2014Referred in Senate
- Dec 2, 2014Engrossed in House
- Jul 23, 2013Introduced 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.
