US Congress House Bill 4329 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on December 3 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-12-03 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Pending: Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (the Act) to give the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 60 days to act before the request of an Indian tribe for a waiver of certain local cooperation, housing plan, environmental review, or development cost requirements is deemed approved under the program providing tribes with block grants for affordable and self-determined housing activities. Deems an Indian tribe that is receiving a block grant for an affordable housing project under the Act and one or more other sources of federal funding for such project to have satisfied any environmental review requirements that accompany that funding if the tribe has assumed environmental review responsibilities under the Act and is in compliance with those review requirements. Requires the Secretary to waive environmental review requirements if inadvertent error prevents satisfaction of such requirements and certain other conditions are met. Makes low-income training and employment requirements under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 inapplicable to tribal housing activities under the Act. Allows the use of Indian reserve accounts for affordable housing activities, not just the administration and planning of those activities. Makes maximum rent and homebuyer payment provisions for housing assisted under the Act inapplicable if the grant recipient has a written policy that includes maximum rent and homebuyer payment provisions. Treats rental housing as affordable housing if it is made available only to a current rental family for purchase as a homebuyer or lease-purchase unit and that family was a low-income family at the time of their initial occupancy of the unit. Makes the requirement that housing assisted under the Act remain affordable throughout the remaining life of the property inapplicable to improvements of a privately owned home if the cost of those improvements do not exceed 10% of the maximum total development cost for such home. Requires the owner or manager of rental housing assisted under the Act and one or more other federal funding sources to only use leases that require a lease termination notice period. Allows recipients of funding under the Act to use funding from the Indian Health Service (IHS) of HUD for the construction of sanitation facilities for housing construction and renovation projects funded under the Act. Reauthorizes appropriations for the block grant program through FY2018. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary to implement a supportive housing and rental assistance program, in conjunction with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), for the benefit of Native American veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Amends the Act to extend, from 50 years to 99 years, the limit on the lease of trust or Indian restricted lands for housing purposes. Prohibits such limit from being construed to affect any authority to lease those lands that is conferred pursuant to any law whether enacted before, on, or after the enactment of such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to use such sums as may be necessary from the block grant program's appropriations to assist a national organization to provide training and technical assistance to Indian housing authorities and tribally designated housing entities. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee Indian housing loans through FY2018. Authorizes appropriations for such guarantees. Sets the maximum aggregate outstanding principal amount for such loans. Amends the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 to require the Lands Title Report Commission to be appointed no later than 90 days after this Act's enactment, without the current condition that sums be appropriated for that purpose in advance. Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of funds under that Act for the benefit of the Cherokee Nation unless the Order issued on September 21, 2011, by the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia remains in effect or there is a settlement agreement which ends litigation among the adverse parties. Amends the Act to establish a demonstration program that requires a participating Indian tribe to select an investor partner and, with that partner, to develop and implement a Secretary-approved plan to address the tribe's housing needs. Requires each participating tribe to obtain assistance from a qualified entity in assessing its housing needs. Makes the block grant amounts that would otherwise have been allocated to a participating tribe under the Act available under the demonstration program to: (1) provide investor partners or other investors with a full return on their investment in the tribe's housing needs, (2) cover a tribe's administrative costs, and (3) cover housing infrastructure costs associated with providing affordable housing for the tribe.

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2014

Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]

Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]

Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-12-03	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
2014-12-02	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2014-12-02	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8246-8250)
2014-12-02	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4329.
2014-12-02	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8246-8254)
2014-12-02	House	Mr. Pearce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2014-11-20	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 468.
2014-11-20	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 113-628.
2014-07-30	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 47 - 11.
2014-07-30	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2014-03-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4329/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4329/BILLS-113hr4329ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4329/BILLS-113hr4329rh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4329/BILLS-113hr4329eh.pdf