Rural Housing Accessibility Act has not moved since its introduction on Mar 24, 2025, with one cosponsor, a Republican
IntroducedMar 24, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 81 words.
Rural Housing Accessibility Act This bill requires a public housing agency (PHA) that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a given year to accept a housing choice voucher from a family that received the voucher from an agency in a different jurisdiction. The PHA that accepts the voucher (1) must make assistance payments to the family under an annual contributions contract, and (2) may not bill the initial PHA for the assistance payments for more than 12 months.
Context
- Committees
- Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
- Policy area
- Housing and Community Development: 5 of 1,087 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.5%)
- Sponsor
- 4 of 321 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 299 words
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
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