Local Housing Opportunities Act
Latest action. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: continuing resolutionA stopgap law funding the government at existing levels when the annual appropriations bills are not done by October 1.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) S7870-7881)
Local Housing Opportunities Act - Title I: Program Consolidation - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from carrying out any programs not expressly authorized by Federal law. Terminates specified Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs. Establishes the HUD Consolidation Task Force. Title II: Community Empowerment - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to authorize appropriations for the community development block grant program. Prohibits set-asides unless specifically provided for. Sets forth certain HUD property disposition provisions. Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1966 to make permanent the moving to work program. Title III: Homeless Assistance Reform - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to combine specified housing programs into a McKinney Homeless Assistance Performance Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations for mutual and self-help housing technical assistance and training grants. Title V: Voucher Reform - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize appropriations for rental vouchers for witness and victims of crime relocation. Title VI: Program Modernization - Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize appropriations for assistance for the self-help home ownership opportunity program. Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize and increase appropriations for the capacity building for community development and affordable housing program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish a public housing work requirement. Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to permit the use of section 8 assistance in grand family housing assisted with HOME funds. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the neighborhood reinvestment corporation. Title VII: State Housing Block Grant - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize States to assume control of Federal housing assistance funds upon execution of a qualifying performance agreement with the Secretary. Title VIII: Private Sector Incentives - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to low-income housing tax credit State ceilings and private activity bond caps. Title IX: Enforcement - Amends Federal law to prohibit HUD to use appropriated funds for lobbying activities.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on July 27, 2000. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on July 27, 2000: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7870-7881)
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the Senate
- Passage by the House
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 106th Congress (1999-00), 580 of the 9,158 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 6.3 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
A. ALLARD (R-CO) introduced it on July 27, 2000. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on July 27, 2000, 9541 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 9541 days ago, on July 27, 2000.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 106th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2001 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- SenateIntroduced, no floor vote yet
- HouseAwaits Senate passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers