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S1091Referred to Committee

Rural Housing Accessibility Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-24
Introduced
1
Cosponsors
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Type

Sponsor

Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
Republican · IA · Senator
Votes with party: 34.4% (320 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/E000295

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (1)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

  • Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Original· 2025-03-24

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

2025-03-24

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsReferred To · 2025-03-24

Previously

  • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs CommitteeReferred To · 2025-03-24

Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Housing and Community Development
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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