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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1042
To amend the HOME Investment Partnerships Act to establish a Project
Turnkey Program to leverage vacant hotels and motels for housing and
enhance shelter capacity nationally, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY6, 2025
Ms. B
ONAMICI(for herself, Ms. NORTON, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. SALINAS, Mr. GAR-
CIAof California, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Mr. AMO, Ms.
J
ACOBS, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. ANSARI, and Ms. HOYLEof
Oregon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services
A BILL
To amend the HOME Investment Partnerships Act to estab-
lish a Project Turnkey Program to leverage vacant hotels
and motels for housing and enhance shelter capacity
nationally, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Project Turnkey Act’’. 4
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SEC. 2. PROJECT TURNKEY PROGRAM. 1
Subtitle E of the HOME Investment Partnerships 2
Act (42 U.S.C. 12821) is amended by adding at the end 3
the following: 4
‘‘SEC. 272. PROJECT TURNKEY PROGRAM. 5
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—There is established a Project 6
Turnkey Program through which the Secretary shall 7
award amounts to eligible entities to use for eligible activi-8
ties. 9
‘‘(b) U
SE OFAMOUNTS BYELIGIBLEENTITIES.— 10
‘‘(1) A
DMINISTRATIVE AND PLANNING COSTS .— 11
An eligible entity that receives amounts under this 12
section may use not more than 15 percent of such 13
amounts for administrative and planning costs. 14
‘‘(2) O
PERATING EXPENSES OF OTHER ORGANI -15
ZATIONS.— 16
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—An eligible entity that 17
receives amounts under this section may use 18
not more than 5 percent of such amounts to 19
cover the operating expenses of community 20
housing development organizations and non-21
profit organizations carrying out activities au-22
thorized under this section. 23
‘‘(B) An eligible entity may only use 24
amounts in the manner described in subpara-25
graph (A) if— 26
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‘‘(i) such funds are used to develop 1
the capacity of the community housing de-2
velopment organization or nonprofit orga-3
nization in the jurisdiction or insular area 4
to carry out activities authorized under 5
this section; and 6
‘‘(ii) the community housing develop-7
ment organization or nonprofit organiza-8
tion complies with the limitation on assist-9
ance in section 234(b). 10
‘‘(3) C
ONTRACTING.—A grantee, when con-11
tracting with service providers engaged directly in 12
the provision of supportive services as defined by 13
section 578.53 of title 24, Code of Federal Regula-14
tions shall, to the extent practicable, enter into con-15
tracts in amounts that cover the actual total pro-16
gram costs and administrative overhead to provide 17
the services contracted. 18
‘‘(c) S
UBGRANTS.—Any eligible entity that is a public 19
entity may subgrant any amounts received under this sec-20
tion. 21
‘‘(d) S
UPPLEMENTNOTSUPPLANT.—As a condition 22
of receiving amounts under this section, an eligible entity 23
shall use such funds received under this section only to 24
supplement the level of State or local funds that would, 25
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in the absence of the receipt of funds under this section, 1
be made available for activities described in this section. 2
‘‘(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In ad-3
dition to amounts otherwise available under this Act, there 4
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 5
$1,000,000,000 annually. 6
‘‘(f) A
VAILABILITY OFAMOUNTS.—Amounts appro-7
priated pursuant to this section shall remain available 8
until 2035. 9
‘‘(g) A
LLOCATION OFAMOUNTS.— 10
‘‘(1) F
ORMULA ASSISTANCE .—Except as pro-11
vided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary shall 12
allocate amounts appropriated under this section to 13
grantees that received allocations under section 217 14
in fiscal year 2025. 15
‘‘(2) T
ECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—$25,000,000 of 16
any amounts appropriated under this section may be 17
provided by the Secretary to be used to increase ca-18
pacity building and technical assistance available to 19
grantees receiving amounts under this section. 20
‘‘(3) A
DMINISTRATION.—Not more than 21
$50,000,000 of any amounts appropriated under 22
this section may be used by the Secretary to cover 23
costs related to the administration and implementa-24
tion of this section. 25
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‘‘(4) WAIVERS AND ALTERNATIVE REQUIRE -1
MENTS.—The Secretary may waive or specify alter-2
native requirements for any provision of the Cran-3
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 4
U.S.C. 12701 et seq.) and titles I and IV of the 5
McKinney-Vento Homelessness Act (42 U.S.C. 6
11301 et seq., 11360 et seq.) or regulation for the 7
administration of the amounts made available under 8
this section other than requirements related to fair 9
housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the 10
environment, upon a finding that the waiver or alter-11
native requirement is necessary to expedite or facili-12
tate the use of amounts made available under this 13
section. 14
‘‘(h) S
PECIALRULES.—The cost limits described in 15
section 212(e), the commitment requirements described in 16
section 218(g), the matching requirements described in 17
section 220, and the set-aside for housing developed, spon-18
sored, or owned by community housing development orga-19
nizations required in section 231 shall not apply for any 20
amounts appropriated under this section. 21
‘‘(i) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 22
‘‘(1) Q
UALIFYING INDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY DE -23
FINED.—The term ‘qualifying individual or family’ 24
means an individual or family that is— 25
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‘‘(A) homeless, as such term defined in 1
section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home-2
less Assistance Act; 3
‘‘(B) at-risk of homelessness, as defined in 4
section 401(1) of the McKinney-Vento Home-5
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1); 6
‘‘(C) fleeing, or attempting to flee, domes-7
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 8
stalking, or human trafficking, as such terms 9
are defined by the Secretary; 10
‘‘(D) a homeless children or youth, as that 11
term is defined in section 725 of McKinney- 12
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 13
11434a); or 14
‘‘(E) a youth experiencing homelessness as 15
that term is defined in section 38723 of the 16
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (34 U.S.C. 17
11279). 18
‘‘(2) E
LIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-19
tity’ means— 20
‘‘(A) a State, city, county, regional govern-21
ment, or territory government; 22
‘‘(B) a public housing agency; 23
‘‘(C) a project sponsor receiving amounts 24
under the Continuum of Care program under 25
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title IV of this Act, or any combination of such 1
entities; 2
‘‘(D) a nonprofit that provides housing; 3
‘‘(E) a Community Development Corpora-4
tion; or 5
‘‘(F) a Community Development Financial 6
Institution. 7
‘‘(3) E
LIGIBLE ACTIVITY.—The term ‘eligible 8
activity’ means— 9
‘‘(A) rental assistance, including— 10
‘‘(i) providing rent payment assist-11
ance; 12
‘‘(ii) providing security deposit assist-13
ance; and 14
‘‘(iii) providing utility deposits and 15
utility payments; 16
‘‘(B) any eligible use of investments de-17
scribed under section 212(a); 18
‘‘(C) supportive services as defined in sec-19
tion 578.53 of title 24, Code of Federal Regula-20
tions including— 21
‘‘(i) activities listed in section 401(29) 22
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-23
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(29)); 24
‘‘(ii) housing counseling; and 25
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‘‘(iii) homeless prevention services; 1
‘‘(D) the acquisition, development, and op-2
eration of non-congregate shelter units or af-3
fordable rental housing; 4
‘‘(E) the rehabilitation, retrofitting, and 5
conversion of newly acquired or vacant prop-6
erties, including motels, hotels, schools, hos-7
pitals, and office buildings, for the purposes of 8
providing affordable housing or shelter; 9
‘‘(F) the repair and expansion of shelters 10
and preservation of bed capacity; and 11
‘‘(G) any other purpose as determined ap-12
propriate by the Secretary. 13
‘‘(4) H
OTEL.—The term ‘hotel’ has the mean-14
ing given the term in section 301(7)(A) of the Amer-15
icans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 16
12181(7)(A)), that are no longer affecting commerce 17
(as such term is defined in such section 301). 18
‘‘(5) M
OTEL.—The term ‘motel’ has the mean-19
ing given the term in section 301(7)(A) of the Amer-20
icans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 21
12181(7)(A)), that are no longer affecting commerce 22
(as such term is defined in such section 301).’’. 23
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