Sec. 7. Screening and termination of tenancy in rural housing programs

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The Secretary of Agriculture shall— revise the regulations of the Secretary regarding screening of applicants for admission to housing assisted, and for housing assistance, under the covered rural housing programs (as such term is defined in subsection (b)) to provide that such regulations are substantially similar to the regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development relating to screening of applicants for admission to federally assisted housing and to federally assisted housing programs, pursuant to the United States Housing Act of 1937, subtitle F of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, and any other applicable laws; and revise the regulations of the Secretary regarding termination of tenancy in housing assisted, and termination of housing assistance, under the covered rural housing programs to provide that such regulations are substantially similar to the regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development relating to termination of tenancy in federally assisted housing, and termination of housing assistance, pursuant to the United States Housing Act of 1937, subtitle F of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, and any other applicable laws.

For purposes of this section, the term covered rural housing programs means— the program under section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1485 ) for rural rental and cooperative housing; the loan and grant programs under sections 514 and 516 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1484 , 1486) for farm labor housing; the program under section 533 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1490M ) for housing preservation grants; the program under section 538 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1490p–2 ) for loan guarantees for multifamily rural rental housing; the program under section 521(a) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1490a ) for rural housing rental assistance; and the program under section 542 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1490r ) for rural housing rental voucher assistance.

The Secretary of Agriculture shall issue the revised regulations required under paragraph (1)— after consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and not later than the expiration of the 180-day period that begins upon the conclusion of the period specified in section 10 of this Act. Paragraph

(3)of section 579 of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 ( 42 U.S.C. 13664 ), as so redesignated by the amendments made by section 3 of this Act, is further amended— in subparagraph (G), by inserting or after the semicolon at the end; in subparagraph (H), by striking ; or and inserting a period; and by striking subparagraph (I).

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