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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 4856 (Introduced in House) — To improve the safety of, affordability of, and access to housing. · Sec. 202

Sec. 202. Supporting affordability and safety for public servants

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Section 3(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437a(a) ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking Except as provided in paragraph
(2)and inserting Except as provided in paragraphs
(2)and
(4); and in paragraph (4)— in the heading, by striking and inserting, Occupancy by police officers ; Occupancy by police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians by redesignating subparagraph
(C)as subparagraph (D); by inserting after subparagraph
(B)the following: Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a family of which one or more members are a police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical technician shall pay as rent for a dwelling unit assisted under this Act the highest of the following amounts, rounded to the nearest dollar: 15 per centum of the family's monthly adjusted income; or 5 per centum of the family's monthly income ; and by amending subparagraph (D), as so redesignated, to read as follows: In this paragraph: The term police officer means any person determined by a public housing agency to be, during the period of residence of that person in public housing, employed on a full-time basis as a duly licensed professional police officer by a Federal, State, or local government or by any agency thereof (including a public housing agency having an accredited police force). The term firefighter means any person determined by a public housing agency to be, during the period of residence of that person in public housing, employed on a full-time basis as a firefighter by a fire department or emergency medical services responder unit of the Federal Government, a State, unit of general local government, or an Indian tribal government. The term emergency medical technician means any person determined by a public housing agency to be, during the period of residence of that person in public housing, employed on a full-time basis as an emergency medical technician by a fire department or emergency medical services responder unit of the Federal Government, a State, unit of general local government, or an Indian tribal government. .
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