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House advances changes to statewide rental-assistance voucher program amid questions about benefit formula
Summary
Lawmakers adopted committee amendments and advanced a bill altering eligibility and administration of the statewide rental-assistance voucher program after extended floor questions about who pays what share of rent and whether the change increases or tightens eligibility.
The House adopted committee amendments and advanced House file "House 7 16" on March 4, a bill that alters eligibility and administrative rules for the statewide rental-assistance voucher program.
The bill, described on the floor as altering the program’s definition of “public housing agency” and changing how voucher funding is allocated among jurisdictions, was amended to allow public housing agencies to administer the state program and to adjust the method the Department uses to determine distributions. "Amendment number 1 is technical. Amendment number 2 authorizes public housing agencies to administer the state program in accordance with its local administrative plan," the floor leader said when moving the changes; the House adopted the amendments and the favorable report as amended was accepted.
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