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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Aug 27, 1999
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 1999 - Makes amendments to the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA), including: (1) setting forth a requirement for assistance to Indian families that are not low-income; (2) eliminating separate Indian housing plan requirements for small Indian tribes; (3) exempting any contract or agreement for assistance, sale, or lease relating to fewer than 12 units of assisted housing from the requirement that no less than the prevailing wages in the locality be paid to certain workers employed in the development and operation of affordable housing projects; (4) allowing the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive, in limited circumstances, the requirements pertaining to environmental review; (5) revising provisions regarding review and audit by the Secretary; (6) prescribing an allocation formula for certain Indian tribes; (7) excepting from the hearing requirement certain actions by the Secretary affecting grant amounts if the Secretary makes a determination that the failure of a recipient of assistance to comply substantially with any material provision of the Act is resulting, and would continue to result, in a continuing unauthorized expenditure of Federal funds; and (8) revising requirements regarding noncompliance by recipients because of technical incapacity to permit the provision of technical assistance if the recipient enters into a performance agreement with the Secretary (limits the period of such an agreement to one year).(Sec. 11) Amends NAHASDA to repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements with respect to housing assisted with grant amounts provided under the Act.
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Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] · R–CO
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Referred to the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S897-898)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S897-898)
The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S895-898; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S895-896)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 374.
Senate Committee on Banking discharged. Pursuant to the order of October 27, 1999.
Senate Committee on Banking discharged. Pursuant to the order of October 27, 1999.
Referred to the Committee on Banking by unanimous consent , sequentially, and if the bill is not reported by that Committee by November 2, 1999, the Committee be discharged from further consideration thereof, and the bill be placed on the calendar.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 266.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Campbell under the authority of the order of Aug 5, 99 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-145.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Campbell under the authority of the order of Aug 5, 99 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-145.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1420-1421)
Introduced in Senate
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