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34 U.S.C. § 12496 — Right to report crime and emergencies from one’s home
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**(a) Definition** In this section, the term “covered governmental entity” means any municipal, county, or State government that receives funding under [section 5306 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5306&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Right to report**
(1) **In general** — Landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, and guests of, and applicants for, housing—
(A) shall have the right to seek law enforcement or emergency assistance on their own behalf or on behalf of another person in need of assistance; and
(B) shall not be penalized based on their requests for assistance or based on criminal activity of which they are a victim or otherwise not at fault under statutes, ordinances, regulations, or policies adopted or enforced by covered governmental entities.
(2) **Prohibited penalties** — Penalties that are prohibited under paragraph (1) include—
(A) actual or threatened assessment of monetary or criminal penalties, fines, or fees;
(B) actual or threatened eviction;
(C) actual or threatened refusal to rent or renew tenancy;
(D) actual or threatened refusal to issue an occupancy permit or landlord permit; and
(E) actual or threatened closure of the property, or designation of the property as a nuisance or a similarly negative designation.
**(c) Reporting** Consistent with the process described in [section 5304(b) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5304/b&num=0&edition=prelim), covered governmental entities shall—
(1) report any of their laws or policies, or, as applicable, the laws or policies adopted by subgrantees, that impose penalties on landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, guests, or housing applicants based
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**(a) Definition** In this section, the term “covered governmental entity” means any municipal, county, or State government that receives funding under [section 5306 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5306&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Right to report**
(1) **In general** — Landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, and guests of, and applicants for, housing—
(A) shall have the right to seek law enforcement or emergency assistance on their own behalf or on behalf of another person in need of assistance; and
(B) shall not be penalized based on their requests for assistance or based on criminal activity of which they are a victim or otherwise not at fault under statutes, ordinances, regulations, or policies adopted or enforced by covered governmental entities.
(2) **Prohibited penalties** — Penalties that are prohibited under paragraph (1) include—
(A) actual or threatened assessment of monetary or criminal penalties, fines, or fees;
(B) actual or threatened eviction;
(C) actual or threatened refusal to rent or renew tenancy;
(D) actual or threatened refusal to issue an occupancy permit or landlord permit; and
(E) actual or threatened closure of the property, or designation of the property as a nuisance or a similarly negative designation.
**(c) Reporting** Consistent with the process described in [section 5304(b) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5304/b&num=0&edition=prelim), covered governmental entities shall—
(1) report any of their laws or policies, or, as applicable, the laws or policies adopted by subgrantees, that impose penalties on landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, guests, or housing applicants based on requests for law enforcement or emergency assistance or based on criminal activity that occurred at a property; and
(2) certify that they are in compliance with the protections under this part or describe the steps the covered governmental entities will take within 180 days to come into compliance, or to ensure compliance among subgrantees.
**(d) Implementation** The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Attorney General shall implement and enforce this subpart consistent with, and in a manner that provides, the same rights and remedies as those provided for in title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ([42 U.S.C. 3601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
**(e) Subgrantees** For those covered governmental entities that distribute funds to subgrantees, compliance with subsection (c)(1) includes inquiring about the existence of laws and policies adopted by subgrantees that impose penalties on landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, guests, or housing applicants based on requests for law enforcement or emergency assistance or based on criminal activity that occurred at a property.
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**(a) Purpose** It is the purpose of this section to assist eligible grantees in responding appropriately to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking so that the status of being a victim of such a crime is not a reason for the denial or loss of housing. Such assistance shall be accomplished through—
(1) education and training of eligible entities;
(2) development and implementation of appropriate housing policies and practices;
(3) enhancement of collaboration with victim service providers and tenant organizations; and
(4) reduction of the number of victims of such crimes who are evicted or denied housing because of crimes and lease violations committed or directly caused by the perpetrators of such crimes.
**(b) Grants authorized**
(1) **In general** — The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice (“Director”), and in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (“ACYF”), shall award grants and contracts for not less than 2 years to eligible grantees to promote the full and equal access to and use of housing by adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
(2) **Amounts** — Not less than 15 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this section shall be available for grants to tribally designated housing entities.
(3) **Award basis** — The Attorney General shall award grants and contracts under this section on a competitive basis.
(4) **Limitation** — Appropriated funds may only be used for the purposes described in subsection (f).
**(c) Eligible grantees**
(1) **I
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Commercial pornographic content** — The term “commercial pornographic content” means any material that is subject to the record keeping requirements under [section 2257 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2257&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Consent** — The term “consent” means an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization made by the individual free from force, fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion.
(3) **Depicted individual** — The term “depicted individual” means an individual whose body appears in whole or in part in an intimate visual depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature, or from information displayed in connection with the visual depiction.
(4) **Disclose** — The term “disclose” means to transfer, publish, distribute, or make accessible.
(5) **Intimate visual depiction** — The term “intimate visual depiction”—
(A) means a visual depiction, as that term is defined in [section 2256(5) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2256/5&num=0&edition=prelim), that depicts—
(i) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or post-pubescent female nipple of an identifiable individual; or
(ii) the display or transfer of bodily sexual fluids—
(I) on to any part of the body of an identifiable individual;
(II) from the body of an identifiable individual; or
(III) an identifiable individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct and 11 So in original.
(B) includes any visual depictions described in subparagraph (A) produced while the identifiable individual wa
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**(a) Amounts allocated to Indian tribes, discretionary fund, and metropolitan cities and urban counties; limitations on amount of annual grants**
(1) For each fiscal year, of the amount approved in appropriation Acts under [section 5303 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) for grants for such fiscal year (excluding the amounts provided for use in accordance with [section 5307 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5307&num=0&edition=prelim)), the Secretary shall reserve for grants to Indian tribes 1 percent of the amount appropriated under such section. The Secretary shall provide for distribution of amounts under this paragraph to Indian tribes on the basis of a competition conducted pursuant to specific criteria for the selection of Indian tribes to receive such amounts. The criteria shall be contained in a regulation promulgated by the Secretary after notice and public comment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, such grants to Indian tribes shall not be subject to the requirements of [section 5304 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5304&num=0&edition=prelim), except subsections (f), (g), and (k) of such section.
(2) For each fiscal year, of the amount approved in appropriation Acts under [section 5303 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) for grants for such fiscal year (excluding the amounts provided for use in accordance with [section 5307 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5307&num=0&edition=prelim)), the Secretary shall reserve
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It is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States.
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 12495
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section not effective until Oct. 1 of the first fiscal
year beginning after Mar. 15, 2022, see section 4(a) of
div. W of Pub. L. 117–103, set out as a note under section
6851 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
§ 12495. Right to report crime and emergencies
from one’s home
(a) Definition
In this section, the term ‘‘covered govern-
mental entity’’ means any municipal, county, or
State government that receives funding under
section 5306 of title 42.
(b) Right to report
(1) In general
Landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents,
occupants, and guests of, and applicants for,
housing—
(A) shall have the right to seek law en-
forcement or emergency assistance on their
own behalf or on behalf of another person in
need of assistance; and
(B) shall not be penalized based on their
requests for assistance or based on criminal
activity of which they are a victim or other-
wise not at fault under statutes, ordinances,
regulations, or policies adopted or enforced
by covered governmental entities.
(2) Prohibited penalties
Penalties that are prohibited under para-
graph (1) include—
(A) actual or threatened assessment of
monetary or criminal penalties, fines, or
fees;
(B) actual or threatened eviction;
(C) actual or threatened refusal to rent or
renew tenancy;
(D) actual or threatened refusal to issue an
occupancy permit or landlord permit; and
(E) actual or threatened closure of the
property, or designation of the property as a
nuisance or a similarly negative designa-
tion.
(c) Reporting
Consistent with the process described in sec-
tion 5304(b) of title 42, covered governmental en-
tities shall—
(1) report any of their laws or policies,
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 3550
personnel to conduct investigations, establish guide-
lines and timeframes for such investigations, prescribe
requirements for final reports on violations, and pre-
scribe procedures for conducting investigations of, and
reporting on, Anti-Deficiency Act violations, was not
repeated in subsequent appropriation acts. Similar pro-
visions were contained in the following prior appropria-
tion acts:
Pub. L. 108–447, div. I, title II, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat.
3312.
Pub. L. 108–199, div. G, title II, Jan. 23, 2004, 118 Stat.
389.
Pub. L. 108–7, div. K, title II, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat.
499, as amended by Pub. L. 108–199, div. G, title II, Jan.
23, 2004, 118 Stat. 389.
§ 3550. Audit of Department financial statements
For this fiscal year and each fiscal year there-
after, subject to appropriations for that purpose,
the Office of Inspector General shall procure and
rely upon the services of an independent exter-
nal auditor(s) to audit the financial statements
of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, including the consolidated financial
statement and the financial statements of the
Federal Housing Administration and the Gov-
ernment National Mortgage Association.
(Pub. L. 116–260, div. L, title II, Dec. 27, 2020, 134
Stat. 1891.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This fiscal year, referred to in text, is fiscal year 2021.
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act,
2021, and also as part of the Transportation, Housing
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2021, and not as part of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development Act which com-
prises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Relate
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