This bill requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to record whether automatic sprinkler systems are present in public housing during HUD inspections, including inspections done through the Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC). HUD must submit to Congress a report, based on inspections done during the three-year period after the law takes effect, about the presence or absence of sprinklers. The report must include recommendations to improve fire safety in certain "exempted" public housing projects (projects that are not newly constructed multifamily properties and are not already covered by specific federal fire-safety rules).
The bill also creates a competitive grant program. HUD will award grants to public housing agencies so they can install automatic sprinkler systems in those exempted public housing projects. The grants cannot be used to install sprinklers in rebuilt multifamily properties as defined in the referenced federal fire-safety law. The bill clarifies that it does not require public housing agencies to install sprinkler systems in exempted projects.
The bill authorizes $25,000,000 to be appropriated to the Capital Fund for each fiscal year 2025 through 2034 to carry out the sprinkler retrofit grants. This is in addition to other Capital Fund appropriations. That authorization equals $25,000,000 per year (a total of $250,000,000 authorized across those years). No publicly available information on other estimated costs, savings, or fiscal impacts is included in the bill text.
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