Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part F · Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing
§ 12831. Equal opportunity
Statutory text
Solicitation of contracts
Each participating jurisdiction shall prescribe procedures acceptable to the Secretary to establish and oversee a minority outreach program within each such jurisdiction to ensure the inclusion, to the maximum extent possible, of minorities and women, and entities owned by minorities and women, including, without limitation, real estate firms, construction firms, appraisal firms, management firms, financial institutions, investment banking firms, underwriters, accountants, and providers of legal services, in all contracts, entered into by the participating jurisdiction with such persons or entities, public and private, in order to facilitate the activities of the participating jurisdiction to provide affordable housing authorized under this Act or any other Federal housing law applicable to such jurisdiction.
Report to Congress
Before the end of the 180-day period beginning on the date the first allocation of funds is made under section 12747 of this title, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report containing a description of the actions taken by each participating jurisdiction pursuant to subsection (a) and such recommendations for administrative and legislative action as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate to carry out the purposes of such subsection.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
HOME Investment Partnerships Act
Pub. L. 101–625 title II § 281 · 104 Stat. 4079
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12831
(Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 281, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4125.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 281, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4125.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 281. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. (a) Solicitation of Contracts.— Each participating jurisdiction Minorities. Women. shall prescribe procedures acceptable to the Secretary to establish and oversee a minority outreach program within each such jurisdiction to ensure the inclusion, to the maximum extent possible, of minorities and women, and entities owned by minorities and women, including, without limitation, real estate firms, construction firms, appraisal firms, management firms, financial institutions, investment banking firms, underwriters, accountants, and providers of legal services, in all contracts, entered into by the participating jurisdiction with such persons or entities, public and private, in order to facilitate the activities of the participating jurisdiction to provide affordable housing authorized under this Act or any other Federal housing law applicable to such jurisdiction. (b) Report to Congress.— Before the end of the 180-day period beginning on the date the first allocation of funds is made under section 217, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report containing a description of the actions taken by each participating jurisdiction pursuant to subsection (a) and such recommendations for administrative and legislative action as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate to carry out the purposes of such subsection.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 101–625, , 104 Stat. 4079, known as the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 12701 of this title and Tables.