SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.— This title may be cited as the “Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998”. 112 STAT. 2519 (b) Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this title is as follows: TITLE V— PUBLIC HOUSING AND TENANT-BASED ASSISTANCE REFORM Sec. 501. Short title and table of contents. Sec. 502. Findings and purposes. Sec. 503. Effective date and regulations. Subtitle A— General Provisions Sec. 505. Declaration of policy and public housing agency organization. Sec. 506. Definitions. Sec. 507. Minimum rent. Sec. 508. Determination of adjusted income and median income. Sec. 509. Family self-sufficiency program. Sec. 510. Prohibition on use of funds. Sec. 511. Public housing agency plan. Sec. 512. Community service and family self-sufficiency requirements. Sec. 513. Income targeting. Sec. 514. Repeal of Federal preferences. Sec. 515. Joint ventures and consortia of public housing agencies; repeal of energy conservation provisions. Sec. 516. Public housing agency mortgages and security interests. Sec. 517. Mental health action plan. Subtitle B— Public Housing Part 1— Capital and Operating Assistance Sec. 518. Contributions for lower income housing projects. Sec. 519. Public housing capital and operating funds. Sec. 520. Total development costs. Sec. 521. Sanctions for improper use of amounts. Sec. 522. Repeal of modernization fund. Part 2— Admissions and Occupancy Requirements Sec. 523. Family choice of rental payment. Sec. 524. Occupancy by police officers and over-income families. Sec. 525. Site-based waiting lists. Sec. 526. Pet ownership. Part 3— Management, Homeownership, and Demolition and Disposition Sec. 529. Contract provisions. Sec. 530. Housing quality requirements. Sec. 531. Demolition and disposition of public housing. Sec. 532. Resident councils and resident management corporations. Sec. 533. Conversion of public housing to vouchers; repeal of family investment centers. Sec. 534. Transfer of management of certain housing to independent manager at request of residents. Sec. 535. Demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants for projects. Sec. 536. Homeownership. Sec. 537. Required conversion of distressed public housing to tenant-based assistance. Sec. 538. Linking services to public housing residents. Sec. 539. Mixed-finance public housing. Subtitle C— Section 8 Rental and Homeownership Assistance Sec. 545. Merger of certificate and voucher programs. Sec. 546. Public housing agencies. Sec. 547. Administrative fees. Sec. 548. Law enforcement and security personnel in assisted housing. Sec. 549. Advance notice to tenants of expiration, termination, or owner nonrenewal of assistance contract. Sec. 550. Technical and conforming amendments. Sec. 551. Funding and allocation. Sec. 552. Treatment of common areas. Sec. 553. Portability. Sec. 554. Leasing to voucher holders. Sec. 555. Homeownership option. 112 STAT. 2520 Sec. 556. Renewals. Sec. 557. Manufactured housing demonstration program. Sec. 558. Authorizations of appropriations. Sec. 559. Rulemaking and implementation. Subtitle D— Home Rule Flexible Grant Demonstration Sec. 561. Home rule flexible grant demonstration program. Subtitle E— Accountability and Oversight of Public Housing Agencies Sec. 563. Study of alternative methods for evaluating public housing agencies. Sec. 564. Public housing management assessment program. Sec. 565. Expansion of powers for dealing with public housing agencies in substantial default. Sec. 566. Audits. Sec. 567. Advisory council for housing authority of New Orleans. Sec. 568. Treatment of troubled PHA’s. Subtitle F— Safety and Security in Public and Assisted Housing Sec. 575. Provisions applicable only to public housing and section 8 assistance. Sec. 576. Screening of applicants for federally assisted housing. Sec. 577. Termination of tenancy and assistance for illegal drug users and alcohol abusers in federally assisted housing. Sec. 578. Ineligibility of dangerous sex offenders for admission to public housing. Sec. 579. Definitions. Subtitle G— Repeals and Related Provisions Sec. 581. Annual report. Sec. 582. Repeals relating to public housing and section 8 programs. Sec. 583. Public housing flexibility in CHAS. Sec. 584. Use of American products. Sec. 585. GAO study on housing assistance program costs. Sec. 586. Amendments to Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990. Sec. 587. Review of drug elimination program contracts. Sec. 588. Prohibition on use of assistance for employment relocation activities. Sec. 589. Treatment of occupancy standards. Sec. 590. Income eligibility for HOME and CDBG programs. Sec. 591. Report on single family and multifamily homes. Sec. 592. Use of assisted housing by aliens. Sec. 593. Protection of senior homeowners under reverse mortgage program. Sec. 594. Housing counseling. Sec. 595. Native American housing assistance. Sec. 596. CDBG public services cap. Sec. 597. Moderate rehabilitation program. Sec. 598. National cities in schools program. Sec. 599. Tenant participation in multifamily housing projects. Sec. 599A. Clarification regarding recreational vehicles. Sec. 599B. Determination of low-income eligibility for homeownership assistance. Sec. 599C. Amendments to rural housing programs. Sec. 599D. Reauthorization of national flood insurance program. Sec. 599E. Assistance for self-help housing providers Sec. 599F. Special mortgage insurance assistance. Sec. 599G. Rehabilitation demonstration grant program. Sec. 599H. Assistance for certain localities.