EXCEPTION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY RESIDENT BOARD MEMBER REQUIREMENT.

SEC. 114. EXCEPTION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY RESIDENT BOARD MEMBER REQUIREMENT. Subsection (b) of section 2 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437(b)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking “paragraph (2)” and inserting “paragraphs (2) and (3)”; (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph: “(3) Exception for certain jurisdictions.— “(A) Exception.—A covered agency (as such term is defined in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph) shall not be required to include on the board of directors or a similar governing board of such agency a member described in paragraph (1). “(B) Advisory board requirement.—Each covered agency that administers Federal housing assistance under section 8 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) that chooses not to include a member described in paragraph (1) on the board of directors or a similar governing board of the agency shall establish an advisory board of not less than 6 residents of public housing or recipients of assistance under section 8 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to provide advice and comment to the agency or other administering entity on issues related to public housing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not less than quarterly. “(C) Covered agency or entity.—For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘covered agency’ means a public housing agency or such other entity that administers Federal housing assistance for— “(I) the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California; or “(ii) any of the States of Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi.” .