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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§3539a Department of Housing and Urban Development Nonrecurring Expenses Fund

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 44— - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT › § 3539a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Treasury account called the Department of Housing and Urban Development Nonrecurring Expenses Fund. Unused money from expired HUD budget items that came from the Treasury General Fund can be moved into the Fund, but only by the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last year those funds were available. Money in the Fund stays available until spent and, with Office of Management and Budget approval, may be used for HUD capital needs like buildings and information technology. The Fund’s money can be used only after the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are told at least 15 days before the planned use.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3539a

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Department of Housing and Urban Development Nonrecurring Expenses Fund” (the Fund): Provided, That unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated for this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Housing and Urban Development by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which they were appropriated) into the Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available until expended, in addition to such other funds as may be available for such purposes, for capital needs of the Department, including facilities infrastructure and information technology infrastructure, subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified at least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2024, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, and not as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 3539a

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73