# 119-s-1091: Rural Housing Accessibility Act

119-s-1091, Rural Housing Accessibility Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1091
- Congress: 119
- Title: Rural Housing Accessibility Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-24
- Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Housing and Community Development
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Would create a new portability framework for Housing Choice vouchers that caps inter-agency billing at 12 months and clarifies when agencies must absorb or bill for ported assistance.** - Families: Portable families seeking housing outside their original agency would face clearer rules about how long the sending agency could be billed. They would either have their voucher absorbed by the local agency or be covered under a billing arrangement for up to 12 months. - Covered public housing agencies: Any agency that uses less than 95 percent of its budget authority in a year would have to decide whether to absorb incoming vouchers with its own funds or bill the original agency, and it must make payments under an annual contributions contract with the Secretary. - Initial public housing agencies: Sending agencies could be billed for assistance payments but billing would be limited to a maximum of 12 months from the first bill.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Easier portability for housing vouchers: mixed, medium. If enacted, this bill would add new portability rules for tenant-based housing vouchers. It would define a "covered public housing agency" as one that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a fiscal year. It would define "initial public housing agency" by reference to 24 C.F.R. §982.4 and "p…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1091 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1091)

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- [119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4378)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-2355: Patients Deserve Price Tags Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2355)
- [119-s-3752: SAVE America Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3752)
- [119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1091 (as of 2026-04-21).