HEIR Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1607 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1607 To assist applicants for community development block grant recovery assistance not having traditionally accepted forms of documentation of ownership of property to prove such ownership, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 26, 2025 Mrs. Fletcher (for herself, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Norton, Mr. Soto, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Beatty, and Mr. Veasey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To assist applicants for community development block grant recovery assistance not having traditionally accepted forms of documentation of ownership of property to prove such ownership, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Heirs Empowerment and Inheritance Rights Act of 2025'' or the ``HEIR Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. CDBG-DISASTER RECOVERY AND CDBG-MITIGATION PROGRAMS. (a) Documentation of Property Ownership.-- (1) In general.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall amend the regulations at part 570 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, to ensure that in providing assistance for the Community Development Block Grant program for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and the Community Development Block Grant program for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT), in connection with a Presidentially declared disaster, in a case in which a homeowner is required to demonstrate ownership of a property heir property owners and any other owners not having traditionally accepted forms of documentation of ownership of property are provid