D.C. Code § 6-232.01: Emergency Housing Voucher Interim Assistance Program.

(a)

Subject to the availability of the Fiscal Year 2027 excess local funds referenced in paragraph (2) under the heading Appropriation of Additional Resources in the Fiscal Year 2027 Local Budget Act of 2026, passed on 2nd reading on June 23, 2026 (Enrolled version of Bill 26-659), the Authority shall establish an Emergency Housing Voucher Interim Assistance Program (the "Interim Program") to provide ongoing rental assistance to all District individuals and families assisted by the Emergency Housing Voucher ("EHV") program who are at risk of termination from the EHV program due to lack of continued funding ("EHV households"); provided, that:

(1)

Upon ascertaining that an EHV household is at risk of termination from the EHV program due to lack of continued funding, the Authority shall:

(A)

Inform the EHV household in writing that, upon the exhaustion of continued funding, the Authority will automatically enroll the EHV household in the Interim Program; and

(B)

Provide a means of opting out of the Interim Program;

(2)

Not later than upon the exhaustion of continued funding for the EHV program, the Authority shall automatically enroll all EHV households that have not opted out in the Interim Program and continue to provide a rental subsidy in the same amount as if enrolled EHV households had continued to participate in the EHV program;

(3)

All EHV households in the Interim Program shall remain contemporaneously enrolled in the EHV program, such that, should federal funding for the EHV program become available, the Authority may revert to the use of federal funds to support EHV households' rental subsidies;

(4)

Should federal funding for the EHV program become available after the enrollment of EHV households in the Interim Program, the Authority may terminate EHV households from the Interim Program on the basis of the availability of federal funding and revert to the use of federal funds to support EHV households' rental subsidies;

(5)

The rental subsidy provided by the Interim Program shall continue only through Fiscal Year 2027;

(6)

For the duration of the Interim Program, the Authority shall apply the program rules governing the federal Emergency Housing Voucher program to the Interim Program, including those relating to transfer requests, rent‑increase requests, unit inspections, and any administrative processes necessary to maintain assistance;

(7)

Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

(A)

Create an entitlement on the part of any EHV household to rental assistance beyond Fiscal Year 2027; or

(B)

Limit the Authority's ability to terminate an EHV household from the Interim Program or the EHV program on grounds under which the EHV household could previously have been terminated from the EHV program; and

(8)

The Authority, pursuant to Title I of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act, approved October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1204; D.C. Official Code § 2-501 et seq.), shall promulgate rules implementing the provisions of this section.