Section 17-2040-73 - Portability(a) An applicant may elect to port their voucher to another jurisdiction immediately upon acceptance into the program, regardless of prior residency.(b) The authority shall not absorb a family under portability assistance into its program unless there are emergency housing vouchers available.(c) The applicant family will have access to emergency housing voucher assistance even if the authority does not absorb the family.(d) The initial PHA will inform the applicant family at the briefing how portability may affect the special program services and assistance that may be available to the family.(e) The initial PHA shall help facilitate the participant family's portability move and shall inform the family of this assistance in writing. If the portability is associated with the initial lease-up, the authority shall consult and coordinate on the program services and assistance available to the family with the receiving PHA.(f) The initial PHA must promptly reimburse the receiving PHA for the full amount of the housing assistance payments made by the receiving PHA for the family.(g) The initial PHA must promptly reimburse the receiving PHA for the lesser of eighty percent of the initial PHA's emergency housing vouchers ongoing administrative fees or one hundred percent of the receiving PHAs ongoing administrative fee, or the receiving PHAs emergency housing voucher ongoing administrative fees if the receiving PHA administers the program. If both PHAs agree, the PHAs may negotiate a different amount of reimbursement.(h) The amount of service fees provided may not exceed the lesser of the actual cost of the services and assistance provided to the family by the receiving PHA or $1750, unless the initial PHA and receiving PHA mutually agree to change the cap.(i) If the portability lease up qualifies for the placement fee or issuance reporting fee, the receiving PHA receives the full amount of the placement component of the placement or issuing reporting fee. The receiving PHA is eligible for the placement fee regardless of whether the receiving PHA bills or absorbs the family into its program at JULY 28 2022 initial lease-up. Haw. Code R. § 17-2040-73
[Eff 7/28/2022] (Auth: HRS § 356D-13) (Imp: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2, §3202, 135 Stat. 4; 42 U.S.C. § 1437f(o); HUD Notice PIH 2021-15(HA); 24 C.F.R. §§ 982.353, 982.354, 982.355; HRS § 356D-13)