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Naomi Schwartz and Susan Rose Safe Parking Act of 2025

To authorize use of amounts from emergency solutions grants under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide safe overnight parking facilities for homeless persons, and for other purposes.

Introduced Aug 22, 2025

Latest action (Aug 22, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Referred to
Financial Services Committee
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
Issues
Housing

Summary
  • Authorizes the use of Emergency Solutions Grant funds under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide safe overnight parking facilities for homeless persons living in vehicles.
  • Allows Emergency Solutions Grants to cover maintenance, operation, insurance, and utilities costs related to safe parking facilities.
  • Defines "safe parking" as a program providing homeless persons living in vehicles with a safe overnight parking location, combined with re-housing assistance and supportive services to facilitate the transition to stable housing.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
11 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Salud O. Carbajal’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $39,900
  • TIGER MOON GROUP $13,200
  • JENNINGS AERONAUTICS INC. $9,900
  • WINDOW WORLD $9,900
  • CHUMASH $8,400

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Salud O. Carbajal → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Aug 22, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. · house
  2. Aug 22, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2710 — People Over Parking Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 5452 — Safe Streets for All Reauthorization and Improvement Act · Introduced Sep 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 7446 — Community Firearm Safety Act of 2026 · Introduced Feb 9, 2026 · Cong. 119 60%
  • HR 2206 — Prevent Homelessness Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 60%
  • HR 9424 — Save Our Pedestrians Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Cong. 119 58%
  • HR 5430 — FORTIFY Act · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 57%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Aug 22, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

August 22, 2025

Mr. Carbajal (for himself, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Vargas, and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

A BILL

To authorize use of amounts from emergency solutions grants under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide safe overnight parking facilities for homeless persons, 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 “Naomi Schwartz and Susan Rose Safe Parking Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. SAFE PARKING AS ELIGIBLE ACTIVITY UNDER EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT PROGRAM.

(a) In General.—Section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11374(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(6) Maintenance, operation, insurance, and provision of utilities related to safe parking.”.

(b) Definition.—Section 411 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11371) is amended—

(1) by redesignating paragraphs (7) through (9) as paragraphs (8) through (10), respectively; and

(2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph:

“(7) The term ‘safe parking’ means an activity that—

“(A) provides homeless persons living in vehicles, including motor homes, with a safe place to park their vehicles overnight to facilitate a transition to stable housing; and

“(B) provides re-housing and supportive services to such homeless persons.”. <all>

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