I will ban facilities receiving federal housing dollars from requiring people experiencing homelessness to work in exchange for a place to stay or punishing them for survival activities like sleeping, eating, drinking, resting, or sheltering from the weather.

It would also ban these facilities from making people work in exchange for a place to stay or punishing people for doing basic things they need to survive, like sleeping, resting, eating, drinking, or protecting themselves from the weather.

The bill would prohibit covered facilities from imposing forced work requirements for shelter or punishing basic survival activities.

Frost Introduces No Homeless Detention Centers Act to Ban Forced Labor and Cruel Homeless Encampments | Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida's 10th District
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Mr. Frost ... introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official GPO metadata shows Frost introduced H.R. 10231 on September 2, 2026, and its listed action was referral to House Financial Services, not enactment.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R. 10231 (IH) - No Homeless Detention Centers Act - BILLS-119hr10231ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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A recipient of Federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development may not--

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The official introduced bill text frames the promise as a proposed prohibition on HUD-fund recipients, matching the federal housing dollars element of the commitment.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R. 10231 Introduced in House Text
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compel a person residing in a facility designated for housing or sheltering homeless persons to provide labor in order to reside in such facility;

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text directly targets the promised ban on requiring labor in exchange for residence, but the bill remained introduced/referred rather than enacted.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R. 10231 Introduced in House Text
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threaten or impose punishment on a homeless person because such person is engaging in life-sustaining activities on public property;

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The official text also addresses punishment for survival activities, another central part of the commitment; this is legislative effort, not completed delivery.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R. 10231 Introduced in House Text
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It would also ban these facilities from making people work in exchange for a place to stay or punishing people for doing basic things they need to survive

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Frost’s office announced the bill in the lookback window and described it in terms nearly identical to the commitment, using prospective language indicating the ban was not yet delivered.

unresolved later_term A for effort

Frost Introduces No Homeless Detention Centers Act to Ban Forced Labor and Cruel Homeless Encampments | Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida's 10th District
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Passed House Pending Passed Senate Pending Sent to President Pending Signed into Law Pending

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): A congressional bill tracker indicated the measure had not passed either chamber or become law, supporting an unresolved status after introduction.

unresolved later_term

H.R. 10231 - No Homeless Detention Centers Act
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