PUBLIC LAW 109–162—JAN. 5, 2006
119 STAT. 3051
be construed to limit liability for failure to comply with the requirements of subsection (l)(5) and (6). ‘‘(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—All information provided to any public housing agency pursuant to paragraph (1), including the fact that an individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, shall be retained in confidence by such public housing agency, and shall neither be entered into any shared database nor provided to any related entity, except to the extent that disclosure is— ‘‘(i) requested or consented to by the individual in writing; ‘‘(ii) required for use in an eviction proceeding under subsection (l)(5) or (6); or ‘‘(iii) otherwise required by applicable law. ‘‘(B) NOTIFICATION.—Public housing agencies must provide notice to tenants assisted under section 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 of their rights under this subsection and subsection (l)(5) and (6), including their right to confidentiality and the limits thereof. ‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this subsection, subsection (c)(3), and subsection (l)(5) and (6)— ‘‘(A) the term ‘domestic violence’ has the same meaning given the term in section 40002 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994; ‘‘(B) the term ‘dating violence’ has the same meaning given the term in section 40002 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994; ‘‘(C) the term ‘stalking’ means— ‘‘(i)(I) to follow, pursue, or repeatedly commit acts with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate; or ‘‘(II) to place under surveillance with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person; and ‘‘(ii) in the course of, or as a result of, such following, pursuit, surveillance, or repeatedly committed acts, to place a person in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to, or to cause substantial emotional harm to— ‘‘(I) that person; ‘‘(II) a member of the immediate family of that person; or ‘‘(III) the spouse or intimate partner of that person; and ‘‘(D) the term ‘immediate family member’ means, with respect to a person— ‘‘(i) a spouse, parent, brother or sister, or child of that person, or an individual to whom that person stands in loco parentis; or ‘‘(ii) any other person living in the household of that person and related to that person by blood and marriage.’’.
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