; (2) in a judicial or administrative proceeding alleging lack of due care in hiring, retaining, licensing, leasing to, admitting to a school or program, or otherwise transacting business or engaging in activity with the individual to whom a Federal certificate of rehabilitation was issued, a person should be presumed to have exercised due care if the person against whom the judicial or administrative proceeding is brought relied on the Federal certificate of rehabilitation at the time of the alleged negligence; (3) the President should consider the issuance of a Federal certificate of rehabilitation in determining whether an eligible offender should receive a pardon or other form of clemency; and (4) that each Federal agency should consider the issuance of a Federal certificate of rehabilitation in the course of evaluating applications for employment at the agency. . (b) Technical and conforming amendment The table of sections for subchapter A of chapter 229 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relation to section 3608 the following: 3609. Federal certificate of rehabilitation. . (c) Relief from disabilities (1) Federally assisted housing Subtitle F of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 ( 42 U.S.C. 13661 et seq.) is amended— (A) in section 576(c) ( 42 U.S.C. 13661(c) ) is amended— (i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), and adjusting the margins accordingly; (ii) by striking Except as and inserting the following: (1) In general Except as ; (iii) in subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, by striking paragraph (1) and inserting subparagraph (A) ; and (iv) by adding at the end the following: (2) Federal certificate of rehabilitation If an applicant presents a Federal certificate of rehabilitation issued under section 3609 of title 18, United States Code, there shall be a presumption against denying the applicant admission to the program or to federally assisted housing under this subsection.