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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 5972
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide temporary housing for military
families on housing waitlists.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER17, 2023
Mr. N
EGUSEintroduced the following bill
O
CTOBER25, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide temporary
housing for military families on housing waitlists.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Housing Wait 4
Times Accountability Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MILITARY FAMI-6
LIES ON HOUSING WAITLISTS. 7
(a) W
AITLISTACCOMMODATIONS.—The Secretary of 8
Defense shall provide to members of the Armed Forces 9
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and their dependents who, when undergoing a permanent 1
change of station, are placed on a waitlist for on-base 2
housing for a period of more than 10 days following the 3
date of arrival at the new location, temporary accommoda-4
tions for the entire duration of such period appropriate 5
for the total size and composition of the family of the 6
member and at a rate not to exceed the basic allowance 7
for housing calculated for such member under section 403 8
of title 37, United States Code. 9
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 10
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 11
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a re-12
port containing— 13
(1) installation-specific data on the number of 14
members of the Armed Forces and their dependents 15
on military housing waitlists; 16
(2) an identification of the time spent by each 17
such member and their dependents awaiting appro-18
priate housing accommodations; 19
(3) an analysis of the factors that are creating 20
the need for such waitlists; and 21
(4) an assessment of the causes of waitlist du-22
rations that exceed 10 days. 23
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