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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1980 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to provide housing accommodations |
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| 6 | 6 | | for members of the Armed Forces and their dependents who are on |
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| 7 | 7 | | military housing waitlists. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JUNE14, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. O |
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| 11 | 11 | | SSOFF(for himself and Mr. TILLIS) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 12 | 12 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to provide housing ac- |
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| 15 | 15 | | commodations for members of the Armed Forces and |
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| 16 | 16 | | their dependents who are on military housing waitlists. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Housing Wait 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Times Accountability Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MILITARY FAMI-6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | LIES ON HOUSING WAITLISTS. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) W |
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| 25 | 25 | | AITLISTACCOMMODATIONS.—The Secretary of 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Defense shall provide to members of the Armed Forces 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 1980 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | and their dependents who, when undergoing a permanent 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | change of station, are placed on a waitlist for on-base 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | housing for a period of more than 10 days following the 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | date of arrival at the new location, temporary accommoda-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tions for the entire duration of such period appropriate 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | for the total size and composition of the family of the 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | member and at a rate not to exceed the basic allowance 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | for housing calculated for such member under section 403 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | of title 37, United States Code. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) R |
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| 40 | 40 | | EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | shall submit to the congressional defense committees a re-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | port containing— 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (1) installation-specific data on the number of 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | members of the Armed Forces and their dependents 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | on military housing waitlists; 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (2) an identification of the time spent by each 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | such member and their dependents awaiting appro-18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | priate housing accommodations; 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (3) an analysis of the factors that are creating 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the need for such waitlists; and 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (4) an assessment of the causes of waitlist du-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | rations that exceed 10 days. 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Æ |
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