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<dc:title>119 HR 4060 IH: Service Member Housing Relief Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-06-20</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4060</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250620">June 20, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="L000593">Mr. Levin</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="K000399">Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HAS00">Committee on Armed Services</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend title 37, United States Code, to lower the threshold required for the Secretary of Defense to make a temporary adjustment to a rate of the basic allowance for housing for members of the uniformed services, and to make permanent the authority to make such adjustment.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HC2FBC0D80E6C49658795ACA7F985E330" style="OLC"><section id="HF13FBC241A3E48EE906A26D808EA6D3B" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Service Member Housing Relief Act</short-title></quote>. </text></section><section id="H4A6C6FCA6A2D4BEBAC3672D538AED73A" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Temporary adjustment to a rate of the basic allowance for housing for members of the uniformed services: lower threshold; permanent authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 403(b)(8) of title 37, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph id="HD122696BC99A4A43974E827AC36793F9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>20 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>15 percent</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H0C957D98BCA5417DA519A41F7B0A726D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (C).</text></paragraph></section></legis-body></bill> 

