[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1947 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1947

  To ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are married and have 
 minor dependents are eligible for military family housing containing 
                        more than two bedrooms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

 Mr. Wicker (for himself, Mr. Norwood, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Simpson, Mr. 
    Towns, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Ose, and Mr. Grijalva) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are married and have 
 minor dependents are eligible for military family housing containing 
                        more than two bedrooms.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the ``Armed Forces Housing Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR MARRIED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WITH 
              MINOR DEPENDENTS.

    (a) Minimum Number of Bedrooms.--(1) A member of the Armed Forces 
who has a spouse and at least one dependent under the age of nineteen 
residing with the member shall be eligible for installation housing 
containing at least three bedrooms, regardless of the grade, rank, or 
rating of the member, and installation housing containing less than 
three bedrooms shall be considered to be inadequate housing for such a 
member.
    (2) The actual occupancy of installation housing described in 
paragraph (1) by a member described in such paragraph shall be subject 
to availability.
    (b) Revision of Housing Market Analysis and Family Housing 
Requirements.--The Secretaries of the military departments shall 
require the military base housing office for each military installation 
to review and revise its housing market analysis and military family 
housing requirements in order to accommodate the policy specified in 
subsection (a)(1).
    (c) Conditions on Obligation of Funds for Family Housing 
Construction.--Funds appropriated before the effective date of this Act 
for the construction of military family housing, and unobligated by 
that date, may not be obligated until the Secretaries of the military 
departments certify to Congress that--
            (1) the housing market analysis and military family housing 
        requirements have been revised as required by subsection (b); 
        and
            (2) the unobligated military housing funds will be used as 
        part of a plan to accommodate the policy specified in 
        subsection (a)(1) and implement the outcome of its revised 
        housing market analysis and military housing requirements.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 30 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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