[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1980 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1980

 To require the Secretary of Defense to provide housing accommodations 
    for members of the Armed Forces and their dependents who are on 
                      military housing waitlists.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 14, 2023

Mr. Ossoff (for himself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Defense to provide housing accommodations 
    for members of the Armed Forces and their dependents who are on 
                      military housing waitlists.

    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 ``Military Housing Wait Times 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES ON HOUSING 
              WAITLISTS.

    (a) Waitlist Accommodations.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
provide to members of the Armed Forces and their dependents who, when 
undergoing a permanent change of station, are placed on a waitlist for 
on-base housing for a period of more than 10 days following the date of 
arrival at the new location, temporary accommodations for the entire 
duration of such period appropriate for the total size and composition 
of the family of the member and at a rate not to exceed the basic 
allowance for housing calculated for such member under section 403 of 
title 37, United States Code.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees a report containing--
            (1) installation-specific data on the number of members of 
        the Armed Forces and their dependents on military housing 
        waitlists;
            (2) an identification of the time spent by each such member 
        and their dependents awaiting appropriate housing 
        accommodations;
            (3) an analysis of the factors that are creating the need 
        for such waitlists; and
            (4) an assessment of the causes of waitlist durations that 
        exceed 10 days.
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