[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7476-S7477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3964. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle B of title XXVIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 2815. APPLICABILITY OF WINDOW FALL PREVENTION 
                   REQUIREMENTS TO ALL MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING 
                   WHETHER PRIVATIZED OR GOVERNMENT-OWNED AND 
                   GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED.

       (a) Transfer of Window Fall Prevention Section to Military 
     Family Housing Administration Subchapter.--
       (1) In general.--Section 2879 of title 10, United States 
     Code--
       (A) is transferred to appear after section 2856 of such 
     title; and
       (B) is redesignated as section 2857.
       (2) Clerical amendments.--
       (A) Alternative authority.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of subchapter IV of chapter 169 of such title is 
     amended by striking the item relating to section 2879.
       (B) Administration.--The table of sections at the beginning 
     of subchapter III of chapter 169 of such title is amended by 
     inserting after the item relating to section 2856 the 
     following new item:

``2857. Window fall prevention devices in military family housing 
              units.''.
       (b) Applicability of Section to All Military Family 
     Housing.--Section 2857 of title 10, United States Code, as 
     transferred and redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``acquired or 
     constructed under this chapter'';
       (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``acquired or 
     constructed under this chapter''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(e) Applicability to All Military Family Housing.--This 
     section applies to military family housing under the 
     jurisdiction of the Department of Defense and military family 
     housing acquired or constructed under subchapter IV of this 
     chapter.''.
       (c) Implementation Plan.--In the report required to be 
     submitted in 2022 pursuant to subsection (d) of section 2857 
     of title 10, United States Code, as transferred and 
     redesignated by subsection (a)(1) and amended by subsection 
     (b), the Secretary of Defense shall include a plan for 
     implementation of the fall

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     protection devices described in subsection (a)(3) of such 
     section as required by such section.
       (d) Limitation on Use of Funds Pending Submission of 
     Overdue Report.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
     by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2022 
     for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
     Energy, Installations, and Environment, not more than 50 
     percent may be obligated or expended until the date on which 
     the Secretary of Defense certifies to the congressional 
     defense committees that--
       (1) the independent assessment required by section 2817(b) 
     of the Military Construction Authorization Act of 2018 
     (division B of Public Law 115-91; 131 Stat. 1852) has been 
     initiated; and
       (2) the Secretary expects the report containing the results 
     of that assessment to be submitted to the congressional 
     defense committees by September 1, 2022.
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