[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2515-S2516]
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SA 321. Mr. OSSOFF submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 part II of subtitle B of title XXVIII, add
the following:
SEC. 2844. ANNUAL REPORT ON USE OF LANDLORD-TENANT DISPUTE
RESOLUTION PROCESS FOR PRIVATIZED MILITARY
HOUSING.
(a) In General.--Section 2894 of title 10, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new
subsection (g):
``(g) Annual Report.--(1) Not less frequently than
annually, the Secretary of Defense shall publish on a
publicly available
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website of the Department of Defense a report detailing, for
each military department and each military installation, the
frequency and outcomes associated with the dispute resolution
process under this section.
``(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall include, for
the one-year period preceding the date of the report, the
following:
``(A) The number of instances in which the dispute
resolution process under this section was initiated.
``(B) The outcomes associated with each instance in which
the dispute resolution process was used.
``(C) The frequency with which non-disclosure agreements,
or similar instruments, were used by landlords as a condition
of agreement to an outcome under the dispute resolution
process.''.
(b) Initial Publication.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall publish the initial report required under subsection
(g) of section 2894 of title 10, United States Code, as added
by subsection (a)(2).
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