[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2720]
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  SA 608. Mr. WARNER 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 III of subtitle B of title XXVIII, add 
     the following:

     SEC. 2853. IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL 
                   RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING MILITARY HOUSING.

       (a) Basic Allowance for Housing.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall ensure that the Military Compensation Policy 
     directorate within the Office of the Deputy Assistant 
     Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy, in 
     coordination with each military department, not later than 
     one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     establishes and implements a process for consistently 
     monitoring anchor points, the interpolation table, external 
     alternative data, and any indications of potential bias by 
     using quality information to set rates for basic allowance 
     for housing under section 403 of title 37, United States 
     Code, and ensuring timely remediation of any identified 
     deficiencies.
       (b) Work Order Data for Privatized Military Housing.--The 
     Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Assistant 
     Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, not later than one year 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act--
       (1) requires the military departments to establish a 
     process to validate data collected by privatized military 
     housing partners to better ensure the reliability and 
     validity of work order data and to allow for more effective 
     use of such data for monitoring and tracking purposes; and
       (2) provides in future reports to Congress additional 
     explanation of such work order data collected and reported, 
     such as explaining the limitations of available survey data, 
     how resident satisfaction was calculated, and reasons for any 
     missing data.
       (c) Finances for Privatized Military Housing Projects.--The 
     Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Assistant 
     Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and 
     Environment, not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, takes steps to resume issuing required 
     reports to Congress on the financial condition of privatized 
     military housing in a timely manner.
       (d) Privatized Military Housing Defined.--In this section, 
     the term ``privatized military housing'' means military 
     housing provided under subchapter IV of chapter 169 of title 
     10, United States Code.
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