[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5077-S5078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2858. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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:


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

     SEC. 2823. IMPROVEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION OF MILITARY 
                   UNACCOMPANIED HOUSING.

       (a) Updated Guidance on Surveys.--The Secretary of Defense, 
     in carrying out the satisfaction survey requirement under 
     section 3058 of the Military Construction Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2020 (division B of Public Law 116-92; 10 
     U.S.C. 2821 note), shall update guidance to the Secretaries 
     of the military departments to ensure that members of the 
     Armed Forces living in military unaccompanied housing are 
     surveyed in a consistent and comparable manner.
       (b) Review on Processes and Methodologies for Condition 
     Scores.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a 
     review of the processes and methodologies by which the 
     Secretaries of the military departments calculate condition 
     scores for military unaccompanied housing facilities under 
     the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned.
       (2) Elements.--The review required under paragraph (1) 
     shall, among other factors--
       (A) consider how best to ensure a condition score of a 
     facility reflects--
       (i) the physical condition of the facility; and
       (ii) the effect of that condition on the quality of life of 
     members of the Armed Forces.
       (B) aim to increase methodological consistency between the 
     military departments.
       (3) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives a report on the results of the review 
     conducted under paragraph (1).
       (c) Accounting of Members Residing in Military 
     Unaccompanied Housing.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall include 
     with the submission to Congress by the President of the 
     annual budget of the Department of Defense under section 
     1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, an accounting of 
     unaccompanied members of the Armed Forces whose rank would 
     require that they live in military unaccompanied housing, but 
     that also receive a basic allowance for housing under section 
     403 of title 37, United States Code.
       (2) Elements.--The accounting required under paragraph (1) 
     shall include--
       (A) the number of members of the Armed Forces described in 
     such paragraph;
       (B) the total value of basic allowance for housing payments 
     provided to those members; and
       (C) such other information as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
       (d) Centralized Tracking.--Not later than one year after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, each Secretary of a 
     military department shall develop a means for centralized 
     tracking, at the service level, of all military construction 
     requirements related to military unaccompanied housing that 
     have been identified at the installation level, regardless of 
     whether or not they are submitted for funding.
       (e) Military Unaccompanied Housing Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``military unaccompanied housing'' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 2871 of title 10, United 
     States Code.
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