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Introduced Session

To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the provision of military housing to members of the Armed Forces and their families through private entities, and for other purposes. This bill addresses Department of Defense (DOD) oversight and service member-protections in DOD-sponsored private military housing. Among other things, the bill covers contracts, unit inspection, remedying substandard conditions, handling housing-related injuries, and prohibiting improper financial interests by public officials. Specifically, DOD must establish requirements for entering into and renewing contracts with private landlords and must make the financial details of such agreements public. DOD must employ certified independent housing inspectors to ensure that private military housing units are safe, clean, and adequate and meet federal, state, and local laws and standards of habitability. DOD must allow state and local housing inspectors to conduct no-notice inspections, including on military installations. DOD must require each landlord to provide access to the landlord's maintenance work order system. Service members may file a claim with DOD to withhold the basic allowance for housing if a landlord has not met maintenance guidelines or the unit is uninhabitable according to state and local law. Military treatment facilities must screen service members and family members for medical conditions resulting from unsafe private housing and landlords must pay medical bills associated with housing-related injuries. The Department of Veterans Affairs must provide similar care for veterans and their families. The bill prohibits members of defense-related congressional committees and certain military officers and high-level DOD employees from having a financial interest in private military housing. Violations are subject to civil penalties.

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Debra Haaland (D)*,  Sanford Bishop (D),  Anthony Brown (D),  Matt Cartwright (D),  Kathy Castor (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Denny Heck (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Ben Ray Luján (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Joe Morelle (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Tim Ryan (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. (on 05/20/2019)

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