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This bill, the Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act, aims to improve the provision of military housing for members of the Armed Forces and their families through private entities. Key provisions include: 1. Establishing formal requirements and guidance for entering into and renewing privatized military housing contracts, and allowing the Secretary of Defense to rescind contracts and prohibit the contracting party from entering into new contracts if they fail to cure a material breach. 2. Requiring regular building code and health inspections of housing units, using independent inspectors, and allowing state and local inspectors to conduct inspections. 3. Ensuring all federal, state, and local housing protections apply to tenants residing in privatized military housing units. 4. Improving financial transparency by requiring landlords to provide financial statements and publishing contract details. 5. Establishing a registry of service members and their families who have health conditions resulting from unsafe privatized military housing. 6. Creating presumptions of service connection for illnesses associated with residing in privatized military housing, and providing health care benefits to family members of affected veterans. 7. Prohibiting certain government officials and military members from owning interests in entities that own or manage privatized military housing.

Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2368/all-info