HR 1135 IH

To ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are married and have minor dependents are eligible for military family housing containing more than two bedrooms.

March 20, 2001

Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. SIMPSON, and Mr. OSE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

To ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are married and have minor dependents are eligible for military family housing containing more than two bedrooms.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Armed Forces Housing Improvement Act of 2001'.

SEC. 2. ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR MARRIED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WITH MINOR DEPENDENTS.

(a) MINIMUM NUMBER OF BEDROOMS- (1) A member of the Armed Forces who has a spouse and at least one dependent under the age of nineteen residing with the member shall be eligible for installation housing containing at least three bedrooms, regardless of the grade, rank, or rating of the member, and installation housing containing less than three bedrooms shall be considered to be inadequate housing for such a member.

(2) The actual occupancy of installation housing described in paragraph (1) by a member described in such paragraph shall be subject to availability.

(b) REVISION OF HOUSING MARKET ANALYSIS AND FAMILY HOUSING REQUIREMENTS- The Secretaries of the military departments shall require the military base housing office for each military installation to review and revise its housing market analysis and military family housing requirements in order to accommodate the policy specified in subsection (a)(1).

(c) CONDITIONS ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS FOR FAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION- Funds appropriated before the effective date of this Act for the construction of military family housing and unobligated by that date, may not be obligated until the Secretaries of the military departments certify to Congress that--

(1) the housing market analysis and military family housing requirements have been revised as required by subsection (b); and

(2) the unobligated military housing funds will be used as part of a plan to accommodate the policy specified in subsection (a)(1) and implement the outcome of its revised housing market analysis and military housing requirements.

(d) EFFECTIVE DATE- This section shall take effect 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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