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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8455 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8455

  To direct the Secretaries of the military departments concerned to 
 conduct a feasibility study develop a plan to carry out a program to 
 construct facilities of covered military housing and to submit to the 
 Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the 
         Senate a report on such study, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2024

 Ms. Jacobs (for herself and Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL

 
  To direct the Secretaries of the military departments concerned to 
 conduct a feasibility study develop a plan to carry out a program to 
 construct facilities of covered military housing and to submit to the 
 Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the 
         Senate a report on such study, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. FEASABILITY STUDY AND REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES 
              OF COVERED MULTI-UNITY MILITARY HOUSING AND PARTIAL USE 
              AS MILITARY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER.

    (a) Feasibility Study and Report.--
            (1) Study.--The Secretaries of the military departments 
        concerned shall conduct a feasability study on--
                    (A) the construction of one or more facilities of 
                covered multi-unit military housing in military housing 
                areas specified in subsection (b); and
                    (B) the partial use of a facility of covered multi-
                unit military housing in a military housing area 
                specified in such subsection as a military child 
                development center.
            (2) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretaries of the military 
        departments concerned shall submit to the Committees on Armed 
        Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a 
        report that includes a summary of the findings of such study.
    (b) Military Housing Areas Specified.--The military housing areas 
specified in this subsection are military housing areas for which the 
applicable rates of basic allowance for housing under section 403 of 
title 37, United States Code, are, on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, among the highest twenty-five percent of such applicable rates for 
all military housing areas located in the continental United States.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``covered multi-unit military housing'' means 
        housing that is--
                    (A) not Government-owned or Government-controlled;
                    (B) provided under subchapter IV of chapter 169 of 
                title 10, United States Code; and
                    (C) contains more than one individual unit of 
                housing.
            (2) The term ``military child development center'' has the 
        meaning given such term in section 1800 of such title.
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