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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1403 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the lessor of housing, 

acquired or constructed under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative and that is located on a military installation, to operate and maintain 

such housing to certain standards, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 27, 2019 

Mr. CRIST introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the lessor 

of housing, acquired or constructed under the Military 

Housing Privatization Initiative and that is located on 

a military installation, to operate and maintain such 

housing to certain standards, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Base Commander 

5 Housing Oversight Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MAINTENANCE OF MHPI HOUSING. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter IV of chapter 169 of 

3 title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

4 end the following new section: 

5 ‘‘§ 2887. Maintenance of units 

6 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each contract between the Sec7 retary and a lessor of covered housing shall require the 

8 following: 

9 ‘‘(1) The lessor shall operate and maintain the 

10 covered housing to standards established in the con11 tract. 

12 ‘‘(2) If the commander of the military installa13 tion on which the covered housing is located deter14 mines that the lessor has breached the contract by 

15 failing to operate and maintain the covered housing 

16 to standards under paragraph (1), the commander 

17 may elect from remedies including the following: 

18 ‘‘(A) Withholding any payment to the les19 sor under the contract. 

20 ‘‘(B) Requiring the lessor to reimburse 

21 tenants of the covered housing for private prop22 erty of such tenants damaged due to such fail23 ure of the lessor. 

24 ‘‘(C) Requiring the lessor to pay moving 

25 expenses of tenants who vacate the covered 

26 housing due to such failure of the lessor. 


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1 ‘‘(b) COVERED HOUSING DEFINED.—In this section, 

2 the term ‘covered housing’ means housing— 

3 ‘‘(1) acquired or constructed under the alter4 native authority of this subchapter; and 

5 ‘‘(2) that is located on a military installation.’’. 

6 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec7 tions at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by 

8 inserting after the item relating to section 2886 the fol9 lowing new item: 

‘‘2887. Maintenance of units.’’. 

10 (c) REPORTING MAINTENANCE ISSUES.— 

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—A member of the Armed 

12 Forces who resides in covered housing may report 

13 maintenance issues regarding such covered housing 

14 to a superior in the chain of command or an Inspec15 tor General. 

16 (2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

17 (A) The term ‘‘covered housing’’ has the 

18 meaning given that term in section 2887 of title 

19 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 

20 (a). 

21 (B) The term ‘‘Inspector General’’ has the 

22 meaning given that term in section 1034(j) of 

23 title 10, United States Code. 

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