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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 Initia-
tive 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Base Commander 
Housing Oversight Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. MAINTENANCE OF MHPI HOUSING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter IV of chapter 169 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2887. Maintenance of units 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each contract between the Sec-
retary and a lessor of covered housing shall require the 
following: 
‘‘(1) The lessor shall operate and maintain the 
covered housing to standards established in the con-
tract. 
‘‘(2) If the commander of the military installa-
tion on which the covered housing is located deter-
mines that the lessor has breached the contract by 
failing to operate and maintain the covered housing 
to standards under paragraph (1), the commander 
may elect from remedies including the following: 
‘‘(A) Withholding any payment to the les-
sor under the contract. 
‘‘(B) Requiring the lessor to reimburse 
tenants of the covered housing for private prop-
erty of such tenants damaged due to such fail-
ure of the lessor. 
‘‘(C) Requiring the lessor to pay moving 
expenses of tenants who vacate the covered 
housing due to such failure of the lessor. 
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‘‘(b) COVERED HOUSING DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘covered housing’ means housing— 
‘‘(1) acquired or constructed under the alter-
native authority of this subchapter; and 
‘‘(2) that is located on a military installation.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 2886 the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘2887. Maintenance of units.’’. 
(c) REPORTING MAINTENANCE ISSUES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—A member of the Armed 
Forces who resides in covered housing may report 
maintenance issues regarding such covered housing 
to a superior in the chain of command or an Inspec-
tor General. 
(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) The term ‘‘covered housing’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 2887 of title 
10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a). 
(B) The term ‘‘Inspector General’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 1034(j) of 
title 10, United States Code. 
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