I 
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. 
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 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretaries of the military departments con-
cerned 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 pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. FEASABILITY STUDY AND REPORT ON CON-
STRUCTION OF FACILITIES OF COVERED 
MULTI-UNITY MILITARY HOUSING AND PAR-
TIAL USE AS MILITARY CHILD DEVELOPMENT 
CENTER. 
(a) FEASIBILITY STUDY AND REPORT.— 
(1) STUDY.—The Secretaries of the military de-
partments concerned shall conduct a feasability 
study on— 
(A) the construction of one or more facili-
ties 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 hous-
ing area specified in such subsection as a mili-
tary child development center. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secre-
taries 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 mili-
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tary 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 conti-
nental United States. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘covered multi-unit military hous-
ing’’ means housing that is— 
(A) not Government-owned or Government- 
controlled; 
(B) provided under subchapter IV of chap-
ter 169 of title 10, United States Code; and 
(C) contains more than one individual unit 
of housing. 
(2) The term ‘‘military child development cen-
ter’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
1800 of such title. 
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