Title: To direct the Secretaries of the military departments to submit certification and a report each year to the Secretaries of Defense and Housing and Urban Development regarding whether housing under the jurisdiction of the Secretaries of the military departments is in compliance with requirements relating to lead-based paint.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires certification, to the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, by the military departments of whether housing for military personnel complies with requirements of the Toxic Substances Control Act regarding lead-based paint hazards at federal facilities.
Political appointees in military departments that have failed to meet the certification requirements may not receive bonus pay.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2255 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2255

    To direct the Secretaries of the military departments to submit 
certification and a report each year to the Secretaries of Defense and 
   Housing and Urban Development regarding whether housing under the 
   jurisdiction of the Secretaries of the military departments is in 
       compliance with requirements relating to lead-based paint.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

Mr. Kildee (for himself and Ms. Speier) 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 to submit 
certification and a report each year to the Secretaries of Defense and 
   Housing and Urban Development regarding whether housing under the 
   jurisdiction of the Secretaries of the military departments is in 
       compliance with requirements relating to lead-based paint.

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

SECTION 1. ANNUAL CERTIFICATION AND REPORTING REGARDING LEAD-BASED 
              PAINT IN MILITARY HOUSING.

    (a) Annual Certification and Reporting.--
            (1) In general.--Each Secretary concerned shall submit 
        certification in writing to the Secretaries of Defense and 
        Housing and Urban Development indicating whether housing under 
        the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned is in compliance 
        with the requirements respecting lead-based paint, lead-based 
        paint activities, and lead-based paint hazards described in 
        section 408 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 
        2688).
            (2) Submission dates.--Each Secretary concerned shall 
        submit the certification under paragraph (1) not later than 
        July 31 of each year beginning in 2019.
            (3) Contents.--Each certification under paragraph (1) shall 
        state, with regards to the preceding calendar year--
                    (A) the total number of housing units under the 
                jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned that were 
                inspected for lead-based paint in accordance with the 
                requirements described in paragraph (1);
                    (B) the total number of housing units that were 
                found to contain lead-based paint in the course of the 
                inspections described in subparagraph (A);
                    (C) any abatement efforts conducted regarding 
                housing units described in subparagraph (B); and
                    (D) the total number of housing units under the 
                jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned that were not 
                inspected for lead-based paint.
    (b) Accountability.--Not later than August 31 of each year 
beginning in 2019, the Secretary of Defense shall publish (including on 
a website of the Department of Defense) and submit to the Armed 
Services Committee and Appropriations Committee of the House of 
Representatives and the Armed Services Committee and Appropriations 
Committee of the Senate a report that discloses--
            (1) each military department that has failed to submit a 
        required certification under subsection (a); and
            (2) a detailed summary of the data, broken down by military 
        department, contained in the certifications under subsection 
        (a).
    (c) Noncompliance Penalties.--For each of fiscal years 2019 through 
2022, each political appointee of a military department that has failed 
to certify compliance under subsection (a) may not receive bonus pay, 
excluding overtime pay, until the Secretary concerned certifies such 
compliance.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``Secretary 
concerned'' and ``military department'' have the meanings given those 
terms in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.
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