S.Amdt. 2859

SA 2859. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2823. IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL
RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING MILITARY HOUSING.

(a) Basic Allowance for Housing.--The Secretary of Defense
shall ensure that the Military Compensation Policy
directorate within the Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy, in
coordination with each military department, not later than
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act,
establishes and implements a process for consistently
monitoring anchor points, the interpolation table, external
alternative data, and any indications of potential bias by
using quality information to set rates for basic allowance
for housing under section 403 of title 37, United States
Code, and ensuring timely remediation of any identified
deficiencies.
(b) Work Order Data for Privatized Military Housing.--The
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this Act--
(1) requires the military departments to establish a
process to validate data collected by privatized military
housing partners to better ensure the reliability and
validity of work order data and to allow for more effective
use of such data for monitoring and tracking purposes; and
(2) provides in future reports to Congress additional
explanation of such work order data collected and reported,
such as explaining the limitations of available survey data,
how resident satisfaction was calculated, and reasons for any
missing data.
(c) Finances for Privatized Military Housing Projects.--The
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and
Environment, not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, takes steps to resume issuing required
reports to Congress on the financial condition of privatized
military housing in a timely manner.
(d) Privatized Military Housing Defined.--In this section,
the term ``privatized military housing'' means military
housing provided under subchapter IV of chapter 169 of title
10, United States Code.
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