S.Amdt. 847

SA 847. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 A of title VI, add the following:

SEC. 612. INCREASE IN BASIC HOUSING ALLOWANCE.

(a) Increased Funding.--The amount authorized to be
appropriated by section 421 for military personnel, as
specified in the funding table in section 4401, is hereby
increased by $244,000,000, with the amount of such increase
to be available for an increase in the basic allowance for
housing (BAH) reabsorption.
(b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2024 by section 301 for operation and maintenance
is hereby reduced by $244,000,000, with the amount of the
reduction to be derived from Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-wide, Administration and Service-wide Activities, for
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (line 490), as
specified in the funding table in section 4301.
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