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H.R. 2384: Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act

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H.R. 2384: Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-04-29 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-04-29 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act

Plain summary

Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act This bill addresses Department of Defense (DOD) oversight and service member-protections in DOD-sponsored private military housing. Among other things, the bill covers contracts, unit inspection, remedying substandard conditions, handling housing-related injuries, and prohibiting improper financial interests by public officials. Specifically, DOD must establish requirements for entering into and renewing contracts with private landlords and must make the financial details of such agreements public. DOD must employ certified independent housing inspectors to ensure that private military housing units are safe, clean, and adequate and meet federal, state, and local laws and standards of habitability. DOD must allow state and local housing inspectors to conduct no-notice inspections, including on military installations. DOD must require each landlord to provide access to the landlord's maintenance work order system. Service members may file a claim with DOD to withhold the basic allowance for housing if a landlord has not met maintenance guidelines or the unit is uninhabitable according to state and local law. Military treatment facilities must screen service members and family members for medical conditions resulting from unsafe private housing and landlords must pay medical bills associated with housing-related injuries. The Department of Veterans Affairs must provide similar care for veterans and their families. The bill prohibits members of defense-related congressional committees and certain military officers and high-level DOD employees from having a financial interest in private military housing. Violations are subject to civil penalties.

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Official text

Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] · 21 cosponsors

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Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr2384 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116