H.R. 7212: Military HOMES Act
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H.R. 7212: Military HOMES Act
116th Congress · introduced 2020-06-15 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2020-06-15 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Horn, Kendra S. [D-OK-5] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Military HOMES Act
Plain summary
Military Housing Oversight, Maintenance, and Enhancement for Servicemembers Act or the Military HOMES Act This bill (1) requires mold mitigation measures for military families who are residing in military housing, (2) makes publicly available the criteria and metrics to be used by the Department of Defense (DOD) to analyze the performance of landlords that receive incentive fees, (3) establishes a working group to promulgate guidance regarding best practices for mold mitigation in privatized military housing and for determining when the presence of mold in such housing is an emergency situation requiring the relocation of the residents, (4) expands the uniform code of basic housing standards for privatized military housing to include government owned and controlled military family housing inside or outside the United States, (5) appoints at least one Exceptional Family Member Program housing liaison for each military department to assist military families, and (6) requires a report on the progress made by DOD in implementing the recommendations contained in a specified certain Government Accountability Office report regarding military housing.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Horn, Kendra S. [D-OK-5] · 4 cosponsors
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Andy Kim (D-NJ), Michael R. Turner (R-OH), Tom Cole (R-OK)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr7212.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>
Record fed-us-cong116-hr7212 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116