To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to set the rates for the basic allowance for housing for members of the uniformed services based on the costs to members for adequate housing and to remove the limitation on the total amount of all such allowances that may be paid in a fiscal year.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe the monthly amount of basic allowance for housing for military personnel entitled to such allowance in a U.S. military housing area at a rate based upon the costs of adequate housing in such area, as determined by the Secretary. Recalculates the total amount to be paid in a fiscal year for such allowance.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3562 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3562

 To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
   Defense to set the rates for the basic allowance for housing for 
  members of the uniformed services based on the costs to members for 
 adequate housing and to remove the limitation on the total amount of 
         all such allowances that may be paid in a fiscal year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2000

  Mr. Murtha introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
   Defense to set the rates for the basic allowance for housing for 
  members of the uniformed services based on the costs to members for 
 adequate housing and to remove the limitation on the total amount of 
         all such allowances that may be paid in a fiscal year.

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

SECTION 1. CALCULATION OF BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING FOR INSIDE THE 
              UNITED STATES.

    (a) Authority of Secretary of Defense To Prescribe.--Paragraph (2) 
of section 403(b) of title 37, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe the monthly amount 
of the basic allowance for housing for a member of a uniformed service 
who is entitled to the allowance in a military housing area in the 
United States at a rate based upon the costs of adequate housing in the 
area determined under paragraph (1)''.
    (b) Minimum Annual Amount Available for Housing Allowances.--
Paragraph (3) of such section is amended to read as follows:
    ``(3) The total amount paid for a fiscal year for the basic 
allowance for housing under this subsection shall be not less than the 
product of--
            ``(A) the total amount authorized to be paid for such 
        allowance for the preceding fiscal year (as adjusted under 
        paragraph (5)); and
            ``(B) a fraction--
                    ``(i) the numerator of which is the index of the 
                national average monthly cost of housing for the 
                preceding fiscal year; and
                    ``(ii) the denominator of which is the index of the 
                national average monthly cost of housing for the second 
                preceding fiscal year.''.
    (c) Basis for Reduction in Member's Allowance.--Paragraph (6) of 
such section is amended by striking ``, changes in the national average 
monthly cost of housing,''.
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