Basic Allowance for Housing Calculation Improvement Act of 2023

Basic Allowance for Housing Calculation Improvement Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of Defense to seek to enter into an agreement with an entity to calculate the monthly basic allowance for housing rates for members of the uniformed services in at least 15 military housing areas. Under the bill, the entity must be a nationally recognized entity in the field of single-family housing that has data on local rental rates in real estate markets across the United States. Additionally, the entity must use industry standard machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms in its calculations.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5230 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5230

 To direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program under 
 which the Secretary enters into a contract for the calculation, using 
    industry standard machine learning and artificial intelligence 
  algorithms, of the monthly rates of basic allowance for housing for 
        certain military housing areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 18, 2023

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program under 
 which the Secretary enters into a contract for the calculation, using 
    industry standard machine learning and artificial intelligence 
  algorithms, of the monthly rates of basic allowance for housing for 
        certain military housing areas, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Basic Allowance for Housing 
Calculation Improvement Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING: PILOT PROGRAM TO OUTSOURCE RATE 
              CALCULATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than September 30, 2024, the Secretary 
of Defense shall seek to enter into an agreement with a covered entity 
pursuant to which the covered entity shall calculate, using industry 
standard machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, the 
monthly rates of BAH for not fewer than 15 MHAs.
    (b) Report.--Not later than two years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report 
containing the evaluation of the Secretary of the rates calculated by a 
covered entity pursuant to an agreement under subsection (a).
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``BAH'' means the basic allowance for housing 
        for members of the uniformed services under section 403 of 
        title 37, United States Code.
            (2) The term ``covered entity'' means a nationally 
        recognized entity in the field of single-family housing that 
        has data on local rental rates in real estate markets across 
        the United States.
            (3) The term ``MHA'' means military housing area.
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