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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6515. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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 B of title XXVIII, add the
following:
SEC. 2829. TRACKING OF REPEATED HOUSING DEFECTS AND MANDATORY
ESCALATION.
(a) In General.—Subchapter III of chapter 169 of title 10,
United States Code is amended by inserting after section 2869
the following new section:
“Sec. 2869a. Tracking of repeated housing defects and
mandatory escalation
“(a) In General.—The Secretary of Defense shall require
each Secretary concerned to establish a standardized process
for identifying and tracking repeated housing defects in—
“(1) military unaccompanied housing (as defined in section
2871 of this title);
“(2) military family housing owned by the Federal
Government; and
“(3) housing under subchapter IV of this chapter that is
associated with a military installation.
“(b) Required Escalation.—The Secretary of Defense shall
require that, upon identification of a repeated housing
defect—
“(1) the matter shall be elevated for review above the
installation housing office level;
“(2) a root-cause assessment shall be conducted; and
“(3) any interim measures necessary to protect affected
residents shall be implemented.
“(c) Data Elements.—The Secretary of Defense shall
require the collection of standardized data relating to
repeated housing defects, including—
“(1) the nature of the defect;
“(2) the number of prior work orders or complaints
relating to the same or substantially similar condition;
“(3) the period during which the defect recurred;
“(4) the time required for final remediation of the
defect; and
“(5) such other information as the Secretary determines
appropriate.
“(d) Repeated Housing Defect Defined.—In this section,
the term `repeated housing defect' means a maintenance issue,
habitability concern, or health or safety hazard that—
“(1) recurs in the same housing unit, room, building, or
materially related area; or
“(2) results in multiple work orders for substantially the
same underlying condition within a period determined by the
Secretary of Defense.”.
(b) Guidance.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
issue guidance to implement section 2869a of title 10, United
States Code, as added by subsection (a), including
standardized definitions and thresholds for escalation.