Official Summaries

BAH Restoration Act

This bill increases the monthly amount of the basic housing allowance for members of the uniformed services inside the United States.

Specifically, the monthly amount of allowance for a member must be the amount of the monthly cost of adequate housing in the area, as determined by the Department of Defense, for members of the uniformed services serving in the same pay grade and same dependency status as the member. (Currently, the allowance is based on the difference between this amount and a percentage of the national average monthly cost of housing for members with the same pay grade and dependency status.)

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1956 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1956

To amend title 37, United States Code, to increase the basic allowance 
   for housing inside the United States for members of the uniformed 
                               services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2025

 Ms. Strickland (for herself, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. 
 Connolly, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Deluzio, Ms. Escobar, Ms. Garcia of Texas, 
Mr. Golden of Maine, Ms. Goodlander, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Lieu, 
 Mr. Moulton, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Peters, Ms. 
Pettersen, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. 
 Swalwell, Ms. Tokuda, and Mr. Wittman) 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 increase the basic allowance 
   for housing inside the United States for members of the uniformed 
                               services.

    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 ``BAH Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING INSIDE THE UNITED 
              STATES FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

    Paragraph (3) of section 403(b) of title 37, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(3) The monthly amount of the basic allowance for housing for an 
area of the United States for a member of a uniformed service shall be 
the amount of the monthly cost of adequate housing in that area, as 
determined by the Secretary of Defense, for members of the uniformed 
services serving in the same pay grade and with the same dependency 
status as the member.''.
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