Sec. 3044. Requirements relating to contracts for privatized military housing
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Subchapter IV of chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2872c the following new section: The Secretary of each military department shall include in any contract for a term of more than 10 years with a landlord for the provision of housing under this subchapter at an installation under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned the following: The Secretary concerned may renegotiate the contract with the landlord not less frequently than once every five years.
The landlord shall prohibit any employee of the landlord who commits work order fraud under the contract, as determined by the Secretary concerned, from doing any work under the contract. If the landlord fails to or is unable to remedy any health or environmental hazard at a housing unit under the contract, such failure or inability will be taken into consideration in determining whether to pay or withhold all or part of any incentive fees for which the landlord may be eligible under the contract.
If the landlord is found by the Secretary concerned to have not maintained the minimum standards of habitability for a housing unit under such contract, the landlord shall pay all medical bills for a tenant of such housing unit that are associated with the conditions of such housing unit that do not meet such minimum standards. The landlord shall pay reasonable relocation costs associated with the permanent relocation of a tenant from a housing unit of the landlord to new housing due to health or environmental hazards— present in the housing unit being vacated through no fault of the tenant; and confirmed by the housing management office of the installation as making the unit uninhabitable.
The landlord shall pay reasonable relocation costs and actual costs of living, including per diem, associated with the temporary relocation of a tenant to new housing due to health or environmental hazards— present in the housing unit being vacated through no fault of the tenant; and confirmed by the housing management office of the installation as making the unit uninhabitable. The landlord shall ensure that the maintenance work order system of the landlord (hardware and software) is up to date, including by — providing a reliable mechanism through which a tenant may submit work order requests through an Internet portal and mobile application, which shall incorporate the ability to upload photos, communicate with maintenance personnel, and rate individual service calls; allowing real-time access to such system by officials of the Department at the installation, major subordinate command, and service-wide levels; and allowing the work order or maintenance ticket to be closed only once the tenant and the head of the housing management office of the installation sign off.
The landlord shall pay actual costs of living under subsection (a)(6) in connection with a health or environmental hazard until such time as— the health or environmental hazard is remediated; the housing unit being vacated is determined to be habitable by the tenant, the housing management office of the installation, and chain of command; and the tenant resumes occupancy of the housing unit; or the tenant moves to a new housing unit. . The table of sections at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2872c the following new item: 2872d.
Requirements relating to contracts for provision of housing. . Section 2872d of such title, as added by subsection (a), shall apply to contracts entered into or renewed on and after the date of the enactment of this Act.