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BAH Restoration Act

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

Introduced Mar 6, 2025

Latest action (Mar 6, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Referred to
Armed Services Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Housing

Summary
  • Changes how the Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) is calculated for military members stationed in the United States
  • BAH would be set based on the actual monthly cost of adequate housing in each geographic area, as determined by the Secretary of Defense
  • BAH calculations would account for the military member's pay grade and family dependency status

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
36 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Marilyn Strickland’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $59,900
  • RICHMARK LABEL $10,100
  • INTUITIVEX $9,900
  • AMAZON $7,263
  • GOLDMAN SACHS $7,100

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Marilyn Strickland → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 6, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. · house
  2. Mar 6, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1122 — BAH Restoration Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 87%
  • HR 4060 — Service Member Housing Relief Act · Introduced Jun 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 5208 — To amend title 37, United States Code, to exclude the basic allowance for housing from the calculation of gross household income for purposes of the basic needs allowance for eligible members of the Armed Forces. · Introduced Sep 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 1957 — End Veteran Homelessness Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 24, 2026 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 3013 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the authorization of appropriations for comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans. · Introduced May 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 3720 — HOME Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 6, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

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

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.”. <all>

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