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[CITE: 10USC2826]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
     CHAPTER 169--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
 
Sec. 2826. Military family housing: local comparability of room 
        patterns and floor areas
        
    (a) Local Comparability.--In the construction, acquisition, and 
improvement of military family housing, the Secretary concerned shall 
ensure that the room patterns and floor areas of military family housing 
in a particular locality (as designated by the Secretary concerned for 
purposes of this section) are similar to room patterns and floor areas 
of similar housing in the private sector in that locality.
    (b) Requests for Authority for Military Family Housing.--(1) In 
submitting to Congress a request for authority to carry out the 
construction, acquisition, or improvement of military family housing, 
the Secretary concerned shall include in the request information on the 
net floor area of each unit of military family housing to be 
constructed, acquired, or improved under the authority.
    (2) In this subsection, the term ``net floor area'', in the case of 
a military family housing unit, means the total number of square feet of 
the floor space inside the exterior walls of the unit, excluding the 
floor area of an unfinished basement, an unfinished attic, a utility 
space, a garage, a carport, an open or insect-screened porch, a 
stairwell, and any space used for a solar-energy system.

(Added Pub. L. 97-214, Sec. 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 159; amended 
Pub. L. 100-26, Sec. 7(k)(3), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 284; Pub. L. 102-
190, div. B, title XXVIII, Sec. 2808, Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1540; Pub. 
L. 104-106, div. B, title XXVIII, Secs. 2814, 2815, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 
Stat. 553; Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, Sec. 1074(a)(17), Sept. 23, 
1996, 110 Stat. 2659; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [div. B, title XXVIII, 
Sec. 2803(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-413.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-398 amended section catchline and text generally. 
Prior to amendment, section consisted of subsecs. (a) to (i) which 
limited the net floor area allowed in the construction, acquisition, and 
improvement of military family housing units.
    1996--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 2814, struck out at end 
``The authority provided by this subsection shall expire on September 
30, 1994.''
    Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 2815, added subsec. (i).
    Subsec. (i)(1). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``February 10, 1996'' 
for ``the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1996''.
    1991--Subsecs. (d) to (h). Pub. L. 102-190 added subsecs. (d) and 
(e) and redesignated former subsecs. (d) to (f) as (f) to (h), 
respectively.
    1987--Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 100-26 inserted ``the term'' after ``In 
this section,''.


                    Effective Date of 2000 Amendment

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [div. B, title XXVIII, Sec. 2803(b)], Oct. 
30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-413, provided that:
    ``(1) The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] 
shall take effect on October 1, 2001, but the Secretary of Defense shall 
anticipate the requirements of section 2826 of title 10, United States 
Code, as added by such subsection, when preparing the budget request for 
new construction, acquisition, or improvement of military family housing 
for fiscal year 2002.
    ``(2) Section 2826 of title 10, United States Code, as in effect on 
September 30, 2001, shall continue to apply with respect to the 
construction, acquisition, or improvement of military family housing 
commenced on or before that date.''


                             Effective Date

    For effective date and applicability of section, see section 12(a) 
of Pub. L. 97-214, set out as a note under section 2801 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2824, 2880 of this title.
