MOLD Act
Sponsored By: Senator Richard Blumenthal
Introduced
Summary
Protect military families from mold and other environmental hazards in military housing. This bill would set binding health and safety standards, require independent inspections, force faster reporting and remediation, and create tenant complaint and relocation protections for privatized and other DoD housing.
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- Families: Gives tenants access to inspection results and housing histories, a 24/7 complaint hotline and website, and a right to remediation or relocation within 30 days after a failed inspection if they want to move.
- Military housing offices and DoD: Would require interim guidance within 180 days and final standards within 12 months, mandatory reporting of test results to the Secretary of Defense within 10 days, annual compliance certifications to Congress, and quarterly data and trend reports to a Chief Housing Officer.
- Privatized housing providers and contractors: New and renewed contracts would need enforceable environmental response and relocation protections, and providers must pay for third‑party inspections, remediation, relocations, and related expenses.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Privatized military housing pays repairs
This bill would require privatized military housing providers to pay for third-party inspections, maintenance, mold cleanup, and tenant relocation when units are unsafe. If you must vacate an uninhabitable unit, the provider would have to pay relocation costs, cover property loss, and refund any Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) you received for that unit. The Secretaries must add these enforceable protections to new or renewed housing agreements and, when practicable, to existing agreements within 180 days after enactment.
Complaint hotline, reporting, and enforcement
This bill would create a Chief Housing Officer to collect standardized quarterly reports from installation housing offices. It would require a 24/7 tenant complaint hotline and website, require housing offices to respond within five business days, and keep raw supporting data for at least five years. DoD would publish annual installation-level reports within one year of enactment and could audit providers or suspend housing-related bonuses for systemic noncompliance.
New indoor air and mold rules
This bill would require the Secretary of Defense to issue interim indoor-environment guidance within 180 days and final binding standards within one year. The rules would set acceptable indoor relative humidity below 50 percent and require ventilation, moisture control, testing methods, and a remediation standard (ANSI/IICRC S520). Environmental test results would have to be provided to the Secretary and to affected tenants within 10 days after sample collection.
Independent inspections and certified workers
This bill would require independent, certified third-party mold and environmental inspections at every tenant turnover, after complaints, and after repairs. Inspection findings would be kept as a unit record with a clear pass or fail and given to current tenants and available to incoming tenants. For units that fail, tenants could get remediation or be relocated within 30 days if they choose. People who assess or remediate mold in covered housing would need current certifications from nationally recognized third-party nonprofit certifiers.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Cosponsors
Tim Sheehy
MT • R
Sponsored 1/15/2026
Joni Ernst
IA • R
Sponsored 1/15/2026
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 1/15/2026
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 3/23/2026
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 3/23/2026
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY • D
Sponsored 3/23/2026
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