Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§2883a Funds for Housing Allowances of Members of the Armed Forces Assigned to Certain Military Family Housing Units

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter 169— MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING › Subchapter IV— ALTERNATIVE AUTHORITY FOR ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMENT OF MILITARY HOUSING › § 2883a

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a contract is made in a fiscal year to buy or build military family housing that will not be owned by the United States, the Secretary of Defense may move money from that service’s military housing funds into its pay and allowances account for the same year. The amount moved cannot be more than the extra basic allowance for housing (BAH) those members will get under section 403 of title 37 because they are assigned to those units. Any transfer can only happen if Congress has provided the money in an appropriations act.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2883a

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(a)During the fiscal year in which a contract is awarded for the acquisition or construction of military family housing units under this subchapter that are not to be owned by the United States, the Secretary of Defense may transfer the amount determined under subsection (b) with respect to such housing from appropriations available for support of military housing for the armed force concerned for that fiscal year to appropriations available for pay and allowances of military personnel of that same armed force for that same fiscal year.

(b)The total amount authorized to be transferred under subsection (a) in connection with a contract under this subchapter may not exceed an amount equal to any additional amounts payable during the fiscal year in which the contract is awarded to members of the armed forces assigned to the acquired or constructed housing units as basic allowance for housing under section 403 of title 37 that would not otherwise have been payable to such members if not for assignment to such housing units.

(c)The transfer of funds under the authority of subsection (a) is limited to such amounts as may be provided in advance in appropriations Acts.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2883a

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60