Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

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

Title 10 › 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 Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can move money during the fiscal year a contract is awarded to buy or build military family housing that the United States will not own. The money comes from that service’s military housing support account and goes to that same service’s pay-and-allowances account for the same fiscal year. The amount moved cannot be more than the extra basic allowance for housing (BAH) under section 403 of title 37 that members assigned to those units will get that year and would not otherwise receive. Any transfer can only happen if Congress has provided the funds in advance in appropriations Acts.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2883a

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(a)Authority to Transfer Funds To Cover Housing Allowances.—

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)Amount Transferred.—

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)Transfers Subject to Appropriations.—

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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110