CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)

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.

H.R. 5208 · House bill Armed Forces and National Security

A Democratic bill with 3 Republican cosponsors · See all 8 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill proposes an amendment to title 37 of the United States Code. The goal is to change how gross household income is calculated for the basic needs allowance. Specifically, it seeks to exclude the basic allowance for housing from that calculation. This change would apply to eligible members of the Armed Forces.

Yes· 3 of 4

  • Scored +3

    Would households on low incomes be better off under this?

    The change in income calculation increases the available funds for the basic needs allowance for eligible military members.

  • Scored +3

    Is this likely to lift people out of poverty?

    Excluding housing allowances from income calculations allows service members to retain more of their basic needs allowance.

  • Scored +2

    Would veterans be better off under this, taking everything together?

    The bill provides a financial benefit to current eligible members of the Armed Forces through the basic needs allowance.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.