Skip to main content

Congressional notification of window fall incidents in certain privatized military housing

Division B · Title XXVIII: Military Construction General Provisions · Subtitle B: Military Housing Reforms

Plain-language summaryAI

The law requires military officials to notify Congress within 72 hours whenever a minor child or anyone else falls from a window in military family housing. The notification must include the date, location, details of what happened, and whether anyone was injured or died.

AI-generated from this section’s text — a quick orientation, not a substitute for the full text below. Not legal advice.

Section Text · Sec. 2811.
(1)

by striking The Secretary concerned and inserting (1) The Secretary concerned ;

(2)

by inserting or any other individual after minor child ; and

(3)

by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(2)

Not later than 72 hours after any date on which an incident in which a minor child or any other individual falls from a window in a unit of military family housing under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned occurs, the Secretary concerned shall submit to the congressional defense committees a notification that includes, with respect to such incident—

(A)

the date;

(B)

the location;

(C)

the associated circumstances; and

(D)

whether injury or death resulted.