10 USC § 2832 - Homeowners assistance program

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title: "10 USC § 2832 - Homeowners assistance program"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2832"
section_name: "Homeowners assistance program"
chapter_number: 169
chapter_name: "MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 97–214, § 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 163; amended Pub. L. 101–189, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2831(a), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1660; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1502(a)(26), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 506; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title X, § 1048(e)(11), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1228.)"
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# § 2832. Homeowners assistance program

42 U.S.C. 3374

The Secretary of Defense may exercise the authority provided in section 1013 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 ().

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 97–214, § 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 163; amended Pub. L. 101–189, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2831(a), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1660; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1502(a)(26), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 506; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title X, § 1048(e)(11), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1228.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2001— struck out “(a)” before “The Secretary of Defense” and struck out subsec. (b) which read as follows:

“(b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and notwithstanding subsection (i) of section 1013 of the Act referred to in subsection (a)—

“(A) the Secretary of Defense may transfer not more than $31,000,000 from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account, established by section 207 of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (; ), to the fund established pursuant to subsection (d) of such section 1013 for use as part of such fund; and

“(B) any funds so transferred shall be available for obligation and expenditure for the same purposes that funds appropriated to such fund are available, except that such funds may not be obligated after .

“(2) Amounts may be transferred under paragraph (1) only after the date on which the appropriate committees of Congress receive from the Secretary written notice of, and justification for, the transfer.”

1996—Subsec. (b)(2).  substituted “appropriate committees of Congress” for “Committees on Armed Services and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives”.

1989— designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

> “The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply only to funds appropriated or transferred to, or otherwise deposited in, the Department of Defense Base Closure Account for, or during, fiscal years beginning after
> 
> .”

, , , provided that:

### Effective Date

For effective date and applicability of section, see , set out as a note under .