Ranking Member Warren Secures Housing, Consumer Protection, and Corporate Transparency Provisions in NDAA

Ranking Member Warren Secures Housing, Consumer Protection, and Corporate Transparency Provisions in NDAA

Executive Summary of the FY 27 NDAA (Website)

Washington, D.C. - During the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC) markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (FY27 NDAA) this week, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, secured key wins on housing, consumer protection, and corporate transparency. All were secured with bipartisan support in the Senate Armed Services Committee. She also secured wins on military right to repair, defense contractor stock Buybacks, and service member safety (read more here).

Ranking Member Warren secured the following provisions in SASC's version of the FY 26 NDAA:

Military Housing

• A provision banning landlords from requesting that tenants sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in privatized military housing and privatized unaccompanied housing. This provision advances sections from Senators Warren and Ossoff's Restore Military Families' Voices Act;
• A provision building on the public complaint database, the DoD Housing Feedback System, for tenants that Senator Warren required DoD to establish in the fiscal year 2020 NDAA. This provision requires the DoD to make service members and military families aware of the DoD Housing Feedback System and ensures that complaints cannot be arbitrarily altered, deleted, or suppressed;
• A provision expanding tenant protections against landlord reprisal or retaliation in privatized military housing. It improves retaliation investigation processes and clarifies that tenants have a right to report housing issues to Congress as well as the DoD Inspector General and Chief Housing Officer, not just their chain of command or housing management office. This provision advances sections from Senators Warren and Ossoff's Restore Military Families' Voices Act.

Consumer Protection

• A provision directing the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the congressional defense committees outlining the financial literacy training and direct deposit processes in place for new members of the Armed Forces.

National Security

• A provision advancing sections of Senator Warren and Senator Grassley's Improving Transparency of Foreign Influence on Department of Defense Contractors that would strengthen beneficial ownership reporting requirements for Defense contractors and subcontractors by lowering the threshold for reporting and foreign ownership review from $5 million in contracts to $500,000;

• A provision imposing reporting requirements on the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA), which represents DoD on the End-User Review Committee, a committee that reviews licenses for AI chips to China; and

• A provision advancing sections from Senator Warren and Senator Schmitt's Protecting AI and Cloud Competition in Defense Act. The provision requires the Department to undertake a competitive process in its procurement of AI hardware and cloud computing services and prioritize multi-vendor technology, promote interoperability and prohibit contractors from using Department information to train commercial products.

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