Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

Hse Sub. Members – Hearings – Markups |  Sen Sub. Members – Hearings

FY 2025 House Action:
Subcomm: 5/21/24: subcommittee markup: Text | R-Summ | D-Fact Sheet | D-Summ | D-Stmt
Full Comm: 5/23/24: approved MilCon-VA 34-25:  HR 8580 |  H.Rpt. 118-528 | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Smt | D-Summ | D-FactSheet.
Floor:  6/5/24: House approved the MilCon-VA bill, HR 8580, on a nearly party line vote 209-197:  R-Stmt | Text | Rpt | R-Summ | Earmarks | D-Stmt | D-Summ | D-FactSheet | Veto Threat.

FY 2025 Senate Action:
Subcomm:  
Full Comm: 7/11: Senate Approps approved MilCon-VA 27-0:  D-Stmt | D-Summ | Text | Rpt | Earmarks | R-Stmt | R-Summ
Floor: 

FY 2025 Action on Conference Report:
Agreement:  
House Passage:  
Senate Passage:  
President: 

FY 2024 House Mil Con -VA Appropriations Action:
Subcomm: 5/17: House subcomm approved – voice vote | Bill Text | Summ | D-Stmt
Full Comm: 6/13: House full comm approved 34-27 | Text | Summ | Rpt | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Stmt
Floor: 7/27: House approved MilCon-VA 219-211 | SAP | Text | Rpt | Summ | Earmarks | R-Stmt |D-Stmt

FY 2024 Senate Mil Con -VA Appropriations Action:
Subcomm: no subcomm. markup
Full Comm: 6/22: Approved 28-0 | Text | Amend | Summ | Rpt | Earmarks | D-Stmt | R-Stmt
Floor:  11/1: Senate passed 82-15, H.R. 4366, an appropriations minibus including FY 2024 funding for MilCon/VA, Agriculture, and T-HUD:  Summ | Text | Rpt | Earmarks | D-Stmt | R-Stmt.

FY 2024 Action on Conference Report:
Agreement:  Text | Earmarks | Hse-R Sum | Hse-D Sum | Sen-D Sum |  Sen-R Sum |  Explanatory Statement
House Passage:  3/6, Passed 339-85
Senate Passage:  3/8, Passed 75-22
President: 3/9, signed

CRS and CBO funding summaries: 

• CBO: Potential Spending on Veterans’ Health Care, 2018–2028
• FY 2018 Military Construction Authorizations and Appropriations
• Department of Veterans Affairs FY 2018 Appropriations

The Mil Con-VA bill funds the following:
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Defense
–Military Construction: Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Defense-wide, and Guard and Reserve Forces
–Military Family Housing Construction
–Chemical Demilitarization Construction
–Civil, Cemeterial Expenses, Army
Related Agencies:
–American Battle Monuments Commission
–Armed Forces Retirement Home
–U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claim
In most respects House and Senate appropriations subcommittee jurisdictions are parallel.

Historical Database – Mil Con-VA: 

Open a document below, press the Ctrl + F buttons, and enter relevant terms to locate the bill or report provisions you need.

Omnibus or Consolidated:  all (or most) regular appropriations bills packaged together.
Minibus:  several regular appropriations bills packaged together.
CR:  continues agency funding at a particular level–often the previous year–without detailed appropriations.
Cromnibus:  a CR for some agencies and detailed appropriations for others.

Note on Joint Statements:  In many cases, (House-Senate) joint explanatory statements on omnibus appropriations bills are printed only in the Congressional Record–which is impossible to read on mobile devices.  In those cases, we have uploaded House Rules Committee PDFs.

Please note:  When you click on the links below, the bill your browser opens may not be what you expect, because the appropriations language you need has been included by the Committee in a bill with an unrelated title.  For example, LHHS appropriations might be included in a bill titled Mil-Con-VA.  Simply proceed to the relevant “title” or “division” of the bill.