H.R. 3944Passed Congress

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026

Introduced: Jun 12, 2025

Latest action date: Sep 18, 2025

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Congress: 119th Congress
Introduced: Jun 12, 2025
Recorded roll calls: 12

Status detail: The full action history records passage in both chambers.

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What this bill does

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026

This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for activities and programs related to military construction, veterans, agriculture, and the legislative branch.

Specifically, the bill includes 3 of the 12 regular FY2026 appropriations bills:

the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026;
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026; and
the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026.

The departments, agencies, and activities funded in the bill include

Department of Defense military construction and family housing activities,
the Department of Veterans Affairs,
the Department of Agriculture,
the Food and Drug Administration,
the Senate,
various agencies that support Congress, and
several related and independent agencies.

(Pursuant to the longstanding practice of each chamber of Congress determining its own requirements, funds for the House of Representatives are not included in the Senate bill.)

The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.

Official summary from Congress.gov.

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AbortionAlaskaAlaska Natives and HawaiiansAlliancesAlternative and renewable resourcesAmerican Battle Monuments CommissionAnimal protection and human-animal relationshipsAppropriationsArmed Forces Retirement HomeBuilding constructionCancerCardiovascular and respiratory healthCaribbean areaCemeteries and funeralsClimate change and greenhouse gasesCollective securityComputers and information technologyCongressional oversightCongressional-executive branch relations

Committee activity

Committees and subcommittees that received, reviewed, marked up, or reported this legislation.

senateStanding

Appropriations Committee

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Referred ToJun 30, 2025
Markup ByJul 17, 2025
Reported ByJul 17, 2025

houseStanding

Appropriations Committee

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Reported Original MeasureJun 12, 2025
UnknownJun 25, 2025
UnknownJun 25, 2025

Amendments

Proposed changes to this measure, with their latest official outcome or action from Congress.gov.

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S.Amdt. 3466senateNot agreed toAug 1, 2025

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report on the plan of the Secretary for Department of Veterans Affairs workforce reduction in fiscal year 2026.

Latest action: Amendment SA 3466 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 50. Record Vote Number: 475.

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026

What this bill does

What this legislation is about

Committee activity

Appropriations Committee

Appropriations Committee

Amendments

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report on the plan of the Secretary for Department of Veterans Affairs workforce reduction in fiscal year 2026.

To require a report on veterans who would have been reported to the national instant criminal background check system and who die by suicide with a firearm.

To limit the availability of funds for canceling large contracts without prior notice and explanation to Congress.

To prohibit the use of funds to reduce services under the Veterans Crisis Line.

To allocate amounts for the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program.

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report on the use of third-party contractors to conduct medical disability examinations of veterans for purposes of obtaining disability compensation.

To limit disclosures regarding earmarks.

To provide appropriations to expedite fiber research on industrial hemp and expand cereal research into mycotoxin risk mitigation.

To allocate amounts for opioid prevention and treatment programs.

To reduce the Agriculture discretionary appropriations by 2 percent across the board.

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on the efforts of the Secretary to review and implement staffing models at the Department of Veterans Affairs that will ensure timely, high quality delivery of health care, benefits, and other services furnished by the Department.

To improve the bill.

In the nature of a substitute.

To allocate amounts for telehealth for veterans.

To require a report on funding for State homes for veterans.

To require a briefing on the current status, path forward, and timeline to construct a new medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Reno, Nevada.

To increase funding for rural decentralized water systems.

To increase funding for the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Program, with an offset.

To fund activities relating to the suppression and control of Mormon crickets and grasshoppers.

To prohibit funds from being used for reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and to require a benefit-cost analysis on that reorganization, a public comment period, and a report.

To limit recissions of funding.

To reduce funding for certain programs under the division making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.

To require an assessment of the feasibility of expanding the agricultural quarantine and inspection program to products entering Hawaii.

To address interment schedule availability at cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration.

To provide for the continuation of National Cemetery Administration surveys.

To require reports on facilities at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

To require a report on New World screwworm readiness and response.

To strike a provision relating to hemp.

To require a report on veterans participating in the housing choice voucher program.

Amendment en bloc No. 2 comprised of the amendments numbered 1, 14, 15, 19, 25, 28, and 32, printed in House Report 119-167.

An amendment comprised of the following amendments printed in House Report 119-167 as en bloc No. 1: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, and 30.

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