H.R. 3944
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
Sponsor: John R. Carter · 0 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
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.
Text of the bill
A Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
I DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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Where this section came from
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Jun 12, 2025 · Reported in House
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Aug 1, 2025 · Engrossed Amendment Senate S.Amdt. 3433: To limit the availability of funds for canceling large contracts without prior notice and explanation to Congress. Official page › S.Amdt. 3432: To prohibit the use of funds to reduce services under the Veterans Crisis Line. Official page › S.Amdt. 3431: To allocate amounts for the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program. Official page › S.Amdt. 3430: 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. Official page › S.Amdt. 3418: To provide appropriations to expedite fiber research on industrial hemp and expand cereal research into mycotoxin risk mitigation. Official page › S.Amdt. 3416: To allocate amounts for opioid prevention and treatment programs. Official page › S.Amdt. 3413: 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. Official page › S.Amdt. 3412: To improve the bill. Official page › S.Amdt. 3411: In the nature of a substitute. Official page › S.Amdt. 3409: To allocate amounts for telehealth for veterans. Official page › S.Amdt. 3220: To require a report on funding for State homes for veterans. Official page › S.Amdt. 3208: 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. Official page › S.Amdt. 3200: To increase funding for rural decentralized water systems. Official page › S.Amdt. 3190: To increase funding for the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Program, with an offset. Official page › S.Amdt. 3163: To fund activities relating to the suppression and control of Mormon crickets and grasshoppers. Official page › S.Amdt. 3110: To require an assessment of the feasibility of expanding the agricultural quarantine and inspection program to products entering Hawaii. Official page › S.Amdt. 3082: To address interment schedule availability at cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration. Official page › S.Amdt. 3081: To provide for the continuation of National Cemetery Administration surveys. Official page › S.Amdt. 3080: To require reports on facilities at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Official page › S.Amdt. 3073: To require a report on New World screwworm readiness and response. Official page › S.Amdt. 3070: To strike a provision relating to hemp. Official page › S.Amdt. 3025: To require a report on veterans participating in the housing choice voucher program. Official page › On the Motion to Proceed — Motion to Proceed Agreed to, 50–48 · Roll Call 422On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to, 91–7 · Roll Call 423On the Motion to Proceed — Motion to Proceed Agreed to, 90–8 · Roll Call 428On the Motion — Motion Rejected, 44–51 · Roll Call 472On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 44–51 · Roll Call 473On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 42–53 · Roll Call 474On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 45–50 · Roll Call 475On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 14–81 · Roll Call 476On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 15–81 · Roll Call 477On the Amendment — Amendment Rejected, 21–75 · Roll Call 478On the Amendment — Amendment Agreed to, 87–9 · Roll Call 479On Passage of the Bill — Bill Passed, 87–9 · Roll Call 480On the Amendment — Amendment Agreed to, 81–15 · Roll Call 481
(a) In general.
None of the funds
appropriated or otherwise
made available
to
by
the Department of Defense in
this Act may be used
to
by
construct,
the
renovate,
Secretary
or
of
expand
Veterans
any
Affairs
facility
under
in
section
the
5502
United
of
States,
title
its territories
38
,
or possessions to house any individual detained at
United States
Naval Station
Code
,
Guantánamo
in
Bay,
any
Cuba,
case
for
arising
the
out
purposes
of
detention or imprisonment in
the
custody
administration
or
by
under
the
control
Secretary
of
the
laws
Department
and
of
benefits
Defense.
under
(b)
such
The
title,
prohibition
to
in
report
subsection (
a
) shall
person
not
who
apply
is
to
deemed
any
mentally
modification of facilities at United States Naval Station
incapacitated
,
Guantánamo
mentally
Bay
incompetent
,
Cuba.
or
(c)
to
An
be
individual
experiencing
described
an
in
extended
this
loss
subsection
of
is
consciousness
any individual who,
as
of
a
June
person
24,
who
2009,
has
is
been
located
adjudicated
at
as
United
a
States
mental
Naval
defective
Station,
under
Guantánamo
subsection
Bay,
(d)(4)
Cuba,
or
and who—
(
1
g)(4
)
is
of
not
section
a
922
citizen
of
the
title 18,
United States
or
Code,
a
without
member of
the
Armed
order
Forces
or finding
of
the
a
United
judge,
States;
magistrate,
and (2) is— (A) in the custody
or
under
other
the
judicial
effective
authority
control
of
the
competent
Department
jurisdiction
of
that
Defense;
such
or
person
(B)
is
otherwise
a
under
danger
detention
to
at
himself
United
or
States
herself
Naval
or
Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
others
.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under section 5502 of title 38, United States Code, in any case arising out of the administration by the Secretary of laws and benefits under such title, to report a person who is deemed mentally incapacitated, mentally incompetent, or to be experiencing an extended loss of consciousness as a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective under subsection (d)(4) or (g)(4) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, without the order or finding of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.
B Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
I AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
II
III RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
IV
V FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS
VI
VII GENERAL PROVISIONS
C Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
I LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
II GENERAL PROVISIONS