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Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act

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Officially: “Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act” Read the full text

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What it does

Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act This act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri, during FY2026. The act specifies the maximum amount that may be spent on the project and details that the project consists of the construction of a new bed tower, clinical building expansion, consolidated administrative building and warehouse, utility plant, and parking garages.

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1Short title

This section gives the Act its short title, the Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act.

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2Authorization of major medical facility project of Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri

This section would let the Secretary of Veterans Affairs carry out a major medical facility construction project in fiscal year 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri. The project would consist of building a new bed tower, expanding the clinical building, building a consolidated administrative building and warehouse, building a utility plant, and building parking garages. The total cost of the project may not exceed $1,762,668,000. The section would also authorize $1,762,668,000 to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the Construction, Major Projects account, for fiscal year 2026 or the year in which funds are appropriated, to pay for this project.

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-07-23

In the Senate.

Passed the House · 2026-05-20

Passed the Senate · 2025-12-17

Sent to the President · 2026-06-02

Became Public Law 119-97 · 2026-06-09

Official documents

Full bill textread it on this site, version enr (Enrolled), as published by GovInfo

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Congressional Budget Office cost estimatewhat it would cost, by the nonpartisan CBO

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The numbers

sponsors, out of 51 needed to pass

Who is lobbying on this

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSvia DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

4 filings

LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWERvia VAN NESS FELDMAN, LLP

3 filings

SIGNATORY WALL AND CEILING CONTRACTORS ALLIANCEvia LONGBOW PUBLIC POLICY GROUP, LLC

1 filing

From 8 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Became Public Law No: 119-97. (2026-06-09).