Funds military construction and Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2025

§1What it does

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This bill would provide funding for fiscal year 2025, which ran from October 2024 through September 2025, for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and related agencies.^2,3 The military construction money covers building projects for the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, the Air Force, defense-wide agencies and the National Guard and Reserves, along with military family housing, an account for military base closures and the NATO Security Investment Program.³ The VA money covers veterans' benefits, health care, national cemeteries and administration, and the bill also funds the American Battle Monuments Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Army cemeteries and the Armed Forces Retirement Home, while setting rules for how the money may be used.³ Amendments adopted on the House floor before passage include one lifting a VA directive so that its medical staff may help veterans take part in state-approved medical marijuana programs, and one barring the VA from reporting a veteran to the national gun background-check system because it has appointed someone to manage that veteran's benefits.³

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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