Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.

VA hospitals and clinics get $70.7 billion for staff, care, and supplies. The money becomes available on October 1, 2027, and the bill adds $100 million to the current year.

Veterans facing long waits or long drives can be sent to private doctors. This account pays those bills and gets $42 billion starting October 1, 2027.

The Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund pays for care and claims tied to environmental hazards veterans met on duty. It gets $54.6 billion now and $53.7 billion more in October 2027.

Family members who care for a badly injured veteran at home can get training, support, and a monthly payment. Section 250 sets aside $3.5 billion for that program.

VA medical funds may pay for fertility counseling and in vitro fertilization for a veteran or a spouse. It covers veterans whose service-connected injury keeps them from having children, and it also repays adoption costs.

No money in this bill may be used to cut staff, hours, or services at the Veterans Crisis Line. The same guard covers other VA suicide prevention programs.

The VA may not close a hospital, nursing home, or clinic, or cut services in a shake-up, until it reports to Congress. The report must cover travel distance and care access for rural veterans.

The bill cancels $1.65 billion of 2026 medical support money and $754 million of 2026 medical facilities money. That money goes back and cannot be spent.

The President may not use a hiring freeze to stop the VA from filling or creating jobs tied to the veterans suicide hotline. The hotline must also answer with a trained person right away.

The bill directs the VA to keep enough staff to meet its own targets. One target is deciding a benefits claim within 125 days.

The VA must stop using Social Security numbers to log people into its computer systems by September 30, 2027. It may still use them to fight fraud, follow a court order, or when no other ID works.

VA policy bars staff from filling out forms for state marijuana programs. This bill blocks money to enforce that policy, so the VA could not punish staff who help.

The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims gets $50 million. Of that, $4.3 million pays for free legal help for veterans who appeal a denied claim.

No Defense Department money here may build, renovate, or expand a U.S. facility to hold anyone detained at Guantanamo Bay. The ban covers people held there as of June 24, 2009.

No money in this bill may be used to close the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or to shift its operations elsewhere.

Construction paid for in this bill may not buy steel if U.S. steel producers and fabricators were shut out of the bidding.

Design contracts over $500,000 in Japan, NATO countries, and around the Arabian Gulf must go to U.S. firms or joint ventures with local firms. Building contracts over $1 million in Pacific territories and the Arabian Gulf may not go to a foreign contractor unless the U.S. bid is more than 20 percent higher.

The VA may not buy computers, printers, or video meeting gear from makers on U.S. lists of Chinese military-linked or forced-labor firms. The ban also covers buying through a third party.

Contractors judged below satisfactory, behind schedule, or over budget get no award or bonus fees. Exceptions apply for events nobody could foresee or for changes the government caused.

Section 127 adds $5 million each for the Army, Navy, and Air Force to design bases that can handle floods, storms, and other extreme weather. The design money lasts through September 2031.

For a military construction project, only one environmental impact statement may be paid for under this bill. A court can still order more.

Agencies funded here post required reports on their public websites. Posting comes at least 45 days after Congress gets the report, and the agency head decides whether posting serves the national interest.

Agencies may not deny or slow an Inspector General's access to records. If one does, the Inspector General must tell the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within five calendar days.

The VA may not settle a dispute with a person on terms that bar them from talking to Members of Congress or their staff. Topics kept secret by law or for national defense are excluded.

One quarter of the $3.4 billion for the new electronic health record stays frozen until July 1, 2027. The VA must first send Congress a cost estimate, a site-by-site rollout schedule, and staffing plans by June 1, 2027.

Research using dogs, cats, or monkeys may not start unless the Secretary signs off in writing, and that job cannot be handed to staff. The VA must report each approval to Congress and open the labs to voluntary USDA inspection.

The VA must break ground on the new Bakersfield, California outpatient clinic by September 30, 2027. If it does not, it must move current services to temporary space.

No VA money in this or any other law may change how regional networks pick and contract for diabetes monitoring supplies. That locks in the current buying system.

The bill bars the VA from moving money out of the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund into any other VA account. The bar covers money from this and earlier spending laws.

No money in this bill may be used to shut the Port Charlotte VA Clinic. Section 421 names that one Florida clinic and no other.

A 2023 VA rule changed the rates the VA pays for ambulances and other special transport. The bill blocks money to carry out that rule from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.

Today the VA can report a veteran deemed unable to handle their own affairs to the federal background check system, which blocks gun purchases. This bill blocks money for that unless a judge finds the person is a danger.