Second Degree Amendment · S.Amdt. 3080· Senate(119-SAMDT-3080)
To require reports on facilities at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
Age: 47 years
Missouri
- Introduced
- 7/29/2025
- Last activity
- 8/1/2025 — Amendment SA 3080 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
- Sponsored by
- Josh Hawley
- Cosponsors
- None
- Changes amendment
- 119-SAMDT-3411
- On the bill
- 119-HR-3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Adopted
What this amendment would do
Amendment No. 3411 was proposed as a substitute to H.R. 3944, the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026. Its purpose was to serve as a primary vehicle for incorporating various changes and additions to the funding bill.
The amendment aimed to change or add the following to the bill:
Veterans Affairs and Health
- Reporting and Oversight: Required reports on the use of third-party contractors for medical disability exams, veterans in the housing choice voucher program, and funding backlogs for State homes for veterans.
- Funding Allocations: Added specific funding for veterans' telehealth ($6,356,000,000) and opioid prevention and treatment programs ($709,573,000).
- Service Protections: Included a prohibition on using funds to reduce services or capacity for the Veterans Crisis Line.
- Administrative Requirements: Required a public spreadsheet for interment schedule availability at National Cemetery Administration cemeteries and the continuation of customer service surveys.
- Staffing: Required a report on the methodology and implementation of VA staffing models.
- Contracting: Limited the use of funds to cancel contracts exceeding $10,000,000 without prior notice and contingency plans submitted to Congress.
Agriculture and Rural Development
- Research and Health: Provided funds for industrial hemp fiber research and cereal research for mycotoxin risk mitigation.
- Pest Control: Allocated $6,500,000 for the suppression and control of Mormon crickets and grasshoppers.
- Water Systems: Increased funding for rural decentralized water systems.
- Nutrition: Increased funding for the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Program.
- Agricultural Oversight: Required reports on New World screwworm readiness and a feasibility assessment for expanding agricultural quarantine and inspection programs to products entering Hawaii.
Military and General Provisions
- Fort Leonard Wood: Required reports on the capacity and infrastructure of General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital and the condition of military family housing at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
- Reno Medical Center: Required a briefing on the timeline and status of constructing a new VA medical center in Reno, Nevada.
- General Changes: Struck a provision relating to hemp.
- 8/1/2025
- Senate amendment agreed to: Amendment SA 3080 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
- Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 3080 proposed by Senator Collins for Senator Hawley to Amendment SA 3411.
- Amendment SA 3080 proposed by Senator Collins for Senator Hawley to Amendment SA 3411. (consideration: CR S5190-5192) To require reports on facilities at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
- Amendment SA 3080 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
- 7/29/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors