Hurt vets' pay won't block housing help
H.R. 224 — Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act · Filed by Mónica De La Cruz (R-TX) · 11 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 7, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
This bill says states, cities, and tribes must not count VA pay. They decide if a hurt vet can get federal housing help. The bill tells the Government Accountability Office to study how VA pay is treated in HUD housing programs. It must suggest fixes.
Who it affects
Hurt vets who get VA pay will no longer have that pay counted against them. This lets them get more housing help than before.
One thing to notice
The bill only covers some federal housing programs. Other programs may still count VA pay as income until Congress passes more laws.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
11 cosponsors: 10 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Jan 7, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 7, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Financial Services and Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services”
- Feb 10, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H593)”
- Feb 10, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Hill (AR) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Jan 6, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Jan 6, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S52)”
- Jan 13, 2026 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Jan 20, 2026 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-70”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,530,451 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 169 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Mónica De La Cruz, who sponsored the bill, received $868,099 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Mortgage Bankers Association — $1,220,000 in 1 report
- Disabled American Veterans — $310,451 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- VA pay — Money the Department of Veterans Affairs pays to vets for harm from military service.
- federal housing programs — Government programs that help people pay for or find homes.
- Government Accountability Office — A federal office that studies how the government spends money and follows rules.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,535 characters) on Mar 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,778 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-02.
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