Three housing agencies ordered to coordinate and report to Congress
H.R. 5429 — HUD-USDA-VA Interagency Coordination Act · Filed by Mónica De La Cruz (R-TX) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretaries of HUD, USDA, and Veterans Affairs to create a shared agreement to exchange housing research and data, and to jointly submit a report to Congress within 180 days identifying ways these three agencies can collaborate more effectively to improve their housing programs. The report must be published in the Federal Register for public comment before submission.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is requiring three federal housing agencies to coordinate, share data, and report on collaboration opportunities. It is a procedural governance measure with no financial appropriations, regulatory changes, or private-sector carve-outs.
What the text implies
- Report findings may inform future legislative proposals to consolidate or restructure federal housing programs, potentially affecting program eligibility or delivery mechanisms.
- Public comment period on the report creates a formal record of stakeholder input that could be cited in future rulemaking or appropriations decisions affecting housing programs.
- Coordination agreement may lead to data-sharing protocols that affect privacy or access to beneficiary information across agencies.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates transparency and accountability by requiring federal housing agencies to coordinate and report on efficiency improvements. Public comment on the report ensures citizen input into housing policy. No restrictions on citizen rights or remedies are imposed.
Named in the bill
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House Committee on Financial Services, House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Federal Register
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Sep 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Sep 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $530,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 23 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mónica De La Cruz, the sponsor, reported $774,099 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc — $530,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,406 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Jun 2026 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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