Pentagon must study using state and local deals for small base projects.
H.R. 9738 — Streamlining Military Infrastructure Act · Filed by Veronica Escobar (D-TX) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the Army, Navy, and Air Force to write reports. They have 120 days to finish. Each report must say whether they could use agreements with state and local governments. The reports must list up to 10 projects that could work this way. The bill sets spending limits: up to $18 million for lab upgrades and $8 million for operations projects. This is a study only, not permission to spend money or build.
Who it affects
The Army, Navy, and Air Force must write the reports. State and local governments could be asked to help with small military construction projects. Taxpayers might save money if these agreements work better than before.
One thing to notice
The bill raises the spending limits for small military projects. If these limits become law later, Congress would approve fewer individual projects.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jul 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 16, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Veronica Escobar, who sponsored the bill, received $395,996 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Picerne Military Housing A/k/a Corvias Group — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- agreements with state and local governments — Contracts between the military and state or local governments to work together.
- military construction — Building or fixing buildings and facilities at military bases.
- spending limits — The dollar amounts that decide when Congress must approve a project.
- 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 full bill text on Jul 19, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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