Congress funds $700M military family housing overhaul at Fort Leonard Wood
S. 1226 — Restoring Fort Leonard Wood Act of 2025 · Filed by Josh Hawley (R-MO) · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill directs the Secretary of the Army to replace 1,142 military family housing units at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and authorizes $700 million in federal spending to do so. Military families living in aging or inadequate housing at this base will get new or renovated homes.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward authorization of federal spending for military family housing replacement at a specific installation. It is a routine military construction appropriation with no hidden mechanisms or narrow beneficiaries.
What the text implies
- The $700M authorization does not guarantee appropriation — Congress must still pass annual appropriations bills to fund the project, creating multi-year implementation uncertainty.
- No timeline specified for completion; construction may span many years, delaying housing improvements for affected families.
- Bill does not specify whether existing housing will be demolished, renovated, or replaced with new construction, leaving implementation details to Army discretion.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Military families and their dependents receive improved housing conditions at a federal installation. The bill addresses a documented infrastructure need (aging family housing) with direct public benefit to service members and their families.
Who stands to gain
- military construction contractors
- engineering and design firms
Named in the bill
Secretary of the Army, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, U.S. Department of Defense
Where it stands
- Apr 1, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 1, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the 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 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $340,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 104 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.
Josh Hawley, the sponsor, reported $68,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Psychological Association Services Inc.(fka American Psychological Assn — $340,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 16, 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 (537 characters) on Aug 17, 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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