Three agencies ordered to coordinate on housing—but no action required.
S. 1695 — HUD-USDA-VA Interagency Coordination Act · Filed by Dave McCormick (R-PA) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced May 8, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretaries of HUD, USDA, and Veterans Affairs to sign an agreement to share housing research and data, then submit a joint report to Congress within 180 days identifying ways these three agencies can work together more efficiently on housing programs. The report must be published in the Federal Register for public comment before submission.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward directive to three federal agencies to coordinate on housing policy and report findings. It contains no substantive policy change, appropriation, or regulatory action—only a requirement to study and communicate.
What the text implies
- The 30-day Federal Register comment period creates a public input mechanism that may surface coordination barriers or citizen concerns not visible to agencies alone.
- A successful interagency MOU could establish a template for future HUD-USDA-VA collaboration without requiring new legislation, potentially accelerating housing-program alignment.
- The report's findings may expose inefficiencies or overlaps that, if acted upon, could redirect existing agency resources—but the bill does not mandate implementation or appropriations.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill itself creates no direct benefit or harm to ordinary people—it is a procedural coordination mandate. However, if the resulting report leads to genuine interagency efficiency improvements in housing programs (HUD, USDA rural housing, VA benefits), citizens could eventually benefit from better-coordinated services and reduced administrative waste. The outcome depends entirely on whether agencies act on the report's recommendations, which this bill does not require.
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
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Democrats.
- May 8, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 8, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 3 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,310,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 32 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 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Dave McCormick, the sponsor, reported $690,750 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Mortgage Bankers Association — $1,220,000 on 1 filing
- Up for Growth Action Inc — $90,000 on 2 filings
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 (1,405 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 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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