CHIP IN for Veterans Act of 2026

This bill would make permanent a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program, first created as a pilot in 2016, that lets the VA accept donated facilities and related improvements. It would also let the VA accept donations that pay for all or part of minor construction projects, nonrecurring maintenance projects, and construction services for existing or new VA facilities. Donations would have to match a need in a VA capital planning document, and the donor would have to sign a formal agreement covering VA oversight, code compliance, insurance, and a promise that the donation will not raise the federal cost of the project. Donors would have to obtain required construction permits, and the VA would have to report these donations separately in its existing reports.

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Sponsors

• Deb Fischer Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors