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H.R. 217119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
CHIP IN for Veterans Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) · 6 active : 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedMay 19, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govCommunities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act or the CHIP IN for Veterans Act
This bill makes permanent, starting December 16, 2026, the pilot program under which the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may accept donations of property or facilities from certain nonfederal entities (e.g., state authorities or private entities). The bill also removes the limit on the number of donations that the VA may accept under the program.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Health · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Charitable contributions
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Land transfers
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 78Middle 30–70
- 14Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
6 activeShow all 6 cosponsors
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA-22)
- Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
- Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
