	Overview

The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for the planning, design, construction, alteration, and improvement of Department of Defense (DOD) facilities used by active and reserve components worldwide. Administration's FY2018 Budget Request

On May 23, 2017, the Trump Administration delivered its first budget proposal to the 115 th Congress, a request that included $646.9 billion for Department of Defense Military (051) spending. Of this amount, the Administration requested $9.8 billion for military construction and family housing in the base budget, and $0.6 billion in OCO funds, for a total of $10.4 billion. 115-96 , the third of five Continuing Resolutions enacted in FY2018. Result: Congress fully funded this supplemental request in H.R. 1892 ( P.L. 115-123 ), the fourth extensions of the CR, Division D of H.R. Division B of the bill would have authorized $10.5 billion in appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base closure activities for FY2018. The final bill, H.R. 2810 , was subsequently passed by the House on November 14, 2017, and by the Senate on November 16, 2017. The bill was presented to the President on November 30, 2017, and two weeks later, on December 12, 2017, the bill was signed and enacted as P.L. P.L. 115-91 authorized $10.7 billion for military construction, family housing, and Base Realignment and Closure activities, or roughly $309 million more than the President's Budget Request (PBR). During the course of the final NDAA conference negotiations, the President's Budget Request (PBR) was adjusted upward by $200 million in response to a November 6, 2017, supplemental request ( missile amendment) by the Administration to "support urgent missile defeat and defense enhancements to counter the threat from North Korea." 3354 , a 12-measure appropriations omnibus passed by the House on September 14, 2017, combined several bills. 2998 : FY2018 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; H.R. 3219 : Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018; and H.R. 3219 , passed by the House on July 27, 2017, retained the number assigned to the defense appropriations bill contained in the act and was referred to as the "Make America Secure Appropriations Act", 2018. 2998 ), which was reported by the House Committee on Appropriations on June 15, 2017. Enacted Appropriations

On March 22, 2018, the House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 ( H.R. 1625 , P.L. 115-141 ), a legislative vehicle comprising the 12 appropriations bills Congress enacts on an annual basis. Division J of the omnibus, which makes appropriations for Military Construction Veterans Affairs, and Related agencies for FY2018, provided $10.1 billion for military construction in Title I (base account), and $750 million in Title IV (Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO). The Senate passed the bill in the early hours of March 23, 2018, and the President signed it later the same day. Enacted Appropriations

The FY2018 Military Construction appropriations bill (Division J. of P.L. H.R. H.R. Senate Authorization

S. 1557 , as reported by the committee on July 13, 2017, would have authorized $2.5 billion in appropriated amounts for Air Force military construction projects for FY2018, $92 million more than the Administration requested. Appropriations Actions

				House Appropriations Committee Actions

The House version of the FY2018 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (Division C of H.R.
On May 23, 2017, the Trump Administration delivered its first full budget proposal to the 115th Congress, a request that included $10.4 billion for military construction activities. Of this amount, the Administration requested $9.8 billion for military construction and family housing in the base budget, and $0.6 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funds.
House and Senate negotiations on the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes funding for military construction projects for the Department of Defense, concluded early in November 2017. The final bill, H.R. 2810, passed the House on November 14, 2017, and the Senate on November 16, 2017. The final legislation was sent to the President for his signature on November 30, 2017, and was signed two weeks later, on December 12, 2017.
The FY2018 NDAA (P.L. 115-91) authorizes for appropriations $10.7 billion for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure (BRAC) activities, or roughly $309 million more than the President's Budget Request (PBR).
Military construction appropriations are provided in the annual Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, one of 12 appropriations bills Congress considers on an annual basis. The legislation funds military construction activities for the active and reserve components, as well as military family housing, U.S. contributions to NATO, and BRAC actions.
In the House, the FY2018 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 2998), was first reported by the Committee on Appropriations on June 22, 2017, and subsequently combined with three additional appropriations bills in H.R. 3219, which passed the House on July 27, 2017. This bill, in turn, was consolidated into a larger appropriations omnibus (H.R. 3354) that passed the House on September 14, 2017. The Senate Committee on Appropriations reported its version of the FY2018 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (S. 1557) was reported by the Committee on Appropriations on July 13, 2017.
In lieu of passing any of the 12 appropriations acts, on September 8, 2017, Congress passed and the President signed H.R. 601 (P.L. 115-56), the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018, and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017.
Division D of H.R. 601 was extended four times through March 23, 2018, by allowing the government continued to operate for the first six months of the fiscal year under continuing resolutions.
During this period, Congress enacted several measures that provided military construction funding outside of the routine appropriations process in response to new requests by the Administration. Division B of H.R. 1370 (P.L. 115-96), the "Department of Defense Missile Defeat and Defense Enhancements Appropriations Act, 2018" (known as the missile amendment), provided $200 million in military construction funds to carry out construction of a missile field in Alaska in response to provocative actions by North Korea. A second supplemental, Division B of H.R. 1892 (P.L. 115-123, Title X), provided $721 million in hurricane relief military construction funding in areas struck hardest by disasters along U.S. Southeastern and Gulf coastlines.
On March 23, 2018, Congress passed and the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R. 1625, P.L. 115-141). Division J. of the act provides $10.1 billion in base and $750 million for Overseas Contingency Operations funding, a combined total of $10.8 billion. These appropriated amounts represent 4% more than the Administration requested for military construction funds in FY2018 ($10.4 billion), and 33% more than the FY2017 enacted levels ($8.1 billion).