Official Summaries

Communities 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.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 217 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 217


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the pilot 
 program authorized by the Communities Helping Invest through Property 
    and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Communities Helping Invest through 
Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2025'' or the 
``CHIP IN for Veterans Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND EXTENDING A PILOT PROGRAM ON ACCEPTANCE BY THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS OF DONATED FACILITIES AND 
              RELATED IMPROVEMENTS.

    (a) Expansion.--
            (1) In general.--Section 2 of the Communities Helping 
        Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans 
        Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-294; 38 U.S.C. 8103 note) is 
        amended, in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``property''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(C) A minor construction, or nonrecurring 
                maintenance, project of the Department.''.
            (2) Conforming amendments.--Such section is further 
        amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)--
                            (i) in the heading, by striking ``of 
                        Property'';
                            (ii) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
                        by striking ``the donation of a property'' and 
                        inserting ``a donation'';
                            (iii) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or 
                        project'' after ``property'' each place it 
                        appears; and
                            (iv) in paragraph (2), by inserting 
                        ``project,'' after ``improvements,'';
                    (B) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1)--
                                    (I) in the matter preceding 
                                subparagraph (A), by striking ``real 
                                property and improvements donated under 
                                the pilot program'' and inserting ``a 
                                donation'';
                                    (II) in subparagraph (A), by 
                                striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
                                semicolon;
                                    (III) in subparagraph (B), by 
                                striking the period at the end and 
                                inserting ``; or''; and
                                    (IV) by adding at the end the 
                                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) the performance of a minor construction, or 
                nonrecurring maintenance, project of the Department.'';
                            (ii) in paragraph (2)--
                                    (I) in subparagraph (A), by 
                                striking ``construction of the 
                                facility'' and inserting ``donation'';
                                    (II) in subparagraph (B), by 
                                inserting ``maintaining,'' after 
                                ``altering,''; and
                                    (III) in subparagraph (C), by 
                                striking ``construction of the 
                                facility'' and inserting ``donation'';
                    (C) in subsection (e)(1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``alter, maintain,'' after 
                        ``design,'' both places it appears;
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``real property and 
                                improvements donated'' and inserting 
                                ``a donation''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``of the real 
                                property and improvements''; and
                            (iii) in subparagraph (B)(ii)(I), by 
                        striking ``construction and donation of the 
                        real property and improvements'' and inserting 
                        ``donation''; and
                    (D) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ``real 
                property and improvements donated'' and inserting 
                ``donations''.
    (b) Extension.--Such section is further amended, in subsection (i), 
by striking ``December 16, 2026'' and inserting ``December 16, 2031''.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.