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119-hr-5095119th CongressWALLET

HOMEFRONT Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Patronis, Jimmy [R-FL-1]

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Summary

Would exempt most Department of Defense unaccompanied and family housing from National Historic Preservation Act review. It would also ban landlords in privatized military housing from requiring nondisclosure agreements and make that ban retroactive.

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  • Families and unaccompanied service members: would remove NHPA review requirements for qualifying DoD housing units.
  • Tenants and prospective tenants in privatized military housing: would bar landlords from requiring nondisclosure agreements to lease, continue, or end tenancy. NDAs would be valid only if part of a litigation settlement and the ban would apply to existing agreements.
  • DoD, regulators, and preservation stakeholders: would allow exclusions from the exemption only by regulation, cap excluded units at 0.1% of total DoD unaccompanied and family housing, and forbid excluding units listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of January 20, 2025.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

No nondisclosure agreements in military housing

If enacted, landlords in privatized military housing would not be allowed to require nondisclosure agreements when you start, keep, or end a lease, or when they provide housing services. Any agreement that goes against a tenant’s interests would be invalid. An agreement would still be allowed if it is part of settling a lawsuit. The ban would apply to covered agreements no matter when they were signed and would take effect upon enactment.

Historic review changes for military housing

This bill would exempt most DoD unaccompanied and family housing, in use at enactment, from National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) review. The Defense Secretary could, by regulation, keep some specific units under NHPA, but no more than 0.1% of all such units. Any unit kept under NHPA would stay there until the Secretary revokes that choice. DoD housing on the National Register as of January 20, 2025 could not be kept under NHPA and would remain exempt.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Patronis, Jimmy [R-FL-1]

FL • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]

    FL • R

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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