# 119-hr-6599: Leasing and Infrastructure Act of 2025

119-hr-6599, Leasing and Infrastructure Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8] (R-MO); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-25).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6599
- Congress: 119
- Title: Leasing and Infrastructure Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-12-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8] (R-MO)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-25

## Summary

**Creates an independent VA leasing authority** that lets the Department of Veterans Affairs enter long-term leases for major medical facilities and use a revolving Veterans Leasing Fund to finance those leases. It sets lifecycle and market-based cost rules, transparency requirements, and risk-mitigation lease terms to align VA leasing with commercial practice while preserving congressional oversight. - Veterans and families: Speeds delivery of new or expanded VA medical and outpatient space by allowing VA to sign leases up to 20 years without General Services Administration delegation. - VA operations and finance: Creates a Veterans Leasing Fund in the Treasury to pay rent, tenant improvements, operating costs, and pre-award due diligence, with funding and obligations managed through the Fund and related appropriations. - Oversight and procurement: Requires standardized life-cycle cost estimates with geographic and inflation adjustments, market-based cost components including land and construction, annual reporting to VA committees and specified House and Senate committees, and a streamlined procurement model study and report within 180 days of enactment.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Developer protections and payment rules: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require VA to try to award a major medical facility lease within one year of issuing a solicitation and to change internal guidance to support that target. Before issuing a solicitation, a contracting officer would have to certify in the contract file that funds are oblig…
- New VA authority to lease facilities: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would let the VA Secretary enter into major medical facility leases without GSA delegation, with firm terms up to 20 years if a prospectus is approved by Veterans' Affairs committees and transmitted to specified House and Senate committees. It would create a Veterans Leasing Fu…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-6500: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6998: Renewed Hope Act
- 119-hr-9645: Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act
- 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- 119-hr-8596: FAIR Labels Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-hr-6599 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6599)

## Related
- [119-hr-6500: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6500)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
- [119-hr-6998: Renewed Hope Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6998)
- [119-hr-9645: Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9645)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
- [119-hr-8596: FAIR Labels Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8596)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6599 (as of 2026-07-25).