FY2025 NDAA: Status of Legislative Activity (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
Revised Oct. 18, 2024 |
| Report Number |
IN12405 |
| Report Type |
Insight |
| Authors |
Brendan W. McGarry; Valerie Heitshusen |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
On March 11, 2024, President Joe Biden submitted initial documentation supporting the FY2025 budget
request, including proposed funding for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), atomic energy defense
activities primarily of the U.S. Department of Energy, and other national defense-related activities. The
annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) typically sets policy and authorizes appropriations
for the majority of these activities. This product provides the status of key legislative activity and
documentation associated with proposals for a National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
(FY2025 NDAA; H.R. 8070; S. 4638).
In the House, on May 20, 2024, Representatives Mike Rogers, Chair of the House Armed Services
Committee (HASC), and Adam Smith, Ranking Member, released draft legislative proposals (described
as prints) for matters in the FY2025 NDAA under the jurisdictions of the seven subcommittees. They also
released a draft legislative proposal (described as a Chairman’s mark and also known as a Chair’s mark)
for portions of the bill not in the subcommittee marks. Unlike in previous years, each HASC
subcommittee did not consider and report a mark to the full committee. Instead, to expedite committee
consideration of the proposed legislation, each subcommittee released a print (containing both bill
language and directive report language). On May 22, the full committee took up a previously introduced
text, H.R. 8070, and considered the subcommittee prints, the Chair’s mark, and additional amendments.
The same day, HASC voted 57-1 to order H.R. 8070 reported to the House with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute, reflecting the product of the committee markup. On May 31, the committee
reported the bill (the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2025) and filed its accompanying report, H.Rept. 118-529. On June 11, the House
Rules Committee met to report a structured special rule, H.Res. 1287, and accompanying report, H.Rept.
118-551, for the House to consider H.R. 8070. On June 12-14, the House adopted the special rule and
then considered amendments to the bill. On June 14, the House passed the measure, as amended, by a
vote of 217-199.
