H.R. 8800 · 119th Congress · Armed forces and national security
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · Jul 22, 2026
Roll call ↗216
212
Passed the House.
This is a bundle. A single House vote combined the annual defense policy bill with a nationwide rewrite of voter registration and voter ID law that has nothing to do with defense. A member could not vote for the military pay, end strength, and construction authorizations in Divisions A through C without also voting for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act's citizenship documentation and photo ID mandates in Division E, which are ordinarily standalone legislation. This is the same rider Congress attached to the separate State Department appropriations act one week earlier, so the same policy reached a House vote twice in two different must pass vehicles within a week. The bill's title names only defense authorization, giving no indication that Division E rewrites voter eligibility law.
Passed the House on July 22, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate
- IntroducedMay 13, 2026
- CommitteeJun 15, 2026
- Passed HouseJul 22, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Democrat
- Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformHouse Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceHouse Committee on AppropriationsHouse Committee on Veterans' AffairsHouse Committee on Ways and MeansHouse Committee on Small BusinessHouse Committee on the JudiciaryHouse Committee on Education and WorkforceHouse Committee on Homeland SecurityHouse Committee on Energy and CommerceHouse Committee on Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyHouse Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureHouse Committee on the BudgetHouse Committee on Armed Services
- Lobbying
- At least 730
- organizations named it2026 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This is the annual defense authorization act for fiscal year 2027, setting policy and authorizing funding levels for the Defense Department, military construction, and the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons programs.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, July 22, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This is the annual defense authorization act for fiscal year 2027, setting policy and authorizing funding levels for the Defense Department, military construction, and the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons programs. It runs 1,253 sections across five divisions and is far too large to lay out provision by provision, so this covers the major components; specific dollar figures for individual programs sit in Division D's funding tables, incorporated section by section.
Division A authorizes active duty end strength for fiscal year 2027 at 469,000 for the Army, 356,600 for the Navy, 173,700 for the Marine Corps, 330,400 for the Air Force, and 13,200 for the Space Force. It also creates the Military Chaplains Modernization Act of 2026, adding new protections and duties for chaplains under Title 10, and directs the Defense Department to give preference to domestically sourced uranium and other critical minerals over foreign suppliers.
Division B, the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, authorizes specific military construction and family housing projects, including $918,000,000 at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, and $380,000,000 at Wheeler Army Air Field, Hawaii.
Division C authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy for the National Nuclear Security Administration's nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs for fiscal year 2027.
Division E, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also called the SAVE America Act, rewrites federal election law nationwide, the same rider Congress attached to the fiscal year 2027 State Department appropriations act one week earlier. It requires anyone registering to vote in a federal election to present documentary proof of United States citizenship, with an attestation based fallback for applicants who cannot produce a document, and separately requires a photo identification to cast a ballot in a federal election, in person or by mail. States must submit voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE system to identify and remove noncitizens after notice, and the act creates new federal crimes for registering an applicant without proof of citizenship or materially assisting a noncitizen to register or vote. Absent uniformed services voters are exempt from both requirements, which take effect on enactment.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 730 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 851 quarterly reports filed by 112 lobbying firms and by 258 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Advanced Space, LLC; Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR); University of Maryland; Robotic Research Opco, LLC (dba Forterra); American Chiropractic Association. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 725 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. Our copy holds 2 fewer filings for 2025 Q4 and 7 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.