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H.R. 120: Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act

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H.R. 120: Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-01-05 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-01-05 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act

Plain summary

Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act - Includes as a veteran, for purposes of eligibility for housing loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the surviving spouse of a veteran who at the time of death was in receipt of or entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling if: (1) the disability was so rated for 10 or more years preceding death; (2) the disability was so rated for at least 5 years since the veteran's discharge or release from active duty; or (3) the veteran was a former prisoner of war who died after September 30, 1999, and the disability was so rated for at least 1 year preceding death. Requires any applicable VA housing loan fee to be collected from such spouse.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Disabled Veterans' Surviving Spouses Home Loans Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5] · 10 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Harold Rogers (R-KY), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5] reported raising $2.2 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr120 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112