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FY2025 NDAA: Status of Legislative Activity



Updated January 8, 2025

On December  23, 2024, President Joe Biden signed into law the Servicemember Quality of Life
Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025 NDAA; P.L. 118-
159). This product provides the status of key legislative activity and documentation associated with
proposed and enacted versions of the FY2025 NDAA (H.R. 8070; S. 4638; House amendment to Senate
amendment  to H.R. 5009).
On March  11, 2024, President 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
NDAA   typically sets policy and authorizes appropriations for the majority of these activities.
In the House, on May 20, 2024, Representatives Mike Rogers, Chair of the House Armed Services
Committee (HASC),  and Adam Smith, HASC  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   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 ofa substitute, reflecting the product ofthe 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.
In the Senate, on June 11-12, 2024, the seven subcommittees of the Senate Armed Services Committee
(SASC)  marked up draft legislative proposals with recommendations for matters in the FY2025 NDAA
under their respective jurisdictions. Two of the markups were held in an open session (Subcommittees on
Personnel and Seapower), and the remaining five were held in closed sessions. On June 12-13, the full
committee considered the legislation in closed sessions. On June 14, Senators Jack Reed and Roger
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