# S. 2393 (119th): Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act This act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project in St

Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act This act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri, during FY2026. The act specifies the maximum amount that may be spent on the project and details that the project consists of the construction of a new bed tower, clinical building expansion, consolidated administrative building and warehouse, utility plant, and parking garages.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: infrastructure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_health. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 180: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure authorizes ordinary government construction for veterans' medical care, which is a legitimate public good. Its moral weight depends on prudential questions of cost, need, and budget discipline rather than on directly restraining or advancing a named moral evil. The existing family_policy tag does not fit the operative text and should not drive the classification.
Theological note: The bill relates to the Christian duty to honor and care for those who served, and to the stewardship of public resources for the common good. It raises no direct question of protecting or harming human life, sexual ethics, or the restraint of coercive power, so its relevance is primarily prudential, concerning whether public funds are spent wisely and justly on needed care.

## Recorded votes

Roll 180: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 405 · Nay 5 · Other 20.

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