House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Home for the Brave Act of 2025
Official title: To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-related disabilities of a member of the family, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Salud Carbajal D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 7, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5936.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARBAJAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4585):The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution which provides Congress with the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises in order to provide for the general Welfare of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 295 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5936, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5936
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 5, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 5, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
9 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 5 Democrats
4 of 9 cosponsors (44%) are from the other party.
Donald Davis (D-NC), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Sarah McBride (D-DE), James Moylan (R-GU), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Salud Carbajal.
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- H.R. 2492 (119th) Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2025
- H.R. 3331 (119th) Mariner Exam Modernization Act
- H.R. 2820 (119th) California Clean Coast Act of 2025
- H.R. 5017 (119th) Greyhound Protection Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.