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The bill enables a new veterans' home at Fort Bragg by transferring federal land at no purchase cost, expanding care capacity for veterans while shifting conveyance costs and accepting federal conditions that could constrain State flexibility or risk reversion of the property.
Veterans in North Carolina will gain a State veterans' home facility on roughly 20 acres at Fort Bragg, increasing long-term care capacity for veterans in the state.
The State of North Carolina receives federal land without purchase, lowering upfront land acquisition costs for the project and reducing capital barriers to building the facility.
The State must reimburse environmental and administrative conveyance costs, which protects federal taxpayers from covering those transaction expenses.
If the property ceases being used for State home activities, the land can revert immediately to the U.S., risking loss of the facility or its site and disrupting services for veterans.
North Carolina (or the project sponsor) must pay all conveyance-related costs (surveys, environmental due diligence), imposing upfront expenses on the State budget or developer.
Protective terms the Secretary may impose could limit the State's flexibility to use or develop the site beyond the State home purpose, constraining future local planning or alternate uses.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Transfers ~20 acres of Fort Bragg land to North Carolina for construction of a State home, with the State paying conveyance costs and the U.S. retaining reversionary protections.
Authorizes the Army Secretary to transfer, at no purchase price, about 20 acres (Parcel 3B) of Fort Bragg training area land in Harnett County to the State of North Carolina for construction of a State home under the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The State must pay or reimburse the Army for conveyance-related costs, the Army will determine exact acreage by survey, and the conveyance includes a discretionary reversionary interest and other protective terms if the land stops being used for the State home.
Official title: To authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey to the State of North Carolina a certain parcel of real property located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on which the State shall construct a veterans’ State home, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 27, 2026 by Richard Hudson · Last progress September 15, 2026