This bill, the HOMEFRONT Act of 2025, amends two federal code sections about military housing and nondisclosure agreements.
First, it changes section 307104 of title 54 to make the National Historic Preservation Act not apply to facilities under the Secretary of Defense that, on the date the act is enacted, have been used as military unaccompanied housing or military family housing. The Secretary of Defense can use regulations to exclude a very small number of housing units from that exemption, but the total excluded may not exceed one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of all such units. Any Department of Defense facility listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of January 20, 2025, may not be excluded from the exemption.
Second, it amends section 2890 of title 10 to prohibit landlords from asking tenants or prospective tenants in military housing to sign nondisclosure agreements when entering, continuing, or ending a lease, or in connection with services for the housing unit. Such agreements that are against the tenant’s interests are invalid. The prohibition does not apply to nondisclosure agreements that are part of a settlement of litigation. The bill makes this nondisclosure prohibition apply retroactively to covered agreements regardless of when they were signed.
The bill was introduced in the House on September 2, 2025, by Representative Jimmy Patronis. It is titled the "Housing Our Military Effectively For Readiness, Operations, and Neutralization of Threats Act of 2025" (HOMEFRONT Act of 2025).
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