Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

[119th Congress Public Law 58]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

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            SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2025

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Public Law 119-58
119th Congress

                                 An Act

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
              of 2000. <<NOTE: Dec. 18, 2025 -  [S. 356]>>

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Secure Rural
Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025.>>
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 16 USC 7101 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization
Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-
                    DETERMINATION ACT OF 2000.

    (a) Secure Payments for States and Counties Containing Federal
Land.--
            (1) Secure payments.--Section 101 of the Secure Rural
        Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C.
        7111) is amended--
                    (A) in subsections (a) and (b), by striking ``2023''
                each place it appears and inserting ``2026''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:

    ``(e) Special Rule for Fiscal Year 2024 and 2025 Payments.--
            ``(1) State payment.--If an eligible county in a State that
        will receive a share of the State payment for fiscal year 2024
        or 2025 has already received, or will receive, a share of the
        25-percent payment for that fiscal year distributed to the State
        before the date of enactment of this subsection, the amount of
        the State payment shall be reduced by the amount of the share of
        the eligible county of the 25-percent payment.
            ``(2) County payment.--If an eligible county that will
        receive a county payment for fiscal year 2024 or 2025 has
        already received a 50-percent payment for that fiscal year, the
        amount of the county payment shall be reduced by the amount of
        the 50-percent payment.
            ``(3) <<NOTE: Deadline.>> Prompt payment.--Not later than 45
        days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the
        Secretary of the Treasury shall make all payments under this
        title for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.''.
            (2) Distribution of payments to eligible counties.--Section
        103(d)(2) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
        Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7113(d)(2)) is amended by
        striking ``2023'' and inserting ``2026''.

    (b) Payments to States and Counties.--Section 102 of the Secure
Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C.
7112) is amended--

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            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the
                following:
                    ``(E) Payments for each of fiscal years 2024 and
                2025.--The election otherwise required by subparagraph
                (A) shall not apply for each of fiscal years 2024 and
                2025.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the
                following:
                    ``(C) <<NOTE: Applicability. Effective
                dates.>> Fiscal years 2024 and 2025.--The election
                described in paragraph (1)(A) applicable to a county in
                fiscal year 2023 shall be effective for each of fiscal
                years 2024 and 2025.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the
                following:
                    ``(G) Payments for each of fiscal years 2024 and
                2025.--The election made by an eligible county under
                subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) for fiscal year 2023, or
                deemed to be made by the county under paragraph (3)(B)
                for that fiscal year, shall be effective for each of
                fiscal years 2024 and 2025.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the
                following:
                    ``(E) Payments for each of fiscal years 2024 and
                2025.--This paragraph does not apply for each of fiscal
                years 2024 and 2025.''.

    (c) Extension of Authority To Conduct Special Projects on Federal
Land.--
            (1) Committee composition waiver authority.--Section
        205(d)(6)(C) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
        Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(d)(6)(C)) is amended
        by striking ``2023'' and inserting ``2026''.
            (2) Extension of authority.--Section 208 of the Secure Rural
        Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C.
        7128) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``2025'' and
                inserting ``2028''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``2026'' and
                inserting ``2029''.

    (d) Extension of Authority To Expend County Funds.--Section 305 of
the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000
(16 U.S.C. 7144) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2025'' and inserting
        ``2028''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``2026'' and inserting
        ``2029''.
SEC. 3. RESOURCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE PILOT PROGRAM EXTENSION.

    Section 205(g) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``2023'' and inserting
        ``2026''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (6).
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

    (a) Resource Advisory Committees.--Section 205 of the Secure Rural
Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125) is
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--

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                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``concerned,'' and
                inserting ``concerned''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``the date of the
                enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``October 3,
                2008''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(4), by striking ``to extent'' and
        inserting ``to the extent''.

    (b) Use of Project Funds.--Section 206(b)(2) of the Secure Rural
Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C.
7126(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``concerned,'' and inserting
``concerned''.

    Approved December 18, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 356:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            June 18, considered and passed Senate.
            Dec. 9, considered and passed House.

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