Official Summaries

Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill extends and modifies the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, including by

• extending payments made to states and counties containing federal land through FY2026,
• providing for payments for FY2024 and FY2025,
• extending the authority of counties to initiate projects using such funds through FY2028, and
• extending the authority to initiate projects proposed by resource advisory committees through FY2028.

Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

This act extends and modifies the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program, under which states and counties containing certain federal land may receive payments from the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for schools, roads, and certain other municipal services.

The act modifies the SRS program, including by

• extending payments made to states and counties containing federal land through FY2026,
• providing lapsed payments for FY2024 and FY2025,
• extending the authority of counties to initiate projects using such funds through FY2028, and
• extending the authority to initiate projects proposed by resource advisory committees through FY2028.

Current Full Text

[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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