S. 356 · 119th Congress · Public lands and natural resources
Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Dec 9, 2025
Roll call ↗399
5
Passed the House.
Law 318 days after it was introduced
Public Law 119-58. Each step dated from the congress.gov record
- IntroducedFeb 3, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 3, 2025
- Passed SenateJun 18, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 9, 2025
- Became lawDec 18, 2025
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 28
- 16 Democrats, 11 Republicans, 1 Independent
- Senate committee
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Lobbying
- At least 6
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill reauthorizes the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, which sends federal payments to states and counties that contain national forest and other federal land.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, December 9, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill reauthorizes the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, which sends federal payments to states and counties that contain national forest and other federal land. Congress lets the program's payment authority run through fiscal year 2026, striking the old 2023 cutoff. It covers the two fiscal years the program had already lapsed, funding fiscal years 2024 and 2025, and orders the Treasury to make those back payments within 45 days of enactment. Where a county already took a share of the standard 25-percent or 50-percent forest-receipt payment for 2024 or 2025, the bill reduces its Secure Rural Schools payment by that amount so it is not paid twice. It carries each county's fiscal year 2023 payment-use election forward to 2024 and 2025 rather than making counties elect again. It extends the authority to run special projects on federal land through fiscal year 2028, extends counties' authority to spend the funds through 2028, and extends the resource advisory committee pilot program through fiscal year 2026. The rest of the bill makes technical punctuation and wording corrections.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 6 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 24 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 4 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: American Federation of Teachers; Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition; National Education Association; Defenders of Wildlife; Illinois Association of School Boards. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 1 other is not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.