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The bill cleans up statutory language to reduce ambiguity for the Office of Justice Programs' authorization but pushes the authorization window to 2026–2030, risking delayed funding for programs, administrative work for agencies, and uncertainty about prior-year funding language.
State and local governments and federal employees: the bill sets the Office of Justice Programs' authorized funding period to 2026–2030, removing ambiguity about which fiscal years are covered.
State and local governments and federal employees: the bill removes a malformed quoted funding phrase referencing $3,000,000 for FY2017–2018, reducing potential legal and administrative confusion over that language.
State and local governments: shifting the authorized coverage from 2019–2023 to 2026–2030 may delay or deny funding and program actions that would have been expected during the intervening years.
Federal, state, and local agencies: altering statutory authorization years will create administrative burdens as agencies update budgets, grant cycles, and guidance to reflect the new 2026–2030 period.
State and local governments: deleting the explicit '$3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 and 2018' language could reduce clarity about historical or continuing funding entitlements tied to the subsection.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Moves the statute's covered years from 2019–2023 to 2026–2030 and removes a quoted $3,000,000 phrase tied to 2017–2018.
Introduced July 30, 2025 by Sheldon Whitehouse · Last progress July 30, 2025
Changes the multi-year coverage for a grant provision by moving the covered years from 2019–2023 to 2026–2030 and removes an extraneous quoted funding phrase that referenced $3,000,000 for fiscal years 2017–2018. The edit adjusts the timing in the statutory language governing the relevant grant program and deletes a stray past funding reference, with no explicit new appropriation included in the text.