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Authorizes the Treasury to pay whatever sums are needed in FY2026 to provide normal pay, benefits, and regular payments to United States Capitol Police officers and employees for work they performed during the government shutdown that began October 1, 2025, and to pay contractors the Chief of the Capitol Police finds are supporting them. Those outlays will later be charged to the Capitol Police appropriation once a regular or continuing appropriation is enacted; the authority is retroactive to September 30, 2025 and lapses on the earlier of enactment of Capitol Police appropriations for these purposes, enactment of legislative-branch appropriations that do not fund these purposes, or September 30, 2026.
Funds are available only temporarily: they cover payroll and related contractor payments during the shutdown period and must be reconciled to future Capitol Police appropriations when those are passed into law.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Introduced November 3, 2025 by Ben Ray Luján · Last progress November 3, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Introduced in Senate