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The bill trades faster, potentially lower-cost congressional action on federal land transfers for clearer rules and greater protection of public lands by excluding land conveyances from the reconciliation fast-track, which increases scrutiny but can slow and raise the cost of land-transfer projects.
Taxpayers and the general public: The bill helps preserve publicly owned federal lands by preventing their expedited sale or transfer through the budget reconciliation process, making full Senate debate more likely before land conveyances occur.
Senators and taxpayers: The bill clarifies that federal land conveyances are excluded from reconciliation’s fast-track procedures, reducing procedural ambiguity for Senators about which proposals qualify for expedited consideration.
State and local governments and taxpayers: By removing land conveyances from reconciliation, proposals that require federal land transfers will likely take longer and face higher legislative and transaction costs because they must proceed through regular order.
State and local governments: The bill limits Congress’s ability to use reconciliation to expedite legislation that conveys or disposes of federal lands, which could slow time-sensitive projects that depend on land transfers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes any provision that causes sale, disposal, or transfer of Federal lands extraneous and ineligible for Senate reconciliation.
Official title: To amend section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to designate provisions resulting in the sale, disposal, or transfer of Federal lands as extraneous under the Byrd Rule.
Introduced June 4, 2026 by Gabriel Vasquez · Last progress June 4, 2026
Prohibits including any provision in a Senate reconciliation bill that would cause the sale, disposal, or transfer of federal lands by treating such provisions as extraneous under the Byrd Rule. The change updates the statutory list of extraneous provisions so land conveyances cannot be enacted through the reconciliation process.