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The bill blocks use of budget reconciliation to authorize sale or transfer of federal lands—strengthening protections and procedural clarity for public lands but restricting a fast legislative path and potentially slowing or complicating policy changes.
Federal employees and Congress gain clearer, explicit rules that proposals to sell or transfer federal lands cannot be included in budget reconciliation, reducing procedural disputes during reconciliation processes.
Rural communities and users of public lands are more likely to retain local access and conservation protections because land-sale or transfer provisions cannot be fast-tracked through reconciliation.
Taxpayers and proponents of land transfers will face delays because lawmakers cannot use reconciliation to advance land-sale or transfer measures, forcing those proposals onto slower legislative tracks.
Federal staff and congressional offices may incur additional workload and procedural steps since land-transaction proposals will need separate bills rather than being bundled into reconciliation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits including provisions that sell, dispose of, or transfer Federal lands in budget reconciliation bills by adding such provisions to the Byrd Rule extraneous list.
Official title: 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 April 30, 2026 by Michael F. Bennet · Last progress April 30, 2026
Adds a rule that bars budget reconciliation bills from including any provision that would sell, dispose of, or transfer Federal lands by amending the Byrd Rule extraneous-provision list. The change is narrowly targeted: it inserts a new item treating proposals to transfer federal lands as "extraneous" for reconciliation, meaning such provisions would be disallowed under reconciliation procedures once the law takes effect.