Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill continues the Secure Rural Schools program so rural communities with Federal land keep getting support. It covers fiscal years 2024 and 2025. If a county already got its usual share of other forest-related payments for those years, the new payment is reduced so there’s no double paying. The Treasury must send out all payments within 45 days after the bill becomes law. Counties can keep using the same choices they made for how to split funds in 2023, and those choices will carry through 2024 and 2025. The bill also continues the ability to run local special projects on Federal land and to spend county funds under the program, and it extends a pilot program for resource advisory committees. It makes a few small wording fixes to the law, too.

Key points:

• Who is affected: States and counties with Federal land that receive Secure Rural Schools funds; local resource advisory committees .
• What changes: Payments continue for 2024–2025; prior county choices carry over; payments must go out within 45 days; amounts are adjusted if other payments were already received; project and spending authority and the advisory committee pilot are extended; minor wording fixes are made .
• When: Applies to fiscal years 2024 and 2025; payments within 45 days after enactment.