Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill continues the Secure Rural Schools program so counties with large amounts of federal land keep getting support payments for local services like schools and roads. It covers fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and tells the Treasury to send out these payments quickly—within 45 days after the law takes effect. If a county or state already got the usual timber “percentage” payment for those years, the new payment is reduced so they don’t get paid twice. Counties keep the same payment choices they used in 2023, so they don’t have to refile for 2024 or 2025 .

It also extends the authority to fund local projects on federal land and to use county set-aside funds, and it continues a pilot program for resource advisory committees. The bill makes small wording fixes to the existing law, but those don’t change how the program works day to day .

• Who is affected | What changes | When
• Rural counties and states with federal land | Secure Rural Schools payments continue; payments go out fast; no duplicate payments if a county already got standard timber payments; 2023 payment elections carry through | Fiscal years 2024 and 2025, with payments due within 45 days after enactment