Sponsor
Jared Moskowitz
Representative · D-FL
Representative · D-FL
The bill modernizes and clarifies statutory citations and program authorities—improving administration and legal clarity for federal, state, and local implementers and benefiting researchers and service participants—but those textual changes also create short‑term uncertainty, administrative costs, and the risk of reduced benefits or new tax liabilities for students, rural communities, and some program beneficiaries.
Federal, state, and local officials and Compact administrators (e.g., DOI, Fish & Wildlife Service, state land managers) will have clearer statutory authority and modernized citations that reduce legal ambiguity and make implementation of compacts, conservation, forestry, and public‑lands laws easier.
Universities, including 1890 land‑grant colleges, and researchers will get clearer grant authorities and updated grant‑administration, auditing, and indirect‑cost rules that may improve access to and oversight of federal agricultural research funding.
Students and national service participants will see clarified eligibility and program rules (including better Federal work‑study coordination and updated permissible service activities), which can make applying for and using these programs easier.
Federal, state, and local agencies, colleges, nonprofits, and taxpayers will incur administrative costs, compliance burdens, and short‑term uncertainty while statutes, guidance, and systems are revised to reflect the new language.
Students, low‑income service participants, and some institutional grantees could face new tax liabilities, reduced take‑home support, or lost grant eligibility if scholarship tax treatment, living‑allowance/work‑study coordination, or grant matching/administrative requirements are changed or tightened.
Residents and local governments in Compact or program jurisdictions could see altered eligibility, benefits, or obligations if narrowing or new statutory wording changes program definitions or benefit formulas.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Performs numerous strike‑and‑insert edits and citation updates across multiple U.S. Code titles to correct, clarify, and in some places narrow statutory language.
Official title: To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions classified to title 7, title 20, and title 43, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.
Introduced September 8, 2025 by Jared Moskowitz · Last progress September 8, 2025
Updates and corrects wording, cross‑references, and selected substantive phrases across many federal statutes. The bill makes targeted strike‑and‑insert edits in multiple titles of the U.S. Code—affecting Compact of Free Association law, agricultural statutes, bankruptcy code, Interior and public‑lands citations, higher education, certain historic statutory provisions, national service law, and other provisions—mostly to fix citations, wording, and statutory text. Most changes are editorial or conforming citation updates, but several listed edits replace or narrow existing statutory language in ways that could alter how particular programs or authorities are read and applied once the new text is supplied. The bill operates as a multi‑topic statutory cleanup and targeted amendment package rather than creating large new programs or funding streams.