This bill restores prior law and legal certainty for agencies and states but does so by rescinding any new benefits created by Section 213 and imposing short-term administrative costs to reverse implementation.
Federal agencies, state governments, and program recipients are returned to prior law immediately, preventing implementation of Section 213's amendments and avoiding abrupt changes to federal programs and obligations.
States and federal agencies gain clearer legal authority and reduced regulatory uncertainty by removing the recently added provision in Section 213.
People who would have received new resources or protections under Section 213 (including some taxpayers and federal employees) may lose those newly authorized benefits when it is repealed.
Federal agencies and taxpayers may face short-term administrative and legal costs to reverse or unwind implementation of Section 213, creating inefficiencies and modest budgetary strain.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals and nullifies a prior statutory amendment (section 213 of title II of division C) and restores the prior law; the repeal is effective immediately.
Repeals a specific provision (section 213 of title II of division C) from the referenced continuing appropriations and extensions act and undoes the amendments that provision had made, making those amendments have no force or effect. The repeal takes effect immediately on enactment, restoring the prior legal status that existed before that provision was added.
Introduced November 12, 2025 by Austin Scott · Last progress November 20, 2025