A long report goes with this law. It was printed in the record of the House on or about January 7, 2026. This part says the report counts. It guides how the money in divisions A, B and C is split up and spent.
The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 7, 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with respect to”
The opening of section 4. It identifies the explanatory statement by where it was printed, the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 7, 2026, and by who submitted it, the chair of the House Committee on Appropriations. The rest of the section provides that the statement has the same effect on the allocation of funds and the implementation of divisions A through C as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
What the document actually says
“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 7, 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with respect to”
That sentence, in plain words
A report about this law was printed in the record of the House. The chair of a House money committee turned it in. It counts as much as a joint report would.
What this is about
When the two chambers work out a bill together, they print a joint report. There was no such report here. This makes the House report do the same job.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through C of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.”
The close of section 4. It states what the explanatory statement governs: the allocation of funds and the implementation of divisions A through C. Many account paragraphs in section 5 direct money to purposes and amounts named in tables printed in that statement, and this section is what gives those tables their effect.
What the document actually says
“the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through C of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.”
That sentence, in plain words
The report says how to split the money in the three big parts. It also says how to carry them out. It counts like a joint report.
What this is about
Many money lines in this law point to a table. The tables are in the report, not in the law. This is what makes those tables matter.
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The whole section, which is one sentence giving the explanatory statement the effect of a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference for divisions A through C.
What the explanatory statement itself says. It is a separate document printed in the Congressional Record, it is not indexed here, and the many tables the Act's own account paragraphs point into live in it rather than in the Act.
Because the tables of specific amounts sit in the explanatory statement and not in the Act, a reader who follows an account paragraph to a named table will not find the table in the text indexed on this site. The Act gives the date of the statement as on or about January 7, 2026, so the Act itself does not fix the date exactly.
