“the budgetary effects of this division and divisions E through G shall not be estimated-- (1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act; (2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and”
The third purpose is paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, which deals with what counts as included in an appropriation Act. The subsection sets aside Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
What the document actually says
“the budgetary effects of this division and divisions E through G shall not be estimated-- (1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act; (2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and”
That sentence, in plain words
For three set purposes, the cost of these parts is not counted at all.
What this is about
Budget rules count money in more than one way. This says which counts to skip for these parts of the law.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, Public Law 119-37, sec. 8001, 139 Stat. 654 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ37/html/PLAW-119publ37.htm
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“The effects are not estimated for three named budget purposes,” Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, section 8001, Sec. 8001. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/continuing-appropriations-agriculture-legislative/proposal/sec8001-effects-not-estimated-for-three-purposes/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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