Fiscal year 2024 earmarks have no legal effect against this money
Making further continuing appropriations and other extensions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, section 3, Sec. 3.
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Fiscal year 2024 earmarks have no legal effect against this money
The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“joint explanatory statement accompanying such an Act, shall have no legal effect with respect to funds appropriated by this division.”
Section 1111 strips earmark language of force. It reaches earmarks written into a fiscal year 2024 appropriations Act and into any committee report or joint explanatory statement that came with one, and it defines 'earmark' by the rules of each chamber: clause 9(e) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives and paragraph 5(a) of rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
What the document actually says
“joint explanatory statement accompanying such an Act, shall have no legal effect with respect to funds appropriated by this division.”
That sentence, in plain words
Money set aside for one named project no longer has to go there.
What this is about
An earmark points money at one place. Those pointers came from last year's bills. They do not bind this money.
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.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, Public Law 119-4, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 10 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ4/html/PLAW-119publ4.htm
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“Fiscal year 2024 earmarks have no legal effect against this money,” Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/full-year-continuing-appropriations-extensions-act/proposal/sec03-1111-earmarks-have-no-legal-effect/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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