The Treasury must make the 2024 and 2025 payments within 45 days
To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, section 2, Sec. 2.
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The Treasury must make the 2024 and 2025 payments within 45 days
The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of the TreasuryHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make all payments under this title for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.”
The third paragraph of the added subsection (e) requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make all payments under title I of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 within 45 days of the date the subsection was enacted.
What the document actually says
“Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make all payments under this title for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.”
That sentence, in plain words
The Treasury gets 45 days. In that time it must send all the money for 2024 and 2025. The clock starts when this rule becomes law.
What this is about
The law was signed on December 18, 2025. The two years it names had already gone by. So it sets a short deadline to catch up.
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Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025, Public Law 119-58, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 714 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ58/html/PLAW-119publ58.htm
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“The Treasury must make the 2024 and 2025 payments within 45 days,” Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/secure-rural-schools-reauthorization-act-2025/proposal/sec02-prompt-payment-45-days/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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