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A state payment for 2024 or 2025 is cut by the 25-percent payment already made

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

A state payment for 2024 or 2025 is cut by the 25-percent payment already made

The document says “shallWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“If an eligible county in a State that will receive a share of the State payment for fiscal year 2024 or 2025 has already received, or will receive, a share of the 25-percent payment for that fiscal year distributed to the State before the date of enactment of this subsection, the amount of the State payment shall be reduced by the amount of the share of the eligible county of the 25-percent payment.”

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, Sec. 2

The section adds a new subsection (e) to section 101 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. Its first paragraph reduces the State payment for fiscal year 2024 or 2025 by the share of the 25-percent payment an eligible county has already received or will receive for that year, where that share was distributed to the State before this subsection was enacted.

What the document actually says

“If an eligible county in a State that will receive a share of the State payment for fiscal year 2024 or 2025 has already received, or will receive, a share of the 25-percent payment for that fiscal year distributed to the State before the date of enactment of this subsection, the amount of the State payment shall be reduced by the amount of the share of the eligible county of the 25-percent payment.”

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

Some counties were already paid a share for that year. The state payment is made smaller. It drops by the amount already paid.

What this is about

This rule looks at money that has already gone out. It takes that money off the new payment. So one year is not paid for twice.

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  1. The document itself

    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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    “A state payment for 2024 or 2025 is cut by the 25-percent payment already made,” 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-state-payment-offset/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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