A bill to amend section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to designate provisions resulting in the sale, disposal, or transfer of Federal lands as extraneous under the Byrd Rule.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

2026-04-30

This bill would change budget rules to prevent Congress from using land sales as a way to offset spending in other areas of legislation. Currently, when the government sells or transfers federal land, the money raised can be counted as savings to help pay for new spending elsewhere in a bill, but this change would eliminate that practice. The change would make it harder to pass certain bills under expedited budget procedures that normally allow faster votes with fewer parliamentary obstacles.