This page contains a categorized breakdown of provisions within [H.R. 10545] American Relief Act, 2025. For a high-level summary and broader context, please visit the overview page here.
Crime and Safety
Enhanced cybersecurity testing for Justice Department
Allows funds for Justice Information Sharing Technology to be used for proactive vulnerability detection and penetration testing activities.
Extension of authority to protect facilities from unmanned aircraft
Extends the authority to protect certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 until March 14, 2025.
Extension of additional special assessment
Extends the authority for an additional special assessment under title 18, United States Code, until March 14, 2025.
Extension of national cybersecurity protection system
Extends the authorization for the National Cybersecurity Protection System until March 14, 2025.
Extension of temporary order for fentanyl-related substances
Extends the temporary emergency scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances until March 31, 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $90,000,000 | Providing for emergency planning and security costs in the District of Columbia. | |
| $16,668,000 | Funding FBI salaries and expenses for risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems. | |
| $908,000 | Funding Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence for risk reduction of National Security Systems. | |
| $29,000,000,000 | Replenishing the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund for major disasters. |
Economy and Commerce
Economic assistance for crop producers
Authorizes one-time economic assistance payments to producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year if the expected gross return per acre is less than the expected cost of production.
Payment limitations for producer economic assistance
Sets payment limits at $125,000 or $250,000 per person or legal entity, based on the percentage of income derived from farming, ranching, or silviculture activities.
Evaluation of Tribal fishery disaster requests
Allows the Secretary of Commerce to evaluate any fishery resource disaster determination request in Tribal salmon and urchin fisheries received before September 30, 2025.
Extension of agricultural programs
Extends authorities provided by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, including commodity and dairy programs, through September 30, 2025.
Exceptions for mandatory program funding
Exempts mandatory funding for various programs in commodities, conservation, nutrition, rural development, research, energy, and horticulture from certain provisions of the act.
Extension of Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower program
Extends the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) whistleblower program until March 14, 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $30,780,000,000 | Providing assistance for agricultural losses from natural disasters in calendar years 2023 and 2024. | |
| $220,000,000 | Providing assistance via block grants to eligible states for crop, timber, and livestock losses. | |
| $1,510,000,000 | Providing economic adjustment assistance for disaster relief and infrastructure restoration. | |
| $2,249,000,000 | Funding the Small Business Administration Disaster Loans Program Account. |
Education and Research
Ensuring continuation of student loan services
Allows funds for Student Aid Administration to be apportioned as needed to continue student loan servicing and aid application processing.
Protection of Grazinglands Research Laboratory
Prohibits the federal land and facilities at the Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma, from being declared surplus or transferred until September 30, 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $625,000,000 | Maintaining the acquisition schedule for the Geostationary Earth Orbit program. |
Energy and Environment
Extension of energy provisions in farm security act
Extends certain energy-related provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 by one year, from 2024 to 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $356,535,000 | Providing additional funds for the Emergency Forest Restoration Program. | |
| $828,000,000 | Providing additional funds for the Emergency Conservation Program. | |
| $920,000,000 | Providing additional funds for the Emergency Watershed Protection Program. | |
| $399,000,000 | Acquiring hurricane hunter aircraft and related expenses for NOAA. |
Government Operations
Extension of continuing appropriations
Extends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025, through March 14, 2025.
Direct hiring authority for Interior and Agriculture departments
Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to directly appoint qualified individuals to address critical hiring needs for funded projects, expiring September 30, 2029.
Operating plan requirement for disaster funds
Requires agencies receiving disaster relief funds to provide a detailed operating plan to congressional committees within 45 days of enactment and before obligating funds.
Continuation of reporting requirements
Requires that any recurring reporting requirements with a final report due in fiscal year 2024 must continue, subject to the availability of appropriations.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000,000 | Covering costs associated with the Presidential Inauguration to be held in January 2025. | |
| $7,500,000 | Funding audits, investigations, and oversight of Department of Agriculture disaster relief activities. | |
| $10,000,000 | Funding Government Accountability Office audits and investigations related to recent hurricanes and disasters. |
Health
Extension of public health programs
Extends funding and authorities for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, teaching health centers, and special diabetes programs through March 31, 2025.
Extension of Medicare provisions
Extends several Medicare provisions, including payment adjustments for low-volume hospitals, the Medicare-dependent hospital program, and ambulance add-on payments, through March 31, 2025.
Extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities
Extends various telehealth flexibilities, such as removing geographic requirements and allowing audio-only services, through March 31, 2025.
Reduction in Medicare Improvement Fund
Reduces the amount available in the Medicare Improvement Fund from $3,197,000,000 to $1,251,000,000.
Delay of Medicaid DSH payment cuts
Eliminates the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment reductions scheduled for the period beginning January 1, 2025, and instead applies them starting April 1, 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $1,050,410,959 | Extending funding for community health centers through March 31, 2025. | |
| $85,068,493 | Extending funding for the National Health Service Corps through March 31, 2025. | |
| $43,150,685 | Extending funding for teaching health centers through March 31, 2025. | |
| $39,261,745 | Extending funding for special diabetes programs for Type I diabetes through March 31, 2025. | |
| $39,261,745 | Extending funding for special diabetes programs for Indians through March 31, 2025. |
Infrastructure
Increased authorization for New Mexico water projects
Increases the authorized funding for the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act to $1,640,000,000 and extends the authorization through 2025.
Funding flexibility for FAA operations
Allows FAA Operations funds to be apportioned as needed for pay increases, air traffic services, controller hiring, and safety oversight to avoid service reductions.
Financing for non-federal contributions to Corps projects
Allows the non-Federal cash contribution for certain Corps of Engineers projects to be financed over a 30-year period from the project's completion date.
Waiver of matching funds for water infrastructure grants
Waives state matching or cost-share requirements for Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Funds provided in this act for disaster recovery.
Full federal funding for Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction
Specifies that the federal share for the repair and reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, damaged by the cargo ship Dali, shall be 100 percent.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $42,500,000 | Providing additional funds for Agricultural Research Service buildings and facilities. | |
| $745,000,000 | Preparing for and responding to flood, hurricane, and other natural disasters. | |
| $2,262,871,000 | Funding construction for the National Park Service for disaster recovery. | |
| $3,000,000,000 | Providing capitalization grants for Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Funds. | |
| $3,525,000,000 | Funding capital improvement and maintenance for the Forest Service for disaster recovery. | |
| $250,000,000 | Funding construction for the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico. | |
| $8,086,020,000 | Funding the Emergency Relief Program for highways, including the Francis Scott Key Bridge. |
National defense
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $5,996,130,000 | Apportioning funds for the Columbia Class Submarine (AP) program. | |
| $2,922,300,000 | Apportioning funds for the Columbia Class Submarine program. | |
| $5,691,000,000 | Funding the Virginia Class Submarine program and workforce wage improvements for nuclear-powered vessel programs. | |
| $913,440,000 | Funding Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance for risk reduction and modification of National Security Systems. | |
| $1,750,000 | Funding Department of Energy Atomic Energy Defense Activities for risk reduction of National Security Systems. | |
| $1,454,153,000 | Funding Navy operation and maintenance for disaster recovery. | |
| $1,127,281,000 | Funding military construction for the Navy and Marine Corps related to Typhoon Mawar. | |
| $487,300,000 | Funding military construction for the Air Force related to Typhoon Mawar. | |
| $21,000,000 | Funding military construction for the Army National Guard for Typhoon Mawar and severe storms. | |
| $27,399,000 | Funding family housing construction for the Navy and Marine Corps for Typhoon Mawar. | |
| $102,168,000 | Funding family housing operation and maintenance for the Navy and Marine Corps for Typhoon Mawar. |
Social services
Expanded authority for Rural Development Disaster Assistance
Amends the Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund to allow aid in various forms (loans, grants) and expands waiver authority for project limitations after disasters.
Extension of human services programs
Extends funding for sexual risk avoidance education, personal responsibility education, and family-to-family health information centers through March 31, 2025.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $362,500,000 | Providing additional funds for the Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund. | |
| $25,000,000 | Funding infrastructure needs for the emergency food assistance program following major disasters. | |
| $250,000,000 | Providing funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant for disaster-related expenses. | |
| $250,000,000 | Supplementing funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant. | |
| $12,039,000,000 | Funding the Community Development Fund for major disasters in 2023 and 2024. |
Veteran affairs
Funding for Arlington National Cemetery access road
Allows unobligated Army military construction funds from prior years to be used for an access road project at Arlington National Cemetery.
Increased flexibility for VA health funding
Temporarily removes certain provisos restricting the use of funds for the Veterans Health Administration's Medical Services, Community Care, and Support accounts.
| Amount | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| $19,258,000 | Funding medical services for the Veterans Health Administration for Hurricanes Milton and Helene. | |
| $330,000 | Funding medical support and compliance for the Veterans Health Administration for recent hurricanes. | |
| $41,660,000 | Funding medical facilities for the Veterans Health Administration for recent hurricanes and disasters. | |
| $693,000 | Funding the National Cemetery Administration for expenses related to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. | |
| $4,000,000 | Funding major construction projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for recent hurricanes. | |
| $2,020,000 | Funding minor construction projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for recent hurricanes. |