Division C — OTHER MATTERS

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Division Overview

Overview

Division C does not fund a single department. It is a short package of “other matters” that extends several expiring legal authorities from mid-March 2025 to September 30, 2025 (the end of the federal fiscal year), and it sets special budget-scorekeeping rules for this division and Division B. It does not itself appropriate new program money.

Total Spending

No total appropriation is stated in this division. The text contains no dollar amounts. It only changes expiration dates and how budgetary effects are scored.

Key Funding Areas

This division does not list spending items. What it extends:

  • CFTC whistleblower program: No dollar amount stated — extends the Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower authority (Public Law 117–25) from March 14, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
  • Counter-drone authority: No dollar amount stated — extends Homeland Security Act authority to protect certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft from March 14, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
  • Additional special assessment (18 U.S.C. 3014): No dollar amount stated — extends the sunset date of this criminal special-assessment provision from March 14, 2025, to September 30, 2025. The bill does not set or change the assessment amount.
  • National Cybersecurity Protection System: No dollar amount stated — extends the authorization in the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 from March 14, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
  • Temporary fentanyl-related-substance order: No dollar amount stated — extends the temporary emergency scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances from March 31, 2025, to September 30, 2025.

Notable Provisions

  • Five separate authorities that were set to lapse in March 2025 are extended to September 30, 2025. The operative change in each case is a date substitution, not a rewrite of the underlying program.
  • The fentanyl extension is written to take effect as if it had been part of the original Temporary Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act (Public Law 116–114). Its old date (March 31, 2025) differs slightly from the March 14, 2025 date used in the other sections.
  • Budget scoring exemption: Budgetary effects of Divisions B and C are not entered on statutory PAYGO scorecards under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, or on Senate PAYGO scorecards tied to H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).
  • Those same effects are also not estimated for certain discretionary spending-cap and appropriations-allocation purposes, and are not treated as included in an appropriation Act for one PAYGO classification rule.
  • The text does not explain why these authorities were chosen, how much the extensions cost or save, or what happens after September 30, 2025.

Who Benefits

  • CFTC and whistleblowers who report commodity-market misconduct, because that program’s authority continues.
  • Homeland security and related federal protective operations, which keep temporary authority to address drones threatening covered facilities and assets.
  • Federal cybersecurity operations, which keep authorization for the National Cybersecurity Protection System used to defend federal networks.
  • Justice and anti-trafficking funds tied to 18 U.S.C. 3014, because courts may continue imposing that special assessment through September 30, 2025. The bill text does not name the recipient fund.
  • Law enforcement and public-health regulators enforcing controls on fentanyl-related substances, because the temporary scheduling order stays in place longer.
  • Congressional budget process, in a technical sense: Divisions B and C are shielded from certain automatic PAYGO and scorekeeping consequences.

Plain English Summary

This slice of the bill is not a normal spending chapter with a price tag. It is a set of short extensions that keep five existing programs or legal authorities from expiring in March 2025 and push those deadlines to September 30, 2025: a market-fraud whistleblower program, authority to deal with threatening drones, a special court assessment tied to certain criminal cases, a federal cybersecurity system, and the temporary classification of fentanyl-related substances. It also tells budget scorekeepers not to count the budgetary effects of this division and Division B on the usual PAYGO scorecards. If you are looking for how many dollars Congress is handing an agency, that number is not in this division.

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