Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027

Section 153 lets Housing and Urban Development use leftover rental aid money to stop families from losing help, and it rewrites the 2026 housing law so emergency housing vouchers can be renewed for every unit under lease on September 30, 2026. That renewal must be issued before the end of calendar year 2026.

Section 139 pushes the National Flood Insurance Program's authority from September 30, 2026 to December 11, 2026. If it lapsed, no new federal flood policy could be written, and mortgages on homes in flood zones could not close.

Section 2010 moves the end date for customs user fees from December 31, 2031 to March 31, 2032. Those fees are charged on imported goods and on international travel, and the cost usually reaches shoppers and passengers. The merchandise processing fee rate is stretched by the same three months.

Division C carries every federal highway, transit, and rail safety program past September 30, 2026 to December 11, 2026. Trust fund money is authorized at the share of the year the extension covers, so states keep letting contracts.

Section 112 lets each agency spend on staff pay at the rate needed to avoid furloughs. An agency has to cut or delay other office costs first before it uses that room.

Sections 2011 and 2012 push the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 and the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 from September 30, 2026 to December 11, 2026. Those laws shield companies from lawsuits when they hand cyber threat data, which can carry personal information, to federal agencies. Letting them lapse would have ended that shield.

Section 2008 moves the African Growth and Opportunity Act and its apparel and third-country fabric rules from 2026 to 2028, with the regional apparel program running until December 31, 2028. Section 2009 does the same for Haiti's trade program. Importers and clothing brands are the direct users of that duty-free access.

Section 2019 says the new hemp rules written in section 781 of division B of Public Law 119-37 apply, until December 11, 2026, only to two narrow product types named in the Agricultural Marketing Act. Everything else stays under the older, looser definition for now.

Section 126 lets the Navy pay cost growth on ships ordered in past years, listing twenty programs with a ceiling for each, from $1,181,000 for a fleet oiler to $566,542,000 for the Columbia class submarine. Normally a stopgap bill blocks that kind of increase.

Section 115 makes the budget office send both Appropriations Committees a full list, by November 20, 2026, of the cuts from last year's laws that keep applying, with updates on request.

Section 2018 keeps the cost of the extensions off both pay-as-you-go scorecards, and off the count used for spending caps and committee limits. Section 114 also drops and then re-labels earlier emergency tags. The spending happens; the official tally does not record it the usual way.

Section 141 lets the Interior Department and the Forest Service spend on wildfire suppression at whatever rate the fires require, instead of the flat rate that governs most of the bill.

Section 129 raises a spending ceiling in the Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act from $32,600,000 to $40,000,000 for the period this stopgap covers. That program pays for California water supply and habitat work.

Section 145 pays $174,000 to Alfredia Scott, widow of Representative David A. Scott of Georgia, and $174,000 to the heir at law of Senator Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina. Both died in office. The amount matches a year of congressional salary.

Section 2006 adds $21,400,000 to the health care money certified for the Northern Mariana Islands for the year running October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, and lets it stay available until spent.

Section 156 repeals a 2026 housing provision, cancels its unspent balance, and sets up a way for Housing and Urban Development to pay off old Flexible Subsidy loans. Only nonprofit owners of buildings with fewer than 100 aided units, a loan balance of $1,500,000 or more, and high inspection and management scores qualify. It puts up $6,258,174.91 and cancels $4,258,174.91 elsewhere.

Section 2007 drops the Medicare Improvement Fund from $2,062,000,000 to $2,041,000,000. That $21,000,000 cut sits next to the $21,400,000 island increase in the section just before it.