HR-6500 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027

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Would keep the government open through December 11, 2026, and extend flood insurance, road money, veterans' programs, and Africa trade.

Your Money

Rent help kept for families using emergency housing vouchers

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.

Flood insurance kept open for home sales and renewals

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.

Fees charged at the border — stretched to March 31, 2032

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.

Workers & Jobs

Road and transit work kept funded through December 11

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.

Furloughs of federal workers — payroll gets first call

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.

Civil Liberties

Privacy limits on data companies hand federal agencies

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.

Corporate Benefits

Duty-free treatment for goods from Africa and Haiti

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.

Relief for hemp sellers — new product limits mostly paused

Section 2019 says the new hemp rules written in section 781 of division B of Public Law 119-37 would 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.

Payments to shipbuilders for cost growth on older orders

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.

Transparency & Accountability

Reporting to Congress on which past cuts carry forward

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.

Public cost accounting — these costs stay off the scorecards

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.

Environment

Money allowed for wildfire suppression as the work demands

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.

Ceiling on Bay-Delta water and fish money — lifted

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.

Targeted & Unrelated Provisions

Payments to families of two lawmakers who died in office

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.

Health money for the Northern Mariana Islands

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.

Loan payoffs for a narrow set of nonprofit housing owners

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 would qualify. It puts up $6,258,174.91 and cancels $4,258,174.91 elsewhere.

Medicare Improvement Fund — trimmed by about that much

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.

More about this bill

Government offices would stay open past October 1, 2026. Money would flow through December 11, 2026, mostly at last year's levels. No agency could start a new project or speed one up. When that date arrives, Congress has to act again. Dozens of programs would otherwise stop on September 30, 2026. Flood insurance could keep writing new policies, so home sales in flood zones would not stall. Road and transit money would keep moving to states, trimmed to fit the short window. Veterans' housing, suicide prevention, and caregiver help would keep their money too. A few lines get more than a flat hold. Food aid for mothers, babies, and young children could grow to keep everyone enrolled. Wildfire crews and disaster teams could spend at the pace the work demands. Indian Health Service would get added money to staff new clinics. Some pieces are not date changes at all. Renters with emergency housing vouchers would keep them, for every unit leased on September 30, 2026. A new rule on how grant money is tracked would be frozen until December 11, 2026. A new limit on hemp products would reach only two narrow product types for now. The bill number began life as an Africa trade bill. That part lived. Duty-free treatment for goods from Africa and Haiti would run through 2028. Fees charged at the border would run three months longer, to March 31, 2032. Members of Congress would get no cost of living raise while this lasts. Two payments of $174,000 each would go to the families of a Representative and a Senator who died in office.

Congressional Summary

Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027This bill provides continuing FY2027 appropriations for federal agencies and extends various expiring programs and authorities.Specifically, the bill provides continuing FY2027 appropriations to federal agencies through the earlier of December 11, 2026, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations act. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2027 appropriations bills have not been enacted when FY2027 begins on October 1, 2026.The CR funds most programs and activities at the FY2026 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility or additional appropriations for various programs. For example, the CR includes exceptions for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC);Small Business Administration loans;the Disaster Relief Fund; the Indian Health Service; the Department of Justice; andwildfire suppression activities.In addition, the bill extends several expiring authorizations, including authorities and programs related to agriculture, flood insurance,cybersecurity,surface transportation, veterans benefits, housing,defense production, andtrade preferences for Haiti and certain countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The bill also includes provisions that temporarily prohibit the implementation of a regulation that revises guidance for federal financial assistance,delay the implementation of certain changes to the statutory definition of hemp,extend the freeze on cost-of-living adjustments for Members of Congress and limits on pay increases for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees, andprovide death gratuities to beneficiaries of two Members of Congress who died while in office.

Legislative Subjects

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Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Action Date: 2026-08-10
Date Added: 2026-08-27
Source: Congress.gov →

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