YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCivil LibertiesCriminal Justice & Due ProcessCorporate BenefitsEnvironmentTransparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsGun LawsFunds the FBI, NASA (~$24.4B), and prisons for 2027 — blocks several gun rules and Census survey fines.
Your Money
The Legal Services Corporation would get $268 million, with $223.8 million going to local offices. Those offices give free lawyers to people with low incomes in civil cases like evictions.
A provision orders the National Weather Service to keep enough staff to meet its duty to protect life and property. NOAA's day-to-day account is about $4 billion for the year.
Workers & Jobs
No money in this bill could pay for any federal worker union's operations or expenses. That reaches paid staff time and office space at Justice, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.
A 2024 workplace rule treats elective abortion as a condition that needs job accommodation, such as time off. No money could be used to enforce that part of the rule.
No money could be used to recruit, hire, promote, or keep someone based even partly on race, national origin, sex, or religion. It applies across the agencies this bill pays for.
Civil Liberties
Justice Department and intelligence units funded here could not pay a data broker for your call, account, or location records. They could still get the same records with a warrant, court order, or subpoena.
Census surveys such as the American Community Survey are required by law, and refusing can bring a fine. No money could be used to force answers, and the Bureau could ask twice at most.
No money could go toward labeling a U.S. person's speech as misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation. Agencies also could not fund groups that press platforms to take down lawful posts.
Agencies could not pull a grant, contract, license, accreditation, or tax-exempt status from someone who speaks or acts on a sincere belief that marriage is one man and one woman.
The Justice Department could not spend any of this money to provide a lawyer to a person in removal proceedings. People could still hire their own lawyer or find free help elsewhere.
No money could be used to count people living here unlawfully when House seats are divided among the states after future censuses. States with large immigrant populations could lose seats.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
A long-running rider bars the Justice Department from stopping states that allow medical marijuana. The 2027 list names 48 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and other territories.
The Debbie Smith program would get $115 million to test backlogged DNA evidence, including rape kits. Another $9 million pays for sexual assault forensic exam programs.
The Kirk Bloodsworth program pays for DNA testing after a conviction. A separate $11.5 million covers death-penalty case improvements and wrongful conviction review.
The Bureau of Prisons would have to spend at least $409 million on First Step Act programs. These include job training and drug treatment that can shorten time behind bars.
Marijuana sits on the strictest federal drug schedule. No money could be used to move it to a looser schedule or take it off the list during this budget year.
Corporate Benefits
Atlantic pelagic longline boats carry electronic monitoring gear. No money could be used to set up or collect a fee that makes those boat owners cover the monitoring cost.
Environment
NOAA speed limits meant to stop ships from striking North Atlantic right whales and Rice's whales could not be enforced if they were set after January 20, 2021. Older limits would stand.
Federal money for Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration could go only to reefs that licensed watermen may harvest three years after planting. Sanctuary reefs meant to stay untouched would lose funding.
Unspent money from earlier years in NOAA's operations and research account would be permanently taken back. It is part of $461 million cancelled across five accounts in this bill.
Transparency & Accountability
Justice Department lawyers could not settle a case on terms that make the defendant donate to a nonprofit or an individual. Settlement money would have to go elsewhere.
A 2022 White House policy told agencies to make federally funded research free to read right away. No money could be used to carry it out, so journal paywalls could stay.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
A rewrite of the 1996 Helms-Burton law lets people who inherited a claim to property Cuba seized bring their own lawsuit. It would reach cases already filed, dismissed, or on appeal.
The FBI could not seize or keep a member of Congress's official digital material. Anything already held would have to be returned or destroyed within 180 days, with a sworn certification.
No money could be used to move the ATF's canine training center or national canine division out of Front Royal, Virginia.
Five accounts carry named local projects listed in the committee report, from NIST labs to police technology. The largest is $386 million inside the community policing account.
No money could build or buy a new federal prison anywhere until a planned facility in Letcher County, Kentucky starts operating. Repairs and expansions of existing prisons are exempt.
Gun Laws
ATF could spend only 40 percent of its budget unless it decides National Firearms Act applications within 60 days online or 120 days on paper.
A 2022 ATF rule treats unfinished frames and receivers sold in kits as firearms, so they need serial numbers and background checks. No money could enforce or defend it.
A 2023 ATF rule classed many brace-equipped pistols as short-barreled rifles, which must be registered. No money could enforce it, and a separate section blocks that classification outright.
Two 2024 rules widened who counts as a firearms dealer needing a license and background checks. Neither could be carried out with money from this bill or any other.
Red flag laws let a court take guns from someone found to be a danger. No money in this bill could fund or carry out any such program.
A 2025 tax law set the federal transfer or making tax to $0 for some registered firearms. No federal penalty could be charged over those items, and state laws that copy the federal rule would not apply.
ATF gun trace and ballistic-match records could go only to police, prosecutors, and security agencies. They could not be subpoenaed, used in civil lawsuits, or released under open-records law.
More about this bill
Law enforcement, science, and trade agencies would get a year of federal money to keep running. The FBI would get about $11.4 billion. Federal prisons would get about $8.2 billion. The DEA would get about $2.8 billion. NASA would get about $24.4 billion, the National Science Foundation about $7 billion. NOAA's weather work, the Census Bureau, and the Patent Office are also paid for. The money would cover October 2026 through September 2027. Most of what you would notice comes from dozens of policy riders. These tell agencies what they may not pay for. Several block federal gun rules. No money could enforce the 2022 ghost gun parts rule or the 2023 pistol brace rule. Two 2024 gun dealer rules would also go unenforced. Red flag order programs would get nothing. Gun trace records could not be subpoenaed, used in lawsuits, or released to the public. Other riders change what agencies may do to people. Federal agents could not buy your phone or account records from data brokers. The Census Bureau could not fine you for skipping a survey. It could ask twice at most. Marijuana could not be moved to a looser federal drug list. People facing removal from the country could not get a government-paid lawyer. A few items reach well beyond one year of spending. One rewrites the 1996 Cuba property law so heirs of seized property can sue. One bars the FBI from keeping a member of Congress's official files. No money could pay for any federal worker union's operations. About $1.1 billion is set aside for named local projects. Another $461 million in older unspent money would be cancelled.
Congressional Summary
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027This bill provides FY2027 appropriations to the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the science agencies, and several related agencies.The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Commerce forthe International Trade Administration,the Bureau of Industry and Security,the Economic Development Administration,the Minority Business Development Agency,Economic and Statistical Analysis,the Bureau of the Census,the National Telecommunications and Information Administration,the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,the National Institute of Standards and Technology,the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, andDepartmental Management.The bill provides appropriations to DOJ forJustice Operations, Management, and Accountability;the Executive Office for Immigration Review;the Office of Inspector General;the U.S. Parole Commission;Legal Activities;the U.S. Marshals Service;the National Security Division;Interagency Law Enforcement;the Federal Bureau of Investigation;the Drug Enforcement Administration;the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; andthe Federal Prison System.The bill also provides appropriations to DOJ for state and local law enforcement activities, includingthe Office on Violence Against Women,the Office of Justice Programs, andCommunity Oriented Policing Services (COPS).The bill provides appropriations for science agencies, includingthe Office of Science and Technology Policy,the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), andthe National Science Foundation.The bill provides appropriations to related agencies, includingthe Commission on Civil Rights,the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,the U.S. International Trade Commission,the Legal Services Corporation,the Marine Mammal Commission,the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, andthe State Justice Institute.The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-05-15
- Date Added
- 2026-05-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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