To require the Secretary of the Interior to repay States for amounts expended by States to operate units of the National Park System during a Government shutdown.

HR 5743 requires the U.S. Department of the Interior to repay states for costs they incurred operating national park units during a federal government shutdown. Specifically, states that used their own funds to keep parks open when federal funding lapsed can request reimbursement within 30 days after the shutdown ends. The bill defines a government shutdown as a lapse in funding for any federal agency and mandates the Secretary of the Interior to pay the full amount the state spent on park operations during that period. This directly affects states managing national park units, providing a mechanism to recover their emergency expenditures.