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2-Calendar No. 235
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2+Union Calendar No. 92
33 118THCONGRESS
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55 STSESSION H. R. 4364
6-IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
7-NOVEMBER2, 2023
8-Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
9-AN ACT
6+[Report No. 118–120]
7+Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending
8+September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
9+IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10+JUNE27, 2023
11+Mr. A
12+MODEI, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
13+bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
14+State of the Union and ordered to be printed
15+A BILL
1016 Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
1117 fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other
1218 purposes.
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1322 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1423 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1524 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
1625 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
1726 Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 5
1827 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely: 6
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22-TITLE I 1
23-LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 2
24-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3
28+TITLE I 7
29+LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 8
30+HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 9
2531 S
26-ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 4
27-For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-5
28-atives, $1,850,998,000, as follows: 6
32+ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 10
33+For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-11
34+atives, $1,850,998,000, as follows: 12
2935 H
30-OUSELEADERSHIPOFFICES 7
31-For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, 8
32-$36,560,000, including: Office of the Speaker, 9
33-$10,499,000, including $35,000 for official expenses of 10
34-the Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, 11
35-$3,730,000, including $15,000 for official expenses of the 12
36-Majority Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, 13
37-$10,499,000, including $17,500 for official expenses of 14
38-the Minority Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, includ-15
39-ing the Chief Deputy Majority Whip, $3,099,000, includ-16
40-ing $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority Whip; Of-17
41-fice of the Minority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Mi-18
42-nority Whip, $2,809,000, including $5,000 for official ex-19
43-penses of the Minority Whip; Republican Conference, 20
44-$2,962,000; Democratic Caucus, $2,962,000: Provided, 21
45-That such amount for salaries and expenses shall remain 22
46-available from January 3, 2024 until January 2, 2025. 23
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50-MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES 1
51-INCLUDING MEMBERS ’ CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL EXPENSES 2
52-OF MEMBERS, AND OFFICIAL MAIL 3
53-For Members’ representational allowances, including 4
54-Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail, 5
55-$810,000,000. 6
36+OUSELEADERSHIPOFFICES 13
37+For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, 14
38+$36,560,000, including: Office of the Speaker, 15
39+$10,499,000, including $35,000 for official expenses of 16
40+the Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, 17
41+$3,730,000, including $15,000 for official expenses of the 18
42+Majority Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, 19
43+$10,499,000, including $17,500 for official expenses of 20
44+the Minority Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, includ-21
45+ing the Chief Deputy Majority Whip, $3,099,000, includ-22
46+ing $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority Whip; Of-23
47+fice of the Minority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Mi-24
48+nority Whip, $2,809,000, including $5,000 for official ex-25
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52+penses of the Minority Whip; Republican Conference, 1
53+$2,962,000; Democratic Caucus, $2,962,000: Provided, 2
54+That such amount for salaries and expenses shall remain 3
55+available from January 3, 2024 until January 2, 2025. 4
56+M
57+EMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES 5
58+INCLUDING MEMBERS ’ CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL EXPENSES 6
59+OF MEMBERS, AND OFFICIAL MAIL 7
60+For Members’ representational allowances, including 8
61+Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail, 9
62+$810,000,000. 10
5663 A
57-LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS IN 7
64+LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS IN 11
5865 M
59-EMBEROFFICES 8
60-For the allowance established under section 120 of 9
61-the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2019 (2 10
62-U.S.C. 5322a) for the compensation of interns who serve 11
63-in the offices of Members of the House of Representatives, 12
64-$20,638,800, to remain available through January 2, 13
65-2025: Provided, That notwithstanding section 120(b) of 14
66-such Act, an office of a Member of the House of Rep-15
67-resentatives may use not more than $46,800 of the allow-16
68-ance available under this heading during legislative year 17
69-2024. 18
66+EMBEROFFICES 12
67+For the allowance established under section 120 of 13
68+the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2019 (2 14
69+U.S.C. 5322a) for the compensation of interns who serve 15
70+in the offices of Members of the House of Representatives, 16
71+$20,638,800, to remain available through January 2, 17
72+2025: Provided, That notwithstanding section 120(b) of 18
73+such Act, an office of a Member of the House of Rep-19
74+resentatives may use not more than $46,800 of the allow-20
75+ance available under this heading during legislative year 21
76+2024. 22
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80+ALLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 1
81+L
82+EADERSHIPOFFICES 2
83+For the allowance established under section 113 of 3
84+the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2020 (2 4
85+U.S.C. 5106) for the compensation of interns who serve 5
86+in House leadership offices, $586,000, to remain available 6
87+through January 2, 2025: Provided, That of the amount 7
88+provided under this heading, $322,300 shall be available 8
89+for the compensation of interns who serve in House leader-9
90+ship offices of the majority, to be allocated among such 10
91+offices by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 11
92+and $263,700 shall be available for the compensation of 12
93+interns who serve in House leadership offices of the minor-13
94+ity, to be allocated among such offices by the Minority 14
95+Floor Leader. 15
7096 A
71-LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 19
72-L
73-EADERSHIPOFFICES 20
74-For the allowance established under section 113 of 21
75-the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2020 (2 22
76-U.S.C. 5106) for the compensation of interns who serve 23
77-in House leadership offices, $586,000, to remain available 24
78-through January 2, 2025: Provided, That of the amount 25
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82-provided under this heading, $322,300 shall be available 1
83-for the compensation of interns who serve in House leader-2
84-ship offices of the majority, to be allocated among such 3
85-offices by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 4
86-and $263,700 shall be available for the compensation of 5
87-interns who serve in House leadership offices of the minor-6
88-ity, to be allocated among such offices by the Minority 7
89-Floor Leader. 8
97+LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 16
98+S
99+TANDING, SPECIAL ANDSELECTCOMMITTEEOFFICES 17
100+For the allowance established under section 18
101+113(a)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 19
102+2022 (Public Law 117–103) for the compensation of in-20
103+terns who serve in offices of standing, special, and select 21
104+committees (other than the Committee on Appropria-22
105+tions), $2,600,000, to remain available through January 23
106+2, 2025: Provided, That of the amount provided under this 24
107+heading, $1,300,000 shall be available for the compensa-25
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111+tion of interns who serve in offices of the majority, and 1
112+$1,300,000 shall be available for the compensation of in-2
113+terns who serve in offices of the minority, to be allocated 3
114+among such offices by the Chair, in consultation with the 4
115+ranking minority member, of the Committee on House Ad-5
116+ministration. 6
90117 A
91-LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 9
118+LLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 7
119+A
120+PPROPRIATIONSCOMMITTEEOFFICES 8
121+For the allowance established under section 9
122+113(a)(2) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 10
123+2022 (Public Law 117–103) for the compensation of in-11
124+terns who serve in offices of the Committee on Appropria-12
125+tions, $463,000: Provided, That of the amount provided 13
126+under this heading, $231,500 shall be available for the 14
127+compensation of interns who serve in offices of the major-15
128+ity, and $231,500 shall be available for the compensation 16
129+of interns who serve in offices of the minority, to be allo-17
130+cated among such offices by the Chair, in consultation 18
131+with the ranking minority member, of the Committee on 19
132+Appropriations. 20
133+C
134+OMMITTEEEMPLOYEES 21
92135 S
93-TANDING, SPECIAL ANDSELECTCOMMITTEEOFFICES 10
94-For the allowance established under section 11
95-113(a)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 12
96-2022 (Public Law 117–103) for the compensation of in-13
97-terns who serve in offices of standing, special, and select 14
98-committees (other than the Committee on Appropria-15
99-tions), $2,600,000, to remain available through January 16
100-2, 2025: Provided, That of the amount provided under this 17
101-heading, $1,300,000 shall be available for the compensa-18
102-tion of interns who serve in offices of the majority, and 19
103-$1,300,000 shall be available for the compensation of in-20
104-terns who serve in offices of the minority, to be allocated 21
105-among such offices by the Chair, in consultation with the 22
106-ranking minority member, of the Committee on House Ad-23
107-ministration. 24
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111-ALLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS INHOUSE 1
136+TANDINGCOMMITTEES, SPECIAL ANDSELECT 22
137+For salaries and expenses of standing committees, 23
138+special and select, authorized by House resolutions, 24
139+$180,587,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain 25
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143+available for such salaries and expenses until December 1
144+31, 2024, except that $5,800,000 of such amount shall 2
145+remain available until expended for committee room up-3
146+grading. 4
147+C
148+OMMITTEE ONAPPROPRIATIONS 5
149+For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap-6
150+propriations, $31,294,000, including studies and examina-7
151+tions of executive agencies and temporary personal serv-8
152+ices for such committee, to be expended in accordance with 9
153+section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 10
154+1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies 11
155+for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall 12
156+remain available for such salaries and expenses until De-13
157+cember 31, 2024. 14
158+S
159+ALARIES, OFFICERS ANDEMPLOYEES 15
160+For compensation and expenses of officers and em-16
161+ployees, as authorized by law, $324,879,000, including: 17
162+for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ-18
163+ing the positions of the Chaplain and the Historian, and 19
164+including not more than $25,000 for official representa-20
165+tion and reception expenses, of which not more than 21
166+$20,000 is for the Family Room and not more than 22
167+$2,000 is for the Office of the Chaplain, $41,455,000, of 23
168+which $9,000,000 shall remain available until expended; 24
169+for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at 25
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173+Arms, including the position of Superintendent of Garages 1
174+and the Office of Emergency Management, and including 2
175+not more than $3,000 for official representation and re-3
176+ception expenses, $38,793,000, of which $22,232,000 4
177+shall remain available until expended; for salaries and ex-5
178+penses of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer 6
179+including not more than $3,000 for official representation 7
180+and reception expenses, $213,072,000, of which 8
181+$26,477,000 shall remain available until expended; for sal-9
182+aries and expenses of the Office of the Whistleblower 10
183+Ombuds, $1,250,000; for salaries and expenses of the Of-11
184+fice of the Inspector General, $5,512,000; for salaries and 12
185+expenses of the Office of General Counsel, $1,987,000; for 13
186+salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian, 14
187+including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the 15
188+Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official rep-16
189+resentation and reception expenses, $2,240,000; for sala-17
190+ries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Coun-18
191+sel of the House, $3,900,000; for salaries and expenses 19
192+of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, 20
193+$14,671,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available 21
194+until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of 22
195+Interparliamentary Affairs, $934,000; for other author-23
196+ized employees, $1,065,000. 24
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200+ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 1
201+For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 2
202+resolution or law, $433,390,200, including: supplies, mate-3
203+rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 4
204+$1,555,000; official mail for committees, leadership of-5
205+fices, and administrative offices of the House, $190,000; 6
206+Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 7
207+Security, contractor support for actuarial projections, and 8
208+other applicable employee benefits, $392,368,200, to re-9
209+main available until March 31, 2025, except that 10
210+$37,000,000 of such amount shall remain available until 11
211+expended; salaries and expenses for Business Continuity 12
212+and Disaster Recovery, $27,264,000, of which $6,000,000 13
213+shall remain available until expended; transition activities 14
214+for new members and staff, $5,895,000, to remain avail-15
215+able until expended; Green and Gold Congressional Aide 16
216+Program, $3,356,000, to remain available until expended; 17
217+Office of Congressional Ethics, $1,762,000; and miscella-18
218+neous items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, 19
219+repair and operation of House motor vehicles, inter-20
220+parliamentary receptions, and gratuities to heirs of de-21
221+ceased employees of the House, $1,000,000. 22
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225+HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVESMODERNIZATION 1
226+I
227+NITIATIVESACCOUNT 2
228+For the House of Representatives Modernization Ini-3
229+tiatives Account established under section 115 of the Leg-4
230+islative Branch Appropriations Act, 2021 (2 U.S.C. 5513), 5
231+$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-6
232+vided, That disbursement from this account is subject to 7
233+approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House 8
234+of Representatives: Provided further, That funds provided 9
235+in this account shall only be used for initiatives approved 10
236+by the Committee on House Administration. 11
112237 A
113-PPROPRIATIONSCOMMITTEEOFFICES 2
114-For the allowance established under section 3
115-113(a)(2) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 4
116-2022 (Public Law 117–103) for the compensation of in-5
117-terns who serve in offices of the Committee on Appropria-6
118-tions, $463,000: Provided, That of the amount provided 7
119-under this heading, $231,500 shall be available for the 8
120-compensation of interns who serve in offices of the major-9
121-ity, and $231,500 shall be available for the compensation 10
122-of interns who serve in offices of the minority, to be allo-11
123-cated among such offices by the Chair, in consultation 12
124-with the ranking minority member, of the Committee on 13
125-Appropriations. 14
238+DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 12
239+REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN MEMBERS ’ REP-13
240+RESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE USED FOR 14
241+DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL 15
242+DEBT 16
243+S
244+EC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 17
245+of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for 18
246+‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—S
247+ALARIES AND 19
248+E
249+XPENSES—MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOW -20
250+ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2024. Any 21
251+amount remaining after all payments are made under such 22
252+allowances for fiscal year 2024 shall be deposited in the 23
253+Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no 24
254+Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been 25
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258+made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as 1
259+the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate). 2
260+(b) The Committee on House Administration of the 3
261+House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe 4
262+regulations to carry out this section. 5
263+(c) As used in this section, the term ‘‘Member of the 6
264+House of Representatives’’ means a Representative in, or 7
265+a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. 8
266+LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO LEASE VEHICLES 9
267+S
268+EC. 111. None of the funds made available in this 10
269+Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of 11
270+the House of Representatives to make any payments from 12
271+any Members’ Representational Allowance for the leasing 13
272+of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggre-14
273+gate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any 15
274+month. 16
275+CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSE OF 17
276+REPRESENTATIVES 18
277+S
278+EC. 112. The head of any Federal entity that pro-19
279+vides assistance to the House of Representatives in the 20
280+House’s efforts to deter, prevent, mitigate, or remediate 21
281+cybersecurity risks to, and incidents involving, the infor-22
282+mation systems of the House shall take all necessary steps 23
283+to ensure the constitutional integrity of the separate 24
284+branches of the government at all stages of providing the 25
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288+assistance, including applying minimization procedures to 1
289+limit the spread or sharing of privileged House and Mem-2
290+ber information. 3
291+JOINT ITEMS 4
292+For Joint Committees, as follows: 5
293+J
294+OINTECONOMICCOMMITTEE 6
295+For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic 7
296+Committee, $4,283,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary 8
297+of the Senate. 9
298+J
299+OINTCOMMITTEE ONTAXATION 10
300+For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 11
301+Taxation, $13,059,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-12
302+ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives. 13
303+For other joint items, as follows: 14
304+O
305+FFICE OF THEATTENDINGPHYSICIAN 15
306+For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent ex-16
307+penses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending 17
308+Physician and their assistants, including: 18
309+(1) an allowance of $3,500 per month to the 19
310+Attending Physician; 20
311+(2) an allowance of $2,500 per month to the 21
312+Senior Medical Officer; 22
313+(3) an allowance of $900 per month each to 23
314+three medical officers while on duty in the Office of 24
315+the Attending Physician; 25
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319+(4) an allowance of $900 per month to 2 assist-1
320+ants and $900 per month each not to exceed 11 as-2
321+sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such as-3
322+sistants; and 4
323+(5) $3,054,000 for reimbursement to the De-5
324+partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff 6
325+and equipment assigned to the Office of the Attend-7
326+ing Physician, which shall be advanced and credited 8
327+to the applicable appropriation or appropriations 9
328+from which such salaries, allowances, and other ex-10
329+penses are payable and shall be available for all the 11
330+purposes thereof, $4,270,000, to be disbursed by the 12
331+Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Rep-13
332+resentatives. 14
333+O
334+FFICE OFCONGRESSIONALACCESSIBILITYSERVICES 15
335+S
336+ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 16
337+For salaries and expenses of the Office of Congres-17
338+sional Accessibility Services, $1,766,000, to be disbursed 18
339+by the Secretary of the Senate. 19
340+CAPITOL POLICE 20
341+S
342+ALARIES 21
343+For salaries of employees of the Capitol Police, in-22
344+cluding overtime, hazardous duty pay, and Government 23
345+contributions for health, retirement, social security, pro-24
346+fessional liability insurance, and other applicable employee 25
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350+benefits, $588,070,000 of which overtime shall not exceed 1
351+$74,976,000 unless the Committees on Appropriations of 2
352+the House and Senate are notified, to be disbursed by the 3
353+Chief of the Capitol Police or a duly authorized designee: 4
354+Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, 5
355+$15,000,000 shall be available for retention bonuses. 6
356+G
357+ENERALEXPENSES 7
358+For necessary expenses of the Capitol Police, includ-8
359+ing motor vehicles, communications and other equipment, 9
360+security equipment and installation, uniforms, weapons, 10
361+supplies, materials, training, medical services, forensic 11
362+services, stenographic services, personal and professional 12
363+services, the employee assistance program, the awards pro-13
364+gram, postage, communication services, travel advances, 14
365+relocation of instructor and liaison personnel for the Fed-15
366+eral Law Enforcement Training Centers, and not more 16
367+than $7,500 to be expended on the certification of the 17
368+Chief of the Capitol Police in connection with official rep-18
369+resentation and reception expenses, $192,846,000, to be 19
370+disbursed by the Chief of the Capitol Police or a duly au-20
371+thorized designee: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 21
372+other provision of law, the cost of basic training for the 22
373+Capitol Police at the Federal Law Enforcement Training 23
374+Centers for fiscal year 2024 shall be paid by the Secretary 24
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378+of Homeland Security from funds available to the Depart-1
379+ment of Homeland Security. 2
380+OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL WORKPLACE 3
381+RIGHTS 4
382+S
383+ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 5
384+For salaries and expenses necessary for the operation 6
385+of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, 7
386+$8,000,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain available 8
387+until September 30, 2025, and of which not more than 9
388+$1,000 may be expended on the certification of the Execu-10
389+tive Director in connection with official representation and 11
390+reception expenses. 12
391+CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 13
392+S
393+ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 14
394+For salaries and expenses necessary for operation of 15
395+the Congressional Budget Office, including not more than 16
396+$6,000 to be expended on the certification of the Director 17
397+of the Congressional Budget Office in connection with offi-18
398+cial representation and reception expenses, $64,637,000: 19
399+Provided, That the Director shall use not less than 20
400+$500,000 of the amount made available under this head-21
401+ing for (1) improving technical systems, processes, and 22
402+models for the purpose of improving the transparency of 23
403+estimates of budgetary effects to Members of Congress, 24
404+employees of Members of Congress, and the public, and 25
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408+(2) to increase the availability of models, economic as-1
409+sumptions, and data for Members of Congress, employees 2
410+of Members of Congress, and the public. 3
411+ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 4
126412 C
127-OMMITTEEEMPLOYEES 15
128-S
129-TANDINGCOMMITTEES, SPECIAL ANDSELECT 16
130-For salaries and expenses of standing committees, 17
131-special and select, authorized by House resolutions, 18
132-$180,587,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain 19
133-available for such salaries and expenses until December 20
134-31, 2024, except that $5,800,000 of such amount shall 21
135-remain available until expended for committee room up-22
136-grading. 23
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139-HR 4364 PCS
140-COMMITTEE ONAPPROPRIATIONS 1
141-For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap-2
142-propriations, $31,294,000, including studies and examina-3
143-tions of executive agencies and temporary personal serv-4
144-ices for such committee, to be expended in accordance with 5
145-section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 6
146-1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies 7
147-for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall 8
148-remain available for such salaries and expenses until De-9
149-cember 31, 2024. 10
150-S
151-ALARIES, OFFICERS ANDEMPLOYEES 11
152-For compensation and expenses of officers and em-12
153-ployees, as authorized by law, $324,879,000, including: 13
154-for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ-14
155-ing the positions of the Chaplain and the Historian, and 15
156-including not more than $25,000 for official representa-16
157-tion and reception expenses, of which not more than 17
158-$20,000 is for the Family Room and not more than 18
159-$2,000 is for the Office of the Chaplain, $41,455,000, of 19
160-which $9,000,000 shall remain available until expended; 20
161-for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at 21
162-Arms, including the position of Superintendent of Garages 22
163-and the Office of Emergency Management, and including 23
164-not more than $3,000 for official representation and re-24
165-ception expenses, $38,793,000, of which $22,232,000 25
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168-HR 4364 PCS
169-shall remain available until expended; for salaries and ex-1
170-penses of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer 2
171-including not more than $3,000 for official representation 3
172-and reception expenses, $213,072,000, of which 4
173-$26,477,000 shall remain available until expended; for sal-5
174-aries and expenses of the Office of the Whistleblower 6
175-Ombuds, $1,250,000; for salaries and expenses of the Of-7
176-fice of the Inspector General, $5,512,000; for salaries and 8
177-expenses of the Office of General Counsel, $1,987,000; for 9
178-salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian, 10
179-including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the 11
180-Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official rep-12
181-resentation and reception expenses, $2,240,000; for sala-13
182-ries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Coun-14
183-sel of the House, $3,900,000; for salaries and expenses 15
184-of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, 16
185-$14,671,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available 17
186-until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of 18
187-Interparliamentary Affairs, $934,000; for other author-19
188-ized employees, $1,065,000. 20
189-A
190-LLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 21
191-For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 22
192-resolution or law, $433,390,200, including: supplies, mate-23
193-rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 24
194-$1,555,000; official mail for committees, leadership of-25
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197-HR 4364 PCS
198-fices, and administrative offices of the House, $190,000; 1
199-Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 2
200-Security, contractor support for actuarial projections, and 3
201-other applicable employee benefits, $392,368,200, to re-4
202-main available until March 31, 2025, except that 5
203-$37,000,000 of such amount shall remain available until 6
204-expended; salaries and expenses for Business Continuity 7
205-and Disaster Recovery, $27,264,000, of which $6,000,000 8
206-shall remain available until expended; transition activities 9
207-for new members and staff, $5,895,000, to remain avail-10
208-able until expended; Green and Gold Congressional Aide 11
209-Program, $3,356,000, to remain available until expended; 12
210-Office of Congressional Ethics, $1,762,000; and miscella-13
211-neous items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, 14
212-repair and operation of House motor vehicles, inter-15
213-parliamentary receptions, and gratuities to heirs of de-16
214-ceased employees of the House, $1,000,000. 17
215-H
216-OUSE OFREPRESENTATIVESMODERNIZATION 18
217-I
218-NITIATIVESACCOUNT 19
219-For the House of Representatives Modernization Ini-20
220-tiatives Account established under section 115 of the Leg-21
221-islative Branch Appropriations Act, 2021 (2 U.S.C. 5513), 22
222-$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-23
223-vided, That disbursement from this account is subject to 24
224-approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House 25
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227-HR 4364 PCS
228-of Representatives: Provided further, That funds provided 1
229-in this account shall only be used for initiatives approved 2
230-by the Committee on House Administration. 3
231-A
232-DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 4
233-REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN MEMBERS ’ REP-5
234-RESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE USED FOR 6
235-DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL 7
236-DEBT 8
237-S
238-EC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 9
239-of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for 10
240-‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—S
241-ALARIES AND 11
242-E
243-XPENSES—MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOW -12
244-ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2024. Any 13
245-amount remaining after all payments are made under such 14
246-allowances for fiscal year 2024 shall be deposited in the 15
247-Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no 16
248-Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been 17
249-made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as 18
250-the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate). 19
251-(b) The Committee on House Administration of the 20
252-House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe 21
253-regulations to carry out this section. 22
254-(c) As used in this section, the term ‘‘Member of the 23
255-House of Representatives’’ means a Representative in, or 24
256-a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. 25
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259-HR 4364 PCS
260-LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO LEASE VEHICLES 1
261-S
262-EC. 111. None of the funds made available in this 2
263-Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of 3
264-the House of Representatives to make any payments from 4
265-any Members’ Representational Allowance for the leasing 5
266-of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggre-6
267-gate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any 7
268-month. 8
269-CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSE OF 9
270-REPRESENTATIVES 10
271-S
272-EC. 112. The head of any Federal entity that pro-11
273-vides assistance to the House of Representatives in the 12
274-House’s efforts to deter, prevent, mitigate, or remediate 13
275-cybersecurity risks to, and incidents involving, the infor-14
276-mation systems of the House shall take all necessary steps 15
277-to ensure the constitutional integrity of the separate 16
278-branches of the government at all stages of providing the 17
279-assistance, including applying minimization procedures to 18
280-limit the spread or sharing of privileged House and Mem-19
281-ber information. 20
282-JOINT ITEMS 21
283-For Joint Committees, as follows: 22
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286-HR 4364 PCS
287-JOINTECONOMICCOMMITTEE 1
288-For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic 2
289-Committee, $4,283,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary 3
290-of the Senate. 4
291-J
292-OINTCOMMITTEE ONTAXATION 5
293-For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 6
294-Taxation, $13,059,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-7
295-ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives. 8
296-For other joint items, as follows: 9
297-O
298-FFICE OF THEATTENDINGPHYSICIAN 10
299-For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent ex-11
300-penses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending 12
301-Physician and their assistants, including: 13
302-(1) an allowance of $3,500 per month to the 14
303-Attending Physician; 15
304-(2) an allowance of $2,500 per month to the 16
305-Senior Medical Officer; 17
306-(3) an allowance of $900 per month each to 18
307-three medical officers while on duty in the Office of 19
308-the Attending Physician; 20
309-(4) an allowance of $900 per month to 2 assist-21
310-ants and $900 per month each not to exceed 11 as-22
311-sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such as-23
312-sistants; and 24
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315-HR 4364 PCS
316-(5) $3,054,000 for reimbursement to the De-1
317-partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff 2
318-and equipment assigned to the Office of the Attend-3
319-ing Physician, which shall be advanced and credited 4
320-to the applicable appropriation or appropriations 5
321-from which such salaries, allowances, and other ex-6
322-penses are payable and shall be available for all the 7
323-purposes thereof, $4,270,000, to be disbursed by the 8
324-Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Rep-9
325-resentatives. 10
326-O
327-FFICE OFCONGRESSIONALACCESSIBILITYSERVICES 11
328-S
329-ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 12
330-For salaries and expenses of the Office of Congres-13
331-sional Accessibility Services, $1,766,000, to be disbursed 14
332-by the Secretary of the Senate. 15
333-CAPITOL POLICE 16
334-S
335-ALARIES 17
336-For salaries of employees of the Capitol Police, in-18
337-cluding overtime, hazardous duty pay, and Government 19
338-contributions for health, retirement, social security, pro-20
339-fessional liability insurance, and other applicable employee 21
340-benefits, $588,070,000 of which overtime shall not exceed 22
341-$74,976,000 unless the Committees on Appropriations of 23
342-the House and Senate are notified, to be disbursed by the 24
343-Chief of the Capitol Police or a duly authorized designee: 25
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346-HR 4364 PCS
347-Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, 1
348-$15,000,000 shall be available for retention bonuses. 2
349-G
350-ENERALEXPENSES 3
351-For necessary expenses of the Capitol Police, includ-4
352-ing motor vehicles, communications and other equipment, 5
353-security equipment and installation, uniforms, weapons, 6
354-supplies, materials, training, medical services, forensic 7
355-services, stenographic services, personal and professional 8
356-services, the employee assistance program, the awards pro-9
357-gram, postage, communication services, travel advances, 10
358-relocation of instructor and liaison personnel for the Fed-11
359-eral Law Enforcement Training Centers, and not more 12
360-than $7,500 to be expended on the certification of the 13
361-Chief of the Capitol Police in connection with official rep-14
362-resentation and reception expenses, $192,846,000, to be 15
363-disbursed by the Chief of the Capitol Police or a duly au-16
364-thorized designee: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 17
365-other provision of law, the cost of basic training for the 18
366-Capitol Police at the Federal Law Enforcement Training 19
367-Centers for fiscal year 2024 shall be paid by the Secretary 20
368-of Homeland Security from funds available to the Depart-21
369-ment of Homeland Security. 22
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372-HR 4364 PCS
373-OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL WORKPLACE 1
374-RIGHTS 2
375-S
376-ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 3
377-For salaries and expenses necessary for the operation 4
378-of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, 5
379-$8,000,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain available 6
380-until September 30, 2025, and of which not more than 7
381-$1,000 may be expended on the certification of the Execu-8
382-tive Director in connection with official representation and 9
383-reception expenses. 10
384-CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 11
385-S
386-ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 12
387-For salaries and expenses necessary for operation of 13
388-the Congressional Budget Office, including not more than 14
389-$6,000 to be expended on the certification of the Director 15
390-of the Congressional Budget Office in connection with offi-16
391-cial representation and reception expenses, $64,637,000: 17
392-Provided, That the Director shall use not less than 18
393-$500,000 of the amount made available under this head-19
394-ing for (1) improving technical systems, processes, and 20
395-models for the purpose of improving the transparency of 21
396-estimates of budgetary effects to Members of Congress, 22
397-employees of Members of Congress, and the public, and 23
398-(2) to increase the availability of models, economic as-24
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401-HR 4364 PCS
402-sumptions, and data for Members of Congress, employees 1
403-of Members of Congress, and the public. 2
404-ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 3
413+APITALCONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS 5
414+For salaries for the Architect of the Capitol, and 6
415+other personal services, at rates of pay provided by law; 7
416+for all necessary expenses for surveys and studies, con-8
417+struction, operation, and general and administrative sup-9
418+port in connection with facilities and activities under the 10
419+care of the Architect of the Capitol including the Botanic 11
420+Garden; Senate and House office buildings, and other fa-12
421+cilities under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Cap-13
422+itol; including furnishings and office equipment; including 14
423+not more than $5,000 for official reception and represen-15
424+tation expenses, to be expended as the Architect of the 16
425+Capitol may approve; for purchase or exchange, mainte-17
426+nance, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle, 18
427+$149,073,000, of which $3,200,000 shall remain available 19
428+until September 30, 2028. 20
405429 C
406-APITALCONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS 4
407-For salaries for the Architect of the Capitol, and 5
408-other personal services, at rates of pay provided by law; 6
409-for all necessary expenses for surveys and studies, con-7
410-struction, operation, and general and administrative sup-8
411-port in connection with facilities and activities under the 9
412-care of the Architect of the Capitol including the Botanic 10
413-Garden; Senate and House office buildings, and other fa-11
414-cilities under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Cap-12
415-itol; including furnishings and office equipment; including 13
416-not more than $5,000 for official reception and represen-14
417-tation expenses, to be expended as the Architect of the 15
418-Capitol may approve; for purchase or exchange, mainte-16
419-nance, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle, 17
420-$149,073,000, of which $3,200,000 shall remain available 18
421-until September 30, 2028. 19
422-C
423-APITOLBUILDING 20
424-For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 21
425-and operation of the Capitol, $74,304,000, of which 22
426-$42,599,000 shall remain available until September 30, 23
427-2028. 24
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430+APITOLBUILDING 21
431+For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 22
432+and operation of the Capitol, $74,304,000, of which 23
433+$42,599,000 shall remain available until September 30, 24
434+2028. 25
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431438 CAPITOLGROUNDS 1
432439 For all necessary expenses for care and improvement 2
433440 of grounds surrounding the Capitol, the Senate and House 3
434441 office buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, 4
435442 $16,365,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available 5
436443 until September 30, 2028. 6
437444 H
438445 OUSEOFFICEBUILDINGS 7
439446 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 8
440447 and operation of the House office buildings, 9
441448 $168,439,000, of which $53,140,000 shall remain avail-10
442449 able until September 30, 2028, and of which $41,800,000 11
443450 shall remain available until expended for the restoration 12
444451 and renovation of the Cannon House Office Building. 13
445452 C
446453 APITOLPOWERPLANT 14
447454 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 15
448455 and operation of the Capitol Power Plant; and all elec-16
449456 trical substations of the Capitol; lighting, heating, power 17
450457 (including the purchase of electrical energy) and water 18
451458 and sewer services for the Capitol, Senate and House of-19
452459 fice buildings, Library of Congress buildings, and the 20
453460 grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, 21
454461 and air conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants 22
455462 in any of such buildings; heating the Government Pub-23
456463 lishing Office and Washington City Post Office, and heat-24
457464 ing and chilled water for air conditioning for the Supreme 25
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461468 Court Building, the Union Station complex, the Thurgood 1
462469 Marshall Federal Judiciary Building and the Folger 2
463470 Shakespeare Library, expenses for which shall be ad-3
464471 vanced or reimbursed upon request of the Architect of the 4
465472 Capitol and amounts so received shall be deposited into 5
466473 the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation, 6
467474 $131,751,000, of which $43,400,000 shall remain avail-7
468475 able until September 30, 2028: Provided, That not more 8
469476 than $10,000,000 of the funds credited or to be reim-9
470477 bursed to this appropriation as herein provided shall be 10
471478 available for obligation during fiscal year 2024. 11
472479 L
473480 IBRARYBUILDINGS ANDGROUNDS 12
474481 For all necessary expenses for the mechanical and 13
475482 structural maintenance, care and operation of the Library 14
476483 buildings and grounds, $117,120,000, of which 15
477484 $80,900,000 shall remain available until September 30, 16
478485 2028. 17
479486 C
480487 APITOLPOLICEBUILDINGS, GROUNDS ANDSECURITY 18
481488 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 19
482489 and operation of buildings, grounds and security enhance-20
483490 ments of the United States Capitol Police, wherever lo-21
484491 cated, the Alternate Computing Facility, and Architect of 22
485492 the Capitol security operations, $81,172,000, of which 23
486493 $21,100,000 shall remain available until September 30, 24
487494 2028. 25
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491498 BOTANICGARDEN 1
492499 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 2
493500 and operation of the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, 3
494501 buildings, grounds, and collections; and purchase and ex-4
495502 change, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger 5
496503 motor vehicle; all under the direction of the Joint Com-6
497504 mittee on the Library, $21,187,000, of which $5,000,000 7
498505 shall remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, 8
499506 That, of the amount made available under this heading, 9
500507 the Architect of the Capitol may obligate and expend such 10
501508 sums as may be necessary for the maintenance, care and 11
502509 operation of the National Garden established under sec-12
503510 tion 307E of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 13
504511 1989 (2 U.S.C. 2146), upon vouchers approved by the Ar-14
505512 chitect of the Capitol or a duly authorized designee. 15
506513 C
507514 APITOLVISITORCENTER 16
508515 For all necessary expenses for the operation of the 17
509516 Capitol Visitor Center, $27,692,000. 18
510517 A
511518 DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 19
512519 NO BONUSES FOR CONTRACTORS BEHIND SCHEDULE OR 20
513520 OVER BUDGET 21
514521 S
515522 EC. 113. None of the funds made available in this 22
516523 Act for the Architect of the Capitol may be used to make 23
517524 incentive or award payments to contractors for work on 24
518525 contracts or programs for which the contractor is behind 25
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522529 schedule or over budget, unless the Architect of the Cap-1
523530 itol, or agency-employed designee, determines that any 2
524531 such deviations are due to unforeseeable events, govern-3
525532 ment-driven scope changes, or are not significant within 4
526533 the overall scope of the project and/or program. 5
527534 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 6
528535 S
529536 ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 7
530537 For all necessary expenses of the Library of Congress 8
531538 not otherwise provided for, including development and 9
532539 maintenance of the Library’s catalogs; custody and custo-10
533540 dial care of the Library buildings; information technology 11
534541 services provided centrally; special clothing; cleaning, 12
535542 laundering and repair of uniforms; preservation of motion 13
536543 pictures in the custody of the Library; operation and 14
537544 maintenance of the American Folklife Center in the Li-15
538545 brary; preparation and distribution of catalog records and 16
539546 other publications of the Library; hire or purchase of one 17
540547 passenger motor vehicle; and expenses of the Library of 18
541548 Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to 19
542549 the income of any trust fund held by the Board, 20
543550 $582,605,481, and, in addition, amounts credited to this 21
544551 appropriation during fiscal year 2024 under the Act of 22
545552 June 28, 1902 (chapter 1301; 32 Stat. 480; 2 U.S.C. 23
546553 150), shall remain available until expended: Provided, 24
547554 That the Library of Congress may not obligate or expend 25
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551558 any funds derived from collections under the Act of June 1
552559 28, 1902, in excess of the amount authorized for obliga-2
553560 tion or expenditure in appropriations Acts: Provided fur-3
554561 ther, That of the total amount appropriated, not more 4
555562 than $18,000 may be expended, on the certification of the 5
556563 Librarian of Congress, in connection with official rep-6
557564 resentation and reception expenses, including for the Over-7
558565 seas Field Offices: Provided further, That of the total 8
559566 amount appropriated, $12,739,000 shall remain available 9
560567 until expended for the Teaching with Primary Sources 10
561568 program: Provided further, That of the total amount ap-11
562569 propriated, $1,509,000 shall remain available until ex-12
563570 pended for upgrade of the Legislative Branch Financial 13
564571 Management System: Provided further, That of the total 14
565572 amount appropriated, $250,000 shall remain available 15
566573 until expended for the Surplus Books Program to promote 16
567574 the program and facilitate a greater number of donations 17
568575 to eligible entities across the United States: Provided fur-18
569576 ther, That of the total amount appropriated, $4,205,000 19
570577 shall remain available until expended for the Veterans 20
571578 History Project to continue digitization efforts of already 21
572579 collected materials, reach a greater number of veterans to 22
573580 record their stories, and promote public access to the 23
574581 Project: Provided further, That of the total amount appro-24
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578585 priated, $1,500,000 shall remain available until expended 1
579586 for the COVID–19 American History Project. 2
580587 C
581588 OPYRIGHTOFFICE 3
582589 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
583590 For all necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, 5
584591 $101,011,000, of which not more than $38,025,000, to 6
585592 remain available until expended, shall be derived from col-7
586593 lections credited to this appropriation during fiscal year 8
587594 2024 under sections 708(d) and 1316 of title 17, United 9
588595 States Code: Provided, That the Copyright Office may not 10
589596 obligate or expend any funds derived from collections 11
590597 under such section in excess of the amount authorized for 12
591598 obligation or expenditure in appropriations Acts: Provided 13
592599 further, That not more than $7,566,000 shall be derived 14
593600 from collections during fiscal year 2024 under sections 15
594601 111(d)(2), 119(b)(3), 803(e), and 1005 of such title: Pro-16
595602 vided further, That the total amount available for obliga-17
596603 tion shall be reduced by the amount by which collections 18
597604 are less than $45,591,000: Provided further, That of the 19
598605 funds provided under this heading, not less than 20
599606 $10,300,000 is for modernization initiatives, of which 21
600607 $9,300,000 shall remain available until September 30, 22
601608 2025: Provided further, That not more than $100,000 of 23
602609 the amount appropriated is available for the maintenance 24
603610 of an ‘‘International Copyright Institute’’ in the Copyright 25
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607614 Office of the Library of Congress for the purpose of train-1
608615 ing nationals of developing countries in intellectual prop-2
609616 erty laws and policies: Provided further, That not more 3
610617 than $6,500 may be expended, on the certification of the 4
611618 Librarian of Congress, in connection with official rep-5
612619 resentation and reception expenses for activities of the 6
613620 International Copyright Institute and for copyright dele-7
614621 gations, visitors, and seminars: Provided further, That, 8
615622 notwithstanding any provision of chapter 8 of title 17, 9
616623 United States Code, any amounts made available under 10
617624 this heading which are attributable to royalty fees and 11
618625 payments received by the Copyright Office pursuant to 12
619626 sections 111, 119, and chapter 10 of such title may be 13
620627 used for the costs incurred in the administration of the 14
621628 Copyright Royalty Judges program, with the exception of 15
622629 the costs of salaries and benefits for the Copyright Royalty 16
623630 Judges and staff under section 802(e). 17
624631 C
625632 ONGRESSIONALRESEARCHSERVICE 18
626633 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
627634 For all necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 20
628635 of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 21
629636 1946 (2 U.S.C. 166) and to revise and extend the Anno-22
630637 tated Constitution of the United States of America, 23
631638 $135,797,000: Provided, That no part of such amount 24
632639 may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection 25
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636643 with any publication, or preparation of material therefor 1
637644 (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued 2
638645 by the Library of Congress unless such publication has 3
639646 obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House 4
640647 Administration of the House of Representatives or the 5
641648 Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate: 6
642649 Provided further, That this prohibition does not apply to 7
643650 publication of non-confidential Congressional Research 8
644651 Service (CRS) products: Provided further, That a non-con-9
645652 fidential CRS product includes any written product con-10
646653 taining research or analysis that is currently available for 11
647654 general congressional access on the CRS Congressional 12
648655 Intranet, or that would be made available on the CRS 13
649656 Congressional Intranet in the normal course of business 14
650657 and does not include material prepared in response to 15
651658 Congressional requests for confidential analysis or re-16
652659 search. 17
653660 N
654661 ATIONALLIBRARYSERVICE FOR THEBLIND AND 18
655662 P
656663 RINTDISABLED 19
657664 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
658665 For all necessary expenses to carry out the Act of 21
659666 March 3, 1931 (chapter 400; 46 Stat. 1487; 2 U.S.C. 22
660667 135a), $69,924,519: Provided, That of the total amount 23
661668 appropriated, $650,000 shall be available to contract to 24
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665672 provide newspapers to blind and print disabled residents 1
666673 at no cost to the individual. 2
667674 A
668675 DMINISTRATIVEPROVISION 3
669676 REIMBURSABLE AND REVOLVING FUND ACTIVITIES 4
670677 S
671678 EC. 114. (a) INGENERAL.—For fiscal year 2024, 5
672679 the obligational authority of the Library of Congress for 6
673680 the activities described in subsection (b) may not exceed 7
674681 $324,110,000. 8
675682 (b) A
676683 CTIVITIES.—The activities referred to in sub-9
677684 section (a) are reimbursable and revolving fund activities 10
678685 that are funded from sources other than appropriations 11
679686 to the Library in appropriations Acts for the Legislative 12
680687 Branch. 13
681688 GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 14
682689 C
683690 ONGRESSIONALPUBLISHING 15
684691 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
685692 For authorized publishing of congressional informa-17
686693 tion and the distribution of congressional information in 18
687694 any format; publishing of Government publications au-19
688695 thorized by law to be distributed to Members of Congress; 20
689696 and publishing, and distribution of Government publica-21
690697 tions authorized by law to be distributed without charge 22
691698 to the recipient, $82,992,000: Provided, That this appro-23
692699 priation shall not be available for paper copies of the per-24
693700 manent edition of the Congressional Record for individual 25
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697704 Representatives, Resident Commissioners or Delegates au-1
698705 thorized under section 906 of title 44, United States Code: 2
699706 Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 3
700707 for the payment of obligations incurred under the appro-4
701708 priations for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years: 5
702709 Provided further, That notwithstanding the 2-year limita-6
703710 tion under section 718 of title 44, United States Code, 7
704711 none of the funds appropriated or made available under 8
705712 this Act or any other Act for printing and binding and 9
706713 related services provided to Congress under chapter 7 of 10
707714 title 44, United States Code, may be expended to print 11
708715 a document, report, or publication after the 27-month pe-12
709716 riod beginning on the date that such document, report, 13
710717 or publication is authorized by Congress to be printed, un-14
711718 less Congress reauthorizes such printing in accordance 15
712719 with section 718 of title 44, United States Code: Provided 16
713720 further, That unobligated or unexpended balances of ex-17
714721 pired discretionary funds made available under this head-18
715722 ing in this Act for this fiscal year may be transferred to, 19
716723 and merged with, funds under the heading ‘‘G
717724 OVERNMENT 20
718725 P
719726 UBLISHINGOFFICEBUSINESSOPERATIONSREVOLVING 21
720727 F
721728 UND’’ no later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after 22
722729 the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for 23
723730 the purposes for which appropriated, to be available for 24
724731 carrying out the purposes of this heading, subject to the 25
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728735 approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the 1
729736 House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-2
730737 ther, That notwithstanding sections 901, 902, and 906 of 3
731738 title 44, United States Code, this appropriation may be 4
732739 used to prepare indexes to the Congressional Record on 5
733740 only a monthly and session basis. 6
734741 P
735742 UBLICINFORMATIONPROGRAMS OF THE 7
736743 S
737744 UPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 8
738745 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 9
739746 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
740747 For expenses of the public information programs of 11
741748 the Office of Superintendent of Documents necessary to 12
742749 provide for the cataloging and indexing of Government 13
743750 publications in any format, and their preservation and dis-14
744751 tribution to the public, Members of Congress, other Gov-15
745752 ernment agencies, and designated depository and inter-16
746753 national exchange libraries as authorized by law, 17
747754 $35,257,000: Provided, That amounts of not more than 18
748755 $2,000,000 from current year appropriations are author-19
749756 ized for producing and disseminating Congressional serial 20
750757 sets and other related publications for the preceding two 21
751758 fiscal years to depository and other designated libraries: 22
752759 Provided further, That unobligated or unexpended bal-23
753760 ances of expired discretionary funds made available under 24
754761 this heading in this Act for this fiscal year may be trans-25
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758765 ferred to, and merged with, funds under the heading 1
759766 ‘‘G
760767 OVERNMENT PUBLISHINGOFFICEBUSINESSOPER-2
761768 ATIONSREVOLVINGFUND’’ no later than the end of the 3
762769 fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such 4
763770 funds are available for the purposes for which appro-5
764771 priated, to be available for carrying out the purposes of 6
765772 this heading, subject to the approval of the Committees 7
766773 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 8
767774 Senate. 9
768775 G
769776 OVERNMENTPUBLISHINGOFFICEBUSINESS 10
770777 O
771778 PERATIONSREVOLVINGFUND 11
772779 For payment to the Government Publishing Office 12
773780 Business Operations Revolving Fund, $11,605,000, to re-13
774781 main available until expended, for information technology 14
775782 development and facilities repair: Provided, That the Gov-15
776783 ernment Publishing Office is hereby authorized to make 16
777784 such expenditures, within the limits of funds available and 17
778785 in accordance with law, and to make such contracts and 18
779786 commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 19
780787 provided by section 9104 of title 31, United States Code, 20
781788 as may be necessary in carrying out the programs and 21
782789 purposes set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year 22
783790 for the Government Publishing Office Business Operations 23
784791 Revolving Fund: Provided further, That not more than 24
785792 $7,500 may be expended on the certification of the Direc-25
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789796 tor of the Government Publishing Office in connection 1
790797 with official representation and reception expenses: Pro-2
791798 vided further, That the Business Operations Revolving 3
792799 Fund shall be available for the hire or purchase of not 4
793800 more than 12 passenger motor vehicles: Provided further, 5
794801 That expenditures in connection with travel expenses of 6
795802 the advisory councils to the Director of the Government 7
796803 Publishing Office shall be deemed necessary to carry out 8
797804 the provisions of title 44, United States Code: Provided 9
798805 further, That the Business Operations Revolving Fund 10
799806 shall be available for temporary or intermittent services 11
800807 under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but 12
801808 at rates for individuals not more than the daily equivalent 13
802809 of the annual rate of basic pay for level V of the Executive 14
803810 Schedule under section 5316 of such title: Provided fur-15
804811 ther, That activities financed through the Business Oper-16
805812 ations Revolving Fund may provide information in any 17
806813 format: Provided further, That the Business Operations 18
807814 Revolving Fund and the funds provided under the heading 19
808815 ‘‘P
809816 UBLICINFORMATION PROGRAMS OF THE SUPER-20
810817 INTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS’’ may not be used for con-21
811818 tracted security services at Government Publishing Of-22
812819 fice’s passport facility in the District of Columbia. 23
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816823 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 1
817824 S
818825 ALARIES ANDEXPENSES 2
819826 For necessary expenses of the Government Account-3
820827 ability Office, including not more than $12,500 to be ex-4
821828 pended on the certification of the Comptroller General of 5
822829 the United States in connection with official representa-6
823830 tion and reception expenses; temporary or intermittent 7
824831 services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States 8
825832 Code, but at rates for individuals not more than the daily 9
826833 equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV of 10
827834 the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title; 11
828835 hire of one passenger motor vehicle; advance payments in 12
829836 foreign countries in accordance with section 3324 of title 13
830837 31, United States Code; benefits comparable to those pay-14
831838 able under sections 901(5), (6), and (8) of the Foreign 15
832839 Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), (6), and (8)); 16
833840 and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller Gen-17
834841 eral of the United States, rental of living quarters in for-18
835842 eign countries, $806,004,000, of which $5,000,000 shall 19
836843 remain available until expended: Provided, That, in addi-20
837844 tion, $73,976,000 of payments received under sections 21
838845 782, 791, 3521, and 9105 of title 31, United States Code, 22
839846 shall be available without fiscal year limitation: Provided 23
840847 further, That this appropriation and appropriations for ad-24
841848 ministrative expenses of any other department or agency 25
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845852 which is a member of the National Intergovernmental 1
846853 Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit 2
847854 Forum shall be available to finance an appropriate share 3
848855 of either Forum’s costs as determined by the respective 4
849856 Forum, including necessary travel expenses of non-Federal 5
850857 participants: Provided further, That payments hereunder 6
851858 to the Forum may be credited as reimbursements to any 7
852859 appropriation from which costs involved are initially fi-8
853860 nanced. 9
854861 CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL 10
855862 LEADERSHIP FUND 11
856863 For a payment to the Congressional Office for Inter-12
857864 national Leadership Fund for financing activities of the 13
858865 Congressional Office for International Leadership under 14
859866 section 313 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 15
860867 2001 (2 U.S.C. 1151), $6,000,000. 16
861868 JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC 17
862869 SERVICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 18
863870 For payment to the John C. Stennis Center for Pub-19
864871 lic Service Development Trust Fund established under 20
865872 section 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Serv-21
866873 ice Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105), 22
867874 $430,000. 23
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871878 TITLE II 1
872879 GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
873880 MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF PRIVATE VEHICLES 3
874881 S
875882 EC. 201. No part of the funds appropriated in this 4
876883 Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private 5
877884 vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as 6
878885 may be provided under regulations relating to parking fa-7
879886 cilities for the House of Representatives issued by the 8
880887 Committee on House Administration and for the Senate 9
881888 issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration. 10
882889 FISCAL YEAR LIMITATION 11
883890 S
884891 EC. 202. No part of the funds appropriated in this 12
885892 Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 13
886893 2024 unless expressly so provided in this Act. 14
887894 RATES OF COMPENSATION AND DESIGNATION 15
888895 S
889896 EC. 203. Whenever in this Act any office or position 16
890897 not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of 17
891898 1929 (46 Stat. 32 et seq.) is appropriated for or the rate 18
892899 of compensation or designation of any office or position 19
893900 appropriated for is different from that specifically estab-20
894901 lished by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-21
895902 ignation in this Act shall be the permanent law with re-22
896903 spect thereto: Provided, That the provisions in this Act 23
897904 for the various items of official expenses of Members, offi-24
898905 cers, and committees of the Senate and House of Rep-25
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902909 resentatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of 1
903910 the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law 2
904911 with respect thereto. 3
905912 CONSULTING SERVICES 4
906913 S
907914 EC. 204. The expenditure of any appropriation 5
908915 under this Act for any consulting service through procure-6
909916 ment contract, under section 3109 of title 5, United States 7
910917 Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such ex-8
911918 penditures are a matter of public record and available for 9
912919 public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 10
913920 existing law, or under existing Executive order issued 11
914921 under existing law. 12
915922 COSTS OF LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FINANCIAL MANAGERS 13
916923 COUNCIL 14
917924 S
918925 EC. 205. Amounts available for administrative ex-15
919926 penses of any legislative branch entity which participates 16
920927 in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council 17
921928 (LBFMC) established by charter on March 26, 1996, shall 18
922929 be available to finance an appropriate share of LBFMC 19
923930 costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that the total 20
924931 LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legisla-21
925932 tive branch entities (in such allocations among the entities 22
926933 as the entities may determine) may not exceed $2,000. 23
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930937 LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS 1
931938 S
932939 EC. 206. None of the funds made available in this 2
933940 Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-3
934941 strumentality of the United States Government, except 4
935942 pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-5
936943 vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 6
937944 GUIDED TOURS OF THE CAPITOL 7
938945 S
939946 EC. 207. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 8
940947 none of the funds made available to the Architect of the 9
941948 Capitol in this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict 10
942949 guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led 11
943950 by employees and interns of offices of Members of Con-12
944951 gress and other offices of the House of Representatives 13
945952 and Senate, unless through regulations as authorized by 14
946953 section 402(b)(8) of the Capitol Visitor Center Act of 15
947954 2008 (2 U.S.C. 2242(b)(8)). 16
948955 (b) At the direction of the Capitol Police Board, or 17
949956 at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol with the 18
950957 approval of the Capitol Police Board, guided tours of the 19
951958 United States Capitol which are led by employees and in-20
952959 terns described in subsection (a) may be suspended tempo-21
953960 rarily or otherwise subject to restriction for security or re-22
954961 lated reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the 23
955962 United States Capitol which are led by the Architect of 24
956963 the Capitol. 25
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960967 LIMITATION ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT 1
961968 PROCUREMENT 2
962969 S
963970 EC. 208. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-3
964971 erwise made available under this Act may be used to ac-4
965972 quire telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei 5
966973 Technologies Company or ZTE Corporation for a high or 6
967974 moderate impact information system, as defined for secu-7
968975 rity categorization in the National Institute of Standards 8
969976 and Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 9
970977 Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-10
971978 egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-11
972979 tems’’ unless the agency, office, or other entity acquiring 12
973980 the equipment or system has— 13
974981 (1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-14
975982 mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 15
976983 to inform acquisition decisions for high or moderate 16
977984 impact information systems within the Federal Gov-17
978985 ernment; 18
979986 (2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-19
980987 sumptive awardee against available and relevant 20
981988 threat information provided by the Federal Bureau 21
982989 of Investigation and other appropriate agencies; and 22
983990 (3) in consultation with the Federal Bureau of 23
984991 Investigation or other appropriate Federal entity, 24
985992 conducted an assessment of any risk of cyber-espio-25
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989996 nage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of 1
990997 such telecommunications equipment for inclusion in 2
991998 a high or moderate impact system, including any 3
992999 risk associated with such system being produced, 4
9931000 manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 5
9941001 identified by the United States Government as pos-6
9951002 ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 7
9961003 those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 8
9971004 the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic 9
9981005 of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 10
9991006 or the Russian Federation. 11
10001007 (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 12
10011008 made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 13
10021009 high or moderate impact information system reviewed and 14
10031010 assessed under subsection (a) unless the head of the as-15
10041011 sessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 16
10051012 (1) developed, in consultation with NIST and 17
10061013 supply chain risk management experts, a mitigation 18
10071014 strategy for any identified risks; 19
10081015 (2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 20
10091016 the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that the acqui-21
10101017 sition of such telecommunications equipment for in-22
10111018 clusion in a high or moderate impact system is in 23
10121019 the vital national security interest of the United 24
10131020 States; and 25
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10171024 (3) reported that determination to the Commit-1
10181025 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-2
10191026 tives and the Senate in a manner that identifies the 3
10201027 telecommunications equipment for inclusion in a 4
10211028 high or moderate impact system intended for acqui-5
10221029 sition and a detailed description of the mitigation 6
10231030 strategies identified in paragraph (1), provided that 7
10241031 such report may include a classified annex as nec-8
10251032 essary. 9
10261033 PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN OPERATIONAL EXPENSES 10
10271034 S
10281035 EC. 209. (a) None of the funds made available in 11
10291036 this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 12
10301037 network unless such network blocks the viewing, 13
10311038 downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 14
10321039 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 15
10331040 funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 16
10341041 enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-17
10351042 nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities 18
10361043 or other official government activities. 19
10371044 LIMITATION ON TREATMENT AS FIDUCIARY 20
10381045 RELATIONSHIP 21
10391046 S
10401047 EC. 210. (a) Section 13144 of title 5, United States 22
10411048 Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 23
10421049 subsection: 24
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10461053 ‘‘(c) LIMITATION ONTREATMENT ASFIDUCIARYRE-1
10471054 LATIONSHIP.—For purposes of this section, the relation-2
10481055 ship between a Member who is providing care directly to 3
10491056 a patient in the form of medical services or dental services 4
10501057 and the patient to whom such care is provided shall not 5
10511058 be considered a fiduciary relationship.’’. 6
10521059 (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 7
10531060 apply with respect to compensation received in fiscal year 8
10541061 2024 or any succeeding fiscal year. 9
10551062 S
10561063 EC. 211. None of the funds made available by this 10
10571064 Act may be used for any office, program, or activity for 11
10581065 the purposes of diversity, equity, and inclusion training 12
10591066 or implementation that promotes or perpetuates divisive 13
10601067 concepts related to race or sex, such as the concepts that 14
10611068 one race or sex is inherently superior to another, or that 15
10621069 an individual’s moral character or worth is determined by 16
10631070 their race or sex. 17
10641071 S
10651072 EC. 212. (a) INGENERAL.—Notwithstanding sec-18
10661073 tion 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of 19
10671074 title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 20
10681075 none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-21
10691076 priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 22
10701077 any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-23
10711078 tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 24
10721079 accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 25
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10761083 conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 1
10771084 a union of one man and one woman. 2
10781085 (b) D
10791086 ISCRIMINATORYACTIONDEFINED.—As used in 3
10801087 subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action 4
10811088 taken by the Federal Government to— 5
10821089 (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 6
10831090 of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-7
10841091 sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-8
10851092 tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-9
10861093 nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 10
10871094 in subsection (a); 11
10881095 (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-12
10891096 poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 13
10901097 such person; 14
10911098 (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 15
10921099 exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 16
10931100 deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-17
10941101 operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-18
10951102 cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 19
10961103 other similar position or status from or to such per-20
10971104 son; 21
10981105 (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-22
10991106 erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 23
11001107 benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 24
11011108 admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 25
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11051112 degree from an educational program, from or to 1
11061113 such person; or 2
11071114 (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-3
11081115 erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-4
11091116 ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-5
11101117 stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 6
11111118 and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-7
11121119 paigns from or to such person. 8
11131120 (c) A
11141121 CCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.— 9
11151122 The Federal Government shall consider accredited, li-10
11161123 censed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person 11
11171124 that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respec-12
11181125 tively, for such purposes but for a determination against 13
11191126 such person wholly or partially on the basis that the per-14
11201127 son speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held 15
11211128 religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection 16
11221129 (a). 17
11231130 SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 18
11241131 S
11251132 EC. 213. $11,000,000. 19
1126-S
1127-EC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of 20
1128-law, no adjustment shall be made under section 601(a) 21
1129-of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 22
1130-4501) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members 23
1131-of Congress) during fiscal year 2024. 24
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1135-This division may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative Branch 1
1136-Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 2
1137-Passed the House of Representatives November 1,
1138-2023.
1139-Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
1140-Clerk.
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11451138 118
11461139 TH
11471140 CONGRESS
11481141 1
11491142 ST
11501143 S
11511144 ESSION
11521145
11531146 H. R. 4364
1154-AN ACT
1147+[Report No. 118–120]
1148+A BILL
11551149 Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch
11561150 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
11571151 and for other purposes.
1158-N
1159-OVEMBER
1160-2, 2023
1161-Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
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1153+UNE
1154+27, 2023
1155+Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
1156+State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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