Us Congress House Bill HB5893 Introduced / Bill

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118THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION H. R. 5893 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER6, 2023 
Mr. R
OGERSof Kentucky introduced the following bill; 
O
CTOBER25, 2023 
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on the Budget, for a period to subsequently determined by the 
speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other pur-5
poses, namely: 6
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TITLE I 1
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2
I
NTERNATIONALTRADEADMINISTRATION 3
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 4
For necessary expenses for international trade activi-5
ties of the Department of Commerce provided for by law, 6
to carry out activities associated with facilitating, attract-7
ing, and retaining business investment in the United 8
States, and for engaging in trade promotional activities 9
abroad, including expenses of grants and cooperative 10
agreements for the purpose of promoting exports of 11
United States firms, without regard to sections 3702 and 12
3703 of title 44, United States Code; full medical coverage 13
for dependent members of immediate families of employees 14
stationed overseas and employees temporarily posted over-15
seas; travel and transportation of employees of the Inter-16
national Trade Administration between two points abroad, 17
without regard to section 40118 of title 49, United States 18
Code; employment of citizens of the United States and 19
aliens by contract for services; rental of space abroad for 20
periods not exceeding 10 years, and expenses of alteration, 21
repair, or improvement; purchase or construction of tem-22
porary demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; 23
payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the 24
first paragraph of section 2672 of title 28, United States 25
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Code, when such claims arise in foreign countries; not to 1
exceed $294,300 for official representation expenses 2
abroad; purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official 3
use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per vehicle; not to ex-4
ceed $325,000 for purchase of armored vehicles without 5
regard to the general purchase price limitations; obtaining 6
insurance on official motor vehicles; and rental of tie lines, 7
$570,000,000, of which $85,000,000 shall remain avail-8
able until September 30, 2024: Provided, That 9
$12,000,000 is to be derived from fees to be retained and 10
used by the International Trade Administration, notwith-11
standing section 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-12
vided further, That, of amounts provided under this head-13
ing, not less than $16,400,000 shall be for China anti-14
dumping and countervailing duty enforcement and compli-15
ance activities: Provided further, That the provisions of the 16
first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) 17
of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 18
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in car-19
rying out these activities; and that for the purpose of this 20
Act, contributions under the provisions of the Mutual 21
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 shall in-22
clude payment for assessments for services provided as 23
part of these activities. 24
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BUREAU OFINDUSTRY ANDSECURITY 1
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 2
For necessary expenses for export administration and 3
national security activities of the Department of Com-4
merce, including costs associated with the performance of 5
export administration field activities both domestically and 6
abroad; full medical coverage for dependent members of 7
immediate families of employees stationed overseas; em-8
ployment of citizens of the United States and aliens by 9
contract for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in 10
the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 11
2672 of title 28, United States Code, when such claims 12
arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $13,500 for offi-13
cial representation expenses abroad; awards of compensa-14
tion to informers under the Export Control Reform Act 15
of 2018 (subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. McCain 16
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; 17
Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 2208; 50 U.S.C. 4801 et 18
seq.), and as authorized by section 1(b) of the Act of June 19
15, 1917 (40 Stat. 223; 22 U.S.C. 401(b)); and purchase 20
of passenger motor vehicles for official use and motor vehi-21
cles for law enforcement use with special requirement vehi-22
cles eligible for purchase without regard to any price limi-23
tation otherwise established by law, $191,000,000, of 24
which $76,000,000 shall remain available until expended: 25
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Provided, That the provisions of the first sentence of sec-1
tion 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Edu-2
cational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 3
2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these ac-4
tivities: Provided further, That payments and contribu-5
tions collected and accepted for materials or services pro-6
vided as part of such activities may be retained for use 7
in covering the cost of such activities, and for providing 8
information to the public with respect to the export admin-9
istration and national security activities of the Depart-10
ment of Commerce and other export control programs of 11
the United States and other governments. 12
E
CONOMICDEVELOPMENTADMINISTRATION 13
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 14
For grants for economic development assistance as 15
provided by the Public Works and Economic Development 16
Act of 1965, for grants authorized by sections 27 and 28 17
of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 18
1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722, 3722a, 3722b, and 3723), as 19
amended, $211,000,000 to remain available until ex-20
pended, of which $50,000,000 shall be for grants under 21
section 27 and $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-22
tion 28: Provided, That any deviation from the amounts 23
designated for specific activities in the report accom-24
panying this Act, or any use of deobligated balances of 25
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funds provided under this heading in previous years, shall 1
be subject to the procedures set forth in section 505 of 2
this Act. 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of administering the eco-5
nomic development assistance programs as provided for by 6
law, $43,500,000: Provided, That funds provided under 7
this heading may be used to monitor projects approved 8
pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment Act 9
of 1976; title II of the Trade Act of 1974; sections 27 10
through 30 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innova-11
tion Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722–3723), as amended; and 12
the Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. 13
M
INORITYBUSINESSDEVELOPMENTAGENCY 14
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 15
For necessary expenses of the Minority Business De-16
velopment Agency in fostering, promoting, and developing 17
minority business enterprises, as authorized by law, 18
$55,000,000. 19
E
CONOMIC ANDSTATISTICALANALYSIS 20
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 21
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of eco-22
nomic and statistical analysis programs of the Department 23
of Commerce, $116,000,000, to remain available until 24
September 30, 2025. 25
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BUREAU OF THECENSUS 1
CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS 2
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-3
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for 4
by law, $300,000,000: Provided, That, from amounts pro-5
vided herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, 6
and marketing activities. 7
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 8
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-9
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics for periodic 10
censuses and programs provided for by law, 11
$1,054,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 12
2025: Provided, That, from amounts provided herein, 13
funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and mar-14
keting activities. 15
N
ATIONALTELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 16
A
DMINISTRATION 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of 19
the National Telecommunications and Information Ad-20
ministration (NTIA), $54,000,000, to remain available 21
until September 30, 2025: Provided, That, notwith-22
standing 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce 23
shall charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spec-24
trum management, analysis, operations, and related serv-25
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ices, and such fees shall be retained and used as offsetting 1
collections for costs of such spectrum services, to remain 2
available until expended: Provided further, That the Sec-3
retary of Commerce is authorized to retain and use as off-4
setting collections all funds transferred, or previously 5
transferred, from other Government agencies for all costs 6
incurred in telecommunications research, engineering, and 7
related activities by the Institute for Telecommunication 8
Sciences of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions 9
under this paragraph, and such funds received from other 10
Government agencies shall remain available until ex-11
pended. 12
PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES , PLANNING 13
AND CONSTRUCTION 14
For the administration of prior-year grants, recov-15
eries and unobligated balances of funds previously appro-16
priated are available for the administration of all open 17
grants until their expiration. 18
U
NITEDSTATESPATENT ANDTRADEMARKOFFICE 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 21
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent 22
and Trademark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, in-23
cluding defense of suits instituted against the Under Sec-24
retary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director 25
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of the USPTO, $4,195,799,000, to remain available until 1
expended: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated 2
from the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting collec-3
tions of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by the 4
USPTO under any law are received during fiscal year 5
2024, so as to result in a fiscal year 2024 appropriation 6
from the general fund estimated at $0: Provided further, 7
That during fiscal year 2024, should the total amount of 8
such offsetting collections be less than $4,195,799,000, 9
this amount shall be reduced accordingly: Provided further, 10
That any amount received in excess of $4,195,799,000 in 11
fiscal year 2024 and deposited in the Patent and Trade-12
mark Fee Reserve Fund shall remain available until ex-13
pended: Provided further, That the Director of USPTO 14
shall submit a spending plan to the Committees on Appro-15
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 16
for any amounts made available by the preceding proviso 17
and such spending plan shall be treated as a reprogram-18
ming under section 505 of this Act and shall not be avail-19
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 20
with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided fur-21
ther, That any amounts reprogrammed in accordance with 22
the preceding proviso shall be transferred to the United 23
States Patent and Trademark Office ‘‘Salaries and Ex-24
penses’’ account: Provided further, That the budget of the 25
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President submitted for fiscal year 2025 under section 1
1105 of title 31, United States Code, shall include within 2
amounts provided under this heading for necessary ex-3
penses of the USPTO any increases that are expected to 4
result from an increase promulgated through rule or regu-5
lation in offsetting collections of fees and surcharges as-6
sessed and collected by the USPTO under any law in ei-7
ther fiscal year 2024 or fiscal year 2025: Provided further, 8
That from amounts provided herein, not to exceed 9
$13,500 shall be made available in fiscal year 2024 for 10
official reception and representation expenses: Provided 11
further, That in fiscal year 2024 from the amounts made 12
available for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ for the USPTO, the 13
amounts necessary to pay (1) the difference between the 14
percentage of basic pay contributed by the USPTO and 15
employees under section 8334(a) of title 5, United States 16
Code, and the normal cost percentage (as defined by sec-17
tion 8331(17) of that title) as provided by the Office of 18
Personnel Management (OPM) for USPTO’s specific use, 19
of basic pay, of employees subject to subchapter III of 20
chapter 83 of that title, and (2) the present value of the 21
otherwise unfunded accruing costs, as determined by OPM 22
for USPTO’s specific use of post-retirement life insurance 23
and post-retirement health benefits coverage for all 24
USPTO employees who are enrolled in Federal Employees 25
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Health Benefits (FEHB) and Federal Employees Group 1
Life Insurance (FEGLI), shall be transferred to the Civil 2
Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the FEGLI 3
Fund, and the Employees FEHB Fund, as appropriate, 4
and shall be available for the authorized purposes of those 5
accounts: Provided further, That any differences between 6
the present value factors published in OPM’s yearly 300 7
series benefit letters and the factors that OPM provides 8
for USPTO’s specific use shall be recognized as an im-9
puted cost on USPTO’s financial statements, where appli-10
cable: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 11
provision of law, all fees and surcharges assessed and col-12
lected by USPTO are available for USPTO only pursuant 13
to section 42(c) of title 35, United States Code, as amend-14
ed by section 22 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act 15
(Public Law 112–29): Provided further, That within the 16
amounts appropriated, $2,450,000 shall be transferred to 17
the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ account for activities as-18
sociated with carrying out investigations and audits re-19
lated to the USPTO. 20
N
ATIONALINSTITUTE OFSTANDARDS ANDTECHNOLOGY 21
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES 22
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 23
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of 24
Standards and Technology (NIST), $1,019,948,000, to 25
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remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 1
$9,000,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘Working Capital 2
Fund’’: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated under 3
this heading, $118,511,000 shall be for scientific and tech-4
nical research projects, which shall be for the purposes, 5
and in the amounts, specified for ‘‘DOC-NIST STRS’’ in 6
the table entitled, ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the 7
report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That the 8
amounts made available for the projects referenced in the 9
preceding proviso may not be transferred for any other 10
purpose: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall 11
be for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-12
vided further, That NIST may provide local transportation 13
for summer undergraduate research fellowship program 14
participants. 15
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 16
For necessary expenses for industrial technology 17
services, $237,000,000, to remain available until ex-18
pended, of which $200,000,000 shall be for the Hollings 19
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and of which 20
$37,000,000 shall be for the Manufacturing USA Pro-21
gram. 22
CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES 23
For construction of new research facilities, including 24
architectural and engineering design, and for renovation 25
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and maintenance of existing facilities, not otherwise pro-1
vided for the National Institute of Standards and Tech-2
nology, as authorized by sections 13 through 15 of the 3
National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 4
U.S.C. 278c–278e), $220,000,000, to remain available 5
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce 6
shall include in the budget justification materials for fiscal 7
year 2024 that the Secretary submits to Congress in sup-8
port of the Department of Commerce budget (as sub-9
mitted with the budget of the President under section 10
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) an estimate for 11
each National Institute of Standards and Technology con-12
struction project having a total multi-year program cost 13
of more than $5,000,000, and simultaneously the budget 14
justification materials shall include an estimate of the 15
budgetary requirements for each such project for each of 16
the 5 subsequent fiscal years. 17
N
ATIONALOCEANIC ANDATMOSPHERIC 18
A
DMINISTRATION 19
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law 22
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 23
(NOAA), including maintenance, operation, and hire of 24
aircraft and vessels; pilot programs for State-led fisheries 25
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management, notwithstanding any other provision of law; 1
grants, contracts, or other payments to nonprofit organi-2
zations for the purposes of conducting activities pursuant 3
to cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities, 4
$3,726,628,000, to remain available until September 30, 5
2025, of which, $5,000,000 is for necessary expenses of 6
designing and deploying the near real-time monitoring and 7
mitigation program for threatened or endangered 8
cetaceans authorized by section 11303 of the James M. 9
Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 10
2023 (16 U.S.C. 1391): Provided, That the Administrator 11
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 12
may not amend or withdraw the North Atlantic right 13
whale vessel strike reduction rule contained in section 14
224.105 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, in effect 15
in Fiscal Year 2022 until such Administrator has fulfilled 16
the requirements of section 11303(e) of that Act (16 17
U.S.C. 1391(e)): Provided further, That fees and dona-18
tions received by the National Ocean Service for the man-19
agement of national marine sanctuaries may be retained 20
and used for the salaries and expenses associated with 21
those activities, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, 22
United States Code: Provided further, That in addition, 23
$355,081,000 shall be derived by transfer from the fund 24
entitled ‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Re-25
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search Pertaining to American Fisheries’’, which shall 1
only be used for fishery activities related to the 2
Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program; Fisheries Data Col-3
lections, Surveys, and Assessments; Observers and Train-4
ing; Fisheries Management Programs and Services; and 5
Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants: Provided further, 6
That not to exceed $50,000,000 shall be for payment to 7
the ‘‘Department of Commerce Working Capital Fund’’: 8
Provided further, That of the $4,104,709,000 provided for 9
in direct obligations under this heading, $3,726,628,000 10
is appropriated from the general fund, $355,081,000 is 11
provided by transfer, and $23,000,000 is derived from re-12
coveries of prior year obligations: Provided further, That 13
of the amounts appropriated under this heading, 14
$56,999,000 shall be used for Coastal Zone Management 15
projects, which shall be for the purposes, and in the 16
amounts, specified for ‘‘DOC-NOAA CZM’’ in the table 17
entitled, ‘‘Community Project Funding’’ in the report ac-18
companying this Act: Provided further, That the amounts 19
made available for the projects referenced in the preceding 20
proviso may not be transferred for any other purpose: Pro-21
vided further, That any deviation from the amounts des-22
ignated for specific activities in the report accompanying 23
this Act, or any use of deobligated balances of funds pro-24
vided under this heading in previous years, shall be subject 25
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to the procedures set forth in section 505 of this Act: Pro-1
vided further, That in addition, for necessary retired pay 2
expenses under the Retired Serviceman’s Family Protec-3
tion and Survivor Benefits Plan, and for payments for the 4
medical care of retired personnel and their dependents 5
under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 6
55), such sums as may be necessary. 7
PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION 8
For procurement, acquisition and construction of 9
capital assets, including alteration and modification costs, 10
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 11
$1,653,630,000, to remain available until September 30, 12
2026, except that funds provided for acquisition and con-13
struction of vessels and aircraft, and construction of facili-14
ties shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 15
of the $1,666,630,000 provided for in direct obligations 16
under this heading, $1,653,630,000 is appropriated from 17
the general fund and $13,000,000 is provided from recov-18
eries of prior year obligations: Provided further, That any 19
deviation from the amounts designated for specific activi-20
ties in the report accompanying this Act, or any use of 21
deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading 22
in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set 23
forth in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That 24
the Secretary of Commerce shall include in budget jus-25
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tification materials for fiscal year 2024 that the Secretary 1
submits to Congress in support of the Department of 2
Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget of the 3
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 4
Code) an estimate for each National Oceanic and Atmos-5
pheric Administration procurement, acquisition or con-6
struction project having a total of more than $5,000,000 7
and simultaneously the budget justification shall include 8
an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such 9
project for each of the 5 subsequent fiscal years. 10
PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY 11
For necessary expenses associated with the restora-12
tion of Pacific salmon populations, $65,000,000, to re-13
main available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That, 14
of the funds provided herein, the Secretary of Commerce 15
may issue grants to the States of Washington, Oregon, 16
Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the feder-17
ally recognized Tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific 18
Coast (including Alaska), for projects necessary for con-19
servation of salmon and steelhead populations that are 20
listed as threatened or endangered, or that are identified 21
by a State as at-risk to be so listed, for maintaining popu-22
lations necessary for exercise of Tribal treaty fishing 23
rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation of 24
Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat, based on 25
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guidelines to be developed by the Secretary of Commerce: 1
Provided further, That all funds shall be allocated based 2
on scientific and other merit principles and shall not be 3
available for marketing activities: Provided further, That 4
funds disbursed to States shall be subject to a matching 5
requirement of funds or documented in-kind contributions 6
of at least 33 percent of the Federal funds. 7
FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND 8
For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public 9
Law 95–372, not to exceed $349,000, to be derived from 10
receipts collected pursuant to that Act, to remain available 11
until expended. 12
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 13
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget 14
Act of 1974, during fiscal year 2023, obligations of direct 15
loans may not exceed $24,000,000 for Individual Fishing 16
Quota loans and not to exceed $100,000,000 for tradi-17
tional direct loans as authorized by the Merchant Marine 18
Act of 1936. 19
D
EPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 20
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 21
For necessary expenses for the management of the 22
Department of Commerce provided for by law, including 23
not to exceed $4,500 for official reception and representa-24
tion, $80,000,000: Provided, That no employee of the De-25
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partment of Commerce may be detailed or assigned from 1
a bureau or office funded by this Act or any other Act 2
to offices within the Office of the Secretary of the Depart-3
ment of Commerce for more than 180 days in a fiscal year 4
unless the individual’s employing bureau or office is fully 5
reimbursed for the salary and expenses of the employee 6
for the entire period of assignment using funds provided 7
under this heading: Provided further, That amounts made 8
available to the Department of Commerce in this or any 9
prior Act may not be transferred pursuant to section 508 10
of this or any prior Act to the account funded under this 11
heading, except in the case of extraordinary circumstances 12
that threaten life or property. 13
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 14
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 15
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 16
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $49,598,000. 17
G
ENERALPROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OFCOMMERCE 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 19
S
EC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable 20
appropriations and funds made available to the Depart-21
ment of Commerce by this Act shall be available for the 22
activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 23
U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed 24
by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may 25
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be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized 1
only upon the certification of officials designated by the 2
Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the 3
public interest. 4
S
EC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropria-5
tions made available to the Department of Commerce by 6
this Act for salaries and expenses shall be available for 7
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 8
U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 9
3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 10
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). 11
S
EC. 103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-12
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the De-13
partment of Commerce in this Act may be transferred be-14
tween such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall 15
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such trans-16
fers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section 17
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under sec-18
tion 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obliga-19
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-20
dures set forth in that section: Provided further, That the 21
Secretary of Commerce shall notify the Committees on Ap-22
propriations at least 15 days in advance of the acquisition 23
or disposal of any capital asset (including land, structures, 24
and equipment) not specifically provided for in this Act 25
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or any other law appropriating funds for the Department 1
of Commerce. 2
S
EC. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 3
of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 4
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as 5
amended by section 105 of title I of division B of Public 6
Law 113–6, are hereby adopted by reference and made 7
applicable with respect to fiscal year 2024: Provided, That 8
the life cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System is 9
$11,322,125,000, the life cycle cost of the Polar Follow 10
On Program is $6,837,900,000, the life cycle cost for the 11
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Se-12
ries Program is $11,700,100,000, and the life cycle cost 13
for the Space Weather Follow-On Program is 14
$692,800,000. 15
S
EC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 16
law, the Secretary of Commerce may furnish services (in-17
cluding but not limited to utilities, telecommunications, 18
and security services) necessary to support the operation, 19
maintenance, and improvement of space that persons, 20
firms, or organizations are authorized, pursuant to the 21
Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 or other 22
authority, to use or occupy in the Herbert C. Hoover 23
Building, Washington, DC, or other buildings, the mainte-24
nance, operation, and protection of which has been dele-25
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gated to the Secretary from the Administrator of General 1
Services pursuant to the Federal Property and Adminis-2
trative Services Act of 1949 on a reimbursable or non- 3
reimbursable basis. Amounts received as reimbursement 4
for services provided under this section or the authority 5
under which the use or occupancy of the space is author-6
ized, up to $200,000, shall be credited to the appropria-7
tion or fund which initially bears the costs of such services. 8
S
EC. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to 9
prevent a grant recipient from deterring child pornog-10
raphy, copyright infringement, or any other unlawful ac-11
tivity over its networks. 12
S
EC. 107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic 13
and Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with 14
their consent, with reimbursement and subject to the lim-15
its of available appropriations, the land, services, equip-16
ment, personnel, and facilities of any department, agency, 17
or instrumentality of the United States, or of any State, 18
local government, Indian Tribal Government, Territory, or 19
possession, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of 20
any foreign government or international organization, for 21
purposes related to carrying out the responsibilities of any 22
statute administered by the National Oceanic and Atmos-23
pheric Administration. 24
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SEC. 108. The National Technical Information Serv-1
ice shall not charge any customer for a copy of any report 2
or document generated by the Legislative Branch unless 3
the Service has provided information to the customer on 4
how an electronic copy of such report or document may 5
be accessed and downloaded for free online. Should a cus-6
tomer still require the Service to provide a printed or dig-7
ital copy of the report or document, the charge shall be 8
limited to recovering the Service’s cost of processing, re-9
producing, and delivering such report or document. 10
S
EC. 109. To carry out the responsibilities of the Na-11
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 12
the Administrator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter 13
into grants and cooperative agreements with; (2) use on 14
a non-reimbursable basis land, services, equipment, per-15
sonnel, and facilities provided by; and (3) receive and ex-16
pend funds made available on a consensual basis from: a 17
Federal agency, State or subdivision thereof, local govern-18
ment, Tribal Government, Territory, or possession or any 19
subdivisions thereof: Provided, That funds received for 20
permitting and related regulatory activities pursuant to 21
this section shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘Na-22
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Oper-23
ations, Research, and Facilities’’ and shall remain avail-24
able until September 30, 2024, for such purposes: Pro-25
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vided further, That all funds within this section and their 1
corresponding uses are subject to section 505 of this Act. 2
S
EC. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any 3
prior appropriations Act that remain available for obliga-4
tion, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Eco-5
nomics and Statistics Administration of the Department 6
of Commerce, including amounts provided for programs 7
of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of 8
the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative 9
agreements with appropriate entities, including any Fed-10
eral, State, or local governmental unit, or institution of 11
higher education, to aid and promote statistical, research, 12
and methodology activities which further the purposes for 13
which such amounts have been made available. 14
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Com-15
merce Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 16
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TITLE II 1
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 2
G
ENERALADMINISTRATION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For expenses necessary for the administration of the 5
Department of Justice, $113,000,000, of which 6
$4,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 7
2024, and of which not to exceed $4,000,000 for security 8
and construction of Department of Justice facilities shall 9
remain available until expended. 10
JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses for information sharing tech-13
nology, including planning, development, deployment and 14
departmental direction, $38,000,000, to remain available 15
until expended: Provided, That the Attorney General may 16
transfer up to $40,000,000 to this account, from funds 17
available to the Department of Justice for information 18
technology, to remain available until expended, for enter-19
prise-wide information technology initiatives: Provided fur-20
ther, That the transfer authority in the preceding proviso 21
is in addition to any other transfer authority contained 22
in this Act: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant 23
to the first proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming 24
under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available 25
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for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 1
procedures set forth in that section. 2
E
XECUTIVEOFFICE FORIMMIGRATIONREVIEW 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
For expenses necessary for the administration of im-5
migration-related activities of the Executive Office for Im-6
migration Review, $760,000,000, of which $4,000,000 7
shall be derived by transfer from the Executive Office for 8
Immigration Review fees deposited in the ‘‘Immigration 9
Examinations Fee’’ account: Provided, That not to exceed 10
$50,000,000 of the total amount made available under 11
this heading shall remain available until September 30, 12
2027, for build-out and modifications of courtroom space: 13
Provided further, That the Executive Office for Immigra-14
tion Review shall implement case performance metrics 15
that are linked to performance evaluations for individual 16
immigration judges. 17
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 18
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 19
General, $142,000,000, including not to exceed $10,000 20
to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential char-21
acter: Provided, That not to exceed $4,000,000 shall re-22
main available until September 30, 2024. 23
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UNITEDSTATESPAROLECOMMISSION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole 3
Commission as authorized, $14,238,000: Provided, That, 4
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the expi-5
ration of a term of office of a Commissioner, the Commis-6
sioner may continue to act until a successor has been ap-7
pointed. 8
L
EGALACTIVITIES 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES , GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES 10
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 11
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the 12
Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, includ-13
ing not to exceed $20,000 for expenses of collecting evi-14
dence, to be expended under the direction of, and to be 15
accounted for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney 16
General; the administration of pardon and clemency peti-17
tions; and rent of private or Government-owned space in 18
the District of Columbia, $938,500,000, of which not to 19
exceed $50,000,000 for litigation support contracts and 20
information technology projects, including cybersecurity 21
and hardening of critical networks, shall remain available 22
until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided for 23
INTERPOL Washington dues payments, not to exceed 24
$685,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided 25
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further, That of the total amount appropriated, not to ex-1
ceed $9,000 shall be available to INTERPOL Washington 2
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-3
vided further, That of the total amount appropriated, not 4
to exceed $9,000 shall be available to the Criminal Divi-5
sion for official reception and representation expenses: 6
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 205 of this 7
Act, upon a determination by the Attorney General that 8
emergent circumstances require additional funding for liti-9
gation activities of the Civil Division, the Attorney General 10
may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, 11
General Legal Activities’’ from available appropriations 12
for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, 13
as may be necessary to respond to such circumstances: 14
Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the pre-15
ceding proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming under 16
section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obli-17
gation or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-18
dures set forth in that section: Provided further, That of 19
the amount appropriated, such sums as may be necessary 20
shall be available to the Civil Rights Division for salaries 21
and expenses associated with the election monitoring pro-22
gram under section 8 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 23
(52 U.S.C. 10305) and to reimburse the Office of Per-24
sonnel Management for such salaries and expenses: Pro-25
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vided further, That of the amounts provided under this 1
heading for the election monitoring program, $3,390,000 2
shall remain available until expended. 3
In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the De-4
partment of Justice associated with processing cases 5
under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 6
$31,738,000, to be appropriated from the Vaccine Injury 7
Compensation Trust Fund and to remain available until 8
expended. 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES , ANTITRUST DIVISION 10
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of anti-11
trust and kindred laws, $192,776,000, to remain available 12
until expended, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be 13
available for official reception and representation ex-14
penses: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-15
sion of law, not to exceed $192,776,000 of offsetting col-16
lections derived from fees collected for premerger notifica-17
tion filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Im-18
provements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of 19
the year of collection, shall be retained and used for nec-20
essary expenses in this appropriation, and shall remain 21
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 22
herein appropriated from the general fund shall be re-23
duced as such offsetting collections are received during fis-24
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cal year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 1
appropriation from the general fund estimated at $0. 2
SALARIES AND EXPENSES , UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS 3
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United 4
States Attorneys, including inter-governmental and coop-5
erative agreements, $2,312,000,000: Provided, That of the 6
total amount appropriated, not to exceed $19,600 shall be 7
available for official reception and representation ex-8
penses: Provided further, That not to exceed $40,000,000 9
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 10
That each United States Attorney shall establish or par-11
ticipate in a task force on human trafficking. 12
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND 13
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee 14
Program, as authorized, $239,000,000, to remain avail-15
able until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 16
other provision of law, deposits of discretionary offsetting 17
collections to the United States Trustee System Fund and 18
amounts herein appropriated shall be available in such 19
amounts as may be necessary to pay refunds due deposi-20
tors: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 21
provision of law, fees deposited into the Fund as discre-22
tionary offsetting collections pursuant to section 589a of 23
title 28, United States Code (as limited by section 24
589a(f)(2) of title 28, United States Code), shall be re-25
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tained and used for necessary expenses in this appropria-1
tion and shall remain available until expended: Provided 2
further, That to the extent that fees deposited into the 3
Fund as discretionary offsetting collections in fiscal year 4
2024, net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due deposi-5
tors, exceed $255,000,000, those excess amounts shall be 6
available in future fiscal years only to the extent provided 7
in advance in appropriations Acts: Provided further, That 8
the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall 9
be reduced (1) as such fees are received during fiscal year 10
2024, net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due deposi-11
tors, (estimated at $230,000,000) and (2) to the extent 12
that any remaining general fund appropriations can be de-13
rived from amounts deposited in the Fund as discretionary 14
offsetting collections in previous fiscal years that are not 15
otherwise appropriated, so as to result in a final fiscal year 16
2024 appropriation from the general fund estimated at 17
$9,000,000. 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES , FOREIGN CLAIMS 19
SETTLEMENT COMMISSION 20
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 21
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, including 22
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United 23
States Code, $2,504,000. 24
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FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES 1
For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of 2
contracts for the procurement and supervision of expert 3
witnesses, for private counsel expenses, including ad-4
vances, and for expenses of foreign counsel, $270,000,000, 5
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 6
$16,000,000 is for construction of buildings for protected 7
witness safesites; not to exceed $3,000,000 is for the pur-8
chase and maintenance of armored and other vehicles for 9
witness security caravans; and not to exceed $35,000,000 10
is for the purchase, installation, maintenance, and up-11
grade of secure telecommunications equipment and a se-12
cure automated information network to store and retrieve 13
the identities and locations of protected witnesses: Pro-14
vided, That amounts made available under this heading 15
may not be transferred pursuant to section 205 of this 16
Act. 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES , COMMUNITY RELATIONS 18
SERVICE 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 20
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations 21
Service, $10,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-22
tion 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney 23
General that emergent circumstances require additional 24
funding for conflict resolution and violence prevention ac-25
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tivities of the Community Relations Service, the Attorney 1
General may transfer up to $8,000,000 to the Community 2
Relations Service, from available appropriations for the 3
current fiscal year for Salaries and Expenses, General 4
Legal Activities, as may be necessary to respond to such 5
circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursu-6
ant to the preceding proviso shall be treated as a re-7
programming under section 505 of this Act and shall not 8
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-9
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 10
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND 11
For expenses authorized by subparagraphs (B), (F), 12
and (G) of section 524(c)(1) of title 28, United States 13
Code, $20,514,000, to be derived from the Department 14
of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. 15
U
NITEDSTATESMARSHALSSERVICE 16
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 17
For necessary expenses of the United States Mar-18
shals Service, $1,715,700,000, of which not to exceed 19
$20,000 shall be available for official reception and rep-20
resentation expenses, and not to exceed $25,000,000 shall 21
remain available until expended. 22
CONSTRUCTION 23
For construction in space that is controlled, occupied, 24
or utilized by the United States Marshals Service for pris-25
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oner holding and related support, $15,000,000, to remain 1
available until expended. 2
FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION 3
For necessary expenses related to United States pris-4
oners in the custody of the United States Marshals Service 5
as authorized by section 4013 of title 18, United States 6
Code, $2,125,724,000, to remain available until expended: 7
Provided, That not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be consid-8
ered ‘‘funds appropriated for State and local law enforce-9
ment assistance’’ pursuant to section 4013(b) of title 18, 10
United States Code: Provided further, That the United 11
States Marshals Service shall be responsible for managing 12
the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System. 13
N
ATIONALSECURITYDIVISION 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 17
the National Security Division, $120,681,000, of which 18
not to exceed $5,000,000 for information technology sys-19
tems shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 20
notwithstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a deter-21
mination by the Attorney General that emergent cir-22
cumstances require additional funding for the activities of 23
the National Security Division, the Attorney General may 24
transfer such amounts to this heading from available ap-25
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propriations for the current fiscal year for the Department 1
of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to such cir-2
cumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant 3
to the preceding proviso shall be treated as a reprogram-4
ming under section 505 of this Act and shall not be avail-5
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 6
with the procedures set forth in that section. 7
I
NTERAGENCYLAWENFORCEMENT 8
ORGANIZED CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT TASK 9
FORCES 10
For necessary expenses for the identification, inves-11
tigation, and prosecution of individuals associated with the 12
most significant drug trafficking organizations, 13
transnational organized crime, and money laundering or-14
ganizations not otherwise provided for, to include inter- 15
governmental agreements with State and local law en-16
forcement agencies engaged in the investigation and pros-17
ecution of individuals involved in transnational organized 18
crime and drug trafficking, $555,458,000, of which 19
$50,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-20
vided, That any amounts obligated from appropriations 21
under this heading may be used under authorities avail-22
able to the organizations reimbursed from this appropria-23
tion. 24
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FEDERALBUREAU OFINVESTIGATION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of In-3
vestigation for detection, investigation, and prosecution of 4
crimes against the United States, $10,276,000,000, of 5
which not to exceed $216,900,000 shall remain available 6
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $284,000 7
shall be available for official reception and representation 8
expenses. 9
CONSTRUCTION 10
For necessary expenses, to include the cost of equip-11
ment, furniture, and information technology requirements, 12
related to construction or acquisition of buildings, facili-13
ties, and sites by purchase, or as otherwise authorized by 14
law; conversion, modification, and extension of federally 15
owned buildings; preliminary planning and design of 16
projects; and operation and maintenance of secure work 17
environment facilities and secure networking capabilities; 18
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-19
vided, That such amount shall be used for a second DNA 20
laboratory: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 21
other provision of law, unobligated balances from prior 22
year appropriations made available under Federal Bureau 23
of Investigation, Construction, for a new headquarters, 24
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may only be used to sustain use of the Federal Bureau 1
of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover headquarters building. 2
D
RUGENFORCEMENTADMINISTRATION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Ad-6
ministration, including not to exceed $70,000 to meet un-7
foreseen emergencies of a confidential character pursuant 8
to section 530C of title 28, United States Code; and ex-9
penses for conducting drug education and training pro-10
grams, including travel and related expenses for partici-11
pants in such programs and the distribution of items of 12
token value that promote the goals of such programs, 13
$2,760,924,000, of which not to exceed $75,000,000 shall 14
remain available until expended and not to exceed $90,000 15
shall be available for official reception and representation 16
expenses: Provided, That, notwithstanding section 3672 of 17
Public Law 106–310, up to $10,000,000 may be used to 18
reimburse States, units of local government, Indian Tribal 19
Governments, other public entities, and multi-jurisdic-20
tional or regional consortia thereof for expenses incurred 21
to clean up and safely dispose of substances associated 22
with clandestine methamphetamine laboratories, conver-23
sion and extraction operations, tableting operations, or 24
laboratories and processing operations for fentanyl and 25
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fentanyl-related substances which may present a danger 1
to public health or the environment: Provided further, 2
That $50,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with 3
‘‘Community Oriented Policing Services Programs’’ for 4
competitive grants to State and local law enforcement 5
agencies for the purpose of investigating illicit activities 6
related to the distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, 7
fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, and the unlawful dis-8
tribution of prescription opioids. 9
B
UREAU OFALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND 10
E
XPLOSIVES 11
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 12
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-13
bacco, Firearms and Explosives, for training of State and 14
local law enforcement agencies with or without reimburse-15
ment, including training in connection with the training 16
and acquisition of canines for explosives and fire 17
accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory as-18
sistance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with 19
or without reimbursement, $1,531,071,000, of which not 20
to exceed $36,000 shall be for official reception and rep-21
resentation expenses, not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be 22
available for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided 23
by section 924(d)(2) of title 18, United States Code, and 24
not to exceed $25,000,000 shall remain available until ex-25
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pended: Provided, That no funds made available by this 1
or any other Act may be used to transfer the functions, 2
missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 3
Firearms and Explosives to other agencies or Depart-4
ments: Provided further, That not more than 40 percent 5
of the amounts made available under this heading may 6
be obligated unless processing times for National Fire-7
arms Act applications do not exceed 120 days in the case 8
of paper applications and 60 days in the case of electronic 9
applications. 10
F
EDERALPRISONSYSTEM 11
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 13
For necessary expenses of the Federal Prison System 14
for the administration, operation, and maintenance of 15
Federal penal and correctional institutions, and for the 16
provision of technical assistance and advice on corrections 17
related issues to foreign governments, $8,492,588,000: 18
Provided, That not less than $409,483,000 shall be for 19
the programs and activities authorized by the First Step 20
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391), of which not less than 21
2 percent shall be transferred to and merged with the ap-22
propriation for ‘‘Office of Justice Programs–Research, 23
Evaluation and Statistics’’ for the National Institute of 24
Justice to carry out evaluations of programs and activities 25
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related to the First Step Act of 2018 (‘‘First Step Act’’): 1
Provided further, That the Attorney General may transfer 2
to the Department of Health and Human Services such 3
amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures by 4
that Department for medical relief for inmates of Federal 5
penal and correctional institutions: Provided further, That 6
the Director of the Federal Prison System, where nec-7
essary, may enter into contracts with a fiscal agent or fis-8
cal intermediary claims processor to determine the 9
amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of the Federal 10
Prison System, furnish health services to individuals com-11
mitted to the custody of the Federal Prison System: Pro-12
vided further, That not to exceed $5,400 shall be available 13
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-14
vided further, That not to exceed $50,000,000 shall re-15
main available until expended for necessary operations: 16
Provided further, That, of the amounts provided for con-17
tract confinement, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall remain 18
available until expended to make payments in advance for 19
grants, contracts and reimbursable agreements, and other 20
expenses: Provided further, That the Director of the Fed-21
eral Prison System may accept donated property and serv-22
ices relating to the operation of the prison card program 23
from a not-for-profit entity which has operated such pro-24
gram in the past, notwithstanding the fact that such not- 25
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for-profit entity furnishes services under contracts to the 1
Federal Prison System relating to the operation of pre- 2
release services, halfway houses, or other custodial facili-3
ties: Provided further, That no amounts under this head-4
ing available for programs and activities related to the 5
First Step Act may be transferred, or otherwise made 6
available, to or for administration by the Department of 7
Labor. 8
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 9
For planning, acquisition of sites, and construction 10
of new facilities; purchase and acquisition of facilities and 11
remodeling, and equipping of such facilities for penal and 12
correctional use, including all necessary expenses incident 13
thereto, by contract or force account; and constructing, 14
remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings and facili-15
ties at existing penal and correctional institutions, includ-16
ing all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or 17
force account, $273,000,000, to remain available until ex-18
pended, of which $135,000,000 shall be available only for 19
costs related to reconstruction and major repairs to facili-20
ties with geological and seismic deficiencies: Provided, 21
That labor of United States prisoners may be used for 22
work performed under this appropriation. 23
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FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES , INCORPORATED 1
The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is here-2
by authorized to make such expenditures within the limits 3
of funds and borrowing authority available, and in accord 4
with the law, and to make such contracts and commit-5
ments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided 6
by section 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as may 7
be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the 8
budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation. 9
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES , FEDERAL 10
PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 11
Not to exceed $2,700,000 of the funds of the Federal 12
Prison Industries, Incorporated, shall be available for its 13
administrative expenses, and for services as authorized by 14
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, to be com-15
puted on an accrual basis to be determined in accordance 16
with the corporation’s current prescribed accounting sys-17
tem, and such amounts shall be exclusive of depreciation, 18
payment of claims, and expenditures which such account-19
ing system requires to be capitalized or charged to cost 20
of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and 21
shipping expenses, and expenses in connection with acqui-22
sition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, 23
protection, or disposition of facilities and other property 24
belonging to the corporation or in which it has an interest. 25
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STATE ANDLOCALLAWENFORCEMENTACTIVITIES 1
O
FFICE ONVIOLENCEAGAINSTWOMEN 2
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND 3
PROSECUTION PROGRAMS 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 6
other assistance for the prevention and prosecution of vio-7
lence against women, as authorized by the Omnibus Crime 8
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 9
et seq.) (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); title II of the Civil Rights Act 10
of 1968 (commonly known as the ‘‘Indian Civil Rights Act 11
of 1968’’) (Public Law 90–284) (‘‘the Indian Civil Rights 12
Act’’); the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 13
Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the 14
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101– 15
647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Prosecutorial Remedies and 16
Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act 17
of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Juvenile Justice and 18
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 11101 et 19
seq.) (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking and Vi-20
olence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386) 21
(‘‘the 2000 Act’’); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public 22
Law 108–405) (‘‘the 2004 Act’’); the Violence Against 23
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act 24
of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Vio-25
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lence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public 1
Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Justice for Victims of 2
Trafficking Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–22) (‘‘the 2015 3
Act’’); and the Abolish Human Trafficking Act (Public 4
Law 115–392); the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 5
(Public Law 108–79) (‘‘PREA’’); and the Violence 6
Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division 7
W of Public Law 117–103) (‘‘the 2022 Act’’); and for re-8
lated victims services, $700,000,000, to remain available 9
until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided— 10
(1) $255,000,000 is for grants to combat vio-11
lence against women, as authorized by part T of the 12
1968 Act, and any authorized, applicable incentive 13
funding amounts with respect to such grants; 14
(2) $46,000,000 is for transitional housing as-15
sistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dat-16
ing violence, stalking, or sexual assault as authorized 17
by section 40299 of the 1994 Act; 18
(3) $17,000,000 is for a grant program to pro-19
vide services to advocate for and respond to youth 20
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 21
assault, and stalking; assistance to children and 22
youth exposed to such violence; programs to engage 23
men and youth in preventing such violence; and as-24
sistance to middle and high school students through 25
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education and other services related to such violence, 1
of which $3,500,000 is to engage men and youth in 2
preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 3
assault, and stalking: Provided, That 10 percent of 4
the total amount available for this grant program 5
shall be available for grants under the program au-6
thorized by section 2015 of the 1968 Act: Provided 7
further, That the definitions and grant conditions in 8
section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this 9
program; 10
(4) $60,500,000 is for grants to encourage ar-11
rests and otherwise improve the criminal justice re-12
sponse to domestic violence as authorized by part U 13
of title I the 1968 Act, of which $8,000,000 is for 14
an initiative to promote effective policing and pros-15
ecution responses to domestic violence, dating vio-16
lence, sexual assault, and stalking, including evalua-17
tion of the effectiveness of funded interventions 18
(‘‘Policing and Prosecution Initiative’’); and 19
$1,000,000 is for an initiative to enhance prosecu-20
tion and investigation of online abuse and harass-21
ment (‘‘Prosecution and Investigation of Online 22
Abuse Initiative’’): Provided, That subsections (c) 23
and (d) of section 2101 of the 1968 Act shall not 24
apply to the Policing and Prosecution Initiative or 25
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the Prosecution and Investigation of Online Abuse 1
Initiative; 2
(5) $78,500,000 is for sexual assault victims 3
assistance, as authorized by section 41601 of the 4
1994 Act; 5
(6) $15,500,000 is for grants to protect in-6
mates and safeguard communities as authorized by 7
section 6 of PREA: Provided, That such funds may 8
be transferred to ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-9
ment Assistance’’ for administration by the Office of 10
Justice Programs; 11
(7) $2,000,000 is for a National Deaf Services 12
Line to provide remote services to deaf victims of 13
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 14
and stalking: Provided, That the definitions and 15
grant conditions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act 16
shall apply to this service line; 17
(8) $50,000,000 is for rural domestic violence 18
and child abuse enforcement assistance grants, as 19
authorized by section 40295 of the 1994 Act; 20
(9) $25,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent 21
crimes against women on campus, as authorized by 22
section 304 of the 2005 Act, of which $12,500,000 23
is for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Uni-24
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versities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal 1
colleges and universities; 2
(10) $50,000,000 is for legal assistance for vic-3
tims, as authorized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act; 4
(11) $22,000,000 is for grants to support fami-5
lies in the justice system, as authorized by section 6
1301 of the 2000 Act; 7
(12) $9,000,000 is for enhanced training and 8
services to end violence against, and abuse of, 9
women in later life, as authorized by section 40801 10
of the 1994 Act; 11
(13) $12,000,000 is for education and training 12
to end violence against, and abuse of, women with 13
disabilities, as authorized by section 1402 of the 14
2000 Act; 15
(14) $2,500,000 is for research, evaluation, and 16
statistics of violence against women and related 17
issues addressed by grant programs of the Office on 18
Violence Against Women, of which, $1,000,000 is 19
for analysis and research on violence against Indian 20
women, including as authorized by section 904 of 21
the 2005 Act: Provided, That such funds may be 22
transferred to ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement 23
Assistance’’ for administration by the Bureau of 24
Justice Statistics and National Institute of Justice; 25
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(15) $1,000,000 is for the National Resource 1
Center on Workplace Responses to assist victims of 2
domestic violence, as authorized by section 41501 of 3
the 1994 Act; 4
(16) $500,000 is for a national clearinghouse 5
that provides training and technical assistance on 6
issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian 7
and Alaska Native women; 8
(17) $11,000,000 is for programs to assist 9
Tribal Governments in exercising special Tribal 10
criminal jurisdiction, as authorized by section 204 of 11
the Indian Civil Rights Act: Provided, That the 12
grant conditions in section 40002(b) of the 1994 Act 13
shall apply to grants made under such programs: 14
Provided further, That $3,000,000 is for an initiative 15
to support cross-designation of Tribal prosecutors as 16
Tribal Special Assistant United States Attorneys: 17
Provided further, That the definitions and grant con-18
ditions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply 19
to such initiative; 20
(18) $2,500,000 is for the purposes authorized 21
under title IV the 2015 Act (the ‘‘Rape Survivor 22
Child Custody Act’’); 23
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(19) $5,000,000 is for the purposes authorized 1
under section 205 of division W of the 2022 Act (the 2
‘‘Abby Honold Act’’); 3
(20) $5,000,000 is for grants to State and 4
Tribal courts to implement protection order pilot 5
programs; 6
(21) $20,000,000 is for grants to support ac-7
cess to sexual assault nurse examinations, as author-8
ized by section 304 of title III of the 2004 Act: Pro-9
vided, That the grant conditions in section 40002 of 10
the 1994 Act shall apply to this program; and for 11
regional sexual assault investigative training acad-12
emies; and 13
(22) $10,000,000 is for local law enforcement 14
grants for prevention, enforcement, and prosecution 15
of cybercrimes against individuals, as authorized by 16
sections 1401 and 1402 of the 2022 Act: Provided, 17
That the grant conditions in section 40002 of the 18
1994 Act shall apply to this program. 19
O
FFICE OFJUSTICEPROGRAMS 20
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 23
other assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control 24
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) 25
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(‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 1
Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90–351) (‘‘the 1968 2
Act’’); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108– 3
405); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 4
101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Trafficking Victims Pro-5
tection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 6
164) (‘‘the TVPRA of 2005’’); the Violence Against 7
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act 8
of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the 9
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 10
(Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the Vic-11
tims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 12
(Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the Victims of Trafficking Act’’); 13
the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public 14
Law 110–180); subtitle C of title II of the Homeland Se-15
curity Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 16
Act’’); the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110– 17
199); the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for In-18
tellectual Property Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403); 19
the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); 20
the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction 21
Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public 22
Law 110–416); the Violence Against Women Reauthoriza-23
tion Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); 24
the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 25
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(Public Law 114–198) (‘‘CARA’’); the Justice for All Re-1
authorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–324); Kevin 2
and Avonte’s Law (division Q of Public Law 115–141) 3
(‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s Law’’); the STOP School Violence 4
Act of 2018 (title V of division S of Public Law 115–141) 5
(‘‘the STOP School Violence Act’’); the Fix NICS Act of 6
2018 (title VI of division S of Public Law 115–141); the 7
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public 8
Law 115–271); the Second Chance Reauthorization Act 9
of 2018 (Public Law 115–391); the Matthew Shepard and 10
James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 11
111–84); the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 12
401); the Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act 13
of 2019 (Public Law 116–277); the Violence Against 14
Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division W of 15
Public Law 117–103) (‘‘the 2022 Act’’); and other pro-16
grams, $2,477,910,000, to remain available until ex-17
pended, of which— 18
(1) $35,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics 19
programs, as authorized by part C of title I of the 20
1968 Act; 21
(2) $25,000,000 is for research, development, 22
and evaluation programs, of which $8,000,000 is for 23
Research and Development in Forensic Science for 24
Criminal Justice Purposes grants; 25
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(3) $670,510,000 is for the Edward Byrne Me-1
morial Justice Assistance Grant program as author-2
ized by subpart 1 of part E of title I of the 1968 3
Act (except that section 1001(c), and the special 4
rules for Puerto Rico under section 505(g), of title 5
I of the 1968 Act shall not apply for purposes of 6
this Act), including grants authorized by section 7
502(b)(1), of which, notwithstanding such subpart 8
1— 9
(A) $30,000,000 is for the Patrick Leahy 10
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program, 11
as authorized by section 2501 of title I of the 12
1968 Act: Provided, That $1,500,000 shall be 13
transferred directly to the National Institute of 14
Standards and Technology’s Office of Law En-15
forcement Standards for research, testing, and 16
evaluation programs; 17
(B) $20,000,000 is for a competitive 18
matching grant program for purchases of body- 19
worn cameras for State, local, and Tribal law 20
enforcement; and 21
(C) $214,463,000 is for Byrne Justice 22
projects to assist State, local, and Tribal law 23
enforcement efforts to enforce laws, address vio-24
lent crime, increase prosecutions, improve the 25
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criminal justice system (including the correc-1
tional system), provide victims’ services, and 2
other related activities, which shall be for the 3
purposes, and in the amounts, specified for 4
‘‘DOJ-OJP Byrne’’ in the table entitled, ‘‘Com-5
munity Project Funding’’, in the report accom-6
panying this Act: Provided, That such amounts 7
may not be transferred for any other purpose; 8
(4) $234,000,000 is for the State Criminal 9
Alien Assistance Program, as authorized by section 10
241(I)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 11
U.S.C. 1231(I)(5)); 12
(5) $95,000,000 is for victim services programs 13
for victims of trafficking, as authorized by section 14
107(b)(2) of the Victims of Trafficking Act, by the 15
TVPRA of 2005, or programs authorized under 16
Public Law 113–4, of which, $4,000,000 is for 17
grants to prevent the trafficking of girls; 18
(6) $95,000,000 is for grants to States to up-19
grade criminal and mental health records for the 20
National Instant Criminal Background Check Sys-21
tem, of which no less than $25,500,000 shall be for 22
grants made under the authorities of the NICS Im-23
provement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 24
110–180) and Fix NICS Act of 2018; 25
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(7) $195,000,000 is for DNA-related and foren-1
sic programs and activities, of which— 2
(A) $130,000,000 is for the purposes au-3
thorized under section 2 of the DNA Analysis 4
Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (Public Law 5
106–546) (the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog 6
Grant Program): Provided, That up to 4 per-7
cent of funds made available under this para-8
graph may be used for the purposes described 9
in the DNA Training and Education for Law 10
Enforcement, Correctional Personnel, and 11
Court Officers program (Public Law 108–405, 12
section 303); and 13
(B) $55,000,000 is for community-based 14
grant programs to improve the response to sex-15
ual assault and assistance for investigation and 16
prosecution of related cold cases; 17
(8) $20,000,000 is for grants for wrongful con-18
viction review and for the purposes described in the 19
Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing 20
Grant Program (Public Law 108–405, section 412); 21
(9) $35,000,000 is for Paul Coverdell Forensic 22
Sciences Improvement Grants under part BB of title 23
I of the 1968 Act; of which $2,500,000 is for grants 24
to strengthen the medical examiner-coroner system; 25
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(10) $80,000,000 is for assistance to Indian 1
Tribes, of which— 2
(A) $31,500,000 is for improving Tribal 3
law enforcement, including hiring, equipment, 4
training; 5
(B) $14,000,000 is for a Tribal Youth 6
Program; and 7
(C) $3,000,000 is to support the Tribal 8
Access Program; 9
(11) $115,000,000 is for offender reentry pro-10
grams and research, as authorized by the Second 11
Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199) and by 12
the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 13
(Public Law 115–391), without regard to the time 14
limitations specified at section 6(1) of such Act, of 15
which— 16
(A) $19,000,000 is for the justice reinvest-17
ment initiative, as implemented in fiscal year 18
2014, for activities related to criminal justice 19
reform and recidivism reduction: Provided, That 20
no funds are used to support initiatives that 21
promote the closing and repurposing of youth 22
detention facilities; 23
(B) $10,000,000 is for a grant program 24
for crisis stabilization and community reentry, 25
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as authorized by the Crisis Stabilization and 1
Community Reentry Act of 2020 (Public Law 2
116–281); and 3
(C) $5,000,000 is for grants to enhance 4
and maintain parental and family relationships 5
for incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidi-6
vism reduction strategy; 7
(12) $445,000,000 is for comprehensive opioid 8
use reduction activities, including as authorized by 9
CARA, and for the following programs, which shall 10
address opioid, stimulant, and substance use dis-11
orders consistent with underlying program authori-12
ties, of which— 13
(A) $95,000,000 is for Drug Courts, as 14
authorized by section 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I 15
of the 1968 Act; 16
(B) $45,000,000 is for mental health 17
courts and adult and juvenile collaboration pro-18
gram grants, as authorized by parts V and HH 19
of title I of the 1968 Act, and the Mentally Ill 20
Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Re-21
authorization and Improvement Act of 2008 22
(Public Law 110–416); 23
(C) $45,000,000 is for grants for Residen-24
tial Substance Abuse Treatment for State Pris-25
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oners, as authorized by part S of title I of the 1
1968 Act; 2
(D) $35,000,000 is for a veterans treat-3
ment courts program; 4
(E) $35,000,000 is for a program to mon-5
itor prescription drugs and scheduled listed 6
chemical products; and 7
(F) $190,000,000 is for a comprehensive 8
opioid, stimulant, and substance use disorder 9
program, of which— 10
(i) $20,000,000 is for grants for local 11
and regional efforts to prevent substance 12
use and misuse: Provided, That priority is 13
given to non-profit organizations imple-14
menting comprehensive approaches to com-15
batting substance abuse, including inves-16
tigations, treatment, and education; 17
(ii) $17,000,000 is for forensic sup-18
port for opioid and synthetic drug inves-19
tigations; and 20
(iii) $12,500,000 is for an initiative 21
relating to youth affected by opioids, stim-22
ulants, and substance use disorder; 23
(13) $82,000,000 is for grants to be adminis-24
tered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance for pur-25
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poses authorized under the STOP School Violence 1
Act; 2
(14) $3,000,000 is for grants to State and local 3
law enforcement agencies for the expenses associated 4
with the investigation and prosecution of criminal of-5
fenses involving civil rights, as authorized by the 6
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reau-7
thorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–325); 8
(15) $55,000,000 is for formula grants author-9
ized by section 221 of the 1974 Act; 10
(16) $107,000,000 is for youth mentoring 11
grants; 12
(17) $41,000,000 is for programs authorized by 13
the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, of which 14
$4,000,000 is for grants to improve the judicial sys-15
tem’s handling of child abuse and neglect cases, as 16
authorized by section 222 of the 1990 Act; 17
(18) $15,000,000 is for the court-appointed 18
special advocate program, as authorized by section 19
217 of the 1990 Act; 20
(19) $130,400,000 is for missing and exploited 21
Americans programs, of which— 22
(A) $42,000,000 is for missing and ex-23
ploited children activities, as authorized by sec-24
tions 404(b) and 405(a) of the 1974 Act (ex-25
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cept that section 102(b)(4)(B) of the PRO-1
TECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 2
110–401) shall not apply for purposes of this 3
Act); 4
(B) $52,000,000 is for Internet crimes 5
against children task forces, as authorized by 6
the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008; 7
(C) $18,000,000 is for sex offender man-8
agement assistance, as authorized by the Adam 9
Walsh Act, and related activities, of which 10
$1,000,000 for the National Sex Offender Pub-11
lic Website; 12
(D) $6,000,000 is for the operation, main-13
tenance, and expansion of the National Missing 14
and Unidentified Persons System; 15
(E) $5,000,000 is for grants authorized 16
under the Missing Persons and Unidentified 17
Remains Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–277); 18
(F) $2,000,000 is for the Missing Ameri-19
cans Alert Program (title XXIV of the 1994 20
Act), as amended by Kevin and Avonte’s Law; 21
and 22
(G) $1,000,000 is for the purposes of the 23
Ashanti Alert Communications Network as au-24
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thorized under the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 1
(Public Law 115–401). 2
Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of 3
the funds made available under this heading to increase 4
the number of law enforcement officers, the unit of local 5
government will achieve a net gain in the number of law 6
enforcement officers who perform non-administrative pub-7
lic sector safety service: Provided further, That in the 8
spending plan submitted pursuant to section 528 of this 9
Act, the Office of Justice Programs shall specifically and 10
explicitly identify all changes in the administration of com-11
petitive grant programs for fiscal year 2024, including 12
changes to applicant eligibility, priority areas or 13
weightings, and the application review process. 14
15
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 17
For payments and expenses authorized under section 18
1001(a)(4) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 19
Safe Streets Act of 1968, such sums as are necessary (in-20
cluding amounts for administrative costs), to remain avail-21
able until expended; and $34,800,000 for payments au-22
thorized by section 1201(b) of such Act and for edu-23
cational assistance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, 24
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not-25
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withstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a determina-1
tion by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances 2
require additional funding for such disability and edu-3
cation payments, the Attorney General may transfer such 4
amounts to ‘‘Public Safety Officer Benefits’’ from avail-5
able appropriations for the Department of Justice as may 6
be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided 7
further, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding pro-8
viso shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 9
505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 10
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures 11
set forth in that section. 12
C
OMMUNITYORIENTEDPOLICINGSERVICES 13
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 15
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Con-16
trol and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 17
322); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 18
of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women 19
and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 20
(Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the American 21
Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017 (Public Law 115– 22
37); the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness 23
Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–113) (‘‘the LEMHW Act’’); 24
the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public 25
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Law 115–271); the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant 1
Program Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 2
185); and the Supporting and Treating Officers In Crisis 3
Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–32) (‘‘the STOIC Act’’), 4
$670,606,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-5
vided, That any balances made available through prior 6
year deobligations shall only be available in accordance 7
with section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That of the 8
amount provided under this heading— 9
(1) $330,950,000 is for grants under section 10
1701 of title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) 11
for the hiring and rehiring of additional career law 12
enforcement officers under part Q of such title not-13
withstanding subsection (i) of such section: Provided, 14
That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such title 15
(34 U.S.C. 10384(c)), funding for hiring or rehiring 16
a career law enforcement officer may not exceed 17
$125,000 unless the Director of the Office of Com-18
munity Oriented Policing Services grants a waiver 19
from this limitation: Provided further, That of the 20
amounts appropriated under this paragraph, 21
$100,000,000 is for grants for law enforcement ac-22
tivities associated with the presidential nominating 23
conventions; 24
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(2) $50,000,000 is for regional information 1
sharing activities, as authorized by part M of title I 2
of the 1968 Act, which may be transferred to and 3
merged with ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement As-4
sistance’’ for administration by the Office of Justice 5
Programs; 6
(3) $10,000,000 is for training, peer mentoring, 7
mental health program activities, and other support 8
services as authorized under the LEMHW Act and 9
part W of title I of the 1968 Act; 10
(4) $20,000,000 is for a grant program for 11
State and local law enforcement to provide officer 12
training on responding to individuals with mental ill-13
ness or disabilities and for co-responder teams and 14
an Officer Robert Wilson III memorial initiative on 15
Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and 16
Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability 17
(VALOR); 18
(5) $12,890,000 is for activities authorized by 19
the POLICE Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199); 20
(6) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be 21
administered by the Community Oriented Policing 22
Services Office for purposes authorized under the 23
STOP School Violence Act (title V of division S of 24
Public Law 115–141); 25
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(7) $20,000,000 is for grants authorized under 1
the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Authorization 2
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–185), which may be 3
transferred to and merged with ‘‘State and Local 4
Law Enforcement Assistance’’ for administration by 5
the Office of Justice Programs, of which, 6
$8,000,000 is for a rural violent crime initiative, in-7
cluding assistance for law enforcement; and 8
(8) $173,766,000 is for a law enforcement tech-9
nologies and equipment grant program, which shall 10
be used for the projects, and in the amounts, speci-11
fied for ‘‘DOJ-COPS Tech’’ in the table entitled, 12
‘‘Community Project Funding’’, in the report accom-13
panying this Act: Provided, That such amounts may 14
not be transferred for any other purpose: Provided 15
further, That grants funded by such amounts shall 16
not be subject to section 1703 of title I of the 1968 17
Act (34 U.S.C. 10383). 18
G
ENERALPROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OFJUSTICE 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 20
S
EC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made 21
available in this title for official reception and representa-22
tion expenses, a total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds 23
appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title 24
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shall be available to the Attorney General for official re-1
ception and representation expenses. 2
S
EC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this 3
title shall be available to pay for an abortion, except where 4
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus 5
were carried to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Pro-6
vided, That should this prohibition be declared unconstitu-7
tional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this section 8
shall be null and void. 9
S
EC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this 10
title shall be used to require any person to perform, or 11
facilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion. 12
S
EC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall re-13
move the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Pris-14
ons to provide escort services necessary for a female in-15
mate to receive such service outside the Federal facility: 16
Provided, That nothing in this section in any way dimin-17
ishes the effect of section 203 intended to address the phil-18
osophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of 19
Prisons. 20
S
EC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-21
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the De-22
partment of Justice in this Act may be transferred be-23
tween such appropriations, but no such appropriation, ex-24
cept as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased 25
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by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, 1
That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated 2
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this 3
Act and shall not be available for obligation except in com-4
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Pro-5
vided further, That this section shall not apply to the fol-6
lowing— 7
(1) paragraph (23) under the heading ‘‘State 8
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’; and 9
(2) paragraph (4) under the heading ‘‘Commu-10
nity Oriented Policing Services Programs’’. 11
S
EC. 206. None of the funds made available under 12
this title may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons 13
or the United States Marshals Service for the purpose of 14
transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to 15
conviction for crime under State or Federal law and is 16
classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other 17
than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal 18
Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing 19
such a prisoner. 20
S
EC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 21
Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable tele-22
vision services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or elec-23
tronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational 24
purposes. 25
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(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, main-1
tenance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or 2
equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational 3
programs. 4
S
EC. 208. None of the funds made available under 5
this title shall be obligated or expended for any new or 6
enhanced information technology program having total es-7
timated development costs in excess of $100,000,000, un-8
less the Deputy Attorney General and the investment re-9
view board certify to the Committees on Appropriations 10
of the House of Representatives and the Senate that the 11
information technology program has appropriate program 12
management controls and contractor oversight mecha-13
nisms in place, and that the program is compatible with 14
the enterprise architecture of the Department of Justice. 15
S
EC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures 16
set forth in section 505 of this Act shall apply to devi-17
ations from the amounts designated for specific activities 18
in this Act and in the report accompanying this Act, and 19
to any use of deobligated balances of funds provided under 20
this title in previous years. 21
S
EC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 22
may be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, 23
or approve a public-private competition under the Office 24
of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any suc-25
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cessor administrative regulation, directive, or policy for 1
work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons 2
or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated. 3
S
EC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of 4
law, no funds shall be available for the salary, benefits, 5
or expenses of any United States Attorney assigned dual 6
or additional responsibilities by the Attorney General or 7
his designee that exempt that United States Attorney 8
from the residency requirements of section 545 of title 28, 9
United States Code. 10
S
EC. 212. (a) Subject to subsection (b), with respect 11
to funds made available under this title for grant or reim-12
bursement programs under the headings ‘‘Office on Vio-13
lence Against Women’’, ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-14
ment Assistance’’, and ‘‘Community Oriented Policing 15
Services’’— 16
(1) up to 1 percent of funds may be transferred 17
to and merged with funds provided to the National 18
Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Sta-19
tistics, to be used for program evaluation purposes; 20
and 21
(2) not less than 0.4 percent of funds shall be 22
transferred to the Office of Inspector General and 23
remain available until expended for oversight and 24
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auditing purposes associated with programs adminis-1
tered under such accounts. 2
(b) This section shall not apply to— 3
(1) paragraph (3)(C) under the heading ‘‘State and 4
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’; 5
(2) paragraph (8) under the heading ‘‘Community 6
Oriented Policing Services’’; or 7
(3) any program for which funds are otherwise avail-8
able, or authorized to be made available, by law for the 9
purposes designated in subsection (a). 10
S
EC. 213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the 11
Attorney General has determined there is a fiscal hard-12
ship, the Attorney General may, with respect to funds ap-13
propriated in this or any other Act making appropriations 14
for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 for the following pro-15
grams, waive the following requirements: 16
(1) For the adult and juvenile offender State 17
and local reentry demonstration projects under part 18
FF of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 19
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10631 et seq.), 20
the requirements under section 2976(g)(1) of such 21
part (34 U.S.C. 10631(g)(1)). 22
(2) For grants to protect inmates and safe-23
guard communities as authorized by section 6 of the 24
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (34 U.S.C. 25
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30305(c)(3)), the requirements of section 6(c)(3) of 1
such Act. 2
S
EC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
law, section 20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent 4
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 5
U.S.C. 12109(a)) and section 506(b)(1) of the Omnibus 6
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 7
10157) shall not apply to amounts made available by this 8
or any other Act. 9
S
EC. 215. None of the funds made available under 10
this Act, other than for the national instant criminal back-11
ground check system established under section 103 of the 12
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 13
40901), may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer 14
to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-15
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-16
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel, un-17
less law enforcement personnel of the United States con-18
tinuously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 19
S
EC. 216. (a) None of the income retained in the De-20
partment of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to 21
title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 22
527 note) shall be available for obligation during fiscal 23
year 2024, except up to $12,000,000 may be obligated for 24
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implementation of a unified Department of Justice finan-1
cial management system. 2
(b) Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated bal-3
ances transferred to the capital account of the Department 4
of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of 5
Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) 6
shall be available for obligation in fiscal year 2024, and 7
any use, obligation, transfer, or allocation of such funds 8
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under sec-9
tion 505 of this Act. 10
(c) Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobli-11
gated balances available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of 12
title 28, United States Code, shall be available for obliga-13
tion during fiscal year 2024, and any use, obligation, 14
transfer or allocation of such funds shall be treated as a 15
reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act. 16
S
EC. 217. The Attorney General shall submit to the 17
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-18
atives and the Senate quarterly reports on the Crime Vic-19
tims Fund, the Working Capital Fund, the Three Percent 20
Fund, and the Asset Forfeiture Fund. Such quarterly re-21
ports shall contain at least the same level of information 22
and detail for each Fund as was provided to the Commit-23
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 24
and the Senate in fiscal year 2022. 25
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SEC. 218. None of the funds made available under 1
this Act may be used to conduct, contract for, or otherwise 2
support, live tissue training, unless the Attorney General 3
issues a written, non-delegable determination that such 4
training is medically necessary and cannot be replicated 5
by alternatives. 6
S
EC. 219. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 7
of law, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 8
of this Act, the Attorney General shall issue— 9
(1) an Environmental Impact Statement and 10
Record of Decision for the proposed Federal Bureau 11
of Prisons facilities in Letcher County, Kentucky, 12
substantially in the form of the Record of Decision 13
issued by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on April 14
12, 2018; and 15
(2) all studies, statements, and other authoriza-16
tions that are necessary for the construction, oper-17
ation, and maintenance of the proposed Federal Bu-18
reau of Prisons facilities in Letcher County, Ken-19
tucky, substantially in the form approved in the 20
Record of Decision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons 21
dated April 12, 2018. 22
(b) The actions of the Attorney General and Director 23
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that are necessary for 24
the construction and operation of the proposed Federal 25
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Bureau of Prisons facility in Letcher County, Kentucky 1
shall not be subject to judicial review. 2
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Justice 3
Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 4
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TITLE III 1
SCIENCE 2
O
FFICE OFSCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGYPOLICY 3
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 4
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-5
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 6
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), hire of 7
passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 8
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and rental 9
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 10
$5,544,000. 11
N
ATIONALSPACECOUNCIL 12
For necessary expenses of the National Space Coun-13
cil, in carrying out the purposes of title V of Public Law 14
100–685 and Executive Order No. 13803, hire of pas-15
senger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by sec-16
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed 17
$2,250 for official reception and representation expenses, 18
$1,865,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 19
provision of law, the National Space Council may accept 20
personnel support from Federal agencies, departments, 21
and offices, and such Federal agencies, departments, and 22
offices may detail staff without reimbursement to the Na-23
tional Space Council for purposes provided herein. 24
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NATIONALAERONAUTICS ANDSPACEADMINISTRATION 1
SCIENCE 2
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 3
in the conduct and support of science research and devel-4
opment activities, including research, development, oper-5
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-6
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 7
and communications activities; program management; per-8
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 9
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 10
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 11
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 12
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 13
aircraft, $7,380,000,000, to remain available until Sep-14
tember 30, 2025. 15
AERONAUTICS 16
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 17
in the conduct and support of aeronautics research and 18
development activities, including research, development, 19
operations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, 20
facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft con-21
trol, and communications activities; program manage-22
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 23
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 24
5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; pur-25
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chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, 1
lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 2
administrative aircraft, $945,800,000, to remain available 3
until September 30, 2025. 4
SPACE TECHNOLOGY 5
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 6
in the conduct and support of space technology research 7
and development activities, including research, develop-8
ment, operations, support, and services; maintenance and 9
repair, facility planning and design; space flight, space-10
craft control, and communications activities; program 11
management; personnel and related costs, including uni-12
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 13
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel ex-14
penses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 15
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of 16
mission and administrative aircraft, $1,205,000,000, to 17
remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, 18
That $227,000,000 shall be for On-orbit Servicing, As-19
sembly, and Manufacturing 1: Provided further, That 20
$110,000,000 shall be for the development, production, 21
and demonstration of a nuclear thermal propulsion sys-22
tem, of which not less than $45,000,000 shall be for reac-23
tor development, not less than $45,000,000 shall be for 24
fuel materials development, and not less than $20,000,000 25
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shall be for non-nuclear systems development and acquisi-1
tion planning: Provided further, That, not later than 180 2
days after the enactment of this Act, the National Aero-3
nautics and Space Administration shall provide a plan for 4
the design of a flight demonstration. 5
EXPLORATION 6
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 7
in the conduct and support of Artemis Campaign Develop-8
ment activities, including research, development, oper-9
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-10
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 11
and communications activities; program management; per-12
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 13
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 14
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 15
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 16
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 17
aircraft, $7,971,091,000, to remain available until Sep-18
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That not less than 19
$1,225,000,000 shall be for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew 20
Vehicle: Provided further, That not less than 21
$2,506,100,000 shall be for the Space Launch System 22
(SLS) launch vehicle, which shall have a lift capability not 23
less than 130 metric tons and which shall have core ele-24
ments and an Exploration Upper Stage developed simulta-25
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neously to be used to the maximum extent practicable, in-1
cluding for Earth to Moon missions and Moon landings: 2
Provided further, That of the amounts provided for SLS, 3
not less than $600,000,000 shall be for SLS Block 1B 4
development including the Exploration Upper Stage and 5
associated systems including related facilitization, to sup-6
port an SLS Block 1B mission available to launch in 2025 7
in addition to the planned Block 1 missions for Artemis 8
I through Artemis III: Provided further, That 9
$794,200,000 shall be for Exploration Ground Systems 10
and associated Block 1B activities, including up to 11
$501,800,000 for a second mobile launch platform: Pro-12
vided further, That the National Aeronautics and Space 13
Administration shall provide to the Committees on Appro-14
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, 15
concurrent with the annual budget submission, a 5-year 16
budget profile for an integrated system that includes the 17
SLS, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and associ-18
ated ground systems that will ensure a crewed launch as 19
early as possible, as well as a system-based funding profile 20
for a sustained launch cadence that contemplates the use 21
of an SLS Block 1B cargo variant with an 8.4 meter fair-22
ing and associated ground systems: Provided further, That 23
$3,234,900,000 shall be for Artemis Campaign Develop-24
ment. 25
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SPACE OPERATIONS 1
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 2
in the conduct and support of space operations research 3
and development activities, including research, develop-4
ment, operations, support and services; space flight, space-5
craft control, and communications activities, including op-6
erations, production, and services; maintenance and re-7
pair, facility planning and design; program management; 8
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allow-9
ances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 10
of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase 11
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, 12
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and ad-13
ministrative aircraft, $4,344,609,000, to remain available 14
until September 30, 2025. 15
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND 16
MATHEMATICS ENGAGEMENT 17
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 18
in the conduct and support of aerospace and aeronautical 19
education research and development activities, including 20
research, development, operations, support, and services; 21
program management; personnel and related costs, includ-22
ing uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sec-23
tions 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel 24
expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 25
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and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation 1
of mission and administrative aircraft, $89,000,000, to re-2
main available until September 30, 2025, of which 3
$29,000,000 shall be for the Established Program to 4
Stimulate Competitive Research and $60,000,000 shall be 5
for the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Pro-6
gram. 7
SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES 8
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 9
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, space 10
technology, exploration, space operations and education 11
research and development activities, including research, 12
development, operations, support, and services; mainte-13
nance and repair, facility planning and design; space 14
flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; 15
program management; personnel and related costs, includ-16
ing uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sec-17
tions 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel 18
expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 19
not to exceed $63,000 for official reception and represen-20
tation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-21
nance, and operation of mission and administrative air-22
craft, $3,135,451,000, to remain available until Sep-23
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That if available balances in 24
the ‘‘Science, Space, and Technology Education Trust 25
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Fund’’ are not sufficient to provide for the grant disburse-1
ments required under the third and fourth provisos under 2
such heading in the Department of Housing and Urban 3
Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 4
1989 (Public Law 100–404) as amended by the Depart-5
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-6
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 7
1995 (Public Law 103–327) up to $1,000,000 shall be 8
available from amounts made available under this heading 9
to make such grant disbursements: Provided further, That 10
of the amounts appropriated under this heading, 11
$36,261,000 shall be used for the projects, and in the 12
amounts, specified for ‘‘NASA-SSMS’’ in the table enti-13
tled, ‘‘Community Project Funding’’, in the report accom-14
panying this Act: Provided further, That the amounts 15
made available for the projects referenced in the preceding 16
proviso may not be transferred for any other purpose. 17
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND 18
RESTORATION 19
For necessary expenses for construction of facilities 20
including repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modi-21
fication of facilities, construction of new facilities and ad-22
ditions to existing facilities, facility planning and design, 23
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real 24
property, as authorized by law, and environmental compli-25
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ance and restoration, $247,900,000, to remain available 1
until September 30, 2029: Provided, That proceeds from 2
leases deposited into this account shall be available for a 3
period of 5 years to the extent and in amounts as provided 4
in annual appropriations Acts: Provided further, That such 5
proceeds referred to in the preceding proviso shall be avail-6
able for obligation for fiscal year 2024 in an amount not 7
to exceed $25,000,000: Provided further, That each annual 8
budget request shall include an annual estimate of gross 9
receipts and collections and proposed use of all funds col-10
lected pursuant to section 20145 of title 51, United States 11
Code. 12
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 13
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 14
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 15
$47,600,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available 16
until September 30, 2025. 17
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 19
Funds for any announced prize otherwise authorized 20
shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until 21
a prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn. 22
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 23
available for the current fiscal year for the National Aero-24
nautics and Space Administration in this Act may be 25
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transferred between such appropriations, but no such ap-1
propriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall 2
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such trans-3
fers. Any funds transferred to ‘‘Construction and Environ-4
mental Compliance and Restoration’’ for construction ac-5
tivities shall not increase that account by more than 15 6
percent and any funds transferred to or within ‘‘Explo-7
ration’’ for Exploration Ground Systems shall not increase 8
Exploration Ground Systems by more than $49,300,000. 9
Balances so transferred shall be merged with and available 10
for the same purposes and the same time period as the 11
appropriations to which transferred. Any transfer pursu-12
ant to this provision shall be treated as a reprogramming 13
of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be 14
available for obligation except in compliance with the pro-15
cedures set forth in that section. 16
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation pro-17
vided for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-18
tion under previous appropriations Acts that remains 19
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2023 20
may be transferred between such appropriations, but no 21
such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically pro-22
vided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any 23
such transfers. Any transfer pursuant to this provision 24
shall retain its original availability and shall be treated 25
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as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this 1
Act and shall not be available for obligation except in com-2
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 3
The spending plan required by this Act shall be pro-4
vided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-5
tion at the theme, program, project, and activity level. The 6
spending plan, as well as any subsequent change of an 7
amount established in that spending plan that meets the 8
notification requirements of section 505 of this Act, shall 9
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 10
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure 11
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 12
section. 13
Not more than 20 percent or $50,000,000, whichever 14
is less, of the amounts made available in the current-year 15
Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restora-16
tion (CECR) appropriation may be applied to CECR 17
projects funded under previous years’ CECR appropria-18
tions. Use of current-year funds under this provision shall 19
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 20
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except 21
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 22
Of the amounts made available in this Act under the 23
heading ‘‘Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathe-24
matics Engagement’’ (‘‘STEM Engagement’’), up to 25
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$5,000,000 shall be available to jointly fund, with an addi-1
tional amount of up to $1,000,000 each from amounts 2
made available in this Act under the headings ‘‘Science’’, 3
‘‘Aeronautics’’, ‘‘Space Technology’’, ‘‘Exploration’’, and 4
‘‘Space Operations’’, projects and activities for engaging 5
students in STEM and increasing STEM research capac-6
ities of universities, including Minority Serving Institu-7
tions. 8
Not to exceed $18,162,000 made available for the 9
current fiscal year in this Act within ‘‘Safety, Security and 10
Mission Services’’ may be transferred to the Working Cap-11
ital Fund of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-12
tration. Balances so transferred shall be available until ex-13
pended only for activities described in section 30102(b)(3) 14
of title 51, United States Code, as amended by this Act, 15
and shall remain available until expended. Any transfer 16
pursuant to this provision shall be treated as a reprogram-17
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 18
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 19
procedures set forth in that section. 20
N
ATIONALSCIENCEFOUNDATION 21
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 22
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 23
Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), 24
and Public Law 86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.); services 25
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as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 1
Code; maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase 2
of flight services for research support; acquisition of air-3
craft; and authorized travel; $7,866,646,000, to remain 4
available until September 30, 2025, of which not to exceed 5
$680,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 6
polar research and operations support, and for reimburse-7
ment to other Federal agencies for operational and science 8
support and logistical and other related activities for the 9
United States Antarctic program: Provided, That receipts 10
for scientific support services and materials furnished by 11
the National Research Centers and other National Science 12
Foundation supported research facilities may be credited 13
to this appropriation. 14
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 15
CONSTRUCTION 16
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-17
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research 18
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursu-19
ant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 20
U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including authorized travel, 21
$254,000,000, to remain available until expended. 22
STEM EDUCATION 23
For necessary expenses in carrying out science, math-24
ematics, and engineering education and human resources 25
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programs and activities pursuant to the National Science 1
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), includ-2
ing services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 3
United States Code, authorized travel, and rental of con-4
ference rooms in the District of Columbia, 5
$1,006,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 6
2025. 7
AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT 8
For agency operations and award management nec-9
essary in carrying out the National Science Foundation 10
Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.); services authorized 11
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of pas-12
senger motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances therefor, as 13
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 14
States Code; rental of conference rooms in the District of 15
Columbia; and reimbursement of the Department of 16
Homeland Security for security guard services; 17
$472,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $8,280 is for 18
official reception and representation expenses: Provided 19
further, That contracts may be entered into under this 20
heading in fiscal year 2024 for maintenance and operation 21
of facilities and for other services to be provided during 22
the next fiscal year. 23
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OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD 1
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-2
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 3
the rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 4
and the employment of experts and consultants under sec-5
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code) involved in car-6
rying out section 4 of the National Science Foundation 7
Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 8
(42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), $4,600,000: Provided, That not 9
to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official reception 10
and representation expenses. 11
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 12
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 13
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 14
1978, $26,810,000, of which $400,000 shall remain avail-15
able until September 30, 2025. 16
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 19
available for the current fiscal year for the National 20
Science Foundation in this Act may be transferred be-21
tween such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall 22
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such trans-23
fers. Any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall be 24
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 25
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of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except 1
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 2
The Director of the National Science Foundation 3
(NSF) shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of 4
the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 30 5
days in advance of any planned divestment through trans-6
fer, decommissioning, termination, or deconstruction of 7
any NSF-owned facilities or any NSF capital assets (in-8
cluding land, structures, and equipment) valued greater 9
than $2,500,000. 10
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Science Appropria-11
tions Act, 2024’’. 12
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TITLE IV 1
RELATED AGENCIES 2
C
OMMISSION ONCIVILRIGHTS 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil 5
Rights, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 6
$13,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appro-7
priated in this paragraph may be used to employ any indi-8
viduals under Schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 9
5 of the Code of Federal Regulations exclusive of one spe-10
cial assistant for each Commissioner: Provided further, 11
That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph 12
shall be used to reimburse Commissioners for more than 13
75 billable days, with the exception of the chairperson, 14
who is permitted 125 billable days: Provided further, That 15
the Chair may accept and use any gift or donation to carry 16
out the work of the Commission: Provided further, That 17
none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be 18
used for any activity or expense that is not explicitly au-19
thorized by section 3 of the Civil Rights Commission Act 20
of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 1975a). 21
E
QUALEMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITYCOMMISSION 22
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 23
For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment 24
Opportunity Commission as authorized by title VII of the 25
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Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Em-1
ployment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the 2
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, section 501 of 3
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Civil Rights Act of 4
1991, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act 5
(GINA) of 2008 (Public Law 110–233), the ADA Amend-6
ments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–325), and the Lilly 7
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–2), in-8
cluding services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 9
United States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles as 10
authorized by section 1343(b) of title 31, United States 11
Code; nonmonetary awards to private citizens; and up to 12
$31,500,000 for payments to State and local enforcement 13
agencies for authorized services to the Commission, 14
$420,000,000: Provided, That the Commission is author-15
ized to make available for official reception and represen-16
tation expenses not to exceed $2,250 from available funds: 17
Provided further, That the Commission may take no action 18
to implement any workforce repositioning, restructuring, 19
or reorganization until such time as the Committees on 20
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 21
Senate have been notified of such proposals, in accordance 22
with the reprogramming requirements of section 505 of 23
this Act: Provided further, That the Chair may accept and 24
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use any gift or donation to carry out the work of the Com-1
mission. 2
I
NTERNATIONALTRADECOMMISSION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the International Trade 5
Commission, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 6
and services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 7
United States Code, and not to exceed $2,250 for official 8
reception and representation expenses, $122,400,000, to 9
remain available until expended: Provided, That none of 10
the funds made available under this heading may be ex-11
pended by the International Trade Commission to conduct 12
Section 337 investigations asserting patent infringement, 13
until the Commission implements a standing rule requir-14
ing each party to disclose the real parties in interest in 15
all Section 337 patent litigation to ensure, inter alia, dis-16
closure of any and all beneficial owners and investors in 17
the litigation. 18
L
EGALSERVICESCORPORATION 19
PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 20
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to 21
carry out the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation 22
Act of 1974, $489,000,000, of which $448,250,000 is for 23
basic field programs and required independent audits; 24
$6,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, of which 25
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such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct 1
additional audits of recipients; $24,000,000 is for manage-2
ment and grants oversight; $4,500,000 is for client self- 3
help and information technology; $4,250,000 is for a Pro 4
Bono Innovation Fund; and $2,000,000 is for loan repay-5
ment assistance: Provided, That the Legal Services Cor-6
poration may continue to provide locality pay to officers 7
and employees at a rate no greater than that provided by 8
the Federal Government to Washington, DC-based em-9
ployees as authorized by section 5304 of title 5, United 10
States Code, notwithstanding section 1005(d) of the Legal 11
Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996d(d)): Provided 12
further, That the authorities provided in section 205 of 13
this Act shall be applicable to the Legal Services Corpora-14
tion: Provided further, That, for the purposes of section 15
505 of this Act, the Legal Services Corporation shall be 16
considered an agency of the United States Government. 17
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION —LEGAL SERVICES 18
CORPORATION 19
None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the 20
Legal Services Corporation shall be expended for any pur-21
pose prohibited or limited by, or contrary to any of the 22
provisions of, sections 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, and 506 23
of Public Law 105–119, and all funds appropriated in this 24
Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to 25
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the same terms and conditions set forth in such sections, 1
except that all references in sections 502 and 503 to 1997 2
and 1998 shall be deemed to refer instead to 2023 and 3
2024, respectively. 4
M
ARINEMAMMALCOMMISSION 5
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Com-7
mission as authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal 8
Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), 9
$4,200,000. 10
O
FFICE OF THEUNITEDSTATESTRADE 11
R
EPRESENTATIVE 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses of the Office of the United 14
States Trade Representative, including the hire of pas-15
senger motor vehicles and the employment of experts and 16
consultants as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 17
United States Code, $56,000,000, of which $1,000,000 18
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of 19
the total amount made available under this heading, not 20
to exceed $124,000 shall be available for official reception 21
and representation expenses. 22
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TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
For activities of the United States Trade Representa-3
tive authorized by section 611 of the Trade Facilitation 4
and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405), 5
including transfers, $15,000,000, to be derived from the 6
Trade Enforcement Trust Fund: Provided, That any 7
transfer pursuant to subsection (d)(1) of such section shall 8
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 9
Act. 10
S
TATEJUSTICEINSTITUTE 11
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 12
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, 13
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 14
(42 U.S.C. 10701 et seq.) $5,971,000, of which $500,000 15
shall remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, 16
That not to exceed $2,250 shall be available for official 17
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, 18
That, for the purposes of section 505 of this Act, the State 19
Justice Institute shall be considered an agency of the 20
United States Government. 21
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TITLE V 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
S
EC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 5
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 6
not authorized by the Congress. 7
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EC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in 8
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 9
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 10
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EC. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation 11
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-12
ment contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 13
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 14
expenditures are a matter of public record and available 15
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 16
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 17
issued pursuant to existing law. 18
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EC. 504. If any provision of this Act or the applica-19
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall 20
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-21
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other 22
than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be af-23
fected thereby. 24
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SEC. 505. None of the funds provided under this Act, 1
or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 2
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-3
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided from 4
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 5
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 6
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 7
through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or ini-8
tiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates 9
a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or per-10
sonnel by any means for any project or activity for which 11
funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an of-12
fice or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices, pro-13
grams, or activities; (6) contracts out or privatizes any 14
functions or activities presently performed by Federal em-15
ployees; (7) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-16
tivities in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 17
less, or reduces by 10 percent funding for any program, 18
project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent; 19
or (8) results from any general savings, including savings 20
from a reduction in personnel, which would result in a 21
change in existing programs, projects, or activities as ap-22
proved by Congress; unless the House and Senate Com-23
mittees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance 24
of such reprogramming of funds. 25
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SEC. 506. (a) If it has been finally determined by 1
a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally 2
affixed a label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, 3
or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product 4
sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made 5
in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to re-6
ceive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 7
available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspen-8
sion, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9
9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-10
tions. 11
(b)(1) To the extent practicable, with respect to au-12
thorized purchases of promotional items, funds made 13
available by this Act shall be used to purchase items that 14
are manufactured, produced, or assembled in the United 15
States, its territories or possessions. 16
(2) The term ‘‘promotional items’’ has the meaning 17
given the term in OMB Circular A–87, Attachment B, 18
Item (1)(f)(3). 19
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EC. 507. (a) The Departments of Commerce and 20
Justice, the National Science Foundation, and the Na-21
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide 22
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-23
resentatives and the Senate a quarterly report on the sta-24
tus of balances of appropriations at the account level. For 25
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unobligated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, com-1
mitted balances the quarterly reports shall separately 2
identify the amounts attributable to each source year of 3
appropriation from which the balances were derived. For 4
balances that are obligated, but unexpended, the quarterly 5
reports shall separately identify amounts by the year of 6
obligation. 7
(b) The report described in subsection (a) shall be 8
submitted within 30 days of the end of each quarter. 9
(c) If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any 10
aspect of a reporting requirement described in subsection 11
(a) due to a limitation of a current accounting system, 12
the department or agency shall fulfill such aspect to the 13
maximum extent practicable under such accounting sys-14
tem and shall identify and describe in each quarterly re-15
port the extent to which such aspect is not fulfilled. 16
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EC. 508. Any costs incurred by a department or 17
agency funded under this Act resulting from, or to pre-18
vent, personnel actions taken in response to funding re-19
ductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within the 20
total budgetary resources available to such department or 21
agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer funds be-22
tween appropriations accounts as may be necessary to 23
carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities 24
included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use 25
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of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as a 1
reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and 2
shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 3
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: 4
Provided further, That for the Department of Commerce, 5
this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care 6
and protection of loan collateral or grant property. 7
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EC. 509. None of the funds provided by this Act 8
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 9
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 10
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 11
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 12
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 13
products of the same type. 14
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EC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of 15
law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund estab-16
lished by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public 17
Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101) in any fiscal year in ex-18
cess of $1,200,000,000 shall not be available for obligation 19
until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwith-20
standing section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts 21
available from the Fund for obligation: (1) $7,500,000 22
shall be transferred to the Department of Justice Office 23
of Inspector General and remain available until expended 24
for oversight and auditing purposes associated with this 25
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section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to the Office 1
for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the re-2
quirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes 3
to improve services for victims of crime. 4
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EC. 511. None of the funds made available to the 5
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-6
nate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of 7
students who participate in programs for which financial 8
assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents 9
or legal guardians of such students. 10
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EC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 11
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-12
strumentality of the United States Government, except 13
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-14
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 15
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EC. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Depart-16
ment of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Na-17
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Na-18
tional Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Cor-19
poration shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector 20
General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for 21
which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit 22
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which 23
may include preliminary findings and a description of 24
areas of particular interest, within 180 days after initi-25
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ating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until 1
any such audit is completed. 2
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit 3
described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is 4
completed, the Secretary, Attorney General, Adminis-5
trator, Director, or President, as appropriate, shall make 6
the results of the audit available to the public on the Inter-7
net website maintained by the Department, Administra-8
tion, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The results 9
shall be made available in redacted form to exclude— 10
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of 11
title 5, United States Code; and 12
(2) sensitive personal information for any indi-13
vidual, the public access to which could be used to 14
commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or 15
unlawful purposes. 16
(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded 17
by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a state-18
ment to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, 19
the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, 20
certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract 21
will be made available through a subcontract or in any 22
other manner to another person who has a financial inter-23
est in the person awarded the grant or contract. 24
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(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of 1
this section shall take effect 30 days after the date on 2
which the Director of the Office of Management and 3
Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of 4
Government Ethics, determines that a uniform set of rules 5
and requirements, substantially similar to the require-6
ments in such subsections, consistently apply under the 7
executive branch ethics program to all Federal depart-8
ments, agencies, and entities. 9
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EC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-10
erwise made available under this Act may be used by the 11
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aer-12
onautics and Space Administration, or the National 13
Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 14
impact information system, as defined for security cat-15
egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 16
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 17
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-18
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-19
tems’’ unless the agency has— 20
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-21
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 22
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to 23
inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 24
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moderate-impact information systems within the 1
Federal Government; 2
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-3
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 4
threat information provided by the FBI and other 5
appropriate agencies; and 6
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-7
propriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of 8
any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated 9
with the acquisition of such system, including any 10
risk associated with such system being produced, 11
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 12
identified by the United States Government as pos-13
ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 14
those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 15
the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic 16
of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 17
or the Russian Federation. 18
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 19
made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 20
high-impact or moderate-impact information system re-21
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 22
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 23
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(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 1
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 2
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 3
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 4
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in 5
the national interest of the United States; and 6
(3) reported that determination to the Commit-7
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-8
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-9
eral. 10
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EC. 515. None of the funds made available in this 11
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 12
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-13
ployee of the United States Government. 14
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EC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 15
Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multi-16
lateral trade agreement the text of— 17
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United 18
States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 19
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United 20
States–Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 21
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United 22
States–Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 23
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EC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 24
Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security 25
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letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-1
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 2
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 3
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 4
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-5
rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 6
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 7
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EC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-8
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 9
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-10
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 11
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-12
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-13
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 14
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-15
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-16
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 17
Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, 18
and shall include in such notice: the date on which such 19
determination was made; a statement of the reasons for 20
such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken 21
to control future cost growth of the project; changes made 22
in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree 23
to which such changes have contributed to the increase 24
in total program costs or procurement costs; new esti-25
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mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 1
statement validating that the project’s management struc-2
ture is adequate to control total project or procurement 3
costs. 4
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EC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 5
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-6
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 7
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-8
tion 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 9
3094) during fiscal year 2024 until the enactment of the 10
Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024. 11
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EC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 13
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 14
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-15
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 16
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 17
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 18
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 19
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 20
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 21
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-22
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 23
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-24
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 25
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offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-1
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-2
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 3
judicial proceeding. 4
(RESCISSIONS) 5
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EC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances from prior 6
year appropriations available to the Department of Com-7
merce under the heading ‘‘Economic Development Admin-8
istration, Economic Development Assistance Programs’’, 9
$25,000,000 are hereby permanently cancelled, not later 10
than September 30, 2024. 11
(b) Of the unobligated balances from prior year ap-12
propriations available to the Department of Justice, the 13
following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not 14
later than September 30, 2024, from the following ac-15
counts in the specified amounts— 16
(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-17
ties, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence 18
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-19
grams’’, $5,000,000; 20
(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-21
ties, Office of Justice Programs’’, $120,000,000; 22
and 23
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(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-1
ties, Community Oriented Policing Services’’, 2
$15,000,000. 3
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-4
partment of Justice, ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, 5
$82,572,000 is hereby permanently rescinded. 6
(d) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall 7
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 8
of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 9
September 1, 2023, specifying the amount of each rescis-10
sion made pursuant to subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d). 11
(e) Of the unobligated balances available in Public 12
Law 117–169, $12,900,000,000 available under section 13
10301(1)(A)(ii) and $9,125,000,000 available under sec-14
tion 10301(1)(A)(iii) as of the date of the enactment of 15
this Act are rescinded. 16
(f) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a), (b), (c) 17
and (d) shall not be from amounts that were designated 18
by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief require-19
ment pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget 20
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 21
Act of 1985. 22
(g) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsections 23
(c) and (d) shall not be from amounts provided under— 24
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(1) subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under 1
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Ac-2
tivities—Office of Justice Programs—State and 3
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II of di-4
vision B of Public Law 117–103; 5
(2) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State 6
and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community 7
Oriented Policing Services—Community Oriented 8
Policing Services Programs’’ in title II of division B 9
of Public Law 117–103; 10
(3) subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under 11
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Ac-12
tivities—Office of Justice Programs—State and 13
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II of di-14
vision B of Public Law 117–328; or 15
(4) amounts provided under paragraph (7) 16
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-17
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Serv-18
ices—Community Oriented Policing Services Pro-19
grams’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 117– 20
328. 21
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EC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 22
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 23
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 24
301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 25
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SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this 1
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-2
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-3
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 4
at any single conference occurring outside the United 5
States unless— 6
(1) such conference is a law enforcement train-7
ing or operational conference for law enforcement 8
personnel and the majority of Federal employees in 9
attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 10
outside the United States; or 11
(2) such conference is a scientific conference 12
and the department or agency head determines that 13
such attendance is in the national interest and noti-14
fies the Committees on Appropriations of the House 15
of Representatives and the Senate within at least 15 16
days of that determination and the basis for that de-17
termination. 18
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EC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management 19
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-20
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-21
priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 22
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-23
ance plan and performance and accountability reports the 24
following: 25
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(1) Details on future action the department, 1
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 2
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 3
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 4
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 5
in expired grant accounts. 6
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-7
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 8
Treasury of the United States. 9
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 10
the total number of expired grant accounts with 11
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 12
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 13
and the total finances that have not been obligated 14
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 15
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EC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used to move the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 17
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Canine Training Center 18
or the ATF National Canine Division from Front Royal, 19
Virginia, to another location. 20
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EC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by 21
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and 22
Space Administration (NASA), the Office of Science and 23
Technology Policy (OSTP), or the National Space Council 24
(NSC) to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, 25
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or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract 1
of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilat-2
erally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned com-3
pany unless such activities are specifically authorized by 4
a law enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 5
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 6
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 7
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 8
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 9
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA, OSTP, or 10
NSC, after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Inves-11
tigation, have certified— 12
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 13
technology, data, or other information with national 14
security or economic security implications to China 15
or a Chinese-owned company; and 16
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 17
officials who have been determined by the United 18
States to have direct involvement with violations of 19
human rights. 20
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 21
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 22
House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 23
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 24
the activity in question and shall include a description of 25
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the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-1
pants, and its location and timing. 2
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EC. 527. (a) None of the funds made available in 3
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 4
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 5
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 6
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 7
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 8
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 9
criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other 10
law enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 11
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EC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-12
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 13
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 14
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 15
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 16
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 17
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 18
Trade Representative, the National Space Council, and 19
the State Justice Institute shall submit spending plans, 20
signed by the respective department or agency head, to 21
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and the Senate not later than 45 days after 23
the date of enactment of this Act. 24
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SEC. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of 1
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 2
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 3
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 4
judged to be below satisfactory performance or for per-5
formance that does not meet the basic requirements of a 6
contract. 7
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EC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legit-9
imacy of Industrial Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural 10
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of 11
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. 12
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EC. 531. None of the funds made available under 13
this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with 14
respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, 15
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 16
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken-17
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-18
gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, 19
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 20
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 21
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Da-22
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-23
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with 24
respect to the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 25
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of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin 1
Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them 2
from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, 3
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical mari-4
juana. 5
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EC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the Na-6
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-7
tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 8
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-9
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 10
by any employee of such department or agency, including 11
the purpose of such travel. 12
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EC. 533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 13
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 14
respectively, for grants authorized by section 27 of the 15
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 16
U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent 17
poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this sec-18
tion, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any 19
county that has had 20 percent or more of its population 20
living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by 21
the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the 22
2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small Area 23
Income and Poverty Estimates, or any Territory or pos-24
session of the United States. 25
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SEC. 534. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 1
of law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or other-2
wise made available under this Act or any other Act may 3
be expended or obligated by a department, agency, or in-4
strumentality of the United States to pay administrative 5
expenses or to compensate an officer or employee of the 6
United States in connection with requiring an export li-7
cense for the export to Canada of components, parts, ac-8
cessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category 9
I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 10
(International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 11
part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value 12
not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided 13
that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are 14
met by the exporting party for such articles. 15
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an ex-16
port license— 17
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 18
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter 19
required by law, or from being otherwise eligible 20
under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, 21
transport, or export the articles enumerated in sub-22
section (a); and 23
(2) does not permit the export without a license 24
of— 25
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(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-1
nents and parts for such firearms, other than 2
for end use by the Federal Government, or a 3
Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; 4
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 5
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm 6
listed in Category I, other than for end use by 7
the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Mu-8
nicipal Government of Canada; or 9
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-10
other foreign destination. 11
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Di-12
rectors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the per-13
manent or temporary export without a license of any un-14
classified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for 15
end use in Canada or return to the United States, or tem-16
porary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for 17
end use in the United States or return to Canada for a 18
Canadian citizen. 19
(d) The President may require export licenses under 20
this section on a temporary basis if the President deter-21
mines, upon publication first in the Federal Register, that 22
the Government of Canada has implemented or main-23
tained inadequate import controls for the articles specified 24
in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion of such 25
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articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-1
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in an-2
other nation. The President shall terminate the require-3
ments of a license when reasons for the temporary require-4
ments have ceased. 5
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EC. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of 6
law, for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, 7
no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 8
States receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any 9
other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such funds 10
to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any 11
officer or employee of the United States to deny, or fail 12
to act on, any application submitted pursuant to 22 13
U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR 14
section 478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United 15
States origin ‘‘curios or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammu-16
nition. 17
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EC. 536. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18
law, for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, 19
none of the funds made available by this Act may be used 20
to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, or 21
fail to act on, an application for the importation of any 22
model of shotgun if— 23
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 24
the proposed importation are met; and 25
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(2) no application for the importation of such 1
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 2
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-3
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 4
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 5
sporting purposes. 6
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EC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 8
923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information 9
to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of mul-10
tiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. 11
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EC. 538. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 13
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 14
ratification for the Treaty. 15
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EC. 539. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 17
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 18
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 19
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 20
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 21
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 22
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 23
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 24
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 25
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SEC. 540. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-1
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 2
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 3
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-4
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-5
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-6
tive control of the Department of Defense. 7
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 8
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 9
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 10
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 11
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 12
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 13
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 14
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 15
and 16
(2) is— 17
(A) in the custody or under the effective 18
control of the Department of Defense; or 19
(B) otherwise under detention at United 20
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 21
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EC. 541. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 22
Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall allocate amounts 23
made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to 24
Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund for 25
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fiscal year 2024 pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of 1
section 102(a) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of 2
Public Law 117–167), including the transfer authority in 3
such paragraphs of that section of that Act, to the ac-4
counts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the 5
projects and activities specified, in the table titled ‘‘De-6
partment of Commerce Allocation of National Institute of 7
Standards and Technology Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal 8
Year 2024’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 9
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Di-10
rector of the National Science Foundation shall allocate 11
amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incen-12
tives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 13
Workforce and Education Fund for fiscal year 2024 pur-14
suant to section 102(d)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (di-15
vision A of Public Law 117–167), to the account specified, 16
in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activi-17
ties specified in the table titled ‘‘National Science Founda-18
tion Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2024’’ 19
in the report accompanying this Act. 20
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo-21
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 22
year under section 102(a)(2)(A) of the CHIPS Act of 23
2022 or under section 102(d)(2) of such Act if there is 24
in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for 25
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part of a fiscal year for the Departments of Commerce 1
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Provided, 2
That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso 3
shall not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allot-4
ment of amounts for continuing administration of pro-5
grams allocated funds from the CHIPS for America Fund, 6
which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more 7
than the allocation for such purposes in subsection (a) of 8
this section. 9
(c) Subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 10
notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropria-11
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and 12
subject to the terms and conditions in section 505 of this 13
Act— 14
(1) the Secretary of Commerce may reallocate 15
funds allocated to Industrial Technology Services for 16
section 9906 of Public Law 116–283 by subsection 17
(a)(1) of this section; and 18
(2) the Director of the National Science Foun-19
dation may reallocate funds allocated to the CHIPS 20
for America Workforce and Education Fund by sub-21
section (a)(2) of this section. 22
(d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 23
the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of Com-24
merce and the Director of the National Science Founda-25
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tion, as appropriate, shall each submit to the Committees 1
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 2
Senate proposed allocations by account and by program, 3
project, or activity, with detailed justifications, for 4
amounts made available under section 102(a)(2) and sec-5
tion 102(d)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 6
2025. 7
(e) The Department of Commerce and the National 8
Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall each provide the 9
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-10
atives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of bal-11
ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 12
America Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to sub-13
section (a)(1) of this section, and section 543(a)(1) of divi-14
sion B of Public Law 117–328, the status of balances of 15
projects and activities funded by the Public Wireless Sup-16
ply Chain Innovation Fund for amounts allocated pursu-17
ant to section 543(a)(2) of division B of Public Law 117– 18
328, and the status of balances of projects and activities 19
funded by the CHIPS for America Workforce and Edu-20
cation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection 21
(a)(2) of this section and section 543(a)(3) of division B 22
of Public Law 117–328, including all uncommitted, com-23
mitted, and unobligated funds. 24
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SEC. 542. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 2
or carry out a rule that includes area or time closures in 3
the South Atlantic until data from the South Atlantic 4
Great Red Snapper Count can be incorporated into the 5
stock assessment. 6
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EC. 543. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 8
or carry out Executive Order 14006, ‘‘Reforming Our In-9
carceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Op-10
erated Criminal Detention Facilities.’’ 11
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EC. 544. None of the funds made available by this 12
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 13
apply, enforce, carry out, or defend any part of the Bureau 14
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives final rule 15
entitled, ‘‘Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identifica-16
tion of Firearms’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 24652; published April 17
26, 2022). 18
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EC. 545. None of the funds made available by this 19
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 20
apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order 14092, ‘‘Re-21
ducing Gun Violence and Making our Communities 22
Safer.’’ 23
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EC. 546. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 25
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carry out, or defend the joint Department of Justice and 1
Department of Homeland Security interim final rule enti-2
tled, ‘‘Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consid-3
eration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Pro-4
tection Claims by Asylum Officers’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 18078; 5
published March 29, 2022). 6
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EC. 547. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used by the Department of Justice to promul-8
gate a regulation regarding asylum law and process or re-9
garding administrative closure of cases in immigration 10
court. 11
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EC. 548. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 13
or carry out section 19 (establishing accreditation stand-14
ards) or section 20 (supporting safe and effective policing 15
through grantmaking) of Executive Order 14074, ‘‘Ad-16
vancing Effective, Accountable, Policing and Criminal 17
Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public 18
Safety.’’ 19
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EC. 549. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 21
or carry out any regulation issued by the Bureau of Alco-22
hol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives issued or finalized 23
on or after January 21, 2021. 24
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SEC. 550. None of the funds made available by this 1
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 2
apply, enforce, carry out, or defend of any part of the Bu-3
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives final 4
rule entitled, ‘‘Factoring Criteria for Firearms with At-5
tached ‘Stabilizing Braces’’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 6478; pub-6
lished January 31, 2023). 7
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EC. 551. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 9
or carry out the Attorney General’s October 4, 2021, 10
memorandum entitled, ‘‘Partnership Among Federal, 11
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement to 12
Address Threats Against School Administrators, Board 13
Members, Teachers, and Staff.’’ 14
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EC. 552. None of the funds made available by this 15
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 16
apply, enforce, or carry out the Office of Science and 17
Technology Policy’s August 25, 2022, Memorandum to 18
Executive Departments and Agencies entitled, ‘‘Ensuring 19
Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally 20
Funded Research.’’ 21
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EC. 553. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used— 23
(1) for the— 24
(A) Department of Commerce— 25
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(i) Equity (DEIA) Council; 1
(ii) National Institute of Standards 2
and Technology Diversity, Equity, Inclu-3
sion and Accessibility Initiative; 4
(iii) National Oceanic and Atmos-5
pheric Administration— 6
(I) Office of Inclusion and Civil 7
Rights; 8
(II) Diversity and Inclusion Advi-9
sory Management Council; 10
(III) NOAA Diversity and Pro-11
fessional Advancement Working 12
Group; 13
(B) Department of Justice— 14
(i) Chief Diversity Officer; 15
(ii) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-16
arms and Explosives Diversity and Career 17
Impact Program; 18
(iii) Federal Bureau of Investigation 19
Office of Diversity and Inclusion; 20
(iv) Antitrust Division Diversity Com-21
mittee; 22
(v) National Resource Center for Jus-23
tice-Involved LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit 24
Youth; 25
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(C) National Aeronautics and Space Ad-1
ministration Office of Diversity and Inclusion; 2
(D) National Science Foundation— 3
(i) Office of Equity and Civil Rights; 4
(ii) Advancing Informal STEM Learn-5
ing (AISL) Program; 6
(iii) Alliances for Graduate Education 7
and the Professoriate (AGEP); 8
(2) to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or 9
carry out— 10
(A) Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 11
2021, ‘‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support 12
for Underserved Communities Through the 13
Federal Government’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 7009); 14
(B) Executive Order 14091 of February 15
16, 2023, ‘‘Further Advancing Racial Equity 16
and Support for Underserved Communities 17
Through the Federal Government’’ (88 Fed. 18
Reg. 10825); or 19
(C) Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 20
2021, ‘‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Acces-21
sibility in the Federal Workforce’’ (86 Fed. 22
Reg. 34593); or 23
(3) to conduct any diversity, equity, inclusion, 24
or implicit bias training. 25
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SEC. 554. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used— 2
(1) by the— 3
(A) Department of Commerce for— 4
(i) the National Institute of Standards 5
and Technology Center of Excellence in 6
Climate Change; or 7
(ii) climate change fisheries research; 8
(B) National Science Foundation for the— 9
(i) U.S. Global Change Research Pro-10
gram (USGCRP); or 11
(ii) Clean Energy Technology pro-12
gram; or 13
(2) to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or 14
carry out Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 15
2021, ‘‘Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and 16
Abroad’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 7619). 17
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EC. 555. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to develop or implement guidance related 19
to the valuation of ecosystem and environmental services 20
and natural assets in Federal regulatory decision-making, 21
as directed by Executive Order 14072 (87 Fed. Reg. 22
24851, relating to strengthening the Nation’s forests, 23
communities, and local economies). 24
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SEC. 556. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to provide legal representation to any 2
alien in a removal proceeding. 3
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EC. 557. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to incentivize any immigration judge to 5
close or dismiss any case without adjudicating the merits 6
of the case. 7
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EC. 558. None of the funds made available for the 8
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program may be used in 9
contravention of section 642 of the Illegal Immigration 10
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. 11
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EC. 559. None of the funds made available by this 12
or any other Act may be used to allow the United States 13
Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully 14
present in the United States in rendering apportionment 15
determinations in subsequent decennial censuses. 16
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EC. 560. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to pay a compromise settlement in rela-18
tion to a civil action brought by an alien who is inadmis-19
sible under section 212(a)(6)(A) or (7)(A)(i)(I) of the Im-20
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(A) or 21
(7)(A)(i)(I)), or who entered the United States in violation 22
of section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 23
(8 U.S.C. 1325(a)), in connection with conduct described 24
in such section 275(a), unless expressly authorized by law. 25
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SEC. 561. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to implement a limit on reimbursement 2
available to a local law enforcement jurisdiction under the 3
Domestic Cannabis Suppression/Eradication Program for 4
the purpose of paying overtime pay to a law enforcement 5
officer who engages in eradication efforts against unli-6
censed or unregistered cannabis grown in a State wherein 7
production or sales of cannabis is lawful. 8
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EC. 562. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to review, process, or approve applica-10
tions for Federal grants, contracts, cooperative agree-11
ments, or other agreements by any individual or organiza-12
tion that educates or otherwise trains or informs Federal 13
employees about diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race 14
theory, implicit bias, unconscious bias, or culturally rel-15
evant teaching. 16
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EC. 563. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to provide any education, training, or 18
professional development that utilizes, promotes, or teach-19
es Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with Crit-20
ical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea or 21
concept that condones an individual being discriminated 22
against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based 23
on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling discom-24
fort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological dis-25
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tress on account of that individual’s race or sex, as well 1
as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently 2
superior to another race, the United States or its institu-3
tions as being systemically racist or sexist, an individual 4
as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue 5
of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s moral char-6
acter as being necessarily determined by race or sex, an 7
individual as bearing responsibility for actions committed 8
in the past by other members of the same race or sex, 9
or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created 10
by a particular race to oppress another race. 11
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EC. 564. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be used to promote or contribute to environ-13
mental, social, and corporate governance (also known as 14
environmental, social, and governance (ESG)) invest-15
ments. 16
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EC. 565. None of the funds made available by this 17
or any other Act may be used to investigate, litigate, or 18
advocate against any person or recipient, as currently de-19
fined at section 106.2 of title 34, Code of Federal Regula-20
tions, for defining ‘‘sex’’ as currently used in, inter alia, 21
section 1681 of title 20, United States Code, and sections 22
106.21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37,39, 40, 41, 23
44, and 45 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations, to 24
mean biological sex, male or female, as determined by the 25
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type of gamete an individual produces; and for defining 1
‘‘boys and girls’’ to mean only biological boys, whose DNA 2
consists of one X sex chromosome and one Y sex chro-3
mosome, and biological girls, whose DNA consists of two 4
X sex chromosomes. 5
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EC. 566. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used for gun buyback or relinquishment pro-7
grams. 8
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EC. 567. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to implement any statute, rule, policy, 10
or interpretive guidance or to disburse any grants or fund-11
ing that would have the effect of creating, utilizing, sup-12
porting, or implementing a law or procedure which could 13
result in the confiscation of any firearm without, in all 14
cases, providing the gun owner with notice and oppor-15
tunity to participate in a hearing. 16
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EC. 568. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to fund or implement any red flag or 18
extreme risk protection order laws. 19
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EC. 569. None of the funds made available by this 20
or any other Act, or provided from any accounts in the 21
Treasury of the United States derived by the collection 22
of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, may 23
be available for obligation or expenditure to study, pre-24
pare, propose, or adopt any rule, regulation, administra-25
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tive order or secretarial or executive action for the purpose 1
of restricting the production, purchase, sale or transfer of 2
any firearm unless expressly authorized by Congress. 3
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EC. 570. None of the funds made available by this 4
or any other Act may be used to create, operate, or main-5
tain a Federal firearms registry. 6
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EC. 571. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-8
sonnel to facilitate, advise, promote, or otherwise support 9
any civil actions to which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 10
and Firearms is not a named party against any licensee 11
or other person purported to be subject to the regulation 12
and oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and 13
Firearms. 14
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EC. 572. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-16
arms and Explosives (ATF) Demand 2 program unless the 17
ATF modifies the Demand 2 reporting thresholds such 18
that the threshold criteria of the Demand 2 program is 19
a percentage of traces relative to a licensee’s average num-20
ber of firearm sales for the preceding three years as re-21
ported on such licensee’s Federal firearms license renewal 22
applications. 23
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EC. 573. None of the funds made available by this 24
or any other Act may be used to— 25
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(1) classify, tax, or register any firearm with an 1
attached ‘‘stabilizing brace’’ or other similar brace 2
or rearward attachment, notwithstanding any ex-3
tended additional contact surface rearward or use 4
outside of its original design or use as a buttstock 5
or use to enable shoulder fire, as a ‘‘rifle,’’ ‘‘short- 6
barreled rifle,’’ or ‘‘short-barreled shotgun’’ under 7
the Gun Control Act of 1968, the National Firearms 8
Act of 1934, or any other such act of Congress; or 9
(2) direct any other law enforcement or regu-10
latory entity to conduct any of the activities de-11
scribed in paragraph (1) on the ATF’s behalf. 12
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EC. 574. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-14
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 15
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 16
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-17
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 18
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-19
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 20
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 21
a foreign adversary. 22
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EC. 575. None of the funds made available by this 23
or any other Act may be used to engage in any formal 24
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or informal negotiations, regardless of subject, with lead-1
ership or representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 2
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EC. 576. None of the funds made available by this 3
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 4
or retain any person who either has been convicted of a 5
Federal or State child pornography charge, has been con-6
victed of any other Federal or State sexual assault charge, 7
or has been formally disciplined for using Federal re-8
sources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 9
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EC. 577. None of the funds made available by this 10
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 11
or retain any person based in whole or in part on such 12
person’s race, national origin, sex, or religion. 13
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EC. 578. None of the funds made available by this 14
or any other Act may be used to fund any sex-altering 15
surgical procedures in either a Federally owned facility or 16
a private facility leased or used by the Federal Govern-17
ment. 18
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EC. 579. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used for the Department of Justice’s Repro-20
ductive Rights Task Force. 21
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EC. 580. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 23
over their abortion laws, or to intervene or file an amicus 24
brief in such a case. 25
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SEC. 581. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 2
over any law relating to transgender issues, or to intervene 3
or file an amicus brief in such a case. 4
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EC. 582. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used to sue any State over its 6
redistricting plans, or to intervene or file an amicus brief 7
in such a case. 8
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EC. 583. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 9
7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 10
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 11
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-12
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 13
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-14
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 15
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 16
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 17
a union of one man and one woman. 18
(b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-19
section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 20
taken by the Federal Government to— 21
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 22
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-23
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-24
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-25
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nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 1
in subsection (a); 2
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-3
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 4
such person; 5
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 6
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 7
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-8
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-9
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 10
other similar position or status from or to such per-11
son; 12
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-13
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 14
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 15
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 16
degree from an educational program, from or to 17
such person; or 18
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-19
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-20
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-21
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 22
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-23
paigns from or to such person. 24
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(c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 1
Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 2
certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 3
would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 4
such purposes but for a determination against such person 5
wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 6
or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 7
or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 8
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EC. 584. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used by any agency to enforce section 19.17 10
of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or Article 11
18 of the United States-Japan Digital Trade Agreement 12
or to negotiate similar language in future trade agree-13
ments. 14
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EC. 585. (a) None of the funds made available by 15
this Act may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or pro-16
mote exports to the Cuban military or intelligence service 17
or to any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence serv-18
ice, or an immediate family member thereof or any agency 19
or entity owned or partially owned or operated on behalf 20
of the previously listed. 21
(b) This section does not apply to exports of goods 22
permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 23
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 24
(c) In this section— 25
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(1) the term ‘‘Cuban military or intelligence 1
service’’ includes the Ministry of the Revolutionary 2
Armed Forces, and the Ministry of the Interior, of 3
Cuba, and any subsidiary of either such Ministry; 4
and 5
(2) the term ‘‘immediate family member’’ 6
means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, 7
grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or neph-8
ew. 9
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EC. 586. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act or any other Act may be used for an Office of Envi-11
ronmental Justice. 12
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EC. 587. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to enforce the Department of Commerce 14
rule entitled, ‘‘Procedures Covering Suspension of Liq-15
uidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With 16
Presidential Proclamation 10414’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 56868). 17
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EC. 588. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-19
sonnel of the Department of Justice to negotiate or con-20
clude a settlement with the Federal Government that in-21
cludes terms requiring the defendant to donate or con-22
tribute funds to an organization or individual. 23
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EC. 589. None of the funds made available by this 24
or any other Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, 25
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bonuses, or expenses of any Federal officer or employee 1
who fails to comply with a duly issued and valid congres-2
sional subpoena, including any circumstances in which a 3
Federal officer or employee does not produce documents 4
in unredacted form by a date certain provided in a con-5
gressional subpoena. 6
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EC. 590. (a) None of the funds made available by 7
this Act may be used to conduct a politically sensitive in-8
vestigation until the Department of Justice establishes a 9
policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee such 10
investigations. 11
(b) For the purpose of this section, the phrase ‘‘politi-12
cally sensitive investigations’’ includes investigations of 13
elected officials or their family members, political can-14
didates or their family members, political organizations, 15
religious organizations, and members of the media. 16
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EC. 591. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, bonuses, or 18
expenses of a Department of Justice employee who is 19
found to have retaliated against a whistleblower or sup-20
pressed an employee’s constitutional rights under the 21
First Amendment. 22
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EC. 592. (a) None of the funds made available by 23
this Act may be used to conduct an interview in connection 24
with an investigation of a Federal offense, or an investiga-25
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tion in which the agency is assisting a State, local or Trib-1
al law enforcement agency, unless such interview is re-2
corded using electronic audio recording equipment. 3
(b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to custo-4
dial and noncustodial interviews, but shall not apply with 5
respect to— 6
(1) communications with confidential inform-7
ants; or 8
(2) interviews of non-United States persons 9
conducted outside the United States. 10
(c) Recordings of such interviews shall be retained 11
for 10 years. 12
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EC. 593. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to discourage, or implement a policy that 14
serves to discourage, United States Marshals Service em-15
ployees or personnel from fully enforcing section 1507 of 16
title 18, United States Code. 17
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EC. 594. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used be used, or transferred to another Fed-19
eral agency, board, or commission to be used in further-20
ance of— 21
(1) any modification or publication of revised 22
Merger Guidelines without the express authorization 23
of Congress; 24
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(2) the European Commission’s Digital Markets 1
Act or in support of such Act; or 2
(3) the hiring of any new employees to the 3
Antitrust Division, other than to replace retired or 4
departed employees, unless expressly authorized by 5
Congress. 6
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EC. 595. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to fund the operations or expenses of 8
any Federal employee union. 9
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EC. 596. (a) Section 507(d) of title 11, United 10
States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘excluding subpara-11
graph (F)’’ after ‘‘(a)(8)’’. 12
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 13
amendment made by in section (a) shall take effect on 14
the date of the enactment of this Act. 15
(2) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not 16
apply with respect to cases commenced under title 11 of 17
the United States Code before the date of the enactment 18
of this Act. 19
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EC. 597. None of the funds appropriated or other-20
wise made available by this Act may be made used to— 21
(1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 22
communications by a United States person as misin-23
formation, disinformation, or malinformation; or 24
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(2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-1
ganizations that pressure or recommend private 2
companies to censor lawful and constitutionally pro-3
tected speech of United States persons, including 4
recommending the censoring or removal of content 5
on social media platforms. 6
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EC. 598. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to enforce any COVID-19 vaccine man-8
dates or passports. 9
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 10
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EC. 599. $0 11
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 12
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 13
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