Us Congress House Bill HB8773 Latest Draft

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Union Calendar No. 459 
118THCONGRESS 
2
DSESSION H. R. 8773 
[Report No. 118–556] 
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE17, 2024 
Mr. J
OYCEof Ohio, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the fol-
lowing bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for financial services and general gov-
ernment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, 
and for other purposes. 
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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, 2025, and for other pur-5
poses, namely: 6
TITLE I 7
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 8
D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 11
including operation and maintenance of the Treasury 12
Building and Freedman’s Bank Building; hire of pas-13
senger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improve-14
ments of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 15
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when nec-16
essary for the performance of official business; executive 17
direction program activities; international affairs and eco-18
nomic policy activities; domestic finance and tax policy ac-19
tivities, including technical assistance to State, local, and 20
territorial entities; and Treasury-wide management poli-21
cies and programs activities, $244,424,000, of which not 22
less than $9,000,000 shall be available for the administra-23
tion of financial assistance, in addition to amounts other-24
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wise available for such purposes: Provided, That of the 1
amount appropriated under this heading— 2
(1) not to exceed $350,000 is for official recep-3
tion and representation expenses; 4
(2) not to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen 5
emergencies of a confidential nature to be allocated 6
and expended under the direction of the Secretary of 7
the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on the 8
Secretary’s certificate; and 9
(3) not to exceed $34,000,000 shall remain 10
available until September 30, 2026, for— 11
(A) the Treasury-wide Financial Statement 12
Audit and Internal Control Program; 13
(B) information technology modernization 14
requirements; 15
(C) the audit, oversight, and administra-16
tion of the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund; 17
(D) the development and implementation 18
of programs within the Office of Cybersecurity 19
and Critical Infrastructure Protection, including 20
entering into cooperative agreements; 21
(E) operations and maintenance of facili-22
ties; and 23
(F) international operations. 24
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED 1
STATES FUND 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the Committee on Foreign 4
Investment in the United States, $21,000,000, to remain 5
available until expended: Provided, That the chairperson 6
of the Committee may transfer such amounts to any de-7
partment or agency represented on the Committee (ex-8
cluding the Department of the Treasury) subject to ad-9
vance notification to the Committees on Appropriations of 10
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided 11
further, That amounts so transferred shall remain avail-12
able until expended for expenses of implementing section 13
721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, (50 U.S.C. 14
4565), and shall be available in addition to any other 15
funds available to any department or agency: Provided fur-16
ther, That fees authorized by section 721(p) of such Act 17
shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collec-18
tions: Provided further, That the total amount appro-19
priated under this heading from the general fund shall be 20
reduced as such offsetting collections are received during 21
fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a total appropriation 22
from the general fund estimated at not more than $0. 23
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OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For the necessary expenses of the Office of Terrorism 3
and Financial Intelligence to safeguard the financial sys-4
tem against illicit use and to combat rogue nations, ter-5
rorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction 6
proliferators, human rights abusers, money launderers, 7
drug kingpins, and other national security threats, 8
$230,533,000, of which not less than $3,000,000 shall be 9
available for addressing human rights violations and cor-10
ruption, including activities authorized by the Global 11
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 12
2656 note): Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 13
under this heading, up to $16,000,000 shall remain avail-14
able until September 30, 2026. 15
CYBERSECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACCOUNT 16
For salaries and expenses for enhanced cybersecurity 17
for systems operated by the Department of the Treasury, 18
$99,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
2027: Provided, That such funds shall supplement and not 20
supplant any other amounts made available to the Treas-21
ury offices and bureaus for cybersecurity: Provided fur-22
ther, That of the total amount made available under this 23
heading, $7,000,000 shall be available for administrative 24
expenses for the Treasury Chief Information Officer to 25
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provide oversight of the investments made under this 1
heading: Provided further, That such funds shall supple-2
ment and not supplant any other amounts made available 3
to the Treasury Chief Information Officer. 4
DEPARTMENT-WIDE SYSTEMS AND CAPITAL 5
INVESTMENTS PROGRAMS 6
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 7
For development and acquisition of automatic data 8
processing equipment, software, and services and for re-9
pairs and renovations to buildings owned by the Depart-10
ment of the Treasury, $9,400,000, to remain available 11
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That these funds 12
shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as nec-13
essary to satisfy the requirements of the Department’s of-14
fices, bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, 15
That this transfer authority shall be in addition to any 16
other transfer authority provided in this Act: Provided fur-17
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this head-18
ing shall be used to support or supplement ‘‘Internal Rev-19
enue Service, Operations Support’’ or ‘‘Internal Revenue 20
Service, Business Systems Modernization’’. 21
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 22
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 23
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 24
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 25
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5, United States Code, $47,887,000, including hire of pas-1
senger motor vehicles; of which not to exceed $100,000 2
shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a con-3
fidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 4
direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; of 5
which up to $2,800,000 to remain available until Sep-6
tember 30, 2026, shall be for audits and investigations 7
conducted pursuant to section 1608 of the Resources and 8
Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Re-9
vived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (33 10
U.S.C. 1321 note); and of which not to exceed $1,000 11
shall be available for official reception and representation 12
expenses. 13
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX 14
ADMINISTRATION 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector 17
General for Tax Administration in carrying out chapter 18
4 of title 5, United States Code, including purchase and 19
hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 20
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as 21
may be determined by the Inspector General for Tax Ad-22
ministration; $170,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall re-23
main available until September 30, 2026; of which not to 24
exceed $6,000,000 shall be available for official travel ex-25
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penses; of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be available 1
for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be 2
allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspec-3
tor General for Tax Administration; and of which not to 4
exceed $1,500 shall be available for official reception and 5
representation expenses. 6
F
INANCIALCRIMESENFORCEMENTNETWORK 7
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 8
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes En-9
forcement Network, including hire of passenger motor ve-10
hicles; travel and training expenses of non-Federal and 11
foreign government personnel to attend meetings and 12
training concerned with domestic and foreign financial in-13
telligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regula-14
tion; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; not to exceed 15
$25,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 16
and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, 17
with or without reimbursement, $170,193,000, of which 18
not to exceed $55,000,000 shall remain available until 19
September 30, 2027. 20
B
UREAU OF THEFISCALSERVICE 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For necessary expenses of operations of the Bureau 23
of the Fiscal Service, $343,511,000; of which not to ex-24
ceed $8,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 25
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2027, is for information systems modernization initiatives; 1
and of which $5,000 shall be available for official reception 2
and representation expenses. 3
In addition, $225,000, to be derived from the Oil 4
Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse administrative 5
and personnel expenses for financial management of the 6
Fund, as authorized by section 1012 of Public Law 101– 7
380. 8
A
LCOHOL ANDTOBACCOTAX ANDTRADEBUREAU 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For necessary expenses of carrying out section 1111 11
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, including hire of 12
passenger motor vehicles, $158,506,000; of which not to 13
exceed $6,000 shall be available for official reception and 14
representation expenses; and of which not to exceed 15
$50,000 shall be available for cooperative research and de-16
velopment programs for laboratory services; and provision 17
of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies with 18
or without reimbursement: Provided, That of the amount 19
appropriated under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be for 20
the costs of accelerating the processing of formula and 21
label applications: Provided further, That of the amount 22
appropriated under this heading, $5,000,000, to remain 23
available until September 30, 2026, shall be for the costs 24
associated with enforcement of and education regarding 25
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the trade practice provisions of the Federal Alcohol Ad-1
ministration Act (27 U.S.C. 201 et seq.). 2
U
NITEDSTATESMINT 3
UNITED STATES MINT PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FUND 4
Pursuant to section 5136 of title 31, United States 5
Code, the United States Mint is provided funding through 6
the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund for costs 7
associated with the production of circulating coins, numis-8
matic coins, and protective services, including both oper-9
ating expenses and capital investments: Provided, That 10
the aggregate amount of new liabilities and obligations in-11
curred during fiscal year 2025 under such section 5136 12
for circulating coinage and protective service capital in-13
vestments of the United States Mint shall not exceed 14
$50,000,000. 15
C
OMMUNITYDEVELOPMENTFINANCIALINSTITUTIONS 16
F
UNDPROGRAMACCOUNT 17
To carry out the Riegle Community Development and 18
Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 (subtitle A of title 19
I of Public Law 103–325), including services authorized 20
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates 21
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent 22
to the rate for EX–III, $276,600,000. Of the amount ap-23
propriated under this heading— 24
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(1) not less than $170,000,000, notwith-1
standing section 108(e) of Public Law 103–325 (12 2
U.S.C. 4707(e)) with regard to Small and/or Emerg-3
ing Community Development Financial Institutions 4
Assistance awards, is available until September 30, 5
2026, for financial assistance and technical assist-6
ance under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 7
108(a)(1), respectively, of Public Law 103–325 (12 8
U.S.C. 4707(a)(1)(A) and (B)), of which up to 9
$1,600,000 may be available for training and out-10
reach under section 109 of Public Law 103–325 (12 11
U.S.C. 4708), of which up to $3,153,750 may be 12
used for the cost of direct loans, of which up to 13
$10,000,000, notwithstanding subsection (d) of sec-14
tion 108 of Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 15
4707(d)), may be available to provide financial as-16
sistance, technical assistance, training, and outreach 17
to community development financial institutions to 18
expand investments that benefit individuals with dis-19
abilities: Provided, That the cost of direct and guar-20
anteed loans, including the cost of modifying such 21
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-22
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 23
That these funds are available to subsidize gross ob-24
ligations for the principal amount of direct loans not 25
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to exceed $25,000,000: Provided further, That of the 1
funds provided under this paragraph, excluding 2
those made to community development financial in-3
stitutions to expand investments that benefit individ-4
uals with disabilities and those made to community 5
development financial institutions that serve popu-6
lations living in persistent poverty counties, the 7
Community Development Financial Institutions 8
Fund shall prioritize Financial Assistance awards to 9
organizations that invest and lend in high-poverty 10
areas: Provided further, That for purposes of this 11
section, the term ‘‘high-poverty area’’ means any 12
census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 per-13
cent as measured by the 2016–2020 five-year data 14
series available from the American Community Sur-15
vey of the Bureau of the Census for all States and 16
Puerto Rico or with a poverty rate of at least 20 17
percent as measured by the 2010 Island areas De-18
cennial Census data for any territory or possession 19
of the United States; 20
(2) not less than $35,000,000, notwithstanding 21
section 108(e) of Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 22
4707(e)), is available until September 30, 2026, for 23
financial assistance, technical assistance, training, 24
and outreach programs designed to benefit Native 25
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American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native com-1
munities and provided primarily through qualified 2
community development lender organizations with 3
experience and expertise in community development 4
banking and lending in Indian country, Native 5
American organizations, Tribes and Tribal organiza-6
tions, and other suitable providers; 7
(3) not less than $35,000,000 is available until 8
September 30, 2026, for the Bank Enterprise Award 9
program; 10
(4) not less than $3,000,000 is available until 11
September 30, 2026, to provide grants for loan loss 12
reserve funds and to provide technical assistance for 13
small dollar loan programs under section 122 of 14
Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 4719): Provided, 15
That sections 108(d) and 122(b)(2) of such Public 16
Law shall not apply to the provision of such grants 17
and technical assistance; 18
(5) up to $33,600,000 is available for adminis-19
trative expenses, including administration of Com-20
munity Development Financial Institutions Fund 21
programs and the New Markets Tax Credit Pro-22
gram, of which not less than $1,000,000 is for the 23
development of tools to better assess and inform 24
Community Development Financial Institutions in-25
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vestment performance and Community Development 1
Financial Institutions program impacts, and up to 2
$300,000 is for administrative expenses to carry out 3
the direct loan program; and 4
(6) during fiscal year 2025, none of the funds 5
available under this heading are available for the 6
cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 7
Budget Act of 1974, of commitments to guarantee 8
bonds and notes under section 114A of the Riegle 9
Community Development and Regulatory Improve-10
ment Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4713a): Provided, 11
That commitments to guarantee bonds and notes 12
under such section 114A shall not exceed 13
$500,000,000: Provided further, That such section 14
114A shall remain in effect until December 31, 15
2026: Provided further, That of the funds awarded 16
under this heading, not less than 10 percent shall be 17
used for awards that support investments that serve 18
populations living in persistent poverty counties: 19
Provided further, That for the purposes of this para-20
graph and paragraph (1), the term ‘‘persistent pov-21
erty counties’’ means any county, including county 22
equivalent areas in Puerto Rico, that has had 20 23
percent or more of its population living in poverty 24
over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 25
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and 2000 decennial censuses and the 2016–2020 1
five-year data series available from the American 2
Community Survey of the Bureau of the Census or 3
any other territory or possession of the United 4
States that has had 20 percent or more of its popu-5
lation living in poverty over the past 30 years, as 6
measured by the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Island Areas 7
Decennial Censuses, or equivalent data, of the Bu-8
reau of the Census. 9
I
NTERNALREVENUESERVICE 10
TAXPAYER SERVICES 11
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-12
ice to provide taxpayer services, including pre-filing assist-13
ance and education, filing and account services, taxpayer 14
advocacy services, and other services as authorized by 5 15
U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the 16
Commissioner, $2,780,606,000, of which not to exceed 17
$100,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 18
2026, of which not less than $13,000,000 shall be for the 19
Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, of which not less 20
than $30,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
2026 shall be available for low-income taxpayer clinic 22
grants, including grants to individual clinics of up to 23
$200,000, of which not less than $45,000,000, to remain 24
available until September 30, 2026, shall be available for 25
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the Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Match-1
ing Grants Program for tax return preparation assistance, 2
and of which not less than $291,200,000 shall be available 3
for operating expenses of the Taxpayer Advocate Service: 4
Provided, That of the amounts made available for the Tax-5
payer Advocate Service, not less than $7,000,000 shall be 6
for identity theft and refund fraud casework. 7
ENFORCEMENT 8
For necessary expenses for tax enforcement activities 9
of the Internal Revenue Service to determine and collect 10
owed taxes, to provide legal and litigation support, to con-11
duct criminal investigations, to enforce criminal statutes 12
related to violations of internal revenue laws and other fi-13
nancial crimes, to purchase and hire passenger motor vehi-14
cles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)), and to provide other services 15
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 16
determined by the Commissioner, $3,437,622,000; of 17
which not to exceed $250,000,000 shall remain available 18
until September 30, 2026; of which not less than 19
$65,257,000 shall be for the Interagency Crime and Drug 20
Enforcement program; and of which not to exceed 21
$35,000,000 shall be for investigative technology for the 22
Criminal Investigation Division: Provided, That the 23
amount made available for investigative technology for the 24
Criminal Investigation Division shall be in addition to 25
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amounts made available for the Criminal Investigation Di-1
vision under the ‘‘Operations Support’’ heading. 2
OPERATIONS SUPPORT 3
For necessary expenses to operate the Internal Rev-4
enue Service to support taxpayer services and enforcement 5
programs, including rent payments; facilities services; 6
printing; postage; physical security; headquarters and 7
other IRS-wide administration activities; research and sta-8
tistics of income; telecommunications; information tech-9
nology development, enhancement, operations, mainte-10
nance and security; the hire of passenger motor vehicles 11
(31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); the operations of the Internal Rev-12
enue Service Oversight Board; and other services as au-13
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be deter-14
mined by the Commissioner; $3,750,826,000, of which not 15
to exceed $275,000,000 shall remain available until Sep-16
tember 30, 2026; of which not to exceed $10,000,000 shall 17
remain available until expended for acquisition of equip-18
ment and construction, repair and renovation of facilities; 19
of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall remain available 20
until September 30, 2027, for research; and of which not 21
to exceed $20,000 shall be for official reception and rep-22
resentation expenses: Provided, That not later than 30 23
days after the end of each quarter, the Internal Revenue 24
Service shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-25
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priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 1
and the Comptroller General of the United States detail-2
ing major information technology investments in the Inter-3
nal Revenue Service Integrated Modernization Business 4
Plan portfolio, including detailed, plain language sum-5
maries on the status of plans, costs, and results; prior re-6
sults and actual expenditures of the prior quarter; upcom-7
ing deliverables and costs for the fiscal year; risks and 8
mitigation strategies associated with ongoing work; rea-9
sons for any cost or schedule variances; and total expendi-10
tures by fiscal year: Provided further, That the Internal 11
Revenue Service shall include, in its budget justification 12
for fiscal year 2026, a summary of cost and schedule per-13
formance information for its major information technology 14
systems. 15
BUSINESS SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION 16
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-17
ice’s business systems modernization program, 18
$150,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
2027, and shall be for the capital asset acquisition of in-20
formation technology systems, including management and 21
related contractual costs of said acquisitions, including re-22
lated Internal Revenue Service labor costs, and contrac-23
tual costs associated with operations authorized by 5 24
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That not later than 30 days after 25
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the end of each quarter, the Internal Revenue Service shall 1
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of 2
the House of Representatives and the Senate and the 3
Comptroller General of the United States detailing major 4
information technology investments in the Internal Rev-5
enue Service Integrated Modernization Business Plan 6
portfolio, including detailed, plain language summaries on 7
the status of plans, costs, and results; prior results and 8
actual expenditures of the prior quarter; upcoming 9
deliverables and costs for the fiscal year; risks and mitiga-10
tion strategies associated with ongoing work; reasons for 11
any cost or schedule variances; and total expenditures by 12
fiscal year. 13
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —INTERNAL REVENUE 14
SERVICE 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
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EC. 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of an appropria-17
tion in this Act made available to the Internal Revenue 18
Service may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue 19
Service appropriation upon the advance approval of the 20
Committee: Provided, That, no funds may be transferred 21
to ‘‘Enforcement’’. 22
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EC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall main-23
tain an employee training program, which shall include the 24
following topics: taxpayers’ rights, dealing courteously 25
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with taxpayers, cross-cultural relations, ethics, and the im-1
partial application of tax law. 2
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EC. 103. The Internal Revenue Service shall insti-3
tute and enforce policies and procedures that will safe-4
guard the confidentiality of taxpayer information and pro-5
tect taxpayers against identity theft. 6
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EC. 104. Funds made available by this or any other 7
Act to the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for 8
improved facilities and increased staffing to provide suffi-9
cient and effective 1–800 help line service for taxpayers. 10
The Commissioner shall continue to make improvements 11
to the Internal Revenue Service 1–800 help line service 12
a priority and allocate resources necessary to enhance the 13
response time to taxpayer communications, particularly 14
with regard to victims of tax-related crimes. 15
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EC. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall issue 16
a notice of confirmation of any address change relating 17
to an employer making employment tax payments, and 18
such notice shall be sent to both the employer’s former 19
and new address and an officer or employee of the Internal 20
Revenue Service shall give special consideration to an 21
offer-in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the vic-22
tim of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer. 23
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EC. 106. None of the funds made available under 24
this Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to 25
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target citizens of the United States for exercising any 1
right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Con-2
stitution of the United States. 3
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EC. 107. None of the funds made available in this 4
Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to target 5
groups for regulatory scrutiny based on their ideological 6
beliefs. 7
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EC. 108. None of funds made available by this Act 8
to the Internal Revenue Service shall be obligated or ex-9
pended on conferences that do not adhere to the proce-10
dures, verification processes, documentation requirements, 11
and policies issued by the Chief Financial Officer, Human 12
Capital Office, and Agency-Wide Shared Services as a re-13
sult of the recommendations in the report published on 14
May 31, 2013, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 15
Administration entitled ‘‘Review of the August 2010 Small 16
Business/Self-Employed Division’s Conference in Ana-17
heim, California’’ (Reference Number 2013–10–037). 18
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EC. 109. None of the funds made available in this 19
Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be obligated or 20
expended— 21
(1) to make a payment to any employee under 22
a bonus, award, or recognition program; or 23
(2) under any hiring or personnel selection 24
process with respect to re-hiring a former employee; 25
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unless such program or process takes into account the 1
conduct and Federal tax compliance of such employee or 2
former employee. 3
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EC. 110. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used in contravention of section 6103 of the 5
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to confidentiality 6
and disclosure of returns and return information). 7
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EC. 111. The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Sec-8
retary’s delegate) may use the funds made available in this 9
Act, subject to such policies as the Secretary (or the Sec-10
retary’s delegate) may establish, to utilize direct hire au-11
thority to recruit and appoint qualified applicants, without 12
regard to any notice or preference requirements, directly 13
to positions in the competitive service to process back-14
logged tax returns and return information. 15
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EC. 112. Notwithstanding section 1344 of title 31, 16
United States Code, funds appropriated to the Internal 17
Revenue Service in this Act may be used to provide pas-18
senger carrier transportation and protection between the 19
Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s residence and place 20
of employment. 21
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EC. 113. None of the funds made available by this 22
or any other Act may be used to develop or provide tax-23
payers a free, public electronic return-filing service option, 24
without the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-25
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priations of the House and the Senate, House Ways and 1
Means Committee, and Senate Finance Committee. 2
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EC. 114. None of the funds in this Act may be used 3
to purchase firearms or ammunition for the Internal Rev-4
enue Service above the levels in the possession of the In-5
ternal Revenue Service on December 22, 2022. 6
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE 7
T
REASURY 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 9
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EC. 115. Appropriations to the Department of the 10
Treasury in this Act shall be available for uniforms or al-11
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 12
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; purchase of 13
insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign 14
countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the 15
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased 16
and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into 17
contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing 18
of health and medical services to employees and their de-19
pendents serving in foreign countries; and services author-20
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 21
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EC. 116. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-22
tions in this title made available under the headings ‘‘De-23
partmental Offices—Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Office of 24
Inspector General’’, ‘‘Financial Crimes Enforcement Net-25
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work’’, ‘‘Bureau of the Fiscal Service’’, and ‘‘Alcohol and 1
Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau’’ may be transferred be-2
tween such appropriations upon the advance approval of 3
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-4
resentatives and the Senate: Provided, That no transfer 5
under this section may increase or decrease any such ap-6
propriation by more than 2 percent. 7
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EC. 117. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-8
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue 9
Service may be transferred to the Treasury Inspector Gen-10
eral for Tax Administration’s appropriation upon the ad-11
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 12
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided, 13
That no transfer may increase or decrease any such appro-14
priation by more than 2 percent. 15
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EC. 118. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 16
or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury 17
or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used 18
to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note. 19
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EC. 119. The Secretary of the Treasury may trans-20
fer funds from the ‘‘Bureau of the Fiscal Service—Sala-21
ries and Expenses’’ to the Debt Collection Fund as nec-22
essary to cover the costs of debt collection: Provided, That 23
such amounts shall be reimbursed to such salaries and ex-24
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penses account from debt collections received in the Debt 1
Collection Fund. 2
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EC. 120. None of the funds appropriated or other-3
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 4
by the United States Mint to construct or operate any mu-5
seum without the explicit approval of the Committees on 6
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 7
Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and 8
the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 9
Affairs. 10
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EC. 121. None of the funds appropriated or other-11
wise made available by this or any other Act or source 12
to the Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Engrav-13
ing and Printing, and the United States Mint, individually 14
or collectively, may be used to consolidate any or all func-15
tions of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the 16
United States Mint without the explicit approval of the 17
House Committee on Financial Services; the Senate Com-18
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and the 19
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-20
atives and the Senate. 21
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EC. 122. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 22
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for the De-23
partment of the Treasury’s intelligence or intelligence re-24
lated activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by 25
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the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National 1
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 2
2025 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization 3
Act for Fiscal Year 2025. 4
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EC. 123. Not to exceed $5,000 shall be made avail-5
able from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Indus-6
trial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and 7
representation expenses. 8
S
EC. 124. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 9
a Capital Investment Plan to the Committees on Appro-10
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 11
not later than 30 days following the submission of the an-12
nual budget submitted by the President: Provided, That 13
such Capital Investment Plan shall include capital invest-14
ment spending from all accounts within the Department 15
of the Treasury, including but not limited to the Depart-16
ment-wide Systems and Capital Investment Programs ac-17
count, Treasury Franchise Fund account, and the Treas-18
ury Forfeiture Fund account: Provided further, That such 19
Capital Investment Plan shall include expenditures occur-20
ring in previous fiscal years for each capital investment 21
project that has not been fully completed. 22
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EC. 125. During fiscal year 2025— 23
(1) none of the funds made available in this or 24
any other Act may be used by the Department of 25
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the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Serv-1
ice, to issue, revise, or finalize any regulation, rev-2
enue ruling, or other guidance not limited to a par-3
ticular taxpayer relating to the standard which is 4
used to determine whether an organization is oper-5
ated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare 6
for purposes of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 7
Revenue Code of 1986 (including the proposed regu-8
lations published at 78 Fed. Reg. 71535 (November 9
29, 2013)); and 10
(2) the standard and definitions as in effect on 11
January 1, 2010, which are used to make such de-12
terminations shall apply after the date of the enact-13
ment of this Act for purposes of determining status 14
under section 501(c)(4) of such Code of organiza-15
tions created on, before, or after such date. 16
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EC. 126. Within 45 days after the date of enactment 17
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 18
an itemized report to the Committees on Appropriations 19
of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the 20
amount of total funds charged to each office by the Fran-21
chise Fund including the amount charged for each service 22
provided by the Franchise Fund to each office, a detailed 23
description of the services, a detailed explanation of how 24
each charge for each service is calculated, and a descrip-25
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tion of the role customers have in governing in the Fran-1
chise Fund. 2
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EC. 127. (a) Not later than 60 days after the end 3
of each quarter, the Office of Financial Research shall 4
submit reports on the activities of the Office to the Com-5
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 6
and the Senate, the Committee on Financial Services of 7
the House of Representatives, and the Senate Committee 8
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 9
(b) The reports required under subsection (a) shall 10
include— 11
(1) the obligations made during the previous 12
quarter by object class, office, and activity; 13
(2) the estimated obligations for the remainder 14
of the fiscal year by object class, office, and activity; 15
(3) the number of full-time equivalents within 16
each office during the previous quarter; 17
(4) the estimated number of full-time equiva-18
lents within each office for the remainder of the fis-19
cal year; and 20
(5) actions taken to achieve the goals, objec-21
tives, and performance measures of each office. 22
(c) At the request of any such Committees specified 23
in subsection (a), the Office of Financial Research shall 24
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make officials available to testify on the contents of the 1
reports required under subsection (a). 2
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EC. 128. In addition to amounts otherwise available, 3
there is appropriated to the Special Inspector General for 4
Pandemic Recovery, $5,000,000, to remain available until 5
expended, for necessary expenses in carrying out section 6
4018 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-7
rity Act (Public Law 116–136). 8
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EC. 129. None of the funds made available in this 9
Act may be used to approve, license, facilitate, authorize, 10
or otherwise allow, whether by general or specific license, 11
travel-related or other transactions incident to non-edu-12
cational exchanges described in section 515.565(b) of title 13
31, Code of Federal Regulations. 14
S
EC. 130. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Sec-15
retary of Homeland Security shall provide a joint report 16
not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act 17
regarding travel pursuant to sections 515.565(b), 18
515.560(a)(1), 515.560(c)(4)(i), and 515.561 of title 31, 19
Code of Federal Regulations. 20
S
EC. 131. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used by the Department of the Treasury to 22
design, build, develop, or establish a United States Central 23
Bank Digital Currency or discontinue circulation or use 24
of paper currency as legal tender in the United States. 25
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SEC. 132. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used by the Financial Crimes Enforcement 2
Network to implement or enforce beneficial ownership re-3
porting rules pursuant to division F of the William M. 4
(Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for 5
Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116–283) that have been 6
found by a Federal court to be unconstitutional or do not 7
reflect Congressional intent, including reporting rules for 8
small businesses and homeowners associations. 9
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EC. 133. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the 11
rulemaking entitled, ‘‘Exchange of Coin’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 12
36721 (May 3, 2024)). 13
S
EC. 134. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to implement or enforce the rule relating 15
to ‘‘Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds’’ 16
(88 Fed. Reg. 80584 (November 20, 2023)) or any sub-17
stantially similar rule. 18
S
EC. 135. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used by the Federal Insurance Office to imple-20
ment, administer, or enforce subsection (e)(6) of section 21
313 of title 31, United States Code. Additionally, none 22
of the funds made available by this Act may be used by 23
the Office of Financial Research to implement, administer, 24
or enforce section 5343(f) of title 12, United States Code. 25
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SEC. 136. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to establish with the Department of 2
Treasury an advisory committee with respect to any envi-3
ronmental, social, or governance matter. 4
S
EC. 137. Amounts made available under section 5
601(f)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 801(f)(3)) 6
shall be available for any necessary expenses of the De-7
partment of the Treasury Office of Inspector General with 8
respect to section 601 of that Act, subtitle A of title V 9
of division N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 10
2021, and section 3201 of the American Rescue Plan Act 11
of 2021, in addition to amounts otherwise available for 12
such purposes. 13
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EC. 138. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to carry out amendments published on 15
May 29, 2024, with respect to sections 515.340, 515.570, 16
515.582, and 515.584 of title 31, Code of Federal Regula-17
tions. 18
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EC. 139. None of the funds appropriated or other-19
wise made available by this Act may be used for bonuses, 20
pay raises, or official travel by political appointees at the 21
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the 22
Treasury until the Office adds— 23
(1) all entities on the list, on the date of the en-24
actment of this Act, of Chinese military companies 25
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produced by the Department of Defense in accord-1
ance with section 1260H of the William M. (Mac) 2
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for 3
Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 note) to the Non- 4
SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Compa-5
nies List (NS-CMIC List), that are not already on 6
the NS-CMIC List; and 7
(2) all subsidiaries and affiliates on the date of 8
the enactment of this Act of companies on the NS- 9
CMIC List, including of any entity added to such 10
list pursuant to paragraph (1), to the NS-CMIC 11
List. 12
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 13
Treasury Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 14
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TITLE II 1
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND 2
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 3
T
HEWHITEHOUSE 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For necessary expenses for the White House as au-6
thorized by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for 7
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; 8
subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which 9
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 10
section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, and travel (not 11
to exceed $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as 12
provided by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not to exceed $19,000 for 13
official reception and representation expenses, to be avail-14
able for allocation within the Executive Office of the Presi-15
dent; and for necessary expenses of the Office of Policy 16
Development, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 17
3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, $60,000,000. 18
E
XECUTIVERESIDENCE AT THEWHITEHOUSE 19
OPERATING EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses of the Executive Residence 21
at the White House, $15,000,000, to be expended and ac-22
counted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 23
112–114. 24
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REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES 1
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Resi-2
dence at the White House, such sums as may be nec-3
essary: Provided, That all reimbursable operating expenses 4
of the Executive Residence shall be made in accordance 5
with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided further, 6
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such 7
amount for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the 8
exclusive authority of the Executive Residence to incur ob-9
ligations and to receive offsetting collections, for such ex-10
penses: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 11
shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable polit-12
ical event to pay in advance an amount equal to the esti-13
mated cost of the event, and all such advance payments 14
shall be credited to this account and remain available until 15
expended: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 16
shall require the national committee of the political party 17
of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be 18
separately accounted for and available for expenses relat-19
ing to reimbursable political events sponsored by such 20
committee during such fiscal year: Provided further, That 21
the Executive Residence shall ensure that a written notice 22
of any amount owed for a reimbursable operating expense 23
under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing 24
such amount within 60 days after such expense is in-25
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curred, and that such amount is collected within 30 days 1
after the submission of such notice: Provided further, That 2
the Executive Residence shall charge interest and assess 3
penalties and other charges on any such amount that is 4
not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with 5
the interest and penalty provisions applicable to an out-6
standing debt on a United States Government claim under 7
31 U.S.C. 3717: Provided further, That each such amount 8
that is reimbursed, and any accompanying interest and 9
charges, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscella-10
neous receipts: Provided further, That the Executive Resi-11
dence shall prepare and submit to the Committees on Ap-12
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-13
ate, by not later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal 14
year covered by this Act, a report setting forth the reim-15
bursable operating expenses of the Executive Residence 16
during the preceding fiscal year, including the total 17
amount of such expenses, the amount of such total that 18
consists of reimbursable official and ceremonial events, the 19
amount of such total that consists of reimbursable political 20
events, and the portion of each such amount that has been 21
reimbursed as of the date of the report: Provided further, 22
That the Executive Residence shall maintain a system for 23
the tracking of expenses related to reimbursable events 24
within the Executive Residence that includes a standard 25
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for the classification of any such expense as political or 1
nonpolitical: Provided further, That no provision of this 2
paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive Res-3
idence from any other applicable requirement of sub-4
chapter I or II of chapter 37 of title 31, United States 5
Code. 6
W
HITEHOUSEREPAIR ANDRESTORATION 7
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the 8
Executive Residence at the White House pursuant to 3 9
U.S.C. 105(d), $2,475,000, to remain available until ex-10
pended, for required maintenance, resolution of safety and 11
health issues, and continued preventative maintenance. 12
C
OUNCIL OFECONOMICADVISERS 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic 15
Advisers in carrying out its functions under the Employ-16
ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021 et seq.), $4,200,000. 17
N
ATIONALSECURITYCOUNCIL ANDHOMELAND 18
S
ECURITYCOUNCIL 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses of the National Security 21
Council and the Homeland Security Council, including 22
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,500,000, of 23
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for official 24
reception and representation expenses. 25
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OFFICE OFADMINISTRATION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administra-3
tion, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 4
and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 5
$106,500,000, of which not to exceed $12,800,000 shall 6
remain available until expended for continued moderniza-7
tion of information resources within the Executive Office 8
of the President: Provided, That of the amounts provided 9
under this heading, up to $7,000,000 shall be available 10
for a program to provide payments (such as stipends, sub-11
sistence allowances, cost reimbursements, or awards) to 12
students, recent graduates, and veterans recently dis-13
charged from active duty who are performing voluntary 14
services in the Executive Office of the President under sec-15
tion 3111(b) of title 5, United States Code, or comparable 16
authority and shall be in addition to amounts otherwise 17
available to pay or compensate such individuals: Provided 18
further, That such payments shall not be considered com-19
pensation for purposes of such section 3111(b) and may 20
be paid in advance. 21
O
FFICE OFMANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 22
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 23
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management 24
and Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 25
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and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, to carry out 1
the provisions of chapter 35 of title 44, United States 2
Code, and to prepare and submit the budget of the United 3
States Government, in accordance with section 1105(a) of 4
title 31, United States Code, $126,000,000, of which not 5
to exceed $3,000 shall be available for official representa-6
tion expenses: Provided, That none of the funds appro-7
priated in this Act for the Office of Management and 8
Budget may be used for the purpose of reviewing any agri-9
cultural marketing orders or any activities or regulations 10
under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agree-11
ment Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided further, 12
That none of the funds made available for the Office of 13
Management and Budget by this Act may be expended for 14
the altering of the transcript of actual testimony of wit-15
nesses, except for testimony of officials of the Office of 16
Management and Budget, before the Committees of the 17
House of Representatives and the Senate on Appropria-18
tions or their subcommittees: Provided further, That none 19
of the funds made available for the Office of Management 20
and Budget by this Act may be expended for the altering 21
of the annual work plan developed by the Corps of Engi-22
neers for submission to the Committees on Appropria-23
tions: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 24
in this or prior Acts shall be used, directly or indirectly, 25
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by the Office of Management and Budget, for evaluating 1
or determining if water resource project or study reports 2
submitted by the Chief of Engineers acting through the 3
Secretary of the Army are in compliance with all applica-4
ble laws, regulations, and requirements relevant to the 5
Civil Works water resource planning process: Provided fur-6
ther, That the Office of Management and Budget shall 7
have not more than 60 days in which to perform budgetary 8
policy reviews of water resource matters on which the 9
Chief of Engineers has reported: Provided further, That 10
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 11
shall notify the appropriate authorizing and appropriating 12
committees when the 60-day review is initiated: Provided 13
further, That if water resource reports have not been 14
transmitted to the appropriate authorizing and appro-15
priating committees within 15 days after the end of the 16
Office of Management and Budget review period based on 17
the notification from the Director, Congress shall assume 18
Office of Management and Budget concurrence with the 19
report and act accordingly: Provided further, That no later 20
than 14 days after the submission of the budget of the 21
United States Government for fiscal year 2026, the Direc-22
tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall make 23
publicly available on a website a tabular list for each agen-24
cy that submits budget justification materials (as defined 25
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in section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 1
Transparency Act of 2006) that shall include, at min-2
imum, the name of the agency, the date on which the 3
budget justification materials of the agency were sub-4
mitted to Congress, and a uniform resource locator where 5
the budget justification materials are published on the 6
website of the agency. 7
I
NTELLECTUALPROPERTYENFORCEMENT 8
C
OORDINATOR 9
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Intellec-10
tual Property Enforcement Coordinator, as authorized by 11
title III of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for 12
Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403), 13
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 14
$1,838,000. 15
O
FFICE OF THENATIONALCYBERDIRECTOR 16
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of the National 18
Cyber Director, as authorized by section 1752 of the Wil-19
liam M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authoriza-20
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283), 21
$19,126,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be avail-22
able for official reception and representation expenses. 23
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OFFICE OFNATIONALDRUGCONTROLPOLICY 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 3
Drug Control Policy; for research activities pursuant to 4
the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthoriza-5
tion Act of 1998, as amended; not to exceed $10,000 for 6
official reception and representation expenses; and for par-7
ticipation in joint projects or in the provision of services 8
on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, research, or 9
public organizations or agencies, with or without reim-10
bursement, $19,000,000: Provided, That the Office is au-11
thorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, both 12
real and personal, public and private, without fiscal year 13
limitation, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the 14
work of the Office. 15
FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 16
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 19
Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking 20
Areas Program, $299,600,000, to remain available until 21
September 30, 2026, for drug control activities consistent 22
with the approved strategy for each of the designated 23
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (‘‘HIDTAs’’), of 24
which not less than 51 percent shall be transferred to 25
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State and local entities for drug control activities and shall 1
be obligated not later than 120 days after enactment of 2
this Act: Provided, That up to 49 percent may be trans-3
ferred to Federal agencies and departments in amounts 4
determined by the Director of the Office of National Drug 5
Control Policy, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used 6
for auditing services and associated activities and 7
$1,500,000 shall be for the Grants Management System 8
for use by the Office of National Drug Control Policy: Pro-9
vided further, That any unexpended funds obligated prior 10
to fiscal year 2023 may be used for any other approved 11
activities of that HIDTA, subject to reprogramming re-12
quirements: Provided further, That each HIDTA des-13
ignated as of September 30, 2024, shall be funded at not 14
less than the fiscal year 2024 base level, unless the Direc-15
tor submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 16
House of Representatives and the Senate justification for 17
changes to those levels based on clearly articulated prior-18
ities and published Office of National Drug Control Policy 19
performance measures of effectiveness: Provided further, 20
That the Director shall notify the Committees on Appro-21
priations of the initial allocation of fiscal year 2025 fund-22
ing among HIDTAs not later than 45 days after enact-23
ment of this Act, and shall notify the Committees of 24
planned uses of discretionary HIDTA funding, as deter-25
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mined in consultation with the HIDTA Directors, not 1
later than 90 days after enactment of this Act: Provided 2
further, That upon a determination that all or part of the 3
funds so transferred from this appropriation are not nec-4
essary for the purposes provided herein and upon notifica-5
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 6
of Representatives and the Senate, such amounts may be 7
transferred back to this appropriation. 8
OTHER FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 10
For other drug control activities authorized by the 11
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Office of National 12
Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998, as 13
amended, $134,950,000, to remain available until ex-14
pended, which shall be available as follows: $109,000,000 15
for the Drug-Free Communities Program, of which not 16
more than $12,780,000 is for administrative expenses, 17
and of which $2,500,000 shall be made available as di-18
rected by section 4 of Public Law 107–82, as amended 19
by section 8204 of Public Law 115–271; $3,000,000 for 20
drug court training and technical assistance; $14,000,000 21
for anti-doping activities; up to $2,500,000 for the United 22
States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agen-23
cy; $1,250,000 for the Model Acts Program; and 24
$5,200,000 for activities authorized by section 103 of 25
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Public Law 114–198: Provided, That amounts made avail-1
able under this heading may be transferred to other Fed-2
eral departments and agencies to carry out such activities: 3
Provided further, That the Director of the Office of Na-4
tional Drug Control Policy shall, not fewer than 30 days 5
prior to obligating funds under this heading for United 6
States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agen-7
cy, submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 8
House of Representatives and the Senate a spending plan 9
and explanation of the proposed uses of these funds. 10
U
NANTICIPATEDNEEDS 11
For expenses necessary to enable the President to 12
meet unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national 13
interest, security, or defense which may arise at home or 14
abroad during the current fiscal year, as authorized by 15
3 U.S.C. 108, $990,000, to remain available until Sep-16
tember 30, 2025. 17
I
NFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYOVERSIGHT ANDREFORM 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 19
For necessary expenses for the furtherance of inte-20
grated, efficient, secure, and effective uses of information 21
technology in the Federal Government, $8,000,000, to re-22
main available until expended: Provided, That the Director 23
of the Office of Management and Budget may transfer 24
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these funds to one or more other agencies to carry out 1
projects to meet these purposes. 2
S
PECIALASSISTANCE TO THEPRESIDENT 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President 5
to provide assistance to the President in connection with 6
specially assigned functions; services as authorized by 5 7
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence ex-8
penses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be ex-9
pended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 10
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $5,000,000. 11
O
FFICIALRESIDENCE OF THEVICEPRESIDENT 12
OPERATING EXPENSES 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, 15
and to the extent not otherwise provided for, heating and 16
lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the offi-17
cial residence of the Vice President; the hire of passenger 18
motor vehicles; and not to exceed $90,000 pursuant to 3 19
U.S.C. 106(b)(2), $315,000: Provided, That advances, re-20
payments, or transfers from this appropriation may be 21
made to any department or agency for expenses of car-22
rying out such activities. 23
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ADMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—EXECUTIVEOFFICE 1
O
F THEPRESIDENT ANDFUNDSAPPROPRIATED TO THE 2
P
RESIDENT 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
S
EC. 201. From funds made available in this Act 5
under the headings ‘‘The White House’’, ‘‘Executive Resi-6
dence at the White House’’, ‘‘White House Repair and 7
Restoration’’, ‘‘Council of Economic Advisers’’, ‘‘National 8
Security Council and Homeland Security Council’’, ‘‘Of-9
fice of Administration’’, ‘‘Special Assistance to the Presi-10
dent’’, and ‘‘Official Residence of the Vice President’’, the 11
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (or 12
such other officer as the President may designate in writ-13
ing), may, with advance approval of the Committees on 14
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 15
Senate, transfer not to exceed 10 percent of any such ap-16
propriation to any other such appropriation, to be merged 17
with and available for the same time and for the same 18
purposes as the appropriation to which transferred: Pro-19
vided, That the amount of an appropriation shall not be 20
increased by more than 50 percent by such transfers: Pro-21
vided further, That no amount shall be transferred from 22
‘‘Special Assistance to the President’’ or ‘‘Official Resi-23
dence of the Vice President’’ without the approval of the 24
Vice President. 25
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SEC. 202. (a) During fiscal year 2025, any Executive 1
order or Presidential memorandum issued or revoked by 2
the President shall be accompanied by a written statement 3
from the Director of the Office of Management and Budg-4
et on the budgetary impact, including costs, benefits, and 5
revenues, of such order or memorandum. 6
(b) Any such statement shall include— 7
(1) a narrative summary of the budgetary im-8
pact of such order or memorandum on the Federal 9
Government; 10
(2) the impact on mandatory and discretionary 11
obligations and outlays as the result of such order 12
or memorandum, listed by Federal agency, for each 13
year in the 5-fiscal-year period beginning in fiscal 14
year 2025; and 15
(3) the impact on revenues of the Federal Gov-16
ernment as the result of such order or memorandum 17
over the 5-fiscal-year period beginning in fiscal year 18
2025. 19
(c) If an Executive order or Presidential memo-20
randum is issued during fiscal year 2025 due to a national 21
emergency, the Director of the Office of Management and 22
Budget may issue the statement required by subsection 23
(a) not later than 15 days after the date that such order 24
or memorandum is issued. 25
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(d) The requirement for cost estimates for Presi-1
dential memoranda shall only apply for Presidential 2
memoranda estimated to have a regulatory cost in excess 3
of $100,000,000. 4
S
EC. 203. Not later than 30 days after the date of 5
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Man-6
agement and Budget shall issue a memorandum to all 7
Federal departments, agencies, and corporations directing 8
compliance with the provisions in title VII of this Act. 9
S
EC. 204. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to develop or implement guidance related 11
to the valuation of ecosystem and environmental services 12
and natural assets in Federal regulatory decision-making, 13
as directed by Executive Order No. 14072 of April 22, 14
2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 24851, relating to strengthening the 15
Nation’s forests, communities, and local economies). 16
S
EC. 205. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to implement the proposed revisions, pub-18
lished on April 6, 2023, to OMB Circular A-4. 19
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Executive Office of 20
the President Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 21
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TITLE III 1
THE JUDICIARY 2
S
UPREMECOURT OF THEUNITEDSTATES 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Su-5
preme Court, as required by law, excluding care of the 6
building and grounds, including purchase and hire of pas-7
senger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 8
and 1344; not to exceed $10,000 for official reception and 9
representation expenses; and for miscellaneous expenses, 10
to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, 11
$136,000,000, of which $1,500,000 shall remain available 12
until expended. 13
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 14
be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief 15
justice and associate justices of the court. 16
CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS 17
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable 18
the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties im-19
posed upon the Architect by 40 U.S.C. 6111 and 6112 20
under the direction of the Chief Justice, $13,506,000, to 21
remain available until expended. 22
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UNITEDSTATESCOURT OFAPPEALS FOR THEFEDERAL 1
C
IRCUIT 2
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 3
For salaries of officers and employees, and for nec-4
essary expenses of the court, as authorized by law, 5
$37,500,000. 6
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 7
be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief 8
judge and judges of the court. 9
U
NITEDSTATESCOURT OFINTERNATIONALTRADE 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For salaries of officers and employees of the court, 12
services, and necessary expenses of the court, as author-13
ized by law, $21,700,000. 14
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 15
be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief 16
judge and judges of the court. 17
C
OURTS OFAPPEALS, DISTRICTCOURTS, ANDOTHER 18
J
UDICIALSERVICES 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
For the salaries of judges of the United States Court 21
of Federal Claims, magistrate judges, and all other offi-22
cers and employees of the Federal Judiciary not otherwise 23
specifically provided for, necessary expenses of the courts, 24
and the purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms 25
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for Probation and Pretrial Services Office staff, as author-1
ized by law, $6,106,841,000 (including the purchase of 2
firearms and ammunition); of which not to exceed 3
$27,817,000 shall remain available until expended for 4
space alteration projects and for furniture and furnishings 5
related to new space alteration and construction projects. 6
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 7
be necessary under current law for the salaries of circuit 8
and district judges (including judges of the territorial 9
courts of the United States), bankruptcy judges, and jus-10
tices and judges retired from office or from regular active 11
service. 12
In addition, for expenses of the United States Court 13
of Federal Claims associated with processing cases under 14
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Pub-15
lic Law 99–660), not to exceed $11,686,000, to be appro-16
priated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust 17
Fund. 18
DEFENDER SERVICES 19
For the operation of Federal Defender organizations; 20
the compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attor-21
neys appointed to represent persons under 18 U.S.C. 22
3006A and 3599, and for the compensation and reim-23
bursement of expenses of persons furnishing investigative, 24
expert, and other services for such representations as au-25
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thorized by law; the compensation (in accordance with the 1
maximums under 18 U.S.C. 3006A) and reimbursement 2
of expenses of attorneys appointed to assist the court in 3
criminal cases where the defendant has waived representa-4
tion by counsel; the compensation and reimbursement of 5
expenses of attorneys appointed to represent jurors in civil 6
actions for the protection of their employment, as author-7
ized by 28 U.S.C. 1875(d)(1); the compensation and reim-8
bursement of expenses of attorneys appointed under 18 9
U.S.C. 983(b)(1) in connection with certain judicial civil 10
forfeiture proceedings; the compensation and reimburse-11
ment of travel expenses of guardians ad litem appointed 12
under 18 U.S.C. 4100(b); and for necessary training and 13
general administrative expenses, $1,500,000,000, to re-14
main available until expended. 15
FEES OF JURORS AND COMMISSIONERS 16
For fees and expenses of jurors as authorized by 28 17
U.S.C. 1871 and 1876; compensation of jury commis-18
sioners as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1863; and compensa-19
tion of commissioners appointed in condemnation cases 20
pursuant to rule 71.1(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro-21
cedure (28 U.S.C. Appendix Rule 71.1(h)), $38,555,000, 22
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 23
compensation of land commissioners shall not exceed the 24
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daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 1
5332. 2
COURT SECURITY 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 5
incident to the provision of protective guard services for 6
United States courthouses and other facilities housing 7
Federal court or Administrative Office of the United 8
States Courts operations, the procurement, installation, 9
and maintenance of security systems and equipment for 10
United States courthouses and other facilities housing 11
Federal court or Administrative Office of the United 12
States Courts operations, building ingress-egress control, 13
inspection of mail and packages, directed security patrols, 14
perimeter security, basic security services provided by the 15
Federal Protective Service, and other similar activities as 16
authorized by section 1010 of the Judicial Improvement 17
and Access to Justice Act (Public Law 100–702), 18
$777,361,000, of which not to exceed $20,000,000 shall 19
remain available until expended, to be expended directly 20
or transferred to the United States Marshals Service, 21
which shall be responsible for administering the Judicial 22
Facility Security Program consistent with standards or 23
guidelines agreed to by the Director of the Administrative 24
Office of the United States Courts and the Attorney Gen-25
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eral: Provided, That funds made available under this head-1
ing may be used for managing a Judiciary-wide program 2
to facilitate security and emergency management services 3
among the Judiciary, United States Marshals Service, 4
Federal Protective Service, General Services Administra-5
tion, other Federal agencies, state and local governments 6
and the public; and for purposes authorized by the Daniel 7
Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2022 (Public 8
Law 117–263, division C, title LIX, subtitle D) and 28 9
U.S.C. 604(a)(24). 10
A
DMINISTRATIVEOFFICE OF THEUNITEDSTATES 11
C
OURTS 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office 14
of the United States Courts as authorized by law, includ-15
ing travel as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1345, hire of a pas-16
senger motor vehicle as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b), 17
advertising and rent in the District of Columbia and else-18
where, $104,578,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is au-19
thorized for official reception and representation expenses. 20
F
EDERALJUDICIALCENTER 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial Cen-23
ter, as authorized by Public Law 90–219, $34,837,000; 24
of which $1,800,000 shall remain available through Sep-25
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tember 30, 2026, to provide education and training to 1
Federal court personnel; and of which not to exceed 2
$1,500 is authorized for official reception and representa-3
tion expenses. 4
U
NITEDSTATESSENTENCINGCOMMISSION 5
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out 7
the provisions of chapter 58 of title 28, United States 8
Code, $22,050,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 is au-9
thorized for official reception and representation expenses. 10
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—THEJUDICIARY 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
S
EC. 301. Appropriations and authorizations made in 13
this title which are available for salaries and expenses shall 14
be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 15
S
EC. 302. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-16
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the Judi-17
ciary in this Act may be transferred between such appro-18
priations, but no such appropriation, except ‘‘Courts of 19
Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services, De-20
fender Services’’ and ‘‘Courts of Appeals, District Courts, 21
and Other Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commis-22
sioners’’, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by 23
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant 24
to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of 25
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funds under sections 604 and 608 of this Act and shall 1
not be available for obligation or expenditure except in 2
compliance with the procedures set forth in section 608. 3
S
EC. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of 4
law, the salaries and expenses appropriation for ‘‘Courts 5
of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services’’ 6
shall be available for official reception and representation 7
expenses of the Judicial Conference of the United States: 8
Provided, That such available funds shall not exceed 9
$11,000 and shall be administered by the Director of the 10
Administrative Office of the United States Courts in the 11
capacity as Secretary of the Judicial Conference. 12
S
EC. 304. Section 3315(a) of title 40, United States 13
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Federal’’ for ‘‘exec-14
utive’’ each place it appears. 15
S
EC. 305. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. 561–569, 16
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 17
United States Marshals Service shall provide, for such 18
courthouses as its Director may designate in consultation 19
with the Director of the Administrative Office of the 20
United States Courts, for purposes of a pilot program, the 21
security services that 40 U.S.C. 1315 authorizes the De-22
partment of Homeland Security to provide, except for the 23
services specified in 40 U.S.C. 1315(b)(2)(E). For build-24
ing-specific security services at these courthouses, the Di-25
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rector of the Administrative Office of the United States 1
Courts shall reimburse the United States Marshals Service 2
rather than the Department of Homeland Security. 3
S
EC. 306. (a) Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improve-4
ments Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–650; 28 U.S.C. 133 5
note), is amended in the matter following paragraph 12– 6
(1) in the second sentence (relating to the Dis-7
trict of Kansas), by striking ‘‘33 years and 6 8
months’’ and inserting ‘‘34 years and 6 months’’; 9
and 10
(2) in the sixth sentence (relating to the Dis-11
trict of Hawaii), by striking ‘‘30 years and 6 12
months’’ and inserting ‘‘31 years and 6 months’’. 13
(b) Section 406 of the Transportation, Treasury, 14
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the Dis-15
trict of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropria-16
tions Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–115; 119 Stat. 2470; 17
28 U.S.C. 133 note) is amended in the second sentence 18
(relating to the eastern District of Missouri) by striking 19
‘‘31 years and 6 months’’ and inserting ‘‘32 years and 20
6 months’’. 21
(c) Section 312(c)(2) of the 21st Century Depart-22
ment of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Public 23
Law 107–273; 28 U.S.C. 133 note), is amended— 24
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(1) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘22 years’’ and 1
inserting ‘‘23 years’’; 2
(2) in the second sentence (relating to the central 3
District of California), by striking ‘‘21 years and 6 4
months’’ and inserting ‘‘22 years and 6 months’’; and 5
(3) in the third sentence (relating to the western dis-6
trict of North Carolina), by striking ‘‘20 years’’ and in-7
serting ‘‘21 years’’. 8
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Judiciary Appropria-9
tions Act, 2025’’. 10
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TITLE IV 1
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 2
F
EDERALFUNDS 3
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR RESIDENT TUITION SUPPORT 4
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, 5
to be deposited into a dedicated account, for a nationwide 6
program to be administered by the Mayor, for District of 7
Columbia resident tuition support, $20,000,000, to remain 8
available until expended: Provided, That such funds, in-9
cluding any interest accrued thereon, may be used on be-10
half of eligible District of Columbia residents to pay an 11
amount based upon the difference between in-State and 12
out-of-State tuition at public institutions of higher edu-13
cation, or to pay up to $2,500 each year at eligible private 14
institutions of higher education: Provided further, That the 15
awarding of such funds may be prioritized on the basis 16
of a resident’s academic merit, the income and need of 17
eligible students and such other factors as may be author-18
ized: Provided further, That the District of Columbia gov-19
ernment shall maintain a dedicated account for the Resi-20
dent Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the 21
Federal funds appropriated to the Program in this Act 22
and any subsequent appropriations, any unobligated bal-23
ances from prior fiscal years, and any interest earned in 24
this or any fiscal year: Provided further, That the account 25
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shall be under the control of the District of Columbia 1
Chief Financial Officer, who shall use those funds solely 2
for the purposes of carrying out the Resident Tuition Sup-3
port Program: Provided further, That the Office of the 4
Chief Financial Officer shall provide a quarterly financial 5
report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 6
of Representatives and the Senate for these funds show-7
ing, by object class, the expenditures made and the pur-8
pose therefor. 9
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND 10
SECURITY COSTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 11
For a Federal payment of necessary expenses, as de-12
termined by the Mayor of the District of Columbia in writ-13
ten consultation with the elected county or city officials 14
of surrounding jurisdictions, $77,000,000, to remain 15
available until expended, for the costs of providing public 16
safety at events related to the presence of the National 17
Capital in the District of Columbia, including support re-18
quested by the Director of the United States Secret Serv-19
ice in carrying out protective duties under the direction 20
of the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for the costs 21
of providing support to respond to immediate and specific 22
terrorist threats or attacks in the District of Columbia or 23
surrounding jurisdictions: Provided, That, of the amount 24
provided under this heading in this Act, up to 25
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$47,000,000 shall be used for costs associated with the 1
Presidential Inauguration held in January 2025. 2
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 3
COURTS 4
For salaries and expenses for the District of Colum-5
bia Courts, including the transfer and hire of motor vehi-6
cles, $300,000,000 to be allocated as follows: for the Dis-7
trict of Columbia Court of Appeals, $15,283,000, of which 8
not to exceed $2,500 is for official reception and represen-9
tation expenses; for the Superior Court of the District of 10
Columbia, $142,571,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 11
is for official reception and representation expenses; for 12
the District of Columbia Court System, $91,896,000, of 13
which not to exceed $2,500 is for official reception and 14
representation expenses; and $50,250,000, to remain 15
available until September 30, 2026, for capital improve-16
ments for District of Columbia courthouse facilities: Pro-17
vided, That funds made available for capital improvements 18
shall be expended consistent with the District of Columbia 19
Courts master plan study and facilities condition assess-20
ment: Provided further, That, in addition to the amounts 21
appropriated herein, fees received by the District of Co-22
lumbia Courts for administering bar examinations and 23
processing District of Columbia bar admissions may be re-24
tained and credited to this appropriation, to remain avail-25
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able until expended, for salaries and expenses associated 1
with such activities, notwithstanding section 450 of the 2
District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, 3
sec. 1–204.50): Provided further, That notwithstanding 4
any other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 5
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage-6
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 7
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 8
of other Federal agencies: Provided further, That 30 days 9
after providing written notice to the Committees on Ap-10
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-11
ate, the District of Columbia Courts may reallocate not 12
more than $9,000,000 of the funds provided under this 13
heading among the items and entities funded under this 14
heading: Provided further, That the Joint Committee on 15
Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia may, 16
by regulation, establish a program substantially similar to 17
the program set forth in subchapter II of chapter 35 of 18
title 5, United States Code, for employees of the District 19
of Columbia Courts. 20
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR DEFENDER SERVICES IN 21
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS 22
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 23
For payments authorized under section 11–2604 and 24
section 11–2605, D.C. Official Code (relating to represen-25
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tation provided under the District of Columbia Criminal 1
Justice Act), payments for counsel appointed in pro-2
ceedings in the Family Court of the Superior Court of the 3
District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. 4
Official Code, or pursuant to contractual agreements to 5
provide guardian ad litem representation, training, tech-6
nical assistance, and such other services as are necessary 7
to improve the quality of guardian ad litem representation, 8
payments for counsel appointed in adoption proceedings 9
under chapter 3 of title 16, D.C. Official Code, and pay-10
ments authorized under section 21–2060, D.C. Official 11
Code (relating to services provided under the District of 12
Columbia Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Du-13
rable Power of Attorney Act of 1986), $46,005,000, to 14
remain available until expended: Provided, That funds pro-15
vided under this heading shall be administered by the 16
Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the Dis-17
trict of Columbia: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 18
any other provision of law, this appropriation shall be ap-19
portioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 20
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner 21
as funds appropriated for expenses of other Federal agen-22
cies: Provided further, That of the unobligated balances 23
from prior year appropriations made available under this 24
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heading, $12,000,000, are hereby rescinded not later than 1
September 30, 2025. 2
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE COURT SERVICES AND 3
OFFENDER SUPERVISION AGENCY FOR 4
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 6
hire of motor vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender 7
Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, as au-8
thorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 9
Government Improvement Act of 1997, $295,000,000, of 10
which not to exceed $2,000 is for official reception and 11
representation expenses related to Community Supervision 12
and Pretrial Services Agency programs, and of which not 13
to exceed $25,000 is for dues and assessments relating 14
to the implementation of the Court Services and Offender 15
Supervision Agency Interstate Supervision Act of 2002: 16
Provided, That, of the funds appropriated under this head-17
ing, $208,034,000 shall be for necessary expenses of Com-18
munity Supervision and Sex Offender Registration, to in-19
clude expenses relating to the supervision of adults subject 20
to protection orders or the provision of services for or re-21
lated to such persons, of which up to $4,253,000 shall re-22
main available until September 30, 2027, for costs associ-23
ated with the relocation under replacement leases for 24
headquarters offices, field offices, and related facilities: 25
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Provided further, That, of the funds appropriated under 1
this heading, $86,966,000 shall be available to the Pretrial 2
Services Agency, of which up to $2,503,000 shall remain 3
available until September 30, 2027, for costs associated 4
with relocation under a replacement lease for headquarters 5
offices, field offices, and related facilities: Provided further, 6
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, all 7
amounts under this heading shall be apportioned quarterly 8
by the Office of Management and Budget and obligated 9
and expended in the same manner as funds appropriated 10
for salaries and expenses of other Federal agencies: Pro-11
vided further, That amounts under this heading may be 12
used for programmatic incentives for defendants to suc-13
cessfully complete their terms of supervision. 14
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 15
PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE 16
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 17
hire of motor vehicles, of the District of Columbia Public 18
Defender Service, as authorized by the National Capital 19
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 20
1997, $59,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 21
other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 22
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage-23
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 24
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 25
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of Federal agencies: Provided further, That the District 1
of Columbia Public Defender Service may establish for 2
employees of the District of Columbia Public Defender 3
Service a program substantially similar to the program set 4
forth in subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 5, United 5
States Code, except that the maximum amount of the pay-6
ment made under the program to any individual may not 7
exceed the amount referred to in section 3523(b)(3)(B) 8
of title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That for 9
the purposes of engaging with, and receiving services 10
from, Federal Franchise Fund Programs established in 11
accordance with section 403 of the Government Manage-12
ment Reform Act of 1994, as amended, the District of 13
Columbia Public Defender Service shall be considered an 14
agency of the United States Government: Provided further, 15
That the District of Columbia Public Defender Service 16
may enter into contracts for the procurement of severable 17
services and multiyear contracts for the acquisition of 18
property and services to the same extent and under the 19
same conditions as an executive agency under sections 20
3902 and 3903 of title 41, United States Code. 21
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 22
COORDINATING COUNCIL 23
For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Co-24
ordinating Council, $2,450,000, to remain available until 25
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expended, to support initiatives related to the coordination 1
of Federal and local criminal justice resources in the Dis-2
trict of Columbia. 3
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR JUDICIAL COMMISSIONS 4
For a Federal payment, to remain available until 5
September 30, 2026, to the Commission on Judicial Dis-6
abilities and Tenure, $330,000, and for the Judicial Nomi-7
nation Commission, $300,000. 8
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT 9
For a Federal payment for a school improvement pro-10
gram in the District of Columbia, $55,500,000, to remain 11
available until expended, for payments authorized under 12
the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (division 13
C of Public Law 112–10): Provided, That, to the extent 14
that funds are available for opportunity scholarships and 15
following the priorities included in section 3006 of such 16
Act, the Secretary of Education shall make scholarships 17
available to students eligible under section 3013(3) of such 18
Act (Public Law 112–10; 125 Stat. 211) including stu-19
dents who were not offered a scholarship during any pre-20
vious school year: Provided further, That within funds pro-21
vided for opportunity scholarships, up to $1,750,000 shall 22
be for the activities specified in sections 3007(b) through 23
3007(d) of the Act and up to $500,000 shall be for the 24
activities specified in section 3009 of the Act. 25
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FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1
NATIONAL GUARD 2
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 3
National Guard, $600,000, to remain available until ex-4
pended for the Major General David F. Wherley, Jr. Dis-5
trict of Columbia National Guard Retention and College 6
Access Program. 7
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR TESTING AND TREATMENT OF 8
HIV/AIDS 9
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 10
for the testing of individuals for, and the treatment of in-11
dividuals with, human immunodeficiency virus and ac-12
quired immunodeficiency syndrome in the District of Co-13
lumbia, $4,000,000. 14
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 15
WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY 16
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 17
Water and Sewer Authority, $8,000,000, to remain avail-18
able until expended, to continue implementation of the 19
Combined Sewer Overflow Long-Term Plan: Provided, 20
That the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority 21
provides a 100 percent match for this payment. 22
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS 23
Local funds are appropriated for the District of Co-24
lumbia for the current fiscal year out of the General Fund 25
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of the District of Columbia (‘‘General Fund’’) for pro-1
grams and activities set forth under the heading ‘‘District 2
of Columbia Budget for the Fiscal Year ending September 3
30, 2025’’ and at the rate set forth under such heading, 4
as included in the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of 5
2024 submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia, 6
as amended as of the date of enactment of this Act: Pro-7
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 8
except as provided in section 450A of the District of Co-9
lumbia Home Rule Act (section 1–204.50a, D.C. Official 10
Code), sections 816 and 817 of the Financial Services and 11
General Government Appropriations Act, 2009 (secs. 47– 12
369.01 and 47–369.02, D.C. Official Code), and provi-13
sions of this Act, the total amount appropriated in this 14
Act for operating expenses for the District of Columbia 15
for fiscal year 2025 under this heading shall not exceed 16
the estimates included in the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget 17
Request Act of 2024 submitted to Congress by the District 18
of Columbia, as amended as of the date of enactment of 19
this Act or the sum of the total revenues of the District 20
of Columbia for such fiscal year: Provided further, That 21
the amount appropriated may be increased by proceeds of 22
one-time transactions, which are expended for emergency 23
or unanticipated operating or capital needs: Provided fur-24
ther, That such increases shall be approved by enactment 25
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of local District law and shall comply with all reserve re-1
quirements contained in the District of Columbia Home 2
Rule Act: Provided further, That the Chief Financial Offi-3
cer of the District of Columbia shall take such steps as 4
are necessary to assure that the District of Columbia 5
meets these requirements, including the apportioning by 6
the Chief Financial Officer of the appropriations and 7
funds made available to the District during fiscal year 8
2025, except that the Chief Financial Officer may not re-9
program for operating expenses any funds derived from 10
bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for capital 11
projects. 12
This title may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 13
Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 14
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TITLE V 1
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 2
A
DMINISTRATIVECONFERENCE OF THE UNITEDSTATES 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Con-5
ference of the United States, authorized by 5 U.S.C. 591 6
et seq., $3,430,000, to remain available until September 7
30, 2026, of which not to exceed $1,000 is for official re-8
ception and representation expenses. 9
C
ONSUMERFINANCIALPROTECTIONBUREAU 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For necessary expenses to carry out the authorities 12
of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 13
$650,000,000 to remain available until expended. 14
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —CONSUMER FINANCIAL 15
PROTECTION BUREAU 16
S
EC. 500. Section 1017 of the Consumer Financial 17
Protection Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5497) is amended— 18
(1) in subsection (a)— 19
(A) by amending the heading of such sub-20
section to read as follows: ‘‘BUDGET, FINAN-21
CIAL MANAGEMENT, AND AUDIT.—’’; 22
(B) by striking paragraphs (1), (2), and 23
(3); 24
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(C) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and 1
(5) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and 2
(D) by striking subparagraphs (E) and (F) 3
of paragraph (1), as so redesignated; 4
(2) by striking subsections (b) and (c); 5
(3) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as 6
subsections (b) and (c), respectively; and 7
(4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated— 8
(A) by striking paragraphs (1), (2), and 9
(3) and inserting the following: — 10
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION 
OF APPROPRIA -11
TIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to 12
the Bureau $650,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 to 13
carry out the authorities of the Bureau.’’; and 14
(B) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 15
paragraph (2). 16
S
EC. 501. (a) INGENERAL.—The Consumer Finan-17
cial Protection Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5481 et seq.) is 18
amended— 19
(1) in section 1011-— 20
(A) in subsection (a)— 21
(i) by striking ‘‘in the Federal Reserve 22
System,’’; and 23
(ii) by striking ‘‘independent bureau’’ 24
and inserting ‘‘independent agency’’; 25
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(B) by striking subsections (b), (c), and 1
(d); 2
(C) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-3
section (j); 4
(D) in subsection (j), as so redesignated, 5
by striking ‘‘, including in cities in which the 6
Federal reserve banks, or branches of such 7
banks, are located,’’; and 8
(E) by inserting after subsection (a) the 9
following new subsections: 10
‘‘(b) AUTHORITY TO PRESCRIBE REGULA-11
TIONS.—The commission of the Bureau may prescribe 12
such regulations and issue such orders in accordance with 13
this title as the Bureau may determine to be necessary 14
for carrying out this title and all other laws within the 15
Bureau’s jurisdiction and shall exercise any authorities 16
granted under this title and all other laws within the Bu-17
reau’s jurisdiction. 18
‘‘(c) COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION.— 19
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The management of the Bu-20
reau shall be vested in a commission, which shall be com-21
posed of 5 members who shall be appointed by the Presi-22
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 23
and at least 2 of whom shall have private sector experience 24
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in the provision of consumer financial products and serv-1
ices. 2
‘‘(2) STAGGERING.—The members of the commis-3
sion shall serve staggered terms, which initially shall be 4
established by the President for terms of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
5 years, respectively. 6
‘‘(3) TERMS.— 7
‘‘(A) IN 
GENERAL.—Except with respect to the 8
initial staggered terms described under paragraph 9
(2), each member of the commission, including the 10
Chair, shall serve for a term of 5 years. 11
‘‘(B) REMOVAL.—The President may remove 12
any member of the commission for inefficiency, ne-13
glect of duty, or malfeasance in office. 14
‘‘(C) VACANCIES.—Any member of the com-15
mission appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before 16
the expiration of the term to which that member’s 17
predecessor was appointed (including the Chair) 18
shall be appointed only for the remainder of the 19
term. 20
‘‘(D) CONTINUATION 
OF SERVICE.—Each 21
member of the commission may continue to serve 22
after the expiration of the term of office to which 23
that member was appointed until a successor has 24
been appointed by the President and confirmed by 25
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the Senate, except that a member may not continue 1
to serve more than 1 year after the date on which 2
the term of that member would otherwise expire. 3
‘‘(E) OTHER 
EMPLOYMENT PROHIBITED .—No 4
member of the commission shall engage in any other 5
business, vocation, or employment. 6
‘‘(d) AFFILIATION.—Not more than three mem-7
bers of the commission shall be members of any one polit-8
ical party. 9
‘‘(e) CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION.— 10
‘‘(1) INITIAL CHAIR.—The first member and 11
Chair of the commission shall be the individual serving 12
as Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protec-13
tion on the day before the date of the enactment of this 14
subsection. Such individual shall serve until the President 15
has appointed all 5 members of the commission in accord-16
ance with subsection (c). 17
‘‘(2) SUBSEQUENT CHAIR.—Of the 5 members 18
appointed in accordance with subsection (c), the President 19
shall appoint 1 member to serve as the subsequent Chair 20
of the commission. 21
‘‘(3) AUTHORITY.—The Chair shall be the prin-22
cipal executive officer of the commission, and shall exer-23
cise all of the executive and administrative functions of 24
the commission, including with respect to— 25
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‘‘(A) the appointment and supervision of per-1
sonnel employed under the commission (other than 2
personnel employed regularly and full time in the 3
immediate offices of members of the commission 4
other than the Chair); 5
‘‘(B) the distribution of business among per-6
sonnel appointed and supervised by the Chair and 7
among administrative units of the commission; and 8
‘‘(C) the use and expenditure of funds. 9
‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—In carrying out any of the 10
Chair’s functions under the provisions of this subsection, 11
the Chair shall be governed by general policies of the com-12
mission and by such regulatory decisions, findings, and de-13
terminations as the commission may by law be authorized 14
to make. 15
‘‘(5) REQUESTS OR ESTIMATES RELATED TO 16
APPROPRIATIONS.—Requests or estimates for regular, 17
supplemental, or deficiency appropriations on behalf of the 18
commission may not be submitted by the Chair without 19
the prior approval of the commission. 20
‘‘(6) DESIGNATION.—The Chair shall be known as 21
both the ‘Chair of the commission’ of the Bureau and the 22
‘Chair of the Bureau’. 23
‘‘(f) INITIAL QUORUM ESTABLISHED.—For 24
the 6 month period beginning on the date of enactment 25
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of this subsection, the first member and Chair of the com-1
mission described under subsection (e)(1) shall constitute 2
a quorum for the transaction of business until the Presi-3
dent has appointed all 5 members of the commission in 4
accordance with subsection (c). Following such appoint-5
ment of 5 members, the quorum requirements of sub-6
section (g) shall apply. 7
‘‘(g) NO IMPAIRMENT BY REASON OF VACAN-8
CIES.—No vacancy in the members of the commission 9
after the establishment of an initial quorum under sub-10
section (f) shall impair the right of the remaining mem-11
bers of the commission to exercise all the powers of the 12
commission. Three members of the commission shall con-13
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except 14
that if there are only 3 members serving on the commis-15
sion because of vacancies in the commission, 2 members 16
of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the trans-17
action of business. If there are only 2 members serving 18
on the commission because of vacancies in the commission, 19
2 members shall constitute a quorum for the 6-month pe-20
riod beginning on the date of the vacancy which caused 21
the number of commission members to decline to 2. 22
‘‘(h) SEAL.—The Bureau shall have an official seal. 23
‘‘(i) COMPENSATION.— 24
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‘‘(1) CHAIR.—The Chair shall receive compensation 1
at the rate prescribed for level I of the Executive Schedule 2
under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code. 3
‘‘(2) OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMIS-4
SION.—The 4 other members of the commission shall 5
each receive compensation at the rate prescribed for level 6
II of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 7
5, United States Code.’’; 8
(2) in section 1012(c)— 9
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘AUTON-10
OMY OF THE BUREAU’’ and inserting ‘‘CO-11
ORDINATION WITH THE BOARD OF 12
GOVERNORS’’; 13
(B) by striking ‘‘(1) COORDINATION 14
WITH THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.—’’; 15
and 16
(C) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), (4), 17
and (5); and 18
(3) in section 1014(b), by striking ‘‘Not fewer 19
than 6 members shall be appointed upon the rec-20
ommendation of the regional Federal Reserve Bank 21
Presidents, on a rotating basis.’’ and inserting ‘‘Not 22
fewer than half of all members shall have private 23
sector experience in the provision of consumer finan-24
cial products and services.’’. 25
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(b) DEEMING OF NAME.—Any reference in a law, 1
regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 2
States to the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Finan-3
cial Protection, except in subsection (e)(1) of section 1011 4
of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (12 5
U.S.C. 5491), as added by this Act, shall be deemed a 6
reference to the commission leading and governing the Bu-7
reau of Consumer Financial Protection, as described 8
under section 1011 of the Consumer Financial Protection 9
Act of 2010. 10
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 11
(1) CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION ACT 12
OF 2010.— 13
(A) IN 
GENERAL.—Except as provided under 14
subparagraph (B), the Consumer Financial Protec-15
tion Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5481 et seq.) is amend-16
ed— 17
(i) by striking ‘‘Director of the Bureau’’ 18
each place such term appears, other than where 19
such term is used to refer to a Director other 20
than the Director of the Bureau of Consumer 21
Financial Protection, and inserting ‘‘Bureau’’; 22
(ii) by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place such 23
term appears and inserting ‘‘Bureau’’, other 24
than where such term is used to refer to a Di-25
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rector other than the Director of the Bureau of 1
Consumer Financial Protection; and 2
(iii) in section 1002, by striking paragraph 3
(10). 4
(B) EXCEPTIONS.— 5
(i) IN 
GENERAL.—The Consumer Finan-6
cial Protection Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5481 et 7
seq.) is amended— 8
(I) in section 1013(c)(3)— 9
(aa) by striking ‘‘Assistant Direc-10
tor of the Bureau for’’ and inserting 11
‘‘Head of the Office of’’; and 12
(bb) in subparagraph (B), by 13
striking ‘‘Assistant Director’’ and in-14
serting ‘‘Head of the Office’’; 15
(II) in section 1013(g)(2)— 16
(aa) by striking ‘‘ASSISTANT 17
DIRECTOR’’ and inserting ‘‘HEAD 18
OF THE OFFICE’’; and 19
(bb) by striking ‘‘an assistant di-20
rector’’ and inserting ‘‘a Head of the 21
Office of Financial Protection for 22
Older Americans’’; 23
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(III) in section 1016(a), by striking 1
‘‘Director of the Bureau’’ and inserting 2
‘‘Chair of the Bureau’’; and 3
(IV) by striking section 1066. 4
(ii) CLERICAL 
AMENDMENT.—The table 5
of contents for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Re-6
form and Consumer Protection Act is amended 7
by striking the item relating to section 1066. 8
(2) DODD-FRANK WALL STREET REFORM 9
AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT.—The Dodd- 10
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 11
(12 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended— 12
(A) in section 111(b)(1)(D), by striking ‘‘Direc-13
tor’’ and inserting ‘‘Chair’’; and 14
(B) in section 1447, by striking ‘‘Director of 15
the Bureau’’ each place such term appears and in-16
serting ‘‘Chair of the Bureau’’. 17
(3) ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER ACT.— 18
Section 921(a)(4)(C) of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act 19
(15 U.S.C. 1693o–2(a)(4)(C)), as added by section 20
1075(a)(2) of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 21
2010, is amended by striking ‘‘Director of the Bureau of 22
Consumer Financial Protection’’ and inserting ‘‘Chair of 23
the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’’. 24
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(4) EXPEDITED FUNDS AVAILABILITY 1
ACT.—The Expedited Funds Availability Act (12 U.S.C. 2
4001 et seq.) is amended by striking ‘‘Director of the Bu-3
reau’’ each place such term appears and inserting ‘‘Bu-4
reau’’. 5
(5) FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT.— 6
Section 2 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 7
1812) is amended by striking ‘‘Director of the Consumer 8
Financial Protection Bureau’’ each place such term ap-9
pears and inserting ‘‘Chair of the Bureau of Consumer 10
Financial Protection’’. 11
(6) FEDERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS EX-12
AMINATION COUNCIL ACT OF 1978.—Section 13
1004(a)(4) of the Federal Financial Institutions Examina-14
tion Council Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3303(a)(4)) is 15
amended by striking ‘‘Director of the Consumer Financial 16
Protection Bureau’’ and inserting ‘‘Chair of the Bureau 17
of Consumer Financial Protection’’. 18
(7) FINANCIAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION 19
IMPROVEMENT ACT.—Section 513 of the Financial 20
Literacy and Education Improvement Act (20 U.S.C. 21
9702) is amended by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place such 22
term appears and inserting ‘‘Chair’’. 23
(8) HOME MORTGAGE DISCLOSURE ACT OF 24
1975.—Section 307 of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 25
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of 1975 (12 U.S.C. 2806 et seq) is amended by striking 1
‘‘Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protec-2
tion’’ each place such term appears and inserting ‘‘Bureau 3
of Consumer Financial Protection’’. 4
(9) INTERSTATE LAND SALES FULL DISCLO-5
SURE ACT.—The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure 6
Act (15 U.S.C. 1701 et seq) is amended— 7
(A) in section 1402— 8
(i) by striking paragraph (1); and 9
(ii) by redesignating paragraphs (2) 10
through (12) as paragraphs (1) through (11), 11
respectively; 12
(B) in section 1403(c)— 13
(i) by striking ‘‘him’’ and inserting ‘‘the 14
Bureau’’; and 15
(ii) by striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the 16
Bureau’’; 17
(C) in section 1407— 18
(i) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘he’’ and 19
inserting ‘‘the Bureau’’; and 20
(ii) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘Director 21
or anyone designated by him’’ and inserting 22
‘‘Bureau’’; 23
(D) in section 1411(a)— 24
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(i) by striking ‘‘his findings’’ and inserting 1
‘‘the findings of the Bureau’’; and 2
(ii) by striking ‘‘his recommendation’’ and 3
inserting ‘‘the recommendation of the Bureau’’; 4
(E) in section 1415— 5
(i) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘he may, 6
in his discretion,’’ and inserting ‘‘the Bureau 7
may, in the discretion of the Bureau,’’; 8
(ii) in subsection (b)— 9
(I) ) by striking ‘‘in his discretion’’ 10
each place such term appears and inserting 11
‘‘in the discretion of the Bureau’’; 12
(II) by striking ‘‘he deems’’ and in-13
serting ‘‘the Bureau determines’’; and 14
(III) by striking ‘‘he may deem’’ and 15
inserting ‘‘the Bureau may determine’’; 16
and 17
(iii) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘the Di-18
rector, or any officer designated by him,’’ and 19
inserting ‘‘the Bureau’’; 20
(F) in section 1416(a)— 21
(i) by striking ‘‘Director of the Bureau of 22
Consumer Financial Protection who may dele-23
gate any of his’’ and inserting ‘‘Bureau of Con-24
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sumer Financial Protection, which may delegate 1
any’’; 2
(ii) by striking ‘‘his administrative’’ and 3
inserting ‘‘administrative’’; and 4
(iii) by striking ‘‘himself’’ and inserting 5
‘‘the commission of the Bureau’’; 6
(G) in section 1418a(b)(4), by striking ‘‘Sec-7
retary’s determination’’ and inserting ‘‘determina-8
tion of the Bureau’’; and 9
(H) by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place such 10
term appears and inserting ‘‘Bureau’’. 11
(10) REAL ESTATE SETTLEMENT PROCE-12
DURES ACT OF 1974.—Section 5 of the Real Estate 13
Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2604) is 14
amended— 15
(A) by striking ‘‘The Director of the Bureau of 16
Consumer Financial Protection (hereafter in this 17
section referred to as the ‘Director’)’’ and inserting 18
‘‘The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection 19
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Bu-20
reau’)’’; and 21
(B) by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place such term 22
appears and inserting ‘‘Bureau’’. 23
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(11) S.A.F.E. MORTGAGE LICENSING ACT OF 1
2008.—The S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 2
(12 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) is amended— 3
(A) by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place such term 4
appears in headings and text and inserting ‘‘Bureau 5
of Consumer Financial Protection’’; and 6
(B) in section 1503, by striking paragraph 7
(10). 8
(12) TITLE 44, UNITED STATES CODE.—Sec-9
tion 3513(c) of title 44, United States Code, is amended 10
by striking ‘‘Director of the’’. 11
S
EC. 502. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be used to implement section 1071 of the Dodd- 13
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. 14
S
EC. 503. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used to implement or enforce the Consumer 16
Financial Protection Bureau’s rule entitled ‘‘Credit Card 17
Penalty Fees (Regulation Z)’’. 18
S
EC. 504. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used to implement or enforce the Consumer 20
Financial Protection Bureau’s rule entitled ‘‘Registry of 21
Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and 22
Court Orders’’. 23
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CONSUMERPRODUCTSAFETYCOMMISSION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product 3
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-4
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 5
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-6
alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 7
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal offi-8
cials’ contributions to Commission activities, and not to 9
exceed $4,000 for official reception and representation ex-10
penses, $142,000,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain 11
available until expended, to carry out the program, includ-12
ing administrative costs, authorized by section 1405 of the 13
Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (Public 14
Law 110–140 as amended), and of which $2,000,000 shall 15
remain available until expended, to carry out the program, 16
including administrative costs, authorized by section 204 17
of the Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Mon-18
oxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2022 (title II of division 19
Q of Public Law 117–103). 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —CONSUMER PRODUCT 21
SAFETY COMMISSION 22
S
EC. 510. During fiscal year 2025, none of the 23
amounts made available by this Act may be used to final-24
ize or implement the Safety Standard for Recreational 25
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Off-Highway Vehicles published by the Consumer Product 1
Safety Commission in the Federal Register on November 2
19, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 68964) until after— 3
(1) the National Academy of Sciences, in con-4
sultation with the National Highway Traffic Safety 5
Administration and the Department of Defense, 6
completes a study to determine— 7
(A) the technical validity of the lateral sta-8
bility and vehicle handling requirements pro-9
posed by such standard for purposes of reduc-10
ing the risk of Recreational Off-Highway Vehi-11
cle (referred to in this section as ‘‘ROV’’) roll-12
overs in the off-road environment, including the 13
repeatability and reproducibility of testing for 14
compliance with such requirements; 15
(B) the number of ROV rollovers that 16
would be prevented if the proposed require-17
ments were adopted; 18
(C) whether there is a technical basis for 19
the proposal to provide information on a point- 20
of-sale hangtag about a ROV’s rollover resist-21
ance on a progressive scale; and 22
(D) the effect on the utility of ROVs used 23
by the United States military if the proposed 24
requirements were adopted; and 25
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(2) a report containing the results of the study 1
completed under paragraph (1) is delivered to— 2
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 3
and Transportation of the Senate; 4
(B) the Committee on Energy and Com-5
merce of the House of Representatives; 6
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of 7
the Senate; and 8
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 9
the House of Representatives. 10
S
EC. 511. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used to promulgate, implement, administer, 12
or enforce any regulation issued by the U.S. Consumer 13
Product Safety Commission to ban gas stoves as a class 14
of products. 15
S
EC. 512. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used to finalize or implement the Safety 17
Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries or Table 18
Saws (CPSC Docket No. 2011-0074) published by the 19
Consumer Product Safety Commission in the Federal Reg-20
ister on May 12, 2017 (82 FR 22190). 21
S
EC. 513. During fiscal year 2025, none of the 22
amounts made available by this Act may be used to final-23
ize or implement the Safety Standard for Debris Penetra-24
tion Hazards in off-highway vehicles, including rec-25
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reational off-highway vehicles (referred to in this section 1
as ‘‘ROVs’’) and utility task vehicles (referred to in this 2
section as ‘‘UTVs’’), published by the Consumer Product 3
Safety Commission in the Federal Register on July 21, 4
2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 43688) until after— 5
(1) The National Academy of Sciences, in con-6
sultation with the National Highway Traffic Safety 7
Administration and the Department of Defense, 8
completes a study to determine— 9
(A) the technical validity of the debris pen-10
etration resistance requirements proposed by 11
such standard for purposes of reducing the risk 12
of ROV/UTV debris penetration in the off-road 13
environment, including the repeatability and re-14
producibility of testing for compliance with such 15
requirements; 16
(B) the number of ROV/UTV debris pene-17
trations that would be prevented if the proposed 18
requirements were adopted; 19
(C) the effect on the availability and utility 20
of ROVs/UTVs used by the United States mili-21
tary if the proposed requirements were adopted; 22
(D) the effect on the availability and utility 23
of ROVs/UTVs used by consumers in the 24
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United States if the proposed requirements 1
were adopted; and 2
(2) a report containing the results of the study 3
completed under paragraph (1) is delivered to— 4
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 5
and Transportation of the Senate; 6
(B) the Committee on Energy and Com-7
merce of the House of Representatives; 8
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of 9
the Senate; and 10
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 11
the House of Representatives. 12
E
LECTIONASSISTANCECOMMISSION 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
For necessary expenses to carry out the Help Amer-15
ica Vote Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–252), $20,000,000, 16
of which $1,500,000 shall be made available to the Na-17
tional Institute of Standards and Technology for election 18
reform activities authorized under the Help America Vote 19
Act of 2002; of which not less than $2,324,429 shall be 20
for necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General; 21
and of which not to exceed $8,000 shall be for official re-22
ception and representation expenses. 23
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FEDERALCOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Federal Communica-3
tions Commission, as authorized by law, including uni-4
forms and allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5
5901–5902; not to exceed $4,000 for official reception and 6
representation expenses; purchase and hire of motor vehi-7
cles; special counsel fees; and services as authorized by 8
5 U.S.C. 3109, $416,112,000, to remain available until 9
expended: Provided, That $416,112,000 of offsetting col-10
lections shall be assessed and collected pursuant to section 11
9 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934, shall be 12
retained and used for necessary expenses and shall remain 13
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 14
herein appropriated shall be reduced as such offsetting 15
collections are received during fiscal year 2025 so as to 16
result in a final fiscal year 2025 appropriation estimated 17
at $0: Provided further, That any offsetting collections re-18
ceived in excess of $416,112,000 in fiscal year 2025 shall 19
not be available for obligation: Provided further, That re-20
maining offsetting collections from prior years collected in 21
excess of the amount specified for collection in each such 22
year and otherwise be coming available on October 1, 23
2024, shall not be available for obligation: Provided fur-24
ther, That, notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(B), pro-25
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ceeds from the use of a competitive bidding system that 1
may be retained and made available for obligation shall 2
not exceed $139,000,000 for fiscal year 2025: Provided 3
further, That, of the amount appropriated under this head-4
ing, not less than $12,686,000 shall be for the salaries 5
and expenses of the Office of Inspector General. 6
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FEDERAL 7
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 8
S
EC. 520. Section 302 of the Universal Service 9
Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act is amended by 10
striking ‘‘December 31, 2024’’ each place it appears and 11
inserting ‘‘December 31, 2025’’. 12
S
EC. 521. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used by the Federal Communications Commis-14
sion to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations 15
for universal service support payments to implement the 16
February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State 17
Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connec-18
tion or primary line restrictions on universal service sup-19
port payments. 20
S
EC. 522. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used by the Federal Communications Commis-22
sion or the Universal Service Administrative Company to 23
update the currently applicable minimum service stand-24
ards for fixed or mobile broadband Internet access services 25
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pursuant to 47 C.F.R. §54.408 without further consider-1
ation through notice and comment rulemaking procedures 2
of the impact these minimum standards have on afford-3
ability and consumer choice and to reduce the support 4
level pursuant to 47 C.F.R. §54.403(a)(2): Provided fur-5
ther, That, the FCC shall consider through notice and 6
comment rulemaking procedures the impact that the sup-7
port level for voice service as set forth in 47 C.F.R. 8
§54.403(a)(2) has on low-income consumers’ access to 9
public safety. 10
S
EC. 523. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 12
final rule entitled ‘‘The Infrastructure Investment and 13
Jobs Act: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimi-14
nation,’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 4128 (January 22, 2024)), or any 15
substantially similar rule. 16
S
EC. 524. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 18
final rule entitled ‘‘Safeguarding and Securing the Open 19
Internet; Restoring Internet Freedom’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 20
45404 (May 22, 2024)), or any substantially similar rule. 21
S
EC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used to establish within the Federal Commu-23
nications Commission an advisory committee with respect 24
to any environmental, social or governance matter. 25
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FEDERALDEPOSITINSURANCECORPORATION 1
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 3
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 4
5, United States Code, $52,632,000, to be derived from 5
the Deposit Insurance Fund or, only when appropriate, 6
the FSLIC Resolution Fund. 7
F
EDERALELECTIONCOMMISSION 8
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 9
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 10
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 11
$76,500,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be avail-12
able for reception and representation expenses. 13
F
EDERALLABORRELATIONSAUTHORITY 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 16
Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorga-17
nization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service 18
Reform Act of 1978, including services authorized by 5 19
U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and consult-20
ants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and including offi-21
cial reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 22
$1,500) and rental of conference rooms in the District of 23
Columbia and elsewhere, $29,500,000: Provided, That 24
public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel 25
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may be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of sub-1
sistence as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons 2
employed intermittently in the Government service, and 3
compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 4
further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re-5
ceived from fees charged to non-Federal participants at 6
labor-management relations conferences shall be credited 7
to and merged with this account, to be available without 8
further appropriation for the costs of carrying out these 9
conferences. 10
F
EDERALPERMITTINGIMPROVEMENT STEERING 11
C
OUNCIL 12
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW IMPROVEMENT FUND 13
For necessary expenses of the Environmental Review 14
Improvement Fund established pursuant to section 15
41009(d) of Public Law 114–94, $4,000,000, to remain 16
available until expended. 17
F
EDERALTRADECOMMISSION 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Com-20
mission, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as au-21
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized 22
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 23
not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representa-24
tion expenses, $388,700,000, to remain available until ex-25
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pended: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be 1
available for use to contract with a person or persons for 2
collection services in accordance with the terms of 31 3
U.S.C. 3718: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 4
other provision of law, not to exceed $304,000,000 of off-5
setting collections derived from fees collected for 6
premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Ro-7
dino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 8
18a), regardless of the year of collection, shall be retained 9
and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation: 10
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-11
sion of law, not to exceed $15,000,000 in offsetting collec-12
tions derived from fees to implement and enforce the Tele-13
marketing Sales Rule, promulgated under the Tele-14
marketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention 15
Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), shall be credited to this ac-16
count, and be retained and used for necessary expenses 17
in this appropriation: Provided further, That the sum here-18
in appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 19
as such offsetting collections are received during fiscal 20
year 2025 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2025 appro-21
priation from the general fund estimated at no more than 22
$69,700,000: Provided further, That none of the funds 23
made available to the Federal Trade Commission may be 24
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used to implement subsection (e)(2)(B) of section 43 of 1
the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t). 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FEDERAL TRADE 3
COMMISSION 4
S
EC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 6
entitled ‘‘Combating Auto Retail Scams Trade Regulation 7
Rule’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 590 (January 4, 2024)). 8
S
EC. 531. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to finalize or enforce the ‘‘Trade Regula-10
tion on the Use of Earnings Claims’’ or the ‘‘Review of 11
the Business Opportunity Rule’’ rulemakings without a 12
clear statement of need or unless overlapping rulemaking 13
and improvements in self-regulation and consumer protec-14
tion of industries that would be impacted is considered. 15
S
EC. 532. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used by employees of the Federal Trade Com-17
mission to conduct any activity with the European Union’s 18
European Commission, the United Kingdom’s Competi-19
tion and Markets Authority, or the People’s Republic of 20
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation for 21
any merger review, investigation, or enforcement action. 22
S
EC. 533. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 24
rule defining or describing unfair methods of competition 25
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for purposes of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 1
U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 2
S
EC. 534. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 4
February 4, 2021, suspension of early termination to fil-5
ings made under section 7A of the Clayton Act (15 U.S. 6
C. 18a). 7
S
EC. 535. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used to implement administer, or enforce 9
amendments to part 803 of the premerger notification 10
rules that implement section 7A of the Clayton Act (15 11
U.S.C. 18a) and to the premerger notification and report 12
form and instructions made after June 14, 2021. 13
S
EC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 15
October 25, 2021, Statement of the Commission on Use 16
of Prior Approval Provisions in Merger Orders. 17
S
EC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 19
November 10, 2022, ‘‘Policy Statement Regarding the 20
Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition Under Section 21
5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, Commission File 22
No. P221202’’. 23
S
EC. 538. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to file a complaint unless all Commis-25
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sioners certify that they have had access to review all rel-1
evant materials at least 10 business days prior to a Com-2
mission Meeting or vote on the matter. 3
S
EC. 539. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used for the Federal Trade Commission to 5
pursue or continue a Civil Investigative Demand against 6
a gaming or hospitality company if the action utilizes au-7
thority from the Safe Guards Rule (16 C.F.R. Part 314) 8
or the Red Flags Rule (16 C.F.R Part 681). 9
G
ENERALSERVICESADMINISTRATION 10
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES 11
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 12
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 14
Amounts in the Fund, including revenues and collec-15
tions deposited into the Fund, shall be available for nec-16
essary expenses of real property management and related 17
activities not otherwise provided for, including operation, 18
maintenance, and protection of Federally owned and 19
leased buildings; rental of buildings in the District of Co-20
lumbia; restoration of leased premises; moving govern-21
mental agencies (including space adjustments and tele-22
communications relocation expenses) in connection with 23
the assignment, allocation, and transfer of space; contrac-24
tual services incident to cleaning or servicing buildings, 25
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and moving; repair and alteration of Federally owned 1
buildings, including grounds, approaches, and appur-2
tenances; care and safeguarding of sites; maintenance, 3
preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisition of 4
buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or as oth-5
erwise authorized by law; acquisition of options to pur-6
chase buildings and sites; conversion and extension of 7
Federally owned buildings; preliminary planning and de-8
sign of projects by contract or otherwise; construction of 9
new buildings (including equipment for such buildings); 10
and payment of principal, interest, and any other obliga-11
tions for public buildings acquired by installment purchase 12
and purchase contract; in the aggregate amount of 13
$8,932,122,000, of which— 14
(1) $250,000,000 shall remain available until 15
expended for repairs and alterations, including asso-16
ciated design and construction services, in addition 17
to amounts otherwise provided for such purposes, of 18
which— 19
(A) $200,000,000 is for Basic Repairs and 20
Alterations; and 21
(B) $50,000,000 is for Special Emphasis 22
Programs: 23
Provided, That funds made available in this or any 24
previous Act in the Federal Buildings Fund for Re-25
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pairs and Alterations shall, for prospectus projects, 1
be limited to the amount identified for each project, 2
except each project in this or any previous Act may 3
be increased by an amount not to exceed 20 percent 4
unless advance approval is obtained from the Com-5
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-6
resentatives and the Senate of a greater amount: 7
Provided further, That additional projects for which 8
prospectuses have been fully approved may be fund-9
ed under this category only if advance approval is 10
obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of 11
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Pro-12
vided further, That the amounts provided in this or 13
any prior Act for ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ may be 14
used to fund costs associated with implementing se-15
curity improvements to buildings necessary to meet 16
the minimum standards for security in accordance 17
with current law and in compliance with the re-18
programming guidelines of the appropriate Commit-19
tees of the House and Senate: Provided further, That 20
the difference between the funds appropriated and 21
expended on any projects in this or any prior Act, 22
under the heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’, may 23
be transferred to ‘‘Basic Repairs and Alterations’’ or 24
used to fund authorized increases in prospectus 25
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projects: Provided further, That the amount provided 1
in this or any prior Act for ‘‘Basic Repairs and Al-2
terations’’ may be used to pay claims against the 3
Government arising from any projects under the 4
heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ or used to fund 5
authorized increases in prospectus projects; 6
(2) $5,606,122,000 for rental of space to re-7
main available until expended; and 8
(3) $3,076,000,000 for building operations to 9
remain available until expended: Provided, That the 10
total amount of funds made available from this 11
Fund to the General Services Administration shall 12
not be available for expenses of any construction, re-13
pair, alteration and acquisition project for which a 14
prospectus, if required by 40 U.S.C. 3307(a), has 15
not been approved, except that necessary funds may 16
be expended for each project for required expenses 17
for the development of a proposed prospectus: Pro-18
vided further, That funds available in the Federal 19
Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency re-20
pairs when advance approval is obtained from the 21
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 23
amounts necessary to provide reimbursable special 24
services to other agencies under 40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2) 25
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and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, 1
lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private 2
or other property not in Government ownership or 3
control as may be appropriate to enable the United 4
States Secret Service to perform its protective func-5
tions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, shall be available 6
from such revenues and collections: Provided further, 7
That revenues and collections and any other sums 8
accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 2025, ex-9
cluding reimbursements under 40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2), 10
in excess of the aggregate new obligational authority 11
authorized for Real Property Activities of the Fed-12
eral Buildings Fund in this Act shall remain in the 13
Fund and shall not be available for expenditure ex-14
cept as authorized in appropriations Acts. 15
GENERAL ACTIVITIES 16
GOVERNMENT-WIDE POLICY 17
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-18
vided for, for Government-wide policy associated with the 19
management of real and personal property assets and cer-20
tain administrative services; Government-wide policy sup-21
port responsibilities relating to acquisition, travel, motor 22
vehicles, information technology management, and related 23
technology activities; and services as authorized by 5 24
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U.S.C. 3109; and evaluation activities as authorized by 1
statute; $69,000,000. 2
OPERATING EXPENSES 3
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-4
vided for, for Government-wide activities associated with 5
utilization and donation of surplus personal property; dis-6
posal of real property; agency-wide policy direction and 7
management; $52,000,000, of which not to exceed $7,500 8
is for official reception and representation expenses. 9
CIVILIAN BOARD OF CONTRACT APPEALS 10
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-11
vided for, for the activities associated with the Civilian 12
Board of Contract Appeals, $10,000,000, of which 13
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended. 14
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 15
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 16
General and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 17
$72,500,000: Provided, That not to exceed $1,500,000 18
shall be available for information technology enhance-19
ments related to providing a modern technology case man-20
agement solutions: Provided further, That not to exceed 21
$50,000 shall be available for payment for information 22
and detection of fraud against the Government, including 23
payment for recovery of stolen Government property: Pro-24
vided further, That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available 25
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for awards to employees of other Federal agencies and pri-1
vate citizens in recognition of efforts and initiatives result-2
ing in enhanced Office of Inspector General effectiveness. 3
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER 4
PRESIDENTS 5
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 6
25, 1958 (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95–138, 7
$5,500,000. 8
FEDERAL CITIZEN SERVICES FUND 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
For necessary expenses authorized by 40 U.S.C. 323 11
and 44 U.S.C. 3604; and for necessary expenses author-12
ized by law in support of interagency projects that enable 13
the Federal Government to enhance its ability to conduct 14
activities electronically, through the development and im-15
plementation of innovative uses of information technology; 16
$55,000,000, to be deposited into the Federal Citizen 17
Services Fund: Provided, That the previous amount may 18
be transferred to Federal agencies to carry out the pur-19
pose of the Federal Citizen Services Fund: Provided fur-20
ther, That the appropriations, revenues, reimbursements, 21
and collections deposited into the Fund shall be available 22
until expended for necessary expenses in support of inter-23
agency projects that enable the Federal Government to en-24
hance its ability to conduct activities electronically through 25
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the development and implementation of innovative uses of 1
information technology in the aggregate amount not to ex-2
ceed $150,000,000: Provided further, That appropriations, 3
revenues, reimbursements, and collections accruing to this 4
Fund during fiscal year 2025 in excess of such amount 5
shall remain in the Fund and shall not be available for 6
expenditure except as authorized in appropriations Acts: 7
Provided further, That, of the total amount appropriated, 8
up to $5,000,000 shall be available for support functions 9
and full-time hires to support activities related to the Ad-10
ministration’s requirements under title II of the Founda-11
tions for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Pub-12
lic Law 115–435): Provided further, That the transfer au-13
thorities provided herein shall be in addition to any other 14
transfer authority provided in this Act. 15
PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 17
For necessary expenses to carry out the Presidential 18
Transition Act of 1963 (Public Law 88–277), as amended 19
(in this heading referred to as ‘‘the Act’’), $10,202,314, 20
of which $6,971,863 is available for activities authorized 21
by sections 3(a)(1) through 3(a)(7) and 3(a)(10) of the 22
Act; $2,730,451 is available for activities authorized by 23
section 5 of the Act; and not to exceed $500,000 is avail-24
able for activities authorized by subsections 3(a)(8) and 25
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3(a)(9) of the Act: Provided, That such amounts may be 1
transferred and credited to the ‘‘Acquisition Services 2
Fund’’ or ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund’’ to reimburse obliga-3
tions incurred prior to enactment of this Act for the pur-4
poses provided herein related to the Presidential election 5
in 2024: Provided further, That in the case where the 6
President-elect is the incumbent President or in the case 7
where the Vice-President-elect is the incumbent Vice 8
President, $10,202,314 is permanently cancelled, pursu-9
ant to subsection 3(g) of the Act: Provided further, That 10
amounts available under this heading shall be in addition 11
to any other amounts available for such purposes. 12
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For the Working Capital Fund of the General Serv-15
ices Administration, $4,000,000, to remain available until 16
expended, for necessary costs incurred by the Adminis-17
trator to modernize rulemaking systems and to provide 18
support services for Federal rulemaking agencies. 19
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —GENERAL SERVICES 20
ADMINISTRATION 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
S
EC. 540. Funds available to the General Services 23
Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger 24
motor vehicles. 25
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SEC. 541. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 1
made available for fiscal year 2025 for Federal Buildings 2
Fund activities may be transferred between such activities 3
only to the extent necessary to meet program require-4
ments: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall be ap-5
proved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations 6
of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 7
S
EC. 542. Except as otherwise provided in this title, 8
funds made available by this Act shall be used to transmit 9
a fiscal year 2026 request for United States Courthouse 10
construction only if the request: (1) meets the design guide 11
standards for construction as established and approved by 12
the General Services Administration, the Judicial Con-13
ference of the United States, and the Office of Manage-14
ment and Budget; (2) reflects the priorities of the Judicial 15
Conference of the United States as set out in its approved 16
Courthouse Project Priorities plan; and (3) includes a 17
standardized courtroom utilization study of each facility 18
to be constructed, replaced, or expanded. 19
S
EC. 543. None of the funds provided in this Act may 20
be used to increase the amount of occupiable square feet, 21
provide cleaning services, security enhancements, or any 22
other service usually provided through the Federal Build-23
ings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the rate per 24
square foot assessment for space and services as deter-25
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mined by the General Services Administration in consider-1
ation of the Public Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 2
(Public Law 92–313). 3
S
EC. 544. From funds made available under the 4
heading ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations on Avail-5
ability of Revenue’’, claims against the Government of less 6
than $250,000 arising from direct construction projects 7
and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated from sav-8
ings effected in other construction projects with prior noti-9
fication to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 10
of Representatives and the Senate. 11
S
EC. 545. In any case in which the Committee on 12
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-13
resentatives and the Committee on Environment and Pub-14
lic Works of the Senate adopt a resolution granting lease 15
authority pursuant to a prospectus transmitted to Con-16
gress by the Administrator of the General Services Admin-17
istration under 40 U.S.C. 3307, the Administrator shall 18
ensure that the delineated area of procurement is identical 19
to the delineated area included in the prospectus for all 20
lease agreements, except that, if the Administrator deter-21
mines that the delineated area of the procurement should 22
not be identical to the delineated area included in the pro-23
spectus, the Administrator shall provide an explanatory 24
statement to each of such committees and the Committees 25
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on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 1
Senate prior to exercising any lease authority provided in 2
the resolution. 3
S
EC. 546. With respect to projects funded under the 4
heading ‘‘Federal Citizen Services Fund’’, the Adminis-5
trator of General Services shall submit a spending plan 6
and explanation for each project to be undertaken to the 7
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-8
atives and the Senate not later than 60 days after the 9
date of enactment of this Act. 10
S
EC. 547. None of the funds appropriated or other-11
wise made available by this Act may be made available 12
for the purchase of real property by the General Services 13
Administration, unless as needed for a project authorized 14
pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 3307. 15
S
EC. 548. None of the funds made available by this 16
or any other appropriations Act under the heading ‘‘Gen-17
eral Services Administration—Federal Buildings Fund’’ 18
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (in this section 19
referred to as the ‘‘FBI’’) Headquarters Consolidation, 20
may be obligated or expended until the General Services 21
Administration provides the Committee with a detailed 22
plan and timeline to support the District of Columbia- 23
based personnel by— 24
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(1) keeping the current FBI headquarters oper-1
ational; or 2
(2) identifying another Federally owned location 3
in the District of Columbia that can serve as the 4
FBI headquarters building. 5
S
EC. 549. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to finalize, promulgate, or implement the 7
rule proposed by the General Services Administration enti-8
tled ‘‘Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Green-9
house Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial 10
Risk’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 68312 (November 14, 2022)), or to 11
propose, promulgate, or implement any substantially simi-12
lar rule or policy. 13
H
ARRYS TRUMANSCHOLARSHIPFOUNDATION 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For payment to the Harry S Truman Scholarship 16
Foundation Trust Fund, established by section 10 of Pub-17
lic Law 93–642, $2,500,000, to remain available until ex-18
pended. 19
M
ERITSYSTEMSPROTECTIONBOARD 20
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 23
Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganiza-24
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform 25
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Act of 1978, and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1
1989 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note), including services as author-2
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the 3
District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger 4
motor vehicles, direct procurement of survey printing, and 5
not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representa-6
tion expenses, $49,135,000, to remain available until Sep-7
tember 30, 2026, and in addition not to exceed 8
$2,345,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 9
for administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement ap-10
peals to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement 11
and Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit 12
Systems Protection Board. 13
M
ORRISK. UDALL ANDSTEWARTL. UDALL 14
F
OUNDATION 15
MORRIS K. UDALL AND STEWART L . UDALL TRUST FUND 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 17
For payment to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 18
Udall Foundation, pursuant to the Morris K. Udall and 19
Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act (20 U.S.C. 5601 et 20
seq.), $1,782,000, to remain available for direct expendi-21
ture until expended, of which, notwithstanding sections 8 22
and 9 of such Act, up to $1,000,000 shall be available 23
to carry out the activities authorized by section 6(7) of 24
Public Law 102–259 and section 817(a) of Public Law 25
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106–568 (20 U.S.C. 5604(7)): Provided, That all current 1
and previous amounts transferred to the Office of Inspec-2
tor General of the Department of the Interior will remain 3
available until expended for audits and investigations of 4
the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, 5
consistent with chapter 4 of title 5, United States Code, 6
and for annual independent financial audits of the Morris 7
K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation pursuant to 8
the Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 (Public Law 9
107–289): Provided further, That previous amounts trans-10
ferred to the Office of Inspector General of the Depart-11
ment of the Interior may be transferred to the Morris K. 12
Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation for annual inde-13
pendent financial audits pursuant to the Accountability of 14
Tax Dollars Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–289): Provided 15
further, That any interest earned during fiscal year 2025 16
from investments made from discretionary appropriations 17
to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund 18
after the date specified in 20 U.S.C. §5606(b)(1) shall be 19
available until expended. 20
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUND 21
For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolu-22
tion Fund to carry out activities authorized in the Envi-23
ronmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998, 24
$3,904,000, to remain available until expended. 25
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NATIONALARCHIVES ANDRECORDSADMINISTRATION 1
OPERATING EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses in connection with the admin-3
istration of the National Archives and Records Adminis-4
tration and archived Federal records and related activities, 5
as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the re-6
view and declassification of documents, the activities of 7
the Public Interest Declassification Board, the operations 8
and maintenance of the electronic records archives, the 9
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and for uniforms or al-10
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 11
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning, 12
$427,250,000, of which $30,000,000 shall remain avail-13
able until expended for expenses necessary to enhance the 14
Federal Government’s ability to electronically preserve, 15
manage, and store Government records. 16
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 18
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 19
General Reform Act of 2008, Public Law 110–409, 122 20
Stat. 4302–16 (2008), and chapter 4 of title 5, United 21
States Code, and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, 22
$5,920,000. 23
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REPAIRS AND RESTORATION 1
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of ar-2
chives facilities and museum exhibits, related equipment 3
for public spaces, and to provide adequate storage for 4
holdings, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 5
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND 6
RECORDS COMMISSION GRANTS PROGRAM 7
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for 8
historical publications and records as authorized by 44 9
U.S.C. 2504, $5,000,000, to remain available until ex-10
pended. 11
N
ATIONALCREDITUNIONADMINISTRATION 12
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND 13
For the Community Development Revolving Loan 14
Fund program as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822, 15
and 9910, $3,423,000 shall be available until September 16
30, 2025, for technical assistance to low-income des-17
ignated credit unions. 18
O
FFICE OFGOVERNMENTETHICS 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 21
Office of Government Ethics pursuant to the chapter 131 22
of title 5, United States Code, the Ethics Reform Act of 23
1989, and the Representative Louise McIntosh Slaughter 24
Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, 25
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including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental 1
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and else-2
where, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed 3
$1,500 for official reception and representation expenses, 4
$22,386,000. 5
O
FFICE OFPERSONNELMANAGEMENT 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF TRUST FUNDS) 8
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 9
Office of Personnel Management in this heading referred 10
to as ‘‘OPM’’ pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 11
2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, in-12
cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical 13
examinations performed for veterans by private physicians 14
on a fee basis; rental of conference rooms in the District 15
of Columbia and elsewhere; hire of passenger motor vehi-16
cles; not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and rep-17
resentation expenses; and payment of per diem and/or sub-18
sistence allowances to employees where Voting Rights Act 19
activities require an employee to remain overnight at his 20
or her post of duty, $198,137,000: Provided, That of the 21
total amount made available under this heading, 22
$10,710,000 may remain available until expended, for in-23
formation technology modernization, and shall be in addi-24
tion to funds otherwise made available for such purposes: 25
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Provided further, That of the total amount made available 1
under this heading, $1,445,000 may be made available for 2
strengthening the capacity and capabilities of the acquisi-3
tion workforce (as defined by the Office of Federal Pro-4
curement Policy Act, as amended (41 U.S.C. 4001 et 5
seq.)), including the recruitment, hiring, training, and re-6
tention of such workforce and information technology in 7
support of acquisition workforce effectiveness or for man-8
agement solutions to improve acquisition management; 9
and in addition $241,000,000 for administrative expenses, 10
to be transferred from the appropriate trust funds of OPM 11
without regard to other statutes, including direct procure-12
ment of printed materials, for the retirement and insur-13
ance programs: Provided further, That the provisions of 14
this appropriation shall not affect the authority to use ap-15
plicable trust funds as provided by sections 8348(a)(1)(B), 16
8958(f)(2)(A), 8988(f)(2)(A), and 9004(f)(2)(A) of title 17
5, United States Code: Provided further, That no part of 18
this appropriation shall be available for salaries and ex-19
penses of the Legal Examining Unit of OPM established 20
pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358 of July 1, 1943, 21
or any successor unit of like purpose: Provided further, 22
That the President’s Commission on White House Fel-23
lows, established by Executive Order No. 11183 of Octo-24
ber 3, 1964, may, during fiscal year 2025, accept dona-25
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tions of money, property, and personal services: Provided 1
further, That such donations, including those from prior 2
years, may be used for the development of publicity mate-3
rials to provide information about the White House Fel-4
lows, except that no such donations shall be accepted for 5
travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, or for the sala-6
ries of employees of such Commission: Provided further, 7
That not to exceed 5 percent of amounts made available 8
under this heading may be transferred to an information 9
technology working capital fund established for purposes 10
authorized by subtitle G of title X of division A of the 11
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 12
(Public Law 115–91; 40 U.S.C. 11301 note): Provided 13
further, That the OPM Director shall notify, and receive 14
approval from, the Committees on Appropriations of the 15
House of Representatives and the Senate at least 15 days 16
in advance of any transfer under the preceding proviso: 17
Provided further, That amounts transferred to such a fund 18
under such transfer authority from any organizational cat-19
egory of OPM shall not exceed 5 percent of each such or-20
ganizational category’s budget as identified in the report 21
required by section 608 of this Act: Provided further, That 22
amounts transferred to such a fund shall remain available 23
for obligation through September 30, 2028. 24
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 4
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 5
5, United States Code, including services as authorized by 6
5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 7
$7,000,000, and in addition, not to exceed $31,000,000 8
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and pro-9
vide other oversight of the Office of Personnel Manage-10
ment’s retirement and insurance programs, to be trans-11
ferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 12
Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector 13
General: Provided, That the Inspector General is author-14
ized to rent conference rooms in the District of Columbia 15
and elsewhere. 16
O
FFICE OFSPECIALCOUNSEL 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 19
Office of Special Counsel, including services as authorized 20
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for wit-21
nesses, rental of conference rooms in the District of Co-22
lumbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehi-23
cles, $31,585,000. 24
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PRIVACY ANDCIVILLIBERTIESOVERSIGHTBOARD 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Privacy and Civil Lib-3
erties Oversight Board, as authorized by section 1061 of 4
the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 5
2004 (42 U.S.C. 2000ee), $13,700,000, to remain avail-6
able until September 30, 2026. 7
P
UBLICBUILDINGSREFORMBOARD 8
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 9
For salaries and expenses of the Public Buildings Re-10
form Board in carrying out the Federal Assets Sale and 11
Transfer Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–287), $3,605,000, 12
to remain available until expended. 13
S
ECURITIES ANDEXCHANGECOMMISSION 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For necessary expenses for the Securities and Ex-16
change Commission, including services as authorized by 17
5 U.S.C. 3109, the rental of space (to include multiple 18
year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and 19
not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and representa-20
tion expenses, $2,004,663,000, to remain available until 21
expended; of which not less than $20,050,000 shall be for 22
the Office of Inspector General; of which not to exceed 23
$275,000 shall be available for a permanent secretariat 24
for the International Organization of Securities Commis-25
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sions; and of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be avail-1
able for expenses for consultations and meetings hosted 2
by the Commission with foreign governmental and other 3
regulatory officials, members of their delegations and 4
staffs to exchange views concerning securities matters, 5
such expenses to include necessary logistic and adminis-6
trative expenses and the expenses of Commission staff and 7
foreign invitees in attendance including: (1) incidental ex-8
penses such as meals; (2) travel and transportation; and 9
(3) related lodging or subsistence; and of which not more 10
than $644,719,000 shall be for the Division of Enforce-11
ment. 12
In addition to the foregoing appropriation, for move, 13
replication, and related costs associated with replacement 14
leases for the Commission’s office facilities, not to exceed 15
$8,400,000, to remain available until expended. 16
For purposes of calculating the fee rate under section 17
31(j) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 18
78ee(j)) for fiscal year 2025, all amounts appropriated 19
under this heading shall be deemed to be the regular ap-20
propriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2025: Pro-21
vided, That fees and charges authorized by section 31 of 22
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) 23
shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections: 24
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,004,663,000 of 25
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such offsetting collections shall be available until expended 1
for necessary expenses of this account; not to exceed 2
$8,400,000 of such offsetting collections shall be available 3
until expended for move, replication, and related costs 4
under this heading associated with replacement leases for 5
the Commission’s office facilities: Provided further, That 6
the total amount appropriated under this heading from 7
the general fund for fiscal year 2025 shall be reduced as 8
such offsetting fees are received so as to result in a final 9
total fiscal year 2025 appropriation from the general fund 10
estimated at not more than $0: Provided further, That if 11
any amount of the appropriation for move, replication, and 12
related costs associated with replacement leases for the 13
Commission’s office facilities is subsequently de-obligated 14
by the Commission, such amount that was derived from 15
the general fund shall be returned to the general fund, 16
and such amounts that were derived from fees or assess-17
ments collected for such purpose shall be paid to each na-18
tional securities exchange and national securities associa-19
tion, respectively, in proportion to any fees or assessments 20
paid by such national securities exchange or national secu-21
rities association under section 31 of the Securities Ex-22
change Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) in fiscal year 2025. 23
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —SECURITIES AND 1
EXCHANGE COMMISSION 2
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EC. 550. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 4
entitled ‘‘The Enhancement and Standardization of Cli-5
mate-Related Disclosures for Investors’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 6
21668 (March 28, 2024)) or any substantially similar 7
rule. 8
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EC. 551. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the 10
rulemaking entitled ‘‘Open-End Fund Liquidity Risk 11
Management Programs and Swing Pricing; Form N- 12
PORT Reporting’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 77172 (December 16, 13
2022)). 14
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EC. 552. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the 16
rulemakings entitled ‘‘Regulation Best Execution’’, 17
‘‘Order Competition Rule’’, and ‘‘Regulation NMS: Min-18
imum Pricing Increments, Access Fees, and Transparency 19
of Better Priced Order’’. 20
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EC. 553. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used to compel a private company to make 22
a public offering under the Securities Act of 1933 by 23
amending the ‘‘held of record’’ definition under section 24
12(g)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 25
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SEC. 554. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the 2
rulemaking entitled ‘‘Safeguarding Advisory Client As-3
sets’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 14672 (March 9, 2023)). 4
S
EC. 555. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to implement any program that requires 6
a national securities exchange, a national securities asso-7
ciation, or a member of such an exchange or association 8
to collect and provide personally identifiable information 9
with respect to a retail market participant to meet the re-10
quirements relating to an order or a reportable event 11
under section 242.613(c)(7) of title 17, Code of Federal 12
Regulations, or any successor regulations thereof. 13
S
EC. 556. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to review or approve the budget for the 15
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) as de-16
scribed in 15 U.S.C. 7219, until the FASB withdraws the 17
Accounting Standards Update on Income Tax Disclosures 18
issued in December 2023 (No. 2023-09). 19
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EC. 557. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to develop, promulgate, finalize, imple-21
ment, or enforce rulemaking that would, directly or indi-22
rectly, create new disclosure requirements under Regula-23
tion D or lower the amount of money an issuer can raise 24
through Regulation D. 25
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SEC. 558. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to implement or enforce ‘‘Staff Account-2
ing Bulletin No. 121’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 21015 (April 11, 3
2022)). 4
S
EC. 559. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 6
entitled ‘‘Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Gov-7
ernance, and Incident Disclosure’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 51896 8
(August 4, 2023)). 9
S
EC. 560. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to carry out an enforcement action re-11
lated to a digital asset transaction, except for enforcement 12
actions related to fraud or market manipulation, unless 13
(1) the Securities and Exchange Commission has promul-14
gated a regulation that clarifies which digital assets are 15
securities under existing law, or (2) Congress passes legis-16
lation that gives the Securities and Exchange Commission 17
regulatory and enforcement jurisdiction over digital assets 18
and it is signed into law by the President. 19
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ELECTIVESERVICESYSTEM 20
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 21
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-22
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of 23
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective 24
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for 25
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civilian employees; hire of passenger motor vehicles; serv-1
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed 2
$1,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 3
$31,300,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal 4
year, the President may exempt this appropriation from 5
the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever the President 6
deems such action to be necessary in the interest of na-7
tional defense: Provided further, That none of the funds 8
appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in con-9
nection with the induction of any person into the Armed 10
Forces of the United States. 11
S
MALLBUSINESSADMINISTRATION 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 14
of the Small Business Administration, including hire of 15
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by sections 1343 16
and 1344 of title 31, United States Code, and not to ex-17
ceed $3,500 for official reception and representation ex-18
penses, $305,378,000, of which not less than $15,000,000 19
shall be available for examinations, reviews, and other 20
lender oversight activities: Provided, That the Adminis-21
trator is authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of pub-22
lications developed by the Small Business Administration, 23
and certain loan program activities, including fees author-24
ized by section 5(b) of the Small Business Act: Provided 25
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further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues 1
received from all such activities shall be credited to this 2
account, to remain available until expended, for carrying 3
out these purposes without further appropriations: Pro-4
vided further, That the Small Business Administration 5
may accept gifts in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 6
and may co-sponsor activities, each in accordance with sec-7
tion 132(a) of division K of Public Law 108–447, during 8
fiscal year 2025: Provided further, That $6,100,000 shall 9
be available for the Loan Modernization and Accounting 10
System, to be available until September 30, 2026: Pro-11
vided further, That $15,500,000 shall be available for 12
costs associated with the certification of small business 13
concerns owned and controlled by veterans or service-dis-14
abled veterans under sections 36A and 36 of the Small 15
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f–1; 657f), respectively, and 16
section 862 of Public Law 116–283, to be available until 17
September 30, 2026. 18
ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 19
For necessary expenses of programs supporting en-20
trepreneurial and small business development, 21
$299,550,000, to remain available until September 30, 22
2026: Provided, That $140,000,000 shall be available to 23
fund grants for performance in fiscal year 2025 or fiscal 24
year 2026 as authorized by section 21 of the Small Busi-25
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ness Act: Provided further, That $41,000,000 shall be for 1
marketing, management, and technical assistance under 2
section 7(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 3
636(m)(4)) by intermediaries that make microloans under 4
the microloan program: Provided further, That 5
$20,000,000 shall be available for grants to States to 6
carry out export programs that assist small business con-7
cerns authorized under section 22(l) of the Small Business 8
Act (15 U.S.C. 649(l)). 9
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 10
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 11
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 12
5, United States Code, $42,020,000. 13
OFFICE OF ADVOCACY 14
For necessary expenses of the Office of Advocacy in 15
carrying out the provisions of title II of Public Law 94– 16
305 (15 U.S.C. 634a et seq.) and the Regulatory Flexi-17
bility Act of 1980 (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), $10,109,000, 18
to remain available until expended. 19
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
For the cost of direct loans, $3,000,000, to remain 22
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, in-23
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-24
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 25
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1974: Provided further, That subject to section 502 of the 1
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal year 2
2025 commitments to guarantee loans under section 503 3
of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and com-4
mitments for loans authorized under subparagraph (C) of 5
section 502(7) of the Small Business Investment Act of 6
1958 (15 U.S.C. 696(7)) shall not exceed, in the aggre-7
gate, $12,500,000,000: Provided further, That during fis-8
cal year 2025 commitments for general business loans au-9
thorized under paragraphs (1) through (35) of section 10
7(a) of the Small Business Act shall not exceed 11
$32,500,000,000 for a combination of amortizing term 12
loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided 13
by revolving loans: Provided further, That during fiscal 14
year 2025 commitments to guarantee loans for debentures 15
under section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment 16
Act of 1958 shall not exceed $6,000,000,000: Provided 17
further, That during fiscal year 2025, guarantees of trust 18
certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small Busi-19
ness Act shall not exceed a principal amount of 20
$15,000,000,000. In addition, for administrative expenses 21
to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 22
$162,000,000, which may be transferred to and merged 23
with the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses. 24
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DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 2
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 3
loan program authorized by section 7(b) of the Small 4
Business Act, $175,000,000, to be available until ex-5
pended, of which $1,600,000 is for the Office of Inspector 6
General of the Small Business Administration for audits 7
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan pro-8
grams and shall be transferred to and merged with the 9
appropriations for the Office of Inspector General; of 10
which $165,000,000 is for direct administrative expenses 11
of loan making and servicing to carry out the direct loan 12
program, which may be transferred to and merged with 13
the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses; and of 14
which $8,400,000 is for indirect administrative expenses 15
for the direct loan program, which may be transferred to 16
and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and Ex-17
penses: Provided, That, of the funds provided under this 18
heading, $143,000,000 shall be for major disasters de-19
clared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 20
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)): Pro-21
vided further, That the amount for major disasters under 22
this heading is designated by the Congress as being for 23
disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the 24
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Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1
1985 (Public Law 99–177), as amended. 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —SMALL BUSINESS 3
ADMINISTRATION 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 5
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EC. 570. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-6
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the 7
Small Business Administration in this Act may be trans-8
ferred between such appropriations, but no such appro-9
priation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by 10
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant 11
to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of 12
funds under section 608 of this Act and shall not be avail-13
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 14
with the procedures set forth in that section. 15
S
EC. 571. Not to exceed 3 percent of any appropria-16
tion made available in this Act for the Small Business Ad-17
ministration under the headings ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ 18
and ‘‘Business Loans Program Account’’ may be trans-19
ferred to the Administration’s information technology sys-20
tem modernization and working capital fund (IT WCF), 21
as authorized by section 1077(b)(1) of title X of division 22
A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 23
Year 2018, for the purposes specified in section 24
1077(b)(3) of such Act, upon the advance approval of the 25
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Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-1
atives and the Senate: Provided, That amounts transferred 2
to the IT WCF under this section shall remain available 3
for obligation through September 30, 2028. 4
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EC. 572. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to carry out an enforcement action 6
against a recipient of Federal assistance for a major dis-7
aster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 8
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et 9
seq.) in any case in which such recipient— 10
(1) is unable to make monthly repayments for 11
a duplication of benefits under section 312 of the 12
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 13
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155); and 14
(2) has not yet received Community Develop-15
ment Block Grant funds for which such recipient is 16
eligible. 17
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EC. 573. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used by the Small Business Administration 19
to further fund or transfer funds to the Community Navi-20
gator Pilot Program established under section 5004 of the 21
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9013). 22
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EC. 574. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used by the Small Business Administration 24
to fund climate change initiatives. 25
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SEC. 575. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to create, implement, administer, expand, 2
or enforce a direct lending program by the Small Business 3
Administration not in effect on January 1, 2024. 4
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EC. 576. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to hire staff at the District of Columbia 6
office until the Small Business Administration senior area 7
manager position at the Coachella Valley, California, sat-8
ellite office is staffed by at least one individual. 9
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EC. 577. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to carry out the memorandum of under-11
standing between the Small Business Administration and 12
the Michigan Department of State, dated March 18, 2024, 13
relating to the provision of voter registration services in 14
Michigan. 15
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NITEDSTATESPOSTALSERVICE 16
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 17
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue 18
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub-19
sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United 20
States Code, $49,750,000: Provided, That mail for over-21
seas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to be free: 22
Provided further, That none of the funds made available 23
to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to imple-24
ment any rule, regulation, or policy of charging any officer 25
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or employee of any State or local child support enforce-1
ment agency, or any individual participating in a State 2
or local program of child support enforcement, a fee for 3
information requested or provided concerning an address 4
of a postal customer: Provided further, That none of the 5
funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or 6
close small rural and other small post offices: Provided 7
further, That the Postal Service may not destroy, and shall 8
continue to offer for sale, any copies of the Multinational 9
Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp, as author-10
ized under the Multinational Species Conservation Funds 11
Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–241). 12
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 15
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 16
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 17
5, United States Code, $274,000,000, to be derived by 18
transfer from the Postal Service Fund and expended as 19
authorized by section 603(b)(3) of the Postal Account-20
ability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109–435). 21
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NITEDSTATESTAXCOURT 22
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 23
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 24
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 25
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not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-1
tion expenses, $55,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall re-2
main available until expended: Provided, That travel ex-3
penses of the judges shall be paid upon the written certifi-4
cate of the judge. 5
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TITLE VI 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 2
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EC. 601. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 3
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 4
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 5
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 6
funded in this Act. 7
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EC. 602. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 8
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 9
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-10
tions, except for transfers made pursuant to the authority 11
in section 3173(d) of title 40, United States Code, unless 12
expressly so provided herein. 13
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EC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation 14
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-15
ment contract pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 16
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 17
of public record and available for public inspection, except 18
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-19
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 20
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EC. 604. None of the funds made available in this 21
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-22
strumentality of the United States Government, except 23
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-24
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 25
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SEC. 605. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 2
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-3
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 4
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-5
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 6
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 7
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EC. 606. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 8
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 9
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 10
with chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 11
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EC. 607. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 12
available under this Act shall be made available to any 13
person or entity that has been convicted of violating chap-14
ter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 15
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EC. 608. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 16
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-17
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-18
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-19
penditure in fiscal year 2025, or provided from any ac-20
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 21
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 22
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-23
programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 24
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 25
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funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 1
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con-2
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-3
tivity by the Committee on Appropriations of either the 4
House of Representatives or the Senate for a different 5
purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-6
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever 7
is less; (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activi-8
ties by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) 9
creates or reorganizes offices, programs, or activities un-10
less prior approval is received from the Committees on Ap-11
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-12
ate: Provided, That prior to any significant reorganization, 13
restructuring, relocation, or closing of offices, programs, 14
or activities, each agency or entity funded in this Act shall 15
consult with the Committees on Appropriations of the 16
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-17
ther, That not later than 60 days after the date of enact-18
ment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall 19
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of 20
the House of Representatives and the Senate to establish 21
the baseline for application of reprogramming and trans-22
fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided further, 23
That at a minimum the report shall include: (1) a table 24
for each appropriation, detailing both full-time employee 25
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equivalents and budget authority, with separate columns 1
to display the prior year enacted level, the President’s 2
budget request, adjustments made by Congress, adjust-3
ments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 4
fiscal year enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for 5
each appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 6
level by object class and program, project, and activity as 7
detailed in this Act, in the accompanying report, or in the 8
budget appendix for the respective appropriation, which-9
ever is more detailed, and which shall apply to all items 10
for which a dollar amount is specified and to all programs 11
for which new budget authority is provided, as well as to 12
discretionary grants and discretionary grant allocations; 13
and (3) an identification of items of special congressional 14
interest: Provided further, That the amount appropriated 15
or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency shall 16
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after the 17
required date that the report has not been submitted to 18
the Congress. 19
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EC. 609. Except as otherwise specifically provided 20
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 21
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2025 from 22
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 23
for fiscal year 2025 in this Act, shall remain available 24
through September 30, 2026, for each such account for 25
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the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 1
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 2
House of Representatives and the Senate for approval 3
prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 4
That these requests shall be made in compliance with re-5
programming guidelines. 6
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EC. 610. (a) None of the funds made available in 7
this Act may be used by the Executive Office of the Presi-8
dent to request— 9
(1) any official background investigation report 10
on any individual from the Federal Bureau of Inves-11
tigation; or 12
(2) a determination with respect to the treat-13
ment of an organization as described in section 14
501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and 15
exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such 16
Code from the Department of the Treasury or the 17
Internal Revenue Service. 18
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply— 19
(1) in the case of an official background inves-20
tigation report, if such individual has given express 21
written consent for such request not more than 6 22
months prior to the date of such request and during 23
the same presidential administration; or 24
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(2) if such request is required due to extraor-1
dinary circumstances involving national security. 2
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EC. 611. The cost accounting standards promul-3
gated under chapter 15 of title 41, United States Code 4
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-5
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 6
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 7
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EC. 612. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 8
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 9
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-10
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 11
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 12
expenses imposed in an appropriations Act) funds made 13
available to the Office of Personnel Management pursuant 14
to court approval. 15
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EC. 613. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 16
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 17
expenses in connection with any health plan under the fed-18
eral employees health benefits program which provides any 19
benefits or coverage for abortions. 20
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EC. 614. The provision of section 613 shall not 21
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 22
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 23
result of an act of rape or incest. 24
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SEC. 615. In order to promote Government access to 1
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-2
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 3
forth in chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code (popu-4
larly known as the Buy American Act), shall not apply 5
to the acquisition by the Federal Government of informa-6
tion technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 40, 7
United States Code), that is a commercial item (as defined 8
in section 103 of title 41, United States Code). 9
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EC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, 10
United States Code, no officer or employee of any regu-11
latory agency or commission funded by this Act may ac-12
cept on behalf of that agency, nor may such agency or 13
commission accept, payment or reimbursement from a 14
non-Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or related ex-15
penses for the purpose of enabling an officer or employee 16
to attend and participate in any meeting or similar func-17
tion relating to the official duties of the officer or em-18
ployee when the entity offering payment or reimbursement 19
is a person or entity subject to regulation by such agency 20
or commission, or represents a person or entity subject 21
to regulation by such agency or commission, unless the 22
person or entity is an organization described in section 23
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and ex-24
empt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code. 25
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SEC. 617. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 1
of law, an Executive agency covered by this Act otherwise 2
authorized to enter into contracts for either leases or the 3
construction or alteration of real property for office, meet-4
ing, storage, or other space must consult with the General 5
Services Administration before issuing a solicitation for of-6
fers of new leases or construction contracts, and in the 7
case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations 8
with the current lessor. 9
(2) Any such agency with authority to enter into an 10
emergency lease may do so during any period declared by 11
the President to require emergency leasing authority with 12
respect to such agency. 13
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Executive 14
agency covered by this Act’’ means any Executive agency 15
provided funds by this Act, but does not include the Gen-16
eral Services Administration or the United States Postal 17
Service. 18
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EC. 618. (a) There are appropriated for the fol-19
lowing activities the amounts required under current law: 20
(1) Compensation of the President (3 U.S.C. 21
102). 22
(2) Payments to— 23
(A) the Judicial Officers’ Retirement Fund 24
(28 U.S.C. 377(o)); 25
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(B) the Judicial Survivors’ Annuities Fund 1
(28 U.S.C. 376(c)); and 2
(C) the United States Court of Federal 3
Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund (28 U.S.C. 4
178(l)). 5
(3) Payment of Government contributions— 6
(A) with respect to the health benefits of 7
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 8
of title 5, United States Code, and the Retired 9
Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 10
Stat. 849); and 11
(B) with respect to the life insurance bene-12
fits for employees retiring after December 31, 13
1989 (5 U.S.C. ch. 87). 14
(4) Payment to finance the unfunded liability of 15
new and increased annuity benefits under the Civil 16
Service Retirement and Disability Fund (5 U.S.C. 17
8348). 18
(5) Payment of annuities authorized to be paid 19
from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 20
Fund by statutory provisions other than subchapter 21
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United 22
States Code. 23
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to ex-24
empt any amount appropriated by this section from any 25
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otherwise applicable limitation on the use of funds con-1
tained in this Act. 2
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EC. 619. None of the funds made available in this 3
Act may be used by the Federal Trade Commission to 4
complete the draft report entitled ‘‘Interagency Working 5
Group on Food Marketed to Children: Preliminary Pro-6
posed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regu-7
latory Efforts’’ unless the Interagency Working Group on 8
Food Marketed to Children complies with Executive Order 9
No. 13563. 10
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EC. 620. (a) The head of each executive branch 11
agency funded by this Act shall ensure that the Chief In-12
formation Officer of the agency has the authority to par-13
ticipate in decisions regarding the budget planning process 14
related to information technology. 15
(b) Amounts appropriated for any executive branch 16
agency funded by this Act that are available for informa-17
tion technology shall be allocated within the agency, con-18
sistent with the provisions of appropriations Acts and 19
budget guidelines and recommendations from the Director 20
of the Office of Management and Budget, in such manner 21
as specified by, or approved by, the Chief Information Of-22
ficer of the agency in consultation with the Chief Financial 23
Officer of the agency and budget officials. 24
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SEC. 621. None of the funds made available in this 1
Act may be used in contravention of chapter 29, 31, or 2
33 of title 44, United States Code. 3
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EC. 622. None of the funds made available in this 4
Act may be used by a governmental entity to require the 5
disclosure by a provider of electronic communication serv-6
ice to the public or remote computing service of the con-7
tents of a wire or electronic communication that is in elec-8
tronic storage with the provider (as such terms are defined 9
in sections 2510 and 2711 of title 18, United States Code) 10
in a manner that violates the Fourth Amendment to the 11
Constitution of the United States. 12
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EC. 623. No funds provided in this Act shall be used 13
to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely 14
access to any records, documents, or other materials avail-15
able to the department or agency over which that Inspec-16
tor General has responsibilities under chapter 4 of title 17
5, United States Code, or to prevent or impede that In-18
spector General’s access to such records, documents, or 19
other materials, under any provision of law, except a provi-20
sion of law that expressly refers to the Inspector General 21
and expressly limits the Inspector General’s right of ac-22
cess. A department or agency covered by this section shall 23
provide its Inspector General with access to all such 24
records, documents, and other materials in a timely man-25
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ner. Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance with 1
statutory limitations on disclosure relevant to the informa-2
tion provided by the establishment over which that Inspec-3
tor General has responsibilities under the chapter 4 of title 4
5, United States Code. Each Inspector General covered 5
by this section shall report to the Committees on Appro-6
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 7
within five calendar days any failures to comply with this 8
requirement. 9
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EC. 624. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 10
may be used by the Federal Communications Commission 11
to modify, amend, or change the rules or regulations of 12
the Commission for universal service high-cost support for 13
competitive eligible telecommunications carriers in a way 14
that is inconsistent with paragraph (e)(5) or (e)(6) of sec-15
tion 54.307 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as 16
in effect on July 15, 2015: Provided, That this section 17
shall not prohibit the Commission from considering, devel-18
oping, or adopting other support mechanisms as an alter-19
native to Mobility Fund Phase II: Provided further, That 20
any such alternative mechanism shall maintain existing 21
high-cost support to competitive eligible telecommuni-22
cations carriers until support under such mechanism com-23
mences. 24
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SEC. 625. (a) None of the funds made available in 1
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 2
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 3
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 4
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 5
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 6
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 7
criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication activi-8
ties, or other law enforcement- or victim assistance-related 9
activity. 10
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EC. 626. None of the funds appropriated or other- 11
wise made available by this Act may be used to pay award 12
or incentive fees for contractors whose performance has 13
been judged to be below satisfactory, behind schedule, over 14
budget, or has failed to meet the basic requirements of 15
a contract, unless the Agency determines that any such 16
deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government- 17
driven scope changes, or are not significant within the 18
overall scope of the project and/or program and unless 19
such awards or incentive fees are consistent with section 20
16.401(e)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. 21
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EC. 627. (a) None of the funds made available under 22
this Act may be used to pay for travel and conference ac-23
tivities that result in a total cost to an Executive branch 24
department, agency, board, or commission funded by this 25
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Act of more than $500,000 at any single conference unless 1
the agency or entity determines that such attendance is 2
in the national interest and advance notice is transmitted 3
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-4
resentatives and the Senate that includes the basis of that 5
determination. 6
(b) None of the funds made available under this Act 7
may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance of more 8
than 50 employees, who are stationed in the United 9
States, at any single conference occurring outside the 10
United States unless the agency or entity determines that 11
such attendance is in the national interest and advance 12
notice is transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations 13
of the House of Representatives and the Senate that in-14
cludes the basis of that determination. 15
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EC. 628. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used for first-class or business-class travel by 17
the employees of executive branch agencies funded by this 18
Act in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301– 19
10.125 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 20
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EC. 629. In addition to any amounts appropriated 21
or otherwise made available for expenses related to en-22
hancements to www.oversight.gov, $450,000, to remain 23
available until expended, shall be provided for an addi-24
tional amount for such purpose to the Inspectors General 25
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Council Fund established pursuant to section 11(c)(3)(B) 1
of chapter 4 of title 5, United States Code: Provided, That 2
these amounts shall be in addition to any amounts or any 3
authority available to the Council of the Inspectors Gen-4
eral on Integrity and Efficiency under section 424 of title 5
5, United States Code. 6
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EC. 630. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be obligated on contracts in excess of $5,000 for 8
public relations, as that term is defined in Office and Man-9
agement and Budget Circular A–87 (revised May 10, 10
2004), unless advance notice of such an obligation is 11
transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 12
House of Representatives and the Senate. 13
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EC. 631. Federal agencies funded under this Act 14
shall clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for 15
advertising or educational purposes, including emails or 16
Internet postings, that the communication is printed, pub-17
lished, or produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer ex-18
pense. The funds used by a Federal agency to carry out 19
this requirement shall be derived from amounts made 20
available to the agency for advertising or other commu-21
nications regarding the programs and activities of the 22
agency. 23
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EC. 632. When issuing statements, press releases, 24
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-25
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ments describing projects or programs funded in whole or 1
in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal 2
funds included in this Act, shall clearly state— 3
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the pro-4
gram or project which will be financed with Federal 5
money; 6
(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 7
project or program; and 8
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total 9
costs of the project or program that will be financed 10
by non-governmental sources. 11
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EC. 633. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act shall be used by the Securities and Exchange Commis-13
sion to finalize, issue, or implement any rule, regulation, 14
or order regarding the disclosure of political contributions, 15
contributions to tax exempt organizations, or dues paid 16
to trade associations. 17
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EC. 634. Not later than 45 days after the last day 18
of each quarter, each agency funded in this Act shall sub-19
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 20
of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly budget re-21
port that includes total obligations of the Agency for that 22
quarter for each appropriation, by the source year of the 23
appropriation. 24
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SEC. 635. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to procure electric vehicles, electric vehi-2
cle batteries, electric vehicle charging stations or infra-3
structure. 4
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EC. 636. None of the funds appropriated or other-5
wise made available by this Act may be used to implement, 6
enforce, or otherwise carry out Executive Order No. 14037 7
of August 5, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 43583, relating to 8
Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and 9
Trucks), Executive Order No. 14057 of December 8, 2021 10
(86 Fed. Reg. 70935, relating to Catalyzing Clean Energy 11
Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability), Ex-12
ecutive Order No. 14096 of April 21, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 13
25251, relating to Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment 14
to Environmental Justice for All), Executive Order No. 15
13990 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7037, relating 16
to Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Re-17
storing Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis), Executive 18
Order No. 14008 of January 27, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 19
7619, relating to Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and 20
Abroad), Executive Order No. 14030 of May 20, 2021 (86 21
Fed. Reg. 27967, relating to Climate-Related Financial 22
Risk), Executive Order No. 14082 of September 12, 2022 23
(87 Fed. Reg. 56861, relating to Implementation of the 24
Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Re-25
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duction Act of 2022), and section 6 of Executive Order 1
No. 14013 of February 4, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg 8839, relat-2
ing to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle 3
Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change 4
on Migration). 5
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EC. 637. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 7
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 8
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 9
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EC. 638. None of the funds appropriated or other-10
wise made available by this Act may be made available 11
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the 12
Equity Action Plans of the Department of Treasury, the 13
Federal Communications Commission, the General Serv-14
ices Administration, the Office of Personnel Management 15
or any other Federal agency diversity, equity, or inclusion 16
initiative, as well as Executive Order No. 13985 of Janu-17
ary 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing 18
racial equity and support for underserved communities 19
through the Federal Government), Executive Order No. 20
14035 of June 21, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34596, relating 21
to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Fed-22
eral workforce), or Executive Order No. 14091 of Feb-23
ruary 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further 24
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advancing racial equity and support for underserved com-1
munities through the Federal Government). 2
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EC. 639. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-4
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 5
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 6
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-7
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 8
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-9
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 10
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 11
a foreign adversary. 12
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EC. 640. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to enforce the requirements in section 14
316(b)(4)(D) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 15
1971 (52 U.S.C. 30118(b)(4)(D)) that the solicitation of 16
contributions from member corporations stockholders and 17
executive or administrative personnel, and the families of 18
such stockholders or personnel, by trade associations must 19
be separately and specifically approved by the member cor-20
poration involved prior to such solicitation, and that such 21
member corporation does not approve any such solicitation 22
by more than one such trade association in any calendar 23
year. 24
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SEC. 641. (a) INGENERAL.—Notwithstanding sec-1
tion 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of 2
title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 3
none of the funds provided by this Act shall be used in 4
whole or in part to take any discriminatory action against 5
a person, wholly or partially, on the basis that such person 6
speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held reli-7
gious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or 8
should be recognized as, a union of one man and one 9
woman. 10
(b) D
ISCRIMINATORYACTIONDEFINED.—As used in 11
subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action 12
taken by the Federal Government to— 13
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 14
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-15
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-16
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-17
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 18
in subsection (a); 19
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-20
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 21
such person; 22
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 23
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 24
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-25
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operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-1
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 2
other similar position or status from or to such per-3
son; or 4
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-5
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 6
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 7
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 8
degree from an educational program, from or to 9
such person. 10
(c) A
CCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.— 11
The Federal Government shall consider accredited, li-12
censed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person 13
that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respec-14
tively, for such purposes but for a determination against 15
such person wholly or partially on the basis that the per-16
son speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held 17
religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection 18
(a). 19
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EC. 642. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to develop, finalize, or implement the pro-21
posed regulation titled Revising Scope of the Mining Sec-22
tor of Projects that are Eligible for Coverage Under title 23
41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act 24
(88 Fed. Reg. 65350 (Sept. 22, 2023)). 25
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SEC. 643. The Postmaster General of the United 1
States Postal Service shall notify in writing any Member 2
of Congress at least 30 days before the Postal Service re-3
leases any stamp (including special stamps, semipostal 4
stamps, and any other stamp) depicting a landmark in, 5
a significant event or commemoration of an event that oc-6
curred in, or an individual from, in the case of a Member 7
of the House of Representatives, the district or State the 8
Member represents or, in the case of a Senator, the State 9
the Senator represents. In this section, the term ‘‘Member 10
of Congress’’ has the meaning given that term in section 11
2106 of title 5, United States Code, but does not include 12
the Vice President. 13
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EC. 644. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to fly or display a flag over or within 15
a facility of the Federal Government other than the flag 16
of the United States, a flag bearing an official U.S. Gov-17
ernment seal or insignia, or the Prisoner of War/Missing 18
in Action flag. 19
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EC. 645. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-20
erwise made available to the United States Postal Service 21
by this Act may be used to prevent any of the following 22
persons from entering, for the purpose of conducting over-23
sight, any facility owned or leased by the United States 24
Postal Service used for the delivery of letters, printed ma-25
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terials, or mailable packages, including acceptance, collec-1
tion, sorting, transportation, or other functions ancillary 2
thereto, or to make any temporary modification at any 3
such facility that in any way alters what is observed by 4
a visiting member of Congress or such designated em-5
ployee, compared to what would be observed in the absence 6
of such modification: 7
(1) A Member of Congress. 8
(2) An employee of the United States House of 9
Representatives or the United States Senate des-10
ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this 11
section. 12
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-13
quire a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the 14
intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for 15
the purpose of conducting oversight. 16
TITLE VII 17
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GOVERNMENT-WIDE 18
D
EPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, ANDCORPORATIONS 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 20
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EC. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality 21
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 22
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2025 shall obligate 23
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-24
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 25
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administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-1
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 2
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 3
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 4
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 5
agency, or instrumentality. 6
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EC. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 7
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 8
in accordance with section 1343(c) of title 31, United 9
States Code, for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-10
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, vans, law enforce-11
ment vehicles, protective vehicles, undercover surveillance 12
vehicles, and police type), is hereby fixed at $40,000 ex-13
cept station wagons for which the maximum shall be 14
$41,140: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by 15
not to exceed $7,775 for police-type vehicles: Provided fur-16
ther, That the limits set forth in this section may not be 17
exceeded by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid ve-18
hicles purchased for demonstration under the provisions 19
of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Develop-20
ment, and Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, 21
That the limits set forth in this section may be exceeded 22
by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles 23
acquired pursuant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost 24
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles: Provided fur-25
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ther, That the limits set forth in this section shall not 1
apply to any vehicle that is a commercial item and which 2
operates on alternative fuel, including but not limited to 3
electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell ve-4
hicles. 5
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EC. 703. Appropriations of the executive depart-6
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-7
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-8
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 9
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 10
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 11
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EC. 704. Unless otherwise specified in law during 12
the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation con-13
tained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the 14
compensation of any officer or employee of the Govern-15
ment of the United States (including any agency the ma-16
jority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 17
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the conti-18
nental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen 19
of the United States; (2) is a person who is lawfully admit-20
ted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as 21
outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who 22
is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is grant-23
ed asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration 24
of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and 25
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then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who owes 1
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for pur-2
poses of this section, affidavits signed by any such person 3
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require-4
ments of this section with respect to his or her status are 5
being complied with: Provided further, That for purposes 6
of paragraphs (2) and (3) such affidavits shall be sub-7
mitted prior to employment and updated thereafter as nec-8
essary: Provided further, That any person making a false 9
affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, 10
shall be fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not 11
more than 1 year, or both: Provided further, That the 12
above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in sub-13
stitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided 14
further, That any payment made to any officer or em-15
ployee contrary to the provisions of this section shall be 16
recoverable in action by the Federal Government: Provided 17
further, That this section shall not apply to any person 18
who is an officer or employee of the Government of the 19
United States on the date of enactment of this Act, or 20
to international broadcasters employed by the Broad-21
casting Board of Governors, or to temporary employment 22
of translators, or to temporary employment in the field 23
service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emergencies: 24
Provided further, That this section does not apply to the 25
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employment as Wildland firefighters for not more than 1
120 days of nonresident aliens employed by the Depart-2
ment of the Interior or the USDA Forest Service pursuant 3
to an agreement with another country. 4
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EC. 705. Appropriations available to any depart-5
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-6
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-7
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 8
Services Administration for charges for space and services 9
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-10
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 11
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 12
1959 (73 Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments 13
of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 14
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EC. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or 15
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-16
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials, 17
including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 18
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-19
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-20
pended for the following purposes: 21
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 22
and recycling programs as described in Executive 23
Order No. 14057 (December 8, 2021), including any 24
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such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 1
the Executive order. 2
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-3
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 4
development and implementation of hazardous waste 5
management and pollution prevention programs. 6
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 7
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 8
Federal agency. 9
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EC. 707. Funds made available by this or any other 10
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 11
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 12
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 13
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 14
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 15
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 16
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 17
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 18
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 19
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-20
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 21
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 22
correspondingly reduced. 23
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EC. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in 24
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 25
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financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 1
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 2
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 3
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 4
financial support from more than one agency or instru-5
mentality. 6
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EC. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant 7
to the provisions of this or any other Act shall be used 8
to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which 9
has been disapproved pursuant to a joint resolution duly 10
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 11
United States. 12
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EC. 710. During the period in which the head of 13
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 14
employee of the Federal Government appointed by the 15
President of the United States, holds office, no funds may 16
be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish 17
or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 18
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or 19
make improvements for any such office, unless advance 20
notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted 21
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this sec-23
tion, the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite of of-24
fices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space 25
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used primarily by the individual or the use of which is 1
directly controlled by the individual. 2
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EC. 711. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-3
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 4
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 5
the interagency funding of national security and emer-6
gency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which 7
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or enti-8
ties, as provided by Executive Order No. 13618 (July 6, 9
2012). 10
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EC. 712. (a) None of the funds made available by 11
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by 12
any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 13
Federal Government to pay the salaries or expenses of any 14
individual appointed to a position of a confidential or pol-15
icy-determining character that is excepted from the com-16
petitive service under section 3302 of title 5, United 17
States Code, (pursuant to schedule C of subpart C of part 18
213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations) unless 19
the head of the applicable department, agency, or other 20
instrumentality employing such schedule C individual cer-21
tifies to the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage-22
ment that the schedule C position occupied by the indi-23
vidual was not created solely or primarily in order to detail 24
the individual to the White House. 25
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(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 1
Federal employees or members of the armed forces de-2
tailed to or from an element of the intelligence community 3
(as that term is defined under section 3(4) of the National 4
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4))). 5
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EC. 713. No part of any appropriation contained in 6
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 7
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 8
Government, who— 9
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-10
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-11
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 12
direct oral or written communication or contact with 13
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 14
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 15
to the employment of such other officer or employee 16
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 17
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 18
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-19
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-20
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 21
committee, or subcommittee; or 22
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 23
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 24
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion 25
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to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-1
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-2
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-3
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 4
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 5
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 6
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 7
communication or contact of such other officer or 8
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-9
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 10
(1); 11
(3) unjustifiably refuses to comply with a duly 12
issued and valid congressional subpoena. 13
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EC. 714. (a) None of the funds made available in 14
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 15
any employee training that— 16
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-17
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 18
performance of official duties; 19
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-20
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 21
some participants; 22
(3) does not require prior employee notification 23
of the content and methods to be used in the train-24
ing and written end of course evaluation; 25
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(4) contains any methods or content associated 1
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 2
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-3
ployment Opportunity Commission Notice N– 4
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 5
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-6
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 7
workplace. 8
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 9
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 10
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 11
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EC. 715. No part of any funds appropriated in this 12
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu-13
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu-14
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda 15
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of 16
any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, 17
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla-18
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation 19
to the Congress itself. 20
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EC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or 21
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed-22
eral employee’s home address to any labor organization 23
except when the employee has authorized such disclosure 24
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or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of 1
competent jurisdiction. 2
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EC. 717. None of the funds made available in this 3
or any other Act may be used to provide any non-public 4
information such as mailing, telephone, or electronic mail-5
ing lists to any person or any organization outside of the 6
Federal Government without the approval of the Commit-7
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 8
and the Senate. 9
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EC. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in 10
this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, 11
including by private contractor, for publicity or propa-12
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore 13
authorized by Congress. 14
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EC. 719. (a) In this section, the term ‘‘agency’’— 15
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined 16
under 5 U.S.C. 105; 17
(2) includes a military department, as defined 18
under section 102 of such title and includes the 19
United States Postal Service. 20
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regu-21
lations to use such time for other purposes, an employee 22
of an agency shall use official time in an honest effort 23
to perform official duties. An employee not under a leave 24
system, including a Presidential appointee exempted under 25
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5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to expend an honest 1
effort and a reasonable proportion of such employee’s time 2
in the performance of official duties. 3
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EC. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-4
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 5
fiscal year by this or any other Act to any department 6
or agency, which is a member of the Federal Accounting 7
Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), shall be available to 8
finance an appropriate share of FASAB administrative 9
costs. 10
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EC. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-11
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-12
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 13
reimburse ‘‘General Services Administration, Government- 14
wide Policy’’ with the approval of the Director of the Of-15
fice of Management and Budget, funds made available for 16
the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including 17
rebates from charge card and other contracts: Provided, 18
That these funds shall be administered by the Adminis-19
trator of General Services to support Government-wide 20
and other multi-agency financial, information technology, 21
procurement, and other management innovations, initia-22
tives, and activities, including improving coordination and 23
reducing duplication, as approved by the Director of the 24
Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 25
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the appropriate interagency and multi-agency groups des-1
ignated by the Director (including the President’s Man-2
agement Council for overall management improvement ini-3
tiatives, the Chief Financial Officers Council for financial 4
management initiatives, the Chief Information Officers 5
Council for information technology initiatives, the Chief 6
Human Capital Officers Council for human capital initia-7
tives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procure-8
ment initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Coun-9
cil for performance improvement initiatives): Provided fur-10
ther, That the total funds transferred or reimbursed shall 11
not exceed $15,000,000 to improve coordination, reduce 12
duplication, and for other activities related to Federal 13
Government Priority Goals established by 31 U.S.C. 1120, 14
and not to exceed $17,000,000 for Government-wide inno-15
vations, initiatives, and activities: Provided further, That 16
the funds transferred to or for reimbursement of ‘‘General 17
Services Administration, Government-Wide Policy’’ during 18
fiscal year 2025 shall remain available for obligation 19
through September 30, 2026: Provided further, That not 20
later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the Direc-21
tor of the Office of Management and Budget, in consulta-22
tion with the Administrator of General Services, shall sub-23
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 24
of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on 25
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-1
ate, and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 2
of the House of Representatives a detailed spend plan for 3
the funds to be transferred or reimbursed: Provided fur-4
ther, That the spend plan shall, at a minimum, include: 5
(i) the amounts currently in the funds authorized under 6
this section and the estimate of amounts to be transferred 7
or reimbursed in fiscal year 2025; (ii) a detailed break-8
down of the purposes for all funds estimated to be trans-9
ferred or reimbursed pursuant to this section (including 10
total number of personnel and costs for all staff whose 11
salaries are provided for by this section); (iii) where appli-12
cable, a description of the funds intended for use by or 13
for the benefit of each executive council; and (iv) where 14
applicable, a description of the funds intended for use by 15
or for the implementation of specific laws passed by Con-16
gress: Provided further, That no transfers or reimburse-17
ments may be made pursuant to this section until 15 days 18
following notification of the Committees on Appropriations 19
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 20
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 21
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EC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of 22
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location 23
in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman 24
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and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at 1
the location. 2
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EC. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-3
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 4
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 5
the interagency funding of specific projects, workshops, 6
studies, and similar efforts to carry out the purposes of 7
the National Science and Technology Council (authorized 8
by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 9
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That 10
the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a re-11
port describing the budget of and resources connected with 12
the National Science and Technology Council to the Com-13
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 14
and the Senate, the House Committee on Science, Space, 15
and Technology, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, 16
Science, and Transportation 90 days after enactment of 17
this Act. 18
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EC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, 19
grant application, form, notification, press release, or 20
other publications involving the distribution of Federal 21
funds shall comply with any relevant requirements in part 22
200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations: Provided, 23
That this section shall apply to direct payments, formula 24
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funds, and grants received by a State receiving Federal 1
funds. 2
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EC. 725. (a) PROHIBITION OFFEDERALAGENCY 3
M
ONITORING OFINDIVIDUALS’ INTERNETUSE.—None of 4
the funds made available in this or any other Act may 5
be used by any Federal agency— 6
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation 7
of data, derived from any means, that includes any 8
personally identifiable information relating to an in-9
dividual’s access to or use of any Federal Govern-10
ment Internet site of the agency; or 11
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third 12
party (including another government agency) to col-13
lect, review, or obtain any aggregation of data, de-14
rived from any means, that includes any personally 15
identifiable information relating to an individual’s 16
access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 17
site. 18
(b) E
XCEPTIONS.—The limitations established in 19
subsection (a) shall not apply to— 20
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not 21
identify particular persons; 22
(2) any voluntary submission of personally iden-23
tifiable information; 24
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(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regu-1
latory, or supervisory purposes, in accordance with 2
applicable law; or 3
(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) 4
that is a system security action taken by the oper-5
ator of an Internet site and is necessarily incident 6
to providing the Internet site services or to pro-7
tecting the rights or property of the provider of the 8
Internet site. 9
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 10
(1) The term ‘‘regulatory’’ means agency ac-11
tions to implement, interpret, or enforce authorities 12
provided in law. 13
(2) The term ‘‘supervisory’’ means examina-14
tions of the agency’s supervised institutions, includ-15
ing assessing safety and soundness, overall financial 16
condition, management practices and policies and 17
compliance with applicable standards as provided in 18
law. 19
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EC. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 20
Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract which 21
includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, 22
except where the contract also includes a provision for con-23
traceptive coverage. 24
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(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract 1
with— 2
(1) any of the following religious plans: 3
(A) Personal Care’s HMO; and 4
(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and 5
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier 6
for the plan objects to such coverage on the basis of 7
religious beliefs. 8
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters 9
into or renews a contract under this section may not sub-10
ject any individual to discrimination on the basis that the 11
individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for 12
contraceptives because such activities would be contrary 13
to the individual’s religious beliefs or moral convictions. 14
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-15
quire coverage of abortion or abortion-related services. 16
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EC. 727. The United States is committed to ensur-17
ing the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and 18
Paralympic athletes, and supports the strict adherence to 19
anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, edu-20
cation, and research as performed by nationally recognized 21
oversight authorities. 22
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EC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 23
law, funds appropriated for official travel to Federal de-24
partments and agencies may be used by such departments 25
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and agencies, if consistent with Office of Management and 1
Budget Circular A–126 regarding official travel for Gov-2
ernment personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 3
ownership pilot program. 4
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EC. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of 5
law, none of the funds appropriated or made available 6
under this or any other appropriations Act may be used 7
to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the 8
Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to im-9
plement the proposed regulations of the Office of Per-10
sonnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 11
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Reg-12
ulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, 13
number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail 14
of executive branch employees to the legislative branch). 15
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EC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of 16
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, 17
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-18
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of 19
conducting Federal law enforcement training without the 20
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 21
the House of Representatives and the Senate, except that 22
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers is author-23
ized to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities 24
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by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which 1
cannot be accommodated in existing Centers facilities. 2
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EC. 731. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 3
law, none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 4
may be used by an executive branch agency to produce 5
any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or dis-6
tribution in the United States, unless the story includes 7
a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-8
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was 9
prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. 10
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EC. 732. None of the funds made available in this 11
Act may be used in contravention of section 552a of title 12
5, United States Code (popularly known as the Privacy 13
Act), and regulations implementing that section. 14
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EC. 733. (a) INGENERAL.—None of the funds ap-15
propriated or otherwise made available by this or any 16
other Act may be used for any Federal Government con-17
tract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated 18
as an inverted domestic corporation under section 835(b) 19
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(b)) 20
or any subsidiary of such an entity. 21
(b) W
AIVERS.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any Secretary shall waive 23
subsection (a) with respect to any Federal Govern-24
ment contract under the authority of such Secretary 25
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if the Secretary determines that the waiver is re-1
quired in the interest of national security. 2
(2) R
EPORT TO CONGRESS .—Any Secretary 3
issuing a waiver under paragraph (1) shall report 4
such issuance to Congress. 5
(c) E
XCEPTION.—This section shall not apply to any 6
Federal Government contract entered into before the date 7
of the enactment of this Act, or to any task order issued 8
pursuant to such contract. 9
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EC. 734. During fiscal year 2025, for each employee 10
who— 11
(1) retires under section 8336(d)(2) or 12
8414(b)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code; or 13
(2) retires under any other provision of sub-14
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such title 15
5 and receives a payment as an incentive to sepa-16
rate, the separating agency shall remit to the Civil 17
Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount 18
equal to the Office of Personnel Management’s aver-19
age unit cost of processing a retirement claim for 20
the preceding fiscal year. Such amounts shall be 21
available until expended to the Office of Personnel 22
Management and shall be deemed to be an adminis-23
trative expense under section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 24
5, United States Code. 25
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SEC. 735. (a) None of the funds made available in 1
this or any other Act may be used to recommend or re-2
quire any entity submitting an offer for a Federal contract 3
to disclose any of the following information as a condition 4
of submitting the offer: 5
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, 6
expenditure, independent expenditure, or disburse-7
ment for an electioneering communication that is 8
made by the entity, its officers or directors, or any 9
of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate for 10
election for Federal office or to a political com-11
mittee, or that is otherwise made with respect to any 12
election for Federal office. 13
(2) Any disbursement of funds (other than a 14
payment described in paragraph (1)) made by the 15
entity, its officers or directors, or any of its affiliates 16
or subsidiaries to any person with the intent or the 17
reasonable expectation that the person will use the 18
funds to make a payment described in paragraph 19
(1). 20
(b) In this section, each of the terms ‘‘contribution’’, 21
‘‘expenditure’’, ‘‘independent expenditure’’, ‘‘election-22
eering communication’’, ‘‘candidate’’, ‘‘election’’, and 23
‘‘Federal office’’ has the meaning given such term in the 24
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Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 1
et seq.). 2
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EC. 736. None of the funds made available in this 3
or any other Act may be used to pay for the painting of 4
a portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal Govern-5
ment, including the President, the Vice President, a Mem-6
ber of Congress (including a Delegate or a Resident Com-7
missioner to Congress), the head of an executive branch 8
agency (as defined in section 133 of title 41, United States 9
Code), or the head of an office of the legislative branch. 10
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EC. 737. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 11
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, 12
no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 13
2025, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any 14
prevailing rate employee described in section 15
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code— 16
(A) during the period from the date of expira-17
tion of the limitation imposed by the comparable sec-18
tion for the previous fiscal years until the normal ef-19
fective date of the applicable wage survey adjust-20
ment that is to take effect in fiscal year 2025, in an 21
amount that exceeds the rate payable for the appli-22
cable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule 23
in accordance with such section; and 24
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(B) during the period consisting of the remain-1
der of fiscal year 2025, in an amount that exceeds, 2
as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate 3
payable under subparagraph (A) by more than the 4
sum of— 5
(i) the percentage adjustment taking effect 6
in fiscal year 2025 under section 5303 of title 7
5, United States Code, in the rates of pay 8
under the General Schedule; and 9
(ii) the difference between the overall aver-10
age percentage of the locality-based com-11
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year 12
2025 under section 5304 of such title (whether 13
by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall av-14
erage percentage of such payments which was 15
effective in the previous fiscal year under such 16
section. 17
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 18
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 19
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, 20
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, 21
may be paid during the periods for which paragraph (1) 22
is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would 23
be payable under paragraph (1) were paragraph (1) appli-24
cable to such employee. 25
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(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the rates pay-1
able to an employee who is covered by this subsection and 2
who is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 3
30, 2024, shall be determined under regulations pre-4
scribed by the Office of Personnel Management. 5
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 6
of premium pay for employees subject to this subsection 7
may not be changed from the rates in effect on September 8
30, 2024, except to the extent determined by the Office 9
of Personnel Management to be consistent with the pur-10
pose of this subsection. 11
(5) This subsection shall apply with respect to pay 12
for service performed after September 30, 2024. 13
(6) For the purpose of administering any provision 14
of law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-15
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-16
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribu-17
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the 18
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary 19
or basic pay payable after the application of this sub-20
section shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 21
(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to 22
permit or require the payment to any employee covered 23
by this subsection at a rate in excess of the rate that would 24
be payable were this subsection not in effect. 25
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(8) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 1
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this sub-2
section if the Office determines that such exceptions are 3
necessary to ensure the recruitment or retention of quali-4
fied employees. 5
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment 6
in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that 7
take place in fiscal year 2025 under sections 5344 and 8
5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be— 9
(1) not less than the percentage received by em-10
ployees in the same location whose rates of basic pay 11
are adjusted pursuant to the statutory pay systems 12
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United 13
States Code: Provided, That prevailing rate employ-14
ees at locations where there are no employees whose 15
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 16
of title 5, United States Code, and prevailing rate 17
employees described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, 18
United States Code, shall be considered to be located 19
in the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of United 20
States’’ pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United 21
States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and 22
(2) effective as of the first day of the first ap-23
plicable pay period beginning after September 30, 24
2024. 25
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SEC. 738. (a) The head of any Executive branch de-1
partment, agency, board, commission, or office funded by 2
this or any other appropriations Act shall submit annual 3
reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official 4
for any entity without an Inspector General, regarding the 5
costs and contracting procedures related to each con-6
ference held by any such department, agency, board, com-7
mission, or office during fiscal year 2025 for which the 8
cost to the United States Government was more than 9
$100,000. 10
(b) Each report submitted shall include, for each con-11
ference described in subsection (a) held during the applica-12
ble period— 13
(1) a description of its purpose; 14
(2) the number of participants attending; 15
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the 16
United States Government, including— 17
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 18
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 19
(C) the cost of employee or contractor 20
travel to and from the conference; and 21
(D) a discussion of the methodology used 22
to determine which costs relate to the con-23
ference; and 24
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(4) a description of the contracting procedures 1
used including— 2
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a 3
competitive basis; and 4
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison 5
conducted by the departmental component or 6
office in evaluating potential contractors for the 7
conference. 8
(c) Within 15 days after the end of a quarter, the 9
head of any such department, agency, board, commission, 10
or office shall notify the Inspector General or senior ethics 11
official for any entity without an Inspector General, of the 12
date, location, and number of employees attending a con-13
ference held by any Executive branch department, agency, 14
board, commission, or office funded by this or any other 15
appropriations Act during fiscal year 2025 for which the 16
cost to the United States Government was more than 17
$20,000. 18
(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appro-19
priated by this or any other appropriations Act may not 20
be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a con-21
ference described in subsection (c) that is not directly and 22
programmatically related to the purpose for which the 23
grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held 24
in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, 25
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or other routine purposes related to a project funded by 1
the grant or contract. 2
(e) None of the funds made available in this or any 3
other appropriations Act may be used for travel and con-4
ference activities that are not in compliance with Office 5
of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 6
dated May 11, 2012 or any subsequent revisions to that 7
memorandum. 8
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EC. 739. None of the funds made available in this 9
or any other appropriations Act may be used to increase, 10
eliminate, or reduce funding for a program, project, or ac-11
tivity as proposed in the President’s budget request for 12
a fiscal year until such proposed change is subsequently 13
enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change 14
is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provi-15
sions of this or any other appropriations Act. 16
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EC. 740. None of the funds made available by this 17
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 18
enforce, or apply the rule entitled ‘‘Competitive Area’’ 19
published by the Office of Personnel Management in the 20
Federal Register on April 15, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 20180 21
et seq.). 22
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EC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or other-23
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 24
to begin or announce a study or public-private competition 25
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regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any 1
function performed by Federal employees pursuant to Of-2
fice of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any 3
other administrative regulation, directive, or policy. 4
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EC. 742. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-5
erwise made available by this or any other Act may be 6
available for a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement 7
with an entity that requires employees or contractors of 8
such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign 9
internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohib-10
iting or otherwise restricting such employees or contrac-11
tors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse 12
to a designated investigative or law enforcement represent-13
ative of a Federal department or agency authorized to re-14
ceive such information. 15
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not con-16
travene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, 17
Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal depart-18
ment or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified 19
information. 20
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EC. 743. (a) No funds appropriated in this or any 21
other Act may be used to implement or enforce the agree-22
ments in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Govern-23
ment or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agree-24
ment if such policy, form, or agreement does not contain 25
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the following provisions: ‘‘These provisions are consistent 1
with and do not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter 2
the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by 3
existing statute or Executive order relating to (1) classi-4
fied information, (2) communications to Congress, (3) the 5
reporting to an Inspector General or the Office of Special 6
Counsel of a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or 7
mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of au-8
thority, or a substantial and specific danger to public 9
health or safety, or (4) any other whistleblower protection. 10
The definitions, requirements, obligations, rights, sanc-11
tions, and liabilities created by controlling Executive or-12
ders and statutory provisions are incorporated into this 13
agreement and are controlling.’’: Provided, That notwith-14
standing the preceding provision of this section, a non-15
disclosure policy form or agreement that is to be executed 16
by a person connected with the conduct of an intelligence 17
or intelligence-related activity, other than an employee or 18
officer of the United States Government, may contain pro-19
visions appropriate to the particular activity for which 20
such document is to be used. Such form or agreement 21
shall, at a minimum, require that the person will not dis-22
close any classified information received in the course of 23
such activity unless specifically authorized to do so by the 24
United States Government. Such nondisclosure forms 25
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shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclosures 1
to Congress, or to an authorized official of an executive 2
agency or the Department of Justice, that are essential 3
to reporting a substantial violation of law. 4
(b) A nondisclosure agreement may continue to be 5
implemented and enforced notwithstanding subsection (a) 6
if it complies with the requirements for such agreement 7
that were in effect when the agreement was entered into. 8
(c) No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 9
may be used to implement or enforce any agreement en-10
tered into during fiscal year 2014 which does not contain 11
substantially similar language to that required in sub-12
section (a). 13
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EC. 744. None of the funds made available by this 14
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 15
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 16
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 17
to, any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-18
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad-19
ministrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, 20
and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant 21
to an agreement with the authority responsible for col-22
lecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is 23
aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless a Federal agency 24
has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation 25
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and has made a determination that this further action is 1
not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 2
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EC. 745. None of the funds made available by this 3
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 4
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 5
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 6
to, any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal 7
violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 8
months, where the awarding agency is aware of the convic-9
tion, unless a Federal agency has considered suspension 10
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-11
mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-12
tect the interests of the Government. 13
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EC. 746. (a) Notwithstanding any official rate ad-14
justed under section 104 of title 3, United States Code, 15
the rate payable to the Vice President during calendar 16
year 2025 shall be the rate payable to the Vice President 17
on December 31, 2024, by operation of section 747 of divi-18
sion B of Public Law 118–47. 19
(b) Notwithstanding any official rate adjusted under 20
section 5318 of title 5, United States Code, or any other 21
provision of law, the payable rate during calendar year 22
2025 for an employee serving in an Executive Schedule 23
position, or in a position for which the rate of pay is fixed 24
by statute at an Executive Schedule rate, shall be the rate 25
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payable for the applicable Executive Schedule level on De-1
cember 31, 2024, by operation of section 747 of division 2
B of Public Law 118–47. Such an employee may not re-3
ceive a rate increase during calendar year 2025, except 4
as provided in subsection (i). 5
(c) Notwithstanding section 401 of the Foreign Serv-6
ice Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) or any other provi-7
sion of law, a chief of mission or ambassador at large is 8
subject to subsection (b) in the same manner as other em-9
ployees who are paid at an Executive Schedule rate. 10
(d)(1) This subsection applies to— 11
(A) a noncareer appointee in the Senior Execu-12
tive Service paid a rate of basic pay at or above the 13
official rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule; 14
or 15
(B) a limited term appointee or limited emer-16
gency appointee in the Senior Executive Service 17
serving under a political appointment and paid a 18
rate of basic pay at or above the official rate for 19
level IV of the Executive Schedule. 20
(2) Notwithstanding sections 5382 and 5383 of title 21
5, United States Code, an employee described in para-22
graph (1) may not receive a pay rate increase during cal-23
endar year 2025, except as provided in subsection (i). 24
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(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 1
employee paid a rate of basic pay (including any locality 2
based payments under section 5304 of title 5, United 3
States Code, or similar authority) at or above the official 4
rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves 5
under a political appointment may not receive a pay rate 6
increase during calendar year 2025, except as provided in 7
subsection (i). This subsection does not apply to employees 8
in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service 9
pay system, to employees appointed under section 3161 10
of title 5, United States Code, or to employees in another 11
pay system whose position would be classified at GS–15 12
or below if chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, ap-13
plied to them. 14
(f) Nothing in subsections (b) through (e) shall pre-15
vent employees who do not serve under a political appoint-16
ment from receiving pay increases as otherwise provided 17
under applicable law. 18
(g) This section does not apply to an individual who 19
makes an election to retain Senior Executive Service basic 20
pay under section 3392(c) of title 5, United States Code, 21
for such time as that election is in effect. 22
(h) This section does not apply to an individual who 23
makes an election to retain Senior Foreign Service pay 24
entitlements under section 302(b) of the Foreign Service 25
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Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) for such time as that 1
election is in effect. 2
(i) Notwithstanding subsections (b) through (e), an 3
employee in a covered position may receive a pay rate in-4
crease upon an authorized movement to a different cov-5
ered position only if that new position has higher-level du-6
ties and a pre-established level or range of pay higher than 7
the level or range for the position held immediately before 8
the movement. Any such increase must be based on the 9
rates of pay and applicable limitations on payable rates 10
of pay in effect on December 31, 2024, by operation of 11
section 747 of division B of Public Law 118–47. 12
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 13
an individual who is newly appointed to a covered position 14
during the period of time subject to this section, the initial 15
pay rate shall be based on the rates of pay and applicable 16
limitations on payable rates of pay in effect on December 17
31, 2024, by operation of section 747 of division B of Pub-18
lic Law 118–47. 19
(k) If an employee affected by this section is subject 20
to a biweekly pay period that begins in calendar year 2025 21
but ends in calendar year 2026, the bar on the employee’s 22
receipt of pay rate increases shall apply through the end 23
of that pay period. 24
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(l) For the purpose of this section, the term ‘‘covered 1
position’’ means a position occupied by an employee whose 2
pay is restricted under this section. 3
(m) This section takes effect on the first day of the 4
first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 5
1, 2025. 6
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EC. 747. In the event of a violation of the Impound-7
ment Control Act of 1974, the President or the head of 8
the relevant department or agency, as the case may be, 9
shall report immediately to the Congress all relevant facts 10
and a statement of actions taken: Provided, That a copy 11
of each report shall also be transmitted to the Committees 12
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 13
Senate and the Comptroller General on the same date the 14
report is transmitted to the Congress. 15
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EC. 748. (a) Each department or agency of the exec-16
utive branch of the United States Government shall notify 17
the Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the 18
House of Representatives and the Senate and any other 19
appropriate congressional committees if— 20
(1) an apportionment is not made in the re-21
quired time period provided in section 1513(b) of 22
title 31, United States Code; 23
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(2) an approved apportionment received by the 1
department or agency conditions the availability of 2
an appropriation on further action; or 3
(3) an approved apportionment received by the 4
department or agency may hinder the prudent obli-5
gation of such appropriation or the execution of a 6
program, project, or activity by such department or 7
agency. 8
(b) Any notification submitted to a congressional 9
committee pursuant to this section shall contain informa-10
tion identifying the bureau, account name, appropriation 11
name, and Treasury Appropriation Fund Symbol or fund 12
account. 13
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EC. 749. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 14
United States Code, or section 708 of this Act, funds 15
made available by this or any other Act to any Federal 16
agency may be used by that Federal agency for inter-17
agency funding for coordination with, participation in, or 18
recommendations involving, activities of the U.S. Army 19
Medical Research and Development Command, the Con-20
gressionally Directed Medical Research Programs and the 21
National Institutes of Health research programs. 22
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EC. 750. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-23
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-24
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 25
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reimburse ‘‘General Services Administration, Federal Cit-1
izen Services Fund’’ with the approval of the Director of 2
the Office of Management and Budget, funds made avail-3
able for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, 4
including rebates from charge card and other contracts: 5
Provided, That these funds, in addition to amounts other-6
wise available, shall be administered by the Administrator 7
of General Services to carry out the purposes of the Fed-8
eral Citizen Services Fund and to support Government- 9
wide and other multi-agency financial, information tech-10
nology, procurement, and other activities, including serv-11
ices authorized by 44 U.S.C. 3604 and enabling Federal 12
agencies to take advantage of information technology in 13
sharing information: Provided further, That the total 14
funds transferred or reimbursed shall not exceed 15
$29,000,000 for such purposes: Provided further, That the 16
funds transferred to or for reimbursement of ‘‘General 17
Services Administration, Federal Citizen Services Fund’’ 18
during fiscal year 2025 shall remain available for obliga-19
tion through September 30, 2026: Provided further, That 20
not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the 21
Administrator of General Services, in consultation with 22
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 23
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 24
House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed spend 25
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plan for the funds to be transferred or reimbursed: Pro-1
vided further, That the spend plan shall, at a minimum, 2
include: (i) the amounts currently in the funds authorized 3
under this section and the estimate of amounts to be 4
transferred or reimbursed in fiscal year 2025; (ii) a de-5
tailed breakdown of the purposes for all funds estimated 6
to be transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this section 7
(including total number of personnel and costs for all staff 8
whose salaries are provided for by this section); and (iii) 9
where applicable, a description of the funds intended for 10
use by or for the implementation of specific laws passed 11
by Congress: Provided further, That no transfers or reim-12
bursements may be made pursuant to this section until 13
15 days following notification of the Committees on Ap-14
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-15
ate by the Director of the Office of Management and 16
Budget. 17
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EC. 751. (a) Any non-Federal entity receiving funds 18
provided in this or any other appropriations Act for fiscal 19
year 2025 that are specified in the disclosure table sub-20
mitted in compliance with clause 9 of rule XXI of the 21
Rules of the House of Representatives or Rule XLIV that 22
is included in the report or explanatory statement accom-23
panying any such Act shall be deemed to be a recipient 24
of a Federal award with respect to such funds for purposes 25
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of the requirements of 2 CFR 200.334, regarding records 1
retention, and 2 CFR 200.337, regarding access by the 2
Comptroller General of the United States. 3
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit, 4
amend, supersede, or restrict in any manner any require-5
ments otherwise applicable to non-Federal entities de-6
scribed in paragraph (1) or any existing authority of the 7
Comptroller General. 8
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EC. 752. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act or any other Act may be provided to States, cities, 10
or localities that allow non-citizens to vote in Federal elec-11
tions. 12
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EC. 753. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act, or any other Act, may be used to make investments 14
under the Thrift Savings Plan in certain mutual funds 15
that make investment decisions based primarily on envi-16
ronmental, social, or governance criteria. 17
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EC. 754. None of the funds appropriated or other-18
wise made available by this Act or any other Act may be 19
available to— 20
(a) classify or facilitate the classification of any com-21
munications by a United States person as mis-, dis-, or 22
mal-information; or 23
(b) partner with or fund nonprofit or other organiza-24
tions that pressure or recommend private companies to 25
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censor lawful and constitutionally protected speech of 1
United States persons, including recommending the cen-2
soring or removal of content on social media platforms. 3
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EC. 755. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act or any other Act shall be used or transferred to an-5
other Federal agency, board, or commission to recruit, 6
hire, promote, or retain any person who either has been 7
convicted of a Federal or State child pornography charge, 8
has been convicted of any other Federal or State sexual 9
assault charge or has been formally disciplined for using 10
Federal resources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 11
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EC. 756. None of the funds made available by this 12
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 13
or otherwise carry out Executive Order No. 14019 (86 14
Fed. Reg. 13623; relating to promoting access to voting), 15
except for sections 7, 8, and 10 of such Order. 16
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EC. 757. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act or any other Act may be used to implement, admin-18
ister, or enforce any COVID–19 mask or vaccine man-19
dates. 20
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EC. 758. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-21
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive agency 22
(as that term is defined in section 105 of title 5, United 23
States Code) may transfer to or reimburse the ‘‘Informa-24
tion Technology Oversight and Reform’’ account with 25
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funds made available for the current fiscal year by this 1
or any other Act, including rebates from charge card and 2
other contracts: Provided, That these funds, in addition 3
to amounts otherwise available, shall be administered by 4
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for 5
necessary expenses of the United States Digital Service: 6
Provided further, That the total funds transferred or reim-7
bursed pursuant to this authority shall not exceed 8
$30,000,000 for such purposes: Provided further, That 9
funds transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this author-10
ity during fiscal year 2025 shall remain available for obli-11
gation through September 30, 2027: Provided further, 12
That not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 13
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 14
Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 15
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed 16
spend plan for the funds to be transferred or reimbursed: 17
Provided further, That the spend plan shall, at a min-18
imum, include: (i) the estimate of amounts to be trans-19
ferred or reimbursed in fiscal year 2025; (ii) a detailed 20
breakdown of the purposes for all funds estimated to be 21
transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this section (includ-22
ing total number of personnel and costs for all staff whose 23
salaries are provided for by this section); and (iii) where 24
applicable, a description of the funds intended for use by 25
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or for the implementation of specific laws passed by Con-1
gress: Provided further, That no transfers or reimburse-2
ments may be made pursuant to this section until 15 days 3
following notification of the Committees on Appropriations 4
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 5
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 6
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EC. 759. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act or any other Act may be used to contract with, grant 8
awards to, or otherwise obligate or expend to NewsGuard 9
Technologies, Inc. (doing business as ‘‘NewsGuard’’); 10
Disinformation Index, Inc., Disinformation Index, Ltd., or 11
Global Disinformation Index gUG (collectively doing busi-12
ness as ‘‘Global Disinformation Index’’); or any other enti-13
ty, including a nonprofit organization (as described by sec-14
tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), that 15
engages in operations or activities, or produces products, 16
the function of which is to demonetize or rate the credi-17
bility of a domestic entity (including news and information 18
outlets) based on lawful speech of such domestic entity 19
under the stated function of ‘‘fact-checking’’, or otherwise 20
exposing or correcting mis-information, dis-information, 21
or mal-information. 22
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EC. 760. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 23
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any title other 24
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than title IV or VIII shall not apply to such title IV or 1
VIII. 2
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TITLE VIII 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DISTRICT OF 2
COLUMBIA 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
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EC. 801. There are appropriated from the applicable 5
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be 6
necessary for making refunds and for the payment of legal 7
settlements or judgments that have been entered against 8
the District of Columbia government. 9
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EC. 802. None of the Federal funds provided in this 10
Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or 11
implementation of any policy including boycott designed 12
to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress 13
or any State legislature. 14
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EC. 803. (a) None of the Federal funds provided 15
under this Act to the agencies funded by this Act, both 16
Federal and District government agencies, that remain 17
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2025, 18
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 19
United States derived by the collection of fees available 20
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 21
obligation or expenditures for an agency through a re-22
programming of funds which— 23
(1) creates new programs; 24
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(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsi-1
bility center; 2
(3) establishes or changes allocations specifi-3
cally denied, limited or increased under this Act; 4
(4) increases funds or personnel by any means 5
for any program, project, or responsibility center for 6
which funds have been denied or restricted; 7
(5) re-establishes any program or project pre-8
viously deferred through reprogramming; 9
(6) augments any existing program, project, or 10
responsibility center through a reprogramming of 11
funds in excess of $3,000,000 or 10 percent, which-12
ever is less; or 13
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel 14
assigned to a specific program, project or responsi-15
bility center, unless prior approval is received from 16
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 17
Representatives and the Senate. 18
(b) The District of Columbia government is author-19
ized to approve and execute reprogramming and transfer 20
requests of local funds under this title through November 21
7, 2025. 22
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EC. 804. None of the Federal funds provided in this 23
Act may be used by the District of Columbia to provide 24
for salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the 25
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offices of United States Senators or United States Rep-1
resentatives under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia 2
Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 3
(D.C. Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123). 4
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EC. 805. Except as otherwise provided in this sec-5
tion, none of the funds made available by this Act or by 6
any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em-7
ployee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle 8
unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the 9
performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties. 10
For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘official duties’’ 11
does not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s 12
residence and workplace, except in the case of— 13
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan 14
Police Department who resides in the District of Co-15
lumbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the 16
Department; 17
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an offi-18
cer or employee of the District of Columbia Fire and 19
Emergency Medical Services Department who re-20
sides in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 21
hours a day; 22
(3) at the discretion of the Director of the De-23
partment of Corrections, an officer or employee of 24
the District of Columbia Department of Corrections 25
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who resides in the District of Columbia and is on 1
call 24 hours a day; 2
(4) at the discretion of the Chief Medical Ex-3
aminer, an officer or employee of the Office of the 4
Chief Medical Examiner who resides in the District 5
of Columbia and is on call 24 hours a day; 6
(5) at the discretion of the Director of the 7
Homeland Security and Emergency Management 8
Agency, an officer or employee of the Homeland Se-9
curity and Emergency Management Agency who re-10
sides in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 11
hours a day; 12
(6) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and 13
(7) the Chairman of the Council of the District 14
of Columbia. 15
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EC. 806. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 16
in this Act may be used by the District of Columbia Attor-17
ney General or any other officer or entity of the District 18
government to provide assistance for any petition drive or 19
civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for 20
voting representation in Congress for the District of Co-21
lumbia. 22
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Co-23
lumbia Attorney General from reviewing or commenting 24
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on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with offi-1
cials of the District government regarding such lawsuits. 2
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EC. 807. None of the Federal funds contained in 3
this Act may be used to distribute any needle or syringe 4
for the purpose of preventing the spread of blood borne 5
pathogens in any location that has been determined by the 6
local public health or local law enforcement authorities to 7
be inappropriate for such distribution. 8
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EC. 808. Nothing in this Act may be construed to 9
prevent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia 10
from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive 11
coverage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent 12
of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue 13
should include a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides excep-14
tions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 15
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EC. 809. No funds available for obligation or ex-16
penditure by the District of Columbia government under 17
any authority shall be expended for any abortion except 18
where the life of the mother would be endangered if the 19
fetus were carried to term or where the pregnancy is the 20
result of an act of rape or incest. 21
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EC. 810. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 22
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 23
Officer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the 24
appropriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the 25
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Council of the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated 1
funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 2
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant 3
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 4
(D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the 5
District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2025 that 6
is in the total amount of the approved appropriation and 7
that realigns all budgeted data for personal services and 8
other-than-personal services, respectively, with anticipated 9
actual expenditures. 10
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency for 11
which the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Co-12
lumbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address 13
unanticipated changes in program requirements. 14
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EC. 811. No later than 30 calendar days after the 15
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Offi-16
cer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the appro-17
priate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council 18
for the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated funds 19
operating budget for the District of Columbia Public 20
Schools that aligns schools’ budgets to actual enrollment. 21
The revised appropriated funds budget shall be in the for-22
mat of the budget that the District of Columbia govern-23
ment submitted pursuant to section 442 of the District 24
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of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1– 1
204.42). 2
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EC. 812. (a) Amounts appropriated in this Act as 3
operating funds may be transferred to the District of Co-4
lumbia’s enterprise and capital funds and such amounts, 5
once transferred, shall retain appropriation authority con-6
sistent with the provisions of this Act. 7
(b) The District of Columbia government is author-8
ized to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any 9
local funds transferred or reprogrammed in this or the 10
four prior fiscal years from operating funds to capital 11
funds, and such amounts, once transferred or repro-12
grammed, shall retain appropriation authority consistent 13
with the provisions of this Act. 14
(c) The District of Columbia government may not 15
transfer or reprogram for operating expenses any funds 16
derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 17
capital projects. 18
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EC. 813. None of the Federal funds appropriated 19
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 20
the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to 21
other appropriations, unless expressly so provided herein. 22
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EC. 814. Except as otherwise specifically provided 23
by law or under this Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unob-24
ligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal 25
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year 2024 from appropriations of Federal funds made 1
available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2025 in 2
this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 3
2026, for each such account for the purposes authorized: 4
Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the Com-5
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 6
and the Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of 7
such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be 8
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines out-9
lined in section 803 of this Act. 10
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EC. 815. (a)(1) During fiscal year 2026, during a 11
period in which neither a District of Columbia continuing 12
resolution or a regular District of Columbia appropriation 13
bill is in effect, local funds are appropriated in the amount 14
provided for any project or activity for which local funds 15
are provided in the Act referred to in paragraph (2) (sub-16
ject to any modifications enacted by the District of Colum-17
bia as of the beginning of the period during which this 18
subsection is in effect) at the rate set forth by such Act. 19
(2) The Act referred to in this paragraph is the Act 20
of the Council of the District of Columbia pursuant to 21
which a proposed budget is approved for fiscal year 2026 22
which (subject to the requirements of the District of Co-23
lumbia Home Rule Act) will constitute the local portion 24
of the annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-25
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ment for fiscal year 2026 for purposes of section 446 of 1
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–204.46, 2
D.C. Official Code). 3
(b) Appropriations made by subsection (a) shall cease 4
to be available— 5
(1) during any period in which a District of Co-6
lumbia continuing resolution for fiscal year 2026 is 7
in effect; or 8
(2) upon the enactment into law of the regular 9
District of Columbia appropriation bill for fiscal year 10
2026. 11
(c) An appropriation made by subsection (a) is pro-12
vided under the authority and conditions as provided 13
under this Act and shall be available to the extent and 14
in the manner that would be provided by this Act. 15
(d) An appropriation made by subsection (a) shall 16
cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for such 17
project or activity during the portion of fiscal year 2026 18
for which this section applies to such project or activity. 19
(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activity 20
during any period of fiscal year 2026 if any other provi-21
sion of law (other than an authorization of appropria-22
tions)— 23
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(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds avail-1
able, or grants authority for such project or activity 2
to continue for such period; or 3
(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 4
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 5
no authority shall be granted for such project or ac-6
tivity to continue for such period. 7
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect 8
obligations of the government of the District of Columbia 9
mandated by other law. 10
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EC. 816. (a) Section 244 of the Revised Statutes 11
of the United States relating to the District of Columbia 12
(sec. 9–1201.03, D.C. Official Code) does not apply with 13
respect to any railroads installed pursuant to the Long 14
Bridge Project. 15
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘Long Bridge Project’’ 16
means the project carried out by the District of Columbia 17
and the Commonwealth of Virginia to construct a new 18
Long Bridge adjacent to the existing Long Bridge over 19
the Potomac River, including related infrastructure and 20
other related projects, to expand commuter and regional 21
passenger rail service and to provide bike and pedestrian 22
access crossings over the Potomac River. 23
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EC. 817. Not later than 45 days after the last day 24
of each quarter, each Federal and District government 25
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agency appropriated Federal funds in this Act shall sub-1
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 2
of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly budget re-3
port that includes total obligations of the Agency for that 4
quarter for each Federal funds appropriation provided in 5
this Act, by the source year of the appropriation. 6
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EC. 818. None of the funds available for obligation 7
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 8
under any authority may be used to carry out the Repro-9
ductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 10
2014 (D.C. Law 20-261) or to implement any rule or reg-11
ulation promulgated to carry out such Act. 12
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EC. 819. (a) Section 602(a) of the District of Co-13
lumbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1 206.02(a), D.C. Official 14
Code) is amended— 15
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (9); 16
(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 17
(10) and inserting ‘‘; or ;’’ and 18
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 19
‘‘(11) enact any act, resolution, rule, regulation, 20
guidance, or other law to permit any person to carry 21
out any activity, or to reduce the penalties imposed 22
with respect to any activity, to which subsection (a) 23
of section 3 of the Assisted Suicide Funding Restric-24
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tion Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 14402) applies (taking 1
into consideration subsection (b) of such section).’’. 2
(b) The Death With Dignity Act of 2016 (D.C. Law 3
21 182) is hereby repealed. 4
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EC. 820. (a) No later than 60 calendar days after 5
the date of the enactment of this Act the District of Co-6
lumbia shall submit a report to the Committees regarding 7
the District of Columbia’s enforcement of the Partial 8
Birth Abortion Ban Act. 9
(b) The report submitted shall include: 10
(1) how health care providers within the District of 11
Columbia are alerted to their responsibility to comply with 12
the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act; 13
(2) how the District of Columbia responds to poten-14
tial violations; 15
(3) how many potential violations have been inves-16
tigated in the District of Columbia in the past five years; 17
(4) whether the District of Columbia preserved each 18
child’s remains for appropriate examination during the in-19
vestigation; 20
(5) whether the District of Columbia conducted a 21
thorough investigation of the death of each child and what 22
each investigation showed; 23
(6) whether the Chief Medical Examiner was directed 24
to perform an autopsy on each child to determine the 25
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method and cause of death in accordance with section 1
2906 of the Establishment of the Office of the Chief Med-2
ical Examiner Act of 2000(sec. 5–1405, D.C. Official 3
Code; 4
(7) whether the District of Columbia directed a sub-5
sequent autopsy to be completed by an independent, li-6
censed pathologist to confirm the findings of the Chief 7
Medical Examiner; and 8
(8) whether the District of Columbia ensured the 9
proper and respectful burial of each child. 10
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EC. 821. None of the funds available for obligation 11
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 12
under any authority may be used to enforce the District 13
of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment’s 14
December 29, 2023, final rule relating to ‘‘Adoption of 15
California Vehicle Emission Standards’’. 16
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EC. 822. None of the funds available for obligation 17
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 18
under any authority may be used by the District of Colum-19
bia to enact or carry out any law which prohibits motorists 20
from making right turns on red, including the Safer 21
Streets Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-214). 22
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EC. 823. None of the funds available for obligation 23
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 24
under any authority may be used to carry out title IX of 25
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the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Support Act of 1996 (sec. 1
50-2209.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code). 2
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EC. 824. (a) Section 5 of the Corrections Oversight 3
Improvement Omnibus Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. 4
Law 24–344) is repealed, and the provision of law amend-5
ed by such section (section 16–5505, D.C. Official Code) 6
is restored as if such section had not been enacted into 7
law. 8
(b) Subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in 9
the enactment of the Corrections Oversight Improvement 10
Omnibus Amendment Act of 2022. 11
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EC. 825. None of the funds available for obligation 12
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 13
under any authority may be used to implement the Local 14
Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 (D. C. 15
Law 24-344) or any activities related to enrolling or reg-16
istering noncitizens into voter rolls for local elections. 17
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EC. 826. An individual who has a valid weapons 18
carry permit from any United States state or territory 19
may possess and carry a concealed handgun in the area 20
governed by the District of Columbia and Washington 21
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 22
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EC. 827. None of the funds available for obligation 23
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 24
under any authority may be used to carry out the Com-25
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prehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act 1
of 2022 (D.C. Law 24–345). 2
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EC. 828. Sections 102(a)(3) and 102(c)(1)(B) of the 3
Youth Rehabilitation Amendment Act of 2018 (D.C. Law 4
22–197) are hereby repealed, and any provision of law 5
amended by these sections is hereby restored as if such 6
sections had not been enacted into law. 7
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EC. 829. None of the funds made available for obli-8
gation or expenditure by the District of Columbia under 9
any authority may be used to implement, administer, or 10
enforce any COVID–19 mask or vaccine mandate. 11
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EC. 830. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 12
in this Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, 13
rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties 14
associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any 15
Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act 16
(21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols de-17
rivative. 18
(b) No funds available for obligation or expenditure 19
by the District of Columbia government under any author-20
ity may be used to enact any law, rule, or regulation to 21
legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 22
possession, use, or distribution of any Schedule I sub-23
stance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 24
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801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative for 1
recreational purposes. 2
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EC. 831. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 3
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in 4
title IV shall be treated as referring only to the provisions 5
of this title or of title IV. 6
TITLE IX 7
ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS 8
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 9
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EC. 901. $0. 10
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services 11
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 12
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118
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CONGRESS 
2
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H. R. 8773 
[Report No. 118–556] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for financial services and 
general government for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. 
J
UNE
17, 2024 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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