Us Congress Senate Bill SB2309 Introduced / Bill

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Calendar No. 131 
118THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION S. 2309 
[Report No. 118–61] 
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY13, 2023 
Mr. V
ANHOLLEN, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for financial services and general gov-
ernment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fi-4
nancial services and general government for the fiscal year 5
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, 6
namely: 7 2 
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TITLE I 1
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 2
D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 5
including operation and maintenance of the Treasury 6
Building and Freedman’s Bank Building; hire of pas-7
senger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improve-8
ments of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 9
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when nec-10
essary for the performance of official business; executive 11
direction program activities; international affairs and eco-12
nomic policy activities; domestic finance and tax policy ac-13
tivities, including technical assistance to State, local, and 14
territorial entities; and Treasury-wide management poli-15
cies and programs activities, $273,882,000, of which not 16
less than $9,000,000 shall be available for the administra-17
tion of financial assistance, in addition to amounts other-18
wise available for such purposes: Provided, That of the 19
amount appropriated under this heading— 20
(1) not to exceed $350,000 is for official recep-21
tion and representation expenses; 22
(2) not to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen 23
emergencies of a confidential nature to be allocated 24
and expended under the direction of the Secretary of 25 3 
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the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on the 1
Secretary’s certificate; and 2
(3) not to exceed $42,000,000 shall remain 3
available until September 30, 2025, for— 4
(A) the Treasury-wide Financial Statement 5
Audit and Internal Control Program; 6
(B) information technology modernization 7
requirements; 8
(C) the audit, oversight, and administra-9
tion of the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund; 10
(D) the development and implementation 11
of programs within the Office of Cybersecurity 12
and Critical Infrastructure Protection, including 13
entering into cooperative agreements; 14
(E) operations and maintenance of facili-15
ties; 16
(F) international operations; and 17
(G) investment security. 18
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED 19
STATES FUND 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
For necessary expenses of the Committee on Foreign 22
Investment in the United States, $21,000,000, to remain 23
available until expended: Provided, That the chairperson 24
of the Committee may transfer such amounts to any de-25 4 
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partment or agency represented on the Committee (includ-1
ing the Department of the Treasury) subject to advance 2
notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the 3
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-4
ther, That amounts so transferred shall remain available 5
until expended for expenses of implementing section 721 6
of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 7
U.S.C. 4565), and shall be available in addition to any 8
other funds available to any department or agency: Pro-9
vided further, That fees authorized by section 721(p) of 10
such Act shall be credited to this appropriation as offset-11
ting collections: Provided further, That the total amount 12
appropriated under this heading from the general fund 13
shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are received 14
during fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a total appro-15
priation from the general fund estimated at not more than 16
$0. 17
OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
For the necessary expenses of the Office of Terrorism 20
and Financial Intelligence to safeguard the financial sys-21
tem against illicit use and to combat rogue nations, ter-22
rorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction 23
proliferators, human rights abusers, money launderers, 24
drug kingpins, and other national security threats, 25 5 
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$221,059,000, of which not less than $3,000,000 shall be 1
available for addressing human rights violations and cor-2
ruption, including activities authorized by the Global 3
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 4
2656 note): Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 5
under this heading, up to $16,000,000 shall remain avail-6
able until September 30, 2025. 7
CYBERSECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACCOUNT 8
For salaries and expenses for enhanced cybersecurity 9
for systems operated by the Department of the Treasury, 10
$100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 11
2026: Provided, That such funds shall supplement and not 12
supplant any other amounts made available to the Treas-13
ury offices and bureaus for cybersecurity: Provided fur-14
ther, That of the total amount made available under this 15
heading $9,000,000 shall be available for administrative 16
expenses for the Treasury Chief Information Officer to 17
provide oversight of the investments made under this 18
heading: Provided further, That such funds shall supple-19
ment and not supplant any other amounts made available 20
to the Treasury Chief Information Officer. 21 6 
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DEPARTMENT-WIDE SYSTEMS AND CAPITAL 1
INVESTMENTS PROGRAMS 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For development and acquisition of automatic data 4
processing equipment, software, and services and for re-5
pairs and renovations to buildings owned by the Depart-6
ment of the Treasury, $11,118,000, to remain available 7
until September 30, 2026: Provided, That these funds 8
shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as nec-9
essary to satisfy the requirements of the Department’s of-10
fices, bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, 11
That this transfer authority shall be in addition to any 12
other transfer authority provided in this Act: Provided fur-13
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this head-14
ing shall be used to support or supplement ‘‘Internal Rev-15
enue Service, Operations Support’’ or ‘‘Internal Revenue 16
Service, Business Systems Modernization’’. 17
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 20
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 21
General Act of 1978, $48,878,000, including hire of pas-22
senger motor vehicles; of which not to exceed $100,000 23
shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a con-24
fidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 25 7 
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direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; of 1
which up to $2,800,000 to remain available until Sep-2
tember 30, 2025, shall be for audits and investigations 3
conducted pursuant to section 1608 of the Resources and 4
Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Re-5
vived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (33 6
U.S.C. 1321 note); and of which not to exceed $1,000 7
shall be available for official reception and representation 8
expenses. 9
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX 10
ADMINISTRATION 11
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 12
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector 13
General for Tax Administration in carrying out the In-14
spector General Act of 1978, as amended, including pur-15
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 16
1343(b)); and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at 17
such rates as may be determined by the Inspector General 18
for Tax Administration; $174,250,000, of which 19
$5,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 20
2025; of which not to exceed $6,000,000 shall be available 21
for official travel expenses; of which not to exceed 22
$500,000 shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of 23
a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under 24
the direction of the Inspector General for Tax Administra-25 8 
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tion; and of which not to exceed $1,500 shall be available 1
for official reception and representation expenses. 2
F
INANCIALCRIMESENFORCEMENTNETWORK 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes En-5
forcement Network, including hire of passenger motor ve-6
hicles; travel and training expenses of non-Federal and 7
foreign government personnel to attend meetings and 8
training concerned with domestic and foreign financial in-9
telligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regula-10
tion; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; not to exceed 11
$25,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 12
and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, 13
with or without reimbursement, $190,193,000, of which 14
not to exceed $55,000,000 shall remain available until 15
September 30, 2026. 16
B
UREAU OF THEFISCALSERVICE 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses of operations of the Bureau 19
of the Fiscal Service, $386,485,000; of which not to ex-20
ceed $8,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
2026, is for information systems modernization initiatives; 22
and of which $5,000 shall be available for official reception 23
and representation expenses. 24 9 
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In addition, $225,000, to be derived from the Oil 1
Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse administrative 2
and personnel expenses for financial management of the 3
Fund, as authorized by section 1012 of Public Law 101– 4
380. 5
A
LCOHOL ANDTOBACCOTAX ANDTRADEBUREAU 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses of carrying out section 1111 8
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, including hire of 9
passenger motor vehicles, $153,863,000; of which not to 10
exceed $6,000 shall be available for official reception and 11
representation expenses; and of which not to exceed 12
$50,000 shall be available for cooperative research and de-13
velopment programs for laboratory services; and provision 14
of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies with 15
or without reimbursement: Provided, That of the amount 16
appropriated under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be for 17
the costs of accelerating the processing of formula and 18
label applications: Provided further, That of the amount 19
appropriated under this heading, $5,000,000, to remain 20
available until September 30, 2025, shall be for the costs 21
associated with enforcement of and education regarding 22
the trade practice provisions of the Federal Alcohol Ad-23
ministration Act (27 U.S.C. 201 et seq.). 24 10 
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UNITEDSTATESMINT 1
UNITED STATES MINT PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FUND 2
Pursuant to section 5136 of title 31, United States 3
Code, the United States Mint is provided funding through 4
the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund for costs 5
associated with the production of circulating coins, numis-6
matic coins, and protective services, including both oper-7
ating expenses and capital investments: Provided, That 8
the aggregate amount of new liabilities and obligations in-9
curred during fiscal year 2024 under such section 5136 10
for circulating coinage and protective service capital in-11
vestments of the United States Mint shall not exceed 12
$50,000,000. 13
C
OMMUNITYDEVELOPMENTFINANCIALINSTITUTIONS 14
F
UND 15
To carry out the Riegle Community Development and 16
Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 (subtitle A of title 17
I of Public Law 103–325), including services authorized 18
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates 19
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent 20
to the rate for EX–III, $334,000,000. Of the amount ap-21
propriated under this heading— 22
(1) not less than $191,000,000, notwith-23
standing section 108(e) of Public Law 103–325 (12 24
U.S.C. 4707(e)) with regard to Small and/or Emerg-25 11 
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ing Community Development Financial Institutions 1
Assistance awards, is available until September 30, 2
2025, for financial assistance and technical assist-3
ance under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 4
108(a)(1), respectively, of Public Law 103–325 (12 5
U.S.C. 4707(a)(1)(A) and (B)), of which up to 6
$1,600,000 may be available for training and out-7
reach under section 109 of Public Law 103–325 (12 8
U.S.C. 4708), of which up to $3,153,750 may be 9
used for the cost of direct loans, of which up to 10
$10,000,000, notwithstanding subsection (d) of sec-11
tion 108 of Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 12
4707(d)), may be available to provide financial as-13
sistance, technical assistance, training, and outreach 14
to community development financial institutions to 15
expand investments that benefit individuals with dis-16
abilities, and of which up to $2,000,000 shall be for 17
the Economic Mobility Corps to be operated in con-18
junction with the Corporation for National and 19
Community Service, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 12571: 20
Provided, That the cost of direct and guaranteed 21
loans, including the cost of modifying such loans, 22
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-23
sional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 24
these funds are available to subsidize gross obliga-25 12 
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tions for the principal amount of direct loans not to 1
exceed $25,000,000: Provided further, That of the 2
funds provided under this paragraph, excluding 3
those made to community development financial in-4
stitutions to expand investments that benefit individ-5
uals with disabilities and those made to community 6
development financial institutions that serve popu-7
lations living in persistent poverty counties, the 8
CDFI Fund shall prioritize Financial Assistance 9
awards to organizations that invest and lend in high- 10
poverty areas: Provided further, That for purposes of 11
this section, the term ‘‘high-poverty area’’ means 12
any census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 13
percent as measured by the 2016–2020 5-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 $25,000,000, notwithstanding 21
section 108(e) of Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 22
4707(e)), is available until September 30, 2025, for 23
financial assistance, technical assistance, training, 24
and outreach programs designed to benefit Native 25 13 
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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 $40,000,000 is available until 8
September 30, 2025, for the Bank Enterprise Award 9
program; 10
(4) not less than $24,000,000, notwithstanding 11
subsections (d) and (e) of section 108 of Public Law 12
103–325 (12 U.S.C. 4707(d) and (e)), is available 13
until September 30, 2025, for a Healthy Food Fi-14
nancing Initiative to provide financial assistance, 15
technical assistance, training, and outreach to com-16
munity development financial institutions for the 17
purpose of offering affordable financing and tech-18
nical assistance to expand the availability of healthy 19
food options in distressed communities; 20
(5) not less than $9,000,000 is available until 21
September 30, 2025, to provide grants for loan loss 22
reserve funds and to provide technical assistance for 23
small dollar loan programs under section 122 of 24
Public Law 103–325 (12 U.S.C. 4719): Provided, 25 14 
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That sections 108(d) and 122(b)(2) of such Public 1
Law shall not apply to the provision of such grants 2
and technical assistance; 3
(6) up to $35,000,000 is available for adminis-4
trative expenses, including administration of CDFI 5
Fund programs and the New Markets Tax Credit 6
Program, of which not less than $1,000,000 is for 7
the development of tools to better assess and inform 8
CDFI investment performance and CDFI program 9
impacts, and up to $300,000 is for administrative 10
expenses to carry out the direct loan program; and 11
(7) during fiscal year 2024, up to $10,000,000 12
is available until September 30, 2025 for the cost, 13
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budg-14
et Act of 1974, of commitments to guarantee bonds 15
and notes under section 114A of the Riegle Commu-16
nity Development and Regulatory Improvement Act 17
of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4713a): Provided, That commit-18
ments to guarantee bonds and notes under such sec-19
tion 114A shall not exceed $500,000,000: Provided 20
further, That such section 114A shall remain in ef-21
fect until December 31, 2025: Provided further, 22
That of the funds awarded under this heading, ex-23
cept those provided for the Economic Mobility 24
Corps, not less than 10 percent shall be used for 25 15 
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awards that support investments that serve popu-1
lations living in persistent poverty counties: Provided 2
further, That for the purposes of this paragraph and 3
paragraph (1), the term ‘‘persistent poverty coun-4
ties’’ means any county, including county equivalent 5
areas in Puerto Rico, that has had 20 percent or 6
more of its population living in poverty over the past 7
30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decen-8
nial censuses and the 2016–2020 5-year data series 9
available from the American Community Survey of 10
the Bureau of the Census or any other territory or 11
possession of the United States that has had 20 per-12
cent or more of its population living in poverty over 13
the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990, 2000 14
and 2010 Island Areas Decennial Censuses, or 15
equivalent data, of the Bureau of the Census. 16
I
NTERNALREVENUESERVICE 17
TAXPAYER SERVICES 18
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-19
ice to provide taxpayer services, including pre-filing assist-20
ance and education, filing and account services, taxpayer 21
advocacy services, and other services as authorized by 5 22
U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the 23
Commissioner, $2,780,606,000, of which not to exceed 24
$100,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 25 16 
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2025, of which not less than $12,000,000 shall be for the 1
Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, of which not less 2
than $26,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 3
2025, shall be available for low-income taxpayer clinic 4
grants, including grants to individual clinics of up to 5
$200,000, of which not less than $41,000,000, to remain 6
available until September 30, 2025, shall be available for 7
the Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Match-8
ing Grants Program for tax return preparation assistance, 9
and of which not less than $254,000,000 shall be available 10
for operating expenses of the Taxpayer Advocate Service: 11
Provided, That of the amounts made available for the Tax-12
payer Advocate Service, not less than $7,000,000 shall be 13
for identity theft and refund fraud casework. 14
ENFORCEMENT 15
For necessary expenses for tax enforcement activities 16
of the Internal Revenue Service to determine and collect 17
owed taxes, to provide legal and litigation support, to con-18
duct criminal investigations, to enforce criminal statutes 19
related to violations of internal revenue laws and other fi-20
nancial crimes, to purchase and hire passenger motor vehi-21
cles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)), and to provide other services 22
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 23
determined by the Commissioner, $5,437,622,000; of 24
which not to exceed $250,000,000 shall remain available 25 17 
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until September 30, 2025; of which not less than 1
$60,257,000 shall be for the Interagency Crime and Drug 2
Enforcement program; and of which not to exceed 3
$25,000,000 shall be for investigative technology for the 4
Criminal Investigation Division: Provided, That the 5
amount made available for investigative technology for the 6
Criminal Investigation Division shall be in addition to 7
amounts made available for the Criminal Investigation Di-8
vision under the ‘‘Operations Support’’ heading. 9
OPERATIONS SUPPORT 10
For necessary expenses to operate the Internal Rev-11
enue Service to support taxpayer services and enforcement 12
programs, including rent payments; facilities services; 13
printing; postage; physical security; headquarters and 14
other IRS-wide administration activities; research and sta-15
tistics of income; telecommunications; information tech-16
nology development, enhancement, operations, mainte-17
nance and security; the hire of passenger motor vehicles 18
(31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); the operations of the Internal Rev-19
enue Service Oversight Board; and other services as au-20
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be deter-21
mined by the Commissioner; $4,100,826,000, of which not 22
to exceed $275,000,000 shall remain available until Sep-23
tember 30, 2025; of which not to exceed $10,000,000 shall 24
remain available until expended for acquisition of equip-25 18 
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ment and construction, repair and renovation of facilities; 1
of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall remain available 2
until September 30, 2025, for research; and of which not 3
to exceed $20,000 shall be for official reception and rep-4
resentation expenses: Provided, That not later than 30 5
days after the end of each quarter, the Internal Revenue 6
Service shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-7
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 8
and the Comptroller General of the United States detail-9
ing major information technology investments in the Inter-10
nal Revenue Service portfolio, including detailed, plain 11
language summaries on the status of plans, costs, and re-12
sults; prior results and actual expenditures of the prior 13
quarter; upcoming deliverables and costs for the fiscal 14
year; risks and mitigation strategies associated with ongo-15
ing work; reasons for any cost or schedule variances; and 16
total expenditures by fiscal year: Provided further, That 17
the Internal Revenue Service shall include, in its budget 18
justification for fiscal year 2025, a summary of cost and 19
schedule performance information for its major informa-20
tion technology systems. 21 19 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —INTERNAL REVENUE 1
SERVICE 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
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EC. 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of the appropria-4
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue 5
Service under the ‘‘Enforcement’’ heading, and not to ex-6
ceed 5 percent of any other appropriation made available 7
in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service, may be trans-8
ferred to any other Internal Revenue Service appropria-9
tion upon the advance approval of the Committees on Ap-10
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-11
ate. 12
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EC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall main-13
tain an employee training program, which shall include the 14
following topics: taxpayers’ rights, dealing courteously 15
with taxpayers, cross-cultural relations, ethics, and the im-16
partial application of tax law. 17
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EC. 103. The Internal Revenue Service shall insti-18
tute and enforce policies and procedures that will safe-19
guard the confidentiality of taxpayer information and pro-20
tect taxpayers against identity theft. 21
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EC. 104. Funds made available by this or any other 22
Act to the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for 23
improved facilities and increased staffing to provide suffi-24
cient and effective 1–800 help line service for taxpayers. 25 20 
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The Commissioner shall continue to make improvements 1
to the Internal Revenue Service 1–800 help line service 2
a priority and allocate resources necessary to enhance the 3
response time to taxpayer communications, particularly 4
with regard to victims of tax-related crimes. 5
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EC. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall issue 6
a notice of confirmation of any address change relating 7
to an employer making employment tax payments, and 8
such notice shall be sent to both the employer’s former 9
and new address and an officer or employee of the Internal 10
Revenue Service shall give special consideration to an 11
offer-in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the vic-12
tim of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer. 13
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EC. 106. None of the funds made available under 14
this Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to 15
target citizens of the United States for exercising any 16
right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Con-17
stitution of the United States. 18
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EC. 107. None of the funds made available in this 19
Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to target 20
groups for regulatory scrutiny based on their ideological 21
beliefs. 22
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EC. 108. None of funds made available by this Act 23
to the Internal Revenue Service shall be obligated or ex-24
pended on conferences that do not adhere to the proce-25 21 
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dures, verification processes, documentation requirements, 1
and policies issued by the Chief Financial Officer, Human 2
Capital Office, and Agency-Wide Shared Services as a re-3
sult of the recommendations in the report published on 4
May 31, 2013, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 5
Administration entitled ‘‘Review of the August 2010 Small 6
Business/Self-Employed Division’s Conference in Ana-7
heim, California’’ (Reference Number 2013–10–037). 8
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EC. 109. None of the funds made available in this 9
Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be obligated or 10
expended— 11
(1) to make a payment to any employee under 12
a bonus, award, or recognition program; or 13
(2) under any hiring or personnel selection 14
process with respect to re-hiring a former employee; 15
unless such program or process takes into account the 16
conduct and Federal tax compliance of such employee or 17
former employee. 18
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EC. 110. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used in contravention of section 6103 of the 20
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to confidentiality 21
and disclosure of returns and return information). 22
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EC. 111. The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Sec-23
retary’s delegate) may use the funds made available in this 24
Act, subject to such policies as the Secretary (or the Sec-25 22 
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retary’s delegate) may establish, to utilize direct hire au-1
thority to recruit and appoint qualified applicants, without 2
regard to any notice or preference requirements, directly 3
to positions in the competitive service to process back-4
logged tax returns and return information. 5
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EC. 112. Notwithstanding section 1344 of title 31, 6
United States Code, funds appropriated to the Internal 7
Revenue Service in this Act may be used to provide pas-8
senger carrier transportation and protection between the 9
Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s residence and place 10
of employment. 11
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EC. 113. The Secretary of the Treasury (or the Sec-12
retary’s delegate) may use funds made available to the In-13
ternal Revenue Service in this Act or any other provision 14
of law, subject to such policies as the Secretary (or the 15
Secretary’s delegate) may establish, to take such personnel 16
actions as the Secretary (or the Secretary’s delegate) de-17
termines necessary to administer the Internal Revenue 18
Code of 1986, including (1) in addition to the authority 19
under section 7812(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 20
1986, appointing not more than 200 individuals to posi-21
tions in the Internal Revenue Service under streamlined 22
critical pay authority subject to the requirements and con-23
ditions under section 9503 of title 5, United States Code, 24
except that section 9503(a)(3) of such title shall not apply; 25 23 
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and (2) appointing not more than 300 individuals to posi-1
tions in the Internal Revenue Service at any one time for 2
which (A) the rate of basic pay may be established by the 3
Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s delegate) at 4
a rate that does not exceed the salary set in accordance 5
with section 104 of title 3, United States Code; and (B) 6
the total annual compensation paid to an employee in such 7
a position, including allowances, differentials, bonuses, 8
awards, and similar cash payments, may not exceed the 9
maximum amount of total annual compensation payable 10
at the salary set in accordance with section 104 of title 11
3, United States Code: Provided, That the authority pro-12
vided under this paragraph shall expire on September 30, 13
2031. 14
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DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE 15
T
REASURY 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 17
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EC. 114. Appropriations to the Department of the 18
Treasury in this Act shall be available for uniforms or al-19
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 20
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; purchase of 21
insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign 22
countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the 23
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased 24
and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into 25 24 
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contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing 1
of health and medical services to employees and their de-2
pendents serving in foreign countries; and services author-3
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 4
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EC. 115. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-5
tions in this title made available under the headings ‘‘De-6
partmental Offices—Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Office of 7
Inspector General’’, ‘‘Special Inspector General for the 8
Troubled Asset Relief Program’’, ‘‘Financial Crimes En-9
forcement Network’’, ‘‘Bureau of the Fiscal Service’’, and 10
‘‘Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau’’ may be 11
transferred between such appropriations upon the advance 12
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the 13
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided, That 14
no such transfer may increase or decrease any such appro-15
priation by more than 2 percent. 16
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EC. 116. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-17
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue 18
Service may be transferred to the Treasury Inspector Gen-19
eral for Tax Administration’s appropriation upon the ad-20
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 21
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided, 22
That no transfer may increase or decrease any such appro-23
priation by more than 2 percent. 24 25 
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SEC. 117. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 1
or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury 2
or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used 3
to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note. 4
S
EC. 118. The Secretary of the Treasury may trans-5
fer funds from the ‘‘Bureau of the Fiscal Service—Sala-6
ries and Expenses’’ to the Debt Collection Fund as nec-7
essary to cover the costs of debt collection: Provided, That 8
such amounts shall be reimbursed to such salaries and ex-9
penses account from debt collections received in the Debt 10
Collection Fund. 11
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EC. 119. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 13
by the United States Mint to construct or operate any mu-14
seum without the explicit approval of the Committees on 15
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 16
Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and 17
the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 18
Affairs. 19
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EC. 120. None of the funds appropriated or other-20
wise made available by this or any other Act or source 21
to the Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Engrav-22
ing and Printing, and the United States Mint, individually 23
or collectively, may be used to consolidate any or all func-24
tions of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the 25 26 
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United States Mint without the explicit approval of the 1
House Committee on Financial Services; the Senate Com-2
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and the 3
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-4
atives and the Senate. 5
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EC. 121. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 6
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for the De-7
partment of the Treasury’s intelligence or intelligence re-8
lated activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by 9
the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National 10
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 11
2024 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization 12
Act for Fiscal Year 2024. 13
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EC. 122. Not to exceed $5,000 shall be made avail-14
able from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Indus-15
trial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and 16
representation expenses. 17
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EC. 123. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 18
a Capital Investment Plan to the Committees on Appro-19
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 20
not later than 30 days following the submission of the an-21
nual budget submitted by the President: Provided, That 22
such Capital Investment Plan shall include capital invest-23
ment spending from all accounts within the Department 24
of the Treasury, including but not limited to the Depart-25 27 
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ment-wide Systems and Capital Investment Programs ac-1
count, Treasury Franchise Fund account, and the Treas-2
ury Forfeiture Fund account: Provided further, That such 3
Capital Investment Plan shall include expenditures occur-4
ring in previous fiscal years for each capital investment 5
project that has not been fully completed. 6
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EC. 124. During fiscal year 2024— 7
(1) none of the funds made available in this or 8
any other Act may be used by the Department of 9
the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Serv-10
ice, to issue, revise, or finalize any regulation, rev-11
enue ruling, or other guidance not limited to a par-12
ticular taxpayer relating to the standard which is 13
used to determine whether an organization is oper-14
ated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare 15
for purposes of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 16
Revenue Code of 1986 (including the proposed regu-17
lations published at 78 Fed. Reg. 71535 (November 18
29, 2013)); and 19
(2) the standard and definitions as in effect on 20
January 1, 2010, which are used to make such de-21
terminations shall apply after the date of the enact-22
ment of this Act for purposes of determining status 23
under section 501(c)(4) of such Code of organiza-24
tions created on, before, or after such date. 25 28 
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SEC. 125. Within 45 days after the date of enactment 1
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 2
an itemized report to the Committees on Appropriations 3
of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the 4
amount of total funds charged to each office by the Fran-5
chise Fund including the amount charged for each service 6
provided by the Franchise Fund to each office, a detailed 7
description of the services, a detailed explanation of how 8
each charge for each service is calculated, and a descrip-9
tion of the role customers have in governing in the Fran-10
chise Fund. 11
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EC. 126. (a) Not later than 60 days after the end 12
of each quarter, the Office of Financial Research shall 13
submit reports on their activities to the Committees on 14
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 15
Senate, the Committee on Financial Services of the House 16
of Representatives, and the Senate Committee on Bank-17
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 18
(b) The reports required under subsection (a) shall 19
include— 20
(1) the obligations made during the previous 21
quarter by object class, office, and activity; 22
(2) the estimated obligations for the remainder 23
of the fiscal year by object class, office, and activity; 24 29 
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(3) the number of full-time equivalents within 1
each office during the previous quarter; 2
(4) the estimated number of full-time equiva-3
lents within each office for the remainder of the fis-4
cal year; and 5
(5) actions taken to achieve the goals, objec-6
tives, and performance measures of each office. 7
(c) At the request of any such Committees specified 8
in subsection (a), the Office of Financial Research shall 9
make officials available to testify on the contents of the 10
reports required under subsection (a). 11
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EC. 127. In addition to amounts otherwise available, 12
there is appropriated to the Special Inspector General for 13
Pandemic Recovery, $12,000,000, to remain available 14
until expended, for necessary expenses in carrying out sec-15
tion 4018 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 16
Security Act (Public Law 116–136). 17
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EC. 128. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-18
tion made available in this Act for the Department of the 19
Treasury may be transferred to the Department’s infor-20
mation technology system modernization and working cap-21
ital fund (IT WCF), as authorized by section 1077(b)(1) 22
of title X of division A of the National Defense Authoriza-23
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115–91), for 24
the purposes specified in section 1077(b)(3) of such Act, 25 30 
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upon the prior notification of the Committees on Appro-1
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 2
Provided, That amounts transferred to the IT WCF under 3
this section shall remain available for obligation through 4
September 30, 2027. 5
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EC. 129. Up to $1,000,000 of any appropriation in 6
this title may be transferred to the Special Inspector Gen-7
eral for TARP or the Special Inspector General for Pan-8
demic Recovery appropriations upon the prior notification 9
of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-10
resentatives and the Senate. 11
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 12
Treasury Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 13 31 
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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, $78,681,000. 18
E
XECUTIVERESIDENCE AT THEWHITEHOUSE 19
OPERATING EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses of the Executive Residence 21
at the White House, $15,609,000, to be expended and ac-22
counted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 23
112–114. 24 32 
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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 33 
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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, by not later than 90 days after the end of 13
the fiscal year covered by this Act, a report setting forth 14
the reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Res-15
idence during the preceding fiscal year, including the total 16
amount of such expenses, the amount of such total that 17
consists of reimbursable official and ceremonial events, the 18
amount of such total that consists of reimbursable political 19
events, and the portion of each such amount that has been 20
reimbursed as of the date of the report: Provided further, 21
That the Executive Residence shall maintain a system for 22
the tracking of expenses related to reimbursable events 23
within the Executive Residence that includes a standard 24
for the classification of any such expense as political or 25 34 
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nonpolitical: Provided further, That no provision of this 1
paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive Res-2
idence from any other applicable requirement of sub-3
chapter I or II of chapter 37 of title 31, United States 4
Code. 5
W
HITEHOUSEREPAIR ANDRESTORATION 6
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the 7
Executive Residence at the White House pursuant to 3 8
U.S.C. 105(d), $2,500,000, to remain available until ex-9
pended, for required maintenance, resolution of safety and 10
health issues, and continued preventative maintenance. 11
C
OUNCIL OFECONOMICADVISERS 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic 14
Advisers in carrying out its functions under the Employ-15
ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021 et seq.), $4,903,000. 16
N
ATIONALSECURITYCOUNCIL ANDHOMELAND 17
S
ECURITYCOUNCIL 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
For necessary expenses of the National Security 20
Council and the Homeland Security Council, including 21
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $17,901,000, of 22
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for official 23
reception and representation expenses. 24 35 
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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
$115,463,000, 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 36 
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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, $128,035,000, 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 on Ap-17
propriations or their subcommittees: Provided further, 18
That none of the funds made available for the Office of 19
Management and Budget by this Act may be expended for 20
the altering of the annual work plan developed by the 21
Corps of Engineers for submission to the Committees on 22
Appropriations: Provided further, That none of the funds 23
provided in this or prior Acts shall be used, directly or 24
indirectly, by the Office of Management and Budget, for 25 37 
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evaluating or determining if water resource project or 1
study reports submitted by the Chief of Engineers acting 2
through the Secretary of the Army are in compliance with 3
all applicable laws, regulations, and requirements relevant 4
to the Civil Works water resource planning process: Pro-5
vided further, That the Office of Management and Budget 6
shall have not more than 60 days in which to perform 7
budgetary policy reviews of water resource matters on 8
which the Chief of Engineers has reported: Provided fur-9
ther, That the Director of the Office of Management and 10
Budget shall notify the appropriate authorizing and ap-11
propriating committees when the 60-day review is initi-12
ated: Provided further, That if water resource reports have 13
not been transmitted to the appropriate authorizing and 14
appropriating committees within 15 days after the end of 15
the Office of Management and Budget review period based 16
on the notification from the Director, Congress shall as-17
sume Office of Management and Budget concurrence with 18
the report and act accordingly: Provided further, That no 19
later than 14 days after the submission of the budget of 20
the United States Government for fiscal year 2024, the 21
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 22
make publicly available on a website a tabular list for each 23
agency that submits budget justification materials (as de-24
fined in section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability 25 38 
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and Transparency Act of 2006) that shall include, at min-1
imum, the name of the agency, the date on which the 2
budget justification materials of the agency were sub-3
mitted to Congress, and a uniform resource locator where 4
the budget justification materials are published on the 5
website of the agency. 6
I
NTELLECTUALPROPERTYENFORCEMENT 7
C
OORDINATOR 8
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Intellec-9
tual Property Enforcement Coordinator, as authorized by 10
title III of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for 11
Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403), 12
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 13
$1,902,000. 14
O
FFICE OF THENATIONALCYBERDIRECTOR 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For necessary expenses of the Office of the National 17
Cyber Director, as authorized by section 1752 of the Wil-18
liam M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authoriza-19
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283), 20
$21,926,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be avail-21
able for official reception and representation expenses. 22 39 
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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, $35,045,000: 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: Provided further, That of the amounts 15
made available under this heading, $13,045,000 shall be 16
for initiatives in the amounts and for the projects specified 17
in the table that appears under the heading ‘‘Office of Na-18
tional Drug Control Policy—Salaries and Expenses’’ in 19
the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That 20
none of the funds referenced in the previous proviso may 21
be transferred for any other purpose. 22 40 
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FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 1
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 4
Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking 5
Areas Program, $301,600,000, to remain available until 6
September 30, 2025, for drug control activities consistent 7
with the approved strategy for each of the designated 8
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (‘‘HIDTAs’’), of 9
which not less than 51 percent shall be transferred to 10
State and local entities for drug control activities and shall 11
be obligated not later than 120 days after enactment of 12
this Act: Provided, That up to 49 percent may be trans-13
ferred to Federal agencies and departments in amounts 14
determined by the Director of the Office of National Drug 15
Control Policy, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used 16
for auditing services and associated activities and 17
$2,000,000 shall be for the Grants Management System 18
for use by the Office of National Drug Control Policy: Pro-19
vided further, That any unexpended funds obligated prior 20
to fiscal year 2022 may be used for any other approved 21
activities of that HIDTA, subject to reprogramming re-22
quirements: Provided further, That each HIDTA des-23
ignated as of September 30, 2023, shall be funded at not 24
less than the fiscal year 2023 base level, unless the Direc-25 41 
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tor submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 1
House of Representatives and the Senate justification for 2
changes to those levels based on clearly articulated prior-3
ities and published Office of National Drug Control Policy 4
performance measures of effectiveness: Provided further, 5
That the Director shall notify the Committees on Appro-6
priations of the initial allocation of fiscal year 2024 fund-7
ing among HIDTAs not later than 45 days after enact-8
ment of this Act, and shall notify the Committees of 9
planned uses of discretionary HIDTA funding, as deter-10
mined in consultation with the HIDTA Directors, not 11
later than 90 days after enactment of this Act: Provided 12
further, That upon a determination that all or part of the 13
funds so transferred from this appropriation are not nec-14
essary for the purposes provided herein and upon notifica-15
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 16
of Representatives and the Senate, such amounts may be 17
transferred back to this appropriation. 18
OTHER FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 20
For other drug control activities authorized by the 21
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Office of National 22
Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998, as 23
amended, $142,520,000, to remain available until ex-24
pended, which shall be available as follows: $109,000,000 25 42 
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for the Drug-Free Communities Program, of which not 1
more than $12,780,000 is for administrative expenses, 2
and of which $2,500,000 shall be made available as di-3
rected by section 4 of Public Law 107–82, as amended 4
by section 8204 of Public Law 115–271; $3,000,000 for 5
drug court training and technical assistance; $14,000,000 6
for anti-doping activities; up to $3,700,000 for the United 7
States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agen-8
cy; $1,250,000 for the Model Acts Program; and 9
$5,200,000 for activities authorized by section 103 of 10
Public Law 114–198; and $6,370,000 to implement evolv-11
ing and emerging drug threat response plans, as author-12
ized by section 709 of the Office of National Drug Control 13
Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1708), as 14
amended: Provided, That amounts made available under 15
this heading may be transferred to other Federal depart-16
ments and agencies to carry out such activities: Provided 17
further, That the Director of the Office of National Drug 18
Control Policy shall, not fewer than 30 days prior to obli-19
gating funds under this heading for United States mem-20
bership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency, submit to 21
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and the Senate a spending plan and expla-23
nation of the proposed uses of these funds. 24 43 
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UNANTICIPATEDNEEDS 1
For expenses necessary to enable the President to 2
meet unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national 3
interest, security, or defense which may arise at home or 4
abroad during the current fiscal year, as authorized by 5
3 U.S.C. 108, $1,000,000, to remain available until Sep-6
tember 30, 2025. 7
I
NFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYOVERSIGHT ANDREFORM 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For necessary expenses for the furtherance of inte-10
grated, efficient, secure, and effective uses of information 11
technology in the Federal Government, $13,700,000, to 12
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Direc-13
tor of the Office of Management and Budget may transfer 14
these funds to one or more other agencies to carry out 15
projects to meet these purposes. 16
S
PECIALASSISTANCE TO THEPRESIDENT 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President 19
to provide assistance to the President in connection with 20
specially assigned functions; services as authorized by 5 21
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence ex-22
penses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be ex-23
pended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 24
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $6,076,000. 25 44 
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OFFICIALRESIDENCE OF THEVICEPRESIDENT 1
OPERATING EXPENSES 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, 4
and to the extent not otherwise provided for, heating and 5
lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the offi-6
cial residence of the Vice President; the hire of passenger 7
motor vehicles; and not to exceed $90,000 pursuant to 3 8
U.S.C. 106(b)(2), $321,000: Provided, That advances, re-9
payments, or transfers from this appropriation may be 10
made to any department or agency for expenses of car-11
rying out such activities. 12
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—EXECUTIVEOFFICE OF 13
THEPRESIDENT AND FUNDSAPPROPRIATED TO 14
THEPRESIDENT 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
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EC. 201. From funds made available in this Act 17
under the headings ‘‘The White House’’, ‘‘Executive Resi-18
dence at the White House’’, ‘‘White House Repair and 19
Restoration’’, ‘‘Council of Economic Advisers’’, ‘‘National 20
Security Council and Homeland Security Council’’, ‘‘Of-21
fice of Administration’’, ‘‘Special Assistance to the Presi-22
dent’’, and ‘‘Official Residence of the Vice President’’, the 23
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (or 24
such other officer as the President may designate in writ-25 45 
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ing) may, with advance approval of the Committees on Ap-1
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-2
ate, transfer not to exceed 10 percent of any such appro-3
priation to any other such appropriation, to be merged 4
with and available for the same time and for the same 5
purposes as the appropriation to which transferred: Pro-6
vided, That the amount of an appropriation shall not be 7
increased by more than 50 percent by such transfers: Pro-8
vided further, That no amount shall be transferred from 9
‘‘Special Assistance to the President’’ or ‘‘Official Resi-10
dence of the Vice President’’ without the approval of the 11
Vice President. 12
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EC. 202. (a) During fiscal year 2023, any Executive 13
order or Presidential memorandum issued or revoked by 14
the President shall be accompanied by a written statement 15
from the Director of the Office of Management and Budg-16
et on the budgetary impact, including costs, benefits, and 17
revenues, of such order or memorandum. 18
(b) Any such statement shall include— 19
(1) a narrative summary of the budgetary im-20
pact of such order or memorandum on the Federal 21
Government; 22
(2) the impact on mandatory and discretionary 23
obligations and outlays as the result of such order 24
or memorandum, listed by Federal agency, for each 25 46 
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year in the 5-fiscal-year period beginning in fiscal 1
year 2023; and 2
(3) the impact on revenues of the Federal Gov-3
ernment as the result of such order or memorandum 4
over the 5-fiscal-year period beginning in fiscal year 5
2023. 6
(c) If an Executive order or Presidential memo-7
randum is issued during fiscal year 2023 due to a national 8
emergency, the Director of the Office of Management and 9
Budget may issue the statement required by subsection 10
(a) not later than 15 days after the date that such order 11
or memorandum is issued. 12
(d) The requirement for cost estimates for Presi-13
dential memoranda shall only apply for Presidential 14
memoranda estimated to have a regulatory cost in excess 15
of $100,000,000. 16
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EC. 203. Not later than 30 days after the date of 17
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Man-18
agement and Budget shall issue a memorandum to all 19
Federal departments, agencies, and corporations directing 20
compliance with the provisions in title VII of this Act. 21
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Executive Office of 22
the President Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 23 47 
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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 a purchase price of $45,000 per 9
vehicle except for protective vehicles and vehicles acquired 10
through the General Services Administration; not to ex-11
ceed $10,000 for official reception and representation ex-12
penses; and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended as 13
the Chief Justice may approve, $119,389,000, of which 14
$1,500,000 shall remain available until expended. 15
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 16
be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief 17
justice and associate justices of the court. 18
CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS 19
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable 20
the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties im-21
posed upon the Architect by 40 U.S.C. 6111 and 6112 22
under the direction of the Chief Justice, $20,688,000, to 23
remain available until expended. 24 48 
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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
$36,735,000. 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, $21,260,000. 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 49 
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for Probation and Pretrial Services Office staff, as author-1
ized by law, $6,010,055,000 (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 $9,975,000, 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 50 
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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, $1,382,680,000, 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)), $58,239,000, 22
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 23
compensation of land commissioners shall not exceed the 24 51 
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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
$750,163,000, 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 52 
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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, $102,673,000, 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, $34,261,000; 24
of which $1,800,000 shall remain available through Sep-25 53 
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tember 30, 2025, 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, $21,641,000, 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 54 
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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 55 
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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 ‘‘32 years and 6 8
months’’ and inserting ‘‘33 years and 6 months’’; 9
and 10
(2) in the sixth sentence (relating to the Dis-11
trict of Hawaii), by striking ‘‘29 years and 6 12
months’’ and inserting ‘‘30 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
‘‘30 years and 6 months’’ and inserting ‘‘31 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 56 
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(1) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘21 years’’ 1
and inserting ‘‘22 years’’; 2
(2) in the second sentence (relating to the cen-3
tral District of California), by striking ‘‘20 years 4
and 6 months’’ and inserting ‘‘21 years and 6 5
months’’; and 6
(3) in the third sentence (relating to the west-7
ern district of North Carolina), by striking ‘‘19 8
years’’ and inserting ‘‘20 years’’. 9
S
EC. 307. Section 3006A(d)(1) of title 18, United 10
States Code, is amended in the first sentence by inserting 11
after ‘‘Any attorney appointed pursuant to this section’’ 12
the following: ‘‘or the attorney’s law firm’’. 13
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Judiciary Appropria-14
tions Act, 2024’’. 15 57 
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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, $40,000,000, 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 58 
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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, $30,000,000, 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. 24 59 
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FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1
COURTS 2
For salaries and expenses for the District of Colum-3
bia Courts, including the transfer and hire of motor vehi-4
cles, $291,068,000 to be allocated as follows: for the Dis-5
trict of Columbia Court of Appeals, $15,055,000, of which 6
not to exceed $2,500 is for official reception and represen-7
tation expenses; for the Superior Court of the District of 8
Columbia, $140,973,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 9
is for official reception and representation expenses; for 10
the District of Columbia Court System, $88,290,000, of 11
which not to exceed $2,500 is for official reception and 12
representation expenses; and $46,750,000, to remain 13
available until September 30, 2025, for capital improve-14
ments for District of Columbia courthouse facilities: Pro-15
vided, That funds made available for capital improvements 16
shall be expended consistent with the District of Columbia 17
Courts master plan study and facilities condition assess-18
ment: Provided further, That, in addition to the amounts 19
appropriated herein, fees received by the District of Co-20
lumbia Courts for administering bar examinations and 21
processing District of Columbia bar admissions may be re-22
tained and credited to this appropriation, to remain avail-23
able until expended, for salaries and expenses associated 24
with such activities, notwithstanding section 450 of the 25 60 
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District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, 1
sec. 1–204.50): Provided further, That notwithstanding 2
any other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 3
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage-4
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 5
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 6
of other Federal agencies: Provided further, That 30 days 7
after providing written notice to the Committees on Ap-8
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-9
ate, the District of Columbia Courts may reallocate not 10
more than $9,000,000 of the funds provided under this 11
heading among the items and entities funded under this 12
heading: Provided further, That the Joint Committee on 13
Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia may, 14
by regulation, establish a program substantially similar to 15
the program set forth in subchapter II of chapter 35 of 16
title 5, United States Code, for employees of the District 17
of Columbia Courts. 18
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR DEFENDER SERVICES IN 19
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS 20
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 21
For payments authorized under section 11–2604 and 22
section 11–2605, D.C. Official Code (relating to represen-23
tation provided under the District of Columbia Criminal 24
Justice Act), payments for counsel appointed in pro-25 61 
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ceedings in the Family Court of the Superior Court of the 1
District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. 2
Official Code, or pursuant to contractual agreements to 3
provide guardian ad litem representation, training, tech-4
nical assistance, and such other services as are necessary 5
to improve the quality of guardian ad litem representation, 6
payments for counsel appointed in adoption proceedings 7
under chapter 3 of title 16, D.C. Official Code, and pay-8
ments authorized under section 21–2060, D.C. Official 9
Code (relating to services provided under the District of 10
Columbia Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Du-11
rable Power of Attorney Act of 1986), $46,005,000, to 12
remain available until expended: Provided, That funds pro-13
vided under this heading shall be administered by the 14
Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the Dis-15
trict of Columbia: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 16
any other provision of law, this appropriation shall be ap-17
portioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 18
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner 19
as funds appropriated for expenses of other Federal agen-20
cies: Provided further, That of the unobligated balances 21
from prior year appropriations made available under this 22
heading, $25,000,000 are hereby rescinded not later than 23
September 30, 2024. 24 62 
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FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE COURT SERVICES AND OF -1
FENDER SUPERVISION AGENCY FOR THE DISTRICT 2
OF COLUMBIA 3
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 4
hire of motor vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender 5
Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, as au-6
thorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 7
Government Improvement Act of 1997, $285,016,000, of 8
which not to exceed $2,000 is for official reception and 9
representation expenses related to Community Supervision 10
and Pretrial Services Agency programs, and of which not 11
to exceed $25,000 is for dues and assessments relating 12
to the implementation of the Court Services and Offender 13
Supervision Agency Interstate Supervision Act of 2002: 14
Provided, That, of the funds appropriated under this head-15
ing, $204,579,000 shall be for necessary expenses of Com-16
munity Supervision and Sex Offender Registration, to in-17
clude expenses relating to the supervision of adults subject 18
to protection orders or the provision of services for or re-19
lated to such persons, of which $3,255,000 shall remain 20
available until September 30, 2026, for costs associated 21
with the relocation under replacement leases for head-22
quarters offices, field offices and related facilities: Pro-23
vided further, That, of the funds appropriated under this 24
heading, $80,437,000 shall be available to the Pretrial 25 63 
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Services Agency, of which $998,000 shall remain available 1
until September 30, 2026, for costs associated with reloca-2
tion under a replacement lease for headquarters offices, 3
field offices, and related facilities: Provided further, That 4
notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts 5
under this heading shall be apportioned quarterly by the 6
Office of Management and Budget and obligated and ex-7
pended in the same manner as funds appropriated for sal-8
aries and expenses of other Federal agencies: Provided fur-9
ther, That amounts under this heading may be used for 10
programmatic incentives for defendants to successfully 11
complete their terms of supervision. 12
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 13
PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE 14
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 15
hire of motor vehicles, of the District of Columbia Public 16
Defender Service, as authorized by the National Capital 17
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 18
1997, $53,629,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 19
other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 20
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage-21
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 22
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 23
of Federal agencies: Provided further, That the District 24
of Columbia Public Defender Service may establish for 25 64 
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employees of the District of Columbia Public Defender 1
Service a program substantially similar to the program set 2
forth in subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 5, United 3
States Code, except that the maximum amount of the pay-4
ment made under the program to any individual may not 5
exceed the amount referred to in section 3523(b)(3)(B) 6
of title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That for 7
the purposes of engaging with, and receiving services 8
from, Federal Franchise Fund Programs established in 9
accordance with section 403 of the Government Manage-10
ment Reform Act of 1994, as amended, the District of 11
Columbia Public Defender Service shall be considered an 12
agency of the United States Government: Provided further, 13
That the District of Columbia Public Defender Service 14
may enter into contracts for the procurement of severable 15
services and multiyear contracts for the acquisition of 16
property and services to the same extent and under the 17
same conditions as an executive agency under sections 18
3902 and 3903 of title 41, United States Code. 19
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 20
COORDINATING COUNCIL 21
For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Co-22
ordinating Council, $2,450,000, to remain available until 23
expended, to support initiatives related to the coordination 24 65 
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of Federal and local criminal justice resources in the Dis-1
trict of Columbia. 2
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR JUDICIAL COMMISSIONS 3
For a Federal payment, to remain available until 4
September 30, 2025, to the Commission on Judicial Dis-5
abilities and Tenure, $330,000, and for the Judicial Nomi-6
nation Commission, $300,000. 7
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT 8
For a Federal payment for a school improvement pro-9
gram in the District of Columbia, $52,500,000, to remain 10
available until expended, for payments authorized under 11
the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (division 12
C of Public Law 112–10): Provided, That, to the extent 13
that funds are available for opportunity scholarships and 14
following the priorities included in section 3006 of such 15
Act, the Secretary of Education shall make scholarships 16
available to students eligible under section 3013(3) of such 17
Act (Public Law 112–10; 125 Stat. 211) including stu-18
dents who were not offered a scholarship during any pre-19
vious school year: Provided further, That within funds pro-20
vided for opportunity scholarships up to $1,750,000 shall 21
be for the activities specified in sections 3007(b) through 22
3007(d) of the Act and up to $500,000 shall be for the 23
activities specified in section 3009 of the Act. 24 66 
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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
D
ISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAFUNDS 23
Local funds are appropriated for the District of Co-24
lumbia for the current fiscal year out of the General Fund 25 67 
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of the District of Columbia (‘‘General Fund’’) for pro-1
grams and activities set forth in the Fiscal Year 2023 2
Local Budget Act of 2022 (D.C. Act 24–486) and at rates 3
set forth under such Act, as amended as of the date of 4
enactment of this Act: Provided, That notwithstanding 5
any other provision of law, except as provided in section 6
450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (section 7
1–204.50a, D.C. Official Code), sections 816 and 817 of 8
the Financial Services and General Government Appro-9
priations Act, 2009 (secs. 47–369.01 and 47–369.02, D.C. 10
Official Code), and provisions of this Act, the total amount 11
appropriated in this Act for operating expenses for the 12
District of Columbia for fiscal year 2023 under this head-13
ing shall not exceed the estimates included in the Fiscal 14
Year 2023 Local Budget Act of 2022, as amended as of 15
the date of enactment of this Act or the sum of the total 16
revenues of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year: 17
Provided further, That the amount appropriated may be 18
increased by proceeds of one-time transactions, which are 19
expended for emergency or unanticipated operating or 20
capital needs: Provided further, That such increases shall 21
be approved by enactment of local District law and shall 22
comply with all reserve requirements contained in the Dis-23
trict of Columbia Home Rule Act: Provided further, That 24
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 25 68 
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shall take such steps as are necessary to assure that the 1
District of Columbia meets these requirements, including 2
the apportioning by the Chief Financial Officer of the ap-3
propriations and funds made available to the District dur-4
ing fiscal year 2023, except that the Chief Financial Offi-5
cer may not reprogram for operating expenses any funds 6
derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 7
capital projects. 8
This title may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 9
Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 10 69 
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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., $3,465,000, to remain available until September 7
30, 2025, of which not to exceed $1,000 is for official re-8
ception and representation expenses. 9
C
OMMODITYFUTURESTRADINGCOMMISSION 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 13
of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), in-14
cluding the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 15
and the rental of space (to include multiple year leases), 16
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $365,000,000, 17
including not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and 18
representation expenses, and not to exceed $25,000 for the 19
expenses for consultations and meetings hosted by the 20
Commission with foreign governmental and other regu-21
latory officials, of which not less than $20,000,000 shall 22
remain available until September 30, 2025, and of which 23
not less than $4,218,000 shall be for expenses of the Of-24
fice of the Inspector General: Provided, That notwith-25 70 
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standing the limitations in 31 U.S.C. 1553, amounts pro-1
vided under this heading are available for the liquidation 2
of obligations equal to current year payments on leases 3
entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act: 4
Provided further, That for the purpose of recording and 5
liquidating any lease obligations that should have been re-6
corded and liquidated against accounts closed pursuant to 7
31 U.S.C. 1552, and consistent with the preceding pro-8
viso, such amounts shall be transferred to and recorded 9
in a no-year account in the Treasury, which has been es-10
tablished for the sole purpose of recording adjustments for 11
and liquidating such unpaid obligations. 12
C
ONSUMERPRODUCTSAFETYCOMMISSION 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product 15
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-16
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 17
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-18
alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 19
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal offi-20
cials’ contributions to Commission activities, and not to 21
exceed $4,000 for official reception and representation ex-22
penses, $152,500,000, of which up to $2,000,000 shall re-23
main available until expended, to carry out the program, 24
including administrative costs, authorized by section 1405 25 71 
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of the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act 1
(Public Law 110–140), and of which up to $2,000,000 2
shall remain available until expended, to carry out the pro-3
gram, including administrative costs, authorized by sec-4
tion 204 of the Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Car-5
bon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2022 (title II 6
of division Q of Public Law 117–103). 7
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —CONSUMER PRODUCT 8
SAFETY COMMISSION 9
S
EC. 501. During fiscal year 2024, none of the 10
amounts made available by this Act may be used to final-11
ize or implement the Safety Standard for Recreational 12
Off-Highway Vehicles published by the Consumer Product 13
Safety Commission in the Federal Register on November 14
19, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 68964) until after— 15
(1) the National Academy of Sciences, in con-16
sultation with the National Highway Traffic Safety 17
Administration and the Department of Defense, 18
completes a study to determine— 19
(A) the technical validity of the lateral sta-20
bility and vehicle handling requirements pro-21
posed by such standard for purposes of reduc-22
ing the risk of Recreational Off-Highway Vehi-23
cle (referred to in this section as ‘‘ROV’’) roll-24
overs in the off-road environment, including the 25 72 
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repeatability and reproducibility of testing for 1
compliance with such requirements; 2
(B) the number of ROV rollovers that 3
would be prevented if the proposed require-4
ments were adopted; 5
(C) whether there is a technical basis for 6
the proposal to provide information on a point- 7
of-sale hangtag about a ROV’s rollover resist-8
ance on a progressive scale; and 9
(D) the effect on the utility of ROVs used 10
by the United States military if the proposed 11
requirements were adopted; and 12
(2) a report containing the results of the study 13
completed under paragraph (1) is delivered to— 14
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 15
and Transportation of the Senate; 16
(B) the Committee on Energy and Com-17
merce of the House of Representatives; 18
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of 19
the Senate; and 20
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 21
the House of Representatives. 22
S
EC. 502. None of the funds provided may be used 23
to promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any reg-24 73 
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ulation issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Com-1
mission to ban gas stoves as a class of products. 2
C
OUNCIL OF THEINSPECTORSGENERAL ONINTEGRITY 3
ANDEFFICIENCY 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For necessary expenses of the Council of the Inspec-6
tors General on Integrity and Efficiency to utilize and fur-7
ther develop the data analytics capabilities of the Pan-8
demic Response Accountability Committee to enhance 9
transparency, and to prevent, detect, and remediate waste, 10
fraud and abuse in Federal spending, $8,000,000, to be 11
available until expended, of which $1,400,000 is for en-12
hancements to oversight.gov. 13
E
LECTIONASSISTANCECOMMISSION 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For necessary expenses to carry out the Help Amer-16
ica Vote Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–252), $28,000,000, 17
of which $1,250,000 shall be made available to the Na-18
tional Institute of Standards and Technology for election 19
reform activities authorized under the Help America Vote 20
Act of 2002. 21
ELECTION SECURITY GRANTS 22
Notwithstanding section 104(c)(2)(B) of the Help 23
America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20904(c)(2)(B)), 24
$75,000,000 is provided to the Election Assistance Com-25 74 
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mission for necessary expenses to make payments to 1
States for activities to improve the administration of elec-2
tions for Federal office, including to enhance election tech-3
nology and make election security improvements, as au-4
thorized by sections 101, 103, and 104 of such Act: Pro-5
vided, That for purposes of applying such sections, the 6
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be 7
deemed to be a State and, for purposes of sections 8
101(d)(2) and 103(a) shall be treated in the same manner 9
as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American 10
Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands: Provided 11
further, That each reference to the ‘‘Administrator of Gen-12
eral Services’’ or the ‘‘Administrator’’ in sections 101 and 13
103 shall be deemed to refer to the ‘‘Election Assistance 14
Commission’’: Provided further, That each reference to 15
‘‘$5,000,000’’ in section 103 shall be deemed to refer to 16
‘‘$1,000,000’’ and each reference to ‘‘$1,000,000’’ in sec-17
tion 103 shall be deemed to refer to ‘‘$200,000’’: Provided 18
further, That not later than two years after receiving a 19
payment under this heading, a State shall make available 20
funds for such activities in an amount equal to 20 percent 21
of the total amount of the payment made to the State 22
under this heading: Provided further, That not later than 23
45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Elec-24
tion Assistance Commission shall make the payments to 25 75 
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States under this heading: Provided further, That States 1
shall submit quarterly financial reports and annual 2
progress reports. 3
F
EDERALCOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For necessary expenses of the Federal Communica-6
tions Commission, as authorized by law, including uni-7
forms and allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8
5901–5902; not to exceed $4,000 for official reception and 9
representation expenses; purchase and hire of motor vehi-10
cles; special counsel fees; and services as authorized by 11
5 U.S.C. 3109, $410,743,000, to remain available until 12
expended: Provided, That $410,743,000 of offsetting col-13
lections shall be assessed and collected pursuant to section 14
9 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934, shall be 15
retained and used for necessary expenses and shall remain 16
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 17
herein appropriated shall be reduced as such offsetting 18
collections are received during fiscal year 2024 so as to 19
result in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated 20
at $0: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 21
309(j)(8)(B), proceeds from the use of a competitive bid-22
ding system that may be retained and made available for 23
obligation shall not exceed $136,167,000 for fiscal year 24
2024: Provided further, That, of the amount appropriated 25 76 
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under this heading, not less than $12,131,000 shall be for 1
the salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-2
eral. 3
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FEDERAL 4
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 5
S
EC. 510. Section 302 of the Universal Service 6
Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act is amended by 7
striking ‘‘December 31, 2023’’ each place it appears and 8
inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’. 9
S
EC. 511. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 10
may be used by the Federal Communications Commission 11
to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for 12
universal service support payments to implement the Feb-13
ruary 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State 14
Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connec-15
tion or primary line restrictions on universal service sup-16
port payments. 17
F
EDERALDEPOSITINSURANCECORPORATION 18
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 19
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 20
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 21
General Act of 1978, $47,500,000, to be derived from the 22
Deposit Insurance Fund or, only when appropriate, the 23
FSLIC Resolution Fund. 24 77 
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FEDERALELECTIONCOMMISSION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 3
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 4
$81,674,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be avail-5
able for reception and representation expenses. 6
F
EDERALLABORRELATIONSAUTHORITY 7
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 8
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 9
Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorga-10
nization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service 11
Reform Act of 1978, including services authorized by 5 12
U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and consult-13
ants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and including offi-14
cial reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 15
$1,500) and rental of conference rooms in the District of 16
Columbia and elsewhere, $29,400,000: Provided, That 17
public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel 18
may be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of sub-19
sistence as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons 20
employed intermittently in the Government service, and 21
compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 22
further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re-23
ceived from fees charged to non-Federal participants at 24
labor-management relations conferences shall be credited 25 78 
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to and merged with this account, to be available without 1
further appropriation for the costs of carrying out these 2
conferences. 3
F
EDERALTRADECOMMISSION 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Com-6
mission, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as au-7
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized 8
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 9
not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representa-10
tion expenses, $450,000,000, to remain available until ex-11
pended: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be 12
available for use to contract with a person or persons for 13
collection services in accordance with the terms of 31 14
U.S.C. 3718: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 15
other provision of law, fees collected in fiscal year 2023 16
for premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott- 17
Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18
18a), (and estimated to be $278,000,000 in fiscal year 19
2024) shall be retained and used for necessary expenses 20
in this appropriation and shall remain available until ex-21
pended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 22
provision of law, fees collected to implement and enforce 23
the Telemarketing Sales Rule, promulgated under the 24
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Preven-25 79 
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tion Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), regardless of the year 1
of collection (and estimated to be $14,000,000 in fiscal 2
year 2024), shall be credited to this account, and be re-3
tained and used for necessary expenses in this appropria-4
tion, and shall remain available until expended: Provided 5
further, That the sum herein appropriated from the gen-6
eral fund shall be reduced (1) as such offsetting collections 7
are received during fiscal year 2024 and (2) to the extent 8
that any remaining general fund appropriations can be de-9
rived from amounts credited to this account as offsetting 10
collections in previous fiscal years that are not otherwise 11
appropriated, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 12
appropriation from the general fund estimated at 13
$158,000,000: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 14
section 605 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 15
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 16
Act, 1990 (15 U.S.C. 18a note), none of the funds cred-17
ited to this account as offsetting collections in previous 18
fiscal years that were unavailable for obligation as of Sep-19
tember 30, 2023, shall become available for obligation ex-20
cept as provided in the preceding proviso: Provided further, 21
That none of the funds made available to the Federal 22
Trade Commission may be used to implement subsection 23
(e)(2)(B) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance 24
Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t). 25 80 
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GENERALSERVICESADMINISTRATION 1
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES 2
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 3
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 5
Amounts in the Fund, including revenues and collec-6
tions deposited into the Fund, shall be available for nec-7
essary expenses of real property management and related 8
activities not otherwise provided for, including operation, 9
maintenance, and protection of federally owned and leased 10
buildings; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; 11
restoration of leased premises; moving governmental agen-12
cies (including space adjustments and telecommunications 13
relocation expenses) in connection with the assignment, al-14
location, and transfer of space; contractual services inci-15
dent to cleaning or servicing buildings, and moving; repair 16
and alteration of federally owned buildings, including 17
grounds, approaches, and appurtenances; care and safe-18
guarding of sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, 19
and equipment; acquisition of buildings and sites by pur-20
chase, condemnation, or as otherwise authorized by law; 21
acquisition of options to purchase buildings and sites; con-22
version and extension of federally owned buildings; pre-23
liminary planning and design of projects by contract or 24
otherwise; construction of new buildings (including equip-25 81 
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ment for such buildings); and payment of principal, inter-1
est, and any other obligations for public buildings acquired 2
by installment purchase and purchase contract; in the ag-3
gregate amount of $9,786,366,000, of which— 4
(1) $406,402,000 shall remain available until 5
expended for construction and acquisition (including 6
funds for sites and expenses, and associated design 7
and construction services) and remediation, in addi-8
tion to amounts otherwise provided for such pur-9
poses, as follows: 10
Maryland: 11
Baltimore, Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Court-12
house, $1,500,000; 13
National Capital Region: 14
Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters 15
Consolidation, $375,000,000; 16
Tennessee: 17
Chattanooga, U.S. Courthouse, $20,902,000; 18
Washington: 19
Seattle, Design of Replacement Facility, 20
$9,000,000: 21
Provided, That each of the foregoing limits of costs 22
on construction, acquisition, and remediation 23
projects may be exceeded to the extent that savings 24
are effected in other such projects, but not to exceed 25 82 
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20 percent of the amounts included in a transmitted 1
prospectus, if required, unless advance approval is 2
obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of 3
the House of Representatives and the Senate of a 4
greater amount; 5
(2) $582,280,000 shall remain available until 6
expended for repairs and alterations, including asso-7
ciated design and construction services, in addition 8
to amounts otherwise provided for such purposes, of 9
which— 10
(A) $152,980,000 is for Major Repairs and 11
Alterations as follows: 12
Pennsylvania: 13
Philadelphia, James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse, 14
$39,233,000; 15
Virginia: 16
Walter E. Hoffman U.S. Courthouse, 17
$11,393,000; 18
Washington: 19
Tacoma, Union Station, $79,256,000; and 20
West Virginia: 21
Martinsburg, IRS Enterprise Computing Cen-22
ter, $23,098,000: 23
(B) $425,000,000 is for Basic Repairs and 24
Alterations; and 25 83 
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(C) $4,300,000 is for Special Emphasis 1
Programs as follows: 2
Judiciary Capital Security Program, 3
$4,300,000; 4
Provided, That funds made available in this or any 5
previous Act in the Federal Buildings Fund for Re-6
pairs and Alterations shall, for prospectus projects, 7
be limited to the amount identified for each project, 8
except each project in this or any previous Act may 9
be increased by an amount not to exceed 20 percent 10
unless advance approval is obtained from the Com-11
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-12
resentatives and the Senate of a greater amount: 13
Provided further, That additional projects for which 14
prospectuses have been fully approved may be fund-15
ed under this category only if advance approval is 16
obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of 17
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Pro-18
vided further, That the amounts provided in this or 19
any prior Act for ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ may be 20
used to fund costs associated with implementing se-21
curity improvements to buildings necessary to meet 22
the minimum standards for security in accordance 23
with current law and in compliance with the re-24
programming guidelines of the appropriate Commit-25 84 
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tees of the House and Senate: Provided further, That 1
the difference between the funds appropriated and 2
expended on any projects in this or any prior Act, 3
under the heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’, may 4
be transferred to ‘‘Basic Repairs and Alterations’’ or 5
used to fund authorized increases in prospectus 6
projects: Provided further, That the amount provided 7
in this or any prior Act for ‘‘Basic Repairs and Al-8
terations’’ may be used to pay claims against the 9
Government arising from any projects under the 10
heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ or used to fund 11
authorized increases in prospectus projects; 12
(3) $5,724,298,000 for rental of space to re-13
main available until expended; and 14
(4) $3,073,386,000 for building operations to 15
remain available until expended: Provided, That the 16
total amount of funds made available from this 17
Fund to the General Services Administration shall 18
not be available for expenses of any construction, re-19
pair, alteration and acquisition project for which a 20
prospectus, if required by 40 U.S.C. 3307(a), has 21
not been approved, except that necessary funds may 22
be expended for each project for required expenses 23
for the development of a proposed prospectus: Pro-24
vided further, That funds available in the Federal 25 85 
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Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency re-1
pairs when advance approval is obtained from the 2
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-3
resentatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 4
amounts necessary to provide reimbursable special 5
services to other agencies under 40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2) 6
and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, 7
lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private 8
or other property not in Government ownership or 9
control as may be appropriate to enable the United 10
States Secret Service to perform its protective func-11
tions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, shall be available 12
from such revenues and collections: Provided further, 13
That revenues and collections and any other sums 14
accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 2023, ex-15
cluding reimbursements under 40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2), 16
in excess of the aggregate new obligational authority 17
authorized for Real Property Activities of the Fed-18
eral Buildings Fund in this Act shall remain in the 19
Fund and shall not be available for expenditure ex-20
cept as authorized in appropriations Acts. 21
GENERAL ACTIVITIES 22
GOVERNMENT-WIDE POLICY 23
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-24
vided for, for Government-wide policy associated with the 25 86 
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management of real and personal property assets and cer-1
tain administrative services; Government-wide policy sup-2
port responsibilities relating to acquisition, travel, motor 3
vehicles, information technology management, and related 4
technology activities; and services as authorized by 5 5
U.S.C. 3109; and evaluation activities as authorized by 6
statute; $71,186,000, of which $4,000,000 shall remain 7
available until September 30, 2025. 8
OPERATING EXPENSES 9
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-10
vided for, for Government-wide activities associated with 11
utilization and donation of surplus personal property; dis-12
posal of real property; agency-wide policy direction, and 13
management; and in addition to any other amounts made 14
available to the General Services Administration for such 15
purposes, the hire of zero-emission passenger motor vehi-16
cles and supporting charging or fueling infrastructure, 17
$54,478,000, of which not to exceed $7,500 is for official 18
reception and representation expenses. 19
CIVILIAN BOARD OF CONTRACT APPEALS 20
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-21
vided for, for the activities associated with the Civilian 22
Board of Contract Appeals, $10,352,000, of which 23
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended. 24 87 
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 2
General and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 3
$74,583,000: Provided, That not to exceed $1,500,000 4
shall be available for information technology enhance-5
ments related to providing a modern technology case man-6
agement solution: Provided further, That not to exceed 7
$50,000 shall be available for payment for information 8
and detection of fraud against the Government, including 9
payment for recovery of stolen Government property: Pro-10
vided further, That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available 11
for awards to employees of other Federal agencies and pri-12
vate citizens in recognition of efforts and initiatives result-13
ing in enhanced Office of Inspector General effectiveness. 14
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER 15
PRESIDENTS 16
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 17
25, 1958 (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95–138, 18
$5,200,000. 19
FEDERAL CITIZEN SERVICES FUND 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
For necessary expenses authorized by 40 U.S.C. 323 22
and 44 U.S.C. 3604; and for necessary expenses in sup-23
port of interagency projects that enable the Federal Gov-24
ernment to enhance its ability to conduct activities elec-25 88 
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tronically through the development and implementation of 1
innovative uses of information technology; $90,000,000, to 2
be deposited into the Federal Citizen Services Fund: Pro-3
vided, That the previous amount may be transferred to 4
Federal agencies to carry out the purpose of the Federal 5
Citizen Services Fund: Provided further, That the appro-6
priations, revenues, reimbursements, and collections de-7
posited into the Fund shall be available until expended for 8
necessary expenses authorized by 40 U.S.C. 323 and 44 9
U.S.C. 3604 and for necessary expenses in support of 10
interagency projects that enable the Federal Government 11
to enhance its ability to conduct activities electronically 12
through the development and implementation of innovative 13
uses of information technology in the aggregate amount 14
not to exceed $250,000,000: Provided further, That appro-15
priations, revenues, reimbursements, and collections ac-16
cruing to this Fund during fiscal year 2024 in excess of 17
such amount shall remain in the Fund and shall not be 18
available for expenditure except as authorized in appro-19
priations Acts: Provided further, That, of the total amount 20
appropriated, up to $1,600,000 shall be available for sup-21
port functions and full-time hires to support activities re-22
lated to the Administration’s requirements under title II 23
of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act 24
of 2018 (Public Law 115–435): Provided further, That the 25 89 
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transfer authorities provided herein shall be in addition 1
to any other transfer authority provided in this Act. 2
PRE-ELECTION PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION 3
For activities authorized by the Presidential Transi-4
tion Act of 1963, as amended, not to exceed $10,413,000, 5
to remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, 6
That such amounts may be transferred to ‘‘Acquisition 7
Services Fund’’ or ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund’’ to reim-8
burse obligations incurred for the purposes provided here-9
in in fiscal years 2023 and 2024: Provided further, That 10
amounts made available under this heading shall be in ad-11
dition to any other amounts available for such purposes. 12
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 13
For the Working Capital Fund of the General Serv-14
ices Administration, $5,900,000, to remain available until 15
expended, for necessary costs incurred by the Adminis-16
trator to modernize rulemaking systems and to provide 17
support services for Federal rulemaking agencies. 18
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —GENERAL SERVICES 19
ADMINISTRATION 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
S
EC. 520. Funds available to the General Services 22
Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger 23
motor vehicles. 24 90 
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SEC. 521. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 1
made available for fiscal year 2024 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. 522. Except as otherwise provided in this title, 8
funds made available by this Act shall be used to transmit 9
a fiscal year 2025 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. 523. 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 91 
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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. 524. 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. 525. 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 92 
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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. 526. 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. 527. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), Fed-11
eral agencies ordering services from the Office of Evalua-12
tion Sciences pursuant to the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 13
1535) are not required to de-obligate funds obligated on 14
such orders to the extent that the Office of Evaluation 15
Sciences has not incurred obligations before the end of the 16
period of availability of such funds. 17
S
EC. 528. None of the funds made available in this 18
or any other Act for the Federal Bureau of Investigation 19
Headquarters Consolidation project may be used to plan 20
or design any facility that does not meet the requirements 21
of a new, fully-consolidated headquarters building in the 22
National Capital Region at one of the three sites listed 23
in the General Services Administration Fiscal Year 2017 24
PNCR–FBI–NCR 17 prospectus for a new fully-consoli-25 93 
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dated Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters, and 1
that does not meet Interagency Security Committee Level 2
V security standards as described in the General Services 3
Administration Fiscal Year 2017 PNCR–FBI–NCR 17 4
prospectus. 5
H
ARRYS TRUMANSCHOLARSHIPFOUNDATION 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For payment to the Harry S Truman Scholarship 8
Foundation Trust Fund, established by section 10 of Pub-9
lic Law 93–642, $3,000,000, to remain available until ex-10
pended. 11
M
ERITSYSTEMSPROTECTIONBOARD 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 15
Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganiza-16
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform 17
Act of 1978, and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 18
1989 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note), including services as author-19
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the 20
District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger 21
motor vehicles, direct procurement of survey printing, and 22
not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representa-23
tion expenses, $49,655,000, to remain available until Sep-24
tember 30, 2025, and in addition not to exceed 25 94 
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$2,345,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, 1
for administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement ap-2
peals to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement 3
and Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit 4
Systems Protection Board. 5
M
ORRISK. UDALL ANDSTEWARTL. UDALL 6
F
OUNDATION 7
MORRIS K. UDALL AND STEWART L . UDALL TRUST FUND 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For payment to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 10
Udall Foundation, pursuant to the Morris K. Udall and 11
Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act (20 U.S.C. 5601 et 12
seq.), $1,800,000, to remain available for direct expendi-13
ture until expended, of which, notwithstanding sections 8 14
and 9 of such Act, up to $1,000,000 shall be available 15
to carry out the activities authorized by section 6(7) of 16
Public Law 102–259 and section 817(a) of Public Law 17
106–568 (20 U.S.C. 5604(7)): Provided, That all current 18
and previous amounts transferred to the Office of Inspec-19
tor General of the Department of the Interior will remain 20
available until expended for audits and investigations of 21
the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, 22
consistent with the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 23
U.S.C. App.), as amended, and for annual independent fi-24
nancial audits of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 25 95 
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Udall Foundation pursuant to the Accountability of Tax 1
Dollars Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–289): Provided fur-2
ther, That previous amounts transferred to the Office of 3
Inspector General of the Department of the Interior may 4
be transferred to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 5
Udall Foundation for annual independent financial audits 6
pursuant to the Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 7
(Public Law 107–289). 8
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUND 9
For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolu-10
tion Fund to carry out activities authorized in the Envi-11
ronmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998, 12
$3,943,000, to remain available until expended. 13
N
ATIONALARCHIVES ANDRECORDSADMINISTRATION 14
OPERATING EXPENSES 15
For necessary expenses in connection with the admin-16
istration of the National Archives and Records Adminis-17
tration and archived Federal records and related activities, 18
as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the re-19
view and declassification of documents, the activities of 20
the Public Interest Declassification Board, the operations 21
and maintenance of the electronic records archives, the 22
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and for uniforms or al-23
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 24
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning, 25 96 
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$430,520,000, of which $30,000,000 shall remain avail-1
able until expended for expenses necessary to enhance the 2
Federal Government’s ability to electronically preserve, 3
manage, and store Government records, and of which 4
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended to make 5
publicly available records related to missing Armed Forces 6
and civilian personnel. 7
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 8
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 9
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 10
General Reform Act of 2008, Public Law 110–409, 122 11
Stat. 4302–16 (2008), and the Inspector General Act of 12
1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), and for the hire of passenger motor 13
vehicles, $5,980,000. 14
REPAIRS AND RESTORATION 15
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of ar-16
chives facilities and museum exhibits, related equipment 17
for public spaces, and to provide adequate storage for 18
holdings, $25,500,000, to remain available until expended, 19
of which no less than $17,500,000 is for improvements 20
to the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kan-21
sas. 22 97 
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NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS 1
COMMISSION 2
GRANTS PROGRAM 3
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for 4
historical publications and records as authorized by 44 5
U.S.C. 2504, $10,000,000, to remain available until ex-6
pended. 7
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION —NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND 8
RECORDS ADMINISTRATION 9
S
EC. 530. For an additional amount for ‘‘National 10
Historical Publications and Records Commission Grants 11
Program’’, $38,414,000, which shall be for initiatives in 12
the amounts and for the projects specified in the table that 13
appears under the heading ‘‘Administrative Provisions— 14
National Archives and Records Administration’’ in the re-15
port accompanying this Act: Provided, That none of the 16
funds made available by this section may be transferred 17
for any other purpose. 18
N
ATIONALCREDITUNIONADMINISTRATION 19
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND 20
For the Community Development Revolving Loan 21
Fund program as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822, 22
and 9910, $3,500,000 shall be available until September 23
30, 2025, for technical assistance to low-income des-24
ignated credit unions: Provided, That credit unions des-25 98 
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ignated solely as minority depository institutions shall be 1
eligible to apply for and receive such technical assistance. 2
O
FFICE OFGOVERNMENTETHICS 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 5
Office of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in 6
Government Act of 1978, the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 7
and the Representative Louise McIntosh Slaughter Stop 8
Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, includ-9
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of con-10
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 11
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,500 12
for official reception and representation expenses, 13
$23,037,000. 14
O
FFICE OFPERSONNELMANAGEMENT 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF TRUST FUNDS) 17
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 18
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) pursuant to Re-19
organization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Serv-20
ice Reform Act of 1978, including services as authorized 21
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for 22
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of con-23
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; 24
hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for 25 99 
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official reception and representation expenses; and pay-1
ment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employ-2
ees where Voting Rights Act activities require an employee 3
to remain overnight at his or her post of duty, 4
$225,784,000: Provided, That of the total amount made 5
available under this heading, $15,816,000 may remain 6
available until expended, for information technology mod-7
ernization and Trust Fund Federal Financial System mi-8
gration or modernization, and shall be in addition to funds 9
otherwise made available for such purposes: Provided fur-10
ther, That of the total amount made available under this 11
heading, $1,167,805 may be made available for strength-12
ening the capacity and capabilities of the acquisition work-13
force (as defined by the Office of Federal Procurement 14
Policy Act, as amended (41 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.)), includ-15
ing the recruitment, hiring, training, and retention of such 16
workforce and information technology in support of acqui-17
sition workforce effectiveness or for management solutions 18
to improve acquisition management; and in addition 19
$194,924,000 for administrative expenses, to be trans-20
ferred from the appropriate trust funds of OPM without 21
regard to other statutes, including direct procurement of 22
printed materials, for the retirement and insurance pro-23
grams: Provided further, That the provisions of this appro-24
priation shall not affect the authority to use applicable 25 100 
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trust funds as provided by sections 8348(a)(1)(B), 1
8958(f)(2)(A), 8988(f)(2)(A), and 9004(f)(2)(A) of title 2
5, United States Code: Provided further, That no part of 3
this appropriation shall be available for salaries and ex-4
penses of the Legal Examining Unit of OPM established 5
pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358 of July 1, 1943, 6
or any successor unit of like purpose: Provided further, 7
That the President’s Commission on White House Fel-8
lows, established by Executive Order No. 11183 of Octo-9
ber 3, 1964, may, during fiscal year 2024, accept dona-10
tions of money, property, and personal services: Provided 11
further, That such donations, including those from prior 12
years, may be used for the development of publicity mate-13
rials to provide information about the White House Fel-14
lows, except that no such donations shall be accepted for 15
travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, or for the sala-16
ries of employees of such Commission: Provided further, 17
That not to exceed 5 percent of amounts made available 18
under this heading may be transferred to an information 19
technology working capital fund established for purposes 20
authorized by subtitle G of title X of division A of the 21
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 22
(Public Law 115–91; 40 U.S.C. 11301 note): Provided 23
further, That the OPM Director shall notify, and receive 24
approval from, the Committees on Appropriations of the 25 101 
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House of Representatives and the Senate at least 15 days 1
in advance of any transfer under the preceding proviso: 2
Provided further, That amounts transferred to such a fund 3
under such transfer authority from any organizational cat-4
egory of OPM shall not exceed 5 percent of each such or-5
ganizational category’s budget as identified in the report 6
required by section 608 of this Act: Provided further, That 7
amounts transferred to such a fund shall remain available 8
for obligation through September 30, 2027. 9
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 13
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 14
General Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 15
5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 16
$6,908,000, and in addition, not to exceed $29,487,000 17
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and pro-18
vide other oversight of the Office of Personnel Manage-19
ment’s retirement and insurance programs, to be trans-20
ferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 21
Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector 22
General: Provided, That the Inspector General is author-23
ized to rent conference rooms in the District of Columbia 24
and elsewhere. 25 102 
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OFFICE OFSPECIALCOUNSEL 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 3
Office of Special Counsel, including services as authorized 4
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for wit-5
nesses, rental of conference rooms in the District of Co-6
lumbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehi-7
cles, $31,904,000. 8
P
RIVACY ANDCIVILLIBERTIESOVERSIGHTBOARD 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For necessary expenses of the Privacy and Civil Lib-11
erties Oversight Board, as authorized by section 1061 of 12
the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 13
2004 (42 U.S.C. 2000ee), $11,700,000, to remain avail-14
able until September 30, 2025. 15
P
UBLICBUILDINGSREFORMBOARD 16
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 17
For salaries and expenses of the Public Buildings Re-18
form Board in carrying out the Federal Assets Sale and 19
Transfer Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–287), $4,000,000, 20
to remain available until expended. 21
S
ECURITIES ANDEXCHANGECOMMISSION 22
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 23
For necessary expenses for the Securities and Ex-24
change Commission, including services as authorized by 25 103 
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5 U.S.C. 3109, the rental of space (to include multiple 1
year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and 2
not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and representa-3
tion expenses, $2,363,900,000, to remain available until 4
expended; of which not less than $20,050,000 shall be for 5
the Office of Inspector General; of which not to exceed 6
$275,000 shall be available for a permanent secretariat 7
for the International Organization of Securities Commis-8
sions; and of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be avail-9
able for expenses for consultations and meetings hosted 10
by the Commission with foreign governmental and other 11
regulatory officials, members of their delegations and 12
staffs to exchange views concerning securities matters, 13
such expenses to include necessary logistic and adminis-14
trative expenses and the expenses of Commission staff and 15
foreign invitees in attendance including: (1) incidental ex-16
penses such as meals; (2) travel and transportation; and 17
(3) related lodging or subsistence. 18
In addition to the foregoing appropriation, for move, 19
replication, and related costs associated with a replace-20
ment leases for the Commission’s office facilities, not to 21
exceed $39,658,000, to remain available until expended: 22
Provided, That any unobligated balances from funds made 23
available under this heading in prior Acts for replacement 24
leases for the Commission’s headquarters and other re-25 104 
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gional office facilities may be used for such purposes at 1
any Commission office facility, notwithstanding provisos 2
in such Acts limiting use to particular office facilities, and 3
notwithstanding provisos in such Acts requiring that de- 4
obligated amounts derived from the general fund be re-5
turned to the general fund or that de-obligated amounts 6
derived from fees or assessments be paid to national secu-7
rities exchanges and national securities associations in 8
proportion to any fees or assessments paid by such na-9
tional securities exchange or national securities associa-10
tion. 11
For purposes of calculating the fee rate under section 12
31(j) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 13
78ee(j)) for fiscal year 2024, all amounts appropriated 14
under this heading shall be deemed to be the regular ap-15
propriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2024: Pro-16
vided, That fees and charges authorized by section 31 of 17
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) 18
shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections: 19
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,363,900,000 of 20
such offsetting collections shall be available until expended 21
for necessary expenses of this account; not to exceed 22
$39,658,000 of such offsetting collections shall be avail-23
able until expended for move, replication, and related costs 24
under this heading associated with a replacement leases 25 105 
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for the Commission’s office facilities: Provided further, 1
That the total amount appropriated under this heading 2
from the general fund for fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced 3
as such offsetting fees are received so as to result in a 4
final total fiscal year 2024 appropriation from the general 5
fund estimated at not more than $0. 6
S
ELECTIVESERVICESYSTEM 7
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 8
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-9
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of 10
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective 11
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for 12
civilian employees; hire of passenger motor vehicles; serv-13
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed 14
$750 for official reception and representation expenses; 15
$31,300,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal 16
year, the President may exempt this appropriation from 17
the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever the President 18
deems such action to be necessary in the interest of na-19
tional defense: Provided further, That none of the funds 20
appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in con-21
nection with the induction of any person into the Armed 22
Forces of the United States. 23 106 
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SMALLBUSINESSADMINISTRATION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 3
of the Small Business Administration, including hire of 4
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by sections 1343 5
and 1344 of title 31, United States Code, and not to ex-6
ceed $3,500 for official reception and representation ex-7
penses, $381,246,000, of which not less than $12,000,000 8
shall be available for examinations, reviews, and other 9
lender oversight activities: Provided, That the Adminis-10
trator is authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of pub-11
lications developed by the Small Business Administration, 12
and certain loan program activities, including fees author-13
ized by section 5(b) of the Small Business Act: Provided 14
further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues 15
received from all such activities shall be credited to this 16
account, to remain available until expended, for carrying 17
out these purposes without further appropriations: Pro-18
vided further, That the Small Business Administration 19
may accept gifts in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 20
and may co-sponsor activities, each in accordance with sec-21
tion 132(a) of division K of Public Law 108–447, during 22
fiscal year 2024: Provided further, That $6,100,000 shall 23
be available for the Loan Modernization and Accounting 24
System, to be available until September 30, 2025: Pro-25 107 
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vided further, That $20,500,000 shall be available for 1
costs associated with the certification of small business 2
concerns owned and controlled by veterans or service-dis-3
abled veterans under sections 36A and 36 of the Small 4
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f–1; 657f), respectively, and 5
section 862 of Public Law 116–283, to be available until 6
September 30, 2025. 7
ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 8
For necessary expenses of programs supporting en-9
trepreneurial and small business development, 10
$320,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 11
2025: Provided, That $140,000,000 shall be available to 12
fund grants for performance in fiscal year 2024 or fiscal 13
year 2025 as authorized by section 21 of the Small Busi-14
ness Act: Provided further, That $41,000,000 shall be for 15
marketing, management, and technical assistance under 16
section 7(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 17
636(m)(4)) by intermediaries that make microloans under 18
the microloan program: Provided further, That 19
$20,000,000 shall be available for grants to States to 20
carry out export programs that assist small business con-21
cerns authorized under section 22(l) of the Small Business 22
Act (15 U.S.C. 649(l)). 23 108 
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 2
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 3
General Act of 1978, $47,020,000. 4
OFFICE OF ADVOCACY 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of Advocacy in 6
carrying out the provisions of title II of Public Law 94– 7
305 (15 U.S.C. 634a et seq.) and the Regulatory Flexi-8
bility Act of 1980 (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), $10,211,000, 9
to remain available until expended. 10
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
For the cost of direct loans, $6,000,000, to remain 13
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, in-14
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-15
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 16
1974: Provided further, That subject to section 502 of the 17
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal year 18
2024 commitments to guarantee loans under section 503 19
of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and com-20
mitments for loans authorized under subparagraph (C) of 21
section 502(7) of the Small Business Investment Act of 22
1958 (15 U.S.C. 696(7)) shall not exceed, in the aggre-23
gate, $16,500,000,000: Provided further, That during fis-24
cal year 2024 commitments for general business loans au-25 109 
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thorized under paragraphs (1) through (35) of section 1
7(a) of the Small Business Act shall not exceed 2
$35,000,000,000 for a combination of amortizing term 3
loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided 4
by revolving loans: Provided further, That during fiscal 5
year 2024 commitments to guarantee loans for debentures 6
under section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment 7
Act of 1958 shall not exceed $6,000,000,000: Provided 8
further, That during fiscal year 2024, guarantees of trust 9
certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small Busi-10
ness Act shall not exceed a principal amount of 11
$15,000,000,000. In addition, for administrative expenses 12
to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 13
$162,000,000, which may be transferred to and merged 14
with the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses. 15
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 17
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 18
loan program authorized by section 7(b) of the Small 19
Business Act, $175,000,000, to be available until ex-20
pended, of which $1,600,000 is for the Office of Inspector 21
General of the Small Business Administration for audits 22
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan pro-23
grams and shall be transferred to and merged with the 24
appropriations for the Office of Inspector General; of 25 110 
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which $165,000,000 is for direct administrative expenses 1
of loan making and servicing to carry out the direct loan 2
program, which may be transferred to and merged with 3
the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses; and of 4
which $8,400,000 is for indirect administrative expenses 5
for the direct loan program, which may be transferred to 6
and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and Ex-7
penses: Provided, That, of the funds provided under this 8
heading, $143,000,000 shall be for major disasters de-9
clared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 10
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)): Pro-11
vided further, That the amount for major disasters under 12
this heading is designated by the Congress as being for 13
disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the 14
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 15
1985 (Public Law 99–177), as amended. 16
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —SMALL BUSINESS 17
ADMINISTRATION 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 19
S
EC. 540. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-20
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the 21
Small Business Administration in this Act may be trans-22
ferred between such appropriations, but no such appro-23
priation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by 24
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant 25 111 
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to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of 1
funds under section 608 of this Act and shall not be avail-2
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 3
with the procedures set forth in that section. 4
S
EC. 541. Not to exceed 3 percent of any appropria-5
tion made available in this Act for the Small Business Ad-6
ministration under the headings ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ 7
and ‘‘Business Loans Program Account’’ may be trans-8
ferred to the Administration’s information technology sys-9
tem modernization and working capital fund (IT WCF), 10
as authorized by section 1077(b)(1) of title X of division 11
A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 12
Year 2018, for the purposes specified in section 13
1077(b)(3) of such Act, upon the advance approval of the 14
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-15
atives and the Senate: Provided, That amounts transferred 16
to the IT WCF under this section shall remain available 17
for obligation through September 30, 2027. 18
S
EC. 542. For an additional amount for ‘‘Small Busi-19
ness Administration—Salaries and Expenses’’, 20
$117,541,000, which shall be for initiatives related to 21
small business development and entrepreneurship, includ-22
ing programmatic, construction, and acquisition activities, 23
in the amounts and for the projects specified in the table 24
that appears under the heading ‘‘Administrative Provi-25 112 
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sions—Small Business Administration’’ in the report ac-1
companying this Act: Provided, That, notwithstanding sec-2
tions 2701.92 and 2701.93 of title 2, Code of Federal 3
Regulations, the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-4
ministration may permit awards to subrecipients for ini-5
tiatives funded under this section: Provided further, That 6
none of the funds made available by this section may be 7
transferred for any other purpose. 8
U
NITEDSTATESPOSTALSERVICE 9
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 10
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue 11
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub-12
sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United 13
States Code, $50,253,000: Provided, That mail for over-14
seas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to be free: 15
Provided further, That none of the funds made available 16
to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to imple-17
ment any rule, regulation, or policy of charging any officer 18
or employee of any State or local child support enforce-19
ment agency, or any individual participating in a State 20
or local program of child support enforcement, a fee for 21
information requested or provided concerning an address 22
of a postal customer: Provided further, That none of the 23
funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or 24
close small rural and other small post offices: Provided 25 113 
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further, That the Postal Service may not destroy, and shall 1
continue to offer for sale, any copies of the Multinational 2
Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp, as author-3
ized under the Multinational Species Conservation Funds 4
Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–241). 5
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 8
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 9
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 10
General Act of 1978, $271,000,000, to be derived by 11
transfer from the Postal Service Fund and expended as 12
authorized by section 603(b)(3) of the Postal Account-13
ability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109–435). 14
U
NITEDSTATESTAXCOURT 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 17
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 18
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-19
tion expenses, $57,300,000, of which $1,000,000 shall re-20
main available until expended: Provided, That the amount 21
made available under 26 U.S.C. 7475 shall be transferred 22
and added to any amounts available under 26 U.S.C. 23
7473, to remain available until expended, for the operation 24
and maintenance of the United States Tax Court: Pro-25 114 
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vided further, That travel expenses of the judges shall be 1
paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 2 115 
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TITLE VI 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 2
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 3
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EC. 601. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 4
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 5
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 6
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 7
funded in this Act. 8
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EC. 602. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 9
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 10
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-11
tions, except for transfers made pursuant to the authority 12
in section 3173(d) of title 40, United States Code, unless 13
expressly so provided herein. 14
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EC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation 15
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-16
ment contract pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 17
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 18
of public record and available for public inspection, except 19
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-20
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 21
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EC. 604. None of the funds made available in this 22
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-23
strumentality of the United States Government, except 24 116 
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pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-1
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 2
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EC. 605. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 4
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-5
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 6
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-7
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 8
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 9
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EC. 606. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 10
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 11
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 12
with chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 13
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EC. 607. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 14
available under this Act shall be made available to any 15
person or entity that has been convicted of violating chap-16
ter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 17
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EC. 608. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 18
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-19
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-20
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-21
penditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided from any ac-22
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 23
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 24
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-25 117 
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programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 1
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 2
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 3
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con-4
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-5
tivity by the Committee on Appropriations of either the 6
House of Representatives or the Senate for a different 7
purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-8
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever 9
is less; (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activi-10
ties by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) 11
creates or reorganizes offices, programs, or activities un-12
less prior approval is received from the Committees on Ap-13
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-14
ate: Provided, That prior to any significant reorganization, 15
restructuring, relocation, or closing of offices, programs, 16
or activities, each agency or entity funded in this Act shall 17
consult with the Committees on Appropriations of the 18
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-19
ther, That not later than 60 days after the date of enact-20
ment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall 21
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of 22
the House of Representatives and the Senate to establish 23
the baseline for application of reprogramming and trans-24
fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided further, 25 118 
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That at a minimum the report shall include: (1) a table 1
for each appropriation, detailing both full-time employee 2
equivalents and budget authority, with separate columns 3
to display the prior year enacted level, the President’s 4
budget request, adjustments made by Congress, adjust-5
ments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 6
fiscal year enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for 7
each appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 8
level by object class and program, project, and activity as 9
detailed in this Act, in the accompanying report, or in the 10
budget appendix for the respective appropriation, which-11
ever is more detailed, and which shall apply to all items 12
for which a dollar amount is specified and to all programs 13
for which new budget authority is provided, as well as to 14
discretionary grants and discretionary grant allocations; 15
and (3) an identification of items of special congressional 16
interest: Provided further, That the amount appropriated 17
or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency shall 18
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after the 19
required date that the report has not been submitted to 20
the Congress. 21
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EC. 609. Except as otherwise specifically provided 22
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 23
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2024 from 24
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 25 119 
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for fiscal year 2024 in this Act, shall remain available 1
through September 30, 2025, for each such account for 2
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 3
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 4
House of Representatives and the Senate for approval 5
prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 6
That these requests shall be made in compliance with re-7
programming guidelines. 8
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EC. 610. (a) None of the funds made available in 9
this Act may be used by the Executive Office of the Presi-10
dent to request— 11
(1) any official background investigation report 12
on any individual from the Federal Bureau of Inves-13
tigation; or 14
(2) a determination with respect to the treat-15
ment of an organization as described in section 16
501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and 17
exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such 18
Code from the Department of the Treasury or the 19
Internal Revenue Service. 20
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply— 21
(1) in the case of an official background inves-22
tigation report, if such individual has given express 23
written consent for such request not more than 6 24 120 
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months prior to the date of such request and during 1
the same presidential administration; or 2
(2) if such request is required due to extraor-3
dinary circumstances involving national security. 4
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EC. 611. The cost accounting standards promul-5
gated under chapter 15 of title 41, United States Code 6
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-7
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 8
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 9
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EC. 612. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 10
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 11
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-12
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 13
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 14
expenses imposed in an appropriations Act) funds made 15
available to the Office of Personnel Management pursuant 16
to court approval. 17
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EC. 613. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 18
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 19
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 20
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 21
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 22
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EC. 614. The provision of section 613 shall not 23
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 24 121 
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if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 1
result of an act of rape or incest. 2
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EC. 615. In order to promote Government access to 3
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-4
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 5
forth in chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code (popu-6
larly known as the Buy American Act), shall not apply 7
to the acquisition by the Federal Government of informa-8
tion technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 40, 9
United States Code), that is a commercial item (as defined 10
in section 103 of title 41, United States Code). 11
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EC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, 12
United States Code, no officer or employee of any regu-13
latory agency or commission funded by this Act may ac-14
cept on behalf of that agency, nor may such agency or 15
commission accept, payment or reimbursement from a 16
non-Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or related ex-17
penses for the purpose of enabling an officer or employee 18
to attend and participate in any meeting or similar func-19
tion relating to the official duties of the officer or em-20
ployee when the entity offering payment or reimbursement 21
is a person or entity subject to regulation by such agency 22
or commission, or represents a person or entity subject 23
to regulation by such agency or commission, unless the 24
person or entity is an organization described in section 25 122 
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501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and ex-1
empt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code. 2
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EC. 617. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 3
of law, an Executive agency covered by this Act otherwise 4
authorized to enter into contracts for either leases or the 5
construction or alteration of real property for office, meet-6
ing, storage, or other space must consult with the General 7
Services Administration before issuing a solicitation for of-8
fers of new leases or construction contracts, and in the 9
case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations 10
with the current lessor. 11
(2) Any such agency with authority to enter into an 12
emergency lease may do so during any period declared by 13
the President to require emergency leasing authority with 14
respect to such agency. 15
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Executive 16
agency covered by this Act’’ means any Executive agency 17
provided funds by this Act, but does not include the Gen-18
eral Services Administration or the United States Postal 19
Service. 20
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EC. 618. (a) There are appropriated for the fol-21
lowing activities the amounts required under current law: 22
(1) Compensation of the President (3 U.S.C. 23
102). 24
(2) Payments to— 25 123 
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(A) the Judicial Officers’ Retirement Fund 1
(28 U.S.C. 377(o)); 2
(B) the Judicial Survivors’ Annuities Fund 3
(28 U.S.C. 376(c)); and 4
(C) the United States Court of Federal 5
Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund (28 U.S.C. 6
178(l)). 7
(3) Payment of Government contributions— 8
(A) with respect to the health benefits of 9
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 10
of title 5, United States Code, and the Retired 11
Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 12
Stat. 849); and 13
(B) with respect to the life insurance bene-14
fits for employees retiring after December 31, 15
1989 (5 U.S.C. ch. 87). 16
(4) Payment to finance the unfunded liability of 17
new and increased annuity benefits under the Civil 18
Service Retirement and Disability Fund (5 U.S.C. 19
8348). 20
(5) Payment of annuities authorized to be paid 21
from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 22
Fund by statutory provisions other than subchapter 23
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United 24
States Code. 25 124 
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(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to ex-1
empt any amount appropriated by this section from any 2
otherwise applicable limitation on the use of funds con-3
tained in this Act. 4
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EC. 619. None of the funds made available in this 5
Act may be used by the Federal Trade Commission to 6
complete the draft report entitled ‘‘Interagency Working 7
Group on Food Marketed to Children: Preliminary Pro-8
posed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regu-9
latory Efforts’’ unless the Interagency Working Group on 10
Food Marketed to Children complies with Executive Order 11
No. 13563. 12
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EC. 620. (a) The head of each executive branch 13
agency funded by this Act shall ensure that the Chief In-14
formation Officer of the agency has the authority to par-15
ticipate in decisions regarding the budget planning process 16
related to information technology. 17
(b) Amounts appropriated for any executive branch 18
agency funded by this Act that are available for informa-19
tion technology shall be allocated within the agency, con-20
sistent with the provisions of appropriations Acts and 21
budget guidelines and recommendations from the Director 22
of the Office of Management and Budget, in such manner 23
as specified by, or approved by, the Chief Information Of-24 125 
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ficer of the agency in consultation with the Chief Financial 1
Officer of the agency and budget officials. 2
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EC. 621. None of the funds made available in this 3
Act may be used in contravention of chapter 29, 31, or 4
33 of title 44, United States Code. 5
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EC. 622. None of the funds made available in this 6
Act may be used by a governmental entity to require the 7
disclosure by a provider of electronic communication serv-8
ice to the public or remote computing service of the con-9
tents of a wire or electronic communication that is in elec-10
tronic storage with the provider (as such terms are defined 11
in sections 2510 and 2711 of title 18, United States Code) 12
in a manner that violates the Fourth Amendment to the 13
Constitution of the United States. 14
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EC. 623. No funds provided in this Act shall be used 15
to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely 16
access to any records, documents, or other materials avail-17
able to the department or agency over which that Inspec-18
tor General has responsibilities under the Inspector Gen-19
eral Act of 1978, or to prevent or impede that Inspector 20
General’s access to such records, documents, or other ma-21
terials, under any provision of law, except a provision of 22
law that expressly refers to the Inspector General and ex-23
pressly limits the Inspector General’s right of access. A 24
department or agency covered by this section shall provide 25 126 
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its Inspector General with access to all such records, docu-1
ments, and other materials in a timely manner. Each In-2
spector General shall ensure compliance with statutory 3
limitations on disclosure relevant to the information pro-4
vided by the establishment over which that Inspector Gen-5
eral has responsibilities under the Inspector General Act 6
of 1978. Each Inspector General covered by this section 7
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 8
House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 cal-9
endar days any failures to comply with this requirement. 10
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EC. 624. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 11
may be used by the Federal Communications Commission 12
to modify, amend, or change the rules or regulations of 13
the Commission for universal service high-cost support for 14
competitive eligible telecommunications carriers in a way 15
that is inconsistent with paragraph (e)(5) or (e)(6) of sec-16
tion 54.307 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as 17
in effect on July 15, 2015: Provided, That this section 18
shall not prohibit the Commission from considering, devel-19
oping, or adopting other support mechanisms as an alter-20
native to Mobility Fund Phase II: Provided further, That 21
any such alternative mechanism shall maintain existing 22
high-cost support to competitive eligible telecommuni-23
cations carriers until support under such mechanism com-24
mences. 25 127 
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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 25 128 
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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. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be obligated on contracts in excess of $5,000 for 22
public relations, as that term is defined in Office and Man-23
agement and Budget Circular A–87 (revised May 10, 24
2004), unless advance notice of such an obligation is 25 129 
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transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 1
House of Representatives and the Senate. 2
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EC. 630. Federal agencies funded under this Act 3
shall clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for 4
advertising or educational purposes, including emails or 5
Internet postings, that the communication is printed, pub-6
lished, or produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer ex-7
pense. The funds used by a Federal agency to carry out 8
this requirement shall be derived from amounts made 9
available to the agency for advertising or other commu-10
nications regarding the programs and activities of the 11
agency. 12
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EC. 631. When issuing statements, press releases, 13
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-14
ments describing projects or programs funded in whole or 15
in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal 16
funds included in this Act, shall clearly state— 17
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the pro-18
gram or project which will be financed with Federal 19
money; 20
(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 21
project or program; and 22
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total 23
costs of the project or program that will be financed 24
by non-governmental sources. 25 130 
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SEC. 632. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act shall be used by the Securities and Exchange Commis-2
sion to finalize, issue, or implement any rule, regulation, 3
or order regarding the disclosure of political contributions, 4
contributions to tax exempt organizations, or dues paid 5
to trade associations. 6
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EC. 633. Not later than 45 days after the last day 7
of each quarter, each agency funded in this Act shall sub-8
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 9
of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly budget re-10
port that includes total obligations of the Agency for that 11
quarter for each appropriation, by the source year of the 12
appropriation. 13
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EC. 634. Of the unobligated balances available in 14
the Department of the Treasury, Treasury Forfeiture 15
Fund, established by section 9703 of title 31, United 16
States Code, $150,000,000 shall be permanently rescinded 17
not later than September 30, 2024. 18
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EC. 635. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 19
made available under section 4010 of the American Res-20
cue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2), $80,000,000 21
are hereby rescinded. 22
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EC. 636. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 23
made available under section 4011 of the American Res-24 131 
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cue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2), $290,000,000 1
are hereby rescinded. 2
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EC. 637. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 3
made available under section 10301(1)(A)(ii) of the Infla-4
tion Reduction Act (Public Law 117–169), 5
$10,000,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 6
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EC. 638. Title 44, United States Code, is amended 7
as follows— 8
(1) in subsection (a)(2) of section 2107, by 9
striking ‘‘the head of such agency has certified in 10
writing to the Archivist’’ and inserting ‘‘the Archi-11
vist determines, after consulting with the head of 12
such agency,’’; 13
(2) in subsection (d) of section 2904, by strik-14
ing the first instance of ‘‘digital or electronic’’; 15
(3) in subsection (e) of section 3303a, by strik-16
ing ‘‘the written consent of’’ and inserting ‘‘advance 17
notice to’’; and 18
(4) in section 3308, by striking ‘‘empower’’ and 19
inserting ‘‘direct’’. 20
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EC. 639. Of the unobligated balances for major re-21
pairs and alterations under the heading ‘‘General Services 22
Administration—Real Property Activities—Federal Build-23
ings Fund’’ from amounts made available in division C 24 132 
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of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 1
116–93), $10,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 2 133 
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TITLE VII 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GOVERNMENT-WIDE 2
D
EPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, ANDCORPORATIONS 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
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EC. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality 5
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 6
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2024 shall obligate 7
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-8
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 9
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-10
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 11
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 12
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 13
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 14
agency, or instrumentality. 15
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EC. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 16
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 17
in accordance with section 1343(c) of title 31, United 18
States Code, for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-19
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, vans, law enforce-20
ment vehicles, protective vehicles, undercover surveillance 21
vehicles, and police-type vehicles), is hereby fixed annually 22
at an amount to reflect average transaction prices paid 23
for passenger vehicles, as determined by the Administrator 24
of General Services by analyzing multiple published auto-25 134 
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motive industry prices paid indices, averaging the data, 1
and adjusting for inflation: Provided, That the limits set 2
forth in this section may not be exceeded by more than 3
5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased for 4
demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and 5
Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstra-6
tion Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set 7
forth in this section may be exceeded by the incremental 8
cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant 9
to Public Law 101–549 over the cost of comparable con-10
ventionally fueled vehicles: Provided further, That the lim-11
its set forth in this section shall not apply to any vehicle 12
that is a commercial item and which operates on alter-13
native fuel, including but not limited to electric, plug-in 14
hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. 15
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EC. 703. Appropriations of the executive depart-16
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-17
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-18
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 19
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 20
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 21
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EC. 704. Unless otherwise specified in law during 22
the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation con-23
tained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the 24
compensation of any officer or employee of the Govern-25 135 
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ment of the United States (including any agency the ma-1
jority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 2
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the conti-3
nental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen 4
of the United States; (2) is a person who is lawfully admit-5
ted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as 6
outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who 7
is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is grant-8
ed asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration 9
of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and 10
then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who owes 11
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for pur-12
poses of this section, affidavits signed by any such person 13
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require-14
ments of this section with respect to his or her status are 15
being complied with: Provided further, That for purposes 16
of paragraphs (2) and (3) such affidavits shall be sub-17
mitted prior to employment and updated thereafter as nec-18
essary: Provided further, That any person making a false 19
affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, 20
shall be fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not 21
more than 1 year, or both: Provided further, That the 22
above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in sub-23
stitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided 24
further, That any payment made to any officer or em-25 136 
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ployee contrary to the provisions of this section shall be 1
recoverable in action by the Federal Government: Provided 2
further, That this section shall not apply to any person 3
who is an officer or employee of the Government of the 4
United States on the date of enactment of this Act, or 5
to international broadcasters employed by the Broad-6
casting Board of Governors, or to temporary employment 7
of translators, or to temporary employment in the field 8
service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emergencies: 9
Provided further, That this section does not apply to the 10
employment as Wildland firefighters for not more than 11
120 days of nonresident aliens employed by the Depart-12
ment of the Interior or the USDA Forest Service pursuant 13
to an agreement with another country. 14
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EC. 705. Appropriations available to any depart-15
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-16
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-17
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 18
Services Administration for charges for space and services 19
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-20
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 21
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 22
1959 (73 Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments 23
of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 24 137 
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SEC. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or 1
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-2
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials, 3
including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 4
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-5
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-6
pended for the following purposes: 7
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 8
and recycling programs as described in Executive 9
Order No. 14057 (December 8, 2021), including any 10
such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 11
the Executive order. 12
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-13
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 14
development and implementation of hazardous waste 15
management and pollution prevention programs. 16
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 17
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 18
Federal agency. 19
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EC. 707. Funds made available by this or any other 20
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 21
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 22
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 23
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 24
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 25 138 
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with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 1
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 2
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 3
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 4
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-5
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 6
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 7
correspondingly reduced. 8
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EC. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in 9
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 10
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 11
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 12
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 13
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 14
financial support from more than one agency or instru-15
mentality. 16
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EC. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant 17
to the provisions of this or any other Act shall be used 18
to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which 19
has been disapproved pursuant to a joint resolution duly 20
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 21
United States. 22
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EC. 710. During the period in which the head of 23
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 24
employee of the Federal Government appointed by the 25 139 
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President of the United States, holds office, no funds may 1
be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish 2
or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 3
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or 4
make improvements for any such office, unless advance 5
notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted 6
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-7
resentatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this sec-8
tion, the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite of of-9
fices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space 10
used primarily by the individual or the use of which is 11
directly controlled by the individual. 12
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EC. 711. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-13
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 14
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 15
the interagency funding of national security and emer-16
gency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which 17
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or enti-18
ties, as provided by Executive Order No. 13618 (July 6, 19
2012). 20
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EC. 712. (a) None of the funds made available by 21
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by 22
any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 23
Federal Government to pay the salaries or expenses of any 24
individual appointed to a position of a confidential or pol-25 140 
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icy-determining character that is excepted from the com-1
petitive service under section 3302 of title 5, United 2
States Code, (pursuant to schedule C of subpart C of part 3
213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations) unless 4
the head of the applicable department, agency, or other 5
instrumentality employing such schedule C individual cer-6
tifies to the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage-7
ment that the schedule C position occupied by the indi-8
vidual was not created solely or primarily in order to detail 9
the individual to the White House. 10
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 11
Federal employees or members of the armed forces de-12
tailed to or from an element of the intelligence community 13
(as that term is defined under section 3(4) of the National 14
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4))). 15
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EC. 713. No part of any appropriation contained in 16
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 17
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 18
Government, who— 19
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-20
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-21
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 22
direct oral or written communication or contact with 23
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 24
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 25 141 
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to the employment of such other officer or employee 1
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 2
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 3
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-4
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-5
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 6
committee, or subcommittee; or 7
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 8
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 9
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion 10
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-11
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-12
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-13
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 14
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 15
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 16
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 17
communication or contact of such other officer or 18
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-19
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 20
(1). 21
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EC. 714. (a) None of the funds made available in 22
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 23
any employee training that— 24 142 
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(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-1
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 2
performance of official duties; 3
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-4
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 5
some participants; 6
(3) does not require prior employee notification 7
of the content and methods to be used in the train-8
ing and written end of course evaluation; 9
(4) contains any methods or content associated 10
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 11
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-12
ployment Opportunity Commission Notice N– 13
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 14
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-15
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 16
workplace. 17
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 18
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 19
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 20
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EC. 715. No part of any funds appropriated in this 21
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu-22
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu-23
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda 24
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of 25 143 
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any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, 1
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla-2
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation 3
to the Congress itself. 4
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EC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or 5
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed-6
eral employee’s home address to any labor organization 7
except when the employee has authorized such disclosure 8
or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of 9
competent jurisdiction. 10
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EC. 717. None of the funds made available in this 11
or any other Act may be used to provide any non-public 12
information such as mailing, telephone, or electronic mail-13
ing lists to any person or any organization outside of the 14
Federal Government without the approval of the Commit-15
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 16
and the Senate. 17
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EC. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in 18
this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, 19
including by private contractor, for publicity or propa-20
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore 21
authorized by Congress. 22
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EC. 719. (a) In this section, the term ‘‘agency’’— 23
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined 24
under 5 U.S.C. 105; and 25 144 
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(2) includes a military department, as defined 1
under section 102 of such title and the United 2
States Postal Service. 3
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regu-4
lations to use such time for other purposes, an employee 5
of an agency shall use official time in an honest effort 6
to perform official duties. An employee not under a leave 7
system, including a Presidential appointee exempted under 8
5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to expend an honest 9
effort and a reasonable proportion of such employee’s time 10
in the performance of official duties. 11
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EC. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-12
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 13
fiscal year by this or any other Act to any department 14
or agency, which is a member of the Federal Accounting 15
Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), shall be available to 16
finance an appropriate share of FASAB administrative 17
costs. 18
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EC. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-19
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-20
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 21
reimburse ‘‘General Services Administration, Government- 22
wide Policy’’ with the approval of the Director of the Of-23
fice of Management and Budget, funds made available for 24
the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including 25 145 
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rebates from charge card and other contracts: Provided, 1
That these funds shall be administered by the Adminis-2
trator of General Services to support Government-wide 3
and other multi-agency financial, information technology, 4
procurement, and other management innovations, initia-5
tives, and activities, including improving coordination and 6
reducing duplication, as approved by the Director of the 7
Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 8
the appropriate interagency and multi-agency groups des-9
ignated by the Director (including the President’s Man-10
agement Council for overall management improvement ini-11
tiatives, the Chief Financial Officers Council for financial 12
management initiatives, the Chief Information Officers 13
Council for information technology initiatives, the Chief 14
Human Capital Officers Council for human capital initia-15
tives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procure-16
ment initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Coun-17
cil for performance improvement initiatives): Provided fur-18
ther, That the total funds transferred or reimbursed shall 19
not exceed $15,000,000 to improve coordination, reduce 20
duplication, and for other activities related to Federal 21
Government Priority Goals established by 31 U.S.C. 1120, 22
and not to exceed $17,000,000 for Government-wide inno-23
vations, initiatives, and activities: Provided further, That 24
the funds transferred to or for reimbursement of ‘‘General 25 146 
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Services Administration, Government-Wide Policy’’ during 1
fiscal year 2024 shall remain available for obligation 2
through September 30, 2025: Provided further, That not 3
later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the Direc-4
tor of the Office of Management and Budget, in consulta-5
tion with the Administrator of General Services, shall sub-6
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 7
of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on 8
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-9
ate, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the 10
House of Representatives a detailed spend plan for the 11
funds to be transferred or reimbursed: Provided further, 12
That the spend plan shall, at a minimum, include: (i) the 13
amounts currently in the funds authorized under this sec-14
tion and the estimate of amounts to be transferred or re-15
imbursed in fiscal year 2024; (ii) a detailed breakdown 16
of the purposes for all funds estimated to be transferred 17
or reimbursed pursuant to this section (including total 18
number of personnel and costs for all staff whose salaries 19
are provided for by this section); (iii) where applicable, 20
a description of the funds intended for use by or for the 21
benefit of each executive council; and (iv) where applica-22
ble, a description of the funds intended for use by or for 23
the implementation of specific laws passed by Congress: 24
Provided further, That no transfers or reimbursements 25 147 
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may be made pursuant to this section until 15 days fol-1
lowing notification of the Committees on Appropriations 2
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 3
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 4
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EC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of 5
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location 6
in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman 7
and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at 8
the location. 9
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EC. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-10
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 11
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 12
the interagency funding of specific projects, workshops, 13
studies, and similar efforts to carry out the purposes of 14
the National Science and Technology Council (authorized 15
by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 16
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That 17
the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a re-18
port describing the budget of and resources connected with 19
the National Science and Technology Council to the Com-20
mittees on Appropriations, the House Committee on 21
Science, Space, and Technology, and the Senate Com-22
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 days 23
after enactment of this Act. 24 148 
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SEC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, 1
grant application, form, notification, press release, or 2
other publications involving the distribution of Federal 3
funds shall comply with any relevant requirements in part 4
200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations: Provided, 5
That this section shall apply to direct payments, formula 6
funds, and grants received by a State receiving Federal 7
funds. 8
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EC. 725. (a) PROHIBITION OFFEDERALAGENCY 9
M
ONITORING OFINDIVIDUALS’ INTERNETUSE.—None of 10
the funds made available in this or any other Act may 11
be used by any Federal agency— 12
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation 13
of data, derived from any means, that includes any 14
personally identifiable information relating to an in-15
dividual’s access to or use of any Federal Govern-16
ment Internet site of the agency; or 17
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third 18
party (including another government agency) to col-19
lect, review, or obtain any aggregation of data, de-20
rived from any means, that includes any personally 21
identifiable information relating to an individual’s 22
access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 23
site. 24 149 
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(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The limitations established in 1
subsection (a) shall not apply to— 2
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not 3
identify particular persons; 4
(2) any voluntary submission of personally iden-5
tifiable information; 6
(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regu-7
latory, or supervisory purposes, in accordance with 8
applicable law; or 9
(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) 10
that is a system security action taken by the oper-11
ator of an Internet site and is necessarily incident 12
to providing the Internet site services or to pro-13
tecting the rights or property of the provider of the 14
Internet site. 15
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 16
(1) The term ‘‘regulatory’’ means agency ac-17
tions to implement, interpret or enforce authorities 18
provided in law. 19
(2) The term ‘‘supervisory’’ means examina-20
tions of the agency’s supervised institutions, includ-21
ing assessing safety and soundness, overall financial 22
condition, management practices and policies and 23
compliance with applicable standards as provided in 24
law. 25 150 
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SEC. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 1
Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract which 2
includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, 3
except where the contract also includes a provision for con-4
traceptive coverage. 5
(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract 6
with— 7
(1) any of the following religious plans: 8
(A) Personal Care’s HMO; and 9
(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and 10
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier 11
for the plan objects to such coverage on the basis of 12
religious beliefs. 13
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters 14
into or renews a contract under this section may not sub-15
ject any individual to discrimination on the basis that the 16
individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for 17
contraceptives because such activities would be contrary 18
to the individual’s religious beliefs or moral convictions. 19
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-20
quire coverage of abortion or abortion-related services. 21
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EC. 727. The United States is committed to ensur-22
ing the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and 23
Paralympic athletes, and supports the strict adherence to 24
anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, edu-25 151 
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cation, and research as performed by nationally recognized 1
oversight authorities. 2
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EC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
law, funds appropriated for official travel to Federal de-4
partments and agencies may be used by such departments 5
and agencies, if consistent with Office of Management and 6
Budget Circular A–126 regarding official travel for Gov-7
ernment personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 8
ownership pilot program. 9
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EC. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of 10
law, none of the funds appropriated or made available 11
under this or any other appropriations Act may be used 12
to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the 13
Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to im-14
plement the proposed regulations of the Office of Per-15
sonnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 16
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Reg-17
ulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, 18
number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail 19
of executive branch employees to the legislative branch). 20
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EC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of 21
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, 22
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-23
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of 24
conducting Federal law enforcement training without the 25 152 
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advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 1
the House of Representatives and the Senate, except that 2
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers is author-3
ized to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities 4
by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which 5
cannot be accommodated in existing Centers facilities. 6
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EC. 731. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 7
law, none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 8
may be used by an executive branch agency to produce 9
any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or dis-10
tribution in the United States, unless the story includes 11
a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-12
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was 13
prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. 14
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EC. 732. None of the funds made available in this 15
Act may be used in contravention of section 552a of title 16
5, United States Code (popularly known as the Privacy 17
Act), and regulations implementing that section. 18
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EC. 733. (a) INGENERAL.—None of the funds ap-19
propriated or otherwise made available by this or any 20
other Act may be used for any Federal Government con-21
tract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated 22
as an inverted domestic corporation under section 835(b) 23
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(b)) 24
or any subsidiary of such an entity. 25 153 
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(b) WAIVERS.— 1
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any Secretary shall waive 2
subsection (a) with respect to any Federal Govern-3
ment contract under the authority of such Secretary 4
if the Secretary determines that the waiver is re-5
quired in the interest of national security. 6
(2) R
EPORT TO CONGRESS .—Any Secretary 7
issuing a waiver under paragraph (1) shall report 8
such issuance to Congress. 9
(c) E
XCEPTION.—This section shall not apply to any 10
Federal Government contract entered into before the date 11
of the enactment of this Act, or to any task order issued 12
pursuant to such contract. 13
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EC. 734. During fiscal year 2024, for each employee 14
who— 15
(1) retires under section 8336(d)(2) or 16
8414(b)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code; or 17
(2) retires under any other provision of sub-18
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such title 19
5 and receives a payment as an incentive to sepa-20
rate, the separating agency shall remit to the Civil 21
Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount 22
equal to the Office of Personnel Management’s aver-23
age unit cost of processing a retirement claim for 24
the preceding fiscal year. Such amounts shall be 25 154 
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available until expended to the Office of Personnel 1
Management and shall be deemed to be an adminis-2
trative expense under section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 3
5, United States Code. 4
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EC. 735. (a) None of the funds made available in 5
this or any other Act may be used to recommend or re-6
quire any entity submitting an offer for a Federal contract 7
to disclose any of the following information as a condition 8
of submitting the offer: 9
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, 10
expenditure, independent expenditure, or disburse-11
ment for an electioneering communication that is 12
made by the entity, its officers or directors, or any 13
of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate for 14
election for Federal office or to a political com-15
mittee, or that is otherwise made with respect to any 16
election for Federal office. 17
(2) Any disbursement of funds (other than a 18
payment described in paragraph (1)) made by the 19
entity, its officers or directors, or any of its affiliates 20
or subsidiaries to any person with the intent or the 21
reasonable expectation that the person will use the 22
funds to make a payment described in paragraph 23
(1). 24 155 
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(b) In this section, each of the terms ‘‘contribution’’, 1
‘‘expenditure’’, ‘‘independent expenditure’’, ‘‘election-2
eering communication’’, ‘‘candidate’’, ‘‘election’’, and 3
‘‘Federal office’’ has the meaning given such term in the 4
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 5
et seq.). 6
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EC. 736. None of the funds made available in this 7
or any other Act may be used to pay for the painting of 8
a portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal Govern-9
ment, including the President, the Vice President, a Mem-10
ber of Congress (including a Delegate or a Resident Com-11
missioner to Congress), the head of an executive branch 12
agency (as defined in section 133 of title 41, United States 13
Code), or the head of an office of the legislative branch. 14
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EC. 737. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 15
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, 16
no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 17
2024, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any 18
prevailing rate employee described in section 19
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code— 20
(A) during the period from the date of expira-21
tion of the limitation imposed by the comparable sec-22
tion for the previous fiscal years until the normal ef-23
fective date of the applicable wage survey adjust-24
ment that is to take effect in fiscal year 2024, in an 25 156 
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amount that exceeds the rate payable for the appli-1
cable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule 2
in accordance with such section; and 3
(B) during the period consisting of the remain-4
der of fiscal year 2024, in an amount that exceeds 5
the result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate 6
payable under subparagraph (A) by more than the 7
sum of— 8
(i) the percentage adjustment taking effect 9
in fiscal year 2024 under section 5303 of title 10
5, United States Code, in the rates of pay 11
under the General Schedule; and 12
(ii) the difference between the overall aver-13
age percentage of the locality-based com-14
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year 15
2024 under section 5304 of such title (whether 16
by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall av-17
erage percentage of such payments which was 18
effective in the previous fiscal year under such 19
section. 20
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 21
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 22
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, 23
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, 24
may be paid during the periods for which paragraph (1) 25 157 
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is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would 1
be payable under paragraph (1) were paragraph (1) appli-2
cable to such employee. 3
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 4
of premium pay for employees subject to this subsection 5
may not be changed from the rates in effect on September 6
30, 2023, except to the extent determined by the Office 7
of Personnel Management to be consistent with the pur-8
pose of this subsection. 9
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 10
of premium pay for employees subject to this subsection 11
may not be changed from the rates in effect on September 12
30, 2023, except to the extent determined by the Office 13
of Personnel Management to be consistent with the pur-14
pose of this subsection. 15
(5) This subsection shall apply with respect to pay 16
for service performed after September 30, 2023. 17
(6) For the purpose of administering any provision 18
of law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-19
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-20
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribu-21
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the 22
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary 23
or basic pay payable after the application of this sub-24
section shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 25 158 
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(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to 1
permit or require the payment to any employee covered 2
by this subsection at a rate in excess of the rate that would 3
be payable were this subsection not in effect. 4
(8) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 5
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this sub-6
section if the Office determines that such exceptions are 7
necessary to ensure the recruitment or retention of quali-8
fied employees. 9
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment 10
in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that 11
take place in fiscal year 2024 under sections 5344 and 12
5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be— 13
(1) not less than the percentage received by em-14
ployees in the same location whose rates of basic pay 15
are adjusted pursuant to the statutory pay systems 16
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United 17
States Code: Provided, That prevailing rate employ-18
ees at locations where there are no employees whose 19
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 20
of title 5, United States Code, and prevailing rate 21
employees described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, 22
United States Code, shall be considered to be located 23
in the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of United 24 159 
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States’’ pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United 1
States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and 2
(2) effective as of the first day of the first ap-3
plicable pay period beginning after September 30, 4
2023. 5
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EC. 738. (a) The head of any Executive branch de-6
partment, agency, board, commission, or office funded by 7
this or any other appropriations Act shall submit annual 8
reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official 9
for any entity without an Inspector General, regarding the 10
costs and contracting procedures related to each con-11
ference held by any such department, agency, board, com-12
mission, or office during fiscal year 2024 for which the 13
cost to the United States Government was more than 14
$100,000. 15
(b) Each report submitted shall include, for each con-16
ference described in subsection (a) held during the applica-17
ble period— 18
(1) a description of its purpose; 19
(2) the number of participants attending; 20
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the 21
United States Government, including— 22
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 23
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 24 160 
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(C) the cost of employee or contractor 1
travel to and from the conference; and 2
(D) a discussion of the methodology used 3
to determine which costs relate to the con-4
ference; and 5
(4) a description of the contracting procedures 6
used including— 7
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a 8
competitive basis; and 9
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison 10
conducted by the departmental component or 11
office in evaluating potential contractors for the 12
conference. 13
(c) Within 15 days after the end of a quarter, the 14
head of any such department, agency, board, commission, 15
or office shall notify the Inspector General or senior ethics 16
official for any entity without an Inspector General, of the 17
date, location, and number of employees attending a con-18
ference held by any Executive branch department, agency, 19
board, commission, or office funded by this or any other 20
appropriations Act during fiscal year 2024 for which the 21
cost to the United States Government was more than 22
$20,000. 23
(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appro-24
priated by this or any other appropriations Act may not 25 161 
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be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a con-1
ference described in subsection (c) that is not directly and 2
programmatically related to the purpose for which the 3
grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held 4
in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, 5
or other routine purposes related to a project funded by 6
the grant or contract. 7
(e) None of the funds made available in this or any 8
other appropriations Act may be used for travel and con-9
ference activities that are not in compliance with Office 10
of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 11
dated May 11, 2012 or any subsequent revisions to that 12
memorandum. 13
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EC. 739. None of the funds made available in this 14
or any other appropriations Act may be used to increase, 15
eliminate, or reduce funding for a program, project, or ac-16
tivity as proposed in the President’s budget request for 17
a fiscal year until such proposed change is subsequently 18
enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change 19
is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provi-20
sions of this or any other appropriations Act. 21
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EC. 740. None of the funds made available by this 22
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 23
enforce, or apply the rule entitled ‘‘Competitive Area’’ 24
published by the Office of Personnel Management in the 25 162 
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Federal Register on April 15, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 20180 1
et seq.). 2
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EC. 741. None of the funds appropriated or other-3
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 4
to begin or announce a study or public-private competition 5
regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any 6
function performed by Federal employees pursuant to Of-7
fice of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any 8
other administrative regulation, directive, or policy. 9
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EC. 742. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-10
erwise made available by this or any other Act may be 11
available for a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement 12
with an entity that requires employees or contractors of 13
such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign 14
internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohib-15
iting or otherwise restricting such employees or contrac-16
tors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse 17
to a designated investigative or law enforcement represent-18
ative of a Federal department or agency authorized to re-19
ceive such information. 20
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not con-21
travene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, 22
Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal depart-23
ment or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified 24
information. 25 163 
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SEC. 743. (a) No funds appropriated in this or any 1
other Act may be used to implement or enforce the agree-2
ments in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Govern-3
ment or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agree-4
ment if such policy, form, or agreement does not contain 5
the following provisions: ‘‘These provisions are consistent 6
with and do not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter 7
the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by 8
existing statute or Executive order relating to (1) classi-9
fied information, (2) communications to Congress, (3) the 10
reporting to an Inspector General or the Office of Special 11
Counsel of a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or 12
mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of au-13
thority, or a substantial and specific danger to public 14
health or safety, or (4) any other whistleblower protection. 15
The definitions, requirements, obligations, rights, sanc-16
tions, and liabilities created by controlling Executive or-17
ders and statutory provisions are incorporated into this 18
agreement and are controlling.’’: Provided, That notwith-19
standing the preceding provision of this section, a non-20
disclosure policy form or agreement that is to be executed 21
by a person connected with the conduct of an intelligence 22
or intelligence-related activity, other than an employee or 23
officer of the United States Government, may contain pro-24
visions appropriate to the particular activity for which 25 164 
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such document is to be used. Such form or agreement 1
shall, at a minimum, require that the person will not dis-2
close any classified information received in the course of 3
such activity unless specifically authorized to do so by the 4
United States Government. Such nondisclosure forms 5
shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclosures 6
to Congress, or to an authorized official of an executive 7
agency or the Department of Justice, that are essential 8
to reporting a substantial violation of law. 9
(b) A nondisclosure agreement may continue to be 10
implemented and enforced notwithstanding subsection (a) 11
if it complies with the requirements for such agreement 12
that were in effect when the agreement was entered into. 13
(c) No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 14
may be used to implement or enforce any agreement en-15
tered into during fiscal year 2014 which does not contain 16
substantially similar language to that required in sub-17
section (a). 18
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EC. 744. None of the funds made available by this 19
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 20
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 21
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 22
to, any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-23
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad-24
ministrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, 25 165 
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and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant 1
to an agreement with the authority responsible for col-2
lecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is 3
aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless a Federal agency 4
has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation 5
and has made a determination that this further action is 6
not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 7
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EC. 745. None of the funds made available by this 8
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 9
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 10
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 11
to, any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal 12
violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 13
months, where the awarding agency is aware of the convic-14
tion, unless a Federal agency has considered suspension 15
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-16
mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-17
tect the interests of the Government. 18
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EC. 746. (a) During fiscal year 2024, on the date 19
on which a request is made for a transfer of funds in ac-20
cordance with section 1017 of Public Law 111–203, the 21
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall notify the 22
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-23
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Financial Serv-24
ices of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 25 166 
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on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 1
of such request. 2
(b) Any notification required by this section shall be 3
made available on the Bureau’s public website. 4
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EC. 747. (a) Notwithstanding any official rate ad-5
justed under section 104 of title 3, United States Code, 6
the rate payable to the Vice President during calendar 7
year 2024 shall be the rate payable to the Vice President 8
on December 31, 2023, by operation of section 747 of divi-9
sion E of Public Law 117–328. 10
(b) Notwithstanding any official rate adjusted under 11
section 5318 of title 5, United States Code, or any other 12
provision of law, the payable rate during calendar year 13
2024 for an employee serving in an Executive Schedule 14
position, or in a position for which the rate of pay is fixed 15
by statute at an Executive Schedule rate, shall be the rate 16
payable for the applicable Executive Schedule level on De-17
cember 31, 2023, by operation of section 747 of division 18
E of Public Law 117–328. Such an employee may not re-19
ceive a rate increase during calendar year 2024, except 20
as provided in subsection (i). 21
(c) Notwithstanding section 401 of the Foreign Serv-22
ice Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) or any other provi-23
sion of law, a chief of mission or ambassador at large is 24 167 
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subject to subsection (b) in the same manner as other em-1
ployees who are paid at an Executive Schedule rate. 2
(d)(1) This subsection applies to— 3
(A) a noncareer appointee in the Senior Execu-4
tive Service paid a rate of basic pay at or above the 5
official rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule; 6
or 7
(B) a limited term appointee or limited emer-8
gency appointee in the Senior Executive Service 9
serving under a political appointment and paid a 10
rate of basic pay at or above the official rate for 11
level IV of the Executive Schedule. 12
(2) Notwithstanding sections 5382 and 5383 of title 13
5, United States Code, an employee described in para-14
graph (1) may not receive a pay rate increase during cal-15
endar year 2024, except as provided in subsection (i). 16
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 17
employee paid a rate of basic pay (including any locality 18
based payments under section 5304 of title 5, United 19
States Code, or similar authority) at or above the official 20
rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves 21
under a political appointment may not receive a pay rate 22
increase during calendar year 2024, except as provided in 23
subsection (i). This subsection does not apply to employees 24
in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service 25 168 
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pay system, to employees appointed under section 3161 1
of title 5, United States Code, or to employees in another 2
pay system whose position would be classified at GS–15 3
or below if chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, ap-4
plied to them. 5
(f) Nothing in subsections (b) through (e) shall pre-6
vent employees who do not serve under a political appoint-7
ment from receiving pay increases as otherwise provided 8
under applicable law. 9
(g) This section does not apply to an individual who 10
makes an election to retain Senior Executive Service basic 11
pay under section 3392(c) of title 5, United States Code, 12
for such time as that election is in effect. 13
(h) This section does not apply to an individual who 14
makes an election to retain Senior Foreign Service pay 15
entitlements under section 302(b) of the Foreign Service 16
Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) for such time as that 17
election is in effect. 18
(i) Notwithstanding subsections (b) through (e), an 19
employee in a covered position may receive a pay rate in-20
crease upon an authorized movement to a different cov-21
ered position only if that new position has higher-level du-22
ties and a pre-established level or range of pay higher than 23
the level or range for the position held immediately before 24
the movement. Any such increase must be based on the 25 169 
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rates of pay and applicable limitations on payable rates 1
of pay in effect on December 31, 2023, by operation of 2
section 747 of division E of Public Law 117–328. 3
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 4
an individual who is newly appointed to a covered position 5
during the period of time subject to this section, the initial 6
pay rate shall be based on the rates of pay and applicable 7
limitations on payable rates of pay in effect on December 8
31, 2023, by operation of section 747 of division E of Pub-9
lic Law 117–328. 10
(k) If an employee affected by this section is subject 11
to a biweekly pay period that begins in calendar year 2024 12
but ends in calendar year 2025, the bar on the employee’s 13
receipt of pay rate increases shall apply through the end 14
of that pay period. 15
(l) For the purpose of this section, the term ‘‘covered 16
position’’ means a position occupied by an employee whose 17
pay is restricted under this section. 18
(m) This section takes effect on the first day of the 19
first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 20
1, 2024. 21
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EC. 748. In the event of a violation of the Impound-22
ment Control Act of 1974, the President or the head of 23
the relevant department or agency, as the case may be, 24
shall report immediately to the Congress all relevant facts 25 170 
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and a statement of actions taken: Provided, That a copy 1
of each report shall also be transmitted to the Committees 2
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 3
Senate and the Comptroller General on the same date the 4
report is transmitted to the Congress. 5
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EC. 749. (a) Each department or agency of the exec-6
utive branch of the United States Government shall notify 7
the Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the 8
House of Representatives and the Senate and any other 9
appropriate congressional committees if— 10
(1) an apportionment is not made in the re-11
quired time period provided in section 1513(b) of 12
title 31, United States Code; 13
(2) an approved apportionment received by the 14
department or agency conditions the availability of 15
an appropriation on further action; or 16
(3) an approved apportionment received by the 17
department or agency may hinder the prudent obli-18
gation of such appropriation or the execution of a 19
program, project, or activity by such department or 20
agency. 21
(b) Any notification submitted to a congressional 22
committee pursuant to this section shall contain informa-23
tion identifying the bureau, account name, appropriation 24 171 
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name, and Treasury Appropriation Fund Symbol or fund 1
account. 2
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EC. 750. (a) Any non-Federal entity receiving funds 3
provided in this or any other appropriations Act for fiscal 4
year 2024 that are specified in the disclosure table sub-5
mitted in compliance with clause 9 of rule XXI of the 6
Rules of the House of Representatives or Rule XLIV of 7
the Standing Rules of the Senate that is included in the 8
report or explanatory statement accompanying any such 9
Act shall be deemed to be a recipient of a Federal award 10
with respect to such funds for purposes of the require-11
ments of 2 CFR 200.334, regarding records retention, and 12
2 CFR 200.337, regarding access by the Comptroller Gen-13
eral of the United States. 14
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit, 15
amend, supersede, or restrict in any manner any require-16
ments otherwise applicable to non-Federal entities de-17
scribed in paragraph (1) or any existing authority of the 18
Comptroller General. 19
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EC. 751. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 20
United States Code, or section 708 of this Act, funds 21
made available by this or any other Act to any Federal 22
agency may be used by that Federal agency for inter-23
agency funding for coordination with, participation in, or 24
recommendations involving, activities of the U.S. Army 25 172 
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Medical Research and Development Command, the Con-1
gressionally Directed Medical Research Programs and the 2
National Institutes of Health research programs. 3
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EC. 752. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-4
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-5
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 6
reimburse ‘‘General Services Administration, Federal Cit-7
izen Services Fund’’ with the approval of the Director of 8
the Office of Management and Budget, funds made avail-9
able for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, 10
including rebates from charge card and other contracts: 11
Provided, That these funds, in addition to amounts other-12
wise available, shall be administered by the Administrator 13
of General Services to carry out the purposes of the Fed-14
eral Citizen Services Fund and to support Government- 15
wide and other multi-agency financial, information tech-16
nology, procurement, and other activities, including serv-17
ices authorized by 44 U.S.C. 3604 and enabling Federal 18
agencies to take advantage of information technology in 19
sharing information: Provided further, That the total 20
funds transferred or reimbursed shall not exceed 21
$29,000,000 for such purposes: Provided further, That the 22
funds transferred to or for reimbursement of ‘‘General 23
Services Administration, Federal Citizen Services Fund’’ 24
during fiscal year 2024 shall remain available for obliga-25 173 
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tion through September 30, 2025: Provided further, That 1
not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the 2
Administrator of General Services, in consultation with 3
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 4
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 5
House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed spend 6
plan for the funds to be transferred or reimbursed: Pro-7
vided further, That the spend plan shall, at a minimum, 8
include: (i) the amounts currently in the funds authorized 9
under this section and the estimate of amounts to be 10
transferred or reimbursed in fiscal year 2024; (ii) a de-11
tailed breakdown of the purposes for all funds estimated 12
to be transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this section 13
(including total number of personnel and costs for all staff 14
whose salaries are provided for by this section); and (iii) 15
where applicable, a description of the funds intended for 16
use by or for the implementation of specific laws passed 17
by Congress: Provided further, That no transfers or reim-18
bursements may be made pursuant to this section until 19
15 days following notification of the Committees on Ap-20
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-21
ate by the Director of the Office of Management and 22
Budget. 23
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EC. 753. If, for fiscal year 2024, new budget author-24
ity provided in appropriations Acts exceeds the discre-25 174 
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tionary spending limit for any category set forth in section 1
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 2
Control Act of 1985 due to estimating differences with the 3
Congressional Budget Office, an adjustment to the discre-4
tionary spending limit in such category for fiscal year 5
2024 shall be made by the Director of the Office of Man-6
agement and Budget in the amount of the excess but the 7
total of all such adjustments shall not exceed 0.2 percent 8
of the sum of the adjusted discretionary spending limits 9
for all categories for that fiscal year. 10
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EC. 754. Notwithstanding any other provision of 11
law, the unobligated balances of funds made available in 12
division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 13
(Public Law 117–58) to any department or agency funded 14
by this or any other Act may be transferred to the United 15
States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine 16
Fisheries Service for the costs of carrying out their re-17
sponsibilities under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 18
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, as 19
required by section 7 of such Act, in connection with ac-20
tivities and projects funded by Public Law 117–58: Pro-21
vided, That such transfers shall support activities and 22
projects executed by the department or agency making 23
such transfer: Provided further, That such transfers shall 24
be approved by the head of such department or agency 25 175 
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making such transfer: Provided further, That each depart-1
ment or agency shall provide notification to the Commit-2
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 3
and the Senate no less than 30 days prior to such transfer: 4
Provided further, That any such transfers from the De-5
partment of Transportation, including from agencies with-6
in the Department of Transportation, shall be from fund-7
ing provided for personnel, contracting, and other costs 8
to administer and oversee grants: Provided further, That 9
amounts transferred pursuant to this section shall be in 10
addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes: 11
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided in 12
this section shall be in addition to any other transfer au-13
thority provided by law: Provided further, That amounts 14
transferred pursuant to this section that were previously 15
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 16
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the Budget are 17
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-18
tion 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the 19
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, 20
and to legislation establishing fiscal year 2024 budget en-21
forcement in the House of Representatives. 22
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EC. 755. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 23
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any title other 24 176 
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than title IV or VIII shall not apply to such title IV or 1
VIII. 2 177 
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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 2024, 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; 24 178 
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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, 2024. 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 25 179 
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offices of United States Senator or United States Rep-1
resentative 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 25 180 
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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 24 181 
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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. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 16
in this Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, 17
rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties 18
associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any 19
schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act 20
(21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols de-21
rivative. 22
(b) No funds available for obligation or expenditure 23
by the District of Columbia government under any author-24
ity may be used to enact any law, rule, or regulation to 25 182 
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legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 1
possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance 2
under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et 3
seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative for rec-4
reational purposes. 5
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EC. 810. No funds available for obligation or ex-6
penditure by the District of Columbia government under 7
any authority shall be expended for any abortion except 8
where the life of the mother would be endangered if the 9
fetus were carried to term or where the pregnancy is the 10
result of an act of rape or incest. 11
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EC. 811. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 12
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 13
Officer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the 14
appropriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the 15
Council of the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated 16
funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 17
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant 18
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 19
(D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the 20
District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2024 that 21
is in the total amount of the approved appropriation and 22
that realigns all budgeted data for personal services and 23
other-than-personal services, respectively, with anticipated 24
actual expenditures. 25 183 
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(b) This section shall apply only to an agency for 1
which the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Co-2
lumbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address 3
unanticipated changes in program requirements. 4
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EC. 812. No later than 30 calendar days after the 5
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Offi-6
cer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the appro-7
priate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council 8
for the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated funds 9
operating budget for the District of Columbia Public 10
Schools that aligns schools budgets to actual enrollment. 11
The revised appropriated funds budget shall be in the for-12
mat of the budget that the District of Columbia govern-13
ment submitted pursuant to section 442 of the District 14
of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1– 15
204.42). 16
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EC. 813. (a) Amounts appropriated in this Act as 17
operating funds may be transferred to the District of Co-18
lumbia’s enterprise and capital funds and such amounts, 19
once transferred, shall retain appropriation authority con-20
sistent with the provisions of this Act. 21
(b) The District of Columbia government is author-22
ized to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any 23
local funds transferred or reprogrammed in this or the 24
four prior fiscal years from operating funds to capital 25 184 
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funds, and such amounts, once transferred or repro-1
grammed, shall retain appropriation authority consistent 2
with the provisions of this Act. 3
(c) The District of Columbia government may not 4
transfer or reprogram for operating expenses any funds 5
derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 6
capital projects. 7
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EC. 814. None of the Federal funds appropriated 8
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 9
the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to 10
other appropriations, unless expressly so provided herein. 11
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EC. 815. Except as otherwise specifically provided 12
by law or under this Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unob-13
ligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal 14
year 2024 from appropriations of Federal funds made 15
available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2024 in 16
this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 17
2025, for each such account for the purposes authorized: 18
Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the Com-19
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 20
and the Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of 21
such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be 22
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines out-23
lined in section 803 of this Act. 24 185 
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SEC. 816. (a)(1) During fiscal year 2025, during a 1
period in which neither a District of Columbia continuing 2
resolution or a regular District of Columbia appropriation 3
bill is in effect, local funds are appropriated in the amount 4
provided for any project or activity for which local funds 5
are provided in the Act referred to in paragraph (2) (sub-6
ject to any modifications enacted by the District of Colum-7
bia as of the beginning of the period during which this 8
subsection is in effect) at the rate set forth by such Act. 9
(2) The Act referred to in this paragraph is the Act 10
of the Council of the District of Columbia pursuant to 11
which a proposed budget is approved for fiscal year 2024 12
which (subject to the requirements of the District of Co-13
lumbia Home Rule Act) will constitute the local portion 14
of the annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-15
ment for fiscal year 2025 for purposes of section 446 of 16
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–204.46, 17
D.C. Official Code). 18
(b) Appropriations made by subsection (a) shall cease 19
to be available— 20
(1) during any period in which a District of Co-21
lumbia continuing resolution for fiscal year 2025 is 22
in effect; or 23 186 
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(2) upon the enactment into law of the regular 1
District of Columbia appropriation bill for fiscal year 2
2025. 3
(c) An appropriation made by subsection (a) is pro-4
vided under the authority and conditions as provided 5
under this Act and shall be available to the extent and 6
in the manner that would be provided by this Act. 7
(d) An appropriation made by subsection (a) shall 8
cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for such 9
project or activity during the portion of fiscal year 2025 10
for which this section applies to such project or activity. 11
(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activity 12
during any period of fiscal year 2025 if any other provi-13
sion of law (other than an authorization of appropria-14
tions)— 15
(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds avail-16
able, or grants authority for such project or activity 17
to continue for such period; or 18
(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 19
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 20
no authority shall be granted for such project or ac-21
tivity to continue for such period. 22
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect 23
obligations of the government of the District of Columbia 24
mandated by other law. 25 187 
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SEC. 817. (a) Section 244 of the Revised Statutes 1
of the United States relating to the District of Columbia 2
(sec. 9–1201.03, D.C. Official Code) does not apply with 3
respect to any railroads installed pursuant to the Long 4
Bridge Project. 5
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘Long Bridge Project’’ 6
means the project carried out by the District of Columbia 7
and the Commonwealth of Virginia to construct a new 8
Long Bridge adjacent to the existing Long Bridge over 9
the Potomac River, including related infrastructure and 10
other related projects, to expand commuter and regional 11
passenger rail service and to provide bike and pedestrian 12
access crossings over the Potomac River. 13
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EC. 818. Not later than 45 days after the last day 14
of each quarter, each Federal and District government 15
agency appropriated Federal funds in this Act shall sub-16
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 17
of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly budget re-18
port that includes total obligations of the Agency for that 19
quarter for each Federal funds appropriation provided in 20
this Act, by the source year of the appropriation. 21
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EC. 819. Section 3 of the District of Columbia Col-22
lege Access Act of 1999 (sec. 38–2702, D.C. Official 23
Code), is amended— 24 188 
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(1) in subsection(a)(2)(A), by striking 1
‘‘$10,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$15,000’’; 2
(2) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking 3
‘‘$50,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$75,000’’; 4
(3) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘and’’ 5
at the end; 6
(4) in subsection (b)(1), by redesignating sub-7
paragraph (B) as subparagraph (C) and inserting 8
after subparagraph (A) the following new subpara-9
graph: 10
‘‘(B) after making reductions under sub-11
paragraph (A), ratably reduce the amount of 12
the tuition and fee payment of each eligible stu-13
dent who receives more than $10,000 for the 14
award year; and’’; and 15
(5) in subparagraph (C) of subsection (b)(1), as 16
so redesignated, by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’ and 17
inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (A) and (B)’’. 18
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EC. 820. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 19
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in 20
title IV shall be treated as referring only to the provisions 21
of this title or of title IV. 22
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services and 23
General Government Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 24  Calendar No. 
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CONGRESS 
1
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ESSION
 
S. 2309 
[Report No. 118–61] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for financial services and 
general government for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
J
ULY
13, 2023 
Read twice and placed on the calendar