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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1834
To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH4, 2025
Mr. M
CGOVERNintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Natural
Resources, House Administration, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ag-
riculture, Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Workforce,
Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Small Business, the Ju-
diciary, Homeland Security, Financial Services, Veterans’ Affairs, Ways
and Means, Rules, Ethics, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Oversight
and Government Reform, and Appropriations, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Breaking the Gridlock 4
Act’’. 5
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TITLE I—CONGRESSIONAL TIME 1
CAPSULE 2
SEC. 101. SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL CONGRESSIONAL TIME 3
CAPSULE. 4
(a) C
REATION BYARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.— 5
The Architect of the Capitol shall create a congressional 6
time capsule, to be known as the ‘‘Semiquincentennial 7
Congressional Time Capsule’’ (in this title referred to as 8
the ‘‘Time Capsule’’). 9
(b) C
ONTENTS.— 10
(1) D
ETERMINATION BY CONGRESSIONAL LEAD -11
ERSHIP.—The Office of the Speaker of the House of 12
Representatives, Office of the Minority Leader of the 13
House of Representatives, Office of the Majority 14
Leader of the Senate, and Office of the Minority 15
Leader of the Senate shall jointly determine the con-16
tents of the Time Capsule, taking into account the 17
requirements of paragraph (2). 18
(2) S
PECIFICATIONS.—The contents of the 19
Time Capsule shall include— 20
(A) a representative portion of all books, 21
manuscripts, miscellaneous printed matter, 22
memorabilia, relics, and other materials relating 23
to the United States Semiquincentennial; 24
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(B) copies or representations of important 1
legislative and institutional milestones of Con-2
gress during the time before the Time Capsule 3
is buried; 4
(C) a message from Congress to the future 5
Congress when the Time Capsule will be 6
opened; and 7
(D) such other content as the offices de-8
scribed in paragraph (1) consider appropriate. 9
(3) C
ONSULTATION.—In carrying out this sub-10
section, the offices described in paragraph (1) may 11
consult with the Architect of the Capitol, the Sec-12
retary of the Smithsonian Institution, and such 13
other entities of the Federal Government as the of-14
fices consider appropriate. 15
(c) D
UTIES OFARCHITECT.—The Architect of the 16
Capitol shall— 17
(1) prepare the Time Capsule to be sealed and 18
buried on the West Lawn of the Capitol, at a loca-19
tion specified by the Architect, on or before July 4, 20
2026, at a time which would permit individuals at-21
tending this event to also attend the burial of a time 22
capsule in Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Penn-23
sylvania, under section 7(f)(1) of the United States 24
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Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016 (36 1
U.S.C. 101 note prec.); and 2
(2) install a plaque to provide such information 3
about the Time Capsule as the Architect considers 4
appropriate. 5
(d) U
NSEALING.—The Time Capsule shall be sealed 6
until July 4, 2276, on which date the Speaker of the 7
House of Representatives shall present the Time Capsule 8
to the 244th Congress, and such Congress shall determine 9
how the contents within should be preserved or used. 10
(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 11
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 12
necessary to carry out this title, and any amounts so ap-13
propriated shall remain available until expended. 14
TITLE II—FIRE SUPPRESSION 15
COST SHARE AGREEMENTS 16
SEC. 201. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO CERTAIN FIRE 17
SUPPRESSION COST SHARE AGREEMENTS. 18
(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF STANDARDOPERATING 19
P
ROCEDURES.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 20
the enactment of this section, the Secretaries shall— 21
(1) establish standard operating procedures re-22
lating to payment timelines for fire suppression cost 23
share agreements established under the Act of May 24
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27, 1955 (42 U.S.C. 1856a) (commonly known as 1
the ‘‘Reciprocal Fire Protection Act’’); and 2
(2) with respect to each fire suppression cost 3
share agreement in operation on such date— 4
(A) review each such agreement; and 5
(B) modify each agreement as necessary to 6
comply with the standard operating procedures 7
required under paragraph (1). 8
(b) A
LIGNMENT OFFIRESUPPRESSIONCOSTSHARE 9
A
GREEMENTS WITHCOOPERATIVEFIREPROTECTION 10
A
GREEMENTS.—The standard operating procedures re-11
quired under subsection (a)(1) shall include a requirement 12
that each fire suppression cost share agreement be aligned 13
with each of the cooperative fire protection agreements ap-14
plicable to the entity subject to such fire suppression cost 15
share agreement. 16
(c) P
AYMENTSPURSUANT TOCOSTSHAREAGREE-17
MENTS.—With respect to payments made pursuant to fire 18
suppression cost share agreements, the standard operating 19
procedures required under subsection (a)(1) shall require 20
that the Federal paying entity reimburse a local fire de-21
partment if such fire department submits an invoice in 22
accordance with cost settlement procedures. 23
(d) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-24
gress that the Secretaries should carry out reciprocal fire 25
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suppression cost share agreement repayments to local fire 1
suppression organizations as soon as practicable after fire 2
suppression occurs but not later than 1 year after fire sup-3
pression occurs. 4
(e) S
ECRETARIESDEFINED.—In this section, the 5
term ‘‘Secretaries’’ means— 6
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture; 7
(2) the Secretary of the Interior; 8
(3) the Secretary of Homeland Security; and 9
(4) the Secretary of Defense. 10
TITLE III—UDALL FOUNDATION 11
FUNDING 12
SEC. 301. FUNDING. 13
Section 13 of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 14
Udall Foundation Act (20 U.S.C. 5609) is amended— 15
(1) by striking ‘‘through 2023’’ each place it 16
appears and inserting ‘‘through 2029’’; 17
(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘$1,000’’ 18
and inserting ‘‘$5,000’’; and 19
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘the fiscal 20
year in which this subsection is enacted’’ and insert-21
ing ‘‘fiscal year 2026’’. 22
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TITLE IV—STRATEGY ON BOKO 1
HARAM 2
SEC. 401. REGIONAL STRATEGY TO ADDRESS THE THREAT 3
POSED BY BOKO HARAM. 4
(a) S
TRATEGYREQUIRED.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 6
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-7
retary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall 8
jointly develop and submit to the appropriate com-9
mittees of Congress a five-year strategy to help en-10
able the Government of Nigeria, members of the 11
Multinational Joint Task Force to Combat Boko 12
Haram (MNJTF) authorized by the African Union, 13
and relevant partners to counter the regional threat 14
of Boko Haram and assist the Government of Nige-15
ria and its neighbors to accept and address legiti-16
mate grievances of vulnerable populations in areas 17
affected by Boko Haram. 18
(2) E
LEMENTS.—At a minimum, the strategy 19
must address the following elements: 20
(A) Enhance, pursuant to existing authori-21
ties and restrictions, the institutional capacity, 22
including military capabilities, of the Govern-23
ment of Nigeria and partner nations in the re-24
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gion, as appropriate, to counter the threat 1
posed by Boko Haram. 2
(B) Provide humanitarian support to civil-3
ian populations impacted by Boko Haram’s ac-4
tivity. 5
(C) Specific activities through which the 6
United States Government intends to improve 7
and enhance the capacity of Multinational Joint 8
Task Force to Combat Boko Haram partner 9
nations to investigate and prosecute human 10
rights abuses by security forces and promote re-11
spect for the rule of law within the military. 12
(D) A means for assisting Nigeria, and as 13
appropriate, Multinational Joint Task Force to 14
Combat Boko Haram nations, to counter vio-15
lent extremism, including efforts to address un-16
derlying societal factors shown to contribute to 17
the ability of Boko Haram to radicalize and re-18
cruit individuals. 19
(E) A plan to strengthen and promote the 20
rule of law, including by improving the capacity 21
of the civilian police and judicial system in Ni-22
geria, enhancing public safety, and responding 23
to crime (including gender-based violence), 24
while respecting human rights and strength-25
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ening accountability measures, including meas-1
ures to prevent corruption. 2
(F) Strengthen the long-term capacity of 3
the Government of Nigeria to enhance security 4
for schools such that children are safer and 5
girls seeking an education are better protected, 6
and to combat gender-based violence and gen-7
der inequality. 8
(G) Identify and develop mechanisms for 9
coordinating the implementation of the strategy 10
across the inter-agency and with the Govern-11
ment of Nigeria, regional partners, and other 12
relevant foreign partners. 13
(H) Identify the resources required to 14
achieve the strategy’s objectives. 15
(b) A
SSESSMENT.—The Director of National Intel-16
ligence shall submit, to the appropriate committees of 17
Congress, an assessment regarding— 18
(1) the willingness and capability of the Govern-19
ment of Nigeria and regional partners to implement 20
the strategy developed under subsection (a), includ-21
ing the capability gaps, if any, of the Government 22
and military forces of Nigeria that would need to be 23
addressed to enable the Government of Nigeria and 24
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the governments of its partner countries in the re-1
gion— 2
(A) to counter the threat of Boko Haram; 3
and 4
(B) to address the legitimate grievances of 5
vulnerable populations in areas affected by 6
Boko Haram; and 7
(2) significant United States intelligence gaps 8
concerning Boko Haram or on the willingness and 9
capacity of the Government of Nigeria and regional 10
partners to implement the strategy developed under 11
subsection (a). 12
(c) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-13
gress that lack of economic opportunity and access to edu-14
cation, justice, and other social services contributes to the 15
ability of Boko Haram to radicalize and recruit individ-16
uals. 17
(d) A
PPROPRIATECOMMITTEES OF CONGRESSDE-18
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-19
tees of Congress’’ means— 20
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 21
Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 22
Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intel-23
ligence of the Senate; and 24
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(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 1
Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 2
Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Com-3
mittee on Intelligence of the House of Representa-4
tives. 5
TITLE V—VETERANS 6
INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE 7
SEC. 501. REPORTING REQUIREMENT FOR VETERANS 8
INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE. 9
Section 32(c) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 10
657b(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(4) R
EPORT.—Along with the budget justifica-12
tion documents for the Small Business Administra-13
tion submitted to Congress in connection with the 14
budget for a fiscal year submitted under section 15
1105 of title 31, United States Code, the Adminis-16
trator shall submit a report— 17
‘‘(A) discussing the appointments made to 18
and activities of the task force; and 19
‘‘(B) identifying and outlining a plan for 20
outreach and promotion of the programs and 21
services for veterans, including Veteran Busi-22
ness Outreach Centers, Boots to Business, 23
Boots to Business Reboot, Service-Disabled En-24
trepreneurship Development Training Program, 25
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Veteran Institute for Procurement, Women Vet-1
eran Entrepreneurship Training Program, and 2
Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepre-3
neurship.’’. 4
TITLE VI—VETERANS PILOT 5
PROGRAM 6
SEC. 601. VETERANS PILOT PROGRAM ON PROMISING RE-7
TENTION MODELS. 8
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General, acting 9
through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, 10
shall carry out a pilot program to make grants to eligible 11
units of local government to improve retention in veterans 12
treatment court programs (as such term is defined in sec-13
tion 2991 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 14
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10651)) and drug court programs. 15
(b) E
LIGIBILITY.—In order to be eligible for a grant 16
under subsection (a), a unit of local government shall op-17
erate a veterans treatment court program or a drug court. 18
(c) A
PPLICATION.—A unit of local government seek-19
ing a grant through the pilot program under subsection 20
(a) shall submit to the Attorney General an application 21
at such time, in such manner, and containing such infor-22
mation as the Attorney General may reasonably require, 23
including— 24
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(1) a description of the therapeutic or treat-1
ment modality that the unit of local government 2
plans to implement and data to support the use of 3
the therapeutic or treatment modality, including in-4
formation showing how the therapeutic or treatment 5
modality will promote retention in and completion of 6
veterans treatment court programs and drug court 7
programs; and 8
(2) detailed plans on how the applicant would 9
test the efficacy of the therapeutic or treatment mo-10
dality. 11
(d) R
EPORTINGMETRICS.—Not later than 180 days 12
after receiving a grant under subsection (a), a unit of local 13
government shall submit to the Attorney General a report, 14
which includes demographic information of participants in 15
the veterans treatment court program, and completion 16
rates of such participants. The Attorney General shall de-17
velop guidelines for the report required under this sub-18
section. 19
TITLE VII—TSA COMMUTING 20
BENEFITS 21
SEC. 701. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON TSA COMMUTING BENE-22
FITS. 23
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 24
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 25
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the Transportation Security Administration shall submit 1
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 2
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 3
Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Home-4
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 5
study on the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the 6
time Transportation Security Administration employees 7
working at airport locations spend traveling between reg-8
ular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and 9
transit stops. 10
(b) C
ONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the feasibility 11
study required under subsection (a), the Administrator of 12
the Transportation Security Administration shall consider 13
the following with respect to Transportation Security Ad-14
ministration employees: 15
(1) The amount of time needed by such employ-16
ees to travel between regular duty locations and air-17
port parking lots and bus and transit stops at small 18
hub airports, medium hub airports, and large hub 19
airports (as such terms are defined in section 40102 20
of title 49, United States Code). 21
(2) The amount of time such employees spend 22
commuting, on average, exclusive of the time de-23
scribed in paragraph (1). 24
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(3) The potential benefits to such employees 1
and the Administration of treating as on-duty hours 2
the time described in such paragraph. 3
(4) The feasibility of using mobile phones, loca-4
tion data, and any other means to allow such em-5
ployees to report their arrival to and departure from 6
the airport parking lots and bus and transit stops 7
concerned. 8
(5) The estimated costs of treating as on-duty 9
hours the time described in such paragraph, includ-10
ing by considering such hours creditable as basic pay 11
for retirement purposes. 12
(6) Other considerations determined appro-13
priate by the Administrator. 14
TITLE VIII—CHINA FINANCIAL 15
THREAT MITIGATION 16
SEC. 801. CHINA FINANCIAL THREAT MITIGATION. 17
(a) R
EPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 18
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treas-19
ury, in consultation with the Chairman of the Board of 20
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Chairman 21
of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chair-22
man of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and 23
the Secretary of State, shall conduct a study and issue 24
a report on the exposure of the United States to the finan-25
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cial sector of the People’s Republic of China that in-1
cludes— 2
(1) an assessment of the effects of reforms to 3
the financial sector of the People’s Republic of 4
China on the United States and global financial sys-5
tems; 6
(2) a description of the policies the United 7
States Government is adopting to protect the inter-8
ests of the United States while the financial sector 9
of the People’s Republic of China undergoes such re-10
forms; 11
(3) a description and analysis of any risks to 12
the financial stability of the United States and the 13
global economy emanating from the People’s Repub-14
lic of China; and 15
(4) recommendations for additional actions the 16
United States Government, including United States 17
representatives at relevant international organiza-18
tions, should take to strengthen international co-19
operation to monitor and mitigate such financial sta-20
bility risks and protect United States interests. 21
(b) T
RANSMISSION OF REPORT.—The Secretary of 22
the Treasury shall transmit the report required under sub-23
section (a) not later than one year after the date of enact-24
ment of this Act to the Committees on Financial Services 25
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and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the 1
Committees on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and 2
Foreign Relations of the Senate, and to the United States 3
representatives at relevant international organizations, as 4
appropriate. 5
(c) C
LASSIFICATION OF REPORT.—The report re-6
quired under subsection (a) shall be unclassified, but may 7
contain a classified annex. 8
(d) P
UBLICATION OFREPORT.—The Secretary of the 9
Treasury shall publish the report required under sub-10
section (a) (other than any classified annex) on the 11
website of the Department of the Treasury not later than 12
one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 13
TITLE IX—SERVICEMEMBERS’ 14
AND VETERANS’ GROUP LIFE 15
INSURANCE 16
SEC. 901. PERIODIC REVIEW OF AUTOMATIC MAXIMUM 17
COVERAGE UNDER SERVICEMEMBERS’ 18
GROUP LIFE INSURANCE AND VETERANS’ 19
GROUP LIFE INSURANCE. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subchapter III of chapter 19 of 21
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 22
end the following new section: 23
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‘‘§ 1980B. Periodic review of automatic maximum cov-1
erage 2
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—On January 1, 2026, and every 3
three years thereafter, the Secretary shall— 4
‘‘(1) complete a review of how the amount spec-5
ified in section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) compares to the 6
amount described in subsection (b); and 7
‘‘(2) submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Af-8
fairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate 9
the results of the review. 10
‘‘(b) A
MOUNTDESCRIBED.—The amount described 11
in this subsection is the amount equal to— 12
‘‘(1) $400,000; multiplied by 13
‘‘(2) the percentage of the increase (if any) in 14
the average of the Consumer Price Index for the fis-15
cal year ending during the preceding calendar year 16
compared to the average of the Consumer Price 17
Index for fiscal year 2005. 18
‘‘(c) C
ONSUMERPRICEINDEXDEFINED.—In this 19
section, the term ‘Consumer Price Index’ means the Con-20
sumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by 21
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of 22
Labor.’’. 23
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 24
at the beginning of chapter 19 of such title is amended 25
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by inserting after the item relating to section 1980A the 1
following new item: 2
‘‘1980B. Periodic review of automatic maximum coverage.’’.
TITLE X—RESTORATION OF 3
AMOUNTS TO VETERANS 4
SEC. 1001. RESTORATION OF AMOUNTS IMPROPERLY WITH-5
HELD FOR TAX PURPOSES FROM SEVERANCE 6
PAYMENTS TO VETERANS WITH COMBAT-RE-7
LATED INJURIES. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 9
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 10
shall— 11
(1) identify— 12
(A) the severance payments— 13
(i) that the Secretary paid after Janu-14
ary 17, 1991; 15
(ii) that the Secretary computed 16
under section 1212 of title 10, United 17
States Code; 18
(iii) that were not considered gross in-19
come pursuant to section 104(a)(4) of the 20
Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and 21
(iv) from which the Secretary withheld 22
amounts for tax purposes; and 23
(B) the individuals to whom such sever-24
ance payments were made; and 25
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(2) with respect to each person identified under 1
paragraph (1)(B), provide— 2
(A) notice of— 3
(i) the amount of severance payments 4
in paragraph (1)(A) which were improperly 5
withheld for tax purposes; and 6
(ii) such other information determined 7
to be necessary by the Secretary of the 8
Treasury to carry out the purposes of this 9
section; and 10
(B) instructions for filing amended tax re-11
turns to recover the amounts improperly with-12
held for tax purposes. 13
(b) E
XTENSION OFLIMITATION ONTIME FORCRED-14
IT ORREFUND.— 15
(1) P
ERIOD FOR FILING CLAIM.—If a claim for 16
credit or refund under section 6511(a) of the Inter-17
nal Revenue Code of 1986 relates to a specified 18
overpayment, the 3-year period of limitation pre-19
scribed by such subsection shall not expire before 20
the date which is 1 year after the date the informa-21
tion return described in subsection (a)(2) is pro-22
vided. The allowable amount of credit or refund of 23
a specified overpayment shall be determined without 24
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regard to the amount of tax paid within the period 1
provided in section 6511(b)(2). 2
(2) S
PECIFIED OVERPAYMENT .—For purposes 3
of paragraph (1), the term ‘‘specified overpayment’’ 4
means an overpayment attributable to a severance 5
payment described in subsection (a)(1). 6
TITLE XI—HEARINGS BY HOUSE 7
COMMITTEES 8
SEC. 1101. HEARINGS. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Each standing committee of the 10
House of Representatives shall hold a hearing on the im-11
plementation of this Act within one year of enactment. 12
(b) E
XERCISE OFRULEMAKINGAUTHORITY.—Sub-13
section (a) is enacted— 14
(1) as an exercise of rulemaking power of the 15
House of Representatives, and, as such, shall be con-16
sidered as part of the rules of the House, and such 17
rules shall supersede any other rule of the House 18
only to the extent that rule is inconsistent therewith; 19
and 20
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 21
right of either House to change such rules (so far 22
as relating to the procedure in such House) at any 23
time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 24
as in the case of any other rule of the House. 25
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TITLE XII—CODE OF OFFICIAL 1
CONDUCT 2
SEC. 1201. CODE OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT. 3
In rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Rep-4
resentatives, strike clause 20 and insert the following: 5
‘‘20. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 6
officer, or employee of the House may not, directly or indi-7
rectly, take any actions to prevent any individual from or 8
retaliate against any individual for providing truthful in-9
formation to the Committee on Ethics, the Office of Con-10
gressional Conduct, the Office of Congressional Workplace 11
Rights, or any law enforcement official, provided that the 12
disclosure of such information is not otherwise prohibited 13
by law or House rules.’’. 14
TITLE XIII—PROHIBITING 15
TRANSFER OF SENSITIVE 16
DATA TO FOREIGN ADVER-17
SARIES 18
SEC. 1301. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF PERSONALLY 19
IDENTIFIABLE SENSITIVE DATA OF UNITED 20
STATES INDIVIDUALS TO FOREIGN ADVER-21
SARIES. 22
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for a data 23
broker to sell, license, rent, trade, transfer, release, dis-24
close, provide access to, or otherwise make available per-25
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sonally identifiable sensitive data of a United States indi-1
vidual to— 2
(1) any foreign adversary country; or 3
(2) any entity that is controlled by a foreign ad-4
versary. 5
(b) E
NFORCEMENT BY FEDERALTRADECOMMIS-6
SION.— 7
(1) U
NFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRAC -8
TICES.—A violation of this section shall be treated 9
as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or a de-10
ceptive act or practice under section 18(a)(1)(B) of 11
the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 12
57a(a)(1)(B)). 13
(2) P
OWERS OF COMMISSION .— 14
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall 15
enforce this section in the same manner, by the 16
same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 17
powers, and duties as though all applicable 18
terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 19
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were in-20
corporated into and made a part of this section. 21
(B) P
RIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES .—Any 22
person who violates this section shall be subject 23
to the penalties and entitled to the privileges 24
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and immunities provided in the Federal Trade 1
Commission Act. 2
(3) A
UTHORITY PRESERVED .—Nothing in this 3
section may be construed to limit the authority of 4
the Commission under any other provision of law. 5
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 6
(1) C
OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 7
means the Federal Trade Commission. 8
(2) C
ONTROLLED BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY .— 9
The term ‘‘controlled by a foreign adversary’’ means, 10
with respect to an individual or entity, that such in-11
dividual or entity is— 12
(A) a foreign person that is domiciled in, 13
is headquartered in, has its principal place of 14
business in, or is organized under the laws of 15
a foreign adversary country; 16
(B) an entity with respect to which a for-17
eign person or combination of foreign persons 18
described in subparagraph (A) directly or indi-19
rectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or 20
(C) a person subject to the direction or 21
control of a foreign person or entity described 22
in subparagraph (A) or (B). 23
(3) D
ATA BROKER.— 24
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(A) IN GENERAL .—The term ‘‘data 1
broker’’ means an entity that, for valuable con-2
sideration, sells, licenses, rents, trades, trans-3
fers, releases, discloses, provides access to, or 4
otherwise makes available data of United States 5
individuals that the entity did not collect di-6
rectly from such individuals to another entity 7
that is not acting as a service provider. 8
(B) E
XCLUSION.—The term ‘‘data broker’’ 9
does not include an entity to the extent such 10
entity— 11
(i) is transmitting data of a United 12
States individual, including communica-13
tions of such an individual, at the request 14
or direction of such individual; 15
(ii) is providing, maintaining, or offer-16
ing a product or service with respect to 17
which personally identifiable sensitive data, 18
or access to such data, is not the product 19
or service; 20
(iii) is reporting or publishing news or 21
information that concerns local, national, 22
or international events or other matters of 23
public interest; 24
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(iv) is reporting, publishing, or other-1
wise making available news or information 2
that is available to the general public— 3
(I) including information from— 4
(aa) a book, magazine, tele-5
phone book, or online directory; 6
(bb) a motion picture; 7
(cc) a television, internet, or 8
radio program; 9
(dd) the news media; or 10
(ee) an internet site that is 11
available to the general public on 12
an unrestricted basis; and 13
(II) not including an obscene vis-14
ual depiction (as such term is used in 15
section 1460 of title 18, United States 16
Code); or 17
(v) is acting as a service provider. 18
(4) F
OREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY .—The term 19
‘‘foreign adversary country’’ means a country speci-20
fied in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States 21
Code. 22
(5) P
ERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE SENSITIVE 23
DATA.—The term ‘‘personally identifiable sensitive 24
data’’ means any sensitive data that identifies or is 25
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linked or reasonably linkable, alone or in combina-1
tion with other data, to an individual or a device 2
that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable to 3
an individual. 4
(6) P
RECISE GEOLOCATION INFORMATION .— 5
The term ‘‘precise geolocation information’’ means 6
information that— 7
(A) is derived from a device or technology 8
of an individual; and 9
(B) reveals the past or present physical lo-10
cation of an individual or device that identifies 11
or is linked or reasonably linkable to 1 or more 12
individuals, with sufficient precision to identify 13
street level location information of an individual 14
or device or the location of an individual or de-15
vice within a range of 1,850 feet or less. 16
(7) S
ENSITIVE DATA.—The term ‘‘sensitive 17
data’’ includes the following: 18
(A) A government-issued identifier, such as 19
a Social Security number, passport number, or 20
driver’s license number. 21
(B) Any information that describes or re-22
veals the past, present, or future physical 23
health, mental health, disability, diagnosis, or 24
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health care condition or treatment of an indi-1
vidual. 2
(C) A financial account number, debit card 3
number, credit card number, or information 4
that describes or reveals the income level or 5
bank account balances of an individual. 6
(D) Biometric information. 7
(E) Genetic information. 8
(F) Precise geolocation information. 9
(G) An individual’s private communica-10
tions such as voice mails, emails, texts, direct 11
messages, mail, voice communications, and 12
video communications, or information identi-13
fying the parties to such communications or 14
pertaining to the transmission of such commu-15
nications, including telephone numbers called, 16
telephone numbers from which calls were 17
placed, the time calls were made, call duration, 18
and location information of the parties to the 19
call. 20
(H) Account or device log-in credentials, or 21
security or access codes for an account or de-22
vice. 23
(I) Information identifying the sexual be-24
havior of an individual. 25
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(J) Calendar information, address book in-1
formation, phone or text logs, photos, audio re-2
cordings, or videos, maintained for private use 3
by an individual, regardless of whether such in-4
formation is stored on the individual’s device or 5
is accessible from that device and is backed up 6
in a separate location. 7
(K) A photograph, film, video recording, or 8
other similar medium that shows the naked or 9
undergarment-clad private area of an indi-10
vidual. 11
(L) Information revealing the video con-12
tent requested or selected by an individual. 13
(M) Information about an individual under 14
the age of 17. 15
(N) An individual’s race, color, ethnicity, 16
or religion. 17
(O) Information identifying an individual’s 18
online activities over time and across websites 19
or online services. 20
(P) Information that reveals the status of 21
an individual as a member of the Armed 22
Forces. 23
(Q) Any other data that a data broker 24
sells, licenses, rents, trades, transfers, releases, 25
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discloses, provides access to, or otherwise makes 1
available to a foreign adversary country, or en-2
tity that is controlled by a foreign adversary, 3
for the purpose of identifying the types of data 4
listed in subparagraphs (A) through (P). 5
(8) S
ERVICE PROVIDER.—The term ‘‘service 6
provider’’ means an entity that— 7
(A) collects, processes, or transfers data on 8
behalf of, and at the direction of— 9
(i) an individual or entity that is not 10
a foreign adversary country or controlled 11
by a foreign adversary; or 12
(ii) a Federal, State, Tribal, terri-13
torial, or local government entity; and 14
(B) receives data from or on behalf of an 15
individual or entity described in subparagraph 16
(A)(i) or a Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or 17
local government entity. 18
(9) U
NITED STATES INDIVIDUAL .—The term 19
‘‘United States individual’’ means a natural person 20
residing in the United States. 21
(d) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 22
on the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment 23
of this Act. 24
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TITLE XIV—DETERMINATION OF 1
BUDGETARY EFFECTS 2
SEC. 1401. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 3
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 4
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, 5
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 6
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 7
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 8
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-9
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 10
vote on passage. 11
TITLE XV—DOMESTICALLY 12
MADE UNITED STATES FLAGS 13
SEC. 1501. REQUIREMENT FOR AGENCIES TO BUY DOMESTI-14
CALLY MADE UNITED STATES FLAGS. 15
(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR AGENCIESTOBUYDOMES-16
TICALLYMADEUNITEDSTATESFLAGS.— 17
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Chapter 63 of title 41, 18
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 19
end the following new section: 20
‘‘§ 6310. Requirement for agencies to buy domesti-21
cally made United States flags 22
‘‘(a) R
EQUIREMENT.—Except as provided in sub-23
sections (b) through (d), funds appropriated or otherwise 24
available to an agency may not be used for the procure-25
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ment of any flag of the United States, unless such flag 1
has been 100 percent manufactured in the United States 2
from articles, materials, or supplies that have been grown 3
or 100 percent produced or manufactured in the United 4
States. 5
‘‘(b) A
VAILABILITYEXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) 6
does not apply to the extent that the head of the agency 7
concerned determines that satisfactory quality and suffi-8
cient quantity of a flag described in such subsection can-9
not be procured as and when needed at United States 10
market prices. 11
‘‘(c) E
XCEPTION FOR CERTAINPROCUREMENTS.— 12
Subsection (a) does not apply to the following: 13
‘‘(1) Procurements by vessels in foreign waters. 14
‘‘(2) Procurements for resale purposes in any 15
military commissary, military exchange, or non-16
appropriated fund instrumentality operated by an 17
agency. 18
‘‘(3) Procurements for amounts less than the 19
simplified acquisition threshold. 20
‘‘(d) P
RESIDENTIALWAIVER.— 21
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President may waive 22
the requirement in subsection (a) if the President 23
determines a waiver is necessary to comply with any 24
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trade agreement to which the United States is a 1
party. 2
‘‘(2) N
OTICE OF WAIVER.—Not later than 30 3
days after granting a waiver under paragraph (1), 4
the President shall publish a notice of the waiver in 5
the Federal Register. 6
‘‘(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
‘‘(1) A
GENCY.—The term ‘agency’ has the 8
meaning given the term ‘executive agency’ in section 9
102 of title 40. 10
‘‘(2) S
IMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD .— 11
The term ‘simplified acquisition threshold’ has the 12
meaning given that term in section 134.’’. 13
(2) C
LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of sec-14
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 15
by adding at the end the following new item: 16
‘‘6310. Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United States
flags.’’.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Section 6310 of title 41, United 17
States Code, as added by subsection (a)(1), shall apply 18
with respect to any contract entered into on or after the 19
date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of 20
this Act. 21
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TITLE XVI—APPROPRIATIONS 1
SEC. 1601. APPROPRIATIONS. 2
The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 3
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 4
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for 5
other purposes, namely: 6
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 7
SERVICES 8
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES 9
ADMINISTRATION 10
RURAL HEALTH 11
For an additional amount for the Telehealth Re-12
source Center of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy 13
of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, to pro-14
vide assistance with respect to technical, legal, regulatory 15
service delivery or other related barriers to the develop-16
ment of telehealth technologies for skilled nursing facilities 17
(as defined in section 1819 of the Social Security Act) and 18
nursing facilities (as defined in section 1919 of such Act), 19
$1,000,000 to remain available through September 30, 20
2026. 21
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1
EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS 2
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 3
For an additional amount for necessary expenses of 4
the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, $1,000,000. 5
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 6
CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND 7
For an additional amount for necessary expenses of 8
the Capital Investment Fund, as authorized, $1,000,000, 9
to remain available until expended. 10
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 11
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 12
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE , ARMY 13
For an additional amount for expenses, not otherwise 14
provided for, necessary for the operation and maintenance 15
of the Army, as authorized by law, $1,000,000. 16
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 17
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTEL-18
LIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND 19
OVERSIGHT 20
MANAGEMENT DIRECTORATE 21
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 22
For an additional amount for necessary expenses of 23
the Management Directorate for operations and support, 24
$1,000,000. 25
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 1
ENERGY PROGRAMS 2
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION 3
For an additional amount for Department of Energy 4
expenses necessary in carrying out the activities of the En-5
ergy Information Administration, $1,000,000, to remain 6
available until expended. 7
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