HR5342-119

Section 1

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, namely:

Section 2

101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations and funds made available to the Department of Commerce by this Act shall be available for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest.

Section 3

102. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries and expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902).

Section 4

103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset (including land, structures, and equipment) not specifically provided for in this Act or any other law appropriating funds for the Department of Commerce.

Section 5

104. The requirements set forth by section 105 of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amended by section 105 of title I of division B of Public Law 113–6, are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable with respect to fiscal year 2026: Provided, That the life cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System is $11,322,125,000, the life cycle cost of the Polar Follow On Program is $6,837,900,000, the life cycle cost for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series Program is $11,700,100,000, and the life cycle cost for the Space Weather Follow On Program is $692,800,000.

Section 6

105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Commerce may furnish services (including but not limited to utilities, telecommunications, and security services) necessary to support the operation, maintenance, and improvement of space that persons, firms, or organizations are authorized, pursuant to the Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 or other authority, to use or occupy in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, DC, or other buildings, the maintenance, operation, and protection of which has been delegated to the Secretary from the Administrator of General Services pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis. Amounts received as reimbursement for services provided under this section or the authority under which the use or occupancy of the space is authorized, up to $200,000, shall be credited to the appropriation or fund which initially bears the costs of such services.

Section 7

106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over its networks.

Section 8

107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with their consent, with reimbursement and subject to the limits of available appropriations, the land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or of any State, local government, Indian Tribal government, Territory, or possession, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any foreign government or international organization, for purposes related to carrying out the responsibilities of any statute administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Section 9

108. The National Technical Information Service shall not charge any customer for a copy of any report or document generated by the Legislative Branch unless the Service has provided information to the customer on how an electronic copy of such report or document may be accessed and downloaded for free online. Should a customer still require the Service to provide a printed or digital copy of the report or document, the charge shall be limited to recovering the Service's cost of processing, reproducing, and delivering such report or document.

Section 10

109. To carry out the responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Administrator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter into grants and cooperative agreements with; (2) use on a non-reimbursable basis land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities provided by; and (3) receive and expend funds made available on a consensual basis from: a Federal agency, State or subdivision thereof, local government, Tribal government, Territory, or possession or any subdivisions thereof: Provided, That funds received for permitting and related regulatory activities pursuant to this section shall be deposited under the heading National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Operations, Research, and Facilities and shall remain available until September 30, 2027, for such purposes: Provided further, That all funds within this section and their corresponding uses are subject to section 505 of this Act.

Section 11

110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any prior appropriations Act that remain available for obligation, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the Department of Commerce, including amounts provided for programs of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agreements with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, to aid and promote statistical, research, and methodology activities which further the purposes for which such amounts have been made available.

Section 12

111. Any unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds transferred to the Department of Commerce Nonrecurring Expenses Fund, as authorized by section 111 of title I of division B of Public Law 116–93, may be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.

Section 13

112. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in consultation with the employees of the National Weather Service and non-governmental experts in personnel management, may establish an alternative or fixed rate for relocation allowance, including permanent change of station allowance, notwithstanding the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5724 and the regulations prescribed under 5 U.S.C. 5738.

Section 14

201. In addition to amounts otherwise made available in this title for official reception and representation expenses, a total of not to exceed $1,000 from funds appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title shall be available to the Attorney General for official reception and representation expenses.

Section 15

202. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall be available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That should this prohibition be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this section shall be null and void.

Section 16

203. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion.

Section 17

204. Nothing in the preceding section shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service outside the Federal facility: Provided, That nothing in this section in any way diminishes the effect of section 203 intended to address the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of Prisons.

Section 18

205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to the following— paragraph 1(I) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance; and paragraph (6) under the heading Community Oriented Policing Services Programs.

Section 19

206. None of the funds made available under this title may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the United States Marshals Service for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under State or Federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.

Section 20

207. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or electronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, maintenance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs.

Section 21

208. None of the funds made available under this title shall be obligated or expended for any new or enhanced information technology program having total estimated development costs in excess of $100,000,000, unless the Deputy Attorney General and the investment review board certify to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate that the information technology program has appropriate program management controls and contractor oversight mechanisms in place, and that the program is compatible with the enterprise architecture of the Department of Justice.

Section 22

209. The notification thresholds and procedures set forth in section 505 of this Act shall apply to deviations from the amounts designated for specific activities in this Act and in the report accompanying this Act, and to any use of deobligated balances of funds provided under this title in previous years.

Section 23

210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, or approve a public-private competition under the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 or any successor administrative regulation, directive, or policy for work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated.

Section 24

211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds shall be available for the salary, benefits, or expenses of any United States Attorney assigned dual or additional responsibilities by the Attorney General or his designee that exempt that United States Attorney from the residency requirements of section 545 of title 28, United States Code.

Section 25

212. Subject to subsection (b), with respect to funds made available under this title for grant or reimbursement programs under the headings Office on Violence Against Women, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, and Community Oriented Policing Services— up to 1 percent of funds made available for grant or reimbursement programs under such headings, except for amounts appropriated specifically for research, evaluation, or statistical programs administered by the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, may be transferred to and merged with funds provided to the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to be used for research, evaluation, or statistical purposes; and not less than 0.4 percent of funds shall be transferred to the Office of Inspector General and remain available until expended for oversight and auditing purposes associated with programs administered under such accounts. This section shall not apply to— paragraph (1)(J) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance; or paragraph (6) under the heading Community Oriented Policing Services;

Section 26

213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the Attorney General has determined there is a fiscal hardship, the Attorney General may, with respect to funds appropriated in this or any other Act making appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for the following programs, waive the following requirements: For the adult and juvenile offender State and local reentry demonstration projects under part FF of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10631 et seq.), the requirements under section 2976(g)(1) of such part (34 U.S.C. 10631(g)(1)). For grants to protect inmates and safeguard communities as authorized by section 6 of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (34 U.S.C. 30305(c)(3)), the requirements of section 6(c)(3) of such Act.

Section 27

214. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, section 20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12109(a)) and section 506(b)(1) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10157) shall not apply to amounts made available by this or any other Act.

Section 28

215. None of the funds made available under this Act, other than for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901), may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or suspects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel, unless law enforcement personnel of the United States continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.

Section 29

216. None of the income retained in the Department of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall be available for obligation during fiscal year 2026, except up to $12,000,000 may be obligated for implementation of a unified Department of Justice financial management system. Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated balances transferred to the capital account of the Department of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall be available for obligation in fiscal year 2026, and any use, obligation, transfer, or allocation of such funds shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act. Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobligated balances available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of title 28, United States Code, shall be available for obligation during fiscal year 2026, and any use, obligation, transfer or allocation of such funds shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act.

Section 30

217. The Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate quarterly reports on the Crime Victims Fund, the Working Capital Fund, the Three Percent Fund, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund. Such quarterly reports shall contain at least the same level of information and detail for each Fund as was provided to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate in fiscal year 2025.

Section 31

218. None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to conduct, contract for, or otherwise support, live tissue training, unless the Attorney General issues a written, non-delegable determination that such training is medically necessary and cannot be replicated by alternatives.

Section 32

219. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Justice to target or investigate parents who peacefully protest at school board meetings and are not suspected of engaging in unlawful activity.

Section 33

220. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to investigate or prosecute religious institutions on the basis of their religious beliefs.

Section 34

221. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Antitrust Division to implement, administer, or enforce amendments to part 803 of the premerger notification rules that implement the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification and Report Form and Instructions published on June 29, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 42178).

Section 35

222. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by employees of the Department of Justice to conduct any activity with the European Union’s European Commission, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority, or the People’s Republic of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation for any merger review, investigation, or enforcement action.

Section 36

223. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from any actions taken by the Attorney General or the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that are necessary for the construction of the proposed Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Letcher County, Kentucky.

Section 37

224. None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used, or transferred to another Federal agency, board, or commission to be used, to staff or operate the Foreign Influence Task Force for the purpose of monitoring or labeling constitutionally protected speech by a United States person as misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation.

Section 38

501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress.

Section 39

502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.

Section 40

503. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.

Section 41

504. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of each provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.

Section 42

505. None of the funds provided under this Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices, programs, or activities; (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees; (7) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, or reduces by 10 percent funding for any program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent; or (8) results from any general savings, including savings from a reduction in personnel, which would result in a change in existing programs, projects, or activities as approved by Congress; unless the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.

Section 43

506. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a Made in America inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. To the extent practicable, with respect to authorized purchases of promotional items, funds made available by this Act shall be used to purchase items that are manufactured, produced, or assembled in the United States, its territories or possessions. The term promotional items has the meaning given the term in OMB Circular A-87, Attachment B, Item (1)(f)(3).

Section 44

507. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly report on the status of balances of appropriations at the account level. For unobligated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, committed balances the quarterly reports shall separately identify the amounts attributable to each source year of appropriation from which the balances were derived. For balances that are obligated, but unexpended, the quarterly reports shall separately identify amounts by the year of obligation. The report described in subsection (a) shall be submitted within 30 days of the end of each quarter. If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any aspect of a reporting requirement described in subsection (a) due to a limitation of a current accounting system, the department or agency shall fulfill such aspect to the maximum extent practicable under such accounting system and shall identify and describe in each quarterly report the extent to which such aspect is not fulfilled.

Section 45

508. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from, or to prevent, personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary to carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That for the Department of Commerce, this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care and protection of loan collateral or grant property.

Section 46

509. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type.

Section 47

510. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund established by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101) in any fiscal year in excess of $2,050,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwithstanding section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts available from the Fund for obligation: (1) $10,000,000 shall be transferred to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and remain available until expended for oversight and auditing purposes associated with this section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to the Office for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the requirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes to improve services for victims of crime.

Section 48

511. None of the funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students.

Section 49

512. None of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.

Section 50

513. The Inspectors General of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Corporation shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which may include preliminary findings and a description of areas of particular interest, within 180 days after initiating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until any such audit is completed. Within 60 days after the date on which an audit described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is completed, the Secretary, Attorney General, Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, shall make the results of the audit available to the public on the Internet website maintained by the Department, Administration, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The results shall be made available in redacted form to exclude— any matter described in section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code; and sensitive personal information for any individual, the public access to which could be used to commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or unlawful purposes. Any person awarded a grant or contract funded by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a statement to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract will be made available through a subcontract or in any other manner to another person who has a financial interest in the person awarded the grant or contract. The provisions of the preceding subsections of this section shall take effect 30 days after the date on which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, determines that a uniform set of rules and requirements, substantially similar to the requirements in such subsections, consistently apply under the executive branch ethics program to all Federal departments, agencies, and entities.

Section 51

514. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be used by the Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or the National Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate-impact information system, as defined for security categorization in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 199, Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems unless the agency has— reviewed the supply chain risk for the information systems against criteria developed by NIST and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and moderate-impact information systems within the Federal Government; reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive awardee against available and relevant threat information provided by the FBI and other appropriate agencies; and in consultation with the FBI or other appropriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of such system, including any risk associated with such system being produced, manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities identified by the United States Government as posing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the Russian Federation. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be used to acquire a high-impact or moderate-impact information system reviewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— developed, in consultation with NIST, the FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a mitigation strategy for any identified risks; determined, in consultation with NIST and the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in the national interest of the United States; and reported that determination to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate and the agency Inspector General.

Section 52

515. None of the funds made available in this Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States Government.

Section 53

516. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agreement the text of— paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States–Australia Free Trade Agreement; or paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States–Morocco Free Trade Agreement.

Section 54

517. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of any of the following laws authorizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Security Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts.

Section 55

518. If at any time during any quarter, the program manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or the National Science Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reasonable cause to believe that the total program cost has increased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall immediately inform the respective Secretary, Administrator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Director shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, and shall include in such notice: the date on which such determination was made; a statement of the reasons for such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken to control future cost growth of the project; changes made in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree to which such changes have contributed to the increase in total program costs or procurement costs; new estimates of the total project or procurement costs; and a statement validating that the project's management structure is adequate to control total project or procurement costs.

Section 56

519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.

Section 57

520. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has filed all Federal tax returns required during the three years preceding the certification, has not been convicted of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial proceeding.

Section 58

521. Of the unobligated balances available to the Department of Commerce, the following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, from the following accounts in the specified amounts— Census Working Capital Fund, $15,000,000; and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Operations, Research, and Facilities, $46,299,000, only from prior year appropriations. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available to the Department of Justice, the following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, from the following accounts in the specified amounts— State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs, $36,000,000; State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office of Justice Programs, $250,000,000; and State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Community Oriented Policing Services, $25,000,000. Working Capital Fund, $100,000,000; and Legal Activities—Assets Forfeiture Fund, $175,000,000; and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses, $50,000,000. The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than September 1, 2026, specifying the amount of each rescission made pursuant to subsections (a) and (b). The amounts rescinded under subsections (a) and (b) shall not be derived from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsection (b) shall not be from amounts provided under— subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance in title II of division B of Public Law 117–103; paragraph (7) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community Oriented Policing Services—Community Oriented Policing Services Programs in title II of division B of Public Law 117–103; subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance in title II of division B of Public Law 117–328; amounts provided under paragraph (7) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community Oriented Policing Services—Community Oriented Policing Services Programs in title II of division B of Public Law 117–328; subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance in title II of division C of Public Law 118–42; or paragraph (7) under the heading State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community Oriented Policing Services Programs in title II of division C of Public Law 118–42.

Section 59

522. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Section 60

523. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees from a Federal department or agency, who are stationed in the United States, at any single conference occurring outside the United States unless— such conference is a law enforcement training or operational conference for law enforcement personnel and the majority of Federal employees in attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed outside the United States; or such conference is a scientific conference and the department or agency head determines that such attendance is in the national interest and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within at least 15 days of that determination and the basis for that determination.

Section 61

524. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States receiving funds appropriated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and include in its annual performance plan and performance and accountability reports the following: Details on future action the department, agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. The method that the department, agency, or instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. Identification of undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts that may be returned to the Treasury of the United States. In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on the total number of expired grant accounts with undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality and the total finances that have not been obligated to a specific project remaining in the accounts.

Section 62

525. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to move the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Canine Training Center or the ATF National Canine Division from Front Royal, Virginia, to another location.

Section 63

526. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), or the National Space Council (NSC) to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. The limitations described in subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to activities which NASA, OSTP, or NSC, after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have certified— pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other information with national security or economic security implications to China or a Chinese-owned company; and will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been determined by the United States to have direct involvement with violations of human rights. Any certification made under subsection (c) shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to the activity in question and shall include a description of the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major participants, and its location and timing.

Section 64

527. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography. Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other law enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity.

Section 65

528. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices of Science and Technology Policy and the United States Trade Representative, the National Space Council, and the State Justice Institute shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective department or agency head, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

Section 66

529. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for contractor performance that has been judged to be below satisfactory performance or for performance that does not meet the basic requirements of a contract.

Section 67

530. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Section 68

531. None of the funds made available under this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. Funds made available under this Act to the Department of Justice may be used to enforce violations of 21 U.S.C. 860.

Section 69

532. The Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate on any official travel to China by any employee of such Department or agency, including the purpose of such travel.

Section 70

533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, respectively, for grants authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term persistent poverty counties means any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any Territory or possession of the United States.

Section 71

534. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act or any other Act may be expended or obligated by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States to pay administrative expenses or to compensate an officer or employee of the United States in connection with requiring an export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are met by the exporting party for such articles. The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license— does not exempt an exporter from filing any Shipper's Export Declaration or notification letter required by law, or from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumerated in subsection (a); and does not permit the export without a license of— fully automatic firearms and components and parts for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I, other than for end use by the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or articles for export from Canada to another foreign destination. In accordance with this section, the District Directors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent or temporary export without a license of any unclassified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada for a Canadian citizen.

Section 72

535. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee of the United States to deny any application submitted pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section 478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States origin curios or relics firearms, parts, or ammunition.

Section 73

536. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model of shotgun if— all other requirements of law with respect to the proposed importation are met; and no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.

Section 74

537. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person.

Section 75

538. None of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for the Treaty.

Section 76

539. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— is not a United States citizen or a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; and is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense.

Section 77

540. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this or any other Act may be used to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to house any individual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense. The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An individual described in this subsection is any individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— is not a citizen of the United States or a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; and is— in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense; or otherwise under detention at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Section 78

541. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall allocate amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 102(a) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of Public Law 117–167), including the transfer authority in such paragraphs of that section of that Act, to the accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activities specified, in the table entitled Department of Commerce Allocation of National Institute of Standards and Technology Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026 in the report accompanying this Act. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Science Foundation shall allocate amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Workforce and Education Fund for fiscal year 2026 pursuant to section 102(d)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of Public Law 117–167), to the account specified, in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activities specified in the table entitled National Science Foundation Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026 in the report accompanying this Act. Neither the President nor his designee may allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal year under section 102(a)(2)(A) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 or under section 102(d)(2) of such Act if there is in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal year for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allotment of amounts for continuing administration of programs allocated funds from the CHIPS for America Fund, which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the allocation for such purposes in subsection (a) of this section. Subject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and subject to the terms and conditions in section 505 of this Act— the Secretary of Commerce may reallocate funds allocated to Industrial Technology Services for section 9906 of Public Law 116–283 by subsection (a)(1) of this section; and the Director of the National Science Foundation may reallocate funds allocated to the CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund by subsection (a)(2) of this section. Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the National Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall each submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate proposed allocations by account and by program, project, or activity, with detailed justifications, for amounts made available under section 102(a)(2) and section 102(d)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 2027. The Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall each provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for America Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section, and section 543(a)(1) of division B of Public Law 117–328, the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to section 543(a)(2) of division B of Public Law 117–328, and the status of balances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section and section 543(a)(3) of division B of Public Law 117–328, including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds.

Section 79

542. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to issue, implement, administer, or enforce a proposed or final rule or secretarial action regarding the South Atlantic red snapper stock that includes a quota decrease, area closure, or any other action that would limit access to the Snapper Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region to address overfishing of such stock until the date on which a third-party scientific review regarding whether the report entitled SEDAR 73, South Atlantic Red Snapper, Stock Assessment Report (March 2021) is the best scientific information available for purposes of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is completed.

Section 80

543. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, carry out, or defend any part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives final rule entitled Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms (87 Fed. Reg. 24652 (April 26, 2022)).

Section 81

544. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order 14092, Reducing Gun Violence and Making our Communities Safer.

Section 82

545. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, carry out, or defend the joint Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security interim final rule entitled Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers (87 Fed. Reg. 18078 (March 29, 2022)).

Section 83

546. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Justice to promulgate, develop, or implement a regulation, policy, or practice regarding categorical administrative closure, dismissal, or termination of cases in immigration court.

Section 84

547. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out any regulation issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued or finalized on or after January 21, 2021.

Section 85

548. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, carry out, or defend any part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives final rule entitled Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached Stabilizing Braces (88 Fed. Reg. 6478 (January 31, 2023)).

Section 86

549. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Attorney General’s October 4, 2021, memorandum entitled Partnership Among Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement to Address Threats Against School Administrators, Board Members, Teachers, and Staff.

Section 87

550. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s August 25, 2022, Memorandum to Executive Departments and Agencies entitled Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.

Section 88

551. None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be used— for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, training, programs, offices, officers, policies, or other executive agency functions.

Section 89

552. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used— by the— Department of Commerce for— the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center of Excellence in Climate Change; or climate change fisheries research; National Science Foundation for the— U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP); or Clean Energy Technology program; or

Section 90

553. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide legal representation to any alien in a removal proceeding.

Section 91

554. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to incentivize any immigration judge to close or dismiss any case without adjudicating the merits of the case.

Section 92

555. None of the funds made available for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program may be used in contravention of section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Section 93

556. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to allow the United States Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States in rendering apportionment determinations in subsequent decennial censuses.

Section 94

557. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay a compromise settlement in relation to a civil action brought by an alien who is inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(A) or (7)(A)(i)(I) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(A) or (7)(A)(i)(I)), or who entered the United States in violation of section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a)), in connection with conduct described in such section 275(a), unless expressly authorized by law.

Section 95

558. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to review, process, or approve applications for Federal grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other agreements by any individual or organization that educates or otherwise trains or informs Federal employees about diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory, implicit bias, unconscious bias, or culturally relevant teaching.

Section 96

559. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide any education, training, or professional development that utilizes, promotes, or teaches Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with Critical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea or concept that condones an individual being discriminated against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of that individual’s race or sex, as well as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently superior to another race, the United States or its institutions as being systemically racist or sexist, an individual as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s moral character as being necessarily determined by race or sex, an individual as bearing responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex, or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created by a particular race to oppress another race.

Section 97

560. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to promote or contribute to environmental, social, and corporate governance (also known as environmental, social, and governance (ESG)) investments.

Section 98

561. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to investigate, litigate, or advocate against any person or recipient, as currently defined at section 106.2 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations, for defining sex as currently used in, inter alia, section 1681 of title 20, United States Code, and sections 106.21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, and 45 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations, to mean biological sex, male or female, as determined by the type of gamete an individual produces; and for defining boys and girls to mean only biological boys, whose DNA consists of one X sex chromosome and one Y sex chromosome, and biological girls, whose DNA consists of two X sex chromosomes.

Section 99

562. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for gun buyback or relinquishment programs.

Section 100

563. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement any statute, rule, policy, or interpretive guidance or to disburse any grants or funding that would have the effect of creating, utilizing, supporting, or implementing a law or procedure which could result in the confiscation of any firearm without, in all cases, providing the gun owner with notice and opportunity to participate in a hearing.

Section 101

564. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund or implement any red flag or extreme risk protection order laws.

Section 102

565. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, may be available for obligation or expenditure to study, prepare, propose, or adopt any rule, regulation, administrative order or secretarial or executive action for the purpose of restricting the production, purchase, sale or transfer of any firearm unless expressly authorized by Congress.

Section 103

566. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to create, operate, or maintain a Federal firearms registry.

Section 104

567. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to facilitate, advise, promote, or otherwise support any civil actions to which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is not a named party against any licensee or other person purported to be subject to the regulation and oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Section 105

568. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Demand 2 program unless the ATF modifies the Demand 2 reporting thresholds such that the threshold criteria of the Demand 2 program is 25 traces or 2.5 percent of traces relative to a licensee’s average number of firearm sales as reported on the most recent Federal firearm license renewal application, whichever is greater, and ATF certifies to the Federal firearm licensee that every trace counted is directly related to/involved in an open/bona fide criminal investigation, and the ‘Time-to-Crime’ is 3 years or less.

Section 106

569. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to— classify, tax, or register any firearm with an attached stabilizing brace or other similar brace or rearward attachment, notwithstanding any extended additional contact surface rearward or use outside of its original design or use as a buttstock or use to enable shoulder fire, as a rifle, short-barreled rifle, or short-barreled shotgun under the Gun Control Act of 1968, the National Firearms Act of 1934, or any other such act of Congress; or direct any other law enforcement or regulatory entity to conduct any of the activities described in paragraph (1) on the ATF’s behalf.

Section 107

570. None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to support, directly or indirectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, or any other country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary.

Section 108

571. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, or retain any person who either has been convicted of a Federal or State child pornography charge, has been convicted of any other Federal or State sexual assault charge, or has been formally disciplined for using Federal resources to access, use, or sell child pornography.

Section 109

572. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, or retain any person based in whole or in part on such person’s race, national origin, sex, or religion.

Section 110

573. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to fund any sex-altering surgical procedures in either a Federally owned facility or a private facility leased or used by the Federal Government.

Section 111

574. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Department of Justice’s Reproductive Rights Task Force.

Section 112

575. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to sue any State or local government over laws that restrict or limit abortion, or to intervene or file an amicus brief in such a case.

Section 113

576. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to sue any State or local government over any law protecting single sex sports, single sex facilities, or limiting transgender medical procedures, including in insurance coverage and age limitations, or to intervene or file an amicus brief in such a case.

Section 114

577. In general.—Notwithstanding section 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appropriations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman. Discriminatory action defined.—As used in subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action taken by the Federal Government to— alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemption from taxation under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to in subsection (a); disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any charitable contribution made to or by such person; withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, license, certification, accreditation, employment, or other similar position or status from or to such person; withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or benefit under a Federal benefit program, including admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a degree from an educational program, from or to such person; or withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitlement to Federal property, facilities, educational institutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising campaigns from or to such person. Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for such purposes but for a determination against such person wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection (a).

Section 115

578. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or promote exports to the Cuban military or intelligence service or to any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence service, or an immediate family member thereof or any agency or entity owned or partially owned or operated on behalf of the previously listed. This section does not apply to exports of goods permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). In this section— the term Cuban military or intelligence service includes the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Ministry of the Interior, of Cuba, and any subsidiary of either such Ministry; and the term immediate family member means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew.

Section 116

579. None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be used for an Office of Environmental Justice.

Section 117

580. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce the Department of Commerce rule entitled “Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With Presidential Proclamation 10414” (87 Fed. Reg. 56868 (September 16, 2022)).

Section 118

581. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department of Justice to negotiate or conclude a settlement with the Federal Government that includes terms requiring the defendant to donate or contribute funds to an organization or individual.

Section 119

582. None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, bonuses, or expenses of any Federal officer or employee who fails to comply with a duly issued and valid congressional subpoena, including any circumstances in which a Federal officer or employee does not produce documents in unredacted form by a date certain provided in a congressional subpoena.

Section 120

583. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to conduct an interview in connection with an investigation of a Federal offense, or an investigation in which the agency is assisting a State, local or Tribal law enforcement agency, unless such interview is recorded using electronic audio recording equipment. Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to custodial and noncustodial interviews, but shall not apply with respect to— communications with confidential informants; or interviews of non-United States persons conducted outside the United States. Recordings of such interviews shall be retained for 10 years.

Section 121

584. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to discourage, or implement a policy that serves to discourage, United States Marshals Service employees or personnel from fully enforcing section 1507 of title 18, United States Code.

Section 122

585. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund the operations or expenses of any Federal employee union.

Section 123

586. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made used to— classify or facilitate the classification of any communications by a United States person as misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation; or partner with or fund nonprofit or other organizations that pressure or recommend private companies to censor lawful and constitutionally protected speech of United States persons, including recommending the censoring or removal of content on social media platforms.

Section 124

587. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce any COVID-19 vaccine mandates or passports.

Section 125

588. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the interim final rule entitled Revision of Firearms License Requirements (89 Fed. Reg. 34680 (April 30, 2024)) or any successor rule.

Section 126

589. None of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated or expended by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to issue incidental take authorizations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) for any activity related to offshore wind energy development, conducted under rights granted by lease numbers OCS-A 0532; OCS-A 0498; OCS-A 0499; OCS-A 0549; or OCS-A 0490; until the Comptroller General of the United States submits the study requested on May 15, 2023, on the impact of wind leasing on marine mammals and endangered species, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.

Section 127

590. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Justice, for use by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, to include any personally identifiable information of a beneficiary, solely on the basis of a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay benefits to a fiduciary for the use and benefit of the beneficiary under section 5502 of Title 38, United States Code.

Section 128

591. None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, carry out or defend any part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives final rule entitled Definition of Engaged in the Business as a Dealer in Firearms (89 Fed. Reg. 28968 (April 19, 2024)).

Section 129

592. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce ATF Order 5370.1E regarding Federal Firearms Administrative Action Policy and Procedures, or any subsequent or other policy, order, or procedure that does not require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to, in all but the most extraordinary circumstances, refrain from revoking or suspending a Federal firearms license for initial violations without at least first issuing a warning letter, working with cooperative licensees to rectify violations in a reasonable time frame, and holding a final warning conference.

Section 130

593. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to sue any State for violating the Rivers and Harbors Act for implementing border security measures.

Section 131

594. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Bureau of Prisons to assign an individual to a facility that does not correspond to such individual's biological sex.

Section 132

595. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order 14043, Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees or Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors at any Federal department, bureau, or subagency.

Section 133

596. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to develop or implement rules or guidance on climate change as a direct response to data cited by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Billions Project.

Section 134

597. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to establish, administer, or enforce any rule or regulation that would impose a requirement for a United States Atlantic pelagic longline vessel to pay a fee for any costs associated with the electronic monitoring of such vessel.

Section 135

598. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to enforce any vessel speed restriction for the Rice’s whale that was not in place prior to January 20, 2021.

Section 136

599. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Science Foundation to procure, charter, or lease a foreign-flagged vessel for U.S. research activities in Antarctica if a suitable U.S.-built vessel is available for such purposes.

Section 137

601. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to the Department of Justice to pay, or agree to pay, the costs and fees incurred by an alien that are associated with a civil action, including costs and fees authorized section 2412 of title 28, United States Code, involving an alien who entered the United States in violation of section 275(a) or section 276(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a), 1326(a)), in connection with any proceeding or adjudication initiated under such Act. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to the Department of Justice to pay, or agree to pay, the costs and fees incurred by an alien that are associated with an agency adjudication, including costs and fees authorized under section 504 of title 5, United States Code, involving an alien who entered the United States in violation of section 275(a) or section 276(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a), 1326(a)), in connection with any proceeding or adjudication initiated under such Act.

Section 138

602. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available for the implementation, administration, or enforcement of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's final rule published on April 19, 2024, 89 Fed. Reg. 29096, so as to include elective abortion in the definition of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions requiring reasonable accommodation.

Section 139

603. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace (April 29, 2024) or any similar, related, or successor guidance.

Section 140

604. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, nor any part of the Department of Commerce, to enforce any vessel speed restriction for the North Atlantic Right Whale that was not in place prior to January 20, 2021.

Section 141

605. None of the funds in this Act may be used to enforce involuntary compliance, or to inquire more than twice for voluntary compliance with any survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census.

Section 142

606. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to implement the proposed rule entitled Endangered and Threatened Species; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Rice's Whale (88 Fed. Reg. 47453 (September 12, 2023)) or any successor rule or regulation.

Section 143

607. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to reschedule marijuana (as such term is defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) or to remove marijuana from the schedules established under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).

Section 144

608. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to record, or maintain any recording of, any record delivered to the Attorney General pursuant to section 923(g)(4) of title 18, United States Code.

Section 145

609. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the Out of Business Records Imaging System Database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Section 146

610. None of the funds made available by this act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral, or medical intervention performed for the purposes of intentionally changing the body of such individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

Section 147

611. None of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated or expended for any institution of higher education, as defined by 20 U.S.C. Section 1002, that enters into a partnership or other formalized academic collaboration in STEM, as defined by 15 U.S.C. Section 8841(d)(4), including, but not limited, to a joint institute with an entity, such as a college or university, that is located, operated, or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party or the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

Section 148

612. None of the funds made available by this Act may be disbursed to any state, district, territory, or possession of the United States which imposes a criminal or civil penalty on, or otherwise indirectly dissuades (including by imposing a financial or other barrier to entry) any ordinary, law-abiding citizen who is carrying a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State, district, territory, or possession and which permits the individual to carry a concealed firearm from carrying a handgun publicly for self-defense according to the same terms authorized by an unrestricted license of or permit issued to a resident of the State and subject only to the same conditions and limitations, except as to eligibility to possess or carry, imposed by or under Federal or State law or the law of a political subdivision of a State, that apply to the possession or carrying of a concealed handgun by residents of the State or political subdivision who are licensed by the State or political subdivision to do so, or not prohibited by the State from doing so.

Section 149

613. Section 302(a)(4)(B) of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6082(a)(4)(B)) is amended by striking “acquires ownership” and all that follows and inserting the following: “acquired ownership of such claim— before March 12, 1996; or as a successor in interest who did not acquire the property, or claim to the property, in exchange for value or consideration. Section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs (13), (14), and (15) as paragraphs (14), (15), and (16), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph (12) the following: The term ‘successor in interest’ means a person who follows another person in ownership or control of property or a claim to property and who retains the same rights as the original owner to the property. Section 306(c)(1)(A) of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6085(c)(1)(A)) is amended by striking “no person” and inserting “except as provided by section 302(a)(4)(B), no person”. The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall apply to— any action initiated after the date of the enactment of this Act; any action pending in any court as of such date of enactment, including any action pending on appeal or otherwise; any action for which the time to file an appeal has not expired; or any action that has been dismissed or adversely adjudicated by any court because of a judicial interpretation of section 302(a) of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6082(a)) that conflicts with the amendment to paragraph (4)(B) of such section as made by subsection (a). In the case of any action under section 302 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6082), in which an opinion was issued prior to the effective date of this section, such action may be refiled and decided as though this section were in effect as of the date of the enactment of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996. Section 305 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 USC §6084) is repealed. (i)before March 12, 1996; or(ii)as a successor in interest who did not acquire the property, or claim to the property, in exchange for value or consideration.. (13)SUCCESOR IN INTERESTThe term ‘successor in interest’ means a person who follows another person in ownership or control of property or a claim to property and who retains the same rights as the original owner to the property..

Section 150

614. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for oyster restoration, recovery, reef construction, habitat enhancement, or other related oyster activities in the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries unless oysters planted using such funds are made eligible for managed commercial harvest by licensed watermen after a period of three years from the date of planting.

Section 151

615. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for oyster restoration, recovery, or enhancement activities in the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries at any site that has been designated as underperforming for five or more years following initial federal investment, unless the Secretary of Commerce certifies in writing, that the site has a new, independently conducted and peer-reviewed restoration plan that demonstrates a high likelihood of meeting significant ecological or economic outcomes within 2 years of the enactment of this legislation.

Section 152

616. None of the funds within the Coastal Zone Management Act Grant shall be used to block wildfire and timber production, energy production, housing construction, or military-related activities under the Endangered Species Act.

Section 153

617. None of the funds appropriated herein or hereafter may be used to impose a user fee or processing fee, with respect to any function, mission, or activity of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, that is not already charged as of October 1, 2025.

Section 154

618. None of the funds appropriated herein or hereafter may be used to— enforce the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.) regarding any firearm for which the tax imposed under section 5811 or 5821 of such Act is $0 pursuant to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act; investigate, prosecute, or otherwise pursue any criminal or civil action, including the imposition of any penalty under the National Firearms Act for any firearm described in paragraph (1). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, herein and hereafter, no violation of federal law shall accrue and no person shall be considered in violation of the National Firearms Act, or any other Federal, State, or local law that incorporates by reference the National Firearms Act, with respect to a firearm described in subsection (a)(1).

Section 155

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