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 Union Calendar No. 228
119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5342

 [Report No. 119-272]

 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
 2026, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 September 12, 2025

Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported 
 the following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole 
 House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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 A BILL

 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
 2026, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 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:

 TITLE I

 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 International Trade Administration

 operations and administration

 For necessary expenses for international trade activities of the 
Department of Commerce provided for by law, to carry out activities 
associated with facilitating, attracting, and retaining business 
investment in the United States, to carry out activities associated 
with title VI of division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2023 (Public Law 117-328), and for engaging in trade promotional 
activities abroad, including expenses of grants and cooperative 
agreements for the purpose of promoting exports of United States firms, 
without regard to sections 3702 and 3703 of title 44, United States 
Code; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate families 
of employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily posted 
overseas; travel and transportation of employees of the International 
Trade Administration between two points abroad, without regard to 

section 40118 of title 49, United States Code; employment of citizens 
of the United States and aliens by contract for services; recognizing 
contributions to export expansion pursuant to Executive Order 10978; 
rental of space abroad for periods not exceeding 10 years, and expenses 
of alteration, repair, or improvement; purchase or construction of 
temporary demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; payment of 
tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of 

section 2672 of title 28, United States Code, when such claims arise in foreign 
countries; not to exceed $294,300 for official representation expenses 
abroad; purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad, 
not to exceed $45,000 per vehicle; not to exceed $325,000 for purchase 
of armored vehicles without regard to the general purchase price 
limitations; obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles; and rental 
of tie lines, $440,000,000, of which $85,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That $20,000,000 is to be derived 
from fees to be retained and used by the International Trade 
Administration, notwithstanding 

section 3302 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That, of amounts provided under this heading, 
not less than $16,400,000 shall be for China antidumping and 
countervailing duty enforcement and compliance activities: Provided 
further, That the provisions of the first sentence of 

section 105

    (f) and all of 

section 108
            (c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455

    (f) and 2458
            (c) ) shall apply in 
carrying out these activities; and that for the purpose of this Act, 
contributions under the provisions of the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 shall include payment for assessments for 
services provided as part of these activities.

 Bureau of Industry and Security

 operations and administration

 For necessary expenses for export administration and national 
security activities of the Department of Commerce, including costs 
associated with the performance of export administration field 
activities both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for 
dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed 
overseas; employment of citizens of the United States and aliens by 
contract for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner 
authorized in the first paragraph of 

section 2672 of title 28, United 
States Code, when such claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed 
$13,500 for official representation expenses abroad; awards of 
compensation to informers under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 
(subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. McCain National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; Public Law 115-232; 132 Stat. 
2208; 50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq.), and as authorized by 

section 1

    (b) of the 
Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 223; 22 U.S.C. 401

    (b) ); and purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles for official use and motor vehicles for law 
enforcement use with special requirement vehicles eligible for purchase 
without regard to any price limitation otherwise established by law, 
$303,000,000, of which $122,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the provisions of the first sentence of 

section 105

    (f) and all of 

section 108
            (c) of the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455

    (f) and 2458
            (c) ) shall 
apply in carrying out these activities: Provided further, That 
payments and contributions collected and accepted for materials or 
services provided as part of such activities may be retained for use in 
covering the cost of such activities, and for providing information to 
the public with respect to the export administration and national 
security activities of the Department of Commerce and other export 
control programs of the United States and other governments.

 Economic Development Administration

 economic development assistance programs

 For grants for economic development assistance as provided by the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, and for grants 
authorized by sections 27, 28, and 29 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722, 3722a, and 3723), as 
amended, $256,500,000 to remain available until expended, of which 
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under 

section 27, $41,000,000 shall be 
for grants under 

section 28, and $41,000,000 shall be for grants under 

section 29: Provided, That any deviation from the amounts designated 
for specific activities in the report accompanying this Act, or any use 
of deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading in 
previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth in 

section 505 of this Act.

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of administering the economic development 
assistance programs as provided for by law, $68,000,000: Provided, 
That funds provided under this heading may be used to monitor projects 
approved pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment Act of 
1976; title II of the Trade Act of 1974; sections 27 through 30 of the 
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722-
3723), as amended; and the Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of 
1977.

 Minority Business Development Agency

 minority business development

 For necessary expenses of the Minority Business Development Agency 
in fostering, promoting, and developing minority business enterprises, 
as authorized by law, $16,250,000.

 Economic and Statistical Analysis

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic and 
statistical analysis programs of the Department of Commerce, 
$116,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027.

 Bureau of the Census

 current surveys and programs

 For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, analyzing, 
preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by law, 
$288,500,000: Provided, That, from amounts provided herein, funds may 
be used for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.

 periodic censuses and programs

 For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, analyzing, 
preparing, and publishing statistics for periodic censuses and programs 
provided for by law, $1,388,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That, from amounts provided herein, 
funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.

 National Telecommunications and Information Administration

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration

    (NTIA) , $46,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535
            (d) , the Secretary of Commerce shall 
charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum management, 
analysis, operations, and related services, and such fees shall be 
retained and used as offsetting collections for costs of such spectrum 
services, to remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to retain and use as offsetting 
collections all funds transferred, or previously transferred, from 
other Government agencies for all costs incurred in telecommunications 
research, engineering, and related activities by the Institute for 
Telecommunication Sciences of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned 
functions under this paragraph, and such funds received from other 
Government agencies shall remain available until expended.

 public telecommunications facilities, planning and construction

 For the administration of prior-year grants, recoveries and 
unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated are available for 
the administration of all open grants until their expiration.

 facilities management and construction

 For necessary expenses for the design, construction, alteration, 
improvement, maintenance, and repair of buildings and facilities 
managed by the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration, not otherwise provided for, $1,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

 United States Patent and Trademark Office

 salaries and expenses

 (including transfers of funds)

 For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and Trademark 
Office

    (USPTO) provided for by law, including defense of suits 
instituted against the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 
Property and Director of the USPTO, $4,993,670,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated from the 
general fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections of fees and 
surcharges assessed and collected by the USPTO under any law are 
received during fiscal year 2026, so as to result in a fiscal year 2026 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at $0: Provided further, 
That during fiscal year 2026, should the total amount of such 
offsetting collections be less than $4,993,670,000, this amount shall 
be reduced accordingly: Provided further, That any amount received in 
excess of $4,993,670,000 in fiscal year 2026 and deposited in the 
Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Director of USPTO shall submit a 
spending plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate for any amounts made available by the 
preceding proviso and such spending plan shall be treated as a 
reprogramming 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 any amounts 
reprogrammed in accordance with the preceding proviso shall be 
transferred to the United States Patent and Trademark Office ``Salaries 
and Expenses'' account: Provided further, That the budget of the 
President submitted for fiscal year 2027 under 

section 1105 of title 
31, United States Code, shall include within amounts provided under 
this heading for necessary expenses of the USPTO any increases that are 
expected to result from an increase promulgated through rule or 
regulation in offsetting collections of fees and surcharges assessed 
and collected by the USPTO under any law in either fiscal year 2026 or 
fiscal year 2027: Provided further, That from amounts provided herein, 
not to exceed $13,500 shall be made available in fiscal year 2026 for 
official reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That 
in fiscal year 2026 from the amounts made available for ``Salaries and 
Expenses'' for the USPTO, the amounts necessary to pay

    (1) the 
difference between the percentage of basic pay contributed by the USPTO 
and employees under 

section 8334

    (a) of title 5, United States Code, and 
the normal cost percentage (as defined by 

section 8331

    (17) of that 
title) as provided by the Office of Personnel Management

    (OPM) for 
USPTO's specific use, of basic pay, of employees subject to subchapter 
III of chapter 83 of that title, and

    (2) the present value of the 
otherwise unfunded accruing costs, as determined by OPM for USPTO's 
specific use of post-retirement life insurance and post-retirement 
health benefits coverage for all USPTO employees who are enrolled in 
Federal Employees Health Benefits

    (FEHB) and Federal Employees Group 
Life Insurance

    (FEGLI) , shall be transferred to the Civil Service 
Retirement and Disability Fund, the FEGLI Fund, and the Employees FEHB 
Fund, as appropriate, and shall be available for the authorized 
purposes of those accounts: Provided further, That any differences 
between the present value factors published in OPM's yearly 300 series 
benefit letters and the factors that OPM provides for USPTO's specific 
use shall be recognized as an imputed cost on USPTO's financial 
statements, where applicable: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, all fees and surcharges assessed and 
collected by USPTO are available for USPTO only pursuant to 

section 42
            (c) of title 35, United States Code, as amended by 

section 22 of the 
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Public Law 112-29): Provided further, 
That within the amounts appropriated, $2,450,000 shall be transferred 
to the ``Office of Inspector General'' account for activities 
associated with carrying out investigations and audits related to the 
USPTO.

 National Institute of Standards and Technology

 scientific and technical research and services

 (including transfer of funds)

 For necessary expenses of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology

    (NIST) , $980,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $9,000,000 may be transferred to the ``Working 
Capital Fund'': Provided, That of the amounts appropriated under this 
heading, $271,572,366 shall be for scientific and technical research 
projects, which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, 
specified for ``DOC NIST-STRS'' in the table entitled ``Community 
Project Funding'' in the report accompanying this Act: Provided 
further, That the amounts made available for the projects referenced in 
the preceding proviso may not be transferred for any other purpose: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be for official 
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That NIST may 
provide local transportation for summer undergraduate research 
fellowship program participants.

 industrial technology services

 For necessary expenses for industrial technology services, 
$212,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $175,000,000 
shall be for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and of 
which $37,000,000 shall be for the Manufacturing USA Program.

 construction of research facilities

 For construction of new research facilities, including 
architectural and engineering design, and for renovation and 
maintenance of existing facilities, not otherwise provided for the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, as authorized by 
sections 13 through 15 of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278c-278e), $87,760,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce shall include 
in the budget justification materials for fiscal year 2027 that the 
Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce 
budget (as submitted with the budget of the President under 

section 1105

    (a) of title 31, United States Code) an estimate for each National 
Institute of Standards and Technology construction project having a 
total multi-year program cost of more than $5,000,000, and 
simultaneously the budget justification materials shall include an 
estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such project for each 
of the 5 subsequent fiscal years.

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 operations, research, and facilities

 (including transfer of funds)

 For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    (NOAA) , including 
maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft and vessels; pilot 
programs for State-led fisheries management, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law; grants, contracts, or other payments to nonprofit 
organizations for the purposes of conducting activities pursuant to 
cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities, $4,151,800,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That fees and 
donations received by the National Ocean Service for the management of 
national marine sanctuaries may be retained and used for the salaries 
and expenses associated with those activities, notwithstanding 

section 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in 
addition, $409,640,000 shall be derived by transfer from the fund 
entitled ``Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining 
to American Fisheries'', which shall only be used for fishery 
activities related to the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program; Fisheries 
Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments; Observers and Training; 
Fisheries Management Programs and Services; and Interjurisdictional 
Fisheries Grants: Provided further, That not to exceed $71,299,000 
shall be for payment to the ``Department of Commerce Working Capital 
Fund'': Provided further, That of the $4,589,440,000 provided for in 
direct obligations under this heading, $4,151,800,000 is appropriated 
from the general fund, $409,640,000 is provided by transfer, and 
$28,000,000 is derived from recoveries of prior year obligations: 
Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated under this heading, 
$55,750,390 shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, specified 
for ``NOAA-CZM'' in the table entitled ``Community Project Funding'' in 
the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That the amounts 
made available for the projects referenced in the preceding proviso may 
not be transferred for any other purpose: Provided further, That any 
deviation from the amounts designated for specific activities in the 
report accompanying this Act, or any use of deobligated balances of 
funds provided under this heading in previous years, shall be subject 
to the procedures set forth in 

section 505 of this Act: Provided 
further, That in addition, for necessary retired pay expenses under the 
Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plan, and 
for payments for the medical care of retired personnel and their 
dependents under the Dependents' Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), 
such sums as may be necessary.

 procurement, acquisition and construction

 For procurement, acquisition and construction of capital assets, 
including alteration and modification costs, of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration, $1,589,899,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2028, except that funds provided for acquisition 
and construction of vessels and aircraft, and construction of 
facilities shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of 
the $1,602,699,000 provided for in direct obligations under this 
heading, $1,589,899,000 is appropriated from the general fund, and 
$12,800,000 is provided from recoveries of prior year obligations: 
Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts designated for 
specific activities in the report, or any use of deobligated balances 
of funds provided under this heading in previous years, shall be 
subject to the procedures set forth in 

section 505 of this Act: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce shall include in 
budget justification materials for fiscal year 2027 that the Secretary 
submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget (as 
submitted with the budget of the President under 

section 1105

    (a) of 
title 31, United States Code) an estimate for each National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration procurement, acquisition or construction 
project having a total of more than $5,000,000 and simultaneously the 
budget justification shall include an estimate of the budgetary 
requirements for each such project for each of the 5 subsequent fiscal 
years.

 pacific coastal salmon recovery

 For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of Pacific 
salmon populations, $65,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2027: Provided, That, of the funds provided herein, the Secretary 
of Commerce may issue grants to the States of Washington, Oregon, 
Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the federally recognized 
Tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (including Alaska), for 
projects necessary for conservation of salmon and steelhead populations 
that are listed as threatened or endangered, or that are identified by 
a State as at-risk to be so listed, for maintaining populations 
necessary for exercise of Tribal treaty fishing rights or native 
subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and 
steelhead habitat, based on guidelines to be developed by the Secretary 
of Commerce: Provided further, That all funds shall be allocated based 
on scientific and other merit principles and shall not be available for 
marketing activities: Provided further, That funds disbursed to States 
shall be subject to a matching requirement of funds or documented in-
kind contributions of at least 33 percent of the Federal funds.

 fisheries disaster assistance

 For necessary expenses of administering the fishery disaster 
assistance programs authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (Public Law 94-265) and the 
Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act (title III of Public Law 99-659), 
$300,000.

 fishermen's contingency fund

 For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public Law 95-372, 
not to exceed $349,000, to be derived from receipts collected pursuant 
to that Act, to remain available until expended.

 fisheries finance program account

 Subject to 

section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
during fiscal year 2026, obligations of direct loans may not exceed 
$24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota loans and not to exceed 
$150,000,000 for traditional direct loans as authorized by the Merchant 
Marine Act of 1936.

 recreational quota entity fund

 For carrying out the provisions of 

section 106 of the Driftnet 
Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act (title I of division S of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328)), the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may assess and collect 
fees pursuant to such section, which shall be credited to this account, 
to remain available until expended, for the purposes specified in 
subsection

    (b) of such section, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available for such purposes.

 Departmental Management

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses for the management of the Department of 
Commerce provided for by law, including not to exceed $4,500 for 
official reception and representation, $94,500,000.

 renovation and modernization

 For necessary expenses for the renovation and modernization of the 
Herbert C. Hoover Building, $1,142,000.

 office of inspector general

 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 
U.S.C. App.), $50,450,000.

 General Provisions--Department of Commerce

 (including transfer of funds)

 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 This title may be cited as the ``Department of Commerce 
Appropriations Act, 2026''.

 TITLE II

 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 Justice Operations, Management, and Accountability

 salaries and expenses

 For expenses necessary for the operations, management, and 
accountability of the Department of Justice, $142,000,000, of which 
$4,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027, and of 
which not to exceed $4,000,000 for security and construction of 
Department of Justice facilities shall remain available until expended.

 justice information sharing technology

 (including transfer of funds)

 For necessary expenses for information sharing technology, 
including planning, development, deployment and departmental direction, 
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 
Attorney General may transfer up to $40,000,000 to this account, from 
funds available to the Department of Justice for information 
technology, to remain available until expended, for enterprise-wide 
information technology initiatives: Provided further, That the 
transfer authority in the preceding proviso is in addition to any other 
transfer authority contained in this Act: Provided further, That any 
transfer pursuant to the first proviso shall be treated as a 
reprogramming 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.

 Executive Office for Immigration Review

 (including transfer of funds)

 For expenses necessary for the administration of immigration-
related activities of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, 
$844,000,000, of which $10,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from 
the Executive Office for Immigration Review fees deposited in the 
``Immigration Examinations Fee'' account: Provided, That the Executive 
Office for Immigration Review shall implement case performance metrics 
that are linked to performance evaluations for individual immigration 
judges.

 Office of Inspector General

 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$97,000,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential character: Provided, That not to exceed 
$4,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027.

 United States Parole Commission

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the United States Parole Commission as 
authorized, $12,500,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, upon the expiration of a term of office of a 
Commissioner, the Commissioner may continue to act until a successor 
has been appointed.

 Legal Activities

 salaries and expenses, general legal activities

 (including transfer of funds)

 For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the Department 
of Justice, not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $20,000 
for expenses of collecting evidence, to be expended under the direction 
of, and to be accounted for solely under the certificate of, the 
Attorney General; the administration of pardon and clemency petitions; 
and rent of private or Government-owned space in the District of 
Columbia, $896,936,000, of which not to exceed $50,000,000 for 
litigation support contracts and information technology projects, 
including cybersecurity and hardening of critical networks, shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided 
for INTERPOL Washington dues payments, not to exceed $685,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $3,000 shall be available to 
INTERPOL Washington for official reception and representation expenses: 
 Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed 
$3,000 shall be available to the Criminal Division for official 
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding 

section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the 
Attorney General that emergent circumstances require additional funding 
for litigation activities of the Civil Division, the Attorney General 
may transfer such amounts to ``Salaries and Expenses, General Legal 
Activities'' from available appropriations for the current fiscal year 
for the Department of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to such 
circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the 
preceding proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming 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 of the amount appropriated, such sums as may be 
necessary shall be available to the Civil Rights Division for salaries 
and expenses associated with the election monitoring program under 

section 8 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10305) and to 
reimburse the Office of Personnel Management for such salaries and 
expenses: Provided further, That of the amounts provided under this 
heading for the election monitoring program, $3,390,000 shall remain 
available until expended.
 In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the Department of 
Justice associated with processing cases under the National Childhood 
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, $31,738,000, to be appropriated from the 
Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund and to remain available until 
expended.

 salaries and expenses, antitrust division

 For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust and kindred 
laws, $310,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to 
exceed $5,000 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, not to exceed $310,000,000 to be derived from fees 
collected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-
Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless 
of the year of collection, shall be retained and used for necessary 
expenses in this appropriation, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from the 
general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are 
received during fiscal year 2026, so as to result in a final fiscal 
year 2026 appropriation from the general fund estimated at $0: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding 

section 605 of the Departments 
of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1990 (15 U.S.C. 18a note), none of the funds 
credited to this account as offsetting collections during the current 
fiscal year shall become available for obligation in any fiscal year 
except as provided in the preceding two provisos or as provided in a 
subsequent appropriations Act.

 salaries and expenses, united states attorneys

 For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United States 
Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooperative agreements, 
$2,780,410,000: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, not 
to exceed $5,600 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$40,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That each United States Attorney shall establish or participate in a 
task force on human trafficking.

 united states trustee system fund

 For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee Program, as 
authorized, $205,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, deposits of 
discretionary offsetting collections to the United States Trustee 
System Fund and amounts herein appropriated shall be available in such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay refunds due depositors: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, fees 
deposited into the Fund as discretionary offsetting collections 
pursuant to 

section 589a of title 28, United States Code (as limited by 

section 589a

    (f)

    (2) of title 28, United States Code), shall be retained 
and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That to the extent that 
fees deposited into the Fund as discretionary offsetting collections in 
fiscal year 2026, net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due 
depositors, exceed $205,000,000, those excess amounts shall be 
available in future fiscal years only to the extent provided in advance 
in appropriations Acts: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced

    (1) as such fees 
are received during fiscal year 2026, net of amounts necessary to pay 
refunds due depositors, (estimated at $205,000,000) and

    (2) to the 
extent that any remaining general fund appropriations can be derived 
from amounts deposited in the Fund as discretionary offsetting 
collections in previous fiscal years that are not otherwise 
appropriated, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2026 appropriation 
from the general fund estimated at $0.

 salaries and expenses, foreign claims settlement commission

 For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of the Foreign 
Claims Settlement Commission, including services as authorized by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $2,504,000.

 fees and expenses of witnesses

 For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of contracts for 
the procurement and supervision of expert witnesses, for private 
counsel expenses, including advances, and for expenses of foreign 
counsel, $256,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which not 
to exceed $16,000,000 is for construction of buildings for protected 
witness safesites; not to exceed $3,000,000 is for the purchase and 
maintenance of armored and other vehicles for witness security 
caravans; and not to exceed $35,000,000 is for the purchase, 
installation, maintenance, and upgrade of secure telecommunications 
equipment and a secure automated information network to store and 
retrieve the identities and locations of protected witnesses: 
Provided, That amounts made available under this heading may not be 
transferred pursuant to 

section 205 of this Act.

 assets forfeiture fund

 For expenses authorized by subparagraphs
        (B) ,
        (F) , and
        (G) of 

section 524
            (c) (1) of title 28, United States Code, $20,514,000, to be 
derived from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund.

 United States Marshals Service

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals Service, 
$1,722,578,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses, and not to exceed 
$25,000,000 shall remain available until expended.

 construction

 For construction in space that is controlled, occupied, or utilized 
by the United States Marshals Service for prisoner holding and related 
support, $8,000,000, to remain available until expended.

 federal prisoner detention

 For necessary expenses related to United States prisoners in the 
custody of the United States Marshals Service as authorized by 

section 4013 of title 18, United States Code, $2,538,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000,000 
shall be considered ``funds appropriated for State and local law 
enforcement assistance'' pursuant to 

section 4013

    (b) of title 18, 
United States Code: Provided further, That the United States Marshals 
Service shall be responsible for managing the Justice Prisoner and 
Alien Transportation System.

 National Security Division

 salaries and expenses

 (including transfer of funds)

 For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of the National 
Security Division, $117,200,000, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 for 
information technology systems shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That notwithstanding 

section 205 of this Act, upon a 
determination by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances 
require additional funding for the activities of the National Security 
Division, the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to this 
heading from available appropriations for the current fiscal year for 
the Department of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to such 
circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the 
preceding proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming 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.

 Interagency Law Enforcement

 organized crime drug enforcement task forces

 For necessary expenses for the identification, investigation, and 
prosecution of individuals associated with the most significant drug 
trafficking organizations, transnational organized crime, and money 
laundering organizations not otherwise provided for, to include inter-
governmental agreements with State and local law enforcement agencies 
engaged in the investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in 
transnational organized crime and drug trafficking, $400,000,000, of 
which $50,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, 
That any amounts obligated from appropriations under this heading may 
be used under authorities available to the organizations reimbursed 
from this appropriation.

 Federal Bureau of Investigation

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 
detection, investigation, and prosecution of crimes against the United 
States, $10,100,437,000, of which not to exceed $216,900,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.

 construction

 For necessary expenses, to include the cost of equipment, 
furniture, and information technology requirements, related to 
construction or acquisition of buildings, facilities, and sites by 
purchase, or as otherwise authorized by law; conversion, modification, 
and extension of federally owned buildings; preliminary planning and 
design of projects; and operation and maintenance of secure work 
environment facilities and secure networking capabilities; $30,000,000, 
to remain available until expended.

 Drug Enforcement Administration

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Administration, 
including not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a 
confidential character pursuant to 

section 530C of title 28, United 
States Code; and expenses for conducting drug education and training 
programs, including travel and related expenses for participants in 
such programs and the distribution of items of token value that promote 
the goals of such programs, $2,813,924,000, of which not to exceed 
$75,000,000 shall remain available until expended and not to exceed 
$20,000 shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses: Provided, That, notwithstanding 

section 3672 of Public Law 
106-310, up to $10,000,000 may be used to reimburse States, units of 
local government, Indian Tribal Governments, other public entities, and 
multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof for expenses 
incurred to clean up and safely dispose of substances associated with 
clandestine methamphetamine laboratories, conversion and extraction 
operations, tableting operations, or laboratories and processing 
operations for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances which may 
present a danger to public health or the environment.

 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
and Explosives, for training of State and local law enforcement 
agencies with or without reimbursement, including training in 
connection with the training and acquisition of canines for explosives 
and fire accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory 
assistance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or without 
reimbursement, $1,207,350,000, of which not to exceed $3,000 shall be 
for official reception and representation expenses, not to exceed 
$1,000,000 shall be available for the payment of attorneys' fees as 
provided by 

section 924
            (d) (2) of title 18, United States Code, and not 
to exceed $25,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, 
That no funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to 
transfer the functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to other agencies or 
departments: Provided further, That not more than 40 percent of the 
amounts made available under this heading may be obligated unless 
processing times for National Firearms Act applications do not exceed 
120 days in the case of paper applications and 60 days in the case of 
electronic applications.

 Federal Prison System

 salaries and expenses

 (including transfer of funds)

 For necessary expenses of the Federal Prison System for the 
administration, operation, and maintenance of Federal penal and 
correctional institutions, and for the provision of technical 
assistance and advice on corrections related issues to foreign 
governments, $8,779,800,000: Provided, That not less than $409,483,000 
shall be for the programs and activities authorized by the First Step 
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-391), of which not less than 2 percent 
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
``Research, Evaluation and Statistics'' for the National Institute of 
Justice to carry out evaluations of programs and activities related to 
the First Step Act of 2018 (``First Step Act''): Provided further, 
That the Attorney General may transfer to the Department of Health and 
Human Services such amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures 
by that Department for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal and 
correctional institutions: Provided further, That the Director of the 
Federal Prison System, where necessary, may enter into contracts with a 
fiscal agent or fiscal intermediary claims processor to determine the 
amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of the Federal Prison System, 
furnish health services to individuals committed to the custody of the 
Federal Prison System: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,400 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended for necessary operations: Provided further, That, of 
the amounts provided for contract confinement, not to exceed 
$20,000,000 shall remain available until expended to make payments in 
advance for grants, contracts and reimbursable agreements, and other 
expenses: Provided further, That the Director of the Federal Prison 
System may accept donated property and services relating to the 
operation of the prison card program from a not-for-profit entity which 
has operated such program in the past, notwithstanding the fact that 
such not-for-profit entity furnishes services under contracts to the 
Federal Prison System relating to the operation of pre-release 
services, halfway houses, or other custodial facilities: Provided 
further, That amounts made available under this heading for programs 
and activities related to the First Step Act may not be transferred, or 
otherwise made available, to or for administration by the Department of 
Labor.

 buildings and facilities

 For planning, acquisition of sites, and construction of new 
facilities; purchase and acquisition of facilities and remodeling, and 
equipping of such facilities for penal and correctional use, including 
all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account; 
and constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings and 
facilities at existing penal and correctional institutions, including 
all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account, 
$305,520,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That labor 
of United States prisoners may be used for work performed under this 
appropriation.

 federal prison industries, incorporated

 The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is hereby authorized 
to make such expenditures within the limits of funds and borrowing 
authority available, and in accord with the law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by 

section 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as may be 
necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for the 
current fiscal year for such corporation.

 limitation on administrative expenses, federal prison industries, 
 incorporated

 Not to exceed $2,700,000 of the funds of the Federal Prison 
Industries, Incorporated, shall be available for its administrative 
expenses, and for services as authorized by 

section 3109 of title 5, 
United States Code, to be computed on an accrual basis to be determined 
in accordance with the corporation's current prescribed accounting 
system, and such amounts shall be exclusive of depreciation, payment of 
claims, and expenditures which such accounting system requires to be 
capitalized or charged to cost of commodities acquired or produced, 
including selling and shipping expenses, and expenses in connection 
with acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, 
protection, or disposition of facilities and other property belonging 
to the corporation or in which it has an interest.

 State and Local Law Enforcement Activities

 Office on Violence Against Women

 violence against women prevention and prosecution programs

 (including transfer of funds)

 For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance 
for the prevention and prosecution of violence against women, as 
authorized by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) (``the 1968 Act''); title II of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1968 (commonly known as the ``Indian Civil Rights Act of 
1968'') (Public Law 90-284) (``the Indian Civil Rights Act''); the 
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-
322) (``the 1994 Act''); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public 
Law 101-647) (``the 1990 Act''); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other 
Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108-21); the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 
(34 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.) (``the 1974 Act''); the Victims of 
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-386) 
(``the 2000 Act''); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
405) (``the 2004 Act''); the Violence Against Women and Department of 
Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162) (``the 2005 
Act''); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public 
Law 113-4) (``the 2013 Act''); the Justice for Victims of Trafficking 
Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-22) (``the 2015 Act''); the Abolish Human 
Trafficking Act (Public Law 115-392); and the Violence Against Women 
Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division W of Public Law 117-103) 
(``the 2022 Act''); and for related victims services, $640,500,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount 
provided--

    (1) $265,000,000 is for grants to combat violence against 
 women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 Act, and any 
 applicable increases for the amount of such grants, as 
 authorized by 

section 5903 of the James M. Inhofe National 
 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023: Provided, 
 $10,000,000 is for any such increases under such 

section 5903, 
 which shall apply to fiscal year 2026 grants funded by amounts 
 provided in this paragraph;

    (2) $40,000,000 is for transitional housing assistance 
 grants for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, 
 stalking, or sexual assault as authorized by 

section 40299 of 
 the 1994 Act;

    (3) $1,000,000 is for the National Institute of Justice and 
 the Bureau of Justice Statistics for research, evaluation, and 
 statistics of violence against women and related issues 
 addressed by grant programs of the Office on Violence Against 
 Women, which shall be transferred to ``Research, Evaluation and 
 Statistics'' for administration by the Office of Justice 
 Programs;

    (4) $17,000,000 is for a grant program to provide services 
 to advocate for and respond to youth victims of domestic 
 violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; 
 assistance to children and youth exposed to such violence; and 
 assistance to middle and high school students through education 
 and other services related to such violence;

    (5) $51,000,000 is for grants to improve the criminal 
 justice response as authorized by part U of title I of the 1968 
 Act, of which up to $6,000,000 is for an initiative to promote 
 effective policing and prosecution responses to domestic 
 violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, 
 including evaluation of the effectiveness of funded 
 interventions (``Policing and Prosecution Initiative'') and 
 $1,000,000 is for an initiative to enhance prosecution and 
 investigation of online abuse and harassment (``Prosecution and 
 Investigation of Online Abuse Initiative''): Provided, That 
 subsections
            (c) and
            (d) of 

section 2101 of the 1968 Act shall 
 not apply to the Policing and Prosecution Initiative or the 
 Prosecution and Investigation of Online Abuse Initiative;

    (6) $78,500,000 is for sexual assault victims assistance, 
 as authorized by 

section 41601 of the 1994 Act;

    (7) $50,000,000 is for rural domestic violence and child 
 abuse enforcement assistance grants, as authorized by 

section 40295 of the 1994 Act;

    (8) $25,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent crimes 
 against women on campus, as authorized by 

section 304 of the 
 2005 Act;

    (9) $40,000,000 is for legal assistance for victims, as 
 authorized by 

section 1201 of the 2000 Act;

    (10) $6,000,000 is for enhanced training and services to 
 end violence against and abuse of women in later life, as 
 authorized by 

section 40801 of the 1994 Act;

    (11) $20,000,000 is for grants to support families in the 
 justice system, as authorized by 

section 1301 of the 2000 Act: 
 Provided, That unobligated balances available for the programs 
 authorized by 

section 1301 of the 2000 Act and 

section 41002 of 
 the 1994 Act, prior to their amendment by the 2013 Act, shall 
 be available for this program;

    (12) $6,000,000 is for education and training to end 
 violence against and abuse of women with disabilities, as 
 authorized by 

section 1402 of the 2000 Act;

    (13) $1,000,000 is for the National Resource Center on 
 Workplace Responses to assist victims of domestic violence, as 
 authorized by 

section 41501 of the 1994 Act;

    (14) $5,000,000 is for analysis and research on violence 
 against Indian women, including as authorized by 

section 904 of 
 the 2005 Act: Provided, That such funds may be transferred to 
 ``Research, Evaluation and Statistics'' for administration by 
 the Office of Justice Programs;

    (15) $500,000 is for a national clearinghouse that provides 
 training and technical assistance on issues relating to sexual 
 assault of American Indian and Alaska Native women;

    (16) $20,000,000 is for programs to assist Tribal 
 Governments in exercising special Tribal criminal jurisdiction, 
 as authorized by 

section 204 of the Indian Civil Rights Act: 
 Provided, That the grant conditions in 

section 40002

    (b) of the 
 1994 Act shall apply to grants made;

    (17) $5,000,000 is for an initiative to support cross-
 designation of Tribal prosecutors as Tribal Special Assistant 
 United States Attorneys;

    (18) $2,000,000 is for a National Deaf Services Line to 
 provide remote services to Deaf victims of domestic violence, 
 dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking: Provided, That 
 the definitions and grant conditions in 

section 40002 of the 
 1994 Act shall apply to this service line;

    (19) $5,000,000 is for trauma-informed, victim-centered 
 training for law enforcement, and related research and 
 evaluation activities, as authorized by 

section 41701 of the 
 1994 Act; and

    (20) $2,500,000 is for the purposes authorized under title 
 IV the 2015 Act (the ``Rape Survivor Child Custody Act'').

 Office of Justice Programs

 research, evaluation and statistics

 For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance 
authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (``the 1968 Act''); the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322) (``the 1994 Act''); the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (``the 1974 
Act''); the Missing Children's Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 et 
seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the 
Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-21) (``the 
PROTECT Act''); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-405); 
the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization 
Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162) (``the 2005 Act''); the Victims of 
Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-647); the Second Chance Act of 
2007 (Public Law 110-199); the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 
98-473); the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public 
Law 109-248) (``the Adam Walsh Act''); the PROTECT Our Children Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110-401); subtitle C of title II of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) (``the 2002 Act''); the 
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-79) (``PREA''); the 
NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-180); the 
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-4) 
(``the 2013 Act''); the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 
2016 (Public Law 114-198); the First Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
391); and other programs, $55,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which--

    (1) $33,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics programs 
 and other activities as authorized by part C of title I of the 
 1968 Act; and

    (2) $22,000,000 is for research, development, and 
 evaluation programs, and other activities as authorized by part 
 B of title I of the 1968 Act and subtitle C of title II of the 
 2002 Act, and for activities authorized by or consistent with 
 the First Step Act of 2018.

 state and local law enforcement assistance

 (including transfer of funds)

 For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance 
authorized by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103-322) (``the 1994 Act''); the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-351) (``the 1968 Act''); the 
Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-405); the Victims of Child 
Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-647) (``the 1990 Act''); the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 
109-164) (``the TVPRA of 2005''); the Violence Against Women and 
Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162) 
(``the 2005 Act''); the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (Public Law 109-248) (``the Adam Walsh Act''); the Victims of 
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-386) 
(``the Victims of Trafficking Act''); the NICS Improvement Amendments 
Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-180); subtitle C of title II of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) (``the 2002 Act''); 
the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-79) (``PREA''); 
the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-
12); the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-199); the 
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110-403); the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public 
Law 98-473); the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction 
Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-416); the 
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-4) 
(``the 2013 Act''); the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 
2016 (Public Law 114-198) (``CARA''); the Justice for All 
Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-324); Kevin and Avonte's 
Law (division Q of Public Law 115-141) (``Kevin and Avonte's Law''); 
the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act of 2018 (title III of division S of 
Public Law 115-141) (``the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act''); the STOP 
School Violence Act of 2018 (title V of division S of Public Law 115-
141) (``the STOP School Violence Act''); the Fix NICS Act of 2018 
(title VI of division S of Public Law 115-141); the Project Safe 
Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
185); the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-
271); the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
391); the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-401); the Missing 
Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-277); the 
Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division W of 
Public Law 117-103) (``the 2022 Act''); Daniel Anderl Judicial Security 
and Privacy Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-263); and other programs, 
$2,246,460,000, to remain available until expended as follows--

    (1) $897,960,000 is for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
 Assistance Grant program as authorized by subpart 1 of part E 
 of title I of the 1968 Act (except that 

section 1001
            (c) , and 
 the special rules for Puerto Rico under 

section 505

    (g) , of 
 title I of the 1968 Act shall not apply for purposes of this 
 Act), including grants authorized by 

section 502

    (b)

    (1) , of 
 which, notwithstanding such subpart 1--
        (A) $13,000,000 is for an Officer Robert Wilson III 
 memorial initiative on Preventing Violence Against Law 
 Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and 
 Survivability

    (VALOR) ;
        (B) $15,500,000 is for prison rape prevention and 
 prosecution grants to States and units of local 
 government, and other programs, as authorized by PREA;
            (C) $2,000,000 is for the Missing Americans Alert 
 Program (title XXIV of the 1994 Act), as amended by 
 Kevin and Avonte's Law;
            (D) $20,000,000 is for grants authorized under the 
 Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Authorization Act of 
 2018 (Public Law 115-185);
        (E) $12,000,000 is for the Capital Litigation 
 Improvement Grant Program, as authorized by 

section 426 
 of Public Law 108-405, and for grants for wrongful 
 conviction review;
        (F) $1,000,000 is for the purposes of the Ashanti 
 Alert Communications Network as authorized under the 
 Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-401);
        (G) $5,000,000 is for a rural violent crime 
 initiative, including assistance for law enforcement;
        (H) $30,000,000 is for the Patrick Leahy 
 Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program, as 
 authorized by 

section 2501 of title I of the 1968 Act: 
 Provided, That $1,500,000 shall be transferred directly 
 to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's 
 Office of Law Enforcement Standards for research, 
 testing, and evaluation programs; and
            (I) $402,838,133 is for Byrne Justice projects to 
 assist State, local, and Tribal law enforcement efforts 
 to enforce laws, address violent crime, increase 
 prosecutions, improve the criminal justice system 
 (including the correctional system), provide victims' 
 services, and other related activities, which shall be 
 for the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for 
 ``DOJ OJP-Byrne'' in the table entitled ``Community 
 Project Funding'' in the report accompanying this Act: 
 Provided, That such amounts may not be transferred for 
 any other purpose;

    (2) $234,000,000 is for the State Criminal Alien Assistance 
 Program, as authorized by 

section 241
            (I) (5) of the Immigration 
 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231
            (I) (5) );

    (3) $88,000,000 is for victim services programs for victims 
 of trafficking, as authorized by 

section 107

    (b)

    (2) of the 
 Victims of Trafficking Act, by the TVPRA of 2005, or programs 
 authorized under Public Law 113-4;

    (4) $4,800,000 is for intellectual property enforcement 
 grants including as authorized by 

section 401;

    (5) $18,000,000 is for sex offender management assistance, 
 as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, and related activities, of 
 which $1,000,000 is for the National Sex Offender Public 
 Website;

    (6) $88,000,000 is for grants to States to upgrade criminal 
 and mental health records for the National Instant Criminal 
 Background Check System, of which no less than $25,000,000 
 shall be for grants made under the authorities of the NICS 
 Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-180) and Fix 
 NICS Act of 2018;

    (7) $28,000,000 is for Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences 
 Improvement Grants under part BB of title I of the 1968 Act, of 
 which $2,500,000 is for grants to strengthen the medical 
 examiner-coroner system;

    (8) $154,000,000 is for DNA-related and forensic programs 
 and activities, of which--
        (A) $120,000,000 is for the purposes authorized 
 under 

section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination 
 Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-546) (the Debbie Smith DNA 
 Backlog Grant Program): Provided, That up to 4 percent 
 of funds made available under this paragraph may be 
 used for the purposes described in the DNA Training and 
 Education for Law Enforcement, Correctional Personnel, 
 and Court Officers program (Public Law 108-405, 

section 303);
        (B) $14,000,000 is for the purposes described in 
 the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant 
 Program (Public Law 108-405, 

section 412);
            (C) $9,000,000 is for Sexual Assault Forensic Exam 
 Program grants, including as authorized by 

section 304 
 of Public Law 108-405: Provided, That the grant 
 conditions in 

section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply 
 to this program; and
            (D) $11,000,000 is for the operation, maintenance, 
 and expansion of the National Missing and Unidentified 
 Persons System;

    (9) $51,500,000 is for community-based grant programs to 
 improve the response to sexual assault and apply enhanced 
 approaches and techniques to reduce violent crime, including 
 assistance for investigation and prosecution of related cold 
 cases;

    (10) $14,000,000 is for the court-appointed special 
 advocate program, as authorized by 

section 217 of the 1990 Act;

    (11) $50,000,000 is for assistance to Indian Tribes;

    (12) $106,200,000 is for offender reentry programs and 
 research, as authorized by the Second Chance Act of 2007 
 (Public Law 110-199) and by the Second Chance Reauthorization 
 Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-391), without regard to the time 
 limitations specified at 

section 6

    (1) of such Act, of which not 
 to exceed--
        (A) $5,000,000 is for grants to enhance and 
 maintain parental and family relationships for 
 incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidivism 
 reduction strategy;
        (B) $10,000,000 is for a grant program for crisis 
 stabilization and community reentry, as authorized by 
 the Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act of 
 2020 (Public Law 116-281); and
            (C) $19,000,000 is for the justice reinvestment 
 initiative, as implemented in fiscal year 2014, for 
 activities related to criminal justice reform and 
 recidivism reduction: Provided, That no funds are 
 used to support initiatives that promote the closing 
 and repurposing of youth detention facilities;

    (13) $420,000,000 is for comprehensive opioid use reduction 
 activities, including as authorized by CARA, and for the 
 following programs, which shall address opioid, stimulant, and 
 substance use disorders consistent with underlying program 
 authorities, of which--
        (A) $89,000,000 is for Drug Courts, as authorized 
 by 

section 1001

    (a)

    (25)
        (A) of title I of the 1968 Act;
        (B) $40,000,000 is for mental health courts and 
 adult and juvenile collaboration program grants, as 
 authorized by parts V and HH of title I of the 1968 
 Act, and the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime 
 Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 
 (Public Law 110-416);
            (C) $35,000,000 is for grants for Residential 
 Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners, as 
 authorized by part S of title I of the 1968 Act;
            (D) $32,000,000 is for a veterans treatment courts 
 program;
        (E) $35,000,000 is for a program to monitor 
 prescription drugs and scheduled listed chemical 
 products; and
        (F) $189,000,000 is for a comprehensive opioid, 
 stimulant, and substance use disorder program, of 
 which--
            (i) $30,000,000 is for grants for local and 
 regional efforts to prevent substance use and 
 misuse: Provided, That priority is given to 
 non-profit organizations implementing 
 comprehensive approaches to combating substance 
 abuse, including investigations, treatment, and 
 education; and
            (ii) $17,000,000 is for forensic support 
 for opioid and synthetic drug investigations;

    (14) $2,000,000 is for a competitive grant program 
 authorized by the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act;

    (15) $82,000,000 is for grants to be administered by the 
 Bureau of Justice Assistance for purposes authorized under the 
 STOP School Violence Act;

    (16) $3,000,000 is for grants to State and local law 
 enforcement agencies for the expenses associated with the 
 investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses involving 
 civil rights, as authorized by the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil 
 Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-325); 
 and

    (17) $5,000,000 is for a grant program as authorized by the 
 Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2022 
 (subtitle D of title LIX of division E of Public Law 117-263; 
 136 Stat. 3458-3493; 28 U.S.C. 601 note):
 Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of the funds 
made available under this heading to increase the number of law 
enforcement officers, the unit of local government will achieve a net 
gain in the number of law enforcement officers who perform non-
administrative public sector safety service: Provided further, That in 
the spending plan submitted pursuant to 

section 528 of this Act, the 
Office of Justice Programs shall specifically and explicitly identify 
all changes in the administration of competitive grant programs for 
fiscal year 2026, including changes to applicant eligibility, priority 
areas or weightings, and the application review process.

 juvenile justice programs

 For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance 
authorized by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 
1974 (``the 1974 Act''); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (``the 1968 Act''); the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-162) (``the 2005 
Act''); the Missing Children's Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 et 
seq.); the PROTECT Act (Public Law 108-21); the Victims of Child Abuse 
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-647) (``the 1990 Act''); the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-248) (``the 
Adam Walsh Act''); the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110-401); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 
(Public Law 113-4) (``the 2013 Act''); the Justice for All 
Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-324); the Juvenile Justice 
Reform Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-385); the Victims of Crime Act of 
1984 (chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98-473) (``the 1984 Act''); 
the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-
198); and other juvenile justice programs, $327,000,000, to remain 
available until expended as follows--

    (1) $40,000,000 is for formula grants authorized by 

section 221 of the 1974 Act;

    (2) $104,000,000 is for youth mentoring grants;

    (3) $4,000,000 is for grants to prevent trafficking of 
 girls;

    (4) $13,500,000 is for the Tribal Youth Program;

    (5) $4,500,000 is for competitive grants focusing on girls 
 in the juvenile justice system;

    (6) $7,000,000 is for an initiative relating to youth 
 affected by opioids, stimulants, and substance use disorder;

    (7) $4,000,000 is for an initiative relating to children 
 exposed to violence;

    (8) $41,000,000 is for programs authorized by the Victims 
 of Child Abuse Act of 1990;

    (9) $105,000,000 is for missing and exploited children 
 programs, including as authorized by sections 404

    (b) and 405

    (a) of the 1974 Act (except that 

section 102

    (b)

    (4)
        (B) of the 
 PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-401) shall not 
 apply for purposes of this Act), and as authorized by the 
 PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008; and

    (10) $4,000,000 is for child abuse training programs for 
 judicial personnel and practitioners, as authorized by 

section 222 of the 1990 Act:
 Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount may be used 
for research, evaluation, and statistics activities designed to benefit 
the programs or activities authorized: Provided further, That not more 
than 2 percent of the amounts designated under paragraphs

    (1) through

    (3) and

    (6) may be used for training and technical assistance: 
Provided further, That the two preceding proviso shall not apply to 
grants and projects administered pursuant to sections 261 and 262 of 
the 1974 Act and to missing and exploited children programs.

 public safety officer benefits

 (including transfer of funds)

 For payments and expenses authorized under 

section 1001

    (a)

    (4) of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, such 
sums as are necessary (including amounts for administrative costs), to 
remain available until expended; and $34,800,000 for payments 
authorized by 

section 1201

    (b) of such Act and for educational 
assistance authorized by 

section 1218 of such Act, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 

section 205 of this 
Act, upon a determination by the Attorney General that emergent 
circumstances require additional funding for such disability and 
education payments, the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to 
``Public Safety Officer Benefits'' from available appropriations for 
the Department of Justice as may be necessary to respond to such 
circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the 
preceding proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming 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.

 Community Oriented Policing Services

 community oriented policing services programs

 (including transfer of funds)

 For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322); the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (``the 1968 Act''); the Violence Against 
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 
109-162) (``the 2005 Act''); the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 
2017 (Public Law 115-37); the Law Enforcement Mental Health and 
Wellness Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-113) (``the LEMHW Act''); the 
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-271); and the 
Supporting and Treating Officers In Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-
32) (``the STOIC Act''), $654,138,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That any balances made available through prior 
year deobligations shall only be available in accordance with 

section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That of the amount provided under 
this heading--

    (1) $256,169,024 is for grants under 

section 1701 of title 
 I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) for the hiring and rehiring 
 of additional career law enforcement officers under part Q of 
 such title notwithstanding subsection
            (i) of such section: 
 Provided, That, notwithstanding 

section 1704
            (c) of such title 
 (34 U.S.C. 10384
            (c) ), funding for hiring or rehiring a career 
 law enforcement officer may not exceed $125,000 unless the 
 Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 
 grants a waiver from this limitation: Provided further, That 
 of the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, $34,000,000 
 is for improving Tribal law enforcement, including hiring, 
 equipment, training, anti-methamphetamine activities, and anti-
 opioid activities: Provided further, That of the amounts 
 appropriated under this paragraph, $44,000,000 is for regional 
 information sharing activities, as authorized by part M of 
 title I of the 1968 Act, which shall be transferred to and 
 merged with ``Research, Evaluation and Statistics'' for 
 administration by the Office of Justice Programs: Provided 
 further, That of the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, 
 no less than $4,000,000 is to support the Tribal Access 
 Program: Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated 
 under this paragraph, $10,000,000 is for training, peer 
 mentoring, mental health program activities, and other support 
 services as authorized under the LEMHW Act and the STOIC Act;

    (2) $12,000,000 is for activities authorized by the POLICE 
 Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-199);

    (3) $16,000,000 is for competitive grants to State law 
 enforcement agencies in States with high seizures of precursor 
 chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and 
 laboratory dump seizures: Provided, That funds appropriated 
 under this paragraph shall be utilized for investigative 
 purposes to locate or investigate illicit activities, including 
 precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphetamine 
 traffickers;

    (4) $35,000,000 is for competitive grants to statewide law 
 enforcement agencies in States with high rates of primary 
 treatment admissions for heroin and other opioids: Provided, 
 That these funds shall be utilized for investigative purposes 
 to locate or investigate illicit activities, including 
 activities related to the distribution of heroin or unlawful 
 distribution of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin and 
 prescription opioid traffickers through statewide 
 collaboration;

    (5) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be 
 administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office 
 for purposes authorized under the STOP School Violence Act 
 (title V of division S of Public Law 115-141); and

    (6) $281,968,976 is for a law enforcement technologies and 
 equipment grant program, which shall be used for the projects, 
 and in the amounts, specified for ``DOJ COPS Tech'' in the 
 table entitled ``Community Project Funding'' in the report 
 accompanying this Act: Provided, That such amounts may not be 
 transferred for any other purpose: Provided further, That 
 grants funded by such amounts shall not be subject to 

section 1703 of title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10383).

 General Provisions--Department of Justice

 (including transfers of funds)

 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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--

    (1) paragraph 1
            (I) under the heading ``State and Local Law 
 Enforcement Assistance''; and

    (2) paragraph

    (6) under the heading ``Community Oriented 
 Policing Services Programs''.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 207.

    (a) 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.

    (b) Subsection

    (a) does not preclude the rental, maintenance, or 
purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or equipment for inmate 
training, religious, or educational programs.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 212.

    (a) 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''--

    (1) 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

    (2) 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.

    (b) This section shall not apply to--

    (1) paragraph

    (1)
        (J) under the heading ``State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance''; or

    (2) paragraph

    (6) under the heading ``Community Oriented Policing 
Services'';
 

Sec. 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:

    (1) 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) ).

    (2) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 216.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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.
            (c) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 This title may be cited as the ``Department of Justice 
Appropriations Act, 2026''.

 TITLE III

 SCIENCE

 Office of Science and Technology Policy

 For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and 
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 
6601 et seq.), hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services as 
authorized by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to 
exceed $2,250 for official reception and representation expenses, and 
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $7,965,000.

 National Space Council

 For necessary expenses of the National Space Council, in carrying 
out the purposes of title V of Public Law 100-685 and Executive Order 
No. 13803, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized 
by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed $2,250 
for official reception and representation expenses, $1,965,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the National 
Space Council may accept personnel support from Federal agencies, 
departments, and offices, and such Federal agencies, departments, and 
offices may detail staff without reimbursement to the National Space 
Council for purposes provided herein.

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 science

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of science research and development activities, including 
research, development, operations, support, and services; maintenance 
and repair, facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft 
control, and communications activities; program management; personnel 
and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $6,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027. Provided, That of the amount made available under 
this heading, the total amount specified in the table titled under the 
subheading ``Science'' in the table titled ``National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration'' in the report accompanying this Act shall be for 
the purposes and in not less than the amount for each such purpose 
specified in such subheading.

 aeronautics

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of aeronautics research and development activities, 
including research, development, operations, support, and services; 
maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space flight, 
spacecraft control, and communications activities; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $775,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027.

 space technology

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of space technology research and development activities, 
including research, development, operations, support, and services; 
maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space flight, 
spacecraft control, and communications activities; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $912,827,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027.

 exploration

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of exploration research and development activities, 
including research, development, operations, support, and services; 
maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space flight, 
spacecraft control, and communications activities; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $9,715,800,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, concurrent with the annual 
budget submission, a 5-year budget profile for an integrated system 
that includes the Space Launch System, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew 
Vehicle, and associated ground systems that will ensure a crewed launch 
as early as possible.

 space operations

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of space operations research and development activities, 
including research, development, operations, support and services; 
space flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities, 
including operations, production, and services; maintenance and repair, 
facility planning and design; program management; personnel and related 
costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; 
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, 
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $4,150,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027.

 safety, security and mission services

 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of science, aeronautics, space technology, exploration, 
space operations and education research and development activities, 
including research, development, operations, support, and services; 
maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space flight, 
spacecraft control, and communications activities; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to 
exceed $63,000 for official reception and representation expenses; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $3,044,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That if available balances in the 
``Science, Space, and Technology Education Trust Fund'' are not 
sufficient to provide for the grant disbursements required under the 
third and fourth provisos under such heading in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1989 (Public Law 100-404) as amended by the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-327), up to $1,000,000 shall 
be available from amounts made available under this heading to make 
such grant disbursements: Provided further, $26,000,000 shall be for 
the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and 
$58,000,000 shall be for the National Space Grant College and 
Fellowship Program: Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this heading, $36,831,135 shall be used for the projects, and in 
the amounts, specified for ``NASA SSMS'' in the table entitled 
``Community Project Funding'' in the report accompanying this Act: 
Provided further, That the amounts made available for the projects 
referenced in the preceding proviso may not be transferred for any 
other purpose.

 construction and environmental compliance and restoration

 For necessary expenses for construction of facilities including 
repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modification of facilities, 
construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, 
facility planning and design, and restoration, and acquisition or 
condemnation of real property, as authorized by law, and environmental 
compliance and restoration, $200,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2031: Provided, That proceeds from leases deposited into 
this account shall be available for a period of 5 years to the extent 
and in amounts as provided in annual appropriations Acts: Provided 
further, That such proceeds referred to in the preceding proviso shall 
be available for obligation for fiscal year 2026 in an amount not to 
exceed $33,000,000: Provided further, That each annual budget request 
shall include an annual estimate of gross receipts and collections and 
proposed use of all funds collected pursuant to 

section 20145 of title 
51, United States Code.

 office of inspector general

 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, $40,700,000, of which 
$2,500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027.

 administrative provisions

 (including transfers of funds)

 Funds for any announced prize otherwise authorized shall remain 
available, without fiscal year limitation, until a prize is claimed or 
the offer is withdrawn.
 Not to exceed 10 percent of any appropriation made available for 
the current fiscal year for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such 
appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise 
specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 20 percent by 
any such transfers. Any funds transferred to ``Construction and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration'' for construction activities 
shall not increase that account by more than 20 percent. Balances so 
transferred shall be merged with and available for the same purposes 
and the same time period as the appropriations to which transferred. 
Any transfer pursuant to this provision 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.
 Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation provided for the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration under previous 
appropriations Acts that remains available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2026 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. Any transfer pursuant to this provision shall 
retain its original availability and 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.
 The spending plan required by this Act shall be provided by the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the theme, program, 
project, and activity level. The spending plan, as well as any 
subsequent change of an amount established in that spending plan that 
meets the notification requirements of 

section 505 of this Act, shall 
be treated as a reprogramming 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.
 Amounts made available in the current-year Construction and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration

    (CECR) appropriation may be 
applied to CECR projects funded under previous years' CECR 
appropriations. Use of current-year funds under this provision 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.
 Not to exceed $32,600,000 made available for the current fiscal 
year in this Act within ``Safety, Security and Mission Services'' may 
be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration. Balances so transferred shall be available 
until expended only for activities described in 

section 30102

    (b)

    (3) of 
title 51, United States Code, as amended by this Act, and shall remain 
available until expended. Any transfer pursuant to this provision 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.
 Funds previously made available in the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31) under the heading ``National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration--Space Operations'' that were available for 
obligation through fiscal year 2018 are to remain available through 
fiscal year 2027 for the liquidation of valid obligations incurred in 
fiscal years 2017 and 2018.
 Funds previously made available in the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141) under the heading ``National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration--Space Operations'' that were available for 
obligation through fiscal year 2019 are to remain available through 
fiscal year 2027 for the liquidation of valid obligations incurred in 
fiscal years 2018 and 2019.
 For the closeout of all Space Shuttle contracts and associated 
programs, amounts that have expired but have not been cancelled in the 
Exploration, Space Operations, Human Space Flight, Space Flight 
Capabilities, and Exploration Capabilities appropriations accounts 
shall remain available through fiscal year 2030 for the liquidation of 
valid obligations incurred during the period of fiscal year 2001 
through fiscal year 2013.

 National Science Foundation

 research and related activities

 For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), and Public Law 86-209 
(42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.); services as authorized by 

section 3109 of 
title 5, United States Code; maintenance and operation of aircraft and 
purchase of flight services for research support; acquisition of 
aircraft; and authorized travel; $6,373,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this heading, not to exceed $700,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended for polar research and operations support, and for 
reimbursement to other Federal agencies for operational and science 
support and logistical and other related activities for the United 
States Antarctic program: Provided further, That of the amounts in the 
preceding proviso, not less than $109,310,000 shall be for U.S. 
Antarctic Logistical Support: Provided further, That receipts for 
scientific support services and materials furnished by the National 
Research Centers and other National Science Foundation supported 
research facilities may be credited to this appropriation.

 major research equipment and facilities construction

 For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construction, 
commissioning, and upgrading of major research equipment, facilities, 
and other such capital assets pursuant to the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including authorized 
travel, $251,000,000, to remain available until expended.

 agency operations and award management

 For agency operations and award management necessary in carrying 
out the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et 
seq.); services authorized by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 
States Code; rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia; 
and reimbursement of the Department of Homeland Security for security 
guard services; $355,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $8,280 is 
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That contracts may be entered into under this heading in fiscal year 
2026 for maintenance and operation of facilities and for other services 
to be provided during the next fiscal year.

 office of the national science board

 For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, authorized 
travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia, and the employment of experts and 
consultants under 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code) involved 
in carrying out 

section 4 of the National Science Foundation Act of 
1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86-209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), 
$3,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses.

 office of inspector general

 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General as 
authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, $18,000,000, of which 
$1,300,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027.

 administrative provisions

 (including transfer of funds)

 Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the 
current fiscal year for the National Science Foundation in this Act may 
be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation 
shall be increased by more than 20 percent by any such transfers. Any 
transfer pursuant to this paragraph 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.
 The Director of the National Science Foundation

    (NSF) shall notify 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate at least 30 days in advance of any planned divestment 
through transfer, decommissioning, termination, or deconstruction of 
any NSF-owned facilities or any NSF capital assets (including land, 
structures, and equipment) valued greater than $2,500,000.
 This title may be cited as the ``Science Appropriations Act, 
2026''.

 TITLE IV

 RELATED AGENCIES

 Commission on Civil Rights

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil Rights, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $13,000,000: Provided, That none of 
the funds appropriated in this paragraph may be used to employ any 
individuals under Schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations exclusive of one special assistant for each 
Commissioner: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in 
this paragraph shall be used to reimburse Commissioners for more than 
75 billable days, with the exception of the chairperson, who is 
permitted 125 billable days: Provided further, That the Chair may 
accept and use any gift or donation to carry out the work of the 
Commission: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in 
this paragraph shall be used for any activity or expense that is not 
explicitly authorized by 

section 3 of the Civil Rights Commission Act 
of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 1975a).

 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission as authorized by title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 
1963, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 

section 501 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Genetic 
Information Nondiscrimination Act

    (GINA) of 2008 (Public Law 110-233), 
the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-325), and the Lilly 
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-2), including services 
as authorized by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 

section 1343

    (b) of title 31, 
United States Code; nonmonetary awards to private citizens; and up to 
$31,500,000 for payments to State and local enforcement agencies for 
authorized services to the Commission, $435,382,000: Provided, That 
the Commission is authorized to make available for official reception 
and representation expenses not to exceed $2,250 from available funds: 
Provided further, That the Commission may take no action to implement 
any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until 
such time as the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate have been notified of such proposals, in 
accordance with the reprogramming requirements of 

section 505 of this 
Act: Provided further, That the Chair may accept and use any gift or 
donation to carry out the work of the Commission.

 International Trade Commission

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the International Trade Commission, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized 
by 

section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and not to exceed 
$2,250 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$134,000,000, to remain available until expended.

 Legal Services Corporation

 payment to the legal services corporation

 For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out the 
purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, $300,000,000, 
of which $259,250,000 is for basic field programs and required 
independent audits; $6,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, 
of which such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct 
additional audits of recipients; $24,000,000 is for management and 
grants oversight; $4,500,000 is for client self-help and information 
technology; $4,250,000 is for a Pro Bono Innovation Fund; and 
$2,000,000 is for loan repayment assistance: Provided, That the Legal 
Services Corporation may continue to provide locality pay to officers 
and employees at a rate no greater than that provided by the Federal 
Government to Washington, DC-based employees as authorized by 

section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, notwithstanding 

section 1005
            (d) of 
the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996d
            (d) ): Provided 
further, That the authorities provided in 

section 205 of this Act shall 
be applicable to the Legal Services Corporation: Provided further, 
That, for the purposes of 

section 505 of this Act, the Legal Services 
Corporation shall be considered an agency of the United States 
Government.

 administrative provisions--legal services corporation

 None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services 
Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited by, 
or contrary to any of the provisions of, sections 501, 502, 503, 504, 
505, and 506 of Public Law 105-119, and all funds appropriated in this 
Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to the same 
terms and conditions set forth in such sections, except that all 
references in sections 502 and 503 to 1997 and 1998 shall be deemed to 
refer instead to 2025 and 2026, respectively: Provided, That for the 
purposes of applications of such sections 501 and 502, any requirement 
relating to the proportion of attorneys serving on the governing body 
of an entity providing legal assistance shall be deemed to be satisfied 
if at least 33 percent of such governing body is composed of attorneys 
otherwise meeting the criteria established by 

section 1007
            (c) of the 
Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996f
            (c) ), and 

section 502

    (2) (b)
            (ii) of Public Law 104-134 shall not apply.

 Marine Mammal Commission

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Commission as 
authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), $1,000,000.

 Office of the United States Trade Representative

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the Office of the United States Trade 
Representative, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and the 
employment of experts and consultants as authorized by 

section 3109 of 
title 5, United States Code, $51,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
made available under this heading, not to exceed $124,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses.

 trade enforcement trust fund

 (including transfer of funds)

 For activities of the United States Trade Representative authorized 
by 

section 611 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 
2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405), including transfers, $23,000,000, to be derived 
from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund: Provided, That any transfer 
pursuant to subsection
            (d) (1) of such section shall be treated as a 
reprogramming under 

section 505 of this Act.

 State Justice Institute

 salaries and expenses

 For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, as 
authorized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10701 
et seq.) $5,971,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: Provided 
further, That, for the purposes of 

section 505 of this Act, the State 
Justice Institute shall be considered an agency of the United States 
Government.

 TITLE V

 GENERAL PROVISIONS

 (including transfers and rescissions of funds)

 

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

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 506.

    (a) 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.

    (b)

    (1) 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.

    (2) The term ``promotional items'' has the meaning given the term 
in OMB Circular A-87, Attachment B, Item

    (1) (f)

    (3) .
 

Sec. 507.

    (a) 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.

    (b) The report described in subsection

    (a) shall be submitted 
within 30 days of the end of each quarter.
            (c) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 513.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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--

    (1) any matter described in 

section 552

    (b) of title 5, 
 United States Code; and

    (2) 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.
            (c) 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.
            (d) 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.
 

Sec. 514.

    (a) 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--

    (1) 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;

    (2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive 
 awardee against available and relevant threat information 
 provided by the FBI and other appropriate agencies; and

    (3) 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.

    (b) 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--

    (1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the FBI, and 
 supply chain risk management experts, a mitigation strategy for 
 any identified risks;

    (2) determined, in consultation with NIST and the FBI, that 
 the acquisition of such system is in the national interest of 
 the United States; and

    (3) reported that determination to the Committees on 
 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
 and the agency Inspector General.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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--

    (1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States-
 Singapore Free Trade Agreement;

    (2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States-
 Australia Free Trade Agreement; or

    (3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States-
 Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.

    (rescissions) Sec. 521.

    (a) 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--

    (1) ``Census Working Capital Fund'', $15,000,000; and

    (2) ``National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--
 Operations, Research, and Facilities'', $46,299,000, only from 
 prior year appropriations.

    (b) 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--

    (1) ``State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office on 
 Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Prevention and 
 Prosecution Programs'', $36,000,000;

    (2) ``State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office of 
 Justice Programs'', $250,000,000; and

    (3) ``State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Community 
 Oriented Policing Services'', $25,000,000.

    (4) ``Working Capital Fund'', $100,000,000; and

    (5) ``Legal Activities--Assets Forfeiture Fund'', 
 $175,000,000; and

    (6) ``Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries 
 and Expenses'', $50,000,000.
            (c) 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) .
            (d) 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.

    (e) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsection

    (b) shall not be 
from amounts provided under--

    (1) 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;

    (2) 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;

    (3) 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;

    (4) 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;

    (5) 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

    (6) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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--

    (1) 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

    (2) 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.
 

Sec. 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:

    (1) Details on future action the department, agency, or 
 instrumentality will take to resolve undisbursed balances in 
 expired grant accounts.

    (2) The method that the department, agency, or 
 instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances in expired 
 grant accounts.

    (3) Identification of undisbursed balances in expired grant 
 accounts that may be returned to the Treasury of the United 
 States.

    (4) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 526.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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.
            (c) 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--

    (1) 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

    (2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials 
 who have been determined by the United States to have direct 
 involvement with violations of human rights.
            (d) 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.
 

Sec. 527.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 531.

    (a) 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.

    (b) Funds made available under this Act to the Department of 
Justice may be used to enforce violations of 21 U.S.C. 860.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 534.

    (a) 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.

    (b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license--

    (1) 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

    (2) does not permit the export without a license of--
        (A) 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;
        (B) 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
            (C) articles for export from Canada to another 
 foreign destination.
            (c) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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--

    (1) all other requirements of law with respect to the 
 proposed importation are met; and

    (2) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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--

    (1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the Armed 
 Forces of the United States; and

    (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United 
 States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department 
 of Defense.
 

Sec. 540.

    (a) 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.

    (b) The prohibition in subsection

    (a) shall not apply to any 
modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba.
            (c) 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--

    (1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member of 
 the Armed Forces of the United States; and

    (2) is--
        (A) in the custody or under the effective control 
 of the Department of Defense; or
        (B) otherwise under detention at United States 
 Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
 

Sec. 541.

    (a)

    (1) 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.

    (2) 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.

    (b) 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.
            (c) 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--

    (1) 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

    (2) 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.
            (d) 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.

    (e) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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)).
 

Sec. 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.''
 

Sec. 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)).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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)).
 

Sec. 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.''
 

Sec. 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.''
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 552. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used--

    (1) by the--
        (A) Department of Commerce for--
            (i) the National Institute of Standards and 
 Technology Center of Excellence in Climate 
 Change; or
            (ii) climate change fisheries research;
        (B) National Science Foundation for the--
            (i) U.S. Global Change Research Program

    (USGCRP) ; or
            (ii) Clean Energy Technology program; or
 

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

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

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

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 569. None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to--

    (1) 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

    (2) direct any other law enforcement or regulatory entity 
 to conduct any of the activities described in paragraph

    (1) on 
 the ATF's behalf.
 

Sec. 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 Nicolas Maduro Moros, or any other country determined by the 
Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

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

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 577.

    (a) 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.

    (b) Discriminatory action defined.--As used in subsection

    (a) , a 
discriminatory action means any action taken by the Federal Government 
to--

    (1) 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) ;

    (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any 
 charitable contribution made to or by such person;

    (3) 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;

    (4) 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

    (5) 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.
            (c) 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) .
 

Sec. 578.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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.).
            (c) In this section--

    (1) 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

    (2) the term ``immediate family member'' means a spouse, 
 sibling, son, daughter, parent, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, 
 uncle, niece, or nephew.
 

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

Sec. 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)).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 583.

    (a) 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.

    (b) Subsection

    (a) shall apply with respect to custodial and 
noncustodial interviews, but shall not apply with respect to--

    (1) communications with confidential informants; or

    (2) interviews of non-United States persons conducted 
 outside the United States.
            (c) Recordings of such interviews shall be retained for 10 years.
 

Sec. 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.
 

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

Sec. 586. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be made used to--

    (1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 
 communications by a United States person as misinformation, 
 disinformation, or malinformation; or

    (2) 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.
 

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

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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)).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.''
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.

 TITLE VI

 OTHER MATTERS

 

Sec. 601.

    (a) 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.

    (b) 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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).
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 613.

    (a) 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--
 ``
            (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.''.

    (b) Section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity

    (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023) is amended--

    (1) by redesignating paragraphs

    (13) ,

    (14) , and

    (15) as 
 paragraphs

    (14) ,

    (15) , and

    (16) , respectively; and

    (2) by inserting after paragraph

    (12) the following:
 ``

    (13) SUCCESOR in interest.--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.''.
            (c) 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''.
            (d) The amendments made by subsections

    (a) ,

    (b) , and
            (c) shall 
apply to--

    (1) any action initiated after the date of the enactment of 
 this Act;

    (2) any action pending in any court as of such date of 
 enactment, including any action pending on appeal or otherwise;

    (3) any action for which the time to file an appeal has not 
 expired; or

    (4) 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) .

    (e) 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.

    (f) Section 305 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity

    (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 USC 

Sec. 6084) is repealed.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 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.
 

Sec. 618.

    (a) None of the funds appropriated herein or hereafter 
may be used to--

    (1) 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;

    (2) 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) .

    (b) 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) .

 spending reduction account

 

Sec. 619. $0.
 This Act may be cited as the ``Commerce, Justice, Science, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026''.
 Union Calendar No. 228

119th CONGRESS

 1st Session

 H. R. 5342

 [Report No. 119-272]

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
 2026, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 September 12, 2025

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
 and ordered to be printed