[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5893 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 5893
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice,
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2024, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 6, 2023
Mr. Rogers of Kentucky introduced the following bill;
October 25, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the
Committee on the Budget, for a period to subsequently determined by the
speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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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,
2024, 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 fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, 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, 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; 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, $570,000,000, of which $85,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2024: Provided, That $12,000,000 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,
$191,000,000, of which $76,000,000 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, for grants
authorized by sections 27 and 28 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722, 3722a, 3722b, and 3723), as
amended, $211,000,000 to remain available until expended, of which
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under section 27 and $41,000,000 shall
be for grants under section 28: 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, $43,500,000: 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, $55,000,000.
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, 2025.
Bureau of the Census
current surveys and programs
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, analyzing,
preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by law,
$300,000,000: 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, $1,054,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025: 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), $54,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2025: 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.
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, $4,195,799,000, 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 2024, so as to result in a fiscal year 2024
appropriation from the general fund estimated at $0: Provided further,
That during fiscal year 2024, should the total amount of such
offsetting collections be less than $4,195,799,000, this amount shall
be reduced accordingly: Provided further, That any amount received in
excess of $4,195,799,000 in fiscal year 2024 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 2025 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 2024 or
fiscal year 2025: Provided further, That from amounts provided herein,
not to exceed $13,500 shall be made available in fiscal year 2024 for
official reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That
in fiscal year 2024 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), $1,019,948,000, 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, $118,511,000 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,
$237,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $200,000,000
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), $220,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce shall include
in the budget justification materials for fiscal year 2024 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, $3,726,628,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2025, of which, $5,000,000 is
for necessary expenses of designing and deploying the near real-time
monitoring and mitigation program for threatened or endangered
cetaceans authorized by section 11303 of the James M. Inhofe National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (16 U.S.C. 1391):
Provided, That the Administrator of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration may not amend or withdraw the North Atlantic
right whale vessel strike reduction rule contained in section 224.105
of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, in effect in Fiscal Year 2022
until such Administrator has fulfilled the requirements of section
11303(e) of that Act (16 U.S.C. 1391(e)): Provided further, 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, $355,081,000 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 $50,000,000
shall be for payment to the ``Department of Commerce Working Capital
Fund'': Provided further, That of the $4,104,709,000 provided for in
direct obligations under this heading, $3,726,628,000 is appropriated
from the general fund, $355,081,000 is provided by transfer, and
$23,000,000 is derived from recoveries of prior year obligations:
Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated under this heading,
$56,999,000 shall be used for Coastal Zone Management projects, which
shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for ``DOC-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, $1,653,630,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2026, 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 $1,666,630,000 provided for in direct obligations under this
heading, $1,653,630,000 is appropriated from the general fund and
$13,000,000 is provided from recoveries of prior year obligations:
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 the Secretary of Commerce shall
include in budget justification materials for fiscal year 2024 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, 2025: 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.
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 2023, obligations of direct loans may not exceed
$24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota loans and not to exceed
$100,000,000 for traditional direct loans as authorized by the Merchant
Marine Act of 1936.
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, $80,000,000: Provided, That no
employee of the Department of Commerce may be detailed or assigned from
a bureau or office funded by this Act or any other Act to offices
within the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Commerce for
more than 180 days in a fiscal year unless the individual's employing
bureau or office is fully reimbursed for the salary and expenses of the
employee for the entire period of assignment using funds provided under
this heading: Provided further, That amounts made available to the
Department of Commerce in this or any prior Act may not be transferred
pursuant to section 508 of this or any prior Act to the account funded
under this heading, except in the case of extraordinary circumstances
that threaten life or property.
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.), $49,598,000.
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 2024: 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, 2024, 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.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Commerce
Appropriations Act, 2024''.
TITLE II
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
General Administration
salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the administration of the Department of
Justice, $113,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2024, 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,
$38,000,000, 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,
$760,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the
Executive Office for Immigration Review fees deposited in the
``Immigration Examinations Fee'' account: Provided, That not to exceed
$50,000,000 of the total amount made available under this heading shall
remain available until September 30, 2027, for build-out and
modifications of courtroom space: Provided further, 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,
$142,000,000, 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, 2024.
United States Parole Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole Commission as
authorized, $14,238,000: 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, $938,500,000, 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 $9,000 shall be available to
INTERPOL Washington for official reception and representation expenses:
Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed
$9,000 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, $192,776,000, 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 $192,776,000 of offsetting collections
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 2024, so as to result in a
final fiscal year 2024 appropriation from the general fund estimated at
$0.
salaries and expenses, united states attorneys
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United States
Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooperative agreements,
$2,312,000,000: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, not
to exceed $19,600 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, $239,000,000, 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 2024, net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due
depositors, exceed $255,000,000, 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 2024, net of amounts necessary to pay
refunds due depositors, (estimated at $230,000,000) 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 2024 appropriation
from the general fund estimated at $9,000,000.
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, $270,000,000, 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.
salaries and expenses, community relations service
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations Service,
$10,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 205 of this Act,
upon a determination by the Attorney General that emergent
circumstances require additional funding for conflict resolution and
violence prevention activities of the Community Relations Service, the
Attorney General may transfer up to $8,000,000 to the Community
Relations Service, from available appropriations for the current fiscal
year for Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities, 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.
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,
$1,715,700,000, 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, $15,000,000, 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, $2,125,724,000, 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, $120,681,000, 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 and 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, $555,458,000, 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, $10,276,000,000, of which not to exceed $216,900,000 shall
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $284,000
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: Provided, That such amount shall
be used for a second DNA laboratory: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, unobligated balances from
prior year appropriations made available under Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Construction, for a new headquarters, may only be used
to sustain use of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover
headquarters building.
Drug Enforcement Administration
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
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, $2,760,924,000, of which not to exceed
$75,000,000 shall remain available until expended and not to exceed
$90,000 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: Provided
further, That $50,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with
``Community Oriented Policing Services Programs'' for competitive
grants to State and local law enforcement agencies for the purpose of
investigating illicit activities related to the distribution of
methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, and the
unlawful distribution of prescription opioids.
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, $1,531,071,000, of which not to exceed $36,000 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, $8,492,588,000: 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 ``Office
of Justice Programs-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 no amounts under
this heading available for programs and activities related to the First
Step Act may 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,
$273,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $135,000,000
shall be available only for costs related to reconstruction and major
repairs to facilities with geological and seismic deficiencies:
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''); and the Abolish
Human Trafficking Act (Public Law 115-392); the Prison Rape Elimination
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-79) (``PREA''); 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,
$700,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of
the amount provided--
(1) $255,000,000 is for grants to combat violence against
women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 Act, and any
authorized, applicable incentive funding amounts with respect
to such grants;
(2) $46,000,000 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) $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;
programs to engage men and youth in preventing such violence;
and assistance to middle and high school students through
education and other services related to such violence, of which
$3,500,000 is to engage men and youth in preventing domestic
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking:
Provided, That 10 percent of the total amount available for
this grant program shall be available for grants under the
program authorized by section 2015 of the 1968 Act: Provided
further, That the definitions and grant conditions in section
40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this program;
(4) $60,500,000 is for grants to encourage arrests and
otherwise improve the criminal justice response to domestic
violence as authorized by part U of title I the 1968 Act, of
which $8,000,000 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;
(5) $78,500,000 is for sexual assault victims assistance,
as authorized by section 41601 of the 1994 Act;
(6) $15,500,000 is for grants to protect inmates and
safeguard communities as authorized by section 6 of PREA:
Provided, That such funds may be transferred to ``State and
Local Law Enforcement Assistance'' for administration by the
Office of Justice Programs;
(7) $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;
(8) $50,000,000 is for rural domestic violence and child
abuse enforcement assistance grants, as authorized by section
40295 of the 1994 Act;
(9) $25,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent crimes
against women on campus, as authorized by section 304 of the
2005 Act, of which $12,500,000 is for grants to Historically
Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions,
and Tribal colleges and universities;
(10) $50,000,000 is for legal assistance for victims, as
authorized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act;
(11) $22,000,000 is for grants to support families in the
justice system, as authorized by section 1301 of the 2000 Act;
(12) $9,000,000 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;
(13) $12,000,000 is for education and training to end
violence against, and abuse of, women with disabilities, as
authorized by section 1402 of the 2000 Act;
(14) $2,500,000 is for research, evaluation, and statistics
of violence against women and related issues addressed by grant
programs of the Office on Violence Against Women, of which,
$1,000,000 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
``State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance'' for
administration by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National
Institute of Justice;
(15) $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;
(16) $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;
(17) $11,000,000 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 under such programs:
Provided further, That $3,000,000 is for an initiative to
support cross-designation of Tribal prosecutors as Tribal
Special Assistant United States Attorneys: Provided further,
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 40002 of
the 1994 Act shall apply to such initiative;
(18) $2,500,000 is for the purposes authorized under title
IV the 2015 Act (the ``Rape Survivor Child Custody Act'');
(19) $5,000,000 is for the purposes authorized under
section 205 of division W of the 2022 Act (the ``Abby Honold
Act'');
(20) $5,000,000 is for grants to State and Tribal courts to
implement protection order pilot programs;
(21) $20,000,000 is for grants to support access to sexual
assault nurse examinations, as authorized by section 304 of
title III of the 2004 Act: Provided, That the grant conditions
in section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this program;
and for regional sexual assault investigative training
academies; and
(22) $10,000,000 is for local law enforcement grants for
prevention, enforcement, and prosecution of cybercrimes against
individuals, as authorized by sections 1401 and 1402 of the
2022 Act: Provided, That the grant conditions in section 40002
of the 1994 Act shall apply to this program.
Office of Justice Programs
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 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 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 SUPPORT for
Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-271); the Second Chance
Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-391); the Matthew Shepard
and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 111-84); 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''); and other programs, $2,477,910,000, to
remain available until expended, of which--
(1) $35,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics
programs, as authorized by part C of title I of the 1968 Act;
(2) $25,000,000 is for research, development, and
evaluation programs, of which $8,000,000 is for Research and
Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
grants;
(3) $670,510,000 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) $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;
(B) $20,000,000 is for a competitive matching grant
program for purchases of body-worn cameras for State,
local, and Tribal law enforcement; and
(C) $214,463,000 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;
(4) $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));
(5) $95,000,000 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, of which, $4,000,000 is for
grants to prevent the trafficking of girls;
(6) $95,000,000 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 $25,500,000
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) $195,000,000 is for DNA-related and forensic programs
and activities, of which--
(A) $130,000,000 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); and
(B) $55,000,000 is for community-based grant
programs to improve the response to sexual assault and
assistance for investigation and prosecution of related
cold cases;
(8) $20,000,000 is for grants for wrongful conviction
review and for the purposes described in the Kirk Bloodsworth
Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program (Public Law 108-405,
section 412);
(9) $35,000,000 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;
(10) $80,000,000 is for assistance to Indian Tribes, of
which--
(A) $31,500,000 is for improving Tribal law
enforcement, including hiring, equipment, training;
(B) $14,000,000 is for a Tribal Youth Program; and
(C) $3,000,000 is to support the Tribal Access
Program;
(11) $115,000,000 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--
(A) $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;
(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) $5,000,000 is for grants to enhance and
maintain parental and family relationships for
incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidivism
reduction strategy;
(12) $445,000,000 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) $95,000,000 is for Drug Courts, as authorized
by section 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I of the 1968 Act;
(B) $45,000,000 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) $45,000,000 is for grants for Residential
Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners, as
authorized by part S of title I of the 1968 Act;
(D) $35,000,000 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) $190,000,000 is for a comprehensive opioid,
stimulant, and substance use disorder program, of
which--
(i) $20,000,000 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 combatting
substance abuse, including investigations,
treatment, and education;
(ii) $17,000,000 is for forensic support
for opioid and synthetic drug investigations;
and
(iii) $12,500,000 is for an initiative
relating to youth affected by opioids,
stimulants, and substance use disorder;
(13) $82,000,000 is for grants to be administered by the
Bureau of Justice Assistance for purposes authorized under the
STOP School Violence Act;
(14) $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);
(15) $55,000,000 is for formula grants authorized by
section 221 of the 1974 Act;
(16) $107,000,000 is for youth mentoring grants;
(17) $41,000,000 is for programs authorized by the Victims
of Child Abuse Act of 1990, of which $4,000,000 is for grants
to improve the judicial system's handling of child abuse and
neglect cases, as authorized by section 222 of the 1990 Act;
(18) $15,000,000 is for the court-appointed special
advocate program, as authorized by section 217 of the 1990 Act;
(19) $130,400,000 is for missing and exploited Americans
programs, of which--
(A) $42,000,000 is for missing and exploited
children activities, 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);
(B) $52,000,000 is for Internet crimes against
children task forces, as authorized by the PROTECT Our
Children Act of 2008;
(C) $18,000,000 is for sex offender management
assistance, as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, and
related activities, of which $1,000,000 for the
National Sex Offender Public Website;
(D) $6,000,000 is for the operation, maintenance,
and expansion of the National Missing and Unidentified
Persons System;
(E) $5,000,000 is for grants authorized under the
Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2019
(Public Law 116-277);
(F) $2,000,000 is for the Missing Americans Alert
Program (title XXIV of the 1994 Act), as amended by
Kevin and Avonte's Law; and
(G) $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).
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 2024, including changes to applicant eligibility, priority
areas or weightings, and the application review process.
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); the
Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-185); and the Supporting and Treating Officers In
Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-32) (``the STOIC Act''),
$670,606,000, 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) $330,950,000 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, $100,000,000
is for grants for law enforcement activities associated with
the presidential nominating conventions;
(2) $50,000,000 is for regional information sharing
activities, as authorized by part M of title I of the 1968 Act,
which may be transferred to and merged with ``State and Local
Law Enforcement Assistance'' for administration by the Office
of Justice Programs;
(3) $10,000,000 is for training, peer mentoring, mental
health program activities, and other support services as
authorized under the LEMHW Act and part W of title I of the
1968 Act;
(4) $20,000,000 is for a grant program for State and local
law enforcement to provide officer training on responding to
individuals with mental illness or disabilities and for co-
responder teams and an Officer Robert Wilson III memorial
initiative on Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and
Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR);
(5) $12,890,000 is for activities authorized by the POLICE
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-199);
(6) $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);
(7) $20,000,000 is for grants authorized under the Project
Safe Neighborhoods Grant Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law
115-185), which may be transferred to and merged with ``State
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance'' for administration by
the Office of Justice Programs, of which, $8,000,000 is for a
rural violent crime initiative, including assistance for law
enforcement; and
(8) $173,766,000 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 transfer 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 $50,000 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 (23) under the heading ``State and Local Law
Enforcement Assistance''; and
(2) paragraph (4) 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 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 program
evaluation 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 (3)(C) under the heading ``State and Local Law
Enforcement Assistance'';
(2) paragraph (8) under the heading ``Community Oriented Policing
Services''; or
(3) any program for which funds are otherwise available, or
authorized to be made available, by law for the purposes designated in
subsection (a).
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 2021 through 2024 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 2024, 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
2024, 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 2024, 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 Asset 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 2022.
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. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney
General shall issue--
(1) an Environmental Impact Statement and Record of
Decision for the proposed Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities
in Letcher County, Kentucky, substantially in the form of the
Record of Decision issued by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on
April 12, 2018; and
(2) all studies, statements, and other authorizations that
are necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance
of the proposed Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities in Letcher
County, Kentucky, substantially in the form approved in the
Record of Decision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons dated April
12, 2018.
(b) The actions of the Attorney General and Director of the Federal
Bureau of Prisons that are necessary for the construction and operation
of the proposed Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Letcher County,
Kentucky shall not be subject to judicial review.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Justice
Appropriations Act, 2024''.
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, and rental
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $5,544,000.
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, $1,865,000:
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, $7,380,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025.
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, $945,800,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025.
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, $1,205,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025: Provided, That $227,000,000 shall be for On-orbit
Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1: Provided further, That
$110,000,000 shall be for the development, production, and
demonstration of a nuclear thermal propulsion system, of which not less
than $45,000,000 shall be for reactor development, not less than
$45,000,000 shall be for fuel materials development, and not less than
$20,000,000 shall be for non-nuclear systems development and
acquisition planning: Provided further, That, not later than 180 days
after the enactment of this Act, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration shall provide a plan for the design of a flight
demonstration.
exploration
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct
and support of Artemis Campaign 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, $7,971,091,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025: Provided, That not less than $1,225,000,000 shall
be for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Provided further, That
not less than $2,506,100,000 shall be for the Space Launch System (SLS)
launch vehicle, which shall have a lift capability not less than 130
metric tons and which shall have core elements and an Exploration Upper
Stage developed simultaneously to be used to the maximum extent
practicable, including for Earth to Moon missions and Moon landings:
Provided further, That of the amounts provided for SLS, not less than
$600,000,000 shall be for SLS Block 1B development including the
Exploration Upper Stage and associated systems including related
facilitization, to support an SLS Block 1B mission available to launch
in 2025 in addition to the planned Block 1 missions for Artemis I
through Artemis III: Provided further, That $794,200,000 shall be for
Exploration Ground Systems and associated Block 1B activities,
including up to $501,800,000 for a second mobile launch platform:
Provided further, 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 SLS, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and
associated ground systems that will ensure a crewed launch as early as
possible, as well as a system-based funding profile for a sustained
launch cadence that contemplates the use of an SLS Block 1B cargo
variant with an 8.4 meter fairing and associated ground systems:
Provided further, That $3,234,900,000 shall be for Artemis Campaign
Development.
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, $4,344,609,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025.
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics engagement
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct
and support of aerospace and aeronautical education research and
development activities, including research, development, operations,
support, and services; 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,
$89,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, of which
$29,000,000 shall be for the Established Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research and $60,000,000 shall be for the National Space
Grant College and Fellowship Program.
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, $3,135,451,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025: 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, That of the amounts
appropriated under this heading, $36,261,000 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, $247,900,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2029: 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 2024 in an amount not to
exceed $25,000,000: 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, $47,600,000, of which
$500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2025.
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 5 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 10 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 15 percent and any funds
transferred to or within ``Exploration'' for Exploration Ground Systems
shall not increase Exploration Ground Systems by more than $49,300,000.
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 2023 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.
Not more than 20 percent or $50,000,000, whichever is less, of the
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.
Of the amounts made available in this Act under the heading
``Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Engagement''
(``STEM Engagement''), up to $5,000,000 shall be available to jointly
fund, with an additional amount of up to $1,000,000 each from amounts
made available in this Act under the headings ``Science'',
``Aeronautics'', ``Space Technology'', ``Exploration'', and ``Space
Operations'', projects and activities for engaging students in STEM and
increasing STEM research capacities of universities, including Minority
Serving Institutions.
Not to exceed $18,162,000 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.
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; $7,866,646,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2025, of which not to exceed $680,000,000 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, 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, $254,000,000, to remain available until expended.
stem education
For necessary expenses in carrying out science, mathematics, and
engineering education and human resources programs and activities
pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861
et seq.), including services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5,
United States Code, authorized travel, and rental of conference rooms
in the District of Columbia, $1,006,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2025.
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; $472,000,000: 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
2024 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.),
$4,600,000: 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, $26,810,000, of which
$400,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2025.
administrative provisions
(including transfers 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 10 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,
2024''.
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, $420,000,000: 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,
$122,400,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That none
of the funds made available under this heading may be expended by the
International Trade Commission to conduct Section 337 investigations
asserting patent infringement, until the Commission implements a
standing rule requiring each party to disclose the real parties in
interest in all Section 337 patent litigation to ensure, inter alia,
disclosure of any and all beneficial owners and investors in the
litigation.
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, $489,000,000,
of which $448,250,000 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 provision--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 2023 and 2024, respectively.
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.), $4,200,000.
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, $56,000,000, 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, $15,000,000, 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, 2025: 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 rescissions)
(including transfer 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
2024, 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 $1,200,000,000 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) $7,500,000 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 2024 until the enactment of the Intelligence
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
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 from prior year
appropriations available to the Department of Commerce under the
heading ``Economic Development Administration, Economic Development
Assistance Programs'', $25,000,000 are hereby permanently cancelled,
not later than September 30, 2024.
(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, 2024, 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'', $5,000,000;
(2) ``State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office of
Justice Programs'', $120,000,000; and
(3) ``State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Community
Oriented Policing Services'', $15,000,000.
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the Department of
Justice, ``Working Capital Fund'', $82,572,000 is hereby permanently
rescinded.
(d) 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, 2023, specifying the amount
of each rescission made pursuant to subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d).
(e) Of the unobligated balances available in Public Law 117-169,
$12,900,000,000 available under section 10301(1)(A)(ii) and
$9,125,000,000 available under section 10301(1)(A)(iii) as of the date
of the enactment of this Act are rescinded.
(f) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d)
shall not be 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.
(g) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) 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; or
(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.
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. 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.
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.
(d) The President may require export licenses under this section on
a temporary basis if the President determines, upon publication first
in the Federal Register, that the Government of Canada has implemented
or maintained inadequate import controls for the articles specified in
subsection (a), such that a significant diversion of such articles has
and continues to take place for use in international terrorism or in
the escalation of a conflict in another nation. The President shall
terminate the requirements of a license when reasons for the temporary
requirements have ceased.
Sec. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal
year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, 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, or fail to act on, 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. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal
year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, 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 2024 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
titled ``Department of Commerce Allocation of National Institute of
Standards and Technology Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2024'' 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 2024 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 titled ``National
Science Foundation Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2024'' 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 2025, 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 2025.
(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 implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out a rule that
includes area or time closures in the South Atlantic until data from
the South Atlantic Great Red Snapper Count can be incorporated into the
stock assessment.
Sec. 543. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order
14006, ``Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of
Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities.''
Sec. 544. 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; published April 26,
2022).
Sec. 545. 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. 546. 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; published March 29,
2022).
Sec. 547. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
by the Department of Justice to promulgate a regulation regarding
asylum law and process or regarding administrative closure of cases in
immigration court.
Sec. 548. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out section 19
(establishing accreditation standards) or section 20 (supporting safe
and effective policing through grantmaking) of Executive Order 14074,
``Advancing Effective, Accountable, Policing and Criminal Justice
Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.''
Sec. 549. 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. 550. None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, carry out, or
defend of 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; published January
31, 2023).
Sec. 551. 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. 552. 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. 553. None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used--
(1) for the--
(A) Department of Commerce--
(i) Equity (DEIA) Council;
(ii) National Institute of Standards and
Technology Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and
Accessibility Initiative;
(iii) National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration--
(I) Office of Inclusion and Civil
Rights;
(II) Diversity and Inclusion
Advisory Management Council;
(III) NOAA Diversity and
Professional Advancement Working Group;
(B) Department of Justice--
(i) Chief Diversity Officer;
(ii) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives Diversity and Career Impact
Program;
(iii) Federal Bureau of Investigation
Office of Diversity and Inclusion;
(iv) Antitrust Division Diversity
Committee;
(v) National Resource Center for Justice-
Involved LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Youth;
(C) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of Diversity and Inclusion;
(D) National Science Foundation--
(i) Office of Equity and Civil Rights;
(ii) Advancing Informal STEM Learning
(AISL) Program;
(iii) Alliances for Graduate Education and
the Professoriate (AGEP);
(2) to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry
out--
(A) Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021,
``Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved
Communities Through the Federal Government'' (86 Fed.
Reg. 7009);
(B) Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023,
``Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal
Government'' (88 Fed. Reg. 10825); or
(C) Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021,
``Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in
the Federal Workforce'' (86 Fed. Reg. 34593); or
(3) to conduct any diversity, equity, inclusion, or
implicit bias training.
Sec. 554. 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
(2) to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out
Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021, ``Tackling the
Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'' (86 Fed. Reg. 7619).
Sec. 555. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to develop or implement guidance related to the valuation of ecosystem
and environmental services and natural assets in Federal regulatory
decision-making, as directed by Executive Order 14072 (87 Fed. Reg.
24851, relating to strengthening the Nation's forests, communities, and
local economies).
Sec. 556. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to provide legal representation to any alien in a removal proceeding.
Sec. 557. 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. 558. 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. 559. 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. 560. 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. 561. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to implement a limit on reimbursement available to a local law
enforcement jurisdiction under the Domestic Cannabis Suppression/
Eradication Program for the purpose of paying overtime pay to a law
enforcement officer who engages in eradication efforts against
unlicensed or unregistered cannabis grown in a State wherein production
or sales of cannabis is lawful.
Sec. 562. 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. 563. 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. 564. 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. 565. 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. 566. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
for gun buyback or relinquishment programs.
Sec. 567. 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. 568. 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. 569. 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. 570. 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. 571. 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, and Firearms 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, and Firearms.
Sec. 572. 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
a percentage of traces relative to a licensee's average number of
firearm sales for the preceding three years as reported on such
licensee's Federal firearms license renewal applications.
Sec. 573. 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. 574. 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. 575. None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to engage in any formal or informal negotiations,
regardless of subject, with leadership or representatives of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
Sec. 576. 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. 577. 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. 578. 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. 579. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
for the Department of Justice's Reproductive Rights Task Force.
Sec. 580. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to sue any State or local government over their abortion laws, or to
intervene or file an amicus brief in such a case.
Sec. 581. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to sue any State or local government over any law relating to
transgender issues, or to intervene or file an amicus brief in such a
case.
Sec. 582. None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to sue any State over its redistricting plans, or to
intervene or file an amicus brief in such a case.
Sec. 583. (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. 584. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
by any agency to enforce section 19.17 of the United States-Mexico-
Canada Agreement or Article 18 of the United States-Japan Digital Trade
Agreement or to negotiate similar language in future trade agreements.
Sec. 585. (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. 586. None of the funds made available by this Act or any
other Act may be used for an Office of Environmental Justice.
Sec. 587. 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).
Sec. 588. 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. 589. 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. 590. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used to conduct a politically sensitive investigation until the
Department of Justice establishes a policy requiring non-partisan
career staff to oversee such investigations.
(b) For the purpose of this section, the phrase ``politically
sensitive investigations'' includes investigations of elected officials
or their family members, political candidates or their family members,
political organizations, religious organizations, and members of the
media.
Sec. 591. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to pay the salary, benefits, bonuses, or expenses of a Department of
Justice employee who is found to have retaliated against a
whistleblower or suppressed an employee's constitutional rights under
the First Amendment.
Sec. 592. (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. 593. 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. 594. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
be used, or transferred to another Federal agency, board, or commission
to be used in furtherance of--
(1) any modification or publication of revised Merger
Guidelines without the express authorization of Congress;
(2) the European Commission's Digital Markets Act or in
support of such Act; or
(3) the hiring of any new employees to the Antitrust
Division, other than to replace retired or departed employees,
unless expressly authorized by Congress.
Sec. 595. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to fund the operations or expenses of any Federal employee union.
Sec. 596. (a) Section 507(d) of title 11, United States Code, is
amended by inserting ``excluding subparagraph (F)'' after ``(a)(8)''.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendment made by
in section (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this
Act.
(2) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not apply with
respect to cases commenced under title 11 of the United States Code
before the date of the enactment of this Act.
Sec. 597. 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. 598. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to enforce any COVID-19 vaccine mandates or passports.
spending reduction account
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This Act may be cited as the ``Commerce, Justice, Science, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024''.
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