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Union Calendar No. 172
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4552
[Report No. 119-212]
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 21, 2025
Mr. Womack, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the
following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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A BILL
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary,
$204,568,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided,
That of such amount--
(1) $3,763,000 shall be available for the immediate Office
of the Secretary;
(2) $1,348,000 shall be available for the immediate Office
of the Deputy Secretary;
(3) $26,511,000 shall be available for the Office of the
General Counsel;
(4) $23,358,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, of which
$7,000,000 shall be for the Office for Multimodal Freight
Infrastructure and Policy;
(5) $20,522,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs;
(6) $3,633,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs: Provided, That
funds made available for similar activities within the
Operating Administrations may be transferred to this office:
Provided further, That the Secretary of Transportation
(referred to in this title as the "Secretary") must notify the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 30 days in
advance of any such transfer and submit such transfer for
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
prior to executing any such transfer;
(7) $19,109,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Administration: Provided, That funds
made available for similar activities within the Operating
Administrations may be transferred to this office: Provided
further, That the Secretary must submit such transfer for
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
prior to executing any such transfer;
(8) $5,632,000 shall be available for the Office of Public
Affairs and Public Engagement: Provided, That funds made
available for similar activities within the Operating
Administrations may be transferred to this office: Provided
further, That the Secretary must submit such transfer for
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
prior to executing any such transfer;
(9) $2,226,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Executive Secretariat;
(10) $14,777,000 shall be available for the Office of
Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response;
(11) $16,182,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Chief Information Officer: Provided, That funds made available
for similar activities within the Operating Administrations may
be transferred to this office: Provided further, That the
Secretary must submit such transfer for approval to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to executing any
such transfer;
(12) $1,517,000 shall be available for the Office of Tribal
Government Affairs;
(13) $13,654,000 shall be available for the Office of Civil
Rights: Provided, That funds made available for similar
activities within the Operating Administrations may be
transferred to this office: Provided further, That the
Secretary must submit such transfer for approval to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to executing any
such transfer;
(14) $3,001,000 shall be available for the Office of Small
and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and Outreach: Provided,
That appropriations made available under this heading shall be
available for any purpose consistent with prior year
appropriations that were made available under the headings
"Office of the Secretary--Minority Business Resource Center
Program" and "Office of the Secretary--Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization and Outreach";
(15) $45,335,000 shall be available for shared services
pursuant to section 327 of title 49, United States Code, for
the Office of the Secretary that would otherwise be provided by
the Working Capital Fund, in addition to amounts otherwise
available for such purposes; and
(16) $4,000,000 shall be available for information
technology development, modernization, and enhancement, in
addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes:
Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized to transfer funds
appropriated under this heading for any office or activity of the
Office of the Secretary listed under this heading to any other office
or activity under this heading: Provided further, That ``activity'' as
used in the provisos of this paragraph is defined as shared services
otherwise provided by the Working Capital Fund and information
technology development, modernization, and enhancement: Provided
further, That such transfers combined shall not increase or decrease
the amount appropriated for any office or activity listed under this
heading by more than 7 percent unless the Secretary submits such
transfer for approval to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations: Provided further, That not to exceed $70,000 shall be
for allocation within the Department for official reception and
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may be
credited to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in
user fees.
research and technology
For necessary expenses related to the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology, $44,117,000, of which
$20,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of
the amounts made available under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for
the Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Program authorized in section
912 of Public Law 118-63: Provided further, That, notwithstanding
subsection (g)(2) of such section 912, amounts made available under
section 106(k) of title 49, United States Code, shall not be available
to carry out such program: Provided further, That of amounts made
available for the drone infrastructure inspection grant program,
$1,000,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided
further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be
available until expended, funds received from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources for
expenses incurred for training: Provided further, That any reference
in law, regulation, judicial proceedings, or elsewhere to the Research
and Innovative Technology Administration shall continue to be deemed to
be a reference to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research
and Technology of the Department of Transportation.
national surface transportation and innovative finance bureau
For necessary expenses of the National Surface Transportation and
Innovative Finance Bureau as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 116, $9,277,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary may
collect and spend fees, as authorized by title 23, United States Code,
to cover the costs of services of expert firms, including counsel, in
the field of municipal and project finance to assist in the
underwriting and servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a
portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit
instruments: Provided further, That such fees are available until
expended to pay for such costs: Provided further, That such amounts
are in addition to other amounts made available for such purposes and
are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limitation on
administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, United States
Code.
railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program
The Secretary is authorized to issue direct loans and loan
guarantees pursuant to chapter 224 of title 49, United States Code, and
such authority shall exist as long as any such direct loan or loan
guarantee is outstanding.
financial management capital
For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the Department
of Transportation's financial systems and re-engineering business
processes, $5,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027.
cyber security initiatives
For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, including
necessary upgrades to network and information technology
infrastructure, improvement of identity management and authentication
capabilities, securing and protecting data, implementation of Federal
cyber security initiatives, and implementation of enhanced security
controls on agency computers and mobile devices, $74,600,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2027.
transportation planning, research, and development
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning,
research, systems development, development activities, and making
grants, $22,991,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That of such amount, $8,506,000 shall be for necessary expenses of the
Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center (IIPIC):
Provided further, That there may be transferred to this appropriation,
to remain available until expended, amounts transferred from other
Federal agencies for expenses incurred under this heading for IIPIC
activities not related to transportation infrastructure: Provided
further, That the tools and analysis developed by the IIPIC shall be
available to other Federal agencies for the permitting and review of
major infrastructure projects not related to transportation only to the
extent that other Federal agencies provide funding to the Department in
accordance with the preceding proviso.
working capital fund
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of
the Working Capital Fund as authorized by Section 327 of title 49,
United States Code, not to exceed $532,608,000, shall be paid from
appropriations made available to the Department of Transportation:
Provided, That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis
to entities within the Department of Transportation: Provided further,
That the limitation in the preceding proviso on operating expenses
shall not apply to entities external to the Department of
Transportation or for funds provided in Public Law 117-58: Provided
further, That no funds made available by this Act to an agency of the
Department shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without
majority approval of the Working Capital Fund Steering Committee and
approval of the Secretary: Provided further, That no assessments may
be levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project
funded by this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis
therefor are presented to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations and are approved by such Committees.
payments to air carriers
(airport and airway trust fund)
In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry
out the essential air service program under sections 41731 through
41742 of title 49, United States Code, $514,000,000, to be derived from
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That in determining between or among carriers competing to
provide service to a community, the Secretary may consider the relative
subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, That basic
essential air service minimum requirements shall not include the 15-
passenger capacity requirement under section 41732(b)(3) of title 49,
United States Code: Provided further, That amounts authorized to be
distributed for the essential air service program under section
41742(b) of title 49, United States Code, shall be made available
immediately from amounts otherwise provided to the Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration: Provided further, That the
Administrator may reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the
account established under section 45303 of title 49, United States
Code: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 41733 of title
49, United States Code, for fiscal year 2026, the requirements
established under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 41731(a)(1) of
title 49, United States Code, and the subsidy cap established by
section 332 of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000, shall not apply to maintain eligibility under
section 41731 of title 49, United States Code.
administrative provisions--office of the secretary of transportation
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 101. None of the funds made available by this Act to the
Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the operating
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have
completed the normal reprogramming process for congressional
notification.
Sec. 102. The Secretary shall post on the web site of the
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Council
on Credit and Finance, including the agenda for each meeting, and
require the Council on Credit and Finance to record the decisions and
actions of each meeting.
Sec. 103. In addition to authority provided by section 327 of
title 49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is
authorized to provide partial or full payments in advance and accept
subsequent reimbursements from all Federal agencies from available
funds for transit benefit distribution services that are necessary to
carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit
program under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 3049 of SAFETEA-LU
(5 U.S.C. 7905 note): Provided, That the Department shall maintain a
reasonable operating reserve in the Working Capital Fund, to be
expended in advance to provide uninterrupted transit benefits to
Government employees: Provided further, That such reserve shall not
exceed 1 month of benefits payable and may be used only for the purpose
of providing for the continuation of transit benefits: Provided
further, That the Working Capital Fund shall be fully reimbursed by
each customer agency from available funds for the actual cost of the
transit benefit.
Sec. 104. Receipts collected in the Department's Working Capital
Fund, as authorized by section 327 of title 49, United States Code, for
unused transit and van pool benefits, in an amount not to exceed 10
percent of fiscal year 2026 collections, shall be available until
expended in the Department's Working Capital Fund to provide
contractual services in support of section 189 of this Act: Provided,
That obligations in fiscal year 2026 of such collections shall not
exceed $1,000,000.
Sec. 105. None of the funds in this title may be obligated or
expended for retention or senior executive bonuses for an employee of
the Department of Transportation without the prior written approval of
the Assistant Secretary for Administration.
Sec. 106. In addition to authority provided by section 327 of
title 49, United States Code, the Department's Administrative Working
Capital Fund is hereby authorized to transfer information technology
equipment, software, and systems from departmental sources or other
entities and collect and maintain a reserve at rates which will return
full cost of transferred assets.
Sec. 107. None of the funds provided in this Act to the Department
of Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance unless not
less than 3 days before any application approval to provide credit
assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code,
the Secretary provides notification in writing to the following
committees: the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; the
Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives:
Provided, That such notification shall include, but not be limited to,
the name of the project sponsor; a description of the project; whether
credit assistance will be provided as a direct loan, loan guarantee, or
line of credit; and the amount of credit assistance.
Sec. 108. (a) Amounts made available to the Secretary of
Transportation or the Department of Transportation's Operating
Administrations in this Act for the costs of award, administration, or
oversight of financial assistance under the programs identified in
subsection (c) may be transferred to the account identified in section
801 of division J of Public Law 117-58, as amended by section 425 of
title IV of division K of Public Law 117-103, to remain available until
expended, for the necessary expenses of award, administration, or
oversight of any financial assistance programs in the Department of
Transportation.
(b) Amounts transferred under the authority in this section are
available in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purpose.
(c) The programs from which funds made available under this Act may
be transferred under subsection (a) are:
(1) the university transportation centers program under
section 5505 of title 49, United States Code; and
(2) the drone infrastructure inspection grant program as
authorized by section 912 of title IX of Public Law 118-63.
Sec. 109. The Secretary of Transportation may transfer amounts
awarded to a federally recognized Tribe under a funding agreement
entered into under part 29 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations,
from the Department of Transportation's Operating Administrations to
the Office of Tribal Government Affairs: Provided, That any amounts
retroceded or reassumed under such part may be transferred back to the
appropriate Operating Administration.
Sec. 109A. Of the unobligated balances from prior year
appropriations made available under the heading ``Office of the
Secretary--Research and Technology'' for Advanced Research Projects
Agency--Infrastructure (ARPA-I) authorized by section 119 of title 49,
United States Code, $10,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
Federal Aviation Administration
operations
(airport and airway trust fund)
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not
otherwise provided for, including operations and research activities
related to commercial space transportation, administrative expenses for
research and development, establishment of air navigation facilities,
the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft,
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the
public, the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only, $13,752,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2027, of which $13,040,600,000 to be derived from the Airport and
Airway Trust Fund: Provided, That of the amounts made available under
this heading--
(1) not less than $1,861,039,000 shall be available for
aviation safety activities;
(2) $10,368,008,000 shall be available for air traffic
organization activities;
(3) $41,900,000 shall be available for commercial space
transportation activities;
(4) $934,148,000 shall be available for finance and
management activities;
(5) $58,003,000 shall be available for NextGen and
operations planning activities;
(6) $162,055,000 shall be available for security and
hazardous materials safety activities; and
(7) $326,847,000 shall be available for staff offices:
Provided further, That not to exceed 5 percent of any budget
activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may be
transferred to any budget activity under this heading: Provided
further, That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation
under this heading by more than 5 percent: Provided further, That any
transfer in excess of 5 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of
funds under section 405 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 not later than 60 days
after the submission of the budget request, the Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual
update to the report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to
section 221 of the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act
(49 U.S.C. 44506 note): Provided further, That not later than 60 days
after the submission of the budget request, the Administrator shall
transmit to Congress reports that describe a comprehensive strategy for
staffing, hiring, and training of flight standards and aircraft
certification staff, and airway transportation system specialists in a
format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan,
including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by
fiscal year: Provided further, That the amounts made available under
this heading shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after 60 days
after the submission of the budget request that reports containing the
information described in the preceding two provisos have not been
transmitted to Congress: Provided further, That funds may be used to
enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety standards:
Provided further, That none of the funds made available by this Act
shall be available for new applicants for the second career training
program: Provided further, That none of the funds made available by
this Act shall be available for the Federal Aviation Administration to
finalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate new aviation
user fees not specifically authorized by law after the date of the
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That there may be credited to
this appropriation, as offsetting collections, funds received from
States, counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, other public
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred in the provision
of agency services, including receipts for the maintenance and
operation of air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or
modification of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair
station certificates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing
major repair or alteration forms: Provided further, That of the
amounts made available under this heading, not less than $279,000,000
shall be used to fund direct operations of the current air traffic
control towers in the contract tower program, including the contract
tower cost share program, and any airport that is currently qualified
or that will qualify for the program during the fiscal year: Provided
further, That none of the funds made available by this Act for
aeronautical charting and cartography are available for activities
conducted by, or coordinated through, the Working Capital Fund:
Provided further, That $10,000,000 of amounts made available for staff
offices shall be used to establish the Office of the Assistant
Administrator for Rulemaking and Regulatory Improvement as authorized
under Section 106(c) of title 49 of the United States Code.
facilities and equipment
(airport and airway trust fund)
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A of
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and
service testing, including construction of test facilities and
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and
furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and
employees of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote
localities where such accommodations are not available; and the
purchase, lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds made available
under this heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and
certification; $6,000,000,000 shall be made available, of which--
(1) $4,000,000,000 shall be derived from the Airport and
Airway Trust Fund;
(2) $1,000,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the
unobligated balances of amounts previously appropriated for
apportionment in fiscal year 2026 under paragraph (2) of the
heading ``highway infrastructure programs'' in division J of
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided, That amounts transferred pursuant to the proceeding
proviso shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5;
(3) $1,000,000,000 shall be derived from the unobligated
balances of amounts previously appropriated under the heading
``facilities and equipment'' in division J of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided, That amounts transferred pursuant to the proceeding
proviso shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5;
Provided, That $700,000,000 is for personnel and related
administration expenses and shall remain available until September 30,
2027 and $5,300,000,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2030: Provided further, That there may be credited to this
appropriation funds received from States, counties, municipalities,
other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in
the establishment, improvement, and modernization of national airspace
systems: Provided further, That not later than 60 days after
submission of the budget request, the Secretary of Transportation shall
transmit to the Congress an investment plan for the Federal Aviation
Administration which includes funding for each budget line item for
fiscal years 2027 through 2031, with total funding for each year of the
plan constrained to the funding targets for those years as estimated
and approved by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided further,
That section 405 of this Act shall apply to amounts, not otherwise made
available in this Act, made available under this heading in title VIII
of the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Appropriations Act (division
J of Public Law 117-58): Provided further, That the amounts in the
table entitled ``Allocation of Funds for FAA Facilities and Equipment
from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act--Fiscal Year 2026'' in
the Report accompanying this Act shall be the baseline for application
of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year
pursuant to paragraph (7) of such section 405 for amounts referred to
in the preceding proviso: Provided further, That, notwithstanding
paragraphs (5) and (6) of such section 405, unless prior approval is
received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, not to
exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified for projects and
activities in the table referred to in the preceding proviso may be
transferred to any other funding level specified for projects and
activities in such table and no transfer of such funding levels may
increase or decrease any funding level in such table by more than 10
percent.
research, engineering, and development
(airport and airway trust fund)
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research,
engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of subtitle
VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or
grant, $230,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, That
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections,
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public
authorities, and private sources, which shall be available for expenses
incurred for research, engineering, and development: Provided further,
That amounts made available under this heading shall be used in
accordance with the Report accompanying this Act: Provided further,
That not to exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified under this
heading in the Report accompanying this Act may be transferred to any
other funding level specified under this heading in the Report
accompanying this Act: Provided further, That no transfer may increase
or decrease any funding level by more than 10 percent: Provided
further, That any transfer in excess of 10 percent shall be treated as
a reprogramming of funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the
procedures set forth in that section.
grants-in-aid for airports
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(airport and airway trust fund)
(including transfer of funds)
For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid for
airport planning and development, and noise compatibility planning and
programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and subchapter
I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under other law
authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, and
commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at
airports of such title; for grants authorized under section 41743 of
title 49, United States Code; and for inspection activities and
administration of airport safety programs, including those related to
airport operating certificates under section 44706 of title 49, United
States Code, $4,000,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, That none
of the amounts made available under this heading shall be available for
the planning or execution of programs the obligations for which are in
excess of $4,000,000,000, in fiscal year 2026, notwithstanding section
47117(g) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That none
of the amounts made available under this heading shall be available for
the replacement of baggage conveyor systems, reconfiguration of
terminal baggage areas, or other airport improvements that are
necessary to install bulk explosive detection systems: Provided
further, That notwithstanding section 47109(a) of title 49, United
States Code, the Government's share of allowable project costs under
paragraph (2) of such section for subgrants or paragraph (3) of such
section shall be 95 percent for a project at other than a large or
medium hub airport that is a successive phase of a multi-phased
construction project for which the project sponsor received a grant in
fiscal year 2011 for the construction project: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, of amounts limited under
this heading, not less than $160,000,000 shall be available for
administration, $15,000,000 shall be available for the airport
cooperative research program, $41,827,000 shall be available for
airport technology research, and $15,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available and transferred to ``Office of the
Secretary, Salaries and Expenses'' to carry out the small community air
service development program: Provided further, That in addition to
airports eligible under section 41743 of title 49, United States Code,
such program may include the participation of an airport that serves a
community or consortium that is not larger than a small hub airport,
according to FAA hub classifications effective at the time the Office
of the Secretary issues a request for proposals.
grants-in-aid for airports
For an additional amount for ``Grants-In-Aid for Airports'', to
enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects as
authorized by subchapter 1 of chapter 471 and subchapter 1 of chapter
475 of title 49, United States Code, $313,738,000, to remain available
through September 30, 2028: Provided, That amounts made available
under this heading shall be derived from the general fund, and such
funds shall not be subject to apportionment formulas, special
apportionment categories, or minimum percentages under chapter 471 of
title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That of the sums
appropriated under this heading --
(1) $283,738,000 shall be made available for the purposes,
and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the
table entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the
Report accompanying this Act: Provided, That funds made
available under this heading shall not be subject to or
considered under section 47115(j)(3)(B) of title 49, United
States Code.
(2) $30,000,000 to remain available until September 30,
2028, for polyfluoroalkyl-related airport programs.
administrative provisions--federal aviation administration
Sec. 110. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the
federally funded research and development center contract between the
Federal Aviation Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation
Systems Development during fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 111. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
used to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport
sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost
building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, including
related accommodation services, or space in airport sponsor-owned
buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation,
or weather reporting: Provided, That the prohibition on the use of
funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the agency
and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on ``below-market'' rates for
these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to
provide land without cost to the Federal Aviation Administration for
air traffic control facilities.
Sec. 112. The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) of
title 49, United States Code, from fees credited under section 45303 of
title 49, United States Code, and any amount remaining in such account
at the close of any fiscal year may be made available to satisfy
section 41742(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, for the subsequent
fiscal year.
Sec. 113. Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of title 49,
United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation current at
the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same
purposes as such appropriation.
Sec. 114. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available for paying premium pay under section 5546(a) of title 5,
United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee
unless such employee actually performed work during the time
corresponding to such premium pay.
Sec. 115. None of the funds made available by this Act may be
obligated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation
Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate
through use of a Government-issued credit card.
Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be used to
implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the ability of
any owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request
to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, a blocking
of that owner's or operator's aircraft registration number, Mode S
transponder code, flight identification, call sign, or similar
identifying information from any ground based display to the public
that would allow the real-time or near real-time flight tracking of
that aircraft's movements, except data made available to a Government
agency, for the noncommercial flights of that owner or operator.
Sec. 117. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available for salaries and expenses of more than nine political and
Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration.
Sec. 118. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, United States
Code, until the Federal Aviation Administration provides to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a report that justifies all
fees related to aeronautical navigation products and explains how such
fees are consistent with Executive Order No. 13642.
Sec. 119. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation
Administration or reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 90 full
business days in advance.
Sec. 119A. None of the funds made available by or limited by this
Act may be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules
at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
Sec. 119B. None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to
withhold from consideration and approval any new application for
participation in the contract tower program, or for reevaluation of
cost-share program participants so long as the Federal Aviation
Administration has received an application from the airport, and so
long as the Administrator determines such tower is eligible using the
factors set forth in Federal Aviation Administration published
establishment criteria.
Sec. 119C. None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used to open, close, redesignate as a lesser office, or reorganize a
regional office, the aeronautical center, or the technical center
unless the Administrator does so in compliance with section 405 of this
Act.
Sec. 119D. Not withstanding paragraph (7) of section 405,
activities creating, reorganizing, or restructuring an organizational
unit of the Federal Aviation Administration are not subject to the
requirements of section 405 unless those activities would change the
organization chart provided as an exhibit to section 1 of the
President's Budget justification.
Sec. 119E. Of the funds provided under the heading ``Grants-in-aid
for Airports'', up to $3,500,000 shall be for necessary expenses,
including an independent verification regime, to provide reimbursement
to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and
providers of general aviation ground support services, or other
aviation tenants, located at those airports closed during a temporary
flight restriction (TFR) for any residence of the President that is
designated or identified to be secured by the United States Secret
Service, and for direct and incremental financial losses incurred while
such airports are closed solely due to the actions of the Federal
Government: Provided, That no funds shall be obligated or distributed
to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and
providers of general aviation ground support services until an
independent audit is completed: Provided further, That losses incurred
as a result of violations of law, or through fault or negligence, of
such operators and service providers or of third parties (including
airports) are not eligible for reimbursements: Provided further, That
obligation and expenditure of funds are conditional upon full release
of the United States Government for all claims for financial losses
resulting from such actions.
Federal Highway Administration
limitation on administrative expenses
(highway trust fund)
(including transfer of funds)
Not to exceed $504,187,977 together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be
obligated for necessary expenses for administration and operation of
the Federal Highway Administration: Provided, That in addition,
$3,248,000 shall be transferred to the Appalachian Regional Commission
in accordance with section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code.
federal-aid highways
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
Funds available for the implementation or execution of authorized
Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs shall not
exceed total obligations of $62,657,105,821 for fiscal year 2026:
Provided, That the limitation on obligations under this heading shall
only apply to contract authority authorized from the Highway Trust Fund
(other than the Mass Transit Account), unless otherwise specified in
law.
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(highway trust fund)
For the payment of obligations incurred in carrying out authorized
Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs,
$63,396,105,821 shall be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other
than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until expended.
highway infrastructure programs
(including transfer of funds)
There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary $1,369,433,091:
Provided, That the funds made available under this heading shall be
derived from the general fund, shall be in addition to any funds
provided for fiscal year 2026 in this or any other Act for: (1)
``Federal-aid Highways'' under chapter 1 of title 23, United States
Code; or (2) activities eligible under the Tribal transportation
program under section 202 of title 23, United States Code, and shall
not affect the distribution or amount of funds provided in any other
Act: Provided further, That section 11101(e) of Public Law 117-58
shall apply to funds made available under this heading: Provided
further, That unless otherwise specified, amounts made available under
this heading shall be available until September 30, 2029, and shall not
be subject to any limitation on obligations for Federal-aid highways or
highway safety construction programs set forth in any Act making annual
appropriations: Provided further, That of the sums appropriated under
this heading--
(1) $954,433,091 shall be for the purposes, and in the
amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the table
entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report
accompanying this Act: Provided, That, except as otherwise
provided under this heading, the funds made available under
this paragraph shall be administered as if apportioned under
chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further,
That funds made available under this paragraph that are used
for Tribal projects shall be administered as if allocated under
chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code, except that the set-
asides described in subparagraph (C) of section 202(b)(3) of
title 23, United States Code, and subsections (a)(6), (c), and
(e) of section 202 of such title, and section 1123(h)(1) of
MAP-21 (as amended by Public Law 117-58), shall not apply to
such funds;
(2) $200,000,000 shall be for activities eligible under the
Tribal transportation program, as described in section 202 of
title 23, United States Code: Provided, That, except as
otherwise provided under this heading, the funds made available
under this paragraph shall be administered as if allocated
under chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code: Provided
further, That the set-asides described in subparagraph (C) of
section 202(b)(3) of title 23, United States Code, and
subsections (a)(6), (c), and (e) of section 202 of such title
shall not apply to funds made available under this paragraph:
Provided further, That the set-aside described in section
1123(h)(1) of MAP-21 (as amended by Public Law 117-58), shall
not apply to such funds: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made
available under this paragraph shall be derived from the
unobligated balances of amounts previously appropriated under
paragraph 7 of the heading ``Department of Transportation--
Federal Highway Administration--Highway Infrastructure
Programs'' in division J of the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58): Provided further, That amounts
transferred pursuant to the preceding provisos shall continue
to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of
division A of Public Law 118-5;
(3) $200,000,000 shall be to carry out the Nationally
Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects program
under section 117 of title 23, United States Code: Provided,
That such funds shall be available until expended: Provided
further, That the funds made available under this paragraph
shall be for projects to provide public parking for commercial
motor vehicles: Provided further, That such projects shall be
within reasonable access to or in the right of way of an
Interstate highway, the National Highway System, or the
National Highway Freight Network: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall reserve not less than 50 percent of the amounts
made available under this paragraph to make grants for projects
that do not satisfy the minimum threshold under section
117(d)(1)(B) of such title: Provided further, That, of the
amount reserved under the preceding proviso, not less than 30
percent shall be used for projects in rural areas: Provided
further, That each grant made with funds reserved under the
fourth proviso of this paragraph shall be in an amount that is
at least $5,000,000: Provided further, That in addition to
other applicable requirements, in making grants with funds
reserved under the fourth proviso of this paragraph, the
Secretary shall take into consideration the project selection
considerations described in section 117(e)(3) of such title:
Provided further, That, except as described in the preceding
proviso, subsections (e) and (i) of section 117 of such title
shall not apply to funds made available under this paragraph:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall reserve not less
than 25 percent of the amounts made available under this
paragraph to make grants for projects located in rural areas:
Provided further, That if qualified applications will not allow
for the amount reserved under the preceding proviso to be fully
utilized, the Secretary shall combine the unutilized amounts
with the amounts reserved under the fourth proviso of this
paragraph: Provided further, That the requirements in section
117(g) of such title shall not apply to a project assisted with
a grant under this paragraph that does not meet the minimum
threshold under section 117(d)(1)(B): Provided further, That,
except as described in the following proviso, the Federal share
of the cost of a project assisted with a grant under this
paragraph may not exceed 60 percent: Provided further, That
the Federal share of the cost of a project that does not meet
the minimum threshold under section 117(d)(1)(B) of such title
shall be 80 percent: Provided further, That an eligible
applicant that receives a grant under this paragraph may
partner with a private entity to fund the development, capacity
expansion, or operation or maintenance of a facility: Provided
further, That no fees may be charged by an eligible applicant
receiving a grant under this paragraph to a commercial motor
vehicle driver to gain access to parking constructed, expanded,
opened, maintained, or improved with a grant under this
paragraph: Provided further, That the funds made available
under this paragraph shall not be used for the construction, or
development phase activities that would enable the
construction, of charging or fueling infrastructure for the
propulsion of a vehicle, including a commercial motor vehicle:
Provided further, That not more than 10 percent of the funds
made available under this section may be used for projects to
solely identify, promote, and manage the availability of
existing commercial motor vehicle parking: Provided further,
That the preceding proviso shall not apply to a project that is
part of a project to expand commercial motor vehicle parking
capacity: Provided further, That for purposes of this
paragraph, (1) the term ``commercial motor vehicle'' has the
meaning given the term in section 31132 of title 49, United
States Code, and (2) the term ``rural area'' has the meaning
given the term in section 117(i)(3) of title 23, United States
Code: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, amounts made available under this paragraph
shall be derived by transfer from the unobligated balances of
amounts previously appropriated under the heading ``Department
of Transportation--Office of the Secretary--National Culvert
Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grants'' in division J of
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding provisos shall continue to be treated as amounts
specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5;
(4) $5,000,000 shall be to carry out section 11502 of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (23 U.S.C. 148 note):
Provided, That, except as otherwise provided under such section
or this heading, the funds made available under this paragraph
shall be administered as if apportioned under chapter 1 of
title 23, United States Code; and
(5) $10,000,000 shall be to carry out section 11529 of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (23 U.S.C. 148 note):
Provided, That, except as otherwise provided under such section
or this heading, the funds made available under this paragraph
shall be administered as if apportioned under chapter 1 of
title 23, United States Code.
administrative provisions--federal highway administration
(including rescissions)
Sec. 120. (a) For fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Transportation
shall--
(1) not distribute from the obligation limitation for
Federal-aid highways--
(A) amounts authorized for administrative expenses
and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United
States Code; and
(B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics;
(2) not distribute an amount from the obligation limitation
for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the unobligated
balance of amounts--
(A) made available from the Highway Trust Fund
(other than the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid
highway and highway safety construction programs for
previous fiscal years the funds for which are allocated
by the Secretary (or apportioned by the Secretary under
section 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code);
and
(B) for which obligation limitation was provided in
a previous fiscal year;
(3) determine the proportion that--
(A) the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed
under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection; bears
to
(B) the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for the Federal-aid highway and highway
safety construction programs (other than sums
authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law
described in paragraphs (1) through (11) of subsection
(b) and sums authorized to be appropriated for section
119 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the
amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for such
fiscal year), less the aggregate of the amounts not
distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this
subsection;
(4) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under
paragraphs (1) and (2), for each of the programs (other than
programs to which paragraph (1) applies) that are allocated by
the Secretary under authorized Federal-aid highway and highway
safety construction programs, or apportioned by the Secretary
under section 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code, by
multiplying--
(A) the proportion determined under paragraph (3);
by
(B) the amounts authorized to be appropriated for
each such program for such fiscal year; and
(5) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under
paragraphs (1) and (2) and the amounts distributed under
paragraph (4), for Federal-aid highway and highway safety
construction programs that are apportioned by the Secretary
under title 23, United States Code (other than the amounts
apportioned for the national highway performance program in
section 119 of title 23, United States Code, that are exempt
from the limitation under subsection (b)(12) and the amounts
apportioned under sections 202 and 204 of that title) in the
proportion that--
(A) amounts authorized to be appropriated for the
programs that are apportioned under title 23, United
States Code, to each State for such fiscal year; bears
to
(B) the total of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated for the programs that are apportioned
under title 23, United States Code, to all States for
such fiscal year.
(b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--The obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations
under or for--
(1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code;
(2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance
Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 Stat. 2714);
(3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 (95
Stat. 1701);
(4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 2119);
(5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the Surface
Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987
(101 Stat. 198);
(6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2027);
(7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code (as in
effect on June 8, 1998);
(8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in
effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in an
amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
(9) Federal-aid highway programs for which obligation
authority was made available under the Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 107) or subsequent Acts for
multiple years or to remain available until expended, but only
to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or
been used;
(10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in
effect for fiscal years 2005 through 2012, but only in an
amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
(11) section 1603 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 118 note; 119
Stat. 1248), to the extent that funds obligated in accordance
with that section were not subject to a limitation on
obligations at the time at which the funds were initially made
available for obligation; and
(12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code (but, for
each of fiscal years 2013 through 2026, only in an amount equal
to $639,000,000).
(c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--Notwithstanding
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal
year--
(1) revise a distribution of the obligation limitation made
available under subsection (a) if an amount distributed cannot
be obligated during that fiscal year; and
(2) redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to
obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed
during that fiscal year, giving priority to those States having
large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under sections
144 (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of
Public Law 112-141) and 104 of title 23, United States Code.
(d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to Transportation
Research Programs.--
(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall apply to
contract authority for transportation research programs carried
out under--
(A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code;
(B) title VI of the Fixing America's Surface
Transportation Act; and
(C) title III of division A of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).
(2) Exception.--Obligation authority made available under
paragraph (1) shall--
(A) remain available for a period of 4 fiscal
years; and
(B) be in addition to the amount of any limitation
imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway and
highway safety construction programs for future fiscal
years.
(e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the
Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds (excluding
funds authorized for the program under section 202 of title 23,
United States Code) that--
(A) are authorized to be appropriated for such
fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs; and
(B) the Secretary determines will not be allocated
to the States (or will not be apportioned to the States
under section 204 of title 23, United States Code), and
will not be available for obligation, for such fiscal
year because of the imposition of any obligation
limitation for such fiscal year.
(2) Ratio.--Funds shall be distributed under paragraph (1)
in the same proportion as the distribution of obligation
authority under subsection (a)(5).
(3) Availability.--Funds distributed to each State under
paragraph (1) shall be available for any purpose described in
section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
Sec. 121. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received by the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, for
necessary expenses incurred pursuant to chapter 63 of title 49, United
States Code, may be credited to the Federal-aid highways account for
the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses.
Sec. 122. Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under his or her
statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-aid
highways projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall make an
informal public notice and comment opportunity on the intent to issue
such waiver and the reasons therefor: Provided, That the Secretary
shall post on a website any waivers granted under the Buy America
requirements.
Sec. 123. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
to make a grant for a project under section 117 of title 23, United
States Code, unless the Secretary, at least 60 days before making a
grant under that section, provides written notification to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations of the proposed grant,
including an evaluation and justification for the project and the
amount of the proposed grant award.
Sec. 124. (a) A State or territory, as defined in section 165 of
title 23, United States Code, may use for any project eligible under
section 133(b) of title 23 or section 165 of title 23 and located
within the boundary of the State or territory any earmarked amount, and
any associated obligation limitation: Provided, That the Department of
Transportation for the State or territory for which the earmarked
amount was originally designated or directed notifies the Secretary of
its intent to use its authority under this section and submits an
annual report to the Secretary identifying the projects to which the
funding would be applied. Notwithstanding the original period of
availability of funds to be obligated under this section, such funds
and associated obligation limitation shall remain available for
obligation for a period of 3 fiscal years after the fiscal year in
which the Secretary is notified. The Federal share of the cost of a
project carried out with funds made available under this section shall
be the same as associated with the earmark.
(b) In this section, the term ``earmarked amount'' means--
(1) congressionally directed spending, as defined in rule
XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, identified in a prior
law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was
authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10
fiscal years prior to the current fiscal year, and administered
by the Federal Highway Administration; or
(2) a congressional earmark, as defined in rule XXI of the
Rules of the House of Representatives, identified in a prior
law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was
authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10
fiscal years prior to the current fiscal year, and administered
by the Federal Highway Administration.
(c) The authority under subsection (a) may be exercised only for
those projects or activities that have obligated less than 10 percent
of the amount made available for obligation as of October 1 of the
current fiscal year, and shall be applied to projects within the same
general geographic area within 25 miles for which the funding was
designated, except that a State or territory may apply such authority
to unexpended balances of funds from projects or activities the State
or territory certifies have been closed and for which payments have
been made under a final voucher.
(d) The Secretary shall submit consolidated reports of the
information provided by the States and territories annually to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
Sec. 125. None of the funds made available in this Act or any
other Act may be used for any activities related to the implementation
of Priced Zones (Cordon Pricing) under the Value Pricing Pilot Program
or New York City's Central Business District Tolling Program.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
motor carrier safety operations and programs
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in the implementation,
execution and administration of motor carrier safety operations and
programs pursuant to section 31110 of title 49, United States Code, as
amended by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-
58), $390,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other
than the Mass Transit Account), together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, the sum of which shall remain available until expended:
Provided, That funds available for implementation, execution, or
administration of motor carrier safety operations and programs
authorized under title 49, United States Code, shall not exceed total
obligations of $390,000,000, for ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and
Programs'' for fiscal year 2026, of which $14,073,000, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2028, is for the research
and technology program, and of which not less than $63,098,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2028, is for
development, modernization, enhancement, and continued operation and
maintenance of information technology and information management.
motor carrier safety grants
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out sections 31102,
31103, 31104, and 31313 of title 49, United States Code, $536,600,000,
to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit
Account) and to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds
available for the implementation or execution of motor carrier safety
programs shall not exceed total obligations of $536,600,000 in fiscal
year 2026 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Grants'': Provided further, That
of the amounts made available under this heading--
(1) $422,500,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2027, shall be for the motor carrier safety
assistance program;
(2) $45,200,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2027, shall be for the commercial driver's
license program implementation program;
(3) $62,400,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2027, shall be for the high priority program;
(4) $1,500,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2027, shall be for the commercial motor vehicle
operators grant program; and
(5) $5,000,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2027, shall be for the commercial motor vehicle
enforcement training and support grant program.
administrative provisions--federal motor carrier safety administration
Sec. 130. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall
send notice of section 385.308 of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations, violations by certified mail, registered mail, or another
manner of delivery, which records the receipt of the notice by the
persons responsible for the violations.
Sec. 131. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available to the Department of Transportation by this Act or any other
Act may be obligated or expended to implement, administer, or enforce
the requirements of section 31137 of title 49, United States Code, or
any regulation issued by the Secretary pursuant to such section, with
respect to the use of electronic logging devices by operators of
commercial motor vehicles, as defined in section 31132(1) of such
title, transporting livestock as defined in section 602 of the
Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C. 1471) or
insects.
Sec. 132. None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to require the use of inward facing cameras or require
a motor carrier to register an apprenticeship program with the
Department of Labor as a condition for participation in the safe driver
apprenticeship pilot program.
Sec. 133. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to promulgate any
rule or regulation to require vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of
more than 26,000 pounds operating in interstate commerce to be equipped
with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed.
Sec. 134. (a) None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to modify, rescind, or grant waivers from the
preemption determinations published by FMCSA at 83 FR 67470 (Dec. 28,
2018) and 85 FR 73335 (Nov. 17, 2020).
(b) Notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 31141(d)(2), the Secretary shall
deny, without a hearing on the record, any petitions for waiver of the
aforementioned preemption determinations pending on the date of
enactment or received after the date of enactment.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
operations and research
(including transfer of funds)
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary,
with respect to traffic and highway safety, authorized under chapter
301 and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code,
$212,375,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027:
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, $77,982,000
of amounts made available under this paragraph shall be derived by
transfer from the unobligated balances of amounts previously
appropriated for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 under
paragraph (3) of the heading ``Department of Transportation--National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration--Supplemental Highway Traffic
Safety Programs'' in division J of the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58): Provided further, That amounts
transferred pursuant to the preceding proviso shall continue to be
treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public
Law 118-5.
operations and research
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions
of section 403 of title 23, United States Code, including behavioral
research on automated driving systems and advanced driver assistance
systems and improving consumer responses to safety recalls, section
25024 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-
58), and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, $209,600,000, to
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit
Account) and to remain available until expended: Provided, That none
of the funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or
execution of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year
2026, are in excess of $209,600,000: Provided further, That of the
sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $202,000,000 shall be for programs authorized under
section 403 of title 23, United States Code, including
behavioral research on automated driving systems and advanced
driver assistance systems and improving consumer responses to
safety recalls, and section 25024 of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58); and
(2) $7,600,000 shall be for the national driver register
authorized under chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code:
Provided further, That within the $209,600,000 obligation limitation
for operations and research, $57,500,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2027, and shall be in addition to the amount of any
limitation imposed on obligations for future years: Provided further,
That amounts for behavioral research on automated driving systems and
advanced driver assistance systems and improving consumer responses to
safety recalls are in addition to any other funds provided for those
purposes for fiscal year 2026 in this Act.
highway traffic safety grants
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out provisions of
sections 402, 404, and 405 of title 23, United States Code, and grant
administration expenses under chapter 4 of title 23, United States
Code, to remain available until expended, $849,654,625, to be derived
from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account):
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the
planning or execution of programs for which the total obligations in
fiscal year 2026 are in excess of $849,654,625 for programs authorized
under sections 402, 404, and 405 of title 23, United States Code, and
grant administration expenses under chapter 4 of title 23, United
States Code: Provided further, That of the sums appropriated under
this heading--
(1) $393,400,000 shall be for highway safety programs under
section 402 of title 23, United States Code;
(2) $367,500,000 shall be for national priority safety
programs under section 405 of title 23, United States Code;
(3) $44,300,000 shall be for the high visibility
enforcement program under section 404 of title 23, United
States Code; and
(4) $44,454,625 shall be for grant administrative expenses
under chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code:
Provided, That none of these funds shall be used for construction,
rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office furnishings and
fixtures for State, local or private buildings or structures: Provided
further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds made available for
national priority safety programs under section 405 of title 23, United
States Code, for impaired driving countermeasures (as described in
subsection (d) of that section) shall be available for technical
assistance to the States: Provided further, That with respect to the
``Transfers'' provision under section 405(a)(10) of title 23, United
States Code, any amounts transferred to increase the amounts made
available under section 402 shall include the obligation authority for
such amounts: Provided further, That the Administrator shall notify
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of any exercise of
the authority granted under the preceding proviso or under section
405(a)(10) of title 23, United States Code, within 5 days.
administrative provisions--national highway traffic safety
administration
Sec. 140. The limitations on obligations for the programs of the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act shall
not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made
available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the
obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.
Sec. 141. None of the funds provided under this heading may be
used to encourage illegal drug or alcohol use in the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration's impaired driving advertising campaigns.
Federal Railroad Administration
safety and operations
For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not
otherwise provided for, $265,074,000, of which $25,000,000 shall remain
available until expended.
railroad research and development
For necessary expenses for railroad research and development,
$44,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the
amounts provided under this heading, up to $3,000,000 shall be
available pursuant to section 20108(d) of title 49, United States Code,
for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and
improvements at the Transportation Technology Center.
consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses related to consolidated rail infrastructure
and safety improvement grants, as authorized by section 22907 of title
49, United States Code, $538,402,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That of the sums made available under this heading
in this Act--
(1) $38,402,000 shall be available for the purposes, and in
amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the table
entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report
accompanying this Act: Provided, That requirements under
subsections (g) and (l) of section 22907 of title 49, United
States Code, shall not apply to the preceding proviso:
Provided further, That any remaining funds available after the
distribution of the Community Project Funding described in this
paragraph shall be available under this heading; and
(2) $500,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to
distribute as discretionary grants: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made
available under this paragraph shall be derived by transfer
from the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated for
fiscal year 2026 under the heading ``Federal-State Partnership
for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants'' in division J of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding proviso shall continue to be treated as amounts
specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5:
Provided further, That for amounts made available under this heading
in this Act, eligible projects under section 22907(c)(8) of title 49,
United States Code, shall also include railroad systems planning
(including the preparation of regional intercity passenger rail plans
and state rail plans) and railroad project development activities
(including railroad project planning, preliminary engineering, design,
environmental analysis, feasibility studies, and the development and
analysis of project alternatives): Provided further, That amounts made
available under this heading in this Act for projects selected for
commuter rail passenger transportation may be transferred by the
Secretary, after selection, to the appropriate agencies to be
administered in accordance with chapter 53 of title 49, United States
Code: Provided further, That for amounts made available under this
heading in this Act, eligible recipients under section 22907(b)(7) of
title 49, United States Code, shall include any holding company of a
Class II railroad or Class III railroad (as those terms are defined in
section 20102 of title 49, United States Code): Provided further, That
section 22907(e)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code, shall not apply
to amounts made available under this heading in this Act: Provided
further, That section 22907(e)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code,
shall not apply to amounts made available under this heading in
previous fiscal years if such funds are announced in a notice of
funding opportunity that includes funds made available under this
heading in this Act: Provided further, That the preceding proviso
shall not apply to funds made available under this heading in the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (division J of Public Law 117-
58): Provided further, That unobligated balances remaining after 6
years from the date of enactment of this Act may be used for any
eligible project under section 22907(c) of title 49, United States
Code: Provided further, That the Secretary may withhold up to 2
percent of the amounts made available under this heading in this Act
for the costs of award and project management oversight of grants
carried out under title 49, United States Code.
northeast corridor grants to the national railroad passenger
corporation
(including transfer of funds)
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with
the Northeast Corridor as authorized by section 22101(a) of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58),
$924,970,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available
under this heading shall be derived by transfer from the unobligated
balances of amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2026 under the heading
``Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants'' in
division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law
117-58): Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding provisos shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5: Provided further,
That the Secretary may retain up to one-half of 1 percent of the
amounts made available under both this heading in this Act and the
``National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger
Corporation'' heading in this Act to fund the costs of project
management and oversight of activities authorized by section 22101(c)
of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided further, That in addition to the project management oversight
funds authorized under section 22101(c) of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), the Secretary may retain
up to an additional $5,000,000 of the amounts made available under this
heading in this Act to fund expenses associated with the Northeast
Corridor Commission established under section 24905 of title 49, United
States Code.
national network grants to the national railroad passenger corporation
(including transfer of funds)
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with
the National Network as authorized by section 22101(b) of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (division B of Public Law 117-
58), $1,387,614,000 to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available
under this paragraph shall be derived by transfer from the unobligated
balances of amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2026 under the heading
``Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants'' in
division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law
117-58): Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding proviso shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5: Provided further,
That the Secretary may retain up to an additional $3,000,000 of the
funds provided under this heading in this Act to fund expenses
associated with the State-Supported Route Committee established under
section 24712 of title 49, United States Code.
administrative provisions--federal railroad administration
(including transfer of funds)
(including rescission)
Sec. 150. The amounts made available to the Secretary or to the
Federal Railroad Administration for the costs of award, administration,
and project management oversight of financial assistance which are
administered by the Federal Railroad Administration, in this and prior
Acts, may be transferred to the Federal Railroad Administration's
``Financial Assistance Oversight and Technical Assistance'' account for
the necessary expenses to support the award, administration, project
management oversight, and technical assistance of financial assistance
administered by the Federal Railroad Administration, in the same manner
as appropriated for in this and prior Acts: Provided, That this
section shall not apply to amounts that were previously designated by
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent
resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 151. None of the funds made available to the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any overtime costs
in excess of $35,000 for any individual employee: Provided, That the
President of Amtrak may waive the cap set in the preceding proviso for
specific employees when the President of Amtrak determines such a cap
poses a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the system:
Provided further, That the President of Amtrak shall report to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no later than 60 days
after the date of enactment of this Act, a summary of all overtime
payments incurred by Amtrak for 2025 and the three prior calendar
years: Provided further, That such summary shall include the total
number of employees that received waivers and the total overtime
payments Amtrak paid to employees receiving waivers for each month for
2025 and for the three prior calendar years.
Sec. 152. None of the funds made available to the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation under the headings ``Northeast Corridor
Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' and ``National
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' may be
used to reduce the total number of Amtrak Police Department uniformed
officers patrolling on board passenger trains or at stations,
facilities or rights-of-way below the staffing level on May 1, 2019.
Sec. 153. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act or any other Act may be provided to the State
of California for a high-speed rail corridor development project that
is the same or substantially similar to the project that is the subject
of Cooperative Agreement No. FR-HSR-0118-12-01-01 or Cooperative
Agreement No. 69A36524521070 FSPCA entered into between the California
High-Speed Rail Authority and the Federal Railroad Administration.
Sec. 154. (a) Of the funds made available under the heading
``Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail'' in division
J of Public Law 117-58 for fiscal year 2026, not less than $15,000,000
shall be for a grant to Union Station Redevelopment Corporation to
rehabilitate and repair the Washington Union Station complex.
(b) Amounts repurposed pursuant to subsection (a) shall continue to
be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division A of
Public Law 118-5.
(c) The Union Station Redevelopment Corporation Board of Directors
shall include designees from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State
of Maryland.
(d) The Union Station Redevelopment Corporation and the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation shall adhere to Public Law 97-125 and
ensure the historic preservation and improvements to Washington Union
Station are achieved with maximum reliance on the private sector and
minimum requirement for Federal assistance.
Sec. 155. Of the unobligated balances from prior year
appropriations made available under the heading ``Federal Railroad
Administration--Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger
Rail'' from the fiscal year 2025 act making appropriations for the
Department of Transportation (P.L. 119-4), $75,000,000 are hereby
rescinded.
Sec. 156. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act or any other Act may be provided to the State
of Texas for a high-speed rail corridor development project that is the
same or substantially similar to the Amtrak Texas High-Speed Rail
Corridor previously known as the Texas Central Railway project.
Sec. 157. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act or any other Act may be provided to the State
of Minnesota for an intercity rail corridor development project that is
the same or substantially similar to the Northern Lights Express
Intercity Passenger Rail Project.
Federal Transit Administration
transit formula grants
(liquidation of contract authorization)
(limitation on obligations)
(highway trust fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in the Federal public
transportation assistance program in this account, and for payment of
obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305,
5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 5329(e)(6), 5334, 5335, 5337, 5339,
and 5340, section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, and section 3006(b)
of Public Law 114-94, $14,642,000,000, to be derived from the Mass
Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until
expended: Provided, That funds available for the implementation or
execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310,
5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 5329(e)(6), 5334, 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340,
section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, and section 3006(b) of Public
Law 114-94, shall not exceed total obligations of $14,642,000,000 in
fiscal year 2026.
transit infrastructure grants
For an additional amount for bus testing facilities under section
5318 of title 49, United States Code, and Community Project Funding for
projects and activities eligible under chapter 53, $97,266,390, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the sums provided
under this heading in this Act--
(1) $1,500,000 shall be available for the operation and
maintenance of the bus testing facilities selected under
section 5318 of such title; and
(2) $95,766,390 shall be available for the purposes, and in
amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the table
entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report
accompanying this Act: Provided, That unless otherwise
specified, applicable requirements under chapter 53 of such
title shall apply to amounts made available in this paragraph,
except that the Federal share of the costs for a project in
this paragraph shall be in an amount equal to 80 percent of the
net costs of the Federal share of the net costs of the project,
unless the Secretary approves a higher maximum Federal share of
the net costs of the project consistent with the administration
of similar projects funded under chapter 53 of such title:
Provided further, That amounts made available under this heading in
this Act shall be derived from the general fund and shall not be
subject to any limitation on obligations for transit programs set forth
in this or any other Act.
technical assistance and training
For necessary expenses to carry out section 5314 of title 49,
United States Code, $7,500,000, to remain available until September 30,
2027: Provided, That the assistance provided under this heading does
not duplicate the activities of section 5311(b) or section 5312 of
title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That amounts made
available under this heading are in addition to any other amounts made
available for such purposes: Provided further, That amounts made
available under this heading shall not be subject to any limitation on
obligations set forth in this or any other Act.
capital investment grants
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses to carry out fixed guideway capital
investment grants under section 5309 of title 49, United States Code,
and section 3005(b) of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act
(Public Law 114-94), $53,745,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $53,212,000 shall be available for projects authorized under
section 5309(d) of title 49, United States Code:
Provided further, That the amounts made available under this heading
shall be made available for the purposes, and in amounts, specified for
Capital Investment Grants in the tables under the heading ``Capital
Investment Grants'' in the Report accompanying this Act: Provided
further, That not to exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified
under this heading in the Report may be transferred to any other
funding level specified under this heading in the Report: Provided
further, That no transfer may increase or decrease any funding level by
more than 10 percent: Provided further, That any transfer in excess of
10 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section
405 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 funds made available under this
heading in division J of Public Law 117-58 the second through sixth
provisos shall be treated as inapplicable for fiscal year 2026:
Provided further, That for funds made available under this heading in
division J of Public Law 117-58 for fiscal year 2026, $404,000,000 may
be available for projects authorized under section 5309(d) of title 49,
United States Code: Provided further, That for funds made available
under this heading in division J of Public Law 117-58 for fiscal year
2025, $1,180,000,000 may be available for projects authorized under
section 5309(h) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further,
That amounts repurposed pursuant to the preceding provisos shall
continue to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of
division A of Public Law 118-5.
grants to the washington metropolitan area transit authority
For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as
authorized under section 601 of division B of the Passenger Rail
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-432),
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the
Secretary of Transportation shall approve grants for capital and
preventive maintenance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority only after receiving and reviewing a request for
each specific project: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
determine that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has
placed the highest priority on those investments that will improve the
safety of the system before approving such grants.
administrative provisions--federal transit administration
(including transfer of funds)
(including rescissions)
Sec. 160. The limitations on obligations for the programs of the
Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority under
49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any
other authority previously made available for obligation.
Sec. 161. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds
appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading ``Capital
Investment Grants'' of the Federal Transit Administration for projects
specified in this Act not obligated by September 30, 2029, and other
recoveries, shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for
the purposes for which they were originally provided.
Sec. 162. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds
appropriated before October 1, 2025, under any section of chapter 53 of
title 49, United States Code, that remain available for expenditure,
may be transferred to and administered under the most recent
appropriation heading for any such section.
Sec. 163. None of the funds made available by this Act or any
other Act shall be used to adjust apportionments or withhold funds from
apportionments pursuant to section 9503(e)(4) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9503(e)(4)).
Sec. 164. Of the unobligated balances from prior year
appropriations made available in paragraphs (1) and (5) under the
heading ``Federal Transit Administration--Transit Infrastructure
Grants'' from the fiscal year 2025 act making appropriations for the
Department of Transportation (P.L. 119-4), $40,000,000 are hereby
rescinded.
Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds
and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accord
with 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 programs
set forth in the Corporation's budget for the current fiscal year.
operations and maintenance
(harbor maintenance trust fund)
For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, maintenance, and
capital infrastructure activities on portions of the St. Lawrence
Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Great Lakes St. Lawrence
Seaway Development Corporation, $38,080,000, to be derived from the
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to section 210 of the Water
Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238): Provided, That of
the amounts made available under this heading, not less than
$15,950,000 shall be for the seaway infrastructure program.
Maritime Administration
maritime security program
(including rescission)
For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag
merchant fleet as authorized under chapter 531 of title 46, United
States Code, to serve the national security needs of the United States,
$380,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of
the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available under
this heading, $27,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
cable security fleet
(including rescission)
For the cable security fleet program, as authorized under chapter
532 of title 46, United States Code, $10,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That of the unobligated balances from prior
year appropriations available under this heading, $12,000,000 are
hereby permanently rescinded.
tanker security program
(including rescission)
For Tanker Security Fleet payments, as authorized under section
53406 of title 46, United States Code, $91,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided,That of the unobligated balances from prior
year appropriations available under this heading, $54,000,000 are
hereby permanently rescinded.
operations and training
For necessary expenses of operations and training activities
authorized by law, $271,775,000: Provided, That of the sums
appropriated under this heading--
(1) $101,500,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2027, for the operations of the United States Merchant Marine
Academy;
(2) $50,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
facilities maintenance and repair, and equipment, at the United
States Merchant Marine Academy;
(3) $32,123,000 shall remain available until expended for
capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine
Academy;
(4) $5,000,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2027, for the maritime environmental and technical assistance
program authorized under section 50307 of title 46, United
States Code; and
(5) $7,500,000 shall remain available until expended for
the United States marine highway program to make grants for the
purposes authorized under section 55601 of title 46, United
States Code:
Provided further, That the Administrator of the Maritime
Administration shall transmit to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations the annual report on sexual assault and sexual
harassment at the United States Merchant Marine Academy as required
pursuant to section 3510 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
fiscal year 2017 (46 U.S.C. 51318): Provided further, That available
balances under this heading for the short sea transportation program or
America's marine highway program (now known as the United States marine
highway program) from prior year recoveries shall be available to carry
out activities authorized under section 55601 of title 46, United
States Code.
state maritime academy operations
For necessary expenses of operations, support, and training
activities for State Maritime Academies, $91,000,000: Provided, That
of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $7,800,000 shall remain available until expended for
maintenance, repair, and life extension of training ships at
the State Maritime Academies;
(2) $70,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
the national security multi-mission vessel program, including
funds for expenses related to the operation, oversight, and
management of school ships constructed with funds provided for
the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program, including
insurance, maintenance, repair and equipment costs; and, as
determined by the Secretary, necessary expenses to design,
plan, construct infrastructure, and purchase equipment
necessary to berth such ships: Provided, That such funds may
be used to reimburse State Maritime Academies for costs
incurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act;
(3) $2,400,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2030, for the student incentive program;
(4) $3,800,000 shall remain available until expended for
training ship fuel assistance; and
(5) $7,000,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2027, for direct payments for State Maritime Academies:
Provided, That each institution eligible for such payments
receives no more than $1,000,000.
assistance to small shipyards
(including transfer of funds)
To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized under section
54101 of title 46, United States Code, $30,000,000, to remain available
to be expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of
law, amounts made available under this heading shall be derived by
transfer from the unobligated balances of amounts previously
appropriated for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 under
paragraph (5) of the heading ``highway infrastructure programs'' in
division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law
117-58): Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding provisos shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5.
ship disposal
For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete vessels
in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime Administration,
$6,000,000, to remain available until expended.
maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account
(including transfer of funds)
For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, $4,000,000, which shall be transferred to and merged with the
appropriations for ``Maritime Administration--Operations and
Training''.
port infrastructure development program
(including transfer of funds)
To make grants to improve port facilities as authorized under
section 54301 of title 46, United States Code, and section 3501(9) of
the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025 (Public Law
118-159), $123,470,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That of the sums appropriated under this heading in this Act--
(1) $80,000,000 shall be for projects in coastal seaports,
inland river ports, or Great Lakes ports: Provided, That for
grants awarded under this paragraph, the minimum grant size
shall be $1,000,000: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, amounts made available under this
paragraph shall be derived by transfer from the unobligated
balances of amounts previously appropriated for fiscal years
2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 under paragraph (5) of the heading
``highway infrastructure programs'' in division J of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58):
Provided further, That amounts transferred pursuant to the
preceding provisos shall continue to be treated as amounts
specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5;
and
(2) $43,470,000 shall be for purposes, and in the amounts,
specific for Community Project Funding included in the table
entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report
accompanying this Act.
administrative provision--maritime administration
(including rescission)
Sec. 170. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in
addition to any existing authority, the Maritime Administration is
authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs
in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving
Government property under control of the Maritime Administration:
Provided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to the
appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall remain available
until expended: Provided further, That rental payments under any such
lease, contract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities,
services, or repairs shall be deposited into the Treasury as
miscellaneous receipts.
Sec. 171. Of the unobligated balances from prior year
appropriations available under the heading ``Maritime Administration--
Maritime Guaranteed Loan (Title XI) Program Account'', $86,000,000 are
hereby rescinded.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
operational expenses
For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration, $28,619,000, of which $4,500,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2028.
hazardous materials safety
For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials safety
functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, $68,511,000, of which $9,570,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2028, of which $1,000,000 shall be made available
for carrying out Section 5107 (i) of title 49, United States Code:
Provided, That up to $800,000 in fees collected under section 5108(g)
of title 49, United States Code, shall be deposited in the general fund
of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided further, That there
may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until expended,
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for training,
for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel expenses
incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and approvals
functions.
pipeline safety
(pipeline safety fund)
(oil spill liability trust fund)
For expenses necessary to carry out a pipeline safety program, as
authorized by section 60107 of title 49, United States Code, and to
discharge the pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-380), $218,288,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2027, of which $30,000,000 shall be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which $180,888,000 shall be
derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund; of which $400,000 shall be
derived from the fees collected under section 60303 of title 49, United
States Code, and deposited in the Liquefied Natural Gas Siting Account
for compliance reviews of liquefied natural gas facilities; and of
which $7,000,000 shall be derived from fees collected under section
60302 of title 49, United States Code, and deposited in the Underground
Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account for the purpose of carrying
out section 60141 of title 49, United States Code: Provided, That not
less than $1,058,000 of the amounts made available under this heading
shall be for the one-call state grant program: Provided further, That
any amounts made available under this heading in this Act or in prior
Acts for research contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or research
other transactions agreements (OTAs) shall require written notification
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3
full business days before such research contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, or research OTAs are announced by the Department of
Transportation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall transmit to
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations the report on
pipeline safety testing enhancement as required pursuant to section 105
of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety
Act of 2020 (division R of Public Law 116-260): Provided further, That
the Secretary may obligate amounts made available under this heading to
engineer, erect, alter, and repair buildings or make any other public
improvements for research facilities at the Transportation Technology
Center after the Secretary submits an updated research plan and the
report in the preceding proviso to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations and after such plan and report in the preceding proviso
are approved by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
emergency preparedness grants
(limitation on obligations)
(emergency preparedness fund)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Emergency Preparedness
Grants program, not more than $46,825,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2028, from amounts made available by section 5116(h) and
subsections (b) and (c) of section 5128 of title 49, United States
Code: Provided, That notwithstanding section 5116(h)(4) of title 49,
United States Code, not more than 4 percent of the amounts made
available from this account shall be available to pay the
administrative costs of carrying out sections 5116, 5107(e), and
5108(g)(2) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That
notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c) of section 5128 of title 49,
United States Code, and the limitation on obligations provided under
this heading, prior year recoveries recognized in the current year
shall be available to develop and deliver hazardous materials emergency
response training for emergency responders, including response
activities for the transportation of crude oil, ethanol, flammable
liquids, and other hazardous commodities by rail, consistent with
National Fire Protection Association standards, and to make such
training available through an electronic format: Provided further,
That the prior year recoveries made available under this heading shall
also be available to carry out sections 5116(a)(1)(C), 5116(h),
5116(i), 5116(j), and 5107(e) of title 49, United States Code.
Office of Inspector General
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General to carry
out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$104,807,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have all
necessary authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the
Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), to investigate
allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government (18
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by
the Department of Transportation.
General Provisions--Department of Transportation
Sec. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applicable
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department
business; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by
sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations to
the Department and its operating administrations shall be available for
the purchase, maintenance, operation, and deployment of unmanned
aircraft systems that advance the missions of the Department of
Transportation or an operating administration of the Department of
Transportation.
(c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased, procured, or contracted
for by the Department prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall
be deemed authorized by Congress as if this provision was in effect
when the system was purchased, procured, or contracted for.
Sec. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department
of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates for
individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for
an Executive Level IV.
Sec. 182. (a) No recipient of amounts made available by this Act
shall disseminate personal information (as defined in section 2725(3)
of title 18, United States Code) obtained by a State department of
motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record as defined in
section 2725(1) of title 18, United States Code, except as provided in
section 2721 of title 18, United States Code, for a use permitted under
section 2721 of title 18, United States Code.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not
withhold amounts made available by this Act for any grantee if a State
is in noncompliance with this provision.
Sec. 183. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available for salaries and expenses of more than 125 political and
Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation: Provided,
That none of the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on
temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation.
Sec. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway Administration and
Federal Railroad Administration from States, counties, municipalities,
other public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for
training may be credited respectively to the Federal Highway
Administration's ``Federal-Aid Highways'' account and to the Federal
Railroad Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for
State rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to
section 20105 of title 49, United States Code.
Sec. 185. None of the funds made available by this Act or in title
VIII of division J of Public Law 117-58 to the Department of
Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, line of
credit, letter of intent, federally funded cooperative agreement, full
funding grant agreement, or discretionary grant unless the Secretary of
Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project
competitively selected to receive any discretionary grant award, letter
of intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of credit
commitment, federally funded cooperative agreement, or full funding
grant agreement is announced by the Department or its operating
administrations: Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation shall
provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with a
comprehensive list of all such loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit,
letters of intent, federally funded cooperative agreements, full
funding grant agreements, and discretionary grants prior to the
notification required under the preceding proviso: Provided further,
That the Secretary gives concurrent notification to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations for any ``quick release'' of funds
from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That no
notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation.
Sec. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees, and
other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building
space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations
of the Department of Transportation and allocated to organizational
units of the Department of Transportation using fair and equitable
criteria and such funds shall be available until expended.
Sec. 187. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any funds
provided by or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogramming
action that requires notice to be provided to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, transmission of such reprogramming notice
shall be provided solely to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations, and such reprogramming action shall be approved or
denied solely by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation may provide notice to
other congressional committees of the action of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner than
30 days after the date on which the reprogramming action has been
approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations.
Sec. 188. Funds appropriated by this Act to the operating
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for
the costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are purchased
to provide a direct benefit to the applicable operating administration
or administrations.
Sec. 189. The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to carry
out a program that establishes uniform standards for developing and
supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits authorized under
section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media.
Sec. 190. The Department of Transportation may use funds provided
by this Act, or any other Act, to assist a contract under title 49 or
23 of the United States Code utilizing geographic, economic, or any
other hiring preference not otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a
rule, regulation, policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of a
Federal Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administration grant
from imposing such hiring preference on a contract or construction
project with which the Department of Transportation is assisting, only
if the grant recipient certifies the following:
(1) that except with respect to apprentices or trainees, a
pool of readily available but unemployed individuals possessing
the knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the work that the
contract requires resides in the jurisdiction;
(2) that the grant recipient will include appropriate
provisions in its bid document ensuring that the contractor
does not displace any of its existing employees in order to
satisfy such hiring preference; and
(3) that any increase in the cost of labor, training, or
delays resulting from the use of such hiring preference does
not delay or displace any transportation project in the
applicable statewide transportation improvement program or
transportation improvement program.
Sec. 191. The Secretary of Transportation shall coordinate with
the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that best practices for
Industrial Control Systems Procurement are up-to-date and shall ensure
that systems procured with funds provided under this title were
procured using such practices.
Sec. 192. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
in contravention of the American Security Drone Act of 2023 (subtitle B
of title XVIII of division A of Public Law 118-31).
Sec. 193. None of the funds appropriated or made available by this
Act shall be used to enforce a mask mandate in response to the COVID-19
virus.
Sec. 194. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this or any other Act may be used to license, facilitate,
coordinate, or otherwise allow officials of a country designated as a
state sponsor of terrorism within the past 3 fiscal years, to, in the
official capacity of such official, observe, tour, visit, or confer
with the employees of the Department of Transportation, including the
Federal Aviation Administration.
(b) In this section, the term ``state sponsor of terrorism'' means
a country the government of which the Secretary of State determines has
repeatedly provided support for international terrorism pursuant to--
(1) section 1754(c)(1)(A) of the Export Control Reform Act
of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4318(c)(1)(A));
(2) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2371);
(3) section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2780); or
(4) any other provision of law.
Sec. 195. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount
otherwise provided under the heading ``Office of the Secretary--
Salaries and Expenses--Office of the General Counsel'' is hereby
reduced by $10,000,000: Provided, That such amount shall be transferred
and made available to the ``Federal Highway Administration--Highway
Infrastructure Programs'' for the Regional Infrastructure Accelerator
program to supports its initiatives and operations.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Transportation
Appropriations Act, 2026''.
TITLE II
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Management and Administration
executive offices
For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Offices, which
shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary,
Adjudicatory Services, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations,
Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $17,500,000 to
remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to
exceed $25,000 of the amount made available under this heading shall be
available to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (referred
to in this title as ``the Secretary'') for official reception and
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine.
administrative support offices
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative Support
Offices, $580,800,000 to remain available until September 30, 2027:
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $87,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Chief Financial Officer;
(2) $103,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the
General Counsel;
(3) $225,850,000 shall be available for the Office of
Administration;
(4) $46,750,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Chief Human Capital Officer;
(5) $24,250,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Chief Procurement Officer;
(6) $39,250,000 shall be available for the Office of Field
Policy and Management;
(7) $2,700,000 shall be available for the Office of
Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; and
(8) $52,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the
Chief Information Officer:
Provided further, That funds made available under this heading may be
used for necessary administrative and non-administrative expenses of
the Department, not otherwise provided for, including purchase of
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and
5902 of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States
Code: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of
law, funds appropriated under this heading may be used for advertising
and promotional activities that directly support program activities
funded in this title.
program offices
For necessary salaries and expenses for Program Offices,
$870,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided,
That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $238,374,000 shall be available for the Office of
Public and Indian Housing;
(2) $126,460,000 shall be available for the Office of
Community Planning and Development;
(3) $395,199,000 shall be available for the Office of
Housing;
(4) $31,365,000 shall be available for the Office of Policy
Development and Research;
(5) $68,003,000 shall be available for the Office of Fair
Housing and Equal Opportunity; and
(6) $11,299,000 shall be available for the Office of Lead
Hazard Control and Healthy Homes.
working capital fund
(including transfer of funds)
For the working capital fund for the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (referred to in this paragraph as the ``Fund''),
pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred,
including reimbursements pursuant to section 7(f), to the Fund under
this heading shall be available only for Federal shared services used
by offices and agencies of the Department, for services the Secretary
has determined shall be provided through the Fund, and for the
operational expenses of the Fund: Provided, That upon a determination
by the Secretary that any other service (or portion thereof) authorized
under this heading shall be provided through the Fund, amounts made
available in this title for salaries and expenses under the headings
``Executive Offices'', ``Administrative Support Offices'', ``Program
Offices'', and ``Government National Mortgage Association'', for such
services shall be transferred to the Fund, to remain available until
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary shall notify the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations of its plans for executing such
transfers at least 15 days in advance of such transfers.
Public and Indian Housing
tenant-based rental assistance
For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act of
1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (in this title ``the Act''),
not otherwise provided for, $31,267,941,000 to remain available until
expended, which shall be available on October 1, 2025 (in addition to
the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading that
shall be available on October 1, 2025), and $4,000,000,000, to remain
available until expended, which shall be available on October 1, 2026:
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $32,145,000,000 shall be available for renewals of
expiring section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts
(including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision of
law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act)
and including renewal of other special purpose incremental
vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any
carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 2026 funding
cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing
agency based on validated voucher management system (VMS) or
successor system leasing and cost data for the prior calendar
year and by applying an inflation factor as established by the
Secretary, by notice published in the Federal Register, and by
making any necessary adjustments for the costs associated with
the first-time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph
including tenant protection and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers:
Provided further, That none of the funds provided under this
paragraph may be used to fund a total number of unit months
under lease which exceeds a public housing agency's authorized
level of units under contract, except for public housing
agencies participating in the Moving to Work (MTW)
demonstration, which are instead governed in accordance with
the requirements of the MTW demonstration program or their MTW
agreements, if any: Provided further, That the Secretary
shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the amount
specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified
under this paragraph), prorate each public housing agency's
allocation otherwise established pursuant to this paragraph:
Provided further, That except as provided in the following
provisos, the entire amount specified under this paragraph
(except as otherwise modified under this paragraph) shall be
obligated to the public housing agencies based on the
allocation and pro rata method described above, and the
Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of their annual
budget by the latter of 60 days after enactment of this Act or
March 1, 2026: Provided further, That the Secretary may extend
the notification period with the prior written approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided
further, That public housing agencies participating in the MTW
demonstration shall be funded in accordance with the
requirements of the MTW demonstration program or their MTW
agreements, if any, and shall be subject to the same pro rata
adjustments under the preceding provisos: Provided further,
That the Secretary may perform a statutory offset of public
housing agencies' calendar year 2026 allocations based on the
excess amounts of public housing agencies' net restricted
assets accounts, including HUD-held programmatic reserves (in
accordance with VMS or successor system data in calendar year
2024 that is verifiable and complete), as determined by the
Secretary: Provided further, That the Secretary shall use any
offset referred to in the preceding two provisos throughout the
calendar year to prevent the termination of rental assistance
for families as the result of insufficient funding, as
determined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the
proration of renewal funding allocations: Provided further,
That up to $200,000,000 shall be available only:
(A) for adjustments in the allocations for public
housing agencies, after application for an adjustment
by a public housing agency that experienced a
significant increase, as determined by the Secretary,
in renewal costs of vouchers resulting from unforeseen
circumstances or from portability under section 8(r) of
the Act;
(B) for vouchers that were not in use during the
previous 12-month period in order to be available to
meet a commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the
Act, or an adjustment for a funding obligation not yet
expended in the previous calendar year for a MTW-
eligible activity to develop affordable housing for an
agency added to the MTW demonstration under the
expansion authority provided in section 239 of the
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division L
of Public Law 114-113);
(C) for adjustments for costs associated with HUD-
Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH)
vouchers;
(D) for public housing agencies that despite taking
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate
rental assistance for families as a result of
insufficient funding;
(E) for adjustments in the allocations for public
housing agencies that--
(i) are leasing a lower-than-average
percentage of their authorized vouchers,
(ii) have low amounts of budget authority
in their net restricted assets accounts and
HUD-held programmatic reserves, relative to
other agencies, and
(iii) are not participating in the Moving
to Work demonstration, to enable such agencies
to lease more vouchers;
(F) for withheld payments in accordance with
section 8(o)(8)(A)(ii) of the Act for months in the
previous calendar year that were subsequently paid by
the public housing agency after the agency's actual
costs were validated; and
(G) for public housing agencies that have
experienced increased costs or loss of units in an area
for which the President declared a disaster under title
IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.):
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts
under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined by the
Secretary;
(2) $374,876,000 shall be available for section 8 rental
assistance for relocation and replacement of housing units that
are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the
Act, conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under
section 8, relocation of witnesses (including victims of
violent crimes) in connection with efforts to combat crime in
public and assisted housing pursuant to a request from a law
enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers under any
provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t)
of the Act, Choice Neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and
voluntary conversions, and tenant protection assistance
including replacement and relocation assistance or for project-
based assistance to prevent the displacement of unassisted
elderly tenants currently residing in section 202 properties
financed between 1959 and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to
Public Law 106-569, as amended, or under the authority as
provided under this Act: Provided, That the Secretary may, not
less than 3 days after providing notice to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, reprogram amounts made available
under this paragraph to utilize such amounts to avoid or reduce
the proration of renewal funding allocations under paragraph
(1) under this heading: Provided further, That when a public
housing development is submitted for demolition or disposition
under section 18 of the Act, the Secretary may provide section
8 rental assistance when the units pose an imminent health and
safety risk to residents: Provided further, That the Secretary
may provide section 8 rental assistance from amounts made
available under this paragraph for units assisted under a
project-based subsidy contract funded under the ``Project-Based
Rental Assistance'' heading under this title where the owner
has received a Notice of Default and the units pose an imminent
health and safety risk to residents: Provided further, That of
the amounts made available under this paragraph, no less than
$5,000,000 may be available to provide tenant protection
assistance, not otherwise provided under this paragraph, to
residents residing in low vacancy areas and who may have to pay
rents greater than 30 percent of household income, as the
result of: (A) the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or
section 202 loan that requires the permission of the Secretary
prior to loan prepayment; (B) the expiration of a rental
assistance contract for which the tenants are not eligible for
enhanced voucher or tenant protection assistance under existing
law; or (C) the expiration of affordability restrictions
accompanying a mortgage or preservation program administered by
the Secretary: Provided further, That such tenant protection
assistance made available under the preceding proviso may be
provided under the authority of section 8(t) or section
8(o)(13) of the Act: Provided further, That amounts made
available under this paragraph may be available to provide
calendar year 2026 assistance to public housing agencies that
would otherwise be required to terminate Emergency Housing
Voucher assistance (Public Law 117-2; 135 Stat. 58; 42 U.S.C.
1437f) for families as a result of insufficient funding:
Provided further, That any tenant protection voucher made
available from amounts under this paragraph shall not be
reissued by any public housing agency, except the replacement
vouchers as defined by the Secretary by notice, when the
initial family that received any such voucher no longer
receives such voucher, and the authority for any public housing
agency to issue any such voucher shall cease to exist:
Provided further, That the Secretary may only provide
replacement vouchers for units that were occupied within the
previous 24 months that cease to be available as assisted
housing, subject only to the availability of funds;
(3) $1,975,124,000 shall be available for administrative
and other expenses of public housing agencies in administering
the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which
up to $30,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to
allocate to public housing agencies that need additional funds
to administer their section 8 programs, including fees
associated with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance,
the administration of disaster related vouchers, HUD-VASH
vouchers, and other special purpose incremental vouchers:
Provided, That no less than $1,945,124,000 of the amount
provided in this paragraph shall be allocated to public housing
agencies for the calendar year 2025 funding cycle based on
section 8(q) of the Act (and related appropriation Act
provisions) as in effect immediately before the enactment of
the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public
Law 105-276): Provided further, That if the amounts made
available under this paragraph are insufficient to pay the
amounts determined under the preceding proviso, the Secretary
may decrease the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform
percentage applicable to all agencies receiving funding under
this paragraph or may, to the extent necessary to provide full
payment of amounts determined under the preceding proviso,
utilize unobligated balances, including recaptures and
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated under this heading
from prior fiscal years, excluding special purpose vouchers,
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were
appropriated: Provided further, That all public housing
agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded
in accordance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration
program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall be subject
to the same uniform percentage decrease as under the preceding
proviso: Provided further, That amounts provided under this
paragraph shall be only for activities related to the provision
of tenant-based rental assistance authorized under section 8,
including related development activities;
(4) $742,941,000 shall be available for the renewal of
tenant-based assistance contracts under section 811 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C.
8013), including necessary administrative expenses: Provided,
That administrative and other expenses of public housing
agencies in administering the special purpose vouchers in this
paragraph shall be funded under the same terms and be subject
to the same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for
administrative and other expenses to public housing agencies
under paragraph (3) of this heading: Provided further, That up
to $10,000,000 shall be available only--
(A) for adjustments in the allocation for public
housing agencies, after applications for an adjustment
by a public housing agency that experienced a
significant increase, as determined by the Secretary,
in Mainstream renewal costs resulting from unforeseen
circumstances; and
(B) for public housing agencies that despite taking
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate the
rental assistance for Mainstream families as a result
of insufficient funding:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts
under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined by the
Secretary: Provided further, That upon turnover, section 811
special purpose vouchers funded under this heading in this or
prior Acts, or under any other heading in prior Acts, shall be
provided to non-elderly persons with disabilities;
(5) of the amounts provided under paragraph (1), up to
$10,000,000 shall be available for rental assistance and
associated administrative fees for Tribal HUD-VASH to serve
Native American veterans that are homeless or at-risk of
homelessness living on or near a reservation or other Indian
areas: Provided, That such amount shall be made available for
renewal grants to recipients that received assistance under
prior Acts under the Tribal HUD-VASH program: Provided
further, That the Secretary shall be authorized to specify
criteria for renewal grants, including data on the utilization
of assistance reported by grant recipients: Provided further,
That such assistance shall be administered in accordance with
program requirements under the Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and modeled after
the HUD-VASH program: Provided further, That the Secretary
shall be authorized to waive, or specify alternative
requirements for any provision of any statute or regulation
that the Secretary administers in connection with the use of
funds made available under this paragraph (except for
requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor
standards, and the environment), upon a finding by the
Secretary that any such waivers or alternative requirements are
necessary for the effective delivery and administration of such
assistance: Provided further, That grant recipients shall
report to the Secretary on utilization of such rental
assistance and other program data, as prescribed by the
Secretary: Provided further, That the Secretary may
reallocate, as determined by the Secretary, amounts returned or
recaptured from awards under the Tribal HUD-VASH program under
prior Acts to existing recipients under the Tribal HUD-VASH
program; and
(6) $30,000,000 shall be available for new incremental
voucher assistance to assist eligible youth as defined by such
section 8(x)(2)(B) of the Act, which shall continue to remain
available for such eligible youth upon turnover: Provided,
That such amounts shall be available on a noncompetitive basis
to public housing agencies that partner with public child
welfare agencies to identify such eligible youth, that request
such assistance to timely assist such eligible youth, and that
meet any other criteria as specified by the Secretary:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall review utilization
of such assistance and assistance originating from
appropriations made available for youth under this heading in
any prior Act that the Secretary made available on a
noncompetitive basis, at an interval to be determined by the
Secretary, and unutilized voucher assistance that is no longer
needed based on such review shall be recaptured by the
Secretary and reallocated pursuant to the preceding proviso:
Provided further, That assistance under this paragraph shall
be known and designated as ``The First Lady Melania Trump Youth
Foster to Independence Initiative''; and
(7) the Secretary shall separately track all special
purpose vouchers funded under this heading.
housing certificate fund
(including rescissions)
Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban
Development under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for
Assisted Housing'' and the heading ``Project-Based Rental Assistance'',
for fiscal year 2026 and prior years may be used for renewal of or
amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for performance-
based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which
such funds were appropriated: Provided, That any obligated balances of
contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior fiscal years that
have been terminated shall be rescinded: Provided further, That
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current fiscal
year, from section 8 project-based contracts from source years fiscal
year 1975 through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount
of additional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded
is hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, for the
purposes set forth under this heading, in addition to amounts otherwise
available.
public housing fund
For 2026 payments to public housing agencies for the operation and
management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)) (the ``Act''),
and to carry out capital and management activities for public housing
agencies, as authorized under section 9(d) of the Act (42 U.S.C.
1437g(d)), $7,334,257,000 to remain available until September 30, 2029:
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $4,975,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to
allocate pursuant to the Operating Fund formula at part 990 of
title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, for 2026 payments;
(2) $25,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to
allocate pursuant to a need-based application process
notwithstanding section 203 of this title and not subject to
such Operating Fund formula to public housing agencies that
experience, or are at risk of, financial shortfalls, as
determined by the Secretary: Provided, That after all such
shortfall needs are met, the Secretary may distribute any
remaining funds to all public housing agencies on a pro-rata
basis pursuant to such Operating Fund formula;
(3) $2,286,257,000 shall be available for the Secretary to
allocate pursuant to the Capital Fund formula at section
905.400 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations: Provided,
That for funds provided under this paragraph, the limitation in
section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 percent: That the
Secretary may waive the limitation in the preceding proviso to
allow public housing agencies to fund activities authorized
under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That
the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies requesting
waivers under the preceding proviso if the request is approved
or denied within 14 calendar days of submitting the request:
Provided further, That from the funds made available under this
paragraph, the Secretary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal
year 2026 to public housing agencies that are designated high
performers: Provided further, That the Department shall notify
public housing agencies of their formula allocation within 60
days of enactment of this Act;
(4) $30,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to
make grants, notwithstanding section 203 of this title, to
public housing agencies for emergency capital needs, including
safety and security measures necessary to address crime and
drug-related activity, as well as needs resulting from
unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and natural disasters
excluding Presidentially declared emergencies and natural
disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year
2026: Provided, That of the amount made available under this
paragraph, not less than $10,000,000 shall be for safety and
security measures: Provided further, That in addition to the
amount in the preceding proviso for such safety and security
measures, any amounts that remain available, after all
applications received on or before September 30, 2027, for
emergency capital needs have been processed, shall be allocated
to public housing agencies for such safety and security
measures; and
(5) $15,000,000 shall be available to support the costs of
administrative and judicial receiverships and for competitive
grants to PHAs in receivership, designated troubled or
substandard, or otherwise at risk, as determined by the
Secretary, for costs associated with public housing asset
improvement, in addition to other amounts for that purpose
provided under any heading under this title:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law or
regulation, during fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development may not delegate to any Department official other than the
Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) of the Act
regarding the extension of the time periods under such section:
Provided further, That for purposes of such section 9(j), the term
``obligate'' means, with respect to amounts, that the amounts are
subject to a binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately
or in the future.
assisted housing inspections and risk assessments
For the Department's inspection and assessment programs, including
travel, training, and program support contracts, $50,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That unobligated
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds
appropriated under the heading ``Public Housing Fund'' to support
ongoing public housing financial and physical assessment activities
shall be available for the purposes authorized under this heading in
addition to the purposes for which such funds originally were
appropriated.
self-sufficiency programs
For activities and assistance related to self-sufficiency programs,
to remain available until September 30, 2029, $175,000,000: Provided,
That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $125,000,000 shall be available for the family self-
sufficiency program to support family self-sufficiency
coordinators under section 23 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u), to promote the development of local
strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under sections 8
and 9 of such Act with public and private resources, and enable
eligible families to achieve economic independence and self-
sufficiency;
(2) $35,000,000 shall be available for the resident
opportunity and self-sufficiency program to provide for
supportive services, service coordinators, and congregate
services as authorized by section 34 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437z-6) and the Native American
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25
U.S.C. 4101 et seq.): Provided, That amounts made available
under this paragraph may be used to renew resident opportunity
and self-sufficiency program grants to allow the public housing
agency, or a new owner, to continue to serve (or restart
service to) residents of a project with assistance converted
from public housing to project-based rental assistance under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f) or assistance under section 8(o)(13) of such Act under
the heading ``Rental Assistance Demonstration'' in the
Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act,
2012 (Public Law 112-55), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f note);
and
(3) $15,000,000 shall be available for a jobs-plus
initiative, modeled after the jobs-plus demonstration:
Provided, That funding provided under this paragraph shall be
available for competitive grants to partnerships between public
housing authorities, local workforce investment boards
established under section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and other agencies
and organizations that provide support to help public housing
residents obtain employment and increase earnings: Provided
further, That applicants must demonstrate the ability to
provide services to residents, partner with workforce
investment boards, and leverage service dollars: Provided
further, That the Secretary may allow public housing agencies
to request exemptions from rent and income limitation
requirements under sections 3 and 6 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437d), as necessary to
implement the jobs-plus program, on such terms and conditions
as the Secretary may approve upon a finding by the Secretary
that any such waivers or alternative requirements are necessary
for the effective implementation of the jobs-plus initiative as
a voluntary program for residents: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal Register any
waivers or alternative requirements pursuant to the preceding
proviso no later than 10 days before the effective date of such
notice.
native american programs
For activities and assistance authorized under title I of the
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996
(in this heading ``NAHASDA'') (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), title I of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.)
with respect to Indian tribes, and related training and technical
assistance, $1,344,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2030: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $1,111,000,000 shall be available for the Native
American housing block grants program, as authorized under
title I of NAHASDA: Provided, That, notwithstanding NAHASDA,
to determine the amount of the allocation under title I of such
Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the
formula under section 302 of such Act with the need component
based on single-race census data and with the need component
based on multi-race census data, and the amount of the
allocation for each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the
two resulting allocation amounts: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall notify grantees of their formula allocation not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act;
(2) $150,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants
under the Native American housing block grants program, as
authorized under title I of NAHASDA: Provided, That the
Secretary shall obligate such amount for competitive grants to
eligible recipients authorized under NAHASDA that apply for
funds: Provided further, That in awarding amounts made
available in this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider need
and administrative capacity, and shall give priority to
projects that will spur construction and rehabilitation of
housing: Provided further, That any amounts transferred for
the necessary costs of administering and overseeing the
obligation and expenditure of such additional amounts in prior
Acts may also be used for the necessary costs of administering
and overseeing such additional amount;
(3) $1,000,000 shall be available for the cost of
guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title
VI of NAHASDA: Provided, That such costs, including the cost
of modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
(2 U.S.C. 661a): Provided further, That amounts made available
in this and prior Acts for the cost of such guaranteed notes
and other obligations that are unobligated, including
recaptures and carryover, may be available to subsidize the
total principal amount of any notes and other obligations, any
part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $50,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided
further, That upon a determination that the budget authority
made available for this program under this paragraph in this or
prior Acts exceeds the projected demand for the current fiscal
year, the Secretary may reprogram such excess amounts as
necessary to provide additional awards under paragraphs (1),
(2), or (4) of this heading, if the Secretary provides notice
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less
than 3 business days before any such reprogramming;
(4) $75,000,000 shall be available for grants to Indian
tribes for carrying out the Indian community development block
grant program under title I of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of
such Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision of law
(including section 203 of this Act), not more than $5,000,000
may be used for emergencies that constitute imminent threats to
health and safety: Provided, That not to exceed 20 percent of
any grant made with amounts made available in this paragraph
shall be expended for planning and management development and
administration; and
(5) $7,000,000, in addition to amounts otherwise available
for such purpose, shall be available for providing training and
technical assistance to Indian tribes, Indian housing
authorities, and tribally designated housing entities, to
support the inspection of Indian housing units, for contract
expertise, and for training and technical assistance related to
amounts made available under this heading and other headings in
this Act for the needs of Native American families and Indian
country: Provided, That of the amounts made available in this
paragraph, not less than $2,000,000 shall be for a national
organization as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA (25
U.S.C. 4212): Provided further, That amounts made available in
this paragraph may be used, contracted, or competed as
determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That
notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code
(commonly known as the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements
Act of 1977), the amounts made available in this paragraph may
be used by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements
with public and private organizations, agencies, institutions,
and other technical assistance providers to support the
administration of negotiated rulemaking under section 106 of
NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4116), the administration of the allocation
formula under section 302 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the
administration of performance tracking and reporting under
section 407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167).
indian housing loan guarantee fund program account
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13a), $1,700,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 661a): Provided further, That an additional $400,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be available for administrative
contract expenses including management processes to carry out the loan
guarantee program: Provided further, That amounts made available in
this and prior Acts for the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by
section 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12
U.S.C. 1715z-13a), that are unobligated, including recaptures and
carryover, may be made available to subsidize total loan principal, any
part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,800,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2027.
native hawaiian housing block grant
For the Native Hawaiian housing block grant program, as authorized
under title VIII of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.), $18,300,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2029: Provided, That
notwithstanding section 812(b) of such Act, the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands may not invest grant amounts made available under this
heading in investment securities and other obligations: Provided
further, That amounts made available under this heading in this and
prior fiscal years may be used to provide rental assistance to eligible
Native Hawaiian families both on and off the Hawaiian Home Lands,
notwithstanding any other provision of law: Provided further, That up
to $1,000,000 of the amounts made available under this heading may be
for training and technical assistance related to amounts made available
under this heading and other headings in this Act for the needs of
Native Hawaiians and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
native hawaiian housing loan guarantee fund program account
New commitments to guarantee loans, as authorized by section 184A
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13b), any part of which is to be guaranteed, shall not exceed
$28,000,000 in total loan principal, to remain available until
September 30, 2027: Provided, That the Secretary may enter into
commitments to guarantee loans used for refinancing.
Community Planning and Development
housing opportunities for persons with aids
For carrying out the housing opportunities for persons with AIDS
program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C.
12901 et seq.), $505,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2029: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew or replace all expiring
contracts for permanent supportive housing that initially were funded
under section 854(c)(5) of such Act from funds made available under
this heading in fiscal year 2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all
program requirements before awarding funds for new contracts under such
section: Provided further, That the process for submitting amendments
and approving replacement contracts shall be established by the
Secretary in a notice: Provided further, That the Department shall
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment
of this Act.
community development fund
For assistance to States and units of general local government, and
other entities, for economic and community development activities, and
other purposes, $5,641,731,519, to remain available until September 30,
2029: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
(1) $3,300,000,000 shall be available for carrying out the
community development block grant program under title I of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) (in this heading ``the Act''): Provided,
That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds made
available under this paragraph shall be expended for planning
and management development and administration: Provided
further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit of
general local government, or insular area that directly or
indirectly receives funds under this paragraph may not sell,
trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of such funds
to another such entity in exchange for any other funds,
credits, or non-Federal considerations, but shall use such
funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act:
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of the
Act, no funds made available under this paragraph may be
provided to a for-profit entity for an economic development
project under section 105(a)(17) unless such project has been
evaluated and selected in accordance with guidelines required
under subsection (e)(2) of section 105;
(2) $30,000,000 shall be available for activities
authorized under section 8071 of the SUPPORT for Patients and
Communities Act (Public Law 115-271): Provided, That funds
allocated pursuant to this paragraph shall not adversely affect
the amount of any formula assistance received by a State under
paragraph (1) of this heading: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall allocate the funds for such activities based on
the notice establishing the funding formula published in 84 FR
16027 (April 17, 2019) except that the formula shall use age-
adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths for 2023 based on data
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Provided
further, That if such age-adjusted rate is unavailable for a
jurisdiction, the Secretary shall use the best available data
to determine eligibility and to allocate to such jurisdiction;
and
(3) $2,311,731,519 shall be available for grants for the
Economic Development Initiative (EDI) for the purposes, and in
amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the table
entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report
accompanying this Act: Provided further, That eligible
expenses of such grants in this and prior Acts may include
administrative, planning, operations and maintenance, and other
costs: Provided further, That such grants for the EDI shall be
available for reimbursement of otherwise eligible expenses
incurred on or after the date of enactment of this Act and
prior to the date of grant execution: Provided further, That
none of the amounts made available under this paragraph for
grants for the EDI shall be used for reimbursement of expenses
incurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided further, That for amounts made available under paragraphs
(1) and (2), the Secretary shall notify grantees of their formula
allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
community development loan guarantees program account
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 661a), during fiscal year 2026, commitments to guarantee loans
under section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
(42 U.S.C. 5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a
total principal amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection (k) of
such section 108: Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from
borrowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section 108, to
result in a credit subsidy cost of zero for guaranteeing such loans,
and any such fees shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such
commitment authority funded by fees may be used to guarantee, or make
commitments to guarantee, notes or other obligations issued by any
State on behalf of non-entitlement communities in the State in
accordance with the requirements of such section 108: Provided
further, That any State receiving such a guarantee or commitment under
the preceding proviso shall distribute all funds subject to such
guarantee to the units of general local government in non-entitlement
areas that received the commitment.
self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program
For the self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program,
as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program
Extension Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 12805 note), and for related
activities and assistance, $56,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2028: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this
heading--
(1) $9,000,000 shall be available for the self-help
homeownership opportunity program as authorized under such
section 11;
(2) $42,000,000 shall be available for the second, third,
and fourth capacity building entities specified in section 4(a)
of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (III Stat 201; 42 U.S.C.
9816 note), of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be for
rural capacity building activities; and
(3) $5,000,000 shall be available for capacity building by
national rural housing organizations having experience
assessing national rural conditions and providing financing,
training, technical assistance, information, and research to
local nonprofit organizations, local governments, and Indian
Tribes serving high need rural communities.
homeless assistance grants
(including rescission)
For assistance under title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), and for related activities
and assistance, $4,158,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2028: Provided, That all unobligated funds appropriated under
paragraph (4) under this heading for fiscal year 2025 are hereby
permanently rescinded: Provided further, That of the sums appropriated
under this heading--
(1) $290,000,000 shall be available for the emergency
solutions grants program authorized under subtitle B of such
title IV (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.): Provided, That the
Department shall notify grantees of their formula allocation
from amounts allocated (which may represent initial or final
amounts allocated) for the emergency solutions grant program
not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act;
(2) $3,858,000,000 shall be available for the continuum of
care program authorized under subtitle C of such title IV (42
U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) and the rural housing stability
assistance programs authorized under subtitle D of such title
IV (42 U.S.C. 11408): Provided, That the Secretary shall
prioritize funding under the continuum of care program to
continuums of care that have demonstrated a capacity to
reallocate funding from lower performing projects to higher
performing projects: Provided further, That the Secretary may
establish by notice an alternative maximum amount for
administrative costs related to the requirements described in
sections 402(f)(1) and 402(f)(2) of subtitle A of such title IV
of no more than 5 percent or $50,000, whichever is greater,
notwithstanding the 3 percent limitation in section 423(a)(10)
of such subtitle C: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
provide incentives to renew projects that assist survivors of
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or
stalking: Provided further, That amounts made available for
the continuum of care program under this paragraph and any
remaining unobligated balances under this heading in prior Acts
may be used to competitively or non-competitively renew or
replace grants for youth homeless demonstration projects under
the continuum of care program, notwithstanding any conflict
with the requirements of the continuum of care program; and
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for the national
homeless data analysis project: Provided, That notwithstanding
the provisions of the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements
Act of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 6301-6308), the amounts made available
under this paragraph and any remaining unobligated balances
under this heading for such purposes in prior Acts may be used
by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with such
entities as may be determined by the Secretary, including
public and private organizations, agencies, and institutions:
Provided further, That youth aged 24 and under seeking assistance
under this heading shall not be required to provide third party
documentation to establish their eligibility under subsection (a) or
(b) of section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 11302) to receive services: Provided further, That
unaccompanied youth aged 24 and under or families headed by youth aged
24 and under who are living in unsafe situations may be served by
youth-serving providers funded under this heading: Provided further,
That persons eligible under section 103(a)(5) of the McKinney-Vento
Homeless Assistance Act may be served by any project funded under this
heading to provide both transitional housing and rapid re-housing:
Provided further, That for all matching funds requirements applicable
to funds made available under this heading for this fiscal year and
prior fiscal years, a grantee may use (or could have used) as a source
of match funds other funds administered by the Secretary and other
Federal agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory
prohibition on any such use of any such funds: Provided further, That
none of the funds made available under this heading shall be available
to provide funding for new projects, except for projects created
through reallocation, unless the Secretary determines that the
continuum of care has demonstrated that projects are evaluated and
ranked based on the degree to which they improve the continuum of
care's system performance: Provided further, That any unobligated
amounts remaining from funds made available under this heading in
fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project-based rental assistance
for rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms may be used for
purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which
such funds were appropriated: Provided further, That unobligated
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds
transferred to or appropriated under this heading in fiscal year 2019
or prior years, except for rental assistance amounts that were
recaptured and made available until expended, shall be available for
the current purposes authorized under this heading in addition to the
purposes for which such funds originally were appropriated.
Housing Programs
project-based rental assistance
For activities and assistance for the provision of project-based
subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act''), not otherwise provided for,
$16,726,800,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available
on October 1, 2025 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously
appropriated under this heading that became available October 1, 2025),
and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be
available on October 1, 2026: Provided, That the amounts made
available under this heading shall be available for expiring or
terminating section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including
section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section
8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate
rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units in projects that
are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low Income
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation
and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administrative and
other expenses associated with project-based activities and assistance
funded under this heading: Provided further, That of the total amounts
provided under this heading, not to exceed $375,000,000 shall be
available for performance-based contract administrators for section 8
project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): Provided
further, That the Secretary may also use such amounts in the preceding
proviso for performance-based contract administrators for the
administration of: interest reduction payments pursuant to section
236(a) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(a)); rent
supplement payments pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) rental
assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(f)(2)); project rental
assistance contracts for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of the
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental assistance
contracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under
section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing
Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance contracts pursuant to
section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat.
667); and loans under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public
Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667): Provided further, That amounts recaptured
under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted
Housing'', or the heading ``Housing Certificate Fund'', may be used for
renewals of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts or for
performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes
for which such amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of the
Secretary, project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts
for any project subject to a section 8 project-based housing assistance
payments contract that authorizes the Department or a housing finance
agency to require that surplus project funds be deposited in an
interest-bearing residual receipts account and that are in excess of an
amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the
Department and deposited in this account, to be available until
expended: Provided further, That amounts deposited pursuant to the
preceding proviso shall be available in addition to the amount
otherwise provided by this heading for uses authorized under this
heading.
housing for the elderly
(including transfer of funds)
For amendments to capital advance contracts, for housing for the
elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12
U.S.C. 1701q), for project rental assistance for the elderly under
section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amendments to contracts for
such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance
for up to a 5-year term, for senior preservation rental assistance
contracts, including renewals, as authorized by section 811(e) of the
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C.
1701q note), for supportive services associated with the housing, and
for administrative and other expenses associated with assistance funded
under this heading, $950,000,000 to remain available until September
30, 2029: Provided, That of the amount made available under this
heading, up to $115,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and the
continuation of existing congregate service grants for residents of
assisted housing projects: Provided further, That any funding for
existing service coordinators under the preceding proviso shall be
provided within 120 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further,
That the Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 governing
the terms and conditions of project rental assistance, except that the
initial contract term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in
duration: Provided further, That upon request of the Secretary,
project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for any
project subject to a section 202 project rental assistance contract,
and that upon termination of such contract are in excess of an amount
to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the Department
and deposited in this account, to remain available until September 30,
2029: Provided further, That amounts deposited in this account
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be available, in addition to
the amounts otherwise provided by this heading, for the purposes
authorized under this heading: Provided further, That unobligated
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds
transferred to or appropriated under this heading shall be available
for the current purposes authorized under this heading in addition to
the purposes for which such funds originally were appropriated.
housing for persons with disabilities
(including transfer of funds)
For amendments to capital advance contracts, for supportive housing
for persons with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), for
project rental assistance for supportive housing for persons with
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of such Act, for project
assistance contracts pursuant to subsection (h) of section 202 of the
Housing Act of 1959, as added by section 205(a) of the Housing and
Community Development Amendments of 1978 (Public Law 95-557; 92 Stat.
2090), including amendments to contracts for such assistance and
renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance for up to a 5-year
term, for project rental assistance to State housing finance agencies
and other appropriate entities as authorized under section 811(b)(3) of
the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, for supportive
services associated with the housing for persons with disabilities as
authorized by section 811(b)(1) of such Act, and for administrative and
other expenses associated with assistance funded under this heading,
$261,800,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029: Provided,
That, upon the request of the Secretary, project funds that are held in
residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 811
project rental assistance contract, and that upon termination of such
contract are in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary,
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to
remain available until September 30, 2029: Provided further, That
amounts deposited in this account pursuant to the preceding proviso
shall be available in addition to the amounts otherwise provided by
this heading for the purposes authorized under this heading: Provided
further, That unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover,
remaining from funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading
shall be used for the current purposes authorized under this heading in
addition to the purposes for which such funds originally were
appropriated.
payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund
For necessary expenses as authorized by the National Manufactured
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401
et seq.), up to $14,000,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees
Trust Fund (established under section 620(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
5419(e)): Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appropriated
under this heading shall be available from the general fund of the
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make
expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to
section 620 of such Act: Provided further, That the amount made
available under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as
such collections are received during fiscal year 2026 so as to result
in a final fiscal year 2026 appropriation from the general fund
estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be
modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal year 2026
appropriation: Provided further, That for the dispute resolution and
installation programs, the Secretary may assess and collect fees from
any program participant: Provided further, That such collections shall
be deposited into the Trust Fund, and the Secretary, as provided
herein, may use such collections, as well as fees collected under
section 620 of such Act, for necessary expenses of such Act: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of such
Act, the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the Secretary
under such Act through the use of approved service providers that are
paid directly by the recipients of their services.
Federal Housing Administration
mutual mortgage insurance program account
New commitments to guarantee single family loans insured under the
Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed $400,000,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That during
fiscal year 2026, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the
purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended,
shall not exceed $1,000,000: Provided further, That the foregoing
amount in the preceding proviso shall be for loans to nonprofit and
governmental entities in connection with sales of single family real
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual
Mortgage Insurance Fund: Provided further, That for administrative
contract expenses of the Federal Housing Administration, $160,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided further, That
to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed $200,000,000,000 on or
before April 1, 2026, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract
expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any amount
below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by this
proviso exceed $30,000,000: Provided further, That notwithstanding the
limitation in the first sentence of section 255(g) of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)), during fiscal year 2026 the
Secretary may insure and enter into new commitments to insure mortgages
under section 255 of the National Housing Act only to the extent that
the net credit subsidy cost for such insurance does not exceed zero.
general and special risk program account
New commitments to guarantee loans insured under the General and
Special Risk Insurance Funds, as authorized by sections 238 and 519 of
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 1735c), shall not
exceed $35,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which is to
be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided,
That during fiscal year 2026, gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238,
and 519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $1,000,000,
which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in
connection with the sale of single family real properties owned by the
Secretary and formerly insured under such Act.
Government National Mortgage Association
guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account
New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the purposes of
section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C.
1721(g)), shall not exceed $550,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2027: Provided, That $54,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2027, shall be for necessary salaries and expenses
of the Government National Mortgage Association: Provided further,
That to the extent that guaranteed loan commitments exceed
$155,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2026, an additional $100 for
necessary salaries and expenses shall be available until expended for
each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan commitments (including a
pro rata amount for any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall
funds made available by this proviso exceed $3,000,000: Provided
further, That receipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected
pursuant to title III of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1716 et
seq.) shall be credited as offsetting collections to this account.
Policy Development and Research
research and technology
(including rescission)
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and
Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), including
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of
1968, and for technical assistance, $95,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That any funds not yet obligated
in the sixth proviso under this heading from fiscal year 2025 are
hereby permanently rescinded: Provided further, That with respect to
amounts made available under this heading, notwithstanding section 203
of this title, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with
philanthropic entities, other Federal agencies, State or local
governments and their agencies, Indian Tribes, tribally designated
housing entities, or colleges or universities for research projects:
Provided further, That with respect to the preceding proviso, such
partners to the cooperative agreements shall contribute at least a 50
percent match toward the cost of the project: Provided further, That
for non-competitive agreements entered into in accordance with the
preceding two provisos, the Secretary shall comply with section 2(b) of
the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public
Law 109-282; 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section
102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545(a)(4)(C)) with respect to documentation of
award decisions: Provided further, That prior to obligation of
technical assistance funding, the Secretary shall submit a plan to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on how the Secretary will
allocate funding for this activity at least 30 days prior to
obligation: Provided further, That none of the funds provided under
this heading may be available for the doctoral dissertation research
grant program.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
fair housing activities
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), and section 561 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 3616a), $28,500,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That notwithstanding
section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary may assess
and collect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training
Academy, and may use such funds to develop online courses and provide
such training: Provided further, That none of the funds made available
under this heading may be used to lobby the executive or legislative
branches of the Federal Government in connection with a specific
contract, grant, or loan: Provided further, That of the funds made
available under this heading, $1,000,000 may be available to the
Secretary for the creation and promotion of translated materials and
other programs that support the assistance of persons with limited
English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
lead hazard reduction
(including transfer of funds)
For the lead hazard reduction program, as authorized by section
1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992
(42 U.S.C. 4852), the healthy homes initiative, pursuant to sections
501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C.
1701z-1 and 1701z-2), and for related activities and assistance,
$295,600,000, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided,
That the amounts made available under this heading are provided as
follows:
(1) $140,600,000 shall be for the award of grants pursuant
to such section 1011, of which not less than $70,300,000 shall
be provided to areas with the highest lead-based paint
abatement need;
(2) $152,000,000 shall be for the healthy homes initiative,
pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1970, which shall include research, studies,
testing, and demonstration efforts, including education and
outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other
housing-related diseases and hazards, and mitigating housing-
related health and safety hazards in housing of low-income
families, of which $10,000,000 shall be for the establishment
and implementation of a national pilot program to facilitate
new financing mechanisms to address lead and other residential
environmental stressors in low-income communities;
(3) $3,000,000 shall be for the award of grants and
contracts for research pursuant to sections 1051 and 1052 of
the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992
(42 U.S.C. 4854, 4854a); and
(4) up to $2,000,000 in total of the amounts made available
under paragraphs (2) and (3) may be transferred to the heading
``Research and Technology'' for the purposes of conducting
research and studies and for use in accordance with the
provisos under that heading for non-competitive agreements:
Provided further, That for purposes of environmental review, pursuant
to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.) and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such
Act, a grant under the healthy homes initiative, or the lead technical
studies program, or other demonstrations or programs under this heading
or under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under this
heading, or under the heading ``Housing for the Elderly'' under prior
appropriations Acts, shall be considered to be funds for a special
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing
Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994: Provided further, That each
applicant for a grant or cooperative agreement under this heading shall
certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to carry
out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a notice of funding
opportunity: Provided further, That amounts made available under this
heading, in this or prior appropriations Acts, still remaining
available, may be used for any purpose under this heading
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appropriated if
a program competition is undersubscribed and there are other program
competitions under this heading that are oversubscribed.
Information Technology Fund
(including transfer of funds)
For Department-wide and program-specific information technology
systems and infrastructure, $299,400,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2028: Provided, That unobligated balances, including
recaptures and carryover, remaining from amounts made available under
this heading in this Act or prior Acts (including amounts previously
transferred to this heading) may be used for any purpose under this
heading in this Act, notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds
were appropriated.
Office of Inspector General
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$143,000,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have
independent authority over all personnel issues within this office.
General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban Development
(including rescissions)
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in
lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget
authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section
1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act
of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded or in the case of
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local
governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement
occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or
remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to
refinance their project at a lower interest rate.
Sec. 202. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise
lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including the filing
or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, that is engaged in
solely for the purpose of achieving or preventing action by a
Government official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 203. Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant,
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title II of
this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with
section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545).
Sec. 204. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section 402 of the
Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a
contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association,
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any
member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as
amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1).
Sec. 205. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through a
reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program,
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget
estimates submitted to Congress.
Sec. 206. Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development which are subject to the Government Corporation
Control Act are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such
corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to make such
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as
provided by section 104 of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out
the programs set forth in the budget for 2026 for such corporation or
agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of
these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage
purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States
Government.
Sec. 207. The Secretary shall provide quarterly reports to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all
uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each program
and activity within the jurisdiction of the Department and shall submit
additional, updated budget information to these Committees upon
request.
Sec. 208. None of the funds made available by this title may be
used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that
makes applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of
1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
Sec. 209. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject
to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 2026 and
2027, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the
transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt held or insured
by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income and very low-
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more multifamily
housing project or projects to another multifamily housing project or
projects.
(b) Phased Transfers.--Transfers of project-based assistance under
this section may be done in phases to accommodate the financing and
other requirements related to rehabilitating or constructing the
project or projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure
that such project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c).
(c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the
following conditions:
(1) Number and bedroom size of units.--
(A) For occupied units in the transferring project:
The number of low-income and very low-income units and
the configuration (i.e., bedroom size) provided by the
transferring project shall be no less than when
transferred to the receiving project or projects and
the net dollar amount of Federal assistance provided to
the transferring project shall remain the same in the
receiving project or projects.
(B) For unoccupied units in the transferring
project: The Secretary may authorize a reduction in the
number of dwelling units in the receiving project or
projects to allow for a reconfiguration of bedroom
sizes to meet current market demands, as determined by
the Secretary and provided there is no increase in the
project-based assistance budget authority.
(2) The transferring project shall, as determined by the
Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically
nonviable, or be reasonably expected to become economically
nonviable when complying with State or Federal requirements for
community integration and reduced concentration of individuals
with disabilities.
(3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or exceed
applicable physical standards established by the Secretary.
(4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring project
shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the
transferring project and provide a certification of approval by
all appropriate local governmental officials.
(5) The tenants of the transferring project who remain
eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project
or projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the
transferring project or projects until new units in the
receiving project are available for occupancy.
(6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is in the
best interest of the tenants.
(7) If either the transferring project or the receiving
project or projects meets the condition specified in subsection
(d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting from
additional financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate
to any FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on,
such project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary may
waive this requirement upon determination that such a waiver is
necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition,
construction, and/or rehabilitation of the receiving project or
projects.
(8) If the transferring project meets the requirements of
subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving
project or projects shall execute and record either a
continuation of the existing use agreement or a new use
agreement for the project where, in either case, any use
restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than
the existing use restrictions.
(9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
661a)) of any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent that
appropriations are provided in advance for the amount of any
such increased cost.
(d) For purposes of this section--
(1) the terms ``low-income'' and ``very low-income'' shall
have the meanings provided by the statute and/or regulations
governing the program under which the project is insured or
assisted;
(2) the term ``multifamily housing project'' means housing
that meets one of the following conditions--
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage insured
under the National Housing Act;
(B) housing that has project-based assistance
attached to the structure including projects undergoing
mark to market debt restructuring under the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act;
(C) housing that is assisted under section 202 of
the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q);
(D) housing that is assisted under section 202 of
the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q), as such
section existed before the enactment of the Cranston-
Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act;
(E) housing that is assisted under section 811 of
the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act
(42 U.S.C. 8013); or
(F) housing or vacant land that is subject to a use
agreement;
(3) the term ``project-based assistance'' means--
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(b));
(B) assistance for housing constructed or
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance
provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as such
section existed immediately before October 1, 1983);
(C) rent supplement payments under section 101 of
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12
U.S.C. 1701s);
(D) interest reduction payments under section 236
and/or additional assistance payments under section
236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
1);
(E) assistance payments made under section
202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C.
1701q(c)(2)); and
(F) assistance payments made under section
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2));
(4) the term ``receiving project or projects'' means the
multifamily housing project or projects to which some or all of
the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions are to be
transferred;
(5) the term ``transferring project'' means the multifamily
housing project which is transferring some or all of the
project-based assistance, debt, and the statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the
receiving project or projects; and
(6) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development.
(e) Research Report.--The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of
the transfer authority under this section, including the effect of such
transfers on the operational efficiency, contract rents, physical and
financial conditions, and long-term preservation of the affected
properties.
Sec. 210. (a) No assistance shall be provided under section 8 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to any
individual who--
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher
education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));
(2) is under 24 years of age;
(3) is not a veteran;
(4) is unmarried;
(5) does not have a dependent child;
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such term is
defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving
assistance under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005;
(7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 14 or older
and is at risk of becoming homeless; and
(8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents
who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive
assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
(b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a person to
receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess of amounts
received for tuition and any other required fees and charges) that an
individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1001 et seq.), from private sources, or from an institution of higher
education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income to that individual,
except for a person over the age of 23 with dependent children.
Sec. 211. The funds made available for Native Alaskans under
paragraph (1) under the heading ``Native American Programs'' in title
II of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing
block grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005, and
only such recipients shall be eligible to apply for funds made
available under paragraph (2) of such heading.
Sec. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal
year 2026, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that
is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with
a contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or any other Federal
programs, the Secretary shall maintain any rental assistance payments
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and other
programs that are attached to any dwelling units in the property. To
the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants
and the local government that such a multifamily property owned or
having a mortgage held by the Secretary is not feasible for continued
rental assistance payments under such section 8 or other programs,
based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating
the property and all available Federal, State, and local resources,
including rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (in this section
``MAHRAA'') (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), and (2) environmental conditions
that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may,
in consultation with the tenants of that property, contract for
project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of
other existing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance.
The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure that project-
based contracts remain in effect prior to foreclosure, subject to the
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of
tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety after written
notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other
available remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. After
disposition of any multifamily property described in this section, the
contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall be subject
to the requirements under section 524 of MAHRAA.
Sec. 213. Public housing agencies that own and operate 400 or
fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset
management requirement imposed by the Secretary in connection with the
operating fund rule: Provided, That an agency seeking a discontinuance
of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula shall not be
exempt from asset management requirements.
Sec. 214. With respect to the use of amounts provided in this Act
and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement, and
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d), (e)), the
Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to
asset management that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital
funds for central office costs pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of
section 9(g) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437g(g)(1), (2)): Provided, That a public housing agency may not use
capital funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are
eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the
operating fund in excess of the amounts permitted under paragraph (1)
or (2) of section 9(g).
Sec. 215. No official or employee of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder unless the
Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined that such
allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds control
and has received training in funds control procedures and directives.
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a trained
allotment holder for each HUD appropriation under the accounts
``Executive Offices'', ``Administrative Support Offices'', ``Program
Offices'', ``Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of
Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account'', and
``Office of Inspector General'' within the Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Sec. 216. The Secretary shall, for fiscal year 2026, notify the
public through the Federal Register and other means, as determined
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of
assistance or notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for any program or
discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that is to be
competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
fiscal year 2026, the Secretary may make the NOFO available only on the
Internet at the appropriate Government website or through other
electronic media, as determined by the Secretary.
Sec. 217. Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation
shall be paid from the individual program office and Office of General
Counsel salaries and expenses appropriations.
Sec. 218. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up to 10 percent
or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds appropriated for any office
under the headings ``Administrative Support Offices'' or ``Program
Offices'' to any other such office under such headings: Provided, That
no appropriation for any such office under such headings shall be
increased or decreased by more than 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever
is less, without prior written approval of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the Secretary
shall provide notification to such Committees 3 business days in
advance of any such transfers under this section up to 10 percent or
$5,000,000, whichever is less.
Sec. 219. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance payments
shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary conditions, as determined by
the Secretary, and comply with any standards under applicable State or
local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations relating to the physical
condition of any property covered under a housing assistance payment
contract.
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection (c) when a
multifamily housing project with a contract under section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or a contract for
similar project-based assistance--
(1) receives a failing score under the Uniform Physical
Condition Standards (UPCS) or successor standard; or
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary within 3
days that all Exigent Health and Safety deficiencies, or those
deficiencies requiring correction within 24 hours, identified
by the inspector at the project have been corrected.
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured projects
with assistance attached to the units under section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but shall not apply to
such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
1437f(o)(13)) or to public housing units assisted with capital or
operating funds under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g).
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the Real Estate Assessment
Center (``REAC'') inspection, the Secretary shall provide the owner
with a Notice of Default with a specified timetable, determined by the
Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide
a copy of the Notice of Default to the tenants, the local government,
any mortgagees, and any contract administrator. If the owner's appeal
results in a passing score, the Secretary may withdraw the Notice of
Default.
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all deficiencies
specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner fails to fully correct
such deficiencies, the Secretary may--
(A) require immediate replacement of project management
with a management agent approved by the Secretary;
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be used
solely for the purpose of supporting safe and sanitary
conditions at applicable properties, as designated by the
Secretary, with priority given to the tenants of the property
affected by the penalty;
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including partial
abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until all
deficiencies have been corrected;
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, approved by
the Secretary under established procedures, who will be
obligated to promptly make all required repairs and to accept
renewal of the assistance contract if such renewal is offered;
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to another
project or projects and owner or owners;
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including suspensions or
debarments from Federal programs;
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to manage the
property and cure all project deficiencies or seek a judicial
order of specific performance requiring the owner to cure all
project deficiencies;
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other related party to
stabilize the property in an attempt to preserve the property
through compliance, transfer of ownership, or an infusion of
capital provided by a third-party that requires time to
effectuate; or
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual remedies
available as deemed necessary and appropriate by the Secretary.
(d) The Secretary shall take appropriate steps to ensure that
project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the exercise of
contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants for
major threats to health and safety after written notice to the affected
tenants. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with
the tenants and the local government, that the property is not feasible
for continued rental assistance payments under such section 8 or other
programs, based on consideration of--
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property
and all available Federal, State, and local resources,
including rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997
(``MAHRAA''); and
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in a
cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may contract for project-
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of
other existing housing properties, or provide other rental
assistance.
(e) The Secretary shall report semi-annually on all properties
covered by this section that are assessed through the Real Estate
Assessment Center and have failing physical inspection scores or have
received an unsatisfactory management and occupancy review within the
past 36 months. The report shall include--
(1) identification of the enforcement actions being taken
to address such conditions, including imposition of civil money
penalties and termination of subsidies, and identification of
properties that have such conditions multiple times;
(2) identification of actions that the Department of
Housing and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of
such identified properties; and
(3) any administrative or legislative recommendations to
further improve the living conditions at properties covered
under a housing assistance payment contract.
The first report shall be submitted to the Senate and House
Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 days after the enactment
of this Act, and the second report shall be submitted within 180 days
of the transmittal of the first report.
Sec. 220. None of the funds made available by this Act, or any
other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with respect
to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 9 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used
by any public housing agency for any amount of salary, including
bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, or any other
official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule at any
time during any public housing agency fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 221. None of the funds made available by this Act and
provided to the Department of Housing and Urban Development may be used
to make a grant award unless the Secretary notifies the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business days
before any project, State, locality, housing authority, Tribe,
nonprofit organization, or other entity selected to receive a grant
award is announced by the Department or its offices: Provided,That
such notification shall list each grant award by State and current
congressional district.
Sec. 222. None of the funds made available in this Act shall be
used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government National
Mortgage Association, or the Department of Housing and Urban
Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of
any mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise
replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any other
political subdivision of a State.
Sec. 223. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to terminate the status of a unit of general local government as a
metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306).
Sec. 224. Amounts made available by this Act that are
appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, or
transferred to the Office of Policy Development and Research of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and functions thereof, for
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and that are unexpended
at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately become available
and may be reobligated in that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal
year for the research, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which
the amounts are made available to that Office subject to reprogramming
requirements in section 405 of this Act.
Sec. 225. None of the funds provided in this Act or any other Act
may be used for awards, including performance, special act, or spot,
for any employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
subject to administrative discipline (including suspension from work),
in this fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not be effective prior
to the effective date of any such administrative discipline or after
any final decision over-turning such discipline.
Sec. 226. With respect to grant amounts awarded under the heading
``Homeless Assistance Grants'' for fiscal years 2015 through 2026 for
the continuum of care (CoC) program as authorized under subtitle C of
title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs paid by
program income of grant recipients may count toward meeting the
recipient's matching requirements, provided the costs are eligible CoC
costs that supplement the recipient's CoC program.
Sec. 227. (a) From amounts made available under this title under
the heading ``Homeless Assistance Grants'', the Secretary may award 1-
year transition grants to recipients of funds for activities under
subtitle C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
11381 et seq.) to transition from one continuum of care program
component to another.
(b) In order to be eligible to receive a transition grant, the
funding recipient must have the consent of the continuum of care and
meet standards determined by the Secretary.
Sec. 228. The promise zone designations and promise zone
designation agreements entered into pursuant to such designations, made
by the Secretary in prior fiscal years, shall remain in effect in
accordance with the terms and conditions of such agreements.
Sec. 229. Any public housing agency designated as a Moving to Work
agency pursuant to section 239 of division L of Public Law 114-113 (42
U.S.C. 1437f note; 129 Stat. 2897) may, upon such designation, use
funds (except for special purpose funding, including special purpose
vouchers) previously allocated to any such public housing agency under
section 8 or 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, including any
reserve funds held by the public housing agency or funds held by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the authority
for use of section 8 or 9 funding provided under such section and
section 204 of title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-134; 110 Stat. 1321-28), notwithstanding the
purposes for which such funds were appropriated.
Sec. 230. None of the amounts made available by this Act may be
used to prohibit any public housing agency under receivership or the
direction of a Federal monitor from applying for, receiving, or using
funds made available under the heading ``Public Housing Fund'' for
competitive grants to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in
this Act or that remain available and not awarded from prior Acts, or
be used to prohibit a public housing agency from using such funds to
carry out any required work pursuant to a settlement agreement, consent
decree, voluntary agreement, or similar document for a violation of the
lead safe housing or lead disclosure rules.
Sec. 231. For fiscal year 2026, if the Secretary determines or has
determined, for any prior formula grant allocation administered by the
Secretary through the Offices of Public and Indian Housing, Community
Planning and Development, or Housing, that a recipient received an
allocation greater than the amount such recipient should have received
for a formula allocation cycle pursuant to applicable statutes and
regulations, the Secretary may adjust for any such funding error in the
next applicable formula allocation cycle by (a) offsetting each such
recipient's formula allocation (if eligible for a formula allocation in
the next applicable formula allocation cycle) by the amount of any such
funding error, and (b) reallocating any available balances that are
attributable to the offset to the recipient or recipients that would
have been allocated additional funds in the formula allocation cycle in
which any such error occurred (if such recipient or recipients are
eligible for a formula allocation in the next applicable formula
allocation cycle) in an amount proportionate to such recipient's
eligibility under the next applicable formula allocation cycle:
Provided, That all offsets and reallocations from such available
balances shall be recorded against funds available for the next
applicable formula allocation cycle: Provided further, That the term
``next applicable formula allocation cycle'' means the first formula
allocation cycle for a program that is reasonably available for
correction following such a Secretarial determination: Provided
further, That if, upon request by a recipient and giving consideration
to all Federal resources available to the recipient for the same grant
purposes, the Secretary determines that the offset in the next
applicable formula allocation cycle would critically impair the
recipient's ability to accomplish the purpose of the formula grant, the
Secretary may adjust for the funding error across two or more formula
allocation cycles.
Sec. 232. The Secretary may transfer from amounts made available
for salaries and expenses under this title (excluding amounts made
available under the heading ``Office of Inspector General'') to the
heading ``Information Technology Fund'' for information technology
needs, including for additional development, modernization, and
enhancement, to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided,
That the total amount of such transfers shall not exceed $5,000,000:
Provided further, That this transfer authority shall not be used to
fund information technology projects or activities that have known out-
year development, modernization, or enhancement costs in excess of
$500,000: Provided further, That the Secretary shall provide
notification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no
fewer than 3 business days in advance of any such transfer.
Sec. 233. The Secretary shall comply with all process
requirements, including public notice and comment, when seeking to
revise any annual contributions contract.
Sec. 234. None of the funds made available to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development in this or prior Acts may be used to
issue a solicitation or accept bids on any solicitation that is
substantially equivalent to the draft solicitation entitled ``Housing
Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract Support Services (HAPSS)'' posted to
www.Sam.gov on July 27, 2022.
Sec. 235. (a) Unobligated balances of amounts made available in
paragraph (5) under the heading ``Public Housing Fund'' from fiscal
year 2025 making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development are hereby permanently rescinded.
(b) Unobligated balances of amounts made available under the
heading ``Choice Neighborhoods Initiative'' from fiscal year 2025
making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development are hereby permanently rescinded.
(c) Unobligated balances of amounts made available in paragraph (2)
under the heading ``Community Development Fund'' from fiscal year 2025
making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development are hereby permanently rescinded.
(d) $15,000,000 of amounts previously made available for
expenditure from the Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund are hereby
permanently rescinded.
(e) $417,000,000 of unobligated balances of amounts made available
under the heading ``Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes''
from prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of Housing and
Urban Development are hereby permanently rescinded.
Sec. 236. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to provide Federal funds to a local jurisdiction that refuses to comply
with a request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide
advance notice of the scheduled release date and time for a particular
illegal alien in local custody.
Sec. 237. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to update minimum
energy efficiency standards for new housing financed by the Department,
as part of carrying out the notice entitled ``Adoption of Energy
Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA- Financed
Housing'', or otherwise.
Sec. 238. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to administer or
enforce the final rule entitled ``30-Day Notification Requirement Prior
To Termination of Lease for Nonpayment of Rent'' published in the
Federal Register on December 13, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 101270).
Sec. 239. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may allow
1 or more public housing agencies providing housing assistance to low-
income families using amounts provided under section 8(o) and section
9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to, when providing such
assistance, and notwithstanding section 8(o) and section 9(e) of the
United State Housing Act of 1937, apply any requirements such public
housing agency determines appropriate with respect to total tenant
payments, tenant rental payments, and housing assistance payment
amounts: Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
may waive or establish an alternative requirement for any requirement
under section 3(a), 3(b), or 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of
1937 if the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines that
any such waiver or alternative requirements are necessary to facilitate
the implementation of this section: Provided further, That if the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development allows a public housing
agency to modify tenant payment, tenant rental payments, and housing
assistance payment amounts under this section, the Secretary may not
rescind this authority during the 7-year period after which such
authority is granted.
Sec. 240. Of any amounts allocated for any fiscal year from funds
appropriated under the headings ``Public Housing Fund'', ``Public
Housing Operating Fund'', or ``Public Housing Capital Fund'' in this or
prior Acts (including operating reserve funds) for any public housing
agency that is not designated pursuant to section 6(j)(2) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(j)(2)) as a troubled public
housing agency, and (in the determination of the Secretary) is
operating and maintaining its public housing in a safe, clean, and
healthy condition, the agency may use any such amounts for any eligible
activities under sections 9(d)(1) and 9(e)(1) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
1437g(d)(1) and (e)(1)), regardless of the fund from which the amounts
were allocated and provided.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development Appropriations Act, 2026''.
TITLE III
RELATED AGENCIES
Access Board
salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized by
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 792),
$9,955,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds received for
publications and training expenses.
Federal Maritime Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission as
authorized by section 46107 of title 46, United States Code, 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; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code,
$40,000,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until September
30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $3,500 shall be for official
reception and representation expenses.
National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Office of Inspector General
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General for the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the provisions of
the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 3), $31,100,000:
Provided, That the Inspector General shall have all necessary
authority, in carrying out the duties specified in such Act, to
investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the
Government under section 1001 of title 18, United States Code, by any
person or entity that is subject to regulation by the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation: Provided further, That the Inspector General
may enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, studies,
analyses, and other services with public agencies and with private
persons, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern the
obtaining of such services within the National Railroad Passenger
Corporation: Provided further, That the Inspector General may select,
appoint, and employ such officers and employees as may be necessary for
carrying out the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of
Inspector General, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that
govern such selections, appointments, and employment within the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided further, That
concurrent with the President's budget request for fiscal year 2027,
the Inspector General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2027 in similar
format and substance to budget requests submitted by executive agencies
of the Federal Government.
National Transportation Safety Board
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; services as
authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate
for a GS-15; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by
sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, $145,000,000, of
which not to exceed $1,000 may be used for official reception and
representation expenses.
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $100,000,000.
Surface Transportation Board
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board,
including services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States
Code, $40,799,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision
of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees established by the Surface
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses
under this heading: Provided further, That the amounts made available
under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-
for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections are received during
fiscal year 2026, to result in a final appropriation from the general
fund estimated at not more than $39,549,000.
TITLE IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT
Sec. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
Sec. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be
transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided
herein.
Sec. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
any consulting service through a 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. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be
obligated or expended for any employee training that--
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills,
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official
duties;
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of
emotional response or psychological stress in some
participants;
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the
content and methods to be used in the training and written end
of course evaluation;
(4) contains any methods or content associated with
religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age''
belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants'
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the
performance of official duties.
Sec. 405. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of the
funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to
the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that--
(1) creates a new program;
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project,
or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by
the Congress;
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity
by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for
a different purpose;
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in
excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch,
division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency,
administration, or department different from the budget
justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or
the table in the Report accompanying this Act, whichever is
more detailed, unless:
(A) the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations are notified 30 days in advance of such
reprogramming of funds; and:
(B) prior approval is received from the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations and:
Provided, That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of
Representatives to establish the baseline for application of
reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year:
Provided further, That the report shall include--
(i) a table for each appropriation with a
separate column to display the prior year
enacted level, the President's budget request,
adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due
to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the
fiscal year enacted level;
(ii) a delineation in the table for each
appropriation and its respective prior year
enacted level by object class and program,
project, and activity as detailed in this Act,
the table in the Report accompanying this Act
or in the budget appendix for the respective
appropriations whichever is more detailed, and
shall apply to all items for which a dollar
amount is specified and to all programs for
which new budget (obligational) authority is
provided, as well as to discretionary grants
and discretionary grant allocations; and
(iii) an identification of items of special
congressional interest.
Sec. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the
end of fiscal year 2026 from appropriations made available for salaries
and expenses for fiscal year 2026 in this Act, shall remain available
through September 30, 2027, for each such account for the purposes
authorized: Provided, That these requests shall be made in compliance
with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 of this Act prior to
the expenditure of such funds.
Sec. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support any Federal,
State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent domain,
unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use: Provided,
That for purposes of this section, public use shall not be construed to
include economic development that primarily benefits private entities:
Provided further, That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad,
airport, seaport or highway projects, as well as utility projects which
benefit or serve the general public (including energy-related,
communication-related, water-related and wastewater-related
infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the general
public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions
that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and
oversight by the government, and projects for the removal of an
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownfields as defined
in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization
Act (Public Law 107-118) shall be considered a public use for purposes
of eminent domain.
Sec. 408. 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. 409. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the
assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act
of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 8301-8305, popularly known as the ``Buy
American Act'').
Sec. 410. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under
this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been
convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301-8305).
Sec. 411. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of sections
301-10.122 and 301-10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
Sec. 412. 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
of a single agency or department of the United States Government, who
are stationed in the United States, at any single international
conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance that
such attendance is important to the national interest: Provided, That
for purposes of this section the term ``international conference''
shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United States attended
by representatives of the United States Government and of foreign
governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental
organizations.
Sec. 413. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation
Board to charge or collect any filing fee for rate or practice
complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the amount
authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under section 1914
of title 28, United States Code.
Sec. 414. (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, or adjudication activities.
Sec. 415. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be
used to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely access
to any records, documents, or other materials available to the
department or agency over which that Inspector General has
responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C.
App.), or to prevent or impede that Inspector General's access to such
records, documents, or other materials, under any provision of law,
except a provision of law that expressly refers to the Inspector
General and expressly limits the Inspector General's right of access.
(b) A department or agency covered by this section shall provide
its Inspector General with access to all such records, documents, and
other materials in a timely manner.
(c) Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance with statutory
limitations on disclosure relevant to the information provided by the
establishment over which that Inspector General has responsibilities
under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).
(d) Each Inspector General covered by this section shall report to
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate within 5 calendar days any failures to comply with this
requirement.
Sec. 416. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for
contractors whose performance has been judged to be below satisfactory,
behind schedule, over budget, or has failed to meet the basic
requirements of a contract, unless the Agency determines that any such
deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government-driven scope
changes, or are not significant within the overall scope of the project
and/or program unless such awards or incentive fees are consistent with
16.401(e)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
Sec. 417. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to
enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily
completed his or her period of active military or naval service, and
has within 90 days after his or her release from such service or from
hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more
than 1 year, made application for restoration to his or her former
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management
as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position
and has not been restored thereto.
Sec. 418. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 41301
through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption application
under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding an
air operators certificate issued by a country that is party to the
U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such approval
would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-
Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign air
carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where such
authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air
Transport Agreement and United States law.
Sec. 419. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in contravention of
section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155).
Sec. 420. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
in contravention of existing Federal law regarding non-citizen
eligibility and ineligibility for occupancy in federally assisted
housing or for participation in and assistance under Federal housing
programs, including section 214 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) and title IV of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.).
Sec. 421. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or
division J of Public Law 117-58, including funds for the National
Passenger Railroad Corporation, shall be used, other than for normal
and recognized executive legislative relationships, for the
preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet,
publication, electronic communication, radio, television, or video
presentation designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation
before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress.
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or division
J of Public Law 117-58, including funds for the National Passenger
Railroad Corporation, shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of
any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient,
related to any activity designed to influence the enactment of
legislation or appropriations proposed or pending before the Congress,
other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative
relationships.
(c) Amounts repurposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) shall
continue to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of
division A of Public Law 118-5.
Sec. 422. (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. 423. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
to facilitate new scheduled air transportation originating from the
United States if such flights would land on, or pass through, property
confiscated by the Cuban Government, including property in which a
minority interest was confiscated, as the terms confiscated, by the
Cuban Government, and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and
(12)(A), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023 (4), (5), and 7
(12)(A)): Provided, That for this section, new scheduled air
transportation shall include any flights not already regularly
scheduled prior to May 2022.
Sec. 424. (a) In the table of projects in the explanatory statement
referenced in section 417 of the Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 (division L
of Public Law 117-103)--
(1) the item relating to ``Acquisition of new commercial space'' is
deemed to be amended by striking project ``Acquisition of new
commercial space'' and inserting ``Renovation of commercial space'';
(2) the item relating to ``Electric school bus and associated
electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure'' is deemed to be amended
by striking recipient ``Falls Church City Public Schools'' and
inserting ``City of Falls Church'';
(3) the item relating to ``North Commons Regional Vision'' is
deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``Minneapolis Park and
Recreation Board'' and inserting ``City of Minneapolis'';
(4) the item relating to ``Orangewood Parkette'' is deemed to be
amended by striking project ``Orangewood Parkette'' and inserting
``Orangewood Complete Streets'';
(5) the item relating to ``Replacing Five Elevators in a Public
Housing Development'' is deemed to be amended by striking project
``Replacing Five Elevators in a Public Housing Development'' and
inserting ``Replacing Elevators in a Public Housing Development'';
(6) the item relating to ``Long Branch Stream Valley Park
Pedestrian Bridge Replacements and ADA Improvements'' is deemed to be
amended by striking recipient ``Montgomery County Government'' and
inserting ``Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission'';
(7) the item relating to "Washington Gorge Action Programs--
Goldendale Childcare and Early Learning Center" is deemed to be amended
by striking ``Goldendale'';
(8) the item relating to ``Habitat for Humanity's Veterans Blitz
Build'' is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``Habitat for
Humanity San Bernardino Area, Inc.'' and inserting ``Neighborhood
Partnership Housing Services, Inc. (NPHS)''; and
(9) the item relating to ``Allen University Restoration of Historic
Waverly-Good Samaritan Hospital'' is deemed to be amended by striking
``Allen University Restoration of Historic Waverly-Good Samaritan
Hospital'' and inserting ``Facility Upgrades''.
(b) In the table of projects entitled ``Community Project Funding/
Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in the explanatory
statement that accompanied the Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 (division L
of Public Law 117-328)--
(1) the item relating to ``Supportive Living, Community Day
Services, and Housing Site Project for Adults with Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities'' is deemed to be amended by striking
project ``Supportive Living, Community Day Services, and Housing Site
Project for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities''
and inserting ``Community Day Services and Housing Expansion for Adults
with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities'';
(2) the item relating to ``Public Library Addition'' is deemed to
be amended by striking project ``Public Library Addition'' and
inserting ``Public Library Renovations'';
(3) the item relating to ``Renovation of Snelling Motel to
Affordable Housing for Veterans'' is deemed to be amended by striking
project ``Renovation of Snelling Motel to Affordable Housing for
Veterans'' and inserting ``Acquisition for Affordable Housing for
Veterans'';
(4) the item relating to ``El Centro de la Raza-Pattison's West
Community Campus Property Acquisition'' is deemed to be amended by
striking project ``El Centro de la Raza-Pattison's West Community
Campus Property Acquisition'' and inserting ``Pattison's West Community
Campus'';
(5) the item relating to ``Riverbrook Regional YMCA'' is deemed to
be amended by striking recipient ``Riverbrook Regional Young Men's
Christian Association, Inc.'' and inserting ``City of Norwalk'';
(6) the item relating to ``The SE1 Rehab'' is deemed to be amended
by striking recipient ``The Skid Row Housing Trust'' and inserting
``PATH Ventures'' and striking project ``The SE1 Rehab'' and inserting
``Skid Row Permanent Supportive Housing Rehabilitation'';
(7) the item relating to ``Community Aging & Retirement Services,
Inc.'' is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``Community Aging
& Retirement Services, Inc.'' and inserting ``Pasco County,'' and
striking project ``CARES One Stop Senior Center Acquisition and
Construction'' and inserting ``Senior Center Acquisition and
Construction'';
(8) the item relating to ``Western Flyer Coast Guard Pier Repair
and Classroom Design'' is deemed to be amended by striking project
``Western Flyer Coast Guard Pier Repair and Classroom Design'' and
inserting ``Western Flyer Pier and Classroom Repair'';
(9) the item relating to ``NYCHA ADA Accessibility and Security
Lighting Project'' is deemed to be amended by striking project ``NYCHA
ADA Accessibility and Security Lighting Project'' and inserting
``Installation of Exterior Lighting at Borinquen Plaza II'';
(10) the item relating to ``Ausonia Apartments Modernization'' is
deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``Ausonia Apartments'' and
inserting ``Boston Housing Authority''; and
(11) the item relating to ``Helping Up Mission Permanent Housing on
East Baltimore Street'' is deemed to be amended by striking ``Helping
Up Mission Permanent Housing on East Baltimore Street'' and inserting
``Greenspace Development in Baltimore''.
(c) In the table of projects entitled ``Community Project Funding/
Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in the explanatory
statement that accompanied the Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (division F
of Public Law 118-42)--
(1) the item relating to ``Pawtucket Library, Sayles Building Re-
Pointing'' is deemed to be amended by striking project ``Pawtucket
Library, Sayles Building Re-Pointing'' and inserting ``Pawtucket
Library, Sayles Building Renovation'';
(2) the item relating to ``Germany Road Relocation Project'' is
deemed to be amended by striking project ``Germany Road Relocation
Project'' and inserting ``Sewer Improvements'';
(3) the item relating to ``Community Center Expansion and Land
Acquisition'' is deemed to be amended by striking ``Expansion and Land
Acquisition'' and inserting ``Planning and Design'';
(4) the item relating to ``Laconia, NH Hill Street Pedestrian
Bridge Replacement'' is deemed to be amended by striking ``Hill
Street'' and inserting ``Mill Street'';
(5) the item relating to ``Sunnyside Community Reinvestment as
Cultura & Traditions: Tucson, AZ'' is deemed to be amended by striking
recipient ``Sunnyside Foundation'' and inserting ``Sunnyside Unified
School District'';
(6) the item relating to ``Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico
Arecibo Clubhouse Construction Project'' is deemed to be amended by
striking ``Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico Arecibo Clubhouse
Construction Project'' and inserting ``Rehabilitation of San Lorenzo
Community Facility of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico'';
(7) the item relating to ``Craighead Technology Park and Public
Safety Center'' is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``City
Water and Light of Jonesboro'' and inserting ``City of Jonesboro''; and
(8) the item relating to ``Capital Repairs of 4 Affordable Housing
properties, City of Seattle, King County, WA'' is deemed to be amended
by striking ``4'' and inserting ``3'';
(9) the item relating to ``Middletown Plaza Elevator Replacement''
is deemed to be amended by striking ``Middletown Plaza Elevator
Replacement'' and inserting ``Security Upgrades at NYCHA's Soundview
Houses'';
(10) the item relating to ``Morris Affordable Housing
Infrastructure'' is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``Morris
Affordable Housing Infrastructure'' and inserting ``Morris Housing
Authority''; and
(11) the item relating to ``Rehabilitation of Historic Alumni House
as Skills-based Workforce Development Community Center'' is deemed to
be amended by striking ``Historic Alumni House as'' and inserting ``a
building for a''.
Sec. 425. No funds made available by this Act shall be used in
contravention of--
(a) Executive Order 14148, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(b) Executive Order 14168, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(c) Executive Order 14170, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(d) Executive Order 14171, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(e) Executive Order 14173, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(f) 90 Fed. Reg. 8651, or any substantially similar rule or order;
(g) Executive Order 14192, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(h) Executive Order 14215, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(i) Executive Order 14224, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(j) Executive Order 14236, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(k) Executive Order 14238, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(l) Executive Order 14240, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(m) 90 Fed. Reg. 23467, or any substantially similar rule or order;
(n) Presidential Memorandum entitled ``Updating Permitting
Technology for the 21st Century'' issued on April 15, 2025.
(o) Executive Order 14303, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(p) Executive Order 14304, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(q) Executive Order 14305, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
(r) Executive Order 14307, or any substantially similar rule or
order;
Sec. 426. None of the funds made available by this Act may be
obligated or expended to fly or display a flag over a facility of a
Department or agency funded by this Act other than the flag of the
United States; the flag of a State, insular area, or the District of
Columbia; the flag of a Federally recognized Tribal entity; the
official flag of the Secretary of Transportation or the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development; the official flag of a U.S. Department
or agency; or the POW/MIA flag.
Sec. 427. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to purchase, install, maintain, or operate automated traffic
enforcement cameras for purposes of red-light enforcement, speed
enforcement, or stop sign enforcement.
Sec. 428. None of the funds made available by this Act, or any
other Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2026, may be obligated
or expended to award any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or
other form of financial assistance to the Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority or Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority if
either entity enters into a contract to disseminate advertisements for
ByteDance or any of its subsidiary companies.
spending reduction account
Sec. 429. $0.
This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026''.
Union Calendar No. 172
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4552
[Report No. 119-212]
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A BILL
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
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July 21, 2025
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed