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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The prohibition in sub-
section (a) shall not apply to any covered depository 
institution that limits its swap and security-based 
swap activities to the following: 
‘‘(A) HEDGING AND OTHER SIMILAR RISK 
MITIGATION
ACTIVITIES.—Hedging and other 
similar risk mitigating activities directly related 
to the covered depository institution’s activities. 
‘‘(B) NON-STRUCTURED
FINANCE
SWAP 
ACTIVITIES.—Acting as a swaps entity for 
swaps or security-based swaps other than a 
structured finance swap. 
‘‘(C) 
CERTAIN
STRUCTURED
FINANCE 
SWAP ACTIVITIES.—Acting as a swaps entity for 
swaps or security-based swaps that are struc-
tured finance swaps, if— 
‘‘(i) such structured finance swaps are 
undertaken for hedging or risk manage-
ment purposes; or 
‘‘(ii) each asset-backed security under-
lying such structured finance swaps is of a 
credit quality and of a type or category 
with respect to which the prudential regu-
lators have jointly adopted rules author-
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izing swap or security-based swap activity 
by covered depository institutions. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section: 
‘‘(A) STRUCTURED FINANCE SWAP.—The 
term ‘structured finance swap’ means a swap or 
security-based swap based on an asset-backed 
security (or group or index primarily comprised 
of asset-backed securities). 
‘‘(B) 
ASSET-BACKED
SECURITY.—The 
term ‘asset-backed security’ has the meaning 
given such term under section 3(a) of the Secu-
rities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 
78c(a)).’’; 
(4) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘an insured’’ 
and inserting ‘‘a covered’’; and 
(5) in subsection (f)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘an insured depository’’ 
and inserting ‘‘a covered depository’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the insured depository’’ 
each place such term appears and inserting 
‘‘the covered depository’’. 
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TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2015 shall obligate 
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality. 
SEC. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with subsection 1343(c) of title 31, United 
States Code, for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement ve-
hicles, protective vehicles, and undercover surveillance ve-
hicles), is hereby fixed at $13,197 except station wagons 
for which the maximum shall be $13,631: Provided, That 
these limits may be exceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for 
police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 for spe-
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cial heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, That the limits 
set forth in this section may not be exceeded by more than 
5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased for 
demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and 
Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstra-
tion Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set 
forth in this section may be exceeded by the incremental 
cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant 
to Public Law 101–549 over the cost of comparable con-
ventionally fueled vehicles: Provided further, That the lim-
its set forth in this section shall not apply to any vehicle 
that is a commercial item and which operates on emerging 
motor vehicle technology, including but not limited to elec-
tric, plug-in hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehi-
cles. 
SEC. 703. Appropriations of the executive depart-
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922 through 5924. 
SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified in law, during 
the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation con-
tained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the 
compensation of any officer or employee of the Govern-
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ment of the United States (including any agency the ma-
jority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the conti-
nental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen 
of the United States; (2) is a person who is lawfully admit-
ted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as 
outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who 
is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is grant-
ed asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration 
of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and 
then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who owes 
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, affidavits signed by any such person 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require-
ments of this section with respect to his or her status are 
being complied with: Provided further, That for purposes 
of subsections (2) and (3) such affidavits shall be sub-
mitted prior to employment and updated thereafter as nec-
essary: Provided further, That any payment made to any 
officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Govern-
ment: Provided further, That this section shall not apply 
to any person who is an officer or employee of the Govern-
ment of the United States on the date of enactment of 
this Act, or to international broadcasters employed by the 
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Broadcasting Board of Governors, or to temporary em-
ployment of translators, or to temporary employment in 
the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of 
emergencies: Provided further, That this section does not 
apply to the employment as Wildland firefighters for not 
more than 120 days of nonresident aliens employed by the 
Department of the Interior or the USDA Forest Service 
pursuant to an agreement with another country. 
SEC. 705. Appropriations available to any depart-
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 
Services Administration for charges for space and services 
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 
1959 (73 Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments 
of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or 
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials, 
including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-
pended for the following purposes: 
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(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 
and recycling programs as described in Executive 
Order No. 13423 (January 24, 2007), including any 
such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 
the Executive Order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 
development and implementation of hazardous waste 
management and pollution prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 
Federal agency. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 
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funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 
correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instru-
mentality. 
SEC. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant 
to the provisions of this or any other Act shall be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which 
has been disapproved pursuant to a joint resolution duly 
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 
United States. 
SEC. 710. During the period in which the head of 
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 
employee of the Federal Government appointed by the 
President of the United States, holds office, no funds may 
be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish 
or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or 
make improvements for any such office, unless advance 
notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted 
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to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite of of-
fices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space 
used primarily by the individual or the use of which is 
directly controlled by the individual. 
SEC. 711. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 
the interagency funding of national security and emer-
gency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which 
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or enti-
ties, as provided by Executive Order No. 13618 (July 6, 
2012). 
SEC. 712. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by 
any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 
Federal Government to pay the salaries or expenses of any 
individual appointed to a position of a confidential or pol-
icy-determining character that is excepted from the com-
petitive service under section 3302 of title 5, United 
States Code, (pursuant to schedule C of subpart C of part 
213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations) unless 
the head of the applicable department, agency, or other 
instrumentality employing such schedule C individual cer-
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tifies to the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment that the schedule C position occupied by the indi-
vidual was not created solely or primarily in order to detail 
the individual to the White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
Federal employees or members of the armed forces de-
tailed to or from an element of the intelligence community 
(as that term is defined under section 3(4) of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4))). 
SEC. 713. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 
Government, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 
direct oral or written communication or contact with 
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 
to the employment of such other officer or employee 
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-
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sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 
committee, or subcommittee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion 
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 
communication or contact of such other officer or 
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 
(1). 
SEC. 714. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 
any employee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
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(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing 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 Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ 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. 715. No part of any funds appropriated in this 
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu-
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu-
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda 
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of 
any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, 
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla-
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation 
to the Congress itself. 
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed-
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eral employee’s home address to any labor organization 
except when the employee has authorized such disclosure 
or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of 
competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 717. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be used to provide any non-public 
information such as mailing, telephone or electronic mail-
ing lists to any person or any organization outside of the 
Federal Government without the approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate. 
SEC. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, 
including by private contractor, for publicity or propa-
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore 
authorized by Congress. 
SEC. 719. (a) In this section, the term ‘‘agency’’— 
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined 
under 5 U.S.C. 105; and 
(2) includes a military department, as defined 
under section 102 of such title, the Postal Service, 
and the Postal Regulatory Commission. 
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regu-
lations to use such time for other purposes, an employee 
of an agency shall use official time in an honest effort 
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to perform official duties. An employee not under a leave 
system, including a Presidential appointee exempted under 
5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to expend an honest 
effort and a reasonable proportion of such employee’s time 
in the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 
fiscal year by this or any other Act to any department 
or agency, which is a member of the Federal Accounting 
Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), shall be available to 
finance an appropriate share of FASAB administrative 
costs. 
SEC. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 
reimburse ‘‘General Services Administration, Government- 
wide Policy’’ with the approval of the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, funds made available for 
the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including 
rebates from charge card and other contracts: Provided, 
That these funds shall be administered by the Adminis-
trator of General Services to support Government-wide 
and other multi-agency financial, information technology, 
procurement, and other management innovations, initia-
tives, and activities, as approved by the Director of the 
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Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 
the appropriate interagency and multi-agency groups des-
ignated by the Director (including the President’s Man-
agement Council for overall management improvement ini-
tiatives, the Chief Financial Officers Council for financial 
management initiatives, the Chief Information Officers 
Council for information technology initiatives, the Chief 
Human Capital Officers Council for human capital initia-
tives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procure-
ment initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Coun-
cil for performance improvement initiatives): Provided fur-
ther, That the total funds transferred or reimbursed shall 
not exceed $17,000,000 for Government-Wide innovations, 
initiatives, and activities: Provided further, That the funds 
transferred to or for reimbursement of ‘‘General Services 
Administration, Government-wide Policy’’ during fiscal 
year 2015 shall remain available for obligation through 
September 30, 2016: Provided further, That such trans-
fers or reimbursements may only be made after 15 days 
following notification of the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location 
in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman 
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and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at 
the location. 
SEC. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec-
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 
the interagency funding of specific projects, workshops, 
studies, and similar efforts to carry out the purposes of 
the National Science and Technology Council (authorized 
by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That 
the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a re-
port describing the budget of and resources connected with 
the National Science and Technology Council to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations, the House Committee on 
Science and Technology, and the Senate Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 days after en-
actment of this Act. 
SEC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, 
grant application, form, notification, press release, or 
other publications involving the distribution of Federal 
funds shall indicate the agency providing the funds, the 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number, as appli-
cable, and the amount provided: Provided, That this sec-
tion shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and 
grants received by a State receiving Federal funds. 
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SEC. 725. (a) PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL AGENCY 
MONITORING OF INDIVIDUALS’ INTERNET USE.—None of 
the funds made available in this or any other Act may 
be used by any Federal agency— 
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation 
of data, derived from any means, that includes any 
personally identifiable information relating to an in-
dividual’s access to or use of any Federal Govern-
ment Internet site of the agency; or 
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third 
party (including another government agency) to col-
lect, review, or obtain any aggregation of data, de-
rived from any means, that includes any personally 
identifiable information relating to an individual’s 
access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 
site. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The limitations established in 
subsection (a) shall not apply to— 
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not 
identify particular persons; 
(2) any voluntary submission of personally iden-
tifiable information; 
(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regu-
latory, or supervisory purposes, in accordance with 
applicable law; or 
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(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) 
that is a system security action taken by the oper-
ator of an Internet site and is necessarily incident 
to providing the Internet site services or to pro-
tecting the rights or property of the provider of the 
Internet site. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘regulatory’’ means agency ac-
tions to implement, interpret or enforce authorities 
provided in law. 
(2) The term ‘‘supervisory’’ means examina-
tions of the agency’s supervised institutions, includ-
ing assessing safety and soundness, overall financial 
condition, management practices and policies and 
compliance with applicable standards as provided in 
law. 
SEC. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract which 
includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, 
except where the contract also includes a provision for con-
traceptive coverage. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract 
with— 
(1) any of the following religious plans: 
(A) Personal Care’s HMO; and 
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(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and 
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier 
for the plan objects to such coverage on the basis of 
religious beliefs. 
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters 
into or renews a contract under this section may not sub-
ject any individual to discrimination on the basis that the 
individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for 
contraceptives because such activities would be contrary 
to the individual’s religious beliefs or moral convictions. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-
quire coverage of abortion or abortion-related services. 
SEC. 727. The United States is committed to ensur-
ing the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and 
Paralympic athletes, and supports the strict adherence to 
anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, edu-
cation, and research as performed by nationally recognized 
oversight authorities. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds appropriated for official travel to Federal de-
partments and agencies may be used by such departments 
and agencies, if consistent with Office of Management and 
Budget Circular A–126 regarding official travel for Gov-
ernment personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 
ownership pilot program. 
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SEC. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds appropriated or made available 
under this or any other appropriations Act may be used 
to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the 
Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to im-
plement the proposed regulations of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, 
number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail 
of executive branch employees to the legislative branch). 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, 
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of 
conducting Federal law enforcement training without the 
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, except that 
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is author-
ized to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities 
by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which 
cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities. 
SEC. 731. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 
may be used by an executive branch agency to produce 
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ployee covered by this subsection at a rate in excess 
of the rate that would be payable were this sub-
section not in effect. 
(8) The Office of Personnel Management may 
provide for exceptions to the limitations imposed by 
this subsection if the Office determines that such ex-
ceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or 
retention of qualified employees. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment 
in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that 
take place in fiscal year 2015 under sections 5344 and 
5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be— 
(1) not less than the percentage received by em-
ployees in the same location whose rates of basic pay 
are adjusted pursuant to the statutory pay systems 
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United 
States Code: Provided, That prevailing rate employ-
ees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 
of title 5, United States Code, and prevailing rate 
employees described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, 
United States Code, shall be considered to be located 
in the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of United 
States’’ pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United 
States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and 
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