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loan guarantees, lines of credit, letters of intent, federally funded 
cooperative agreements, full funding grant agreements, and discre-
tionary 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 sub-
leasing 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 Transpor-
tation 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 reprogram-
ming action that requires notice to be provided to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, transmission of such re-
programming 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 commit-
tees of the action of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations 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 Appro-
priations. 
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 devel-
oping 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 elec-
tronic 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, eco-
nomic, 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 pos-
sessing the knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the work 
that the contract requires resides in the jurisdiction;
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(2) that the grant recipient will include appropriate provi-
sions 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 Secretaries of Homeland Security and Commerce to ensure 
that best practices for Industrial Control Systems Procurement 
are up-to-date and are considered for all systems procured with 
funds provided under this title. 
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 title for the Department of Transportation for fiscal year 
2026 may be used to enforce a mask mandate in response to 
the COVID–19 virus. 
SEC. 194. The Secretary shall issue a new notice of funding 
opportunity for six new university transportation centers, as author-
ized under section 5505 of title 49, United States Code: Provided, 
That in selecting such university transportation center awards, 
the Secretary shall first prioritize (a) any applicants that had pre-
viously been selected as a university transportation center focusing 
on transportation infrastructure durability and composite materials 
and were required to re-compete before the end of the typical 
5-year term and who currently participate in the Department of 
Transportation’s Advanced Research Projects Agency—Infrastruc-
ture program and (b) any applicant that had their university 
transportation center designation cancelled in May 2025 by the 
Department of Transportation and such university transportation 
center designation remains cancelled on the date of enactment 
of this Act: Provided further, That such university transportation 
center awards shall be made available using any unobligated 
amounts remaining from the university transportation centers pro-
gram, which have not been committed to any existing university 
transportation center grantees: Provided further, That any such 
unobligated amounts shall include funds made available in section 
11101(c)(1)(E) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public 
Law 117–58) and funds made available under the heading ‘‘Federal 
Highway Administration—Highway Infrastructure Programs’’ in 
title VIII of division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (Public Law 117–58): Provided further, That amounts 
repurposed or transferred pursuant to this section shall continue 
to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division 
A of Public Law 118–5. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Transportation 
Appropriations Act, 2026’’.
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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 Intergovern-
mental Relations, Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business 
Utilization, and the Center for Faith, $17,500,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading not less than $2,500,000 shall be for 
the Office of the Deputy Secretary, of which not less than $500,000 
shall be for the Office of Gender-Based Violence Prevention and 
not less than $1,500,000 shall be for the Office of Disaster Manage-
ment: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount 
made available under this heading shall be available to the Sec-
retary 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, $595,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: 
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading— 
(1) $103,200,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Chief Financial Officer; 
(2) $93,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
General Counsel; 
(3) $218,000,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Administration; 
(4) $53,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Chief Human Capital Officer; 
(5) $29,500,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Chief Procurement Officer; 
(6) $40,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Field 
Policy and Management; 
(7) $3,300,000 shall be available for the Office of Depart-
mental Equal Employment Opportunity; and 
(8) $55,000,000 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 notwith-
standing 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: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds made available by this or 
any prior Act may be used in contravention of section 3535(p) 
of title 42, United States Code.
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PROGRAM OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Program Offices, 
$842,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: Pro-
vided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading— 
(1) $233,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Public 
and Indian Housing; 
(2) $129,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Commu-
nity Planning and Development; 
(3) $380,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Housing; 
(4) $31,500,000 shall be available for the Office of Policy 
Development and Research; 
(5) $60,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Fair 
Housing and Equal Opportunity; and 
(6) $9,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Lead 
Hazard Control and Healthy Homes. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND 
For Department-wide and program-specific information tech-
nology systems and infrastructure, $345,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2028: Provided, That not later than 30 
days after the end of each quarter, the Secretary shall brief the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all information 
technology modernization efforts as required in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act). 
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, 
and for any such portion of any office or agency’s printing, records 
management, space renovation, furniture, or supply services the 
Secretary has determined shall be provided through the Fund, 
and the operational expenses of the Fund: Provided, That amounts 
within the Fund shall not be available to provide services not 
specifically authorized under this heading: Provided further, 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’’, ‘‘Administra-
tive 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.