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this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding 
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers 
of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in 
personnel which would result in a change in existing pro-
grams, activities, or projects as approved by Congress; un-
less the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of 
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for the construction, repair (other than 
emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization 
of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration in shipyards located outside of the United 
States. 
PROHIBITION OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS FALSELY 
LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA 
SEC. 607. If it has been finally determined by a court 
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a 
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in 
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the
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United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any 
contract or subcontract made with funds made available 
in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and 
ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 608. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 
guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission covering harassment based on religion, when it is 
made known to the Federal entity or official to which such 
funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ 
in any respect from the proposed guidelines published by 
the Commission on October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 
51266). 
SEC. 609. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for any United Nations undertaking 
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that: (1) the 
United Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) 
such undertaking will involve United States Armed Forces 
under the command or operational control of a foreign na-
tional; and (3) the President’s military advisors have not 
submitted to the President a recommendation that such 
involvement is in the national security interests of the
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United States and the President has not submitted to the 
Congress such a recommendation. 
SEC. 610. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 609 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of section 609 of that Act shall continue to apply during 
fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 611. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in 
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such department or agency: Provided, 
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section.
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SEC. 612. Of the funds appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than 
90 percent of the amount to be awarded to an entity under 
the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made 
available to such an entity when it is made known to the 
Federal official having authority to obligate or expend 
such funds that the entity that employs a public safety 
officer (as such term is defined in section 1204 of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who 
retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered 
as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury 
sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emer-
gency situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined 
by State law) with the same or better level of health insur-
ance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as 
they received while on duty. 
SEC. 613. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type.
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SEC. 614. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 616 of that Act shall continue to apply during fis-
cal year 2004. 
SEC. 615. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for: 
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection 
with the implementation of 18 U.S.C. 922(t); and (2) any 
system to implement 18 U.S.C. 922(t) that does not re-
quire and result in the immediate destruction of any iden-
tifying information submitted by or on behalf of any per-
son who has been determined not to be prohibited from 
owning a firearm. 
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund estab-
lished under 42 U.S.C. 10601 in any fiscal year in excess 
of $625,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
the following fiscal year. 
SEC. 617. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
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nate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of 
students who participate in programs for which financial 
assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents 
or legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 618. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of State shall be 
available for the purpose of granting either immigrant or 
nonimmigrant visas, or both, consistent with the deter-
mination of the Secretary of State under section 243(d) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to citizens, sub-
jects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security has determined deny or un-
reasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, 
nationals, or residents under that section. 
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used for the 
purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner 
pursuant to conviction for crime under State or Federal 
law and is classified as a maximum or high security pris-
oner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by 
the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for 
housing such a prisoner. 
SEC. 620. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable tele-
vision services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, video-
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That, every six months, each Department or agency shall 
provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations on 
the status of telecommuting programs, including the num-
ber of Federal employees eligible for, and participating in, 
such programs, and uses of funds designated under this 
section: Provided further, That each Department or agency 
shall designate a ‘‘Telework Coordinator’’ to be respon-
sible for overseeing the implementation of telecommuting 
programs and serve as a point of contact on such pro-
grams for the Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 623. The paragraph under the heading ‘‘Small 
Business Administration—Disaster Loans Program Ac-
count’’ in chapter 2 of division B of Public Law 107–117 
is amended by inserting ‘‘or section 7(b) of the Small 
Business Act’’ after ‘‘September 11, 2001’’. 
SEC. 624. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to grant, transfer or assign a license for a commercial TV 
broadcast station to any party (including all parties under 
common control) if the grant, transfer or assignment of 
such license would result in such party or any of its stock-
holders, partners, members, officers or directors, directly 
or indirectly, owning, operating or controlling, or having 
a cognizable interest in TV stations which have an aggre-
gate national audience reach, as defined in 47 CFR 
73.3555, exceeding 35 percent.
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SEC. 625. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bu-
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are 
released without adequate disclaimers regarding the limi-
tations of the data. 
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives shall include in all such data releases, language 
similar to the following that would make clear that trace 
data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about fire-
arms-related crime: 
‘‘(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law 
enforcement authorities in conducting investigations 
by tracking the sale and possession of specific fire-
arms. Law enforcement agencies may request fire-
arms traces for any reason, and those reasons are 
not necessarily reported to the Federal Government. 
Not all firearms used in crime are traced and not all 
firearms traced are used in crime. 
‘‘(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not cho-
sen for purposes of determining which types, makes 
or models of firearms are used for illicit purposes. 
The firearms selected do not constitute a random 
sample and should not be considered representative 
of the larger universe of all firearms used by crimi-
nals, or any subset of that universe. Firearms are 
normally traced to the first retail seller, and sources
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reported for firearms traced do not necessarily rep-
resent the sources or methods by which firearms in 
general are acquired for use in crime.’’. 
TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $24,122,000 are rescinded. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $6,378,000 are rescinded. 
TITLE VIII—ADDITIONAL GENERAL 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 801. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act may be used to issue 
patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human 
organism. 
SEC. 802. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Department of Justice or the De-
partment of State to file a motion in any court opposing 
a civil action against any Japanese person or corporation 
for compensation or reparations in which the plaintiff al-
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leges that, as an American prisoner of war during World 
War II, he or she was used as slave or forced labor. 
SEC. 803. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to enforce the judgment in Newdow v. U.S. 
Congress 292 F.3d 597 (9th Cir. 2002). 
SEC. 804. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to seek a delay under section 3103a(b) 
of title 18, United States Code. 
LIMITATION ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
CERTAIN UNITED NATIONS ENTITIES 
SEC. 805. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for a United States contribution to any 
United Nations commission, organization, or affiliated 
agency that is chaired or presided over by a country, the 
government of which the Secretary of State has deter-
mined, for purposes of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Ad-
ministration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), has 
repeatedly provided support for acts of international ter-
rorism. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to pay expenses for any United States delegation 
to any United Nations commission, organization, or affili-
ated agency described in the preceding sentence. 
SEC. 806. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to destroy or conceal physical and elec-
tronic records and documents related to any use of Fed-
eral agency resources in any task or action involving or
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relating to members of the Texas Legislature for the pe-
riod beginning May 11, 2003, and ending May 16, 2003. 
SEC. 807. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in violation of section 212(a)(10)(C) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
SEC. 808. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to enforce the judgment of the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Glassroth v. 
Moore, decided July 1, 2003 or Glassroth v. Moore, 229 
F. Supp. 2d 1067 (M. D. Ala. 2002). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 23, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
Calendar No. 266
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2799
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2004, and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Read the second time and placed on the calendar