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until expended for any of the purposes of section 32, except that 
any such carryover funds used in accordance with clause (3) of 
section 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may not be obligated 
until the Secretary of Agriculture provides written notification of 
the expenditures to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least two weeks in advance: Provided further, 
That, with the exception of any available carryover funds authorized 
in any prior appropriations Act to be used for the purposes of 
clause (3) of section 32, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay 
the salaries or expenses of any employee of the Department of 
Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 32. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President’s budget submission to the Congress for programs under 
the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from the 
previous year due to user fees proposals that have not been enacted 
into law prior to the submission of the budget unless such budget 
submission identifies which additional spending reductions should 
occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior 
to the date of the convening of a committee of conference for 
the fiscal year 2026 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the cur-
rent fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury 
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through 
a reprogramming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as author-
ized by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of 
Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by section 702(b) 
of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2257) or section 8 of Public Law 89–106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that—
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities 
presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies in writing and 
receives approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogram-
ming of such funds or the use of such authority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current 
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, 
programs, or projects through a reprogramming or use of the
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authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess 
of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever 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 programs, 
activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies in writing and 
receives approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogram-
ming or transfer of such funds or the use of such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall notify in writing and receive approval 
from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
before implementing any program or activity not carried out during 
the previous fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded 
by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act. 
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current 
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for—
(1) modifying major capital investments funding levels, 
including information technology systems, that involves 
increasing or decreasing funds in the current fiscal year for 
the individual investment in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent 
of the total cost, whichever is less; 
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or vacant posi-
tions or agency activities or functions to establish a center, 
office, branch, or similar entity with five or more personnel; 
or 
(3) carrying out activities or functions that were not 
described in the budget request; 
unless the agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing, the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 
30 days in advance of using the funds for these purposes. 
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used for 
any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services receives from the Committee on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress written or electronic 
mail confirmation of receipt of the notification as required in this 
section. 
SEC. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(g)(5)), the 
Secretary may assess a one-time fee for any guaranteed business 
and industry loan in an amount that does not exceed 3 percent 
of the guaranteed principal portion of the loan. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug 
Administration, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be used 
to transmit or otherwise make available reports, questions, or 
responses to questions that are a result of information requested 
for the appropriations hearing process to any non-Department of
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Agriculture, non-Department of Health and Human Services, or 
non-Farm Credit Administration employee. 
SEC. 719. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none 
of the funds provided in this Act, may be used by an executive 
branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended 
for broadcast or distribution in the United States unless the story 
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared 
or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this 
Act or any other Act to any other agency or office of the Department 
for more than 60 days in a fiscal year unless the individual’s 
employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving 
agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee for 
the period of assignment. 
SEC. 721. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Commissioner of the 
Food and Drug Administration, and the Chairman of the Farm 
Credit Administration shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed 
obligation plan delineated by program, project, and activity, as 
defined in the report accompanying this Act, for all amounts made 
available by this Act and prior appropriations Acts that remain 
available for obligation, including appropriated user fees and loan 
authorizations: Provided, That such obligation plan shall include 
breakdowns of estimated obligations for each such program, project, 
or activity by fiscal quarter, source appropriation, and the number 
of full-time equivalent positions supported: Provided further, That 
such obligation plan shall serve as the baseline for reprogramming 
notifications for the purposes of section 716 of this Act. 
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to propose, promulgate, or implement any rule, or take 
any other action with respect to, allowing or requiring information 
intended for a prescribing health care professional, in the case 
of a drug or biological product subject to section 503(b)(1) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to 
be distributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in paper 
form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to allow or require 
such distribution. 
SEC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility or level 
of program assistance for Rural Housing Service programs the 
Secretary shall not include incarcerated prison populations. 
SEC. 724. For loans and loan guarantees that do not require 
budget authority and for which the program level has been estab-
lished in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may increase the 
program level for such loans and loan guarantees by not more 
than 25 percent: Provided, That prior to the Secretary implementing 
such an increase, the Secretary notifies, in writing, the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days 
in advance. 
SEC. 725. None of the credit card refunds or rebates transferred 
to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to section 729 of the Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public 
Law 107–76) shall be available for obligation without written
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notification to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the refunds 
or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation only 
for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment, including 
equipment for the improvement, delivery, and implementation of 
Departmental financial management, information technology, and 
other support systems necessary for the delivery of financial, 
administrative, and information technology services, including cloud 
adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies of the 
Department of Agriculture. 
SEC. 726. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to implement, administer, or enforce the ‘‘variety’’ require-
ments of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhancing Retailer Standards 
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)’’ pub-
lished by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register 
on December 15, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary 
of Agriculture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as defined 
in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, 
and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition of the term ‘‘staple food’’ 
as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, 
to increase the number of items that qualify as acceptable varieties 
in each staple food category so that the total number of such 
items in each staple food category exceeds the number of such 
items in each staple food category included in the final rule as 
published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That until the Secretary 
promulgates such regulatory amendments, the Secretary shall apply 
the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and breadth of 
stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program retailers that 
were in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 
SEC. 727. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall have the same authority with respect to loans guaranteed 
under such section and eligible lenders for such loans as the Sec-
retary has under subsections (h) and (j) of section 538 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1490p–2) with respect to loans guaranteed under 
such section 538 and eligible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be available for the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture to propose, finalize or implement any regulation 
that would promulgate new user fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 729. Notwithstanding any provision of law that regulates 
the calculation and payment of overtime and holiday pay for FSIS 
inspectors, the Secretary may charge establishments subject to the 
inspection requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act, 
21 U.S.C. 451 et seq., the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 
601 et seq., and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 1031 
et seq., for the cost of inspection services provided outside of an 
establishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for inspection serv-
ices provided on Federal holidays: Provided, That any sums charged 
pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed as overtime pay or 
holiday pay under section 1001(d) of the American Rescue Plan 
Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2, 135 Stat. 242): Provided further, 
That sums received by the Secretary under this paragraph shall, 
in addition to other available funds, remain available until expended