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(1) classify, tax, or register any firearm with an 
attached ‘‘stabilizing brace’’ or other similar brace 
or rearward attachment, notwithstanding any ex-
tended additional contact surface rearward or use 
outside of its original design or use as a buttstock 
or use to enable shoulder fire, as a ‘‘rifle,’’ ‘‘short- 
barreled rifle,’’ or ‘‘short-barreled shotgun’’ under 
the Gun Control Act of 1968, the National Firearms 
Act of 1934, or any other such act of Congress; or 
(2) direct any other law enforcement or regu-
latory entity to conduct any of the activities de-
scribed in paragraph (1) on the ATF’s behalf. 
SEC. 574. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 
a foreign adversary. 
SEC. 575. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to engage in any formal 
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or informal negotiations, regardless of subject, with lead-
ership or representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
SEC. 576. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 
or retain any person who either has been convicted of a 
Federal or State child pornography charge, has been con-
victed of any other Federal or State sexual assault charge, 
or has been formally disciplined for using Federal re-
sources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 
SEC. 577. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 
or retain any person based in whole or in part on such 
person’s race, national origin, sex, or religion. 
SEC. 578. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to fund any sex-altering 
surgical procedures in either a Federally owned facility or 
a private facility leased or used by the Federal Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 579. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Justice’s Repro-
ductive Rights Task Force. 
SEC. 580. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 
over their abortion laws, or to intervene or file an amicus 
brief in such a case. 
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SEC. 581. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 
over any law relating to transgender issues, or to intervene 
or file an amicus brief in such a case. 
SEC. 582. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to sue any State over its 
redistricting plans, or to intervene or file an amicus brief 
in such a case. 
SEC. 583. (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 appro-
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-
tially, 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 sub-
section (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 as-
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-
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nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 
in subsection (a); 
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-
poses 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, co-
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 
other similar position or status from or to such per-
son; 
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-
erwise 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 oth-
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-
paigns from or to such person. 
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(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. 584. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by any agency to enforce section 19.17 
of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or Article 
18 of the United States-Japan Digital Trade Agreement 
or to negotiate similar language in future trade agree-
ments. 
SEC. 585. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or pro-
mote exports to the Cuban military or intelligence service 
or to any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence serv-
ice, or an immediate family member thereof or any agency 
or entity owned or partially owned or operated on behalf 
of the previously listed. 
(b) This section does not apply to exports of goods 
permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
(c) In this section— 
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