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which protect against disclosure that may compromise the 
national security, including sections 641, 793, 794, 798, 
and 952 of title 18, United States Code, and section 4(b) 
of the Subversive Activities Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
783(b)). The definitions, requirements, obligations, rights, 
sanctions, and liabilities created by said Executive order 
and listed statutes are incorporated into this agreement 
and are controlling.’’: Provided, That notwithstanding the 
preceding paragraph, a nondisclosure policy form or agree-
ment that is to be executed by a person connected with 
the conduct of an intelligence or intelligence-related activ-
ity, other than an employee or officer of the United States 
Government, may contain provisions appropriate to the 
particular activity for which such document is to be used. 
Such form or agreement shall, at a minimum, require that 
the person will not disclose any classified information re-
ceived in the course of such activity unless specifically au-
thorized to do so by the United States Government. Such 
nondisclosure forms shall also make it clear that they do 
not bar disclosures to Congress or to an authorized official 
of an executive agency or the Department of Justice that 
are essential to reporting a substantial violation of law. 
SEC. 721. 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-
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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 legislation 
pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the 
Congress itself. 
SEC. 722. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed-
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. 723. None of the funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act may be used to provide any non-
public information such as mailing or telephone lists to 
any person or any organization outside of the Federal 
Government without the approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
SEC. 724. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propa-
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore 
authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 725. Unless authorized in accordance with law 
or regulations to use such time for other purposes, an em-
ployee of an agency shall use official time in an honest
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effort to perform official duties. An employee not under 
a leave system, including a Presidential appointee exempt-
ed under section 6301(2) of title 5, United States Code, 
has an obligation to expend an honest effort and a reason-
able proportion of such employee’s time in the perform-
ance of official duties: Provided, That in this section the 
term ‘‘agency’’—
(1) means an Executive agency as defined 
under section 105 of title 5, United States Code; 
(2) includes a military department as defined 
under section 102 of such title, the Postal Service, 
and the Postal Rate Commission; and 
(3) shall not include the General Accounting 
Office. 
SEC. 726. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-
tion 710 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 Joint Financial Man-
agement Improvement Program (JFMIP), shall be avail-
able to finance an appropriate share of JFMIP adminis-
trative costs, as determined by the JFMIP, but not to ex-
ceed a total of $800,000 including the salary of the Execu-
tive Director and staff support. 
SEC. 727. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-
tion 710 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart-
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ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 
reimburse the ‘‘Governmentwide Policy’’ account, General 
Services Administration, with the approval of the Director 
of the Office 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 con-
tracts. These funds shall be administered by the Adminis-
trator of General Services to support Government-wide fi-
nancial, information technology, procurement, and other 
management innovations, initiatives, and activities, as ap-
proved by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, in consultation with the appropriate interagency 
groups designated by the Director (including the Chief Fi-
nancial Officers Council and the Joint Financial Manage-
ment Improvement Program for financial management 
initiatives, the Chief Information Officers Council for in-
formation technology initiatives, and the Procurement Ex-
ecutives Council for procurement initiatives). The total 
funds transferred or reimbursed shall not exceed 
$17,000,000. Such transfers or reimbursements may only 
be made 15 days following notification of the Committees 
on Appropriations by the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location
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in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman 
and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at 
the location. 
SEC. 729. Nothwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 710 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 Manage-
ment and Budget shall provide a report describing the 
budget of and resources connected with the National 
Science and Technology Council to the Committees on Ap-
propriations, the House Committee on Science; and the 
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation 90 days after enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 730. 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. This provision shall apply
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to direct payments, formula funds, and grants received by 
a State receiving Federal funds. 
SEC. 731. Subsection (f) of section 403 of Public Law 
103–356 (31 U.S.C. 501 note) is amended by striking 
‘‘October 1, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2004’’. 
SEC. 732. (a) PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL AGENCY 
MONITORING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ON USE OF 
INTERNET.—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 aggregate 
list, derived from any means, that includes the col-
lection of any personally identifiable information re-
lating to an individual’s access to or use of any Fed-
eral Government 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 aggregate list, derived 
from any means, that includes the collection of any 
personally identifiable information relating to an in-
dividual’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;
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(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 
(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 the rendition of the Internet site services or to the 
protection of 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. 733. (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,
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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 
(B) OSF Health Plans, 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. 734. The Congress of the United States recog-
nizes the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) as 
the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan Amer-
ican, and Paralympic sport in the United States. 
SEC. 735. Not later than 6 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of each appli-
cable department or agency shall submit to the Committee
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on Appropriations a report detailing what policies and pro-
cedures are in place for each department or agency to give 
first priority to the location of new offices and other facili-
ties in rural areas, as directed by the Rural Development 
Act of 1972.
SEC. 736. Each Executive department and agency 
shall evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before 
issuing the individual a government travel charge card. 
The department or agency may not issue a government 
travel charge card to an individual that either lacks a cred-
it history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit his-
tory as a result of this evaluation: Provided, That this re-
striction shall not preclude issuance of a restricted-use 
charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance 
with agency procedures to (a) an individual with an unsat-
isfactory credit history where such card is used to pay 
travel expenses and the agency determines there is no suit-
able alternative payment mechanism available before 
issuing the card, or (b) an individual who lacks a credit 
history. Each Executive department and agency shall es-
tablish guidelines and procedures for disciplinary actions 
to be taken against agency personnel for improper, fraud-
ulent, or abusive use of government charge cards, which 
shall include appropriate disciplinary actions for use of 
charge cards for purposes, and at establishments, that are
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inconsistent with the official business of the Department 
or agency or with applicable standards of conduct.
SEC. 737. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 710 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 the National Oceanographic Partnership Program Of-
fice, authorized by 10 U.S.C. 7902, and the Coastal Amer-
ica program, which benefit multiple Federal departments, 
agencies, or entities: Provided, That the Department of 
Commerce shall provide a report describing the budget of 
and resources connected with the National Oceanographic 
Partnership Program Office and the Coastal America pro-
gram to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions, the House Committee on Science, and the Senate 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 
days after the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 738. Section 640(c) of the Treasury and Gen-
eral Government Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
106–58; 2 U.S.C. 437g note 1), as amended by section 
642 of the Treasury and General Government Appropria-
tions Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–67), is amended by 
striking ‘‘December 31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘December 
31, 2005’’.
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SEC. 739. Section 304(a) of the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(a)) is amended as 
follows: 
(1) in clauses (a)(2)(A)(i) and (a)(4)(A)(ii) by 
striking the parenthetical ‘‘(or posted by registered 
or certified mail no later than the 15th day before)’’ 
and inserting in its place, ‘‘(or posted by any of the 
following: registered mail, certified mail, priority 
mail having a delivery confirmation, or express mail 
having a delivery confirmation, or delivered to an 
overnight delivery service with an on-line tracking 
system, if posted or delivered no later than the 15th 
day before)’’; and 
(2) by striking paragraph (a)(5) and inserting 
in its place, 
‘‘(5) If a designation, report, or statement filed 
pursuant to this Act (other than under paragraph 
(2)(A)(i) or (4)(A)(ii) or subsection (g)(1)) is sent 
by registered mail, certified mail, priority mail hav-
ing a delivery confirmation, or express mail having 
a delivery confirmation, the United States postmark 
shall be considered the date of filing the designation, 
report or statement. If a designation, report or 
statement filed pursuant to this Act (other than 
under paragraph (2)(A)(i) or (4)(A)(ii), or sub-
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section (g)(1)) is sent by an overnight delivery serv-
ice with an on-line tracking system, the date on the 
proof of delivery to the delivery service shall be con-
sidered the date of filing of the designation, report, 
or statement.’’. 
SEC. 740. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay 
for employees under the statutory pay systems that takes 
effect in fiscal year 2004 under sections 5303 and 5304 
of title 5, United States Code, shall be an increase of 4.1 
percent, and this adjustment shall apply to civilian em-
ployees in the Department of Defense and the Department 
of Homeland Security and such adjustments shall be effec-
tive as of the first day of the first applicable pay period 
beginning on or after January 1, 2004. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 713 of this Act, the ad-
justment in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay sys-
tems that take place in fiscal year 2004 under sections 
5344 and 5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
no less than the percentage in paragraph (a) as employees 
in the same location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted 
pursuant to the statutory pay systems under section 5303 
and 5304 of title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate 
employees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 of 
title 5 and prevailing rate employees described in section