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available until expended for oversight and auditing purposes associ-
ated with this section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to 
the Office for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the 
requirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes to 
improve services for victims of crime. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate 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. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Department of 
Commerce, the Department of Justice, the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and 
the Legal Services Corporation shall conduct audits, pursuant to 
the Inspector General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts 
for which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit 
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which may 
include preliminary findings and a description of areas of particular 
interest, within 180 days after initiating such an audit and every 
180 days thereafter until any such audit is completed. 
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit described 
in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is completed, the Sec-
retary, Attorney General, Administrator, Director, or President, 
as appropriate, shall make the results of the audit available to 
the public on the Internet website maintained by the Department, 
Administration, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The 
results shall be made available in redacted form to exclude—
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of title 5, United 
States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any individual, the 
public access to which could be used to commit identity theft 
or for other inappropriate or unlawful purposes. 
(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded by amounts 
appropriated by this Act shall submit a statement to the Secretary 
of Commerce, the Attorney General, the Administrator, Director, 
or President, as appropriate, certifying that no funds derived from 
the grant or contract will be made available through a subcontract 
or in any other manner to another person who has a financial 
interest in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of this section 
shall take effect 30 days after the date on which the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 
the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, determines that 
a uniform set of rules and requirements, substantially similar to 
the requirements in such subsections, consistently apply under 
the executive branch ethics program to all Federal departments, 
agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used by the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, or the National Science Foundation to acquire a 
high-impact or moderate-impact information system, as defined for
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security categorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard 
Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Categorization of Federal 
Information and Information Systems’’ unless the agency has—
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the information 
systems against criteria developed by NIST and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to inform acquisition decisions 
for high-impact and moderate-impact information systems 
within the Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive 
awardee against available and relevant threat information pro-
vided by the FBI and other appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other appropriate Fed-
eral entity, conducted an assessment of any risk of cyber-
espionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of such 
system, including any risk associated with such system being 
produced, manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 
identified by the United States Government as posing a cyber 
threat, including but not limited to, those that may be owned, 
directed, or subsidized by the People’s Republic of China, the 
Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of 
Korea, or the Russian Federation. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act may be used to acquire a high-impact or moderate-
impact information system reviewed and assessed under subsection 
(a) unless the head of the assessing entity described in subsection 
(a) has—
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the FBI, and 
supply chain risk management experts, a mitigation strategy 
for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and the FBI, 
that the acquisition of such system is in the national interest 
of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
and the agency Inspector General. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify the use of 
torture by any official or contract employee of the United States 
Government. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agree-
ment the text of—
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States–Singa-
pore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States–Aus-
tralia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States–Morocco 
Free Trade Agreement. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to authorize or issue a national security letter in contraven-
tion of any of the following laws authorizing the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation to issue national security letters: The Right to 
Financial Privacy Act of 1978; The Electronic Communications Pri-
vacy Act of 1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National 
Security Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM Act 
of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts.
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SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the program 
manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the Departments 
of Commerce or Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, or the National Science Foundation totaling more 
than $75,000,000 has reasonable cause to believe that the total 
program cost has increased by 10 percent or more, the program 
manager shall immediately inform the respective Secretary, 
Administrator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or 
Director shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations within 30 days in writing of such increase, and shall 
include in such notice: the date on which such determination was 
made; a statement of the reasons for such increases; the action 
taken and proposed to be taken to control future cost growth of 
the project; changes made in the performance or schedule milestones 
and the degree to which such changes have contributed to the 
increase in total program costs or procurement costs; new estimates 
of the total project or procurement costs; and a statement validating 
that the project’s management structure is adequate to control 
total project or procurement costs. 
SEC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available 
by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence or intelligence 
related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment 
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in 
an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess 
of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies 
in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that, 
to the best of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee 
has filed all Federal tax returns required during the three years 
preceding the certification, has not been convicted of a criminal 
offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, 
more than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any unpaid 
Federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, 
unless the assessment is the subject of an installment agreement 
or offer in compromise that has been approved by the Internal 
Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assessment is the 
subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial proceeding. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances available to the 
Department of Commerce, the following funds are hereby perma-
nently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, from the 
following accounts in the specified amounts—
(1) ‘‘Economic Development Administration—Economic 
Development Assistance Programs’’, $60,000,000, only from 
prior year appropriations that remain available until expended; 
and 
(2) ‘‘Census Working Capital Fund’’, $15,000,000. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations 
available to the Department of Justice, the following funds are 
hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, 
from the following accounts in the specified amounts—
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(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office 
on Violence Against Women—Violence Against Women Preven-
tion and Prosecution Programs’’, $36,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office 
of Justice Programs’’, $250,000,000; and 
(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services’’, $25,000,000. 
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the Department 
of Justice, the following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, 
not later than September 30, 2026, from the following accounts 
in the specified amounts—
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $210,000,000; and 
(2) 
‘‘Legal 
Activities—Assets 
Forfeiture 
Fund’’, 
$113,200,000. 
(d) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate a report no later than September 1, 2026, 
specifying the amount of each rescission made pursuant to sub-
sections (a), (b), and (c). 
(e) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall 
not be from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 
an emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to the concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
(f) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsections (b) and 
(c) shall not be from—
(1) amounts provided under subparagraph (Q) of paragraph 
(1) under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Assistance’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 117–
103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts provided under 
subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Pro-
grams—State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title 
II of division C of Public Law 118–42; or 
(2) amounts provided under paragraph (7) under the 
heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services—Community Oriented Policing 
Services Programs’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 
117–103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts provided under 
paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Services—
Community Oriented Policing Services Programs’’ in title II 
of division C of Public Law 118–42. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to purchase first class or premium airline travel in con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41 
of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 
50 employees from a Federal department or agency, who are sta-
tioned in the United States, at any single conference occurring 
outside the United States unless—
(1) such conference is a law enforcement training or oper-
ational conference for law enforcement personnel and the 
majority of Federal employees in attendance are law enforce-
ment personnel stationed outside the United States; or