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(5) Payment of annuities authorized to be paid 
from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 
Fund by statutory provisions other than subchapter 
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to ex-
empt any amount appropriated by this section from any 
otherwise applicable limitation on the use of funds con-
tained in this Act. 
SEC. 620. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Federal Trade Commission to 
complete the draft report entitled ‘‘Interagency Working 
Group on Food Marketed to Children: Preliminary Pro-
posed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regu-
latory Efforts’’ unless the Interagency Working Group on 
Food Marketed to Children complies with Executive Order 
No. 13563. 
SEC. 621. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses for the 
following positions: 
(1) Director, White House Office of Health Re-
form, or any substantially similar position. 
(2) Assistant to the President for Energy and 
Climate Change, or any substantially similar posi-
tion.
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(3) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the 
Treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on 
the Auto Industry and Senior Counselor for Manu-
facturing Policy, or any substantially similar posi-
tion. 
(4) White House Director of Urban Affairs, or 
any substantially similar position. 
SEC. 622. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of chapter 29, 31, or 
33 of title 44, United States Code. 
SEC. 623. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this section, the agencies specified in sub-
section (b) shall each submit a report to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate on— 
(1) increasing public participation in the rule-
making process and reducing uncertainty; 
(2) improving coordination with other Federal 
agencies to eliminate redundant, inconsistent, and 
overlapping regulations; and 
(3) identifying existing regulations that have 
been reviewed and determined to be outmoded, inef-
fective, or excessively burdensome. 
(b) The agencies required to submit a report specified 
in subsection (a) are—
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(1) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; 
(2) the Federal Communications Commission; 
(3) the Federal Trade Commission; and 
(4) the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
SEC. 624. The unobligated balance in the Securities 
and Exchange Commission Reserve Fund established by 
section 991 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 111–203) is perma-
nently rescinded. 
SEC. 625. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used by the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion to study, develop, propose, finalize, issue, or imple-
ment any rule, regulation, or order regarding the disclo-
sure of political contributions to tax exempt organizations, 
or dues paid to trade associations. 
SEC. 626. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Financial Stability 
Oversight Council to make a determination, pursuant to 
subsection (a) or (b) of section 113 of the Financial Sta-
bility Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5323), with respect to a 
nonbank financial company until— 
(1) the Financial Stability Oversight Council, in 
the notice described in subsection (e)(1) of such sec-
tion, identifies with specificity the risks to the finan-
cial stability of the United States presented by the
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nonbank financial company and explains in sufficient 
detail why regulatory action by the relevant primary 
financial regulatory agency would be insufficient to 
mitigate or prevent such risks; and 
(2) if the nonbank financial company presents 
a plan in a hearing conducted pursuant to sub-
section (e)(2) of such section to modify its business, 
structure, or operations in order to mitigate the 
risks identified in such a notice— 
(A) the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council makes a determination as to whether 
such plan, if implemented, adequately mitigates 
the identified risks; and 
(B) if the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council determines that such plan would ade-
quately mitigate the identified risk, the Coun-
cil— 
(i) approves such plan; and 
(ii) allows the nonbank financial com-
pany a reasonable period of time to imple-
ment such plan. 
SEC. 627. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by a governmental entity to require the 
disclosure by a provider of electronic communication serv-
ice to the public or remote computing service of the con-
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tents of a wire or electronic communication that is in elec-
tronic storage with the provider (as such terms are defined 
in sections 2510 and 2711 of title 18, United States Code) 
in a manner that violates the Fourth Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States. 
SEC. 628. (a) In each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2025, section 628 of division E of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113; 129 Stat. 
2469) applies to a joint sales agreement regardless of any 
change in the ownership of the stations involved in such 
agreement. 
(b) In the case of a joint sales agreement to which 
such section applies, while such section is in effect, the 
Federal Communications Commission— 
(1) may not require the termination or modi-
fication of such agreement as a condition of the 
transfer or assignment of a station license or the 
transfer of station ownership or control; and 
(2) upon request of the transferee or assignee 
of the station license, shall eliminate any such condi-
tion that was imposed after March 31, 2014, and 
permit the licensees of the stations whose adver-
tising was jointly sold pursuant to such agreement 
to enter into a new joint sales agreement on sub-
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stantially similar terms and conditions as the prior 
agreement. 
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘joint sales agreement’’ 
has the meaning given such term in Note 2(k) to section 
73.3555 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, and 
where a joint sales agreement is part of a broader con-
tract, this section shall be limited to the joint sales agree-
ment portion of such contract. 
SEC. 629. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Federal Communications Commission 
to modify, amend, or change the rules or regulations of 
the Commission for universal service high-cost support for 
competitive eligible telecommunications carriers in a way 
that is inconsistent with paragraph (e)(5) or (e)(6) of sec-
tion 54.307 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as 
in effect on July 15, 2015: Provided, That this section 
shall not prohibit the Commission from considering, devel-
oping, or adopting other support mechanisms as an alter-
native to Mobility Fund Phase II. 
SEC. 630. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 
rule (as defined in section 551 of title 5, United States 
Code), or any amendment or repeal of an existing rule, 
that is adopted by vote of the Federal Communications 
Commission after the date of the enactment of this Act,