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decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 American Community 
Survey 5-year average, or any territory or possession of the 
United States: Provided further, That with respect to spe-
cific activities for which program levels have been made 
available by this Act that are not supported by budget au-
thority, the requirements of this section shall be applied to 
such program level. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for investiga-
tional use of a drug or biological product under section 
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which a 
human embryo is intentionally created or modified to in-
clude a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission 
shall be deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, 
and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule pro-
mulgated by the Food and Drug Administration entitled 
‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and 
Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and pub-
lished on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regulation 
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of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, 
hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 739. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2024, for a pilot pro-
gram for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for programs 
and services to establish and enhance farming and ranching 
opportunities for military veterans. 
SEC. 740. For school years 2022–2023 and 2023–2024, 
none of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement or enforce the matter following the first 
comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of section 
220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect 
to the substitution of vegetables for fruits under the school 
breakfast program established under section 4 of the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 741. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or section 10114 
of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 
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of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or Subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or outside 
the State in which the hemp is grown or cultivated. 
SEC. 742. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for grants under section 
12502 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 743. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to 
carry out section 3307 of Public Law 115–334. 
SEC. 744. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the 
matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of the Ag-
ricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act 
of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 745. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for a pilot program for 
the Secretary to provide grants to qualified non-profit orga-
nizations and public housing authorities to provide tech-
nical assistance, including financial and legal services, to 
RHS multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the ac-
quisition of RHS multi-family housing properties in areas 
where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of affordable 
housing, by non-profit housing organizations and public 
housing authorities as authorized by law that commit to 
keep such properties in the RHS multi-family housing pro-
gram for a period of time as determined by the Secretary. 
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SEC. 746. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to 
carry out section 4208 of Public Law 115–334, including 
for project locations in additional regions and timely com-
pletion of required reporting to Congress. 
SEC. 747. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to 
carry out section 12301 of Public Law 115–334, Farming 
Opportunities Training and Outreach. 
SEC. 748. In response to an eligible community where 
the drinking water supplies are inadequate due to a natural 
disaster, as determined by the Secretary, including drought 
or severe weather, the Secretary may provide potable water 
through the Emergency Community Water Assistance 
Grant Program for an additional period of time not to ex-
ceed 120 days beyond the established period provided under 
the Program in order to protect public health. 
SEC. 749. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 750. In this fiscal year and thereafter, and not-
withstanding any other provision of law, ARS facilities as 
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described in the ‘‘Memorandum of Understanding Between 
the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 
Concerning Laboratory Animal Welfare’’ (16–6100–0103– 
MU Revision 16–1) shall be inspected by APHIS for com-
pliance with the Animal Welfare Act and its regulations 
and standards. 
SEC. 751. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s Re-
public of China for use in the school lunch program under 
the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food Pro-
gram under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), the 
Summer Food Service Program for Children under section 
13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school breakfast 
program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.). 
SEC. 752. For school year 2023–2024, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of June 30, 2022, shall be 
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
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SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for the Secretary of Agri-
culture to carry out a pilot program that assists rural hos-
pitals to improve long-term operations and financial health 
by providing technical assistance through analysis of cur-
rent hospital management practices. 
SEC. 754. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, shall 
be available for grants for biotechnology risk assessment re-
search: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer such 
funds among appropriations of the Department of Agri-
culture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 755. Hereafter, none of the funds made available 
by this Act or any other Act, may be used to pay the sala-
ries or expenses of personnel to implement any activities 
related to: 
(a) the permitting of non-recording of observed viola-
tions of the Animal Welfare Act or its regulations on official 
inspection reports; or 
(b) the prioritizing of education or collaborative ap-
proaches to violations or noncompliance ahead of enforce-
ment under the Animal Welfare Act. 
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SEC. 756. There is hereby appropriated $400,000 to 
carry out section 1672(g)(4)(B) of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
5925(g)(4(B)) as amended by section 7209 of Public Law 
115–334. 
SEC. 757. For necessary expenses associated with cot-
ton classing activities pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 55, to include 
equipment and facility upgrades, and in addition to any 
other funds made available for this purpose, there is appro-
priated $4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2024: Provided, That amounts made available in this sec-
tion shall be treated as funds collected by fees authorized 
under Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, §5, 42 Stat. 1518, as amended 
(7 U.S.C. 55). 
SEC. 758. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds available to the Department of Agriculture may 
be used to move any staff office or any agency from the 
mission area in which it was located on August 1, 2018, 
to any other mission area or office within the Department 
in the absence of the enactment of specific legislation affirm-
ing such move. 
SEC. 759. The Secretary, acting through the Chief of 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use funds 
appropriated under this Act or any other Act for the Water-
shed and Flood Prevention Operations Program and the 
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Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out pursuant to 
the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency Watershed Pro-
tection Program carried out pursuant to section 403 of the 
Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to provide 
technical services for such programs pursuant to section 
1252(a)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 760. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining enti-
ties eligible to receive assistance, consider those communities 
which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, That not 
more than 10 percent of the funds made available under 
the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and 
Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot program 
established by section 779 of Public Law 115–141 may be 
used for this purpose. 
SEC. 761. There is hereby appropriated $29,700,000 
for the Goodfellow Federal facility, to remain available 
until expended, which shall be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ‘‘Food Safety and Inspection 
Service’’. 
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SEC. 762. Hereafter, none of the funds made available 
by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
or expenses of personnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation). 
SEC. 763. There is appropriated to the Department of 
Agriculture, for an additional amount for ‘‘Agricultural 
Programs—Processing, Research, and Marketing—Office of 
the Secretary’’, $5,000,000, which shall remain available 
until expended, for necessary expenses, under such terms 
and conditions determined by the Secretary, related to test-
ing soil, water, or agricultural products for per- and 
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the request of an agri-
cultural producer, assisting agricultural producers affected 
by PFAS contamination with costs related to mitigate the 
impacts to their operation that have resulted from such con-
tamination and indemnifying agricultural producers for 
the value of unmarketable crops, livestock, and other agri-
cultural products related to PFAS contamination: Pro-
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vided, That the Secretary shall prioritize such assistance 
to agricultural producers in states and territories that have 
established a tolerance threshold for PFAS in a food or agri-
cultural product: Provided further, That, not later than 90 
days after the end of fiscal year 2023, the Secretary shall 
submit a report to the Congress specifying the type, amount, 
and method of such assistance by state and territory and 
the status of the amounts obligated and plans for further 
expenditure, and include improvements that can be made 
to U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, either admin-
istratively or legislatively, to increase support for agricul-
tural producers impacted by PFAS contamination and to 
enhance scientific knowledge on PFAS uptake in crops and 
livestock and PFAS mitigation and remediation methods 
and disseminate such knowledge to agricultural producers. 
SEC. 764. Any future compliance date for any provi-
sion of the Food and Drug Administration’s final rule enti-
tled ‘‘Milk and Cream Products and Yogurt Products; Final 
Rule To Revoke the Standards for Lowfat Yogurt and Non-
fat Yogurt and To Amend the Standard for Yogurt’’ (86 
Fed. Reg. 31117, June 11, 2021) for which the agency is 
exercising enforcement discretion or that is stayed as a re-
sult of objections timely filed under 21 U.S.C. 371(e)(2), 
shall be established no earlier than January 1 of the year 
that is three years after either: 
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(a) Final action upon such objection(s) is taken by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; or 
(b) The party withdraws such objection(s). 
SEC. 765. In addition to the amount of reimbursement 
for administrative and operating expenses available for 
crop insurance contracts described in subsection (a)(2)(F) 
of section III of the 2023 Standard Reinsurance Agreement 
(SRA) that cover agricultural commodities described in sec-
tion 101 of title I of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness 
Act of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note), there is hereby appro-
priated $50,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
to pay, with respect to such contracts for the 2021 reinsur-
ance year, an amount that is equal to the difference between 
the amount to be paid pursuant to the SRA for the applica-
ble reinsurance year and the amount that would be paid 
if such contracts were not subject to a reduction described 
in subsection (a)(2)(G) of section III of the SRA but subject 
to a reimbursement rate equal to 17.5 percent of the net 
book premium. 
SEC. 766. There is appropriated to the Department of 
Agriculture, for an additional amount for ‘‘Agricultural 
Programs—Processing, Research, and Marketing—Office of 
the Secretary’’, $10,000,000, which shall remain available 
until expended, for necessary expenses to address assistance 
for disasters occurring in calendar year 2022. 
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SEC. 767. In addition to amounts otherwise available, 
there is appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture 
$50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023, 
to provide relief payments for frontline grocery workers 
through the Farmworker and Food Worker Relief Grant 
Program of the Agricultural Marketing Service. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to review or approve an application under 
section 505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
(21 U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) that is submitted by a 
sponsor located in Russia, unless such application is for 
a drug that is intended to treat a serious or life-threatening 
condition and for which there is an unmet medical treat-
ment need. 
SEC. 769. The Secretary of Agriculture shall take such 
actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase of ag-
ricultural land located in the United States by companies 
owned, in full or in part, by the People’s Republic of China, 
Russia, North Korea, or Iran. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023’’. 
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DIVISION B—WAYS & MEANS 
SEC. 1101. ADDITION OF VACCINES AGAINST COVID–19 TO 
LIST OF TAXABLE VACCINES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4132(a)(1) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(Q) Any vaccine against COVID–19.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) SALES, ETC.—The amendment made by this 
section shall apply to sales and uses on or after the 
later of— 
(A) the first day of the first month which 
begins more than 4 weeks after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, or 
(B) the date on which the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services lists any vaccine 
against COVID–19 for purposes of compensation 
for any vaccine-related injury or death through 
the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. 
(2) DELIVERIES.—For purposes of paragraph 
(1) and section 4131 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, in the case of sales on or before the effective date 
described in such paragraph for which delivery is 
made after such date, the delivery date shall be con-
sidered the sale date. 
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SEC. 1102. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
(a) STATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budg-
etary effects of this division shall not be entered on either 
PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of 
the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 
(b) SENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budgetary ef-
fects of this division shall not be entered on any PAYGO 
scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. 
Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress). 
(c) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—Not-
withstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines 
set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee 
of conference accompanying Conference Report 105–217 
and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects of 
this division shall not be estimated— 
(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act; 
(2) for purposes of an allocation to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and 
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(3) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 
3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as 
being included in an appropriation Act. 
DIVISION C 
Attest: 
Clerk. 
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