provide a service that connects to the facilities 
of a third-party, such as backhaul, roaming, or 
interconnection arrangements; or 
(B) cover telecommunications equipment 
that cannot route or redirect user data traffic 
or permit visibility into any user data or pack-
ets that such equipment transmits or otherwise 
handles. 
(b) PROHIBITION OF LOAN AND GRANT FUNDS.— 
(1) The head of an agency, office, or other enti-
ty may not obligate or expend loan or grant funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available under this 
Act to procure or obtain, extend or renew a contract 
to procure or obtain, or enter into a contract (or ex-
tend or renew a contract) to procure or obtain the 
equipment, services, or systems described in sub-
section (a). 
(2) In implementing the prohibition in para-
graph (1), heads of agencies, offices, and entities ad-
ministering loan, grant, or subsidy programs shall 
prioritize available funding and technical support to 
assist affected businesses, institutions, and organiza-
tions as is reasonably necessary for those affected 
agencies, offices, and entities to transition from cov-
ered communications equipment and services, to pro-
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cure replacement equipment and services, and to en-
sure that communications service to users and cus-
tomers is sustained. 
(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued to— 
(A) prohibit the head of an agency, office, 
or entity from procuring with an entity to pro-
vide a service that connects to the facilities of 
a third-party, such as backhaul, roaming, or 
interconnection arrangements; or 
(B) cover telecommunications equipment 
that cannot route or redirect user data traffic 
or permit visibility into any user data or pack-
ets that such equipment transmits or otherwise 
handles. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATES.—The prohibition under sub-
section (a)(1)(A) shall apply with respect to fiscal year 
2026 and each succeeding fiscal year, and the prohibitions 
under subsections (a)(1)(B) and (b)(1) shall apply with 
respect to fiscal year 2027 and each succeeding fiscal year. 
(d) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The head of an agency, 
office, or other entity may, on a one-time basis, waive the 
requirements under subsection (a) with respect to an 
agency, office, or entity that requests such a waiver. The 
waiver may be provided, for a period of not more than 
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two years after the effective dates described in subsection 
(c), if the agency, office, or entity seeking the waiver— 
(1) provides a compelling justification for the 
additional time to implement the requirements under 
such subsection, as determined by the head of the 
agency, office, or entity; and 
(2) submits to the head of the agency, office, or 
entity, who shall not later than 30 days thereafter 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees, 
a full and complete laydown of the presences of cov-
ered telecommunications or video surveillance equip-
ment or services in the agency’s, office’s, or entity’s 
supply chain and a phase-out plan to eliminate such 
covered telecommunications or video surveillance 
equipment or services from the agency’s, office’s, or 
entity’s systems. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and Senate. 
(2) The term ‘‘covered telecommunications 
equipment or services’’ means any of the following: 
(A) Telecommunications equipment pro-
duced by Huawei Technologies Company or 
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ZTE Corporation (or any subsidiary or affiliate 
of such entities). 
(B) For the purpose of public safety, secu-
rity of government facilities, physical security 
surveillance of critical infrastructure, and other 
national security purposes, video surveillance 
and telecommunications equipment produced by 
Hytera 
Communications 
Corporation, 
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Com-
pany, or Dahua Technology Company (or any 
subsidiary or affiliate of such entities). 
(C) Telecommunications or video surveil-
lance services provided by such entities or using 
such equipment. 
(D) Telecommunications or video surveil-
lance equipment or services produced or pro-
vided by an entity that the Secretary of De-
fense, in consultation with the Director of the 
National Intelligence or the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, reasonably be-
lieves to be an entity owned or controlled by, or 
otherwise connected to, the government of a 
foreign adversary country. 
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(3) The term ‘‘foreign adversary country’’ 
means a country specified in section 4872(d) of title 
10, United States Code. 
LIMITATION ON TREATMENT AS FIDUCIARY 
RELATIONSHIP 
SEC. 210. (a) Section 13144 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON TREATMENT AS FIDUCIARY 
RELATIONSHIP.—For purposes of this section, the rela-
tionship between a Member who is providing care directly 
to a patient in the form of medical services or dental serv-
ices and the patient to whom such care is provided shall 
not be considered a fiduciary relationship.’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to compensation received in fiscal year 
2026 or any succeeding fiscal year. 
LIMITATION ON CERTAIN TRAINING 
SEC. 211. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for any office, program, or activity for 
the purposes of diversity, equity, and inclusion training 
or implementation that promotes or perpetuates divisive 
concepts related to race or sex, such as the concepts that 
one race or sex is inherently superior to another, or that 
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