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karate, or other martial art, or any bodybuilding or 
weightlifting equipment of any sort;
(4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates 
or heating elements; or
(5) the use or possession of any electric or elec-
tronic musical instrument. 
SEC. 612. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in 
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such department or agency: Provided, 
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
SEC. 613. Hereafter, none of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available to the Federal Bureau of Pris-
ons may be used to distribute or make available any com-
mercially published information or material to a prisoner 
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that such infor-
mation or material is sexually explicit or features nudity.
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SEC. 614. Of the funds appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than 
90 percent of the amount to be awarded to an entity under 
the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made 
available to such an entity when it is made known to the 
Federal official having authority to obligate or expend 
such funds that the entity that employs a public safety 
officer (as such term is defined in section 1204 of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who 
retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered 
as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury 
sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emer-
gency situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined 
by State law) with the same or better level of health insur-
ance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as 
they received while on duty. 
SEC. 615. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type.
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SEC. 616. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999, as amended. 
(b) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 616 of that Act shall continue to apply during fis-
cal year 2003. 
SEC. 617. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for: 
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection 
with the implementation of 18 U.S.C. 922(t); and (2) any 
system to implement 18 U.S.C. 922(t) that does not re-
quire and result in the destruction of any identifying infor-
mation submitted by or on behalf of any person who has 
been determined not to be prohibited from owning a fire-
arm. 
SEC. 618. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund estab-
lished under 42 U.S.C. 10601 in any fiscal year in excess 
of $625,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
the following fiscal year, with the exception of emergency 
appropriations made available by Public Law 107–38 and 
transferred to the Fund: Provided, That up to
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$50,000,000 of this amount may be for the Antiterrorism 
Emergency Reserve authorized by Public Law 107–56. 
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
nate 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. 620. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of State and the 
Department of Justice shall be available for the purpose 
of granting either immigrant or nonimmigrant visas, or 
both, consistent with the Secretary’s determination under 
section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 
to citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of countries 
that the Attorney General has determined deny or unrea-
sonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, 
nationals, or residents under that section: Provided, That 
the Attorney General shall notify the Secretary of State 
in every instance when a foreign country denies or unrea-
sonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, 
national, or resident of that country after the Attorney 
General asks whether the Government will accept the alien 
under section 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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SEC. 621. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used for the 
purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner 
pursuant to conviction for crime under State or Federal 
law and is classified as a maximum or high security pris-
oner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by 
the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for 
housing such a prisoner. 
SEC. 622. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television serv-
ices, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette re-
corders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used 
primarily for recreational purposes. The preceding sen-
tence does not preclude the renting, maintenance, or pur-
chase of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate 
training, religious, or educational programs. 
SEC. 623. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 624. Upon the collection of fees authorized in 
section 109(d) of Public Law 107–204, the Securities and 
Exchange Commission shall be reimbursed for any Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission appropriations advanced
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to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for 
start-up expenses, as authorized by section 109(j) of Pub-
lic Law 107–204, resulting in no net impact on appropria-
tions available to the Securities and Exchange Commission 
in fiscal year 2003. 
SEC. 625. Of the funds appropriated in this Act for 
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Ju-
diciary, and the Small Business Administration, $100,000 
shall be available to each Department or agency only to 
implement telecommuting programs: Provided, That, six 
months after the date of enactment of this Act and every 
six months thereafter, each Department or agency shall 
provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations on 
the status of telecommuting programs, including the num-
ber of Federal employees eligible for, and participating in, 
such programs: Provided further, That each Department 
or agency shall designate a ‘‘Telework Coordinator’’ to be 
responsible for overseeing the implementation of telecom-
muting programs and serve as a point of contact on such 
programs for the Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 626. The paragraph under the heading ‘‘Small 
Business Administration—Business Loans Program Ac-
count’’ in chapter 2 of division B of Public Law 107–117 
(115 Stat. 2297) is amended by inserting ‘‘or section 7(a)
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of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a))’’ after ‘‘this 
Act’’.
TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC 
ADMINISTRATION 
COASTAL IMPACT ASSISTANCE 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $7,000,000 are rescinded. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
EMERGENCY OIL AND GAS GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading from prior year appropriations, $920,000 are re-
scinded. 
EMERGENCY STEEL GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading from prior year appropriations, $49,000,000 are 
rescinded.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003’’.