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other manner to another person who has a financial inter-
est 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 require-
ments in such subsections, consistently apply under the 
executive branch ethics program to all Federal depart-
ments, agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration, or the National 
Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 
impact information system, as defined for security cat-
egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-
tems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to 
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inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 
moderate-impact information systems within the 
Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
threat information provided by the FBI and other 
appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-
propriate Federal 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 pos-
ing 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 re-
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 
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(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 Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
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 em-
ployee 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 multi-
lateral trade agreement the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United 
States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United 
States–Australia 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 
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letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-
rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations 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 esti-
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mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 
statement validating that the project’s management struc-
ture 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 intel-
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-
tion 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 other-
wise 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 pro-
spective 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 certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 
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offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment 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 permanently 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 ap-
propriations available to the Department of Justice, the 
following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not 
later than September 30, 2026, from the following ac-
counts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office on Violence Against Women—Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $36,000,000; 
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(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office of Justice Programs’’, $250,000,000; 
and 
(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$25,000,000. 
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-
partment of Justice, the following funds are hereby per-
manently 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 Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 
September 1, 2026, specifying the amount of each rescis-
sion made pursuant to subsections (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 require-
ment pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
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(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 Activities—Office of Justice 
Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement As-
sistance’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 
117–103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts pro-
vided under subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Office of Justice Programs—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 Enforce-
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Serv-
ices—Community Oriented Policing Services Pro-
grams’’ 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 Enforcement Activities—Community Ori-
ented Policing Services—Community Oriented Polic-
ing Services Programs’’ in title II of division C of 
Public Law 118–42. 
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SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention 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 attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 
at any single conference occurring outside the United 
States unless— 
(1) such conference is a law enforcement train-
ing or operational conference for law enforcement 
personnel and the majority of Federal employees in 
attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 
outside the United States; or 
(2) such conference is a scientific conference 
and the department or agency head determines that 
such attendance is in the national interest and noti-
fies the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate within at least 15 
days of that determination and the basis for that de-
termination. 
SEC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
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priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-
ance plan and performance and accountability reports the 
following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 525. To the extent practicable, funds made 
available in this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs 
that are ‘‘Energy Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal En-
ergy Management Program’’ designation. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and 
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Space Administration (NASA) or the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop, design, plan, 
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, pro-
gram, order, or contract of any kind to participate, col-
laborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP, 
after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, have certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
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House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 
the activity in question and shall include a description of 
the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-
pants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 
criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other 
law enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective de-
partment or agency head, to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
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not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act: Provided, That the spending plans submitted pursu-
ant to this section shall contain at least the same level 
of detail as the spending plans submitted pursuant to this 
section in fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 
judged to be below satisfactory performance or for per-
formance that does not meet the basic requirements of a 
contract. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legit-
imacy of Industrial Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of 
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available under 
this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with 
respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, 
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken-
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, 
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 
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North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with 
respect to the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them 
from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical mari-
juana. 
SEC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 
by any employee of such Department or agency, including 
the purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 
respectively, for Public Works grants authorized by the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and 
grants authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722) shall 
be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘per-
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sistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 
20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over 
the past 30 years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area 
Income and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial cen-
sus, and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty 
Estimates, or any Territory or possession of the United 
States. 
SEC. 534. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act or any other Act may 
be expended or obligated by a department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States to pay administrative 
expenses or to compensate an officer or employee of the 
United States in connection with requiring an export li-
cense for the export to Canada of components, parts, ac-
cessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category 
I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 
(International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 
part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value 
not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided 
that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are 
met by the exporting party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an ex-
port license— 
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(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter 
required by law, or from being otherwise eligible 
under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, 
transport, or export the articles enumerated in sub-
section (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license 
of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-
nents and parts for such firearms, other than 
for end use by the Federal Government, or a 
Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm 
listed in Category I, other than for end use by 
the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Mu-
nicipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-
other foreign destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Di-
rectors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the per-
manent or temporary export without a license of any un-
classified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for 
end use in Canada or return to the United States, or tem-
porary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for 
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end use in the United States or return to Canada for a 
Canadian citizen. 
(d) The President may require export licenses under 
this section on a temporary basis if the President deter-
mines, upon publication first in the Federal Register, that 
the Government of Canada has implemented or main-
tained inadequate import controls for the articles specified 
in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion of such 
articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in an-
other nation. The President shall terminate the require-
ments of a license when reasons for the temporary require-
ments have ceased. 
SEC. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this Act 
or any other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such 
funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation 
of any officer or employee of the United States to deny 
any application submitted pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 
2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section 
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States ori-
gin ‘‘curios or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
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sonnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the 
importation of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
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SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-
tive control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 
and 
(2) is— 
(A) in the custody or under the effective 
control of the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 540. Funds made available to the Department 
of Commerce and the Department of Justice in this Act 
and any remaining unobligated balances of funds made 
available to the Department of Commerce and the Depart-
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ment of Justice in prior year Acts, other than amounts 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 or from amounts made available 
under the heading ‘‘Department of Justice—Legal Activi-
ties—Fees and Expenses of Witnesses’’, shall be available 
to provide payments pursuant to section 901(i)(2) of title 
IX of division J of the Further Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2020 (22 U.S.C. 2680b(i)(2)): Provided, That 
payments made pursuant to the matter preceding this pro-
viso may not exceed $5,000,000 for the Department of 
Commerce and $10,000,000 for the Department of Jus-
tice. 
SEC. 541. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall allocate amounts 
made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to 
Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund for 
fiscal year 2026 pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
section 102(a) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of 
Public Law 117–167) not otherwise allocated pursuant to 
section 546(a)(1)(B) of division C of Public Law 118–42, 
including the transfer authority in such paragraphs of 
that section of that Act, to the accounts specified, in the 
amounts specified, and for the projects and activities spec-
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ified, in the table titled ‘‘Department of Commerce Alloca-
tion of National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of the National Science Foundation shall allocate 
amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incen-
tives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 
Workforce and Education Fund for fiscal year 2026 pur-
suant to section 102(d)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (di-
vision A of Public Law 117–167), to the account specified, 
in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activi-
ties specified in the table titled ‘‘National Science Founda-
tion Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo-
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under section 102(a)(2)(A) of the CHIPS Act of 
2022 or under section 102(d)(2) of such Act if there is 
in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for 
part of a fiscal year for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Provided, 
That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso 
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