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parability payments taking effect in fiscal year 
2020 under section 5304 of such title (whether 
by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall av-
erage percentage of such payments which was 
effective in the previous fiscal year under such 
section. 
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, 
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, 
may be paid during the periods for which paragraph (1) 
is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would 
be payable under paragraph (1) were paragraph (1) appli-
cable to such employee. 
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the rates pay-
able to an employee who is covered by this subsection and 
who is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 
30, 2019, shall be determined under regulations pre-
scribed by the Office of Personnel Management. 
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 
of premium pay for employees subject to this subsection 
may not be changed from the rates in effect on September 
30, 2019, except to the extent determined by the Office 
of Personnel Management to be consistent with the pur-
pose of this subsection. 
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(5) This subsection shall apply with respect to pay 
for service performed after September 30, 2019. 
(6) For the purpose of administering any provision 
of law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribu-
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the 
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary 
or basic pay payable after the application of this sub-
section shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to 
permit or require the payment to any employee covered 
by this subsection at a rate in excess of the rate that would 
be payable were this subsection not in effect. 
(8) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this sub-
section if the Office determines that such exceptions are 
necessary to ensure the recruitment or retention of quali-
fied employees. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment 
in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that 
take place in fiscal year 2020 under sections 5344 and 
5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be— 
(1) not less than the percentage received by em-
ployees in the same location whose rates of basic pay 
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are adjusted pursuant to the statutory pay systems 
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United 
States Code: Provided, That prevailing rate employ-
ees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 
of title 5, United States Code, and prevailing rate 
employees described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, 
United States Code, shall be considered to be located 
in the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of United 
States’’ pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United 
States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and 
(2) effective as of the first day of the first ap-
plicable pay period beginning after September 30, 
2019. 
SEC. 737. (a) The head of any Executive branch de-
partment, agency, board, commission, or office funded by 
this or any other appropriations Act shall submit annual 
reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official 
for any entity without an Inspector General, regarding the 
costs and contracting procedures related to each con-
ference held by any such department, agency, board, com-
mission, or office during fiscal year 2020 for which the 
cost to the United States Government was more than 
$100,000. 
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(b) Each report submitted shall include, for each con-
ference described in subsection (a) held during the applica-
ble period— 
(1) a description of its purpose; 
(2) the number of participants attending; 
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the 
United States Government, including— 
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 
(C) the cost of employee or contractor 
travel to and from the conference; and 
(D) a discussion of the methodology used 
to determine which costs relate to the con-
ference; and 
(4) a description of the contracting procedures 
used including— 
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a 
competitive basis; and 
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison 
conducted by the departmental component or 
office in evaluating potential contractors for the 
conference. 
(c) Within 15 days after the end of a quarter, the 
head of any such department, agency, board, commission, 
or office shall notify the Inspector General or senior ethics 
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official for any entity without an Inspector General, of the 
date, location, and number of employees attending a con-
ference held by any Executive branch department, agency, 
board, commission, or office funded by this or any other 
appropriations Act during fiscal year 2020 for which the 
cost to the United States Government was more than 
$20,000. 
(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appro-
priated by this or any other appropriations Act may not 
be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a con-
ference described in subsection (c) that is not directly and 
programmatically related to the purpose for which the 
grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held 
in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, 
or other routine purposes related to a project funded by 
the grant or contract. 
(e) None of the funds made available in this or any 
other appropriations Act may be used for travel and con-
ference activities that are not in compliance with Office 
of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 
dated May 11, 2012 or any subsequent revisions to that 
memorandum. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other appropriations Act may be used to increase, 
eliminate, or reduce funding for a program, project, or ac-
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tivity as proposed in the President’s budget request for 
a fiscal year until such proposed change is subsequently 
enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change 
is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provi-
sions of this or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 739. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
enforce, or apply the rule entitled ‘‘Competitive Area’’ 
published by the Office of Personnel Management in the 
Federal Register on April 15, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 20180 
et seq.). 
SEC. 740. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 
to begin or announce a study or public-private competition 
regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any 
function performed by Federal employees pursuant to Of-
fice of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any 
other administrative regulation, directive, or policy. 
SEC. 741. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this or any other Act may be 
available for a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement 
with an entity that requires employees or contractors of 
such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign 
internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohib-
iting or otherwise restricting such employees or contrac-
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tors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse 
to a designated investigative or law enforcement represent-
ative of a Federal department or agency authorized to re-
ceive such information. 
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not con-
travene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, 
Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal depart-
ment or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified 
information. 
SEC. 742. (a) No funds appropriated in this or any 
other Act may be used to implement or enforce the agree-
ments in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Govern-
ment or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agree-
ment if such policy, form, or agreement does not contain 
the following provisions: ‘‘These provisions are consistent 
with and do not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter 
the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by 
existing statute or Executive order relating to (1) classi-
fied information, (2) communications to Congress, (3) the 
reporting to an Inspector General of a violation of any 
law, rule, or regulation, or mismanagement, a gross waste 
of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and spe-
cific danger to public health or safety, or (4) any other 
whistleblower protection. The definitions, requirements, 
obligations, rights, sanctions, and liabilities created by 
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controlling Executive orders and statutory provisions are 
incorporated into this agreement and are controlling.’’: 
Provided, That notwithstanding the preceding provision of 
this section, a nondisclosure policy form or agreement that 
is to be executed by a person connected with the conduct 
of an intelligence or intelligence-related activity, other 
than an employee or officer of the United States Govern-
ment, may contain provisions appropriate to the particular 
activity for which such document is to be used. Such form 
or agreement shall, at a minimum, require that the person 
will not disclose any classified information received in the 
course of such activity unless specifically authorized to do 
so by the United States Government. Such nondisclosure 
forms shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclo-
sures to Congress, or to an authorized official of an execu-
tive agency or the Department of Justice, that are essen-
tial to reporting a substantial violation of law. 
(b) A nondisclosure agreement may continue to be 
implemented and enforced notwithstanding subsection (a) 
if it complies with the requirements for such agreement 
that were in effect when the agreement was entered into. 
(c) No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
may be used to implement or enforce any agreement en-
tered into during fiscal year 2014 which does not contain 
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substantially similar language to that required in sub-
section (a). 
SEC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 
to, any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad-
ministrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, 
and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant 
to an agreement with the authority responsible for col-
lecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is 
aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless a Federal agency 
has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation 
and has made a determination that this further action is 
not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 744. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 
to, any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal 
violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 
months, where the awarding agency is aware of the convic-
tion, unless a Federal agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
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mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 745. (a) During fiscal year 2020, on the date 
on which a request is made for a transfer of funds in ac-
cordance with section 1017 of Public Law 111–203, the 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 
of such request. 
(b) Any notification required by this section shall be 
made available on the Bureau’s public Web site. 
SEC. 746. If, for fiscal year 2020, new budget author-
ity provided in appropriations Acts exceeds the discre-
tionary spending limit for any category set forth in section 
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 due to estimating differences with the 
Congressional Budget Office, an adjustment to the discre-
tionary spending limit in such category for fiscal year 
2020 shall be made by the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget in the amount of the excess but the 
total of all such adjustments shall not exceed 0.2 percent 
of the sum of the adjusted discretionary spending limits 
for all categories for that fiscal year. 
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SEC. 747. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay 
for employees under the statutory pay systems that takes 
effect in fiscal year 2020 under section 5303 of title 5, 
United States Code, shall be an increase of 2.6 percent, 
and the overall average percentage of the adjustments tak-
ing effect in such fiscal year under sections 5304 and 
5304a of such title 5 shall be an increase of 0.5 percent 
(with comparability payments to be determined and allo-
cated among pay localities by the President). All adjust-
ments under this subsection shall be effective as of the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on 
or after January 1, 2020. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 737, the adjustment in 
rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that take 
place in fiscal year 2020 under sections 5344 and 5348 
of title 5, United States Code, shall be no less than the 
percentages in subsection (a) as employees in the same 
location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted pursuant 
to the statutory pay systems under section 5303, 5304, 
and 5304a of title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate 
employees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303, 5304, and 
5304a of such title 5 and prevailing rate employees de-
scribed in section 5343(a)(5) of such title 5 shall be con-
sidered to be located in the pay locality designated as 
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‘‘Rest of U.S.’’ pursuant to section 5304 of such title 5 
for purposes of this subsection. 
(c) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid 
from appropriations, which are made to each applicable 
department or agency for salaries and expenses for fiscal 
year 2020. 
SEC. 748. (a) Notwithstanding the official rate ad-
justed under section 104 of title 3, United States Code, 
the rate payable to the Vice President during calendar 
year 2020 shall be 3.1 percent above the rate payable to 
the Vice President on December 31, 2019, by operation 
of section 749 of division D of Public Law 116–6. 
(b) Notwithstanding the official rate adjusted under 
section 5318 of title 5, United States Code, or any other 
provision of law, the payable rate for an employee serving 
in an Executive Schedule position, or in a position for 
which the rate of pay is fixed by statute at an Executive 
Schedule rate, shall be increased by 3.1 percent (relative 
to the preexisting rate payable) at the time the official 
rate is adjusted in January 2020. Such an employee may 
receive no other pay increase during calendar year 2020, 
except as provided in subsection (i). 
(c) Notwithstanding section 401 of the Foreign Serv-
ice Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) or any other provi-
sion of law, a chief of mission or ambassador at large is 
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subject to subsection (b) in the same manner as other em-
ployees who are paid at an Executive Schedule rate. 
(d)(1) This subsection applies to— 
(A) a noncareer appointee in the Senior Execu-
tive Service paid a rate of basic pay at or above the 
official rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule; 
or 
(B) a limited term appointee or limited emer-
gency appointee in the Senior Executive Service 
serving under a political appointment and paid a 
rate of basic pay at or above the official rate for 
level IV of the Executive Schedule. 
(2) Notwithstanding sections 5382 and 5383 of title 
5, United States Code, an employee described in para-
graph (1) who is serving at the time official rates of the 
Executive Schedule are adjusted may receive a single in-
crease in the employee’s pay rate of no more than 3.1 per-
cent during calendar year 2020, subject to the normally 
applicable pay rules and pay limitations in effect on De-
cember 31, 2019, by operation of section 749 of division 
D of Public Law 116–6 after those pay limitations are 
increased by 3.1 percent (after applicable rounding). Such 
an employee may receive no other pay increase during cal-
endar year 2020, except as provided in subsection (i). 
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(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
employee paid a rate of basic pay (including any locality 
based payments under section 5304 of title 5, United 
States Code, or similar authority) at or above the official 
rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves 
under a political appointment, and who is serving at the 
time official rates of the Executive Schedule are adjusted, 
may receive a single increase in the employee’s pay rate 
of no more than 3.1 percent during calendar year 2020, 
subject to the normally applicable pay rules and pay limi-
tations in effect on December 31, 2019, by operation of 
section 749 of division D of Public Law 116–6 after those 
pay limitations are increased by 3.1 percent (after applica-
ble rounding). Such an employee may receive no other pay 
increase during calendar year 2020, except as provided in 
subsection (i). This subsection does not apply to employees 
in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service 
pay system, to employees appointed under section 3161 
of title 5, United States Code, or to employees in another 
pay system whose position would be classified at GS–15 
or below if chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, ap-
plied to them. 
(f) Nothing in subsections (b) through (e) shall pre-
vent employees who do not serve under a political appoint-
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ment from receiving pay increases as otherwise provided 
under applicable law. 
(g) This section does not apply to an individual who 
makes an election to retain Senior Executive Service basic 
pay under section 3392(c) of title 5, United States Code, 
for such time as that election is in effect. 
(h) This section does not apply to an individual who 
makes an election to retain Senior Foreign Service pay 
entitlements under section 302(b) of the Foreign Service 
Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465) for such time as that 
election is in effect. 
(i) Notwithstanding subsections (b) through (e), an 
employee in a covered position may receive a pay rate in-
crease upon an authorized movement to a different cov-
ered position only if that new position has higher-level du-
ties and a pre-established level or range of pay higher than 
the level or range for the position held immediately before 
the movement. Any such increase must be based on the 
rates of pay and applicable pay limitations in effect on 
December 31, 2019, by operation of section 749 of division 
D of Public Law 116–6 after those rates and pay limita-
tions are increased by 3.1 percent (after applicable round-
ing). 
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
an individual who is newly appointed to a covered position 
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during the period of time subject to this section, the initial 
pay rate shall be based on the rates of pay and applicable 
pay limitations in effect on December 31, 2019, by oper-
ation of section 749 of division D of Public Law 116-6 
after those rates and pay limitations are increased by 3.1 
percent (after applicable rounding). 
(k) If an employee affected by this section is subject 
to a biweekly pay period that begins in calendar year 2020 
but ends in calendar year 2021, the bar on the employee’s 
receipt of pay rate increases shall apply through the end 
of that pay period. 
(l) For the purpose of this section, the term ‘‘covered 
position’’ means a position occupied by an employee whose 
pay is restricted under this section. 
(m) This section takes effect on the first day of the 
first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 
1, 2020. 
SEC. 749. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this or any other Act may be used to administer, imple-
ment, or enforce any collective bargaining agreement, or 
any article or any term of any collective bargaining agree-
ment under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, with 
an effective date after April 30, 2019, that— 
(1) was not mutually and voluntarily agreed to 
by all parties to the agreement; or 
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(2) was not ordered following the completion of 
binding arbitration pursuant to section 7119(b)(2) 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(b) Any collective bargaining agreement that was in 
effect before April 30, 2019, or that expired before April 
30, 2019, without a new agreement having been executed, 
shall remain in full force and effect until a new collective 
bargaining agreement reached through mutual and vol-
untary agreement, or ordered following the completion of 
binding arbitration pursuant to such section 7119(b)(2), 
becomes effective. 
SEC. 750. (a) During fiscal year 2020, with respect 
to budget authority proposed to be rescinded or that is 
set to be reserved or proposed to be deferred in a special 
message transmitted under section 1012 or 1013 of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974, such budget authority shall be made available for 
obligation in sufficient time to be prudently obligated as 
required under section 1012(b) or 1013 of such Act, and 
may not be deferred or otherwise withheld from obligation 
during the 60-day period before the expiration of the pe-
riod of availability of such budget authority, including, if 
applicable, the 60-day period before the expiration of an 
initial period of availability for which such budget author-
ity was provided. 
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(b) As used in this section, the term ‘‘budget author-
ity’’, includes budget authority made available by this or 
any other Act, by prior appropriations Acts, or by any law 
other than an appropriations Act. 
(c)(1) The Comptroller General shall review and 
make a report on compliance with this section and provide 
any relevant information related to such report to the 
Committees on Appropriations and on the Budget of both 
Houses of Congress at the same time as any review re-
quired by sections 1014 or 1015 of the Congressional 
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is trans-
mitted to the Congress. 
(2) The President shall provide information and 
documentation to the Comptroller General, as is de-
termined by the Comptroller General to be necessary 
to determine such compliance. 
(d)(1) If any officer or employee of an Executive 
agency or of the District of Columbia government violates 
this section, the head of the agency or the Mayor of the 
District of Columbia, as the case may be, shall report such 
violation immediately as required under section 1351 of 
title 31, United States Code, as if violation of this section 
was a violation of section 1341(a) or 1342 of such title. 
(2) Any officer or employee of the United 
States Government or of the District of Columbia 
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