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all funds estimated to be transferred or reimbursed pursuant to 
this section (including total number of personnel and costs for 
all staff whose salaries are provided for by this section); (iii) where 
applicable, a description of the funds intended for use by or for 
the benefit of each executive council; and (iv) where applicable, 
a description of the funds intended for use by or for the implementa-
tion of specific laws passed by Congress: Provided further, That 
no transfers or reimbursements may be made pursuant to this 
section until 15 days following notification of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman 
may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building 
or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise 
authorized to be present at the location. 
SEC. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or section 708 of 
this Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this 
or any other Act shall be available for the interagency funding 
of specific projects, workshops, studies, and similar efforts to carry 
out the purposes of the National Science and Technology Council 
(authorized by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That the Office 
of Management and Budget shall provide a report describing the 
budget of and resources connected with the National Science and 
Technology Council to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, the House Committee 
on Science, Space, and Technology, and the Senate Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 days after enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, grant applica-
tion, form, notification, press release, or other publications involving 
the distribution of Federal funds shall comply with any relevant 
requirements in part 200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations: 
Provided, That this section shall apply to direct payments, formula 
funds, and grants received by a State receiving Federal funds. 
SEC. 725. (a) PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL AGENCY MONITORING 
OF INDIVIDUALS’ INTERNET USE.—None of the funds made available 
in this or any other Act may be used by any Federal agency— 
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation of data, 
derived from any means, that includes any personally identifi-
able information relating to an individual’s access to or use 
of any Federal Government Internet site of the agency; or 
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third party 
(including another government agency) to collect, review, or 
obtain any aggregation of data, derived from any means, that 
includes any personally identifiable information relating to an 
individual’s access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 
site. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The limitations established in subsection (a) 
shall not apply to— 
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not identify 
particular persons; 
(2) any voluntary submission of personally identifiable 
information; 
(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regulatory, or 
supervisory purposes, in accordance with applicable law; or
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(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) that is a system 
security action taken by the operator of an Internet site and 
is necessarily incident to providing the Internet site services 
or to protecting the rights or property of the provider of the 
Internet site. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘regulatory’’ means agency actions to imple-
ment, interpret or enforce authorities provided in law. 
(2) The term ‘‘supervisory’’ means examinations of the 
agency’s supervised institutions, including assessing safety and 
soundness, overall financial condition, management practices 
and policies and compliance with applicable standards as pro-
vided in law. 
SEC. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used to enter into or renew a contract which includes a provision 
providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract 
also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract with— 
(1) any of the following religious plans: 
(A) Personal Care’s HMO; and 
(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and 
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier for the plan 
objects to such coverage on the basis of religious beliefs. 
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters into 
or renews a contract under this section may not subject any indi-
vidual to discrimination on the basis that the individual refuses 
to prescribe or otherwise provide for contraceptives because such 
activities would be contrary to the individual’s religious beliefs 
or moral convictions. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require cov-
erage of abortion or abortion-related services. 
SEC. 727. The United States is committed to ensuring the 
health of its Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic athletes, 
and supports the strict adherence to anti-doping in sport through 
testing, adjudication, education, and research as performed by 
nationally recognized oversight authorities. 
SEC. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated for official travel to Federal departments and agencies 
may be used by such departments and agencies, if consistent with 
Office of Management and Budget Circular A–126 regarding official 
travel for Government personnel, to participate in the fractional 
aircraft ownership pilot program. 
SEC. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds appropriated or made available under this or any 
other appropriations Act may be used to implement or enforce 
restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellow-
ship Program, or to implement the proposed regulations of the 
Office of Personnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 
published in the Federal Register, volume 68, number 174, on 
September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail of executive branch 
employees to the legislative branch). 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no execu-
tive branch agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any additional 
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to be 
used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement training 
without the advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations
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of the House of Representatives and the Senate, except that the 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers is authorized to obtain 
the temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, or 
other agreement for training which cannot be accommodated in 
existing Centers facilities. 
SEC. 731. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none 
of the funds provided in this or any other Act may be used by 
an executive branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story 
intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless 
the story includes a clear notification within the text or audio 
of the prepackaged news story that the prepackaged news story 
was prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used in contravention of section 552a of title 5, United States 
Code (popularly known as the Privacy Act), and regulations imple-
menting that section. 
SEC. 733. (a) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be 
used for any Federal Government contract with any foreign incor-
porated entity which is treated as an inverted domestic corporation 
under section 835(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 395(b)) or any subsidiary of such an entity. 
(b) WAIVERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any Secretary shall waive subsection (a) 
with respect to any Federal Government contract under the 
authority of such Secretary if the Secretary determines that 
the waiver is required in the interest of national security. 
(2) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Any Secretary issuing a waiver 
under paragraph (1) shall report such issuance to Congress. 
(c) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not apply to any Federal 
Government contract entered into before the date of the enactment 
of this Act, or to any task order issued pursuant to such contract. 
SEC. 734. During fiscal year 2026, for each employee who— 
(1) retires under section 8336(d)(2) or 8414(b)(1)(B) of title 
5, United States Code; or 
(2) retires under any other provision of subchapter III 
of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such title 5 and receives a 
payment as an incentive to separate, the separating agency 
shall remit to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund 
an amount equal to the Office of Personnel Management’s 
average unit cost of processing a retirement claim for the 
preceding fiscal year. Such amounts shall be available until 
expended to the Office of Personnel Management and shall 
be deemed to be an administrative expense under section 
8348(a)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 735. (a) None of the funds made available in this or 
any other Act may be used to recommend or require any entity 
submitting an offer for a Federal contract to disclose any of the 
following information as a condition of submitting the offer: 
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, expenditure, 
independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering 
communication that is made by the entity, its officers or direc-
tors, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate 
for election for Federal office or to a political committee, or 
that is otherwise made with respect to any election for Federal 
office.
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(2) Any disbursement of funds (other than a payment 
described in paragraph (1)) made by the entity, its officers 
or directors, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries to any person 
with the intent or the reasonable expectation that the person 
will use the funds to make a payment described in paragraph 
(1). 
(b) In this section, each of the terms ‘‘contribution’’, ‘‘expendi-
ture’’, ‘‘independent expenditure’’, ‘‘electioneering communication’’, 
‘‘candidate’’, ‘‘election’’, and ‘‘Federal office’’ has the meaning given 
such term in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
30101 et seq.). 
SEC. 736. None of the funds made available in this or any 
other Act may be used to pay for the painting of a portrait of 
an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the 
President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress (including 
a Delegate or a Resident Commissioner to Congress), the head 
of an executive branch agency (as defined in section 133 of title 
41, United States Code), or the head of an office of the legislative 
branch. 
SEC. 737. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
and except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any 
of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2026, by this or any 
other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing rate employee 
described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code— 
(A) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
limitation imposed by the comparable section for the previous 
fiscal years until the normal effective date of the applicable 
wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year 
2026, in an amount that exceeds the rate payable for the 
applicable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in 
accordance with such section; and 
(B) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
year 2026, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
survey adjustment, the rate payable under subparagraph (A) 
by more than the sum of— 
(i) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal 
year 2026 under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule; 
and 
(ii) the difference between the overall average percent-
age of the locality-based comparability payments taking 
effect in fiscal year 2026 under section 5304 of such title 
(whether by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age 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) applicable to such employee. 
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the rates payable to 
an employee who is covered by this subsection and who is paid 
from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 2025, shall 
be determined under regulations prescribed by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management.