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technical assistance: Provided further, That the two preceding pro-
visos shall not apply to grants and projects administered pursuant 
to sections 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act and to missing and exploited 
children programs. 
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For payments and expenses authorized under section 1001(a)(4) 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968, such sums as are necessary (including amounts for adminis-
trative costs), to remain available until expended; and $34,800,000 
for payments authorized by section 1201(b) of such Act and for 
educational assistance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney 
General that emergent circumstances require additional funding 
for such disability and education payments, the Attorney General 
may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Public Safety Officer Benefits’’ from 
available appropriations for the Department of Justice as may 
be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided further, 
That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated 
as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 
with the procedures set forth in that section. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322); the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the 
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Amer-
ican Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–37); 
the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017 
(Public Law 115–113) (‘‘the LEMHW Act’’); the SUPPORT for 
Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115–271); the Sup-
porting and Treating Officers In Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 
116–32) (‘‘the STOIC Act’’); and the Law Enforcement De-Escalation 
Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–325), $800,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That any balances made avail-
able through prior year deobligations shall only be available in 
accordance with section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That 
of the amount provided under this heading—
(1) $253,093,613 is for grants under section 1701 of title 
I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) for the hiring and rehiring 
of additional career law enforcement officers under part Q 
of such title notwithstanding subsection (i) of such section: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such title 
(34 U.S.C. 10384(c)), funding for hiring or rehiring a career 
law enforcement officer may not exceed $125,000 unless the 
Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 
grants a waiver from this limitation: Provided further, That
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of the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, $32,000,000 
is for improving Tribal law enforcement, including hiring, equip-
ment, training, anti-methamphetamine activities, and anti-
opioid activities: Provided further, That of the amounts appro-
priated under this paragraph, $44,000,000 is for regional 
information sharing activities, as authorized by part M of title 
I of the 1968 Act, which shall be transferred to and merged 
with ‘‘Research, Evaluation, and Statistics’’ for administration 
by the Office of Justice Programs: Provided further, That of 
the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, no less than 
$4,000,000 is to support the Tribal Access Program: Provided 
further, That of the amounts appropriated under this para-
graph, $10,000,000 is for training, peer mentoring, mental 
health program activities, and other support services as author-
ized under the LEMHW Act and the STOIC Act: Provided 
further, That of the amounts appropriated under this para-
graph, $5,500,000 is for the collaborative reform model of tech-
nical assistance in furtherance of section 1701 of title I of 
the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(2) $11,500,000 is for activities authorized by the POLICE 
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199); 
(3) $13,500,000 is for competitive grants to State law 
enforcement agencies in States with high seizures of precursor 
chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and labora-
tory dump seizures: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this paragraph shall be utilized for investigative purposes to 
locate or investigate illicit activities, including precursor diver-
sion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers; 
(4) $34,500,000 is for competitive grants to statewide law 
enforcement agencies in States with high rates of primary 
treatment admissions for heroin and other opioids: Provided, 
That these funds shall be utilized for investigative purposes 
to locate or investigate illicit activities, including activities 
related to the distribution of heroin or unlawful distribution 
of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin and prescription 
opioid traffickers through statewide collaboration; 
(5) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be administered 
by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office for pur-
poses authorized under the STOP School Violence Act (title 
V of division S of Public Law 115–141); 
(6) $18,000,000 is for community policing development 
activities in furtherance of section 1701 of title I of the 1968 
Act (34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(7) $401,406,387 is for a law enforcement technologies and 
interoperable communications program, and related law 
enforcement and public safety equipment, which shall be made 
available for the COPS Tech projects, and in the amounts, 
specified in the table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/
Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included for this division 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, 
That such amounts may not be transferred for any other pur-
pose: Provided further, That grants funded by such amounts 
shall not be subject to section 1703 of title I of the 1968 
Act (34 U.S.C. 10383); and
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(8) $15,000,000 is for activities authorized by the Law 
Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 
117–325). 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made available 
in this title for official reception and representation expenses, a 
total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Justice in this title shall be available to the Attorney 
General for official reception and representation expenses. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the 
mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, 
or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That should this prohibi-
tion be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion, this section shall be null and void. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall 
be used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any 
way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall remove the 
obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort 
services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service out-
side the Federal facility: Provided, That nothing in this section 
in any way diminishes the effect of section 203 intended to address 
the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau 
of Prisons. 
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice 
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 
no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 
shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 
Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated 
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and 
shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with 
the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That 
this section shall not apply to the following—
(1) paragraph 1(O) under the heading ‘‘State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance’’; and 
(2) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘Community Oriented 
Policing Services Programs’’. 
SEC. 206. None of the funds made available under this title 
may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the United 
States Marshals Service for the purpose of transporting an indi-
vidual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under 
State or Federal law and is classified as a maximum or high 
security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified 
by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for 
housing such a prisoner. 
SEC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services, 
or to rent or purchase audiovisual or electronic media or equipment 
used primarily for recreational purposes.
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(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, maintenance, 
or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or equipment for 
inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 
SEC. 208. None of the funds made available under this title 
shall be obligated or expended for any new or enhanced information 
technology program having total estimated development costs in 
excess of $100,000,000, unless the Deputy Attorney General and 
the investment review board certify to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate that 
the information technology program has appropriate program 
management controls and contractor oversight mechanisms in place, 
and that the program is compatible with the enterprise architecture 
of the Department of Justice. 
SEC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures set forth 
in section 505 of this Act shall apply to deviations from the amounts 
designated for specific activities in this Act and in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act), and to any use of deobligated balances 
of funds provided under this title in previous years. 
SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, or approve 
a public-private competition under the Office of Management and 
Budget Circular A–76 or any successor administrative regulation, 
directive, or policy for work performed by employees of the Bureau 
of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated. 
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
shall be available for the salary, benefits, or expenses of any United 
States Attorney assigned dual or additional responsibilities by the 
Attorney General or his designee that exempt that United States 
Attorney from the residency requirements of section 545 of title 
28, United States Code. 
SEC. 212. At the discretion of the Attorney General, and in 
addition to any amounts that otherwise may be available (or author-
ized to be made available) by law, with respect to funds appropriated 
by this title under the headings ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statis-
tics’’, ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, and ‘‘Juvenile 
Justice Programs’’—
(1) up to 2 percent of funds made available to the Office 
of Justice Programs for grant or reimbursement programs may 
be used by such Office to provide training and technical assist-
ance; and 
(2) up to 2 percent of funds made available for grant 
or reimbursement programs under such headings, except for 
amounts appropriated specifically for research, evaluation, or 
statistical programs administered by the National Institute 
of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with funds provided to the National 
Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to 
be used by them for research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, 
without regard to the authorizations for such grant or 
reimbursement programs. 
This section shall not apply to paragraph 1(O) under the 
heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’. 
SEC. 213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the Attorney 
General has determined there is a fiscal hardship, the Attorney 
General may, with respect to funds appropriated in this or any