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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Science and Tech-
nology Directorate for research and development, 
$426,904,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2028. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, 
equip, and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement 
only, for areas where the Administrator of General Serv-
ices does not provide vehicles for lease. 
(b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services may authorize employees who are assigned to 
those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the em-
ployees’ residences and places of employment. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to process or approve a competition under 
Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for serv-
ices provided by employees (including employees serving 
on a temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Im-
migration Services of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity who are known as Immigration Information Officers, 
Immigration Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, 
Investigative Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 
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SEC. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, any Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services may be used for the collection 
and use of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Im-
migration Services Application Support Center that is 
overseen virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services personnel using appropriate technology. 
SEC. 404. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds 
to Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred 
participating in training accreditation. 
SEC. 405. The Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Accreditation Board, including representatives from the 
Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal ac-
creditation experts involved in law enforcement training, 
shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accredita-
tion process to continue the implementation of measuring 
and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law 
enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 
SEC. 406. (a) The Director of the Federal Law En-
forcement Training Centers may accept transfers to its 
‘‘Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account 
from Government agencies requesting the construction of 
special use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act 
(31 U.S.C. 1535(b)). 
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(b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 
shall maintain administrative control and ownership upon 
completion of such facilities. 
SEC. 407. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 
as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal 
Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 
note). 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 
of this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropria-
tions provided for activities in this Act may be transferred 
to appropriation accounts for such activities established 
pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the 
applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be ac-
counted for as one fund for the same time period as origi-
nally enacted. 
SEC. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the compo-
nents in or transferred to the Department of Homeland 
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Security that remain available for obligation or expendi-
ture in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collec-
tion of fees available to the components funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that— 
(1) creates or eliminates a program, project, or 
activity, or increases funds for any program, project, 
or activity for which funds have been denied or re-
stricted by the Congress; 
(2) contracts out any function or activity pres-
ently performed by Federal employees or any new 
function or activity proposed to be performed by 
Federal employees in the President’s budget pro-
posal for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of 
Homeland Security; 
(3) augments funding for existing programs, 
projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 
percent, whichever is less; 
(4) reduces funding for any program, project, 
or activity, or numbers of personnel, by 10 percent 
or more; or 
(5) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel that would result in a change 
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in funding levels for programs, projects, or activities 
as approved by the Congress. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate are notified at least 30 days in advance of such 
reprogramming. 
(c) Up to 5 percent of any appropriation made avail-
able for the current fiscal year for the Department of 
Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous 
appropriations Acts may be transferred between such ap-
propriations if the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at 
least 30 days in advance of such transfer, but no such 
appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 
shall be increased by more than 10 percent by such trans-
fer. 
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), no 
funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred be-
tween appropriations— 
(1) based upon an initial notification provided 
after June 15, except in extraordinary circumstances 
that imminently threaten the safety of human life or 
the protection of property; 
(2) to increase or decrease funding for grant 
programs; or 
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(3) to create a program, project, or activity 
pursuant to subsection (a)(1), including any new 
function or requirement within any program, project, 
or activity, not approved by Congress in the consid-
eration of the enactment of this Act. 
(e) The notification thresholds and procedures set 
forth in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to 
any use of deobligated balances of funds provided in pre-
vious Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Acts that remain available for obligation in the current 
year. 
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established 
by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appro-
priations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate at least 5 days in advance of such transfer. 
SEC. 504. (a) Section 504 of the Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F 
of Public Law 115–31), related to the operations of a 
working capital fund, shall apply with respect to funds 
made available in this Act in the same manner as such 
section applied to funds made available in that Act. 
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(b) Funds from such working capital fund may be 
obligated and expended in anticipation of reimbursements 
from components of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
SEC. 505. (a) Except as otherwise specifically pro-
vided by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated bal-
ances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2026, 
as recorded in the financial records at the time of a re-
programming notification, but not later than June 15, 
2027, from appropriations for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ 
for fiscal year 2026 in this Act shall remain available 
through September 30, 2027, in the account and for the 
purposes for which the appropriations were provided. 
(b) Prior to the obligation of such funds, a notifica-
tion shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 
accordance with section 503 of this Act. 
SEC. 506. (a) Funds made available by this Act for 
intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically author-
ized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fis-
cal year 2026 until the enactment of an Act authorizing 
intelligence activities for fiscal year 2026. 
(b) Amounts described in subsection (a) made avail-
able for ‘‘Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Aware-
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ness—Operations and Support’’ that exceed the amounts 
in such authorization for such account shall be transferred 
to and merged with amounts made available under the 
heading ‘‘Management Directorate—Operations and Sup-
port’’. 
(c) Prior to the obligation of any funds transferred 
under subsection (b), the Undersecretary for Management 
shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate on a plan for the use 
of such funds. 
SEC. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, 
or the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate at least three full business days in advance 
of— 
(1) making or awarding a grant allocation or 
grant in excess of $1,000,000 or a grant made from 
the Disaster Relief Fund in excess of $100,000; 
(2) making or awarding a contract, other trans-
action agreement, or task or delivery order on a 
multiple award contract, or to issue a letter of intent 
totaling in excess of $2,000,000; 
(3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 
an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 
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$5,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-
land Security funds; 
(4) making a sole-source grant award; or 
(5) announcing publicly the intention to make 
or award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) 
including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulation. 
(b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 
risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be 
made without notification, and the Secretary shall notify 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate not later than three full busi-
ness days after such an award is made or letter issued. 
(c) A notification under this section— 
(1) may not involve funds that are not available 
for obligation; and 
(2) shall include the amount of the award; the 
fiscal year for which the funds for the award were 
appropriated; the type of contract; and the account 
from which the funds are being drawn. 
SEC. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any ad-
ditional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing 
locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal 
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law enforcement training without advance notification to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives 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 that cannot be accommo-
dated in existing Centers’ facilities. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for expenses 
for any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition 
project for which a prospectus otherwise required under 
chapter 33 of title 40, United States Code, has not been 
approved, except that necessary funds may be expended 
for each project for required expenses for the development 
of a proposed prospectus. 
SEC. 510. Sections 522 and 530 of the Department 
of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 
E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall 
apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in 
the same manner as such sections applied to funds made 
available in that Act. 
SEC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used in contravention of the applicable 
provisions of the Buy American Act. 
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(b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘‘Buy 
American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 
by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1448). 
SEC. 513. (a) None of the funds provided or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to carry out section 872 of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 452) unless explicitly authorized by the 
Congress after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of the 
authorities provided by such section 872— 
(1) to allocate or reallocate the functions of the 
Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office to other offices and organi-
zational units within the Department consistent with 
the ‘‘Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction’’ 
table in the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act); or 
(2) to allocate or reallocate any other functions 
of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Of-
fice to other offices and organizational units within 
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the Department consistent with the ‘‘Countering 
Weapons of Mass Destruction’’ table in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 
may transfer funds made available in prior appropriations 
Acts to the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Of-
fice between any appropriations available to the Depart-
ment as necessary to carry out the purposes described in 
subsection (b). 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-
oping a national identification card. 
SEC. 515. Any official that is required by this Act 
to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate may 
not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-
cifically authorized herein. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 
of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to employ workers described in section 
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274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 518. 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 perform-
ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-
tract. 
SEC. 519. (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, territorial, 
or local law enforcement agency or any other entity car-
rying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudica-
tion activities. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 
law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
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SEC. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance 
of more than 50 employees of a single component of the 
Department of Homeland Security, who are stationed in 
the United States, at a single international conference un-
less the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, 
determines that such attendance is in the national interest 
and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within at least 
10 days of that determination and the basis for that deter-
mination. 
(b) For purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring 
outside of the United States attended by representatives 
of the United States Government and of foreign govern-
ments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 
organizations. 
(c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland 
Security of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000. 
(d) Employees who attend a conference virtually 
without travel away from their permanent duty station 
within the United States shall not be counted for purposes 
of this section, and the prohibition contained in this sec-
tion shall not apply to payments for the costs of attend-
ance for such employees. 
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SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department 
or agency for its participation in a National Special Secu-
rity Event. 
SEC. 523. (a) None of the funds made available to 
the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other 
Act may be obligated for the implementation of any struc-
tural pay reform or the introduction of any new position 
classification that will affect more than 100 full-time posi-
tions or costs more than $5,000,000 in a single year be-
fore the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date 
on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits to 
Congress a notification that includes— 
(1) the number of full-time positions affected by 
such change; 
(2) funding required for such change for the 
current fiscal year and through the Future Years 
Homeland Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of 
compensation alternatives to such change that were 
considered by the Department. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if— 
(1) it was proposed in the President’s budget 
proposal for the fiscal year funded by this Act; and 
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(2) funds for such change have not been explic-
itly denied or restricted in this Act. 
SEC. 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 
this Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency 
that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises homeland or national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate for not less than 45 days ex-
cept as otherwise specified in law. 
(d) If the requirements of this section are not met, 
the reprogramming and transfer authority provided in sec-
tion 503 of this Act shall be suspended until the require-
ments of subsection (a) are met. 
SEC. 525. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ‘‘Op-
erations and Support’’ may be used for minor procure-
ment, construction, and improvements. 
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(b) For purposes of subsection (a), ‘‘minor’’ refers 
to end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for per-
sonal property, and $4,000,000 or less for real property. 
SEC. 526. The authority provided by section 532 of 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) regarding primary and 
secondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect 
during fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 527. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-
partment of Homeland Security (including during trans-
port, in a detention facility, or at an outside medical facil-
ity) who is pregnant or in post-delivery recuperation. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
pregnant woman if— 
(1) an appropriate official of the Department of 
Homeland Security makes an individualized deter-
mination that the woman— 
(A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk 
cannot be prevented by other means; or 
(B) poses an immediate and serious threat 
to harm herself or others that cannot be pre-
vented by other means; or 
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(2) a medical professional responsible for the 
care of the pregnant woman determines that the use 
of therapeutic restraints is appropriate for the med-
ical safety of the woman. 
(c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to 
subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive re-
straints, as determined by the appropriate medical profes-
sional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may 
restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or 
delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be re-
strained in a face-down position with four-point restraints, 
on her back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area 
of the pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized 
by restraints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent 
feasible, on her left side. 
SEC. 528. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, 
or other record pertaining to any— 
(1) death of; 
(2) potential sexual assault or abuse per-
petrated against; or 
(3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-
ruption committed by an individual held in the cus-
tody of the Department of Homeland Security. 
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(b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-
gation, to an individual who has been charged with a 
crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished 
as a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), 
upon the request of such individual. 
SEC. 529. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 
114–113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-
tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 
with respect to any Federal funds in the same manner 
as such section applied to funds made available in that 
Act. 
SEC. 530. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 
on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 
31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Manage-
ment of Homeland Security shall submit to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a report on the unfunded priorities, for 
the Department of Homeland Security and separately for 
each departmental component, for which discretionary 
funding would be classified as budget function 050. 
(b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 
each such unfunded priority— 
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(1) a summary description, including the objec-
tives to be achieved if such priority is funded 
(whether in whole or in part); 
(2) the description, including the objectives to 
be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in 
whole or in part); 
(3) account information, including the following 
(as applicable): 
(A) appropriation account; and 
(B) program, project, or activity name; 
and 
(4) the additional number of full-time or part- 
time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘unfunded priority’’, in 
the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— 
(1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 
subsection (a); 
(2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-
ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 
Department; and 
(3) would have been recommended for funding 
through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if— 
(A) additional resources had been available 
for the budget to fund the requirement; 
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(B) the requirement has emerged since the 
budget was formulated; or 
(C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 
prior-year investments. 
SEC. 531. (a) Not later than 10 days after a deter-
mination is made by the President to evaluate and initiate 
protection under any authority for a former or retired 
Government official or employee, or for an individual who, 
during the duration of the directed protection, will become 
a former or retired Government official or employee (re-
ferred to in this section as a ‘‘covered individual’’), the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notifica-
tion to congressional leadership and the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Home-
land Security of the House of Representatives, the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate, and the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form of the House of Representatives (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’). 
(b) Such notification may be submitted in classified 
form, if necessary, and in consultation with the Director 
of National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the 
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(1) Section 1902(a)(77) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(77)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘enrollment,’’ after ‘‘screening,’’. 
(2) 
The 
subsection 
heading 
for 
section 
1902(kk) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(kk)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘enrollment,’’ after ‘‘screen-
ing,’’. 
(3) Section 2107(e)(1)(G) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 1397gg(e)(1)(G)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘enrollment,’’ after ‘‘screening,’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 3 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 6102. REMOVING CERTAIN AGE RESTRICTIONS ON 
MEDICAID 
ELIGIBILITY 
FOR 
WORKING 
ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES. 
(a) MODIFICATION OF OPTIONAL BUY-IN GROUPS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii) 
of 
the 
Social 
Security 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)) is amended— 
(A) in subclause (XV)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘, but less than 65,’’; 
and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, including at least 
the 
group 
described 
in 
section 
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