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with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits 
program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 614. The provision of section 613 shall not apply where 
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried 
to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 615. In order to promote Government access to commercial 
information technology, the restriction on purchasing nondomestic 
articles, materials, and supplies set forth in chapter 83 of title 
41, United States Code (popularly known as the Buy American 
Act), shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Government 
of information technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 40, 
United States Code), that is a commercial item (as defined in 
section 103 of title 41, United States Code). 
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, United 
States Code, no officer or employee of any regulatory agency or 
commission funded by this Act may accept on behalf of that agency, 
nor may such agency or commission accept, payment or reimburse-
ment from a non-Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or related 
expenses for the purpose of enabling an officer or employee to 
attend and participate in any meeting or similar function relating 
to the official duties of the officer or employee when the entity 
offering payment or reimbursement is a person or entity subject 
to regulation by such agency or commission, or represents a person 
or entity subject to regulation by such agency or commission, unless 
the person or entity is an organization described in section 501(c)(3) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under 
section 501(a) of such Code. 
SEC. 617. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board 
shall have authority to obligate funds for the scholarship program 
established by section 109(c)(2) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 
(Public Law 107–204) in an aggregate amount not exceeding the 
amount of funds collected by the Board as of December 31, 2011, 
including accrued interest, as a result of the assessment of monetary 
penalties. Funds available for obligation in fiscal year 2012 shall 
remain available until expended. 
SEC. 618. From the unobligated balances of prior year appro-
priations made available for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Over-
sight Board, $998,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 619. Section 1107 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding to the end thereof the following: ‘‘The President 
shall transmit promptly to Congress without change, proposed defi-
ciency and supplemental appropriations submitted to the President 
by the legislative branch and the judicial branch.’’. 
SEC. 620. Notwithstanding section 708 of this Act, funds made 
available to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the 
Securities and Exchange Commission by this or any other Act 
may be used for the interagency funding and sponsorship of a 
joint advisory committee to advise on emerging regulatory issues. 
SEC. 621. For purposes of Public Law 109–285, the period 
described in section 5134(f)(1)(B) of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be treated as a 2-year, 9-month period. 
SEC. 622. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (Public Law 
107–252) is amended by— 
(1) inserting in section 255(b) (42 U.S.C. 15405) ‘‘posted 
on the Commission’s website with a notice’’ after ‘‘cause to 
have the plan’’;
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(2) inserting in section 253(d) (42 U.S.C. 15403) ‘‘notice 
of’’ prior to ‘‘the State plan’’; 
(3) inserting in section 254(a)(11) (42 U.S.C. 15404) ‘‘notice 
of’’ prior to ‘‘the change’’; and 
(4) inserting in section 254(a)(11)(C) (42 U.S.C. 15404) 
‘‘notice of’’ prior to ‘‘the change’’. 
SEC. 623. From the unobligated balances available in the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission Reserve Fund established by sec-
tion 991 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act (Public Law 111–203), $25,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 624. The Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office 
of the President, the Judiciary, the Federal Communications 
Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the General Services 
Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration, 
the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Small Business 
Administration shall provide the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House and the Senate a quarterly accounting of the cumu-
lative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by 
such agency during any previous fiscal year. 
SEC. 625. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
an Executive agency covered by this Act otherwise authorized to 
enter into contracts for either leases or the construction or alteration 
of real property for office, meeting, storage, or other space must 
consult with the General Services Administration before issuing 
a solicitation for offers of new leases or construction contracts, 
and in the case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotia-
tions with the current lessor. 
(2) Any such agency with authority to enter into an emergency 
lease may do so during any period declared by the President to 
require emergency leasing authority with respect to such agency. 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Executive agency 
covered by this Act’’ means any Executive agency provided funds 
by this Act, but does not include the General Services Administra-
tion or the United States Postal Service. 
SEC. 626. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Federal Trade Commission to complete the draft 
report entitled ‘‘Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to 
Children: Preliminary Proposed Nutrition Principles to Guide 
Industry Self-Regulatory Efforts’’ unless the Interagency Working 
Group on Food Marketed to Children complies with Executive Order 
No. 13563. 
SEC. 627. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries and expenses for the following positions: 
(1) Director, White House Office of Health Reform. 
(2) Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate 
Change. 
(3) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury assigned 
to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and Senior 
Counselor for Manufacturing Policy. 
(4) White House Director of Urban Affairs. 
SEC. 628. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Federal Communications Commission to remove 
the conditions imposed on commercial terrestrial operations in the 
Order and Authorization adopted by the Commission on January 
26, 2011 (DA 11–133), or otherwise permit such operations, until 
the Commission has resolved concerns of potential widespread
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harmful interference by such commercial terrestrial operations to 
commercially available Global Positioning System devices. 
SEC. 629. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be expended for any new hire by any Federal agency funded in 
this Act that is not verified through the E-Verify Program estab-
lished under section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1324a note). 
SEC. 630. None of the funds made available by this 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 with respect to which 
any unpaid Federal tax liability has been assessed, for which all 
judicial and administrative 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 collecting the 
tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension or debar-
ment of the corporation and made a determination that this further 
action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 631. None of the funds made available by this 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 or 
had an officer or agent of such corporation acting on behalf of 
the corporation convicted of a felony criminal violation under any 
Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding 
agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has considered 
suspension or debarment of the corporation, or such officer or agent 
and made a determination that this further action is not necessary 
to protect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 632. Section 8909a(d)(3)(A)(v) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking the date specified in such section 
and inserting ‘‘August 1, 2012’’. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other 
Act for fiscal year 2012 shall obligate or expend any such funds, 
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, 
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy 
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from the 
illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances (as 
defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) by the 
officers and employees of such department, agency, or instrumen-
tality. 
SEC. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum 
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with 
subsection 1343(c) of title 31, United States Code, for the purchase 
of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, 
law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby 
fixed at $13,197 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $13,631: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded
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by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to 
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, 
That the limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded 
by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased 
for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid 
Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section may 
be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels 
vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost 
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles: Provided further, That 
the limits set forth in this section shall not apply to any vehicle 
that is a commercial item and which operates on emerging motor 
vehicle technology, including but not limited to electric, plug-in 
hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. 
SEC. 703. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available 
for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the activity concerned, 
are hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of- 
living allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal 
year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee 
of the Government of the United States (including any agency 
the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the continental 
United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United 
States; (2) is a person who is lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 
1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who is admitted as a refugee under 
8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and 
has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent 
resident and then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who 
owes allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for purposes 
of this section, affidavits signed by any such person shall be consid-
ered prima facie evidence that the requirements of this section 
with respect to his or her status are being complied with: Provided 
further, That for purposes of subsections (2) and (3) such affidavits 
shall be submitted prior to employment and updated thereafter 
as necessary: Provided further, That any person making a false 
affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, shall 
be fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more than 
1 year, or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause 
shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other 
provisions of existing law: Provided further, That any payment 
made to any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this 
section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government: 
Provided further, That this section shall not apply to any person 
who is an officer or employee of the Government of the United 
States on the date of enactment of this Act, or to international 
broadcasters employed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
or to temporary employment of translators, or to temporary employ-
ment in the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of 
emergencies: Provided further, That this section does not apply 
to the employment as Wildland firefighters for not more than 120 
days of nonresident aliens employed by the Department of the 
Interior or the USDA Forest Service pursuant to an agreement 
with another country.