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(2) such conference is a scientific conference and the depart-
ment or agency head determines that such attendance is in 
the national interest and notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 
at least 15 days of that determination and the basis for that 
determination. 
SEC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving funds appropriated under this Act to track 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and include in 
its annual performance plan and performance and accountability 
reports the following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, agency, or 
instrumentality will take to resolve undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or instrumen-
tality uses to track undisbursed balances in expired grant 
accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in expired grant 
accounts that may be returned to the Treasury of the United 
States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on the total 
number of expired grant accounts with undisbursed balances 
(on the first day of each fiscal year) for the department, agency, 
or instrumentality and the total finances that have not been 
obligated to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 525. To the extent practicable, funds made available in 
this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs that are ‘‘Energy 
Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal Energy Management Program’’ 
designation. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA) or the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 
to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a 
bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to partici-
pate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifi-
cally authorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors at facilities 
belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and (b) shall 
not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP, after consultation 
with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have certified—
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, 
data, or other information with national security or economic 
security implications to China or a Chinese-owned company; 
and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials who 
have been determined by the United States to have direct 
involvement with violations of human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, and the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, no later than 30 days prior to the activity in question and
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shall include a description of the purpose of the activity, its agenda, 
its major participants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 527. (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 nec-
essary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local law enforcement 
agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, 
prosecution, adjudication, or other law enforcement- or victim assist-
ance-related activity. 
SEC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National 
Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil Rights, the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission, the International Trade 
Commission, the Legal Services Corporation, the Marine Mammal 
Commission, the Offices of Science and Technology Policy and the 
United States Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective department 
or agency head, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That the spending 
plans submitted pursuant to this section shall contain at least 
the same level of detail as the spending plans submitted pursuant 
to this section in fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 529. 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 perform-
ance or for performance that does not meet the basic requirements 
of a contract. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legitimacy of Industrial 
Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–
79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available under this Act 
to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any 
of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, 
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, 
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachu-
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, 
Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wis-
consin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United 
States Virgin Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of 
them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. 
SEC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, and the National Science 
Foundation shall provide a quarterly report to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
on any official travel to China by any employee of such Department 
or agency, including the purpose of such travel.
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SEC. 533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, not 
less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, respectively, 
for Public Works grants authorized by the Public Works and Eco-
nomic Development Act of 1965 and grants authorized by section 
27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 
(15 U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent 
poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 
20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the 
past 30 years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area Income and 
Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent 
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any Territory or 
possession of the United States. 
SEC. 534. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act or any other Act may be expended or obligated 
by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
to pay administrative expenses or to compensate an officer or 
employee of the United States in connection with requiring an 
export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, acces-
sories or attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section 
121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Traf-
ficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed on 
April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale 
in any transaction, provided that the conditions of subsection (b) 
of this section are met by the exporting party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license—
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any Shipper’s 
Export Declaration or notification letter required by law, or 
from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United 
States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumer-
ated in subsection (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license of—
(A) fully automatic firearms and components and parts 
for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal 
Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of 
Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete 
breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I, 
other than for end use by the Federal Government, or 
a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to another foreign 
destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Directors of 
Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent or temporary 
export without a license of any unclassified articles specified in 
subsection (a) to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the 
United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from 
Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada 
for a Canadian citizen. 
(d) The President may require export licenses under this section 
on a temporary basis if the President determines, upon publication 
first in the Federal Register, that the Government of Canada has 
implemented or maintained inadequate import controls for the arti-
cles specified in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion 
of such articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another
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nation. The President shall terminate the requirements of a license 
when reasons for the temporary requirements have ceased. 
SEC. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act shall 
obligate or expend in any way such funds to pay administrative 
expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee of the 
United States to deny any application submitted pursuant to 22 
U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section 
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States origin ‘‘curios 
or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, 
or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model 
of shotgun if—
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to the pro-
posed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such model of 
shotgun, in the same configuration, had been denied by the 
Attorney General prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that 
the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adapt-
able to sporting purposes. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty 
until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer, release, 
or assist in the transfer or release to or within the United States, 
its territories, or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any 
other detainee who—
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any other Act may be used to construct, 
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, 
or possessions to house any individual described in subsection (c) 
for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or 
under the effective control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any individual 
who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United States Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who—
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is—
(A) in the custody or under the effective control of 
the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 540. Funds made available to the Department of Com-
merce and the Department of Justice in this Act and any remaining 
unobligated balances of funds made available to the Department