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the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services 
Committee on its efforts to mitigate mortgage default. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, author-
ized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant 
to title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as 
amended, $3,500,000. Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11319) is amended by striking ‘‘October 
1, 2015’’ in section 209 and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2016’’. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for 
the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses 
of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in 
regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor 
may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly 
so provided herein. 
SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract pursu-
ant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public 
record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise 
provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for any employee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon 
the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of 
the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations 
Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain
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available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2014, or pro-
vided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection 
of fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall 
be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming 
of funds that: 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted 
by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, 
office, bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or 
department different from the budget justifications submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, whichever 
is more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of 
the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the 
current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report shall 
include: 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
column to display the prior year enacted level, the Presi-
dent’s budget request, adjustments made by Congress, 
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and 
the fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each appropriation 
and its respective prior year enacted level by object class 
and program, project, and activity as detailed in the budget 
appendix for the respective appropriation; and 
(C) an identification of items of special congressional 
interest: Provided further, That the amount appropriated 
or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency shall 
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after the 
required date that the report has not been submitted to 
the Congress. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available 
at the end of fiscal year 2014 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2014 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 2015, for each such account 
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogram-
ming guidelines under section 405 of this Act.
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SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support any 
Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of 
eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a 
public use: Provided, That for purposes of this section, public use 
shall not be construed to include economic development that pri-
marily benefits private entities: Provided further, That any use 
of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway 
projects as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general 
public (including energy-related, communication-related, water- 
related and wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures 
designated for use by the general public or which have other 
common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve the general 
public and are subject to regulation and oversight by the govern-
ment, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to 
public health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization Act (Public 
Law 107–118) shall be considered a public use for purposes of 
eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. All Federal agencies and departments that are funded 
under this Act shall issue a report to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations on all sole-source contracts by no later 
than July 30, 2014. Such report shall include the contractor, the 
amount of the contract and the rationale for using a sole-source 
contract. 
SEC. 409. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 410. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, 
other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee 
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and 
has satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military 
or naval service, and has within 90 days after his or her release 
from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
for a period of not more than 1 year, made application for restoration 
to his or her former position and has been certified by the Office 
of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties 
of his or her former position and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may 
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending 
the assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 
of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known 
as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’). 
SEC. 412. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act shall be made available to any person or entity 
that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 413. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of 
sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available under this Act 
or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community 
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, 
subsidiaries, or allied organizations.
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SEC. 415. 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 of 
a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the pre-
ceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the 
conviction, unless the agency has considered suspension or debar-
ment of the corporation and has made a determination that this 
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 416. 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 any unpaid Federal 
tax liability that 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 debarment of the corpora-
tion and has made a determination that this further action is 
not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 417. It is the sense of the Congress that the Congress 
should not pass any legislation that authorizes spending cuts that 
would increase poverty in the United States. 
SEC. 418. All agencies and departments funded by the Act 
shall send to Congress at the end of the fiscal year a report con-
taining a complete inventory of the total number of vehicles owned, 
leased, permanently retired, and purchased during fiscal year 2014, 
as well as the total cost of the vehicle fleet, including maintenance, 
fuel, storage, purchasing, and leasing. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2014’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.