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lation, administrative action, or order issued by the execu-
tive branch of any State or local government, except in 
presentation to the executive branch of any State or local 
government itself. 
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 
111–148 shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of 
any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such 
recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the 
enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, ad-
ministrative action, or Executive order proposed or pend-
ing before the Congress or any State government, State 
legislature or local legislature or legislative body, other 
than for normal and recognized executive-legislative rela-
tionships or participation by an agency or officer of a 
State, local or Tribal government in policymaking and ad-
ministrative processes within the executive branch of that 
government. 
(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall 
include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, 
pending or future Federal, State or local tax increase, or 
any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restric-
tion on any legal consumer product, including its sale or 
marketing, including but not limited to the advocacy or 
promotion of gun control. 
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SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education 
are authorized to make available not to exceed $28,000 
and $20,000, respectively, from funds available for sala-
ries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for 
official reception and representation expenses; the Direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is 
authorized to make available for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from the funds 
available for ‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 
Salaries and Expenses’’; and the Chairman of the Na-
tional Mediation Board is authorized to make available for 
official reception and representation expenses not to ex-
ceed $5,000 from funds available for ‘‘National Mediation 
Board, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
SEC. 505. When issuing statements, press releases, 
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-
ments describing projects or programs funded in whole or 
in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal 
funds included in this Act, including but not limited to 
State and local governments and recipients of Federal re-
search grants, shall clearly state— 
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the pro-
gram or project which will be financed with Federal 
money; 
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(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 
project or program; and 
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total 
costs of the project or program that will be financed 
by non-governmental sources. 
SEC. 506. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which 
funds are appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for 
any abortion. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and 
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for health ben-
efits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the 
package of services covered by a managed care provider 
or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrange-
ment. 
SEC. 507. (a) The limitations established in the pre-
ceding section shall not apply to an abortion— 
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
rape or incest; or 
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a 
physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, 
including a life-endangering physical condition 
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 
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would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 
in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. 
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-
strued as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, 
entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds 
(other than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid 
matching funds). 
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-
strued as restricting the ability of any managed care pro-
vider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a 
State or locality to contract separately with such a pro-
vider for such coverage with State funds (other than a 
State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching 
funds). 
(d)(1) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be made available to a Federal agency or program, 
or to a State or local government, if such agency, program, 
or government subjects any institutional or individual 
health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the 
health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide cov-
erage of, or refer for abortions. 
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ 
includes an individual physician or other health care pro-
fessional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a 
health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, 
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or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or 
plan. 
SEC. 508. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used for— 
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos 
for research purposes; or 
(2) research in which a human embryo or em-
bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly sub-
jected to risk of injury or death greater than that 
allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 
CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human 
embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected 
as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, 
parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or 
more human gametes or human diploid cells. 
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used for any activity that promotes the 
legalization of any drug or other substance included in 
schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances estab-
lished under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act 
except for normal and recognized executive-congressional 
communications. 
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(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply 
when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic 
advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or 
that federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted 
to determine therapeutic advantage. 
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final stand-
ard under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act pro-
viding for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique 
health identifier for an individual (except in an individ-
ual’s capacity as an employer or a health care provider), 
until legislation is enacted specifically approving the 
standard. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew 
a contract with an entity if— 
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with 
the United States and is subject to the requirement 
in 38 U.S.C. 4212(d) regarding submission of an 
annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning 
employment of certain veterans; and 
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as 
required by that section for the most recent year for 
which such requirement was applicable to such enti-
ty. 
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SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act 
may be made available to any library covered by para-
graph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as amended by 
the Children’s Internet Protection Act, unless such library 
has made the certifications required by paragraph (4) of 
such section. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
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(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes or renames offices; 
(6) reorganizes programs or activities; or 
(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 
of such reprogramming. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects (in-
cluding construction projects), or activities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
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(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 
of such reprogramming. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to request that a candidate for ap-
pointment to a Federal scientific advisory committee dis-
close the political affiliation or voting history of the can-
didate or the position that the candidate holds with re-
spect to political issues not directly related to and nec-
essary for the work of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to disseminate information that is deliberately 
false or misleading. 
SEC. 516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 
each department and related agency funded through this 
Act shall submit an operating plan that details at the pro-
gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 
for fiscal year 2026 that are different than those specified 
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in this Act, the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act) or the fiscal year 2026 budget request. 
SEC. 517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the number 
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments exceeding $500,000, individually or in total for a 
particular project, activity, or programmatic initiative, in 
value and awarded by the Department on a non-competi-
tive basis during each quarter of fiscal year 2026, but not 
to include grants awarded on a formula basis or directed 
by law. Such report shall include the name of the con-
tractor or grantee, the amount of funding, the govern-
mental purpose, including a justification for issuing the 
award on a non-competitive basis. Such report shall be 
transmitted to the Committees within 30 days after the 
end of the quarter for which the report is submitted. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of So-
cial Security, for purposes of administering Social Security 
benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, 
to process any claim for credit for a quarter of coverage 
based on work performed under a social security account 
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number that is not the claimant’s number and the per-
formance of such work under such number has formed the 
basis for a conviction of the claimant of a violation of sec-
tion 208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or 
the Social Security Administration to pay the compensa-
tion of employees of the Social Security Administration 
to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any 
agreement between the United States and Mexico estab-
lishing totalization arrangements between the social secu-
rity system established by title II of the Social Security 
Act and the social security system of Mexico, which would 
not otherwise be payable but for such agreement. 
SEC. 520. (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, or local 
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 
criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activi-
ties. 
SEC. 521. For purposes of carrying out Executive 
Order 13589, Office of Management and Budget Memo-
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randum M–12–12 dated May 11, 2012, and requirements 
contained in the annual appropriations bills relating to 
conference attendance and expenditures: 
(1) the operating divisions of HHS shall be con-
sidered independent agencies; and 
(2) attendance at and support for scientific con-
ferences shall be tabulated separately from and not 
included in agency totals. 
SEC. 522. Federal agencies funded under this Act 
shall clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for 
advertising or educational purposes, including emails or 
Internet postings, that the communication is printed, pub-
lished, or produced and disseminated at United States tax-
payer expense. The funds used by a Federal agency to 
carry out this requirement shall be derived from amounts 
made available to the agency for advertising or other com-
munications regarding the programs and activities of the 
agency. 
SEC. 523. Not later than 30 days after the end of 
each calendar quarter, beginning with the first month of 
fiscal year 2026 the Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services and Education and the Social Security 
Administration shall provide the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate a 
report on the status of balances of appropriations: Pro-
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vided, That for balances that are unobligated and uncom-
mitted, committed, and obligated but unexpended, the 
monthly reports shall separately identify the amounts at-
tributable to each source year of appropriation (beginning 
with fiscal year 2012, or, to the extent feasible, earlier 
fiscal years) from which balances were derived. 
SEC. 524. The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education and the Corporation for 
National and Community Service shall notify the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate not less than 3 full business days prior 
to announcing or providing notice of— 
(1) any new or non-competing continuation 
grant, including supplements, issued at the discre-
tion of such Departments (other than emergency re-
sponse grants at any time of the year or for grant 
awards made during the last 10 business days of the 
fiscal year, or if applicable, of the program year); 
and 
(2) the termination or non-continuation of any 
grant, including a short description of the reason for 
the termination or non-continuation. 
SEC. 525. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic 
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injection of any illegal drug: Provided, That such limita-
tion does not apply to the use of funds for elements of 
a program other than making such purchases if the rel-
evant State or local health department, in consultation 
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, de-
termines that the State or local jurisdiction, as applicable, 
is experiencing, or is at risk for, a significant increase in 
hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection 
drug use, and such program is operating in accordance 
with State and local law. 
SEC. 526. Each department and related agency fund-
ed through this Act shall provide answers to questions 
submitted for the record by members of the Committee 
within 45 business days after receipt. 
SEC. 527. Of amounts deposited in the Child Enroll-
ment Contingency Fund under section 2104(n)(2) of the 
Social Security Act and the income derived from invest-
ment of those funds pursuant to section 2104(n)(2)(C) of 
that Act, $12,340,000,000 shall not be available for obli-
gation in this fiscal year. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 528. Of the unobligated balances of amounts 
made available in section 10301(1)(A)(iii) of Public Law 
117–169, $11,661,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
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SEC. 529. (a) This section applies to: (1) the Admin-
istration for Children and Families in the Department of 
Health and Human Services; and (2) the Chief Evaluation 
Office and the statistical-related cooperative and inter-
agency agreements and contracting activities of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. 
(b) Amounts made available under this Act which are 
either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable 
basis, or transferred to the functions and organizations 
identified in subsection (a) for research, evaluation, or sta-
tistical purposes shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2030: Provided, That when an office ref-
erenced in subsection (a) receives research and evaluation 
funding from multiple appropriations, such offices may 
use a single Treasury account for such activities, with 
funding advanced on a reimbursable basis. 
(c) Amounts referenced in subsection (b) that are un-
expended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, 
or cooperative agreement may be deobligated and shall im-
mediately become available and may be reobligated in that 
fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, 
evaluation, or statistical purposes for which such amounts 
are available. 
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(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 530. Of the unobligated balances of funds made 
available by sections 2023, 2206, 2301, 2302, 2303, 2401, 
2402, 2403, 2404, 2501, 2502, 2601, 2602, 2603, 2605, 
2701, 2702, 2703, 2704, 2705, 2706, 2707, 2708, 2709, 
2710, 2711, 2712, 2713, 2904, 2912, 3101, and 9911 of 
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117– 
2), $2,000,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That 
not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report specifying the 
unobligated balances rescinded pursuant to this section by 
both account and amount from each applicable appropria-
tion in Public Law 117–2. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026’’. 
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