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substantially similar language to that required in sub-
section (a). 
SEC. 745. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other 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 has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad-
ministrative 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 col-
lecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is 
aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless a Federal agency 
has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation 
and has made a determination that this further action is 
not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other 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 preceding 24 
months, where the awarding agency is aware of the convic-
tion, unless a Federal agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
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mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 747. (a) During fiscal year 2019, on the date 
on which a request is made for a transfer of funds in ac-
cordance with section 1017 of Public Law 111–203, the 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 
of such request. 
(b) Any notification required by this section shall be 
made available on the Bureau’s public Web site. 
SEC. 748. If, for fiscal year 2019, new budget author-
ity provided in appropriations Acts exceeds the discre-
tionary spending limit for any category set forth in section 
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 due to estimating differences with the 
Congressional Budget Office, an adjustment to the discre-
tionary spending limit in such category for fiscal year 
2019 shall be made by the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget in the amount of the excess but the 
total of all such adjustments shall not exceed 0.2 percent 
of the sum of the adjusted discretionary spending limits 
for all categories for that fiscal year.
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SEC. 749. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay 
for employees under the statutory pay systems that takes 
effect in fiscal year 2019 under section 5303 of title 5, 
United States Code, shall be an increase of 1.4 percent, 
and the overall average percentage of the adjustments tak-
ing effect in such fiscal year under sections 5304 and 
5304a of such title 5 shall be an increase of 0.5 percent 
(with comparability payments to be determined and allo-
cated among pay localities by the President). All adjust-
ments under this subsection shall be effective as of the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on 
or after January 1, 2019. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 737, the adjustment in 
rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that take 
place in fiscal year 2019 under sections 5344 and 5348 
of title 5, United States Code, shall be no less than the 
percentages in subsection (a) as employees in the same 
location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted pursuant 
to the statutory pay systems under section 5303, 5304, 
and 5304a of title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate 
employees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303, 5304, and 
5304a of such title 5 and prevailing rate employees de-
scribed in section 5343(a)(5) of such title 5 shall be con-
sidered to be located in the pay locality designated as
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″Rest of U.S.″ pursuant to section 5304 of such title 5 
for purposes of this subsection. 
(c) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid 
from appropriations, which are made to each applicable 
department or agency for salaries and expenses for fiscal 
year 2019. 
SEC. 750. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any title other 
than title IV or VIII shall not apply to such title IV or 
VIII. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DISTRICT OF 
COLUMBIA 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 801. There are appropriated from the applicable 
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be 
necessary for making refunds and for the payment of legal 
settlements or judgments that have been entered against 
the District of Columbia government. 
SEC. 802. None of the Federal funds provided in this 
Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or 
implementation of any policy including boycott designed 
to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress 
or any State legislature.
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SEC. 803. (a) None of the Federal funds provided 
under this Act to the agencies funded by this Act, both 
Federal and District government agencies, that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2019, 
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 expenditures for an agency through a re-
programming of funds which— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsi-
bility center; 
(3) establishes or changes allocations specifi-
cally denied, limited or increased under this Act; 
(4) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any program, project, or responsibility center for 
which funds have been denied or restricted; 
(5) re-establishes any program or project pre-
viously deferred through reprogramming; 
(6) augments any existing program, project, or 
responsibility center through a reprogramming of 
funds in excess of $3,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; or
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(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel 
assigned to a specific program, project or responsi-
bility center, 
unless prior approval is received from the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate. 
(b) The District of Columbia government is author-
ized to approve and execute reprogramming and transfer 
requests of local funds under this title through November 
7, 2019. 
SEC. 804. None of the Federal funds provided in this 
Act may be used by the District of Columbia to provide 
for salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the 
offices of United States Senator or United States Rep-
resentative under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia 
Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 
(D.C. Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123). 
SEC. 805. Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, none of the funds made available by this Act or by 
any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em-
ployee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle 
unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the 
performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties. 
For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘official duties’’