ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, and each Federally rec-
ognized Indian Tribe. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act thereafter may be used to write, prepare, 
or publish a proposed rule, final rule, or an interim final 
rule in furtherance of, or otherwise to implement or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Transparency in Poultry 
Grower Contracting and Tournaments,’’ published by the 
Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on 
June 8, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 34980 et seq.), the advance 
notice of proposed rulemaking entitled ‘‘Poultry Growing 
Tournament Systems: Fairness and Related Concerns,’’ 
published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal 
Register on June 8, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 34814) (also 
identified in the White House Office of Management and 
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Budget’s Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and De-
regulatory Actions as ‘‘Poultry Growing Tournament Sys-
tems: Fairness and Related Concerns—Harm to Competi-
tion (AMS-FTPP-22-0046),’’ RIN 0581-AE18), the pro-
posed rule entitled ‘‘Inclusive Competition and Market In-
tegrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act,’’ published 
by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register 
on October 3, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 60010 et seq.), the rule-
making identified in the White House Office of Manage-
ment and Budget’s Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regu-
latory and Deregulatory Actions as ‘‘Unfair Practices, 
Undue Preferences, and Harm to Competition Under the 
Packers and Stockyards Act (AMS-FTPP-21-0046),’’ 
RIN 0581-AE04, or any subsequent substantially similar 
rulemaking effort, except that funds may be used to, and 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall, withdraw or rescind any 
such proposed rules, advance notices of proposed rule-
making, and any such rules that may have been finalized. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
may be used to increase the number of positions in the 
Department (measured on a full-time equivalent basis) for 
which the primary duty station is located in the National 
Capital Region unless otherwise specified in the report ac-
companying this Act. 
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(1) The term ‘‘National Capital Region’’ means 
the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince 
George’s Counties of Maryland; and Arlington, Fair-
fax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties of Vir-
ginia. 
SEC. 739. (a) There is hereby appropriated 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the 
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out no more than 5 pilot 
projects, under the terms and conditions determined by 
the Secretary for a period not to exceed 3 years and with-
out increasing household benefit allotments as authorized 
by section 8 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2017), that allow the use of supplemental nutrition 
assistance program benefits to purchase only nutrient- 
dense foods and beverages (as defined in the 2020-2025 
Dietary Guidelines for Americans), of which 1 or more of 
such projects shall be carried out before December 21, 
2024. 
(b) Not later than 6 months after the first pilot 
project under subsection (a) begins, the Secretary shall 
enter into a contract with the National Academies of 
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to— 
(1) evaluate the pilot project or projects carried 
out under subsection (a); and 
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(2) provide the results of such evaluation not 
later than 18 months after the date of such con-
tract. 
SEC. 740. Of the total amounts made available by 
this Act for direct loans and grants under the following 
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insur-
ance Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service— 
Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural 
Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program 
Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural 
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Coopera-
tive Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Pro-
gram Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service— 
Rural Cooperative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Busi-
ness-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur As-
sistance Program’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water 
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications 
Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service— 
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 per-
cent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in per-
sistent poverty counties under this section, including, not-
withstanding any other provision regarding population 
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limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county 
that has a population that does not exceed the authorized 
population limit by more than 10 percent: 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 1990 and 2000 decennial cen-
suses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5- 
year average, or any territory or possession of the United 
States: Provided further, That with respect to specific ac-
tivities for which program levels have been made available 
by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, 
the requirements of this section shall be applied to such 
program level. 
SEC. 741. There is rescinded the unobligated bal-
ances of amounts made available under section 1006 of 
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (7 U.S.C. 2279 
note). 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for inves-
tigational use of a drug or biological product under section 
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which 
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a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to 
include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submis-
sion shall be deemed to have not been received by the Sec-
retary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule 
promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration enti-
tled ‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, 
and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption,’’ and 
published on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regu-
lation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine 
grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 744. For school years 2023–2024 and 2024– 
2025, none of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to implement or enforce the matter following the 
first comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of sec-
tion 220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with 
respect to the substitution of vegetables for fruits under 
the school breakfast program established under section 4 
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 745. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Ag-
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or sec-
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tion 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 
2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or out-
side the State in which the hemp is grown or cul-
tivated. 
SEC. 746. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive 
the matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of 
the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Re-
form Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 747. The Secretary, as part of the report on 
foreign landholding required under the Agricultural For-
eign Investment Disclosure Act (Public Law 95–460), 
shall report to Congress on foreign investments in agricul-
tural land in the United States, including the impact for-
eign ownership has on family farms, rural communities, 
and the domestic food supply: Provided, That within 2 
years after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
establish a streamlined process for electronic submission 
and retention of disclosures made under the Agricultural 
Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, including an internet 
database that contains disaggregated data from each dis-
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closure submitted: Provided further,That all prior year dis-
closures of foreign investments in agricultural land in the 
United States are published in the database: Provided fur-
ther, That the plan includes a process to ensure the protec-
tion of personally identifiable information and that all dis-
closures of foreign investments in agricultural land on the 
USDA website be disaggregated by: (1) in any case in 
which such foreign person is an individual, the citizenship 
of such foreign person; and (2) in any case in which such 
foreign person is not an individual or a government, the 
nature of the legal entity holding the interest, the country 
in which such foreign person is created or organized, and 
the principal place of business of such foreign person. 
SEC. 748. There is rescinded the unobligated bal-
ances of amounts made available under section 22006 of 
Public Law 117-169 (136 Stat. 2021). 
SEC. 749. (a) After the effective date of any final rule 
FDA publishes in connection with its proposed rule to up-
date these requirements (87 Federal Register 59168, 
issued on September 29, 2022), manufacturers may also 
continue to comply with the previous requirements pro-
mulgated by the FDA for the implied nutrient content 
claim ‘‘healthy’’ through the ‘‘compliance date’’ FDA pro-
vides in the final rule. 
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(b) Any food product manufactured and labeled as 
‘‘healthy’’ during the compliance period FDA provides in 
that final rule shall not be directly or indirectly subject 
to any state-law requirements that are not identical to ei-
ther (i) the federal requirements for the implied nutrition 
content claim ‘‘healthy’’ that were in effect as of the date 
FDA issues the final rule, or (ii) the updated federal re-
quirements that FDA promulgates in the final rule, as-
suming the updated requirements go into effect during the 
regulatory compliance period. 
SEC. 750. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 751. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts imported into the United States from the People’s 
Republic of China for use in the school lunch program 
under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food 
Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 
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the Summer Food Service Program for Children under 
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school 
breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.). 
SEC. 752. (a) Subject to subsection (c), none of the 
funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, 
issue, implement, administer, or enforce any rule, regula-
tion, or order that, pursuant to any revisions to the whole 
grain requirements under section 246.10 of title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations, required by such rule, regulation, 
or order, would reduce the availability of WIC-eligible 
breakfast cereals, including the rule entitled ‘‘Special Sup-
plemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and 
Children (WIC): Revisions to the WIC Food Packages’’ 
published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal 
Register on November 21, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 71090). 
(b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out a 
study— 
(1) on the revisions of such whole grain 
requriements pursuant to such rule; and 
(2) that is representative of all States. 
(c) If the study required under subsection (b) dem-
onstrates that such revisions will not limit consumption 
due to marketplace availability or reduce the redemption 
of WIC-authorized breakfast cereal, beginning on the date 
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on which the Secretary publishes the results of such study, 
the limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply. 
SEC. 753. For school year 2024–2025, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of June 30, 2023, shall be 
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
SEC. 754. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 
a foreign adversary. 
SEC. 755. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, 
shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assess-
ment research: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer 
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such funds among appropriations of the Department of 
Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 756. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture 
may be used to move any staff office or any agency from 
the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 
2018, to any other mission area or office within the De-
partment in the absence of the enactment of specific legis-
lation affirming such move. 
SEC. 757. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 
SEC. 758. The Secretary, acting through the Chief 
of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use 
funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for 
the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program 
and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out 
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency 
Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to 
section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services for such pro-
grams pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-
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rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding 
subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 759. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining en-
tities eligible to receive assistance, consider those commu-
nities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, 
That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, 
and Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot 
program established by section 779 of Public Law 115– 
141 may be used for this purpose. 
SEC. 760. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation). 
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SEC. 761. (a) The modifications made by the Food 
and Drug Administration on January 3, 2023 to the risk 
evaluation and mitigation strategy under section 505-1 of 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
355-1) for mifepristone are hereby nullified. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to establish, implement, or enforce— 
(1) any provision of a risk evaluation and miti-
gation strategy under section 505-1 of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355-1) 
for mifepristone that is substantially similar to any 
of the modifications nullified by subsection (a); or 
(2) any non-enforcement or enforcement discre-
tion policy for any provision of a risk evaluation and 
mitigation 
strategy 
under 
such 
section 
for 
mifepristone. 
SEC. 762. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by FDA to 
develop, issue, promote, or advance any new guidelines or 
regulations applicable to food manufacturers for popu-
lation-wide sodium reduction actions until the issuance of 
the 2025-2026 National Health and Nutrition Examina-
tion Survey (NHANES) survey that will show consumer 
sodium consumption after the completion of the short- 
term sodium reduction targets. 
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SEC. 763. Within 60 days of enactment of this Act 
the Secretary shall provide to the Committees a plan for 
expenditure that accelerates the continued implementation 
and expansion of the Farmers.gov application and the En-
terprise Data Analytics Platform and Toolset (EDAPT) 
to enable USDA users to: (1) view their information, com-
plete transactions, quickly review the status, and update 
tabular customer information; (2) submit applications for 
Farm Production and Conservation programs and receive 
program payments for all USDA farm programs; (3) to 
complete their own applications, including electronic sig-
natures and submission, for all farm programs that re-
quire direct application; (4) enable electronic income re-
porting between USDA and IRS; and (5) transition acre-
age reporting, farm records mapping, and farm records 
information to Farmers.gov: Provided, That the Farm 
Production and Conservation Business Center shall pro-
vide a roadmap for systems to be decommissioned and 
consolidated with Farmers.gov and EDAPT including, but 
not limited to, the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and 
Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, the Dairy Margin 
Coverage program, and the Farm Service Agency Emer-
gency Relief Program. 
SEC. 764. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 
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