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funds made available for the current fiscal year by this 
or any other Act, including rebates from charge card and 
other contracts: Provided, That these funds, in addition 
to amounts otherwise available, shall be administered by 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for 
necessary expenses of the United States Digital Service: 
Provided further, That the total funds transferred or reim-
bursed pursuant to this authority shall not exceed 
$30,000,000 for such purposes: Provided further, That 
funds transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this author-
ity during fiscal year 2025 shall remain available for obli-
gation through September 30, 2027: Provided further, 
That not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed 
spend plan for the funds to be transferred or reimbursed: 
Provided further, That the spend plan shall, at a min-
imum, include: (i) the estimate of amounts to be trans-
ferred or reimbursed in fiscal year 2025; (ii) a detailed 
breakdown of the purposes for all funds estimated to be 
transferred or reimbursed pursuant to this section (includ-
ing total number of personnel and costs for all staff whose 
salaries are provided for by this section); and (iii) where 
applicable, a description of the funds intended for use by 
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or for the implementation of specific laws passed by Con-
gress: Provided further, That no transfers or reimburse-
ments may be made pursuant to this section until 15 days 
following notification of the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 
SEC. 759. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to contract with, grant 
awards to, or otherwise obligate or expend to NewsGuard 
Technologies, Inc. (doing business as ‘‘NewsGuard’’); 
Disinformation Index, Inc., Disinformation Index, Ltd., or 
Global Disinformation Index gUG (collectively doing busi-
ness as ‘‘Global Disinformation Index’’); or any other enti-
ty, including a nonprofit organization (as described by sec-
tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), that 
engages in operations or activities, or produces products, 
the function of which is to demonetize or rate the credi-
bility of a domestic entity (including news and information 
outlets) based on lawful speech of such domestic entity 
under the stated function of ‘‘fact-checking’’, or otherwise 
exposing or correcting mis-information, dis-information, 
or mal-information. 
SEC. 760. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any title other 
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than title IV or VIII shall not apply to such title IV or 
VIII. 
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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. 
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 2025, 
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; 
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(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 
(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, 2025. 
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 
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offices of United States Senators or United States Rep-
resentatives 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’’ 
does not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s 
residence and workplace, except in the case of— 
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan 
Police Department who resides in the District of Co-
lumbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the 
Department; 
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an offi-
cer or employee of the District of Columbia Fire and 
Emergency Medical Services Department who re-
sides in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 
hours a day; 
(3) at the discretion of the Director of the De-
partment of Corrections, an officer or employee of 
the District of Columbia Department of Corrections 
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on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with offi-
cials of the District government regarding such lawsuits. 
SEC. 807. None of the Federal funds contained in 
this Act may be used to distribute any needle or syringe 
for the purpose of preventing the spread of blood borne 
pathogens in any location that has been determined by the 
local public health or local law enforcement authorities to 
be inappropriate for such distribution. 
SEC. 808. Nothing in this Act may be construed to 
prevent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia 
from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive 
coverage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent 
of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue 
should include a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides excep-
tions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 809. No funds available for obligation or ex-
penditure by the District of Columbia government under 
any authority shall be expended for any abortion except 
where the life of the mother would be endangered if the 
fetus were carried to term or where the pregnancy is the 
result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 810. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 
Officer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the 
appropriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the 
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Council of the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated 
funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant 
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
(D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the 
District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2025 that 
is in the total amount of the approved appropriation and 
that realigns all budgeted data for personal services and 
other-than-personal services, respectively, with anticipated 
actual expenditures. 
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency for 
which the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Co-
lumbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address 
unanticipated changes in program requirements. 
SEC. 811. No later than 30 calendar days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Offi-
cer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council 
for the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated funds 
operating budget for the District of Columbia Public 
Schools that aligns schools’ budgets to actual enrollment. 
The revised appropriated funds budget shall be in the for-
mat of the budget that the District of Columbia govern-
ment submitted pursuant to section 442 of the District 
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of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1– 
204.42). 
SEC. 812. (a) Amounts appropriated in this Act as 
operating funds may be transferred to the District of Co-
lumbia’s enterprise and capital funds and such amounts, 
once transferred, shall retain appropriation authority con-
sistent with the provisions of this Act. 
(b) The District of Columbia government is author-
ized to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any 
local funds transferred or reprogrammed in this or the 
four prior fiscal years from operating funds to capital 
funds, and such amounts, once transferred or repro-
grammed, shall retain appropriation authority consistent 
with the provisions of this Act. 
(c) The District of Columbia government may not 
transfer or reprogram for operating expenses any funds 
derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 
capital projects. 
SEC. 813. None of the Federal 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. 814. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law or under this Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unob-
ligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal 
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year 2024 from appropriations of Federal funds made 
available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2025 in 
this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 
2026, for each such account for the purposes authorized: 
Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of 
such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be 
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines out-
lined in section 803 of this Act. 
SEC. 815. (a)(1) During fiscal year 2026, during a 
period in which neither a District of Columbia continuing 
resolution or a regular District of Columbia appropriation 
bill is in effect, local funds are appropriated in the amount 
provided for any project or activity for which local funds 
are provided in the Act referred to in paragraph (2) (sub-
ject to any modifications enacted by the District of Colum-
bia as of the beginning of the period during which this 
subsection is in effect) at the rate set forth by such Act. 
(2) The Act referred to in this paragraph is the Act 
of the Council of the District of Columbia pursuant to 
which a proposed budget is approved for fiscal year 2026 
which (subject to the requirements of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act) will constitute the local portion 
of the annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-
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ment for fiscal year 2026 for purposes of section 446 of 
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–204.46, 
D.C. Official Code). 
(b) Appropriations made by subsection (a) shall cease 
to be available— 
(1) during any period in which a District of Co-
lumbia continuing resolution for fiscal year 2026 is 
in effect; or 
(2) upon the enactment into law of the regular 
District of Columbia appropriation bill for fiscal year 
2026. 
(c) An appropriation made by subsection (a) is pro-
vided under the authority and conditions as provided 
under this Act and shall be available to the extent and 
in the manner that would be provided by this Act. 
(d) An appropriation made by subsection (a) shall 
cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for such 
project or activity during the portion of fiscal year 2026 
for which this section applies to such project or activity. 
(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activity 
during any period of fiscal year 2026 if any other provi-
sion of law (other than an authorization of appropria-
tions)— 
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(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds avail-
able, or grants authority for such project or activity 
to continue for such period; or 
(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 
no authority shall be granted for such project or ac-
tivity to continue for such period. 
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect 
obligations of the government of the District of Columbia 
mandated by other law. 
SEC. 816. (a) Section 244 of the Revised Statutes 
of the United States relating to the District of Columbia 
(sec. 9–1201.03, D.C. Official Code) does not apply with 
respect to any railroads installed pursuant to the Long 
Bridge Project. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘Long Bridge Project’’ 
means the project carried out by the District of Columbia 
and the Commonwealth of Virginia to construct a new 
Long Bridge adjacent to the existing Long Bridge over 
the Potomac River, including related infrastructure and 
other related projects, to expand commuter and regional 
passenger rail service and to provide bike and pedestrian 
access crossings over the Potomac River. 
SEC. 817. Not later than 45 days after the last day 
of each quarter, each Federal and District government 
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agency appropriated Federal funds in this Act shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly budget re-
port that includes total obligations of the Agency for that 
quarter for each Federal funds appropriation provided in 
this Act, by the source year of the appropriation. 
SEC. 818. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used to carry out the Repro-
ductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 
2014 (D.C. Law 20-261) or to implement any rule or reg-
ulation promulgated to carry out such Act. 
SEC. 819. (a) Section 602(a) of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1 206.02(a), D.C. Official 
Code) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (9); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
(10) and inserting ‘‘; or ;’’ and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(11) enact any act, resolution, rule, regulation, 
guidance, or other law to permit any person to carry 
out any activity, or to reduce the penalties imposed 
with respect to any activity, to which subsection (a) 
of section 3 of the Assisted Suicide Funding Restric-
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tion Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 14402) applies (taking 
into consideration subsection (b) of such section).’’. 
(b) The Death With Dignity Act of 2016 (D.C. Law 
21 182) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 820. (a) No later than 60 calendar days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit a report to the Committees regarding 
the District of Columbia’s enforcement of the Partial 
Birth Abortion Ban Act. 
(b) The report submitted shall include: 
(1) how health care providers within the District of 
Columbia are alerted to their responsibility to comply with 
the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act; 
(2) how the District of Columbia responds to poten-
tial violations; 
(3) how many potential violations have been inves-
tigated in the District of Columbia in the past five years; 
(4) whether the District of Columbia preserved each 
child’s remains for appropriate examination during the in-
vestigation; 
(5) whether the District of Columbia conducted a 
thorough investigation of the death of each child and what 
each investigation showed; 
(6) whether the Chief Medical Examiner was directed 
to perform an autopsy on each child to determine the 
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method and cause of death in accordance with section 
2906 of the Establishment of the Office of the Chief Med-
ical Examiner Act of 2000(sec. 5–1405, D.C. Official 
Code; 
(7) whether the District of Columbia directed a sub-
sequent autopsy to be completed by an independent, li-
censed pathologist to confirm the findings of the Chief 
Medical Examiner; and 
(8) whether the District of Columbia ensured the 
proper and respectful burial of each child. 
SEC. 821. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used to enforce the District 
of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment’s 
December 29, 2023, final rule relating to ‘‘Adoption of 
California Vehicle Emission Standards’’. 
SEC. 822. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used by the District of Colum-
bia to enact or carry out any law which prohibits motorists 
from making right turns on red, including the Safer 
Streets Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-214). 
SEC. 823. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used to carry out title IX of 
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the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Support Act of 1996 (sec. 
50-2209.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code). 
SEC. 824. (a) Section 5 of the Corrections Oversight 
Improvement Omnibus Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. 
Law 24–344) is repealed, and the provision of law amend-
ed by such section (section 16–5505, D.C. Official Code) 
is restored as if such section had not been enacted into 
law. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in 
the enactment of the Corrections Oversight Improvement 
Omnibus Amendment Act of 2022. 
SEC. 825. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used to implement the Local 
Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022 (D. C. 
Law 24-344) or any activities related to enrolling or reg-
istering noncitizens into voter rolls for local elections. 
SEC. 826. An individual who has a valid weapons 
carry permit from any United States state or territory 
may possess and carry a concealed handgun in the area 
governed by the District of Columbia and Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 
SEC. 827. None of the funds available for obligation 
or expenditure by the District of Columbia government 
under any authority may be used to carry out the Com-
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prehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act 
of 2022 (D.C. Law 24–345). 
SEC. 828. Sections 102(a)(3) and 102(c)(1)(B) of the 
Youth Rehabilitation Amendment Act of 2018 (D.C. Law 
22–197) are hereby repealed, and any provision of law 
amended by these sections is hereby restored as if such 
sections had not been enacted into law. 
SEC. 829. None of the funds made available for obli-
gation or expenditure by the District of Columbia under 
any authority may be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any COVID–19 mask or vaccine mandate. 
SEC. 830. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 
in this Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, 
rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties 
associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any 
Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols de-
rivative. 
(b) No funds available for obligation or expenditure 
by the District of Columbia government under any author-
ity may be used to enact any law, rule, or regulation to 
legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 
possession, use, or distribution of any Schedule I sub-
stance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
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