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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the International Trade Commission, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as author-
ized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and not to 
exceed $2,250 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$122,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which not 
less than $2,096,176 shall be for the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 401 
et seq.). 
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out 
the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, 
$540,000,000, of which $496,300,000 is for basic field programs 
and required independent audits; $6,000,000 is for the Office of 
Inspector General, of which such amounts as may be necessary 
may be used to conduct additional audits of recipients; $26,200,000 
is for management and grants oversight; $4,750,000 is for client 
self-help and information technology; $4,750,000 is for a Pro Bono 
Innovation Fund; and $2,000,000 is for loan repayment assistance: 
Provided, That the budget execution for the payment to the Legal 
Services Corporation shall be carried out in this fiscal year in 
the same manner as such budget execution was carried out in 
fiscal year 2024 and such payment shall be made in full as an 
annual installment paid to the Corporation at the beginning of 
the fiscal year in such amounts as specified under this heading: 
Provided further, That the Legal Services Corporation may continue 
to provide locality pay to officers and employees at a rate no 
greater than that provided by the Federal Government to Wash-
ington, DC-based employees as authorized by section 5304 of title 
5, United States Code, notwithstanding section 1005(d) of the Legal 
Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996d(d)): Provided further, 
That the authorities provided in section 205 of this Act shall be 
applicable to the Legal Services Corporation: Provided further, That, 
for the purposes of section 505 of this Act, the Legal Services 
Corporation shall be considered an agency of the United States 
Government. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services 
Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited 
by, or contrary to any of the provisions of, sections 501, 502, 
503, 504, 505, and 506 of Public Law 105–119, and all funds 
appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall 
be subject to the same terms and conditions set forth in such 
sections, except that all references in sections 502 and 503 to 
1997 and 1998 shall be deemed to refer instead to 2025 and 2026, 
respectively. 
Section 501 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998
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(Public Law 105–119) is amended by adding the following new 
subsection at the end: 
‘‘(d) MODIFIED GOVERNING BODY REQUIREMENT.—For purposes 
of this Act, section 1007(c) of the Legal Services Corporation Act 
(42 U.S.C. 2996f(c)) shall be applied by substituting ‘33 percent’ 
for ‘60 percent’.’’. 
Section 502(2) of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(Public Law 104–134) is amended by striking subparagraph (B) 
in its entirety and replacing it with the following: 
‘‘(B) is governed by a board of directors or other gov-
erning body, 33 percent of which is comprised of attorneys 
who are members of the bar of a State, as defined in 
section 1002(8) of the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 
U.S.C. 2996a(8)), in which the legal assistance is to be 
provided;’’. 
MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Commission 
as authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal Protection Act 
of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), $4,300,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027. 
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the United States Trade 
Representative, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
the employment of experts and consultants as authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, $65,000,000, of which $1,000,000 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total 
amount made available under this heading, not to exceed $124,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses. 
TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities of the United States Trade Representative author-
ized by section 611 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement 
Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405), including transfers, $23,000,000, 
to be derived from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund: Provided, 
That any transfer pursuant to subsection (d)(1) of such section 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 
Act. 
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, as author-
ized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10701 
et seq.) $7,640,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall
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be available for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided further, That, for the purposes of section 505 of this Act, 
the State Justice Institute shall be considered an agency of the 
United States Government. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized 
by the Congress. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 503. 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. 504. If any provision of this Act or the application of 
such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, 
the remainder of the Act and the application of each provision 
to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is 
held invalid shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 505. (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 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 that: (1) creates 
or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (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; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes or renames offices, programs, or activities; (6) contracts out 
or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by 
Federal employees; (7) augments existing programs, projects, or 
activities in excess of $500,000 or 5 percent, whichever is less, 
or reduces by 5 percent funding for any program, project, or activity, 
or numbers of personnel by 5 percent; (8) results from any general 
savings, including savings from a reduction in personnel, which 
would result in a change in existing programs, projects, or activities 
as approved by Congress; unless the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations are notified 30 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
SEC. 506. (a) If it has been finally determined by a court 
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label 
bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with 
the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United 
States that is not made in the United States, the person shall 
be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with
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funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, 
suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
(b)(1) To the extent practicable, with respect to authorized 
purchases of promotional items, funds made available by this Act 
shall be used to purchase items that are manufactured, produced, 
or assembled in the United States, its territories or possessions. 
(2) The term ‘‘promotional items’’ has the meaning given the 
term in OMB Circular A–87, Attachment B, Item (1)(f)(3). 
SEC. 507. (a) The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the 
National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration shall provide to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly 
report on the status of balances of appropriations at the account 
level. For unobligated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, com-
mitted balances the quarterly reports shall separately identify the 
amounts attributable to each source year of appropriation from 
which the balances were derived. For balances that are obligated, 
but unexpended, the quarterly reports shall separately identify 
amounts by the year of obligation. 
(b) The report described in subsection (a) shall be submitted 
within 30 days of the end of each quarter. 
(c) If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any aspect 
of a reporting requirement described in subsection (a) due to a 
limitation of a current accounting system, the department or agency 
shall fulfill such aspect to the maximum extent practicable under 
such accounting system and shall identify and describe in each 
quarterly report the extent to which such aspect is not fulfilled. 
SEC. 508. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded 
under this Act resulting from, or to prevent, personnel actions 
taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such 
department or agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer 
funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary to 
carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities included 
elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry 
out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds 
under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section: Provided further, That for the Department of Com-
merce, this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care 
and protection of loan collateral or grant property. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be 
available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco prod-
ucts, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country 
of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, 
except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco 
or tobacco products of the same type. 
SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 
deposited or available in the Fund established by section 1402 
of chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101) 
in any fiscal year in excess of $1,950,000,000 shall not be available 
for obligation until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts available 
from the Fund for obligation: (1) $10,000,000 shall be transferred 
to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and remain