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section the term ‘‘international conference’’ shall mean a 
conference occurring outside of the United States attended 
by representatives of the United States Government and 
of foreign governments, international organizations, or 
nongovernmental organizations. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Surface Transportation Board to charge or collect any fil-
ing fee for rate or practice complaints filed with the Board 
in an amount in excess of the amount authorized for dis-
trict court civil suit filing fees under section 1914 of title 
28, United States Code. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Transportation, 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or 
any other Federal agency to lease or purchase new light 
duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s 
fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential 
Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 
24, 2011. 
SEC. 417. (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. 
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(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 crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 418. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to deny an Inspector General funded 
under this Act timely access to any records, documents, 
or other materials available to the department or agency 
over which that Inspector General has responsibilities 
under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), 
or to prevent or impede that Inspector General’s access 
to such records, documents, or other materials, under any 
provision of law, except a provision of law that expressly 
refers to the Inspector General and expressly limits the 
Inspector General’s right of access. 
(b) A department or agency covered by this section 
shall provide its Inspector General with access to all such 
records, documents, and other materials in a timely man-
ner. A department or agency shall not withhold or delay 
access by the Inspector General in order to conduct inter-
nal reviews of responsive documents, nor shall privileges 
preventing release of agency documents to third parties 
be a basis for withholding or delaying access to the Inspec-
tor General. 
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(c) Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance 
with statutory limitations on disclosure relevant to the in-
formation provided by the establishment over which that 
Inspector General has responsibilities under the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
(d) Each Inspector General covered by this section 
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 cal-
endar days any failures to comply with this requirement. 
Within 5 calendar days of the Inspector General’s report, 
the department or agency will provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate with an accounting of timeframe and efforts by the 
agency to provide OIG access. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to pay award 
or incentive fees for contractors whose performance has 
been judged to be below satisfactory, behind schedule, over 
budget, or has failed to meet the basic requirements of 
a contract, unless the Agency determines that any such 
deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government- 
driven scope changes, or are not significant within the 
overall scope of the project and/or program unless such 
awards or incentive fees are consistent with 16.401(e)(2) 
of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. 
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SEC. 420. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this division shall 
be treated as referring only to the provisions of this divi-
sion. 
SEC. 421. Any reference to a ‘‘report accompanying 
this Act’’ contained in this division shall be treated as a 
reference to House Report 116–106. The effect of such 
Report shall be limited to this division and shall apply for 
purposes of determining the allocation of funds provided 
by, and the implementation of, this division. 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 5309(d)(2) 
of title 49, United States Code. 
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available by this 
division may be used to issue rules or guidance in con-
travention of section 1210 of Public Law 115–254 (132 
Stat. 3442) or section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5155). 
SEC. 424. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 
13858. 
SEC. 425. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Railroad Passenger Cor-
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poration in contravention of the Worker Adjustment and 
Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.). 
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available by this 
division may be used to deny eligibility of a single family 
mortgage for insurance under title II of the National 
Housing Act on the basis of the status of the mortgagor 
as an alien in deferred action status pursuant to the De-
ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (‘DACA’) Program 
announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on 
June 15, 2012. 
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 
division may be used in contravention of section 2635.702 
of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 428. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out section 4(b) of Executive 
Order No. 13868 or to issue a special permit under section 
107.105 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, that al-
lows liquified natural gas to move by rail tank car. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2020’’. 
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DIVISION 
F—FAIR 
COMPENSA-
TION FOR LOW-WAGE CON-
TRACTOR 
EMPLOYEES 
ACT 
OF 2019 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Compensation 
for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. APPROPRIATION. 
There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as 
may be necessary, to remain available until expended, for 
each Federal agency subject to the lapse in appropriations 
that began on or about December 22, 2018, for adjust-
ments in the price of contracts of such agency under sec-
tion 3. 
SEC. 3. BACK COMPENSATION FOR LOW-WAGE EMPLOYEES 
OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS IN CONNEC-
TION WITH THE LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal agency subject to 
the lapse in appropriations that began on or about Decem-
ber 22, 2018, shall adjust the price of any contract of such 
agency for which the contractor was ordered to suspend, 
delay, or interrupt all or part of the work of such contract, 
or stop all or any part of the work called for in such con-
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tract, as a result of the lapse in appropriations to com-
pensate the contractor for reasonable costs incurred— 
(1) to provide compensation, at an employee’s 
standard rate of compensation, to any employee who 
was furloughed or laid off, or who was not working, 
who experienced a reduction of hours, or who experi-
enced a reduction in compensation, as a result of the 
lapse in appropriations (for the period of the lapse); 
or 
(2) to restore paid leave taken by any employee 
during the lapse in appropriations, if the contractor 
required employees to use paid leave as a result of 
the lapse in appropriations. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON AMOUNT
OF WEEKLY COM-
PENSATION COVERED BY ADJUSTMENT.—The maximum 
amount of weekly compensation of an employee for which 
an adjustment may be made under subsection (a) may not 
exceed the lesser of— 
(1) the employee’s actual weekly compensation; 
or 
(2) $965. 
(c) TIMING OF ADJUSTMENTS.—The adjustments re-
quired by subsection (a) shall be made as soon as prac-
ticable after the enactment of this Act. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) The term ‘‘compensation’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 6701 of title 41, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘employee’’ means the following: 
(A) A ‘‘service employee’’ as that term is 
defined in section 6701(3) of title 41, United 
States Code, except that the term also includes 
service employees described in subparagraph 
(C) of that section notwithstanding that sub-
paragraph. 
(B) A ‘‘laborer or mechanic’’ covered by 
section 3142 of title 40, United States Code. 
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This division shall take effect upon the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 5. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
(a) CLASSIFICATION
OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— 
Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
the committee of conference accompanying Conference Re-
port 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the 
budgetary effects of this division shall not be estimated— 
(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act; and 
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(2) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 
3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as 
being included in an appropriation Act. 
(b) DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— 
The budgetary effects of this division, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
division, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, 
provided that such statement has been submitted prior to 
the vote on passage. 
DIVISION G—EMPLOYMENT AUTHORITY 
SEC. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
an entity may use amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available under the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2020, to pay the compensation of an officer or 
employee without regard to the officer’s or employee’s im-
migration status if the officer or employee has been issued 
an employment authorization document under the De-
ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program of the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, established pursuant to the 
memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
entitled ‘‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect 
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to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Chil-
dren’’, dated June 15, 2012. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or regulation, an alien who is authorized to be employed 
in the United States pursuant to the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program established under the memo-
randum of the Secretary of Homeland Security dated 
June 15, 2012, shall be eligible for employment by the 
Government (including any entity the majority of the 
stock of which is owned by the Government). 
Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2019. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 141 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3055 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2020, and for other purposes. 
JULY 10, 2019 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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