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ministrative requirements for public housing agen-
cies in a selected region to— 
(A) form a consortium that has a single 
housing choice voucher funding contract; or 
(B) enter into a partial consortium to op-
erate all or portions of the Regional Housing 
Mobility Plan, which may include agencies par-
ticipating in the Moving To Work Demonstra-
tion program. 
(3) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—Any waiver or alter-
native requirements pursuant to this subsection shall 
not take effect before the expiration of the 10-day 
period beginning upon publication of notice of such 
waiver or alternative requirement in the Federal 
Register. 
(f) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary may imple-
ment the demonstration, including its terms, procedures, 
requirements, and conditions, by notice. 
(g) EVALUATION.—Not later than five years after im-
plementation of the regional housing mobility programs 
under the demonstration program under this section, the 
Secretary shall submit to the Congress and publish in the 
Federal Register a report evaluating the effectiveness of 
the strategies pursued under the demonstration, subject 
to the availability of funding to conduct the evaluation. 
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Through official websites and other methods, the Sec-
retary shall disseminate interim findings as they become 
available, and shall, if promising strategies are identified, 
notify the Congress of the amount of funds that would 
be required to expand the testing of these strategies in 
additional types of public housing agencies and housing 
markets. 
(h) TERMINATION.—The demonstration program 
under this section shall terminate on October 1, 2028. 
SEC. 236. Section 221 of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2015 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f–1; Public Law 113–235; 128 Stat 2754) is 
repealed. 
SEC. 237. The Promise Zone designations and Prom-
ise Zone Designation Agreements entered into pursuant 
to such designations, made by the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development in prior fiscal years, shall remain 
in effect in accordance with the terms and conditions of 
such agreements. 
SEC. 238. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to establish and apply review criteria, 
including rating factors or preference points, for participa-
tion in or coordination with EnVision Centers, in the eval-
uation, selection, and award of any funds made available 
and requiring competitive selection under this Act, except 
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with respect to any such funds otherwise authorized for 
EnVision Center purposes under this Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2019’’. 
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au-
thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
as amended, $8,400,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer-
chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), in-
cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $27,490,000: Provided, That 
not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
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NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $23,274,000: Provided, That the In-
spector General shall have all necessary authority, in car-
rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 
enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 
and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws 
and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That the Inspector General may select, ap-
point, and employ such officers and employees as may be 
necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du-
ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli-
cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap-
pointments, and employment within the Corporation: Pro-
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vided further, That concurrent with the President’s budget 
request for fiscal year 2020, the Inspector General shall 
submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations a budget request for fiscal year 2020 in similar 
format and substance to those submitted by executive 
agencies of the Federal Government. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902), $110,400,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses. The amounts made available to the National 
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments on an obligation in-
curred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
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as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $150,000,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro-
gram: Provided, That an additional $2,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2023, shall be for the pro-
motion and development of shared equity housing models. 
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $37,100,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees 
established by the Chairman of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as off-
setting collections and used for necessary and authorized 
expenses under this heading: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be 
reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting col-
lections are received during fiscal year 2019, to result in 
a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at 
no more than $35,850,000. 
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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $3,600,000: Provided, That the first proviso 
in Public Law 115–141 under the heading ‘‘United States 
Interagency Council on Homelessness—Operating Ex-
penses’’ is amended by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting 
‘‘2028’’. 
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through a pro-
curement contract pursuant 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 pro-
vided under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
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(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2019, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
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available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
programming of funds that— 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity by either the House or Senate Committees 
on Appropriations for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a 
branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, 
agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the joint explanatory statement accompanying this 
Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior ap-
proval is received from the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided, That not later 
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than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a 
report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and of the House of Representatives to es-
tablish the baseline for application of reprogram-
ming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal 
year: Provided further, That the report shall in-
clude— 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a 
separate column to display the prior year en-
acted level, the President’s budget request, ad-
justments made by Congress, adjustments due 
to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 
fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each ap-
propriation and its respective prior year enacted 
level by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in this Act, the table accom-
panying the explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act, accompanying reports of the 
House and Senate Committee on Appropria-
tions, or in the budget appendix for the respec-
tive appropriations, whichever is more detailed, 
and shall apply to all items for which a dollar 
amount is specified and to all programs for 
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which new budget (obligational) authority is 
provided, as well as to discretionary grants and 
discretionary grant allocations; and 
(C) an identification of items of special 
congressional interest. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2019 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2019 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2020, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for approval prior to the expenditure of such 
funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made 
in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under sec-
tion 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway 
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projects, as well as utility projects which benefit or serve 
the general public (including energy-related, communica-
tion-related, water-related and wastewater-related infra-
structure), other structures designated for use by the gen-
eral public or which have other common-carrier or public- 
utility functions that serve the general public and are sub-
ject to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his or her period of active military or naval service, 
and has within 90 days after his or her release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
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for a period of not more than 1 year, made application 
for restoration to his or her former position and has been 
certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still 
qualified to perform the duties of his or her former posi-
tion and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 410. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 8301–8305, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy 
American Act’’). 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305). 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier 
permit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, 
United States Code, or exemption application under sec-
tion 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding 
an air operators certificate issued by a country that is 
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party to the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport 
Agreement where such approval would contravene United 
States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Nor-
way Air Transport Agreement. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or 
otherwise preclude the Secretary of Transportation from 
granting a foreign air carrier permit or an exemption to 
such an air carrier where such authorization is consistent 
with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agree-
ment and United States law. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees of a single agency or de-
partment of the United States Government, who are sta-
tioned in the United States, at any single international 
conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 
5 days in advance that such attendance is important to 
the national interest: Provided, That for purposes of this 
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. 
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(c) Section 408(m)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 346a(m)(3)) shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘March 1, 2019’’ for ‘‘September 30, 
2017’’. 
TANF PROGRAM EXTENSIONS 
SEC. 203. (a) FAMILY ASSISTANCE GRANTS.—Sec-
tion 403(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
603(a)(1)) is amended in each of subparagraphs (A) and 
(C) by striking ‘‘2017 and 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2019 and 
2020’’. 
(b) HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROMOTION AND RESPON-
SIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTS.—Section 403(a)(2)(D) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)(D)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘2017 and 2018’’ and inserting 
‘‘2019 and 2020’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘for fiscal year 2017 or 2018’’. 
(c) CONTINGENCY FUND.—Section 403(b)(2) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 603(b)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2019 and 
2020’’. 
(d) TRIBAL FAMILY ASSISTANCE GRANTS.—Para-
graphs (1)(A) and (2)(A) of section 412(a) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 612(a)) are each amended by striking ‘‘2017 
and 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2019 and 2020’’. 
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