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eral Act of 1978, as amended, $113,000,000: Provided, 
That the Inspector General shall have all necessary au-
thority, in carrying out the duties specified in the Inspec-
tor General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), to inves-
tigate 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 Department of Trans-
portation: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to 
impede or prevent the Inspector General (or Acting In-
spector General) of the Department of Transportation 
from exercising the independent authority over all per-
sonnel decisions, as authorized under section 406 of title 
5, United States Code. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applica-
ble appropriations to the Department of Transportation 
shall be available for maintenance and operation of air-
craft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; pur-
chase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating 
in foreign countries on official department business; and 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code.
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(b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appro-
priations to the Department and its operating administra-
tions shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, op-
eration, and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems 
that advance the missions of the Department of Transpor-
tation or an operating administration of the Department 
of Transportation. 
(c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased, pro-
cured, or contracted for by the Department prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act shall be deemed authorized 
by Congress as if this provision was in effect when the 
system was purchased, procured, or contracted for. 
SEC. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for 
the Department of Transportation shall be available for 
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the 
per diem rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level 
IV. 
SEC. 182. (a) No recipient of amounts made available 
by this Act shall disseminate personal information (as de-
fined in section 2725(3) of title 18, United States Code) 
obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in con-
nection with a motor vehicle record as defined in section 
2725(1) of title 18, United States Code, except as pro-
vided in section 2721 of title 18, United States Code, for
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a use permitted under section 2721 of title 18, United 
States Code. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall not withhold amounts made available by this Act for 
any grantee if a State is in noncompliance with this provi-
sion. 
SEC. 183. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be available for salaries and expenses of more 
than 125 political and Presidential appointees in the De-
partment of Transportation: Provided, That none of the 
personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on 
temporary detail outside the Department of Transpor-
tation. 
SEC. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway 
Administration and Federal Railroad Administration from 
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, 
and private sources for expenses incurred for training may 
be credited respectively to the Federal Highway Adminis-
tration’s ‘‘Federal-Aid Highways’’ account and to the Fed-
eral Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Operations’’ 
account, except for State rail safety inspectors partici-
pating in training pursuant to section 20105 of title 49, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 185. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or in title VIII of division J of Public Law 117–58
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to the Department of Transportation may be used to 
make, withdraw, terminate, or rescind (except at the re-
quest of the recipient) a loan, loan guarantee, line of cred-
it, letter of intent, federally funded cooperative agreement, 
full funding grant agreement, or discretionary grant un-
less the Secretary of Transportation notifies the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 
3 full business days before any project competitively se-
lected to receive any discretionary grant award, letter of 
intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line 
of credit commitment, federally funded cooperative agree-
ment, or full funding grant agreement is announced or is 
notified of such changes by the Department or its oper-
ating administrations: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation shall provide the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations with a comprehensive list of all 
such loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, letters of in-
tent, federally funded cooperative agreements, full funding 
grant agreements, and discretionary grants prior to the 
notification required under the preceding proviso: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary gives concurrent notifi-
cation to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions for any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds from the emergency 
relief program: Provided further, That no notification shall 
involve funds that are not available for obligation.
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SEC. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, 
minor fees, and other funds received by the Department 
of Transportation from travel management centers, 
charge card programs, the subleasing of building space, 
and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropria-
tions of the Department of Transportation and allocated 
to organizational units of the Department of Transpor-
tation using fair and equitable criteria and such funds 
shall be available until expended. 
SEC. 187. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, if any funds provided by or limited by this Act are 
subject to a reprogramming action that requires notice to 
be provided to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, transmission of such reprogramming notice 
shall be provided solely to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations, and such reprogramming action 
shall be approved or denied solely by the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That the 
Secretary of Transportation may provide notice to other 
congressional committees of the action of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations on such reprogram-
ming but not sooner than 30 days after the date on which 
the reprogramming action has been approved or denied by 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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SEC. 188. Funds appropriated by this Act to the op-
erating administrations may be obligated for the Office of 
the Secretary for the costs related to assessments or reim-
bursable agreements only when such amounts are for the 
costs of goods and services that are purchased to provide 
a direct benefit to the applicable operating administration 
or administrations. 
SEC. 189. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to carry out a program that establishes uniform 
standards for developing and supporting agency transit 
pass and transit benefits authorized under section 7905 
of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of 
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media. 
SEC. 190. The Department of Transportation may 
use funds provided by this Act, or any other Act, to assist 
a contract under title 49 or 23 of the United States Code 
utilizing geographic, economic, or any other hiring pref-
erence not otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a 
rule, regulation, policy or other measure that forbids a re-
cipient of a Federal Highway Administration or Federal 
Transit Administration grant from imposing such hiring 
preference on a contract or construction project with 
which the Department of Transportation is assisting, only 
if the grant recipient certifies the following:
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(1) that except with respect to apprentices or 
trainees, a pool of readily available but unemployed 
individuals possessing the knowledge, skill, and abil-
ity to perform the work that the contract requires 
resides in the jurisdiction; 
(2) that the grant recipient will include appro-
priate provisions in its bid document ensuring that 
the contractor does not displace any of its existing 
employees in order to satisfy such hiring preference; 
and 
(3) that any increase in the cost of labor, train-
ing, or delays resulting from the use of such hiring 
preference does not delay or displace any transpor-
tation project in the applicable statewide transpor-
tation improvement program or transportation im-
provement program. 
SEC. 191. The Secretary of Transportation shall co-
ordinate with the Secretaries of Homeland Security and 
Commerce to ensure that best practices for Industrial 
Control Systems Procurement are up-to-date and are con-
sidered for all systems procured with funds provided under 
this title. 
SEC. 192. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of the American Secu-
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rity Drone Act of 2023 (subtitle B of title XVIII of divi-
sion A of Public Law 118–31). 
SEC. 193. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available by this title for the Department of Transpor-
tation for fiscal year 2026 may be used to enforce a mask 
mandate in response to the COVID–19 virus. 
SEC. 194. The Secretary shall issue a new notice of 
funding opportunity for six new university transportation 
centers, as authorized under section 5505 of title 49, 
United States Code: Provided, That in selecting such uni-
versity transportation center awards, the Secretary shall 
first prioritize (a) any applicants that had previously been 
selected as a university transportation center focusing on 
transportation infrastructure durability and composite 
materials and were required to re-compete before the end 
of the typical 5-year term and who currently participate 
in the Department of Transportation’s Advanced Research 
Projects Agency—Infrastructure program and (b) any ap-
plicant that had their university transportation center des-
ignation cancelled in May 2025 by the Department of 
Transportation and such university transportation center 
designation remains cancelled on the date of enactment 
of this Act: Provided further, That such university trans-
portation center awards shall be made available using any 
unobligated amounts remaining from the university trans-
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portation centers program, which have not been committed 
to any existing university transportation center grantees: 
Provided further, That any such unobligated amounts shall 
include funds made available in section 11101(c)(1)(E) of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 
117–58) and funds made available under the heading 
‘‘Federal Highway Administration—Highway Infrastruc-
ture Programs’’ in title VIII of division J of the Infra-
structure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58): 
Provided further, That amounts repurposed or transferred 
pursuant to this section shall continue to be treated as 
amounts specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public 
Law 118–5. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation Appropriations Act, 2026’’.
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TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
EXECUTIVE OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Of-
fices, which shall be comprised of the offices of the Sec-
retary, Deputy Secretary, Adjudicatory Services, Congres-
sional and Intergovernmental Relations, Public Affairs, 
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the 
Center for Faith, $17,500,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading not less than $2,500,000 shall 
be for the Office of the Deputy Secretary, of which not 
less than $500,000 shall be for the Office of Gender-Based 
Violence Prevention and not less than $1,500,000 shall 
be for the Office of Disaster Management: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made 
available under this heading shall be available to the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development (referred to 
in this title as ‘‘the Secretary’’) for official reception and 
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine. 
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administra-
tive Support Offices, $595,000,000, to remain available
510
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the sums ap-
propriated under this heading—
(1) $103,200,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Chief Financial Officer; 
(2) $93,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the General Counsel; 
(3) $218,000,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Administration; 
(4) $53,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Human Capital Officer; 
(5) $29,500,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Procurement Officer; 
(6) $40,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Field Policy and Management; 
(7) $3,300,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; 
and 
(8) $55,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Information Officer: 
Provided further, That funds made available under this 
heading may be used for necessary administrative and 
non-administrative expenses of the Department, not other-
wise provided for, including purchase of uniforms, or al-
lowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 
5902 of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger
511
motor vehicles; and services as authorized by section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated under this heading may be used for advertising 
and promotional activities that directly support program 
activities funded in this title: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available by this or any prior Act may 
be used in contravention of section 3535(p) of title 42, 
United States Code. 
PROGRAM OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Program Of-
fices, $842,500,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2027: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under 
this heading—
(1) $233,000,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Public and Indian Housing; 
(2) $129,000,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Community Planning and Development; 
(3) $380,000,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Housing; 
(4) $31,500,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Policy Development and Research; 
(5) $60,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; and
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(6) $9,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND 
For Department-wide and program-specific informa-
tion technology systems and infrastructure, $345,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, 
That not later than 30 days after the end of each quarter, 
the Secretary shall brief the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations on all information technology mod-
ernization efforts as required in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act). 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the working capital fund for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development (referred to in this para-
graph as the ‘‘Fund’’), pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred, including 
reimbursements pursuant to section 7(f), to the Fund 
under this heading shall be available only for Federal 
shared services used by offices and agencies of the Depart-
ment, and for any such portion of any office or agency’s 
printing, records management, space renovation, fur-
niture, or supply services the Secretary has determined
513
shall be provided through the Fund, and the operational 
expenses of the Fund: Provided, That amounts within the 
Fund shall not be available to provide services not specifi-
cally authorized under this heading: Provided further, 
That upon a determination by the Secretary that any 
other service (or portion thereof) authorized under this 
heading shall be provided through the Fund, amounts 
made available in this title for salaries and expenses under 
the headings ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Administrative Sup-
port Offices’’, ‘‘Program Offices’’, and ‘‘Government Na-
tional Mortgage Association’’, for such services shall be 
transferred to the Fund, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That the Secretary shall notify 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of 
its plans for executing such transfers at least 15 days in 
advance of such transfers. 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of ten-
ant-based rental assistance authorized under the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
et seq.) (in this heading ‘‘the Act’’), not otherwise pro-
vided for, $34,438,557,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, which shall be available on October 1, 2025 (in 
addition to the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated
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under this heading that shall be available on October 1, 
2025), and $4,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, which shall be available on October 1, 2026: Pro-
vided, That of the sums appropriated under this head-
ing—
(1) $34,957,000,000 shall be available for re-
newals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual 
contributions contracts (including renewals of en-
hanced vouchers under any provision of law author-
izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) 
and including renewal of other special purpose incre-
mental vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, from amounts provided 
under this paragraph and any carryover, the Sec-
retary for the calendar year 2026 funding cycle shall 
provide renewal funding for each public housing 
agency based on validated voucher management sys-
tem (VMS) or successor system leasing and cost 
data for the prior calendar year and by applying an 
inflation factor as established by the Secretary, by 
notice published in the Federal Register, and by 
making any necessary adjustments for the costs as-
sociated with the first-time renewal of vouchers 
under this paragraph including tenant protection 
and choice neighborhoods vouchers: Provided further,
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That none of the funds provided under this para-
graph may be used to fund a total number of unit 
months under lease which exceeds a public housing 
agency’s authorized level of units under contract, ex-
cept for public housing agencies participating in the 
moving to work (MTW) demonstration, which are in-
stead governed in accordance with the requirements 
of the MTW demonstration program or their MTW 
agreements, if any, or as necessary on a temporary 
basis and within available resources to facilitate the 
transition of residents assisted by emergency hous-
ing vouchers (Public Law 117–2; 135 Stat. 58) to 
tenant-based rental assistance under the housing as-
sistance payment contract under section 8(o) of the 
Act: Provided further, That any leasing or associated 
costs authorized for emergency housing vouchers in 
the preceding proviso above the public housing agen-
cy’s authorized level of units under contract shall 
not be included in the calculation of the agency’s re-
newal funding allocation for any subsequent fiscal 
year: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to 
the extent necessary to stay within the amount spec-
ified under this paragraph (except as otherwise 
modified under this paragraph), prorate each public 
housing agency’s allocation otherwise established
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pursuant to this paragraph: Provided further, That 
except as provided in the following provisos, the en-
tire amount specified under this paragraph (except 
as otherwise modified under this paragraph) shall be 
obligated to the public housing agencies based on the 
allocation and pro rata method described above, and 
the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of 
their annual budget by the latter of 60 days after 
enactment of this Act or March 1, 2026: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may extend the notifica-
tion period only after the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations are notified at least 10 
business days in advance of the deadline: Provided 
further, That public housing agencies participating 
in the MTW demonstration shall be funded in ac-
cordance with the requirements of the MTW dem-
onstration program or their MTW agreements, if 
any, and shall be subject to the same pro rata ad-
justments under the preceding provisos: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may perform a statutory 
offset of public housing agencies’ calendar year 2026 
allocations based on the excess amounts of public 
housing agencies’ net restricted assets accounts, in-
cluding HUD-held programmatic reserves (in ac-
cordance with VMS or successor system data in cal-
517
endar year 2025 that is verifiable and complete), as 
determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That 
public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
demonstration shall also be subject to the statutory 
offset: Provided further, That for amounts subject to 
the single fund budget authority provisions of their 
MTW agreements, excess amounts shall be offset 
only to the extent permitted by section 239 of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 
114–113): Provided further, That for public housing 
agencies in the MTW demonstration subject to sin-
gle fund budget authority provisions, the Secretary 
shall provide not less than 60 days to appeal such 
offsets and shall not offset amounts that have been 
committed to capital improvement, development, and 
other repositioning activities that are scheduled to 
close within 12 months of enactment of this Act, as 
evidenced in funding applications, project schedules, 
or other commitments to third parties implementing 
such activities, to the extent that reserve amounts 
excluded from offset under such section 239 are in-
sufficient to cover such commitments: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall not offset any portion 
of a public housing agency’s excess amounts if off-
setting such portion would result in a public housing
518
agency being put in a shortfall position in calendar 
year 2026, as estimated by HUD prior to the off-
set’s implementation, as determined by the Sec-
retary: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
use any such offset amounts referred to in the pre-
ceding five provisos throughout the calendar year to 
prevent the termination of rental assistance for fam-
ilies as the result of insufficient funding, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the 
proration of renewal funding allocations: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may waive or specify al-
ternative requirements for section 5A and section 
8(o) of the Act or any regulation applicable to such 
statutes related to the administration of waiting 
lists, local preferences, portability, and public hous-
ing agency plan and public hearing requirements to 
facilitate or expedite the transition of residents as-
sisted by emergency housing vouchers (Public Law 
117–2; 135 Stat. 58) to tenant-based rental assist-
ance under the housing assistance payment contract 
under section 8(o) of the Act: Provided further, That 
up to $400,000,000 shall be available only: 
(A) for adjustments in the allocations for 
public housing agencies, after application for an 
adjustment by a public housing agency that ex-
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perienced a significant increase, as determined 
by the Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers 
resulting from unforeseen circumstances or 
from portability under section 8(r) of the Act; 
(B) for vouchers that were not in use dur-
ing the previous 12-month period in order to be 
available to meet a commitment pursuant to 
section 8(o)(13) of the Act, or an adjustment 
for a funding obligation not yet expended in the 
previous calendar year for a MTW-eligible ac-
tivity to develop affordable housing for an agen-
cy added to the MTW demonstration under the 
expansion authority provided in section 239 of 
the Transportation, Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division L of Public Law 114–113); 
(C) for adjustments for costs associated 
with HUD–Veterans Affairs Supportive Hous-
ing (HUD–VASH) vouchers; 
(D) for public housing agencies that de-
spite taking reasonable cost savings measures, 
as determined by the Secretary, would other-
wise be required to terminate rental assistance 
for families as a result of insufficient funding;
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(E) for adjustments in the allocations for 
public housing agencies that—
(i) are leasing a lower-than-average 
percentage of their authorized vouchers, 
(ii) have low amounts of budget au-
thority in their net restricted assets ac-
counts and HUD-held programmatic re-
serves, relative to other agencies, and 
(iii) are not participating in the MTW 
demonstration, to enable such agencies to 
lease more vouchers; 
(F) for withheld payments in accordance 
with section 8(o)(8)(A)(ii) of the Act for 
months in the previous calendar year that were 
subsequently paid by the public housing agency 
after the agency’s actual costs were validated; 
(G) for public housing agencies that have 
experienced increased costs or loss of units in 
an area for which the President declared a dis-
aster under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.); and 
(H) for costs associated with mainstream 
vouchers:
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Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate 
amounts under the preceding proviso based on need, 
as determined by the Secretary; 
(2) $600,622,000 shall be available for section 
8 rental assistance for relocation and replacement of 
housing units that are demolished or disposed of 
pursuant to section 18 of the Act, conversion of sec-
tion 23 projects to assistance under section 8, relo-
cation of witnesses (including victims of violent 
crimes) in connection with efforts to combat crime 
in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request 
from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, en-
hanced vouchers under any provision of law author-
izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act, 
choice neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and vol-
untary conversions, and tenant protection assistance 
including replacement and relocation assistance or 
for project-based assistance to prevent the displace-
ment of unassisted elderly tenants currently residing 
in section 202 properties financed between 1959 and 
1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 
106–569, as amended, or under the authority as 
provided under this Act: Provided, That when a pub-
lic housing development is submitted for demolition 
or disposition under section 18 of the Act, the Sec-
522
retary may provide section 8 rental assistance when 
the units pose an imminent health and safety risk to 
residents: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
provide section 8 rental assistance from amounts 
made available under this paragraph for units as-
sisted under a project-based subsidy contract funded 
under the ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’ head-
ing under this title where the owner has received a 
Notice of Default and the units pose an imminent 
health and safety risk to residents: Provided further, 
That of the amounts made available under this para-
graph, no less than $5,000,000 may be available to 
provide tenant protection assistance, not otherwise 
provided under this paragraph, to residents residing 
in low vacancy areas and who may have to pay rents 
greater than 30 percent of household income, as the 
result of: (A) the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-
held or section 202 loan that requires the permission 
of the Secretary prior to loan prepayment; (B) the 
expiration of a rental assistance contract for which 
the tenants are not eligible for enhanced voucher or 
tenant protection assistance under existing law; or 
(C) the expiration of affordability restrictions accom-
panying a mortgage or preservation program admin-
istered by the Secretary: Provided further, That such
523
tenant protection assistance made available under 
the preceding proviso may be provided under the au-
thority of section 8(t) or section 8(o)(13) of the Act: 
Provided further, That any tenant protection voucher 
made available from amounts under this paragraph 
shall not be reissued by any public housing agency, 
except the replacement vouchers as defined by the 
Secretary by notice, when the initial family that re-
ceived any such voucher no longer receives such 
voucher, and the authority for any public housing 
agency to issue any such voucher shall cease to exist: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may only pro-
vide replacement vouchers for units that were occu-
pied within the previous 24 months that cease to be 
available as assisted housing, subject only to the 
availability of funds: Provided further, That amounts 
made available under this paragraph may be avail-
able to provide calendar year 2026 assistance to 
public housing agencies that would otherwise be re-
quired to terminate emergency housing vouchers 
(Public Law 117–2; 135 Stat. 58) for families as a 
result of insufficient funding; 
(3) $2,835,935,000 shall be available for ad-
ministrative and other expenses of public housing 
agencies in administering the section 8 tenant-based
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rental 
assistance 
program, 
of 
which 
up 
to 
$30,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to al-
locate to public housing agencies that need addi-
tional funds to administer their section 8 programs, 
including fees associated with section 8 tenant pro-
tection rental assistance, the administration of dis-
aster related vouchers, HUD–VASH vouchers, and 
other special purpose incremental vouchers: Pro-
vided, That no less than $2,805,935,000 of the 
amount provided in this paragraph shall be allocated 
to public housing agencies for the calendar year 
2026 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act 
(and related appropriations Act provisions) as in ef-
fect immediately before the enactment of the Quality 
Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Pub-
lic Law 105–276): Provided further, That if the 
amounts made available under this paragraph are 
insufficient to pay the amounts determined under 
the preceding proviso, the Secretary may decrease 
the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform per-
centage applicable to all agencies receiving funding 
under this paragraph or may, to the extent nec-
essary to provide full payment of amounts deter-
mined under the preceding proviso, utilize unobli-
gated balances, including recaptures and carryover,
525
remaining from funds appropriated under this head-
ing from prior fiscal years, excluding special purpose 
vouchers, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such amounts were appropriated: Provided further, 
That all public housing agencies participating in the 
MTW demonstration shall be funded in accordance 
with the requirements of the MTW demonstration 
program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall 
be subject to the same uniform percentage decrease 
as under the preceding proviso: Provided further, 
That amounts provided under this paragraph shall 
be only for activities related to the provision of ten-
ant-based rental assistance authorized under section 
8, including related development activities; 
(4) $15,000,000 shall be available for incre-
mental rental voucher assistance for use through a 
supported housing program administered in conjunc-
tion with the Department of Veterans Affairs as au-
thorized under section 8(o)(19) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development shall make such 
funding available, notwithstanding section 203 (com-
petition provision) of this title, to public housing 
agencies that partner with eligible VA medical cen-
ters or other entities as designated by the Secretary
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of the Department of Veterans Affairs, based on 
geographical need for such assistance as identified 
by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, public housing agency administrative perform-
ance, and other factors as specified by the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development in consultation 
with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development may waive, or 
specify alternative requirements for (in consultation 
with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs), any provision of any statute or regulation 
that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment administers in connection with the use of 
funds made available under this paragraph (except 
for requirements related to fair housing, non-
discrimination, labor standards, and the environ-
ment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any 
such waivers or alternative requirements are nec-
essary for the effective delivery and administration 
of such voucher assistance: Provided further, That 
assistance made available under this paragraph shall 
continue to remain available for homeless veterans 
upon turn-over: Provided further, That of the total 
amount made available under this paragraph, up to
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$10,000,000 may be for additional fees established 
by and allocated pursuant to a method determined 
by the Secretary for administrative and other ex-
penses (including those eligible activities defined by 
notice to facilitate leasing, such as security deposit 
assistance and costs related to the retention and 
support of participating owners) of public housing 
agencies in administering HUD–VASH vouchers; 
(5) $30,000,000 shall be available for the fam-
ily unification program as authorized under section 
8(x) of the Act: Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this paragraph are provided as fol-
lows: 
(A) $5,000,000 shall be available for new 
incremental voucher assistance, which shall con-
tinue to remain available for family unification 
upon turnover; and 
(B) $25,000,000 shall be available for new 
incremental voucher assistance to assist eligible 
youth as defined by such section 8(x)(2)(B) of 
the Act, which shall continue to remain avail-
able for such eligible youth upon turnover: Pro-
vided, That such amounts shall be available on 
a noncompetitive basis to public housing agen-
cies that partner with public child welfare agen-
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cies to identify such eligible youth, that request 
such assistance to timely assist such eligible 
youth, and that meet any other criteria as spec-
ified by the Secretary: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall review utilization of such as-
sistance and assistance originating from appro-
priations made available for youth under this 
heading in any prior Act that the Secretary 
made available on a noncompetitive basis, at an 
interval to be determined by the Secretary, and 
unutilized voucher assistance that is no longer 
needed based on such review shall be recaptured 
by the Secretary and reallocated pursuant to 
the preceding proviso: 
Provided further, That any public housing agency 
administering new incremental voucher assistance 
originating from appropriations made available for 
the family unification program under this heading in 
this or any prior Act that the Secretary made avail-
able on a competitive basis that determines it no 
longer has an identified need for such assistance 
upon turnover shall notify the Secretary, and the 
Secretary shall recapture such assistance from the 
agency and reallocate it to any other public housing 
agency or agencies based on need for voucher assist-
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ance in connection with such specified program or 
eligible youth, as applicable; and 
(6) the Secretary shall separately track all spe-
cial purpose vouchers funded under this heading and 
continue to provide timely updates on budget, utili-
zation, spending and leasing trends for all vouchers 
by purpose on the voucher data dashboard on the 
publicly accessible website of the Department: Pro-
vided, That upon turnover, special purpose vouchers 
issued pursuant to section 811 of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013) funded under this or any other heading in 
this or prior Acts, shall be provided to non-elderly 
persons with disabilities. 
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
Unobligated balances, including recaptures and car-
ryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development under this 
heading, the heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted 
Housing’’ and the heading ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assist-
ance’’, for fiscal year 2026 and prior years may be used 
for renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based 
contracts and for performance-based contract administra-
tors, notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds
530
were appropriated: Provided, That any obligated balances 
of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior fiscal 
years that have been terminated shall be rescinded: Pro-
vided further, That amounts heretofore recaptured, or re-
captured during the current fiscal year, from section 8 
project-based contracts from source years fiscal year 1975 
through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an 
amount of additional new budget authority, equivalent to 
the amount rescinded is hereby appropriated, to remain 
available until expended, for the purposes set forth under 
this heading, in addition to amounts otherwise available. 
PUBLIC HOUSING FUND 
For 2026 payments to public housing agencies for the 
operation and management of public housing, as author-
ized by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)) (the ‘‘Act’’), and to carry out 
capital and management activities for public housing 
agencies, as authorized under section 9(d) of the Act (42 
U.S.C. 1437g(d)), $8,319,393,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2029: Provided, That of the sums ap-
propriated under this heading—
(1) $4,687,393,000 shall be available for the 
Secretary to allocate pursuant to the operating fund 
formula at part 990 of title 24, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for 2026 payments;
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(2) $337,000,000 shall be available for the Sec-
retary to allocate pursuant to a need-based applica-
tion process, notwithstanding section 203 of this 
title, not subject to such operating fund formula, 
and without regard to unit count, to public housing 
agencies that experience, or are at risk of, financial 
shortfalls, as determined by the Secretary: Provided, 
That the Secretary shall notify public housing agen-
cies of their estimated shortfall eligibility no later 
than 60 days of the enactment of this Act; 
(3) $3,200,000,000 shall be available for the 
Secretary to allocate pursuant to the capital fund 
formula at section 905.400 of title 24, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations: Provided, That for funds described 
under this paragraph, the limitation in section 
9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 percent: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may waive the limitation in 
the preceding proviso to allow public housing agen-
cies to fund activities authorized under section 
9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall notify public housing agencies re-
questing waivers under the preceding proviso if the 
request is approved or denied within 14 days of sub-
mitting the request: Provided further, That from the 
funds made available under this paragraph, the Sec-
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retary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal year 
2026 to public housing agencies that are designated 
high performers: Provided further, That the Depart-
ment shall notify public housing agencies of their 
formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of 
this Act; 
(4) $30,000,000 shall be available for the Sec-
retary to make grants, notwithstanding section 203 
of this title, to public housing agencies for emer-
gency capital needs, including safety and security 
measures necessary to address crime and drug-re-
lated activity, as well as needs resulting from unfore-
seen or unpreventable emergencies and natural dis-
asters excluding Presidentially declared emergencies 
and natural disasters under the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 
et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 2026: Provided, That 
of the amount made available under this paragraph, 
not less than $10,000,000 shall be for safety and se-
curity measures: Provided further, That in addition 
to the amount in the preceding proviso for such 
safety and security measures, any amounts that re-
main available, after all applications received on or 
before September 30, 2027, for emergency capital 
needs have been processed, shall be allocated to pub-
533
lic housing agencies for such safety and security 
measures; 
(5) $50,000,000 shall be available for competi-
tive grants to public housing agencies to evaluate 
and reduce residential health hazards in public hous-
ing, including lead-based paint (by carrying out the 
activities of risk assessments, abatement, and in-
terim controls, as those terms are defined in section 
1004 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard 
Reduction Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851b)), carbon 
monoxide, mold, radon, and fire safety: Provided, 
That not less than $25,000,000 of the amounts pro-
vided under this paragraph shall be awarded for 
evaluating and reducing lead-based paint hazards, 
except that if such amount is undersubscribed any 
remaining amounts may be awarded to qualified ap-
plicants for other purposes under this paragraph: 
Provided further, That for purposes of environmental 
review, a grant under this paragraph shall be consid-
ered funds for projects or activities under title I of 
the Act for purposes of section 26 of the Act (42 
U.S.C. 1437x) and shall be subject to the regula-
tions implementing such section; and 
(6) $15,000,000 shall be available to support 
the costs of administrative and judicial receiverships
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and for competitive grants to public housing agen-
cies in receivership, designated troubled or sub-
standard, or otherwise at risk, as determined by the 
Secretary, for costs associated with public housing 
asset improvement, in addition to other amounts for 
that purpose provided under any heading under this 
title: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2026, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may not dele-
gate to any Department official other than the Deputy 
Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and In-
dian Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of sec-
tion 9(j) of the Act regarding the extension of the time 
periods under such section: Provided further, That for pur-
poses of such section 9(j), the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with 
respect to amounts, that the amounts are subject to a 
binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately 
or in the future: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
authorize a public housing agency with at least one prop-
erty with a low physical inspection score to use operating 
reserve funds or any amounts allocated to such agency 
pursuant to the operating fund formula from amounts 
made available in this and prior Acts for any eligible ac-
tivities under section 9(d)(1) of the United States Housing
535
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)(1)) under such condi-
tions or criteria as established by the Secretary, including 
that such use would not put such agency at risk of finan-
cial shortfall. 
ASSISTED HOUSING INSPECTIONS AND RISK 
ASSESSMENTS 
For the Department’s inspection and assessment pro-
grams, including travel, training, and program support 
contracts, $50,000,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2028: Provided, That unobligated balances, in-
cluding recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Public Housing Fund’’ 
in prior Acts to support ongoing public housing financial 
and physical assessment activities shall be available for the 
purposes authorized under this heading in addition to the 
purposes for which such funds originally were appro-
priated. 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For competitive grants under the choice neighbor-
hoods initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) (the ‘‘Act’’) un-
less otherwise specified under this heading), for trans-
formation, rehabilitation, and replacement housing needs 
of both public and HUD-assisted housing and to trans-
form neighborhoods of poverty into functioning, sustain-
536
able, mixed-income neighborhoods with appropriate serv-
ices, schools, public assets, transportation, and access to 
jobs, $25,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2030: Provided, That grant funds may be used for 
resident and community services, community development, 
and affordable housing needs in the community, and for 
conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties to affordable 
housing: Provided further, That the use of amounts made 
available under this heading shall not be deemed to be for 
public housing, notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) of the Act: 
Provided further, That grantees shall commit to an addi-
tional period of affordability determined by the Secretary 
of not fewer than 20 years: Provided further, That grant-
ees shall provide a match in State, local, other Federal, 
or private funds: Provided further, That grantees may in-
clude local governments, Tribal entities, public housing 
agencies, and nonprofit organizations: Provided further, 
That for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public 
entity: Provided further, That for purposes of environ-
mental review, a grantee shall be treated as a public hous-
ing agency under section 26 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437x), 
and grants made with amounts available under this head-
ing shall be subject to the regulations issued by the Sec-
retary to implement such section: Provided further, That 
of the amounts made available under this heading, not less
537
than $12,500,000 shall be awarded to public housing 
agencies: Provided further, That such grantees shall create 
partnerships with other local organizations, including as-
sisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident orga-
nizations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall con-
sult with the Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transpor-
tation, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and 
Commerce, the Attorney General, and the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and 
leverage other appropriate Federal resources: Provided 
further, That not more than $10,000,000 of the amounts 
made available under this heading may be provided as 
grants to undertake comprehensive local planning with 
input from residents and the community: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available under this heading 
may be obligated for main street housing grants under 
section 24(n) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437v(n)): Provided 
further, That unobligated balances, including recaptures, 
remaining from amounts made available under the head-
ing ‘‘Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing 
(HOPE VI)’’ in fiscal year 2011 and prior fiscal years 
may be used for purposes under this heading, notwith-
standing the purposes for which such amounts were appro-
priated: Provided further, That the Secretary shall make 
grant awards not later than 1 year after the date of enact-
538
ment of this Act in such amounts that the Secretary deter-
mines: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
24(o) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), the Secretary may, 
until September 30, 2026, obligate any available unobli-
gated balances made available under this heading in this 
or any prior Act. 
SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance related to self-suffi-
ciency programs, to remain available until September 30, 
2029, $206,400,000: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading—
(1) $156,400,000 shall be available for the fam-
ily self-sufficiency program to support family self-
sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437u), to promote the development of local strate-
gies to coordinate the use of assistance under sec-
tions 8 and 9 of such Act with public and private 
resources, and enable eligible families to achieve eco-
nomic independence and self-sufficiency: Provided, 
That the Secretary may use recaptured amounts 
made available under this paragraph in prior Acts to 
provide bonus awards to programs that are assigned 
a ranking of performance category 1 based on their
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publicly available family self-sufficiency achievement 
metrics (FAM) scores; 
(2) $40,000,000 shall be available for the resi-
dent opportunity and self-sufficiency program to 
provide for supportive services, service coordinators, 
and congregate services as authorized by section 34 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4101 et seq.): Provided, That amounts made 
available under this paragraph may be used to renew 
resident opportunity and self-sufficiency program 
grants to allow the public housing agency, or a new 
owner, to continue to serve (or restart service to) 
residents of a project with assistance converted from 
public housing to project-based rental assistance 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or assistance under section 
8(o)(13) of such Act under the heading ‘‘Rental As-
sistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations 
Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amended (42 
U.S.C. 1437f note); and 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for a jobs-
plus initiative, modeled after the jobs-plus dem-
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onstration: Provided, That funding provided under 
this paragraph shall be available for competitive 
grants to partnerships between public housing agen-
cies, local workforce investment boards established 
under section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and 
other agencies and organizations that provide sup-
port to help public housing residents obtain employ-
ment and increase earnings: Provided further, That 
applicants must demonstrate the ability to provide 
services to residents, partner with workforce invest-
ment boards, and leverage service dollars: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may allow public housing 
agencies to request exemptions from rent and in-
come limitation requirements under sections 3 and 6 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437a, 1437d), as necessary to implement 
the jobs-plus program, on such terms and conditions 
as the Secretary may approve upon a finding by the 
Secretary that any such waivers or alternative re-
quirements are necessary for the effective implemen-
tation of the jobs-plus initiative as a voluntary pro-
gram for residents: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall publish by notice in the Federal Register 
any waivers or alternative requirements pursuant to
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the preceding proviso no later than 10 days before 
the effective date of such notice. 
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance authorized under title 
I of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination 
Act 
of 
1996 
(in 
this 
heading 
‘‘NAHASDA’’) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), title I of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) with respect to Indian tribes, and 
for related activities and assistance, $1,354,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2030: Provided, 
That of the sums appropriated under this heading—
(1) $1,111,000,000 shall be available for the 
Native American housing block grants program, as 
authorized under title I of NAHASDA: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding NAHASDA, to determine the 
amount of the allocation under title I of such Act for 
each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the for-
mula under section 302 of such Act with the need 
component based on single-race census data and 
with the need component based on multi-race census 
data, and the amount of the allocation for each In-
dian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting 
allocation amounts: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall notify grantees of their formula alloca-
542
tion not later than 60 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act; 
(2) $125,000,000 shall be available for competi-
tive grants under the Native American housing block 
grants program, as authorized under title I of 
NAHASDA: Provided, That the Secretary shall obli-
gate such amount for competitive grants to eligible 
recipients authorized under NAHASDA that apply 
for funds: Provided further, That in awarding 
amounts made available in this paragraph, the Sec-
retary shall consider need and administrative capac-
ity, and shall give priority to projects that will spur 
construction and rehabilitation of housing: Provided 
further, That any amounts transferred for the nec-
essary costs of administering and overseeing the ob-
ligation and expenditure of such additional amounts 
in prior Acts may also be used for the necessary 
costs of administering and overseeing such addi-
tional amount; 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for non-
competitive grants to recipients that received a Trib-
al HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing grant 
in prior years, to be available under the same terms 
and conditions as funds specified under paragraph 
(5) under the heading ‘‘Public and Indian Housing–
543
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance’’ in Public Law 
118–42: Provided, That the Secretary may reallo-
cate, as determined by the Secretary, amounts re-
turned or recaptured from awards under the Tribal 
HUD–VASH program under prior Acts to existing 
recipients under the Tribal HUD–VASH program; 
(4) $1,000,000 shall be available for the cost of 
guaranteed notes and other obligations, as author-
ized by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided, That such 
costs, including the cost of modifying such notes and 
other obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
661a): Provided further, That amounts made avail-
able in this and prior Acts for the cost of such guar-
anteed notes and other obligations that are unobli-
gated, including recaptures and carryover, may be 
available to subsidize the total principal amount of 
any notes and other obligations, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $60,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2027; 
(5) $100,000,000 shall be available for grants 
to Indian tribes for carrying out the Indian commu-
nity development block grant program under title I 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974, notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such
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Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law (including section 203 of this Act), not more 
than $10,000,000 may be used for emergencies that 
constitute imminent threats to health and safety: 
Provided, That not to exceed 20 percent of any 
grant made with amounts made available in this 
paragraph shall be expended for planning and man-
agement development and administration; and 
(6) $7,000,000, in addition to amounts other-
wise available for such purpose, shall be available for 
providing training and technical assistance to Indian 
tribes, Indian housing authorities, and tribally des-
ignated housing entities, to support the inspection of 
Indian housing units, for contract expertise, and for 
training and technical assistance related to amounts 
made available under this heading and other head-
ings in this Act for the needs of Native American 
families and Indian country: Provided, That of the 
amounts made available in this paragraph, not less 
than $2,000,000 shall be for a national organization 
as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA (25 
U.S.C. 4212): Provided further, That amounts made 
available in this paragraph may be used, contracted, 
or competed as determined by the Secretary: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding chapter 63 of
545
title 31, United States Code (commonly known as 
the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act 
of 1977), the amounts made available in this para-
graph may be used by the Secretary to enter into co-
operative agreements with public and private organi-
zations, agencies, institutions, and other technical 
assistance providers to support the administration of 
negotiated 
rulemaking 
under 
section 
106 
of 
NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4116), the administration of 
the allocation formula under section 302 of 
NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the administra-
tion of performance tracking and reporting under 
section 407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167). 
INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 
section 184 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a), $1,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 661a): Provided further, That an addi-
tional $400,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available for administrative contract expenses including 
management processes to carry out the loan guarantee
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program: Provided further, That amounts made available 
in this and prior Acts for the cost of guaranteed loans, 
as authorized by section 184 of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a), 
that are unobligated, including recaptures and carryover, 
may be available to subsidize total loan principal, any part 
of 
which 
is 
to 
be 
guaranteed, 
not 
to 
exceed 
$1,800,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2027. 
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT 
For the Native Hawaiian housing block grant pro-
gram, as authorized under title VIII of the Native Amer-
ican Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 
1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.), $22,300,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2030: Provided, That not-
withstanding section 812(b) of such Act, the Department 
of Hawaiian Home Lands may not invest grant amounts 
made available under this heading in investment securities 
and other obligations: Provided further, That amounts 
made available under this heading in this and prior fiscal 
years may be used to provide rental assistance to eligible 
Native Hawaiian families both on and off the Hawaiian 
Home Lands, notwithstanding any other provision of law: 
Provided further, That up to $1,000,000 of the amounts 
made available under this heading may be for training and
547
technical assistance related to amounts made available 
under this heading and other headings in this Act for the 
needs of Native Hawaiians and the Department of Hawai-
ian Home Lands. 
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee loans, as authorized 
by section 184A of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13b), any part of 
which is to be guaranteed, shall not exceed $28,000,000 
in total loan principal, to remain available until September 
30, 2027: Provided, That the Secretary may enter into 
commitments to guarantee loans used for refinancing. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
For carrying out the housing opportunities for per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS 
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), 
$529,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2029: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew or replace 
all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing 
that initially were funded under section 854(c)(5) of such 
Act from funds made available under this heading in fiscal 
year 2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program 
requirements before awarding funds for new contracts
548
under such section: Provided further, That the process for 
submitting amendments and approving replacement con-
tracts shall be established by the Secretary in a notice: 
Provided further, That the Department shall notify grant-
ees of their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment 
of this Act. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For assistance to States and units of general local 
government, and other entities, for economic and commu-
nity 
development 
activities, 
and 
other 
purposes, 
$6,995,244,120, to remain available until September 30, 
2029: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this 
heading—
(1) $3,300,000,000 shall be available for car-
rying out the community development block grant 
program under title I of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) (in this heading ‘‘the Act’’): 
Provided, That not to exceed 20 percent of any 
grant made with funds made available under this 
paragraph shall be expended for planning and man-
agement development and administration: Provided 
further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit 
of general local government, or insular area that di-
rectly or indirectly receives funds under this para-
549
graph may not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer all 
or any portion of such funds to another such entity 
in exchange for any other funds, credits, or non-
Federal considerations, but shall use such funds for 
activities eligible under title I of the Act: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of 
the Act, no funds made available under this para-
graph may be provided to a for-profit entity for an 
economic 
development 
project 
under 
section 
105(a)(17) unless such project has been evaluated 
and selected in accordance with guidelines required 
under subsection (e)(2) of section 105; 
(2) $50,000,000 shall be available for the Sec-
retary to award grants on a competitive basis to 
State and local governments, metropolitan planning 
organizations, and multijurisdictional entities for ad-
ditional activities under title I of the Act for the 
identification and removal of barriers to affordable 
housing production and preservation, including new 
housing construction: Provided, That eligible uses of 
such grants include activities to further develop, 
evaluate, and implement housing policy plans, im-
prove housing strategies, and facilitate affordable 
housing production and preservation: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall select applicants that
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(A) have enacted or implemented (or caused another 
entity to enact or implement) less restrictive zoning, 
land use, or permitting laws and regulations, that 
are reasonably expected to preserve or produce new 
housing units; and (B) can demonstrate an acute 
need for housing affordable to households with in-
comes below 100 percent of the area median income: 
Provided further, That grantees shall report to the 
Secretary on their activities and housing supply out-
comes: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
analyze observable housing production, preservation, 
and cost trends in the participating jurisdictions or 
geographic areas: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall annually report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, and make publicly 
available, a summary of the information collected in 
the preceding two provisos: Provided further, That 
funds allocated for such grants shall not adversely 
affect the amount of any formula assistance received 
by a jurisdiction under paragraph (1) of this head-
ing: Provided further, That in administering such 
amounts the Secretary may waive or specify alter-
native requirements for any provision of title I of the 
Act except for requirements related to fair housing, 
nondiscrimination, labor standards, the environment,
551
and requirements that activities benefit persons of 
low- and moderate-income, upon a finding that any 
such waivers or alternative requirements are nec-
essary to expedite or facilitate the use of such 
amounts: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
issue a notice of funding opportunity not later than 
120 days after the date of enactment of this Act; 
(3) $30,000,000 shall be available for activities 
authorized under section 8071 of the SUPPORT for 
Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115–
271): Provided, That funds allocated pursuant to 
this paragraph shall not adversely affect the amount 
of any formula assistance received by a State under 
paragraph (1) of this heading: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall allocate the funds for such 
activities based on the notice establishing the fund-
ing formula published in 84 FR 16027 (April 17, 
2019) except that the formula shall use age-adjusted 
rates of drug overdose deaths for 2023 based on 
data from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention; and 
(4) $3,615,244,120 shall be available for grants 
for the economic development initiative (EDI) for 
the purposes, and in amounts, specified for Commu-
nity 
Project 
Funding/Congressionally 
Directed
552
Spending in the table entitled ‘‘Community Project 
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in-
cluded for this division in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-
sion A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That 
amounts made available under this paragraph for 
such purposes shall not diminish or prejudice any 
application or geographic region for other discre-
tionary grant or loan awards made by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided 
further, That eligible expenses of such grants in this 
and prior Acts may include administrative, planning, 
operations and maintenance, and other costs: Pro-
vided further, That such grants for the EDI shall be 
available for reimbursement of otherwise eligible ex-
penses incurred on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act and prior to the date of grant execution: 
Provided further, That none of the amounts made 
available under this paragraph for grants for the 
EDI shall be used for reimbursement of expenses in-
curred prior to the date of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That for amounts made available under 
paragraphs (1) and (3), the Secretary shall notify grantees 
of their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment 
of this Act.
553
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOAN GUARANTEES 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 661a), during fiscal year 2026, 
commitments to guarantee loans under section 108 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not 
exceed a total principal amount of $300,000,000, notwith-
standing any aggregate limitation on outstanding obliga-
tions guaranteed in subsection (k) of such section 108: 
Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from bor-
rowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section 
108, to result in a credit subsidy cost of zero for guaran-
teeing such loans, and any such fees shall be collected in 
accordance with section 502(7) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such commit-
ment authority funded by fees may be used to guarantee, 
or make commitments to guarantee, notes or other obliga-
tions issued by any State on behalf of non-entitlement 
communities in the State in accordance with the require-
ments of such section 108: Provided further, That any 
State receiving such a guarantee or commitment under the 
preceding proviso shall distribute all funds subject to such 
guarantee to the units of general local government in non-
entitlement areas that received the commitment.
554
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM 
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as 
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
12721 et seq.), $1,250,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2029: Provided, That the threshold reduc-
tion requirements in sections 216(10) and 217(b)(4) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 12746(10), 12747(b)(4)) shall not 
apply to the amounts made available under this heading: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 231(b) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)), all unobligated balances 
remaining from amounts recaptured pursuant to such sec-
tion that remain available until expended shall be com-
bined with amounts made available under this heading and 
allocated in accordance with the formula under section 
217(b)(1)(A) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12747(b)(1)(A)): 
Provided further, That the Department shall notify grant-
ees of their formula allocations within 60 days after enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That section 218(g) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12748(g)) shall not apply with re-
spect to the right of a jurisdiction to draw funds from 
its HOME Investment Trust Fund that otherwise expired 
or would expire in any calendar year from 2020 through 
2028 under that section: Provided further, That section 
231(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)) shall not apply
555
to any uninvested funds that otherwise were deducted or 
would be deducted from the line of credit in the partici-
pating jurisdiction’s HOME Investment Trust Fund in 
any calendar year from 2020 through 2028 under that 
section. 
SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP 
OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM 
For the self-help and assisted homeownership oppor-
tunity program, as authorized under section 11 of the 
Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 (42 
U.S.C. 12805 note), and for related activities and assist-
ance, $65,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2028: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under 
this heading—
(1) $12,000,000 shall be available for the self-
help homeownership opportunity program as author-
ized under such section 11; 
(2) $46,000,000 shall be available for the sec-
ond, third, and fourth capacity building entities 
specified in section 4(a) of the HUD Demonstration 
Act of 1993 (III Stat 201; 42 U.S.C. 9816 note), 
of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be for rural 
capacity building activities; and 
(3) $7,000,000 shall be available for capacity 
building by national rural housing organizations hav-
556
ing experience assessing national rural conditions 
and providing financing, training, technical assist-
ance, information, and research to local nonprofit or-
ganizations, local governments, and Indian tribes 
serving high need rural communities. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For assistance under title IV of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), and 
for related activities and assistance, $4,417,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, 
That of the sums appropriated under this heading—
(1) $290,000,000 shall be available for the 
emergency solutions grants program authorized 
under subtitle B of such title IV (42 U.S.C. 11371 
et seq.): Provided, That the Department shall notify 
grantees of their formula allocation from amounts 
allocated (which may represent initial or final 
amounts allocated) for the emergency solutions 
grant program not later than 60 days after enact-
ment of this Act; 
(2) $4,010,000,000 shall be available for the 
continuum of care program authorized under sub-
title C of such title IV (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) 
and the rural housing stability assistance programs 
authorized under subtitle D of such title IV (42
557
U.S.C. 11408): Provided, That the Secretary shall 
prioritize funding under the continuum of care pro-
gram to continuums of care that have demonstrated 
a capacity to reallocate funding from lower per-
forming projects to higher performing projects: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall make reason-
able adjustments to renewal amounts to enable re-
newal projects to operate at substantially the same 
levels, including cost-of-living adjustments for sup-
portive services from the prior grant: Provided fur-
ther, That in allocating and awarding amounts made 
available under this paragraph, the Secretary shall 
select projects totaling not less than 60 percent of 
the annual renewal demand for each collaborative 
applicant based on rankings determined by the local 
continuum of care and consistent with 42 U.S.C. 
11381 et seq.: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may establish by notice an alternative maximum 
amount for administrative costs related to the re-
quirements described in sections 402(f)(1) and 
402(f)(2) of subtitle A of such title IV of no more 
than 5 percent or $50,000, whichever is greater, 
notwithstanding the 3 percent limitation in section 
423(a)(10) of such subtitle C: Provided further, That 
of the amounts made available for the continuum of
558
care program under this paragraph, $52,000,000 
shall be for grants for new rapid re-housing projects 
and supportive service projects providing coordinated 
entry, and for eligible activities that the Secretary 
determines to be critical in order to assist survivors 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
or stalking, except that the Secretary may make ad-
ditional grants for such projects and purposes from 
amounts made available for such continuum of care 
program: Provided further, That amounts made 
available for the continuum of care program under 
this paragraph and any remaining unobligated bal-
ances under this heading in prior Acts may be used 
to competitively or non-competitively renew or re-
place grants for youth homelessness demonstration 
projects under the continuum of care program, not-
withstanding any conflict with the requirements of 
the continuum of care program: Provided further, 
That any continuum of care, in consultation with 
their youth action board, that determines it no 
longer has an identified need for funds to renew a 
youth homelessness demonstration project shall no-
tify the Secretary, and the Secretary shall recapture 
such assistance from the continuum of care and 
competitively award it to any other continuum of
559
care with the amounts provided under this heading 
under paragraph (4): Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall issue the notice of funding opportunity 
for the amounts made available in this paragraph 
not later than June 1, 2026 and shall award such 
amounts not later than December 1, 2026; 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for the na-
tional homeless data analysis project: Provided, That 
notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal Grant 
and Cooperative Agreements Act of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 
6301–6308), the amounts made available under this 
paragraph and any remaining unobligated balances 
under this heading for such purposes in prior Acts 
may be used by the Secretary to enter into coopera-
tive agreements with such entities as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary, including public and private 
organizations, agencies, and institutions; and 
(4) $107,000,000 shall be available to imple-
ment projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive 
approach to serving homeless youth, age 24 and 
under, in up to 25 communities with a priority for 
communities with substantial rural populations in up 
to eight locations, can dramatically reduce youth 
homelessness: Provided, That of the amount made 
available under this paragraph, up to $25,000,000
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may be for youth homelessness system improvement 
grants to support communities, including but not 
limited to the communities assisted under the matter 
preceding this proviso, in establishing and imple-
menting an evidence-based response system for 
youth homelessness, or for improving their existing 
system, including through the establishment of local 
youth advisory boards, collaboration with youth with 
lived experience of homelessness in project design 
and implementation, improving data collection, man-
agement, utilization and evaluation, cross-system 
partnerships with juvenile justice, child welfare, and 
education systems: Provided further, That of the 
amount made available under this paragraph, up to 
$10,000,000 shall be to provide technical assistance 
to communities, including but not limited to the 
communities assisted in the preceding proviso and 
the matter preceding such proviso, on improving sys-
tem responses to youth homelessness, and collection, 
analysis, use, and reporting of data and performance 
measures under the comprehensive approaches to 
serve homeless youth, in addition to and in coordina-
tion with other technical assistance funds provided 
under this title: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may use up to 10 percent of the amount made avail-
561
able under the preceding proviso to build the capac-
ity of current technical assistance providers or to 
train new technical assistance providers with 
verifiable prior experience with systems and pro-
grams for youth experiencing homelessness: 
Provided further, That youth aged 24 and under seeking 
assistance under this heading shall not be required to pro-
vide third party documentation to establish their eligibility 
under subsection (a) or (b) of section 103 of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302) to 
receive services: Provided further, That unaccompanied 
youth aged 24 and under or families headed by youth aged 
24 and under who are living in unsafe situations may be 
served by youth-serving providers funded under this head-
ing: Provided further, That recipients of funds provided 
under this heading in this Act or any prior Act may estab-
lish preferences for elderly individuals or families (except 
for programs provided to serve homeless youth), or dis-
abled individuals or families as defined by section 401(10) 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11360(10)), when implementing the programs: 
Provided further, That persons eligible under section 
103(a)(5) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act may be served by any project funded under this head-
ing to provide both transitional housing and rapid re-hous-
562
ing: Provided further, That for all matching funds require-
ments applicable to funds made available under this head-
ing for this fiscal year and prior fiscal years, a grantee 
may use (or could have used) as a source of match funds 
other funds administered by the Secretary and other Fed-
eral agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory 
prohibition on any such use of any such funds: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available under this 
heading shall be available to provide funding for new 
projects, except for projects created through reallocation, 
unless the Secretary determines that the continuum of 
care has demonstrated that projects are evaluated and 
ranked based on the degree to which they improve the con-
tinuum of care’s system performance: Provided further, 
That any unobligated amounts remaining from funds 
made available under this heading in fiscal year 2012 and 
prior years for project-based rental assistance for rehabili-
tation projects with 10-year grant terms may be used for 
purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the pur-
poses for which such funds were appropriated: Provided 
further, That unobligated balances, including recaptures 
and carryover, remaining from funds transferred to or ap-
propriated under this heading in fiscal year 2019 or prior 
years, except for rental assistance amounts that were re-
captured and made available until expended, shall be avail-
563
able for the current purposes authorized under this head-
ing in addition to the purposes for which such funds origi-
nally were appropriated. 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of 
project-based subsidy contracts under the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (‘‘the 
Act’’), not otherwise provided for, $18,143,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, shall be available on Octo-
ber 1, 2025 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 
appropriated under this heading that became available Oc-
tober 1, 2025), and $400,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be available on October 1, 2026: Pro-
vided, That the amounts made available under this head-
ing shall be available for expiring or terminating section 
8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 
moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to sec-
tion 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 
8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered 
into pursuant to section 441 of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal 
of section 8 contracts for units in projects that are subject 
to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low In-
come Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-In-
564
come Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership 
Act of 1990, and for administrative and other expenses 
associated with project-based activities and assistance 
funded under this heading: Provided further, That of the 
total amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed 
$509,000,000 shall be available for performance-based 
contract administrators for section 8 project-based assist-
ance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): Provided further, 
That the Secretary may also use such amounts in the pre-
ceding proviso for performance-based contract administra-
tors for the administration of: interest reduction payments 
pursuant to section 236(a) of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent supplement payments pur-
suant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) 
rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(f)(2)); 
project rental assistance contracts for the elderly under 
section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q); project rental assistance contracts for supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance 
contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act 
of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans 
under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law
565
86–372; 73 Stat. 667): Provided further, That amounts 
recaptured under this heading, the heading ‘‘Annual Con-
tributions for Assisted Housing’’, or the heading ‘‘Housing 
Certificate Fund’’, may be used for renewals of or amend-
ments to section 8 project-based contracts or for perform-
ance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such amounts were appropriated: Pro-
vided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, upon the request of the Secretary, project funds 
that are held in residual receipts accounts for any project 
subject to a section 8 project-based housing assistance 
payments contract that authorizes the Department or a 
housing finance agency to require that surplus project 
funds be deposited in an interest-bearing residual receipts 
account and that are in excess of an amount to be deter-
mined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the Depart-
ment and deposited in this account, to be available until 
expended: Provided further, That amounts deposited pur-
suant to the preceding proviso shall be available in addi-
tion to the amount otherwise provided by this heading for 
uses authorized under this heading. 
HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY 
For capital advances, including amendments to cap-
ital advance contracts, for housing for the elderly, as au-
thorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12
566
U.S.C. 1701q), for project rental assistance for the elderly 
under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amend-
ments to contracts for such assistance and renewal of ex-
piring contracts for such assistance for up to a 5-year 
term, for senior preservation rental assistance contracts, 
including renewals, as authorized by section 811(e) of the 
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act 
of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note), for supportive services 
associated with the housing, and for administrative and 
other expenses associated with assistance under this head-
ing, $1,031,000,000 to remain available until September 
30, 2029: Provided, That of the amount made available 
under this heading, up to $122,000,000 shall be for serv-
ice coordinators and the continuation of existing con-
gregate service grants for residents of assisted housing 
projects: Provided further, That any funding for existing 
service coordinators under the preceding proviso shall be 
provided within 120 days of enactment of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary may enter into 2-year 
agreements as appropriate with such funding that are sub-
ject to the availability of annual appropriations: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may waive the provisions of 
section 202 governing the terms and conditions of project 
rental assistance, except that the initial contract term for 
such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: Pro-
567
vided further, That upon request of the Secretary, project 
funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for any 
project subject to a section 202 project rental assistance 
contract, and that upon termination of such contract are 
in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, 
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this 
account, to remain available until September 30, 2029: 
Provided further, That amounts deposited in this account 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be available, in ad-
dition to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading, 
for the purposes authorized under this heading: Provided 
further, That unobligated balances, including recaptures 
and carryover, remaining from funds transferred to or ap-
propriated under this heading shall be available for the 
current purposes authorized under this heading in addi-
tion to the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated: Provided further, That of the total amount 
made available under this heading, up to $4,000,000 shall 
be used by the Secretary to support preservation trans-
actions of housing for the elderly originally developed with 
a capital advance and assisted by a project rental assist-
ance contract under the provisions of section 202(c) of the 
Housing Act of 1959.
568
HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
For capital advances, including amendments to cap-
ital advance contracts, for supportive housing for persons 
with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013), for project rental assistance for supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of such Act, for project assistance contracts 
pursuant to subsection (h) of section 202 of the Housing 
Act of 1959, as added by section 205(a) of the Housing 
and Community Development Amendments of 1978 (Pub-
lic Law 95–557; 92 Stat. 2090), including amendments 
to contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring 
contracts for such assistance for up to a 5-year term, for 
project rental assistance to State housing finance agencies 
and other appropriate entities as authorized under section 
811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act, for supportive services associated with the 
housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by sec-
tion 811(b)(1) of such Act, and for administrative and 
other expenses associated with assistance funded under 
this heading, $287,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2029: Provided, That, upon the request of the 
Secretary, project funds that are held in residual receipts 
accounts for any project subject to a section 811 project
569
rental assistance contract, and that upon termination of 
such contract are in excess of an amount to be determined 
by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the Department and 
deposited in this account, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2029: Provided further, That amounts depos-
ited in this account pursuant to the preceding proviso shall 
be available in addition to the amounts otherwise provided 
by this heading for the purposes authorized under this 
heading: Provided further, That unobligated balances, in-
cluding recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds 
transferred to or appropriated under this heading shall be 
used for the current purposes authorized under this head-
ing in addition to the purposes for which such funds origi-
nally were appropriated. 
HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding 
loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and 
Urban 
Development 
Act 
of 
1968, 
as 
amended, 
$57,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2027, including up to $4,500,000 for administrative con-
tract services: Provided, That funds shall be used for pro-
viding counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, 
both current and prospective, with respect to property 
maintenance, financial management or literacy, and such 
other matters as may be appropriate to assist them in im-
570
proving their housing conditions, meeting their financial 
needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or 
homeownership; for program administration; and for hous-
ing counselor training: Provided further, That for purposes 
of awarding grants from amounts provided under this 
heading, the Secretary may enter into multiyear agree-
ments, as appropriate, subject to the availability of annual 
appropriations. 
PAYMENT TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING FEES TRUST 
FUND 
For necessary expenses as authorized by the National 
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Stand-
ards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to 
$14,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$14,000,000 shall be derived from the Manufactured 
Housing Fees Trust Fund (established under section 
620(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5419(e)): Provided, That 
not to exceed the total amount appropriated under this 
heading shall be available from the general fund of the 
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and 
make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the 
Fund pursuant to section 620 of such Act: Provided fur-
ther, That the amount made available under this heading 
from the general fund shall be reduced as such collections 
are received during fiscal year 2026 so as to result in a
571
final fiscal year 2026 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 
shall be modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal 
year 2026 appropriation: Provided further, That for the 
dispute resolution and installation programs, the Sec-
retary may assess and collect fees from any program par-
ticipant: Provided further, That such collections shall be 
deposited into the Trust Fund, and the Secretary, as pro-
vided herein, may use such collections, as well as fees col-
lected under section 620 of such Act, for necessary ex-
penses of such Act: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the requirements of section 620 of such Act, the 
Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the Secretary 
under such Act through the use of approved service pro-
viders that are paid directly by the recipients of their serv-
ices. 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee single family loans 
insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall 
not exceed $400,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027: Provided, That during fiscal year 
2026, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the 
purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, 
as amended, shall not exceed $1,000,000: Provided fur-
572
ther, That the foregoing amount in the preceding proviso 
shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities 
in connection with sales of single family real properties 
owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the 
Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund: Provided further, That 
for administrative contract expenses of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, $160,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027: Provided further, That to the 
extent 
guaranteed 
loan 
commitments 
exceed 
$200,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2026, an addi-
tional $1,400 for administrative contract expenses shall be 
available for each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed 
loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any 
amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds 
made available by this proviso exceed $30,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding the limitation in the 
first sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing 
Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(g)), during fiscal year 2026 the 
Secretary may insure and enter into new commitments to 
insure mortgages under section 255 of the National Hous-
ing Act only to the extent that the net credit subsidy cost 
for such insurance does not exceed zero. 
GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee loans insured under 
the General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as author-
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ized by sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed 
$35,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 
30, 2027: Provided, That during fiscal year 2026, gross 
obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as au-
thorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of 
the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $1,000,000, 
which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental en-
tities in connection with the sale of single family real prop-
erties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under 
such Act. 
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN 
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out 
the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, 
as amended (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed 
$550,000,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2027: Provided, That $56,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027, shall be for necessary sala-
ries and expenses of the Government National Mortgage 
Association: Provided further, That to the extent that 
guaranteed loan commitments exceed $155,000,000,000 
on or before April 1, 2026, an additional $100 for nec-
574
essary salaries and expenses shall be available until ex-
pended for each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan 
commitments (including a pro rata amount for any 
amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds 
made available by this proviso exceed $3,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That receipts from Commitment and 
Multiclass fees collected pursuant to title III of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1716 et seq.) shall be cred-
ited as offsetting collections to this account. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and 
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized 
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including carrying 
out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization 
Plan No. 2 of 1968, and for technical assistance, 
$122,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2027: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $40,000,000 shall be for technical assist-
ance, of which $5,000,000 shall be for the distressed cities 
technical assistance program: Provided further, That with 
respect to amounts made available under this heading,
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notwithstanding section 203 of this title, the Secretary 
may enter into cooperative agreements with philanthropic 
entities, other Federal agencies, State or local govern-
ments and their agencies, Indian tribes, tribally des-
ignated housing entities, or colleges or universities for re-
search projects: Provided further, That with respect to the 
preceding proviso, such partners to the cooperative agree-
ments shall contribute at least a 50 percent match toward 
the cost of the project: Provided further, That for non-
competitive agreements entered into in accordance with 
the preceding two provisos, the Secretary shall comply 
with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability 
and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–282; 31 
U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section 
102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development 
Reform 
Act 
of 
1989 
(42 
U.S.C. 
3545(a)(4)(C)) with respect to documentation of award 
decisions: Provided further, That of the total amounts pro-
vided under this heading, $7,500,000 shall be for competi-
tive grants to nonprofit or governmental entities to provide 
legal assistance (including assistance related to pretrial 
activities, trial activities, post-trial activities and alter-
native dispute resolution) at no cost to eligible low-income 
tenants at risk of or subject to eviction: Provided further, 
That in awarding grants under the preceding proviso, the
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Secretary shall give preference to applicants that include 
a marketing strategy for residents of areas with high rates 
of eviction, have experience providing no-cost legal assist-
ance to low-income individuals, and have sufficient capac-
ity to administer such assistance: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that 
the proportion of eligible tenants living in rural areas who 
will receive legal assistance with grant funds made avail-
able under this heading is not less than the overall propor-
tion of eligible tenants who live in rural areas: Provided 
further, That the Department shall maintain on its pub-
licly accessible website all completed research funded 
under this heading by this or any prior Act: Provided fur-
ther, That the Department shall release and publish such 
research without regard to the findings within 6 months 
of submission of the final report. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not oth-
erwise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), section 561 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 
(42 U.S.C. 3616a), and this heading, $86,355,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That 
of the sums appropriated under this heading—
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(1) $26,355,000 shall be for the fair housing 
assistance program under such title VIII; 
(2) $56,000,000 shall be for the fair housing 
initiatives program under such section 561, of 
which, not less than $10,400,000 shall be available 
for education and outreach programs, not less than 
$3,700,000 shall be available for fair housing orga-
nization initiatives, and not less than $40,500,000 
shall be available for the private enforcement initia-
tive, except that if any program or initiative is 
undersubscribed any remaining amounts may be 
awarded to qualified applicants of other programs or 
initiatives under this paragraph: Provided, That the 
Secretary shall issue each notice of funding oppor-
tunity for the fair housing initiatives program not 
later than 150 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act; 
(3) $1,000,000 may be for the Secretary for the 
creation and promotion of translated materials and 
other programs that support the assistance of per-
sons with limited English proficiency in utilizing the 
services provided by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development; and 
(4) $3,000,000 shall be for the national fair 
housing training academy: Provided, That notwith-
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standing section 3302 of title 31, United States 
Code, the Secretary may also assess and collect fees 
to cover the costs of such academy, and may use 
such funds to develop online courses and provide 
such training: 
Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
under this heading may be used to lobby the executive or 
legislative branches of the Federal Government in connec-
tion with a specific contract, grant, or loan. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY 
HOMES 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the lead hazard reduction program, as authorized 
by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Haz-
ard Reduction Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4852), the healthy 
homes initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 
1701z–1 and 1701z–2), and for related activities and as-
sistance, $295,600,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2028: Provided, That the amounts made avail-
able under this heading are provided as follows: 
(1) $155,600,000 shall be for the award of 
grants pursuant to such section 1011, of which not
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less than $105,000,000 shall be provided to areas 
with the highest lead-based paint abatement need; 
(2) $140,000,000 shall be for the healthy 
homes initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 
of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1970, which shall include research, studies, testing, 
and demonstration efforts, including education and 
outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and 
other housing-related diseases and hazards, and 
mitigating housing-related health and safety hazards 
in housing of low-income families: Provided, That up 
to $10,000,000 of amounts made available under 
this paragraph shall be for a one-time national pilot 
program to facilitate new financing mechanisms to 
address lead and other residential environmental 
stressors in low-income communities: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall issue the notice of 
funding of opportunity for the pilot program estab-
lished in the preceding proviso within 120 days of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
$30,000,000 of amounts made available under this 
paragraph shall be for grants to experienced non-
profit organizations, States, local governments, or 
public housing agencies for safety and functional 
home modification repairs and renovations to meet
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the needs of low-income seniors to enable them to 
remain in their primary residence, of which no less 
than $10,000,000 shall be available to meet such 
needs in communities with substantial rural popu-
lations: Provided further, That for funds made avail-
able for such grants in the preceding proviso or 
under this heading or the heading ‘‘Housing for the 
Elderly’’ in prior Acts, all eligible activities, except 
those that would alter the existing footprint of a 
structure or improvement in a floodplain or a wet-
land, are exempt from environmental review and not 
subject to the Federal laws and authorities cited in 
section 58.5 of title 24, Code of Federal Regula-
tions; and 
(3) up to $2,000,000 in total of the amounts 
made available under paragraph (2) may be trans-
ferred to the heading ‘‘Research and Technology’’ 
for the purposes of conducting research and studies 
and for use in accordance with the provisos under 
that heading for non-competitive agreements: 
Provided further, That for purposes of environmental re-
view, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and other provisions of 
law that further the purposes of such Act, a grant under 
the healthy homes initiative, or the lead technical studies
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program, or other demonstrations or programs under this 
heading or under prior appropriations Acts for such pur-
poses under this heading, or under the heading ‘‘Housing 
for the Elderly’’ under prior Appropriations Acts, shall be 
considered to be funds for a special project for purposes 
of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property 
Disposition Reform Act of 1994: Provided further, That 
each applicant for a grant or cooperative agreement under 
this heading shall certify adequate capacity that is accept-
able to the Secretary to carry out the proposed use of 
funds pursuant to a notice of funding opportunity: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available under the fifth 
paragraph under this heading by the Full-Year Continuing 
Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 
119–4) shall be transferred to and merged with the 
amounts provided under the fifth paragraph under the 
heading ‘‘Public Housing Fund’’ in this Act and 
prioritized for qualified projects where the primary pur-
pose is radon testing and mitigation, except any transfer 
pursuant to this provision shall retain its original avail-
ability: Provided further, That amounts made available 
under this heading, in this or prior appropriations Acts, 
still remaining available, may be used for any purpose 
under this heading notwithstanding the purpose for which 
such amounts were appropriated if a program competition
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is undersubscribed and there are other program competi-
tions under this heading that are oversubscribed. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, as amended, $144,500,000: Provided, That 
the Inspector General shall have independent authority 
over all personnel and acquisition issues within this office. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 
1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded or in the 
case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such 
amounts of budget authority or cash recaptured and not 
rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by 
State housing finance agencies or local governments or 
local housing agencies with projects approved by the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development for which set-
tlement occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance
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with such section. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, 
the Secretary may award up to 15 percent of the budget 
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted 
to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives 
to refinance their project at a lower interest rate. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to investigate or prosecute under the Fair 
Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by 
one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining 
of a nonfrivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely 
for the purpose of achieving or preventing action by a Gov-
ernment official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdic-
tion. 
SEC. 203. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made 
pursuant to title II of this Act shall be made on a competi-
tive basis and in accordance with section 102 of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act 
of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545). 
SEC. 204. Funds of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations 
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract 
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
584
services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage 
Association, Government National Mortgage Association, 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Fi-
nancing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any member 
thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank 
within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1). 
SEC. 205. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap-
propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development shall be available for any program, project 
or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 
estimates submitted to Congress. 
SEC. 206. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub-
ject to the Government Corporation Control Act are here-
by authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits 
of funds and borrowing authority available to each such 
corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to 
make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such 
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the budget for 2026 for such corporation or agen-
cy except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collec-
tions of these corporations and agencies may be used for
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new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the 
extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans 
are in support of other forms of assistance provided for 
in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this pro-
viso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mort-
gage purchases are necessary to protect the financial in-
terest of the United States Government. 
SEC. 207. None of the funds made available by this 
title may be used for an audit of the Government National 
Mortgage Association that makes applicable requirements 
under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
661 et seq.). 
SEC. 208. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, subject to the conditions listed under this section, 
for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may authorize the transfer of 
some or all project-based assistance, debt held or insured 
by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income and 
very low-income use restrictions if any, associated with one 
or more multifamily housing project or projects to another 
multifamily housing project or projects. 
(b) PHASED
TRANSFERS.—Transfers of project-
based assistance under this section may be done in phases 
to accommodate the financing and other requirements re-
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lated to rehabilitating or constructing the project or 
projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure 
that such project or projects meet the standards under 
subsection (c). 
(c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is sub-
ject to the following conditions: 
(1) NUMBER AND BEDROOM SIZE OF UNITS.—
(A) For occupied units in the transferring 
project: The number of low-income and very 
low-income units and the configuration (i.e., 
bedroom size) provided by the transferring 
project shall be no less than when transferred 
to the receiving project or projects and the net 
dollar amount of Federal assistance provided to 
the transferring project shall remain the same 
in the receiving project or projects. The Sec-
retary, upon determination of good cause, in-
cluding a determination that there will be no 
loss of assistance to currently assisted house-
holds, may authorize a different number of such 
units or a change in such configuration, or 
both, at the receiving project or projects in the 
event there is a transfer of use restrictions 
without an associated transfer of project-based 
assistance to the receiving project. The Sec-
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retary shall publish a notice in the Federal Reg-
ister for public comment containing the criteria 
for determinations of good cause no less than 
60 days before the effective date of such notice. 
(B) For unoccupied units in the transfer-
ring project: The Secretary may authorize a re-
duction in the number of dwelling units in the 
receiving project or projects to allow for a re-
configuration of bedroom sizes to meet current 
market demands, as determined by the Sec-
retary and provided there is no increase in the 
project-based assistance budget authority. 
(2) The transferring project shall, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete 
or economically nonviable, or be reasonably expected 
to become economically nonviable when complying 
with State or Federal requirements for community 
integration and reduced concentration of individuals 
with disabilities. 
(3) The receiving project or projects shall meet 
or exceed applicable physical standards established 
by the Secretary. 
(4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
588
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials. 
(5) The tenants of the transferring project who 
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the 
receiving project or projects shall not be required to 
vacate their units in the transferring project or 
projects until new units in the receiving project are 
available for occupancy. 
(6) The Secretary determines that this transfer 
is in the best interest of the tenants. 
(7) If either the transferring project or the re-
ceiving project or projects meets the condition speci-
fied in subsection (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiv-
ing project resulting from additional financing ob-
tained by the owner shall be subordinate to any 
FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed 
on, such project by the Secretary, except that the 
Secretary may waive this requirement upon deter-
mination that such a waiver is necessary to facilitate 
the financing of acquisition, construction, and/or re-
habilitation of the receiving project or projects. 
(8) If the transferring project meets the re-
quirements of subsection (d)(2), the owner or mort-
gagor of the receiving project or projects shall exe-
cute and record either a continuation of the existing
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use agreement or a new use agreement for the 
project where, in either case, any use restrictions in 
such agreement are of no lesser duration than the 
existing use restrictions. 
(9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 661a)) of any FHA-insured 
mortgage, except to the extent that appropriations 
are provided in advance for the amount of any such 
increased cost. 
(d) For purposes of this section—
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the stat-
ute and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following con-
ditions—
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure including 
projects undergoing mark to market debt re-
structuring under the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act;
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(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q); 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q), as such section existed before the en-
actment of the Cranston-Gonzales National Af-
fordable Housing Act; 
(E) housing that is assisted under section 
811 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Afford-
able Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013); or 
(F) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) 
the 
term 
‘‘project-based 
assistance’’ 
means—
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(b)); 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assist-
ance provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act 
(as such section existed immediately before Oc-
tober 1, 1983);
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(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); 
(D) interest reduction payments under sec-
tion 236 and/or additional assistance payments 
under section 236(f)(2) of the National Hous-
ing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1); 
(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q(c)(2)); and 
(F) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013(d)(2)); 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ 
means the multifamily housing project or projects to 
which some or all of the project-based assistance, 
debt, and statutorily required low-income and very 
low-income use restrictions are to be transferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring 
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and 
the statutorily required low-income and very low-in-
come use restrictions to the receiving project or 
projects; and
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(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development. 
(e) RESEARCH REPORT.—The Secretary shall con-
duct an evaluation of the transfer authority under this sec-
tion, including the effect of such transfers on the oper-
ational efficiency, contract rents, physical and financial 
conditions, and long-term preservation of the affected 
properties. 
SEC. 209. No assistance shall be provided under sec-
tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f) to any individual who—
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 
higher education (as defined under section 102 of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002)); 
(2) is under 24 years of age; 
(3) is not a veteran; 
(4) is unmarried; 
(5) does not have a dependent child; 
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 
under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005;
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(7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 
14 or older and is at risk of becoming homeless; and 
(8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 
parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, 
to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 
SEC. 210. The funds made available for Native Alas-
kans under paragraph (1) under the heading ‘‘Native 
American Programs’’ in title II of this Act shall be allo-
cated to the same Native Alaskan housing block grant re-
cipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005, and only 
such recipients shall be eligible to apply for funds made 
available under paragraph (2) of such heading. 
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in fiscal year 2026, in managing and disposing of any 
multifamily property that is owned or has a mortgage held 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and 
during the process of foreclosure on any property with a 
contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f) or any other Federal programs, the Secretary shall 
maintain any rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and other pro-
grams that are attached to any dwelling units in the prop-
erty. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consulta-
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tion with the tenants and the local government that such 
a multifamily property owned or having a mortgage held 
by the Secretary is not feasible for continued rental assist-
ance payments under such section 8 or other programs, 
based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating 
and operating the property and all available Federal, 
State, and local resources, including rent adjustments 
under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing 
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (in this section 
‘‘MAHRAA’’) (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), and (2) environ-
mental conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effec-
tive fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation with the 
tenants of that property, contract for project-based rental 
assistance payments with an owner or owners of other ex-
isting housing properties, or provide other rental assist-
ance. The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to 
ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect prior 
to foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abate-
ment remedies to assist relocation of tenants for imminent 
major threats to health and safety after written notice to 
and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of 
other available remedies, such as partial abatements or re-
ceivership. After disposition of any multifamily property 
described in this section, the contract and allowable rent
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levels on such properties shall be subject to the require-
ments under section 524 of MAHRAA. 
SEC. 212. Public housing agencies that own and oper-
ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be ex-
empt from any asset management requirement imposed by 
the Secretary in connection with the operating fund rule: 
Provided, That an agency seeking a discontinuance of a 
reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula 
shall not be exempt from asset management requirements. 
SEC. 213. With respect to the use of amounts pro-
vided in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, cap-
ital improvement, and management of public housing as 
authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d), (e)), the Sec-
retary shall not impose any requirement or guideline relat-
ing to asset management that restricts or limits in any 
way the use of capital funds for central office costs pursu-
ant to paragraph (1) or (2) of section 9(g) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): 
Provided, That a public housing agency may not use cap-
ital funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that 
are eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts 
from the operating fund in excess of the amounts per-
mitted under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 9(g).
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SEC. 214. No official or employee of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated 
as an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer has determined that such allotment holder 
has implemented an adequate system of funds control and 
has received training in funds control procedures and di-
rectives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that 
there is a trained allotment holder for each HUD appro-
priation under the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Admin-
istrative Support Offices’’, ‘‘Program Offices’’, ‘‘Govern-
ment National Mortgage Association—Guarantees of 
Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program 
Account’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ within the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 215. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary may make a notice 
of funding opportunity, and a notice of any funding deci-
sion, for any program or discretionary fund administered 
by the Secretary that is to be competitively awarded avail-
able only on the Internet at the appropriate Government 
website or through other electronic media, as determined 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 216. Payment of attorney fees in program-re-
lated litigation shall be paid from the individual program
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office and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses 
appropriations. 
SEC. 217. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds 
appropriated for any office under the headings ‘‘Adminis-
trative Support Offices’’ or ‘‘Program Offices’’ to any 
other such office under such headings: Provided, That the 
Secretary shall provide notification to such Committees 5 
business days in advance of any such transfers. 
SEC. 218. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance 
payments shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary condi-
tions, as determined by the Secretary, and comply with 
any standards under applicable State or local laws, rules, 
ordinances, or regulations relating to the physical condi-
tion of any property covered under a housing assistance 
payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection 
(c) when a multifamily housing project with a contract 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f) or a contract for similar project-based 
assistance—
(1) receives a failing score under the Uniform 
Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) or successor 
standard; or
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(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary 
within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety de-
ficiencies, or those deficiencies requiring correction 
within 24 hours, identified by the inspector at the 
project have been corrected. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and non-
insured projects with assistance attached to the units 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f), but shall not apply to such units as-
sisted under section 8(o)(13) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)) or to public housing units assisted with cap-
ital or operating funds under section 9 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g). 
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the Real Es-
tate Assessment Center (‘‘REAC’’) inspection, the Sec-
retary shall provide the owner with a Notice of Default 
with a specified timetable, determined by the Secretary, 
for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide 
a copy of the Notice of Default to the tenants, the local 
government, any mortgagees, and any contract adminis-
trator. If the owner’s appeal results in a passing score, 
the Secretary may withdraw the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all 
deficiencies specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner 
fails to fully correct such deficiencies, the Secretary may—
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(A) require immediate replacement of project 
management with a management agent approved by 
the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be 
used solely for the purpose of supporting safe and 
sanitary conditions at applicable properties, as des-
ignated by the Secretary, with priority given to the 
tenants of the property affected by the penalty; 
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including par-
tial abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until 
all deficiencies have been corrected; 
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, 
approved by the Secretary under established proce-
dures, who will be obligated to promptly make all re-
quired repairs and to accept renewal of the assist-
ance contract if such renewal is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to 
another project or projects and owner or owners; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including 
suspensions or debarments from Federal programs; 
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
or seek a judicial order of specific performance re-
quiring the owner to cure all project deficiencies;
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(H) work with the owner, lender, or other re-
lated party to stabilize the property in an attempt 
to preserve the property through compliance, trans-
fer of ownership, or an infusion of capital provided 
by a third-party that requires time to effectuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual 
remedies available as deemed necessary and appro-
priate by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall take appropriate steps to en-
sure that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject 
to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist 
relocation of tenants for major threats to health and safety 
after written notice to the affected tenants. To the extent 
the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 
and the local government, that the property is not feasible 
for continued rental assistance payments under such sec-
tion 8 or other programs, based on consideration of—
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the 
property and all available Federal, State, and local 
resources, including rent adjustments under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 
may contract for project-based rental assistance pay-
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ments with an owner or owners of other existing 
housing properties, or provide other rental assist-
ance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report semi-annually on all 
properties covered by this section that are assessed 
through the Real Estate Assessment Center and have fail-
ing physical inspection scores or have received an unsatis-
factory management and occupancy review within the past 
36 months. The report shall include—
(1) identification of the enforcement actions 
being taken to address such conditions, including 
imposition of civil money penalties and termination 
of subsidies, and identification of properties that 
have such conditions multiple times; 
(2) identification of actions that the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development is taking 
to protect tenants of such identified properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative rec-
ommendations to further improve the living condi-
tions at properties covered under a housing assist-
ance payment contract. 
The first report shall be submitted to the Senate and 
House Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 
days after the enactment of this Act, and the second re-
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port shall be submitted within 180 days of the transmittal 
of the first report. 
SEC. 219. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
tion 8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assist-
ance program) and section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used by 
any public housing agency for any amount of salary, in-
cluding bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds 
the annual rate of basic pay payable for a position at level 
IV of the Executive Schedule at any time during any pub-
lic housing agency fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 220. None of the funds made available by this 
Act and provided to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development may be used to make, withdraw, ter-
minate, or rescind (except at the request of the recipient) 
a grant award unless the Secretary notifies the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full 
business days before any project, State, locality, housing 
authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or other entity se-
lected to receive a grant award is announced or is notified 
of such changes by the Department or its offices: Pro-
vided, That such notification shall list each grant award 
and project description by State and congressional district.
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SEC. 221. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Association, or the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to in-
sure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any 
mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or 
otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to 
eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, mu-
nicipality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 222. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of gen-
eral local government as a metropolitan city (as defined 
in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 223. Amounts made available by this Act that 
are appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable 
basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy Development 
and Research of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development and functions thereof, for research, evalua-
tion, or statistical purposes, and that are unexpended at 
the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately be-
come available and may be reobligated in that fiscal year 
or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, evaluation,
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or statistical purposes for which the amounts are made 
available to that Office subject to reprogramming require-
ments in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds provided in this Act or 
any other Act may be used for awards, including perform-
ance, special act, or spot, for any employee of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development subject to ad-
ministrative discipline (including suspension from work), 
in this fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not be effec-
tive prior to the effective date of any such administrative 
discipline or after any final decision over-turning such dis-
cipline. 
SEC. 225. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fis-
cal years 2015 through 2026 for the continuum of care 
(CoC) program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs 
paid by program income of grant recipients may count to-
ward meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, pro-
vided the costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the 
recipient’s CoC program. 
SEC. 226. (a) From amounts made available under 
this title under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance 
Grants’’, the Secretary may award 1-year transition 
grants to recipients of funds for activities under subtitle
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C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one continuum 
of care program component to another. 
(b) In order to be eligible to receive a transition 
grant, the funding recipient must have the consent of the 
continuum of care and meet standards determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 227. The promise zone designations and prom-
ise zone designation agreements entered into pursuant to 
such designations, made by the Secretary in prior fiscal 
years, shall remain in effect in accordance with the terms 
and conditions of such agreements (including designation 
and agreement time periods). 
SEC. 228. Any public housing agency designated as 
a Moving to Work agency pursuant to section 239 of divi-
sion L of Public Law 114–113 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note; 
129 Stat. 2897) may, upon such designation, use funds 
(except for special purpose funding, including special pur-
pose vouchers) previously allocated to any such public 
housing agency under section 8 or 9 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, including any reserve funds held by 
the public housing agency or funds held by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the 
authority for use of section 8 or 9 funding provided under 
such section and section 204 of title II of the Departments
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of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development 
and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(Public Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–28), notwith-
standing the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated. 
SEC. 229. None of the amounts made available by 
this Act may be used to prohibit any public housing agen-
cy under receivership or the direction of a Federal monitor 
from applying for, receiving, or using funds made available 
under the heading ‘‘Public Housing Fund’’ for competitive 
grants to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in 
this Act or that remain available and not awarded from 
prior Acts, or be used to prohibit a public housing agency 
from using such funds to carry out any required work pur-
suant to a settlement agreement, consent decree, vol-
untary agreement, or similar document for a violation of 
the lead safe housing or lead disclosure rules. 
SEC. 230. For fiscal year 2026, if the Secretary de-
termines or has determined, for any prior formula grant 
allocation administered by the Secretary through the Of-
fices of Public and Indian Housing, Community Planning 
and Development, or Housing, that a recipient received 
an allocation greater than the amount such recipient 
should have received for a formula allocation cycle pursu-
ant to applicable statutes and regulations, the Secretary
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may adjust for any such funding error in the next applica-
ble formula allocation cycle by (a) offsetting each such re-
cipient’s formula allocation (if eligible for a formula alloca-
tion in the next applicable formula allocation cycle) by the 
amount of any such funding error, and (b) reallocating 
any available balances that are attributable to the offset 
to the recipient or recipients that would have been allo-
cated additional funds in the formula allocation cycle in 
which any such error occurred (if such recipient or recipi-
ents are eligible for a formula allocation in the next appli-
cable formula allocation cycle) in an amount proportionate 
to such recipient’s eligibility under the next applicable for-
mula allocation cycle: Provided, That all offsets and re-
allocations from such available balances shall be recorded 
against funds available for the next applicable formula al-
location cycle: Provided further, That the term ‘‘next appli-
cable formula allocation cycle’’ means the first formula al-
location cycle for a program that is reasonably available 
for correction following such a Secretarial determination: 
Provided further, That if, upon request by a recipient and 
giving consideration to all Federal resources available to 
the recipient for the same grant purposes, the Secretary 
determines that the offset in the next applicable formula 
allocation cycle would critically impair the recipient’s abil-
ity to accomplish the purpose of the formula grant, the
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Secretary may adjust for the funding error across two or 
more formula allocation cycles. 
SEC. 231. The Secretary may transfer from amounts 
made available for salaries and expenses under this title 
(excluding amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’) to the heading ‘‘Informa-
tion Technology Fund’’ for unforeseen information tech-
nology needs, including for additional development, mod-
ernization, and enhancement, to remain available until 
September 30, 2028: Provided, That the total amount of 
such transfers shall not exceed $5,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That this transfer authority shall not be used to fund 
information technology projects or activities that have 
known out-year development, modernization, or enhance-
ment costs in excess of $500,000: Provided further, That 
this transfer authority shall not be used to allocate costs 
across offices for broader departmental information tech-
nology needs: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
provide notification to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations no fewer than 10 business days in ad-
vance of any such transfer. 
SEC. 232. The Secretary shall comply with all process 
requirements, including public notice and comment, when 
seeking to revise any annual contributions contract: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary shall provide public housing au-
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thorities not less than 60 days for public comment, and 
the Secretary shall consider and respond to submitted 
comments. 
SEC. 233. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development in this 
or prior Acts may be used to issue a solicitation or accept 
bids on any solicitation that is substantially equivalent to 
the draft solicitation entitled ‘‘Housing Assistance Pay-
ments (HAP) Contract Support Services (HAPSS)’’ post-
ed to www.Sam.gov on July 27, 2022. 
SEC. 234. (a) Any unobligated balances from 
amounts made available under the heading, ‘‘Community 
Development Fund’’ in chapter 9 of title II of the Emer-
gency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the 
Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 
(Public Law 109–234) that were transferred to ‘‘Manage-
ment and Administration, Salaries and Expenses’’ are 
hereby permanently rescinded. 
(b) Any unobligated balances included under Treas-
ury Appropriation Fund Symbol 86 X 0108 from amounts 
transferred to the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment from amounts made available under the head-
ing, ‘‘Unanticipated Needs’’ in chapter 8 of title I of the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–211) are hereby permanently rescinded.
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(c) Any unobligated balances included under Treas-
ury Appropriation Fund Symbol 86 X 0148, 86–2023/
2027–0483 and 86 X 0163 are hereby permanently re-
scinded. 
(d) Of the unobligated balances from amounts in-
cluded under Treasury Appropriation Fund Symbol 86 X 
0304, $5,036,988.73 are hereby permanently rescinded. 
(e) Of the unobligated balances from appropriations 
made available under the heading ‘‘Community Develop-
ment Fund’’ prior to fiscal year 2011, $176,688.49 in 
Economic Development Initiative grant funds and 
$336,275.98 in Special Purpose Grant funds are hereby 
rescinded. 
(f) Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 
available under the heading ‘‘Assisted Housing Inspec-
tions and Risk Assessments’’, in the Full-Year Continuing 
Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 
119–4), $22,000,000 are hereby permanently rescinded. 
(g) Of the unobligated balances from amounts in-
cluded under Treasury Appropriation Fund Symbol 86 X 
0313, $1.74 is hereby permanently rescinded. 
(h) $5,200,000 of amounts previously made available 
for expenditure from the Manufactured Housing Fees 
Trust Fund are hereby permanently rescinded.
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SEC. 235. None of the amounts made available in this 
or prior Acts may be used to consider family self-suffi-
ciency achievement metrics (FAM) in determining funding 
awards for programs receiving family self-sufficiency pro-
gram coordinator funding provided in this or prior Acts 
except to provide bonus awards as expressly made avail-
able in this or prior Acts for self-sufficiency programs as-
signed a ranking of performance category 1 based on their 
publicly available FAM scores. 
SEC. 236. The Secretary may, upon a finding that 
a waiver or alternative requirement is necessary for the 
effective delivery and administration of funds made avail-
able for new incremental voucher assistance or renewals 
for the mainstream program and the family unification 
program (including the foster youth to independence pro-
gram) in this and prior Acts, waive or specify alternative 
requirements, other than requirements related to tenant 
rights and protections, rent setting, fair housing, non-
discrimination, labor standards, and the environment, 
for—
(1) section 8(o)(6)(A) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(6)(A)) 
and regulatory provisions related to the administra-
tion of waiting lists, local preferences, and the initial 
term and extensions of tenant-based vouchers; and
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(2) section 8(x)(2) of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(x)(2)) regarding 
the timing of referral of youth leaving foster care. 
SEC. 237. The Secretary shall fulfill their responsibil-
ities to enforce the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601 
et seq.): Provided, That none of the funds made available 
by this Act may be used by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake 
specific changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying 
out the interim final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Fur-
thering Fair Housing Revisions’’ (90 Fed. Reg. 11020 
(March 3, 2025)). 
SEC. 238. The whistleblower protections in section 
4712 of title 41, United States Code, shall apply to any 
contract, subcontract, grant, subgrant, or personal serv-
ices contract funded from amounts made available in this 
or prior Acts (including carryover and recaptures), regard-
less of when the agreement was executed. 
SEC. 239. (a) For fiscal years 2026 through 2028, 
upon request from the owner, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development (‘‘Secretary’’) may forgive or re-
structure the terms of any indebtedness relating to any 
remaining principal and interest under financial assistance 
made available under section 201 of the Housing and
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Community Development Amendments of 1978 (12 
U.S.C. 1715z–1a) (‘‘Flex Sub loan’’). 
(b) The Secretary may only forgive or restructure 
loans under this section for properties with—
(1) 200 or fewer assisted units; 
(2) a Flex Sub loan with an unpaid principal 
balance of $2,000,000 or less; 
(3) a score of 80 or higher on the most recent 
REAC inspection; and 
(4) a most recent management and occupancy 
review score of ‘‘above average’’ or ‘‘superior.’’
(c) The Secretary may set such terms and conditions 
as the Secretary determines are appropriate for forgive-
ness or restructuring under this section, including: 
(1) Different maturity dates or interest rate 
terms; 
(2) Extension of affordability use agreements; 
and 
(3) Other measures to ensure the long-term sta-
bility of operations at the property. 
(d) There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2029, to carry out the 
purposes of this section, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available for such purposes.
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SEC. 240. Funds previously made available by the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2013 (Public Law 113–6) for initial project rental assist-
ance contracts associated with the demonstration program 
under the heading ‘‘Housing for Persons with Disabilities’’ 
in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropria-
tions Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55) that were available 
for obligation through fiscal year 2016 are to remain avail-
able through fiscal year 2031 for the liquidation of valid 
obligations incurred in fiscal years 2013 through 2016. 
SEC. 241. Amounts made available for the Office of 
Housing under the heading ‘‘Program Offices’’ in this and 
prior Acts shall also be available, without additional com-
petition, for cooperative agreements with participating ad-
ministrative entities that have been selected under section 
513(b) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and 
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) 
(MAHRAA) to provide direct support, including carrying 
out due diligence and underwriting functions for owners 
and for technical assistance activities, on conditions estab-
lished by the Secretary for small properties and owners 
converting assistance under the first component or the 
second component under the heading ‘‘Rental Assistance 
Demonstration’’ in the Department of Housing and Urban
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Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (title II of division 
C of Public Law 112–55). 
SEC. 242. The Secretary shall conduct all rulemaking 
in accordance with the policies of part 10 of title 24 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations and Executive Order 
12866, as amended, including providing for public partici-
pation and not less than 60 days for the submission of 
written comments. 
SEC. 243. For fiscal year 2026, the costs of any rent 
incentives as authorized pursuant to waivers or alternative 
requirements of the jobs-plus initiative as described under 
the heading ‘‘Self-Sufficiency Programs’’ shall not be 
charged against the competitive grant amounts made 
available under such heading: Provided, That the amount 
of any forgone increases in tenant rent payments due to 
the implementation of such rent incentives shall be 
factored into the public housing agency’s general oper-
ating fund eligibility pursuant to the formula under the 
heading ‘‘Public Housing Fund’’: Provided further, That 
the amount of any foregone increases in tenant rent pay-
ments due to the implementation of such rent incentives 
implemented on behalf of residents of a project with as-
sistance converted from public housing to project-based 
rental assistance under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or assistance
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under section 8(o)(13) of such Act under the heading 
‘‘Rental Assistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 
2012 (title II of division C of Public Law 112–55), as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be factored into (1) 
housing assistance payments made pursuant to project-
based subsidy contracts provided under the heading 
‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’; and (2) housing as-
sistance payments made by public housing agencies pursu-
ant to project-based assistance contracts under section 
8(o)(13) of such Act, with these costs being renewed under 
the heading ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assistance’’. 
SEC. 244. In allocating and awarding available 
amounts provided under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assist-
ance Grants’’ in the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Appropriations Act, 2025 (Public Law 119–
04) and under section 231 of Public Law 116–94 for the 
continuum of care program, the Secretary shall, prior to 
awarding any amounts through a notice of funding oppor-
tunity and notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions in 
such Acts or in subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-
Vento Homeless Assistance Act, non-competitively renew 
for one 12-month period all projects (including youth 
homelessness demonstration projects and shelter plus care 
projects) expiring during the first quarter of calendar year
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2026 (including any projects that expired from January 
1, 2026 through the date of enactment of this Act): Pro-
vided, That if awards have not been made under a fiscal 
year 2025 notice of funding opportunity prior to April 1, 
2026, the Secretary shall also non-competitively renew all 
such projects expiring during the second quarter of cal-
endar year 2026: Provided further, That if awards have 
not been made under a fiscal year 2025 notice of funding 
opportunity prior to July 1, 2026, the Secretary shall also 
non-competitively renew all such projects expiring during 
the third and fourth quarters of calendar year 2026: Pro-
vided further, That such renewals shall be in an amount 
equal to the prior award with upward adjustments to en-
able renewal projects to operate at substantially the same 
levels, including cost-of-living adjustments for supportive 
services from the prior grant and due to changes to the 
fair market rents in the geographic area: Provided further, 
That amounts remaining after all such renewals are made 
shall be competitively awarded pursuant to a notice of 
funding opportunity: Provided further, That such renewals 
shall not render recipients ineligible for awards under any 
fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026 notices of funding 
opportunity. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2026’’.
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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 
(29 U.S.C. 792), $9,955,000: Provided, That, notwith-
standing 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 46107 of title 46, 
United States Code, including services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles as authorized by section 1343(b) of 
title 31, United States Code; and uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code, $40,000,000, of which $2,000,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, 
That not to exceed $3,500 shall be for official reception 
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 (5 U.S.C. Chapter 4), $29,240,000: Provided, 
That the Inspector General shall have all necessary au-
thority, in carrying out the duties specified in such Act, 
to investigate allegations of fraud, including false state-
ments to the Government under section 1001 of title 18, 
United States Code, 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 National Railroad
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Passenger Corporation: Provided further, That concurrent 
with the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2027, 
the Inspector General shall submit to the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations a budget request for 
fiscal year 2027 in similar format and substance to budget 
requests 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 section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code, 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 sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, 
$145,000,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 may be used 
for official reception and representation expenses. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $158,000,000: Provided,
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That the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation shall 
notify network organizations of their full formula grant 
award by the latter of 60 days after enactment of this 
Act or March 1, 2026. 
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board, including services authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, $40,799,000: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees established by the Sur-
face Transportation Board shall be credited to this appro-
priation as offsetting collections and used for necessary 
and authorized expenses under this heading: Provided fur-
ther, That the amounts made available under this heading 
from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-
dollar basis as such offsetting collections are received dur-
ing fiscal year 2026, to result in a final appropriation from 
the general fund estimated at not more than $39,549,000. 
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-
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perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness (in this heading ‘‘the Council’’) in carrying 
out the functions pursuant to title II of the McKinney-
Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, $3,000,000: 
Provided, That the Council shall be staffed in accordance 
with section 11313(a)(5) of title 42, United States Code, 
and regional coordinators shall have the proven expertise 
and demonstrated experience needed to carry out the du-
ties specified in such section: Provided further, That each 
meeting of the Council shall be open to the public, and 
the Council shall post a public notification of each Council 
meeting not less than 30 days in advance of each meeting 
on its website and include the agenda for each meeting 
in such posting.
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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. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this 
Act or the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act), none of the funds provided in this Act or provided 
by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities 
funded in this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees
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and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
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 House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), or the
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relevant operating plan properly submitted by each 
agency, whichever is more detailed. 
(b) Not later than 60 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall 
submit an operating plan to the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations to establish the baseline for ap-
plication of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the current fiscal year: Provided, That the operating plan 
shall include—
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the prior year enacted level, 
the President’s budget request, adjustments made by 
Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level; 
(2) a delineation in the table for (A) each ap-
propriation and its respective prior year enacted 
level by object class and program, project, and activ-
ity as detailed in this Act, the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-
sion A of this consolidated Act), or in the budget ap-
pendix for the respective appropriations, whichever 
is more detailed, (B) each item for which a dollar 
amount is specified and for all programs for which 
new budget (obligational) authority is provided, and
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(C) each discretionary grant and discretionary grant 
allocation; 
(3) an organizational chart that includes cur-
rent and estimated staffing numbers, by office, at 
the customary level of detail unless otherwise di-
rected by this Act or the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act); and 
(4) an identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
(c) Each agency may reprogram amounts in excess 
of or contrary to the threshold limitations established in 
this section only after—
(1) providing written notification to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations no less 
than 30 days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds; and 
(2) receiving prior written approval from the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
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 2026 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2026 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2027, for each such account for
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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 
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
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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 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. 410. 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. 411. 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. 412. 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-
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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. 
SEC. 413. 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. 414. (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. 
(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.
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SEC. 415. (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. 
(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.
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SEC. 416. 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. 
SEC. 417. 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 
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.
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SEC. 418. (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 
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. 419. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of existing Federal law 
regarding non-citizen eligibility and ineligibility for occu-
pancy in federally assisted housing or for participation in 
and assistance under Federal housing programs, including 
section 214 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) and title IV of the Per-
sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.).
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SEC. 420. (a) No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act or title VIII of division J of Public Law 117–
58 shall be used, other than for normal and recognized 
executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propa-
ganda purposes, and for the preparation, distribution, or 
use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, tele-
vision, or film presentation designed to support or defeat 
legislation pending before the Congress, except in presen-
tation to the Congress itself. 
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act or in title VIII of division J of Public Law 117–58 
shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any grant 
or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, 
related to any activity designed to influence the enactment 
of legislation or appropriations proposed or pending before 
the Congress, other than for normal and recognized execu-
tive-legislative relationships. 
(c) Amounts repurposed pursuant to subsections (a) 
and (b) shall continue to be treated as amounts specified 
in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5. 
SEC. 421. (a) In the table of projects in the explana-
tory statement referenced in section 417 of the Transpor-
tation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 (division L of Public 
Law 117–103)—
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(1) the item relating to ‘‘Kansas Rail Safety 
Improvement Project’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking recipient ‘‘Pittsburg Port Authority (KS)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Kansas Department of Transpor-
tation’’; 
(2) the item relating to ‘‘The Barkers Creek In-
dustrial Park Power Expansion’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘The Barkers Creek Industrial 
Park Power Expansion’’ and inserting ‘‘Barkers 
Creek Industrial Park Access Bridge, Phase II’’; 
(3) the item relating to ‘‘Acquisition of new 
commercial space’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking project ‘‘Acquisition of new commercial 
space’’ and inserting ‘‘Renovation of commercial 
space’’; 
(4) the item relating to ‘‘Electric school bus 
and associated electric vehicle (EV) charging infra-
structure’’ is deemed to be amended by striking re-
cipient ‘‘Falls Church City Public Schools’’ and in-
serting ‘‘City of Falls Church’’; 
(5) the item relating to ‘‘North Commons Re-
gional Vision’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
recipient ‘‘Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’’ 
and inserting ‘‘City of Minneapolis’’;
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(6) the item relating to ‘‘Orangewood Parkette’’ 
is deemed to be amended by striking project ‘‘Or-
angewood Parkette’’ and inserting ‘‘Orangewood 
Complete Streets’’; 
(7) the item relating to ‘‘Replacing Five Ele-
vators in a Public Housing Development’’ is deemed 
to be amended by striking project ‘‘Replacing Five 
Elevators in a Public Housing Development’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Replacing Elevators in a Public Housing 
Development’’; 
(8) the item relating to ‘‘Long Branch Stream 
Valley Park Pedestrian Bridge Replacements and 
ADA Improvements’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking recipient ‘‘Montgomery County Govern-
ment’’ and inserting ‘‘Maryland National Capital 
Park and Planning Commission’’; 
(9) the item relating to ‘‘Washington Gorge Ac-
tion Programs—Goldendale Childcare and Early 
Learning Center’’ is deemed to be amended by strik-
ing ‘‘Goldendale’’; 
(10) the item relating to ‘‘Habitat for Human-
ity’s Veterans Blitz Build’’ is deemed to be amended 
by striking recipient ‘‘Habitat for Humanity San 
Bernardino Area, Inc.’’ and inserting ‘‘Neighborhood 
Partnership Housing Services, Inc. (NPHS)’’;
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(11) the item relating to ‘‘Allen University Res-
toration of Historic Waverly-Good Samaritan Hos-
pital’’ is deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘Allen 
University Restoration of Historic Waverly-Good Sa-
maritan Hospital’’ and inserting ‘‘Facility Up-
grades’’; 
(12) the item relating to ‘‘The MEWS at Spen-
cer Road, Affordable Housing and Mixed Use Devel-
opment’’ is deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘The 
MEWS at Spencer Road,’’; and 
(13) The item relating to ‘‘ARISE housing for 
young adults transitioning out of foster care’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘ARISE housing 
for young adults transitioning out of foster care’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Construction of Housing in the City 
of Greenville.’’
(b) In the table of projects entitled ‘‘Community 
Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in 
the explanatory statement for division L of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–328) de-
scribed in section 4 in the matter preceding division A of 
such Act—
(1) the item relating to ‘‘Lower Shore Clinic 
Co-Occurring Disorder Treatment Facility Housing’’ 
is deemed to be amended by:
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(A) striking ‘‘Lower Shore Clinic Co-Oc-
curring Disorder Treatment Facility Housing’’ 
and inserting ‘‘HealthPort Co-Occurring Dis-
order Treatment Facility’’; and 
(B) striking recipient ‘‘Lower Shore Clinic 
Inc.’’ and inserting ‘‘HealthPort, Inc.’’; 
(2) the item relating to ‘‘Metra Zero Emission 
Locomotive Commuter Rail Pilot’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘Locomotive’’; 
(3) the item relating to ‘‘Acquisition of Prop-
erty for the Revitalization of Cliftondale Square 
Business District’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking ‘‘Acquisition of Property for the’’; 
(4) the item relating to ‘‘Supportive Living, 
Community Day Services, and Housing Site Project 
for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Dis-
abilities’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
project ‘‘Supportive Living, Community Day Serv-
ices, and Housing Site Project for Adults with Intel-
lectual and Developmental Disabilities’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Community Day Services and Housing Expan-
sion for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental 
Disabilities’’; 
(5) the item relating to ‘‘Public Library Addi-
tion’’ is deemed to be amended by striking project
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‘‘Public Library Addition’’ and inserting ‘‘Public Li-
brary Renovations’’; 
(6) the item relating to ‘‘Renovation of Snelling 
Motel to Affordable Housing for Veterans’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking project ‘‘Renova-
tion of Snelling Motel to Affordable Housing for 
Veterans’’ and inserting ‘‘Acquisition for Affordable 
Housing for Veterans’’; 
(7) the item relating to ‘‘El Centro de la Raza-
Pattison’s West Community Campus Property Ac-
quisition’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
project ‘‘El Centro de la Raza-Pattison’s West Com-
munity Campus Property Acquisition’’ and inserting 
‘‘Pattison’s West Community Campus’’; 
(8) the item relating to ‘‘Riverbrook Regional 
YMCA’’ is deemed to be amended by striking recipi-
ent ‘‘Riverbrook Regional Young Men’s Christian 
Association, Inc.’’ and inserting ‘‘City of Norwalk’’; 
(9) the item relating to ‘‘The SE1 Rehab’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking recipient ‘‘The 
Skid Row Housing Trust’’ and inserting ‘‘PATH 
Ventures’’ and striking project ‘‘The SE1 Rehab’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Skid Row Permanent Supportive 
Housing Rehabilitation’’;
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(10) the item relating to ‘‘Community Aging & 
Retirement Services, Inc.’’ is deemed to be amended 
by striking recipient ‘‘Community Aging & Retire-
ment Services, Inc.’’ and inserting ‘‘Pasco County,’’ 
and striking project ‘‘CARES One Stop Senior Cen-
ter Acquisition and Construction’’ and inserting 
‘‘Senior Center Acquisition and Construction’’; 
(11) the item relating to ‘‘Western Flyer Coast 
Guard Pier Repair and Classroom Design’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking project ‘‘Western 
Flyer Coast Guard Pier Repair and Classroom De-
sign’’ and inserting ‘‘Western Flyer Pier and Class-
room Repair’’; 
(12) the item relating to ‘‘NYCHA ADA Acces-
sibility and Security Lighting Project’’ is deemed to 
be amended by striking project ‘‘NYCHA ADA Ac-
cessibility and Security Lighting Project’’ and in-
serting 
‘‘Installation 
of 
Exterior 
Lighting 
at 
Borinquen Plaza II’’; 
(13) the item relating to ‘‘Ausonia Apartments 
Modernization’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
recipient ‘‘Ausonia Apartments’’ and inserting ‘‘Bos-
ton Housing Authority’’; 
(14) the item relating to ‘‘Helping Up Mission 
Permanent Housing on East Baltimore Street’’ is
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deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘Helping Up Mis-
sion Permanent Housing on East Baltimore Street’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Greenspace Development in Balti-
more’’; 
(15) the item relating to ‘‘The Choir School of 
Delaware’s New Building at 8th and West Street in 
Wilmington’s Historic Quaker Hill District’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘at 8th and West 
Street in Wilmington’s Historic Quaker Hill Dis-
trict’’ and inserting ‘‘in Wilmington’’; 
(16) the item relating to ‘‘WTA 2011 Fixed 
Route Diesel to Electric Replacement Project, Bel-
lingham’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
‘‘WTA 2011 Fixed Route Diesel to Electric Replace-
ment Project, Bellingham’’ and inserting ‘‘Acquisi-
tion of Hybrid-Electric Buses’’; and 
(17) the item relating to ‘‘Media and Arts Col-
laborative Building Renovation’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘Renovation’’. 
(c) In the table of projects entitled ‘‘Community 
Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in 
the explanatory statement for division F of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–42) de-
scribed in section 4 in the matter preceding division A of 
such Act—
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(1) the item relating to ‘‘Hardwoods Permanent 
Supportive Housing’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking ‘‘Hardwoods’’; 
(2) the item relating to ‘‘Cle Elum—First 
Street Downtown Revitalization’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘First Street’’; 
(3) the item relating to ‘‘Center for Community 
Programs in Livermore Falls and Jay’’ is deemed to 
be amended by striking recipient ‘‘United Way of 
the Tri-Valley Area’’ and inserting ‘‘Town of Jay’’; 
(4) the item relating to ‘‘Pawtucket Library, 
Sayles Building Re-Pointing’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking project ‘‘Pawtucket Library, 
Sayles Building Re-Pointing’’ and inserting ‘‘Paw-
tucket Library, Sayles Building Renovation’’; 
(5) the item relating to ‘‘Germany Road Reloca-
tion Project’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
project ‘‘Germany Road Relocation Project’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Sewer Improvements’’; 
(6) the item relating to ‘‘Community Center 
Expansion and Land Acquisition’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘Expansion and Land Acquisi-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘Planning and Design’’; 
(7) the item relating to ‘‘Laconia, NH Hill 
Street Pedestrian Bridge Replacement’’ is deemed to
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be amended by striking ‘‘Hill Street’’ and inserting 
‘‘Mill Street’’; 
(8) the item relating to ‘‘Sunnyside Community 
Reinvestment as Cultura & Traditions: Tucson, AZ’’ 
is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ‘‘Sun-
nyside Foundation’’ and inserting ‘‘Sunnyside Uni-
fied School District’’; 
(9) the item relating to ‘‘Craighead Technology 
Park and Public Safety Center’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking recipient ‘‘City Water and 
Light of Jonesboro’’ and inserting ‘‘City of 
Jonesboro’’; 
(10) the item relating to ‘‘Capital Repairs of 4 
Affordable Housing properties, City of Seattle, King 
County, WA’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
‘‘4’’ and inserting ‘‘3’’; 
(11) the item relating to ‘‘Middletown Plaza El-
evator Replacement’’ is deemed to be amended by 
striking ‘‘Middletown Plaza Elevator Replacement’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Security Upgrades at NYCHA’s 
Soundview Houses’’; 
(12) the item relating to ‘‘Morris Affordable 
Housing Infrastructure’’ is deemed to be amended 
by striking recipient ‘‘Morris Affordable Housing In-
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frastructure’’ and inserting ‘‘Morris Housing Au-
thority’’; 
(13) the item relating to ‘‘Rehabilitation of His-
toric Alumni House as Skills-based Workforce Devel-
opment Community Center’’ is deemed to be amend-
ed by striking ‘‘Historic Alumni House as’’ and in-
serting ‘‘a building for a’’; 
(14) the item relating to ‘‘Mt. Airy/German-
town Streetscape Improvement and Reconnection’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking recipient ‘‘Mt. 
Airy Business Improvement District’’ and inserting 
‘‘City of Philadelphia’’; 
(15) the item relating to ‘‘YMCA of Greater 
Pittsburgh’’ is deemed to be amended by striking 
‘‘YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh’’ and inserting ‘‘Alle-
gheny YMCA Renovation’’; 
(16) the item relating to ‘‘Corn Maiden Early 
Learning Center’’ is deemed to be amended by strik-
ing recipient ‘‘Corn Maiden Early Learning Center’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’’; 
(17) the item relating to ‘‘10th Street Realign-
ment Project Overpass Project’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking recipient ‘‘City of Richmond’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Fort Bend County’’; and
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(18) the item relating to ‘‘S. Roosevelt Road 
Share Use Path’’ is deemed to be amended by strik-
ing ‘‘S. Roosevelt Road’’. 
(d) Each amendment made by subsection (a) shall be 
considered and treated as a continuation of an existing 
obligation of funds and not as a new obligation of funds. 
(e) Amounts made available under the heading ‘‘De-
partment of Transportation—Consolidated Rail Infra-
structure and Safety Improvements’’ for the item relating 
to ‘‘Midway Crossing’’ in the table of projects entitled 
‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
Spending’’ in the explanatory statement for division L of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 
117–328) described in section 4 in the matter preceding 
division A of such Act shall be transferred to ‘‘Department 
of Transportation—Transit Infrastructure Grants’’ and 
shall be available under the heading to which transferred 
for its original purpose. 
(1) The item relating to ‘‘Midway Crossing’’ is 
deemed to be amended by striking account ‘‘Consoli-
dated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Transit Infrastructure Grants’’ in the 
table of projects entitled ‘‘Community Project Fund-
ing/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in the ex-
planatory statement for division L of the Consoli-
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dated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–
328) described in section 4 in the matter preceding 
division A of such Act. 
SEC. 422. The Department of Transportation and the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall 
provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions: 
(1) quarterly reports on the status of all funds, 
including the start of year unobligated and uncom-
mitted balances, and the total obligations and recap-
tures for the fiscal year, by program, project, and 
activity; 
(2) semiannual reports on staffing levels, 
hirings, and separations (including through the de-
ferred resignation program and any other voluntary 
retirement programs), consistent with direction pro-
vided in this Act or the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act); and 
(3) additional, updated budget or financial tech-
nical assistance, upon request. 
SEC. 423. Each Department and agency funded in 
this Act shall maintain on its publicly accessible website:
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(1) notices of funding opportunities (including 
any amendments) for all competitive grant programs 
issued in the most recent 10 years; 
(2) grant awards for the most recent 10 years; 
and 
(3) programmatic notices, guidance, and grant 
agreement templates for any grant program with 
disbursement activity within the previous 5 fiscal 
years. 
SEC. 424. No later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the De-
partments and agencies funded under this Act shall sub-
mit a report to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations on current staffing levels for all political and 
Presidential appointees in such Departments and agencies 
and categorized by which office within such Departments 
and agencies such employee is funded from, the office in 
which such employee carries out their daily work, such em-
ployee’s title, and such employee’s pay grade or the equiv-
alent level based on the GS-scale. 
SEC. 425. The assistance made available under para-
graph (5)(B) under the heading ‘‘Public and Indian Hous-
ing—Tenant-Based Rental Assistance’’ in title II of this 
Act shall be known and designated as ‘‘The Melania 
Trump Foster Youth to Independence Initiative’’.
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SEC. 426. (a) In the table titled ‘‘Community Project 
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ in the ex-
planatory statement for division A of the Commerce, Jus-
tice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Inte-
rior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 described 
in section 4 in the matter preceding division A of such 
Act—
(1) the contents in the ‘‘Senate’’ sub column of 
the ‘‘Requestor(s)’’ column are deemed to be amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘Kaine, Warner’’ for the project 
identified as the ‘‘Center of Excellence in Environ-
mental Forecasting’’ for the recipient ‘‘Virginia In-
stitute of Marine Science’’; 
(2) the contents in the ‘‘Recipient’’ column are 
deemed to be amended by—
(A) inserting ‘‘Research Foundation of 
the’’ before ‘‘City University of New York on 
behalf of Medgar Evers College’’ for the project 
identified as ‘‘Advancing Scientific Research 
Capabilities’’; 
(B) inserting ‘‘Research Foundation of 
the’’ before ‘‘State University of New York on 
behalf of the University at Buffalo’’ for the 
project identified as ‘‘Center of Excellence for 
Cross-Border Supply Chains’’;
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conductors’’ for recipient ‘‘The University of 
Texas at Dallas’’; 
(C) ‘‘D’Youville University School of Phar-
macy Sterile’’ before ‘‘Compounding and Non-
Sterile Hazardous Compounding Lab’’ for re-
cipient ‘‘D’Youville University’’; 
(D) ‘‘Building the Workforce of the Future 
Generation By’’ before ‘‘Empowering Under-
served Students with Technology-based STEM 
Education’’ for recipient ‘‘Research Foundation 
of CUNY’’; 
(E) ‘‘Additive Construction and Manufac-
turing Equipment for’’ before ‘‘Affordable and 
Resilient Housing Research and Workforce De-
velopment’’ for recipient ‘‘Rowan University’’; 
and 
(F) ‘‘Interdisciplinary Engineering & Com-
puting initiative to’’ before ‘‘Advance Semicon-
ductor Industry and National Security Project’’ 
for recipient ‘‘Florida International University’’. 
(b) The table titled ‘‘Department of Commerce Allo-
cation of National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory 
statement for division A of the Commerce, Justice, 
Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and
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Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 described in sec-
tion 4 in the matter preceding division A of such Act is 
deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘(1,000,000)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(100,000)’’ for the ‘‘Administrative Expenses’’ 
project and activity. 
(c) In the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment In-
corporation of Community Project Funding/Congression-
ally Directed Spending Items’’ in the explanatory state-
ment for division C of the Commerce, Justice, Science; 
Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Envi-
ronment Appropriations Act, 2026 described in section 4 
in the matter preceding division A of such Act, the con-
tents in the ‘‘Project Recipient and Name’’ column for the 
‘‘STAG—Other (CDS)’’ account are deemed to be amend-
ed by striking ‘‘COR Healthy Communities for Waste Im-
provement System’’ and inserting ‘‘Oregon Metro for 
Waste Improvement System’’. 
(d) The Department of the Interior, Environment, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026, is amend-
ed—
(1) in the matter preceding the first proviso 
under the heading ‘‘National Park Service—Oper-
ation of the National Park System’’ by striking 
‘‘$2,877,195,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,901,195,000’’, 
striking 
‘‘$148,285,000’’ 
and 
inserting
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‘‘$157,165,000’’, and striking ‘‘$157,950,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$173,070,000’’; and 
(2) in the matter preceding the first proviso 
under the heading ‘‘National Park Service—Historic 
Preservation Fund’’, by striking ‘‘$205,059,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$181,059,000’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, 
Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2026’’.
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DIVISION E—FINANCIAL SERVICES AND 
GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIA-
TIONS ACT, 2026
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 
including operation and maintenance of the Treasury 
Building and Freedman’s Bank Building; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improve-
ments of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when nec-
essary for the performance of official business; executive 
direction program activities; international affairs and eco-
nomic policy activities; domestic finance and tax policy ac-
tivities, including technical assistance to State, local, and 
territorial entities; and Treasury-wide management poli-
cies and programs activities, $287,576,000: Provided, 
That of the amount appropriated under this heading—
(1) not to exceed $1,350,000 is for official re-
ception and representation expenses of which 
$1,000,000 is available until January 30, 2027, for 
hosting the G20 Financial Summit;
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(2) not to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential nature to be allocated 
and expended under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on the 
Secretary’s certificate; and 
(3) not to exceed $42,000,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2027, for—
(A) the Treasury-wide Financial Statement 
Audit and Internal Control Program; 
(B) information technology modernization 
requirements; 
(C) the audit, oversight, and administra-
tion of the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund; 
(D) the development and implementation 
of programs within the Office of Cybersecurity 
and Critical Infrastructure Protection, including 
entering into cooperative agreements; 
(E) operations and maintenance of facili-
ties; and 
(F) international operations. 
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED 
STATES FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Committee on Foreign 
Investment in the United States, $21,000,000, to remain
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available until expended: Provided, That the chairperson 
of the Committee may transfer such amounts to any de-
partment or agency represented on the Committee (includ-
ing the Department of the Treasury) subject to advance 
notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided fur-
ther, That the Department shall submit a report with the 
notification describing the amount of the transfer, the pur-
pose of the transfer, and the receiving agency: Provided 
further, That amounts so transferred shall remain avail-
able until expended for expenses of implementing section 
721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended 
(50 U.S.C. 4565), and shall be available in addition to 
any other funds available to any department or agency: 
Provided further, That fees authorized by section 721(p) 
of such Act shall be credited to this appropriation as off-
setting collections: Provided further, That the total amount 
appropriated under this heading from the general fund 
shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are received 
during fiscal year 2026, so as to result in a total appro-
priation from the general fund estimated at not more than 
$0.
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OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the necessary expenses of the Office of Terrorism 
and Financial Intelligence to safeguard the financial sys-
tem against illicit use and to combat rogue nations, ter-
rorist 
facilitators, 
weapons 
of 
mass 
destruction 
proliferators, human rights abusers, money launderers, 
drug kingpins, and other national security threats, 
$237,662,000, of which not less than $3,000,000 shall be 
available for addressing human rights violations and cor-
ruption, including activities authorized by the Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 
2656 note): Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this heading, up to $16,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027. 
CYBERSECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACCOUNT 
For salaries and expenses for enhanced cybersecurity 
for systems operated by the Department of the Treasury, 
$59,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2028: Provided, That such funds shall supplement and not 
supplant any other amounts made available to the Treas-
ury offices and bureaus for cybersecurity: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount made available under this 
heading $6,000,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses for the Treasury Chief Information Officer to
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provide oversight of the investments made under this 
heading: Provided further, That such funds shall supple-
ment and not supplant any other amounts made available 
to the Treasury Chief Information Officer. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE SYSTEMS AND CAPITAL 
INVESTMENTS PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For development and acquisition of automatic data 
processing equipment, software, and services and for re-
pairs and renovations to buildings owned by the Depart-
ment of the Treasury, $11,007,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2028: Provided, That these funds 
shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as nec-
essary to satisfy the requirements of the Department’s of-
fices, bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, 
That this transfer authority shall be in addition to any 
other transfer authority provided in this Act: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing shall be used to support or supplement ‘‘Internal Rev-
enue Service—Technology and Operations Support’’ or 
‘‘Internal Revenue Service—Business Systems Moderniza-
tion’’.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of chapter 4 of title 
5, United States Code, $48,389,000, including hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; of which not to exceed $100,000 
shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a con-
fidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 
direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; of 
which up to $2,800,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2027, shall be for audits and investigations 
conducted pursuant to section 1608 of the Resources and 
Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Re-
vived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (33 
U.S.C. 1321 note); and of which not to exceed $1,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses. 
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector 
General for Tax Administration in carrying out chapter 
4 of title 5, United States Code, including purchase and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as
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may be determined by the Inspector General for Tax Ad-
ministration; $165,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall re-
main available until September 30, 2027; of which not to 
exceed $6,000,000 shall be available for official travel ex-
penses; of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be available 
for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be 
allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspec-
tor General for Tax Administration; and of which not to 
exceed $1,500 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses. 
FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes En-
forcement Network, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; travel and training expenses of non-Federal and 
foreign government personnel to attend meetings and 
training concerned with domestic and foreign financial in-
telligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regula-
tion; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; not to exceed 
$25,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, 
with or without reimbursement, $185,193,000, of which 
not to exceed $55,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2028.