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and at least one-half the size of the term 
‘‘natural’’. 
(2) PREEMPTION.—No State or a political sub-
division of a State may directly or indirectly estab-
lish, maintain, implement, or enforce any authority 
or requirement relating to the labels, labeling, or ad-
vertising of animal food that is different from, or 
more stringent than paragraph (1). 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to restrict State post-market food 
safety oversight activities, including any such activities re-
lating to implementation of the FDA Food Safety Mod-
ernization Act (Public Law 111–353), outbreak investiga-
tions, surveillance sampling, or investigations of consumer 
complaints. 
(d) GUIDANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Commissioner 
of Food and Drugs (referred to in this subsection as 
the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall issue guidance addressing 
each of the following topics: 
(A) Methods for substantiating nutritional 
adequacy of pet foods. 
(B) Pet food metabolizable energy proto-
cols. 
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(C) Affidavits for pet food testing protocol 
completion. 
(D) Data to support a calorie content 
claim for pet foods. 
(E) Analytical variations for animal food. 
(F) Recommendations for use of mena-
dione sodium bisulfite complex in animal feed. 
(2) INITIAL GUIDANCE.— 
(A) TIMING.—Not later than 18 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall issue initial guidance under this 
subsection. 
(B) BASIS.— The initial guidance under 
subparagraph (A) shall be based on the guid-
ance contained in the 2025 edition of the 
‘‘AAFCO Official Publication’’. 
(e) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Commissioner 
of Food and Drugs, shall— 
(A) not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, issue proposed regula-
tions to implement the amendments made by 
this section; and 
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(B) not later than two years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, finalize such regula-
tions. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The initial regulations pro-
mulgated to implement the amendments made by 
this section shall include— 
(A) for commercial feed, Regulation 1 
through Regulation 10 of the ‘‘Model Regula-
tions Under the Model Bill’’ in chapter 4 of the 
2025 edition of the ‘‘AAFCO Official Publica-
tion’’; and 
(B) for pet food and specialty pet food, PF 
1 through PF 12 of the ‘‘Model Regulations for 
Pet Food and Specialty Pet Food Under the 
Model Bill’’ in chapter 4 of the 2025 edition of 
the ‘‘AAFCO Official Publication’’. 
(f) APPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply with re-
spect to fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter. 
SEC. 773. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to finalize, implement, 
or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Requirements for To-
bacco Product Manufacturing Practice’’, published by the 
Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Register 
on March 10, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 15174), or any substan-
tially similar rule. 
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SEC. 774. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act may be used to— 
(1) Classify or facilitate the classification of any 
communications by a United States person as mis- 
, dis-, or mal-information; or 
(2) Partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-
ganizations that in any way instruct, influence, di-
rect, or recommend private companies to censor, 
prohibit, or obstruct lawful and constitutionally pro-
tected speech of United States persons, including 
recommending the censoring or removal of content 
on social media platforms. 
SEC. 775. The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) conduct a study to determine the feasibility 
of applying the Buy American requirement (as de-
scribed in section 201.21(d) of title 7 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations (2022)) to the supplemental 
nutrition assistance program under the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008, and the special supplemental 
nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), in-
cluding the impact applying such requirement would 
have on the agricultural economy of the United 
States; and 
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(2) not later than one year after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit the 
results of such study to the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations, the House Agriculture 
Committee, and the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry Committee. 
SEC. 776. Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 is amended by inserting ‘‘or improve 
the health of members of participating households by re-
stricting their purchase of non-nutritious food and bev-
erage items, as determined by the Secretary’’ after 
‘‘households’’. 
SEC. 777. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-
missioner of Food and Drugs, the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission, or the Chairman of 
the Farm Credit Administration to fly or display a flag 
over a facility of the Department of Agriculture, the Food 
and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trad-
ing Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration other 
than the flag of the United States; the flag of a State, 
territory, the District of Columbia; the flag of an Indian 
Tribal Government; the official flag of a U.S. Department 
or agency; or the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action flag. 
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