curities matters and provision of technical assistance for 
the development of foreign securities markets, such ex-
penses to include necessary logistic and administrative ex-
penses and the expenses of Commission staff and foreign 
invitees in attendance at such consultations and meetings 
including: (1) such incidental expenses as meals taken in 
the course of such attendance; (2) any travel and trans-
portation to or from such meetings; and (3) any other re-
lated lodging or subsistence: Provided, That fees and 
charges authorized by sections 6(b) of the Securities Ex-
change Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)), and 13(e), 14(g) 
and 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 
78m(e), 78n(g), and 78ee), shall be credited to this ac-
count as offsetting collections: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $863,117,000 of such offsetting collections shall 
be available until expended for necessary expenses of this 
account: Provided further, That $25,000,000 shall be de-
rived from prior year unobligated balances from funds pre-
viously appropriated to the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission: Provided further, That the total amount appro-
priated under this heading from the general fund for fiscal 
year 2006 shall be reduced as such offsetting fees are re-
ceived so as to result in a final total fiscal year 2006 ap-
propriation from the general fund estimated at not more 
than $0.
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
of the Small Business Administration as authorized by 
Public Law 108–447, including hire of passenger motor 
vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344, and 
not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, $318,029,000 (reduced by $13,441,000): 
Provided, That the Administrator is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the cost of publications developed by the 
Small Business Administration, and certain loan servicing 
activities: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, revenues received from all such activities 
shall be credited to this account, to be available for car-
rying out these purposes without further appropriations: 
Provided further, That, of the funds made available under 
this heading, $1,000,000 shall be for the National Vet-
erans Business Development Corporation: Provided fur-
ther, That any funds provided under this heading used to 
implement E-Government Initiatives shall be subject to 
the procedures set forth in section 605 of this Act. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $13,500,000.
SURETY BOND GUARANTEES REVOLVING FUND 
For additional capital for the Surety Bond Guaran-
tees Revolving Fund, authorized by the Small Business 
Investment Act, as amended, $2,861,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That subject to section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal year 
2006 commitments to guarantee loans under section 503 
of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, shall not 
exceed $6,000,000,000: Provided further, That during fis-
cal year 2006 commitments for general business loans au-
thorized under section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, 
shall not exceed $16,500,000,000: Provided further, That 
during fiscal year 2006 commitments to guarantee loans 
for debentures under section 303(b) of the Small Business 
Investment Act of 1958, shall not exceed $3,000,000,000: 
Provided further, That during fiscal year 2006 guarantees 
of trust certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small 
Business Act shall not exceed a principal amount of 
$12,000,000,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $124,961,000 
(increased by $79,132,000), which may be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and Ex-
penses. 
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans authorized by section 7(b) 
of the Small Business Act, $79,538,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan program authorized by section 7(b), of the 
Small Business Act, $49,716,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with appropriations for Salaries and 
Expenses, of which $900,000 is for the Office of Inspector 
General of the Small Business Administration for audits 
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan pro-
gram and shall be transferred to and merged with appro-
priations for the Office of Inspector General; of which 
$40,316,000 is for direct administrative expenses of loan 
making and servicing to carry out the direct loan program, 
to remain available until expended; and of which 
$8,500,000 is for indirect administrative expenses: Pro-
vided, That any amount in excess of $8,500,000 to be 
transferred to and merged with appropriations for Salaries
and Expenses for indirect administrative expenses shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or ex-
penditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRATION 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Small Business 
Administration in this Act may be transferred between 
such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be 
increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 
Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this paragraph 
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under sec-
tion 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section. 
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, 
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Authorization 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–572), $2,000,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official 
reception and representation expenses.
UNITED STATES-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY 
REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States-China 
Economic and Security Review Commission, $4,000,000, 
including not more than $5,000 for the purpose of official 
representation, to remain available until expended. 
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Institute 
of Peace as authorized in the United States Institute of 
Peace Act, $22,850,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 
not authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the applica-
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall 
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other 
than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be af-
fected thereby. 
SEC. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2006, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new 
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes or renames offices; (6) reorganizes, programs or ac-
tivities; or (7) contracts out or privatizes any functions 
or activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of
Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such re-
programming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2006, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding 
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers 
of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings, including savings 
from a reduction in personnel, which would result in a 
change in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; unless the Appropriations Commit-
tees of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 
guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission covering harassment based on religion, when it is
made known to the Federal entity or official to which such 
funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ 
in any respect from the proposed guidelines published by 
the Commission on October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 
51266). 
SEC. 607. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for any United Nations undertaking 
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that: (1) the 
United Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) 
such undertaking will involve United States Armed Forces 
under the command or operational control of a foreign na-
tional; and (3) the President’s military advisors have not 
submitted to the President a recommendation that such 
involvement is in the national security interests of the 
United States and the President has not submitted to the 
Congress such a recommendation. 
SEC. 608. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
and State, the National Science Foundation, the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal Com-
munications Commission, the Securities and Exchange 
Commission and the Small Business Administration shall 
provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate and of the House of Representatives a quarterly ac-
counting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated
funds that were received by such agency during any pre-
vious fiscal year. 
SEC. 609. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 609 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of section 609 of that Act shall continue to apply during 
fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 610. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in 
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such department or agency: Provided, 
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 611. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type. 
SEC. 612. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 616 of that Act shall continue to apply during fis-
cal year 2006. 
SEC. 613. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for— 
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in con-
nection with the implementation of subsection 922(t) 
of title 18, United States Code; and 
(2) any system to implement subsection 922(t) 
of title 18, United States Code, that does not re-
quire and result in the destruction of any identifying 
information submitted by or on behalf of any person
who has been determined not to be prohibited from 
possessing or receiving a firearm no more than 24 
hours after the system advises a Federal firearms li-
censee that possession or receipt of a firearm by the 
prospective transferee would not violate subsection 
(g) or (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States 
Code, or State law. 
SEC. 614. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-
sonnel of the Department of Justice to obligate more than 
$625,000,000 during fiscal year 2006 from the Fund es-
tablished by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of 
Public Law 98–473 (42 U.S.C. 10601). 
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
nate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of 
students who participate in programs for which financial 
assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents 
or legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 616. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of State shall be 
available for the purpose of granting either immigrant or 
nonimmigrant visas, or both, consistent with the deter-
mination of the Secretary of State under section 243(d) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to citizens, sub-
jects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security has determined deny or un-
reasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, 
nationals, or residents under that section. 
SEC. 617. 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 appropriation Act. 
SEC. 618. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
and State, the Securities and Exchange Commission and 
the Small Business Administration shall, not later than 
two months after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
certify that telecommuting opportunities have increased 
over levels certified to the Committees on Appropriations 
for fiscal year 2005: Provided, That, of the total amounts 
appropriated to the Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
and State, the Securities and Exchange Commission and 
the Small Business Administration, $5,000,000 shall be 
available to each only upon such certification: Provided 
further, That each Department or agency shall provide 
quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations on 
the status of telecommuting programs, including the num-
ber and percentage of Federal employees eligible for, and 
participating in, such programs: Provided further, That