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shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: 
Provided further, That for the Department of Commerce, 
this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care 
and protection of loan collateral or grant property. 
SEC. 509. 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. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund estab-
lished by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public 
Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101) in any fiscal year in ex-
cess of $2,050,000,000 shall not be available for obligation 
until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts 
available from the Fund for obligation: (1) $10,000,000 
shall be transferred to the Department of Justice Office 
of Inspector General and remain available until expended 
for oversight and auditing purposes associated with this 
section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to the Office 
for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the re-
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quirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes 
to improve services for victims of crime. 
SEC. 511. 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. 512. 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. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Cor-
poration shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector 
General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for 
which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit 
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which 
may include preliminary findings and a description of 
areas of particular interest, within 180 days after initi-
ating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until 
any such audit is completed. 
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(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit 
described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is 
completed, the Secretary, Attorney General, Adminis-
trator, Director, or President, as appropriate, shall make 
the results of the audit available to the public on the Inter-
net website maintained by the Department, Administra-
tion, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The results 
shall be made available in redacted form to exclude— 
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of 
title 5, United States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any indi-
vidual, the public access to which could be used to 
commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or 
unlawful purposes. 
(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded 
by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a state-
ment to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, 
the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, 
certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract 
will be made available through a subcontract or in any 
other manner to another person who has a financial inter-
est in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of 
this section shall take effect 30 days after the date on 
which the Director of the Office of Management and 
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Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of 
Government Ethics, determines that a uniform set of rules 
and requirements, substantially similar to the require-
ments in such subsections, consistently apply under the 
executive branch ethics program to all Federal depart-
ments, agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration, or the National 
Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 
impact information system, as defined for security cat-
egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-
tems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to 
inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 
moderate-impact information systems within the 
Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
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threat information provided by the FBI and other 
appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-
propriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of 
any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated 
with the acquisition of such system, including any 
risk associated with such system being produced, 
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 
identified by the United States Government as pos-
ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 
those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 
the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic 
of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
or the Russian Federation. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 
high-impact or moderate-impact information system re-
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in 
the national interest of the United States; and 
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(3) reported that determination to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multi-
lateral trade agreement the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United 
States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United 
States–Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United 
States–Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security 
letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-
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rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, 
and shall include in such notice: the date on which such 
determination was made; a statement of the reasons for 
such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken 
to control future cost growth of the project; changes made 
in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree 
to which such changes have contributed to the increase 
in total program costs or procurement costs; new esti-
mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 
statement validating that the project’s management struc-
ture is adequate to control total project or procurement 
costs. 
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SEC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-
tion 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment of the 
Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 
offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 
judicial proceeding. 
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(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
to the Department of Commerce, the following funds are 
hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 
30, 2026, from the following accounts in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) 
‘‘Census 
Working 
Capital 
Fund’’, 
$15,000,000; and 
(2) ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration—Operations, Research, and Facilities’’, 
$46,299,000, only from prior year appropriations. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances from prior year ap-
propriations available to the Department of Justice, the 
following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not 
later than September 30, 2026, from the following ac-
counts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $36,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office of Justice Programs’’, $250,000,000; 
and 
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(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, 
Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$25,000,000. 
(4) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $100,000,000; 
and 
(5) ‘‘Legal Activities—Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$175,000,000; and 
(6) ‘‘Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explo-
sives, Salaries and Expenses’’, $50,000,000. 
(c) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 
September 1, 2026, specifying the amount of each rescis-
sion made pursuant to subsections (a) and (b). 
(d) The amounts rescinded under subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not be derived from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief 
requirement pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the 
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
(e) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsection (b) 
shall not be from amounts provided under— 
(1) subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under 
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Ac-
tivities—Office of Justice Programs—State and 
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Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II of di-
vision B of Public Law 117–103; 
(2) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community 
Oriented Policing Services—Community Oriented 
Policing Services Programs’’ in title II of division B 
of Public Law 117–103; 
(3) subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1) under 
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Ac-
tivities—Office of Justice Programs—State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II of di-
vision B of Public Law 117–328; 
(4) amounts provided under paragraph (7) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Serv-
ices—Community Oriented Policing Services Pro-
grams’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 117– 
328; 
(5) subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) under 
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Ac-
tivities—Office of Justice Programs—State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II of di-
vision C of Public Law 118–42; or 
(6) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community 
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Oriented Policing Services Programs’’ in title II of 
division C of Public Law 118–42. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 
301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 523. 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 from a Federal depart-
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 
at any single conference occurring outside the United 
States unless— 
(1) such conference is a law enforcement train-
ing or operational conference for law enforcement 
personnel and the majority of Federal employees in 
attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 
outside the United States; or 
(2) such conference is a scientific conference 
and the department or agency head determines that 
such attendance is in the national interest and noti-
fies the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate within at least 15 
days of that determination and the basis for that de-
termination. 
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SEC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-
ance plan and performance and accountability reports the 
following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to move the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Canine Training Center 
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or the ATF National Canine Division from Front Royal, 
Virginia, to another location. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration (NASA), the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy (OSTP), or the National Space Council 
(NSC) to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, 
or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract 
of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilat-
erally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned com-
pany unless such activities are specifically authorized by 
a law enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA, OSTP, or 
NSC, after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, have certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
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States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 
the activity in question and shall include a description of 
the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-
pants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 527. (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 
criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other 
law enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
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Trade Representative, the National Space Council, and 
the State Justice Institute shall submit spending plans, 
signed by the respective department or agency head, to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate not later than 45 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 
judged to be below satisfactory performance or for per-
formance that does not meet the basic requirements of a 
contract. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legit-
imacy of Industrial Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of 
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
SEC. 531. (a) None of the funds made available under 
this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with 
respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, 
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken-
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, 
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New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, 
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with 
respect to the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them 
from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical mari-
juana. 
(b) Funds made available under this Act to the De-
partment of Justice may be used to enforce violations of 
21 U.S.C. 860. 
SEC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 
by any employee of such Department or agency, including 
the purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 
respectively, for grants authorized by section 27 of the 
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 
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U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent 
poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any 
county that has had 20 percent or more of its population 
living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by 
the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the 
2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small Area 
Income and Poverty Estimates, or any Territory or pos-
session of the United States. 
SEC. 534. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act or any other Act may 
be expended or obligated by a department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States to pay administrative 
expenses or to compensate an officer or employee of the 
United States in connection with requiring an export li-
cense for the export to Canada of components, parts, ac-
cessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category 
I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 
(International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 
part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value 
not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided 
that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are 
met by the exporting party for such articles. 
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(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an ex-
port license— 
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter 
required by law, or from being otherwise eligible 
under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, 
transport, or export the articles enumerated in sub-
section (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license 
of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-
nents and parts for such firearms, other than 
for end use by the Federal Government, or a 
Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm 
listed in Category I, other than for end use by 
the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Mu-
nicipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-
other foreign destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Di-
rectors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the per-
manent or temporary export without a license of any un-
classified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for 
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end use in Canada or return to the United States, or tem-
porary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for 
end use in the United States or return to Canada for a 
Canadian citizen. 
SEC. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this Act 
or any other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such 
funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation 
of any officer or employee of the United States to deny 
any application submitted pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 
2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section 
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States ori-
gin ‘‘curios or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the 
importation of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
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particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 
923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information 
to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of mul-
tiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 539. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 540. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-
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counts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the 
projects and activities specified, in the table entitled ‘‘De-
partment of Commerce Allocation of National Institute of 
Standards and Technology Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal 
Year 2026’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of the National Science Foundation shall allocate 
amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incen-
tives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 
Workforce and Education Fund for fiscal year 2026 pur-
suant to section 102(d)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (di-
vision A of Public Law 117–167), to the account specified, 
in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activi-
ties specified in the table entitled ‘‘National Science Foun-
dation Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
in the report accompanying this Act. 
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo-
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under section 102(a)(2)(A) of the CHIPS Act of 
2022 or under section 102(d)(2) of such Act if there is 
in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for 
part of a fiscal year for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Provided, 
That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso 
shall not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allot-
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ment of amounts for continuing administration of pro-
grams allocated funds from the CHIPS for America Fund, 
which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more 
than the allocation for such purposes in subsection (a) of 
this section. 
(c) Subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 
notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and 
subject to the terms and conditions in section 505 of this 
Act— 
(1) the Secretary of Commerce may reallocate 
funds allocated to Industrial Technology Services for 
section 9906 of Public Law 116–283 by subsection 
(a)(1) of this section; and 
(2) the Director of the National Science Foun-
dation may reallocate funds allocated to the CHIPS 
for America Workforce and Education Fund by sub-
section (a)(2) of this section. 
(d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 
the President for fiscal year 2027, the Secretary of Com-
merce and the Director of the National Science Founda-
tion, as appropriate, shall each submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate proposed allocations by account and by program, 
project, or activity, with detailed justifications, for 
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amounts made available under section 102(a)(2) and sec-
tion 102(d)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 
2027. 
(e) The Department of Commerce and the National 
Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall each provide the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of bal-
ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 
America Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to sub-
section (a)(1) of this section, and section 543(a)(1) of divi-
sion B of Public Law 117–328, the status of balances of 
projects and activities funded by the Public Wireless Sup-
ply Chain Innovation Fund for amounts allocated pursu-
ant to section 543(a)(2) of division B of Public Law 117– 
328, and the status of balances of projects and activities 
funded by the CHIPS for America Workforce and Edu-
cation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection 
(a)(2) of this section and section 543(a)(3) of division B 
of Public Law 117–328, including all uncommitted, com-
mitted, and unobligated funds. 
SEC. 542. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to issue, implement, administer, or en-
force a proposed or final rule or secretarial action regard-
ing the South Atlantic red snapper stock that includes a 
quota decrease, area closure, or any other action that 
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would limit access to the Snapper Grouper Fishery of the 
South Atlantic Region to address overfishing of such stock 
until the date on which a third-party scientific review re-
garding whether the report entitled ‘‘SEDAR 73, South 
Atlantic Red Snapper, Stock Assessment Report’’ (March 
2021) is the best scientific information available for pur-
poses of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is completed. 
SEC. 543. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
apply, enforce, carry out, or defend any part of the Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives final rule 
entitled ‘‘Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identifica-
tion of Firearms’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 24652 (April 26, 2022)). 
SEC. 544. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order 14092, ‘‘Re-
ducing Gun Violence and Making our Communities 
Safer.’’ 
SEC. 545. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 
carry out, or defend the joint Department of Justice and 
Department of Homeland Security interim final rule enti-
tled ‘‘Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consid-
eration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Pro-
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tection Claims by Asylum Officers’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 18078 
(March 29, 2022)). 
SEC. 546. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Justice to promul-
gate, develop, or implement a regulation, policy, or prac-
tice regarding categorical administrative closure, dis-
missal, or termination of cases in immigration court. 
SEC. 547. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 
or carry out any regulation issued by the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued or finalized 
on or after January 21, 2021. 
SEC. 548. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
apply, enforce, carry out, or defend any part of the Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives final rule 
entitled ‘‘Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached 
‘Stabilizing Braces’ ’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 6478 (January 31, 
2023)). 
SEC. 549. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 
or carry out the Attorney General’s October 4, 2021, 
memorandum entitled ‘‘Partnership Among Federal, 
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement to 
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Address Threats Against School Administrators, Board 
Members, Teachers, and Staff.’’ 
SEC. 550. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
apply, enforce, or carry out the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy’s August 25, 2022, Memorandum to 
Executive Departments and Agencies entitled ‘‘Ensuring 
Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally 
Funded Research.’’ 
SEC. 551. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— for diversity, equity 
and inclusion initiatives, training, programs, offices, offi-
cers, policies, or other executive agency functions. 
SEC. 552. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used— 
(1) by the— 
(A) Department of Commerce for— 
(i) the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology Center of Excellence in 
Climate Change; or 
(ii) climate change fisheries research; 
(B) National Science Foundation for the— 
(i) U.S. Global Change Research Pro-
gram (USGCRP); or 
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(ii) Clean Energy Technology pro-
gram; or 
SEC. 553. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to provide legal representation to any 
alien in a removal proceeding. 
SEC. 554. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to incentivize any immigration judge to 
close or dismiss any case without adjudicating the merits 
of the case. 
SEC. 555. None of the funds made available for the 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program may be used in 
contravention of section 642 of the Illegal Immigration 
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. 
SEC. 556. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to allow the United States 
Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully 
present in the United States in rendering apportionment 
determinations in subsequent decennial censuses. 
SEC. 557. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay a compromise settlement in rela-
tion to a civil action brought by an alien who is inadmis-
sible under section 212(a)(6)(A) or (7)(A)(i)(I) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(A) or 
(7)(A)(i)(I)), or who entered the United States in violation 
of section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
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(8 U.S.C. 1325(a)), in connection with conduct described 
in such section 275(a), unless expressly authorized by law. 
SEC. 558. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to review, process, or approve applica-
tions for Federal grants, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, or other agreements by any individual or organiza-
tion that educates or otherwise trains or informs Federal 
employees about diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race 
theory, implicit bias, unconscious bias, or culturally rel-
evant teaching. 
SEC. 559. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to provide any education, training, or 
professional development that utilizes, promotes, or teach-
es Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with Crit-
ical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea or 
concept that condones an individual being discriminated 
against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based 
on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling discom-
fort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological dis-
tress on account of that individual’s race or sex, as well 
as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently 
superior to another race, the United States or its institu-
tions as being systemically racist or sexist, an individual 
as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue 
of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s moral char-
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acter as being necessarily determined by race or sex, an 
individual as bearing responsibility for actions committed 
in the past by other members of the same race or sex, 
or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created 
by a particular race to oppress another race. 
SEC. 560. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to promote or contribute to environ-
mental, social, and corporate governance (also known as 
environmental, social, and governance (ESG)) invest-
ments. 
SEC. 561. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to investigate, litigate, or 
advocate against any person or recipient, as currently de-
fined at section 106.2 of title 34, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, for defining ‘‘sex’’ as currently used in, inter alia, 
section 1681 of title 20, United States Code, and sections 
106.21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 
44, and 45 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations, to 
mean biological sex, male or female, as determined by the 
type of gamete an individual produces; and for defining 
‘‘boys and girls’’ to mean only biological boys, whose DNA 
consists of one X sex chromosome and one Y sex chro-
mosome, and biological girls, whose DNA consists of two 
X sex chromosomes. 
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SEC. 562. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for gun buyback or relinquishment pro-
grams. 
SEC. 563. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement any statute, rule, policy, 
or interpretive guidance or to disburse any grants or fund-
ing that would have the effect of creating, utilizing, sup-
porting, or implementing a law or procedure which could 
result in the confiscation of any firearm without, in all 
cases, providing the gun owner with notice and oppor-
tunity to participate in a hearing. 
SEC. 564. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to fund or implement any red flag or 
extreme risk protection order laws. 
SEC. 565. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act, 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, may 
be available for obligation or expenditure to study, pre-
pare, propose, or adopt any rule, regulation, administra-
tive order or secretarial or executive action for the purpose 
of restricting the production, purchase, sale or transfer of 
any firearm unless expressly authorized by Congress. 
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SEC. 566. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to create, operate, or main-
tain a Federal firearms registry. 
SEC. 567. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to facilitate, advise, promote, or otherwise support 
any civil actions to which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives is not a named party against any 
licensee or other person purported to be subject to the reg-
ulation and oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives. 
SEC. 568. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
arms and Explosives (ATF) Demand 2 program unless the 
ATF modifies the Demand 2 reporting thresholds such 
that the threshold criteria of the Demand 2 program is 
25 traces or 2.5 percent of traces relative to a licensee’s 
average number of firearm sales as reported on the most 
recent Federal firearm license renewal application, which-
ever is greater, and ATF certifies to the Federal firearm 
licensee that every trace counted is directly related to/in-
volved in an open/bona fide criminal investigation, and the 
‘Time-to-Crime’ is 3 years or less. 
SEC. 569. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to— 
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(1) classify, tax, or register any firearm with an 
attached ‘‘stabilizing brace’’ or other similar brace 
or rearward attachment, notwithstanding any ex-
tended additional contact surface rearward or use 
outside of its original design or use as a buttstock 
or use to enable shoulder fire, as a ‘‘rifle’’, ‘‘short- 
barreled rifle’’, or ‘‘short-barreled shotgun’’ under 
the Gun Control Act of 1968, the National Firearms 
Act of 1934, or any other such act of Congress; or 
(2) direct any other law enforcement or regu-
latory entity to conduct any of the activities de-
scribed in paragraph (1) on the ATF’s behalf. 
SEC. 570. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 
a foreign adversary. 
SEC. 571. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 
or retain any person who either has been convicted of a 
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Federal or State child pornography charge, has been con-
victed of any other Federal or State sexual assault charge, 
or has been formally disciplined for using Federal re-
sources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 
SEC. 572. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to recruit, hire, promote, 
or retain any person based in whole or in part on such 
person’s race, national origin, sex, or religion. 
SEC. 573. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to fund any sex-altering 
surgical procedures in either a Federally owned facility or 
a private facility leased or used by the Federal Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 574. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Justice’s Repro-
ductive Rights Task Force. 
SEC. 575. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 
over laws that restrict or limit abortion, or to intervene 
or file an amicus brief in such a case. 
SEC. 576. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to sue any State or local government 
over any law protecting single sex sports, single sex facili-
ties, or limiting transgender medical procedures, including 
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in insurance coverage and age limitations, or to intervene 
or file an amicus brief in such a case. 
SEC. 577. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 
7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 
a union of one man and one woman. 
(b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-
section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 
taken by the Federal Government to— 
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 
in subsection (a); 
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 
such person; 
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(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 
other similar position or status from or to such per-
son; 
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 
degree from an educational program, from or to 
such person; or 
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-
paigns from or to such person. 
(c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 
Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 
certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 
would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 
such purposes but for a determination against such person 
wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 
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or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 
or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 578. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or pro-
mote exports to the Cuban military or intelligence service 
or to any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence serv-
ice, or an immediate family member thereof or any agency 
or entity owned or partially owned or operated on behalf 
of the previously listed. 
(b) This section does not apply to exports of goods 
permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
(c) In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Cuban military or intelligence 
service’’ includes the Ministry of the Revolutionary 
Armed Forces, and the Ministry of the Interior, of 
Cuba, and any subsidiary of either such Ministry; 
and 
(2) the term ‘‘immediate family member’’ 
means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, 
grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or neph-
ew. 
SEC. 579. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used for an Office of Envi-
ronmental Justice. 
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SEC. 580. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enforce the Department of Commerce 
rule entitled ‘‘Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquida-
tion, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With Presi-
dential Proclamation 10414’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 56868 (Sep-
tember 16, 2022)). 
SEC. 581. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-
sonnel of the Department of Justice to negotiate or con-
clude a settlement with the Federal Government that in-
cludes terms requiring the defendant to donate or con-
tribute funds to an organization or individual. 
SEC. 582. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, 
bonuses, or expenses of any Federal officer or employee 
who fails to comply with a duly issued and valid congres-
sional subpoena, including any circumstances in which a 
Federal officer or employee does not produce documents 
in unredacted form by a date certain provided in a con-
gressional subpoena. 
SEC. 583. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to conduct an interview in connection 
with an investigation of a Federal offense, or an investiga-
tion in which the agency is assisting a State, local or Trib-
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al law enforcement agency, unless such interview is re-
corded using electronic audio recording equipment. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to custo-
dial and noncustodial interviews, but shall not apply with 
respect to— 
(1) communications with confidential inform-
ants; or 
(2) interviews of non-United States persons 
conducted outside the United States. 
(c) Recordings of such interviews shall be retained 
for 10 years. 
SEC. 584. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to discourage, or implement a policy that 
serves to discourage, United States Marshals Service em-
ployees or personnel from fully enforcing section 1507 of 
title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 585. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to fund the operations or expenses of 
any Federal employee union. 
SEC. 586. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made used to— 
(1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 
communications by a United States person as misin-
formation, disinformation, or malinformation; or 
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(2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-
ganizations that pressure or recommend private 
companies to censor lawful and constitutionally pro-
tected speech of United States persons, including 
recommending the censoring or removal of content 
on social media platforms. 
SEC. 587. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enforce any COVID-19 vaccine man-
dates or passports. 
SEC. 588. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
interim final rule entitled ‘‘Revision of Firearms License 
Requirements’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 34680 (April 30, 2024)) or 
any successor rule. 
SEC. 589. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration to issue incidental take 
authorizations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) for any activity related to off-
shore wind energy development, conducted under rights 
granted by lease numbers OCS-A 0532; OCS-A 0498; 
OCS-A 0499; OCS-A 0549; or OCS-A 0490; until the 
Comptroller General of the United States submits the 
study requested on May 15, 2023, on the impact of wind 
leasing on marine mammals and endangered species, to 
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the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. 
SEC. 590. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Justice, for use 
by the National Instant Criminal Background Check Sys-
tem established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun 
Violence Prevention Act, to include any personally identifi-
able information of a beneficiary, solely on the basis of 
a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
pay benefits to a fiduciary for the use and benefit of the 
beneficiary under section 5502 of Title 38, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 591. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to implement, admin-
ister, apply, enforce, carry out or defend any part of the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
final rule entitled ‘‘Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ 
as a Dealer in Firearms’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 28968 (April 19, 
2024)). 
SEC. 592. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
ATF Order 5370.1E regarding Federal Firearms Admin-
istrative Action Policy and Procedures, or any subsequent 
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or other policy, order, or procedure that does not require 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
to, in all but the most extraordinary circumstances, refrain 
from revoking or suspending a Federal firearms license 
for initial violations without at least first issuing a warn-
ing letter, working with cooperative licensees to rectify vio-
lations in a reasonable time frame, and holding a final 
warning conference. 
SEC. 593. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to sue any 
State for violating the Rivers and Harbors Act for imple-
menting border security measures. 
SEC. 594. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Bureau of Prisons to assign an 
individual to a facility that does not correspond to such 
individual’s biological sex. 
SEC. 595. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 
or carry out Executive Order 14043, ‘‘Requiring 
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Em-
ployees’’ or Executive Order 14042, ‘‘Ensuring Adequate 
COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors’’ at any 
Federal department, bureau, or subagency. 
SEC. 596. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to develop or implement rules or guidance 
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on climate change as a direct response to data cited by 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 
‘‘Billions Project.’’ 
SEC. 597. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to establish, administer, or enforce any 
rule or regulation that would impose a requirement for 
a United States Atlantic pelagic longline vessel to pay a 
fee for any costs associated with the electronic monitoring 
of such vessel. 
SEC. 598. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enforce any vessel speed restriction 
for the Rice’s whale that was not in place prior to January 
20, 2021. 
SEC. 599. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Science Foundation to 
procure, charter, or lease a foreign-flagged vessel for U.S. 
research activities in Antarctica if a suitable U.S.-built 
vessel is available for such purposes. 
TITLE VI 
OTHER MATTERS 
SEC. 601. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act may be made available 
to the Department of Justice to pay, or agree to pay, the 
costs and fees incurred by an alien that are associated 
with a civil action, including costs and fees authorized sec-
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tion 2412 of title 28, United States Code, involving an 
alien who entered the United States in violation of section 
275(a) or section 276(a) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a), 1326(a)), in connection with 
any proceeding or adjudication initiated under such Act. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be made available to the 
Department of Justice to pay, or agree to pay, the costs 
and fees incurred by an alien that are associated with an 
agency adjudication, including costs and fees authorized 
under section 504 of title 5, United States Code, involving 
an alien who entered the United States in violation of sec-
tion 275(a) or section 276(a) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a), 1326(a)), in connection 
with any proceeding or adjudication initiated under such 
Act. 
SEC. 602. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
for the implementation, administration, or enforcement of 
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final 
rule published on April 19, 2024, 89 Fed. Reg. 29096, 
so as to include elective abortion in the definition of ‘‘preg-
nancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions’’ requiring 
reasonable accommodation. 
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SEC. 603. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the 
‘‘Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Work-
place’’ (April 29, 2024) or any similar, related, or suc-
cessor guidance. 
SEC. 604. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, nor any part of the Department of Com-
merce, to enforce any vessel speed restriction for the 
North Atlantic Right Whale that was not in place prior 
to January 20, 2021. 
SEC. 605. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to enforce involuntary compliance, or to inquire more than 
twice for voluntary compliance with any survey conducted 
by the Bureau of the Census. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration to implement the proposed rule entitled 
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Species; Designation of 
Critical Habitat for the Rice’s Whale’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 
47453 (September 12, 2023)) or any successor rule or 
regulation. 
SEC. 607. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to reschedule 
marijuana (as such term is defined in section 102 of the 
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Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) or to remove 
marijuana from the schedules established under section 
202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812). 
SEC. 608. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to record, or maintain any recording of, 
any record delivered to the Attorney General pursuant to 
section 923(g)(4) of title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 609. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be used for the Out of Business Records Imaging 
System Database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. 
SEC. 610. None of the funds made available by this 
act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral, 
or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in-
tentionally changing the body of such individual (including 
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its nat-
ural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer 
correspond to the individual’s biological sex. 
SEC. 611. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended for any institution of 
higher education, as defined by 20 U.S.C. Section 1002, 
that enters into a partnership or other formalized aca-
demic collaboration in STEM, as defined by 15 U.S.C. 
Section 8841(d)(4), including, but not limited, to a joint 
institute with an entity, such as a college or university, 
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that is located, operated, or controlled by the Chinese 
Communist Party or the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China. 
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be disbursed to any state, district, territory, or 
possession of the United States which imposes a criminal 
or civil penalty on, or otherwise indirectly dissuades (in-
cluding by imposing a financial or other barrier to entry) 
any ordinary, law-abiding citizen who is carrying a valid 
license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of 
a State, district, territory, or possession and which per-
mits the individual to carry a concealed firearm from car-
rying a handgun publicly for self-defense according to the 
same terms authorized by an unrestricted license of or 
permit issued to a resident of the State and subject only 
to the same conditions and limitations, except as to eligi-
bility to possess or carry, imposed by or under Federal 
or State law or the law of a political subdivision of a State, 
that apply to the possession or carrying of a concealed 
handgun by residents of the State or political subdivision 
who are licensed by the State or political subdivision to 
do so, or not prohibited by the State from doing so. 
SEC. 613. (a) Section 302(a)(4)(B) of the Cuban Lib-
erty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 
(22 U.S.C. 6082(a)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘ac-
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quires ownership’’ and all that follows and inserting the 
following: ‘‘acquired ownership of such claim— 
‘‘(i) before March 12, 1996; or 
‘‘(ii) as a successor in interest who 
did not acquire the property, or claim to 
the property, in exchange for value or con-
sideration.’’. 
(b) Section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (13), (14), and 
(15) as paragraphs (14), (15), and (16), respec-
tively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (12) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(13) SUCCESOR IN
INTEREST.—The 
term ‘successor in interest’ means a person who 
follows another person in ownership or control 
of property or a claim to property and who re-
tains the same rights as the original owner to 
the property.’’. 
(c) Section 306(c)(1)(A) of the Cuban Liberty and 
Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 
U.S.C. 6085(c)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘no person’’ 
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and inserting ‘‘except as provided by section 302(a)(4)(B), 
no person’’. 
(d) The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) shall apply to— 
(1) any action initiated after the date of the en-
actment of this Act; 
(2) any action pending in any court as of such 
date of enactment, including any action pending on 
appeal or otherwise; 
(3) any action for which the time to file an ap-
peal has not expired; or 
(4) any action that has been dismissed or ad-
versely adjudicated by any court because of a judi-
cial interpretation of section 302(a) of the Cuban 
Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) 
Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6082(a)) that conflicts with 
the amendment to paragraph (4)(B) of such section 
as made by subsection (a). 
(e) In the case of any action under section 302 of 
the 
Cuban 
Liberty 
and 
Democratic 
Solidarity 
(LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6082), in which 
an opinion was issued prior to the effective date of this 
section, such action may be refiled and decided as though 
this section were in effect as of the date of the enactment 
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