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Nuclear Security Administration plant projects, including $13,827,000 for Project 22–D–513 at Sandia National Laboratories.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5F854DE2753B43AEAD70BB5A376658B6"}},{"text":"Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Transportation for Maritime Administration programs, including $90,532,000 for United States Merchant Marine Academy operations.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3501","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA1EBF1FB38A949DD8CB8ACE5A66A2212"}},{"text":"Authorizes the obligation and expenditure of the dollar amounts specified in the Division D funding tables, subject to the availability of appropriations.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4001","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5F42C37F6D5641FBB2631C078BCE31FF"}},{"text":"Prohibits debt collectors from threatening a covered servicemember with a 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a public awareness campaign, and changes procedures and proof requirements for failure to register.","amount":null,"quote":"by ensuring adequate personnel with the requisite capabilities to meet the mobilization needs of the Department of Defense during a national emergency and not solely to provide combat replacements"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 559J","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBB860C649F4A480A9281EFAD63CC9933"},"heading":"Notice program relating to options for naturalization","effect":"Requires military recruiters to give recruits notice of naturalization options at enlistment, and requires the Department of Homeland Security to give former members notice of naturalization options and forms at separation.","amount":null,"quote":"shall provide to every recruit proper notice of that recruit’s options for naturalization under title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 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authority.","amount":null,"quote":"is amended by inserting “, security, or” before “intelligence”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1373","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H133809B2C5F34771B38763049E3114F0"},"heading":"Women and children protection compacts","effect":"Authorizes the President to enter multi-year bilateral Women and Children Protection Compacts of up to 6 years with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras on violence against women and children, with authority ending September 30, 2023.","amount":null,"quote":"multi-year, bilateral agreements of not longer than 6 years in duration, developed in conjunction with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1374","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2F19DE29FAC44804B7FF8908551FE9AF"},"heading":"Authorization of assistance","effect":"Authorizes $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 for assistance under the Women and Children Protection Compacts, and bars direct budgetary support to the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.","amount":"$25,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2022 and 2023 to carry out this subtitle."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1375","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2971977525614E8DA49BC23D68A14294"},"heading":"Congressional notification","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to send Congress a copy and summary of a proposed Compact at least 15 days before entering one with the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador.","amount":null,"quote":"Not later than 15 days before entering into a Compact with the Government of Guatemala, the Government of Honduras, or the Government of El Salvador"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1376","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE6B52ABB0C804016920BF166C5D5638B"},"heading":"Compact progress reports and briefings","effect":"Requires annual progress reports on the Compacts covering gender-based violence data in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and a briefing within 180 days of enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"analysis and information on the overall rates of gender-based violence against women and children in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1414","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD0851F5737474E878FA27EC08F3090D7"},"heading":"Establishment of Southern New England Regional Commission","effect":"Creates a Southern New England Regional Commission covering listed counties in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and applies the existing regional commission appropriations authorization to it beginning in fiscal year 2022.","amount":null,"quote":"The region of the Southern New England Regional Commission shall include the following counties:"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2808","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE2B1106E5F5A48AF9F24704E9AFFA776"},"heading":"Improved congressional oversight and public transparency of military construction contract awards","effect":"Amends the Small Business Act so that, for four years, a subcontract to a small business with its principal office in the same State as, or within 60 miles of, the work counts double toward federal subcontracting goals; also sets a local-hire preference for military construction contracts.","amount":null,"quote":"the value of the subcontract shall be doubled for purposes of determining compliance with the goals for procurement contracts"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3114","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8A3F4396D89A41D4AA727F3DDA110DE7"},"heading":"Report on Runit Dome and related hazards","effect":"Directs the Secretary of the Interior to seek an agreement with a non-federal entity for a report on climate effects and other hazards at the Runit Dome site, including a plan and costs to relocate the waste.","amount":null,"quote":"the effects of climate change on the Runit Dome nuclear waste disposal site in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3511","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC5701FCCCBA949D2BBF57434CE22C47C"},"heading":"Effective period for issuance of documentation for recreational vessels","effect":"Lets owners or operators of recreational vessels choose a 1-to-5-year effective period for a certificate of documentation or its renewal.","amount":null,"quote":"The owner or operator of a recreational vessel may choose a period of effectiveness of between 1 and 5 years for a certificate of documentation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5002","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H329F68BBAA9A456497EAD09B33767AFC"},"heading":"Clarifying amendments to definitions","effect":"Replaces the definition of State in the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Act with a list of the 50 States, the District of Columbia and named territories and freely associated states, and adds \"a resident of a State\" to another definition.","amount":null,"quote":"the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5003","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBC453E2C380A48E7B7A1DB8EFAC7EDB3"},"heading":"Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Awards","effect":"Adds research internships to the Goldwater scholarship and fellowship awards for undergraduates in natural sciences, engineering and mathematics, with priority for students at community colleges and specified minority-serving institutions.","amount":null,"quote":"which shall be prioritized for students attending community colleges and minority-serving institutions specified in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5004","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HFAB5CEE3F17148828B933EADD011E770"},"heading":"Stipends","effect":"Provides that each person awarded a Goldwater research internship receives a stipend set by the Board, not to exceed the maximum stipend for a scholarship or fellowship.","amount":null,"quote":"Each person awarded a research internship under this title shall receive a stipend as may be prescribed by the Board"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5005","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H628C6AB1AE454981ACA4310C98DF1433"},"heading":"Scholarship and research internship conditions","effect":"Sets conditions on payments to Goldwater research interns, including satisfactory proficiency and no outside gainful employment, and lets the Foundation require reports from them.","amount":null,"quote":"A person awarded a research internship under this title may receive payments authorized under this title only during such periods as the Foundation finds"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5006","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB181E47E005F4C4494704034F847108F"},"heading":"Sustainable investments of funds","effect":"Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to invest up to 40 percent of funds the Goldwater Foundation receives after enactment in securities other than U.S. public debt securities, if the Board makes a determination and the securities trade in established U.S. markets.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of the Treasury may invest up to 40 percent of any public or private funds received by the Foundation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5007","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9724B08C1ADE4B0491C9C79209802F94"},"heading":"Administrative provisions","effect":"Changes staffing and pay provisions for the Goldwater Foundation and caps spending at 5 percent of its annual operating budget each for career-support programs and for fundraising activities.","amount":null,"quote":"expend not more than 5 percent of the Foundation’s annual operating budget to pay the costs associated with fundraising activities"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5113","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCB367CA5133C440A93500C69038730A3"},"heading":"Study and report on housing and service needs of survivors of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking","effect":"Directs the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness to study housing and services for survivors of trafficking and people at risk of trafficking, and to report within 1 year.","amount":null,"quote":"The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness shall conduct a study assessing the availability and accessibility of housing and services for individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5118","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCDA9E245B2B5405ABD39B0B7E9DA0218"},"heading":"Inclusion of veterans in housing planning","effect":"Amends public housing agency plan and comprehensive housing affordability strategy laws to add veterans, and requires HUD to revise its consolidated plan regulations to include information on veterans.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall revise the regulations relating to submission of consolidated plans"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5119","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H94072A47CCA64A5EB0B920340670BC3E"},"heading":"Annual report on housing assistance to veterans","effect":"Requires an annual HUD report on its veteran-related housing activities and authorizes $1,000,000 for a periodic assessment of the housing needs of very low-income veteran families.","amount":"$1,000,000","quote":"the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall submit a report on the activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development relating to veterans during such year"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5126","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF1F1C19BC2134EFDBEF54AA3496745AD"},"heading":"Report by the President on current status of activities relating to COVID–19 testing under the Defense Production Act of 1950","effect":"Requires the President to report to Congress on efforts under section 3101 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and on spending of the $10,000,000,000 appropriated for COVID-19 testing under the Defense Production Act.","amount":"$10,000,000,000","quote":"a report on efforts undertaken to carry out section 3101 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and the expenditure of the $10,000,000,000 appropriated for such purpose"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCB086B903A114175AE5F26BE3C2DF719"},"heading":"Great Lakes winter shipping","effect":"Directs a GAO report, Coast Guard data collection and a pilot program on Great Lakes icebreaking, and makes $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 available for icebreaker acquisition and design.","amount":null,"quote":"for fiscal year 2022, $350,000,000 shall be made available to the Commandant for the acquisition of a Great Lakes icebreaker at least as capable as Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB–30);"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5302","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB218C2539284498DB2C71C283F0ED759"},"heading":"Law Enforcement Attache Deployment","effect":"Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to hire, train and deploy at least 50 law enforcement attachés at U.S. embassies and other facilities abroad, and authorizes $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2030.","amount":"$150,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2030."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5701","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD7C1AA6476BC4E89945E48C4DBD4D942"},"heading":"Definition of Administrator","effect":"Defines 'Administrator' as the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for the marine mammal conservation title.","amount":null,"quote":"In this title, the term “Administrator” means the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5702","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H77AEF085407F4A1E9F1639AA81F252F5"},"heading":"Vessel speed restrictions in marine mammal habitat","effect":"Requires mandatory vessel speed restrictions in designated marine mammal areas. Authorizes $3,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026 to the Secretary and $3,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2024-2026 to the Coast Guard. Exempts Defense Department, Homeland Security and law enforcement vessels.","amount":"$3,000,000","quote":"to the Secretary to carry out this section, $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5703","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8F65DFBD9B1247BDBECE3BDDBCC3D30E"},"heading":"Monitoring ocean soundscapes","effect":"Maintains and expands an Ocean Noise Reference Station Network with grants for underwater sound monitoring. Authorizes $1,500,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026.","amount":"$1,500,000","quote":"$1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5704","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1CA7AEFD6F7145C68147760C28769900"},"heading":"Grants for seaports to establish programs to reduce the impacts of vessel traffic and port operations on marine mammals","effect":"Creates a grant program for up to ten seaports to reduce threats to marine mammals from shipping and port operations. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5705","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD64711F894D54B32B4D0929CEFBE09E8"},"heading":"Near real-time monitoring and mitigation program for large whales","effect":"Directs a near real-time large whale monitoring and mitigation program, starting with a North Atlantic right whale pilot project. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5706","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3DB4905681F64CA68DF15F85E32295F2"},"heading":"Grants to support technology that reduces underwater noise from vessels","effect":"Creates a Maritime Administration grant program for technology that reduces underwater noise from vessels. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until expended"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5707","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H846B3FDEA5BD47D09B625144A57CFD6B"},"heading":"Technology assessment for quieting United States Government vessels","effect":"Requires a report within 18 months identifying technologies that reduce underwater noise and evaluating their use in non-military U.S. Government vessels.","amount":null,"quote":"an evaluation of the effectiveness and feasibility of incorporating such technologies in the design, procurement, and construction of non-military vessels of the United States Government."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5801","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD7938EC3B8E84E169129277E53088D80"},"heading":"Establishment of Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement as pilot program","effect":"Establishes, as a pilot program in the Library of Congress, an institute named for a person, supervised by a seven-member Advisory Board, located in Washington, DC.","amount":null,"quote":"There is established as a pilot program in the Library of Congress the Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5802","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0D768CFE5F214C9E9DD0A1B8ED3D7608"},"heading":"Purposes and authority of Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement","effect":"Sets the institute's purposes as training and exchanges for racially and ethnically diverse transatlantic leaders on democratic governance, and lets it develop programs to carry them out.","amount":null,"quote":"to develop a diverse community of transatlantic leaders, including emerging leaders, committed to democratic institutions, processes, and values"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5803","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8317E0EA28514BAD9734EC8333C928CD"},"heading":"Administrative provisions","effect":"Sets up the institute's Executive Director and staff outside competitive-service rules, treats staff as congressional employees, and adds the institute to the Congressional Accountability Act.","amount":null,"quote":"the Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement, and the John C. Stennis Center"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5804","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD5D9D013CCA940D4BFA2A97462227D97"},"heading":"Administrative provisions","effect":"Lists the Institute's powers, including contracts and grants, receiving Federal grants, charging fees, using staff assigned from agencies, and obtaining security clearances for its personnel.","amount":null,"quote":"Establish, receive, and use for the purposes of the Institute fees or other charges for goods or services provided in fulfilling the Institute’s purposes."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5805","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE8E19EFEDF084BAAB16BC8C2852BED65"},"heading":"Definitions","effect":"Defines the Institute as the named institute established as a pilot program under section 5801, and defines its Advisory Board.","amount":null,"quote":"The term Institute means the “Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement” established as a pilot program under section 5801."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5806","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF27A760F4D024084A8428939FA77D235"},"heading":"Authorization of appropriations; disbursements","effect":"Authorizes such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022 and the 4 following years for the named institute, deems it a standing committee for foreign currency use, and allows foreign travel.","amount":null,"quote":"such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6002","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF980A37AFC944D11BA7FFD2BD8DCE39A"},"heading":"Findings","effect":"States congressional findings about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Director of National Intelligence report on it, and related U.S. laws on human rights and Saudi Arabia.","amount":null,"quote":"On October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Government agents in Istanbul."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6003","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD562DC110C4845828F039D3ABA896920"},"heading":"Sanctions with respect to foreign persons listed in the report of the Director of National Intelligence on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi","effect":"Requires visa ineligibility and revocation for each foreign person listed in a Director of National Intelligence report on the Khashoggi killing, with a presidential waiver and a suspension option tied to Saudi Arabia meeting listed criteria.","amount":null,"quote":"the sanctions described in subsection (b) shall be imposed with respect to each foreign person listed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report titled"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6004","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF35B6E4500AF435A81B19B6F1B6FFEFF"},"heading":"Report on intimidation or harassment directed against individuals in the United States and other matters","effect":"Requires an annual report for 5 years from the Secretary of State identifying Saudi Arabian entities, instrumentalities, or agents engaged in a pattern of intimidation or harassment of individuals in the United States.","amount":null,"quote":"identifying any entities, instrumentalities, or agents of the Government of Saudi Arabia engaged in “a consistent pattern of acts of intimidation or harassment directed against individuals in the United States”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6005","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6CBBFD0759664D1093330306746C230C"},"heading":"Report on efforts to uphold human rights in United States security assistance programs with the Government of Saudi Arabia","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on efforts to ensure U.S. security assistance programs with Saudi Arabia account for human rights.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on efforts of the Department of State to ensure that United States security assistance programs with Saudi Arabia are formulated in a manner"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6006","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H638C7F5151724D368412661307B6A5AF"},"heading":"Report on certain entities connected to foreign persons on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on private, commercial, and nongovernmental entities controlled by persons named in the Director of National Intelligence report on the Khashoggi killing, including any sanctions status.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on private, commercial, and nongovernmental entities, including non-profit foundations, controlled in whole or in part by any foreign person named in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6402","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBA07E3751A90455F9BE5BE9BEC3661E8"},"heading":"Property disposition for affordable housing","effect":"Amends the law on transit assets so the Secretary may authorize transfer of no-longer-needed assets for transit-oriented development, with conditions on affordable housing units and a 30-year use period.","amount":null,"quote":"to be used for the purpose of transit-oriented development with no further obligation to the Government if the Secretary decides"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6404","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC97A86CC42E040A08B680B4590406EFC"},"heading":"Definition of State for purposes of Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968","effect":"Amends the definition of State in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by striking text after Northern Mariana Islands.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 901(a)(2) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10251(a)(2)) is amended"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6405","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF25AD9BF94E54AF796DFE4FCE41F343B"},"heading":"Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success","effect":"Treats Portugal as a foreign state eligible for E nonimmigrant trader and investor status if it gives similar status to U.S. nationals, and changes E visa eligibility criteria for aliens who acquired nationality through financial investment.","amount":null,"quote":"Portugal shall be considered to be a foreign state described in such section if the Government of Portugal provides similar nonimmigrant status to nationals of the United States."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6406","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3ECDD58B540C41D28EB32A0D0D243B9E"},"heading":"Department of Veterans Affairs Governors Challenge grant program","effect":"Creates the Department of Veterans Affairs Governors Challenge Program and an implementation grant program for veteran suicide prevention, with grants of up to $500,000 per year and authorizations of $10,000,000, $12,000,000 and $14,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 to 2024.","amount":null,"quote":"The recipient of a grant under this subsection shall receive an amount of not more than $500,000 for any fiscal year for a maximum of three years."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6407","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBCAEC74C4E5F4AC4A1F54B492DABA72E"},"heading":"Foreign Corruption Accountability","effect":"Authorizes the President to impose visa-related sanctions on foreign persons found to engage in public corruption against a United States person, with reports to Congress and a 6-year sunset.","amount":null,"quote":"The President may impose the sanctions described in paragraph (2) with respect to any foreign person who is an individual the President determines"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6408","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H27111E2C89CF488C9C5F246542DA692A"},"heading":"Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy","effect":"Requires the Attorney General to publish a public accounting of property tied to foreign government corruption that is forfeited to the United States.","amount":null,"quote":"The Attorney General shall make available to the public an accounting of any property relating to foreign government corruption that is forfeited to the United States under section 981 or 982."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6409","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0531B9ABA7314F53B0C4FDA196615763"},"heading":"Expansion of scope of Department of Veterans Affairs open burn pit registry to include open burn pits in Egypt and Syria","effect":"Expands the Department of Veterans Affairs open burn pit registry to cover burn pits in Egypt and Syria in addition to the countries already listed.","amount":null,"quote":"by striking “or Iraq” and inserting “, Iraq, Egypt, or Syria”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6410","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9424EF50772A4FCD8676969A24771E4A"},"heading":"Extension of period of eligibility by reason of school closures due to emergency and other situations under Department of Veterans Affairs training and rehabilitation program for veterans with service-connected disabilities","effect":"Pauses the running of the eligibility period for Department of Veterans Affairs vocational rehabilitation when a veteran is prevented from participating by a covered reason such as school closure in an emergency.","amount":null,"quote":"the temporary or permanent closure of an educational institution by reason of an emergency situation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6411","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H77C393624BD543AAA635D660CF4E2E50"},"heading":"Extension of time limitation for use of entitlement under Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance programs by reason of school closures due to emergency and other situations","effect":"Pauses the time limit for using Montgomery GI Bill and Post-9/11 educational assistance when a covered reason such as an emergency school closure prevents study.","amount":null,"quote":"the temporary or permanent closure of an educational institution by reason of an emergency situation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6413","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HAA7487ED8C154880B1F9B7884E404243"},"heading":"Payments to individuals who served during World War II in the United States Merchant Marine","effect":"Creates a Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund in title 38 that pays one $25,000 payment to each eligible World War II merchant marine service member, and authorizes $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.","amount":"$125,000,000","quote":"The Secretary shall make one payment out of the compensation fund in the amount of $25,000 to an eligible individual."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6419","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB89642ACA3614982A9334143930C361A"},"heading":"Threshold for reporting additions to toxics release inventory","effect":"Blocks a toxics release inventory reporting regulation from applying to certain PFAS chemicals and substances unless the Administrator sets a 10,000 pound reporting threshold.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not apply to a chemical described in paragraph (1) unless the Administrator, in accordance with paragraph (2)(B), revises the threshold for reporting such chemical to 10,000 pounds"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6420","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDD73E73FA46F4D9F84D1189331AC8F99"},"heading":"National primary drinking water regulations for PFAS","effect":"Requires EPA to issue a national drinking water regulation for PFAS (including PFOA and PFOS) within 2 years, and bars financial penalties for violations until 5 years after the regulation is promulgated.","amount":null,"quote":"the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not impose financial penalties for the violation of a national primary drinking water regulation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6421","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H07D82B29D9244D9D966FDC3BF38FD6F5"},"heading":"PFAS data call","effect":"Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act PFAS reporting provision to cover only substances that contain at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.","amount":null,"quote":"inserting “that contains at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom,” after “perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6422","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6C6E977DFA9145FE98F704F6E0F9664A"},"heading":"EPA requirement for submission of analytical reference standards for PFAS","effect":"Requires manufacturers of certain PFAS to submit analytical reference standards to EPA within 180 days, and bars recipients from commercial use of them.","amount":null,"quote":"shall require each covered entity to submit to the Administrator an analytical reference standard for each perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6423","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC704717679464DF2AA0AC71C9B576F30"},"heading":"Review of Standard Occupational Classification System","effect":"Directs the Office of Management and Budget to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation within 30 days.","amount":null,"quote":"categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6424","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1BCDDD6A460043E18907983AB72E43B9"},"heading":"Eligibility for interment in national cemeteries","effect":"Makes certain individuals who served with a special guerrilla unit or irregular forces from a base in Laos eligible for interment in national cemeteries, effective as if included in a 2018 law.","amount":null,"quote":"served honorably with a special guerrilla unit or irregular forces operating from a base in Laos in support of the Armed Forces of the United States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6425","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H24C808E0BA74400C8DFC7FE832B7388A"},"heading":"Afghanistan Refuge Special Envoy","effect":"Establishes an Afghanistan Refuge Special Envoy in the Executive Office of the President, appointed by the President, to coordinate evacuation and resettlement of persons from Afghanistan, ending two years after enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"There is established in the Executive Office of the President an Afghanistan Refuge Special Envoy."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6428","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA095910F6DEA4DC69B72544FDF261C0E"},"heading":"Sense of Congress on role of human rights in reducing violence in Nigeria","effect":"States the sense of Congress on violence by extremist groups in Nigeria and on U.S. cooperation with Nigerian security forces; it creates no binding requirement.","amount":null,"quote":"Frequent terrorist attacks on individuals, churches, and communities in Nigeria based on religious identity, ethnicity, or other affiliation is a serious violation of human rights."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6429","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF1BC5603EA914A31A25436D9898E3244"},"heading":"Treatment of paycheck protection program loan forgiveness of payroll costs under highway and public transportation project cost reimbursement contracts","effect":"Provides that no cost reduction or cash refund is due to transportation agencies on certain architectural and engineering cost-reimbursement contracts because of Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness of payroll costs; expires June 30, 2025.","amount":null,"quote":"no cost reduction or cash refund shall be due to the Department of Transportation or to a State transportation department"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6430","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H03EBC64077E648ACB599D2E0AB952AC8"},"heading":"Grants to States for Seal of Biliteracy programs","effect":"Creates a competitive grant program for States to establish or improve Seal of Biliteracy programs and authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6431","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H628448E7497D4CCD80207A60C0E4543D"},"heading":"Annual report from the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans","effect":"Changes the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans report in title 38 from every even-numbered year to every year.","amount":null,"quote":"Subsection (c)(1) of section 542 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking “even-numbered year” and inserting “year”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6432","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6A494B87066642978B1D3CB21A75ACDD"},"heading":"Study on contamination of Coldwater Creek, Missouri","effect":"Directs EPA, with other agencies, to review radiological contamination cleanup near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri, report to Congress within 180 days, and install warning signage.","amount":null,"quote":"undertake a review of prior and ongoing efforts to remediate radiological contamination in the vicinity of Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6433","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB0744CB295984CBFA1F9A926BE685D03"},"heading":"Recognition and honoring of service of individuals who served in United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II","effect":"Treats service in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps from July 1, 1943 to December 31, 1948 as active duty for certain title 38 cemetery, headstone and marker benefits, and directs honorable discharges to be issued.","amount":null,"quote":"Service as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during the period beginning on July 1, 1943, and ending on December 31, 1948"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6436","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC84DDEBDF493450DBCD683BD64EFD6F7"},"heading":"Sense of Congress on recognizing women in the United States for their service in World War II and recognizing the role of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers in establishing the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women’s Army Corps","effect":"States the sense of Congress honoring women who served in military capacities in World War II and the role of Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers in establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.","amount":null,"quote":"It is the sense of Congress that, on the 79th anniversary of the establishment of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6439","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H150BF1CB8FE54CC589C7CD120CF1E587"},"heading":"Codification of the FedRAMP program","effect":"Establishes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in the General Services Administration for security authorization of cloud computing products used by agencies, creates a FedRAMP board and advisory committee, and authorizes $20,000,000 each year.","amount":"$20,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 each year for the FedRAMP Program and Board."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6440","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF5E3E26B72A14E9696B86F2A471DAEBE"},"heading":"Annual report on veteran access to gender specific services under Department of Veterans Affairs community care contracts","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report on women veterans' access to gender specific services under community care arrangements with non-Department providers.","amount":null,"quote":"an annual report on the access of women veterans to gender specific services under contracts, agreements, or other arrangements with non-Department medical providers"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6441","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC46309E988954173A9804C8769A96073"},"heading":"Establishment of environment of care standards and inspections at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to set a policy on environment of care standards and inspections at VA medical centers, and makes a medical center ineligible for a five star rating unless it meets the standards.","amount":null,"quote":"no medical center is eligible for a five star rating as reported under the Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning Value Model unless it meets the environment of care standards"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6442","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H22A1E9ABCD29475CB3D9D65225AC0E28"},"heading":"National Global War on Terrorism Memorial","effect":"Authorizes the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation to establish a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial in the Reserve at one of three listed sites, notwithstanding a provision of title 40.","amount":null,"quote":"the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation shall establish a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial within the Reserve."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6443","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1788FEBCBC4A44A2B886441EE6083897"},"heading":"Amendments to annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices","effect":"Adds to the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices a description of each country's surveillance and use of advanced technology that affects privacy and human rights.","amount":null,"quote":"a description of the status of surveillance and use of advanced technology to impose arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy,"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6446","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDAE4CFEA2CFD4273A18AA3AE49564871"},"heading":"Admission of essential scientists and technical experts to promote and protect National Security Innovation Base","effect":"Allows special immigrant status for certain scientists and technical experts working on National Security Innovation Base matters, capped at 10 principal aliens per year in fiscal years 2022 through 2030 and 100 per year after that.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of Homeland Security may provide an alien described in subsection (b) (and the spouse and children of the alien if accompanying or following to join the alien) with the status of a special immigrant"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6447","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1510F66ADC194F8CA331561D6F452BFC"},"heading":"Contracts by the President, the Vice President, or a Cabinet Member","effect":"Amends section 431 of title 18, United States Code, to extend its coverage of contracts to the President, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet.","amount":null,"quote":"by inserting “the President, the Vice President, or any member of the Cabinet,” after “Whoever, being”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6448","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H96C502E17D304004B54B9905458A790F"},"heading":"Report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on foreign governments","effect":"Requires the Comptroller General to report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on foreign governments and certain non-state actors, including their effects on civilian populations and U.S. businesses.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on de jure or de facto governments of foreign countries"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6450","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA8BA7945993B40D0A430B25FAA60B579"},"heading":"China Economic Data Coordination Center","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a China Economic Data Coordination Center within the Bureau of Economic Analysis to collect Chinese economic and financial data and report on it.","amount":null,"quote":"establish within the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce a China Economic Data Coordination Center"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6451","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H646E3AE42D744604AE20F14295AF92DD"},"heading":"Flight instruction or testing","effect":"Provides that authorized flight instructors and authorized additional pilots in certain flight testing are not deemed to operate aircraft for compensation or hire, and directs the FAA to conform its rules.","amount":null,"quote":"An authorized flight instructor providing student instruction, flight instruction, or flight training shall not be deemed to be operating an aircraft carrying persons or property for compensation or hire."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6452","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDD8BEA51DB87498B87C7579551C42512"},"heading":"Required notification and reports related to Peacekeeping Operations account","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to notify Congress 15 days before obligating Peacekeeping Operations assistance and to submit annual reports for five years on related security assistance.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notification, in accordance with the applicable procedures"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6454","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2C8BDC84CCBC43D9A9AD60771AC65C37"},"heading":"Tick identification pilot program","effect":"Allows the CDC to award grants to States for a tick identification program, with priority for States that have more reported cases of Lyme disease.","amount":null,"quote":"may award grants to States to implement a tick identification program."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6455","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H12EB839BCB9D4B5486893216E83216B3"},"heading":"Preventing Sexual Harassment in Public Housing","effect":"Amends the Fair Housing Act to require annual tabulation of discrimination complaints, including sexual harassment complaints, and directs the Attorney General to establish an initiative on sexual harassment in housing.","amount":null,"quote":"The Attorney General shall establish an initiative to investigate and prosecute an allegation of a violation under this Act with respect to sexual harassment."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6458","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB49301BA004C44FDA5D5DFD4DFC31F69"},"heading":"Authority for Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept unused COVID–19 vaccines for potential redistribution","effect":"Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept return of unused COVID-19 vaccines for possible redistribution, including to a foreign ally or partner.","amount":null,"quote":"may accept, as the Secretary determines appropriate and practicable, the return of an unused COVID–19 vaccine from a Federal agency, State, or other entity"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6459","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HFD12A3607F824F87B5695ED3791232D8"},"heading":"Pilot program to employ veterans in positions relating to conservation and resource management activities","effect":"Establishes a two-year pilot program to employ veterans in Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture positions relating to conservation and resource management.","amount":null,"quote":"shall jointly establish a pilot program under which veterans are employed by the Federal Government in positions that relate to the conservation and resource management activities"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6460","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE4659AAEAF40467E8606ED07B4A28F11"},"heading":"Use of veterans with medical occupations in response to national emergencies","effect":"Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to update web portals to identify veterans with medical occupations, share that information with States, and train covered veterans as intermediate care technicians.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary shall update existing web portals of the Department to allow the identification of veterans who had a medical occupation as a member of the Armed Forces."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6462","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE784AF98FECC482B80751C8E5D171FCF"},"heading":"Pilot program on doula support for veterans","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to run a 5-year pilot program providing doula services to pregnant and formerly pregnant veterans, with payment amounts recommended at no more than $3,500 per doula per veteran.","amount":"$3,500","quote":"which shall not exceed $3,500 per doula per veteran"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6463","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE5F7CDAB10A041288AF32D0050B7F9C3"},"heading":"Establishment of Afghan Threat Finance Cell","effect":"Requires the President to establish an interagency organization called the Afghan Threat Finance Cell to identify and disrupt illicit financial networks in Afghanistan, with annual briefings and a termination date three years after enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"The mission of the Afghan Threat Finance Cell shall be to identify, disrupt, and eliminate illicit financial networks in Afghanistan"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6464","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HAD14E382618F4BAF978A8DF39BFF122B"},"heading":"Determination of potential genocide or crimes against humanity in Ethiopia","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit, within 60 days, a determination on whether actions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia constitute genocide or crimes against humanity.","amount":null,"quote":"shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a determination whether actions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia by the Ethiopian and Eritrean armed forces constitute genocide as defined"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6465","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBDF51FD5A159419DB459C292E6984729"},"heading":"Attorney General report on war crimes and torture by United States citizens in Libya","effect":"Requires a report to congressional committees within 180 days of receiving a credible allegation of certain war crimes or torture offenses committed in Libya by or at the order of a U.S. citizen, including whether the Attorney General will review it.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on such allegations, including a determination as to whether the Attorney General will review or consider reviewing such allegation for potential criminal investigation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6466","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H738F896D0FD1428D8BF1CC220D67AEAF"},"heading":"Review of implementation of United States sanctions with respect to violators of the arms embargo on Libya","effect":"Requires the President to report whether private companies listed in a U.N. Panel of Experts report on Libya arms embargo violations meet the criteria for sanctions under Executive Order 13726.","amount":null,"quote":"the President shall consider all private companies listed for facilitating violations of the United Nations arms embargo on Libya"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6467","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H75FE086606284062B1CF5E3FD77605CF"},"heading":"Prohibition of Federal funding for induced or required undermining of security of consumer communications goods","effect":"Prohibits any Federal agency from using funds to require or induce private consumer software and hardware providers to add security vulnerabilities or weaken end-to-end encryption.","amount":null,"quote":"None of the funds made available in this or any other Act may be used by any Federal agency to require, support, pay, or otherwise induce any private sector provider of consumer software and hardware to"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6468","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H707711BAA0A24C9FA0C21D98298E7EDA"},"heading":"Annual report on surveillance sales to repressive governments","effect":"Requires an annual report through 2040 by the Secretary of State on foreign persons that provided targeted digital surveillance items or services to governments in ways contrary to human rights.","amount":null,"quote":"have operated, sold, leased, or otherwise provided, directly or indirectly, items or services related to targeted digital surveillance to"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6469","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0AE5FE8F5ED642A08F96C6F1E54CF99D"},"heading":"Review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats and human rights abusers","effect":"Requires the President to determine within 180 days whether any of 35 listed Russian persons and officials meet the criteria for Global Magnitsky sanctions.","amount":null,"quote":"the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a determination, including a detailed justification, of whether any person listed in subsection (b) meets the criteria for the imposition of sanctions"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6470","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCB3496FE143444BF81D3CC98DF72BDAD"},"heading":"Modifications to and reauthorization of sanctions with respect to human rights violations","effect":"Amends the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to widen the grounds for sanctions to include corruption, add reporting elements, and repeal its sunset.","amount":null,"quote":"The President may impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6471","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2EB642287E04494088683919C394BB95"},"heading":"Sense of Congress with respect to the production of baseload power in the United States","effect":"States the sense of Congress that a secure supply of U.S.-produced baseload power from coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear sources is critical to national security.","amount":null,"quote":"having access to a secure and reliable supply of firm, baseload power produced in the United States, including power generated from coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear sources"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6472","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HEB7A247C587A4B8FBCF10410E0159327"},"heading":"Strategy and reporting related to United States engagement in Somalia","effect":"Requires the Secretaries of State and Defense to submit a strategy for U.S. diplomatic, humanitarian, development, counterterrorism and security priorities in Somalia, plus a report on recent events and annual updates.","amount":null,"quote":"shall develop and submit a strategy for advancing United States diplomatic, humanitarian, development, counterterrorism, and regional security priorities in Somalia"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6473","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HAEE4C9CC1CF743E4AA2CCBD6C9B132C6"},"heading":"Prohibition on contributions to support the G5 Sahel Joint Force","effect":"Bars Federal funds for assessed U.N. contributions that support the G5 Sahel Joint Force.","amount":null,"quote":"assessed contributions to the United Nations that support the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel, also known as the G5 Sahel Joint Force"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6474","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE57F4F6175EB49DE98B300321922A43E"},"heading":"Menstrual products in public buildings","effect":"Requires menstrual products to be stocked free of charge in covered restrooms in Federal public buildings open to the public.","amount":null,"quote":"shall ensure that menstrual products are stocked in, and available free of charge in, each covered restroom in each covered public building"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6475","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBCC036EFDE1E45DB98694DB7D2191B9D"},"heading":"Department of Veterans Affairs awareness campaign on fertility services","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to run an awareness campaign on fertility treatments covered under VA medical benefits and report on it within 180 days.","amount":null,"quote":"shall conduct an awareness campaign regarding the types of fertility treatments, procedures, and services covered under the medical benefits package of the Department of Veterans Affairs"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6477","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H39973BF2614747C2B4080517168685E7"},"heading":"Corey Adams Green Alert Systems Technical Assistance","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to give financial and technical assistance to States on Green Alert systems for locating missing veterans, authorizes $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, and reduces an Operation and Maintenance line by $2,000,000.","amount":"$2,000,000","quote":"There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to carry out this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6478","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3B243749FE1C47E1A51F18F3114E8B01"},"heading":"Housing allowance for Federal wildland firefighters","effect":"Requires the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to provide a housing allowance to Federal wildland firefighters hired more than 50 miles from their primary residence.","amount":null,"quote":"shall provide a housing allowance to any Federal wildland firefighter hired at a location more than 50 miles from their primary residence"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6479","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H38C29C4DFC2E4D598FDDD7992BD15C12"},"heading":"Mental health program for Federal wildland firefighters","effect":"Requires the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to establish a mental health program for Federal wildland firefighters and gives each 7 consecutive days of mental health leave per year.","amount":null,"quote":"shall establish and carry out a program for Federal wildland firefighters for mental health awareness and support"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6481","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA4EBFE8AEF144B039F6312320D3A629E"},"heading":"Prohibition on the use of funds for aerial fumigation in Colombia","effect":"Bars funds authorized by this Act from being used to directly conduct aerial fumigation in Colombia unless the Government of Colombia shows actions to adhere to national and local laws and regulations.","amount":null,"quote":"None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to directly conduct aerial fumigation in Colombia"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6482","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H4899EEB1DAF1495D9CEE41FA9D454AF4"},"heading":"Annual report on United States policy toward South Sudan","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report on U.S. policy toward South Sudan within 90 days and annually for five years thereafter.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on United States policy toward South Sudan, including the most recent approved interagency strategy"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6483","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HEE3917395CA946258A9C39D60979291B"},"heading":"Sense of Congress on the use of the Defense Production Act of 1950 for global vaccine production","effect":"States the sense of Congress that the President should use Defense Production Act authority to scale COVID-19 vaccine production and deployment globally.","amount":null,"quote":"to scale vaccine production and deployment globally, which will save millions of lives and protect Americans"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6484","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6EE33E2C7C514BC48BD21A20E933013D"},"heading":"National Academies Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable","effect":"Amends the FY2020 NDAA roundtable provision to require an ad-hoc committee to study an independent non-profit entity to protect the U.S. research enterprise from foreign interference, and extends a date from 2024 to 2025.","amount":null,"quote":"The roundtable shall convene an ad-hoc committee to study and make recommendations on research security issues consistent with paragraph (3)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6486","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8EBE924A95FF490AB122F445238278A0"},"heading":"Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports","effect":"Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to add countries that are significant sources of illicit synthetic opioids to the definition of major drug-transit or producing countries and adds a fentanyl section to the annual narcotics strategy report.","amount":null,"quote":"An identification of the countries, to the extent feasible, that are the most significant sources of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues significantly affecting the United States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6487","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC36B46C34AD54CE8BA22A8CD4E94AEA0"},"heading":"Department of Veterans Affairs report on supportive services and housing insecurity","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report within one year on supportive services offered to veterans and any link to housing insecurity.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on how often and what type of supportive services (including career transition and mental health services and services for elderly veterans) are being offered to and used by veterans"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6488","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF05287BC0E4B475EAB8F4FB11CB25028"},"heading":"Report on obstacles to veteran participation in Federal housing programs","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report within one year on obstacles veterans face in receiving benefits under Federal housing programs.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on the obstacles veterans experience related to receiving benefits under Federal housing programs"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6490","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0D4BA2A075E1427095C6A120D6F79440"},"heading":"Jamal Khashoggi Press Freedom Accountability Act of 2021","effect":"Expands human rights reporting on violations against journalists, requires sanctions on foreign persons responsible for gross violations against journalists, and bars certain foreign assistance to implicated governmental entities, with waivers.","amount":null,"quote":"the President shall impose the sanctions described in paragraph (2) on each foreign person the President determines, based on credible information, has perpetrated"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6494","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB6B00CCCF8BD48DEAE9AC1BD00214D2E"},"heading":"Increase in length of post-employment ban on lobbying by certain former senior executive branch personnel","effect":"Amends 18 U.S.C. 207(c) to lengthen the post-employment lobbying ban for certain former senior executive branch personnel from one year to two years.","amount":null,"quote":"in paragraph (1), by striking “within 1 year after the termination” and inserting “within 2 years after the termination”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6495","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE765CF64902847ABA63A9E696AB639B9"},"heading":"Afghan refugees of special humanitarian concern","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to designate defined groups of Afghan nationals as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian concern, with a six-month processing timeline.","amount":null,"quote":"shall designate as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian concern the following individuals"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6496","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3172A26611FA463584DB99EB340CCB96"},"heading":"Establishment of Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Information Science","effect":"Amends the National Quantum Initiative Act to create a Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Information Science under the National Science and Technology Council.","amount":null,"quote":"The President shall establish, through the National Science and Technology Council, the Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Information Science."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6497","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5F5FB1BEAA94494D8BE0768C68A42FA6"},"heading":"Report on effectiveness of Taliban sanctions","effect":"Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report within 180 days on the status of U.S. and U.N. sanctions on the Taliban and ways to enhance them.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on the status of United States and United Nations sanctions imposed with respect to the Taliban"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6498","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE6B7780177BC4BC9912A722B89687A27"},"heading":"Report on net worth of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to report within 120 days on the estimated net worth and sources of income of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and family members.","amount":null,"quote":"report on the estimated net worth and known sources of income of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family members"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H12D2A90DB2BF4CF280F3B22B5B2024BE"},"heading":"Report on assistance to Turkmenistan","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on the impact of assistance provided to Turkmenistan.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on the impact of assistance provided to Turkmenistan"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499C","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCB81BCC9F1CC4E5787EACB75D1C041E9"},"heading":"Strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and ASEAN","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to develop and submit to congressional committees a strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and ASEAN within 180 days, and to have chiefs of mission distribute it to host governments.","amount":null,"quote":"a comprehensive strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499D","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H078B7D8AC9B54C7EA789446E835630F0"},"heading":"Representation and leadership of United States in communications standards-setting bodies","effect":"Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to encourage participation in, and offer technical expertise for, 5G and future wireless standards-setting bodies, excluding companies it determines are not trusted.","amount":null,"quote":"promote United States leadership in standards-setting bodies that set standards for 5G networks and for future generations of wireless communications networks"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499E","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDB668533AF324C2785EF3ECB536E6DF3"},"heading":"Malign foreign talent recruitment program prohibition","effect":"Requires each Federal research agency to have covered individuals on research and development award proposals certify that they are not party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program from a foreign country of concern.","amount":null,"quote":"certify that they are not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program from a foreign country of concern in their proposal submission"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499F","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF381E258CE644412BE7909E0D9C39DAA"},"heading":"National equal pay enforcement task force","effect":"Establishes a National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force of four Federal agencies to coordinate equal pay law compliance, public education and enforcement, and to recommend and plan actions on pay inequity.","amount":null,"quote":"There is established the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force, consisting of representatives from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Personnel Management."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499G","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD2EAC1D967AF4E97B4D365E1B34BDAFF"},"heading":"Ensuring that contractor employees on army corps projects are paid prevailing wages as required by law","effect":"Directs the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to give Army Corps districts uniform guidance on prevailing wage requirements, complaint investigation within 30 days, and public availability of certified payroll reports.","amount":null,"quote":"shall provide to each Army Corps district clarifying, uniform guidance with respect to prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors of the Army Corps"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499H","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H661E31B1373B49E0A79761A254B10580"},"heading":"Definition of land use revenue under West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016","effect":"Amends the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 so that funds received as compensation for an easement described in subsection (e) count as land use revenue, to the extent specified in advance in an appropriations Act.","amount":null,"quote":"any funds received as compensation for an easement described in subsection (e)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499I","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H29F532B7D57944658B122E145601BA33"},"heading":"Amendment to Radiation Exposure Compensation Act","effect":"Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to list individuals in specific named states and territories among those exposed by tests.","amount":null,"quote":"including individuals in New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nevada, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands,"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499J","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD9D1763C4B024A9989B8230FE1DF2DFF"},"heading":"Limitation on licenses and other authorizations for export of certain items removed from the jurisdiction of the United States Munitions List and made subject to the jurisdiction of the Export Administration Regulations","effect":"Bars the Secretary of Commerce from granting export licenses for covered items valued at $1,000,000 or more until a certification is sent to committees, with a 15-day notice period for named countries and 30 days for others, and Congress may block by joint resolution.","amount":"$1,000,000","quote":"were removed from the United States Munitions List and made subject to the jurisdiction of the Export Administration Regulations through publication in the Federal Register on January 23, 2020"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6499K","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF97565B675724EE1817D0B2CF352816F"},"heading":"Study on factors affecting employment opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional credentials obtained in foreign countries","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Labor to study factors affecting U.S. employment opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional credentials obtained abroad and report within 18 months.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Labor shall conduct a study on the factors affecting employment opportunities in the United States for applicable immigrants and refugees"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6501","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H29DF92BF53774C2588DDD53B947FFEFC"},"heading":"Definitions","effect":"Defines terms used in the remote and electronic notarization title, including communication technology, notarial officer, notarization and remotely located individual.","amount":null,"quote":"means an electronic device or process that allows the notary public performing the notarization and a remotely located individual to communicate with each other simultaneously by sight and sound"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6502","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA359F60381814207A9CE0127F8C78539"},"heading":"Authorization to perform and minimum standards for electronic notarization","effect":"Authorizes a notary public to perform notarizations of electronic records in or affecting interstate commerce, with requirements for attaching and binding the notary's electronic signature to the record.","amount":null,"quote":"a notary public may perform a notarization that occurs in or affects interstate commerce with respect to an electronic record"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6503","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H138FA9A137C349CABE61ECEDBBC6078E"},"heading":"Authorization to perform and minimum standards for remote notarization","effect":"Authorizes remote notarization for individuals not physically present, with identity verification, audio and visual recording and record-retention requirements for the notary.","amount":null,"quote":"a notary public may perform a notarization that occurs in or affects interstate commerce for a remotely located individual"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6504","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H09CD53434E104517B5650921675FED5E"},"heading":"Recognition of notarizations in Federal court","effect":"Requires each United States court to recognize as valid any notarization by a notarial officer of any State if valid under that State's law or this title.","amount":null,"quote":"Each court of the United States shall recognize as valid under the State or Federal law applicable in a judicial proceeding before the court any notarization performed by a notarial officer of any State"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6505","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H7CDC4550341749C8A7F1FE02A1B43FFC"},"heading":"Recognition by state of notarizations performed under authority of another State","effect":"Requires each State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when valid there and tied to a public act, record or proceeding, or to interstate commerce.","amount":null,"quote":"Each State shall recognize as valid under the laws of that State any notarization performed by a notarial officer of any other State"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6506","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC9ED49B6EB634A918AAA822327D1452D"},"heading":"Electronic and remote notarization not required","effect":"States that the notarization title does not require a notary public to perform electronic or remote notarizations or to use a technology the notary has not selected.","amount":null,"quote":"Nothing in this title may be construed to require a notary public to perform a notarization"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6507","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H71D58A0D6135476A9BEBB6ADABA8B089"},"heading":"Validity of notarizations; rights of aggrieved persons not affected; State laws on the practice of law not affected","effect":"Provides that failure to meet certain notarization requirements does not invalidate recognition of the notarization, while preserving aggrieved persons' other remedies and State laws on the practice of law.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not invalidate or impair the recognition of the notarization."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6508","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD92ECD90D3B243BFA9FFCC144376D863"},"heading":"Exception to preemption","effect":"Lets State laws modify or supersede the federal notarization provisions only if they enact the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts or meet listed conditions, including keeping recordings at least 5 years.","amount":null,"quote":"A State law may modify, limit, or supersede the provisions of section 6102, or subsections (a) or (b) of section 6103, with respect to State law only if that State law—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6509","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HEE2C7861E8FD4BC5A669A7830849DAD5"},"heading":"Standard of care; special notarial commissions","effect":"Preserves State authority to set standards of care, create special commissions or endorsements for electronic and remote notarization, and sanction notaries, and bars notarization by those lacking required State authorization.","amount":null,"quote":"Nothing in this title may be construed to prevent a State, or a notarial regulatory official of a State, from"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7321","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF3CF7F06726848B8BADA7286AC734C40"},"heading":"Rest and recuperation and overseas operations leave for Federal employees","effect":"Amends title 5 so any executive agency head may grant up to 20 days of paid rest and recuperation leave per leave year to employees in combat zones or high-risk posts, and up to 10 days of overseas operations leave.","amount":null,"quote":"The head of an agency may prescribe regulations to grant up to 20 days of paid leave, per leave year, for the purposes of rest and recuperation to an employee of the agency serving in a combat zone"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7324","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBA97F13D657F4A69B3A50CE36FF2960C"},"heading":"Competitive status for certain employees hired by Inspectors General to support the lead IG mission","effect":"Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 so the competitive-status provision for employees hired to support lead Inspector General oversight covers any of the Inspectors General specified in subsection (c).","amount":null,"quote":"by striking “a lead Inspector General for” and inserting “any of the Inspectors General specified in subsection (c) for oversight of”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 595","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H10E9ACAB7FDD4707953F07D7DA2A59D1"},"heading":"Updates and preservation of memorials to chaplains at Arlington National Cemetery","effect":"Allows the Secretary of the Army to permit the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces to modify and update chaplain memorials on Chaplains Hill at Arlington National Cemetery, at no cost to the Federal Government.","amount":null,"quote":"The activities of NCMAF authorized by this subsection shall be carried out at no cost to the Federal Government."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 757","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H94625EF3D6424E38915488A218D1D3AC"},"heading":"Sense of Congress on designation of Military Heart Health Awareness Day","effect":"States the sense of Congress that a \"Military Heart Health Awareness Day\" should be designated.","amount":null,"quote":"It is the sense of Congress that there should be designated a “Military Heart Health Awareness Day”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1091","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCAB43C3A8E34400DA11C387DC9A5AF34"},"heading":"Sense of Congress honoring the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, home to the 436th Airlift Wing, the 512th Airlift Wing, and the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs","effect":"States the sense of Congress that the people of the United States should honor the personnel of Dover Air Force Base and recognize the work of its mortuary affairs operations.","amount":null,"quote":"honor and express sincerest gratitude to the women and men of the Dover Air Force Base for their distinguished service"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1098","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8787CFABA3A54930BEC27CF8B9F9F652"},"heading":"Observance of National Atomic Veterans Day","effect":"States the sense of Congress that Atomic Veterans Day should be observed annually and amends title 36 to require a yearly presidential proclamation of National Atomic Veterans Day.","amount":null,"quote":"the United States should annually observe Atomic Veterans Day to recognize American military service members who participated in nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1211","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3053AA91EBD64EE69704362787EED8DD"},"heading":"Clarification of certain matters regarding protection of Afghan allies","effect":"Amends the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 on special immigrant visa eligibility, including for Afghans employed under United States-funded cooperative agreements, grants or nongovernmental organizations.","amount":null,"quote":"if the Secretary of State determines, based on a recommendation from the Federal agency or organization authorizing such funding, that such alien contributed to the United States mission in Afghanistan"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1323","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H35383D217E184803964C933F4419B501"},"heading":"Limitation on use of funds for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter games in China","effect":"Bars use of funds authorized by this Act to provide transportation for U.S. officers or officials to attend the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in China on official business.","amount":null,"quote":"to provide transportation for any United States officer or official to attend, on official government business, the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in the People’s Republic of China"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1326","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H090D40624BAC4130ACFF623C4A773BEA"},"heading":"Report on Azerbaijan","effect":"States congressional findings and a sense of Congress on Azerbaijan's detention of Armenian prisoners of war, and requires a report on U.S.-origin parts in drones, munitions use, and fighter recruitment in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.","amount":null,"quote":"Azerbaijan must immediately and unconditionally return all Armenian prisoners of war and captured civilians"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1328","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H68EC3F523B424DC889DC9D3D441261FD"},"heading":"Department of State efforts regarding firearms trafficking to Mexico","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on State Department actions to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico, including actions on GAO recommendations.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of State shall report to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on the Department of State’s actions to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1331","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9CACF0F5EBC1400EADC2D35DF33CCB44"},"heading":"Combating global corruption","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to publish an annual tiered ranking of all countries on anti-corruption efforts, evaluate sanctions for tier 3 countries and for Nord Stream 2 pipeline activity, and designate embassy anti-corruption points of contact.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of State shall annually publish, on a publicly accessible website, a tiered ranking of all foreign countries."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1339","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H895CAF2A4D5346D681BE5FB32B5EA1DE"},"heading":"Report on Haiti","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report within 180 days with a conflict assessment of Haiti, covering earthquake aftershocks, violence and impunity, gang activity, criminal-political links, and judicial independence.","amount":null,"quote":"a report regarding conflict assessment in Haiti that includes information relating to the following"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1340","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB9DD7BF0D85248B5BC92CEDF3AA41A9E"},"heading":"Strategy to counter violent extremism and armed conflict in Mozambique","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State, with USAID and the Secretary of Defense, to submit a strategy to counter violent extremism and armed conflict in Mozambique, with annual updates, congressional notification before obligating assistance, and a termination condition.","amount":null,"quote":"a United States strategy to counter violent extremism and armed conflict in Mozambique, including through the provision of United States assistance"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1343","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA1A36FA5153D4C39AB96BCBBDF7CE5A4"},"heading":"Report on incidents of arbitrary detention, violence, and state-sanctioned harassment by the Government of Egypt against Americans","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days, to report on incidents of arbitrary detention, violence, and harassment by the Government of Egypt against U.S. citizens and others, in Egypt and the United States.","amount":null,"quote":"report on incidents of arbitrary detention, violence, and state-sanctioned harassment by the Government of Egypt against United States citizens"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1345","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H09EBFD95B4C04CAA83F8D2773D3B50C4"},"heading":"Report and determination on extrajudicial killings and torture by Egyptian Government security forces","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days, to report on extrajudicial killings and torture by Egyptian security forces over seven years, including a determination on a pattern of gross human rights violations and the unit names added to a restricted list.","amount":null,"quote":"a report on incidents of state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings and torture by the security forces of the Government of Egypt"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6401","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCA8B49976BF949AD89469FE0A371173D"},"heading":"FAA rating of civilian pilots of the Department of Defense","effect":"Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to revise its regulation so Department of Defense civilian pilots are eligible for ratings based on Department of Defense pilot qualifications, as military pilots are.","amount":null,"quote":"ensure that a Department of Defense civilian pilot is eligible for a rating based on qualifications earned as a Department of Defense pilot"}]},{"category":"narrow_beneficiary","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 214","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0AD9A3B91BB7427DA1C52F9BD815D970"},"heading":"Minority Institute for Defense Research","effect":"Directs a plan for a Minority Institute for Defense Research, authorizes grants to minority institutions, and requires defense research center contracts to include subcontracts of at least 5 percent with minority institutions starting October 1, 2026.","amount":null,"quote":"Such partnerships shall be through a subcontract with one or more minority institutions for a total amount of not less than 5 percent of the amount awarded in the contract."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 221","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC346F454F1D742B496D9D05096C86F05"},"heading":"Requirement to maintain access to category 3 subterranean training facility","effect":"Requires the Department of Defense to keep continuing access to a category 3 subterranean training facility and allows a short-term lease with a provider, limited to a facility operational and deemed safe as of enactment.","amount":null,"quote":"means a category 3 subterranean training facility that is"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 326","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8C6FDE479B6F41258663C055AEC6ADB7"},"heading":"Pilot program on use of sustainable aviation fuel","effect":"Sets up a sustainable aviation fuel pilot at two or more Department of Defense facilities, requiring at least one to have an onsite refinery near a major commercial airport that is seeking to increase use of such fuel.","amount":null,"quote":"At least one such facility shall be a facility with an onsite refinery that is located in proximity to at least one major commercial airport that is also actively seeking to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 346","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HEF9CC9F5446D4D608275A3730B68159B"},"heading":"Pilot program on implementation of mitigating actions to address vulnerabilities to critical defense facilities and associated defense critical electric infrastructure","effect":"Sets up a two-year pilot at at least three installations to mitigate electric infrastructure vulnerabilities, with one site in a Power Marketing Administration territory and particular consideration for facilities served by rural cooperatives or municipal entities.","amount":null,"quote":"provide particular consideration for critical defense facilities and the associated defense critical electric infrastructure that use rural cooperatives or municipal entities for their electricity needs"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 374","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCCBFE069752C40819DDF7659E9963FA4"},"heading":"Authority to establish Center of Excellence for radar systems and complementary workforce and education programs","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a Center of Excellence for radar systems, and sets the location by proximity to existing radar system facilities that can facilitate partnership among the Department, industry, and an academic institution.","amount":null,"quote":"in determining the location of the Center, the Secretary shall take into account the proximity to existing radar system facilities capable of efficiently facilitating partnership between the Department, industry, and an academic institution."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 556","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H14540970C18148AF97CA215B5CD67605"},"heading":"Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center","effect":"Allows the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute to confer a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language on graduates of its Foreign Language Center, in addition to the existing Associate of Arts degree.","amount":null,"quote":"the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute may confer— (1) an Associate of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 559L","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB4E4D143130D40DE83A9C149B119A2F0"},"heading":"Speech disorders of cadets and midshipmen","effect":"Requires military service academy superintendents to test incoming cadets and midshipmen for speech disorders, provide results and a list of positions requiring the speech test, and furnish speech therapy on request.","amount":null,"quote":"The Superintendent of a military service academy shall provide testing for speech disorders to incoming cadets or midshipmen under the jurisdiction of that Superintendent."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 758","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0293F49CBFE7424099E6BEA8E2407006"},"heading":"Pilot program to improve military readiness through nutrition and wellness initiatives","effect":"Requires a six-month nutrition and wellness pilot program run by a single contractor that must also manufacture the dietary supplements at a facility it owns, chosen using criteria such as certifications, years in business and organizational relationships.","amount":null,"quote":"a single contractor to both carry out all of the activities under subsection (c) and manufacture the dietary supplements to be provided pursuant to subsection (c)(3) at a manufacturing facility owned by the contractor"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 760","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA85DF22417C04B89AF1B917FFAB8EC16"},"heading":"Priority for domestically sourced bovine heparin","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Defense to give priority to domestically sourced, fully traceable bovine heparin approved by the Food and Drug Administration when available.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Defense shall provide priority for domestically sourced, fully traceable, bovine heparin approved by the Food and Drug Administration when available."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 816","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H30753A0C72AB4234846F05175D71D1EC"},"heading":"Limitation on procurement of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain for naval vessels","effect":"Adds welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain to the list of items under the domestic sourcing limitation and provides that a manufacturer of that chain for naval vessels meets the requirement if it is part of the national technology and industrial base.","amount":null,"quote":"A manufacturer of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain for naval vessels meets the requirements of this subsection if the manufacturer is part of the national technology and industrial base."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 832","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H569D9A843D7D4B1BBD1AC1290959C3F9"},"heading":"Defense supply chain risk assessment framework","effect":"Requires a defense supply chain risk framework that uses a \"covered application\" defined as a software-as-a-service application using decision science, commercial data, and machine learning, with listed features.","amount":null,"quote":"The term covered application means a software-as-a-service application that uses decision science, commercial data, and machine learning techniques."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 866","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H07A0EECFCB22444C85B86508784FEA1B"},"heading":"Domestically sourced alternatives","effect":"States that the Secretary of Defense should acquire domestically sourced alternatives for priority projects, including advanced AC-DC power converters for the dismounted soldier.","amount":null,"quote":"advanced AC-DC power converters that improve performance for the dismounted soldier"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1117","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3C6678CFF3A240489FA294AE2DA13A92"},"heading":"Assessment of Accelerated Promotion Program suspension","effect":"Directs the Office of Personnel Management to assess pay differences for employees hired at four public shipyards during a set 2016 window, and to evaluate whether the Secretary can pay the difference with interest and promote them.","amount":null,"quote":"An identification of the employees who were hired at the four public shipyards between January 23, 2016, and December 22, 2016"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1537","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H281D5791B79842D0BCB3EB0E4C8A15E2"},"heading":"United States-Israel cybersecurity cooperation","effect":"Creates a Department of Homeland Security grant program for cybersecurity research and technology, limited to joint ventures with Israeli entities or the Israeli government, and authorizes not less than $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.","amount":"$6,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section not less than $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1607","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H55709AAA8DC44CB5856B1EA02E0BE5FB"},"heading":"Clarification of domestic services and capabilities in leveraging commercial satellite remote sensing","effect":"Defines 'domestic' for commercial satellite remote sensing purposes to include companies operating in the United States that have active mitigation agreements under the National Industrial Security Program, effective as if included in the earlier 2021 Act.","amount":null,"quote":"capabilities or services provided by companies that operate in the United States and have active mitigation agreements pursuant to the National Industrial Security Program"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2834","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3B6A40DD026F4A12ACF800897B92E147"},"heading":"Congressional oversight of master plans for Army ammunition plants guiding future infrastructure, facility, and production equipment improvements","effect":"Requires the Secretary of the Army to submit master plans, and annual updates through March 31, 2026, for a set of five Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition plants without naming them.","amount":null,"quote":"the master plan for each of the five Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition plants"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2863","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC7C62D85B1034A07B50E5E5F94B4DC22"},"heading":"Pilot program on establishment of account for reimbursement for use of testing facilities at installations of the Department of the Air Force","effect":"Directs the Air Force to set up a pilot reimbursable account for use of testing facilities at no more than two installations drawn from those that fit the Flight Test Center construct and are funded through the Air Force research and development account.","amount":null,"quote":"from among any such installations that are part of the Air Force Flight Test Center construct and are currently funded for Facility, Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (FSRM)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3118","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H38ADC6A153AA40FFBC2D5A4B7D1E70B2"},"heading":"Release of reversionary interest in certain real property, Springfield, Ohio","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to release, without reimbursement, a reversionary interest in one property, conditioned on a specific nonprofit acquiring title to it.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of Energy may release, without reimbursement or other consideration, a reversionary interest acquired by the United States"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5532","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H7BE4223345D04C9E8F0284EBE3773DAC"},"heading":"Administration of wilderness","effect":"Lets the Secretary keep authorizing one competitive equestrian event, permitted since 2012, inside the Chinquapin Wilderness created by Sec. 5531.","amount":null,"quote":"continue to authorize the competitive equestrian event permitted since 2012 in the Chinquapin Wilderness established by section 5531"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5564","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H85C66D53C2734188900BA07F8E10942B"},"heading":"Administration of wilderness","effect":"Lets the Secretary of Agriculture issue special use authorizations for continued operation, maintenance and reconstruction of two existing water diversion facilities and one electrical distribution line in the San Rafael Wilderness Additions, including motorized equipment use.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Agriculture may issue a special use authorization to the owners of the 2 existing water transport or diversion facilities, including administrative access roads"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5633","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H552716FB66FB474FAD289ED74E9DBDA3"},"heading":"Special management areas","effect":"Lets the Secretary allow activities already authorized by permit or license, including helicopter access and a competitive running event permitted since 1992, to continue within the two designated Special Management Areas.","amount":null,"quote":"(including helicopter access for recreation and maintenance and the competitive running event permitted since 1992)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5644","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H52F0DF6BF9EF46D593F0CF28C2F2D2CC"},"heading":"Thompson Divide lease exchange","effect":"Lets the Secretary give credits toward bids, royalties or rentals on Federal oil and gas leases to leaseholders who relinquish Thompson Divide leases. Credit amounts equal bonus bids, rentals and preparation expenses.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary may issue to the leaseholder credits for any bid, royalty, or rental payment due under any Federal oil or gas lease on Federal land in the State"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 902","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1619D60E1CF94CD9B9606CF420465DC9"},"heading":"Implementation of repeal of Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense","effect":"Strikes the clause that barred anyone who served as the Department of Defense Chief Management Officer before enactment from being designated to carry out the functions of that office.","amount":null,"quote":"except that any officer or employee so designated may not be an individual who served as the Chief Management Officer before the date of the enactment of this Act"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1252","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB55F5AED458F4FBDAD110665070AB8E4"},"heading":"Statement of policy","effect":"Sets a policy of maintaining the ability to deny a fait accompli against a 'covered defense partner', defined by a list in a 2019 report plus a location within 100 miles off a strategic competitor's coast.","amount":null,"quote":"a partner identified in the “Department of Defense Indo-Pacific Strategy Report” issued on June 1, 2019, located within 100 miles off the coast of a strategic competitor"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1613","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC80189BDE203415BADBB07E657FAD668"},"heading":"Authority of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to engage in fundraising for certain nonprofit organizations","effect":"Allows the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to fundraise in an official capacity for nonprofit organizations that support Defense Intelligence Enterprise employees, former employees, and their dependents.","amount":null,"quote":"may engage in fundraising in an official capacity for the benefit of nonprofit organizations that provide support"}]},{"category":"named_funding","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 225","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H539BF31F63C444BCB238FC7CF7D1D143"},"heading":"Funding for hypersonics advanced manufacturing","effect":"Authorizes $15,000,000 from a specified Defense-wide research line for hypersonics advanced manufacturing, offset by a $15,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080.","amount":"$15,000,000","quote":"for advanced technology development for the Defense-wide manufacturing science and technology program, line 050 (PE0603680D8Z), $15,000,000 is authorized to be used in support of hypersonics advanced manufacturing."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 226","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC5C8C2E08A0E4B8FA3083C30533839D6"},"heading":"Funding increase for 3D printing of infrastructure","effect":"Increases research and development line 038 (PE 0603119A) by $12,500,000, offset by a $12,500,000 reduction to the Army Integrated Personnel and Pay System line 121.","amount":"$12,500,000","quote":"the amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201, as specified in the corresponding funding table in section 4201, line 038 (PE 0603119A), is hereby increased by $12,500,000."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 227","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H85F6097909D847B9AB29B2C8F14C0290"},"heading":"Funding increase for cold weather capabilities","effect":"Increases Air Force applied research, materials line 005 (PE 0602102F) by $7,500,000, offset by a $7,500,000 reduction to the Army Integrated Personnel and Pay System line 121.","amount":"$7,500,000","quote":"for applied research, materials, line 005 (PE 0602102F), is hereby increased by $7,500,000."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 228","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H33DEE3B0AD9E4ACCAA424A6B92105247"},"heading":"Funding for soldier lethality technology","effect":"Increases Army soldier lethality advanced technology line 037 (PE0603118A) by $8,000,000, offset by an $8,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080.","amount":"$8,000,000","quote":"for advanced technology development, soldier lethality advanced technology (PE0603118A), line 037, is hereby increased by $8,000,000."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 229A","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC933BAA72F2D465BAE1E10C18FB1E054"},"heading":"Establishment of quantum network testbed program for Department of Air Force","effect":"Allows the Air Force to set up a quantum network testbed program and increases Air Force applied research line 014 by $10,000,000 for it, offset by a $10,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"for dominant information sciences and methods is hereby increased by $10,000,000 (to be used to in support of the quantum network and computing testbed program under this section)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 302","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA8E13D5A77CF488BAE2198F5500EF11F"},"heading":"Funding for Army Community Services","effect":"Increases the Army Community Services line (line 110) by $30,000,000, offset by $15,000,000 reductions each to Army Administration and Army Other Service Support.","amount":"$30,000,000","quote":"as specified in the corresponding funding table in section 4301, for Army Community Services, line 110, is hereby increased by $30,000,000."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 303","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H65D4C391FBA34148A07156492BF24594"},"heading":"Increase in funding for civil military programs","effect":"Increases the Civil Military Programs line by $35,281,000 for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program, offset by an equal reduction to the Office of Secretary of Defense line.","amount":"$35,281,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $35,281,000 (to be used in support of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 331","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H141C96655F6040E384B9C98E30369D74"},"heading":"Inspection of piping and support infrastructure at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Hawai‘i","effect":"Directs the Navy to have an independent inspection of the pipeline system and supporting infrastructure at the named Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and to prepare a life-cycle sustainment plan; no dollar amount is stated.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of the Navy shall direct the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to conduct an inspection of the pipeline system, supporting infrastructure, and appurtenances"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 506","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H47E24B6FD26F40B3AA25BAA44475FB47"},"heading":"Continued National Guard support for FireGuard program","effect":"Requires the Secretary of Defense to keep supporting the named FireGuard program with National Guard personnel until September 30, 2026, and limits reducing or transferring that support afterward without 30 days' written notice.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Defense shall continue to support the FireGuard program with National Guard personnel to aggregate, analyze, and assess multi-source remote sensing information"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 559","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1261DBCAA4C84DB28D719BA0E19A2303"},"heading":"United States Naval Community College","effect":"Establishes in law the United States Naval Community College, with authority to provide instruction and confer degrees or credentials for Navy and Marine Corps personnel and Navy civilian employees.","amount":null,"quote":"There is a United States Naval Community College. The primary function of such College shall be to provide—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 559A","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H955B2087E6EA4716A0A069C0A9A0D8E1"},"heading":"Codification of establishment of United States Air Force Institute of Technology","effect":"Codifies in law the establishment of the United States Air Force Institute of Technology in the Department of the Air Force, with research and instruction purposes.","amount":null,"quote":"There is in the Department of the Air Force a United States Air Force Institute of Technology, the purposes of which are to perform research"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 751","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2CF051D4937A45179E8CADAD1803AC6B"},"heading":"Funding for pancreatic cancer research","effect":"Increases the Defense Health Program research authorization by $5,000,000 for pancreatic cancer research, all of it for a pancreatic cancer early detection initiative (EDI), and reduces Base Operations/Communications by the same amount.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $5,000,000 for the purposes of pancreatic cancer research, of which $5,000,000 is for the purposes of a pancreatic cancer early detection initiative (EDI)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 753","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBBAA43A587174C2D943289E60B70D77F"},"heading":"Funding for rapid screening under Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities program","effect":"Increases the Chemical and Biological Defense Program authorization (Line 82) by $4,500,000 for the Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, offset by a reduction to Defense Media Activity (Line 370).","amount":"$4,500,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $4,500,000 for the Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 754","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD1807E847EBB415D9BD1AAA94324C1DD"},"heading":"Increased collaboration with NIH to combat triple negative breast cancer","effect":"Directs the Department of Defense to work with the National Institutes of Health on triple negative breast cancer and increases Defense Health Program funding by $10,000,000, offset by a $10,000,000 cut to Private Sector Care.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $10,000,000 to carry out subsection (a)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1034","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF05EC91FD4054B3091A701219982EFD0"},"heading":"Authority to provide space and services to military welfare societies","effect":"Adds the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance to the list of military welfare societies that may be provided space and services under section 2566 of title 10.","amount":null,"quote":"“(D) The Coast Guard Mutual Assistance.”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1080","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8DF26B7CAFE24F40B54E592B44FA59C5"},"heading":"Commission on Afghanistan","effect":"Establishes the Commission on Afghanistan to examine the war and makes $5,000,000 of Department of Defense authorized funds available for its activities.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by to this Act for the Department of Defense, $5,000,000 is available to fund the activities of the Commission."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1095","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5243F78A5F54451A9F37C076462DD7FC"},"heading":"Availability of modular small arms range for Army Reserve in Puerto Rico","effect":"Requires the Secretary of the Army to ensure a modular small arms range is made available for the Army Reserve in Puerto Rico; no dollar amount is stated.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Army shall ensure that a modular small arms range is made available for the Army Reserve in Puerto Rico."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1099","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H03D3D83395CD410D95B6A68F53FED10D"},"heading":"Anomalous Health Incidents Interagency Coordinator","effect":"Creates an Anomalous Health Incidents Interagency Coordinator and authorizes $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to the Secretary of State, including to increase capacity and staffing for the State Department's Health Incident Response Task Force.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to be used—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1264","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HAA1E4F8B527C4A6997BFBA2892CE163A"},"heading":"Establishment of China Watcher Program","effect":"Establishes a program called the China Watcher Program within the Department of State and authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter to carry it out.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter to carry out this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1307","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6B7A855418F44291B15E4083BE7F2F08"},"heading":"Funding for the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence","effect":"Increases the amount authorized for the NATO Strategic Communication Center of Excellence by $5,000,000, offset by an equal $5,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance, and directs the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to the Center.","amount":"$5,000,000","quote":"for the NATO Strategic Communication Center of Excellence is hereby increased by $5,000,000, to be made available for the purposes described in subsection (c)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1363","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA1223B4513B24745B2CBC6791F035347"},"heading":"Funding for civilian harm mitigation by Defense Security Cooperation Agency","effect":"Increases the Defense Security Cooperation Agency operation and maintenance authorization by $2,000,000, with $1,000,000 each designated for two named institutes for civilian harm mitigation, offset by a $2,000,000 reduction elsewhere.","amount":"$2,000,000","quote":"of which $1,000,000 is for the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies for Civilian Harm Mitigation and $1,000,000 is for the Institute of Security Governance for Civilian Harm Mitigation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1412","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8BB2FD036844422DABCD95546478339B"},"heading":"Authority for transfer of funds to joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for Captain James A. Lovell Health Care Center, Illinois","effect":"Allows the Secretary of Defense to transfer $137,000,000 of Defense Health Program operation and maintenance funds to the joint DoD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center.","amount":"$137,000,000","quote":"facility operations for which funds transferred under subsection (a) may be used are operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, consisting of the North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1413","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6A77BFD72BEA4098A35143C8594A6E06"},"heading":"Authorization of appropriations for Armed Forces Retirement Home","effect":"Authorizes $75,300,000 for fiscal year 2022 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.","amount":"$75,300,000","quote":"There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund the sum of $75,300,000 for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1643","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDBB73146A73C412F95A3F938B42F7106"},"heading":"Missile defense radar in Hawaii","effect":"Expresses the sense of Congress that a discrimination radar be restored in Hawaii and requires a fiscal year 2023 certification that future-years funding is included and the radar is operational by December 31, 2028.","amount":null,"quote":"restore the discrimination radar for homeland defense planned to be located in Hawaii"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1644","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H4246C23AA0664416ACF2E4184797894F"},"heading":"Guam integrated air and missile defense system","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to identify an architecture and acquisition approach for a 360-degree integrated air and missile defense capability for Guam and report on it within 60 days.","amount":null,"quote":"implementing a 360-degree integrated air and missile defense capability to defend the people, infrastructure, and territory of Guam from advanced cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missile threats"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1649","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H156174320832419186CB4BCD451131F6"},"heading":"Studies by private scientific advisory group known as JASON","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an arrangement with the named scientific advisory group JASON for an updated study on missile defense discrimination, and requires a report on the group's contract status and funding level.","amount":null,"quote":"shall enter into an arrangement with the private scientific advisory group known as JASON under which JASON shall carry out an update"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2105","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA7F9FBDD4F364151A1824C7B17E6396F"},"heading":"Modification of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2021 project","effect":"Modifies a fiscal year 2021 Army project at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, changing its authorized amount from $114,000,000 to $146,000,000 and allowing a modified building design and outdoor recreation features.","amount":null,"quote":"by striking “$114,000,000” and inserting “$146,000,000” to reflect the project modification made by subsection (a)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2106","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H82EB4522A8B74A55AF6DB8FE6F732962"},"heading":"Additional authorized funding source for certain fiscal year 2022 project","effect":"Allows the Secretary of the Army to use additional funds for a $3,600,000 unspecified minor construction project for a recycling center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.","amount":"$3,600,000","quote":"To carry out an unspecified minor military construction project in the amount of $3,600,000 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to construct a 6,000 square foot recycling center"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2404","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H210478319B5446CA9820F74E6E2DF1FD"},"heading":"Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 project","effect":"Keeps the authorization for one named fiscal year 2017 project (a hangar at Yokota Air Base, Japan, originally authorized at $39,466,000) in effect until October 1, 2023 or the enactment of the fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, whichever is later.","amount":"$39,466,000","quote":"the authorization set forth in the table in subsection (b), as provided in section 2401 of that Act (130 Stat. 2700), shall remain in effect until October 1, 2023"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2821","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5E1A776705484A77907D854C1BAE6D88"},"heading":"Secretary of the Navy authority to support development and operation of National Museum of the United States Navy","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter agreements with eligible nonprofit organizations to support the development and operation of the National Museum of the United States Navy, and to accept gifts and lease museum space for it.","amount":null,"quote":"to support the development, design, construction, renovation, or operation of a multipurpose museum to serve as the National Museum of the United States Navy"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3519","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H132E6106B86D437F8146DCEFEF96DE2A"},"heading":"Coast Guard yard improvement","effect":"Requires $175,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 Coast Guard funds to be made available for improvements at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland.","amount":"$175,000,000","quote":"$175,000,000 shall be made available to the Commandant to improve facilities at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA3C1AC720E2F4267B95B2A4AB3329233"},"heading":"Operation and maintenance","effect":"Sets operation and maintenance funding tables for fiscal year 2022, including separate line-item increases for named organizations such as the Civil Air Patrol and Sea Cadets.","amount":null,"quote":"Civil Air Patrol | | [18,172]"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5109","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H24A6CF8693484EEAA3F4CCA8B275E177"},"heading":"United States contribution to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust at the International Monetary Fund","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to contribute $200,000,000 on behalf of the United States to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust of the International Monetary Fund, and authorizes $200,000,000 to be appropriated for it.","amount":"$200,000,000","quote":"The Secretary of the Treasury may contribute $200,000,000 on behalf of the United States to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust of the International Monetary Fund."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5514","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H7FFC8ED032E9439C9C7F2A879FE11D39"},"heading":"Trinity Lake visitor center","effect":"Authorizes the Forest Service to establish a visitor center in Weaverville, California; the section states no dollar amount.","amount":null,"quote":"may establish, in cooperation with any other public or private entities that the Secretary may determine to be appropriate, a visitor center in Weaverville, California"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5515","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H4BF6B50098BE40DF8FD1FEE6A755BCD3"},"heading":"Del Norte County visitor center","effect":"Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish a visitor center in Del Norte County, California; the section states no dollar amount.","amount":null,"quote":"may establish, in cooperation with any other public or private entities that the Secretaries determine to be appropriate, a visitor center in Del Norte County, California"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5617","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HB8BA2A67C37A413586DA2AC836C9E384"},"heading":"Camp Hale National Historic Landscape","effect":"Establishes the Camp Hale Historic Preservation and Restoration Fund and authorizes $10,000,000 to be appropriated to it for historic interpretation, preservation, and restoration in and around the Camp Hale National Historic Landscape.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"There is authorized to be appropriated to the Camp Hale Historic Preservation and Restoration Fund $10,000,000, to be available to the Secretary until expended"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6444","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD0F9D80757F74010AE974D8554EF747F"},"heading":"National security commission on synthetic biology","effect":"Establishes the National Security Commission on Synthetic Biology, increases a Defense-wide operation and maintenance line by $10,000,000 in support of it, and reduces Defense Health Program Private Sector Care by $10,000,000.","amount":"$10,000,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $10,000,000 (to be made available in support of the Commission under this subtitle)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6461","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H281A91A710E1429B8C53125D68BAF6A9"},"heading":"Critical Technology Security Centers","effect":"Directs DHS to fund at least four named Critical Technology Security Centers at universities or research centers, and authorizes $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.","amount":null,"quote":"(1) The Center for Network Technology Security, to study the security of information and communications technology that underpins national critical functions related to communications."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6485","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD64E522CB9124D2EA6B340D7FF31F5D3"},"heading":"Prohibition on Federal Funding to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc","effect":"Prohibits any funds authorized under this Act from being made available for any purpose to the named organization EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.","amount":null,"quote":"No funds authorized under this Act may be made available for any purpose to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7111","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1D583FF4AEE145CAA6FCC763E80DC832"},"heading":"National Museum of American Diplomacy","effect":"Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide by contract, grant or otherwise for visitor and educational services at the National Museum of American Diplomacy, to retain revenues as cost recovery, and to sell, trade, transfer or loan museum items.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of State is authorized to provide, by contract, grant, or otherwise, for the performance of appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services and related events"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 135","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC45AB2EE5E784F4680107FF32021E321"},"heading":"Procurement authority for certain parts of the ground-based strategic deterrent cryptographic device","effect":"Authorizes life-of-type procurement of covered parts for the KS–75 cryptographic device under the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program and makes $10,900,000 of fiscal year 2022 missile procurement funds available for those parts.","amount":"$10,900,000","quote":"$10,900,000 shall be available for the procurement of covered parts pursuant to contracts entered into under subsection (a)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 137","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC34EA57A9293405D824013B0E74FFAB1"},"heading":"Limitation on availability of funds for retirement of RC–26B aircraft","effect":"Bars use of fiscal year 2022 Air Force funds to retire RC–26B aircraft and allows transfers of up to $18,500,000 (operation and maintenance) and up to $13,000,000 (military personnel) in support of the RC–26B platform.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of the Air Force may transfer up to $18,500,000 to be used in support of the RC–26B manned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 731","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H700C4785225C412FBDBC2876C1C2742C"},"heading":"Grant program for increased cooperation on post-traumatic stress disorder research between United States and Israel","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to award grants for post-traumatic stress disorder research carried out jointly by U.S. entities and an entity in Israel, under a named 1972 agreement.","amount":null,"quote":"shall award grants to eligible entities to carry out collaborative research between the United States and Israel with respect to post-traumatic stress disorders."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 755","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H45D47BCF8C4643E1AE8230AFB763458F"},"heading":"Funding for post-traumatic stress disorder","effect":"Increases Defense Health Program funding by $2,500,000 for post-traumatic stress disorder, offset by a $2,500,000 reduction to Private Sector Care.","amount":"$2,500,000","quote":"is hereby increased by $2,500,000 for post-traumatic stress disorder."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2305","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2C815B6A09ED4D8BA67D4FBE631CF0CA"},"heading":"Modification of authority to carry out military construction projects at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida","effect":"Allows the Secretary of the Air Force to construct specified quantities of facilities for named earlier-authorized projects at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.","amount":null,"quote":"the Secretary of the Air Force may construct a crash rescue/structural fire station encompassing up to 3,588 square meters."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4501","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H22EFF1563A67432985ECDA691EAD5D2D"},"heading":"Other authorizations","effect":"Other authorizations funding table that includes line items funding specifically named projects and facilities, such as research use of a named university building. Table figures are in thousands of dollars.","amount":null,"quote":"USUHS BLDG usage: ID and Vax Research, Pandemic Response and Collaboration and Supply Chain Independence | | [360,000]"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6427","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6F0420B7EFB145E0836F38AF23403BE1"},"heading":"Authorization for United States participation in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations","effect":"Authorizes U.S. participation in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and makes certain foreign assistance authorizations available for U.S. contributions to it, with no dollar amount stated.","amount":null,"quote":"are authorized to be made available for United States contributions to the Coalition."}]},{"category":"place_specific_amount","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 569E","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H342ED208D5ED45E5BCE3E7E184F848D4"},"heading":"Continued assistance to schools with significant numbers of military dependent students","effect":"Directs $50,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 Defense-wide operation and maintenance funds to assistance for local educational agencies with significant numbers of military dependent students, and $20,000,000 for payments for children with severe disabilities, of which $10,000,000 goes to agencies with higher concentrations of such children.","amount":null,"quote":"$10,000,000 shall be available for use by the Secretary of Defense to make payments to local educational agencies determined by the Secretary to have higher concentrations of military children with severe disabilities"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 873","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H68F749596744476698030B0F95F9ACFF"},"heading":"Amendments to contracting authority for certain small business concerns","effect":"Raises contract award dollar thresholds, for example from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 and from $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 to $8,000,000, for the 8(a), women-owned, HUBZone and service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs.","amount":null,"quote":"by striking “$7,000,000” and inserting “$10,000,000”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6222","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H51E5E62C239D4DB6A34F3B4D9FF4145A"},"heading":"State and local cybersecurity grant program","effect":"Creates a State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program authorized at $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with a 0.25 percent baseline share for each named territory and 0.75 percent for each other State, and exempts the District of Columbia, named territories, and Tribes from the 80 percent pass-through rule.","amount":null,"quote":"0.25 percent of such amounts to each of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and 0.75 percent of such amounts to each of the remaining States."}]},{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 345","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBEC3C789394C42CB9FD2769578175AA9"},"heading":"Pilot program on digital optimization of organic industrial base maintenance and repair operations","effect":"Creates a pilot program to digitize at least one covered depot, defining covered depots as those under 10 U.S.C. 2476(e) except four named naval shipyards.","amount":null,"quote":"the term “covered depot” includes any depot covered under section 2476(e) of title 10, United States Code, except for the following:"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 519C","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6B2BD6E1B87A41B9A398330D636A0DF7"},"heading":"Seaman to Admiral-21 program: credit towards retirement","effect":"Requires the Navy to count baccalaureate-degree service toward years of service and retired pay for Seaman to Admiral-21 participants from fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for whom no acknowledgment to the contrary can be found.","amount":null,"quote":"For each participant in the Seaman to Admiral-21 program during fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for whom the Secretary of the Navy cannot find evidence of an acknowledgment"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 727","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9F9934B6968648B0B6D84F783C028F19"},"heading":"Exemption from required physical examination and mental health assessment for certain members of the reserve components","effect":"Exempts certain reserve component members from the required separation physical examination and mental health assessment unless they are retiring, discharged or dismissed.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not apply with respect to a member of a reserve component described in paragraph (2)(B) unless the member is retiring, or being discharged or dismissed, from the armed forces"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 834","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8F771B0E1CC74A8891B54D8E43EC45C3"},"heading":"Enhanced domestic content requirement for major defense acquisition programs","effect":"Sets domestic content thresholds for manufactured articles procured under chapter 83 of title 41 but excludes articles that consist wholly or predominantly of iron, steel, or a combination of them.","amount":null,"quote":"Paragraph (1) shall not apply to manufactured articles that consist wholly or predominantly of iron, steel, or a combination of iron and steel."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 838","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H873EE887A0CF4F83813F7D8530A8CFC2"},"heading":"Statement of policy and determination related to covered optical transmission equipment or services","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to start a process on whether buying covered optical transmission equipment tied to entities in the People's Republic of China poses an unacceptable risk. It delays the statutory prohibition and reimbursement eligibility for such equipment until 1 year after it is listed.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not take effect until the date that is 1 year after the Commission places such covered optical transmission equipment or services on such list"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 860","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H705F8A55B7564A6AAB9EFD927F2A5F1D"},"heading":"Waiver authorization streamlining","effect":"Exempts the transfer of an 8(a) contract, or of ownership and control of a concern performing one, from an existing requirement when the acquiring small business is a program participant found eligible by the Small Business Administration.","amount":null,"quote":"the requirements of subparagraph (A) shall not apply if"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 864","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6B527C28EDF8491BBCCAF5EFC14C5CAE"},"heading":"Exemption of certain contracts awarded to small business concerns from category management requirements","effect":"Exempts contracts awarded under certain Small Business Act programs and classified as tier 0 from category management requirements and from related goal measurements.","amount":null,"quote":"shall be exempt from the procedural requirements of any Federal rule or guidance on category management or successor strategies for contract consolidation"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 877","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H826F0EAC9E5B46DF9F7B876B0E122ECA"},"heading":"Exemption of certain contracts from the periodic inflation adjustments to the acquisition-related dollar threshold","effect":"Exempts the dollar thresholds in sections 3131 through 3134 of title 40 from periodic inflation adjustments, leaving any modification made by regulation in effect on the date of enactment in place.","amount":null,"quote":"except any modification of any such dollar threshold 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Defense, but exempts the National Security Agency from the coordination and independent-purchase limits.","amount":null,"quote":"The requirements of subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to the National Security Agency."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2104","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H22278AB88CF446FDA4099A407FC5C04B"},"heading":"Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 project","effect":"Keeps one fiscal year 2017 Army construction authorization, originally $2,700,000, in effect until October 1, 2023 or a later fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, despite the general three-year expiration.","amount":"$2,700,000","quote":"the authorization set forth in the table in subsection (b), as provided in section 2101 of that Act (130 Stat. 2689), shall remain in effect until October 1, 2023"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2304","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE997A8E832FC488C9D53B667B012A2DD"},"heading":"Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 projects","effect":"Keeps ten listed fiscal year 2017 Air Force construction authorizations in effect until October 1, 2023 or a later fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, despite the general three-year expiration.","amount":null,"quote":"the authorizations set forth in the table in subsection (b), as provided in sections 2301 and 2902 of that Act (130 Stat. 2696, 2743), shall remain in effect until October 1, 2023"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2511","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H54B228B084234517B584A3FA03210F10"},"heading":"Republic of Korea funded construction projects","effect":"Lets the Secretary of Defense accept six Republic of Korea-funded construction projects listed in a table, and applies section 2350k of title 10 to one of them, the Black 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Redevelopment Authority."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2851","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H99432D63FC464974ACF6ED3ABF27D55E"},"heading":"Modification of restrictions on use of former Navy property conveyed to University of California, San Diego, California","effect":"Modifies the use restriction on former Navy property (former Camp Matthews) conveyed to the regents of the University of California to allow technology innovation and entrepreneurship programs and innovation incubators.","amount":null,"quote":"which may include technology innovation and entrepreneurship programs and establishment of innovation incubators"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3517","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0F8A77C2685F43A8BE20B673624E6F56"},"heading":"Coastwise endorsement","effect":"Allows the Coast Guard's department to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for one named vessel despite the general documentation rule in section 12112 of title 46.","amount":null,"quote":"Notwithstanding sections 12112 of title 46, United States Code, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel WIDGEON"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4001","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5F42C37F6D5641FBB2631C078BCE31FF"},"heading":"Authorization of amounts in funding tables","effect":"Requires merit-based or competitive selection for funding-table amounts, but exempts projects in section 4201 marked with the abbreviation CPF (Community Project Funding).","amount":null,"quote":"(B) is identified as Community Project Funding through the inclusion of the abbreviation “CPF” immediately before the name of the project, program, or activity."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5503","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBB9D050DF3184FBBAB5E18077C2E344C"},"heading":"Administrative provisions","effect":"Sets management rules for the designated Colorado wilderness areas, including allowing military helicopter overflights and Colorado Army National Guard training exercises and allowing continued running events in two named wilderness areas.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary may continue to authorize competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness Area and Handies Peak Wilderness Area"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5543","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HF13E7F057FEA46E5BA55B2F5F94CCD36"},"heading":"Pacific Gas and Electric Company Utility facilities and rights-of-way","effect":"States that the subtitle does not affect existing rights-of-way held by Pacific Gas and Electric Company in four named areas. It also allows upgrade or replacement of the company's listed utility lines and facilities, and directs the Secretary to publish access plans.","amount":null,"quote":"in a right-of-way acquired by or issued, granted, or permitted to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (including any predecessor or successor in interest or assign)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5584","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8A231A58C69A47D891ED87C93CF94593"},"heading":"Management","effect":"Within the management rules for the San Gabriel National Recreation Area, it states that a section of title 54 on park-related matters does not apply to three named facilities.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 100903 of title 54, United States Code, shall not apply to the Puente Hills landfill, materials recovery facility, or intermodal facility."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5594","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2CB1994FF2614F48A7432506054ED57B"},"heading":"Administration of Wilderness Areas and Additions","effect":"Allows one named competitive running event to continue in designated wilderness additions in substantially the same manner and degree as it was operated and permitted in 2015.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the Angeles Crest 100 competitive running event to continue in substantially the same manner and degree in which this event was operated and permitted in 2015"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5613","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H8434AC671010410997E8C0EF9C2585F8"},"heading":"Williams Fork Mountains Wilderness","effect":"Designates an area as potential wilderness and delays its wilderness designation until a livestock grazing determination is made for two named allotments and range improvements are done or lapse, with motorized equipment allowed for those improvements.","amount":null,"quote":"The potential wilderness area designated by subsection (a) shall be designated as wilderness, to be known as the “Williams Fork Mountains Wilderness”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5619","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HCDCD435A082F47CEAD30148A8B097750"},"heading":"Rocky Mountain National Park Potential Wilderness boundary adjustment","effect":"Removes about 15.5 acres from the Rocky Mountain National Park potential wilderness boundary to provide for ongoing maintenance and use of portions of the Trail River Ranch and associated property.","amount":null,"quote":"The boundary of the Potential Wilderness is modified to exclude the area comprising approximately 15.5 acres of land identified as “Potential Wilderness to Non-wilderness”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 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Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to authorize adding the names of 74 U.S.S. Frank E. Evans crew members to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and exempts these activities from the Commemorative Works Act.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not apply to any activities carried out under subsection (a) or (b)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7112","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HEE569405B2844C3F94452D39727D0521"},"heading":"Extension of period for reimbursement of fishermen for costs incurred from the illegal seizure and detention of U.S.-flag fishing vessels by foreign governments","effect":"Replaces the date limit on Fishermen's Protective Act reimbursement payments with a requirement that payments be provided in appropriation Acts, and applies this retroactively so agreements and payments can cover claims that would otherwise have expired.","amount":null,"quote":"enter into agreements pursuant to section 7 of the Fishermen’s Protective Act of 1967 for any claims to which such section would otherwise apply but for the date specified in subsection (e)"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7301","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H278FD8C03B2B42DEADF0499C9B0CF065"},"heading":"Defense Base Act insurance waivers","effect":"Requires the Secretary of State to apply within 30 days for Defense Base Act insurance waivers for countries that were waived before January 2017 and have no current waiver.","amount":null,"quote":"for all countries with respect to which the requirement was waived prior to January 2017, and for which there is not currently a waiver"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7319","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1C748F2EF16E4755897EB4723DBA2A92"},"heading":"Waiver authority for individual occupational requirements of certain positions","effect":"Lets the Secretary of State waive any or all individual occupational requirements for State Department employees or applicants in one occupational series who have significant scientific, technological, engineering, or mathematical expertise.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of State may waive any or all of the individual occupational requirements with respect to an employee or prospective employee of the Department of State for a civilian position categorized under the GS–0130 occupational series"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7320","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9FE7D16D149C43F7AC6839E7BD6C0181"},"heading":"Appointment of employees to the Global Engagement Center","effect":"Lets the Secretary of State appoint Global Engagement Center employees for a 3-year period, extendable by up to two more years, without regard to competitive-service appointment rules and pay-setting provisions of title 5.","amount":null,"quote":"employees of the Department of State without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointment in the competitive service"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7603","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0488B4EDEB854FF683A368B522FDDF7C"},"heading":"Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy","effect":"Exempts State Department information collection for audience research, monitoring, and evaluation under certain public diplomacy and foreign assistance laws from the Paperwork Reduction Act, and provides a limited Privacy Act-related authority for records used in that research.","amount":null,"quote":"shall not apply to the collection of information directed at any individuals conducted by, or on behalf of, the Department of State for the purpose of audience research"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6223","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H042D6252B0914FCB8CDD08DA0E5A8FA3"},"heading":"Strategy","effect":"Requires a homeland security strategy on cybersecurity for State, local, Tribal and territorial governments, and exempts actions to implement it from the Paperwork Reduction Act.","amount":null,"quote":"Chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the “Paperwork Reduction Act”), shall not apply to any action to implement this subsection."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7323","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE703926D43324989990FE8D6EF64031B"},"heading":"Department of State Student Internship Program","effect":"Sets up a paid Department of State student internship program and requires unpaid internships to become paid within two years, but exempts the Virtual Student Federal Service internship program from that requirement.","amount":null,"quote":"The transition required under paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of unpaid internship programs of the Department of State that are part of the Virtual Student Federal Service internship program."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 522","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HDD23DB8C0BBA4C94A9B5D33DD74B2181"},"heading":"Commanding officer's non-judicial punishment","effect":"Requires a commanding officer to get legal guidance before imposing certain non-judicial punishments, but exempts the punishments in subparagraphs (E) and (F) of subsection (b)(2) from that requirement. It also allows a case-by-case waiver for national security.","amount":null,"quote":"Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the punishments specified in subparagraphs (E) and (F) of subsection (b)(2)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 539F","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3FC7F837C7304E9EBF5C5E93E84C9B4F"},"heading":"Sentencing reform","effect":"Changes court-martial sentencing and creates a Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board. It states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Board or its advisory groups.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply with respect to the Board or any advisory group established by the Board."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 720","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0A45747390A5442C82BD7462AB8E2EEF"},"heading":"Department of Defense procedures for exemptions from mandatory COVID–19 vaccines","effect":"Directs the Secretary of Defense to set uniform procedures under which members of the Armed Forces may be exempted from an otherwise mandated COVID–19 vaccine for administrative, medical, or religious reasons, including a prior-infection antibody test.","amount":null,"quote":"may be exempted from receiving an otherwise mandated COVID–19 vaccine for administrative, medical, or religious reasons"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 801","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9DACC33BCC1E483E9A208F131C425EF5"},"heading":"Acquisition workforce educational partnerships","effect":"Creates an acquisition workforce education program within the Defense Acquisition University. It exempts the reports required under this section from the termination requirements that apply to certain other congressional reports.","amount":null,"quote":"does not apply with respect to the reports required to be submitted to Congress under this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1039B","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H6DC5390FCE784ECDAD073A33F8161B47"},"heading":"Consideration of human rights records of recipients of support of special operations to combat terrorism","effect":"Adds human rights considerations to special operations support authority and bars funds for support to units with credible gross human rights violations. The Secretary may waive the bar for extraordinary circumstances, and it does not apply where corrective steps were taken or for disaster relief or emergencies.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Defense may waive the prohibition under paragraph (1) if the Secretary determines that the waiver is required by extraordinary circumstances."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1346","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H3AED15AA337E43ACB885B31561C55958"},"heading":"Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program","effect":"Establishes the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program with strategies and reports. It exempts Department of Defense activities under title 10 from the budget-materials description requirement.","amount":null,"quote":"This requirement does not apply to activities of the Department of Defense conducted pursuant to authorities under title 10, United States Code."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1513","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HFA5A1807FC6A4D5488ADE26A3D3B7DF6"},"heading":"Protective Domain Name System within the Department of Defense","effect":"Requires each Department of Defense component to use the Department's Protective Domain Name System within 120 days. The Secretary may exempt a component for any reason except cost or technical application.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Defense may exempt a component of the Department from using a PDNS instantiation for any reason except for cost or technical application."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1535","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H16B13D96187344ED9874089D1F50126E"},"heading":"Cyber Incident Review Office","effect":"Creates a Cyber Incident Review Office in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and sets incident reporting rules for covered entities. It exempts actions under the section from the Paperwork Reduction Act chapter and exempts submitted reports from public records laws.","amount":null,"quote":"Subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, does not apply to any action to carry out this section."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2803","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H64471337BF644996A113B129A80D286E"},"heading":"Increased transparency and public availability of information regarding solicitation and award of subcontracts under military construction contracts","effect":"Requires public posting of subcontract solicitations of $250,000 or more and notices of awards under military construction contracts. It excludes classified construction projects from these requirements.","amount":null,"quote":"Subsections (c) and (d) do not apply to a classified construction project otherwise described in subsection (c)(1)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5124","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H1A45A9316127408C9C478D06F3588F73"},"heading":"Working Group to support innovation with respect to digital assets","effect":"Establishes a joint SEC and CFTC working group on digital assets that reports on regulation and market recommendations. It states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Working Group.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the Working Group."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6202","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5A8C1B434923436DB855742F74862D67"},"heading":"Employee engagement steering committee and action plan","effect":"Creates a Department of Homeland Security employee engagement steering committee and states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the committee or its subcommittees.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the steering committee and its subcommittees."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6209","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0FE93E3D6DFE44F8B85EC38D63730410"},"heading":"Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign enhancement","effect":"Adds web-based training and a Blue Campaign Advisory Board to the Department of Homeland Security, and states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Board or to its consultations.","amount":null,"quote":"The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does not apply to—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6437","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H2BABF19C51C04E958A36D115CD35CDA7"},"heading":"Protection of Saudi Dissidents Act of 2021","effect":"Restricts certain arms transfers to Saudi Arabian intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies, but exempts transfers for use in defending Saudi Arabian territory or U.S. personnel and facilities in Saudi Arabia.","amount":null,"quote":"The restrictions in this section shall not apply with respect to the sale, authorization of a license for export, or transfer of any defense articles or services"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6445","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0E542125167E4EAD9017A54B134BEE77"},"heading":"Requirements relating to unmanned aircraft systems","effect":"Bars executive agencies from buying or operating unmanned aircraft systems from covered foreign entities, but exempts the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense and the Attorney General for research, testing, counterterrorism and similar purposes.","amount":null,"quote":"The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General are exempt from the restriction under paragraph (1) if the operation or procurement—"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 8006","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H244BE23CAA114BA08EABF9470F3FA30B"},"heading":"Global zoonotic disease task force","effect":"Establishes the Global Zoonotic Disease Task Force and states that section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to it.","amount":null,"quote":"Section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the Task Force."}]},{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 837","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H09505C230E1746C4BD718E35F678B12D"},"heading":"Ensuring consideration of the national security impacts of uranium as a critical mineral","effect":"Requires a Department of Defense assessment of uranium ceasing to be a designated critical mineral and bars any change to or elimination of that designation until the resulting report is submitted.","amount":null,"quote":"until the submission of the report required under subsection (b), the designation of uranium as a critical mineral pursuant to such section may not be altered or eliminated"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 843","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HFF5295DD2A414616B14B606300DEBD16"},"heading":"Modifications to printed circuit board acquisition restrictions","effect":"Moves the start date of the printed circuit board acquisition restriction in section 2533d of title 10 from January 1, 2023 to January 1, 2027, and narrows which circuit boards the restriction covers.","amount":null,"quote":"Paragraph (1) shall take effect on January 1, 2027."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2844","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H07095EA99D1E4E5B90BC42DDED1DD9E2"},"heading":"Conditions on revision of Unified Facilities Criteria or Unified Facilities Guide Specifications regarding use of variable refrigerant flow systems","effect":"Requires written notice to the House Committee on Armed Services at least 30 days before any revision to Unified Facilities Criteria or Guide Specifications on variable refrigerant flow systems takes effect.","amount":null,"quote":"be received by the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives at least 30 days before the revision takes effect"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1642","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD9E5C7DA22A049D69DCDA8EF6C4DAE13"},"heading":"Notification of changes to non-standard acquisition and requirements processes and responsibilities of Missile Defense Agency","effect":"Bars the Secretary of Defense from changing specified missile defense acquisition and requirements processes, including a Department of Defense directive, until consultations, certifications, a report, and a 120-day period are completed.","amount":null,"quote":"may not make any changes to the missile defense non-standard acquisition and requirements processes and responsibilities described in paragraph (2)"}]},{"category":"process_change","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 557","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0646856C8EA34346B3ECB15FF9C54313"},"heading":"Allocation of authority for nominations to the military service academies in the event of the death, resignation, or expulsion from office of a member of Congress","effect":"Sets rules for who makes service academy nominations when a Senator or Representative dies, resigns or is expelled before the nomination deadline, shifting the nominations to the other Senator or the State's Senators.","amount":null,"quote":"the nominations for cadets otherwise authorized to be made by the Senator pursuant to such section shall be made instead by the other Senator from the State concerned"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1067","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H01D8C840E7224DF7ACCAE3B28837CAE3"},"heading":"Extension of National Guard authorities to Mayor of the District of Columbia","effect":"Changes the officer who serves as commander-in-chief of the District of Columbia militia and who makes appointments and calls it to duty, from the President of the United States to the Mayor of the District of Columbia.","amount":null,"quote":"is amended by striking “President of the United States” and inserting “Mayor of the District of Columbia”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1105","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H9393D35B0C714DAFA40CA4BB72D54BD9"},"heading":"Comptroller General review of Naval Audit Service operations","effect":"Requires a Comptroller General review of the Naval Audit Service and, until 180 days after the report, bars moving or eliminating its functions and limits staff reductions to 10 percent below the January 1, 2021 level.","amount":null,"quote":"no individual may assign, transfer, transition, merge, consolidate, or eliminate any function, responsibility, authority, service, system, or program that was carried out by the Naval Audit Service as of January 1, 2021"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 8010","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HBF0776CC8F4948D99B51B3AF2B22F205"},"heading":"Establishment of conservation corps","effect":"Directs the USAID Administrator to set up a Conservation Corps that can enroll U.S. citizens and nationals as volunteers for short service abroad, including under hardship conditions, to assist demonstration projects.","amount":null,"quote":"The Administrator shall establish a Conservation Corps to provide Americans eligible for service abroad, under conditions of hardship if necessary"}]},{"category":"unnamed_target","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1220K","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H0B0315105C294D7B9465003E2805F18B"},"heading":"Prohibition on funding to certain governments of Afghanistan","effect":"Bars Department of Defense funds for Afghanistan programs, projects or activities with the government of Afghanistan if that government includes any individual belonging to an organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization.","amount":null,"quote":"if such government includes one or more individuals belonging to an organization designated pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act"}]},{"category":"political_name","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1084","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HC37D728C0E944EDFB2134A99A00B4C1B"},"heading":"Name of Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune","effect":"Renames Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune as the Walter B. Jones Naval Medical Center and makes references to the old name refer to the new name.","amount":null,"quote":"shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the “Walter B. Jones Naval Medical Center”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1086","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HA0EF015DBF92411FABC414CC848EAD5F"},"heading":"Name of Air Force Utah test and training range","effect":"Renames the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range as the Bishop Utah Test and Training Range and makes references to the old name refer to the new name.","amount":null,"quote":"shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the “Bishop Utah Test and Training Range”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 1087","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H59B53347F7F645B296FE9E86786CA042"},"heading":"Name of Air Force Utah Test and Training Range Consolidated Mission Control Center","effect":"Renames the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range Consolidated Mission Control Center as the Robert W. Bishop Utah Test and Training Range Combined Mission Control Center.","amount":null,"quote":"shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the “Robert W. Bishop Utah Test and Training Range Combined Mission Control Center”"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5001","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HD77B0858DE87446FB4566A61A9CB4013"},"heading":"Short title","effect":"Gives this title the short title \"Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Modernization Act of 2021\", which includes the name of a political figure.","amount":null,"quote":"This title may be cited as the “Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Modernization Act of 2021”."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7306","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H4C0597DA6FAB47BF965648C6C8B782B4"},"heading":"Sense of Congress regarding certain fellowship programs","effect":"Expresses the sense of Congress that Department fellowships promoting employment of candidates from under-represented groups, including three named fellowship programs, are smart investments for the national security workforce.","amount":null,"quote":"including the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program, the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program, and the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 7409","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-HE56B0C71228D48A892F35ACDA1291458"},"heading":"Payne fellowship authorization","effect":"Allows the undergraduate and graduate components of a fellowship program named for a person to conduct outreach to students of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and directs a review of past programs to increase minority representation.","amount":null,"quote":"Undergraduate and graduate components of the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program may conduct outreach"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 747","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh#toc-H5805E3C62AA7491A801518D5DE06C8B9"},"heading":"Sense of Congress on National Warrior Call Day","effect":"States the sense of Congress supporting the designation of an annual \"National Warrior Call Day\" and encouraging Americans to call a warrior.","amount":null,"quote":"It is the sense of Congress that Congress— (1) supports the designation of a “National Warrior Call Day”;"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2021-09-23","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-4350.png","v":"d3fba0139c9f","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4350, 117th Congress: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. House: 316 Yea, 113 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 23 Sep 2021."}}