H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Bill · 117th Congress (2021–2022). Became law, 29 Dec 2022 · Public Law 117-328. Introduced 16 Apr 2021.

Official title: Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, and for providing emergency assistance for the situation in Ukraine, and for other purposes.

Vote results

• House, 14 Dec 2022: agreed to without a roll call; the record lists no member’s position. In the record’s words: “Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, and the House agreed to Senate amendment numbered 4 with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 1518(consideration: CR H9745-9752; text: CR H9790-9803)”
• Senate, 22 Dec 2022: Motion Agreed to, 68 Yea, 29 Nay, 0 Present, 3 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
• President: Signed 29 Dec 2022 · Public Law 117-328

How each member voted

White House

Signed (1): Joseph Biden (D, President).

Not in office (2): Donald Trump (R, President); Mike Pence (R, Vice President).

Senate

Yea (68): Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT); Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Richard C. Shelby (R-AL); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); James M. Inhofe (R-OK); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Patty Murray (D-WA); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Roy Blunt (R-MO); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); John Thune (R-SD); Rob Portman (R-OH); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Jon Tester (D-MT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Joe Manchin, III (D-WV); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Todd Young (R-IN); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).

Nay (29): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); James E. Risch (R-ID); John Hoeven (R-ND); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Tim Scott (R-SC); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); John Kennedy (R-LA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

Not voting (3): Richard Burr (R-NC); John Barrasso (R-WY); Kevin Cramer (R-ND).

Not in office (2): Kamala D. Harris (D-CA); Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).

House

Agreed to without a roll call: the record lists no member’s position.

Summary

Main subject: Provides fiscal year 2023 appropriations for federal departments and agencies, adds Ukraine and disaster relief supplemental funding, and enacts further divisions on retirement plans, veterans, health care, electoral vote counting, public lands and other topics. Division A, Division B, Division C, Division D, Division E, Division F, Division G, Division H, Division I, Division J, Division K, Division L, Division M, Division N, Division P, Division T, Division U, Division DD, Division FF

Its core areas: Agriculture, nutrition and Food and Drug Administration funding; Defense and military construction funding; Commerce, Justice, science, energy and water, and financial services funding; Homeland security and disaster relief funding; Interior, environment, labor, health, education and legislative branch funding; State Department, foreign assistance and Ukraine supplemental assistance; Transportation and housing funding; Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP provisions; Mental health, substance use, pandemic preparedness and Food and Drug Administration rules; Retirement plan rules under the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022; Veterans health care, benefits and homelessness programs; Electoral vote counting, presidential transition rules and public land designations.

Unexpected Items: 726 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (184)

• Sec. 6: Adjustments to compensation: Bars any cost-of-living adjustment to Members of Congress pay during fiscal year 2023.
• Division B, Sec. 538: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to transfer or release to or within the United States certain non-citizen detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, including one named individual.
• Division B, Sec. 539: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to build, acquire or modify U.S. facilities to house certain Guantanamo Bay detainees, except for modifications at Guantanamo Bay.
• Sec. 544: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to transfer or release to or within the United States Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other non-citizen detainee held at Guantanamo Bay on or after June 24, 2009.
• Division G, Sec. 116: Lets the Secretary of the Interior convey to Virginia or the District of Columbia, on request, up to about 4.4 acres of National Park Service land for the Long Bridge Project rail infrastructure, with reversion if the land stops being used for that purpose.
• Title III, “Nuclear energy”: Appropriates an additional $300,000,000 for Department of Energy Nuclear Energy, with set-asides for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability, the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, the National Reactor Innovation Center and Risk Reduction for Future Demonstrations. ($300,000,000)
• Division M, Sec. 1301: Permanently rescinds $10,395,000,000 of unobligated balances in the SPR Petroleum Account by September 30, 2023, and amends earlier laws by striking mandated Strategic Petroleum Reserve sale provisions and setting a 30,000,000-barrel crude oil figure for fiscal years 2022 through 2027. ($10,395,000,000)
• Division O, Sec. 301: E-Verify: Substitutes September 30, 2023 for September 30, 2015 in section 401(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (E-Verify).
• Division O, Sec. 302: Non-minister religious workers: Substitutes September 30, 2023 for September 30, 2015 in subclauses (II) and (III) of section 101(a)(27)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (non-minister religious workers).
• Division O, Sec. 303: H–2B supplemental visas exemption: Lets the Secretary of Homeland Security raise the fiscal year 2023 cap on H–2B visas above the numerical limit, by up to the highest number of returning-worker H–2B participants in any prior year with a returning-worker exemption.
• Division O, Sec. 304: Rural healthcare workers: Substitutes September 30, 2023 for September 30, 2015 in section 220(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (rural healthcare workers).
• Division O, Sec. 401: Establishment of regional commission for the Great Lakes: Adds a Great Lakes Authority to the list of regional commissions in title 40 and defines its region as watershed areas in eight listed States.
• Division O, Sec. 501: Amendments to the flight crew alerting requirements: Adds flight crew alerting requirements for type certificates and bars original airworthiness certificates and operation of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft unless approved safety enhancements are included, on stated timelines.
• Division O, Sec. 601: Extension of temporary order for fentanyl-related substances: Extends the temporary scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2024.
• Division O, Sec. 701: Federal Trade Commission oversight of horseracing integrity and safety authority: Rewrites section 1204(e) of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 so the Federal Trade Commission may abrogate, add to, and modify the rules of the horseracing Authority by rule.
• Division O, Sec. 901: Extension of FCC auction authority: Extends Federal Communications Commission auction authority by changing the date from December 23, 2022 to March 9, 2023.
• Division Q, Sec. 101: Advanced air mobility infrastructure pilot program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to set up a pilot grant program for planning advanced air mobility infrastructure, with grants of up to $1,000,000 each and an authorization of $12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024. ($12,500,000)
• Division Q, Sec. 102: Samya Rose Stumo National Air Grant Fellowship Program: Renames the National Air Grant Fellowship Program as the Samya Rose Stumo National Air Grant Fellowship Program and adds a sense of Congress commemorating people who died in two named air crashes.
• Division Q, Sec. 103: Temporary insurance for air carriers for certain terminated coverage: Lets the Secretary of Transportation provide insurance or reinsurance to an air carrier for one coverage period of up to 90 days after its insurance carrier has terminated its war risk liability coverage.
• Division Q, Sec. 104: Removal of restriction on veterans concurrently serving in the Offices of Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration: Removes the restriction on retired or former regular armed forces officers serving as Administrator or Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
• Division Q, Sec. 105: National aviation preparedness plan: Requires the Secretary of Transportation, with other agencies, to develop a national aviation preparedness plan for communicable disease outbreaks within 2 years, followed by a report and a GAO study.
• Division Q, Sec. 106: Aerospace Supply Chain Resiliency Task Force: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish an Aerospace Supply Chain Resiliency Task Force of up to 21 members to assess aerospace supply chain risks and report to Congress; the task force ends on submission of its report.
• Division Q, Sec. 107: Covered operations elective standards: Lets certain air carriers elect an age limit of 70 instead of 65 for pilots in covered operations, with coverage defined by holding specific certificates and management specifications and a minimum of 75,000 turbojet operations in 2019 or later.
• Division R, Sec. 102: Prohibition on the use of TikTok: Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to develop standards for executive agencies to remove TikTok and successor applications of ByteDance Limited from information technology, with exceptions for law enforcement, national security and security researchers.
• Division S, Sec. 102: Definition: Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Act definition of large-scale driftnet fishing to include nets with a mesh size of 14 inches or greater.
• Division S, Sec. 103: Findings and policy: Adds a finding and a policy to the Magnuson-Stevens Act on phasing out large-scale driftnet fishing in the exclusive economic zone.
• Division S, Sec. 104: Transition program: Creates a 5-year program awarding grants to eligible permit holders who surrender driftnet permits, forfeit gear, or buy alternative gear.
• Division S, Sec. 105: Exception: Creates an exception to the driftnet fishing prohibition for nets under two and one-half kilometers with a mesh size of 14 inches or greater, for 5 years from enactment.
• Division S, Sec. 106: Fees: Allows regulations for collecting fees from charter vessel operators guiding recreational halibut anglers in two named regulatory areas, to be used for the recreational quota entity program, halibut quota purchases, conservation and research.
• Division S, Sec. 202: Fishery resource disaster relief: Rewrites the fishery resource disaster relief process under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, setting revenue-loss thresholds and review steps, and authorizes $377,000,000 for fiscal years 2023 through 2027. ($377,000,000)
• Division S, Sec. 203: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act: Repeals section 315 of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and changes an annual report to a biennial report.
• Division S, Sec. 204: Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986: Repeals section 308 of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 and updates a cross-reference in the Small Business Act.
• Division S, Sec. 205: Budget requests; reports: Requires the Commerce Department budget justification to state amounts for unfunded fishery resource disasters, and amends driftnet-related provisions and biennial international compliance reporting.
• Division S, Sec. 302: Purposes: States the purposes of the Alaska salmon title: characterizing salmon trends in Alaska, prioritizing research needs and coordinating a salmon research strategy.
• Division S, Sec. 303: Sense of Congress: Expresses the sense of Congress about the importance of salmon to Alaska's fisheries and people and the need for a coordinated research strategy.
• Division S, Sec. 304: Alaska Salmon Research Task Force: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to convene an Alaska Salmon Research Task Force of 13 to 19 members to review salmon research and report within 1 year.
• Division S, Sec. 305: Definition of Pacific salmon: Defines Pacific salmon for the Alaska salmon title as salmon that originates in Alaskan waters.
• Division S, Sec. 401: IUU technical corrections: Strikes several subsections, paragraphs and subparagraphs from the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act.
• Division T, Sec. 122: Assist States in locating owners of applicable savings bonds: Requires the Treasury Secretary to give each State electronic information on matured, unredeemed savings bonds with addresses in that State, so the State can locate the owners.
• Division T, Sec. 124: Modification of age requirement for qualified ABLE programs: Raises from age 26 to age 46 the age-of-disability-onset limit for qualified ABLE programs, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
• Sec. 346: Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge: Creates an Employee Ownership Initiative in the Department of Labor that makes grants to State and local programs promoting employee ownership, with yearly grant caps and authorized appropriations.
• Division T, Sec. 605: Charitable conservation easements: Limits the deduction for charitable conservation easement contributions made by partnerships and other pass-through entities when the contribution exceeds 2.5 times partners' basis, with exceptions for family partnerships, contributions made after a 3-year holding period, and certified historic structures.
• Division T, Sec. 701: Provisions relating to judges of the Tax Court: Changes Thrift Savings Plan contributions, survivor annuity vesting and computation, and teaching-income limits for judges of the United States Tax Court. This is a government judicial retirement system rather than general retirement plan rules.
• Division T, Sec. 702: Provisions relating to special trial judges of the Tax Court: Creates a retirement, recall and retired-pay system for special trial judges of the Tax Court, with age and service requirements set in a table.
• Division U, Sec. 402: Improvements to equal employment opportunity functions of Department of Veterans Affairs: Changes how the Department of Veterans Affairs organizes its equal employment opportunity office, harassment complaint reporting, and mandatory employee training on harassment and discrimination.
• Division U, Sec. 403: Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Reform Act of 2022: Adds a new subchapter to title 38 setting cost, schedule and performance reporting, project team requirements, and budget justification list requirements for Department of Veterans Affairs information technology projects.
• Division U, Sec. 404: Report on information technology dashboard information: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to report to congressional committees on the ratings and risk categories it uses for the federal information technology dashboard.
• Division U, Sec. 405: Improvements to transparency of law enforcement operations of Department of Veterans Affairs: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to publish police arrest and use-of-force statistics, require body worn cameras for Department police officers, track police incidents, and develop a police staffing plan.
• Division U, Sec. 406: Plan for reduction of backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out a five-year plan to meet Freedom of Information Act response timeframes and to report on the backlog of requests.
• Division U, Sec. 408: Imposition of cap on employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who provide equal employment opportunity counseling: Caps the number of Department of Veterans Affairs employees with equal employment opportunity counseling duties at 76 full-time equivalents for three years and 81 afterward, and requires related reports.
• Division W, Sec. 102: Definitions: Defines terms for the patent office division, including a southeast region made up of ten listed states.
• Division W, Sec. 103: Satellite offices: Amends the America Invents Act's satellite office purposes and requires the Patent and Trademark Office to open a satellite office in the southeast region within 3 years, and to study whether more are needed.
• Division W, Sec. 104: Community Outreach Offices: Requires at least 4 patent office community outreach offices, including one in northern New England, with site preferences set by numbers of patent attorneys and share of firms owned by women, minorities, or veterans.
• Division W, Sec. 105: Updates to the patent pro bono programs: Requires a study of patent pro bono programs and directs the Patent and Trademark Office to support expanding eligibility to households at up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty line.
• Division W, Sec. 106: Pre-prosecution assessment pilot program: Requires the Patent and Trademark Office to set up a pilot program within 1 year to help first-time prospective patent applicants assess a potential application.
• Division W, Sec. 107: Fee reduction for small and micro entities: Changes patent fee reductions for small entities from 50 to 60 percent and for micro entities from 75 to 80 percent, adds fines of at least 3 times the unpaid amount for false claims of entitlement, and requires a fee study.
• Division X, Sec. 101: Extension of authorization for special assessment for domestic trafficking victims’ fund: Extends the authorization for the special assessment for the domestic trafficking victims' fund from December 23, 2022 to December 23, 2024.
• Division Y, Sec. 102: Annuity supplement: Extends the federal retirement annuity supplement to air traffic controllers who work under a contract made with the Secretary of Transportation.
• Division Z, Sec. 102: Findings: States congressional findings about the digital divide and computer access for veterans, students, and others.
• Division Z, Sec. 103: Refurbishment and distribution of surplus computers and technology equipment: Directs the General Services Administrator to transfer full title to eligible surplus federal computer equipment to nonprofit computer refurbishers, which repair it and give it to eligible recipients such as students, veterans and low-income individuals.
• Division AA, Sec. 101: Parity for registered index-linked annuities regarding registration rules: Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to propose and finalize a new registration form for registered index-linked annuities within set deadlines, with a fallback form if it does not finish.
• Division AA, Sec. 202: Findings: States congressional findings listing alleged actions of the Government of Iran against dissidents and others, as background for the sanctions title.
• Division AA, Sec. 203: Definitions: Defines terms used in the Iran dissident sanctions title, such as foreign financial institution and United States person.
• Division AA, Sec. 204: Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to persons who are responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran: Requires a State Department report on Iranian targeting of dissidents and requires the President to impose property-blocking and visa sanctions on foreign persons identified in it.
• Division AA, Sec. 205: Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions conducting significant transactions with persons responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran: Requires a Treasury report on foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct significant transactions with persons identified under section 204, and allows restrictions on their U.S. correspondent accounts.
• Division AA, Sec. 206: Exceptions; waivers; implementation: Sets exceptions to the Iran-related sanctions for intelligence, law enforcement, national security and UN headquarters obligations, allows a presidential national-interest waiver, and sets implementation authority and penalties.
• Division AA, Sec. 207: Exception relating to importation of goods: Provides that the sanctions authorities and requirements of the Iran-related title do not include sanctions on the importation of goods.
• Division AA, Sec. 301: Trading prohibition for 2 consecutive non-inspection years: Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act so the trading prohibition applies after 2 consecutive non-inspection years instead of 3, and applies to a foreign jurisdiction generally.
• Division AA, Sec. 401: Whistleblower incentives and protections: Revises the anti-money laundering whistleblower award program, setting awards of 10 to 30 percent of collected sanctions paid from a Financial Integrity Fund, with deposits stopping when the fund balance exceeds $300,000,000. ($300,000,000)
• Division AA, Sec. 501: Registration exemption for merger and acquisition brokers: Exempts merger and acquisition brokers from Securities Exchange Act broker registration for transfers of privately held companies with earnings under $25,000,000 or gross revenues under $250,000,000, subject to listed exclusions.
• Division AA, Sec. 601: Smoke alarms in federally assisted housing: Requires qualifying smoke alarms in public housing and several federally assisted housing programs, effective 2 years after enactment, with such sums as are necessary authorized for fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
• Division AA, Sec. 702: Findings: States congressional findings about the life and career of Benjamin Berell Ferencz, as background for a Congressional Gold Medal.
• Division AA, Sec. 703: Congressional gold medal: Authorizes a congressional gold medal for a named individual and directs the Treasury Secretary to strike it and give it to him or, if unavailable, to his son.
• Division AA, Sec. 704: Duplicate medals: Lets the Treasury Secretary strike and sell bronze duplicates of the gold medal, and requires one duplicate to be given to a named museum.
• Division AA, Sec. 705: Status of medals: Treats the medals struck under this title as national medals and numismatic items under title 31.
• Division AA, Sec. 706: Authority to use fund amounts; proceeds of sale: Authorizes the costs of the medals to be charged to the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund and directs proceeds from bronze duplicate sales into that fund.
• Division AA, Sec. 801: Termination of Congressional Oversight Commission: Changes the end date of the Congressional Oversight Commission under the CARES Act from September 30, 2025 to June 30, 2023.
• Division BB, Sec. 101: Manufacturing.gov hub: Directs the Commerce Secretary to add a "manufacturing.gov hub" section to the manufacturing.gov website, serving as an information hub for federal manufacturing programs, and authorizes no additional funds.
• Division BB, Sec. 201: Consumer product safety standard to protect against tip-over of clothing storage units: Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a safety standard for clothing storage units to protect children from tip-over injury, with testing and warning requirements.
• Division BB, Sec. 301: Collection, verification, and disclosure of information by online marketplaces to inform consumers: Requires online marketplaces to collect, verify and disclose information about high-volume third party sellers, with enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
• Division BB, Sec. 401: Covered entity defined: Amends the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act to define "covered entity" as a State or an Indian Tribe and to correct a cross-reference.
• Division BB, Sec. 402: Swimming pool safety grant program: Rewrites the swimming pool safety grant program for States and Indian Tribes and authorizes $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2023. ($2,500,000)
• Division BB, Sec. 403: Reauthorization of CPSC education and awareness program: Rewrites the Consumer Product Safety Commission pool and spa drowning prevention education program and authorizes $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2023. ($2,500,000)
• Division BB, Sec. 502: Inclusion of report: Amends Public Law 116–173 so that its list of reports includes the first report required by the RANSOMWARE Act.
• Division BB, Sec. 503: Report on ransomware and other cyber-related attacks by certain foreign individuals, companies, and governments: Requires the Federal Trade Commission to report to congressional committees on ransomware and cyber-related complaints involving individuals, companies and governments tied to Russia, China, North Korea or Iran.
• Sec. 600: Defined term: Defines "COVID–19 public health emergency" for the travel and tourism title.
• Division BB, Sec. 602: Purposes: States purposes of the travel promotion subtitle, including supporting the travel and tourism industry and setting national goals for international visitors.
• Division BB, Sec. 603: Sense of Congress: Expresses the sense of Congress on national visitor goals, travel exports and the role of the Corporation for Travel Promotion, doing business as Brand USA.
• Division BB, Sec. 604: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism: Adds a third additional Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, reporting to the Under Secretary for International Trade.
• Division BB, Sec. 605: Responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism: Sets duties for the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, including annual visitor goals, workforce data, recovery strategies and reports.
• Division BB, Sec. 606: Travel and tourism strategy: Requires the Commerce Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a 10-year travel and tourism strategy at least once every 10 years.
• Division BB, Sec. 607: United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board: Establishes the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, appointed by the Commerce Secretary, to advise on travel and tourism matters.
• Division BB, Sec. 608: Data on domestic travel and tourism: Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism to collect and publish aggregate data on domestic travel and tourism trends, subject to appropriations.
• Division BB, Sec. 609: Completion of proceeding: Says the Commerce Secretary need not revisit earlier actions that already implement the travel and tourism title, to the extent consistent with it.
• Division BB, Sec. 611: Study and report on effects of COVID–19 pandemic on travel and tourism industry in United States: Requires the Commerce Secretary to complete an interim study and a full study on COVID–19 effects on the travel and tourism industry and report to Congress.
• Division CC, Sec. 101: Extension of authorizations related to fish recovery programs: Extends fish recovery program authorizations under Public Law 106–392 by a year and changes two authorization figures, from $179,000,000 to $184,000,000 and from $30,000,000 to $25,000,000.
• Division CC, Sec. 102: Colorado River System conservation pilot program: Amends the Colorado River System conservation pilot program authority, changing the funds language and extending dates to 2024 and 2025.
• Division CC, Sec. 103: Salton Sea projects: Authorizes the Interior Secretary to provide grants and enter into agreements for projects around the Salton Sea in southern California to address dust and improve habitat, recreation and water quality.
• Division CC, Sec. 104: Authorization of Sun River project, Montana: Authorizes construction, operation and maintenance of hydroelectric power generation facilities in the Sun River project in Montana.
• Division CC, Sec. 105: Eligibility under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of small water storage and groundwater storage projects: Changes a size threshold in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for small water storage and groundwater storage project eligibility from 2,000 to 200.
• Division DD, Sec. 802: Consent of congress to amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico: Gives congressional consent to a New Mexico constitutional amendment on additional annual Permanent School Fund distributions for instruction, school year extension, teacher compensation and early childhood education.
• Division EE, Sec. 101: Coya Knutson Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 202 2nd Avenue in Oklee, Minnesota as the “Coya Knutson Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 102: Robert Smalls Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 11 Robert Smalls Parkway Suite C in Beaufort, South Carolina as the “Robert Smalls Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 103: Robert J. Dole Memorial Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 135 West Wisconsin Street in Russell, Kansas as the “Robert J. Dole Memorial Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 104: Charles E. Fraser Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 10 Bow Circle in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina as the “Charles E. Fraser Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 105: Harriet Tubman Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 501 Charles Street in Beaufort, South Carolina as the “Harriet Tubman Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 106: Corporal Benjamin Desilets Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 114 North Magnolia Street in Elmwood, Illinois as the “Corporal Benjamin Desilets Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 107: Sgt. Jeremy C. Sherman Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 101 West Walnut Street in Watseka, Illinois as the “Sgt. Jeremy C. Sherman Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 108: Sergeant Bret D. Isenhower Memorial Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 120 East Oak Avenue in Seminole, Oklahoma as the “Sergeant Bret D. Isenhower Memorial Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 109: Cottle Centanni Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 4770 Eureka Avenue in Yorba Linda, California as the “Cottle Centanni Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 110: Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. Peirson Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 430 South Knowles Avenue in New Richmond, Wisconsin as the “Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. Peirson Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 111: Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 619 Hewett Street in Neillsville, Wisconsin as the “Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 112: Corporal Joseph Rodney Chapman Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 415 High Street in Freeport, Pennsylvania as the “Corporal Joseph Rodney Chapman Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 113: Harold Billow Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 1 East Main Street in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania as the “Harold Billow Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 114: Romuald Bud Brzezinski Post Office: Designates the postal facility at N4805 State Highway 32 in Krakow, Wisconsin as the “Romuald “Bud” Brzezinski Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 115: Mitchell F. Lundgaard Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 410 Franklin Street in Appleton, Wisconsin as the “Mitchell F. Lundgaard Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 116: Judge James Perez Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 615 North Bush Street in Santa Ana, California as the “Judge James Perez Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 117: Change of address for Marilyn Monroe Post Office: Amends Public Law 116–80 so the “Marilyn Monroe Post Office Building” designation applies to the postal facility at 15701 Sherman Way in Van Nuys, California.
• Division EE, Sec. 118: Jesus Antonio Collazos Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 2200 North George Mason Drive in Arlington, Virginia as the “Jesus Antonio Collazos Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 119: Esteban E. Torres Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 396 South California Avenue in West Covina, California as the “Esteban E. Torres Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 120: District of Columbia Servicemembers and Veterans Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 400 Southern Avenue Southeast in Washington, District of Columbia as the “District of Columbia Servicemembers and Veterans Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 121: Army Specialist Joseph Joey W. Dimock II Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 75 Commerce Drive in Grayslake, Illinois as the “Army Specialist Joseph “Joey” W. Dimock II Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 122: Corporal Hunter Lopez Memorial Post Office Building: Designates the postal facility at 79125 Corporate Centre Drive in La Quinta, California as the “Corporal Hunter Lopez Memorial Post Office Building”.
• Division EE, Sec. 123: Chief Rudy Banuelos Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 123 South 3rd Street in King City, California as the “Chief Rudy Banuelos Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 124: Chairman Richard Milanovich Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 333 North Sunrise Way in Palm Springs, California as the “Chairman Richard Milanovich Post Office”.
• Division EE, Sec. 125: U.S. Senator Dennis Chávez Post Office: Designates the postal facility at 400 North Main Street in Belen, New Mexico as the “U.S. Senator Dennis Chávez Post Office”.
• Sec. 4151: Extension of safe harbor for absence of deductible for telehealth: Extends through plan years ending before January 1, 2025 the Internal Revenue Code safe harbor allowing a high-deductible health plan to cover telehealth without a deductible.
• Sec. 6101: Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022: Reauthorizes the maternal and child home visiting program with appropriations of $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and rising amounts through 2027, and reserves up to $1,500,000 for a center that carries a person's name. ($1,500,000)
• Sec. 6102: Extension of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: Continues Temporary Assistance for Needy Families activities through September 30, 2023, at the fiscal year 2022 manner of authorization, with such sums as may be necessary appropriated.
• Sec. 6103: 1-year extension of child and family services programs: Extends listed child and family services program provisions of the Social Security Act by changing the years in their text to 2023.
• Sec. 7701: Supplemental funding for the World Trade Center Health Program: Creates the World Trade Center Health Program Supplemental Fund and appropriates $1,000,000,000 for it for fiscal year 2023, available through fiscal year 2032, and changes Prevention and Public Health Fund amounts. ($1,000,000,000)
• Sec. 7702: Research cohort for emerging health impacts on youth: Directs the World Trade Center Program Administrator to set up a research cohort on health and educational effects of September 11, 2001 exposure on people aged 21 or younger, and bars use of program funds for it for fiscal years 2023 through 2032.
• Division GG, Title I, Sec. 101: Modification of premerger notification filing fees: Changes premerger notification filing fee amounts and thresholds, adding new fee tiers up to $2,250,000, and sets yearly inflation adjustments to the fees.
• Division GG, Sec. 102: Reporting requirements for merger fee collections: Requires the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to report annually for fiscal years 2023 through 2027 on premerger fee collections and operations, including the Commission's 3 to 2 votes.
• Division GG, Sec. 201: Findings and purpose: States findings about foreign subsidies and states the purpose of requiring merger notifications to include information on subsidies from certain foreign sources.
• Division GG, Sec. 202: Mergers involving foreign government subsidies: Requires merger filers that received a subsidy from a foreign entity of concern to include content about it in their notification, with the form set by rule.
• Division GG, Sec. 301: Venue for State Antitrust Enforcement: Amends the federal multidistrict litigation venue statute to cover actions brought by a State and removes a limit on that coverage for certain antitrust actions.
• Division HH, Sec. 201: Greenhouse gas technical assistance provider and third-party verifier program: Provides for a Department of Agriculture voluntary registration program for greenhouse gas technical assistance providers and verifiers, with an advisory council, a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation, and $4,100,000 appropriated from rescinded American Rescue Plan funds.
• Division HH, Sec. 202: Acceptance and use of private funds for public-private partnerships: Directs the Agriculture Secretary to set up accounts to accept private funds for conservation and natural resource programs, and allows matching Federal funds of up to 75 percent.
• Division HH, Sec. 301: In general: Amends Public Law 117–25 to let the Commission transfer up to $10,000,000 more from a Fund into an account, and extends the related date to October 1, 2024. ($10,000,000)
• Division HH, Sec. 401: Modification or termination of easements under the healthy forests reserve program: Lets the Agriculture Secretary modify or terminate Healthy Forests Reserve Program easements when the landowner agrees and the Secretary finds a compelling public need.
• Division HH, Sec. 601: Support for cotton merchandisers: Directs pandemic assistance payments to cotton merchandisers, with $100,000,000 made available from unobligated balances of a prior appropriation. ($100,000,000)
• Division HH, Sec. 602: Assistance for rice producers: Directs a one-time payment to rice producers for the 2022 crop year, funded by rescinding $250,000,000 of an earlier appropriation's unobligated balance and appropriating $250,000,000. ($250,000,000)
• Division HH, Sec. 603: Enactment of Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act: Enacts into law the provisions of H.R. 5608 of the 117th Congress, as engrossed in the House on December 8, 2021, without restating their text.
• Division HH, Sec. 702: Bilingual labeling: Requires registered pesticide products to carry a Spanish translation of label parts or a link to it, with exceptions for some antimicrobial and non-agricultural products and deadlines from 3 to 8 years by product type.
• Division HH, Sec. 703: Extension and modification of maintenance fee authority: Extends pesticide maintenance fees through fiscal year 2027, sets fee amounts, and sets aside amounts for farm worker training grants ($7,500,000), health care provider training ($2,500,000) and other activities.
• Division HH, Sec. 704: Reregistration and expedited processing fund: Amends the pesticide Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund with set-asides and creates a Vector Expedited Review Voucher program that gives transferable vouchers for faster review to certain mosquito-control product registrants.
• Division HH, Sec. 705: Pesticide registration service fees: Extends and changes pesticide registration service fee rules, allows 5 percent fee increases in set periods, changes review procedures and reporting, and sets the assessment base at $166,000,000.
• Division HH, Sec. 706: Revision of tables regarding covered pesticide registration applications and other covered actions and their corresponding registration service fees: Replaces the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act schedule of pesticide registration application categories, decision review times, and registration service fees, with fee amounts listed in tables by division and action type.
• Division HH, Sec. 707: Information: Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to post aggregated information on pesticide regulation, including guidance and links, on a single webpage within 180 days of enactment.
• Division HH, Sec. 708: Implementation dates with respect to fees: Sets start dates for pesticide registration service fee increases (60 days after enactment) and for maintenance fee increases and set-asides (October 1, 2022).
• Division HH, Sec. 711: Registration review deadline extension: Sets October 1, 2026 as the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to complete initial registration review of covered pesticides, and sets requirements for interim registration review decisions noticed before then.
• Division II, Sec. 102: Definitions: Defines terms used in the pregnancy-related workplace accommodation division, including covered entity, employee, known limitation and qualified employee.
• Division II, Sec. 103: Nondiscrimination with regard to reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy: Makes it an unlawful employment practice for a covered entity to fail to make reasonable accommodations for known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, absent undue hardship.
• Division II, Sec. 104: Remedies and enforcement: Applies existing remedies and procedures from several employment laws to violations of this division, bars retaliation, and limits damages when an employer shows good-faith efforts to accommodate.
• Division II, Sec. 105: Rulemaking: Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue regulations within 1 year of enactment, and the Board under the Congressional Accountability Act to issue parallel regulations within 6 months after.
• Division II, Sec. 106: Waiver of State immunity: States that a State is not immune under the 11th Amendment from court actions for violations of this division, with the same remedies as against other entities.
• Division II, Sec. 107: Relationship to other laws: States that the division does not limit other Federal or State laws giving equal or greater protection and does not require employer health plans to cover any particular item or treatment.
• Division II, Sec. 109: Effective date: Sets the pregnancy accommodation division to take effect 180 days after enactment.
• Division JJ, Sec. 101: North Atlantic right whales and regulations: Deems an existing whale take reduction rule sufficient for Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act compliance for the lobster and Jonah crab fisheries through December 31, 2028, and requires new regulations by that date; existing emergency rules are excepted.
• Division JJ, Sec. 201: Conservation and mitigation assistance: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to set up a program of competitive financial assistance and cooperative agreements for projects to reduce harm to North Atlantic right whales, with listed eligible entities, uses and priorities.
• Division JJ, Sec. 202: Report to Congress: Requires a report to congressional committees within 2 years of enactment, and every 5 years after, on the results of projects receiving assistance under this title.
• Division JJ, Sec. 203: Funding: Authorizes $50,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2023 through 2032 for the right whale assistance program, of which not less than $40,000,000 is for gear deployment and technology, and allows acceptance of donations. ($50,000,000)
• Division JJ, Sec. 301: Survey: Requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct an ongoing Continuous Plankton Recorder survey and authorizes $300,000 per year for fiscal years 2023 through 2032, derived from existing funds. ($300,000)
• Division KK, Sec. 102: Breastfeeding accommodations in the workplace: Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to give break time and a private space to express breast milk for 1 year after birth, with exemptions for air carrier crewmembers and certain small employers and conditions for rail and motorcoach employers.
• Division KK, Sec. 103: Effective date: Sets effective dates for the nursing accommodation amendments and delays application to rail carrier train crew and right-of-way employees and motorcoach operator employees until 3 years after enactment.
• Division LL, Sec. 102: Authority to use coronavirus relief funds for infrastructure projects: Amends coronavirus relief fund rules to let States, territories, Tribal governments and local governments use funds for listed infrastructure projects, up to the greater of $10,000,000 or 30 percent of a payment, and cuts Treasury administrative amounts from $100,000,000 to 61,000,000 and $67,000,000.
• Division LL, Sec. 103: Allowing payments to eligible revenue sharing consolidated governments from local assistance and tribal consistency fund: Directs the Treasury to allocate and pay eligible revenue sharing consolidated governments amounts for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 equal to what they would have received as eligible revenue sharing counties, using unrequested county funds and other amounts.
• Division LL, Sec. 104: Extension of availability of coronavirus relief fund payments to Tribal governments: Extends to December 31, 2022 the period for costs incurred by a Tribal government under the Coronavirus Relief Fund.
• Division LL, Sec. 105: Rescission of coronavirus relief and recovery funds declined by States, territories, or other governmental entities: Provides that coronavirus relief and recovery funds a State, territory or other governmental entity gives notice it declines are rescinded and deposited for deficit reduction, excluding funds a State distributes to nonentitlement local units.
• Division MM, Sec. 101: Improvements to the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act: Amends the Justice for United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act, sets special application deadlines and lump sum catch-up payments for 1983 Beirut barracks and 1996 Khobar Towers bombing victims with $3,000,000,000 appropriated to a reserve fund, and rescinds $4,954,772,000, $459,000,000 and $568,228,000 from three programs.
• Division H, Sec. 313: Amends permanent law by striking section 802 of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.
• Division M, Sec. 1501: Changes a date in the Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 from September 30, 2022 to September 30, 2023, within the Ukraine supplemental division.
• Title II, “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS”: Along with disaster-related Economic Development Assistance funding, this section appropriates $618,000,000 for grants under two sections of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act, split $459,000,000 and $159,000,000. ($618,000,000)
• Title II, “INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES”: Appropriates $27,000,000 to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act, with $13,000,000 for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and $14,000,000 for the Manufacturing USA Program. ($27,000,000)
• Title II, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”: Beyond the disaster-related first paragraph, the section appropriates $62,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is for activities described in title II of division JJ, supporting fishing gear and techniques to reduce entanglement risk to North Atlantic right whales. ($20,000,000)
• Title II, “RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES”: Beyond disaster-related damage funding, the section appropriates $818,162,000, of which $210,000,000 is to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act. ($210,000,000)
• Title II, “STEM EDUCATION”: Appropriates $217,000,000 for STEM Education, of which $125,000,000 is to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act. ($125,000,000)
• Division O, Sec. 101: Extension of DHS authority and reporting: Changes the expiration of a Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity authority in the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 to September 30, 2023.
• Division O, Sec. 201: Basic needs allowance technical correction: Amends the basic needs allowance in the James M. Inhofe NDAA for Fiscal Year 2023, raising an income threshold from 130 to 150 percent of poverty guidelines and adding a 200 percent threshold for members the Secretary determines appropriate.
• Division O, Sec. 402: Reauthorization of National Wildlife Refuge System volunteer services, community partnership, and refuge education programs: Changes the years in the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 volunteer, partnership and education program authority from “2018 through 2022” to “2023 through 2027”.
• Division O, Sec. 405: Clean school bus program: Amends the Clean School Bus Program to allow lease, license or contract-for-service arrangements and to add charter schools as eligible recipients.
• Division O, Sec. 801: United States Parole Commission extension: Treats references to “35 years and 46 days” in the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 as “36 years” for the United States Parole Commission, effective as if enacted earlier, and supersedes a prior provision.
• Sec. 2225: Public Health Service Corps annual and sick leave: Removes the 60-day cap on accumulated annual leave for Public Health Service commissioned officers and allows regulations to authorize up to 120 days for Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps officers on active duty.

Applies only to a specific place or group (55)

• Title I, “Office of the secretary”: Within the Office of Tribal Relations funding, sets aside $1,000,000 to establish a Tribal Public Health Resource Center at a land grant university that has existing indigenous public health expertise. ($1,000,000)
• Title II, “GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS”: Provides $4,000,000 for direct reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers under section 1621 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. ($4,000,000)
• Sec. 765: Requires the words 'genetically engineered' before the acceptable market name of any engineered animal approved before February 19, 2019, the effective date of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.
• Sec. 766: Appropriates $5,000,000 for PFAS testing and assistance to agricultural producers, and directs the Secretary to prioritize producers in states and territories that have set a tolerance threshold for PFAS in a food or agricultural product. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 771: Appropriates $25,000,000 to pay additional amounts on 2021 reinsurance year crop insurance contracts covering specialty crops, equal to the difference from a reimbursement rate of 17.5 percent of net book premium. ($25,000,000)
• Sec. 774: Makes 'Kanpachi' an acceptable market name under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for labeling and marketing of ocean-farmed Seriola rivoliana.
• Sec. 778: Treats a city or town as a rural area for guaranteed Rural Community Facilities loan eligibility if the project received a prior loan from that account in fiscal year 2021.
• Title II, “Federal prison system — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Lets the Director of the Federal Prison System accept donated property and services for a prison card program from a not-for-profit entity that has operated that program in the past, notwithstanding its contracts with the system.
• Sec. 8016: Bars Defense Department purchase of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain unless it is manufactured in the United States from substantially U.S.-made components, with a waiver.
• Sec. 8018: Bars use of Defense Department funds to demilitarize or dispose of listed rifle and pistol types, and certain small arms ammunition, unless certified unserviceable or unsafe.
• Sec. 8031: Bars Defense Department funds from buying carbon, alloy or armor steel plate for its facilities unless melted and rolled in the United States or Canada, with a waiver and an exception for existing contracts.
• Division E, Sec. 127: Amends an earlier Treasury appropriations provision to add public improvements around 'such facility' to mitigate traffic impacts from its construction and occupancy; the facility is not named in this text.
• Title V, “ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS”: Provides $5,200,000 for allowances and office staff for former Presidents under the Act of August 25, 1958 and Public Law 95–138. ($5,200,000)
• Title V, “COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND”: Makes $3,500,000 available for technical assistance to low-income designated credit unions, and makes credit unions designated solely as minority depository institutions eligible to apply. ($3,500,000)
• Division F, Sec. 530: Provides an additional $3,000,000 to reimburse extraordinary law enforcement or emergency personnel costs for protection activities tied to any residence of the President designated to be secured by the Secret Service. ($3,000,000)
• Title I, “OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE”: Makes $15,000 available for refunds of overpayments tied to certain Indian leases where the Secretary agreed the refund is due, and to pay amounts owed to allottees or tribes. ($15,000)
• Title II, “HEALTH WORKFORCE”: Provides $60,000,000 in grants for graduate physician education, limited to public institutions in States in the top quintile of projected primary care provider shortage, with a $1,000,000 minimum annual grant. ($60,000,000)
• Title II, “CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION”: Makes $16,500,000 available to continue and expand community-specific extension and outreach programs to combat obesity in counties with the highest levels of obesity. ($16,500,000)
• Title III, “Innovation and Improvement”: Directs not less than $8,000,000 to continuation grants for eligible national nonprofit organizations as described in a May 31, 2022 Federal Register notice, without naming the organizations. ($8,000,000)
• Division H, Sec. 304: Lets institutions with endowment funds supported by title III or V HEA appropriations use the income for student scholarships, and treats past such use as allowable, until those titles are reauthorized.
• Division H, Sec. 523: Allows up to 10 Performance Partnership Pilots, extends their authority to September 30, 2027, requires that the pilots include communities that have experienced civil unrest, and lets pilot sites operate up to 5 more years.
• Title I, “OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE EMERITUS”: Appropriates $359,000 for the Office of the President Pro Tempore Emeritus, an office whose title describes a position that fits a single holder. ($359,000)
• Division I, Sec. 103: Amends the 2021 Act so that, from January 3, 2023 through January 7, 2025, one conference's chair may assign the conference secretary's duties and authorities to a member of that conference's leadership.
• Division I, Sec. 121: Directs the Capitol Police to assess threats to former Speakers of the House and, if warranted, provide a protective detail of up to one year, which may be extended.
• Division J, Sec. 219: Allows transfer of up to $330,140,000 from Department of Veterans Affairs accounts to the Joint Department of Defense—Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for operating facilities designated as combined Federal medical facilities, and repeals a prior-year section. ($330,140,000)
• Division J, Sec. 220: Allows transfer of up to $314,825,000 of funds becoming available October 1, 2023 to the Joint Department of Defense—Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for operating facilities designated as combined Federal medical facilities. ($314,825,000)
• Division J, Sec. 221: Makes Medical Care Collections Fund deposits for care at facilities designated as combined Federal medical facilities available for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense—Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund and for operations, and keeps transferred amounts available until expended.
• Division L, Sec. 109: Rescinds unobligated balances of two earlier appropriations and re-appropriates equal amounts for completing funding of awards under the fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2019 national infrastructure investments programs, without additional competition.
• Sec. 109B: Makes between $1,000,000 and $25,000,000 available to complete port projects with earlier national infrastructure awards or rail projects with earlier awards, allows awards above $25,000,000, and waives certain grant rules for these funds.
• Title I, “GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS”: Sets a 95 percent federal share for projects at airports other than large or medium hubs that are later phases of a multi-phased project whose sponsor received a fiscal year 2011 grant. Also directs $283,555,000 to the projects listed in the Community Project Funding table.
• Sec. 119F: Makes up to $3,500,000 available to reimburse certain airport sponsors and general aviation service providers for losses while airports were closed during a temporary flight restriction for a residence of the President. ($3,500,000)
• Sec. 159: Appropriates an additional $25,000,000 for rail projects selected under a specific August 19, 2019 funding notice whose grants were obligated after June 1, 2021 and remain open, allocated in order of grant date. ($25,000,000)
• Division L, Sec. 165: Appropriates an additional $425,000,000 for Capital Investment Grants, allocated only to recipients with existing full funding grant agreements who meet listed criteria, including a non-capital investment grant share of at least $800,000,000, with a 15 percent cap per project. ($425,000,000)
• Sec. 167: Lets unexpended low or no emission vehicle component assessment balances be used by the facilities selected for that assessment for capital projects to build and expand testing infrastructure, referencing a named center's report.
• Title II, “NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $1,020,000,000 for Native American housing programs, including not less than $2,000,000 within technical assistance funds for a national organization as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA. ($2,000,000)
• Title II, “SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM”: Of $62,500,000 appropriated, provides $42,000,000 for the second, third, and fourth capacity building entities specified in section 4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993, without naming them. ($42,000,000)
• Division L, Sec. 211: Directs the Native Alaskan housing block grant funds to the same recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005 and makes only those recipients eligible to apply for funds under paragraph (2) of the heading.
• Division L, Sec. 231: Bars use of funds to prevent a public housing agency under receivership or a Federal monitor from applying for, receiving or using lead-based paint hazard competitive grant funds or using them to carry out required settlement work.
• Division T, Sec. 103: Saver’s Match: Subsection (b) directs the Treasury Secretary to pay possessions that have a mirror code tax system amounts equal to their loss from the Saver's Match, and pays other possessions an estimated amount.
• Division T, Sec. 120: Exemption for certain automatic portability transactions: Exempts the receipt of fees and compensation by an automatic portability provider for automatic portability transactions from the prohibited transaction rules, subject to listed conditions.
• Division U, Sec. 244: Pilot program for travel cost reimbursement for accessing readjustment counseling services: Sets up a five-year travel reimbursement pilot at Vet Centers and requires four of the sites to be the locations in an existing initiative under a 2012 Act, which it then ends at those locations when the pilot starts.
• Division DD, Sec. 201: Administration of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area: Amends the Land Between the Lakes Protection Act, including a defined group of qualified residents or relatives who may request cemetery expansion land and be consulted on historical resources.
• Division DD, Sec. 306: Right-of-way permit for natural gas distribution main segment at Valley Forge NHP: Allows the Secretary to issue a right-of-way permit, notwithstanding other law, for one natural gas main segment within Valley Forge National Historical Park if it is relocated to a proposed road realignment.
• Division DD, Sec. 801: Long-term abandoned mine land reclamation: Lets grant recipients retain up to 30 percent of annual abandoned mine land grants if deposited into a long-term reclamation fund established under State law, and exempts those amounts from grant term limits.
• Sec. 2115: Consideration of unique challenges in noncontiguous States and territories: Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to hold quarterly meetings or consultations with noncontiguous States and territories during a declared public health emergency.
• Sec. 3211: Antifungal research and development: Directs FDA to issue draft and final guidance for antifungal therapies designed to treat one named disease, coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), and to hold a public workshop on related vaccines.
• Sec. 4131: Temporary inclusion of authorized oral antiviral drugs as covered part D drug: Temporarily treats an oral antiviral drug authorized under a specific April 1, 2020 emergency declaration as a covered Medicare Part D drug through December 31, 2024.
• Sec. 4135: Access to non-opioid treatments for pain relief: For 2025 through 2027, requires separate additional Medicare payments for non-opioid pain treatments defined by specific FDA label and device criteria, capped at an estimated average of 18 percent of the OPD fee schedule amount.
• Sec. 4141: Extension of pass-through status under the Medicare program for certain devices impacted by COVID–19: Extends Medicare outpatient pass-through payment status for one year, beginning January 1, 2023, for devices whose pass-through status would otherwise end December 31, 2022.
• Sec. 4143: Waiver of cap on annual payments for nursing and allied health education payments: Waives the annual cap on nursing and allied health education payments for 2010 through 2019 for hospitals operating a nursing or allied health school, applies it retroactively, and appropriates $3,000,000. ($3,000,000)
• Title I, “International trade administration — OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION”: Within the International Trade Administration appropriation, up to $3,000,000 is for a pilot fellowship program of the United States Commercial Service, with grants to increase awareness of and interest in employment with that Service among minority students. ($3,000,000)
• Division H, Sec. 235: Makes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention salary and expense funds available for primary and secondary schooling of eligible dependents of personnel stationed in a U.S. territory, at costs not above those paid or reimbursed by the Department of Defense.
• Title III, “United states court of appeals for veterans claims — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Within the court's $46,900,000 appropriation, sets aside $3,385,000 for financial assistance under the process and reporting procedures of a prior law, without naming the recipient. ($3,385,000)
• Division L, Sec. 164: Bars use of funds to impede or hinder advancement or approval of capital investment grant projects that seek a Federal share above 40 percent of project costs.
• Division T, Sec. 123: Certain securities treated as publicly traded in case of employee stock ownership plans: Treats certain employer securities held by employee stock ownership plans as publicly traded if they meet listed criteria, including quotations by at least 4 dealers on an interdealer quotation system that made a stated request, for plan years after December 31, 2027.

Policy change made through a dollar amount (4)

• Division L, Sec. 413: Bars the Surface Transportation Board from using funds to charge a filing fee for rate or practice complaints above the amount authorized for district court civil suit filing fees.
• Sec. 193A: Prohibition on collection of copayments for first three mental health care outpatient visits of veterans: Bars the Department of Veterans Affairs from imposing or collecting a copayment for a veteran's first three mental health outpatient visits in a calendar year, for five years, leaving medication copayments in place.
• Division U, Sec. 253: Prohibition on Department of Veterans Affairs interest and administrative cost charges for debts relating to certain benefits programs: Removes interest and administrative cost charges on Department of Veterans Affairs debts from disability compensation, pension and educational assistance programs, as well as loan programs.
• Sec. 642: Waiver of special use permit application fee for veterans’ special events: Waives the special use permit application fee for veterans' special events held at war memorials on National Park Service land in the District of Columbia and its environs.

Funds a specific named project or event (199)

• Division A, Title I, “BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”: Of $74,297,000 for agricultural research facilities, $56,697,000 is directed to projects and amounts listed in the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table in the explanatory statement. ($56,697,000)
• Title I, “Animal and plant health inspection service — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Directs $24,527,000 to science program and transition activities for the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, and up to $9,552,000 to projects listed in the explanatory statement's Community Project Funding table. ($24,527,000)
• Title II, “CONSERVATION OPERATIONS”: Of $941,124,000 for conservation operations, up to $22,973,000 is directed to projects and amounts in the explanatory statement's Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table. ($22,973,000)
• Title II, “WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS”: Of $75,000,000 for watershed and flood prevention, up to $20,591,000 is directed to projects and amounts in the explanatory statement's Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table. ($20,591,000)
• Title III, “RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT”: Of $341,490,328 for rural community facilities, up to $325,490,328 is directed to projects and amounts in the explanatory statement's Community Project Funding table; also sets $10,000,000 for tribal college grants and makes sections 381E–H and 381N inapplicable. ($325,490,328)
• Title III, “RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT”: Provides $9,000,000 for grants to the Delta Regional Authority, the Northern Border Regional Commission and the Appalachian Regional Commission; also sets $500,000 for one grant to a qualified national organization and $4,000,000 for business grants to Federally Recognized Native American Tribes. ($9,000,000)
• Title III, “DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND PROGRAM”: Directs up to $4,991,000 of the telemedicine and distance learning grants and up to $15,512,317 of the broadband pilot program to projects and amounts in the explanatory statement's Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table.
• Division A, Sec. 702: Allows transfers to the Department's Working Capital Fund and requires National Finance Center personnel, data center and systems control to remain there, lets a share of National Finance Center income be reserved for its capital equipment, and exempts emergency obligations from notification limits.
• Sec. 769: Provides $15,000,000 to the Office of the Secretary to continue the Institute for Rural Partnerships, capping administrative or other fees at one percent and requiring an annual report. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 772: Provides $1,300,000 for an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study eight alcohol-related topics, and directs that the 2025 Dietary Guidelines process include a recommendation for alcohol. ($1,300,000)
• Title I, “SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES”: Directs $62,532,000 of National Institute of Standards and Technology funds to projects, in amounts, listed in a table in the explanatory statement, and bars transferring those amounts for other purposes. ($62,532,000)
• Title I, “CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES”: Directs $332,285,000 of National Institute of Standards and Technology construction funds to projects, in amounts, listed in a table in the explanatory statement, with up to one percent usable for administrative costs. ($332,285,000)
• Title I, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”: Directs $111,465,000 of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funds to projects, in amounts, listed in a table in the explanatory statement, and bars transferring those amounts for other purposes. ($111,465,000)
• Title I, “RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION”: Provides $1,142,000 for renovation and modernization of the Herbert C. Hoover Building. ($1,142,000)
• Title II, “STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE”: Directs $229,551,000 of discretionary grants to the projects and amounts listed in the explanatory statement, and bars transferring those amounts. The section also funds a program named for a Senator (Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program, $30,000,000). ($229,551,000)
• Title II, “COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS”: Provides $177,880,000 for law enforcement technology and communications projects listed in the explanatory statement, bars transferring those amounts, and exempts the resulting grants from section 1703 of title I of the 1968 Act. ($177,880,000)
• Title III, “SPACE TECHNOLOGY”: Within $1,200,000,000 for space technology, directs $227,000,000 to a named servicing and manufacturing project and $110,000,000 to a nuclear thermal propulsion system. ($227,000,000)
• Title III, “EXPLORATION”: Sets minimum amounts within the Exploration account for named vehicles and systems, including not less than $2,600,000,000 for the Space Launch System, $1,338,700,000 for Orion, and up to $281,350,000 for a second mobile launch platform.
• Title III, “SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES”: Directs $30,701,000 to the projects and amounts listed in the explanatory statement table for NASA community and special projects, and bars transferring those amounts to other purposes. ($30,701,000)
• Title IV, “Commission on civil rights — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Directs $2,000,000 to separately fund the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, notwithstanding the preceding proviso limiting spending to activities authorized by section 3 of the Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983. ($2,000,000)
• Title IV, “PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION”: Appropriates $560,000,000 as a payment to the Legal Services Corporation, split among basic field programs, audits, oversight, technology, a Pro Bono Innovation Fund and loan repayment assistance. ($560,000,000)
• Division B, Sec. 542: Blocks use of funds for design or construction of the Mobile Launcher 2 until 30 days after NASA submits a cost and schedule plan, then requires reports every 90 days.
• Division B, Sec. 543: Directs Commerce and the National Science Foundation to allocate fiscal year 2023 CHIPS Act funds to the accounts, amounts, projects and activities listed in tables in the explanatory statement.
• Title II, “Operation and maintenance, defense-Wide”: Within defense-wide operation and maintenance funds, sets aside not less than $55,000,000 for the Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, of which not less than $5,000,000 is for certain centers. ($55,000,000)
• Title VI, “Support for international sporting competitions”: Provides $10,377,000 for logistical and security support, including Reserve Component pay and allowances, for international sporting competitions, to remain available until expended. ($10,377,000)
• Sec. 8024: Makes $115,000,000 of the Army Working Capital Fund available to maintain competitive rates at the arsenals. ($115,000,000)
• Sec. 8025: Directs not less than $64,800,000 to the Civil Air Patrol Corporation, split among operation and maintenance, aircraft procurement and vehicle procurement. ($64,800,000)
• Sec. 8052: Appropriates $49,000,000 to the Department of Defense for grants of $24,000,000 to the United Service Organizations and $25,000,000 to the Red Cross.
• Sec. 8070: Makes up to $1,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Navy funds available for transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 8073: Directs $500,000,000 of Defense-Wide procurement and research funds to Israeli Cooperative Programs, with set amounts for Iron Dome ($80,000,000), SRBMD, Arrow 3 co-production and the Arrow System Improvement Program. ($500,000,000)
• Sec. 8077: Appropriates $5,000,000 to the Department of Defense, available only for a grant to the Fisher House Foundation, Inc. for construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 8090: Makes up to $168,000,000 of Defense Health Program operation and maintenance funds available for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund, for operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. ($168,000,000)
• Sec. 8119: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 for transfer to Department of Defense accounts for infrastructure improvements and defueling at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. ($1,000,000,000)
• Sec. 8120: Lets the Secretary of Defense transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the Bien Hoa dioxin cleanup in Vietnam, up to $15,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2024 through 2030. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 8127: Allows funds previously awarded to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate to be used for facility operations, maintenance and program activities without prior endowment disbursement limits.
• Sec. 8145: Directs the Secretary of the Navy to keep paying pay and allowances to a named Navy officer until a determination is made on his separation from the Navy.
• Title II, “CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT”: Appropriates $23,000,000 for activities under the Central Utah Project Completion Act, including $5,000,000 deposited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account. ($23,000,000)
• Title II, “WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES”: Appropriates $1,787,151,000 for Bureau of Reclamation water programs and directs $10,000,000 to the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund. It also directs funding to named projects and entities, including the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Project Phase 2, the Sites Reservoir Project, the El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board and the Eastern Municipal Water District. ($10,000,000)
• Title II, “CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND”: Makes available sums collected in the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund for Central Valley Project Improvement Act programs. It directs the Bureau of Reclamation to collect the full additional mitigation and restoration payments and bars use of funds to acquire water for in-stream purposes if that water is already committed by court decree or order.
• Title II, “CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA RESTORATION”: Appropriates $33,000,000 for activities under the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, including the Federal share of Calfed Program management costs. ($33,000,000)
• Title III, “Energy Projects”: Appropriates $221,968,652 for community project funding activities, to be spent on the specific projects listed in a table in the explanatory statement. ($221,968,652)
• Title III, “Bonneville Power Administration Fund”: Approves expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for three named hatchery projects and bars new direct loan obligations during fiscal year 2023.
• Title III, “Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund”: Appropriates $6,330,000 for operation, maintenance and emergency costs of the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams, and allows acceptance of up to $1,598,000 in customer contributions for the fund. ($6,330,000)
• Title II, “White house repair and restoration”: Provides $2,500,000, available until expended, for repair, alteration and improvement of the Executive Residence at the White House. ($2,500,000)
• Title II, “OTHER FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS”: Within $137,120,000 for other drug control activities, makes up to $3,420,000 available for United States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency. ($3,420,000)
• Division E, Sec. 205: Appropriates an additional $10,482,000 to the Office of National Drug Control Policy for initiatives and projects listed in a table in the explanatory statement. ($10,482,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR RESIDENT TUITION SUPPORT”: Provides a $40,000,000 federal payment to the District of Columbia for resident tuition support, covering in-state/out-of-state tuition differences or up to $2,500 per year at eligible private institutions. ($40,000,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND SECURITY COSTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA”: Provides a $30,000,000 federal payment for public safety costs at events related to the presence of the National Capital in the District of Columbia and for responding to terrorist threats in the District or surrounding jurisdictions. ($30,000,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COUNCIL”: Provides a $2,450,000 Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for coordinating Federal and local criminal justice resources in the District of Columbia. ($2,450,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR JUDICIAL COMMISSIONS”: Provides Federal payments of $330,000 to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure and $300,000 to the Judicial Nomination Commission.
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT”: Provides a $52,500,000 federal payment for a school improvement program in the District of Columbia, for payments under the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. ($52,500,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIONAL GUARD”: Provides $600,000 to the District of Columbia National Guard for a named retention and college access program. ($600,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR TESTING AND TREATMENT OF HIV/AIDS”: Provides a $4,000,000 Federal payment to the District of Columbia for HIV and AIDS testing and treatment in the District. ($4,000,000)
• Title IV, “FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY”: Provides an $8,000,000 Federal payment to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority for the Combined Sewer Overflow Long-Term Plan, requiring a 100 percent match. ($8,000,000)
• Title V, “Barry goldwater scholarship and excellence in education foundation — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $2,000,000 as a payment to the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund. ($2,000,000)
• Title V, “LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE”: Lists dollar amounts for specific named building projects in the Federal Buildings Fund, by state and location, including courthouses, federal buildings and the FBI headquarters consolidation.
• Title V, “Harry S truman scholarship foundation — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $3,000,000 as a payment to the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation Trust Fund. ($3,000,000)
• Title V, “MORRIS K. UDALL AND STEWART L. UDALL TRUST FUND”: Provides $1,800,000 as a payment to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, with up to $1,000,000 for certain authorized activities. ($1,800,000)
• Title V, “REPAIRS AND RESTORATION”: Within $22,224,000 for archives repairs, directs no less than $7,250,000 to the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Georgia and $6,000,000 to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Museum in Starkville, Mississippi.
• Division E, Sec. 530: Appropriates an additional $22,573,000 for National Historical Publications and Records Commission grants to projects listed in a table in the explanatory statement. ($22,573,000)
• Title V, “Securities and exchange commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Within the SEC appropriation, adds up to $57,405,000 for move and replication costs for the Commission's District of Columbia headquarters lease and up to $3,365,000 for its San Francisco Regional Office lease.
• Title V, “Small business administration — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Sets aside $6,100,000 within the Small Business Administration's salaries and expenses account for the Loan Modernization and Accounting System, available until September 30, 2024. ($6,100,000)
• Division E, Sec. 542: Appropriates an additional $179,710,000 to the Small Business Administration for small business development and entrepreneurship initiatives, in the amounts and for the projects listed in a table in the explanatory statement. ($179,710,000)
• Sec. 629: Provides an additional $850,000, available until expended, to the Inspectors General Council Fund for enhancements to www.oversight.gov. ($850,000)
• Division E, Sec. 720: Makes funds of agencies that are members of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board available to pay an appropriate share of that board's administrative costs.
• Division E, Sec. 723: Allows agency funds to be used for interagency funding of projects, workshops, and studies carrying out the purposes of the National Science and Technology Council, and requires a budget report from the Office of Management and Budget.
• Division E, Sec. 751: Allows federal agency funds to be used for interagency funding of coordination with activities of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, and National Institutes of Health research programs.
• Title II, “U.S. immigration and customs enforcement — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations appropriation, directs not less than $2,000,000 to paid apprenticeships for participants in a named child-rescue corps program. ($2,000,000)
• Division F, Sec. 236: Directs $23,000,000 from Secret Service operations funds as a grant or cooperative agreement for existing National Computer Forensics Institute facilities. ($23,000,000)
• Title III, “FEDERAL ASSISTANCE”: Within a $3,882,014,000 FEMA grant appropriation, sets $335,145,000 for community project and congressionally directed grants for the purposes and amounts in a table in the explanatory statement. ($335,145,000)
• Division F, Sec. 541: Provides an additional $3,000,000 for an Emergency Operations Center grant for a project identified as the Vermilion Safe Room. ($3,000,000)
• Division F, Sec. 542: Amends the listed Senate requestor entry for a named Emergency Operations Center project and recipient in the earmark disclosure table of a prior explanatory statement.
• Title I, “MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES”: Sets aside $3,500,000 of the Bureau of Land Management appropriation for projects specified for Land Management Priorities in a table in the explanatory statement. ($3,500,000)
• Title I, “RESOURCE MANAGEMENT”: Sets aside $25,641,000 of the Fish and Wildlife Service appropriation for projects specified for Stewardship Priorities in a table in the explanatory statement, available until September 30, 2025. ($25,641,000)
• Title I, “OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM”: Directs $3,300,000 of the National Park Service appropriation to the purposes of the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act and extends two dates in that Act from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024. ($3,300,000)
• Title I, “NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION”: Sets aside $2,919,000 of the appropriation for projects specified for Statutory and Contractual Aid in a table in the explanatory statement. ($2,919,000)
• Title I, “HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND”: Sets aside $11,000,000 for Historically Black Colleges and Universities grants, $29,000,000 for Civil Rights sites, $10,000,000 for a semiquincentennial grant program, and $29,115,000 for projects in an explanatory statement table, and waives matching requirements for the competitive grants.
• Title I, “SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH”: Sets aside $2,130,000 of the Geological Survey appropriation for projects specified for Special Initiatives in a table in the explanatory statement, and allows transfer of that amount to the matching program, project, or activity. ($2,130,000)
• Title I, “OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS”: Sets aside $4,240,000 of the appropriation for projects specified for Special Initiatives (CDS) in a table in the explanatory statement. ($4,240,000)
• Title I, “Bureau of indian affairs — CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $153,309,000 for Bureau of Indian Affairs construction, including construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, and allows transfer of that project's amounts to the Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title I, “INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS”: Appropriates $825,000 for implementing Indian land and water claim settlements under three listed public laws and other land and water rights settlements. ($825,000)
• Title I, “COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION”: Appropriates $8,463,000 under the Compacts of Free Association, of which $5,000,000 goes into the Compact Trust Fund of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. ($5,000,000)
• Division G, Sec. 118: Amends authorization ceilings for named heritage corridors and areas, for example striking “$17,000,000” and inserting “$19,000,000” for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley corridor, and moves several authority dates to 2024.
• Title II, “Science and technology”: Appropriates $802,276,000 for Environmental Protection Agency science and technology, of which $13,251,000 is for projects specified for Science and Technology in a table in the explanatory statement. ($13,251,000)
• Title II, “Administrative provisions—Environmental protection agency”: Authorizes use of Environmental Programs and Management funds for grants to implement the Southeastern New England Watershed Restoration Program, a named regional program.
• Title III, “STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY”: Directs $30,167,000 of the appropriation to projects listed for Forest Resource Information and Analysis in a table in the explanatory statement. ($30,167,000)
• Title III, “CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE”: Directs $5,048,000 to construction projects listed in a community project funding table in the explanatory statement. ($5,048,000)
• Title III, “ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS”: Provides $664,000 from forest receipts for land acquisition within the boundaries of national forests named in Utah, Nevada, California and Arkansas. ($664,000)
• Title III, “ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE”: Allows the Forest Service to advance up to $3,000,000 to the National Forest Foundation and up to $3,000,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and authorizes a cooperative agreement with the Forest Service International Foundation. ($3,000,000)
• Title III, “INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES”: Directs $15,192,000 of the sanitation facilities funds to projects listed in a community project funding table in the explanatory statement. ($15,192,000)
• Title III, “Office of navajo and hopi indian relocation — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $3,060,000 for the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation and bars use of funds to evict a Navajo or Navajo family domiciled on the partitioned lands as of November 30, 1985 unless a new or replacement home is provided. ($3,060,000)
• Title III, “PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE”: Provides $13,482,000 as a payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, available starting July 1, 2023. ($13,482,000)
• Title III, “Smithsonian institution — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Funds the Smithsonian Institution and allows lease payments to be deposited in its trust funds for expenses of purchasing part of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC; also names the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in a set-aside.
• Title III, “REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS”: Provides $39,000,000 for National Gallery of Art building repair, of which $27,208,000 is for design and construction of an off-site art storage facility in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. ($27,208,000)
• Title III, “NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS”: Provides $5,000,000 for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs and changes how eligible organizations' annual income is computed, excluding calendar year 2020 and counting pandemic-related funds as income for 2021 through 2023. ($5,000,000)
• Title III, “HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM”: Provides $65,231,000 for the Holocaust Memorial Museum, including set-asides for its equipment replacement, repair and rehabilitation, and outreach programs. ($65,231,000)
• Title III, “Presidio trust”: Authorizes the Presidio Trust to issue obligations to the Treasury up to $90,000,000 and raises the statutory cap in section 104(d)(3) of Public Law 104–333 from $150,000,000 to $250,000,000.
• Title III, “World war i centennial commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $1,000,000 for the World War I Centennial Commission and lets it accept support from executive branch agencies. ($1,000,000)
• Title III, “United States semiquincentennial commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $15,000,000 for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission to plan observances of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. ($15,000,000)
• Title III, “Alyce spotted bear and walter soboleff commission on native children”: Provides $550,000 for the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children and lets it accept in-kind support from executive branch agencies. ($550,000)
• Title I, “Mine safety and health administration — Salaries and Expenses”: Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association as a principal safety association and to provide it funds and personnel, with or without reimbursement.
• Division H, Sec. 114: Authorizes disposal of the real property of the Treasure Island Job Corps Center, exempts the sale and any construction from federal real property and procurement laws, and directs net proceeds to the Job Corps Program on Treasure Island.
• Title II, “HEALTH SYSTEMS”: Makes $122,000 available until expended for facilities-related expenses of the National Hansen's Disease Program. ($122,000)
• Title II, “HRSA-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT”: Directs $1,521,681,000 to construction and renovation of health care and other facilities and one-time health-related grants, in the projects and amounts listed in a table in the explanatory statement. ($1,521,681,000)
• Title II, “Centers for disease control and prevention — BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”: Directs funds previously set aside for repair of the Lake Lynn Experimental Mine and Laboratory to acquire a replacement mine safety research facility, and allows improvements on non-federally owned property up to $5,000,000 in connection with it. ($5,000,000)
• Title II, “NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE”: Appropriates $7,104,159,000 for cancer research and allows up to $30,000,000 of it for facility repairs and improvements at a named research center in Frederick, Maryland. ($30,000,000)
• Title II, “OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR”: Appropriates $2,642,914,000 for the NIH Office of the Director and directs $180,000,000 to a named study, the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes study. ($180,000,000)
• Title II, “HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM SUPPORT”: Directs $160,777,000 to projects and amounts listed in the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table in the explanatory statement, and exempts those funds from section 241 of the PHS Act and section 205 of this Act. ($160,777,000)
• Title II, “CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS”: Directs $107,848,000 to projects and amounts listed in the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table in the explanatory statement, and exempts those funds from section 241 of the PHS Act and section 205 of this Act. ($107,848,000)
• Title II, “AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS”: Directs $41,644,000 to projects and amounts listed in the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table in the explanatory statement, and exempts those funds from section 241 of the PHS Act and section 205 of this Act. ($41,644,000)
• Title III, “AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND”: Appropriates $43,431,000 for carrying out the Act to Promote the Education of the Blind of March 3, 1879. ($43,431,000)
• Title III, “NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF”: Appropriates $92,500,000 for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and lets it use funds for its endowment program. ($92,500,000)
• Title III, “GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY”: Appropriates $165,361,000 for the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf and Gallaudet University, of which up to $15,000,000 is for construction. ($165,361,000)
• Title III, “Higher education”: Appropriates $3,526,037,000 for higher education programs, including $429,587,000 for projects listed in the community project table of the explanatory statement, and exempts institutions eligible under section 318 of the HEA from section 313(d) of that Act. ($429,587,000)
• Title III, “Howard university”: Appropriates $354,018,000 for partial support of Howard University, including not less than $3,405,000 for a matching endowment grant. ($354,018,000)
• Division H, Sec. 311: Appropriates an additional $200,443,000 for the projects and amounts listed in the community project table of the explanatory statement. ($200,443,000)
• Title IV, “Corporation for public broadcasting”: Appropriates $535,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, plus $60,000,000 for replacing and upgrading the public broadcasting interconnection system. ($535,000,000)
• Title I, “House office buildings”: Within the House office buildings appropriation, makes $40,600,000 available until expended for restoration and renovation of the Cannon House Office Building. ($40,600,000)
• Title I, “Capitol police buildings, grounds and security”: Within the Capitol Police buildings and security appropriation, sets aside $80,000,000 for design and construction of screening vestibules at the north and south Capitol Building entrances. ($80,000,000)
• Title I, “LIBRARY OF CONGRESS — Salaries and expenses”: Within the Library of Congress appropriation, sets aside separate amounts for named programs, including $12,245,000 for Teaching with Primary Sources, $3,976,000 for the Veterans History Project, and $1,500,000 for the COVID–19 American History Project.
• Division I, Sec. 141: Permanently allows the Librarian of Congress to reimburse the Little Scholars Child Development Center for the compensation of its Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director from Library of Congress salaries and expenses funds.
• Title I, “CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND”: Provides $6,000,000 as a payment to the Congressional Office for International Leadership Fund, with a condition on how funds for Russian participants may be used. ($6,000,000)
• Title I, “JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT”: Provides $430,000 as a payment to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund. ($430,000)
• Division J, Sec. 120: Appropriates the amounts in the Ford Island Improvement Account, available until expended for the purposes in the cited statute or until transferred.
• Division J, Sec. 133: Provides $25,000,000 for Navy military construction planning and design of water treatment and distribution facilities, including infrastructure and defueling improvements at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. ($25,000,000)
• Title III, “CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $62,500,000 for planning, design and construction at Arlington National Cemetery and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, including $60,000,000 for the Southern Expansion project and $2,500,000 for Memorial Avenue improvements. ($60,000,000)
• Title III, “TRUST FUND”: Appropriates $75,360,000 for the Armed Forces Retirement Home, of which $7,300,000 is for construction and renovation of the physical plants at the Washington and Gulfport locations, and directs $25,000,000 paid from the general fund to the Trust Fund. ($7,300,000)
• Title III, “MAJOR CONSTRUCTION”: Provides $77,000,000 from the general fund to the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for design, planning and construction to renovate the Sheridan Building at the Armed Forces Retirement Home—Washington. ($77,000,000)
• Title I, “DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $9,463,159,000 for the Department of State and, within it, allows up to $25,000,000 for U.S. participation in international fairs including a pavilion at Expo 2025, and sets not less than $2,000,000 for a grant to a postsecondary institution whose program is to be named the "Nancy Pelosi Fellowship Program".
• Title I, “EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE”: Appropriates $902,615,000 for State Department real property work, including renovating the Harry S Truman Building, plus $1,055,206,000 for worldwide security upgrades, acquisition, and construction.
• Title I, “PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN”: Appropriates $34,083,000 to carry out the Taiwan Relations Act, under the heading for payment to the American Institute in Taiwan. ($34,083,000)
• Title I, “INTERNATIONAL CENTER, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA”: Sets up to $1,842,732 in fees from other executive agencies and $743,000 from a reserve for the International Center in Washington, District of Columbia.
• Title I, “The asia foundation”: Appropriates $22,000,000 as a grant to The Asia Foundation. ($22,000,000)
• Title I, “Center for middle eastern-Western dialogue trust fund”: Makes available the interest and earnings accruing on or before September 30, 2023 to the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund.
• Title I, “Eisenhower exchange fellowship program”: Makes available interest and earnings of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund for Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated, with limits on compensation.
• Title I, “Israeli arab scholarship program”: Makes available interest and earnings of the Israeli Arab Scholarship Fund for the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program.
• Title I, “East-West center”: Appropriates $22,000,000 as a grant to the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in the State of Hawaii. ($22,000,000)
• Title I, “National endowment for democracy”: Appropriates $315,000,000 in State Department grants to the National Endowment for Democracy, with $205,632,000 for core institutes and $109,368,000 for democracy programs, and exempts the funds from section 7062(a) of the Act. ($315,000,000)
• Title III, “GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $4,165,950,000 and $6,395,000,000 for global health and HIV/AIDS activities, and sets the contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at $2,000,000,000. ($2,000,000,000)
• Title IV, “PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS”: Sets aside not less than $25,000,000 of the peacekeeping appropriation for a U.S. contribution to the Multinational Force and Observers mission in the Sinai. ($25,000,000)
• Title V, “CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLEAN TECHNOLOGY FUND”: Appropriates $125,000,000 as a contribution to the Clean Technology Fund, including funds to cover costs of direct loans issued to the Fund, with no limit on the principal amount of those loans. ($125,000,000)
• Sec. 7034: Among many special provisions, directs not less than $100,000,000 to the named Local Works program, and bars funds from being used to modify the Exchange Visitor Program except through formal rulemaking. ($100,000,000)
• Sec. 7036: Directs not less than $10,000,000 of title III funds to the Marla Ruzicka Fund for Innocent Victims of Conflict. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 7049: Allows the President to draw down up to $30,000,000 of commodities and services for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or similar tribunals. ($30,000,000)
• Sec. 7057: Makes $32,500,000 available for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), bars its use for a country program in China, and requires separate accounting and no funding of abortions. ($32,500,000)
• Sec. 7069: Permanently allows transfer of certain prior-year funds to the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, for treatment works addressing water pollution that flows from Mexico into the United States-Mexico border region.
• Sec. 7072: Authorizes a $3,500,000,000 U.S. contribution to the twentieth replenishment of the International Development Association and a $177,440,000 contribution to the twelfth replenishment of the Asian Development Fund.
• Title I, “TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT”: Makes $12,914,000 available for the purposes and in the amounts specified for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending in a table in the explanatory statement. ($12,914,000)
• Division L, Sec. 108: Appropriates an additional $4,500,000 for the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. ($4,500,000)
• Title I, “FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT”: Makes $45,000,000 of terminal facilities funds available for the purposes and in the amounts specified for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending in a table in the explanatory statement. ($45,000,000)
• Title I, “Federal Highway Administration — LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES”: Transfers $3,248,000 to the Appalachian Regional Commission under section 104(a) of title 23. ($3,248,000)
• Title I, “HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $3,417,811,613, including $1,862,811,613 for the purposes and amounts in a Community Project Funding table, $100,000,000 for the Appalachian Development Highway System apportioned by State percentages with a 30 percent cap, $15,000,000 for the Northern Border Regional Commission, $20,000,000 for the Denali Commission, and a bridge program with State minimums and caps.
• Title I, “RAILROAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT”: Makes up to $3,000,000 of railroad research funds available for construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements at the Transportation Technology Center. ($3,000,000)
• Title I, “CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS”: Appropriates $535,000,000 for rail grants, including $30,426,000 for the purposes and amounts specified in a Community Project Funding table and $5,000,000 for magnetic levitation projects. ($30,426,000)
• Title I, “NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Provides $1,260,000,000 in grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for Northeast Corridor activities, and lets the Secretary retain up to $5,000,000 for Northeast Corridor Commission expenses. ($1,260,000,000)
• Title I, “NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Provides $1,193,000,000 in grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for National Network activities, with set-asides for State-supported route safety improvements and limits on discontinuing certain long-distance routes. ($1,193,000,000)
• Title I, “TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS”: Appropriates $541,959,324 for transit grants, including $360,459,324 for the purposes and amounts specified in a Community Project Funding table. ($360,459,324)
• Title I, “GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY”: Appropriates $150,000,000 in grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for capital and preventive maintenance, with project-by-project approval and safety priority conditions. ($150,000,000)
• Title I, “OPERATIONS AND TRAINING”: Appropriates $213,181,000 for Maritime Administration operations and training, with set-asides including $87,848,000 for operations, $11,900,000 for facilities maintenance and $31,921,000 for capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
• Title I, “STATE MARITIME ACADEMY OPERATIONS”: Appropriates $120,700,000 for State Maritime Academies, including $75,000,000 for the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program and reimbursement of costs incurred before enactment. ($120,700,000)
• Title I, “PIPELINE SAFETY”: Appropriates $190,385,000 for pipeline safety and allows the Secretary to obligate funds for buildings and improvements at research facilities at the Transportation Technology Center after plan and report approval.
• Title II, “ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES”: Appropriates $659,600,000 for HUD administrative support offices, including not less than $3,500,000 that may be used for modernization and deferred maintenance of the Weaver Building. ($3,500,000)
• Title II, “NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT”: Appropriates $22,300,000 for the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant, bars the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from investing grant amounts in securities, and allows rental assistance on and off the Hawaiian Home Lands. ($22,300,000)
• Title II, “COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND”: Of $6,397,285,641 appropriated, provides $2,982,285,641 for Economic Development Initiative grants for the purposes and amounts listed in the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending table in the explanatory statement. ($2,982,285,641)
• Title III, “PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION”: Appropriates $166,000,000 as a payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, plus an additional $4,000,000 for the promotion and development of shared equity housing models. ($166,000,000)
• Division L, Sec. 421: Amends 16 named project descriptions and recipient names in the fiscal year 2022 transportation and housing explanatory statement table of projects, such as changing a recipient from “Cross Street Partners” to “The Good Stuff”.
• Title II, “PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION”: Appropriates $20,000,000 to the Legal Services Corporation for expenses related to the consequences of 2022 hurricanes, flooding, wildfires and other extreme weather. ($20,000,000)
• Title IV, “Electricity”: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 for activities to improve the resilience of the Puerto Rican electric grid, including grants to low and moderate income households for renewable energy and storage purchases. ($1,000,000,000)
• Title VI, “HERMIT’S PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE ASSISTANCE ACCOUNT”: Appropriates $1,450,000,000 to the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Account to carry out the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act, with $1,000,000 transferred to the Inspector General for oversight. ($1,450,000,000)
• Sec. 2601: Allows FEMA to compensate for replacement of water treatment facilities necessitated by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, in place of compensating for temporary injury, up to $140,000,000, notwithstanding sections 104(c) and (d) of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act. ($140,000,000)
• Title VII, “United States Fish and Wildlife Service — CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $247,000,000 for construction expenses related to wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters, including winter storm damages at a named wildlife refuge. ($247,000,000)
• Title VII, “EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $90,465,000 for expenses related to the consequences of flooding at the To’Hajiilee Community School. ($90,465,000)
• Division V, Sec. 222: Authorization of appropriations for research on effectiveness and opportunities for improvement of Veterans Crisis Line: Authorizes $5,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 for the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Centers to research the Veterans Crisis Line. ($5,000,000)
• Division V, Sec. 506: Expansion of suicide prevention and mental health research: Authorizes an additional $10,000,000 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to be used by the Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention and the Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for research on factors affecting veteran suicide. ($10,000,000)
• Division V, Sec. 508: Research on brain health: Authorizes an additional $5,000,000 for the Department of Veterans Affairs for research at its Translational Research Center on traumatic brain injury and stress disorders in post-September 11, 2001 veterans. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 646: Authorization of appropriations for the National Park Foundation: Raises the authorization of appropriations in section 101122(a) of title 54 from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 and extends it from 2023 to 2030, for the National Park Foundation. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 1234: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study and report: Requires HHS to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a recovery housing study and authorizes $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2023. ($1,500,000)
• Sec. 4134: Permanent in-home benefit for IVIG services: Appropriates $4,300,000 for items and services furnished under the Medicare IVIG demonstration project established by the 2012 Act named in the text. ($4,300,000)
• Title I, “NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND”: Appropriates $11,880,000 for the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund, to remain available until expended. ($11,880,000)
• Title VI, “SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Within $6,562,793,000 for the Food and Drug Administration, sets $214,082,000 for rent and related activities, of which $55,893,000 is for White Oak Consolidation. ($55,893,000)
• Sec. 8074: Makes $1,312,646,000 available to fund prior-year cost increases for 23 listed shipbuilding items, each with its own amount, such as the Carrier Replacement Program and Virginia Class Submarine Program. ($1,312,646,000)
• Sec. 8110: Designates $300,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, providing training, equipment, lethal assistance and other support to Ukraine's forces. ($300,000,000)
• Title III, “Naval Reactors”: Within a $2,081,445,000 appropriation, transfers $99,747,000 to the Nuclear Energy account for the Advanced Test Reactor. ($99,747,000)
• Title I, “OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS”: Appropriates $120,334,000 for management, roads, reforestation and other work on the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands and other Federal lands in the Oregon and California land-grant counties of Oregon. ($120,334,000)
• Title I, “ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES”: Appropriates $120,357,000 for assistance to territories, including named grants to the American Samoa judiciary and to the governments of American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Division G, Sec. 106: Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters or interests in New York and New Jersey, with appropriated funds among other means, to support facilities serving visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands.
• Title III, “OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE”: Provides $27,640,000 for operation, maintenance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ($27,640,000)
• Title III, “CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION”: Provides $17,740,000 for capital repair and restoration of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ($17,740,000)
• Title III, “Woodrow wilson international center for scholars — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $15,000,000 for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars under the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968. ($15,000,000)
• Title I, “United States institute of peace”: Appropriates $55,000,000 for the expenses of the United States Institute of Peace, not to be used for construction activities. ($55,000,000)
• Title IV, “NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI-TERRORISM, DEMINING AND RELATED PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $921,000,000 for nonproliferation and related programs, including contributions to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission and the IAEA, with IAEA funds conditioned on a Secretary of State determination about Israel's participation.
• Sec. 7058: Allows up to $90,000,000 of Global Health Programs funds for the Emergency Reserve Fund. It also bars any funds in the Act from going to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. ($90,000,000)
• Sec. 7066: Directs not less than $135,000,000 to the Prevention and Stabilization Fund, of which $25,000,000 may go to the Multi-Donor Global Fragility Fund. It also sets not less than $10,000,000 for transitional justice programs. ($135,000,000)
• Division DD, Sec. 102: Reauthorization of the Highlands Conservation Act: Reauthorizes the Highlands Conservation Act for fiscal years 2023 through 2029, updates how the Highlands region is defined, and caps federal administrative spending at $300,000 per fiscal year. ($300,000)
• Division DD, Sec. 302: Conveyances to the University of Alaska: Creates a program to convey up to 360,000 acres of available State-selected land to the University of Alaska, to be held in trust for higher education, and to acquire University-owned inholdings.
• Division FF, Sec. 1201: Behavioral health and substance use disorder resources for Native Americans: Authorizes $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027 for behavioral health and substance use grants to eligible entities, a definition of which names Papa Ola Lokahi as the Native Hawaiian health organization. ($80,000,000)
• Sec. 2331: Advanced Research Projects Agency–Health: Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Health within the National Institutes of Health and authorizes $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 for it, with exemptions from certain NIH policies and hiring rules. ($500,000,000)
• Sec. 8144: Directs the Secretary of Defense to allocate fiscal year 2023 CHIPS for America Defense Fund amounts to the accounts, amounts and projects listed in a table in the explanatory statement, and limits later allocations to those amounts.
• Sec. 431: Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to allocate fiscal year 2023 National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and Land and Water Conservation Fund amounts to the stations, units and projects listed in tables in the explanatory statement.

Different amount for specific places or groups (62)

• Title I, “RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES”: Sets a minimum of $1,000,000 for each institution eligible under the Evans-Allen program, and directs education grant funds for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to be awarded equally to Alaska and Hawaii. ($1,000,000)
• Title I, “EXTENSION ACTIVITIES”: Sets a minimum of $1,000,000 for institutions eligible to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative extension, within payments to named States, territories and the District of Columbia. ($1,000,000)
• Title III, “INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT”: Sets $331,000 for Federally Recognized Native American Tribes and $663,000 for Mississippi Delta Region counties within the direct loan cost amount of $3,313,000, available through June 30, 2023.
• Title III, “RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT”: Limits to 2 percent the share of section 306D funding the State of Alaska, and separately a consortium formed under Public Law 105–83, may use for training and technical assistance; also sets $8,500,000 for a grant to a qualified nonprofit multi-State regional technical assistance organization and $800,000 for a qualified national Native American organization.
• Title IV, “CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS”: Sets $1,000,000 of section 23 funds for grants to Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa, and caps each farm to school grant at $500,000. ($1,000,000)
• Division A, Sec. 736: Directs that, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 percent of listed rural development loan and grant funds be allocated to persistent poverty counties, defined as counties with 20 percent or more of residents in poverty over 30 years, or any territory or possession.
• Sec. 767: Requires the Secretary to set aside, until August 15, 2023, an amount of listed rural development funds for Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones equal to the amount obligated there in the most recent fiscal year such funds were obligated.
• Title I, “PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY”: Allows grants of the $65,000,000 for salmon restoration to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska and to Columbia River and Pacific Coast Tribes, with funds disbursed to States requiring a match of at least 33 percent.
• Title II, “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS”: Within $700,000,000 for violence-against-women programs, sets aside $12,500,000 of campus grant funds for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal colleges and universities. ($12,500,000)
• Division B, Sec. 510: Delays obligation of Crime Victims Fund amounts above $1,900,000,000 to the next fiscal year, and sets aside 5 percent of available amounts for grants to Indian Tribes for victim services.
• Division B, Sec. 533: Requires at least 10 percent of the amounts for two named grant programs to be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties, as the section defines them.
• Title VI, “Defense health program”: Within defense health research funds, sets aside not less than $12,000,000 for HIV prevention educational activities tied to U.S. military training, exercises and humanitarian assistance conducted primarily in African nations. ($12,000,000)
• Sec. 8020: Appropriates $25,000,000 for incentive payments under the Indian Financing Act of 1974 to contractors that award subcontracts to Indian-owned subcontractors or suppliers. ($25,000,000)
• Sec. 8022: Sets aside not less than $20,000,000 from defense-wide operation and maintenance for mitigating environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from Department of Defense activities, including technical assistance to tribes. ($20,000,000)
• Sec. 8111: Lets the Department of Defense incur obligations of up to $350,000,000 in anticipation of contributions received only from the Government of Kuwait. ($350,000,000)
• Sec. 8113: Makes $410,000,000 available to reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman for enhanced border security, of which not less than $150,000,000 is for Jordan.
• Sec. 8136: Allows up to $500,000,000 of Defense Security Cooperation Agency funds to be used to assist the Government of Jordan's armed forces and border security. ($500,000,000)
• Title IV, “Denali Commission”: Appropriates $17,000,000 for the Denali Commission and caps its share of construction project cost at 80 percent for distressed communities and 50 percent for non-distressed communities.
• Title I, “Community development financial institutions fund program account”: Appropriates $324,000,000 for the CDFI Fund and sets separate minimums or set-asides for particular groups and places, including $25,000,000 for Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native communities, up to $10,000,000 for investments benefiting individuals with disabilities, and at least 10 percent of awards for persistent poverty counties.
• Title II, “REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES”: Requires the national committee of the President's political party to keep $25,000 on deposit for reimbursable political events at the Executive Residence, in addition to advance payment of estimated costs required of event sponsors. ($25,000)
• Division E, Sec. 306: Lengthens time limits for temporary judgeships in named districts by one year: Kansas to 32 years and 6 months, Hawaii to 29 years and 6 months, eastern Missouri to 30 years and 6 months, central California to 20 years and 6 months, western North Carolina to 19 years, and one other provision to 21 years.
• Title IV, “District of columbia funds”: Appropriates District of Columbia local funds for programs and activities at the rates set in the District's Fiscal Year 2023 Local Budget Act, and caps total operating expenses at that Act's estimates or total revenues.
• Title V, “ELECTION SECURITY GRANTS”: Provides $75,000,000 for election security payments to States, treats the Northern Mariana Islands as a State in the manner of other territories, and changes the section 103 figures of $5,000,000 to $1,000,000 and $1,000,000 to $200,000.
• Title I, “STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS”: Apportions wildlife grants with set shares for named places: not more than one-half of 1 percent each to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, not more than one-fourth of 1 percent each to four named territories, and 1 to 5 percent bounds for States.
• Title I, “ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND”: Provides an additional $135,000,000 split by group: $88,042,000 to the three Appalachian States with the greatest unfunded needs, $35,218,000 to the three with the next greatest needs, and $11,740,000 to federally recognized Indian Tribes.
• Division G, Sec. 119: Lets the Secretary set minimum basic pay rates up to 15 percent above the normal minimum for Interior employees in the Appraiser job series at grades 11 through 15.
• Title II, “Environmental programs and management”: Sets aside $20,000,000 for grants to a program assisting Alaska Native corporations, Alaska tribes and related Alaska entities to address contamination on lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. ($20,000,000)
• Title II, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Among its set-asides, directs $39,686,000 to grants to the State of Alaska for drinking water and wastewater needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages, and also directs funds to projects listed in a community project table and sets separate reserve percentages for named territories. ($39,686,000)
• Title III, “MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES”: Provides $1,099,000 for Forest Service management of Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. ($1,099,000)
• Title I, “TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES”: Sets $50,000,000 of dislocated worker reserve funds for workers in the Appalachian region, the Lower Mississippi, and the Northern Border Regional Commission region, and funds demonstration projects listed in a table. ($50,000,000)
• Title II, “SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT”: Sets amounts within State Opioid Response Grants that differ by group: $55,000,000 for Indian Tribes or tribal organizations, 15 percent of the remainder for States with the highest opioid mortality, and not less than $4,000,000 for each State and the District of Columbia.
• Title II, “PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT”: Provides $214,960,000 for Indian tribes and tribal organizations, in addition to amounts the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act already requires to be reserved. ($214,960,000)
• Title II, “PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES”: Sets different minimum kinship navigator grant awards: $200,000 for States and territories and $25,000 for tribes.
• Title III, “School Improvement Programs”: Sets $24,464,000 for Supplemental Education Grants for two named countries, in addition to other set-asides such as $45,897,000 for part B of title VI serving a predominantly Native Hawaiian student body. ($24,464,000)
• Title I, “Allowance for compensation of interns in house leadership offices”: Appropriates $586,000 for House leadership office interns, split as $322,300 for majority leadership offices and $263,700 for minority leadership offices.
• Division J, Sec. 111: Bars obligating funds for architect and engineer contracts estimated above $500,000 for projects in Japan, NATO member countries, or countries bordering the Arabian Gulf unless awarded to United States firms or joint ventures with host nation firms. ($500,000)
• Division J, Sec. 112: Bars awarding contracts above $1,000,000 to foreign contractors for military construction in Pacific territories, Kwajalein Atoll, or Arabian Gulf countries, with a bid-margin exception and an exception for Marshallese contractors on Kwajalein Atoll. ($1,000,000)
• Title III, “MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates $2,912,188,000 for migration and refugee assistance, of which $5,000,000 is set aside for refugees resettling in Israel. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 7041: Sets minimum assistance amounts for named countries, including $125,000,000 in Economic Support Fund for Egypt, $1,300,000,000 in Foreign Military Financing for Egypt, not less than $3,300,000,000 for Israel, and not less than $1,650,000,000 for Jordan.
• Sec. 7042: Directs not less than $3,000,000 of Economic Support Fund money as a contribution to the Special Criminal Court in Central African Republic. ($3,000,000)
• Sec. 7043: Sets minimum assistance amounts for named countries and places, including $136,127,000 for Burma, $82,505,000 for Cambodia, $93,000,000 for Laos and $197,000,000 for Vietnam.
• Sec. 7044: Sets minimum amounts for Bangladesh ($23,500,000, $10,000,000 and $23,300,000 for stated purposes) and withholds $33,000,000 of assistance for Pakistan until a stated condition is reported.
• Sec. 7045: Sets country-specific funding levels, including $487,375,000 for Colombia, $15,000,000 for Nicaragua, $82,000,000 for the Caribbean and $50,000,000 for Venezuela, and withholds 60% of funds for El Salvador and Guatemala and 45% for Honduras until certifications are made.
• Sec. 7046: Directs not less than $132,025,000 of foreign assistance funds to Georgia and also restricts arms sales to the Turkish Presidential Protection Directorate until conditions are met. ($132,025,000)
• Sec. 7047: Among other provisions, sets aside not less than $20,000,000 for democracy and civil society programs in Central Europe and not less than $300,000,000 for the Countering Russian Influence Fund. ($20,000,000)
• Title II, “HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS”: Of $3,633,000,000 appropriated, requires not less than $30,000,000 of one-time permanent supportive housing awards to go to projects within States with populations less than 2,500,000. ($30,000,000)
• Title VII, “State and Tribal Assistance Grants”: Appropriates $1,067,210,000 for State revolving fund grants directed to States or Territories in EPA Regions 2 and 4, plus $150,000,000 for areas with an August fiscal year 2022 emergency declaration and $450,000,000 for EPA Region 4, with 100 percent additional subsidization and no cost-share requirements.
• Division T, Sec. 112: Military spouse retirement plan eligibility credit for small employers: Creates a tax credit for eligible small employers of $200 for each military spouse employee who participates in an eligible defined contribution plan, plus employer contributions up to $300, for the first three taxable years of that employee's participation. ($200)
• Division DD, Sec. 104: Sale or lease of land to federally recognized Indian Tribes under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act: Adds federally recognized Indian Tribes as eligible under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, with acreage limits of 6,400 acres for recreational and 640 acres for public purposes.
• Sec. 644: Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Grants: Sets aside not more than $10,000,000 of the program's authorization for competitive grants to Japanese American organizations, with priority for those with fewer than 100 employees. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 1273: Grant program for State and Tribal response to opioid use disorders: Sets minimum grant allocations in the State and Tribal opioid response grant program: not less than $4,000,000 for each State and the District of Columbia and not less than $250,000 for each Territory.
• Division FF, Sec. 2201: Addressing factors related to improving health outcomes: Authorizes $35,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2023 through 2027 for health outcome grants, and reserves 5 percent of each year's amounts for awards to Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, and Tribal health departments.
• Sec. 4137: Extension of certain home health rural add-on payments: Adds a 1 percent home health payment add-on for episodes and visits ending during 2023 under the 2003 Act's rural add-on provision.
• Sec. 5101: Medicaid adjustments for the territories: Sets Puerto Rico Medicaid allotments from $3,275,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 to $3,825,000,000 for 2027, with added increases of $300,000,000 and $75,000,000 on conditions; also sets territory-specific data system payments up to $20,000,000 total and Puerto Rico-specific rules.
• Title III, “RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS”: Sets a limit of $3,000,000 for grants to cooperatives and centers that serve socially disadvantaged groups, within $28,300,000 for rural cooperative development grants. ($3,000,000)
• Title IV, “SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM”: Within $153,863,723,000 for SNAP, sets $3,000,000 for demonstration projects for tribal organizations and $998,000 for nutrition education for State agencies and Federally Recognized Tribes in the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. ($3,000,000)
• Division H, Sec. 406: Lets an individual who completes at least 1,200 hours of service within one year receive a national service education award valued at 70 percent of the standard award.
• Division H, Sec. 504: Sets different caps on official reception and representation expenses: $28,000 for the Secretary of Labor, $20,000 for the Secretary of Education, and $5,000 each for two other named offices.
• Division J, Sec. 119: Limits annual maintenance and repair spending on general or flag officer quarters to $35,000 per unit without 30 days prior notification to the Appropriations Committees. ($35,000)
• Division L, Sec. 110: Limits compensation under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and a named center to 600 technical staff-years during fiscal year 2023.
• Sec. 155: Caps overtime costs funded for any individual employee of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation at $35,000, with a waiver by its President and reporting requirements. ($35,000)
• Title I, “National Infrastructure Investments”: Provides $800,000,000 for local and regional project grants and sets aside not less than $20,000,000 for projects in historically disadvantaged communities or areas of persistent poverty, with a $45,000,000 grant cap and a 15 percent single-State limit. ($20,000,000)

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• Title I, “Agricultural research service — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Exempts modernization or replacement of existing facilities at Beltsville, Maryland from the Act's limits on building alterations, and allows easements at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
• Title I, “INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES”: Bars charging indirect costs against Extension Implementation Program Area grants under the Crop Protection/Pest Management Program, notwithstanding other law.
• Title III, “RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT”: Treats applicants in communities with a current rural area waiver as living in a rural area for section 502 guaranteed loans; also sets $7,500,000 for a Single Family Housing Relending demonstration program for Native American Tribes.
• Title VI, “LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES”: Lets the Farm Credit Administration exempt, in an amount of its sole discretion, certain export loans from the limitation in section 3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971.
• Division A, Sec. 738: Bars use of funds to enforce the FDA produce safety final rule published November 27, 2015 for entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds.
• Division A, Sec. 752: For school year 2023–2024, requires only school food authorities that had a negative nonprofit school food service account balance as of June 30, 2022 to set a price for paid lunches under section 12(p) of the National School Lunch Act.
• Division B, Sec. 111: Exempts amounts for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership from cost share requirements, with the exemption elective for any Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center that also receives State funding conditioned on a Federal cost share.
• Title II, “Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Bars use of the funds to act on applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities, but makes the funds available for such applications when filed by corporations.
• Division B, Sec. 205: Limits transfers between Justice Department appropriations, but exempts two listed paragraphs (the community project grants and the COPS technology projects) from that transfer limit.
• Division B, Sec. 212: Allows up to 2 percent of certain Justice grant funds to be used for training and research, but exempts the paragraph funding the listed community projects from this section.
• Division B, Sec. 213: Lets the Attorney General waive certain requirements of two grant programs for grantees found to have a fiscal hardship.
• Division B, Sec. 531: Bars Department of Justice funds from being used to stop the listed States, the District of Columbia and the listed territories from implementing their own medical marijuana laws.
• Division B, Sec. 534: Bars use of funds to require an export license for exports to Canada of certain firearm components, parts, accessories or attachments valued at no more than $500 wholesale per transaction, with conditions. ($500)
• Division B, Sec. 535: Bars use of funds to deny qualifying applications for permits to import U.S.-origin curios or relics firearms, parts, or ammunition.
• Division B, Sec. 536: Bars use of funds to deny or fail to act on import applications for a shotgun model if no application for that model in the same configuration was denied before January 1, 2011 on sporting-purposes grounds.
• Sec. 8002: Lets Defense Department employ non-citizens and caps foreign national pay raises, but exempts foreign national employees in the Republic of Turkey from the pay-increase limits.
• Sec. 8011: Appropriates humanitarian and civic assistance funds from existing accounts and lets the Army provide nonreimbursable medical services in Hawaii to civilian patients from named Pacific territories and nations.
• Sec. 8017: Requires military nonappropriated-fund activities to buy malt beverages and wine within the installation's State, with different treatment for installations in contiguous and non-contiguous States.
• Sec. 8021: Lets the Air Force convey excess relocatable military housing units at no cost to Indian tribes located in eight named States, at request of the Operation Walking Shield Program.
• Sec. 8045: Bars funds for establishing field operating agencies or paying certain headquarters staff, but exempts three categories of Army and Air Force field operating agencies described by their function rather than by name.
• Sec. 8046: Conditions conversion of Department of Defense civilian functions to contractors on a public-private competition, but exempts functions going to certain nonprofit agencies and to firms at least 51 percent owned by an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization.
• Division E, Sec. 105: Requires the IRS to send address-change confirmation notices to employers making employment tax payments, and to give special consideration to offers-in-compromise from taxpayers who were victims of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer.
• Division E, Sec. 112: Allows Internal Revenue Service funds to pay for passenger carrier transportation and protection between the Commissioner's residence and workplace, notwithstanding the general statutory limit on such use.
• Division E, Sec. 611: Exempts contracts under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program from the cost accounting standards in chapter 15 of title 41.
• Division E, Sec. 615: Exempts federal purchases of commercial information technology from the Buy American Act restriction on nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies.
• Division E, Sec. 726: Requires contracts with prescription drug coverage funded by this Act to include contraceptive coverage, but exempts two named religious plans and any plan whose carrier objects on religious grounds.
• Division E, Sec. 747: Holds the Vice President's pay and Executive Schedule pay rates for calendar year 2023 at their December 31, 2022 levels and bars pay increases for certain political appointees at or above Executive Schedule level IV.
• Sec. 805: Limits District of Columbia official vehicles to official duties and excludes commuting travel, except for named categories of D.C. officers and employees such as certain police, fire, corrections, and medical examiner staff, the Mayor, and the Council Chairman.
• Sec. 817: Makes a section of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia inapplicable to railroads installed under the Long Bridge Project.
• Division F, Sec. 211: For grants funded by amounts transferred from Customs and Border Protection to FEMA, states that a federal real property disposition requirement does not apply; the section also sets up to $785,000,000 for the emergency food and shelter program and other timing exceptions.
• Division F, Sec. 228: Bars use of funds to conduct or implement an outside-competition review (OMB Circular A–76) for activities at one named Coast Guard center.
• Division F, Sec. 231: Bars use of funds in this Act to charge an inspection fee for towing vessels that use the Towing Safety Management System option, until a Coast Guard determination is made.
• Title I, “Bureau of indian education — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS”: Bars Bureau of Indian Education funds, other than amounts for public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452, from supporting any elementary or secondary school in Alaska, and sets exceptions for certain schools and grantees by date.
• Title I, “Administrative provisions”: At the Governor of Guam's request, lets the Secretary transfer Guam-allocated funds to the Secretary of Agriculture for loans for Guam, made without regard to population, credit-elsewhere requirements and eligible-entity restrictions.
• Division G, Sec. 404: Bars use of funds to accept or process mining or mill site patent applications, except for claims whose patent application was filed on or before September 30, 1994 and met the listed statutory requirements by that date.
• Division G, Sec. 407: Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture is not in violation of the 15-year forest plan revision requirement solely because more than 15 years have passed without revising a National Forest System unit's plan, unless the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith.
• Division G, Sec. 408: Bars use of funds for preleasing, leasing and related activities under the Mineral Leasing Act or Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within National Monuments established under the 1906 Act, as bounded on January 20, 2001, except where the establishing proclamation allows them.
• Division G, Sec. 409: Requires committee approval before funds are used to file declarations of taking or condemnation complaints for land acquisition, but exempts funds for the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 and Federal assistance to Florida for Everglades restoration land.
• Division G, Sec. 410: Requires Federal contracts funded by this Act to follow standard competition rules, with exceptions for contracts authorized by law including formula grants for States or federally recognized Indian tribes, Indian Self-Determination Act contracts, and contracts awarded before enactment.
• Division G, Sec. 412: Limits National Endowment for the Arts grants to individuals to three named programs: literature fellowships, National Heritage Fellowships, and American Jazz Masters Fellowships.
• Sec. 434: Bars advertising of deficit timber sales in Alaska's Region 10 and sets sale and export rules for western red cedar and Alaska yellow cedar from those sales.
• Sec. 444: Lets the Secretary of the Interior grant State or local governments easements or right-of-way permits over federal lands in Golden Gate National Recreation Area for flood and erosion control projects without charge, except for processing and management costs.
• Title I, “Occupational safety and health administration — Salaries and Expenses”: Bars use of OSHA funds to enforce standards against farming operations with 10 or fewer employees that have no temporary labor camp, and against employers of 10 or fewer employees in categories with below-average injury and illness rates, with listed exceptions.
• Division H, Sec. 108: Exempts certain employees who adjust or evaluate disaster claims from Fair Labor Standards Act overtime provisions for 2 years after a major disaster, if they earn average weekly pay of at least $591.00 and meet other conditions. ($591.00)
• Division H, Sec. 109: Lets seafood industry employers with approved H–2B petitions bring in workers up to 120 days after the start date, and exempts them from the staggering rule in 20 CFR 655.20(d).
• Title II, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates $1,500,000,000 for home energy assistance and sets an allocation formula that raises any State or territory below 97 percent of its fiscal year 2022 amount to that level, with other allocations ratably reduced.
• Title III, “Impact Aid”: For school year 2022–2023, treats certain children whose parents are deployed, or whose military parent died on active duty, as eligible students for Impact Aid payments even though they would otherwise lose eligibility.
• Title III, “Historically black college and university capital financing program account”: Appropriates $20,150,000 for the cost of guaranteed loans and allows loan support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities without regard to the limits in section 344(a) of the HEA.
• Title IV, “National labor relations board — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Appropriates $299,224,000 for the National Labor Relations Board and bars use of the funds to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or for proceedings concerning bargaining units of agricultural laborers.
• Division H, Sec. 521: For conference attendance and spending requirements, treats the operating divisions of HHS as independent agencies and tabulates scientific conference attendance separately from agency totals.
• Division J, Sec. 101: Bars payments under cost-plus-a-fixed-fee construction contracts estimated above $25,000 within the United States without written approval of the Secretary of Defense, with Alaska excepted. ($25,000)
• Division J, Sec. 215: Lets the Secretary of Veterans Affairs enter agreements with certain health centers and Tribal organizations in the State of Alaska to provide care to veterans in rural Alaska, which the section defines by excluding two named local areas.
• Division J, Sec. 236: Exempts conversions of certain Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, or National Cemetery Administration functions to contractor performance from section 842 of Public Law 109–115 when the contractor is a business at least 51 percent owned by Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Organizations.
• Title IV, “FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM”: Of $6,053,049,000 in grants, lets countries that are NATO members or designated major non-NATO allies use the funds to buy defense articles and services not sold through the U.S. Government, which other countries may do only under a signed agreement.
• Sec. 7070: Lets the President waive two existing laws with respect to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, under stated conditions and until September 30, 2025.
• Sec. 7073: Creates an exception to an existing prohibition so that U.S. support is allowed for International Criminal Court investigations and prosecutions related to the Situation in Ukraine.
• Title I, “PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS”: Provides $354,827,000 for essential air service and, for fiscal year 2023, makes certain eligibility requirements and a subsidy cap not apply to maintain eligibility under section 41731.
• Sec. 119E: Limits FAA obligations under section 44502(e) to air traffic equipment bought by the transferring airport between October 5, 2018 and December 31, 2021, or on or after January 1, 2022 for airports in non-contiguous States.
• Division L, Sec. 124: Lets a State or territory redirect old congressionally directed highway earmarks (more than 10 fiscal years old, under 10 percent obligated) to other eligible projects within 25 miles of the original.
• Division L, Sec. 132: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce the electronic logging device requirements for operators of commercial motor vehicles transporting livestock or insects.
• Title I, “PORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM”: Appropriates $212,203,512 for port grants and exempts projects located in noncontiguous States or territories from a statutory requirement in section 54301(a)(6)(A)(ii) of title 46.
• Title II, “TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates $23,599,532,000 for tenant-based rental assistance and exempts public housing agencies in the Moving to Work demonstration from the cap on unit months under lease; it also sets aside up to $7,500,000 for Tribal HUD–VASH.
• Division L, Sec. 213: Lets public housing agencies with 400 or fewer public housing units elect to be exempt from asset management requirements imposed by the Secretary in connection with the operating fund rule.
• Division L, Sec. 230: Lets public housing agencies designated as Moving to Work agencies use previously allocated section 8 or 9 funds (except special purpose funding) notwithstanding the purposes for which the funds were appropriated.
• Title VIII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 for Low Income Home Energy Assistance and directs that $500,000,000 of it be allocated as though the fiscal year 2023 total appropriation was less than $1,975,000,000; a further $2,500,000,000 is appropriated. ($500,000,000)
• Title X, “EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM”: Appropriates $803,000,000 for the Emergency Relief Program and sets the Federal share at 100 percent for Emergency Relief funds responding to damage caused by Hurricane Fiona.
• Division T, Sec. 101: Expanding automatic enrollment in retirement plans: Requires automatic enrollment features for new 401(k) and 403(b) arrangements, and exempts governmental and church plans, plans established before enactment, employers in business under 3 years, and employers with 10 or fewer employees.
• Division T, Sec. 119: Application of section 415 limit for certain employees of rural electric cooperatives: Makes the section 415(b)(1)(B) limit inapplicable to participants in eligible rural electric cooperative plans, except for certain highly compensated employees.
• Division T, Sec. 308: Distributions to firefighters: Extends an exception to the additional tax on early retirement plan distributions to distributions from certain plans to employees who provide firefighting services.
• Division T, Sec. 309: Exclusion of certain disability-related first responder retirement payments: Excludes from gross income certain pension or annuity payments, up to a disability-related amount, for law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
• Sec. 330: Exemption from early withdrawal penalty for certain State and local government corrections employees: Extends the exemption from the additional tax on early retirement plan withdrawals to State and local government employees who serve as corrections officers or as forensic security employees.
• Division T, Sec. 501: Provisions relating to plan amendments: Sets the plan amendment deadline at the end of the first plan year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but moves it to 2027 for governmental plans and collectively bargained plans.
• Division U, Sec. 181: Inapplicability of Paperwork Reduction Act: Exempts voluntary information collection during research by the Veterans Health Administration and affiliated individuals or entities from the Paperwork Reduction Act.
• Division U, Sec. 182: Research and Development: Creates an Office of Research and Development in the Veterans Health Administration and lets the Secretary waive Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment limits and allow certain outside research pay without regard to section 209 of title 18.
• Division DD, Sec. 301: Gilt Edge Mine conveyance: Conveys National Forest land at the Gilt Edge Mine site to South Dakota at market value and relieves the Agriculture Secretary of providing the usual environmental covenant or warranty for this land.
• Sec. 1321: Eliminating the opt-out for nonfederal governmental health plans: Ends the option for nonfederal governmental health plans to opt out of mental health parity requirements, but lets certain collectively bargained plans with multiple agreements keep an existing election until the last agreement expires.
• Sec. 3309: Small business fee waiver: Lets the Secretary waive the annual device establishment registration fee, starting October 1, 2024, for establishments with $1,000,000 or less in gross receipts or sales that show financial hardship. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 3621: Regulation of certain products as drugs: Deems contrast agents, radioactive drugs and OTC monograph drugs to be drugs rather than devices, and directs the Secretary to waive the application fee for drug applications for products that were legally marketed as devices on a set date.
• Sec. 3631: Streamlining blood donor input: Exempts voluntary information collections that the Secretary initiates to solicit information from blood donors or potential blood donors from the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44).
• Division A, Sec. 734: Requires iron and steel products in rural water and waste projects to be made in the United States, but exempts projects whose engineering plans using other products received State agency approvals before enactment.
• Sec. 8010: After setting general limits on starting multiyear contracts, states that title III funds may be used for multiyear procurement contracts for up to 15 DDG–51 destroyers.
• Sec. 8065: Lets the Chief of the National Guard Bureau waive all or part of the payment normally required for leases of personal property of up to 1 year to certain listed or approved youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
• Division F, Sec. 227: Bars use of funds in this Act to reduce the mission or staff levels of one named Coast Guard center.
• Division G, Sec. 105: Caps any tribe's reduction in Tribal Priority Allocation funds at 10 percent in fiscal year 2023, but the cap does not apply under dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies.
• Division G, Sec. 413: Gives priority in National Endowment for the Arts funding to underserved populations and caps grants to any single State at 15 percent in the aggregate, excluding national-impact or touring grants.
• Division H, Sec. 404: Limits use of an educational award for the purpose described in section 148(a)(4) of the 1990 Act to individuals who are veterans.
• Division H, Sec. 526: Bars use of funds to buy sterile needles or syringes for injecting illegal drugs, but the limit does not apply to other program elements where a health department finds a significant risk of hepatitis or an HIV outbreak.
• Division H, Sec. 529: Makes research, evaluation and statistical funds for the Administration for Children and Families and two Department of Labor offices available for obligation through September 30, 2027, and allows reobligation of deobligated amounts.
• Division J, Sec. 126: Lets funds be obligated before October 1, 2024 for fiscal year 2017 and 2018 military construction projects whose authorization has not lapsed or is extended, notwithstanding the general obligation time limit.
• Sec. 7024: Provides that funding restrictions in this or other Acts are not to be read as prohibiting activities of three named agencies, subject to consultation and a report to the Committees on Appropriations when a country with prohibited assistance is involved.
• Title II, “HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM”: Appropriates $1,500,000,000 for HOME and makes a statutory draw-down deadline not apply to funds that expired or would expire in calendar years 2016 through 2025.
• Title VIII, “CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS”: Within $408,000,000 of Children and Families Services funding, lets a State, territory or tribe receiving a supplemental grant award substitute “200 percent” for “125 percent” in a Community Services Block Grant Act provision.
• Division O, Sec. 202: Technical correction relating to applicability of agreement by a cadet or midshipman to play professional sport constituting breach of agreement to serve as an officer: Limits the amendments made by section 553 of the James M. Inhofe NDAA for Fiscal Year 2023 to cadets and midshipmen who first enroll at three service academies on or after June 1, 2021.
• Division T, Sec. 314: Penalty-free withdrawal from retirement plans for individual in case of domestic abuse: Creates an exception to the additional tax on early retirement plan distributions for individuals who are victims of domestic abuse by a spouse or domestic partner, limited to the lesser of $10,000 or 50 percent of the vested benefit. ($10,000)
• Sec. 329: Modification of eligible age for exemption from early withdrawal penalty: Changes the age condition for an exemption from the early withdrawal penalty to age 50 or 25 years of service under the plan, whichever is earlier.
• Sec. 3502: Amendments to cosmetic requirements: Adds cosmetics registration, good manufacturing practice, labeling and recall rules, and exempts small businesses with average annual cosmetic sales under $1,000,000 (adjusted for inflation) from the good manufacturing practice and registration requirements. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 4126: Exception for physician wellness programs: Adds an exception to the physician self-referral law and the anti-kickback statute for mental health or behavioral health programs offered to physicians by listed entity types such as hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and community health centers.
• Title II, “JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $400,000,000 for juvenile justice programs, and says section 102(b)(4)(B) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 does not apply to the missing and exploited children paragraph. The research and training percentage limits also do not apply to the grants under sections 261 and 262 or to missing and exploited children programs. ($400,000,000)
• Division B, Sec. 214: Provides that section 20109(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 does not apply to amounts made available by this or any other Act.
• Sec. 8004: Limits obligations in the last 2 months of the fiscal year to 20 percent of certain appropriations, and exempts obligations for active duty training of reserve components and Reserve Officers' Training Corps summer camp training.
• Sec. 8007: Bars reprogramming or transfer of Defense funds until a baseline report is submitted, and exempts transfers from five Environmental Restoration accounts and the Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities account.
• Sec. 8026: Sets limits on defense federally funded research and development centers, including staff-cost caps and a reduction in total FFRDC funding, and exempts staff years funded in the National Intelligence Program and Military Intelligence Program from the staff-cost cap.
• Sec. 8033: Bars use of funds to buy ball and roller bearings not made by a domestic source, with a case-by-case waiver, and exempts purchases of commercial products unless the bearings are bought as end items.
• Sec. 8036: Lets the Secretary of Defense waive limits on buying defense items from foreign sources for a country with cooperative programs or reciprocal trade agreements. The waiver does not extend to public vessel construction, ball and roller bearings, food, and listed clothing and textile items.
• Sec. 8049: Bars assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea unless specifically appropriated, and exempts activities incidental to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency mission.
• Sec. 8058: Bars retiring or storing any C–40 aircraft, except an individual aircraft the Secretary of the Air Force determines is no longer mission capable after a Class A mishap. It also requires a report on travel needs of members of Congress and the Cabinet.
• Sec. 8059: Bars use of title IV funds to procure end-items for operational use, and exempts end-items used in development, prototyping and test activities and programs in the National Intelligence Program, with a case-by-case waiver.
• Sec. 8141: Bars use of funds to build, acquire or modify facilities in the United States to house individuals held at Guantánamo Bay as of June 24, 2009, and exempts modifications of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• Division D, Sec. 101: Sets reprogramming limits for Corps of Engineers civil accounts, with different dollar limits by account, and exempts projects funded under the continuing authorities program from the new-project restriction.
• Division D, Sec. 201: Sets reprogramming limits for Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources funds, and exempts transfers within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category from the transfer limits in subsection (a)(5).
• Division E, Sec. 616: Bars regulatory agency staff from accepting travel payment or reimbursement from entities the agency regulates, except from organizations described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Division E, Sec. 702: Fixes the passenger motor vehicle purchase limit at $26,733 and $27,873 for station wagons, and allows exceptions for police-type vehicles (up to $7,775 above the limit), electric or hybrid vehicles, clean alternative fuels vehicles and commercial-item alternative fuel vehicles. ($7,775)
• Division E, Sec. 704: Limits paid federal employment in the continental United States to citizens and certain other categories, and lists exceptions including current employees, international broadcasters, temporary translators, emergency field service and nonresident alien wildland firefighters for up to 120 days.
• Division E, Sec. 712: Requires agency certification that a Schedule C position was not created to detail the individual to the White House, and exempts employees or armed forces members detailed to or from an element of the intelligence community.
• Sec. 816: Appropriates District of Columbia local funds for fiscal year 2024 at the rate in the Council's budget Act during any period with no D.C. continuing resolution or regular D.C. appropriation bill in effect.
• Division F, Sec. 525: Requires 30 days' notice to Congress before DHS implements structural pay reform or new position classification affecting more than 100 positions or costing more than $5,000,000 a year, and exempts changes proposed in the President's budget and not denied funds in this Act.
• Title I, “INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION”: Appropriates $8,000,000 for acquiring fractional interests in Indian land, and provides that lien-related provisions of the Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 do not apply to the acquisitions funded. ($8,000,000)
• Division H, Sec. 105: Caps salary and bonuses paid with Employment and Training Administration funds at Executive Level II, and exempts vendors providing goods and services as defined in OMB Circular A–133.
• Division H, Sec. 106: Allows transfers of Employment and Training Administration funds to Program Administration, including up to 0.5 percent for Job Corps program integrity, and says the first transfer authority does not apply to section 171 of the WIOA.
• Title II, “CDC-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT”: Appropriates $563,570,000 for CDC-wide activities, and provides that paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 2821(b) of the PHS Act do not apply to funds under this heading and all other CDC accounts. ($563,570,000)
• Title II, “MENTAL HEALTH”: Appropriates $2,693,507,000 for mental health programs, and provides that section 520E(b)(2) of the PHS Act does not apply to funds in this Act for fiscal year 2023 and bars section 520A funds from being used for section 1971. ($2,693,507,000)
• Title II, “REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates $6,427,214,000 for refugee and entrant assistance, raises the transfer limit for this account from 3 percent to 15 percent, waives a contribution requirement, and adds $27,000,000 per 500 unaccompanied children above 13,000 in a month.
• Division H, Sec. 507: Provides that the preceding section's limitations on abortion funding do not apply where the pregnancy results from rape or incest or where a physician certifies danger of death, and bars funds to governments that discriminate against health care entities that do not provide or refer for abortions.
• Title I, “Congressional research service — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Appropriates $133,600,000 for the Congressional Research Service and bars use of funds for Library of Congress publications without committee approval, except non-confidential CRS products. ($133,600,000)
• Division J, Sec. 412: Bars use of Defense funds to build, renovate or expand facilities in the United States to house individuals detained at Guantánamo Bay, and exempts modifications of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• Title IV, “INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT”: Appropriates $1,391,004,000 for international narcotics control, and provides that section 482(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act does not apply to funds under this heading and that section 608 may be used without its restrictions. ($1,391,004,000)
• Title V, “INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $508,600,000 for international organizations and programs, and provides that section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act does not apply to contributions to the United Nations Democracy Fund. ($508,600,000)
• Sec. 7008: Bars assistance to governments whose elected head was deposed by military coup, and exempts assistance to promote democratic elections, public participation in democratic processes or a democratic transition; the Secretary of State may also waive the restriction program by program.
• Sec. 7009: Sets transfer authority limits for State Department, foreign assistance and related accounts, including 5 and 10 percent caps and a Millennium Challenge Corporation transfer, and exempts agreements between USAID and the Department of State from the notification requirement.
• Sec. 7013: Requires new bilateral aid agreements to exempt assistance from taxation or provide reimbursement, and withholds an amount equal to 200 percent of unreimbursed taxes. It exempts de minimis taxes and governments with an effective reimbursement arrangement or a foreign policy determination.
• Sec. 7015: Sets notification requirements for changes to foreign affairs programs, reprogramming and assistance to listed countries, and exempts reprogrammings of less than 10 percent of the amount justified for programs in titles III through VI from the subsection (c) requirements.
• Sec. 7019: Sets a general rule that foreign-assistance funds follow the explanatory statement's tables, then exempts the Global Health Programs table from the 10 percent deviation authority and sets a 5 percent deviation for the Economic Support Fund 'Global Programs' amounts.
• Sec. 7025: Bars funds for assistance that expands foreign production of surplus commodities, but exempts the Export-Import Bank when its Board finds the U.S. benefits outweigh the injury, and exempts activities in countries meeting stated criteria.
• Sec. 7026: Requires separate accounts for local currencies and cash transfers, and allows nonproject sector assistance funds to be exempt from the separate-account requirement through the regular notification procedures.
• Sec. 7031: Makes officials found involved in significant corruption or gross human rights violations ineligible for U.S. entry, but excepts individuals whose entry would further law enforcement objectives or is needed under the UN Headquarters Agreement.
• Sec. 7035: Authorizes financing for commercial leasing of defense articles for Israel, Egypt, NATO and major non-NATO allies, and limits Special Defense Acquisition Fund obligations to $900,000,000.
• Sec. 7037: Bars funds in support of a Palestinian state absent certain certifications, with a presidential waiver, and exempts assistance intended to help reform the Palestinian Authority and affiliated institutions from the bar.
• Sec. 7048: Sets reporting conditions and funding limits for United Nations bodies, and provides that the requirement to withhold funds for programs in Burma under section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act does not apply to funds in this Act.
• Title I, “Office of the Secretary — WORKING CAPITAL FUND”: Caps Working Capital Fund operating costs at $505,285,000 for services within the Department of Transportation, and states the cap does not apply to entities outside the Department or to funds provided in Public Law 117–58. ($505,285,000)
• Division L, Sec. 120: Directs how the Federal-aid highway obligation limitation is distributed, and exempts obligations under a list of named laws and programs from that limitation, including two amounts of $639,000,000 per fiscal year. ($639,000,000)
• Division L, Sec. 141: States that National Highway Traffic Safety Administration obligation limitations in this Act do not apply to obligation authority made available in previous public laws that has not lapsed or been used.
• Division L, Sec. 151: Allows amounts for award and oversight of Federal Railroad Administration financial assistance to be transferred to its oversight account, but excludes amounts previously designated as an emergency requirement.
• Sec. 160: States that Federal Transit Administration obligation limitations do not apply to authority under 49 U.S.C. 5338 or other authority previously made available for obligation.
• Division L, Sec. 206: Lets HUD corporations and agencies make expenditures and commitments, limits new loan or mortgage purchase commitments to those provided for in the Act, and exempts mortgage insurance or guaranty operations from that limit.
• Title II, “General provisions—Department of housing and urban development”: Sets enforcement steps and reporting for HUD properties with failing inspection scores, and states the requirements do not apply to units assisted under section 8(o)(13) or to public housing units assisted under section 9.
• Title IV, “CONSTRUCTION”: Provides $261,300,000 for Corps of Engineers construction in States and insular areas impacted by Hurricanes Ian, Fiona, and Nicole, with ongoing projects built at full Federal expense and the section 902 cost limit not applying; a second paragraph provides $297,200,000. ($261,300,000)
• Title VIII, “PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND”: Provides $128,792,000 for Hurricanes Fiona and Ian consequences, and states the not less than $15,000,000 transferred for aging and disability services is not subject to Older Americans Act and Rehabilitation Act allotment, matching, and State and area requirements. ($15,000,000)
• Division T, Sec. 106: Multiple employer 403(b) plans: Allows 403(b) annuity contracts to be purchased under plans maintained by more than one employer, but excludes church plans from this rule and sets separate requirements for non-governmental plans.
• Division T, Sec. 125: Improving coverage for part-time workers: Sets a two-year, 500-hours-per-year eligibility rule for certain part-time employees in 401(k) and 403(b) arrangements, and states the rule does not apply to employees described in section 410(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Division T, Sec. 603: Elective deferrals generally limited to regular contribution limit: Requires catch-up deferrals by participants with prior-year wages above $145,000 to be Roth contributions, and exempts applicable employer plans described in paragraph (6)(A)(iv) from that requirement.
• Division U, Sec. 165: Secretary of Veterans Affairs contract authority for payment of care for veterans in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical foster homes: Lets the VA pay for medical foster home care for veterans for five years, capped at a daily average of 900 veterans, and makes the section 1730(b)(3) prohibition inapplicable to veterans whose care is covered this way.
• Division V, Sec. 231: Feedback on transition of crisis line number: Directs the VA Secretary to ask veterans service organizations for feedback on outreach about the 988 crisis line, and states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to that feedback.
• Division DD, Sec. 305: Wind River Administrative Site conveyance: Directs conveyance of about 23.4 acres of National Forest System land and improvements to Skamania County, Washington, without consideration, and states that the federal property disposal chapter of title 40 does not apply to the conveyance.
• Sec. 2213: Supporting State, local, and Tribal public health data: Allows the CDC Director to exempt from disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3) public health data gathered under this section when an individual is identified or could be deduced.
• Sec. 2321: Foreign talent recruitment programs: Prohibits NIH intramural research personnel from taking part in foreign talent recruitment programs, with an exemption for international conferences, exchanges, partnerships or programs approved by NIH.
• Sec. 3305: Ensuring cybersecurity of medical devices: Adds cybersecurity requirements for submissions for cyber devices, and lets the Secretary identify devices or categories of devices that are exempt from those requirements.

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• Division A, Sec. 722: Bars use of funds in this Act to propose, promulgate, or implement any rule allowing or requiring prescribing information for drugs and biological products to be distributed electronically instead of on paper, until a Federal law is enacted allowing it.
• Division A, Sec. 726: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the 'variety' requirements of the December 15, 2016 SNAP retailer standards final rule until the Secretary amends the definition of 'variety'; meanwhile the requirements in effect before the Agricultural Act of 2014 apply.
• Division A, Sec. 728: Bars use of funds by the Department of Agriculture to propose, finalize, or implement any regulation that would promulgate new user fees under 31 U.S.C. 9701 after enactment.
• Division A, Sec. 740: For school years 2022–2023 and 2023–2024, bars use of funds to implement or enforce part of a footnote in 7 CFR 220.8(c) on substituting vegetables for fruits in the school breakfast program.
• Sec. 761: Bars use of funds for salaries or expenses of personnel to inspect horses under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and a 1996 law, or to implement or enforce 9 CFR 352.19.
• Division E, Sec. 123: Bars the Treasury Department, including the IRS, from using funds in fiscal year 2023 to issue, revise or finalize guidance on the social welfare standard for section 501(c)(4) organizations, and keeps the standard in effect on January 1, 2010.
• Division E, Sec. 501: Bars use of fiscal year 2023 funds to finalize or implement the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle safety standard until a National Academy of Sciences study is completed and reported to committees.
• Division E, Sec. 510: Extends from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2023 the temporary suspension under the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act.
• Division E, Sec. 511: Bars the FCC from using funds to change its universal service support rules to implement the 2004 Joint Board recommendations on single connection or primary line restrictions.
• Title V, “Federal trade commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Appropriates $430,000,000 for the FTC and bars use of FTC funds to implement subsection (e)(2)(B) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
• Division E, Sec. 619: Bars the Federal Trade Commission from using funds in this Act to complete a specific draft report on food marketed to children unless the working group complies with Executive Order No. 13563.
• Sec. 624: Bars the Federal Communications Commission from using funds in this Act to change its universal service high-cost support rules for competitive eligible carriers in a way inconsistent with a cited regulation as in effect on July 15, 2015.
• Division E, Sec. 633: Bars the Securities and Exchange Commission from using funds in this Act to finalize, issue, or implement any rule or order on disclosure of political contributions, contributions to tax exempt organizations, or trade association dues.
• Division E, Sec. 729: Bars use of funds to implement proposed Office of Personnel Management regulations published September 9, 2003 on details of executive branch employees to the legislative branch, and to restrict the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program.
• Division E, Sec. 740: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, enforce, or apply the Office of Personnel Management rule entitled “Competitive Area” published April 15, 2008.
• Division E, Sec. 741: Bars use of funds to begin or announce a study or public-private competition on converting federal employee functions to contractor performance under OMB Circular A–76 or similar policy.
• Division F, Sec. 402: Bars use of funds in this Act to process or approve an OMB Circular A–76 competition for services performed by listed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services job categories.
• Division G, Sec. 120: Bars use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to write or issue a proposed Endangered Species Act rule for greater sage-grouse or the Columbia basin distinct population segment of greater sage-grouse.
• Title III, “ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE”: Bars use of Indian Health Service funds to implement the September 16, 1987 final rule on eligibility for IHS health care services until a budget request reflecting the rule's added costs is submitted and enacted into an appropriations Act.
• Sec. 433: Bars use of funds in this Act to implement or enforce the March 21, 2011 incinerator regulation at 40 CFR part 60 subparts CCCC and DDDD for small, remote incinerator units in Alaska, until a later regulation is issued.
• Sec. 436: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring Clean Air Act title V permits for emissions from biological processes associated with livestock production.
• Sec. 437: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to implement any rule provision that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
• Sec. 438: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle under the Toxic Substances Control Act or any other law.
• Division H, Sec. 111: Bars use of funds in this Act to enforce the definition of corresponding employment in 20 CFR 655.5 or the three-fourths guarantee in 20 CFR 655.20, and sets the temporary need definition for H–2B workers.
• Division H, Sec. 223: Through January 1, 2025, requires laws that refer to current Preventive Services Task Force breast cancer screening recommendations to be administered using the recommendations last issued before 2009.
• Division H, Sec. 224: Keeps the indirect cost provisions in 45 CFR part 75 applying to NIH as they did in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 and bars funds from being used to develop or implement a modified approach.
• Division H, Sec. 408: Bars use of funds from this and earlier Acts for the National Labor Relations Board to issue any new directive or regulation allowing electronic voting in elections to determine a collective bargaining representative.
• Division H, Sec. 510: Bars use of funds to promulgate or adopt a final standard for a unique health identifier for individuals under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act until legislation specifically approving the standard is enacted.
• Division H, Sec. 519: Bars use of Social Security Administration funds to pay employees to administer benefit payments that would be payable only because of an agreement between the United States and Mexico establishing totalization arrangements.
• Division L, Sec. 111: Bars use of funds to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to give the FAA space or services without cost for air traffic control, navigation, or weather reporting, with an exception for negotiations on below-market rates and land grant assurances.
• Division L, Sec. 116: Bars use of funds under this or any prior Act to implement any limitation on private aircraft owners' ability to have their aircraft identifying information blocked from public real-time flight tracking displays.
• Division L, Sec. 118: Bars use of funds to increase fees under section 44721 of title 49 until the FAA reports to the Appropriations Committees justifying all aeronautical navigation product fees.
• Sec. 119A: Bars use of funds to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
• Division L, Sec. 142: Bars use of funds in this or any other Act to enforce the requirements of section 405(a)(9) of title 23.
• Division L, Sec. 234: Bars the Department of Housing and Urban Development from using funds to direct a grantee to make specific zoning law changes as part of carrying out the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing final rule or the related assessment tool notice.
• Sec. 4139: Payment rates for durable medical equipment under the Medicare Program: Bars the Secretary from implementing a specific durable medical equipment payment regulation until after the emergency period ends or January 1, 2024, and extends a transition rule to areas other than rural or noncontiguous areas.
• Sec. 8029: Allows Department of Defense depot maintenance work to be competed between public depots and private firms, and states that Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 does not apply to these competitions.

Changes a government process (18)

• Sec. 775: Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to transfer operation of, and property for, the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas to the Secretary of Agriculture, including up to 40 full time equivalent positions.
• Title II, “Office of management and budget — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Appropriates $128,035,000 for OMB and also limits OMB's review of agricultural marketing orders and Corps of Engineers water resource reports, setting a 60-day review period after which Congress assumes OMB concurrence. ($128,035,000)
• Division E, Sec. 202: Requires a written OMB statement on budgetary impact to accompany any Executive order or Presidential memorandum issued or revoked during fiscal year 2023, with cost estimates required for memoranda over $100,000,000 in regulatory cost.
• Division E, Sec. 305: Directs the U.S. Marshals Service to provide, at courthouses its Director designates, security services otherwise authorized for the Department of Homeland Security, as a pilot program, with the courts reimbursing the Marshals Service.
• Division E, Sec. 527: Directs GSA to pick a new FBI headquarters site from three listed in a 2017 prospectus and to consult representatives of sites in Maryland and Virginia before any site selection panel action.
• Sec. 635: Amends Public Law 114–94 to let the Executive Director of a council appoint employees and fix their compensation as the Executive Director considers necessary.
• Title III, “PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION”: Appropriates $426,907,000 and bars use of funds to implement a reorganization of the Department of Education's Budget Service relative to its organization on January 1, 2018.
• Division L, Sec. 422: Bars the Department of Housing and Urban Development from using funds to issue a solicitation, or accept bids, substantially equivalent to the draft Housing Assistance Payments Contract Support Services solicitation posted July 27, 2022.
• Division L, Sec. 423: Amends section 1105(e)(5)(C)(i) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 by striking its seventh, eighth, and ninth sentences.
• Sec. 2801: Lets the Secretary of Health and Human Services appoint candidates directly to certain disaster-response positions, without regard to sections 3309 through 3319 of title 5, for 270 days after enactment.
• Title II, “United states parole commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Allows a Parole Commission Commissioner whose term has expired to keep acting until a successor has been appointed.
• Title I, “Alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Within the bureau's appropriation, sets aside $5,000,000 for the costs of accelerating the processing of formula and label applications. ($5,000,000)
• Division E, Sec. 111: Allows the Treasury Secretary to use direct hire authority, without regard to notice or preference requirements, to fill competitive service positions that process backlogged tax returns.
• Title III, “COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY”: Provides that, notwithstanding the National Environmental Policy Act, the Council on Environmental Quality consists of one member who serves as chairman and exercises all of the Council's powers, with $4,676,000 in funding.
• Title III, “Chemical safety and hazard investigation board — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides that the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency also holds the position of Inspector General of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, using EPA Inspector General personnel.
• Title III, “Student aid administration”: Bars funding for any contract solicitation for a new federal student loan servicing environment, including the Next Generation Processing and Servicing Environment, unless it uses multiple servicers, and allows extending certain servicing contracts by up to one year notwithstanding procurement limits.
• Division O, Sec. 1001: Budgetary effects: Provides that the budgetary effects of division O and each succeeding division are not entered on the statutory or Senate PAYGO scorecards and are not estimated for several budget-law purposes.
• Division DD, Sec. 103: Cadastre of Federal real property: Requires the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to set interagency data standards and build a multipurpose inventory (cadastre) of Federal real property within 2 years.

Condition defined by a narrow set of criteria (2)

• Division F, Sec. 539: Bars Department of Homeland Security contracts, agreements, grants, loans or guarantees with any entity identified under a section of a 2021 defense authorization law, or its subsidiaries.
• Sec. 2315: Federally-funded research with enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential: Bars the Secretary of Health and Human Services from funding research by a foreign entity at a facility in a 'country of concern,' as estimated by the Director of National Intelligence or another agency head, involving pathogens of pandemic potential or listed agents and toxins.

Program name includes a political figure’s name (9)

• Sec. 777: Renames the school lunch law's farm to school program, changing 'Access to Local Foods: Farm to School Program' to include a person's name: 'Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program'.
• Division B, Sec. 221: Designates the Federal Bureau of Investigation facilities at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as the “Richard Shelby Center for Innovation and Advanced Training” and makes references to those facilities mean that name.
• Sec. 636: Designates the Federal building at 90 7th Street in San Francisco, California, as the “Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building”.
• Division I, Sec. 102: Establishes the Sergeant at Arms Fellowships Fund to pay and administer two Senate fellowship programs, one named for two political figures, and excludes fellows' pay from Sergeant at Arms staffing limits.
• Title I, “EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $777,500,000 for exchange programs and directs that funds for one named scholarship program also be made available for another, and that some Fulbright awards be designated as named fellowships; program names refer to former officeholders.
• Sec. 7032: Directs that Democracy Fund legislative strengthening programs be collectively named the "David E. Price Legislative Strengthening Program"; the rest of the section sets democracy program funding and authorities.
• Sec. 7059: Sets aside not less than $50,000,000 for women's leadership programs and names them the Madeleine K. Albright Women's Leadership Program. ($50,000,000)
• Sec. 7060: Directs not less than $970,000,000 to the Nita M. Lowey Basic Education Fund. It also sets other sector minimums, including $475,000,000 for water and sanitation, of which $237,000,000 is for sub-Saharan Africa. ($970,000,000)
• Division O, Sec. 404: Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program: Renames the Lake Champlain Basin Program as the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program in law and authorizes $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. ($35,000,000)

What it does

• Sec. 5: Appropriates the sums listed in the Act out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023.
• Title IV, “SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM”: Provides $153,863,723,000 for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, of which $3,000,000,000 is placed in reserve for program operations.
• Title I, “Military Personnel, Army”: Provides $49,628,305,000 for Army military personnel.
• Title III, “DISASTER RELIEF FUND”: Provides $19,945,000,000 to the Disaster Relief Fund for major disasters declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
• Title II, “PAYMENTS TO THE HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS”: Provides $548,130,000,000 for payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
• Title II, “COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS”: Provides $146,778,136,000 for veterans' compensation and pensions, available October 1, 2023.
• Title IV, “FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM”: Provides $6,053,049,000 for the Foreign Military Financing Program, as grants under section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act.
• Title VII, “ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND”: Provides an additional $12,966,500,000 to the Economic Support Fund for assistance for Ukraine and countries impacted by the situation in Ukraine, which may include budget support.
• Title II, “Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide”: Provides an additional $21,160,737,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, of which $9,000,000,000 is for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
• Title II, “TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE”: Provides $23,599,532,000 for tenant-based rental assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937, available on October 1, 2022, plus $4,000,000,000 available on October 1, 2023.
• Division P, Sec. 109: Limits the President of the Senate to ministerial duties in the joint session counting electoral votes, and requires objections to be in writing and signed by one-fifth of Senators and one-fifth of Members of the House.
• Division T, Sec. 107: Raises the age for required minimum distributions from retirement plans to 73 for individuals who attain age 72 after December 31, 2022 and age 73 before January 1, 2033, and to 75 for those who attain age 74 after December 31, 2032.
• Sec. 4113: Extends Medicare telehealth flexibilities, including removal of geographic limits and audio-only coverage, through December 31, 2024.
• Sec. 5112: Requires State Medicaid plans to keep eligible children under age 19 enrolled for up to 12 months, and applies the same continuous eligibility rule to CHIP.
• Division II, Sec. 103: Makes it an unlawful employment practice for a covered employer to fail to make reasonable accommodations for known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would cause undue hardship.

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Changed after House passage

Compares the bill as passed by the House, 28 Sep 2021, with the final text passed by both chambers. About 3% of the wording the House passed stands in the final text.

Less than a tenth of the final text’s wording was in the text the House passed: 2,985 of its sections were not in it.

Removed before the final vote (2)

• Sec. 2: Amendment:
• Sec. 3: Determination of budgetary effects:

Sources

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