H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022

Bill · 117th Congress (2021–2022). Passed House, 23 Sep 2021. Introduced 2 Jul 2021.

Official title: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

Vote results

• House, 23 Sep 2021: Passed, 316 Yea, 113 Nay, 0 Present, 2 Not voting. The House’s roll call
• President: Not presented to the President.

How each member voted

House

Yea (316): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Fred Upton (R-MI-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); David E. Price (D-NC-4); Jim Cooper (D-TN-5); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); Ken Calvert (R-CA-42); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-18); Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30); Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40); Bobby L. Rush (D-IL-1); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19); Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3); Kevin Brady (R-TX-8); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Ron Kind (D-WI-3); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9); Brad Sherman (D-CA-30); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-32); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Mike Thompson (D-CA-5); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); James R. Langevin (D-RI-2); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-28); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-3); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); Tim Ryan (D-OH-13); David Scott (D-GA-13); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-50); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-16); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Al Green (D-TX-9); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-5); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-6); Albio Sires (D-NJ-8); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23); Jerry McNerney (D-CA-9); Ed Perlmutter (D-CO-7); John P. Sarbanes (D-MD-3); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); John A. Yarmuth (D-KY-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); André Carson (D-IN-7); Jackie Speier (D-CA-14); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-7); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-3); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Kurt Schrader (D-OR-5); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Judy Chu (D-CA-27); John Garamendi (D-CA-3); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); Karen Bass (D-CA-37); Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Bob Gibbs (R-OH-7); Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-4); Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA-3); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16); Billy Long (R-MO-7); David B. McKinley (R-WV-1); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-7); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Cheri Bustos (D-IL-17); Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29); Rodney Davis (R-IL-13); Lois Frankel (D-FL-21); Richard Hudson (R-NC-8); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6); Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY-18); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-52); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-36); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15); Mark Takano (D-CA-41); Juan Vargas (D-CA-51); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH-2); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-31); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7); Garret Graves (R-LA-6); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); John Katko (R-NY-24); Brenda L. Lawrence (D-MI-14); Ted Lieu (D-CA-33); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-4); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Kathleen M. Rice (D-NY-4); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); David G. Valadao (R-CA-21); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Darin LaHood (R-IL-18); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Jim Banks (R-IN-3); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL); Anthony G. Brown (D-MD-4); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); Liz Cheney (R-WY-AL); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Val Butler Demings (D-FL-10); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); A. Drew Ferguson IV (R-GA-3); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-15); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN-9); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Al Lawson, Jr. (D-FL-5); Stephanie N. Murphy (D-FL-7); Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ-1); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Conor Lamb (D-PA-17); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Susan Wild (D-PA-7); Colin Z. Allred (D-TX-32); Cynthia Axne (D-IA-3); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH-16); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7); Josh Harder (D-CA-10); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Elaine G. Luria (D-VA-2); Tom Malinowski (D-NJ-7); Lucy McBath (D-GA-6); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-3); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Greg Pence (R-IN-6); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); Katie Porter (D-CA-45); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-8); Abigail Davis Spanberger (D-VA-7); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-9); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); David J. Trone (D-MD-6); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-22); Fred Keller (R-PA-12); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Mike Garcia (R-CA-25); Chris Jacobs (R-NY-27); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA-7); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Jerry L. Carl (R-AL-1); Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-15); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-26); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-1); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Kaiali’i Kahele (D-HI-2); Young Kim (R-CA-39); Jake LaTurner (R-KS-2); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Kathy E. Manning (D-NC-6); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-10); Peter Meijer (R-MI-3); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-2); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Marie Newman (D-IL-3); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-8); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Michelle Steel (R-CA-48); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Don Young (R-AK-AL); Devin Nunes (R-CA-22); G. K. Butterfield (D-NC-1); Theodore E. Deutch (D-FL-22); Tom Reed (R-NY-23); Jackie Walorski (R-IN-2); Filemon Vela (D-TX-34); A. Donald McEachin (D-VA-4); Charlie Crist (D-FL-13); Antonio Delgado (D-NY-19).

Nay (113): Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR-4); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY-12); Steve Chabot (R-OH-1); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Barbara Lee (D-CA-13); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Michael C. Burgess (R-TX-26); Louie Gohmert (R-TX-1); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Peter Welch (D-VT-AL); Tom McClintock (R-CA-4); Bill Posey (R-FL-8); Mo Brooks (R-AL-5); Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-4); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-2); Steven M. Palazzo (R-MS-4); David Schweikert (R-AZ-6); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI-5); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Alan S. Lowenthal (D-CA-47); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-2); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Tom Rice (R-SC-7); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-11); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); Jody B. Hice (R-GA-10); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-2); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Lee M. Zeldin (R-NY-1); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Ted Budd (R-NC-13); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-18); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-4); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ron Estes (R-KS-4); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); John R. Curtis (R-UT-3); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Andy Levin (D-MI-9); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); Van Taylor (R-TX-3); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13); Dan Bishop (R-NC-9); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-3); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Bob Good (R-VA-5); Yvette Herrell (R-NM-2); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53); Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Barry Moore (R-AL-2); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT-AL); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Michael F. Doyle (D-PA-18); Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-1); Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-1).

Not voting (2): Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14).

Speaker, not listed (1): Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12).

Not in office (17): Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20); Connie Conway (R-CA-22); Mayra Flores (R-TX-34); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK-AL); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-19); Joseph Sempolinski (R-NY-23); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL-20); Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH-11); Steve Stivers (R-OH-15); Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-2); Debra A. Haaland (D-NM-1); Ron Wright (R-TX-6).

Summary

Main subject: Authorizes fiscal year 2022 appropriations and sets personnel strengths for Department of Defense activities, military construction and Department of Energy national security programs, changes laws on defense policy, and adds non-defense provisions on financial services, public lands, homeland security, State Department authorities and pandemic and biosecurity matters. Division A, Division B, Division C, Division D, Division E, Division F, Division G

Its core areas: Defense procurement, research and development, and operation and maintenance authorizations; Military personnel strengths, pay, family benefits and TRICARE health care; Military justice, sexual assault response and personnel policy; Defense acquisition, supply chain and industrial base; Cyberspace, space, nuclear forces and missile defense; Military construction projects, housing and installation planning; Department of Energy national security programs and Maritime Administration programs; Financial services, wilderness and public lands, and homeland security measures; Department of State authorities and personnel; Zoonotic disease prevention and global biosecurity.

Unexpected Items: 317 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 (176)

• Sec. 240: Research security training requirement for Federal research grant personnel: Requires every Federal research agency to require research security training certification for individuals listed on research and development award applications, and directs development of training modules and guidelines.
• Sec. 513: Modernization of the Selective Service System: Amends the Military Selective Service Act to extend registration to all citizens and persons regardless of sex, requires periodic Selective Service mobilization exercises and a public awareness campaign, and changes procedures and proof requirements for failure to register.
• Sec. 559J: Notice program relating to options for naturalization: Requires military recruiters to give recruits notice of naturalization options at enlistment, and requires the Department of Homeland Security to give former members notice of naturalization options and forms at separation.
• Sec. 644: Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks program: Amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to give lifetime passes to veterans and Gold Star Family members and annual passes to members of the Armed Forces and their dependents, under a military compensation title.
• Sec. 846: Support for industry participation in global standards organizations: Requires the Small Business Administration to run a program of competitive grants to small businesses to cover the costs of employee participation in standards development organizations.
• Sec. 861: Modifications to Governmentwide goals for small business concerns: Raises the Governmentwide small business contracting goals in the Small Business Act, for example to 25 percent for small business concerns and to stepped percentages for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for other groups.
• Sec. 862: Duties of small business development center counselors: Creates a cyber counseling certification program for small business development center employees and allows reimbursement of certification costs up to $350,000 per fiscal year. ($350,000)
• Sec. 865: Prohibition on contracting with persons with willful or repeated violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Requires the head of a Federal department or agency to start debarment proceedings against a person with four or more willful or repeated Fair Labor Standards Act violations recorded in the last four years.
• Sec. 869: Application of price evaluation preference for qualified HUBZone small business concerns to certain contracts: Amends the Small Business Act so the HUBZone price evaluation preference applies to unrestricted orders under unrestricted multiple award contracts and to the unrestricted portion of partially set-aside contracts, and requires the Small Business Administration to revise its rules within 90 days.
• Sec. 871: Authority for the Office of Hearings and Appeals to decide appeals relating to qualified HUBZone small business concerns: Requires the Small Business Administration to issue a rule within 1 year authorizing its Office of Hearings and Appeals to decide all appeals from formal protest determinations on HUBZone status.
• Sec. 872: Microloan program; definitions: Adds a definition of "State" to the Small Business Administration microloan program, listing the States, the District of Columbia and named territories.
• Sec. 875: Boots to Business Program: Establishes a Small Business Administration program called Boots to Business to provide entrepreneurship training to servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses and dependents for the first October 1 after enactment and the 4 following fiscal years.
• Sec. 876: Protests and appeals relating to eligibility of business concerns: Requires a concern, or the Small Business Administration if the concern fails to, to update the concern's status in the System for Award Management within 2 days after a final determination that it does not meet its claimed status.
• Sec. 878: Child care resource guide: Requires the Small Business Administration to publish and periodically update a resource guide for small business concerns operating as child care providers, in English and the 10 most commonly spoken other languages.
• Sec. 879: Boots to Business Program: Establishes a Small Business Administration program called Boots to Business to provide entrepreneurship training to servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses and dependents for the first October 1 after enactment and the 4 following fiscal years.
• Sec. 1075: Providing end-to-end electronic voting services for absent uniformed services voters in locations with limited or immature postal service: Requires a plan for end-to-end electronic voting services (registering, requesting, completing and returning a ballot) for absent uniformed services voters in participating States, with implementation in 2024 and 2026 if feasible.
• Sec. 1081: Technology pilot program to support ballot transmission for absent uniformed services and overseas votes: Directs a technology pilot program providing grants to State and local election jurisdictions to support ballot transmission for absent uniformed services and overseas voters in the November 2022 and November 2024 general elections.
• Sec. 1082: Recognition of the Memorial, Memorial Garden, and K9 Memorial of the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the official national memorial, memorial garden, and K9 memorial, respectively, of Navy SEALs and their predecessors: Recognizes the Memorial, Memorial Garden, and K9 Memorial of the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the official national memorial, memorial garden, and K9 memorial of Navy SEALs and their predecessors.
• Sec. 1090: National Museum of the Surface Navy: Designates the Battleship IOWA Museum in Los Angeles, managed by the Pacific Battleship Center, as the National Museum of the Surface Navy.
• Sec. 1110: Including active duty in the armed forces in meeting service requirement for Federal employee family and medical leave: Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act and title 5 so Federal officers and employees who served at least one year of honorable active duty meet the service requirement for family and medical leave.
• Sec. 1111: Treatment of hours worked under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement: Amends title 5 so that hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement are disregarded when determining eligibility for, or the amount of, overtime pay.
• Sec. 1113: Increase in allowance based on duty at remote worksites: Directs the Office of Personnel Management to assess the remote site pay allowance and propose a new inflation-adjusted rate, which then becomes the rate of the allowance for covered Federal employees.
• Sec. 1114: Limiting the number of local wage areas defined within a pay locality: Limits the Office of Personnel Management to defining no more than one local wage area within a pay locality, except in the locality designated "Rest of United States," starting in fiscal year 2022.
• Sec. 1115: National Digital Reserve Corps: Establishes a National Digital Reserve Corps in the General Services Administration to address digital and cybersecurity needs of Executive agencies and authorizes $30,000,000 for it. ($30,000,000)
• Sec. 1120: Federal employee annual survey: Requires the Office of Personnel Management to conduct an annual survey of Federal employees on leadership, work environment and other topics, and to publish the results.
• Sec. 1122: Parental bereavement leave for Federal employees: Amends title 5 to add leave for Federal employees because of the death of a son or daughter, including paid leave, notice and certification rules.
• Sec. 1132: Establishment of public website on Government policy and supporting positions: Requires the Office of Personnel Management to build a public website listing policy and supporting positions across the Federal Government and appointees, and ends publication of the Plum Book starting January 1, 2024.
• Sec. 1261: Statement of Congress regarding ongoing abuses against Uyghurs: States Congress's findings on abuses against Uyghurs and other groups, attributes them to the People's Republic of China, and calls on the President to direct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to take specified actions.
• Sec. 1325: Imposition of sanctions with respect to Nord Stream 2: Requires the President, within 15 days of enactment, to impose visa-ineligibility and property-blocking sanctions tied to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and repeals the national interest waiver in an earlier sanctions law.
• Sec. 1327: Rule of Law and Democratic Stability in Central America Act: Extends visa sanctions for corruption in Central America, conditions security-force assistance for El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, creates a State Department fellowship program, and authorizes $10,000,000 for rule-of-law and anti-corruption activities. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 1330: Transnational repression accountability and prevention: Directs U.S. positions on INTERPOL reforms, requires reports on INTERPOL abuse, bars extradition based solely on a Red Notice, and amends title 31 to bar financial institutions from ending or denying service solely because of a Red Notice.
• Sec. 1333: Sense of Congress relating to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: States a sense of Congress that Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan should promptly reach an agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
• Sec. 1344: Modification of authority of the President under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018: Amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 by inserting "security, or" before "intelligence" in a provision on presidential authority.
• Sec. 1373: Women and children protection compacts: Authorizes the President to enter multi-year bilateral Women and Children Protection Compacts of up to 6 years with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras on violence against women and children, with authority ending September 30, 2023.
• Sec. 1374: Authorization of assistance: Authorizes $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 for assistance under the Women and Children Protection Compacts, and bars direct budgetary support to the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. ($25,000,000)
• Sec. 1375: Congressional notification: Requires the Secretary of State to send Congress a copy and summary of a proposed Compact at least 15 days before entering one with the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador.
• Sec. 1376: Compact progress reports and briefings: Requires annual progress reports on the Compacts covering gender-based violence data in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and a briefing within 180 days of enactment.
• Sec. 1414: Establishment of Southern New England Regional Commission: Creates a Southern New England Regional Commission covering listed counties in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and applies the existing regional commission appropriations authorization to it beginning in fiscal year 2022.
• Sec. 2808: Improved congressional oversight and public transparency of military construction contract awards: Amends the Small Business Act so that, for four years, a subcontract to a small business with its principal office in the same State as, or within 60 miles of, the work counts double toward federal subcontracting goals; also sets a local-hire preference for military construction contracts.
• Sec. 3114: Report on Runit Dome and related hazards: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to seek an agreement with a non-federal entity for a report on climate effects and other hazards at the Runit Dome site, including a plan and costs to relocate the waste.
• Sec. 3511: Effective period for issuance of documentation for recreational vessels: Lets owners or operators of recreational vessels choose a 1-to-5-year effective period for a certificate of documentation or its renewal.
• Sec. 5002: Clarifying amendments to definitions: Replaces the definition of State in the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Act with a list of the 50 States, the District of Columbia and named territories and freely associated states, and adds "a resident of a State" to another definition.
• Sec. 5003: Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Awards: Adds research internships to the Goldwater scholarship and fellowship awards for undergraduates in natural sciences, engineering and mathematics, with priority for students at community colleges and specified minority-serving institutions.
• Sec. 5004: Stipends: Provides that each person awarded a Goldwater research internship receives a stipend set by the Board, not to exceed the maximum stipend for a scholarship or fellowship.
• Sec. 5005: Scholarship and research internship conditions: Sets conditions on payments to Goldwater research interns, including satisfactory proficiency and no outside gainful employment, and lets the Foundation require reports from them.
• Sec. 5006: Sustainable investments of funds: Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to invest up to 40 percent of funds the Goldwater Foundation receives after enactment in securities other than U.S. public debt securities, if the Board makes a determination and the securities trade in established U.S. markets.
• Sec. 5007: Administrative provisions: Changes staffing and pay provisions for the Goldwater Foundation and caps spending at 5 percent of its annual operating budget each for career-support programs and for fundraising activities.
• Sec. 5113: Study and report on housing and service needs of survivors of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking: Directs the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness to study housing and services for survivors of trafficking and people at risk of trafficking, and to report within 1 year.
• Sec. 5118: Inclusion of veterans in housing planning: Amends public housing agency plan and comprehensive housing affordability strategy laws to add veterans, and requires HUD to revise its consolidated plan regulations to include information on veterans.
• Sec. 5119: Annual report on housing assistance to veterans: Requires an annual HUD report on its veteran-related housing activities and authorizes $1,000,000 for a periodic assessment of the housing needs of very low-income veteran families. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 5126: Report by the President on current status of activities relating to COVID–19 testing under the Defense Production Act of 1950: Requires the President to report to Congress on efforts under section 3101 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and on spending of the $10,000,000,000 appropriated for COVID-19 testing under the Defense Production Act. ($10,000,000,000)
• Sec. 5301: Great Lakes winter shipping: Directs a GAO report, Coast Guard data collection and a pilot program on Great Lakes icebreaking, and makes $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 available for icebreaker acquisition and design.
• Sec. 5302: Law Enforcement Attache Deployment: Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to hire, train and deploy at least 50 law enforcement attachés at U.S. embassies and other facilities abroad, and authorizes $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2030. ($150,000,000)
• Sec. 5701: Definition of Administrator: Defines 'Administrator' as the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for the marine mammal conservation title.
• Sec. 5702: Vessel speed restrictions in marine mammal habitat: Requires mandatory vessel speed restrictions in designated marine mammal areas. Authorizes $3,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026 to the Secretary and $3,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2024-2026 to the Coast Guard. Exempts Defense Department, Homeland Security and law enforcement vessels. ($3,000,000)
• Sec. 5703: Monitoring ocean soundscapes: Maintains and expands an Ocean Noise Reference Station Network with grants for underwater sound monitoring. Authorizes $1,500,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026. ($1,500,000)
• Sec. 5704: Grants for seaports to establish programs to reduce the impacts of vessel traffic and port operations on marine mammals: Creates a grant program for up to ten seaports to reduce threats to marine mammals from shipping and port operations. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 5705: Near real-time monitoring and mitigation program for large whales: Directs a near real-time large whale monitoring and mitigation program, starting with a North Atlantic right whale pilot project. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 5706: Grants to support technology that reduces underwater noise from vessels: Creates a Maritime Administration grant program for technology that reduces underwater noise from vessels. Authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022-2026. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 5707: Technology assessment for quieting United States Government vessels: Requires a report within 18 months identifying technologies that reduce underwater noise and evaluating their use in non-military U.S. Government vessels.
• Sec. 5801: Establishment of Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement as pilot program: Establishes, as a pilot program in the Library of Congress, an institute named for a person, supervised by a seven-member Advisory Board, located in Washington, DC.
• Sec. 5802: Purposes and authority of Alcee L. Hastings Leadership Institute for Inclusive Transatlantic Engagement: Sets the institute's purposes as training and exchanges for racially and ethnically diverse transatlantic leaders on democratic governance, and lets it develop programs to carry them out.
• Sec. 5803: Administrative provisions: Sets up the institute's Executive Director and staff outside competitive-service rules, treats staff as congressional employees, and adds the institute to the Congressional Accountability Act.
• Sec. 5804: Administrative provisions: Lists the Institute's powers, including contracts and grants, receiving Federal grants, charging fees, using staff assigned from agencies, and obtaining security clearances for its personnel.
• Sec. 5805: Definitions: Defines the Institute as the named institute established as a pilot program under section 5801, and defines its Advisory Board.
• Sec. 5806: Authorization of appropriations; disbursements: Authorizes such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022 and the 4 following years for the named institute, deems it a standing committee for foreign currency use, and allows foreign travel.
• Sec. 6002: Findings: States congressional findings about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Director of National Intelligence report on it, and related U.S. laws on human rights and Saudi Arabia.
• Sec. 6003: Sanctions with respect to foreign persons listed in the report of the Director of National Intelligence on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Requires visa ineligibility and revocation for each foreign person listed in a Director of National Intelligence report on the Khashoggi killing, with a presidential waiver and a suspension option tied to Saudi Arabia meeting listed criteria.
• Sec. 6004: Report on intimidation or harassment directed against individuals in the United States and other matters: Requires an annual report for 5 years from the Secretary of State identifying Saudi Arabian entities, instrumentalities, or agents engaged in a pattern of intimidation or harassment of individuals in the United States.
• Sec. 6005: Report on efforts to uphold human rights in United States security assistance programs with the Government of Saudi Arabia: Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on efforts to ensure U.S. security assistance programs with Saudi Arabia account for human rights.
• Sec. 6006: Report on certain entities connected to foreign persons on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on private, commercial, and nongovernmental entities controlled by persons named in the Director of National Intelligence report on the Khashoggi killing, including any sanctions status.
• Sec. 6402: Property disposition for affordable housing: Amends the law on transit assets so the Secretary may authorize transfer of no-longer-needed assets for transit-oriented development, with conditions on affordable housing units and a 30-year use period.
• Sec. 6404: Definition of State for purposes of Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968: Amends the definition of State in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by striking text after Northern Mariana Islands.
• Sec. 6405: Advancing Mutual Interests and Growing Our Success: Treats Portugal as a foreign state eligible for E nonimmigrant trader and investor status if it gives similar status to U.S. nationals, and changes E visa eligibility criteria for aliens who acquired nationality through financial investment.
• Sec. 6406: Department of Veterans Affairs Governors Challenge grant program: Creates the Department of Veterans Affairs Governors Challenge Program and an implementation grant program for veteran suicide prevention, with grants of up to $500,000 per year and authorizations of $10,000,000, $12,000,000 and $14,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 to 2024.
• Sec. 6407: Foreign Corruption Accountability: Authorizes the President to impose visa-related sanctions on foreign persons found to engage in public corruption against a United States person, with reports to Congress and a 6-year sunset.
• Sec. 6408: Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy: Requires the Attorney General to publish a public accounting of property tied to foreign government corruption that is forfeited to the United States.
• Sec. 6409: Expansion of scope of Department of Veterans Affairs open burn pit registry to include open burn pits in Egypt and Syria: Expands the Department of Veterans Affairs open burn pit registry to cover burn pits in Egypt and Syria in addition to the countries already listed.
• Sec. 6410: Extension of period of eligibility by reason of school closures due to emergency and other situations under Department of Veterans Affairs training and rehabilitation program for veterans with service-connected disabilities: Pauses the running of the eligibility period for Department of Veterans Affairs vocational rehabilitation when a veteran is prevented from participating by a covered reason such as school closure in an emergency.
• Sec. 6411: Extension of time limitation for use of entitlement under Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance programs by reason of school closures due to emergency and other situations: Pauses the time limit for using Montgomery GI Bill and Post-9/11 educational assistance when a covered reason such as an emergency school closure prevents study.
• Sec. 6413: Payments to individuals who served during World War II in the United States Merchant Marine: Creates a Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund in title 38 that pays one $25,000 payment to each eligible World War II merchant marine service member, and authorizes $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($125,000,000)
• Sec. 6419: Threshold for reporting additions to toxics release inventory: Blocks a toxics release inventory reporting regulation from applying to certain PFAS chemicals and substances unless the Administrator sets a 10,000 pound reporting threshold.
• Sec. 6420: National primary drinking water regulations for PFAS: Requires EPA to issue a national drinking water regulation for PFAS (including PFOA and PFOS) within 2 years, and bars financial penalties for violations until 5 years after the regulation is promulgated.
• Sec. 6421: PFAS data call: Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act PFAS reporting provision to cover only substances that contain at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.
• Sec. 6422: EPA requirement for submission of analytical reference standards for PFAS: Requires manufacturers of certain PFAS to submit analytical reference standards to EPA within 180 days, and bars recipients from commercial use of them.
• Sec. 6423: Review of Standard Occupational Classification System: Directs the Office of Management and Budget to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation within 30 days.
• Sec. 6424: Eligibility for interment in national cemeteries: Makes certain individuals who served with a special guerrilla unit or irregular forces from a base in Laos eligible for interment in national cemeteries, effective as if included in a 2018 law.
• Sec. 6425: Afghanistan Refuge Special Envoy: Establishes an Afghanistan Refuge Special Envoy in the Executive Office of the President, appointed by the President, to coordinate evacuation and resettlement of persons from Afghanistan, ending two years after enactment.
• Sec. 6428: Sense of Congress on role of human rights in reducing violence in Nigeria: States the sense of Congress on violence by extremist groups in Nigeria and on U.S. cooperation with Nigerian security forces; it creates no binding requirement.
• Sec. 6429: Treatment of paycheck protection program loan forgiveness of payroll costs under highway and public transportation project cost reimbursement contracts: Provides that no cost reduction or cash refund is due to transportation agencies on certain architectural and engineering cost-reimbursement contracts because of Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness of payroll costs; expires June 30, 2025.
• Sec. 6430: Grants to States for Seal of Biliteracy programs: Creates a competitive grant program for States to establish or improve Seal of Biliteracy programs and authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 6431: Annual report from the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans: Changes the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans report in title 38 from every even-numbered year to every year.
• Sec. 6432: Study on contamination of Coldwater Creek, Missouri: Directs EPA, with other agencies, to review radiological contamination cleanup near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri, report to Congress within 180 days, and install warning signage.
• Sec. 6433: Recognition and honoring of service of individuals who served in United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II: Treats service in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps from July 1, 1943 to December 31, 1948 as active duty for certain title 38 cemetery, headstone and marker benefits, and directs honorable discharges to be issued.
• Sec. 6436: Sense of Congress on recognizing women in the United States for their service in World War II and recognizing the role of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers in establishing the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women’s Army Corps: States the sense of Congress honoring women who served in military capacities in World War II and the role of Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers in establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Sec. 6439: Codification of the FedRAMP program: Establishes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in the General Services Administration for security authorization of cloud computing products used by agencies, creates a FedRAMP board and advisory committee, and authorizes $20,000,000 each year. ($20,000,000)
• Sec. 6440: Annual report on veteran access to gender specific services under Department of Veterans Affairs community care contracts: Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report on women veterans' access to gender specific services under community care arrangements with non-Department providers.
• Sec. 6441: Establishment of environment of care standards and inspections at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers: Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to set a policy on environment of care standards and inspections at VA medical centers, and makes a medical center ineligible for a five star rating unless it meets the standards.
• Sec. 6442: National Global War on Terrorism Memorial: Authorizes the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation to establish a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial in the Reserve at one of three listed sites, notwithstanding a provision of title 40.
• Sec. 6443: Amendments to annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Adds to the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices a description of each country's surveillance and use of advanced technology that affects privacy and human rights.
• Sec. 6446: Admission of essential scientists and technical experts to promote and protect National Security Innovation Base: Allows special immigrant status for certain scientists and technical experts working on National Security Innovation Base matters, capped at 10 principal aliens per year in fiscal years 2022 through 2030 and 100 per year after that.
• Sec. 6447: Contracts by the President, the Vice President, or a Cabinet Member: Amends section 431 of title 18, United States Code, to extend its coverage of contracts to the President, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet.
• Sec. 6448: Report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on foreign governments: Requires the Comptroller General to report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on foreign governments and certain non-state actors, including their effects on civilian populations and U.S. businesses.
• Sec. 6450: China Economic Data Coordination Center: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a China Economic Data Coordination Center within the Bureau of Economic Analysis to collect Chinese economic and financial data and report on it.
• Sec. 6451: Flight instruction or testing: Provides that authorized flight instructors and authorized additional pilots in certain flight testing are not deemed to operate aircraft for compensation or hire, and directs the FAA to conform its rules.
• Sec. 6452: Required notification and reports related to Peacekeeping Operations account: Requires the Secretary of State to notify Congress 15 days before obligating Peacekeeping Operations assistance and to submit annual reports for five years on related security assistance.
• Sec. 6454: Tick identification pilot program: Allows the CDC to award grants to States for a tick identification program, with priority for States that have more reported cases of Lyme disease.
• Sec. 6455: Preventing Sexual Harassment in Public Housing: Amends the Fair Housing Act to require annual tabulation of discrimination complaints, including sexual harassment complaints, and directs the Attorney General to establish an initiative on sexual harassment in housing.
• Sec. 6458: Authority for Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept unused COVID–19 vaccines for potential redistribution: Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept return of unused COVID-19 vaccines for possible redistribution, including to a foreign ally or partner.
• Sec. 6459: Pilot program to employ veterans in positions relating to conservation and resource management activities: Establishes a two-year pilot program to employ veterans in Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture positions relating to conservation and resource management.
• Sec. 6460: Use of veterans with medical occupations in response to national emergencies: Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to update web portals to identify veterans with medical occupations, share that information with States, and train covered veterans as intermediate care technicians.
• Sec. 6462: Pilot program on doula support for veterans: Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to run a 5-year pilot program providing doula services to pregnant and formerly pregnant veterans, with payment amounts recommended at no more than $3,500 per doula per veteran. ($3,500)
• Sec. 6463: Establishment of Afghan Threat Finance Cell: Requires the President to establish an interagency organization called the Afghan Threat Finance Cell to identify and disrupt illicit financial networks in Afghanistan, with annual briefings and a termination date three years after enactment.
• Sec. 6464: Determination of potential genocide or crimes against humanity in Ethiopia: Requires the Secretary of State to submit, within 60 days, a determination on whether actions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia constitute genocide or crimes against humanity.
• Sec. 6465: Attorney General report on war crimes and torture by United States citizens in Libya: Requires a report to congressional committees within 180 days of receiving a credible allegation of certain war crimes or torture offenses committed in Libya by or at the order of a U.S. citizen, including whether the Attorney General will review it.
• Sec. 6466: Review of implementation of United States sanctions with respect to violators of the arms embargo on Libya: Requires the President to report whether private companies listed in a U.N. Panel of Experts report on Libya arms embargo violations meet the criteria for sanctions under Executive Order 13726.
• Sec. 6467: Prohibition of Federal funding for induced or required undermining of security of consumer communications goods: Prohibits any Federal agency from using funds to require or induce private consumer software and hardware providers to add security vulnerabilities or weaken end-to-end encryption.
• Sec. 6468: Annual report on surveillance sales to repressive governments: Requires an annual report through 2040 by the Secretary of State on foreign persons that provided targeted digital surveillance items or services to governments in ways contrary to human rights.
• Sec. 6469: Review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats and human rights abusers: Requires the President to determine within 180 days whether any of 35 listed Russian persons and officials meet the criteria for Global Magnitsky sanctions.
• Sec. 6470: Modifications to and reauthorization of sanctions with respect to human rights violations: Amends the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to widen the grounds for sanctions to include corruption, add reporting elements, and repeal its sunset.
• Sec. 6471: Sense of Congress with respect to the production of baseload power in the United States: States the sense of Congress that a secure supply of U.S.-produced baseload power from coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear sources is critical to national security.
• Sec. 6472: Strategy and reporting related to United States engagement in Somalia: Requires the Secretaries of State and Defense to submit a strategy for U.S. diplomatic, humanitarian, development, counterterrorism and security priorities in Somalia, plus a report on recent events and annual updates.
• Sec. 6473: Prohibition on contributions to support the G5 Sahel Joint Force: Bars Federal funds for assessed U.N. contributions that support the G5 Sahel Joint Force.
• Sec. 6474: Menstrual products in public buildings: Requires menstrual products to be stocked free of charge in covered restrooms in Federal public buildings open to the public.
• Sec. 6475: Department of Veterans Affairs awareness campaign on fertility services: Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to run an awareness campaign on fertility treatments covered under VA medical benefits and report on it within 180 days.
• Sec. 6477: Corey Adams Green Alert Systems Technical Assistance: Directs the Secretary of Defense to give financial and technical assistance to States on Green Alert systems for locating missing veterans, authorizes $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, and reduces an Operation and Maintenance line by $2,000,000. ($2,000,000)
• Sec. 6478: Housing allowance for Federal wildland firefighters: Requires the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to provide a housing allowance to Federal wildland firefighters hired more than 50 miles from their primary residence.
• Sec. 6479: Mental health program for Federal wildland firefighters: Requires the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to establish a mental health program for Federal wildland firefighters and gives each 7 consecutive days of mental health leave per year.
• Sec. 6481: Prohibition on the use of funds for aerial fumigation in Colombia: Bars funds authorized by this Act from being used to directly conduct aerial fumigation in Colombia unless the Government of Colombia shows actions to adhere to national and local laws and regulations.
• Sec. 6482: Annual report on United States policy toward South Sudan: Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report on U.S. policy toward South Sudan within 90 days and annually for five years thereafter.
• Sec. 6483: Sense of Congress on the use of the Defense Production Act of 1950 for global vaccine production: States the sense of Congress that the President should use Defense Production Act authority to scale COVID-19 vaccine production and deployment globally.
• Sec. 6484: National Academies Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable: Amends the FY2020 NDAA roundtable provision to require an ad-hoc committee to study an independent non-profit entity to protect the U.S. research enterprise from foreign interference, and extends a date from 2024 to 2025.
• Sec. 6486: Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports: Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to add countries that are significant sources of illicit synthetic opioids to the definition of major drug-transit or producing countries and adds a fentanyl section to the annual narcotics strategy report.
• Sec. 6487: Department of Veterans Affairs report on supportive services and housing insecurity: Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report within one year on supportive services offered to veterans and any link to housing insecurity.
• Sec. 6488: Report on obstacles to veteran participation in Federal housing programs: Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report within one year on obstacles veterans face in receiving benefits under Federal housing programs.
• Sec. 6490: Jamal Khashoggi Press Freedom Accountability Act of 2021: Expands human rights reporting on violations against journalists, requires sanctions on foreign persons responsible for gross violations against journalists, and bars certain foreign assistance to implicated governmental entities, with waivers.
• Sec. 6494: Increase in length of post-employment ban on lobbying by certain former senior executive branch personnel: Amends 18 U.S.C. 207(c) to lengthen the post-employment lobbying ban for certain former senior executive branch personnel from one year to two years.
• Sec. 6495: Afghan refugees of special humanitarian concern: Requires the Secretary of State to designate defined groups of Afghan nationals as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian concern, with a six-month processing timeline.
• Sec. 6496: Establishment of Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Information Science: Amends the National Quantum Initiative Act to create a Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Information Science under the National Science and Technology Council.
• Sec. 6497: Report on effectiveness of Taliban sanctions: Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report within 180 days on the status of U.S. and U.N. sanctions on the Taliban and ways to enhance them.
• Sec. 6498: Report on net worth of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Requires the Secretary of State to report within 120 days on the estimated net worth and sources of income of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and family members.
• Sec. 6499: Report on assistance to Turkmenistan: Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on the impact of assistance provided to Turkmenistan.
• Sec. 6499C: Strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Requires the Secretary of State to develop and submit to congressional committees a strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and ASEAN within 180 days, and to have chiefs of mission distribute it to host governments.
• Sec. 6499D: Representation and leadership of United States in communications standards-setting bodies: Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to encourage participation in, and offer technical expertise for, 5G and future wireless standards-setting bodies, excluding companies it determines are not trusted.
• Sec. 6499E: Malign foreign talent recruitment program prohibition: Requires each Federal research agency to have covered individuals on research and development award proposals certify that they are not party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program from a foreign country of concern.
• Sec. 6499F: National equal pay enforcement task force: Establishes a National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force of four Federal agencies to coordinate equal pay law compliance, public education and enforcement, and to recommend and plan actions on pay inequity.
• Sec. 6499G: Ensuring that contractor employees on army corps projects are paid prevailing wages as required by law: Directs the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to give Army Corps districts uniform guidance on prevailing wage requirements, complaint investigation within 30 days, and public availability of certified payroll reports.
• Sec. 6499H: Definition of land use revenue under West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016: Amends the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 so that funds received as compensation for an easement described in subsection (e) count as land use revenue, to the extent specified in advance in an appropriations Act.
• Sec. 6499I: Amendment to Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to list individuals in specific named states and territories among those exposed by tests.
• Sec. 6499J: Limitation on licenses and other authorizations for export of certain items removed from the jurisdiction of the United States Munitions List and made subject to the jurisdiction of the Export Administration Regulations: Bars the Secretary of Commerce from granting export licenses for covered items valued at $1,000,000 or more until a certification is sent to committees, with a 15-day notice period for named countries and 30 days for others, and Congress may block by joint resolution. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 6499K: Study on factors affecting employment opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional credentials obtained in foreign countries: Requires the Secretary of Labor to study factors affecting U.S. employment opportunities for immigrants and refugees with professional credentials obtained abroad and report within 18 months.
• Sec. 6501: Definitions: Defines terms used in the remote and electronic notarization title, including communication technology, notarial officer, notarization and remotely located individual.
• Sec. 6502: Authorization to perform and minimum standards for electronic notarization: Authorizes a notary public to perform notarizations of electronic records in or affecting interstate commerce, with requirements for attaching and binding the notary's electronic signature to the record.
• Sec. 6503: Authorization to perform and minimum standards for remote notarization: Authorizes remote notarization for individuals not physically present, with identity verification, audio and visual recording and record-retention requirements for the notary.
• Sec. 6504: Recognition of notarizations in Federal court: Requires each United States court to recognize as valid any notarization by a notarial officer of any State if valid under that State's law or this title.
• Sec. 6505: Recognition by state of notarizations performed under authority of another State: Requires each State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when valid there and tied to a public act, record or proceeding, or to interstate commerce.
• Sec. 6506: Electronic and remote notarization not required: States that the notarization title does not require a notary public to perform electronic or remote notarizations or to use a technology the notary has not selected.
• Sec. 6507: Validity of notarizations; rights of aggrieved persons not affected; State laws on the practice of law not affected: Provides that failure to meet certain notarization requirements does not invalidate recognition of the notarization, while preserving aggrieved persons' other remedies and State laws on the practice of law.
• Sec. 6508: Exception to preemption: Lets State laws modify or supersede the federal notarization provisions only if they enact the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts or meet listed conditions, including keeping recordings at least 5 years.
• Sec. 6509: Standard of care; special notarial commissions: Preserves State authority to set standards of care, create special commissions or endorsements for electronic and remote notarization, and sanction notaries, and bars notarization by those lacking required State authorization.
• Sec. 7321: Rest and recuperation and overseas operations leave for Federal employees: Amends title 5 so any executive agency head may grant up to 20 days of paid rest and recuperation leave per leave year to employees in combat zones or high-risk posts, and up to 10 days of overseas operations leave.
• Sec. 7324: Competitive status for certain employees hired by Inspectors General to support the lead IG mission: Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 so the competitive-status provision for employees hired to support lead Inspector General oversight covers any of the Inspectors General specified in subsection (c).
• Sec. 595: Updates and preservation of memorials to chaplains at Arlington National Cemetery: Allows the Secretary of the Army to permit the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces to modify and update chaplain memorials on Chaplains Hill at Arlington National Cemetery, at no cost to the Federal Government.
• Sec. 757: Sense of Congress on designation of Military Heart Health Awareness Day: States the sense of Congress that a "Military Heart Health Awareness Day" should be designated.
• Sec. 1091: Sense of Congress honoring the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, home to the 436th Airlift Wing, the 512th Airlift Wing, and the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs: States the sense of Congress that the people of the United States should honor the personnel of Dover Air Force Base and recognize the work of its mortuary affairs operations.
• Sec. 1098: Observance of National Atomic Veterans Day: States the sense of Congress that Atomic Veterans Day should be observed annually and amends title 36 to require a yearly presidential proclamation of National Atomic Veterans Day.
• Sec. 1211: Clarification of certain matters regarding protection of Afghan allies: Amends the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 on special immigrant visa eligibility, including for Afghans employed under United States-funded cooperative agreements, grants or nongovernmental organizations.
• Sec. 1323: Limitation on use of funds for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter games in China: Bars use of funds authorized by this Act to provide transportation for U.S. officers or officials to attend the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in China on official business.
• Sec. 1326: Report on Azerbaijan: States congressional findings and a sense of Congress on Azerbaijan's detention of Armenian prisoners of war, and requires a report on U.S.-origin parts in drones, munitions use, and fighter recruitment in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• Sec. 1328: Department of State efforts regarding firearms trafficking to Mexico: Requires the Secretary of State to report within 180 days on State Department actions to disrupt firearms trafficking to Mexico, including actions on GAO recommendations.
• Sec. 1331: Combating global corruption: Requires the Secretary of State to publish an annual tiered ranking of all countries on anti-corruption efforts, evaluate sanctions for tier 3 countries and for Nord Stream 2 pipeline activity, and designate embassy anti-corruption points of contact.
• Sec. 1339: Report on Haiti: Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report within 180 days with a conflict assessment of Haiti, covering earthquake aftershocks, violence and impunity, gang activity, criminal-political links, and judicial independence.
• Sec. 1340: Strategy to counter violent extremism and armed conflict in Mozambique: Requires the Secretary of State, with USAID and the Secretary of Defense, to submit a strategy to counter violent extremism and armed conflict in Mozambique, with annual updates, congressional notification before obligating assistance, and a termination condition.
• Sec. 1343: Report on incidents of arbitrary detention, violence, and state-sanctioned harassment by the Government of Egypt against Americans: Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days, to report on incidents of arbitrary detention, violence, and harassment by the Government of Egypt against U.S. citizens and others, in Egypt and the United States.
• Sec. 1345: Report and determination on extrajudicial killings and torture by Egyptian Government security forces: Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days, to report on extrajudicial killings and torture by Egyptian security forces over seven years, including a determination on a pattern of gross human rights violations and the unit names added to a restricted list.
• Sec. 6401: FAA rating of civilian pilots of the Department of Defense: Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to revise its regulation so Department of Defense civilian pilots are eligible for ratings based on Department of Defense pilot qualifications, as military pilots are.

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• Sec. 214: Minority Institute for Defense Research: Directs a plan for a Minority Institute for Defense Research, authorizes grants to minority institutions, and requires defense research center contracts to include subcontracts of at least 5 percent with minority institutions starting October 1, 2026.
• Sec. 221: Requirement to maintain access to category 3 subterranean training facility: Requires the Department of Defense to keep continuing access to a category 3 subterranean training facility and allows a short-term lease with a provider, limited to a facility operational and deemed safe as of enactment.
• Sec. 326: Pilot program on use of sustainable aviation fuel: Sets up a sustainable aviation fuel pilot at two or more Department of Defense facilities, requiring at least one to have an onsite refinery near a major commercial airport that is seeking to increase use of such fuel.
• Sec. 346: Pilot program on implementation of mitigating actions to address vulnerabilities to critical defense facilities and associated defense critical electric infrastructure: Sets up a two-year pilot at at least three installations to mitigate electric infrastructure vulnerabilities, with one site in a Power Marketing Administration territory and particular consideration for facilities served by rural cooperatives or municipal entities.
• Sec. 374: Authority to establish Center of Excellence for radar systems and complementary workforce and education programs: Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a Center of Excellence for radar systems, and sets the location by proximity to existing radar system facilities that can facilitate partnership among the Department, industry, and an academic institution.
• Sec. 556: Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center: Allows the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute to confer a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language on graduates of its Foreign Language Center, in addition to the existing Associate of Arts degree.
• Sec. 559L: Speech disorders of cadets and midshipmen: Requires military service academy superintendents to test incoming cadets and midshipmen for speech disorders, provide results and a list of positions requiring the speech test, and furnish speech therapy on request.
• Sec. 758: Pilot program to improve military readiness through nutrition and wellness initiatives: Requires a six-month nutrition and wellness pilot program run by a single contractor that must also manufacture the dietary supplements at a facility it owns, chosen using criteria such as certifications, years in business and organizational relationships.
• Sec. 760: Priority for domestically sourced bovine heparin: Requires the Secretary of Defense to give priority to domestically sourced, fully traceable bovine heparin approved by the Food and Drug Administration when available.
• Sec. 816: Limitation on procurement of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain for naval vessels: Adds welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain to the list of items under the domestic sourcing limitation and provides that a manufacturer of that chain for naval vessels meets the requirement if it is part of the national technology and industrial base.
• Sec. 832: Defense supply chain risk assessment framework: Requires a defense supply chain risk framework that uses a "covered application" defined as a software-as-a-service application using decision science, commercial data, and machine learning, with listed features.
• Sec. 866: Domestically sourced alternatives: States that the Secretary of Defense should acquire domestically sourced alternatives for priority projects, including advanced AC-DC power converters for the dismounted soldier.
• Sec. 1117: Assessment of Accelerated Promotion Program suspension: Directs the Office of Personnel Management to assess pay differences for employees hired at four public shipyards during a set 2016 window, and to evaluate whether the Secretary can pay the difference with interest and promote them.
• Sec. 1537: United States-Israel cybersecurity cooperation: Creates a Department of Homeland Security grant program for cybersecurity research and technology, limited to joint ventures with Israeli entities or the Israeli government, and authorizes not less than $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($6,000,000)
• Sec. 1607: Clarification of domestic services and capabilities in leveraging commercial satellite remote sensing: Defines 'domestic' for commercial satellite remote sensing purposes to include companies operating in the United States that have active mitigation agreements under the National Industrial Security Program, effective as if included in the earlier 2021 Act.
• Sec. 2834: Congressional oversight of master plans for Army ammunition plants guiding future infrastructure, facility, and production equipment improvements: Requires the Secretary of the Army to submit master plans, and annual updates through March 31, 2026, for a set of five Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition plants without naming them.
• Sec. 2863: Pilot program on establishment of account for reimbursement for use of testing facilities at installations of the Department of the Air Force: Directs the Air Force to set up a pilot reimbursable account for use of testing facilities at no more than two installations drawn from those that fit the Flight Test Center construct and are funded through the Air Force research and development account.
• Sec. 3118: Release of reversionary interest in certain real property, Springfield, Ohio: Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to release, without reimbursement, a reversionary interest in one property, conditioned on a specific nonprofit acquiring title to it.
• Sec. 5532: Administration of wilderness: Lets the Secretary keep authorizing one competitive equestrian event, permitted since 2012, inside the Chinquapin Wilderness created by Sec. 5531.
• Sec. 5564: Administration of wilderness: Lets the Secretary of Agriculture issue special use authorizations for continued operation, maintenance and reconstruction of two existing water diversion facilities and one electrical distribution line in the San Rafael Wilderness Additions, including motorized equipment use.
• Sec. 5633: Special management areas: Lets the Secretary allow activities already authorized by permit or license, including helicopter access and a competitive running event permitted since 1992, to continue within the two designated Special Management Areas.
• Sec. 5644: Thompson Divide lease exchange: Lets the Secretary give credits toward bids, royalties or rentals on Federal oil and gas leases to leaseholders who relinquish Thompson Divide leases. Credit amounts equal bonus bids, rentals and preparation expenses.
• Sec. 902: Implementation of repeal of Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense: Strikes the clause that barred anyone who served as the Department of Defense Chief Management Officer before enactment from being designated to carry out the functions of that office.
• Sec. 1252: Statement of policy: Sets a policy of maintaining the ability to deny a fait accompli against a 'covered defense partner', defined by a list in a 2019 report plus a location within 100 miles off a strategic competitor's coast.
• Sec. 1613: Authority of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to engage in fundraising for certain nonprofit organizations: Allows the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to fundraise in an official capacity for nonprofit organizations that support Defense Intelligence Enterprise employees, former employees, and their dependents.

Funds a specific named project or event (47)

• Sec. 225: Funding for hypersonics advanced manufacturing: Authorizes $15,000,000 from a specified Defense-wide research line for hypersonics advanced manufacturing, offset by a $15,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 226: Funding increase for 3D printing of infrastructure: Increases research and development line 038 (PE 0603119A) by $12,500,000, offset by a $12,500,000 reduction to the Army Integrated Personnel and Pay System line 121. ($12,500,000)
• Sec. 227: Funding increase for cold weather capabilities: Increases Air Force applied research, materials line 005 (PE 0602102F) by $7,500,000, offset by a $7,500,000 reduction to the Army Integrated Personnel and Pay System line 121. ($7,500,000)
• Sec. 228: Funding for soldier lethality technology: Increases Army soldier lethality advanced technology line 037 (PE0603118A) by $8,000,000, offset by an $8,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080. ($8,000,000)
• Sec. 229A: Establishment of quantum network testbed program for Department of Air Force: Allows the Air Force to set up a quantum network testbed program and increases Air Force applied research line 014 by $10,000,000 for it, offset by a $10,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance line 080. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 302: Funding for Army Community Services: Increases the Army Community Services line (line 110) by $30,000,000, offset by $15,000,000 reductions each to Army Administration and Army Other Service Support. ($30,000,000)
• Sec. 303: Increase in funding for civil military programs: Increases the Civil Military Programs line by $35,281,000 for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program, offset by an equal reduction to the Office of Secretary of Defense line. ($35,281,000)
• Sec. 331: Inspection of piping and support infrastructure at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Hawai‘i: Directs the Navy to have an independent inspection of the pipeline system and supporting infrastructure at the named Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and to prepare a life-cycle sustainment plan; no dollar amount is stated.
• Sec. 506: Continued National Guard support for FireGuard program: Requires the Secretary of Defense to keep supporting the named FireGuard program with National Guard personnel until September 30, 2026, and limits reducing or transferring that support afterward without 30 days' written notice.
• Sec. 559: United States Naval Community College: Establishes in law the United States Naval Community College, with authority to provide instruction and confer degrees or credentials for Navy and Marine Corps personnel and Navy civilian employees.
• Sec. 559A: Codification of establishment of United States Air Force Institute of Technology: Codifies in law the establishment of the United States Air Force Institute of Technology in the Department of the Air Force, with research and instruction purposes.
• Sec. 751: Funding for pancreatic cancer research: Increases the Defense Health Program research authorization by $5,000,000 for pancreatic cancer research, all of it for a pancreatic cancer early detection initiative (EDI), and reduces Base Operations/Communications by the same amount. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 753: Funding for rapid screening under Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities program: Increases the Chemical and Biological Defense Program authorization (Line 82) by $4,500,000 for the Development of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, offset by a reduction to Defense Media Activity (Line 370). ($4,500,000)
• Sec. 754: Increased collaboration with NIH to combat triple negative breast cancer: Directs the Department of Defense to work with the National Institutes of Health on triple negative breast cancer and increases Defense Health Program funding by $10,000,000, offset by a $10,000,000 cut to Private Sector Care. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 1034: Authority to provide space and services to military welfare societies: Adds the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance to the list of military welfare societies that may be provided space and services under section 2566 of title 10.
• Sec. 1080: Commission on Afghanistan: Establishes the Commission on Afghanistan to examine the war and makes $5,000,000 of Department of Defense authorized funds available for its activities. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 1095: Availability of modular small arms range for Army Reserve in Puerto Rico: Requires the Secretary of the Army to ensure a modular small arms range is made available for the Army Reserve in Puerto Rico; no dollar amount is stated.
• Sec. 1099: Anomalous Health Incidents Interagency Coordinator: Creates an Anomalous Health Incidents Interagency Coordinator and authorizes $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to the Secretary of State, including to increase capacity and staffing for the State Department's Health Incident Response Task Force. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 1264: Establishment of China Watcher Program: Establishes a program called the China Watcher Program within the Department of State and authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter to carry it out. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 1307: Funding for the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence: Increases the amount authorized for the NATO Strategic Communication Center of Excellence by $5,000,000, offset by an equal $5,000,000 reduction to Space Force operation and maintenance, and directs the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to the Center. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 1363: Funding for civilian harm mitigation by Defense Security Cooperation Agency: Increases the Defense Security Cooperation Agency operation and maintenance authorization by $2,000,000, with $1,000,000 each designated for two named institutes for civilian harm mitigation, offset by a $2,000,000 reduction elsewhere. ($2,000,000)
• Sec. 1412: Authority for transfer of funds to joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for Captain James A. Lovell Health Care Center, Illinois: Allows the Secretary of Defense to transfer $137,000,000 of Defense Health Program operation and maintenance funds to the joint DoD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. ($137,000,000)
• Sec. 1413: Authorization of appropriations for Armed Forces Retirement Home: Authorizes $75,300,000 for fiscal year 2022 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. ($75,300,000)
• Sec. 1643: Missile defense radar in Hawaii: Expresses the sense of Congress that a discrimination radar be restored in Hawaii and requires a fiscal year 2023 certification that future-years funding is included and the radar is operational by December 31, 2028.
• Sec. 1644: Guam integrated air and missile defense system: Directs the Secretary of Defense to identify an architecture and acquisition approach for a 360-degree integrated air and missile defense capability for Guam and report on it within 60 days.
• Sec. 1649: Studies by private scientific advisory group known as JASON: Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an arrangement with the named scientific advisory group JASON for an updated study on missile defense discrimination, and requires a report on the group's contract status and funding level.
• Sec. 2105: Modification of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2021 project: Modifies a fiscal year 2021 Army project at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, changing its authorized amount from $114,000,000 to $146,000,000 and allowing a modified building design and outdoor recreation features.
• Sec. 2106: Additional authorized funding source for certain fiscal year 2022 project: Allows the Secretary of the Army to use additional funds for a $3,600,000 unspecified minor construction project for a recycling center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. ($3,600,000)
• Sec. 2404: Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 project: Keeps the authorization for one named fiscal year 2017 project (a hangar at Yokota Air Base, Japan, originally authorized at $39,466,000) in effect until October 1, 2023 or the enactment of the fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, whichever is later. ($39,466,000)
• Sec. 2821: Secretary of the Navy authority to support development and operation of National Museum of the United States Navy: Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter agreements with eligible nonprofit organizations to support the development and operation of the National Museum of the United States Navy, and to accept gifts and lease museum space for it.
• Sec. 3519: Coast Guard yard improvement: Requires $175,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 Coast Guard funds to be made available for improvements at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland. ($175,000,000)
• Sec. 4301: Operation and maintenance: Sets operation and maintenance funding tables for fiscal year 2022, including separate line-item increases for named organizations such as the Civil Air Patrol and Sea Cadets.
• Sec. 5109: United States contribution to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust at the International Monetary Fund: Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to contribute $200,000,000 on behalf of the United States to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust of the International Monetary Fund, and authorizes $200,000,000 to be appropriated for it. ($200,000,000)
• Sec. 5514: Trinity Lake visitor center: Authorizes the Forest Service to establish a visitor center in Weaverville, California; the section states no dollar amount.
• Sec. 5515: Del Norte County visitor center: Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish a visitor center in Del Norte County, California; the section states no dollar amount.
• Sec. 5617: Camp Hale National Historic Landscape: Establishes the Camp Hale Historic Preservation and Restoration Fund and authorizes $10,000,000 to be appropriated to it for historic interpretation, preservation, and restoration in and around the Camp Hale National Historic Landscape. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 6444: National security commission on synthetic biology: Establishes the National Security Commission on Synthetic Biology, increases a Defense-wide operation and maintenance line by $10,000,000 in support of it, and reduces Defense Health Program Private Sector Care by $10,000,000. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 6461: Critical Technology Security Centers: Directs DHS to fund at least four named Critical Technology Security Centers at universities or research centers, and authorizes $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
• Sec. 6485: Prohibition on Federal Funding to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc: Prohibits any funds authorized under this Act from being made available for any purpose to the named organization EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
• Sec. 7111: National Museum of American Diplomacy: Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide by contract, grant or otherwise for visitor and educational services at the National Museum of American Diplomacy, to retain revenues as cost recovery, and to sell, trade, transfer or loan museum items.
• Sec. 135: Procurement authority for certain parts of the ground-based strategic deterrent cryptographic device: Authorizes life-of-type procurement of covered parts for the KS–75 cryptographic device under the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program and makes $10,900,000 of fiscal year 2022 missile procurement funds available for those parts. ($10,900,000)
• Sec. 137: Limitation on availability of funds for retirement of RC–26B aircraft: Bars use of fiscal year 2022 Air Force funds to retire RC–26B aircraft and allows transfers of up to $18,500,000 (operation and maintenance) and up to $13,000,000 (military personnel) in support of the RC–26B platform.
• Sec. 731: Grant program for increased cooperation on post-traumatic stress disorder research between United States and Israel: Directs the Secretary of Defense to award grants for post-traumatic stress disorder research carried out jointly by U.S. entities and an entity in Israel, under a named 1972 agreement.
• Sec. 755: Funding for post-traumatic stress disorder: Increases Defense Health Program funding by $2,500,000 for post-traumatic stress disorder, offset by a $2,500,000 reduction to Private Sector Care. ($2,500,000)
• Sec. 2305: Modification of authority to carry out military construction projects at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida: Allows the Secretary of the Air Force to construct specified quantities of facilities for named earlier-authorized projects at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
• Sec. 4501: Other authorizations: Other authorizations funding table that includes line items funding specifically named projects and facilities, such as research use of a named university building. Table figures are in thousands of dollars.
• Sec. 6427: Authorization for United States participation in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations: Authorizes U.S. participation in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and makes certain foreign assistance authorizations available for U.S. contributions to it, with no dollar amount stated.

Different amount for specific places or groups (3)

• Sec. 569E: Continued assistance to schools with significant numbers of military dependent students: Directs $50,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 Defense-wide operation and maintenance funds to assistance for local educational agencies with significant numbers of military dependent students, and $20,000,000 for payments for children with severe disabilities, of which $10,000,000 goes to agencies with higher concentrations of such children.
• Sec. 873: Amendments to contracting authority for certain small business concerns: Raises contract award dollar thresholds, for example from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 and from $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 to $8,000,000, for the 8(a), women-owned, HUBZone and service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs.
• Sec. 6222: State and local cybersecurity grant program: Creates a State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program authorized at $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with a 0.25 percent baseline share for each named territory and 0.75 percent for each other State, and exempts the District of Columbia, named territories, and Tribes from the 80 percent pass-through rule.

Exception or delay for a subset (50)

• Sec. 345: Pilot program on digital optimization of organic industrial base maintenance and repair operations: Creates a pilot program to digitize at least one covered depot, defining covered depots as those under 10 U.S.C. 2476(e) except four named naval shipyards.
• Sec. 519C: Seaman to Admiral-21 program: credit towards retirement: Requires the Navy to count baccalaureate-degree service toward years of service and retired pay for Seaman to Admiral-21 participants from fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for whom no acknowledgment to the contrary can be found.
• Sec. 727: Exemption from required physical examination and mental health assessment for certain members of the reserve components: Exempts certain reserve component members from the required separation physical examination and mental health assessment unless they are retiring, discharged or dismissed.
• Sec. 834: Enhanced domestic content requirement for major defense acquisition programs: Sets domestic content thresholds for manufactured articles procured under chapter 83 of title 41 but excludes articles that consist wholly or predominantly of iron, steel, or a combination of them.
• Sec. 838: Statement of policy and determination related to covered optical transmission equipment or services: Directs the Secretary of Defense to start a process on whether buying covered optical transmission equipment tied to entities in the People's Republic of China poses an unacceptable risk. It delays the statutory prohibition and reimbursement eligibility for such equipment until 1 year after it is listed.
• Sec. 860: Waiver authorization streamlining: Exempts the transfer of an 8(a) contract, or of ownership and control of a concern performing one, from an existing requirement when the acquiring small business is a program participant found eligible by the Small Business Administration.
• Sec. 864: Exemption of certain contracts awarded to small business concerns from category management requirements: Exempts contracts awarded under certain Small Business Act programs and classified as tier 0 from category management requirements and from related goal measurements.
• Sec. 877: Exemption of certain contracts from the periodic inflation adjustments to the acquisition-related dollar threshold: Exempts the dollar thresholds in sections 3131 through 3134 of title 40 from periodic inflation adjustments, leaving any modification made by regulation in effect on the date of enactment in place.
• Sec. 1017: Availability of funds for retirement or inactivation of Ticonderoga class cruisers: Bars use of fiscal year 2022 Department of Defense funds to retire, inactivate, or store a cruiser, except that funds may be used to retire four named vessels.
• Sec. 1502: Enterprise-wide procurement of commercial cyber threat information products: Sets up enterprise-wide procurement of commercial cyber threat information products at the Department of Defense, but exempts the National Security Agency from the coordination and independent-purchase limits.
• Sec. 2104: Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 project: Keeps one fiscal year 2017 Army construction authorization, originally $2,700,000, in effect until October 1, 2023 or a later fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, despite the general three-year expiration. ($2,700,000)
• Sec. 2304: Extension of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2017 projects: Keeps ten listed fiscal year 2017 Air Force construction authorizations in effect until October 1, 2023 or a later fiscal year 2024 authorization Act, despite the general three-year expiration.
• Sec. 2511: Republic of Korea funded construction projects: Lets the Secretary of Defense accept six Republic of Korea-funded construction projects listed in a table, and applies section 2350k of title 10 to one of them, the Black Hat Intelligence Fusion Center at Camp Humphreys (listed at $149,000,000). ($149,000,000)
• Sec. 2702: Conditions on closure of Pueblo Chemical Depot and Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, Colorado: Bars the Secretary of the Army from closing, realigning, or disposing of property at Pueblo Chemical Depot and its pilot plant pending closure plans, except for disposal to the Local Redevelopment Authority, and allows grants to that Authority.
• Sec. 2851: Modification of restrictions on use of former Navy property conveyed to University of California, San Diego, California: Modifies the use restriction on former Navy property (former Camp Matthews) conveyed to the regents of the University of California to allow technology innovation and entrepreneurship programs and innovation incubators.
• Sec. 3517: Coastwise endorsement: Allows the Coast Guard's department to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for one named vessel despite the general documentation rule in section 12112 of title 46.
• Sec. 4001: Authorization of amounts in funding tables: Requires merit-based or competitive selection for funding-table amounts, but exempts projects in section 4201 marked with the abbreviation CPF (Community Project Funding).
• Sec. 5503: Administrative provisions: Sets management rules for the designated Colorado wilderness areas, including allowing military helicopter overflights and Colorado Army National Guard training exercises and allowing continued running events in two named wilderness areas.
• Sec. 5543: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Utility facilities and rights-of-way: States that the subtitle does not affect existing rights-of-way held by Pacific Gas and Electric Company in four named areas. It also allows upgrade or replacement of the company's listed utility lines and facilities, and directs the Secretary to publish access plans.
• Sec. 5584: Management: Within the management rules for the San Gabriel National Recreation Area, it states that a section of title 54 on park-related matters does not apply to three named facilities.
• Sec. 5594: Administration of Wilderness Areas and Additions: Allows one named competitive running event to continue in designated wilderness additions in substantially the same manner and degree as it was operated and permitted in 2015.
• Sec. 5613: Williams Fork Mountains Wilderness: Designates an area as potential wilderness and delays its wilderness designation until a livestock grazing determination is made for two named allotments and range improvements are done or lapse, with motorized equipment allowed for those improvements.
• Sec. 5619: Rocky Mountain National Park Potential Wilderness boundary adjustment: Removes about 15.5 acres from the Rocky Mountain National Park potential wilderness boundary to provide for ongoing maintenance and use of portions of the Trail River Ranch and associated property.
• Sec. 5642: Definitions: Defines 'Thompson Divide lease' to leave out oil or gas leases tied to a Wolf Creek Storage Field development right (listed by lease number) or already expired or cancelled, so those leases fall outside the lease exchange.
• Sec. 6241: Periods of performance for public transportation security assistance grants: Sets a minimum 36-month availability period for public transportation security grant funds, with a longer 55-month minimum for grants used for two specified purposes.
• Sec. 6412: Exemption of certain Homeland Security fees for certain immediate relatives of an individual who received the Purple Heart: Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to exempt certain immediate relatives of Purple Heart recipients from fees, including biometrics fees, on naturalization applications and Form I-360 petitions.
• Sec. 6418: Addition of Virgin Islands visa waiver to Guam and Northern Mariana Islands visa waiver: Extends the existing visa waiver for visitors to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands to the Virgin Islands of the United States, for stays up to 45 days, and requires an administrative processing fee for entry into the Virgin Islands.
• Sec. 6489: Inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall of the names of the lost crew members of the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969: Directs the Secretary of Defense to authorize adding the names of 74 U.S.S. Frank E. Evans crew members to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and exempts these activities from the Commemorative Works Act.
• Sec. 7112: Extension of period for reimbursement of fishermen for costs incurred from the illegal seizure and detention of U.S.-flag fishing vessels by foreign governments: Replaces the date limit on Fishermen's Protective Act reimbursement payments with a requirement that payments be provided in appropriation Acts, and applies this retroactively so agreements and payments can cover claims that would otherwise have expired.
• Sec. 7301: Defense Base Act insurance waivers: Requires the Secretary of State to apply within 30 days for Defense Base Act insurance waivers for countries that were waived before January 2017 and have no current waiver.
• Sec. 7319: Waiver authority for individual occupational requirements of certain positions: Lets the Secretary of State waive any or all individual occupational requirements for State Department employees or applicants in one occupational series who have significant scientific, technological, engineering, or mathematical expertise.
• Sec. 7320: Appointment of employees to the Global Engagement Center: Lets the Secretary of State appoint Global Engagement Center employees for a 3-year period, extendable by up to two more years, without regard to competitive-service appointment rules and pay-setting provisions of title 5.
• Sec. 7603: Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy: Exempts State Department information collection for audience research, monitoring, and evaluation under certain public diplomacy and foreign assistance laws from the Paperwork Reduction Act, and provides a limited Privacy Act-related authority for records used in that research.
• Sec. 6223: Strategy: Requires a homeland security strategy on cybersecurity for State, local, Tribal and territorial governments, and exempts actions to implement it from the Paperwork Reduction Act.
• Sec. 7323: Department of State Student Internship Program: Sets up a paid Department of State student internship program and requires unpaid internships to become paid within two years, but exempts the Virtual Student Federal Service internship program from that requirement.
• Sec. 522: Commanding officer's non-judicial punishment: Requires a commanding officer to get legal guidance before imposing certain non-judicial punishments, but exempts the punishments in subparagraphs (E) and (F) of subsection (b)(2) from that requirement. It also allows a case-by-case waiver for national security.
• Sec. 539F: Sentencing reform: Changes court-martial sentencing and creates a Military Sentencing Parameters and Criteria Board. It states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Board or its advisory groups.
• Sec. 720: Department of Defense procedures for exemptions from mandatory COVID–19 vaccines: Directs the Secretary of Defense to set uniform procedures under which members of the Armed Forces may be exempted from an otherwise mandated COVID–19 vaccine for administrative, medical, or religious reasons, including a prior-infection antibody test.
• Sec. 801: Acquisition workforce educational partnerships: Creates an acquisition workforce education program within the Defense Acquisition University. It exempts the reports required under this section from the termination requirements that apply to certain other congressional reports.
• Sec. 1039B: Consideration of human rights records of recipients of support of special operations to combat terrorism: Adds human rights considerations to special operations support authority and bars funds for support to units with credible gross human rights violations. The Secretary may waive the bar for extraordinary circumstances, and it does not apply where corrective steps were taken or for disaster relief or emergencies.
• Sec. 1346: Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program: Establishes the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program with strategies and reports. It exempts Department of Defense activities under title 10 from the budget-materials description requirement.
• Sec. 1513: Protective Domain Name System within the Department of Defense: Requires each Department of Defense component to use the Department's Protective Domain Name System within 120 days. The Secretary may exempt a component for any reason except cost or technical application.
• Sec. 1535: Cyber Incident Review Office: Creates a Cyber Incident Review Office in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and sets incident reporting rules for covered entities. It exempts actions under the section from the Paperwork Reduction Act chapter and exempts submitted reports from public records laws.
• Sec. 2803: Increased transparency and public availability of information regarding solicitation and award of subcontracts under military construction contracts: Requires public posting of subcontract solicitations of $250,000 or more and notices of awards under military construction contracts. It excludes classified construction projects from these requirements.
• Sec. 5124: Working Group to support innovation with respect to digital assets: Establishes a joint SEC and CFTC working group on digital assets that reports on regulation and market recommendations. It states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Working Group.
• Sec. 6202: Employee engagement steering committee and action plan: Creates a Department of Homeland Security employee engagement steering committee and states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the committee or its subcommittees.
• Sec. 6209: Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign enhancement: Adds web-based training and a Blue Campaign Advisory Board to the Department of Homeland Security, and states that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to the Board or to its consultations.
• Sec. 6437: Protection of Saudi Dissidents Act of 2021: Restricts certain arms transfers to Saudi Arabian intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies, but exempts transfers for use in defending Saudi Arabian territory or U.S. personnel and facilities in Saudi Arabia.
• Sec. 6445: Requirements relating to unmanned aircraft systems: Bars executive agencies from buying or operating unmanned aircraft systems from covered foreign entities, but exempts the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense and the Attorney General for research, testing, counterterrorism and similar purposes.
• Sec. 8006: Global zoonotic disease task force: Establishes the Global Zoonotic Disease Task Force and states that section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to it.

Delays or blocks a specific regulation (4)

• Sec. 837: Ensuring consideration of the national security impacts of uranium as a critical mineral: Requires a Department of Defense assessment of uranium ceasing to be a designated critical mineral and bars any change to or elimination of that designation until the resulting report is submitted.
• Sec. 843: Modifications to printed circuit board acquisition restrictions: Moves the start date of the printed circuit board acquisition restriction in section 2533d of title 10 from January 1, 2023 to January 1, 2027, and narrows which circuit boards the restriction covers.
• Sec. 2844: Conditions on revision of Unified Facilities Criteria or Unified Facilities Guide Specifications regarding use of variable refrigerant flow systems: Requires written notice to the House Committee on Armed Services at least 30 days before any revision to Unified Facilities Criteria or Guide Specifications on variable refrigerant flow systems takes effect.
• Sec. 1642: Notification of changes to non-standard acquisition and requirements processes and responsibilities of Missile Defense Agency: Bars the Secretary of Defense from changing specified missile defense acquisition and requirements processes, including a Department of Defense directive, until consultations, certifications, a report, and a 120-day period are completed.

Changes a government process (4)

• Sec. 557: Allocation of authority for nominations to the military service academies in the event of the death, resignation, or expulsion from office of a member of Congress: Sets rules for who makes service academy nominations when a Senator or Representative dies, resigns or is expelled before the nomination deadline, shifting the nominations to the other Senator or the State's Senators.
• Sec. 1067: Extension of National Guard authorities to Mayor of the District of Columbia: Changes the officer who serves as commander-in-chief of the District of Columbia militia and who makes appointments and calls it to duty, from the President of the United States to the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
• Sec. 1105: Comptroller General review of Naval Audit Service operations: Requires a Comptroller General review of the Naval Audit Service and, until 180 days after the report, bars moving or eliminating its functions and limits staff reductions to 10 percent below the January 1, 2021 level.
• Sec. 8010: Establishment of conservation corps: Directs the USAID Administrator to set up a Conservation Corps that can enroll U.S. citizens and nationals as volunteers for short service abroad, including under hardship conditions, to assist demonstration projects.

Condition defined by a narrow set of criteria (1)

• Sec. 1220K: Prohibition on funding to certain governments of Afghanistan: Bars Department of Defense funds for Afghanistan programs, projects or activities with the government of Afghanistan if that government includes any individual belonging to an organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Program name includes a political figure’s name (7)

• Sec. 1084: Name of Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune: Renames Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune as the Walter B. Jones Naval Medical Center and makes references to the old name refer to the new name.
• Sec. 1086: Name of Air Force Utah test and training range: Renames the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range as the Bishop Utah Test and Training Range and makes references to the old name refer to the new name.
• Sec. 1087: Name of Air Force Utah Test and Training Range Consolidated Mission Control Center: Renames the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range Consolidated Mission Control Center as the Robert W. Bishop Utah Test and Training Range Combined Mission Control Center.
• Sec. 5001: Short title: Gives this title the short title "Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Modernization Act of 2021", which includes the name of a political figure.
• Sec. 7306: Sense of Congress regarding certain fellowship programs: Expresses the sense of Congress that Department fellowships promoting employment of candidates from under-represented groups, including three named fellowship programs, are smart investments for the national security workforce.
• Sec. 7409: Payne fellowship authorization: Allows the undergraduate and graduate components of a fellowship program named for a person to conduct outreach to students of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and directs a review of past programs to increase minority representation.
• Sec. 747: Sense of Congress on National Warrior Call Day: States the sense of Congress supporting the designation of an annual "National Warrior Call Day" and encouraging Americans to call a warrior.

What it does

• Sec. 101: Authorizes fiscal year 2022 appropriations for procurement for the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, the Air Force and Space Force, and Defense-wide activities, as specified in the funding table in section 4101.
• Sec. 401: Authorizes active duty strengths as of September 30, 2022: Army 485,000, Navy 346,200, Marine Corps 178,500, Air Force 328,300, and Space Force 8,400.
• Sec. 123: Allows the Secretary of the Navy to enter one or more multiyear contracts for up to 15 Arleigh Burke class Flight III guided missile destroyers.
• Sec. 314: Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2023, the Department of Defense from disposing of covered waste in open-air burn pits outside the United States during contingency operations, and lets the President exempt a location.
• Sec. 532: Requires each military service to detail a special victim prosecutor, who has exclusive authority over decisions to prefer or refer charges for special victim offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
• Sec. 621: Changes parental leave for service members by striking twelve weeks and inserting 18 weeks for the primary caregiver, and striking 21 days and inserting 12 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
• Sec. 921: Establishes a Space National Guard as part of the organized militia of the States and Territories, and a Space National Guard of the United States as the reserve component of the Space Force.
• Sec. 1001: Lets the Secretary of Defense transfer authorizations between accounts for fiscal year 2022, up to $6,500,000,000, for items of higher priority than those the funds come from.
• Sec. 2101: Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out military construction projects at listed installations inside and outside the United States, such as $111,000,000 at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
• Sec. 3101: Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out new National Nuclear Security Administration plant projects, including $13,827,000 for Project 22–D–513 at Sandia National Laboratories.
• Sec. 3501: Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Transportation for Maritime Administration programs, including $90,532,000 for United States Merchant Marine Academy operations.
• Sec. 4001: Authorizes the obligation and expenditure of the dollar amounts specified in the Division D funding tables, subject to the availability of appropriations.
• Sec. 5101: Prohibits debt collectors from threatening a covered servicemember with a reduction in rank, security clearance revocation, or prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
• Sec. 5402: Bars federal banking regulators from terminating deposit insurance or taking other adverse action against a depository institution solely because it serves a cannabis-related legitimate business.
• Sec. 6222: Establishes a State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program and authorizes $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 15 Oct 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.

Sources

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