Bills 113hr5016rh

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Union Calendar No. 380

113TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5016
[Report No. 113508]
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 2, 2014
Mr. CRENSHAW, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the fol-
lowing bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for financial services and general gov-
ernment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015,
and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other pur- 5
poses, namely: 6
TITLE I 7
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 8
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 11
including operation and maintenance of the Treasury 12
Building and Annex; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 13
maintenance, repairs, and improvements of, and purchase 14
of commercial insurance policies for, real properties leased 15
or owned overseas, when necessary for the performance 16
of official business, $175,000,000: Provided, That, of the 17
amount appropriated under this heading 18
(1) not to exceed $2,000,000 is for the Office 19
of the Secretary/Deputy Secretary; 20
(2) not to exceed $2,000,000 is for the Office 21
of Legislative Affairs; 22
(3) not to exceed $200,000 is for official recep- 23
tion and representation expenses; 24
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(4) not to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen 1
emergencies of a confidential nature to be allocated 2
and expended under the direction of the Secretary of 3
the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on the 4
Secretarys certificate; and 5
(5) up to $21,000,000 shall remain available 6
until September 30, 2016. 7
OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
For the necessary expenses of the Office of Terrorism 11
and Financial Intelligence to safeguard the financial sys- 12
tem against illicit use and to combat rogue nations, ter- 13
rorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction 14
proliferators, money launderers, drug kingpins, and other 15
national security threats, $120,000,000: Provided, That of 16
the amount appropriated under this heading: (1) not to 17
exceed $28,000,000 is available for administrative ex- 18
penses; and (2) $15,000,000, to remain available until 19
September 30, 2017: Provided further, That the unobli- 20
gated balances of prior year appropriations made available 21
for terrorism and financial intelligence activities under the 22
heading Department of the TreasuryDepartmental Of- 23
ficesSalaries and Expenses shall be transferred to, and 24
merged with, this account. 25
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 3
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 4
General Act of 1978, $35,351,000, including hire of pas- 5
senger motor vehicles; of which not to exceed $100,000 6
shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a con- 7
fidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 8
direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; and 9
of which not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for official 10
reception and representation expenses. 11
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX 12
ADMINISTRATION 13
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector 15
General for Tax Administration in carrying out the In- 16
spector General Act of 1978, including purchase and hire 17
of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 18
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as 19
may be determined by the Inspector General for Tax Ad- 20
ministration; $158,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall re- 21
main available until September 30, 2016; of which not to 22
exceed $500,000 shall be available for unforeseen emer- 23
gencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and ex- 24
pended under the direction of the Inspector General for 25
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Tax Administration; and of which not to exceed $1,500 1
shall be available for official reception and representation 2
expenses. 3
SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE TROUBLED 4
ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Special 7
Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the 8
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Public 9
Law 110343), $34,234,000. 10
FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK 11
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes En- 13
forcement Network, including hire of passenger motor ve- 14
hicles; travel and training expenses of non-Federal and 15
foreign government personnel to attend meetings and 16
training concerned with domestic and foreign financial in- 17
telligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regula- 18
tion; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; not to exceed 19
$7,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 20
and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, 21
with or without reimbursement, $108,661,000, of which 22
not to exceed $34,335,000 shall remain available until 23
September 30, 2017. 24
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TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND 1
(RESCISSION) 2
Of the unobligated balances available under this 3
heading, $750,000,000 are rescinded. 4
BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE 5
For necessary expenses of operations of the Bureau 7
of the Fiscal Service, $348,184,000; of which not to ex- 8
ceed $4,210,000, to remain available until September 30, 9
2017, is for information systems modernization initiatives; 10
and of which $5,000 shall be available for official reception 11
and representation expenses. 12
In addition, $165,000, to be derived from the Oil 13
Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse administrative 14
and personnel expenses for financial management of the 15
Fund, as authorized by section 1012 of Public Law 101 16
380. 17
ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU 18
For necessary expenses of carrying out section 1111 20
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, including hire of 21
passenger motor vehicles, $96,000,000; of which not to ex- 22
ceed $6,000 for official reception and representation ex- 23
penses; not to exceed $50,000 for cooperative research and 24
development programs for laboratory services; and provi- 25
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sion of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies 1
with or without reimbursement. 2
UNITED STATES MINT 3
UNITED STATES MINT PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FUND 4
Pursuant to section 5136 of title 31, United States 5
Code, the United States Mint is provided funding through 6
the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund for costs 7
associated with the production of circulating coins, numis- 8
matic coins, and protective services, including both oper- 9
ating expenses and capital investments: Provided, That 10
the aggregate amount of new liabilities and obligations in- 11
curred during fiscal year 2015 under such section 5136 12
for circulating coinage and protective service capital in- 13
vestments of the United States Mint shall not exceed 14
$20,000,000. 15
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 16
FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 17
To carry out the Riegle Community Development and 18
Regulatory Improvements Act of 1994 (subtitle A of title 19
I of Public Law 103325), including services authorized 20
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates 21
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent 22
to the rate for EX-3, $230,000,000. Of the amount appro- 23
priated under this heading 24
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(1) not less than $177,000,000 is available 1
until September 30, 2016, for financial assistance 2
and technical assistance under sections 108(a)(1)(A) 3
and 108(a)(1)(B), respectively, of Public Law 103- 4
325, of which up to $3,102,500 may be used for the 5
cost of direct loans: Provided, That the cost of direct 6
loans, including the cost of modifying such loans, 7
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres- 8
sional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 9
these funds are available to subsidize gross obliga- 10
tions for the principal amount of direct loans not to 11
exceed $25,000,000; 12
(2) not less than $15,000,000 is available until 13
September 30, 2016, for financial assistance, tech- 14
nical assistance, training and outreach programs, de- 15
signed to benefit Native American, Native Hawaiian, 16
and Alaskan Native communities and provided pri- 17
marily through qualified community development 18
lender organizations with experience and expertise in 19
community development banking and lending in In- 20
dian country, Native American organizations, tribes 21
and tribal organizations and other suitable pro- 22
viders; 23
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(3) not less than $18,000,000 is available until 1
September 30, 2016, for the Bank Enterprise Award 2
program; and 3
(4) up to $20,000,000 may be used for admin- 4
istrative expenses, of which up to $300,000 for the 5
administrative expenses of a direct loan program. 6
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 7
TAXPAYER SERVICES 8
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv- 9
ice to provide taxpayer services, including pre-filing assist- 10
ance and education, filing and account services, taxpayer 11
advocacy services, the operating expenses of the Taxpayer 12
Advocate Service, and other services as authorized by 5 13
U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the 14
Commissioner, $2,130,000,000, of which not less than 15
$5,600,000 shall be for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly 16
Program, of which not less than $10,000,000 shall be 17
available for low-income taxpayer clinic grants, and of 18
which not less than $12,000,000, to remain available until 19
September 30, 2016, shall be available for a Community 20
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grants pro- 21
gram for tax return preparation assistance. 22
ENFORCEMENT 23
For necessary expenses for tax enforcement activities 24
of the Internal Revenue Service to determine and collect 25
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owed taxes, to provide legal and litigation support, to con- 1
duct criminal investigations, to enforce criminal statutes 2
related to violations of internal revenue laws and other fi- 3
nancial crimes, to purchase and hire passenger motor vehi- 4
cles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)), and to provide other services 5
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 6
determined by the Commissioner, $4,950,000,000, of 7
which not less than $60,257,000 shall be for the Inter- 8
agency Crime and Drug Enforcement program. 9
OPERATIONS SUPPORT 10
ice to support taxpayer services and enforcement pro- 12
grams, including rent payments; facilities services; print- 13
ing; postage; physical security; headquarters and other 14
IRS-wide administration activities; research and statistics 15
of income; telecommunications; information technology de- 16
velopment, enhancement, operations, maintenance, and se- 17
curity; the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 18
1343(b)); the operations of the Internal Revenue Service 19
Oversight Board; and other services as authorized by 5 20
U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the 21
Commissioner; $3,620,000,000, of which not to exceed 22
$300,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 23
2016, of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for official 24
reception and representation expenses: Provided, That not 25
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later than 30 days after the end of each quarter, the Inter- 1
nal Revenue Service shall submit a report to the Commit- 2
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 3
and the Senate and the Comptroller General of the United 4
States detailing the cost and schedule performance for its 5
major information technology investments, including the 6
purpose and life-cycle stages of the investments; the rea- 7
sons for any cost and schedule variances; the risks of such 8
investments and strategies the Internal Revenue Service 9
is using to mitigate such risks; and the expected develop- 10
mental milestones to be achieved and costs to be incurred 11
in the next quarter: Provided further, That the Internal 12
Revenue Service shall include, in its budget justification 13
for fiscal year 2016, a summary of cost and schedule per- 14
formance information for its major information technology 15
systems. 16
BUSINESS SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION 17
ices business systems modernization program, 19
$250,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 20
2017, for the capital asset acquisition of information tech- 21
nology systems, including management and related con- 22
tractual costs of said acquisitions, including related Inter- 23
nal Revenue Service labor costs, and contractual costs as- 24
sociated with operations authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: 25
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Provided, That not later than 30 days after the end of 1
each quarter, the Internal Revenue Service shall submit 2
a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 3
House of Representatives and the Senate and the Comp- 4
troller General of the United States detailing the cost and 5
schedule performance for CADE 2 and Modernized e-File 6
information technology investments, including the pur- 7
poses and life-cycle stages of the investments; the reasons 8
for any cost and schedule variances; the risks of such in- 9
vestments and the strategies the Internal Revenue Service 10
is using to mitigate such risks; and the expected develop- 11
mental milestones to be achieved and costs to be incurred 12
in the next quarter. 13
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSINTERNAL REVENUE 14
SERVICE 15
SEC. 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria- 17
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue 18
Service may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue 19
Service appropriation upon the advance approval of the 20
Committees on Appropriations. 21
SEC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall main- 22
tain an employee training program, which shall include the 23
following topics: taxpayers rights, dealing courteously 24
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with taxpayers, cross-cultural relations, ethics, and the im- 1
partial application of tax law. 2
SEC. 103. The Internal Revenue Service shall insti- 3
tute and enforce policies and procedures that will safe- 4
guard the confidentiality of taxpayer information and pro- 5
tect taxpayers against identity theft. 6
SEC. 104. Funds made available by this or any other 7
Act to the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for 8
improved facilities and increased staffing to provide suffi- 9
cient and effective 1800 help line service for taxpayers. 10
The Commissioner shall continue to make improvements 11
to the Internal Revenue Service 1800 help line service 12
a priority and allocate resources necessary to enhance the 13
response time to taxpayer communications, particularly 14
with regard to victims of tax-related crimes. 15
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available to the 16
Internal Revenue Service by this Act may be used to make 17
a video unless the Service-Wide Video Editorial Board de- 18
termines in advance that making the video is appropriate, 19
taking into account the cost, topic, tone, and purpose of 20
the video. 21
SEC. 106. The Internal Revenue Service shall issue 22
a notice of confirmation of any address change relating 23
to an employer making employment tax payments, and 24
such notice shall be sent to both the employers former 25
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and new address and an officer or employee of the Internal 1
Revenue Service shall give special consideration to an 2
offer-in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the vic- 3
tim of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer. 4
SEC. 107. None of the funds made available under 5
this Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to 6
target citizens of the United States for exercising any 7
right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Con- 8
stitution of the United States. 9
SEC. 108. None of the funds made available in this 10
Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to target 11
groups for regulatory scrutiny based on their ideological 12
beliefs. 13
SEC. 109. None of funds made available by this Act 14
to the Internal Revenue Service shall be obligated or ex- 15
pended on conferences that do not adhere to the proce- 16
dures, verification processes, documentation requirements, 17
and policies issued by the Chief Financial Officer, Human 18
Capital Office, and Agency-Wide Shared Services as a re- 19
sult of the recommendations in the report published on 20
May 31, 2013, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 21
Administration entitled Review of the August 2010 Small 22
Business/Self-Employed Divisions Conference in Ana- 23
heim, California (Reference Number 2013-10-037). 24
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SEC. 110. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of any 2
individual to carry out any transfer of funds to the Inter- 3
nal Revenue Service under the Patient Protection and Af- 4
fordable Care Act (Public Law 111148) or the Health 5
Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public 6
Law 111152). 7
Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to imple- 9
ment or enforce section 5000A of the Internal Revenue 10
Code of 1986, section 6055 of such Code, section 1502(c) 11
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public 12
Law 111148), or any amendments made by section 13
1502(b) of such Act. 14
Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be obligated or 16
expended under any bonus, award, or recognition program 17
that does not consider, with respect to determining wheth- 18
er an employee should receive such program funds, the 19
conduct and Federal tax compliance of such employee. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSDEPARTMENT OF THE 21
TREASURY 22
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 23
SEC. 113. Appropriations to the Department of the 24
Treasury in this Act shall be available for uniforms or al- 25
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lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 1
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; purchase of 2
insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign 3
countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the 4
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased 5
and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into 6
contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing 7
of health and medical services to employees and their de- 8
pendents serving in foreign countries; and services author- 9
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 10
tions in this title made available under the headings De- 12
partmental OfficesSalaries and Expenses, Office of 13
Inspector General, Special Inspector General for the 14
Troubled Asset Relief Program, Financial Crimes En- 15
forcement Network, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Al- 16
cohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and Commu- 17
nity Development Financial Institutions Fund Program 18
Account may be transferred between such appropriations 19
upon the advance approval of the Committees on Appro- 20
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 21
Provided, That no transfer under this section may increase 22
or decrease any such appropriation by more than 2 per- 23
cent. 24
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tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue 2
Service may be transferred to the Treasury Inspector Gen- 3
eral for Tax Administrations appropriation upon the ad- 4
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 5
the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided, 6
That no transfer may increase or decrease any such appro- 7
priation by more than 2 percent. 8
SEC. 116. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 9
or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury 10
or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used 11
to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note. 12
SEC. 117. The Secretary of the Treasury may trans- 13
fer funds from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service-Salaries 14
and Expenses to the Debt Collection Fund as necessary 15
to cover the costs of debt collection: Provided, That such 16
amounts shall be reimbursed to such salaries and expenses 17
account from debt collections received in the Debt Collec- 18
tion Fund. 19
SEC. 118. None of the funds appropriated or other- 20
wise made available by this or any other Act may be used 21
by the United States Mint to construct or operate any mu- 22
seum without the explicit approval of the Committees on 23
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 24
Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and 25
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the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 1
Affairs. 2
wise made available by this or any other Act or source 4
to the Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Engrav- 5
ing and Printing, and the United States Mint, individually 6
or collectively, may be used to consolidate any or all func- 7
tions of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the 8
United States Mint without the explicit approval of the 9
House Committee on Financial Services; the Senate Com- 10
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and the 11
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent- 12
atives and the Senate. 13
SEC. 120. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 14
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for the De- 15
partment of the Treasurys intelligence or intelligence re- 16
lated activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by 17
the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National 18
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 19
2015 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization 20
Act for Fiscal Year 2015. 21
SEC. 121. Not to exceed $5,000 shall be made avail- 22
able from the Bureau of Engraving and Printings Indus- 23
trial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and 24
representation expenses. 25
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SEC. 122. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 1
a Capital Investment Plan to the Committees on Appro- 2
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 3
not later than 30 days following the submission of the an- 4
nual budget submitted by the President: Provided, That 5
such Capital Investment Plan shall include capital invest- 6
ment spending from all accounts within the Department 7
of the Treasury, including but not limited to the Depart- 8
ment-wide Systems and Capital Investment Programs ac- 9
count, Treasury Franchise Fund account, and the Treas- 10
ury Forfeiture Fund account: Provided further, That such 11
Capital Investment Plan shall include expenditures occur- 12
ring in previous fiscal years for each capital investment 13
project that has not been fully completed. 14
SEC. 123. (a) Not later than 2 weeks after the end 15
of each quarter, the Office of Financial Stability and the 16
Office of Financial Research shall submit reports on their 17
activities to the Committees on Appropriations of the 18
House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee 19
on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and 20
the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 21
Affairs. 22
(b) The reports required under subsection (a) shall 23
include 24
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(1) the obligations made during the previous 1
quarter by object class, office, and activity; 2
(2) the estimated obligations for the remainder 3
of the fiscal year by object class, office, and activity; 4
(3) the number of full-time equivalents within 5
each office during the previous quarter; 6
(4) the estimated number of full-time equiva- 7
lents within each office for the remainder of the fis- 8
cal year; and 9
(5) actions taken to achieve the goals, objec- 10
tives, and performance measures of each office. 11
(c) At the request of any such Committees specified 12
in subsection (a), the Office of Financial Stability and the 13
Office of Financial Research shall make officials available 14
to testify on the contents of the reports required under 15
subsection (a). 16
SEC. 124. Within 45 days after the date of enactment 17
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 18
an itemized report to the Committees on Appropriations 19
of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the 20
amount of total funds charged to each office by the Fran- 21
chise Fund including the amount charged for each service 22
provided by the Franchise Fund to each office, a detailed 23
description of the services, a detailed explanation of how 24
each charge for each service is calculated, and a descrip- 25
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tion of the role customers have in governing in the Fran- 1
chise Fund. 2
SEC. 125. (a) Section 155 of Public Law 111203 3
is amended as follows: 4
(1) In subsection (b) 5
(A) in paragraph (1) 6
(i) by striking immediately; and 7
(ii) by inserting as provided for in 8
appropriations Acts after to the Office; 9
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and 10
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 11
paragraph (2). 12
(2) In subsection (d), by striking the heading 13
and inserting ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE.. 14
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 15
take effect on October 1, 2015. 16
Act may be used to approve, license, facilitate, authorize, 18
or otherwise allow, whether by general or specific license, 19
travel-related or other transactions incident to non-aca- 20
demic educational exchanges described in section 21
515.565(b)(2) of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations. 22
SEC. 127. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury and the 23
Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide a joint re- 24
port not later than 90 days after the enactment of this 25
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Act regarding travel pursuant to sections 515.560(a)(1), 1
515.560(c)(4)(i), and 515.561 of title 31, Code of Federal 2
Regulations. 3
(b) Such report shall include, for each fiscal year be- 4
ginning with 2007 under the aforementioned category of 5
travel: 6
(1) number of travelers; average duration of 7
stay for each trip; 8
(2) average amount of U.S. dollars spent per 9
traveler; 10
(3) number of return trips per year; and 11
(4) total sum of U.S. dollars spent collectively 12
in each fiscal year. 13
SEC. 128. During fiscal year 2015 14
(1) none of the funds made available in this or 15
any other Act may be used by the Department of 16
the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Serv- 17
ice, to issue, revise, or finalize any regulation, rev- 18
enue ruling, or other guidance not limited to a par- 19
ticular taxpayer relating to the standard which is 20
used to determine whether an organization is oper- 21
ated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare 22
for purposes of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 23
Revenue Code of 1986 (including the proposed regu- 24
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lations published at 78 Fed. Reg. 71535 (November 1
29, 2013)); and 2
(2) the standard and definitions as in effect on 3
January 1, 2010, which are used to make such de- 4
terminations shall apply after the date of the enact- 5
ment of this Act for purposes of determining status 6
under section 501(c)(4) of such Code of organiza- 7
tions created on, before, or after such date. 8
wise made available in this Act may be obligated or ex- 10
pended to provide for the enforcement of any rule, regula- 11
tion, policy, or guideline implemented pursuant to the De- 12
partment of the Treasury Guidance for U.S. Positions on 13
MDBs Engaging with Developing Countries on Coal-Fired 14
Power Generation dated October 29, 2013, when enforce- 15
ment of such rule, regulation, policy, or guideline would 16
prohibit, or have the effect of prohibiting, the carrying out 17
of any coal-fired or other power-generation project the 18
purpose of which is to increase exports of goods and serv- 19
ices from the United States or prevent the loss of jobs 20
from the United States. 21
SEC. 130. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta- 22
tion with the appropriate agencies, departments, bureaus, 23
and commissions that have expertise in terrorism and 24
complex financial instruments, shall provide a report to 25
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the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep- 1
resentatives and Senate, the Committee on Financial Serv- 2
ices of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 3
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 4
not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this 5
Act on economic warfare and financial terrorism. 6
SEC. 131. Each calendar month beginning after the 7
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 8
Treasury shall submit to the Committees on Appropria- 9
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the 10
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep- 11
resentatives, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate 12
an accounting of the number of individuals who have not 13
paid the full amount of any premium owed for the pre- 14
ceding month for coverage under a qualified health plan 15
that was enrolled in through an Exchange under title I 16
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 17
This title may be cited as the Department of the 18
Treasury Appropriations Act, 2015. 19
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TITLE II 1
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND 2
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 3
THE WHITE HOUSE 4
For necessary expenses for the White House as au- 6
thorized by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for 7
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; 8
subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which 9
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 10
section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, and travel (not 11
to exceed $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as 12
provided by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not to exceed $19,000 for 13
official reception and representation expenses, to be avail- 14
able for allocation within the Executive Office of the Presi- 15
dent; and for necessary expenses of the Office of Policy 16
Development, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 17
3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, $55,000,000. 18
EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE 19
OPERATING EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses of the Executive Residence 21
at the White House, $12,700,000, to be expended and ac- 22
counted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 23
112114. 24
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REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES 1
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Resi- 2
dence at the White House, such sums as may be nec- 3
essary: Provided, That all reimbursable operating expenses 4
of the Executive Residence shall be made in accordance 5
with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided further, 6
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such 7
amount for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the 8
exclusive authority of the Executive Residence to incur ob- 9
ligations and to receive offsetting collections, for such ex- 10
penses: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 11
shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable polit- 12
ical event to pay in advance an amount equal to the esti- 13
mated cost of the event, and all such advance payments 14
shall be credited to this account and remain available until 15
expended: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 16
shall require the national committee of the political party 17
of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be 18
separately accounted for and available for expenses relat- 19
ing to reimbursable political events sponsored by such 20
committee during such fiscal year: Provided further, That 21
the Executive Residence shall ensure that a written notice 22
of any amount owed for a reimbursable operating expense 23
under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing 24
such amount within 60 days after such expense is in- 25
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curred, and that such amount is collected within 30 days 1
after the submission of such notice: Provided further, That 2
the Executive Residence shall charge interest and assess 3
penalties and other charges on any such amount that is 4
not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with 5
the interest and penalty provisions applicable to an out- 6
standing debt on a United States Government claim under 7
31 U.S.C. 3717: Provided further, That each such amount 8
that is reimbursed, and any accompanying interest and 9
charges, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscella- 10
neous receipts: Provided further, That the Executive Resi- 11
dence shall prepare and submit to the Committees on Ap- 12
propriations, by not later than 90 days after the end of 13
the fiscal year covered by this Act, a report setting forth 14
the reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Res- 15
idence during the preceding fiscal year, including the total 16
amount of such expenses, the amount of such total that 17
consists of reimbursable official and ceremonial events, the 18
amount of such total that consists of reimbursable political 19
events, and the portion of each such amount that has been 20
reimbursed as of the date of the report: Provided further, 21
That the Executive Residence shall maintain a system for 22
the tracking of expenses related to reimbursable events 23
within the Executive Residence that includes a standard 24
for the classification of any such expense as political or 25
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nonpolitical: Provided further, That no provision of this 1
paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive Res- 2
idence from any other applicable requirement of sub- 3
chapter I or II of chapter 37 of title 31, United States 4
Code. 5
WHITE HOUSE REPAIR AND RESTORATION 6
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the 7
Executive Residence at the White House pursuant to 3 8
U.S.C. 105(d), $500,000, to remain available until ex- 9
pended, for required maintenance, resolution of safety and 10
health issues, and continued preventative maintenance. 11
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS 12
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic 14
Advisers in carrying out its functions under the Employ- 15
ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021 et seq.), $3,765,000. 16
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND HOMELAND 17
SECURITY COUNCIL 18
For necessary expenses of the National Security 20
Council and the Homeland Security Council, including 21
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,600,000. 22
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administra- 3
tion, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 4
and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 5
$111,000,000, of which not to exceed $12,006,000 shall 6
remain available until expended for continued moderniza- 7
tion of the information technology infrastructure within 8
the Executive Office of the President. 9
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 10
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management 12
and Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 13
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, to carry out 14
the provisions of chapter 35 of title 44, United States 15
Code, and to prepare and submit the budget of the United 16
States Government, in accordance with section 1105(a) of 17
title 31, United States Code, $89,300,000, of which not 18
to exceed $3,000 shall be available for official representa- 19
tion expenses: Provided, That none of the funds appro- 20
priated in this Act for the Office of Management and 21
Budget may be used for the purpose of reviewing any agri- 22
cultural marketing orders or any activities or regulations 23
under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agree- 24
ment Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided further, 25
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That none of the funds made available for the Office of 1
Management and Budget by this Act may be expended for 2
the altering of the transcript of actual testimony of wit- 3
nesses, except for testimony of officials of the Office of 4
Management and Budget, before the Committees on Ap- 5
propriations or their subcommittees: Provided further, 6
That none of the funds provided in this or prior Acts shall 7
be used, directly or indirectly, by the Office of Manage- 8
ment and Budget, for evaluating or determining if water 9
resource project or study reports submitted by the Chief 10
of Engineers acting through the Secretary of the Army 11
are in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and 12
requirements relevant to the Civil Works water resource 13
planning process: Provided further, That the Office of 14
Management and Budget shall have not more than 60 15
days in which to perform budgetary policy reviews of water 16
resource matters on which the Chief of Engineers has re- 17
ported: Provided further, That the Director of the Office 18
of Management and Budget shall notify the appropriate 19
authorizing and appropriating committees when the 60- 20
day review is initiated: Provided further, That if water re- 21
source reports have not been transmitted to the appro- 22
priate authorizing and appropriating committees within 23
15 days after the end of the Office of Management and 24
Budget review period based on the notification from the 25
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Director, Congress shall assume Office of Management 1
and Budget concurrence with the report and act accord- 2
ingly: Provided further, That the Director of the Office of 3
Management and Budget shall: (1) consult with each 4
standing committee in the House of Representatives and 5
the Senate with respect to the number of printed and elec- 6
tronic copies (including the appendix, historical tables, and 7
analytical perspectives) of the Presidents fiscal year 2016 8
budget request that each such committee requires; and (2) 9
provide, using the funds made available under this head- 10
ing, each such committee with the requisite number of 11
copies by no later than the date that the President submits 12
such budget to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 13
31, United States Code: Provided further, That of the 14
amounts made available under this heading, $52,000,000 15
shall not be available for obligation until the President 16
submits to Congress the budget of the United States Gov- 17
ernment for fiscal year 2016, in accordance with section 18
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. 19
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 20
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 22
Drug Control Policy; for research activities pursuant to 23
the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthoriza- 24
tion Act of 2006 (Public Law 109469); not to exceed 25
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$10,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 1
and for participation in joint projects or in the provision 2
of services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, 3
research, or public organizations or agencies, with or with- 4
out reimbursement, $22,000,000: Provided, That the Of- 5
fice is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize 6
gifts, both real and personal, public and private, without 7
fiscal year limitation, for the purpose of aiding or facili- 8
tating the work of the Office. 9
FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 10
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 11
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 13
Drug Control Policys High Intensity Drug Trafficking 14
Areas Program, $245,000,000, to remain available until 15
September 30, 2016, for drug control activities consistent 16
with the approved strategy for each of the designated 17
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs), of 18
which not less than 51 percent shall be transferred to 19
State and local entities for drug control activities and shall 20
be obligated not later than 120 days after enactment of 21
this Act: Provided, That up to 49 percent may be trans- 22
ferred to Federal agencies and departments in amounts 23
determined by the Director of the Office of National Drug 24
Control Policy, of which up to $2,700,000 may be used 25
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for auditing services and associated activities: Provided 1
further, That, notwithstanding the requirements of Public 2
Law 10658, any unexpended funds obligated prior to fis- 3
cal year 2013 may be used for any other approved activi- 4
ties of that HIDTA, subject to reprogramming require- 5
ments: Provided further, That each HIDTA designated as 6
of September 30, 2014, shall be funded at not less than 7
the fiscal year 2014 base level, unless the Director submits 8
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep- 9
resentatives and the Senate justification for changes to 10
those levels based on clearly articulated priorities and pub- 11
lished Office of National Drug Control Policy performance 12
measures of effectiveness: Provided further, That the Di- 13
rector shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of 14
the initial allocation of fiscal year 2015 funding among 15
HIDTAs not later than 45 days after enactment of this 16
Act, and shall notify the Committees of planned uses of 17
discretionary HIDTA funding, as determined in consulta- 18
tion with the HIDTA Directors, not later than 90 days 19
after enactment of this Act. 20
OTHER FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 21
For other drug control activities authorized by the 23
Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization 24
Act of 2006 (Public Law 109469), $108,250,000, to re- 25
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main available until expended, which shall be available as 1
follows: $95,000,000 for the Drug-Free Communities Pro- 2
gram, of which $2,000,000 shall be made available as di- 3
rected by section 4 of Public Law 10782, as amended 4
by Public Law 109469 (21 U.S.C. 1521 note); 5
$1,400,000 for drug court training and technical assist- 6
ance; $8,600,000 for anti-doping activities; $2,000,000 for 7
the United States membership dues to the World Anti- 8
Doping Agency; and $1,250,000 shall be made available 9
as directed by section 1105 of Public Law 109469: Pro- 10
vided, That amounts made available under this heading 11
may be transferred to other Federal departments and 12
agencies to carry out such activities. 13
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT AND REFORM 14
For necessary expenses for the furtherance of inte- 16
grated, efficient, secure, and effective uses of information 17
technology in the Federal Government, $9,000,000, to re- 18
main available until expended: Provided, That the Director 19
of the Office of Management and Budget may transfer 20
these funds to one or more other agencies to carry out 21
projects to meet these purposes: Provided further, That 22
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 23
shall submit quarterly reports not later than 45 days after 24
the end of each quarter to the Committees on Appropria- 25
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tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate and 1
the Government Accountability Office identifying the sav- 2
ings achieved by the Office of Management and Budgets 3
government-wide information technology reform efforts: 4
Provided further, That such reports shall include savings 5
identified by fiscal year, agency, and appropriation. 6
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT 7
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President 9
to provide assistance to the President in connection with 10
specially assigned functions; services as authorized by 5 11
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence ex- 12
penses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be ex- 13
pended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 14
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $4,200,000. 15
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 16
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, 19
and to the extent not otherwise provided for, heating and 20
lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the offi- 21
cial residence of the Vice President; the hire of passenger 22
motor vehicles; and not to exceed $81,000 pursuant to 3 23
U.S.C. 106(b)(2), $290,000: Provided, That advances, re- 24
payments, or transfers from this appropriation may be 25
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made to any department or agency for expenses of car- 1
rying out such activities. 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF 3
THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 4
THE PRESIDENT 5
SEC. 201. From funds made available in this Act 7
under the headings The White House, Executive Resi- 8
dence at the White House, White House Repair and 9
Restoration, Council of Economic Advisers, National 10
Security Council and Homeland Security Council, Of- 11
fice of Administration, Special Assistance to the Presi- 12
dent, and Official Residence of the Vice President, the 13
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (or 14
such other officer as the President may designate in writ- 15
ing), may, with advance approval of the Committees on 16
Senate, transfer not to exceed 10 percent of any such ap- 18
propriation to any other such appropriation, to be merged 19
with and available for the same time and for the same 20
purposes as the appropriation to which transferred: Pro- 21
vided, That the amount of an appropriation shall not be 22
increased by more than 50 percent by such transfers: Pro- 23
vided further, That no amount shall be transferred from 24
Special Assistance to the President or Official Resi- 25
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dence of the Vice President without the approval of the 1
Vice President. 2
SEC. 202. Within 90 days after the date of enactment 3
of this section, the Director of the Office of Management 4
and Budget shall submit a report to the Committees on 5
Senate on the costs of implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall 7
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 8
111203). Such report shall include 9
(1) the estimated mandatory and discretionary 10
obligations of funds through fiscal year 2019, by 11
Federal agency and by fiscal year, including 12
(A) the estimated obligations by cost in- 13
puts such as rent, information technology, con- 14
tracts, and personnel; 15
(B) the methodology and data sources used 16
to calculate such estimated obligations; and 17
(C) the specific section of such Act that re- 18
quires the obligation of funds; and 19
(2) the estimated receipts through fiscal year 20
2019 from assessments, user fees, and other fees by 21
the Federal agency making the collections, by fiscal 22
year, including 23
(A) the methodology and data sources used 24
to calculate such estimated collections; and 25
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(B) the specific section of such Act that 1
authorizes the collection of funds. 2
SEC. 203. None of funds made available in this Act 3
may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of any officer 4
or employee of the Executive Office of the President to 5
prepare, sign, or approve statements abrogating legislation 6
passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate 7
and signed by the President. 8
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of any 10
officer or employee of the Executive Office of the Presi- 11
dent to prepare or implement an Executive Order that 12
contravenes existing law. 13
SEC. 205. (a) During fiscal year 2015, any Executive 14
Order issued by the President shall include a statement 15
from the Director of the Office of Management and Budg- 16
et on the budgetary impact of the Executive Order. 17
(b) Any such statement shall include 18
(1) a narrative summary of the costs and rev- 19
enue impacts of such order on the Federal Govern- 20
ment; 21
(2) the impact on mandatory and discretionary 22
obligations and outlays, listed by Federal agency, for 23
each year in the 5-fiscal year period beginning in fis- 24
cal year 2015; and 25
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(3) the impact on revenues of the Federal Gov- 1
ernment over the 5-fiscal year period beginning in 2
fiscal year 2015. 3
(c) If an Executive Order is issued during fiscal year 4
2015 due to a national emergency, the Director of the Of- 5
fice of Management and Budget may issue the statement 6
required by subsection (a) not later than 15 days after 7
the date that the Executive Order is issued. 8
This title may be cited as the Executive Office of 9
the President Appropriations Act, 2015. 10
TITLE III 11
THE JUDICIARY 12
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 13
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Su- 15
preme Court, as required by law, excluding care of the 16
building and grounds, including hire of passenger motor 17
vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; not 18
to exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation 19
expenses; and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended 20
as the Chief Justice may approve, $74,937,000, of which 21
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended. 22
In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may 23
be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief 24
justice and associate justices of the court. 25
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CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS 1
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable 2
the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties im- 3
posed upon the Architect by 40 U.S.C. 6111 and 6112, 4
$11,640,000, to remain available until expended. 5
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL 6
CIRCUIT 7
For salaries of officers and employees, and for nec- 9
essary expenses of the court, as authorized by law, 10
$30,192,000. 11
judge and judges of the court. 14
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE 15
For salaries of officers and employees of the court, 17
services, and necessary expenses of the court, as author- 18
ized by law, $17,807,000. 19
judge and judges of the court. 22
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COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND OTHER 1
JUDICIAL SERVICES 2
For the salaries of judges of the United States Court 4
of Federal Claims, magistrate judges, and all other offi- 5
cers and employees of the Federal Judiciary not otherwise 6
specifically provided for, necessary expenses of the courts, 7
and the purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms 8
for Probation and Pretrial Services Office staff, as author- 9
ized by law, $4,784,659,000 (including the purchase of 10
firearms and ammunition); of which not to exceed 11
$27,817,000 shall remain available until expended for 12
space alteration projects and for costs related to new space 13
alteration and construction projects; and of which not to 14
exceed $10,000,000 shall remain available until Sep- 15
tember 30, 2016, for the Integrated Workplace Initiative: 16
Provided, That the amount provided for the Integrated 17
Workplace Initiative shall not be available for obligation 18
until the Director of the Administrative Office of the 19
United States Courts submits a report to the Committees 20
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 21
Senate showing that the estimated cost savings resulting 22
from the Initiative will exceed the estimated amounts obli- 23
gated for the Initiative. 24
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be necessary under current law for the salaries of circuit 2
and district judges (including judges of the territorial 3
courts of the United States), bankruptcy judges, and jus- 4
tices and judges retired from office or from regular active 5
service. 6
In addition, for expenses of the United States Court 7
of Federal Claims associated with processing cases under 8
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Pub- 9
lic Law 99660), not to exceed $5,423,000, to be appro- 10
priated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust 11
Fund. 12
DEFENDER SERVICES 13
For the operation of Federal Defender organizations; 14
the compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attor- 15
neys appointed to represent persons under 18 U.S.C. 16
3006A and 3599, and for the compensation and reim- 17
bursement of expenses of persons furnishing investigative, 18
expert, and other services for such representations as au- 19
thorized by law; the compensation (in accordance with the 20
maximums under 18 U.S.C. 3006A) and reimbursement 21
of expenses of attorneys appointed to assist the court in 22
criminal cases where the defendant has waived representa- 23
tion by counsel; the compensation and reimbursement of 24
expenses of attorneys appointed to represent jurors in civil 25
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actions for the protection of their employment, as author- 1
ized by 28 U.S.C. 1875(d)(1); the compensation and reim- 2
bursement of expenses of attorneys appointed under 18 3
U.S.C. 983(b)(1) in connection with certain judicial civil 4
forfeiture proceedings; the compensation and reimburse- 5
ment of travel expenses of guardians ad litem appointed 6
under 18 U.S.C. 4100(b); and for necessary training and 7
general administrative expenses, $1,044,394,000, to re- 8
main available until expended. 9
FEES OF JURORS AND COMMISSIONERS 10
For fees and expenses of jurors as authorized by 28 11
U.S.C. 1871 and 1876; compensation of jury commis- 12
sioners as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1863; and compensa- 13
tion of commissioners appointed in condemnation cases 14
pursuant to rule 71.1(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro- 15
cedure (28 U.S.C. Appendix Rule 71.1(h)), $55,827,000, 16
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 17
compensation of land commissioners shall not exceed the 18
daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 19
5332. 20
COURT SECURITY 21
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 23
incident to the provision of protective guard services for 24
United States courthouses and other facilities housing 25
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Federal court operations, and the procurement, installa- 1
tion, and maintenance of security systems and equipment 2
for United States courthouses and other facilities housing 3
Federal court operations, including building ingress-egress 4
control, inspection of mail and packages, directed security 5
patrols, perimeter security, basic security services provided 6
by the Federal Protective Service, and other similar activi- 7
ties as authorized by section 1010 of the Judicial Improve- 8
ment and Access to Justice Act (Public Law 100702), 9
$525,763,000, of which not to exceed $15,000,000 shall 10
remain available until expended, to be expended directly 11
or transferred to the United States Marshals Service, 12
which shall be responsible for administering the Judicial 13
Facility Security Program consistent with standards or 14
guidelines agreed to by the Director of the Administrative 15
Office of the United States Courts and the Attorney Gen- 16
eral. 17
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 18
COURTS 19
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office 21
of the United States Courts as authorized by law, includ- 22
ing travel as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1345, hire of a pas- 23
senger motor vehicle as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b), 24
advertising and rent in the District of Columbia and else- 25
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where, $82,824,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is au- 1
thorized for official reception and representation expenses. 2
FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER 3
For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial Cen- 5
ter, as authorized by Public Law 90219, $26,724,000; 6
of which $1,800,000 shall remain available through Sep- 7
tember 30, 2016, to provide education and training to 8
Federal court personnel; and of which not to exceed 9
$1,500 is authorized for official reception and representa- 10
tion expenses. 11
UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION 12
For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out 14
the provisions of chapter 58 of title 28, United States 15
Code, $16,556,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 is au- 16
thorized for official reception and representation expenses. 17
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSTHE JUDICIARY 18
SEC. 301. Appropriations and authorizations made in 20
this title which are available for salaries and expenses shall 21
be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 22
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the Judi- 24
ciary in this Act may be transferred between such appro- 25
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priations, but no such appropriation, except Courts of 1
Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services, De- 2
fender Services and Courts of Appeals, District Courts, 3
and Other Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commis- 4
sioners, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by 5
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant 6
to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of 7
funds under sections 604 and 608 of this Act and shall 8
not be available for obligation or expenditure except in 9
compliance with the procedures set forth in section 608. 10
SEC. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of 11
law, the salaries and expenses appropriation for Courts 12
of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services 13
shall be available for official reception and representation 14
expenses of the Judicial Conference of the United States: 15
Provided, That such available funds shall not exceed 16
$11,000 and shall be administered by the Director of the 17
Administrative Office of the United States Courts in the 18
capacity as Secretary of the Judicial Conference. 19
SEC. 304. Section 3314(a) of title 40, United States 20
Code, shall be applied by substituting Federal for exec- 21
utive each place it appears. 22
SEC. 305. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. 561569, 23
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 24
United States Marshals Service shall provide, for such 25
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courthouses as its Director may designate in consultation 1
with the Director of the Administrative Office of the 2
United States Courts, for purposes of a pilot program, the 3
security services that 40 U.S.C. 1315 authorizes the De- 4
partment of Homeland Security to provide, except for the 5
services specified in 40 U.S.C. 1315(b)(2)(E). For build- 6
ing-specific security services at these courthouses, the Di- 7
rector of the Administrative Office of the United States 8
Courts shall reimburse the United States Marshals Service 9
rather than the Department of Homeland Security. 10
SEC. 306. (a) Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improve- 11
ments Act of 1990 (Public Law 101650; 28 U.S.C. 133 12
note), is amended in the second sentence (relating to the 13
District of Kansas) following paragraph (12), by striking 14
23 years and 6 months and inserting 24 years and 15
6 months. 16
(b) Section 406 of the Transportation, Treasury, 17
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the Dis- 18
trict of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropria- 19
tions Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-115; 119 Stat. 2470; 28 20
U.S.C. 133 note) is amended in the second sentence (relat- 21
ing to the eastern District of Missouri) by striking 21 22
years and 6 months and inserting 22 years and 6 23
months. 24
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(c) Section 312(c)(2) of the 21st Century Depart- 1
ment of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Public 2
Law 107273; 28 U.S.C. 133 note), is amended 3
(1) in the first sentence by striking 12 years 4
and inserting 13 years; 5
(2) in the second sentence (relating to the cen- 6
tral District of California), by striking 11 years 7
and 6 months and inserting 12 years and 6 8
months; and 9
(3) in the third sentence (relating to the west- 10
ern District of North Carolina), by striking 10 11
years and inserting 11 years. 12
SEC. 307. Section 84(b) of title 28, United States 13
Code, is amended in the second sentence by inserting Ba- 14
kersfield, after shall be held at. 15
This title may be cited as the Judiciary Appropria- 16
tions Act, 2015. 17
TITLE IV 18
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 19
FEDERAL FUNDS 20
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR RESIDENT TUITION SUPPORT 21
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, 22
to be deposited into a dedicated account, for a nationwide 23
program to be administered by the Mayor, for District of 24
Columbia resident tuition support, $20,000,000, to remain 25
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available until expended: Provided, That such funds, in- 1
cluding any interest accrued thereon, may be used on be- 2
half of eligible District of Columbia residents to pay an 3
amount based upon the difference between in-State and 4
out-of-State tuition at public institutions of higher edu- 5
cation, or to pay up to $2,500 each year at eligible private 6
institutions of higher education: Provided further, That the 7
awarding of such funds may be prioritized on the basis 8
of a residents academic merit, the income and need of 9
eligible students and such other factors as may be author- 10
ized: Provided further, That the District of Columbia gov- 11
ernment shall maintain a dedicated account for the Resi- 12
dent Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the 13
Federal funds appropriated to the Program in this Act 14
and any subsequent appropriations, any unobligated bal- 15
ances from prior fiscal years, and any interest earned in 16
this or any fiscal year: Provided further, That the account 17
shall be under the control of the District of Columbia 18
Chief Financial Officer, who shall use those funds solely 19
for the purposes of carrying out the Resident Tuition Sup- 20
port Program: Provided further, That the Office of the 21
Chief Financial Officer shall provide a quarterly financial 22
report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 23
of Representatives and the Senate for these funds show- 24
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ing, by object class, the expenditures made and the pur- 1
pose therefor. 2
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND 3
SECURITY COSTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 4
For a Federal payment of necessary expenses, as de- 5
termined by the Mayor of the District of Columbia in writ- 6
ten consultation with the elected county or city officials 7
of surrounding jurisdictions, $10,000,000, to remain 8
available until expended, for the costs of providing public 9
safety at events related to the presence of the National 10
Capital in the District of Columbia, including support re- 11
quested by the Director of the United States Secret Serv- 12
ice in carrying out protective duties under the direction 13
of the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for the costs 14
of providing support to respond to immediate and specific 15
terrorist threats or attacks in the District of Columbia or 16
surrounding jurisdictions. 17
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 18
COURTS 19
For salaries and expenses for the District of Colum- 20
bia Courts, $234,400,000 to be allocated as follows: for 21
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, $13,400,000, 22
of which not to exceed $2,500 is for official reception and 23
representation expenses; for the Superior Court of the 24
District of Columbia, $115,000,000, of which not to ex- 25
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ceed $2,500 is for official reception and representation ex- 1
penses; for the District of Columbia Court System, 2
$70,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 is for official 3
reception and representation expenses; and $36,000,000, 4
to remain available until September 30, 2016, for capital 5
improvements for District of Columbia courthouse facili- 6
ties: Provided, That funds made available for capital im- 7
provements shall be expended consistent with the District 8
of Columbia Courts master plan study and facilities condi- 9
tion assessment: Provided further, That notwithstanding 10
any other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 11
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage- 12
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 13
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 14
of other Federal agencies: Provided further, That, 30 days 15
after providing written notice to the Committees on Ap- 16
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen- 17
ate, the District of Columbia Courts may reallocate not 18
more than $6,000,000 of the funds provided under this 19
heading among the items and entities funded under this 20
heading: Provided further, That, the Joint Committee on 21
Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia may, 22
by regulation, establish a program substantially similar to 23
the program set forth in subchapter II of chapter 35 of 24
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title 5, United States Code, for employees of the District 1
of Columbia Courts. 2
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR DEFENDER SERVICES IN 3
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS 4
For payments authorized under section 112604 and 5
section 112605, D.C. Official Code (relating to represen- 6
tation provided under the District of Columbia Criminal 7
Justice Act), payments for counsel appointed in pro- 8
ceedings in the Family Court of the Superior Court of the 9
District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. 10
Official Code, or pursuant to contractual agreements to 11
provide guardian ad litem representation, training, tech- 12
nical assistance, and such other services as are necessary 13
to improve the quality of guardian ad litem representation, 14
payments for counsel appointed in adoption proceedings 15
under chapter 3 of title 16, D.C. Official Code, and pay- 16
ments authorized under section 212060, D.C. Official 17
Code (relating to services provided under the District of 18
Columbia Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Du- 19
rable Power of Attorney Act of 1986), $49,890,000, to 20
remain available until expended: Provided, That funds 21
provided under this heading shall be administered by the 22
Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the Dis- 23
trict of Columbia: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 24
any other provision of law, this appropriation shall be ap- 25
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portioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 1
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner 2
as funds appropriated for expenses of other Federal agen- 3
cies. 4
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE COURT SERVICES AND OF- 5
FENDER SUPERVISION AGENCY FOR THE DISTRICT 6
OF COLUMBIA 7
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 8
hire of motor vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender 9
Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, as au- 10
thorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 11
Government Improvement Act of 1997, $228,500,000, of 12
which not to exceed $2,000 is for official reception and 13
representation expenses related to Community Supervision 14
and Pretrial Services Agency program, of which not to ex- 15
ceed $25,000 is for dues and assessments relating to the 16
implementation of the Court Services and Offender Super- 17
vision Agency Interstate Supervision Act of 2002; of which 18
$169,000,000 shall be for necessary expenses of Commu- 19
nity Supervision and Sex Offender Registration, to include 20
expenses relating to the supervision of adults subject to 21
protection orders or the provision of services for or related 22
to such persons, of which up to $6,990,000 shall remain 23
available until September 30, 2017, for the relocation of 24
an offender supervision field office; and of which 25
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$59,500,000 shall be available to the Pretrial Services 1
Agency: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi- 2
sion of law, all amounts under this heading shall be appor- 3
tioned quarterly by the Office of Management and Budget 4
and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 5
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal 6
agencies: Provided further, That amounts under this head- 7
ing may be used for programmatic incentives for offenders 8
and defendants successfully meeting terms of supervision: 9
Provided further, That the Director is authorized to accept 10
and use gifts in the form of in-kind contributions of the 11
following: space and hospitality to support offender and 12
defendant programs; equipment, supplies, and vocational 13
training services necessary to sustain, educate, and train 14
offenders and defendants, including their dependent chil- 15
dren; and programmatic incentives for offenders and de- 16
fendants meeting terms of supervision: Provided further, 17
That the Director shall keep accurate and detailed records 18
of the acceptance and use of any gift under the previous 19
proviso, and shall make such records available for audit 20
and public inspection: Provided further, That the Court 21
Services and Offender Supervision Agency Director is au- 22
thorized to accept and use reimbursement from the Dis- 23
trict of Columbia Government for space and services pro- 24
vided on a cost reimbursable basis. 25
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FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1
PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE 2
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and 3
hire of motor vehicles, of the District of Columbia Public 4
Defender Service, as authorized by the National Capital 5
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 6
1997, $41,000,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 7
other provision of law, all amounts under this heading 8
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Manage- 9
ment and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 10
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses 11
of Federal agencies: Provided further, That, notwith- 12
standing section 1342 of title 31, United States Code, and 13
in addition to the authority provided by section 307(b) of 14
the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Pro- 15
cedure Act (sec. 2-1607(b), D.C. Official Code), upon ap- 16
proval of the Board of Trustees of the District of Colum- 17
bia Public Defender Service, the District of Columbia 18
Public Defender Service may accept and use voluntary and 19
uncompensated services for the purpose of aiding or facili- 20
tating the work of the District of Columbia Public De- 21
fender Service. 22
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FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1
COORDINATING COUNCIL 2
For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Co- 3
ordinating Council, $1,900,000, to remain available until 4
expended, to support initiatives related to the coordination 5
of Federal and local criminal justice resources in the Dis- 6
trict of Columbia. 7
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR JUDICIAL COMMISSIONS 8
For a Federal payment, to remain available until 9
September 30, 2016, to the Commission on Judicial Dis- 10
abilities and Tenure, $295,000, and for the Judicial Nomi- 11
nation Commission, $255,000. 12
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT 13
For a Federal payment for a school improvement pro- 14
gram in the District of Columbia, $45,000,000, to remain 15
available until expended, for payments authorized under 16
the Scholarship for Opportunity and Results Act (division 17
C of Public Law 11210): Provided, That, to the extent 18
that funds are available for opportunity scholarships and 19
following the priorities included in section 3006 of such 20
Act, the Secretary of Education shall make scholarships 21
available to students eligible under section 3013(3) of such 22
Act (Public Law 11210; 125 Stat. 211) including stu- 23
dents who were not offered a scholarship during any pre- 24
vious school year: Provided further, That within funds pro- 25
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vided for opportunity scholarships $3,000,000 shall be for 1
the activities specified in sections 3007(b) through 2
3007(d) and 3009 of the Act. 3
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 4
NATIONAL GUARD 5
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 6
National Guard, $375,000, to remain available until ex- 7
pended for the Major General David F. Wherley, Jr. Dis- 8
trict of Columbia National Guard Retention and College 9
Access Program. 10
FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR TESTING AND TREATMENT OF 11
HIV/AIDS 12
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 13
for the testing of individuals for, and the treatment of in- 14
dividuals with, human immunodeficiency virus and ac- 15
quired immunodeficiency syndrome in the District of Co- 16
lumbia, $5,000,000. 17
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS 18
Local funds are appropriated for the District of Co- 19
lumbia for the current fiscal year out of the General Fund 20
of the District of Columbia (General Fund) for pro- 21
grams and activities set forth under the heading District 22
of Columbia Funds Summary of Expenses and at the 23
rate set forth under such heading, as included in the Fis- 24
cal Year 2015 Budget Request Act of 2014 submitted to 25
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the Congress by the District of Columbia as amended as 1
of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That not- 2
withstanding any other provision of law, except as pro- 3
vided in section 450A of the District of Columbia Home 4
Rule Act (section 1-204.50a, D.C. Official Code), sections 5
816 and 817 of the Financial Services and General Gov- 6
ernment Appropriations Act, 2009 (secs. 47-369.01 and 7
47-369.02, D.C. Official Code), and provisions of this Act, 8
the total amount appropriated in this Act for operating 9
expenses for the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2015 10
under this heading shall not exceed the estimates included 11
in the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request Act of 2014 sub- 12
mitted to Congress by the District of Columbia as amend- 13
ed as of the date of enactment of this Act or the sum 14
of the total revenues of the District of Columbia for such 15
fiscal year: Provided further, That the amount appro- 16
priated may be increased by proceeds of one-time trans- 17
actions, which are expended for emergency or unantici- 18
pated operating or capital needs: Provided further, That 19
such increases shall be approved by enactment of local 20
District law and shall comply with all reserve requirements 21
contained in the District of Columbia Home Rule Act: 22
Provided further, That the Chief Financial Officer of the 23
District of Columbia shall take such steps as are necessary 24
to assure that the District of Columbia meets these re- 25
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quirements, including the apportioning by the Chief Fi- 1
nancial Officer of the appropriations and funds made 2
available to the District during fiscal year 2015, except 3
that the Chief Financial Officer may not reprogram for 4
operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, 5
or other obligations issued for capital projects. 6
This title may be cited as the District of Columbia 7
Appropriations Act, 2015. 8
TITLE V 9
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 10
ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES 11
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Con- 13
ference of the United States, authorized by 5 U.S.C. 591 14
et seq., $3,000,000, to remain available until September 15
30, 2016, of which not to exceed $1,000 is for official re- 16
ception and representation expenses. 17
BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION 18
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 19
SEC. 501. Section 1017(a)(2)(C) of Public Law 111 20
203 is repealed. 21
SEC. 502. Effective October 1, 2015, notwithstanding 22
section 1017 of Public Law 111203 23
(1) the Board of Governors of the Federal Re- 24
serve System shall not transfer amounts specified 25
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under such section to the Bureau of Consumer Fi- 1
nancial Protection; and 2
(2) there are authorized to be appropriated to 3
the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection such 4
sums as may be necessary to carry out the authori- 5
ties of the Bureau under Federal consumer financial 6
law. 7
SEC. 503. (a) During fiscal year 2015, on the date 8
that a request is made for a transfer of funds in accord- 9
ance with section 1017 of Public Law 111203, the Bu- 10
reau of Consumer Financial Protection shall notify Com- 11
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 12
and the Senate, the Committee on Financial Services of 13
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 14
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate of 15
such requests. 16
(b)(1) Any such notification shall include the amount 17
of the funds requested, an explanation of how the funds 18
will be obligated by object class and activity, and why the 19
funds are necessary to protect consumers. 20
(2) Any notification required by this section shall be 21
made available on the Bureaus public website. 22
SEC. 504. (a) Not later than 2 weeks after the end 23
of each quarter of each fiscal year, the Bureau of Con- 24
sumer Financial Protection shall submit a report on its 25
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activities to the Committees on Appropriations of the 1
House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee 2
on Financial Services of the House of Representatives, 3
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- 4
fairs of the Senate. 5
(b) The reports required under subsection (a) shall 6
include 7
(1) the obligations made during the previous 8
quarter by object class, office, and activity; 9
(2) the estimated obligations for the remainder 10
of the fiscal year by object class, office, and activity; 11
(3) the number of full-time equivalents within 12
each office during the previous quarter; 13
(4) the estimated number of full-time equiva- 14
lents within each office for the remainder of the fis- 15
cal year; and 16
(5) actions taken to achieve the goals, objec- 17
tives, and performance measures of each office. 18
(c) At the request of any such committee specified 19
in subsection (a), the Bureau of Consumer Financial Pro- 20
tection shall make Bureau officials available to testify on 21
the contents of the reports required under subsection (a). 22
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 1
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product 3
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve- 4
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 5
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv- 6
alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 7
and not to exceed $4,000 for official reception and rep- 8
resentation expenses, $118,000,000. 9
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 10
For necessary expenses of the Federal Communica- 12
tions Commission, as authorized by law, including uni- 13
forms and allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 14
59015902; not to exceed $4,000 for official reception and 15
representation expenses; purchase and hire of motor vehi- 16
cles; special counsel fees; and services as authorized by 17
5 U.S.C. 3109, $322,748,000, to remain available until 18
expended: Provided, That $322,748,000of offsetting col- 19
lections shall be assessed and collected pursuant to section 20
9 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934, shall be 21
retained and used for necessary expenses and shall remain 22
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 23
herein appropriated shall be reduced as such offsetting 24
collections are received during fiscal year 2015 so as to 25
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result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated 1
at $0: Provided further, That any offsetting collections re- 2
ceived in excess of $322,748,000 in fiscal year 2015 shall 3
not be available for obligation: Provided further, That re- 4
maining offsetting collections from prior years collected in 5
excess of the amount specified for collection in each such 6
year and otherwise becoming available on October 1, 2014, 7
shall not be available for obligation: Provided further, That 8
notwithstanding 47 U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(B), proceeds from 9
the use of a competitive bidding system that may be re- 10
tained and made available for obligation shall not exceed 11
$106,000,000 for fiscal year 2015: Provided further, That 12
of the amount appropriated under this heading, not less 13
than $11,090,000 shall be for the salaries and expenses 14
of the Office of Inspector General. 15
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 16
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 17
General Act of 1978, $34,568,000, to be derived from the 20
Deposit Insurance Fund or, only when appropriate, the 21
FSLIC Resolution Fund. 22
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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 1
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 3
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 4
$67,500,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be avail- 5
able for reception and representation expenses. 6
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY 7
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 9
Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorga- 10
nization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service 11
Reform Act of 1978, including services authorized by 5 12
U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and consult- 13
ants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and including offi- 14
cial reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 15
$1,500) and rental of conference rooms in the District of 16
Columbia and elsewhere, $25,500,000: Provided, That 17
public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel 18
may be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of sub- 19
sistence as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons 20
employed intermittently in the Government service, and 21
compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 22
further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re- 23
ceived from fees charged to non-Federal participants at 24
labor-management relations conferences shall be credited 25
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to and merged with this account, to be available without 1
further appropriation for the costs of carrying out these 2
conferences. 3
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 4
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Com- 6
mission, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as au- 7
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 59015902; services as authorized 8
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 9
not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representa- 10
tion expenses, $293,000,000, to remain available until ex- 11
pended: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be 12
available for use to contract with a person or persons for 13
collection services in accordance with the terms of 31 14
U.S.C. 3718: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 15
other provision of law, not to exceed $100,000,000 of off- 16
setting collections derived from fees collected for 17
premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Ro- 18
dino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 19
18a), regardless of the year of collection, shall be retained 20
and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation: 21
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi- 22
sion of law, not to exceed $14,000,000 in offsetting collec- 23
tions derived from fees sufficient to implement and enforce 24
the Telemarketing Sales Rule, promulgated under the 25
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Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Preven- 1
tion Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), shall be credited to this 2
account, and be retained and used for necessary expenses 3
in this appropriation: Provided further, That the sum here- 4
in appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 5
as such offsetting collections are received during fiscal 6
year 2015, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appro- 7
priation from the general fund estimated at not more than 8
$179,000,000: Provided further, That none of the funds 9
made available to the Federal Trade Commission may be 10
used to implement subsection (e)(2)(B) of section 43 of 11
the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t). 12
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 13
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES 14
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 15
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE 16
Amounts in the Fund, including revenues and collec- 18
tions deposited into the Fund shall be available for nec- 19
essary expenses of real property management and related 20
activities not otherwise provided for, including operation, 21
maintenance, and protection of federally owned and leased 22
buildings; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; 23
restoration of leased premises; moving governmental agen- 24
cies (including space adjustments and telecommunications 25
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relocation expenses) in connection with the assignment, al- 1
location and transfer of space; contractual services inci- 2
dent to cleaning or servicing buildings, and moving; repair 3
and alteration of federally owned buildings including 4
grounds, approaches and appurtenances; care and safe- 5
guarding of sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, 6
and equipment; acquisition of buildings and sites by pur- 7
chase, condemnation, or as otherwise authorized by law; 8
acquisition of options to purchase buildings and sites; con- 9
version and extension of federally owned buildings; pre- 10
liminary planning and design of projects by contract or 11
otherwise; construction of new buildings (including equip- 12
ment for such buildings); and payment of principal, inter- 13
est, and any other obligations for public buildings acquired 14
by installment purchase and purchase contract; in the ag- 15
gregate amount of $9,130,409,000, of which 16
(1) $420,460,000 shall remain available until 17
expended for construction and acquisition (including 18
funds for sites and expenses, and associated design 19
and construction services) of additional projects at 20
(A) California, Calexico, Calexico West 21
Land Port of Entry, $98,062,000; 22
(B) California, San Diego, San Ysidro 23
Land Port of Entry, $216,828,000; and 24
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(C) New York, Alexandria Bay, Land Port 1
of Entry, $105,570,000: 2
Provided, That each of the foregoing limits of costs 3
on new construction and acquisition projects may be ex- 4
ceeded to the extent that savings are effected in other such 5
projects, but not to exceed 10 percent of the amounts in- 6
cluded in a transmitted prospectus, if required, unless ad- 7
vance approval is obtained from the Committees on Appro- 8
priations of a greater amount; 9
(2) $965,817,000 shall remain available until 10
expended for repairs and alterations, including asso- 11
ciated design and construction services, of which 12
(A) $402,282,000 is for Major Repairs and 13
Alterations; 14
(B) $378,535,000 is for Basic Repairs and 15
Alterations; and 16
(C) $185,000,000 is for Special Emphasis 17
Programs, of which 18
(i) $40,000,000 is for Fire and Life 19
Safety; 20
(ii) $100,000,000 is for Consolidation 21
Activities: Provided, That consolidation 22
projects result in reduced annual rent paid 23
by the tenant agency: Provided further, 24
That no consolidation project exceed 25
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$10,000,000 in costs: Provided further, 1
That consolidation projects are approved 2
by each of the committees specified in sec- 3
tion 3307(a) of title 40, United States 4
Code: Provided further, That preference is 5
given to consolidation projects that achieve 6
a utilization rate of 130 usable square feet 7
or less per person for office space: Pro- 8
vided further, That the obligation of funds 9
under this paragraph for consolidation ac- 10
tivities may not be made until 10 days 11
after a proposed spending plan and expla- 12
nation for each project to be undertaken, 13
including estimated savings, has been sub- 14
mitted to the Committees on Appropria- 15
tions of the House of Representatives and 16
the Senate; 17
(iii) $20,000,000, Judiciary Court Se- 18
curity Program; and 19
(iv) $25,000,000 is for Real Property 20
Disposal: Provided, That disposal projects 21
result in reduced annual operating costs: 22
Provided further, That preference is given 23
to disposal projects that are excess or sur- 24
plus and have the highest fair market 25
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value and the greatest potential to sell: 1
Provided further, That the obligation of 2
funds under this paragraph for property 3
disposal activities may not be made until 4
10 days after a proposed spending plan 5
and explanation for each project to be un- 6
dertaken, including estimated savings, has 7
been submitted to the Committees on Ap- 8
propriations of the House of Representa- 9
tives and the Senate: 10
Provided further, That the amounts provided in this 11
or any prior Act for Repairs and Alterations may be 12
used to fund costs associated with implementing security 13
improvements to buildings necessary to meet the minimum 14
standards for security in accordance with current law and 15
in compliance with the reprogramming guidelines of the 16
appropriate Committees of the House and Senate: Pro- 17
vided further, That the difference between the funds ap- 18
propriated and expended on any projects in this or any 19
prior Act, under the heading Repairs and Alterations, 20
may be transferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations or 21
used to fund authorized increases in prospectus projects: 22
Provided further, That the amount provided in this or any 23
prior Act for Basic Repairs and Alterations may be used 24
to pay claims against the Government arising from any 25
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projects under the heading Repairs and Alterations or 1
used to fund authorized increases in prospectus projects; 2
(3) $5,500,000,000 for rental of space to re- 3
main available until expended; and 4
(4) $2,244,132,000 for building operations to 5
remain available until expended, of which 6
$1,122,727,000 is for building services, and 7
$1,121,405,000 is for salaries and expenses: Pro- 8
vided further, That not to exceed 5 percent of any 9
appropriation made available under this paragraph 10
for building operations may be transferred between 11
and merged with such appropriations upon notifica- 12
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the 13
House of Representatives and the Senate, but no 14
such appropriation shall be increased by more than 15
5 percent by any such transfers: Provided further, 16
That section 508 of this title shall not apply with re- 17
spect to funds made available under this heading for 18
building operations: 19
Provided further, That the total amount of funds 20
made available from this Fund to the General Services Ad- 21
ministration shall not be available for expenses of any con- 22
struction, repair, alteration and acquisition project for 23
which a prospectus, if required by 40 U.S.C. 3307(a), has 24
not been approved, except that necessary funds may be 25
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expended for each project for required expenses for the 1
development of a proposed prospectus: Provided further, 2
That funds available in the Federal Buildings Fund may 3
be expended for emergency repairs when advance approval 4
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: Pro- 5
vided further, That amounts necessary to provide reim- 6
bursable special services to other agencies under 40 U.S.C. 7
592(b)(2) and amounts to provide such reimbursable fenc- 8
ing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private 9
or other property not in Government ownership or control 10
as may be appropriate to enable the United States Secret 11
Service to perform its protective functions pursuant to 18 12
U.S.C. 3056, shall be available from such revenues and 13
collections: Provided further, That revenues and collections 14
and any other sums accruing to this Fund during fiscal 15
year 2015, excluding reimbursements under 40 U.S.C. 16
592(b)(2) in excess of the aggregate new obligational au- 17
thority authorized for Real Property Activities of the Fed- 18
eral Buildings Fund in this Act shall remain in the Fund 19
and shall not be available for expenditure except as au- 20
thorized in appropriations Acts. 21
GENERAL ACTIVITIES 22
GOVERNMENT-WIDE POLICY 23
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro- 24
vided for, for Government-wide policy and evaluation ac- 25
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tivities associated with the management of real and per- 1
sonal property assets and certain administrative services; 2
Government-wide policy support responsibilities relating to 3
acquisition, travel, motor vehicles, information technology 4
management, and related technology activities; and serv- 5
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $58,000,000. 6
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro- 9
vided for, for Government-wide activities associated with 10
utilization and donation of surplus personal property; dis- 11
posal of real property; agency-wide policy direction, man- 12
agement, and communications; the Civilian Board of Con- 13
tract Appeals; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 14
$61,049,000, of which $26,328,000 is for Real and Per- 15
sonal Property Management and Disposal; $25,729,000 is 16
for the Office of the Administrator, of which not to exceed 17
$7,500 is for official reception and representation ex- 18
penses; and $8,992,000 is for the Civilian Board of Con- 19
tract Appeals: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per- 20
cent of the appropriation made available under this head- 21
ing for Office of the Administrator may be transferred to 22
the appropriation for the Real and Personal Property 23
Management and Disposal upon notification to the Com- 24
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and the Senate, but the appropriation for the Real and 1
Personal Property Management and Disposal may not be 2
increased by more than 5 percent by any such transfer. 3
General and service authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 6
$65,000,000, of which $2,000,000 is available until ex- 7
pended: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 shall be 8
available for payment for information and detection of 9
fraud against the Government, including payment for re- 10
covery of stolen Government property: Provided further, 11
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards 12
to employees of other Federal agencies and private citizens 13
in recognition of efforts and initiatives resulting in en- 14
hanced Office of Inspector General effectiveness. 15
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER 16
PRESIDENTS 17
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 18
25, 1958 (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95138, 19
$1,672,000. 20
FEDERAL CITIZEN SERVICES FUND 21
For necessary expenses of the Office of Citizen Serv- 23
ices and Innovative Technologies, including services au- 24
thorized by 40 U.S.C. 323 and 44 U.S.C. 3604; and for 25
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necessary expenses in support of interagency projects that 1
enable the Federal Government to enhance its ability to 2
conduct activities electronically, through the development 3
and implementation of innovative uses of information 4
technology; $53,294,000, to be deposited into the Federal 5
Citizen Services Fund: Provided, That the previous 6
amount may be transferred to Federal agencies to carry 7
out the purpose of the Federal Citizen Services Fund: Pro- 8
vided further, That the appropriations, revenues, reim- 9
bursements, and collections deposited into the Fund shall 10
be available until expended for necessary expenses of Fed- 11
eral Citizen Services and other activities that enable the 12
Federal Government to enhance its ability to conduct ac- 13
tivities electronically in the aggregate amount not to ex- 14
ceed $90,000,000: Provided further, That appropriations 15
revenues, reimbursements, and collections accruing to this 16
Fund during fiscal year 2015 in excess of such amount 17
shall remain in the Fund and shall not be available for 18
expenditure except as authorized in appropriations Acts: 19
Provided further, That any appropriations provided to the 20
Electronic Government Fund that remain unobligated as 21
of September 30, 2014, may be transferred to the Federal 22
Citizen Services Fund: Provided further, That the transfer 23
authorities provided herein shall be in addition to any 24
other transfer authority provided in this Act. 25
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSGENERAL SERVICES 1
ADMINISTRATION 2
SEC. 507. Funds available to the General Services 4
Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger 5
motor vehicles. 6
SEC. 508. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 7
made available for fiscal year 2015 for Federal Buildings 8
Fund activities may be transferred between such activities 9
only to the extent necessary to meet program require- 10
ments: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall be ap- 11
proved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations 12
of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 13
SEC. 509. Except as otherwise provided in this title, 14
funds made available by this Act shall be used to transmit 15
a fiscal year 2016 request for United States Courthouse 16
construction only if the request: (1) meets the design guide 17
standards for construction as established and approved by 18
the General Services Administration, the Judicial Con- 19
ference of the United States, and the Office of Manage- 20
ment and Budget; (2) reflects the priorities of the Judicial 21
Conference of the United States as set out in its approved 22
5-year construction plan; and (3) includes a standardized 23
courtroom utilization study of each facility to be con- 24
structed, replaced, or expanded. 25
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SEC. 510. None of the funds provided in this Act may 1
be used to increase the amount of occupiable square feet, 2
provide cleaning services, security enhancements, or any 3
other service usually provided through the Federal Build- 4
ings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the rate per 5
square foot assessment for space and services as deter- 6
mined by the General Services Administration in consider- 7
ation of the Public Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 8
(Public Law 92313). 9
SEC. 511. From funds made available under the 10
heading Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations on Avail- 11
ability of Revenue, claims against the Government of less 12
than $250,000 arising from direct construction projects 13
and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated from sav- 14
ings effected in other construction projects with prior noti- 15
fication to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 16
of Representatives and the Senate. 17
SEC. 512. In any case in which the Committee on 18
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep- 19
resentatives and the Committee on Environment and Pub- 20
lic Works of the Senate adopt a resolution granting lease 21
authority pursuant to a prospectus transmitted to Con- 22
gress by the Administrator of the General Services Admin- 23
istration under 40 U.S.C. 3307, the Administrator shall 24
ensure that the delineated area of procurement is identical 25
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to the delineated area included in the prospectus for all 1
lease agreements, except that, if the Administrator deter- 2
mines that the delineated area of the procurement should 3
not be identical to the delineated area included in the pro- 4
spectus, the Administrator shall provide an explanatory 5
statement to each of such committees and the Committees 6
Senate prior to exercising any lease authority provided in 8
the resolution. 9
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 10
Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganiza- 14
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform 15
Act of 1978, and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 16
1989 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note), including services as author- 17
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the 18
District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger 19
motor vehicles, direct procurement of survey printing, and 20
tion expenses, $40,655,000, to remain available until Sep- 22
tember 30, 2016, together with not to exceed $2,345,000, 23
to remain available until September 30, 2016, for adminis- 24
trative expenses to adjudicate retirement appeals to be 25
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transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and Dis- 1
ability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Systems 2
Protection Board. 3
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION 4
For necessary expenses in connection with the admin- 6
istration of the National Archives and Records Adminis- 7
tration and archived Federal records and related activities, 8
as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the re- 9
view and declassification of documents, the activities of 10
the Public Interest Declassification Board, the operations 11
and maintenance of the electronic records archives, the 12
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and for uniforms or al- 13
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), 14
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning, 15
$360,000,000. 16
General Reform Act of 2008, Public Law 110409, 122 20
Stat. 430216 (2008), and the Inspector General Act of 21
1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), and for the hire of passenger motor 22
vehicles, $4,130,000. 23
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REPAIRS AND RESTORATION 1
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of ar- 2
chives facilities, and to provide adequate storage for hold- 3
ings, $7,600,000, to remain available until expended. 4
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS 5
COMMISSION 6
GRANTS PROGRAM 7
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for 8
historical publications and records as authorized by 44 9
U.S.C. 2504, $5,000,000, to remain available until ex- 10
pended. 11
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION 12
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND 13
For the Community Development Revolving Loan 14
Fund program as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822 15
and 9910, $2,000,000 shall be available until September 16
30, 2016, for technical assistance to low-income des- 17
ignated credit unions. 18
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 19
Office of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in 22
Government Act of 1978, the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 23
and the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 24
2012, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 25
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rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and 1
elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to ex- 2
penses, $15,420,000. 4
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 7
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) pursuant to Re- 9
organization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Serv- 10
ice Reform Act of 1978, including services as authorized 11
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for 12
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of con- 13
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; 14
hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for 15
official reception and representation expenses; advances 16
for reimbursements to applicable funds of OPM and the 17
Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses incurred 18
under Executive Order No. 10422 of January 9, 1953, 19
as amended; and payment of per diem and/or subsistence 20
allowances to employees where Voting Rights Act activities 21
require an employee to remain overnight at his or her post 22
of duty, $95,910,000; and in addition $118,425,000 for 23
administrative expenses, to be transferred from the appro- 24
priate trust funds of OPM without regard to other stat- 25
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utes, including direct procurement of printed materials, 1
for the retirement and insurance programs: Provided, 2
That the provisions of this appropriation shall not affect 3
the authority to use applicable trust funds as provided by 4
sections 8348(a)(1)(B), 8958(f)(2)(A), 8988(f)(2)(A), and 5
9004(f)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code: Provided fur- 6
ther, That no part of this appropriation shall be available 7
for salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit of 8
OPM established pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358 9
of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit of like purpose: 10
Provided further, That the Presidents Commission on 11
White House Fellows, established by Executive Order No. 12
11183 of October 3, 1964, may, during fiscal year 2015, 13
accept donations of money, property, and personal serv- 14
ices: Provided further, That such donations, including 15
those from prior years, may be used for the development 16
of publicity materials to provide information about the 17
White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall 18
be accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, 19
or for the salaries of employees of such Commission. 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 23
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General Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 1
5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 2
$4,384,000, and in addition, not to exceed $21,340,000 3
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and pro- 4
vide other oversight of the Office of Personnel Manage- 5
ments retirement and insurance programs, to be trans- 6
ferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 7
Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector 8
General: Provided, That the Inspector General is author- 9
ized to rent conference rooms in the District of Columbia 10
and elsewhere. 11
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 12
Office of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan 15
Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 16
1978 (Public Law 95454), the Whistleblower Protection 17
Act of 1989 (Public Law 10112) as amended by Public 18
Law 107304, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement 19
Act of 2012 (Public Law 112199), and the Uniformed 20
Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 21
1994 (Public Law 103353), including services as author- 22
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for 23
witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the District of Co- 24
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lumbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehi- 1
cles; $21,452,000. 2
POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
For necessary expenses of the Postal Regulatory 6
Commission in carrying out the provisions of the Postal 7
Accountability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109 8
435), $14,152,000, to be derived by transfer from the 9
Postal Service Fund and expended as authorized by sec- 10
tion 603(a) of such Act. 11
PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD 12
For necessary expenses of the Privacy and Civil Lib- 14
erties Oversight Board, as authorized by section 1061 of 15
the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 16
2004 (42 U.S.C. 2000ee), $4,500,000, to remain available 17
until September 30, 2016. 18
RECOVERY ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY 19
BOARD 20
For necessary expenses of the Recovery Account- 22
ability and Transparency Board to carry out the provi- 23
sions of title XV of the American Recovery and Reinvest- 24
ment Act of 2009 (Public Law 1115), and to develop and 25
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test information technology resources and oversight mech- 1
anisms to enhance transparency of and detect and reme- 2
diate waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal spending, and 3
to develop and use information technology resources and 4
oversight mechanisms to detect and remediate waste, 5
fraud, and abuse in obligation and expenditure of funds 6
as described in section 904(d) of the Disaster Relief Ap- 7
propriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 1132), which shall 8
be administered under the terms and conditions of the ac- 9
countability authorities of title XV of Public Law 111 10
5, $15,000,000. 11
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 12
For necessary expenses for the Securities and Ex- 14
change Commission, including services as authorized by 15
5 U.S.C. 3109, the rental of space (to include multiple 16
year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and 17
tion expenses, $1,400,000,000 to remain available until 19
expended; of which not less than $9,239,000 shall be for 20
the Office of Inspector General; of which not to exceed 21
$50,000 shall be available for a permanent secretariat for 22
the International Organization of Securities Commissions; 23
of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for ex- 24
penses for consultations and meetings hosted by the Com- 25
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mission with foreign governmental and other regulatory 1
officials, members of their delegations and staffs to ex- 2
change views concerning securities matters, such expenses 3
to include necessary logistic and administrative expenses 4
and the expenses of Commission staff and foreign invitees 5
in attendance including: (1) incidental expenses such as 6
meals; (2) travel and transportation; and (3) related lodg- 7
ing or subsistence; of which funding for information tech- 8
nology initiatives shall be increased over the fiscal year 9
2014 level by not less than $50,000,000; and of which not 10
less than $68,872,000 shall be for the Division of Eco- 11
nomic and Risk Analysis: Provided, That fees and charges 12
authorized by section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act 13
of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) shall be credited to this account 14
as offsetting collections: Provided further, That not to ex- 15
ceed $1,400,000,000 of such offsetting collections shall be 16
available until expended for necessary expenses of this ac- 17
count: Provided further, That the total amount appro- 18
priated under this heading from the general fund for fiscal 19
year 2015 shall be reduced as such offsetting fees are re- 20
ceived so as to result in a final total fiscal year 2015 ap- 21
propriation from the general fund estimated at not more 22
than $0. 23
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SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 1
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys- 3
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of 4
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective 5
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 41014118 for 6
civilian employees; hire of passenger motor vehicles; serv- 7
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed 8
$750 for official reception and representation expenses; 9
$21,500,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal 10
year, the President may exempt this appropriation from 11
the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever the President 12
deems such action to be necessary in the interest of na- 13
tional defense: Provided further, That none of the funds 14
appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in con- 15
nection with the induction of any person into the Armed 16
Forces of the United States. 17
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 18
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 20
of the Small Business Administration, including hire of 21
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by sections 1343 22
and 1344 of title 31, United States Code, and not to ex- 23
penses, $253,882,000, of which not less than $12,000,000 25
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shall be available for examinations, reviews, and other 1
lender oversight activities: Provided, That the Adminis- 2
trator is authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of pub- 3
lications developed by the Small Business Administration, 4
and certain loan program activities, including fees author- 5
ized by section 5(b) of the Small Business Act: Provided 6
further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues 7
received from all such activities shall be credited to this 8
account, to remain available until expended, for carrying 9
out these purposes without further appropriations: Pro- 10
vided further, That the Small Business Administration 11
may accept gifts in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 12
and may co-sponsor activities, each in accordance with sec- 13
tion 132(a) of division K of Public Law 108447, during 14
fiscal year 2015: Provided further, That $6,100,000 shall 15
be available for the Loan Modernization and Accounting 16
System, to be available until September 30, 2016. 17
ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 18
For necessary expenses of programs supporting en- 19
trepreneurial and small business development, 20
$197,825,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
2016. 22
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General Act of 1978, $19,400,000. 4
OFFICE OF ADVOCACY 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of Advocacy in 6
carrying out the provisions of title II of Public Law 94 7
305 (15 U.S.C. 634a et seq.) and the Regulatory Flexi- 8
bility Act of 1980 (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), $8,750,000, to 9
remain available until expended. 10
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 11
For the cost of direct loans, $2,500,000, to remain 13
available until expended, and for the cost of guaranteed 14
loans as authorized by section 503 of the Small Business 15
Investment Act of 1958 (Public Law 85699), 16
$45,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro- 17
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 18
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con- 19
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 20
subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 21
of 1974, during fiscal year 2015 commitments to guar- 22
antee loans under section 503 of the Small Business In- 23
vestment Act of 1958 shall not exceed $7,500,000,000: 24
Provided further, That during fiscal year 2015 commit- 25
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ments for general business loans authorized under section 1
7(a) of the Small Business Act shall not exceed 2
$18,500,000,000 for a combination of amortizing term 3
loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided 4
by revolving loans: Provided further, That during fiscal 5
year 2015 commitments to guarantee loans for debentures 6
under section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment 7
Act of 1958 shall not exceed $4,000,000,000: Provided 8
further, That during fiscal year 2015, guarantees of trust 9
certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small Busi- 10
ness Act shall not exceed a principal amount of 11
$12,000,000,000. In addition, for administrative expenses 12
to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, 13
$147,726,000, which may be transferred to and merged 14
with the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses. 15
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 16
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 18
loan program authorized by section 7(b) of the Small 19
Business Act, $186,858,000, to be available until ex- 20
pended, of which $1,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector 21
General of the Small Business Administration for audits 22
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan pro- 23
grams and shall be transferred to and merged with the 24
appropriations for the Office of Inspector General; of 25
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which $176,858,000 is for direct administrative expenses 1
of loan making and servicing to carry out the direct loan 2
program, which may be transferred to and merged with 3
the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses; and of 4
which $9,000,000 is for indirect administrative expenses 5
for the direct loan program, which may be transferred to 6
and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and Ex- 7
penses. 8
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONSSMALL BUSINESS 9
ADMINISTRATION 10
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the 13
Small Business Administration in this Act may be trans- 14
ferred between such appropriations, but no such appro- 15
priation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by 16
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant 17
to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of 18
funds under section 608 of this Act and shall not be avail- 19
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance 20
with the procedures set forth in that section. 21
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 22
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 23
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue 24
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub- 25
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sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United 1
States Code, $58,342,000: Provided, That mail for over- 2
seas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to be free: 3
Provided further, That 6-day delivery and rural delivery 4
of mail shall continue at not less than the 1983 level: Pro- 5
vided further, That none of the funds made available to 6
the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to implement 7
any rule, regulation, or policy of charging any officer or 8
employee of any State or local child support enforcement 9
agency, or any individual participating in a State or local 10
program of child support enforcement, a fee for informa- 11
tion requested or provided concerning an address of a 12
postal customer: Provided further, That none of the funds 13
provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or close 14
small rural and other small post offices. 15
General Act of 1978, $243,000,000, to be derived by 21
transfer from the Postal Service Fund and expended as 22
authorized by section 603(b)(3) of the Postal Account- 23
ability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109435). 24
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UNITED STATES TAX COURT 1
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 3
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 4
$50,000,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 5
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 6
TITLE VI 7
GENERAL PROVISIONSTHIS ACT 8
SEC. 601. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 9
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 10
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 11
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 12
funded in this Act. 13
SEC. 602. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 14
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 15
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria- 16
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 17
SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation 18
under this Act for any consulting service through procure- 19
ment contract pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 20
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 21
of public record and available for public inspection, except 22
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex- 23
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 24
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Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in- 2
strumentality of the United States Government, except 3
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro- 4
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 5
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 7
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac- 8
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 9
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol- 10
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 11
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 12
SEC. 606. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 13
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 14
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 15
with chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 16
SEC. 607. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 17
available under this Act shall be made available to any 18
person or entity that has been convicted of violating chap- 19
ter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 20
SEC. 608. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 21
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre- 22
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund- 23
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex- 24
penditure in fiscal year 2015, or provided from any ac- 25
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counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 1
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 2
available for obligation or expenditure through a re- 3
programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 4
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 5
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 6
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con- 7
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac- 8
tivity by the Committee on Appropriations of either the 9
House of Representatives or the Senate for a different 10
purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac- 11
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever 12
is less; (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activi- 13
ties by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) 14
creates or reorganizes offices, programs, or activities un- 15
less prior approval is received from the Committees on Ap- 16
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen- 17
ate: Provided, That prior to any significant reorganization 18
or restructuring of offices, programs, or activities, each 19
agency or entity funded in this Act shall consult with the 20
atives and the Senate: Provided further, That not later 22
than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each 23
agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to the 24
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atives and the Senate to establish the baseline for applica- 1
tion of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the 2
current fiscal year: Provided further, That at a minimum 3
the report shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation 4
with a separate column to display the Presidents budget 5
request, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due 6
to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year 7
enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each appro- 8
priation both by object class and program, project, and 9
activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the respec- 10
tive appropriation; and (3) an identification of items of 11
special congressional interest: Provided further, That the 12
amount appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses 13
for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for 14
each day after the required date that the report has not 15
been submitted to the Congress. 16
SEC. 609. Except as otherwise specifically provided 17
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 18
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2015 from 19
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 20
for fiscal year 2015 in this Act, shall remain available 21
through September 30, 2016, for each such account for 22
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 23
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 24
House of Representatives and the Senate for approval 25
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prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 1
That these requests shall be made in compliance with re- 2
programming guidelines. 3
SEC. 610. (a) None of the funds made available in 4
this Act may be used by the Executive Office of the Presi- 5
dent to request 6
(1) any official background investigation report 7
on any individual from the Federal Bureau of Inves- 8
tigation; or 9
(2) a determination with respect to the treat- 10
ment of an organization as described in section 11
501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and 12
exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such 13
Code from the Department of the Treasury or the 14
Internal Revenue Service. 15
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply 16
(1) in the case of an official background inves- 17
tigation report, if such individual has given express 18
written consent for such request not more than 6 19
months prior to the date of such request and during 20
the same presidential administration; or 21
(2) if such request is required due to extraor- 22
dinary circumstances involving national security. 23
SEC. 611. The cost accounting standards promul- 24
gated under chapter 15 of title 41, United States Code, 25
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shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed- 1
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 2
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 3
SEC. 612. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 4
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 5
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of- 6
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 7
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 8
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made 9
available to the Office of Personnel Management pursuant 10
to court approval. 11
SEC. 613. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 12
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 13
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 14
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 15
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 16
SEC. 614. The provision of section 613 shall not 17
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 18
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 19
result of an act of rape or incest. 20
SEC. 615. In order to promote Government access to 21
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur- 22
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 23
forth in chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code (popu- 24
larly known as the Buy American Act), shall not apply 25
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to the acquisition by the Federal Government of informa- 1
tion technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 40, 2
United States Code), that is a commercial item (as defined 3
in section 103 of title 41, United States Code). 4
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, 5
United States Code, no officer or employee of any regu- 6
latory agency or commission funded by this Act may ac- 7
cept on behalf of that agency, nor may such agency or 8
commission accept, payment or reimbursement from a 9
non-Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or related ex- 10
penses for the purpose of enabling an officer or employee 11
to attend and participate in any meeting or similar func- 12
tion relating to the official duties of the officer or em- 13
ployee when the entity offering payment or reimbursement 14
is a person or entity subject to regulation by such agency 15
or commission, or represents a person or entity subject 16
to regulation by such agency or commission, unless the 17
person or entity is an organization described in section 18
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and ex- 19
empt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code. 20
SEC. 617. Notwithstanding section 708 of this Act, 21
funds made available to the Commodity Futures Trading 22
Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission 23
by this or any other Act may be used for the interagency 24
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funding and sponsorship of a joint advisory committee to 1
advise on emerging regulatory issues. 2
SEC. 618. Not later than 45 days after the end of 3
each quarter, the Department of the Treasury, the Execu- 4
tive Office of the President, the Judiciary, the Federal 5
Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commis- 6
sion, the General Services Administration, the National 7
Archives and Records Administration, the Securities and 8
Exchange Commission, and the Small Business Adminis- 9
tration shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of 10
the House of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly 11
accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated 12
funds. 13
SEC. 619. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 14
of law, an Executive agency covered by this Act otherwise 15
authorized to enter into contracts for either leases or the 16
construction or alteration of real property for office, meet- 17
ing, storage, or other space must consult with the General 18
Services Administration before issuing a solicitation for of- 19
fers of new leases or construction contracts, and in the 20
case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations 21
with the current lessor. 22
(2) Any such agency with authority to enter 23
into an emergency lease may do so during any pe- 24
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riod declared by the President to require emergency 1
leasing authority with respect to such agency. 2
(b) For purposes of this section, the term Executive 3
agency covered by this Act means any Executive agency 4
provided funds by this Act, but does not include the Gen- 5
eral Services Administration or the United States Postal 6
Service. 7
Act may be used by the Federal Trade Commission to 9
complete the draft report entitled Interagency Working 10
Group on Food Marketed to Children: Preliminary Pro- 11
posed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regu- 12
latory Efforts unless the Interagency Working Group on 13
Food Marketed to Children complies with Executive Order 14
No. 13563. 15
or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries and ex- 17
penses for the following positions: 18
(1) Director, White House Office of Health Re- 19
form, or any substantially similar position. 20
(2) Assistant to the President for Energy and 21
Climate Change, or any substantially similar posi- 22
tion. 23
(3) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the 24
Treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on 25
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the Auto Industry and Senior Counselor for Manu- 1
facturing Policy, or any substantially similar posi- 2
tion. 3
(4) White House Director of Urban Affairs, or 4
any substantially similar position. 5
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 7
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 8
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor- 9
poration that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 10
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 11
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 12
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree- 13
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 14
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 15
tax liability, unless the Federal agency has considered sus- 16
pension or debarment of the corporation and has made 17
a determination that this further action is not necessary 18
to protect the interests of the Government. 19
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 21
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 22
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor- 23
poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 24
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 25
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where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un- 1
less the Federal agency has considered suspension or de- 2
barment of the corporation and has made a determination 3
that this further action is not necessary to protect the in- 4
terests of the Government. 5
SEC. 624. (a) There are appropriated for the fol- 6
lowing activities the amounts required under current law: 7
(1) Compensation of the President (3 U.S.C. 8
102). 9
(2) Payments to 10
(A) the Judicial Officers Retirement Fund 11
(28 U.S.C. 377(o)); 12
(B) the Judicial Survivors Annuities Fund 13
(28 U.S.C. 376(c)); and 14
(C) the United States Court of Federal 15
Claims Judges Retirement Fund (28 U.S.C. 16
178(l)). 17
(3) Payment of Government contributions 18
(A) with respect to the health benefits of 19
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 20
of title 5, United States Code, and the Retired 21
Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 22
Stat. 849); and 23
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(B) with respect to the life insurance bene- 1
fits for employees retiring after December 31, 2
1989 (5 U.S.C. ch. 87). 3
(4) Payment to finance the unfunded liability of 4
new and increased annuity benefits under the Civil 5
Service Retirement and Disability Fund (5 U.S.C. 6
8348). 7
(5) Payment of annuities authorized to be paid 8
from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 9
Fund by statutory provisions other than subchapter 10
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United 11
States Code. 12
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to ex- 13
empt any amount appropriated by this section from any 14
otherwise applicable limitation on the use of funds con- 15
tained in this Act. 16
SEC. 625. During fiscal year 2015, no funds shall be 17
obligated from the Securities and Exchange Commission 18
Reserve Fund established by section 991 of the Dodd- 19
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 20
(Public Law 111203). 21
Act shall be used by the Securities and Exchange Commis- 23
sion to finalize, issue, or implement any rule, regulation, 24
or order regarding the disclosure of political contributions, 25
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contributions to tax exempt organizations, or dues paid 1
to trade associations. 2
SEC. 627. Section 2(c) of the Multinational Species 3
Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 (Public 4
Law 111241; 39 U.S.C. 416 note) is amended 5
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking 2 years and 6
inserting 6 years; and 7
(2) by adding at the end the following: 8
(5) STAMP DEPICTIONS.Members of the 9
public shall be offered a choice of 5 stamps under 10
this Act, depicting an African elephant or an Asian 11
elephant, a rhinoceros, a tiger, a marine turtle, and 12
a great ape, respectively.. 13
SEC. 628. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 14
of enactment of this section, the agencies specified in sub- 15
section (b) shall each submit a report to the Committees 16
Senate on 18
(1) increasing public participation in the rule- 19
making process and reducing uncertainty; 20
(2) improving coordination with other Federal 21
agencies to eliminate redundant, inconsistent, and 22
overlapping regulations; and 23
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(3) identifying existing regulations that have 1
been reviewed and determined to be outmoded, inef- 2
fective, or excessively burdensome. 3
(b) The agencies required to submit a report specified 4
in subsection (a) are 5
(1) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; 6
(2) the Federal Communications Commission; 7
(3) the Federal Trade Commission; and 8
(4) the Securities and Exchange Commission. 9
Act may be used to award a contract for services to train 11
any employee of an Executive agency (as that term is de- 12
fined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code) to 13
learn how to support or defeat legislation pending before 14
Congress. 15
this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be used to 17
destroy, deface, or dispose of records, regardless of their 18
physical form or characteristics, in contravention of chap- 19
ters 29, 31, and 33 of title 44, United States Code (com- 20
monly referred to as the Federal Records Act). 21
(b) Not later than 90 days after the date of enact- 22
ment of this Act, the Archivist of the United States shall 23
conduct an inspection and submit a report to the Commit- 24
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and the Senate, the House Committee on Oversight and 1
Government Reform, and the Senate Committee on Home- 2
land Security and Government Affairs on the compliance 3
by the Internal Revenue Service with the provisions of 4
chapters 29, 31, and 33 of title 44, United States Code, 5
during calendar years 2009 through 2013. 6
Act may be used to require the disclosure by a provider 8
of an electronic communication service or a remote com- 9
puting service of the contents or related information de- 10
tailed in section 2703(c) of title 18, United States Code, 11
of a wire or electronic communication that is in electronic 12
storage with or otherwise held or maintained by the pro- 13
vider, as such terms are defined in section 2510 of title 14
18, United States Code, by any other than a means au- 15
thorized under section 2703(b)(1)(A) of title 18, United 16
States Code. 17
SEC. 632. Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall 18
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 19
8305) is amended 20
(1) in subsection (b) 21
(A) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking in- 22
sured depository institution and inserting 23
covered depository institution; and 24
(B) by adding at the end the following: 25
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(3) COVERED DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION. 1
The term covered depository institution means 2
(A) an insured depository institution, as 3
that term is defined in section 3 of the Federal 4
Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813); and 5
(B) a United States uninsured branch or 6
agency of a foreign bank.; 7
(2) in subsection (c) 8
(A) in the heading for such subsection, by 9
striking INSURED and inserting COVERED; 10
(B) by striking an insured and inserting 11
a covered; 12
(C) by striking such insured and insert- 13
ing such covered; and 14
(D) by striking or savings and loan hold- 15
ing company and inserting savings and loan 16
holding company, or foreign banking organiza- 17
tion (as such term is defined under Regulation 18
K of the Board of Governors of the Federal Re- 19
serve System (12 C.F.R. 211.21(o))); 20
(3) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol- 21
lows: 22
(d) ONLY BONA FIDE HEDGING AND TRADITIONAL 23
BANK ACTIVITIES PERMITTED. 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.The prohibition in sub- 1
section (a) shall not apply to any covered depository 2
institution that limits its swap and security-based 3
swap activities to the following: 4
(A) HEDGING AND OTHER SIMILAR RISK 5
MITIGATION ACTIVITIES.Hedging and other 6
similar risk mitigating activities directly related 7
to the covered depository institutions activities. 8
(B) NON-STRUCTURED FINANCE SWAP 9
ACTIVITIES.Acting as a swaps entity for 10
swaps or security-based swaps other than a 11
structured finance swap. 12
(C) CERTAIN STRUCTURED FINANCE 13
SWAP ACTIVITIES.Acting as a swaps entity for 14
swaps or security-based swaps that are struc- 15
tured finance swaps, if 16
(i) such structured finance swaps are 17
undertaken for hedging or risk manage- 18
ment purposes; or 19
(ii) each asset-backed security under- 20
lying such structured finance swaps is of a 21
credit quality and of a type or category 22
with respect to which the prudential regu- 23
lators have jointly adopted rules author- 24
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izing swap or security-based swap activity 1
by covered depository institutions. 2
(2) DEFINITIONS.For purposes of this sub- 3
section: 4
(A) STRUCTURED FINANCE SWAP.The 5
term structured finance swap means a swap or 6
security-based swap based on an asset-backed 7
security (or group or index primarily comprised 8
of asset-backed securities). 9
(B) ASSET-BACKED SECURITY.The 10
term asset-backed security has the meaning 11
given such term under section 3(a) of the Secu- 12
rities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 13
78c(a)).; 14
(4) in subsection (e), by striking an insured 15
and inserting a covered; and 16
(5) in subsection (f) 17
(A) by striking an insured depository 18
and inserting a covered depository; and 19
(B) by striking the insured depository 20
each place such term appears and inserting 21
the covered depository. 22
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TITLE VII 1
GENERAL PROVISIONSGOVERNMENT-WIDE 2
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 3
SEC. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality 5
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 6
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2015 shall obligate 7
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen- 8
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 9
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en- 10
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 11
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 12
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 13
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 14
agency, or instrumentality. 15
SEC. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 16
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 17
in accordance with subsection 1343(c) of title 31, United 18
States Code, for the purchase of any passenger motor ve- 19
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement ve- 20
hicles, protective vehicles, and undercover surveillance ve- 21
hicles), is hereby fixed at $13,197 except station wagons 22
for which the maximum shall be $13,631: Provided, That 23
these limits may be exceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for 24
police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 for spe- 25
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cial heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, That the limits 1
set forth in this section may not be exceeded by more than 2
5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased for 3
demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and 4
Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstra- 5
tion Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set 6
forth in this section may be exceeded by the incremental 7
cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant 8
to Public Law 101549 over the cost of comparable con- 9
ventionally fueled vehicles: Provided further, That the lim- 10
its set forth in this section shall not apply to any vehicle 11
that is a commercial item and which operates on emerging 12
motor vehicle technology, including but not limited to elec- 13
tric, plug-in hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehi- 14
cles. 15
SEC. 703. Appropriations of the executive depart- 16
ments and independent establishments for the current fis- 17
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex- 18
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 19
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 20
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922 through 5924. 21
SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified in law, during 22
the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation con- 23
tained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the 24
compensation of any officer or employee of the Govern- 25
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ment of the United States (including any agency the ma- 1
jority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 2
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the conti- 3
nental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen 4
of the United States; (2) is a person who is lawfully admit- 5
ted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as 6
outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who 7
is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is grant- 8
ed asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration 9
of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and 10
then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who owes 11
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for pur- 12
poses of this section, affidavits signed by any such person 13
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require- 14
ments of this section with respect to his or her status are 15
being complied with: Provided further, That for purposes 16
of subsections (2) and (3) such affidavits shall be sub- 17
mitted prior to employment and updated thereafter as nec- 18
essary: Provided further, That any payment made to any 19
officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this sec- 20
tion shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Govern- 21
ment: Provided further, That this section shall not apply 22
to any person who is an officer or employee of the Govern- 23
ment of the United States on the date of enactment of 24
this Act, or to international broadcasters employed by the 25
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Broadcasting Board of Governors, or to temporary em- 1
ployment of translators, or to temporary employment in 2
the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of 3
emergencies: Provided further, That this section does not 4
apply to the employment as Wildland firefighters for not 5
more than 120 days of nonresident aliens employed by the 6
Department of the Interior or the USDA Forest Service 7
pursuant to an agreement with another country. 8
SEC. 705. Appropriations available to any depart- 9
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec- 10
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex- 11
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 12
Services Administration for charges for space and services 13
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build- 14
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 15
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 16
1959 (73 Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments 17
of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 18
SEC. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or 19
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re- 20
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials, 21
including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 22
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre- 23
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex- 24
pended for the following purposes: 25
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(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 1
and recycling programs as described in Executive 2
Order No. 13423 (January 24, 2007), including any 3
such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 4
the Executive Order. 5
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man- 6
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 7
development and implementation of hazardous waste 8
management and pollution prevention programs. 9
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 10
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 11
Federal agency. 12
SEC. 707. Funds made available by this or any other 13
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 14
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 15
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 16
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 17
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 18
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 19
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 20
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 21
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 22
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex- 23
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 24
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funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 1
correspondingly reduced. 2
SEC. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in 3
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 4
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 5
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 6
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 7
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 8
financial support from more than one agency or instru- 9
mentality. 10
SEC. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant 11
to the provisions of this or any other Act shall be used 12
to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which 13
has been disapproved pursuant to a joint resolution duly 14
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 15
United States. 16
SEC. 710. During the period in which the head of 17
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 18
employee of the Federal Government appointed by the 19
President of the United States, holds office, no funds may 20
be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish 21
or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 22
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or 23
make improvements for any such office, unless advance 24
notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted 25
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to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep- 1
resentatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this sec- 2
tion, the term office shall include the entire suite of of- 3
fices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space 4
used primarily by the individual or the use of which is 5
directly controlled by the individual. 6
SEC. 711. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec- 7
tion 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current 8
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 9
the interagency funding of national security and emer- 10
gency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which 11
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or enti- 12
ties, as provided by Executive Order No. 13618 (July 6, 13
2012). 14
SEC. 712. (a) None of the funds made available by 15
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by 16
any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 17
Federal Government to pay the salaries or expenses of any 18
individual appointed to a position of a confidential or pol- 19
icy-determining character that is excepted from the com- 20
petitive service under section 3302 of title 5, United 21
States Code, (pursuant to schedule C of subpart C of part 22
213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations) unless 23
the head of the applicable department, agency, or other 24
instrumentality employing such schedule C individual cer- 25
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tifies to the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage- 1
ment that the schedule C position occupied by the indi- 2
vidual was not created solely or primarily in order to detail 3
the individual to the White House. 4
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 5
Federal employees or members of the armed forces de- 6
tailed to or from an element of the intelligence community 7
(as that term is defined under section 3(4) of the National 8
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4))). 9
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 11
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 12
Government, who 13
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat- 14
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em- 15
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 16
direct oral or written communication or contact with 17
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 18
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 19
to the employment of such other officer or employee 20
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 21
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 22
whether such communication or contact is at the ini- 23
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re- 24
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sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 1
committee, or subcommittee; or 2
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 3
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 4
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion 5
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis- 6
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti- 7
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em- 8
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 9
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 10
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 11
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 12
communication or contact of such other officer or 13
employee with any Member, committee, or sub- 14
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 15
(1). 16
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 18
any employee training that 19
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl- 20
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 21
performance of official duties; 22
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev- 23
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 24
some participants; 25
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(3) does not require prior employee notification 1
of the content and methods to be used in the train- 2
ing and written end of course evaluation; 3
(4) contains any methods or content associated 4
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 5
new age belief systems as defined in Equal Em- 6
ployment Opportunity Commission Notice N 7
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 8
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par- 9
ticipants personal values or lifestyle outside the 10
workplace. 11
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 12
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 13
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 14
SEC. 715. No part of any funds appropriated in this 15
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu- 16
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu- 17
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda 18
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of 19
any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, 20
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla- 21
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation 22
to the Congress itself. 23
SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or 24
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed- 25
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eral employees home address to any labor organization 1
except when the employee has authorized such disclosure 2
or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of 3
competent jurisdiction. 4
or any other Act may be used to provide any non-public 6
information such as mailing, telephone or electronic mail- 7
ing lists to any person or any organization outside of the 8
Federal Government without the approval of the Commit- 9
and the Senate. 11
this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, 13
including by private contractor, for publicity or propa- 14
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore 15
authorized by Congress. 16
SEC. 719. (a) In this section, the term agency 17
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined 18
under 5 U.S.C. 105; and 19
(2) includes a military department, as defined 20
under section 102 of such title, the Postal Service, 21
and the Postal Regulatory Commission. 22
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regu- 23
lations to use such time for other purposes, an employee 24
of an agency shall use official time in an honest effort 25
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to perform official duties. An employee not under a leave 1
system, including a Presidential appointee exempted under 2
5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to expend an honest 3
effort and a reasonable proportion of such employees time 4
in the performance of official duties. 5
SEC. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec- 6
fiscal year by this or any other Act to any department 8
or agency, which is a member of the Federal Accounting 9
Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), shall be available to 10
finance an appropriate share of FASAB administrative 11
costs. 12
SEC. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec- 13
tion 708 of this Act, the head of each Executive depart- 14
ment and agency is hereby authorized to transfer to or 15
reimburse General Services Administration, Government- 16
wide Policy with the approval of the Director of the Of- 17
fice of Management and Budget, funds made available for 18
the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including 19
rebates from charge card and other contracts: Provided, 20
That these funds shall be administered by the Adminis- 21
trator of General Services to support Government-wide 22
and other multi-agency financial, information technology, 23
procurement, and other management innovations, initia- 24
tives, and activities, as approved by the Director of the 25
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Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 1
the appropriate interagency and multi-agency groups des- 2
ignated by the Director (including the Presidents Man- 3
agement Council for overall management improvement ini- 4
tiatives, the Chief Financial Officers Council for financial 5
management initiatives, the Chief Information Officers 6
Council for information technology initiatives, the Chief 7
Human Capital Officers Council for human capital initia- 8
tives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procure- 9
ment initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Coun- 10
cil for performance improvement initiatives): Provided fur- 11
ther, That the total funds transferred or reimbursed shall 12
not exceed $17,000,000 for Government-Wide innovations, 13
initiatives, and activities: Provided further, That the funds 14
transferred to or for reimbursement of General Services 15
Administration, Government-wide Policy during fiscal 16
year 2015 shall remain available for obligation through 17
September 30, 2016: Provided further, That such trans- 18
fers or reimbursements may only be made after 15 days 19
following notification of the Committees on Appropriations 20
of the House of Representatives and the Senate by the 21
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 22
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location 24
in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman 25
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and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at 1
the location. 2
SEC. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or sec- 3
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for 5
the interagency funding of specific projects, workshops, 6
studies, and similar efforts to carry out the purposes of 7
the National Science and Technology Council (authorized 8
by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 9
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That 10
the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a re- 11
port describing the budget of and resources connected with 12
the National Science and Technology Council to the Com- 13
mittees on Appropriations, the House Committee on 14
Science and Technology, and the Senate Committee on 15
Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 days after en- 16
actment of this Act. 17
SEC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, 18
grant application, form, notification, press release, or 19
other publications involving the distribution of Federal 20
funds shall indicate the agency providing the funds, the 21
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number, as appli- 22
cable, and the amount provided: Provided, That this sec- 23
tion shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and 24
grants received by a State receiving Federal funds. 25
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SEC. 725. (a) PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL AGENCY 1
MONITORING OF INDIVIDUALS INTERNET USE.None of 2
the funds made available in this or any other Act may 3
be used by any Federal agency 4
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation 5
of data, derived from any means, that includes any 6
personally identifiable information relating to an in- 7
dividuals access to or use of any Federal Govern- 8
ment Internet site of the agency; or 9
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third 10
party (including another government agency) to col- 11
lect, review, or obtain any aggregation of data, de- 12
rived from any means, that includes any personally 13
identifiable information relating to an individuals 14
access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 15
site. 16
(b) EXCEPTIONS.The limitations established in 17
subsection (a) shall not apply to 18
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not 19
identify particular persons; 20
(2) any voluntary submission of personally iden- 21
tifiable information; 22
(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regu- 23
latory, or supervisory purposes, in accordance with 24
applicable law; or 25
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(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) 1
that is a system security action taken by the oper- 2
ator of an Internet site and is necessarily incident 3
to providing the Internet site services or to pro- 4
tecting the rights or property of the provider of the 5
Internet site. 6
(c) DEFINITIONS.For the purposes of this section: 7
(1) The term regulatory means agency ac- 8
tions to implement, interpret or enforce authorities 9
provided in law. 10
(2) The term supervisory means examina- 11
tions of the agencys supervised institutions, includ- 12
ing assessing safety and soundness, overall financial 13
condition, management practices and policies and 14
compliance with applicable standards as provided in 15
law. 16
SEC. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 17
Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract which 18
includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, 19
except where the contract also includes a provision for con- 20
traceptive coverage. 21
(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract 22
with 23
(1) any of the following religious plans: 24
(A) Personal Cares HMO; and 25
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(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and 1
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier 2
for the plan objects to such coverage on the basis of 3
religious beliefs. 4
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters 5
into or renews a contract under this section may not sub- 6
ject any individual to discrimination on the basis that the 7
individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for 8
contraceptives because such activities would be contrary 9
to the individuals religious beliefs or moral convictions. 10
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re- 11
quire coverage of abortion or abortion-related services. 12
SEC. 727. The United States is committed to ensur- 13
ing the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and 14
Paralympic athletes, and supports the strict adherence to 15
anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, edu- 16
cation, and research as performed by nationally recognized 17
oversight authorities. 18
law, funds appropriated for official travel to Federal de- 20
partments and agencies may be used by such departments 21
and agencies, if consistent with Office of Management and 22
Budget Circular A126 regarding official travel for Gov- 23
ernment personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 24
ownership pilot program. 25
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law, none of the funds appropriated or made available 2
under this or any other appropriations Act may be used 3
to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the 4
Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to im- 5
plement the proposed regulations of the Office of Per- 6
sonnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 7
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Reg- 8
ulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, 9
number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail 10
of executive branch employees to the legislative branch). 11
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, 13
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig- 14
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of 15
conducting Federal law enforcement training without the 16
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 17
the House of Representatives and the Senate, except that 18
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is author- 19
ized to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities 20
by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which 21
cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities. 22
SEC. 731. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 23
law, none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 24
may be used by an executive branch agency to produce 25
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any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or dis- 1
tribution in the United States, unless the story includes 2
a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre- 3
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was 4
prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. 5
Act may be used in contravention of section 552a of title 7
5, United States Code (popularly known as the Privacy 8
Act), and regulations implementing that section. 9
SEC. 733. (a) IN GENERAL.None of the funds ap- 10
propriated or otherwise made available by this or any 11
other Act may be used for any Federal Government con- 12
tract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated 13
as an inverted domestic corporation under section 835(b) 14
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(b)) 15
or any subsidiary of such an entity. 16
(b) WAIVERS. 17
(1) IN GENERAL.Any Secretary shall waive 18
subsection (a) with respect to any Federal Govern- 19
ment contract under the authority of such Secretary 20
if the Secretary determines that the waiver is re- 21
quired in the interest of national security. 22
(2) REPORT TO CONGRESS.Any Secretary 23
issuing a waiver under paragraph (1) shall report 24
such issuance to Congress. 25
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(c) EXCEPTION.This section shall not apply to any 1
Federal Government contract entered into before the date 2
of the enactment of this Act, or to any task order issued 3
pursuant to such contract. 4
SEC. 734. During fiscal year 2015, for each employee 5
who 6
(1) retires under section 8336(d)(2) or 7
8414(b)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code, or 8
(2) retires under any other provision of sub- 9
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such title 10
5 and receives a payment as an incentive to sepa- 11
rate, the separating agency shall remit to the Civil 12
Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount 13
equal to the Office of Personnel Managements aver- 14
age unit cost of processing a retirement claim for 15
the preceding fiscal year. Such amounts shall be 16
available until expended to the Office of Personnel 17
Management and shall be deemed to be an adminis- 18
trative expense under section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 19
5, United States Code. 20
this or any other Act may be used to recommend or re- 22
quire any entity submitting an offer for a Federal contract 23
or otherwise performing or participating in acquisition at 24
any stage of the acquisition process (as defined in section 25
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131 of title 41, United States Code) of property or services 1
by the Federal Government to disclose any of the following 2
information as a condition of submitting the offer or oth- 3
erwise performing in or participating in such acquisition: 4
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, 5
expenditure, independent expenditure, or disburse- 6
ment for an electioneering communication that is 7
made by the entity, its officers or directors, or any 8
of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate for 9
election for Federal office or to a political com- 10
mittee, or that is otherwise made with respect to any 11
election for Federal office. 12
(2) Any disbursement of funds (other than a 13
payment described in paragraph (1)) made by the 14
entity, its officers or directors, or any of its affiliates 15
or subsidiaries to any person with the intent or the 16
reasonable expectation that the person will use the 17
funds to make a payment described in paragraph 18
(1). 19
(b) In this section, each of the terms contribution, 20
expenditure, independent expenditure, election- 21
eering communication, candidate, election, and 22
Federal office has the meaning given such term in the 23
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 24
et seq.). 25
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or any other Act may be used to pay for the painting of 2
a portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal govern- 3
ment, including the President, the Vice President, a mem- 4
ber of Congress (including a Delegate or a Resident Com- 5
missioner to Congress), the head of an executive branch 6
agency (as defined in section 133 of title 41, United States 7
Code), or the head of an office of the legislative branch. 8
SEC. 737. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision 9
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, 10
no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 11
2015, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any 12
prevailing rate employee described in section 13
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code 14
(A) during the period from the date of ex- 15
piration of the limitation imposed by the com- 16
parable section for previous fiscal years until 17
the normal effective date of the applicable wage 18
survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal 19
year 2015, in an amount that exceeds the rate 20
payable for the applicable grade and step of the 21
applicable wage schedule in accordance with 22
such section; and 23
(B) during the period consisting of the re- 24
mainder of fiscal year 2015, in an amount that 25
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exceeds, as a result of a wage survey adjust- 1
ment, the rate payable under subparagraph (A) 2
by more than the sum of 3
(i) the percentage adjustment taking 4
effect in fiscal year 2015 under section 5
5303 of title 5, United States Code, in the 6
rates of pay under the General Schedule; 7
and 8
(ii) the difference between the overall 9
average percentage of the locality-based 10
comparability payments taking effect in 11
fiscal year 2015 under section 5304 of 12
such title (whether by adjustment or other- 13
wise), and the overall average percentage 14
of such payments which was effective in 15
the previous fiscal year under such section. 16
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 17
no prevailing rate employee described in subpara- 18
graph (B) or (C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, 19
United States Code, and no employee covered by 20
section 5348 of such title, may be paid during the 21
periods for which paragraph (1) is in effect at a rate 22
that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 23
paragraph (1) were paragraph (1) applicable to such 24
employee. 25
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(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the 1
rates payable to an employee who is covered by this 2
subsection and who is paid from a schedule not in 3
existence on September 30, 2014, shall be deter- 4
mined under regulations prescribed by the Office of 5
Personnel Management. 6
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 7
rates of premium pay for employees subject to this 8
subsection may not be changed from the rates in ef- 9
fect on September 30, 2014, except to the extent de- 10
termined by the Office of Personnel Management to 11
be consistent with the purpose of this subsection. 12
(5) This subsection shall apply with respect to 13
pay for service performed after September 30, 2014. 14
(6) For the purpose of administering any provi- 15
sion of law (including any rule or regulation that 16
provides premium pay, retirement, life insurance, or 17
any other employee benefit) that requires any deduc- 18
tion or contribution, or that imposes any require- 19
ment or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary 20
or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay payable 21
after the application of this subsection shall be treat- 22
ed as the rate of salary or basic pay. 23
(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be consid- 24
ered to permit or require the payment to any em- 25
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ployee covered by this subsection at a rate in excess 1
of the rate that would be payable were this sub- 2
section not in effect. 3
(8) The Office of Personnel Management may 4
provide for exceptions to the limitations imposed by 5
this subsection if the Office determines that such ex- 6
ceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or 7
retention of qualified employees. 8
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment 9
in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that 10
take place in fiscal year 2015 under sections 5344 and 11
5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 12
(1) not less than the percentage received by em- 13
ployees in the same location whose rates of basic pay 14
are adjusted pursuant to the statutory pay systems 15
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United 16
States Code: Provided, That prevailing rate employ- 17
ees at locations where there are no employees whose 18
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 19
of title 5, United States Code, and prevailing rate 20
employees described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, 21
United States Code, shall be considered to be located 22
in the pay locality designated as Rest of United 23
States pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United 24
States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and 25
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(2) effective as of the first day of the first ap- 1
plicable pay period beginning after September 30, 2
2014. 3
SEC. 738. (a) The Vice President may not receive a 4
pay raise in calendar year 2015, notwithstanding the rate 5
adjustment made under section 104 of title 3, United 6
States Code, or any other provision of law. 7
(b) An employee serving in an Executive Schedule po- 8
sition, or in a position for which the rate of pay is fixed 9
by statute at an Executive Schedule rate, may not receive 10
a pay rate increase in calendar year 2015, notwith- 11
standing schedule adjustments made under section 5318 12
of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of 13
law, except as provided in subsection (g), (h), or (i). This 14
subsection applies only to employees who are holding a po- 15
sition under a political appointment. 16
(c) A chief of mission or ambassador at large may 17
not receive a pay rate increase in calendar year 2015, not- 18
withstanding section 401 of the Foreign Service Act of 19
1980 (Public Law 96465) or any other provision of law, 20
except as provided in subsection (g), (h), or (i). 21
(d) Notwithstanding sections 5382 and 5383 of title 22
5, United States Code, a pay rate increase may not be 23
received in calendar year 2015 (except as provided in sub- 24
section (g), (h), or (i)) by 25
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(1) a noncareer appointee in the Senior Execu- 1
tive Service paid a rate of basic pay at or above level 2
IV of the Executive Schedule; or 3
(2) a limited term appointee or limited emer- 4
gency appointee in the Senior Executive Service 5
serving under a political appointment and paid a 6
rate of basic pay at or above level IV of the Execu- 7
tive Schedule. 8
(e) Any employee paid a rate of basic pay (including 9
any locality-based payments under section 5304 of title 10
5, United States Code, or similar authority) at or above 11
level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves under a po- 12
litical appointment may not receive a pay rate increase 13
in calendar year 2015, notwithstanding any other provi- 14
sion of law, except as provided in subsection (g), (h), or 15
(i). This subsection does not apply to employees in the 16
General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service pay 17
system, or to employees appointed under section 3161 of 18
title 5, United States Code, or to employees in another 19
pay system whose position would be classified at GS15 20
or below if chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, ap- 21
plied to them. 22
(f) Nothing in subsections (b) through (e) shall pre- 23
vent employees who do not serve under a political appoint- 24
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ment from receiving pay increases as otherwise provided 1
under applicable law. 2
(g) A career appointee in the Senior Executive Serv- 3
ice who receives a Presidential appointment and who 4
makes an election to retain Senior Executive Service basic 5
pay entitlements under section 3392 of title 5, United 6
States Code, is not subject to this section. 7
(h) A member of the Senior Foreign Service who re- 8
ceives a Presidential appointment to any position in the 9
executive branch and who makes an election to retain Sen- 10
ior Foreign Service pay entitlements under section 302(b) 11
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (Public Law 96465) 12
is not subject to this section. 13
(i) Notwithstanding subsections (b) through (e), an 14
employee in a covered position may receive a pay rate in- 15
crease upon an authorized movement to a different cov- 16
ered position with higher-level duties and a pre-established 17
higher level or range of pay, except that any such increase 18
must be based on the rates of pay and applicable pay limi- 19
tations in effect on December 31, 2013. 20
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 21
an individual who is newly appointed to a covered position 22
during the period of time subject to this section, the initial 23
pay rate shall be based on the rates of pay and applicable 24
pay limitations in effect on December 31, 2013. 25
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(k) If an employee affected by subsections (b) 1
through (e) is subject to a biweekly pay period that begins 2
in calendar year 2015 but ends in calendar year 2016, 3
the bar on the employees receipt of pay rate increases 4
shall apply through the end of that pay period. 5
SEC. 739. (a) The head of any Executive branch de- 6
partment, agency, board, commission, or office funded by 7
this or any other appropriations Act shall submit annual 8
reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official 9
for any entity without an Inspector General, regarding the 10
costs and contracting procedures related to each con- 11
ference held by any such department, agency, board, com- 12
mission, or office during fiscal year 2015 for which the 13
cost to the United States Government was more than 14
$100,000. 15
(b) Each report submitted pursuant to subsection (a) 16
shall include, with respect to each conference described in 17
subsection (a) held during the applicable period 18
(1) a description of the purpose of the con- 19
ference; 20
(2) the number of participants attending each 21
conference; 22
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the gov- 23
ernment for the conference, including 24
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 25
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(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 1
(C) the cost of employee or contractor 2
travel to and from the conference; and 3
(D) a discussion of the methodology used 4
to determine which costs relate to the con- 5
ference; and 6
(4) a description of the contracting procedures 7
used, including 8
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a 9
competitive basis; and 10
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison 11
conducted by the departmental component or 12
office in evaluating potential contractors for the 13
conference. 14
(c) Not later than 15 days after the date of a con- 15
ference held by any Executive branch department, agency, 16
board, commission, or office funded by this or any other 17
appropriations Act during fiscal year 2015 for which the 18
cost to the United States Government was more than 19
$20,000, the head of any such department, agency, board, 20
commission, or office shall notify the Inspector General 21
or senior ethics official for any entity without an Inspector 22
General, of the date, location, and number of employees 23
attending such conference. 24
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(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appro- 1
priated by this or any other appropriations Act may not 2
be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a con- 3
ference described in subsection (c) that is not directly and 4
programmatically related to the purpose for which the 5
grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held 6
in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, 7
or other routine purposes related to a project funded by 8
the grant or contract. 9
(e) None of the funds made available in this or any 10
other appropriations Act may be used for travel and con- 11
ference activities that are not in compliance with Office 12
of Management and Budget Memorandum M1212 13
dated May 11, 2012. 14
or any other appropriations Act may be used to increase, 16
eliminate, or reduce funding for a program, project, or ac- 17
tivity as proposed in the Presidents budget request for 18
a fiscal year until such proposed change is subsequently 19
enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change 20
is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provi- 21
sions of this or any other appropriations Act. 22
SEC. 741. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 23
any reference to this Act contained in any title other 24
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than title IV or VIII shall not apply to such title IV or 1
VIII. 2
VIII 3
GENERAL PROVISIONSDISTRICT OF 4
COLUMBIA 5
SEC. 801. There are appropriated from the applicable 7
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be 8
necessary for making refunds and for the payment of legal 9
settlements or judgments that have been entered against 10
the District of Columbia government. 11
SEC. 802. None of the Federal funds provided in this 12
Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or 13
implementation of any policy including boycott designed 14
to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress 15
or any State legislature. 16
SEC. 803. (a) None of the Federal funds provided 17
under this Act to the agencies funded by this Act, both 18
Federal and District government agencies, that remain 19
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2015, 20
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 21
United States derived by the collection of fees available 22
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 23
obligation or expenditures for an agency through a re- 24
programming of funds which 25
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(1) creates new programs; 1
(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsi- 2
bility center; 3
(3) establishes or changes allocations specifi- 4
cally denied, limited or increased under this Act; 5
(4) increases funds or personnel by any means 6
for any program, project, or responsibility center for 7
which funds have been denied or restricted; 8
(5) re-establishes any program or project pre- 9
viously deferred through reprogramming; 10
(6) augments any existing program, project, or 11
responsibility center through a reprogramming of 12
funds in excess of $3,000,000 or 10 percent, which- 13
ever is less; or 14
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel 15
assigned to a specific program, project or responsi- 16
bility center, 17
unless prior approval is received from the Committees on 18
Senate. 20
(b) The District of Columbia government is author- 21
ized to approve and execute reprogramming and transfer 22
requests of local funds under this title through November 23
7, 2015. 24
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SEC. 804. None of the Federal funds provided in this 1
Act may be used by the District of Columbia to provide 2
for salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the 3
offices of United States Senator or United States Rep- 4
resentative under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia 5
Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 6
(D.C. Law 3171; sec. 1123, D.C. Official Code). 7
SEC. 805. Except as otherwise provided in this sec- 8
tion, none of the funds made available by this Act or by 9
any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em- 10
ployee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle 11
unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the 12
performance of the officers or employees official duties. 13
For purposes of this section, the term official duties 14
does not include travel between the officers or employees 15
residence and workplace, except in the case of 16
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan 17
Police Department who resides in the District of Co- 18
lumbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the 19
Department; 20
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an offi- 21
cer or employee of the District of Columbia Fire and 22
Emergency Medical Services Department who re- 23
sides in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 24
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hours a day or is otherwise designated by the Fire 1
Chief; 2
(3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; 3
(4) the Chairman of the Council of the District 4
of Columbia; 5
(5) at the discretion of the Chief Medical Ex- 6
aminer, an employee of the Office of the Chief Med- 7
ical Examiner who resides in the District and is on 8
call 24 hours a day or is otherwise designated by the 9
Chief Medical Examiner; 10
(6) at the discretion of the Director of the 11
Homeland Security and Emergency Management 12
Agency, an officer or employee of the Homeland Se- 13
curity and Emergency Management Agency who re- 14
sides in the District and is on call 24 hours a day 15
or is otherwise designated by the Director; and 16
(7) at the discretion of the Director of the De- 17
partment of Corrections, an officer or employee of 18
the District of Columbia Department of Corrections 19
who resides in the District of Columbia and is on 20
call 24 hours a day or is otherwise designated by the 21
Director. 22
SEC. 806. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 23
in this Act may be used by the District of Columbia Attor- 24
ney General or any other officer or entity of the District 25
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government to provide assistance for any petition drive or 1
civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for 2
voting representation in Congress for the District of Co- 3
lumbia. 4
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Co- 5
lumbia Attorney General from reviewing or commenting 6
on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with offi- 7
cials of the District government regarding such lawsuits. 8
SEC. 807. None of the Federal funds contained in 9
this Act may be used for any program of distributing ster- 10
ile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any 11
illegal drug. 12
SEC. 808. Nothing in this Act may be construed to 13
prevent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia 14
from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive 15
coverage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent 16
of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue 17
should include a conscience clause which provides excep- 18
tions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 19
SEC. 809. (a) None of the Federal funds contained 20
in this Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, 21
rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties 22
associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any 23
schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act 24
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(21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols de- 1
rivative for any purpose. 2
(b) None of the funds contained in this Act may be 3
used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to 4
legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 5
possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance 6
under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et 7
seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative for rec- 8
reational purposes. 9
SEC. 810. None of the funds appropriated under this 10
Act shall be expended for any abortion except where the 11
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were 12
carried to term or where the pregnancy is the result of 13
an act of rape or incest. 14
SEC. 811. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 15
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 16
Officer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the 17
appropriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the 18
Council of the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated 19
funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 20
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant 21
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 22
(D.C. Official Code, sec. 1204.42), for all agencies of the 23
District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2015 that 24
is in the total amount of the approved appropriation and 25
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that realigns all budgeted data for personal services and 1
other-than-personal services, respectively, with anticipated 2
actual expenditures. 3
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency for 4
which the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Co- 5
lumbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address 6
unanticipated changes in program requirements. 7
SEC. 812. No later than 30 calendar days after the 8
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Offi- 9
cer for the District of Columbia shall submit to the appro- 10
priate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council 11
for the District of Columbia, a revised appropriated funds 12
operating budget for the District of Columbia Public 13
Schools that aligns schools budgets to actual enrollment. 14
The revised appropriated funds budget shall be in the for- 15
mat of the budget that the District of Columbia govern- 16
ment submitted pursuant to section 442 of the District 17
of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, Sec. 1 18
204.42). 19
SEC. 813. (a) Amounts appropriated in this Act as 20
operating funds may be transferred to the District of Co- 21
lumbias enterprise and capital funds and such amounts, 22
once transferred, shall retain appropriation authority con- 23
sistent with the provisions of this Act. 24
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(b) The District of Columbia government is author- 1
ized to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any 2
local funds transferred or reprogrammed in this or the 3
four prior fiscal years from operating funds to capital 4
funds, and such amounts, once transferred or repro- 5
grammed, shall retain appropriation authority consistent 6
with the provisions of this Act. 7
(c) The District of Columbia government may not 8
transfer or reprogram for operating expenses any funds 9
derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 10
capital projects. 11
SEC. 814. None of the Federal funds appropriated 12
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 13
the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to 14
other appropriations, unless expressly so provided herein. 15
SEC. 815. Except as otherwise specifically provided 16
by law or under this Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unob- 17
ligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal 18
year 2015 from appropriations of Federal funds made 19
available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2015 in 20
this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 21
2016, for each such account for the purposes authorized: 22
Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the Com- 23
and the Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of 25
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such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be 1
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines out- 2
lined in section 803 of this Act. 3
SEC. 816. (a) During fiscal year 2016, during a pe- 4
riod in which neither a District of Columbia continuing 5
resolution or a regular District of Columbia appropriation 6
bill is in effect, local funds are appropriated in the amount 7
provided for any project or activity for which local funds 8
are provided in the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request Act 9
of 2015 as submitted to Congress (subject to any modi- 10
fications enacted by the District of Columbia as of the be- 11
ginning of the period during which this subsection is in 12
effect) at the rate set forth by such Act. 13
(b) Appropriations made by subsection (a) shall cease 14
to be available 15
(1) during any period in which a District of Co- 16
lumbia continuing resolution for fiscal year 2016 is 17
in effect; or 18
(2) upon the enactment into law of the regular 19
District of Columbia appropriation bill for fiscal year 20
2016. 21
(c) An appropriation made by subsection (a) is pro- 22
vided under the authority and conditions as provided 23
under this Act and shall be available to the extent and 24
in the manner that would be provided by this Act. 25
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(d) An appropriation made by subsection (a) shall 1
cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for such 2
project or activity during the portion of fiscal year 2016 3
for which this section applies to such project or activity. 4
(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activity 5
during any period of fiscal year 2016 if any other provi- 6
sion of law (other than an authorization of appropria- 7
tions) 8
(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds avail- 9
able, or grants authority for such project or activity 10
to continue for such period, or 11
(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 12
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 13
no authority shall be granted for such project or ac- 14
tivity to continue for such period. 15
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect 16
obligations of the government of the District of Columbia 17
mandated by other law. 18
SEC. 817. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 19
any reference to this Act contained in this title or in 20
title IV shall be treated as referring only to the provisions 21
of this title or of title IV. 22
TITLE IXADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS 23
SEC. 901. (a) No funds appropriated by this Act shall 24
be available to pay for an abortion or the administrative 25
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expenses in connection with a multi-State qualified health 1
plan offered under a contract under section 1334 of the 2
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 USC 3
18054) which provides any benefits or coverage for abor- 4
tions. 5
(b) The provision of subsection (a) shall not apply 6
where the life of the mother would be endangered if the 7
fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the result 8
of an act of rape or incest. 9
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 10
SEC. 902. The amount by which the applicable alloca- 11
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 12
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec- 13
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex- 14
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 15
This Act may be cited as the Financial Services and 16
General Government Appropriations Act, 2015. 17
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