H.R. 9010 — Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.

This section limits the availability of funds appropriated in this Act for Members’ Representational Allowances to December 31, 2028. Any amounts remaining after that date must be deposited in the Treasury for deficit reduction, or for debt reduction if no deficit exists. It authorizes the Committee on House Administration to prescribe implementing regulations.

This section limits payments from Members' Representational Allowances for leasing a vehicle to $1,000 per month per vehicle, excluding mobile district offices.

This section requires heads of federal entities providing cybersecurity assistance to the House of Representatives to apply minimization procedures that limit the spread or sharing of privileged House and Member information in order to preserve the constitutional separation of powers.

This section prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for fiscal year 2027 for Members, committees, officers, or employees of the House of Representatives to procure computers, printers, or interoperable videoconferencing equipment from manufacturers or related entities on the Department of Defense Chinese Military Company List, the Department of the Treasury Non-SDN Chinese Military Industrial Complex Companies List, certain Department of Commerce export control lists if the entity is Chinese-related, or the Department of Homeland Security Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The prohibition applies to contracts entered through third parties and excludes cloud services.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act, starting January 3, 2027, to satisfy Workplace Rights and Responsibilities training requirements for Members of Congress with a publicly disclosed matter under review by the House Ethics Committee, unless the training is completed in person.

This section prohibits the Architect of the Capitol from using funds for incentive or award payments to contractors behind schedule or over budget, unless the Architect or a designee determines that deviations result from unforeseeable events, government-driven scope changes, or are insignificant to the overall project.

This section limits the obligational authority of the Library of Congress for reimbursable and revolving fund activities funded outside annual appropriations to $342,285,000 in fiscal year 2027.

This section prohibits the Government Accountability Office from using any funds appropriated in this Act to bring a civil action under section 1016 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 unless Congress first adopts a concurrent resolution authorizing the Comptroller General to do so.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as provided under regulations relating to House and Senate parking facilities issued by the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Rules and Administration, respectively.

This section establishes the compensation rates and office designations appropriated in this Act as permanent law for any positions not covered by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929. It also makes permanent the Act's provisions governing official expenses for Members, officers, and committees of Congress, as well as clerk hire for Senators and House Members.

This section limits expenditures of any appropriation under this Act for consulting services procured through contracts under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, to those contracts where the expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law or executive order.

This section authorizes legislative branch entities participating in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council (LBFMC) to use available administrative expense funds to cover their allocated shares of LBFMC costs, provided total shared costs among all entities do not exceed $2,000.

This section prohibits the transfer of any funds made available in this Act to a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to transfer authority provided in this Act or another appropriation Act.

This section prohibits the Architect of the Capitol from using funds in this Act to eliminate or restrict guided tours of the Capitol led by congressional employees and interns, except through regulations authorized by the Capitol Visitor Center Act of 2008 or for security reasons at the direction of the Capitol Police Board.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to acquire telecommunications or video surveillance equipment produced by Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, Dahua Technology Company, or any subsidiary or affiliate of such entities. It also bars acquisition from any entity owned or controlled by, or connected to, the government of a foreign adversary, defined as a covered nation under 10 U.S.C. 4872(f).

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to maintain or establish any computer network that does not block the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography. It exempts funds used by Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agencies or for other official government activities involving criminal investigations, prosecutions, or adjudications.

This section prohibits any cost-of-living adjustment for Members of Congress during fiscal year 2027.

This section establishes a congressional commission to appoint and remove the Librarian of Congress and the Director of the Government Publishing Office without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. The commission consists of the Speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader, the minority leaders of both chambers, and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and the House Administration and Senate Rules and Administration Committees, with decisions made by majority vote.