H.R. 9260 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027

This section prohibits the use of Job Corps funds to pay any individual's salary and bonuses at a rate exceeding Executive Level II, whether as direct costs or prorated indirect costs.

This section authorizes transfers of up to 1 percent of discretionary appropriations for the Department of Labor between programs, projects, or activities, provided that no such item increases by more than 3 percent. It bars use of the authority to create new programs or fund activities not provided for in the Act and requires 15 days' advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for the procurement of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested, or services rendered, in whole or in part by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment.

This section limits Department of Labor grants under section 414(c) of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 to competitive grants that train individuals older than 16 years of age who are not enrolled in school within a local educational agency, in the occupations and industries for which employers use H-1B visas, and to related support activities.

This section prohibits recipients and subrecipients of Employment and Training Administration funds from using those funds to pay any individual's salary or bonuses above the Executive Level II rate, whether as direct or indirect costs. It exempts vendors providing goods and services and permits states to set lower limits for subrecipients based on cost-of-living, comparable state or local compensation, and organization size.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Labor to transfer Employment and Training Administration funds to “Program Administration” for technical assistance services performed by Federal employees, except for funds under section 171 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It also permits transfers of up to 0.5 percent of each discretionary appropriation for program integrity activities, with such funds available for obligation through September 30, 2028.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Labor to reserve up to 0.75 percent from each of 15 specified appropriations accounts to fund evaluations of programs and activities under those accounts. Funds are transferred to the Office of the Chief Evaluation Officer and remain available through September 30, 2028, subject to submission of an evaluation plan to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 15 days in advance.

This section exempts certain employees from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act for 2 years after a major disaster. The exemption covers employees of non-insurance employers who earn at least $591 per week, hold any required license, and perform duties such as interviewing claimants, inspecting damage, evaluating claims, negotiating settlements, or recommending litigation; a major disaster includes any event declared by a State or Federal agency.

This section allows employers in the seafood industry to bring H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States at any time during a 120-day period beginning on the petition start date without filing an additional petition. It requires a new local labor market assessment, including two Sunday newspaper listings and postings on the Department of Labor Electronic Job Registry, plus an offer to any equally or better qualified United States worker who applies, for entries after the 90th day, and exempts such employers from rules prohibiting staggering of the date of need.

This section sets the prevailing wage for H-2B visas as the greater of the employer's actual wage for employees with similar experience and qualifications in the same location or the prevailing wage for the occupational classification in the geographic area. It requires the Secretary to accept private wage surveys even when Occupational Employment Statistics data are available, unless the survey's methodology and data are not statistically supported.

This section prohibits the use of funds to enforce the corresponding employment definition in 20 CFR 655.5 or the three-fourths guarantee rule in 20 CFR 655.20 for the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program. It requires use of the temporary need definition in 8 CFR 214.2(h)(6)(ii)(B) when regulating H-2B admissions.

This section authorizes the Secretary to furnish up to $450,000 of excess personal property, at a value determined by the Secretary, to apprenticeship programs for training apprentices.

This section authorizes the Secretary to dispose of or divest the real property of the Treasure Island Job Corps Center and the Gary Job Corps Center, including through agreements or partnerships to construct new centers. It exempts any sale, disposition, or associated construction from federal real property and procurement laws, and directs net proceeds to the Job Corps Program on Treasure Island and in San Marcos, Texas.

This section prohibits the use of funds to alter or terminate the interagency agreement between the Department of Labor and the Department of Agriculture. It also bars closure of any Civilian Conservation Centers except to address student health or safety risks, and bars closure of any Job Corps Centers except when they meet the long-term performance or continuing operations criteria in 81 FR 12529, while requiring retention of program capacity and compliance with section 159(j) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in both cases.

This section permanently rescinds $213 million of unobligated funds available under section 286(s)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act by September 30, 2027.

This section freezes the Adverse Effect Wage Rate under 20 CFR 655.120(b) at the level in effect on October 2, 2025, for the fiscal year covered by this Act, beginning on the date of enactment.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to finalize, implement, or enforce the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s proposed standard titled “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings,” published August 30, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 70698), or any substantially similar standard.

This section permits Job Corps operators to accept grants, charitable donations, or other assistance, including materials and equipment, during fiscal year 2027. The assistance must support Job Corps program purposes under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and may not cover costs or obligations under existing operator agreements.

This section prohibits the use of funds to pause or cease operations at a Job Corps campus unless the Secretary of Labor first provides written notice to the campus operator and the Members of Congress representing the location, identifying the specific conditions required for resumption.

This section prohibits the Secretary from issuing H-2B temporary labor certifications to employers convicted of a covered human trafficking offense or found liable for human trafficking in a final civil judgment. It permanently bars such employers from filing or obtaining approval of H-2B petitions. Covered offenses include felony violations of chapter 77 of title 18, United States Code, such as forced labor, sex trafficking, and document-related trafficking.

This section limits the use of appropriated funds to pay salaries through grants or other extramural mechanisms to the Executive Level II rate. It permits the NIH to cover up to 100 percent of an individual's salary at that rate.

This section prohibits expenditure of funds appropriated in this or any other Act under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act—except funds specifically provided in this Act or other taps and assessments by HHS offices—until the HHS Secretary submits a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.

This section requires 2.5 percent of amounts appropriated for programs under the Public Health Service Act to be made available for evaluations (directly or by grant or contract) of program implementation and effectiveness, or for the purposes and in the amounts provided in this Act.

This section authorizes transfers of up to 1 percent of discretionary HHS appropriations between accounts, but limits any single appropriation increase to 3 percent, prohibits using the authority to create new programs or fund activities without appropriations in the Act, and requires 15-day advance notification to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section extends the timeframe for terminations under section 338E(c)(2) of the Public Health Service Act to up to 60 days after the effective date of a contract awarded in fiscal year 2027 under section 338B, or at any time if the individual has not received funds due under the contract.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act for any entity under Title X of the Public Health Service Act unless the applicant certifies to the Secretary that it encourages family participation in minors' decisions to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting coercion into sexual activities.

This section requires providers of services under title X of the Public Health Service Act to comply with state laws requiring notification or reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.

This section prohibits using funds appropriated by the Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary denies participation to an otherwise eligible entity, including a Provider Sponsored Organization, because the entity declines to provide, pay for, cover, or refer for abortions. It requires the Secretary to make prospective adjustments to capitation payments to such entities based on actuarially sound estimates of expected costs, while preserving Medicare's existing coverage rules for the services and requiring the entities to inform enrollees where to obtain information about all covered services.

This section authorizes the HHS Secretary to exercise authorities equivalent to those available to the Secretary of State for carrying out international health activities, including HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, during fiscal year 2027. It permits advance or reimbursement payments to the Department of State for overseas facilities and allows grants or cooperative agreements to foreign public or nonprofit institutions for facility acquisition, lease, alteration, or renovation. It also directs the Secretary to provide personnel serving abroad with allowances, benefits, locality-based comparability payments up to District of Columbia levels, and leave policies equivalent to those under the Foreign Service Act of 1980.

This section authorizes the Director of the National Institutes of Health, jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, to transfer up to 3 percent of identified human immunodeficiency virus research funding among institutes and centers, subject to at least 15 days' advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section directs that amounts made available in this Act for National Institutes of Health research on the human immunodeficiency virus be provided to the Office of AIDS Research account. It requires the Director of the Office of AIDS Research to transfer from that account the sums necessary to carry out section 2353(d)(3) of the Public Health Service Act.

This section authorizes the Director of NIH to use funds under section 402(b)(12) of the Public Health Service Act for transactions other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants to carry out specified research. It permits the Director to apply alternative peer review procedures in place of those required under sections 301(a)(3), 405(b)(1)(B), 405(b)(2), 406(a)(3)(A), 492, and 494 of the PHS Act. It also requires notification to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within 15 days for any such transaction exceeding $100,000,000.

This section authorizes the National Institutes of Health to use up to $100 million of its appropriated funds for alteration, repair, or improvement of facilities, at a maximum of $5 million per project.

This section allocates 1 percent of National Research Service Award funding from the National Institutes of Health to the Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator for awards supporting primary medical care research by individuals affiliated with entities that received grants or contracts under sections 736, 739, or 747 of the Public Health Service Act, and 1 percent to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Director for health services research awards.

This section authorizes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to enter into contracts of 2 to 10 program years for research services or security countermeasures, if funds are obligated for the full period or first fiscal year plus termination costs and the Secretary determines the contract serves the government's best interests by promoting competition or economy. Such contracts must include a termination clause and comply with congressional notice requirements under 41 U.S.C. 3903.

This section requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish, in the FY2028 budget justification and on departmental websites, the number of full-time equivalent federal employees and contractors implementing the ACA and its amendments for the proposed fiscal year and each fiscal year since 2010. The report must identify, for each funded provision, the authorizing section, program or activity, administering office, funding amount and type, and assigned employees or contractors, while permitting exclusion of staff supported by non-ACA appropriations, those devoting less than half their time to ACA work, or those on fixed-price contracts.

This section requires the Secretary to publish in the fiscal year 2028 presidential budget submission detailed information on all funds used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for Health Insurance Exchanges in each fiscal year since enactment of the Affordable Care Act, including the amount used for each activity listed under the “Health Insurance Exchange Transparency” heading in the accompanying report, as well as proposed uses for fiscal year 2028.

This section prohibits the use of funds from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund, or accounts transferred to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management account for payments under the risk corridors program in section 1342(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

This section requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transfer Prevention and Public Health Fund amounts to the accounts and activities specified in the accompanying report within 45 days of enactment. It prohibits any further transfers of those funds and exempts amounts for activities under section 2821 of the Public Health Service Act from the requirements of section 2821(b).

This section directs that, from November 1, 2015, through January 1, 2029, any statutory reference to current United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on breast cancer screening, mammography, and prevention be administered as a reference to the Task Force recommendations last issued before 2009. It applies the pre-2009 recommendations to every screening mammography modality under section 1861(jj) of the Social Security Act.

This section limits National Institutes of Health funds for facilities and administration costs to 30 percent of an award for private colleges and universities subject to the endowment tax under section 4968 of the Internal Revenue Code.

This section authorizes the NIH Director to transfer funds for opioid addiction, opioid alternatives, stimulant misuse and addiction, pain management, and addiction treatment to other NIH institutes and centers for the same purposes, 15 days after notifying the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The authority is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by law.

This section requires the Secretary to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with detailed monthly enrollment figures from Affordable Care Act Exchanges during open enrollment periods, and with notifications of new or competitive grant awards under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. It also mandates at least 2 business days' advance notice to the committees before any public release of such information or awards.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transfer up to $455,000,000 from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program Management account for Medicare program management activities. The funds may not support any provision of the Affordable Care Act or supplant other amounts in the account.

This section requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit biannual reports on staffing levels to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, with the first report due 30 days after enactment of this Act.

This section permits funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of Department of Health and Human Services employees to cover travel and related expenses for such employees or their family members to obtain medical care that cannot be adequately addressed locally when the employee is assigned to duty in the United States or a U.S. territory during a public health emergency declared under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act. It defines U.S. territory as Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept gifts of money and other property from non-Federal entities to support Early Head Start programs under section 645A of the Head Start Act. Gifts are deposited in a separate Treasury account, available without further appropriation until expended, must supplement rather than supplant federal funds, and confer no special consideration or benefit on donors.

This section authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to accept donations from private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and other non-federal sources for the care of unaccompanied alien children in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, including medical goods and services, early childhood developmental screenings, school supplies, toys, and clothing.

This section requires the Secretary to notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least 15 days before operationalizing an unlicensed facility for unaccompanied alien children, specify whether the facility is hard-sided or soft-sided, and provide analysis showing that children would otherwise remain in Department of Homeland Security custody longer than 72 hours or face danger. It also requires a report within 60 days of opening and monthly thereafter detailing the total number of children in care, average length of stay and care, and for any child present more than 60 days, the length of stay and reason for delay in release.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in the Act to prevent a Senator or House Member from entering facilities housing unaccompanied alien children for oversight visits, provided the Member coordinates with the Office of Refugee Resettlement at least two business days in advance to avoid interfering with operations.

This section requires the Secretary to submit monthly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and post them online, beginning no later than 14 days after enactment. Each report must state the number and ages of children separated from a parent or legal guardian by DHS at or between ports of entry (by sector) and the documented cause of each separation as reported by DHS.

This section makes funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees available for primary and secondary schooling of eligible dependents of personnel stationed in a U.S. territory, at costs not exceeding those paid or reimbursed by the Department of Defense. It defines U.S. territory as Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

This section directs funds under the listed CDC headings to the specific budget activities and amounts set forth in the tables in the report accompanying this Act.

This section prohibits the National Institutes of Health from using funds for biomedical research, testing, or experimentation on dogs or cats in USDA pain categories D or E, except for research involving dogs as companion animals, research with no other viable alternative as determined by the National Institutes of Health, or research that permits post-research adoption or rehoming of the animals.

This section rescinds $2 billion of unobligated balances from the Nonrecurring Expenses Fund by September 30, 2027, except for amounts previously designated by Congress as emergency requirements.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act, or in any related trust fund, for any hospital or entity that administers a postgraduate physician training program or other health professions training program involving induced abortions, unless the program first obtains each participant's voluntary opt-in for such training and does not discriminate against participants who decline to opt in or to perform, assist, counsel, or refer for abortions. It clarifies that the restriction does not authorize any training not otherwise permitted by law.

This section prohibits federal funds appropriated in this or any future act from being provided, directly or through states or managed care contracts, to a prohibited entity. A prohibited entity is a tax-exempt essential community provider primarily engaged in family planning services that received more than $23 million in title X grants in fiscal year 2016 and performs abortions other than in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. An entity may end the prohibition by certifying that it and its affiliates will not perform or fund such abortions, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must seek repayment of any federal assistance received by an entity that violates its certification.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to establish, support, administer, oversee, or issue any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement for providing information on, promoting access to, or facilitating an abortion.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by the Act to require any Title X project to refer for abortions. It also bars requiring Title X providers to violate or conflict with state laws that limit referrals for abortion or pregnancy counseling.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any social, psychological, behavioral, or medical intervention intended to change an individual's body to no longer correspond to the individual's biological sex, including by disrupting development, inhibiting natural functions, or modifying appearance.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to place an unaccompanied alien child with a sponsor if the child has been convicted of a crime or has a pending criminal charge relating to gang affiliation or activity in the United States, the child’s country of origin, or country of last habitual residence.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine that a public health emergency exists under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act or to issue any related order restricting Second Amendment rights.

This section establishes a civil cause of action for actual or threatened violations of section 507(d) of division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, or substantially similar provisions and related federal funding conditions. It authorizes the Attorney General, state attorneys general, and any adversely affected person or entity to sue federal agencies or funding recipients, including state governmental entities, for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, compensatory damages, and attorneys’ fees without exhausting administrative remedies and without regard to state sovereign immunity.

This section prohibits the use of funds to place an unaccompanied alien child with a sponsor who has not been admitted to the United States or who is deportable.

This section prohibits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration from using funds to conduct or support research on gunshot injury or mortality prevention that treats firearm crimes as a public health epidemic or that advocates for firearm restrictions, bans, confiscation, registration, or other gun control measures. It permits those agencies to carry out research on medical procedures, treatments, medicines, and therapies for gunshot injuries and recovery.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for research on vertebrate animals that studies the effects of drugs, surgery, or other interventions to alter the human body to no longer correspond to its biological sex.

This section prohibits the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking from using any appropriated or transferred funds to carry out activities beyond those authorized under Public Law 109–422 to reduce underage drinking. It also bars the committee from providing input on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans or studying, analyzing, or reporting on alcohol consumption by individuals of legal drinking age.

This section permits the National Institutes of Health to obligate in fiscal year 2027, for multiyear awards, an amount not exceeding the funds obligated in fiscal year 2025 for more than one year of such awards. The term covers grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and other financial mechanisms.

This section prohibits the use of any federal funds to implement the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model (CMS-5056-N) or any similar model that applies prior authorization requirements in traditional Medicare.

This section authorizes transfers of up to 1 percent of discretionary funds appropriated for the Department of Education between accounts, provided that no account increases by more than 3 percent and that transfers do not create new programs or fund activities lacking appropriations in this Act, with 15 days' advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section authorizes institutions of higher education to use income from endowment funds supported by fiscal year 2027 appropriations under titles III and V of the Higher Education Act to award scholarships to students, subject to the limitation in section 331(c)(3)(B)(i) of that Act. It validates such uses made before enactment of this Act and continues the authority until titles III and V are reauthorized.

This section makes funds appropriated under the Student Aid Administration heading available for payments to institutions of higher education that service outstanding Federal Perkins Loans.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to 0.5 percent of amounts appropriated under this Act for Higher Education Act programs, except Pell Grants under subpart 1 of part A of title IV and the Student Aid Administration account, to conduct rigorous evaluations and collect outcome data. Reserved funds remain available through September 30, 2029, and the Secretary must notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days before initial obligation.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Education to use up to $13,000,000 from amounts appropriated for the Institute of Education Sciences to provide support services including information technology, human resources, financial management, legal counsel, facilities, and grants administration. It requires the Secretary to calculate actual costs using a standard Department of Education allocation methodology and permits transfers between the Institute of Education Sciences and Program Administration accounts to address shortfalls or excesses, subject to 14-day advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

This section rescinds $250,000,000 from the Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund not later than September 30, 2027, except for amounts previously designated by Congress as emergency requirements.

This section directs the Secretary to award each state the amounts required under the ESEA, McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, IDEA, Perkins Act, and AEFLA for every formula grant program funded in this Act, on the date the funds become available for obligation.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for any United States institution of higher education that provides recognition, funding, classroom space, or services to a student organization that has provided vocal or material support for a designated foreign terrorist organization or receives funding from such an organization or its affiliate.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to provide financial assistance to any educational institution that allows an individual whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. For purposes of this section, sex means reproductive biology and genetics as determined solely at birth.

This section prohibits the use of funds for any primary or secondary educational institution that lacks policies requiring teachers and staff to promptly notify parents about a student's gender identity or desire to express an identity inconsistent with the child's sex, or that withholds information from parents on the child's academic performance, extracurricular activities, physical, emotional, or mental health, or gender identity matters, unless withheld under a court order, law enforcement investigation, or state law on abuse or neglect.

This section prohibits providing any funds made available under this Act to a public institution of higher education that denies a religious student organization any right, benefit, or privilege afforded to other student organizations because of the organization's religious beliefs, practices, speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the borrower defense to repayment regulation (34 CFR 685.401) as amended on November 1, 2022, or the 90/10 rule regulation (34 CFR 668.28) as added or amended on October 28, 2022, or any substantially similar actions.

This section prohibits local education agencies from using funds made available in this Act to conduct student-involved active shooter drills without first providing participants under 16 years old the ability to opt out with parental or legal guardianship consent.

This section terminates eligibility for Federal Direct Stafford loans for undergraduate students for any period of instruction beginning on or after July 1, 2027. It increases the maximum annual amount of Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans by the amount of the terminated subsidized loans. The termination does not apply to students who, as of June 30, 2027, are within their expected time to credential.

This section provides mandatory funding of $16,270,000,000 for Federal Pell Grants in fiscal year 2027 and $1,236,000,000 for fiscal year 2028 and each succeeding fiscal year.

This section exempts the budgetary effects of sections 319 and 320 from estimation under section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, section 302(a) allocations to the Appropriations Committees, and section 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to administer Title IV federal student aid programs unless advanced nursing programs are designated as professional degree programs. The term covers post-baccalaureate programs that prepare students for advanced practice registered nursing licensure or certification, including nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, and certified registered nurse anesthetist programs.

This section prohibits the use of funds to alter the purpose, structure, or implementation of the Federal TRIO Programs, which support first-generation and low-income students in accessing higher education and earning bachelor’s and graduate degrees. It requires each program’s allocation to be no less than the fiscal year 2026 level, directs publication of notices inviting new applications for the Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers programs by December 1, 2026, and requires all TRIO grant award notifications by May 1, 2027.

This section requires the Corporation for National and Community Service to implement any significant changes to program requirements, service delivery, or policy only through public notice and comment rulemaking. It prohibits CNCS officers or employees from disclosing covered grant selection information to unauthorized persons during any grant selection process in fiscal year 2027.

This section requires AmeriCorps programs receiving grants under the National Service Trust program to meet an overall minimum share requirement of 24 percent for the first 3 years of funding. Thereafter, programs must meet the requirement in 45 C.F.R. § 2521.60, without regard to the operating costs match requirement in section 121(e) or the member support Federal share limitations in section 140 of the 1990 Act, subject to partial waiver under 45 C.F.R. § 2521.70.

This section requires that donations made to the Corporation for National and Community Service for programs and operations under titles I and II of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 or subtitles B, C, D, or E of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 supplement and not supplant existing programs and operations.

This section limits use of an educational award under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 for the purpose described in section 148(a)(4) to veterans as defined in section 101 of that Act, in addition to existing requirements in section 146(a).

This section qualifies entities and individuals under section 189D of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 as qualified entities and volunteers under the National Child Protection Act of 1993. It authorizes State Commissions on National and Community Service to receive criminal history record information consistent with Public Law 92-544.

This section authorizes an individual who completes at least 1,200 hours of national service within one year to receive a national service education award equal to 70 percent of the full award value determined under section 147(a) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990.

This section authorizes the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to deem participants who exited eligible positions early—due to circumstances outside their control such as a lapse in appropriations or termination of the position or grant—as having met minimum service requirements. It further permits the award of a pro-rated educational award corresponding to the portion of service completed, without regard to the 15 percent minimum term completion otherwise required.

This section prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from using any appropriated funds to issue a new directive or regulation allowing employees to vote by electronic means in union representation elections.

This section authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to transfer unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts for current appropriations provided in this Act. The transferred balances must be used only for the same purposes and time periods as originally appropriated.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in the Act, or transferred under section 4002 of Public Law 111–148, for publicity or propaganda to support or defeat legislation, regulations, or administrative actions before Congress or state or local governments, except in direct presentations to those bodies. It bars paying salaries or expenses of grant or contract recipients to influence such matters, other than for normal executive-legislative relationships, and extends the bans to advocacy promoting any federal, state, or local tax increase or restriction on legal consumer products, including gun control.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Labor to spend up to $28,000 and the Secretary of Education to spend up to $20,000 on official reception and representation expenses from salaries and expenses funds under titles I and III. It also authorizes the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board to each spend up to $5,000 for the same purpose from their salaries and expenses accounts.

This section requires all grantees receiving Federal funds under this Act, including state and local governments and research grant recipients, to disclose in statements, press releases, requests for proposals, and other project documents the percentage and dollar amount of total costs financed with Federal money and the percentage and dollar amount financed by non-governmental sources.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act, or in any trust fund to which such funds are appropriated, for any abortion or for health benefits coverage that includes abortion. It defines health benefits coverage as the package of services covered by a managed care provider or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement.

This section exempts from funding restrictions abortions resulting from rape or incest or performed to save the life of the pregnant woman when certified by a physician. It permits states, localities, and private entities to use their own funds for abortion coverage and prohibits federal agencies, programs, and grantees from discriminating against health care entities—including physicians, hospitals, HMOs, and insurance plans—that refuse to provide, pay for, or refer for abortions.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in the Act to create human embryos for research or to conduct research that destroys, discards, or subjects human embryos to risk of injury or death greater than that permitted for fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and 42 U.S.C. 289g(b). It defines human embryo to include any organism derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or similar means from human gametes or diploid cells that is not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to promote the legalization of any Schedule I controlled substance, except for normal executive-congressional communications. The prohibition does not apply when significant medical evidence shows a therapeutic advantage or when federally sponsored clinical trials are assessing therapeutic advantage.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate or adopt any final standard under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.

This section prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds in this Act to enter into or renew a contract with an entity that is subject to the annual reporting requirement in 38 U.S.C. 4212(d) on employment of certain veterans but has not submitted the report for the most recent applicable year.

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 funds made available by this Act for the Library Services and Technology Act from going to any library covered by section 224(f)(1) of that Act unless the library has made the internet safety policy certifications required by section 224(f)(4), as amended by the Children's Internet Protection Act.

This section prohibits reprogramming of funds for agencies funded by the Act in fiscal year 2027 that would create or eliminate programs, increase funding for restricted projects, relocate offices or employees, reorganize activities, or contract out federal functions, unless the House and Senate Appropriations Committees receive 15 days advance consultation and 10 days advance written notification. It also bars reprogramming above $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, to augment or reduce existing programs or personnel without the same consultation and notification.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to request that candidates for Federal scientific advisory committees disclose political affiliation, voting history, or positions on unrelated political issues. It also bars the use of such funds to disseminate deliberately false or misleading information.

This section requires each department and related agency funded through this Act to submit, within 45 days of enactment, an operating plan that details at the program, project, and activity level any fiscal year 2027 funding allocations differing from those specified in this Act, the accompanying committee report table, or the fiscal year 2027 budget request.

This section requires the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to each submit quarterly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on noncompetitive contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements exceeding $500,000 awarded by their departments in fiscal year 2027. Each report must list the recipient name, funding amount, governmental purpose, and justification for the noncompetitive basis, and must be transmitted within 30 days after the end of the quarter.

This section prohibits the Commissioner of Social Security from using any funds appropriated in this Act to process claims for quarters of coverage under title II of the Social Security Act when the underlying work was performed under a Social Security number that is not the claimant's and that use of the number formed the basis for a conviction under section 208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to compensate Social Security Administration employees for administering benefit payments under any totalization agreement with Mexico that would not otherwise be payable.

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, except for activities by Federal, State, Tribal, or local law enforcement agencies or other entities conducting criminal investigations, prosecutions, or adjudications.

This section treats the operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services as independent agencies for purposes of complying with conference attendance and expenditure limits under Executive Order 13589, Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-12-12, and related annual appropriations requirements. It requires attendance at and support for scientific conferences to be tabulated separately from and excluded from agency totals.

This section requires federal agencies funded under this Act to state clearly in all advertising and educational materials, including emails and Internet postings, that the communication is printed, published, or produced and disseminated at United States taxpayer expense. Agencies must pay for the required statement from amounts already available for advertising or communications.

This section requires the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and the Social Security Administration to submit quarterly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the status of unobligated and uncommitted, committed, and obligated but unexpended balances of appropriations, beginning in fiscal year 2027, with amounts separately identified by source fiscal year from 2012 onward (or earlier to the extent feasible).

This section requires the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service to notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before announcing or providing notice of any new or non-competing continuation discretionary grant (including supplements) or the termination or non-continuation of any grant (with a short description of the reason). Exceptions apply to emergency response grants and awards made in the final 10 business days of the fiscal year or program year.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated in the Act to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs, except when a state or local health department determines in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the jurisdiction faces or is at risk of a significant increase in hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection drug use and the program operates in accordance with state and local law. It further prohibits the use of such funds for the operation of supervised drug consumption facilities that permit onsite consumption of any schedule I controlled substance.

This section extends the period of availability for obligation of funds for research, evaluation, or statistical purposes at the Administration for Children and Families and at the Chief Evaluation Office and specified statistical activities of the Bureau of Labor Statistics through September 30, 2031. It permits those offices to use a single Treasury account when funded from multiple appropriations and allows reobligation of unexpended amounts in the same or following fiscal year.

This section limits the availability of $12,330,000,000 from the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund for obligation in this fiscal year. The fund supports state CHIP allotments when enrollment exceeds projections.

This section rescinds $162,000,000 in unobligated balances from sections 2023, 2206, 2301–2303, 2401–2404, 2501–2502, 2601–2603, 2605, 2701–2713, 2904, 2912, 2921, 3101, 9818, 9402, 9833, and 9911 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. It requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report the rescinded amounts by account within 60 days of enactment.

This section permanently rescinds all amounts made available for fiscal year 2027 to the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund.

This section rescinds $1,900,000,000 from offsetting collections derived from fees collected from qualified health plans offered through exchanges established under Public Law 111-148.

This section prohibits the Department of Labor, including the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, from using funds to authorize, provide, reimburse, or recognize marijuana or any cannabis-derived substance as compensable medical treatment under any federal workers’ compensation program, including the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, regardless of any rescheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. It states that no reimbursement for marijuana is required or permitted under these programs.

This section prohibits the use of any federal funds to take discriminatory actions against a person based on a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. It defines such actions to include changes in federal tax treatment or 501(a) exemptions, denial of charitable deductions, withholding of grants, contracts, loans, licenses, certifications, or benefits, and denial of access to federal property or facilities. It requires the federal government to recognize accreditation, licensure, or certification for any person that would qualify but for such a belief.

This section prohibits the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, and heads of other agencies funded in this Act from using any funds made available by this Act to fly or display a flag over a Federal facility other than the flag of the United States, a State, territory, or the District of Columbia, an Indian Tribal Government, an official Federal agency flag, the POW/MIA flag, the flag of the Public Health Service, or the flag of the United States Surgeon General.

This section prohibits the use of any appropriated funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, training, programs, offices, officers, policies, or any program, project, or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for any program, project, or activity that teaches or trains concepts condoning discrimination or adverse treatment based on race or sex, psychological distress on account of an individual's race or sex, one race as inherently superior to another, the United States or its institutions as systemically racist or sexist, an individual as inherently racist or oppressive by virtue of race or sex, moral character as determined by race or sex, individual responsibility for past actions by others of the same race or sex, or meritocracy as racist or created to oppress another race.

This section limits funds appropriated by this Act for any United States institution of higher education unless the institution adopts a prohibition on antisemitic conduct that creates a hostile environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in all student and employee conduct documents. It also bars funds for any institution that fails to take administrative action against students, staff, or student groups committing acts of antisemitism on its facilities, grounds, or resources.

This section prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to support directly or indirectly the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., any laboratory owned or controlled by the governments of China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or other foreign adversaries determined by the Secretary of State, or gain-of-function research.

This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for any institution of higher education that maintains a partnership or other formalized academic collaboration in STEM fields with a college or university located, operated, or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party or the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

This section prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds made available for fiscal year 2027 to procure computers, printers, or interoperable videoconferencing services for office environments from any manufacturer, bidder, or offeror (or their subsidiaries or parents) in which the People’s Republic of China holds any ownership stake. The prohibition applies to purchases made through third-party contracts.