H.R. 4121

119th CONGRESS 1st Session

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · June 25, 2025 · Sponsor: Mr. Harris of Maryland

Table of contents

• H.R. 4121
  • SEC. undesignated-section.
  • TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
  • TITLE II
  • TITLE III—RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
  • TITLE IV
  • TITLE V—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS
  • TITLE VI
  • TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS
  • Sec. 701.
  • Sec. 702.
  • Sec. 703.
  • Sec. 704.
  • Sec. 705.
  • Sec. 706.
  • Sec. 707.
  • Sec. 708.
  • Sec. 709.
  • Sec. 710.
  • Sec. 711.
  • Sec. 712.
  • Sec. 713.
  • Sec. 714.
  • Sec. 715.
  • Sec. 716.
  • Sec. 717.
  • Sec. 718.
  • Sec. 719.
  • Sec. 720.
  • Sec. 721.
  • Sec. 722.
  • Sec. 723.
  • Sec. 724.
  • Sec. 725.
  • Sec. 726.
  • Sec. 727.
  • Sec. 728.
  • Sec. 729.
  • Sec. 730.
  • Sec. 731.
  • Sec. 732.
  • Sec. 733.
  • Sec. 734.
  • Sec. 735.
  • Sec. 736.
  • Sec. 737.
  • Sec. 738.
  • Sec. 739.
  • Sec. 740.
  • Sec. 741.
  • Sec. 742.
  • Sec. 743.
  • Sec. 744.
  • Sec. 745.
  • Sec. 746.
  • Sec. 747.
  • Sec. 748.
  • Sec. 749.
  • Sec. 750.
  • Sec. 751.
  • Sec. 752.
  • Sec. 753.
  • Sec. 754.
  • Sec. 755.
  • Sec. 756.
  • Sec. 757.
  • Sec. 758.
  • Sec. 759.
  • Sec. 760.
  • Sec. 761.
  • Sec. 762.
  • Sec. 763.
  • Sec. 764.
  • Sec. 765.
  • Sec. 766.
  • Sec. 767.
  • Sec. 768.
  • Sec. 769.
  • Sec. 770.
  • Sec. 771.
  • Sec. 772.
  • Sec. 773.
  • Sec. 774.
  • Sec. 775.
  • Sec. 776.
  • Sec. 777.
  • Sec. 778.
  • Sec. 779.
  • Sec. 780.
  • Sec. 781.

SEC. undesignated-section.

• That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

TITLE II

TITLE III—RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

TITLE IV

TITLE V—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

TITLE VI

TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 701.

• The Secretary may use any appropriations made available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act to purchase new passenger motor vehicles, in addition to specific appropriations for this purpose, so long as the total number of U.S. based vehicles purchased in fiscal year 2026 does not exceed the number of U.S. based vehicles owned or leased in fiscal year 2018: That, prior to purchasing additional U.S. based motor vehicles, the Secretary must determine that such vehicles are necessary for transportation safety, to reduce operational costs, and for the protection of life, property, and public safety: That the Secretary may not increase the Department of Agriculture's U.S. based vehicle fleet above the 2018 level unless the Secretary notifies in writing, and receives approval from, the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress within 30 days of the notification.

Sec. 702.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act or any other available unobligated discretionary balances that are remaining available of the Department of Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment and for the improvement, delivery, and implementation of Department financial, and administrative information technology services, and other support systems necessary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology services, including cloud adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, such transferred funds to remain available until expended: That none of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the prior approval of the agency administrator: That none of the funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this section shall be available for obligation without written notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or made available to the Department’s Working Capital Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to make any changes to the Department’s National Finance Center without written notification to and prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress as required by section 716 of this Act: That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or made available to the Department’s Working Capital Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to initiate, plan, develop, implement, or make any changes to remove or relocate any systems, missions, personnel, or functions of the offices of the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer, co-located with or from the National Finance Center prior to written notification to and prior approval of the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress and in accordance with the requirements of section 716 of this Act: That the National Finance Center Information Technology Services Division personnel and data center management responsibilities, and control of any functions, missions, and systems for current and future human resources management and integrated personnel and payroll systems (PPS) and functions provided by the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer shall remain in the National Finance Center and under the management responsibility and administrative control of the National Finance Center: That the Secretary of Agriculture and the offices of the Chief Financial Officer shall actively market to existing and new Departments and other government agencies National Finance Center shared services including, but not limited to, payroll, financial management, and human capital shared services and allow the National Finance Center to perform technology upgrades: That of annual income amounts in the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture allocated for the National Finance Center, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 4 percent for the replacement or acquisition of capital equipment, including equipment for the improvement, delivery, and implementation of financial, administrative, and information technology services, and other systems of the National Finance Center or to pay any unforeseen, extraordinary cost of the National Finance Center: That none of the amounts reserved shall be available for obligation unless the Secretary submits written notification of the obligation to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: That the limitations on the obligation of funds pending notification to Congressional Committees shall not apply to any obligation that, as determined by the Secretary, is necessary to respond to a declared state of emergency that significantly impacts the operations of the National Finance Center; or to evacuate employees of the National Finance Center to a safe haven to continue operations of the National Finance Center.

Sec. 703.

• No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.

Sec. 704.

• No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such institutions when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act.

Sec. 705.

• Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program account, and the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account.

Sec. 706.

• None of the funds made available to the Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Technology Investment Review Board: That notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be transferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer without written notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: That notwithstanding section 11319 of title 40, United States Code, none of the funds available to the Department of Agriculture for information technology shall be obligated for projects, contracts, or other agreements over $25,000 prior to receipt of written approval by the Chief Information Officer: That the Chief Information Officer may authorize an agency to obligate funds without written approval from the Chief Information Officer for projects, contracts, or other agreements up to $250,000 based upon the performance of an agency measured against the performance plan requirements described in the explanatory statement accompanying . Public Law 113–235

Sec. 707.

• Funds made available under section 524(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act () in the current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal year. 7 U.S.C. 1524(b)

Sec. 708.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any former Rural Utilities Service borrower that has repaid or prepaid an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit utility that is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under such Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 313B(a) of such Act in the same manner as a borrower under such Act.

Sec. 709.

• Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances from appropriations made available for salaries and expenses in this Act for the Farm Service Agency shall remain available through September 30, 2027, for information technology expenses.

Sec. 710.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.

Sec. 711.

• In the case of each program established or amended by the Agricultural Act of 2014 () or by a successor to that Act, other than by title I of such Act, or programs for which indefinite amounts were provided in that Act, that is authorized or required to be carried out using funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation— Public Law 113–79
  • such funds shall be available for salaries and related administrative expenses, including technical assistance, associated with the implementation of the program, without regard to the limitation on the total amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (); and 15 U.S.C. 714i
  • the use of such funds for such purpose shall not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment for purposes of applying the limitation on the total amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in such section.

Sec. 712.

• Of the funds made available by this Act, not more than $2,900,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activities related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and task forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively awarded grants.

Sec. 713.

• None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography.
• Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities.

Sec. 714.

• Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 14222 of (; in this section referred to as ), none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a program under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (; in this section referred to as ) in excess of $1,667,049,000 (exclusive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commodities—$485,000,000; State Option Contracts—$5,000,000; Removal of Defective Commodities—$2,500,000; Administration of section 32 Commodity Purchases—$40,971,000: That of the total funds made available in the matter preceding this proviso that remain unobligated on October 1, 2026, such unobligated balances shall carryover into fiscal year 2027 and shall remain available until expended for any of the purposes of section 32, except that any such carryover funds used in accordance with clause (3) of section 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may not be obligated until the Secretary of Agriculture provides written notification of the expenditures to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least two weeks in advance: That, with the exception of any available carryover funds authorized in any prior appropriations Act to be used for the purposes of clause (3) of section 32, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries or expenses of any employee of the Department of Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 32. Public Law 110–246; 7 U.S.C. 612c–6; 7 U.S.C. 612c

Sec. 715.

• None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the President's budget submission to the Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget unless such budget submission identifies which additional spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2026 appropriations Act.

Sec. 716.

• None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as authorized by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 () or section 8 of (), that— 7 U.S.C. 2257; Public Law 89–106; 7 U.S.C. 2263
  • creates new programs;
  • eliminates a program, project, or activity;
  • increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted;
  • relocates an office or employees;
  • reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or
  • contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees;
• unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies in writing and receives approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogramming of such funds or the use of such authority.
• None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming or use of the authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that—
  • augments existing programs, projects, or activities;
  • reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or
  • results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress;
• unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies in writing and receives approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of the reprogramming or transfer of such funds or the use of such authority.
• The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall notify in writing and receive approval from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress before implementing any program or activity not carried out during the previous fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act.

Sec. 717.

• Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for any guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount that does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal portion of the loan. 7 U.S.C. 1932(g)(5)

Sec. 718.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be used to transmit or otherwise make available reports, questions, or responses to questions that are a result of information requested for the appropriations hearing process to any non-Department of Agriculture, non-Department of Health and Human Services, non-Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or non-Farm Credit Administration employee.

Sec. 719.

• Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used by an executive branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States unless the story includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the prepackaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or funded by that executive branch agency.

Sec. 720.

• No employee of the Department of Agriculture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act or any other Act to any other agency or office of the Department for more than 60 days in a fiscal year unless the individual's employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period of assignment.

Sec. 721.

• Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed obligation plan delineated by program, project, and activity, as defined in the report accompanying this Act, for all amounts made available by this Act and prior appropriations Acts that remain available for obligation, including appropriated user fees and loan authorizations.
• Such obligation plan shall serve as the baseline for reprogramming notifications for the purposes of section 716 of this Act.
• Such plan shall include breakdowns of estimated obligations for each such program, project, or activity by—
  • fiscal quarter;
  • source appropriation; and
  • the number of full-time equivalent positions supported.
• Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds made available by this Act or previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded in this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure shall be available for transfer or reprogramming except pursuant to section 716 of this Act.

Sec. 722.

• Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available for the supplemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (), $100,000,000 are hereby rescinded: , That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 42 U.S.C. 1786

Sec. 723.

• For the purposes of determining eligibility or level of program assistance for Rural Housing Service programs the Secretary shall not include incarcerated prison populations.

Sec. 724.

• For loans and loan guarantees that do not require budget authority and the program level has been established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may increase the program level for such loans and loan guarantees by not more than 25 percent: That prior to the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Secretary notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in advance.

Sec. 725.

• None of the credit card refunds or rebates transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to section 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (; ) shall be available for obligation without written notification to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: That the refunds or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation only for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment, including equipment for the improvement, delivery, and implementation of Departmental financial management, information technology, and other support systems necessary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology services, including cloud adoption and migration, of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture. 7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public Law 107–76

Sec. 726.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the requirements of the final rule entitled published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 15, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary of Agriculture amends the definition of the term as defined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, and as applied in the definition of the term as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, to increase the number of items that qualify as acceptable varieties in each staple food category so that the total number of such items in each staple food category exceeds the number of such items in each staple food category included in the final rule as published on December 15, 2016: That until the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amendments, the Secretary shall apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program retailers that were in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (). variety Enhancing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) variety,staple food Public Law 113–79

Sec. 727.

• In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 of the Housing Act of 1949 (), the Secretary of Agriculture shall have the same authority with respect to loans guaranteed under such section and eligible lenders for such loans as the Secretary has under subsections (h) and (j) of section 538 of such Act () with respect to loans guaranteed under such section 538 and eligible lenders for such loans. 42 U.S.C. 1472; 42 U.S.C. 1490p–2

Sec. 728.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act shall be available for the United States Department of Agriculture to propose, finalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate new user fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701 after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Sec. 729.

• None of the funds made available by this or any other Act thereafter may be used to write, prepare, or publish a proposed rule, final rule, or an interim final rule in furtherance of, or otherwise to implement or enforce the final rule entitled ‘‘Transparency in Poultry Grower Contracting and Tournaments,’’ published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on November 28, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 83210 et seq.), the final rule entitled ‘‘Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act,’’ published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on March 6, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16092 et seq.), the final rule entitled “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems,” published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 16, 2025 (90 Fed. Reg. 5146 et seq.), the proposed rule entitled “Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets,” published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on June 28, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 53886 et seq.), or any subsequent substantially similar rulemaking effort, except that funds may be used to, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall, withdraw or rescind any such proposed rules, advanced notices of proposed rulemaking, and any such rules that may have been finalized, and discontinue and provide notice of closure to affected parties of any investigations or enforcement activities pending under said rules.

Sec. 730.

• Notwithstanding any provision of law that regulates the calculation and payment of overtime and holiday pay for FSIS inspectors, the Secretary may charge establishments subject to the inspection requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act, , the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 601 et seq, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, , for the cost of inspection services provided outside of an establishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for inspection services provided on Federal holidays: That any sums charged pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed as overtime pay or holiday pay under section 1001(d) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (, 135 Stat. 242): That sums received by the Secretary under this paragraph shall, in addition to other available funds, remain available until expended to the Secretary without further appropriation for the purpose of funding all costs associated with FSIS inspections. 21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.; Public Law 117–2

Sec. 731.

• The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
  • conduct audits in a manner that evaluates the following factors in the country or region being audited, as applicable—
    • veterinary control and oversight;
    • disease history and vaccination practices;
    • livestock demographics and traceability;
    • epidemiological separation from potential sources of infection;
    • surveillance practices;
    • diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and
    • emergency preparedness and response; and
  • promptly make publicly available the final reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant to paragraph (1).
• This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with United States obligations under its international trade agreements.

Sec. 732.

• A bank referenced in 12 U.S.C. 2128 may make and participate in loans and commitments and provide technical and other financial assistance to cooperatives and any other public or private entity (except for the federal government) for the purpose of installing, maintaining, expanding, improving, or operating facilities in a rural area as defined in for the processing or disposal of waste from any source, provision of telecommunication services, and producing electricity from any source for use or sale by the borrower. 12 U.S.C. 2128(f)

Sec. 733.

• Out of the funds provided by this Act to the Food and Drug Administration (in this section referred to as the ‘‘FDA’’), or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, not less than $200,000,000 shall be used by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for enforcement activities related to e-cigarettes, vapes, and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (in this section referred to as ‘‘ENDS’’), including—
  • updating the FDA document titled ‘‘Enforcement Priorities for Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) and Other Deemed Products on the Market Without Premarket Authorization’’, published in January 2020 and updated on April 13, 2020—
    • to expand FDA’s prioritized enforcement to flavored disposable ENDS products in addition to cartridge-based products; and
    • to define the term ‘‘disposable ENDS product’’;
  • preparing and making publicly available on the FDA website a list of products, to be updated monthly, that have—
    • received marketing granted orders pursuant to section 910(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 4 387j(c)(1)(A)(i));
    • received marketing denial orders pursuant to section 910(c) of such Act (21 U.S.C. 7 387j(c)) that have been and remain stayed by the Secretary or through court order, rescinded by the Secretary, or vacated by a court; or
    • submitted a premarket tobacco product application pursuant to section 910(b) of such Act (), which remains pending review since on or before September 9, 2020; 21 U.S.C. 387j(b)
  • continuing the activities of the Federal multi-agency task force led by the Department of Justice and the FDA to further work to bring all available criminal and civil tools to bear against the illegal manufacture, importation, distribution, and sale of e-cigarettes, vapes, and other ENDS products from the Republic of China and other foreign countries; and
  • submitting a semi-annual written report to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on the progress that the Center for Tobacco Products is making in removing all illegal ENDS products from the market.

Sec. 734.

• (a)
  • No Federal funds made available for this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act () shall be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products used in the project are produced in the United States. 7 U.S.C. 1926 et seq.
  • In this section, the term iron and steel products means the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construction materials.
  • Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as the ) or the designee of the Secretary finds that—
    • applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the public interest;
    • iron and steel products are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or
    • inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25 percent.
  • If the Secretary or the designee receives a request for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee shall make available to the public on an informal basis a copy of the request and information available to the Secretary or the designee concerning the request, and shall allow for informal public input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making a finding based on the request. The Secretary or the designee shall make the request and accompanying information available by electronic means, including on the official public Internet Web site of the Department.
  • This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with United States obligations under international agreements.
  • The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of the funds appropriated in this Act for for carrying out the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for management and oversight of the requirements of this section. Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account
  • Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a project for which the engineering plans and specifications include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited by such subsection if the plans and specifications have received required approvals from State agencies prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
  • For purposes of this section, the terms and shall include each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each Federally recognized Indian Tribe. United States

Sec. 735.

• None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as described in . 18 U.S.C. 1913

Sec. 736.

• Of the total amounts made available by this Act for direct loans and grants under the following headings: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and , to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties under this section, including, notwithstanding any other provision regarding population limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county that has a population that does not exceed the authorized population limit by more than 10 percent: That for purposes of this section, the term persistent poverty counties means any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5-year average, or any territory or possession of the United States: That with respect to specific activities for which program levels have been made available by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, the requirements of this section shall be applied to such program level. Of the total amounts made available by this Act for direct loans and grants under the following headings: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and , to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties under this section, including, notwithstanding any other provision regarding population limits, any county seat of such a persistent poverty county that has a population that does not exceed the authorized population limit by more than 10 percent: That for purposes of this section, the term means any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5-year average, or any territory or possession of the United States: That with respect to specific activities for which program levels have been made available by this Act that are not supported by budget authority, the requirements of this section shall be applied to such program level. Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account Rural Housing Service—Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants Rural Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program Account Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Business Program Account Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Cooperative Development Grants Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account Rural Utilities Service—Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program Account Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program

Sec. 737.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowledge receipt of a submission for an exemption for investigational use of a drug or biological product under section 505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act () or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health Service Act () in research in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission shall be deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, and the exemption may not go into effect. 21 U.S.C. 355(i); 42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)

Sec. 738.

• None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration entitled , and published on November 27, 2015, and the proposed rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration pending at the Office of Management and Budget entitled (86 Fed. Reg. 69120 and 87 Fed. Reg. 42973), with respect to the regulation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds. Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding Produce for Human Consumption Related to Agricultural Water

Sec. 739.

• For school years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027, none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to restrict or limit the substitution of any vegetable subgroup for fruits under the school breakfast program established under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (). 42 U.S.C. 1773

Sec. 740.

• None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be used—
  • in contravention of section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (), subtitle G of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or section 10114 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; or 7 U.S.C. 5940
  • to prohibit the transportation, processing, sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or outside the State in which the hemp is grown or cultivated.

Sec. 741.

• The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (). 7 U.S.C. 7632(g)

Sec. 742.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any rule that would reduce the maximum monthly allowance with respect to milk under section 246.10 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on April 1, 2023), including the rule entitled “Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions to the WIC Food Packages” published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on April 18, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 28488).

Sec. 743.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to impose updated minimum efficiency standards for new housing financed by the Department of Agriculture as part of carrying out the notice entitled (89 Fed. Reg. 33112). Final Determination: Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD and USDA Financed Housing

Sec. 744.

• Of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations made available in the $78,000,000 are here by permanently cancelled: , That no amounts shall be cancelled from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution or the budget of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Working Capital Fund,

Sec. 745.

• After the effective date of any final rule the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes in connection with its proposed rule to update these requirements (87 Federal Register 59168, issued on September 29, 2022), manufacturers may also continue to comply with the previous requirements promulgated by the FDA for the implied nutrient content claim through the FDA provides in the final rule. healthy compliance date
• Any food product manufactured and labeled as during the compliance period FDA provides in that final rule shall not be directly or indirectly subject to any state-law requirements that are not identical to either (i) the Federal requirements for the implied nutrition content claim that were in effect as of the date FDA issues the final rule, or (ii) the updated Federal requirements that FDA promulgates in the final rule, assuming the updated requirements go into effect during the regulatory compliance period. healthy

Sec. 746.

• Funds made available under title II of the Food for Peace Act () may only be used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate monitoring and controls, as determined by the Administrator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inappropriate purposes. 7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.

Sec. 747.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry products or seafood imported into the United States from the People’s Republic of China for use in the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (), the Child and Adult Care Food Program under section 17 of such Act (), the Summer Food Service Program for Children under section 13 of such Act (), or the school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (). 42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1766; 42 U.S.C. 1761; 42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.

Sec. 748.

• For school year 2026–2027, only a school food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food service account as of June 30, 2025, shall be required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (). 42 U.S.C. 1760(p)

Sec. 749.

• Any funds made available by this or any other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (), as amended, shall be available for grants for biotechnology risk assessment research: That the Secretary may transfer such funds among appropriations of the Department of Agriculture for purposes of making such grants. 7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)

Sec. 750.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to the Department of Agriculture may be used to move any staff office or any agency from the mission area in which it was located on August 1, 2018, to any other mission area or office within the Department in the absence of the enactment of specific legislation affirming such move.

Sec. 751.

• The Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use funds appropriated under this Act or any other Act for the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (), and for the Emergency Watershed Protection Program carried out pursuant to section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 () to provide technical services for such programs pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (), notwithstanding subsection (c) of such section. 16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 2203; 16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)

Sec. 752.

• In administering the pilot program established by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (), the Secretary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining entities eligible to receive assistance, consider those communities which are : That not more than 10 percent of the funds made available under the heading for the purposes of the pilot program established by section 779 of may be used for this purpose. Areas Rural in Character Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program Public Law 115–141; Public Law 115–141

Sec. 753.

• In addition to amounts otherwise made available, there is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program established pursuant to section 1001(b)(4) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 () to award grants to processors of invasive, wild-caught catfish. Public Law 117–2

Sec. 754.

• There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out Section 758 of division B of P.L. 118-42, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purpose.

Sec. 755.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, trainings, programs, offices, officers, policies, or any program, project, or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory.

Sec. 756.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue or promote any new guidelines or regulations applicable to food manufacturers for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) until the FDA considers the available new science in developing the Compliance Policy Guide (CPG), Guidance for FDA Staff, Sec. 555.320 Listeria monocytogenes—regarding Lm in low-risk foods, meaning foods that do not support the growth of Lm.

Sec. 757.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration to develop, issue, promote or advance any final guidelines or new regulations applicable to food manufacturers for long-term population-wide sodium reduction actions until an assessment is completed on the impact of the short-term sodium reduction targets.

Sec. 758.

• For necessary expenses associated with cotton classing activities pursuant to , to include equipment and facility upgrades, and in addition to any other funds made available for this purpose, there is appropriated $4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: , That amounts made available in this section shall be treated as funds collected by fees authorized under Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, §5, 42 Stat. 1518, as amended (). 7 U.S.C. 55; 7 U.S.C. 55

Sec. 759.

• Section 297A of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 () is amended— 7 U.S.C. 1639o
  • by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (6) as paragraphs (4) through (8), respectively; and
  • by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
    • (1) Hemp
      • (A) In General
        • The term ‘hemp’ means the plant and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration (including tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) of not more than 0.3 percent in the plant on a dry weight basis.
      • (B) Inclusion
        • Such term includes industrial hemp.
      • (C) Exclusions
        • Such term does not include—
          • (i) any viable seeds from a plant that exceeds a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration (including tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) of 0.3 percent in the plant on a dry weight basis; or
          • (ii) any hemp-derived cannabinoid products containing—
          • cannabinoids that are not capable of being naturally produced by a plant;
          • cannabinoids that—
          • are capable of being naturally produced by a . plant; and
          • were synthesized or manufactured outside the plant; or
          • quantifiable amounts based on substance, form, manufacture, or article (as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture) of—
          • tetrahydrocannabinol (including tetrahydrocannabinolic acid); or
          • any other cannabinoids that have similar effects (or are marketed to have similar effects) on humans or animals as tetrahydrocannabinol (as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Secretary Agriculture).
    • (2) Industrial Hemp
      • The term means hemp— industrial hemp
        • grown for the use of the stalk of the plant, fiber produced from such a stalk, or any other non-cannabinoid derivative, mixture, prep-aration, or manufacture of such a stalk;
        • grown for the use of the whole grain, oil, cake, nut, hull, or any other non-cannabinoid compound, derivative, mixture, preparation, or manufacture of the seeds of such plant;
        • grown for purposes of producing microgreens or other edible hemp leaf products intended for human consumption that are derived from an immature hemp plant that is grown from seeds that do not exceed the threshold for total tetrahydrocannabinol con-centration specified in paragraph (1)(C)(i);
        • that is a plant that does not enter the stream of commerce and is intended to support hemp research at an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ()) or an independent research institute; or 20 U.S.C. 1001

Sec. 760.

• If services performed by APHIS employees are determined by the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to be in response to an animal disease outbreak, any premium pay that is funded, either directly or through reimbursement, shall be exempted from the aggregate of basic pay and premium pay calculated under section 5547 of title 5, United States Code, and any other provision of law limiting the aggregate amount of premium pay payable on a biweekly or calendar year basis: That this section shall take effect as if enacted on January 1, 2023.

Sec. 761.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel—
  • to inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (); 21 U.S.C. 603
  • to inspect horses under section 903 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( note; ); or 7 U.S.C. 1901; Public Law 104–127
  • to implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).

Sec. 762.

• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) were tasked with providing findings and recommendations on alcohol consumption for the purposes of inclusion in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as required by Section 772 of Division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (): That the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture shall only consider the findings and recommendations of the NASEM report in the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and further, both Secretaries shall ensure that the alcohol consumption recommendations in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans shall be based on the preponderance of scientific and medical knowledge consistent with section 5341 of title 7 of United States Code. Public Law 117–328

Sec. 763.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the acceptable market name of any engineered animal approved prior to the effective date of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (February 19, 2019) shall include the words prior to the existing acceptable market name. genetically engineered

Sec. 764.

• The Secretary of Agriculture shall be included as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) on a case by case basis pursuant to the authorities in section 721(k)(2)(J) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 () with respect to each covered transaction (as defined in section 721(a)(4) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 ()) involving agricultural land, agriculture biotechnology, or the agriculture industry (including agricultural transportation, agricultural storage, and agricultural processing), as determined by the CFIUS Chairperson in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the maximum extent practicable, notify the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States of any agricultural land transaction that the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe, based on information from or in cooperation with the Intelligence Community, is a covered transaction (A) that may pose a risk to the national security of the United States, with particular emphasis on covered transactions of an interest in agricultural land by foreign governments or entities of concern, as defined in , including the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the Islamic Republic of Iran; and (B) with respect to which a person is required to submit a report to the Secretary of Agriculture under section 2(a) of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (). 50 U.S.C. 4565(k)(2)(J); 50 U.S.C. 4565(a)(4); 42 U.S.C. 19221(a); 7 U.S.C. 3501(a)

Sec. 765.

• The agencies and offices of the Department of Agriculture may reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), out of the funds provided in this Act, for costs incurred by OGC in providing services to such agencies or offices under time-limited agreements entered into with such agencies and offices: That such transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by law.

Sec. 766.

• No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the "Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods" published on November 21, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 70910), or any other rule promulgated in accordance with section 204 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (), prior to August 1, 2028, and until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: 21 U.S.C. 2223
  • completes at least 4 evaluations or beta tests using multiple products on the Food Traceability List, in coordination with farms and with food industry members operating restaurants, retail food establishments, FDA registered food facilities, food packing facilities and warehouses distributing to retail food establishments, and restaurants, to—
    • identify and test low-cost food traceability technologies that track both the traceability lot code and traceability lot code source throughout the global supply chain and evaluate the effectiveness of these technologies and their economic feasibility for various sized operations throughout the supply chain; and
    • facilitate interoperability by assessing industry standards and establishing a model data format along with reusable templates that allow diverse systems to communicate, share, and use traceability data effectively;
  • establishes a panel of experts to assess the FDA’s foodborne illness traceback investigation process, for both foreign and domestic food suppliers, and to provide feedback for the evaluations or beta tests. This panel shall include diverse stakeholders, such as retailers, distributors, growers, state and local officials, and public health officials. The FDA shall publish the panel outcomes and recommendations no later than one year from the date of enactment of this Act.

Sec. 767.

• Within 120 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall develop a plan, in consultation with the Department of State and the governments of Abraham Accords countries, to consider the location, duties, and personnel necessary to carry out the functions of an Abraham Accords Bureau within the Food and Drug Administration.

Sec. 768.

• Section 260 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 () is amended by striking and inserting . 7 U.S.C. 1636i
• Section 942 of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 ( note; ) is amended by striking and inserting . 7 U.S.C. 1635; Public Law 106–78

Sec. 769.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall—
  • amend the covered Food Packages to require the inclusion of peanut-containing foods for the purposes of early introduction of potentially allergenic foods; and
  • ensure that all such peanut-containing foods eligible are safe for consumption by infants.
• The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out subsection (a) in a manner consistent with the recommendations for early introduction of peanut-containing foods included in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025, published under section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (). 7 U.S.C. 5341
• In this section, the term means Food Packages I and II under section 246.10 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, as amended by the rule entitled published by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register on April 18, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 28488). covered Food Packages Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions to the WIC Food Packages

Sec. 770.

• There is hereby appropriated $1,500,000, to remain available until expended, for grants under section 12502 of . Public Law 115–334

Sec. 771.

• Section 7502 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (; Stat. 2019; 132 Stat. 4817) is amended to read as follows: Public Law 110–246
  • Except as otherwise specifically authorized by law and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal land and facilities at El Reno, Oklahoma, administered by the Secretary (as of the date of enactment of this Act) as the Grazinglands Research Laboratory, shall not at any time, in whole or in part, be declared to be excess of surplus Federal Property under Chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, United States Code, or otherwise be conveyed or transferred in whole or in part, for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2026.

Sec. 772.

• (a) Animal Food Ingredients Deemed GRAS
  • Ingredients that are intended for use in animal food and are not specifically authorized for such use by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive, a color additive, or otherwise as of the date of enactment of this Act, are deemed to be generally recognized as safe under section 201(s) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act () (referred to in this section as ‘‘GRAS’’) for use in animal food for a certain species if— 21 U.S.C. 321(s)
    • such ingredients are included in the Official Common or Usual Names and Definitions of Feed Ingredients section of chapter 6 of the 2025 edition of the ‘AAFCO Official Publication’ (or any subsequent amendments thereto or editions thereof) as accepted for use in such species, or where the species is not identified or restricted; and
    • there is no finding by the Food and Drug Administration that such ingredients are not GRAS for use in animal food for such species.
• (b) Claims That Animal Food or Ingredient is Natural
  • (1) In general
    • Animal food whose label or labeling bears a claim that the animal food (or an ingredient thereof) is ‘‘natural’’ or whose advertising makes such claim, shall not be treated as mis- branded under section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act () if the labels and labeling of such food and such advertising— 21 U.S.C. 343
      • are truthful, nonmisleading, and adequately substantiated with scientifically validated protocols endorsed by guidance issued by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, where available, and the food (or ingredient) is derived solely from plant, animal, or mined sources—
        • (i) that exist in an unprocessed state; or
        • (ii) notwithstanding having been subject to physical processing, heat processing, rendering, purification, extraction, hydrolysis, enzymolysis, or fermentation—
        • have not been produced by, or subject to, a chemically synthetic process; and
        • do not contain any additive or processing aid that is chemically synthetic, except in amounts as might occur unavoidably using good manufacturing practices;
      • use the term only to reference the animal food as a whole when all of the ingredients and components of ingredients meet the description in subparagraph (A); and natural
      • in the case of the label or labeling of an animal food that contains chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals, or other trace nutrients used as ingredients in animal food and such claim is made with respect to the animal food as a whole, such label or labeling includes a disclaimer that—
        • (i) discloses the addition of such vitamins, minerals, and other trace nutrients by name or category;
        • (ii) is juxtaposed with the term ; and natural
        • (iii) appears with the largest or most prominent use of the term on each panel of the label on which the term appears, in the same style and color print and at least one-half the size of the term .

Sec. 773.

• None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Requirements for Tobacco Product Manufacturing Practice’’, published by the Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Register on March 10, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 15174), or any substantially similar rule.

Sec. 774.

• None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act may be used to—
  • Classify or facilitate the classification of any communications by a United States person as mis-, dis-, or mal-information; or
  • Partner with or fund nonprofit or other organizations that in any way instruct, influence, direct, or recommend private companies to censor, prohibit, or obstruct lawful and constitutionally protected speech of United States persons, including recommending the censoring or removal of content on social media platforms.

Sec. 775.

• The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
  • conduct a study to determine the feasibility of applying the Buy American requirement (as described in section 201.21(d) of title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2022)) to the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and the special supplemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (), including the impact applying such requirement would have on the agricultural economy of the United States; and 42 U.S.C. 1786
  • not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit the results of such study to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House Agriculture Committee, and the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee.

Sec. 776.

• Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 is amended by inserting after .

Sec. 777.

• None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration to fly or display a flag over a facility of the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration other than the flag of the United States; the flag of a State, territory, the District of Columbia; the flag of an Indian Tribal Government; the official flag of a U.S. Department or agency; or the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action flag.

Sec. 778.

• Of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations made available for conservation activities under the heading , $100,000,000 are hereby rescinded: That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Natural Resources Conservation Service—Conservation Operations

Sec. 779.

• Of the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by section 10301(1)(A)(ii) of (commonly referred to as the ), $100,000,000 are hereby rescinded. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Public Law 117–169

Sec. 780.

• In general.—Notwithstanding section 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appropriations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman.
• Discriminatory action defined.—As used in subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action taken by the Federal Government to—
  • alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemption from taxation under of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to in subsection (a); section 501(a)
  • disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any charitable contribution made to or by such person;
  • withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, license, certification, accreditation, employment, or other similar position or status from or to such person;
  • withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or benefit under a Federal benefit program, including admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a degree from an educational program, from or to such person; or
  • withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitlement to Federal property, facilities, educational institutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising campaigns from or to such person.
• Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for such purposes but for a determination against such person wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection (a).

Sec. 781.

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