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Lamar Smith
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BILL INTRODUCED 11/20/2013
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H.R.3547 : To extend the application of certain space launch liability provisions through 2014.
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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 - (Sec. 5) Makes appropriations for FY2014.
(Sec. 6) Declares that each amount designated in this Act for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) shall be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits the designations to Congress.
(Sec. 7) Declares that if, for FY2014, new budget authority provided in appropriation Acts exceeds the discretionary spending limit for any category set forth in the sequestration requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act due to estimating differences with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an adjustment to the discretionary spending limit in such category for FY2014 shall be made by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the amount of that excess, but not to exceed 0.2% of the sum of the adjusted discretionary spending limits for all categories for that fiscal year.
(Sec. 8) Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act - Extends through December 31, 2016, the application deadline for licenses with respect to which the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) is required to pay third-party claims in excess of a commercial space launcher's required insurance coverage.
Division A: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY2014 funds for the following Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) Office of the Chief Economist; (3) National Appeals Division; (4) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (5) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (6) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (7) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (8) Office of Civil Rights; (9) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (10) hazardous materials management; (11) Office of Inspector General; (12) Office of the General Counsel; (13) Office of Ethics; (14) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (15) Economic Research Service; (16) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (17) Agricultural Research Service; (18) National Institute of Food and Agriculture; (19) Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; (20) extension and integrated activities; (21) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (22) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (23) Agricultural Marketing Service; (24) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (25) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (26) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (27) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (28) Farm Service Agency; (29) Risk Management Agency; (30) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (31) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.
Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service, including the watershed rehabilitation program.
Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development, (2) rural development salaries and expenses, (3) Rural Housing Service, (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and (5) Rural Utilities Service.
Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.
Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service, (2) Food for Peace Act (P.L. 480) program title I and title II grants, (3) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) export loans, and (4) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants.
Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration (FDA), (2) Farm Credit Administration, and (3) Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
(Sec. 702) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer unobligated balances to the Working Capital Fund for plant and capital equipment acquisition, which shall remain available until expended.
(Sec. 703) Prohibits appropriations under this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly provided for.
(Sec. 704) Limits negotiated indirect costs on cooperative agreements between USDA and nonprofit organizations to 10%.
(Sec. 705) Makes USDA appropriations for direct and guaranteed loans available for: (1) the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, (2) the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program account, and (3) the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account.
(Sec. 706) Prohibits funds made available to USDA under this Act from being used to acquire new information technology systems or significant upgrades.
(Sec. 707) Makes funds available in the current fiscal year for agricultural management assistance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act and for specified conservation programs under the Food Security Act of 1985 until expended for current fiscal year obligations.
(Sec. 708) Makes eligible for economic development and job creation assistance under the Rural Electrification Act in the same manner as a borrower under such Act any former Rural Utilities Service borrower that has repaid or prepaid an insured, direct, or guaranteed loan under such Act, or any not-for-profit utility that is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under such Act.
(Sec. 709) Prohibits, regarding the specialty crop research initiative, funds from being used to prohibit the provision of certain in-kind support from non-federal sources.
(Sec. 710) Makes unobligated balances for salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency and the Rural Development mission area under this Act available for information technology expenses through September 30, 2015.
(Sec. 711) Authorizes the Secretary to permit a state agency to use funds provided in this Act to exceed a specified maximum amount of liquid infant formula when issuing liquid infant formula to participants.
(Sec. 712) Prohibits first-class travel by employees of agencies funded under this Act.
(Sec. 713) States that with regard to certain programs established or amended by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to be carried out using CCC funds: (1) such funds shall be available for salaries and administrative expenses without regard to certain allotment and fund transfer limits, and (2) the use of such funds shall not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment for purposes of applying such limits.
(Sec. 714) Limits funds made available in FY2014 or preceding fiscal years under P.L. 480 to reimburse the CCC for the release of certain commodities under the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act.
(Sec. 715) Limits funds available for USDA advisory committees, panels, commissions, and task forces.
(Sec. 716) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to pay indirect costs charged against any agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that exceed 30% of total federal funds provided under each award.
(Sec. 717) Extends the FY2013 funding level for supplemental nutrition assistance (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) employment and training programs to FY2014.
(Sec. 718) Prohibits the use of any Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for the watershed rehabilitation program, or more than $70 million for the environmental quality incentives program.
(Sec. 719) Limits funds for the following domestic food assistance categories under the Act of August 24, 1935: (1) child nutrition program entitlement commodities, (2) state option contracts, and (3) defective commodity removal. Limits funds for the fresh fruit and vegetable program until October 1, 2014. Rescinds specified unobligated balances available in FY2014 for domestic food assistance.
(Sec. 720) Prohibits the use of funds for user fee proposals that fail to provide certain budget impact information.
(Sec. 721) Prohibits, without congressional notification, funds available under this Act or under previous appropriations Acts from being used through a reprogramming of funds to: (1) eliminate or create a new program, (2) relocate or reorganize an office or employees, (3) privatize federal employee functions, or (4) increase funds or personnel for any project for which funds have been denied or restricted.
Prohibits, without congressional notification, funds available under this Act or under previous appropriations Acts from being used through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10%, whichever is less: (1) to augment an existing program, (2) to reduce by 10% funding or personnel for any existing program, or (3) that results from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs.
(Sec. 722) Authorizes the Secretary to assess a one-time fee for any guaranteed business and industry loan that does not exceed 3% of the guaranteed principal portion of the loan.
(Sec. 723) Prohibits the use of USDA, FDA, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), or Farm Credit Administration (FCA) funds from being used to transmit to any non-USDA, non-Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), non-CFTC, or non-FCA employee questions or responses to questions that are a result of information requested for the appropriations hearing process.
(Sec. 724) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by any executive branch entity to produce a prepackaged news story for U.S. broadcast or distribution unless it contains audio or text notice that it was produced or funded by such executive entity.
(Sec. 725) Requires USDA agencies to reimburse each other for employees detailed for longer than 30 days.
(Sec. 726) Prohibits specified nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for mohair.
(Sec. 727) Cancels a specified amount of unobligated balances in the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Resource Conservation and Development Account. (States that no amounts may be cancelled from those designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 [Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act], as amended.)
(Sec. 728) Appropriates funds for direct reimbursement payments for geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers.
(Sec. 729) Appropriates funds for a pilot program to demonstrate the use of new technologies that increase the rate of growth of re-forested hardwood trees on private nonindustrial forests lands, enrolling lands on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
(Sec. 730) Directs the Secretary, the FDA Commissioner, and the FCA Chairman to submit to Congress a spending plan by program, project, and activity for the funds made available under this Act.
(Sec. 731) Rescinds specified funds from unobligated balances available to USDA under the "Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments" account.
States that no amount may be rescinded from funds to the General Services Administration (GSA) for rent and funds for payments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for building security activities.
(Sec. 732) Makes specified funds available for agricultural commodity assistance to recipient nations only if adequate controls are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is received by the intended beneficiaries and not otherwise diverted.
(Sec. 733) Rescinds specified funds from unobligated funds available to USDA for single family rural housing guaranteed loans for FY2007-FY2010.
(Sec. 734) Rescinds specified CCC funds from unobligated balances for the bioenergy program for advanced biofuels.
(Sec. 735) Directs the Secretary to expand the pilot program for packaging direct loans for single family rural housing to states and communities not served by such pilot program.
(Sec. 736) Limits funds available for administration of the plan for repair or replacement of bulk fuel storage tanks in Alaska that are not in compliance with applicable federal or state law.
(Sec. 737) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to reclassify any area eligible for rural housing programs on September 30, 2013, as ineligible for such programs.
(Sec. 738) Authorizes funds received by the Secretary in the global settlement of any federal litigation concerning federal mortgage loans during FY2012 to be obligated and expended by the Rural Housing Service for costs associated with servicing single family housing loans guaranteed by the Service.
(Sec. 739) Appropriates funds to implement non-renewable agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agricultural lands.
(Sec. 740) Designates the federal building located at 64 Nowelo Street, Hilo, Hawaii, as the Daniel K. Inouye United States Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center.
(Sec. 741) Rescinds specified CCC funds from unobligated balances for biorefinery assistance.
(Sec. 742) Authorizes the Secretary to increase the program level by up to 25% for certain loans and loan guarantees that do not require budget authority. Requires congressional notification prior to implementing any such increase.
(Sec. 743) Obligates specified funds for an assessment of the existing and prospective scope of domestic hunger and food insecurity.
Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a tax-exempt private-sector organization that has recognized expertise in domestic hunger affairs to conduct this assessment.
Establishes the National Commission on Hunger which shall: (1) provide policy recommendations to Congress and the Secretary regarding programs and funds to combat domestic hunger and food insecurity; and (2) develop recommendations to encourage public-private partnerships, faith-based sector engagement, and community initiatives to reduce the need for government nutrition assistance programs, while protecting the safety net for the most vulnerable members of society.
(Sec. 744) Limits the amount of funds that may be used to write, prepare, or publish a final or an interim rule to implement "Implementation of Regulations Required Under Title XI, of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008; Conduct in Violation of the Act."
(Sec. 745) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to inspect horses for slaughter purposes.
(Sec. 746) Directs the Secretary to set aside specified additional funds for Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones.
(Sec. 747) Makes certain sequestered fees for FDA available until expended for the same purpose for which such funds were originally appropriated.
(Sec. 748) Makes additional Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service funds available until September 30, 2015, for one-time control and management and activities related to citrus greening.
(Sec. 749) Declares that certain credit card refunds or rebates transferred to the Working Capital Fund: (1) shall not be made available for obligation without congressional notification and approval; but (2) shall be available for obligation only for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology services of primary benefit to USDA agencies.
(Sec. 750) Extends specified CCC conservation programs through FY2015.
Division B: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, for science-related programs, and for related agencies.
Title I: Department of Commerce - Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY2014 for: (1) the International Trade Administration; (2) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (3) the Economic Development Administration; (4) the Minority Business Development Agency; (5) economic and statistical analysis programs; (6) the Bureau of the Census; (7) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (8) the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); (9) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); (10) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and (11) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General.
Title II: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY2014 for: (1) general administration, including for the Office of Inspector General; (2) the United States Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for the antitrust division, the Offices of the United States Attorneys, the United States Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the United States Marshals Service; (5) the National Security Division; (6) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (7) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including for costs related to the outfitting, activation, and operation of facilities supporting the examination, exploitation, and storage of improvised explosive devices and explosive materials; (8) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (9) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); (10) the federal prison system, including for Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated; (11) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; (12) Office of Justice programs, including for state and local law enforcement assistance (including for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, competitive and evidence-based programs to reduce gun crime and gang violence, grants to states to upgrade criminal and mental health records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, DNA-related and forensic programs and activities, offender reentry programs and research, and the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative), juvenile justice programs, and public safety officer benefits; and (13) community oriented policing services programs.
(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion.
(Sec. 216) Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act, other than for the national instant criminal background check system, by a federal law enforcement officer to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or suspected to be an agent of a drug cartel, unless U.S. law enforcement personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.
Title III: Science - Science Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for the Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for the Office of the National Science Board and the Office of Inspector General.
Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights, (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), (3) the International Trade Commission, (4) the Legal Services Corporation, (5) the Marine Mammal Commission, (6) the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), and (7) the State Justice Institute.
Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Sets forth requirements, restrictions, and limitations on the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
(Sec. 506) Makes any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract funded by this Act.
(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the removal by any foreign country of restrictions on marketing of such products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco products of the same type.
(Sec. 515) Sets forth conditions for the use of funds by the Departments of Commerce and Justice, NASA, or NSF to acquire a high-impact or moderate-impact information system.
(Sec. 516) Prohibits the use of funds to support or justify the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the U.S. government.
(Sec. 518) Prohibits any federal agency from obligating or expending appropriated funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any U.S. officer or employee to deny any application submitted for a permit to import U.S. origin curios or relics firearms, parts, or ammunition.
(Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds to authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of specified statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security letters.
(Sec. 524) Rescinds specified amounts of unobligated balances available to: (1) the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and (2) DOJ for specified accounts.
(Sec. 527) Prohibits the use of funds in a manner that is inconsistent with the principal U.S. negotiating objective with respect to trade remedy laws to preserve the ability of the United States to: (1) enforce vigorously its trade laws, including antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard laws; (2) avoid agreements that lessen the effectiveness of domestic and international disciplines on unfair trade or that lessen the effectiveness of domestic and international safeguards to ensure that U.S. workers, agricultural producers, and firms can compete fully on fair terms and enjoy the benefits of reciprocal trade concessions; and (3) address and remedy market distortions that lead to dumping and subsidization.
(Sec. 528) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) transfer or release to or within the United States Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and who is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense (DOD); or (2) construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to detain or imprison such a detainee.
(Sec. 532) Prohibits the use of funds for NASA or OSTP to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or contract to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally with China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorized by a law enacted after this Act's enactment. Specifies that such limitations shall not apply to activities that NASA or OSTP has certified: (1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other information with national security or economic security implications to China or a Chinese-owned company; and (2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been determined by the United States to have direct involvement with violations of human rights.
(Sec. 533) Prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model of shotgun if: (1) all other legal requirements with respect to the proposed importation are met; and (2) no application for the importation of such model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had been denied by the Attorney General prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.
Division C: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the military departments) and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the military departments, other agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD), the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and DOD and at formerly used defense sites; (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid programs; (4) assistance to the republics of the former Soviet Union and to countries outside of the former Soviet Union for facilitating the elimination and the safe and secure transportation and storage of nuclear, chemical, and other weapons; and (5) the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund.
Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for procurement by the military departments, including for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for shipbuilding and conversion by the Navy. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement, and (2) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the military departments and other DOD agencies. Appropriates funds for the independent activities of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds, and (2) National Defense Sealift Fund programs, projects, and activities, and for expenses of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) DOD medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of the U.S. stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions and of other chemical warfare materials that are not in such stockpile; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of DOD; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General.
Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund, and (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account.
Title VIII: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
(Sec. 8007) Requires DOD to submit a report to the congressional defense committees to establish the baseline for application of FY2014 reprogramming and transfer authorities.
(Sec. 8010) Allows for the use of procurement funds for multiyear contracts for: (1) the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye; (2) an SSN 774 Virginia class submarine; (3) KC-130J, C-130J, HC-130J, MC-130J, and AC-130J aircraft; and (4) government furnished equipment.
(Sec. 8012) Prohibits the management of DOD civilian personnel on the basis of any end-strength during FY2014.
(Sec. 8021) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
(Sec. 8023) Prohibits the use of funds to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2013 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of contract overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2013 funds.
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
(Sec. 8027) Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2014.
(Sec. 8029) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks, Malmstrom, Mountain Home, Elllsworth, and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
(Sec. 8035) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices or to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of biometric activities, or for certain defense mortuary activities; (3) to adopt any new camouflage design or fabric for any uniform for use by an armed force; (4) to convert to contractor performance a function currently performed by DOD civilian employees, unless specific conditions are met; (5) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (6) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
(Sec. 8040) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
(Sec. 8049) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless Congress is given 15 days' advance notice.
(Sec. 8056) Authorizes the DOD Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items, and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for any training, equipment, or assistance for a unit of a foreign security force if the Secretary has received credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances and requires a report to the defense committees within 15 days after any such waiver.
(Sec. 8062) Authorizes members of the National Guard serving on full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
(Sec. 8063) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer specified armor-piercing ammunition to any nongovernmental entity, except an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
(Sec. 8064) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
(Sec. 8068) Authorizes the transfer of specified DOD O&M funds to the Global Security Contingency Fund, after congressional notification.
(Sec. 8069) Appropriates funds for the construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet the needs of family members confronted with the illness or hospitalization of a military beneficiary.
(Sec. 8070) Earmarks specified procurement and RDT&E funds for the Israeli Cooperative Programs (missile defense).
(Sec. 8075) Requires the FY2014 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, procurement, and RDT&E accounts.
(Sec. 8076) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
(Sec. 8077) Appropriates funds to DOD for grants to the United Service Organizations and the Red Cross.
(Sec. 8079) Prohibits funds from being available for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
(Sec. 8080) Requires reserve members called or ordered to active duty in a national emergency to be notified in writing of their expected mobilization period. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or to meet dire operational requirements.
(Sec. 8084) Earmarks specified Navy O&M funds for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program for enabling the Pacific Command to execute theater security cooperation activities such as humanitarian assistance and for the payment of incremental and personnel costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.
(Sec. 8087) Requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to report to the intelligence committees to establish the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for FY2014. Prohibits funds provided for the National Intelligence Program (NIP) from being available for reprogramming or transfer until the report is submitted, unless the DNI certifies to such committees that the reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency requirement.
(Sec. 8088) Makes specified Intelligence Community Management Account funds available for transfer by the DNI to other departments and agencies for government-wide information sharing activities.
(Sec. 8090) Directs the DNI to submit annually to Congress a future-years intelligence program reflecting estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations included in the President's budget.
(Sec. 8092) Requires DOD to continue to report incremental contingency operations costs for Operation Enduring Freedom on a monthly basis, and any other operation designated and identified by the Secretary on a semiannual basis.
(Sec. 8094) Makes O&M funds available for remittances and transfers to the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund.
(Sec. 8095) Requires any agency receiving funds appropriated under this Act to post on its public website any report required to be submitted to Congress in this or any other Act, upon the determination by such agency head that it shall serve the national interest. Provides exceptions when posting the report would compromise national security or for reports containing proprietary information.
(Sec. 8096) Provides specific requirements on the use of this Act's funds for any federal contract in excess of $1 million with respect to contractor resolution of claims under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirements to avoid harm to national security.
(Sec. 8097) Prohibits funds from being distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries.
(Sec. 8098) Earmarks specified O&M funds for operations of the integrated Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in Chicago, Illinois.
(Sec. 8099) Prohibits the Office of the DNI from employing more senior executive employees than specified in the classified annex.
(Sec. 8101) Allows DOD funds to be used for the purchase of heavy and light armored vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for force protection purposes, up to a limit of $250,000 per vehicle.
(Sec. 8102) Earmarks specified DOD O&M funds for grants to support critical existing and enduring military installations and missions on Guam. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees at least 15 days prior to obligating funds for such purpose.
(Sec. 8103) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to occupy more than 3,000 parking spaces provided under the BRAC (base realignment and closure) 133 project. Allows a partial waiver under certain conditions.
(Sec. 8104) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly the number of civilian personnel end strength by appropriation account for each account used to finance federal civilian personnel salaries.
(Sec. 8105) Prohibits any funds from being used to modify specified appropriations and budget structures for the National Intelligence Program. Allows the Secretary and the DNI to jointly study and develop proposals for alternative financial management processes for the purpose of achieving auditable financial statements and improving fiscal reporting. Requires the Secretary and the DNI, if developing such proposals, to present them to all affected agencies and to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees.
(Sec. 8106) Authorizes the DNI, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of funds made available under this Act for the National Intelligence Program for higher priority items than those for which such funds were originally appropriated.
(Sec. 8107) Earmarks specified funds from the Ship Modernization, Operations and Sustainment Fund for operating, equipping, and modernizing certain guided missile cruisers and dock landing ships.
(Sec. 8108) Requires: (1) the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to conduct a review of superintendents of military service academies, including their appropriate role and performance evaluation process; and (2) review findings to be submitted to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 8109) Reduces by $380 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings due to favorable foreign exchange rates.
(Sec. 8110) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to transfer or release to or within the United States or its territories or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a citizen or member of the Armed Forces and who is or was held by DOD on or after June 24, 2009, at U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo).
(Sec. 8111) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo to the custody or control of that individual's country of origin or any other foreign country or entity except in accordance with detainee transfer requirements of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014.
(Sec. 8112) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United States or its territories or possessions to house any individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at Guantanamo, and who: (1) is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the Armed Forces; and (2) is either in DOD custody or control or otherwise under detention at Guantanamo.
(Sec. 8113) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into a contract with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation: (1) against which an unpaid federal tax liability has been assessed, or (2) that was convicted of a felony criminal violation within the preceding 24 months.
(Sec. 8114) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of federal criminal laws against human trafficking or the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, (2) to support any military training or operation that includes child soldiers, (3) in contravention of the War Powers Resolution, or (4) to contract with any person or entity convicted of fraud against the federal government.
(Sec. 8121) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to contract with, or make a grant, loan, or loan guarantee to, Rosoboronexport. Allows a waiver on a case-by-case basis if the Secretary certifies that it is in the national security interest to do so. Requires, after any such waiver, a report from the Secretary with respect to Rosoboronexport's arms supply activities with the Assad regime in Syria.
(Sec. 8123) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) for the purchase or manufacture of U.S. flags unless such flags are treated as covered items under Buy American requirements; (2) in contravention of Uniform Code of Military Justice requirements and procedures concerning actions for certain sex-related offenses; or (3) for the direct personal benefit of the President of Afghanistan.
(Sec. 8124) Appropriates funds to DOD to implement the Sexual Assault Special Victims Program.
(Sec. 8127) Makes funds available for ex gratia payments by U.S. local military commanders for damage, personal injury, or death incident to combat operations of the U.S. Armed Forces in a foreign country. Outlines payment conditions and requires a written record of any payments made. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the payment program.
(Sec. 8128) Prohibits the use of funds to conduct any environmental impact analysis related to Minuteman III silos that contain a missile as of the date of enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 8129) Reduces by $8 million the amounts appropriated in titles I and II of this Act, to be applied against funding for general and flag officers within the military personnel and O&M appropriations.
(Sec. 8130) Prohibits funds from being used: (1) to transition elements of the 18th Aggressor Squadron out of Eielson Air Force Base (Alaska); (2) to cancel the avionics modernization program of record for C-130 aircraft; (3) to grant an enlistment waiver in the case of individuals convicted of certain sex crimes; (4) to reduce the force structure at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal, below the number of personnel assigned there on October 1, 2012, until the Secretary submits a previously-required certification; (5) in contravention of certain Civil Reserve Airlift Fleet transportation requirements; (6) to fund the performance of a flight demonstration team outside the United States when such a demonstration within the United States was canceled due to insufficient funding; (7) to carry out reductions under the New START Treaty except as authorized under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2014; (8) to implement an enrollment fee for the TRICARE for Life program; or (9) in contravention of limitations on providing certain missile defense information to the Russian Federation.
(Sec. 8139) Prohibits funds from being used by the National Security Agency (NSA) to: (1) conduct a surveillance acquisition under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for the purpose of targeting a U.S. person; or (2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents of any electronic communication of a U.S. person from a public provider of such services pursuant to such Act.
(Sec. 8140) Reduces by $866.5 million the amount appropriated in title II of this Act, to reflect excess cash balances in DOD working capital funds.
(Sec. 8141) Earmarks specified Army working capital funds for the Industrial Mobilization Capacity Account, under specified conditions.
Title IX: Overseas Contingency Operations - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for overseas contingency operations and the global war on terrorism, including for: (1) military, reserve, and National Guard personnel; (2) O&M, (3) the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund; (4) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (5) procurement, including National Guard and reserve equipment; (6) RDT&E; (7) Defense Working Capital Funds; (8) the Defense Health Program; (9) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (10) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; and (11) the Office of the Inspector General.
(Sec. 9002) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $4 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this title between any such appropriations for that fiscal year. Requires prompt congressional notification of each transfer.
(Sec. 9004) Authorizes the Secretary to use funds appropriated in this title to purchase motor vehicles for use by military and civilian DOD employees in Iraq and Afghanistan, with a limit of $75,000 per passenger vehicle and $250,000 per each heavy or light armored vehicle.
(Sec. 9005) Authorizes the use of up to $30 million to fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan).
(Sec. 9006) Allows DOD O&M funds to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Afghanistan. Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding such support.
(Sec. 9007) Prohibits any funds from being obligated or expended to: (1) establish any military installation or base for providing for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, or (2) exercise U.S. control over any oil resource of Iraq.
(Sec. 9008) Prohibits funds from being used in contravention of specified laws enacted or regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
(Sec. 9009) Prohibits funds provided for the Afghanistan Security Forces Funds from being obligated prior to the approval of a financial and activity plan by the Afghanistan Resources Oversight Council of DOD.
(Sec. 9011) Earmarks specified Army O&M funds to allow the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Afghanistan to carry out strategic business and economic assistance activities in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Requires the Secretary, at least 15 days in advance of making funds available for any such project costing $5 million or more, to submit to the defense committees a detailed justification and timeline for the project.
(Sec. 9012) Allows the use of specified O&M funds to support U.S. government transition activities in Iraq by funding operations and activities of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq and security assistance teams. Requires 15 days' prior notification from the Secretary to the defense committees with respect to each proposed site.
(Sec. 9013) Rescinds a specified amount from: (1) the General Provision: Retroactive Stoploss, 2009 account; and (2) the Other Procurement, Army account.
(Sec. 9014) Prohibits DOD O&M funds from being used for payments to Pakistan as reimbursement for support provided with respect to U.S. military operations unless the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of State, certifies to the appropriations committees that the government of Pakistan: (1) is cooperating with the United States in certain counterterrorism efforts, (2) is not supporting terrorist activities against U.S. or coalition forces in Afghanistan, (3) is dismantling improvised explosive device networks and preventing the proliferation of nuclear-related material and expertise; (4) is implementing policies to protect judicial independence and due process of law; (5) is issuing visas for U.S. visitors engaged in counterterrorism efforts and assistance programs in Pakistan; and (6) is providing humanitarian organizations access to detainees, internally displaced persons, and other Pakistani civilians affected by the conflict. Authorizes the DOD Secretary to waive such restrictions on a case-by-case basis by certifying to such committees that it is in the U.S. national security interest to do so.
(Sec. 9015) Prohibits funding to Syria in contravention of the War Powers Resolution, including the introduction of U.S. military forces into Syria where imminent involvement on hostilities is clearly indicated.
(Sec. 9016) Prohibits funds available for the Afghanistan Infastructure Fund from being used to plan, develop, or construct any project for which construction has not commenced before the date of enactment of this Act.
Title X: Military Disability Retirement and Survivor Benefit Annuity Restoration - (Sec. 10001) Makes inapplicable to members retired due to disability and to retired pay used to compute certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities a reduced annual adjustment, beginning on December 1, 2015, of retired pay for members under the age of 62 (as provided under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013).
Division D: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Appropriates funds to the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil, for: (1) civil functions pertaining to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration (including the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri); (2) the regulatory program pertaining to navigable waters and wetlands; (3) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program for clean-up of early atomic energy program contamination; (4) flood control and coastal emergencies, including hurricanes and other natural disasters; (5) the civil works program in the headquarters of the Corps of Engineers and the offices of the Division Engineers; and for the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, the Institute for Water Resources, the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center allocable to the civil works program; and (6) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
(Sec. 101) Prohibits funds provided either in this Act or by previous appropriations Acts from remaining available for obligation or expenditure in FY2014 through a reprogramming that would: (1) either create, initiate, or eliminate a new program, project, or activity; (2) increase funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are either denied or restricted by this Act without prior approval from congressional committees on appropriations; (3) propose to use for a different purpose any funds directed for a specific activity, without prior approval from such committees; or (4) augment or reduce existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of specified amounts without prior approval from such committees.
Permits reprogramming under specified conditions for: (1) general investigations, (2) general construction, and (3) operation and maintenance (including the Mississippi River and Tributaries, and formerly utilized sites remedial action program).
Discourages submission to the congressional appropriations committees of any reprogramming for less than $50,000 (de minimus reprogrammings).
Exempts from the general prohibition against reprogramming any project or activity funded under the continuing authorities program.
Directs the Corps of Engineers to report to the congressional appropriations committees a baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year.
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this title to award or modify any contract that commits funds beyond the amounts appropriated for that program, project, or activity that remain unobligated, except that such amounts may include any funds that have been made available through reprogramming pursuant to Sec. 101.
(Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds to award any continuing contract that commits additional funding from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund before enactment of a long-term mechanism to enhance revenues in this Fund sufficient to meet the cost-sharing authorized in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
(Sec. 104) Directs the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to submit to certain congressional committees any report of the Chief of Engineers Report on a water resource matter.
(Sec. 105) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (Secretary in this title) to implement measures recommended in a specified efficacy study, with appropriate modifications or emergency measures, to prevent aquatic nuisance species from dispersing into the Great Lakes by way of any hydrologic connection between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin.
(Sec. 106) Authorizes such Secretary to transfer to the Fish and Wildlife Service any funds necessary to mitigate for fisheries lost due to Corps of Engineers projects.
(Sec. 107) Terminates the authorization for: (1) a navigation project consisting of a 4-foot channel located at the entrance to Ipswich Harbor, Ipswich River, Massachusetts; (2) a specified portion of the project for navigation, Chicago Harbor, Illinois; and (3) a specified portion of the project for navigation, Warwick Cove, Rhode Island.
(Sec. 110) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 to increase the authorized costs of the navigation project, Miami Harbor, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
(Sec. 111) Modifies the project for flood control, Little Calumet River, Indiana, to authorize the Secretary to implement the project at a specified total cost, with specified estimated federal and non-federal costs.
(Sec. 112) Declares a specified limitation relating to total project costs in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 inapplicable during FY2014 and FY2015 to any project that receives funds made available by this Act.
(Sec. 113) Requires the Cape Arundel Disposal Site (Maine), selected by the Department of the Army as an alternative dredged material disposal site, to remain open for 5 years after enactment of this Act until the remaining disposal capacity of the site has been utilized, or until completion of an Environmental Impact Statement to support final designation of an Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site for southern Maine, whichever first occurs, provided that the site conditions remain suitable for such purpose and that the site may not be used for disposal of more than 80,000 cubic yards from any single dredging project.
(Sec. 114) Prohibits funds from being used to continue a specified study conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers, pursuant to the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, of the Missouri River and its tributaries regarding actions to mitigate losses of aquatic and terrestrial habitat, recover certain federally listed endangered species, and restore the ecosystem to prevent further declines among other native species.
(Sec. 115) Prohibits the use by the Corps of Engineers of Energy and Water Development appropriations to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or enforce any change to regulations in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definitions of "fill material" or "discharge of fill material" for the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
(Sec. 116) Authorizes cost sharing during FY2014 for any work required to be undertaken on a flood control project because of impacts to that project from a navigation project.
Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau), including for water and related natural resources, the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund, California Bay-Delta Restoration, and administrative expenses in the Office of the Commissioner (the Denver office) as well as offices in the Bureau's five regions.
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the availability of funds for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming that would: (1) create or initiate a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminate an existing program, project, or activity; (3) increase funds for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by this Act without prior approval from congressional appropriations committees; or (4) restart or resume any program, project or activity for which funds are either not provided in this Act, or for which funds are transferred in excess of specified limits without prior approval from such appropriations committees.
Prohibits the availability of funds, without prior approval from such committees, for any reprogramming that transfers funds in excess of: (1) 15% for any program, project, or activity for which $2 million or more is available at the beginning of the fiscal year; or (2) $300,000 for any program, project, or activity for which less than $2 million is available at the beginning of the fiscal year.
Extends the same prohibition, without prior approval from such committees, for any reprogramming that transfers more than: (1) $500,000 from either the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category or the Resources Management and Development category to any program, project, or activity in the other category; or (2) $5 million to provide adequate funds for settled contractor claims, increased contractor earnings due to accelerated rates of operations, and real estate deficiency judgments when necessary to discharge Bureau legal obligations.
(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary in this title) and the state of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.
Directs the Secretary to classify as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program pursuant to specified alternative repayment plans.
Requires future federal obligations of funds regarding drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit to be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of such service or studies.
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the Bureau, until completion of a specified pipeline reliability study and any necessary changes are made to Technical Memorandum 8140-CC-2004-1 ("Corrosion Considerations for Buried Metallic Water Pipe"), from using that Memorandum as the sole basis to deny funding or approval of a project or to disqualify any material from use in severely corrosive soils.
Requires the Bureau to notify the congressional appropriations committees before advertising any project with a buried metallic pipeline where severely corrosive soils are anticipated to be encountered.
Requires the Bureau to give expeditious consideration to granting any deviation from the corrosion prevention requirements the Bureau proposes for a project (including liability waivers if appropriate) that is requested by the entity that will be the ultimate project owner.
Requires peer review by appropriate non-Bureau experts of any proposal to update the Technical Memorandum.
(Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary to participate in non-federal groundwater banking programs in California, including making payments for: (1) the storage of Central Valley Project water supplies, (2) the purchase of stored water, (3) the purchase of shares or an interest in ground banking facilities, or (4) the use of Central Valley Project water as a medium of payment for groundwater banking services.
(Sec. 205) Deems a specified transfer of irrigation water among specified Central Valley Project contractors to meet certain conditions in the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992.
Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau Commissioner, to initiate and complete programmatic environmental compliance in order to facilitate voluntary water transfers within the Central Valley Project.
Directs the Bureau Commissioner to report quadrennially to the congressional appropriations committees on: (1) the status of efforts to facilitate and improve water transfers within the Central Valley Project, and water transfers between the Central Valley Project and other water projects in California; (2) an evaluation of potential effects of this Act upon federal programs, Indian tribes, Central Valley Project operations, the environment, groundwater aquifers, refuges, and communities; and (3) recommended ways to facilitate and improve the process for such transfers.
(Sec. 206) Amends the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to extend its authorities through FY2017.
(Sec. 207) Amends the Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act to extend through FY2015 the Calfed Bay-Delta program and the authorization of appropriations.
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary to partner with, provide a grant to, or enter into a cooperative agreement with local joint powers authorities formed by irrigation districts, other local water districts, and local governments, to advance congressionally authorized planning and feasibility studies for water storage projects.
(Sec. 209) Amends the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000 to extend to through FY2020 the authorization of appropriations for planning, design, and construction of: (1) the Assiniboine and Sioux Rural Water System, and (2) the Dry Prairie Rural Water System.
Title III: Department of Energy - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Energy (DOE) for energy and science programs, including: (1) energy efficiency and renewable energy, (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability, (3) nuclear energy, (4) fossil energy research and development, (5) naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), (7) the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, (8) the Energy Information Administration, (9) non-defense environmental cleanup, (10) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, (11) science activities, (12) the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), (13) the Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, (14) the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, (15) departmental administration, (16) the Office of the Inspector General, (17) the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and atomic energy defense weapons activities, (18) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, (19) naval reactors activities, (20) Office of the NNSA Administrator, (21) atomic energy defense environmental cleanup, and (22) other defense activities including plant and capital expenses for atomic energy defense and classified activities.
Approves expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for high voltage line construction to specified service areas. Prohibits any new direct loan obligations from the Fund during FY2014.
Makes FY2014 appropriations for operation and maintenance of: (1) the Southeastern Power Administration; (2) the Southwestern Power Administration; (3) the Western Area Power Administration, including construction and rehabilitation; (4) the Falcon and Amistad Dams Operating and Maintenance Fund; and (5) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of any funds or authority made available for DOE under this Act to initiate or resume any program, project, or activity, or to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals or similar arrangements for a program, project, or activity which has not been funded by Congress.
Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to make grant allocations or discretionary grant or contract awards of $1 million or more, or perform certain related duties, unless DOE notifies the congressional appropriations committees at least three business days in advance. Requires DOE, in addition, to submit quarterly reports to such committees detailing each grant allocation or discretionary grant award totaling less than $1 million provided during the previous quarter.
Prohibits DOE from entering into certain multi-year transactions under DOE-Energy Programs unless such transactions are funded for the full period of performance as anticipated at the time of award, or a transaction conditions the federal obligation upon the availability of future-year budget authority and DOE notifies certain congressional committees at least three days in advance.
Authorizes the reprogramming of funds for any program, project, or activity. Requires DOE to notify certain congressional committees at least 30 days before the use of any proposed reprogramming which would cause a program, project, or activity funding level to increase or decrease by more than $5 million or 10%, whichever is less.
Prohibits the availability of funds for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming that would: (1) create, initiate, or eliminate a new program, project, or activity; (2) increase funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act; or (3) reduce funds directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act.
Authorizes DOE to waive a requirement or restriction that applies to the use of funds made available for DOE if compliance would pose substantial risk to human health, the environment, welfare, or national security. Instructs the Secretary to notify the congressional appropriations committees of any such waiver within three days after the activity to which a requirement or restriction would otherwise have applied.
(Sec. 302) Permits the availability to the same appropriation accounts of unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act.
(Sec. 303) Deems funds for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress during FY2014 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2014.
(Sec. 304) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) construct specified high-hazard nuclear facilities unless independent oversight is conducted by the Office of Health, Safety, and Security to ensure compliance with nuclear safety requirements; or (2) approve a Critical Decision-2 or Critical Decision-3 under a specified DOE Order for construction projects where the total project cost exceeds $100 million, until a separate independent cost estimate has been developed.
(Sec. 306) Restricts to a maximum period of two calendar years the validity of any DOE determination that the sale or transfer of uranium will not have an adverse material impact on the domestic uranium mining, conversion, or enrichment industry.
Requires DOE to report to congressional appropriations committees not less than 30 days before the provision of uranium in any form: (1) the amount of uranium to be provided and the expected provision date, (2) an estimate of its gross market value on the expected provision date, (3) the value of the services DOE expects to receive in exchange for the uranium, and (4) the recipient of the uranium.
(Sec. 307) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 to change from annual to once every three years the mandatory review by the Comptroller General (GAO) of DOE's execution of the program of Incentives for Innovative Technologies under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, consisting of guarantees for certain projects, including gasification and liquefaction projects, that: (1) avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; and (2) employ new or significantly improved technologies as compared to commercial technologies in service in the United States at the time the guarantee is issued.
(Sec. 308) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to pay the salaries of DOE employees to implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with respect to the Weatherization Assistance Program.
(Sec. 309) Permits DOE to authorize up to 6% of the funds made available by DOE for activities at federally-owned, contractor-operated laboratories for use by such laboratories for directed research and development.
(Sec. 310) Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act for DOE Energy Programs, Science, for any multiyear contract or other transaction agreement of $1 million or less unless the agreement is funded for the full period of performance anticipated at the time of award.
(Sec. 311) Directs DOE to submit to certain congressional appropriations committees: (1) a tritium and enriched uranium management plan that assesses the national security demand for tritium and low and highly enriched uranium through 2060, and (2) an analysis of alternatives for each major warhead refurbishment program that reaches Phase 6.3.
(Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary in this title) to report to the congressional defense committees on each major warhead refurbishment program that reaches the Phase 6.3 milestone (and by April 1, 2014, for the B61-12 life extension program), including an analysis of alternatives meeting certain criteria.
(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary to appoint for up to 4 years exceptionally well-qualified individuals to as many as 120 scientific, engineering, or other critical technical positions, without regard to specified requirements.
(Sec. 314) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act to repeal the requirement that DOE make available to refinery operators information on planned refinery outages to encourage reductions of the quantity of refinery capacity that is out of service at any time.
(Sec. 315) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to change to once every four years the surveys the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration is required to conduct regarding: (1) energy consumption in U.S. manufacturing industries (currently every two years), and (2) residential and commercial energy use (currently every three years).
(Sec. 316) Authorizes DOE to use appropriated funds to study possible conversion to contractor performance of functions performed by federal employees at the New Brunswick Laboratory.
(Sec. 317) Reduces by $7 million funds appropriated in this Act for non-defense programs in order to reflect savings from limiting foreign travel for DOE contractors.
(Sec. 318) Declares that first tier subcontracts awarded by Management and Operating contractors sponsored by DOE to small business concerns, small businesses concerns owned and controlled by service disabled veterans, qualified HUB Zone small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and small business concerns owned and controlled by women shall be considered toward the annually established agency and government-wide goals for small business participation in procurement contracts awarded.
(Sec. 319) Directs the Secretary to establish an independent Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories.
(Sec. 320) Requires that the congressional appropriations committees receive a 30-day advance notification of at-risk award fees for Management and Operating contractors that result in award term extensions, including a detailed explanation of any waiver or adjustment made to such extensions by the NNSA's Fee Determining Official.
(Sec. 321) Authorizes DOE to transfer specified funds to National Nuclear Security Administration, Weapons Activities after DOE provides the congressional appropriations committees a cost-benefit analysis of available and prospective domestic enrichment technologies for national security needs.
(Sec. 322) Prohibits funds made available in this Act from being used to implement or enforce: (1) specified federal energy conservation standards for general service incandescent lamps, intermediate base incandescent lamps, candelabra base incandescent lamps; and (2) specified energy conservation standards governing BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandescent reflector lamps, and ER incandescent lamps.
Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY2014 appropriations to: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Northern Border Regional Commission and the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission; (6) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), including the Office of Inspector General; (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; and (8) the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.
(Sec. 401) Authorizes the Inspector General of the NRC to exercise, with respect to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the same statutory authorities exercised with respect to the NRC.
(Sec. 402) Requires the NRC Chairman to notify other NRC members and specified congressional committees not later than one day after the Chairman begins performing specified functions under the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980, or after a member of the NRC who was delegated emergency functions under that Plan begins performing those functions, including an explanation of the circumstances warranting the exercise of such authority.
(Sec. 403) Requires the NRC, when responding to congressional requests for information, to comply with the July 5, 2011, version of Chapter VI of its Internal Commission Procedures.
Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation pending before Congress.
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that this further action is not necessary to protect government interests.
(Sec. 503) Extends the same prohibition to any corporation that has any unpaid federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless it has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that this further action is not necessary.
(Sec. 504) Prohibits funds made available by this Act to DOE from being transferred to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to certain statutory transfer authorities, or any authority whereby a federal department, agency, or instrumentality may provide goods or services to another such entity.
Requires the head of a department or agency funded in this Act that utilizes any transfer authority to report semiannually to certain congressional committees, detailing such transfer authority.
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds to contravene Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 ("Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations").
Division E: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) departmental offices, (2) department-wide systems and capital investments programs, (3) the Office of Inspector General, (4) the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, (5) the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), (6) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, (7) the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, (8) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, (9) the U.S. Mint for the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund, (10), the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account, and (11) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Sets forth certain transfers of funds, plus a rescission of certain funds from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
(Sec. 102) Requires the IRS to: (1) maintain a training program for IRS employees in taxpayers' rights, dealing courteously with taxpayers, cross-cultural relations, ethics, and impartial application of tax law; and (2) institute and enforce policies and procedures that will safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayers' information and protect them against identity theft.
(Sec. 104) Makes funds for the IRS under any Act available for improved facilities and increased staffing to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line service for taxpayers.
(Sec. 105) Bars the use of IRS funds to make a video unless the Service-Wide Video Editorial Board determines in advance that making the video is appropriate, taking into account its cost, topic, tone, and purpose.
(Sec. 106) Requires: (1) the IRS to issue a notice of confirmation of any address change relating to an employer making employment tax payments, (2) such notice to be sent to both the employer's former and new address, and (3) an IRS officer or employee to give special consideration to an offer-in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the victim of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer.
(Sec. 107) Bars the use of IRS funds to target U.S. citizens for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
(Sec. 108) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the IRS to target groups for regulatory scrutiny based on their ideological beliefs.
(Sec. 109) Requires the IRS Commissioner to transfer to either the IRS Taxpayer Services, Enforcement, or the Operations Supports accounts specified additional funds, to be available through FY2015, to be used solely to:
improve the delivery of services to taxpayers,
improve the identification and prevention of refund fraud and identity theft, and
address international and offshore compliance issues .
(Sec. 113) Bars the use of funds to the Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.
(Sec. 115) Prohibits the U.S. Mint from using any federal funds to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval of specified congressional committees.
(Sec. 116) Prohibits the use of funds to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the explicit approval of the same congressional committees.
(Sec. 117) Deems any funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2014, until enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2014.
(Sec. 118) Requires up to $5,000 to be made available from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Industrial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and representation expenses.
(Sec. 119) Requires the Secretary to submit a Capital Investment Plan to congressional appropriations committees within 30 days after the submission of the President's annual budget.
(Sec. 120) Requires the Office of Financial Stability and the Office of Financial Research to: (1) report quarterly to specified congressional committees on their respective activities; and (2) make their officials available, upon committee request, to testify on the reports' contents.
(Sec. 121) Requires the Secretary to report to congressional appropriations committees on the amount of total funds charged to each office by the Working Capital Fund, including the amount charged for each service provided by it to each office and a detailed explanation of how the charge for each service is calculated.
Title II: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office of the President Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for designated White House agencies, including the Executive Residence and: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the National Security Council (NSC) and the Homeland Security Council; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (5) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (6) various other specified federal drug control programs; (7) federal integrated, efficient, secure, and effective uses of information technology; (8) unanticipated needs; (9) data-driven innovation; and (10) special assistance to the President and the official residence of the Vice President.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 202) Requires the Director of OMB to submit to congressional appropriations committees a report on the costs of implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
(Sec. 203) Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to submit to congressional appropriations committees, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, and before the initial obligation of more than 20% of the funds appropriated in any account for the Office, a detailed narrative and financial plan on the proposed uses of all funds under the account by program, project, and activity.
(Sec. 203) Limits the availability of appropriations to such Office in this Act to: (1) a 2% transfer between appropriated programs upon the advance approval of congressional appropriations committees; and (2) up to $1 million for reprogramming within a program, project, or activity upon such approval.
Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for FY2014 for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including retired justices and judges as well as defender services; (5) fees of jurors and commissioners; (6) court security; (7) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (8) the Federal Judicial Center; and (9) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 304) Provides for the mandatory or discretionary delegation, in certain circumstances, of the duties and powers of the Administrator of General Services to an appropriate federal agency (currently, an appropriate executive agency only).
(Sec. 305) Requires the U.S. Marshals Service to provide, as a pilot program, specified security services (except investigations) for courthouses which federal law authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide.
(Sec. 306) Authorizes the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Judicial Center, and the U.S Sentencing Commission to enter into contracts, to the same extent as executive agencies, for: (1) acquisition of severable services for a period that begins in one fiscal year and ends in the next, and (2) for multiple years for acquisition of property and services.
(Sec. 307) Amends the Judicial Improvement Act of 1990 to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in: (1) the district of Kansas occurring 23 (currently, 21) years and six months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship; and (2) the district of Hawaii occurring 20 (currently, 19) years and six months or more after such confirmation date. (In effect lengthens by one year the respective temporary judgeships in the districts of Kansas and Hawaii.)
Amends the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, of 2006 to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in the eastern district of Missouri occurring 21 (currently, 20) years and six months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship. (In effect lengthens by one year the period of the respective temporary judgeship in such district.)
Amends the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in: (1) the northern district of Alabama, the district of Arizona, the southern district of Florida, the district of New Mexico, and the eastern district of Texas occurring 12 years (currently, 11 years) or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the respective temporary judgeships; and (2) the central district of California occurring 11 years (currently, 10 years) and 6 months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship. (In effect lengthens by one year the period of the temporary judgeship in that district.)
Title IV: District of Columbia - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY2014, including amounts for the federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support, (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District, (3) to District of Columbia Courts, (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts, (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, (6) to the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, (7) to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, (9) to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure and the Judicial Nomination Commission, (10) for school improvement, (11) for the D.C. National Guard, and (12) for testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Requires certain funds appropriated for operating expenses to be subject to specified proposals of the Fiscal Year 2014 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia.
Title V: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation; (3) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); (4) the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), including election reform activities; (5) the Federal Communication Commission (FCC); (6) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), for its Office of Inspector General; (7) the Federal Election Commission (FEC); (8) the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA); (9) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) the General Services Administration (GSA); (11) government-wide policy activities and operating expenses; (12) the GSA Office of Inspector General; (13) the electronic government fund; (14) allowances and office staff for former presidents; (15) the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, including the Federal Citizen Services Fund; (16) the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation; (17) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (18) Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation; (19) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (20) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), including the Office of Inspector General; (21) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission grants program; (22) the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA); (23) the credit union Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; (24) the Office of Government Ethics; (25) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including the Office of Inspector General; (26) the Office of Special Counsel; (27) the Postal Regulatory Commission; (28) the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; (29) the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board; (30) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (31) the Selective Service System; (32) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including entrepreneurial development programs and the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Advocacy; (33) the U.S. Postal Service, including the Office of Inspector General; and (34) the U.S. Tax Court.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 501) Amends the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act to revise eligibility requirements for the state swimming pool safety grant program to include swimming pools constructed in the state after the date the state submits a grant application to the CPSC.
(Currently, such requirements include swimming pools constructed after the date that is six months after enactment of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012.)
Extends the state swimming pool safety grant program through FY2016.
Revises minimum state law requirements for such grants to repeal requirements that:
all pools and spas be equipped with devices and systems designed to prevent entrapment by pool or spa drains;
all pools and spas that have a main drain, other than an unblockable drain, be equipped with a drain cover that meets the consumer product safety standard; and
periodic notification is provided to owners of residential swimming pools or spas about compliance with the entrapment protection standards of the ASME/ANSI A112.19.8 performance standard.
(Sec. 510) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend through December 31, 2015, the waiver of certain limitations on: (1) expending, obligating, or apportioning appropriations with respect to the collection or receipt of federal universal service contributions under the Communications Act of 1934; and (2) expending or obligating funds attributable to such contributions for universal service support programs.
(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of FCC funds to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on universal service support payments.
Title VI: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act.
(Sec. 606) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act by an entity unless it agrees that such expenditure will comply with the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 607) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 610) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for use by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) any official background investigation report on any individual, except when: (1) such individual has given his or her express written consent for such request within six months before the date of such request and during the same presidential administration, or (2) such request is required due to extraordinary circumstances involving national security.
(Sec. 611) Makes certain cost accounting standards promulgated under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act inapplicable to a Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) contract.
(Sec. 612) Authorizes OPM to accept and utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses) funds made available to OPM pursuant to court approval for resolving litigation and implementing any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program.
(Sec. 613) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions or abortion related administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the FEHBP, except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in cases of rape or incest.
(Sec. 615) Makes the restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act inapplicable to the acquisition by the federal government of commercial information technology.
(Sec. 616) Prohibits an officer or employee of any regulatory agency or commission funded by this Act from accepting, on behalf of that agency, or such agency or commission from accepting, payment or reimbursement from a nonfederal entity for travel-related expenses to enable an officer or employee to attend and participate in any meeting or similar function relating to official duties, when the entity offering payment or reimbursement is subject to regulation by such agency or commission, or represents such person or entity, unless the person or entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization.
(Sec. 617) Permits the use of funds made available to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the SEC for the interagency funding and sponsorship of a joint advisory committee to advise on emerging regulatory issues.
(Sec. 618) Requires the Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, the Judiciary, the FCC, the FTC, GSA, the NARA, the SEC, and SBA to provide congressional appropriations committees a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds received during any previous fiscal year.
(Sec. 619) Requires any executive agency covered by this Act, except GSA and the U.S. Postal Service, which is otherwise authorized to enter into contracts for either leases or the construction or alteration of real property for office, meeting, storage, or other space, to consult with GSA before issuing a solicitation for offers of new leases or construction contracts (and in the case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations with the current lessor). Authorizes such an agency with authority to enter into an emergency lease to do so during any period declared by the President to require emergency leasing authority.
(Sec. 620) Prohibits the use of FTC funds to complete the draft report entitled "Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children: Preliminary Proposed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regulatory Efforts" unless the Working Group complies with Executive Order 13563 ("Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review").
(Sec. 621) Bars the use of funds to pay the salaries and expenses of the:
Director, White House Office of Health Reform,
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change,
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy, and
White House Director of Urban Affairs.
(Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any corporation with any unpaid federal tax liability, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner, where the awarding agency is aware of this unpaid tax liability. Waives this prohibition if the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that such an action is not necessary to protect the interests of the government.
(Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of such funds to enter into the transactions cited in Sec. 622 with a corporation that was convicted or had one of its officers or agents acting on the corporation's behalf convicted of a felony criminal violation under any federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction. Waives this prohibition if the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that such an action is not necessary to protect the interests of the government.
(Sec. 624) Appropriates amounts required under current law for:
compensation of the President;
payments to the Judicial Officers' Retirement Fund, the Judicial Survivors' Annuities Fund, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judges' Retirement Fund;
payment of government contributions for health benefits of federal retired employees, and life insurance benefits for such employees;
payment to finance the unfunded liability of new and increased annuity benefits under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; and
payments of annuities authorized to be paid from the Fund by statutory requirements other than the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).
(Sec. 625) Prohibits the use of FCC funds to remove the conditions imposed on commercial terrestrial operations in the FCC Order and Authorization adopted on January 26, 2011 (DA 11-133), or otherwise permit such operations, until the FCC has resolved concerns of potential widespread harmful interference by such commercial terrestrial operations to commercially available Global Positioning System (GPS) devices.
(Sec. 626) Authorizes the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to obligate funds for the scholarship program established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in an aggregate amount not exceeding the amount of funds collected by the Board as of December 31, 2013, including accrued interest, resulting from the assessment of monetary penalties. Requires funds available for obligation in FY2014 to remain available until expended.
(Sec. 627) Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) with respect to the requirement that the chief executive of a recipient governmental entity certify that: (1) federal funds received for infrastructure investment have received full review and vetting, and (2) the chief executive accepts responsibility that such investment is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
Amends the Jobs Accountability Act (within the ARRA) to repeal certain reporting requirements by recipients on the use of ARRA funds.
Requires each agency that made recovery funds available to any recipient to make available to the public, beginning February 1, 2014, detailed spending data as prescribed by OMB and pursuant to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. (Currently, within 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, each such agency must make the information submitted in the reports publicly available by posting the information on a website.)
Repeals the requirement that the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board establish a user-friendly, public-facing website to foster accountability and transparency in the use of covered funds.
Repeals requirements that:
contracts funded under the ARRA be awarded as fixed-price contracts using competitive procedures, and
summaries of any contracts funded under the ARRA which are neither fixed-price nor awarded using competitive procedures be posted in a special section of the website whose mandate is repealed.
Extends the Board from FY2013 through FY2015.
(Sec. 628) Rescinds specified unobligated balances available in the Securities and Exchange Reserve Fund.
Title VII: General Provisions (Government-Wide) - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies, and corporations.
(Sec. 701) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations by any federal department, agency, or instrumentality unless it has in place, and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances by the officers and employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality.
(Sec. 725) Prohibits the use of funds by federal agencies, directly or through third parties, except in specified circumstances, to collect, review, create or contract for any aggregation of data by any means of any personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of any federal government or nongovernmental Internet site.
(Sec. 726) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into or renew a contract for a federal employee health plan which includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans from such prohibition. Prohibits a federal employee health plan, however, from discriminating against an individual on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for contraceptives because such activities would be contrary to his or her religious beliefs or moral convictions.
(Sec. 727) Declares that the United States is committed to ensuring the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic athletes, and supports strict adherence to anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, education, and research as performed by nationally recognized oversight authorities.
(Sec. 728) Allows the use of funds appropriated for official travel by federal departments and agencies, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for government personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program.
(Sec. 729) Bars the use of funds to: (1) implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or (2) implement proposed OPM regulations relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch.
(Sec. 730) Prohibits an executive branch agency from purchasing, constructing, and/or leasing any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to conduct federal law enforcement training without advance approval of congressional appropriations committees. Authorizes the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities.
(Sec. 731) Bars the use of funds by an executive branch agency, unless otherwise authorized by existing law, to produce any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story includes a clear notification within its text or audio that it was prepared or funded by that agency.
(Sec. 732) Bars the use of funds in contravention of the Privacy Act or regulations concerning protection of privacy and freedom of information.
(Sec. 733) Prohibits the use of funds for any federal government contract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated as an inverted domestic corporation under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, or any subsidiary of such an entity.
Requires any Secretary to waive such prohibition if so required in the interest of national security.
Exempts contracts entered into before enactment of this Act or task orders issued pursuant to such contracts.
(Sec. 734) Requires for each employee, during FY2014, who retires under voluntary early retirement authority (VERA) of CSRS or FERS, or under any other CSRS or FERS requirement and receives a voluntary separation incentive payment (VISP), that the separating agency remit to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount equal to OPM's average unit cost of processing a retirement claim for the preceding year.
(Sec. 735) Bars the use of funds to recommend or require any entity submitting an offer for a federal contract to disclose specified information regarding contributions or expenditures with respect to a federal election as a condition of such offer or acquisition.
(Sec. 736) Bars the use of funds to pay for the painting of portraits of a federal officer or employee, including the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress (including a Delegate or a Resident Commissioner to Congress), the head of an executive branch agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
(Sec. 737) Prohibits the use of funds to begin or announce a study or public-private competition regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any function performed by federal employees pursuant to OMB Circular A-76 or any other administrative regulation, directive, or policy.
(Sec. 738) Requires OMB, in coordination with the governor of each Great Lakes state and the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating congressional committees an interagency budget crosscut report displaying the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the federal agencies that carries out Great Lakes restoration activities.
(Sec. 739) Bars the use of funds to implement, administer, enforce, or apply the rule entitled "Competitive Area" published by OPM in the Federal Register on April 15, 2008.
(Sec. 740) Prohibits the use of FY2014 funds to pay any prevailing rate employee in a federal agency in an amount exceeding specified limits related to an applicable wage survey adjustment.
Limits the statutory adjustment in rates of basic pay granted, pursuant to such survey, to certain federal prevailing rate employees and officers and crew members of vessels that takes place in FY2014 to at least the percentage received by employees in the same location whose basic pay rates are adjusted annually under statutory pay systems that include locality-based comparability payments.
Considers the following prevailing rate employees to be located in the pay locality designated as "Rest of the United States" for purposes of locality-based comparability payments:
individuals at locations without employees whose pay is increased pursuant to a wage survey; and
U.S. citizens employed in any area which is outside the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories and possessions, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
(Sec. 741) Bars the following from receiving a pay rate increase in calendar year 2014:
the Vice President;
political appointees serving in Executive Schedule positions, or in positions for which the rate of pay is fixed by statute at an Executive Schedule rate;
chiefs of mission or ambassadors at large;
noncareer appointees in the Senior Executive Service (SES) paid a basic rate at or above level IV of the Executive Schedule, as well as any employees paid a basic rate who serve under a political appointment; and
a limited term SES appointee or limited emergency SES appointee serving under a political appointment and paid such rate of basic pay.
Excludes from this prohibition: (1) employees in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service pay system, and (2) employees appointed under federal law or in another pay system whose position would be classified at GS-15 or below if federal classification of position requirements applied to them.
States that nothing shall prevent employees who do not serve under a political appointment from receiving pay increases.
Excludes from the pay rate increase prohibition: (1) a career SES appointee who receives a presidential appointment and elects to retain SES basic pay entitlements, and (2) a member of the Senior Foreign Service who receives a presidential appointment to any position in the executive branch and elects to retain Senior Foreign Service pay entitlements.
Allows an employee in a covered position to receive a pay rate increase upon an authorized movement to a different covered position with higher-level duties and a pre-established higher level or range of pay. Limits any such increase to the rates of pay and applicable limitations in effect on December 31, 2013.
Requires the initial pay rate for an individual newly appointed to a covered position between September 30, 2013, and the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in FY2014, to be based on the rates of pay and applicable pay limitation in effect on December 31, 2013.
Applies the bar on pay rate increases to any employee subject to a biweekly pay period through the end of a pay period that begins in calendar year 2014 but ends in calendar year 2015.
Makes an initial or increased pay rate for an individual in a covered position that takes effect in calendar year 2014 before enactment of this Act to be valid only through the end of the pay period during which the enactment took place. Requires the individual's pay rate to be set, effective on the first day of the next pay period, at the rate that would have applied if this Act had been in effect on January 1, 2014.
(Sec. 742) Requires the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this Act to report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for the entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by the entity during FY2014 for which the federal government cost exceeded $100,000.
Requires the head, within 15 days of a conference held by the entity during FY2014 for which such cost exceeded $20,000, to notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending the conference.
Prohibits the use of a grant or contract funded by amounts appropriated by this Act to defray the costs of such a conference that is not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract.
Prohibits the use of federal funds:
for travel and conference activities that are noncompliant with OMB Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012; or
to eliminate or reduce funding for a program, project, or activity as proposed in the President's budget request for a fiscal year until the proposed change is subsequently enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless it is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provisions of this or any other appropriations Act.
Title VIII: General Provisions (District of Columbia) - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2013.
(Sec. 802) Prohibits the use of federal funds provided in this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes or implementation of any policy including boycott designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or any state legislature.
(Sec. 806) Prohibits the use of federal funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Attorney General or any other officer or entity of the District government to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District.
Declares that nothing in this section bars the Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government regarding such lawsuits.
(Sec. 807) Bars the use of federal funds contained in this Act to distribute any needle or syringe to prevent the spread of blood borne pathogens in any location that has been determined by the local public health or local law enforcement authorities to be inappropriate for such distribution.
(Sec. 808) Declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions.
(Sec. 809) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative.
(Sec. 810) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in cases of rape or incest.
(Sec. 813) Allows the transfer of amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds to the District's enterprise and capital funds. Requires such transferred amounts to retain appropriation authority consistent with this Act.
Authorizes the District government to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any local funds transferred or reprogrammed from operating expenses to capital funds in this or in the four prior fiscal years.
Requires such reprogrammed or transferred amounts to retain appropriation authority consistent with this Act.
Prohibits the District government from transferring or reprogramming for operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for capital projects.
(Sec. 814) Declares that none of the federal funds appropriated in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided in this Act.
(Sec. 815) Limits to 50% the availability through FY2015 for each such account, for its authorized purposes, of any unobligated balances of FY2014 appropriations for salaries and expenses remaining available at the end of FY2014. Requires a request for approval to congressional appropriations committees, in compliance with specified reprogramming guidelines, before such funds are spent.
(Sec. 816) Appropriates local District of Columbia funds, during a period in FY2015 in which neither a District of Columbia continuing resolution or a regular District of Columbia appropriation bill is in effect, in the same amount and at the same rate provided for any project or activity for which they are provided in the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request Act of 2014 submitted to Congress (subject to any modifications enacted by the District of Columbia).
Terminates the availability of such appropriations: (1) during any period in which a District of Columbia continuing resolution for FY2015 is in effect, or (2) upon enactment of the regular District of Columbia appropriation bill for FY2015.
Makes this Act inapplicable to a project or activity during any period of FY2015 if any other provision of law (other than an authorization of appropriations):
makes an appropriation, makes funds available, or grants authority for such project or activity to continue for such period; or
specifically provides that no appropriation shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or no authority shall be granted for them to continue for such period.
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to effect obligations of the District government mandated by other law.
Division F: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2014.
Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security and executive management, (2) the Office of the Under Secretary for Management, (3) the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, (4) the Office of the Chief Information Officer, (5) intelligence analysis and operations coordination activities, and (6) the Office of the Inspector General.
Title II: Security Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for the operation and improvement of automated systems, border security fencing, infrastructure, and technology, air and marine operations, and construction and facilities management; (2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including for reimbursement of other federal agencies for the costs associated with the care, maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled aliens unlawfully present in the United States, to identify and remove aliens convicted of a crime, for detention and removal operations, for automated systems, and for construction and maintenance of buildings; (3) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for providing civil aviation security services (including explosives detection systems), surface transportation security activities, the development and implementation of vetting and credentialing activities, transportation security support and intelligence, and the Federal Air Marshal Service; (4) the Coast Guard, including for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism, environmental compliance and restoration functions, the Coast Guard reserve, scientific research, development, test, and evaluation, and retired pay and benefits; and (5) the U.S. Secret Service.
Requires the Border Patrol to maintain an active duty presence of not less than 21,370 full-time agents protecting U.S. borders in FY2014.
Prohibits additional deployments of border security technology associated with integrated fixed towers until the Chief of the Border Patrol certifies to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that the first such deployment meets the operational requirements of the Border Patrol.
Requires ICE to allocate funds to maintain a level of not less than 34,000 detention beds through FY2014.
Requires the TSA Administrator to submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later than April 15, 2014, that: (1) certifies that one in four air passengers that require security screening by TSA is eligible for expedited screening without lowering security standards, and (2) outlines a strategy to increase the number of air passengers eligible for expedited screening to 50% by the end of 2014.
Title III: Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Makes appropriations for 2014 for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, including for infrastructure protection and information security programs and activities, the Federal Protective Service (FPS), and the Office of Biometric Identity Management; (2) the Office of Health Affairs, including for BioWatch operations; (3) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including for grants for state and local programs (including the Urban Area Security Initiative), firefighter assistance grants, emergency management performance grants, the U.S. Fire Administration, disaster relief, the flood hazard mapping and risk analysis program, the National Flood Insurance Fund, the predisaster mitigation grant program, and the emergency food and shelter program under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
Requires the revenues and collections of security fees credited to the account of FPS to be available until expended for necessary expenses related to the protection of federally-owned and leased buildings and for the operations of FPS, provided that the DHS Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) certify in writing to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later than February 14, 2014, that FPS operations will be fully funded in FY2014 through revenues and collection of security fees, including maintaining not fewer than 1,371 full-time staff and 1,007 full-time police officers, inspectors, area commanders and special agents, who, while working, are directly engaged on a daily basis protecting and enforcing laws at federal buildings. Requires the Director of FPS to include with the submission of the President's FY2015 budget a strategic human capital plan that aligns fee collections to personnel requirements based on a current threat assessment.
Title IV: Research, Development, Training, and Services - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including for the E-Verify program; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (3) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology; and (4) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, including for radiological and nuclear research and the acquisition and deployment of radiological detection systems in accordance with the global nuclear detection architecture.
Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Sets forth limitations and prohibitions on the availability, use, reprogramming, or transfer of funds for specified programs and activities under this Act.
(Sec. 506) Provides for a specific authorization of funds for intelligence activities under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2014 until the enactment of an Act authorizing such activities for FY2014.
(Sec. 507) Requires 3-day prior notice to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations before the DHS Secretary may: (1) make or award a grant allocation, grant, contract, other transaction agreement, or task or delivery order on a DHS multiple award contract, or issue a letter of intent exceeding $1 million; (2) award a task or delivery order requiring an obligation of funds greater than $10 million from multi-year DHS funds or a task or delivery order in a single account that exceeds 50% of total appropriations; (3) make a sole-source grant award; or (4) announce publicly the intention to make such awards. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such notification requirement if compliance would pose a substantial risk to human life, health, or safety, but requires notification not later than 5 days after the award is made. Requires the FEMA Administrator to brief the Appropriations Committee 5 days in advance of announcing publicly the intention of making an award under state and local programs.
(Sec. 512) Prohibits the use of funds available in this Act to: (1) contravene requirements of the Buy American Act, or (2) amend the oath of allegiance required under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
(Sec. 520) Requires the DHS Secretary to report to the DHS Inspector General not later than October 15, 2014, listing all grants and contracts awarded by means other than full and open competition during FY2014.
(Sec. 524) Prohibits the use of funds to grant an immigration benefit unless the results of required background checks have been received and do not preclude granting the benefit.
(Sec. 527) Prohibits the use of funds provided in this or any other Act to approve a waiver of the navigation and vessel-inspection laws for the transportation of crude oil distributed from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the Secretary of DHS takes adequate measures to ensure the use of U.S. flag vessels.
(Sec. 528) Prohibits the use of funds for CBP to prevent an individual from importing a prescription drug from Canada if: (1) such individual is not in the business of importing a prescription drug; and (2) such drug complies with specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and is not a controlled substance or a biological product. Makes this section applicable only to individuals transporting on their person a personal-use quantity of the prescription drug, not exceeding a 90-day supply.
(Sec. 531) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for planning, testing, piloting, or developing a national identification card.
(Sec. 533) Requires the TSA Administrator to certify to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that no security risks will result from the non-participation of an airport in the E-Verify Program.
(Sec. 534) Requires the FEMA Administrator to publish on the FEMA website a report summarizing damage assessment information used to determine whether to declare a major disaster.
(Sec. 536) Extends until October 4, 2014, the deadline for regulations for establishing risk-based performance standards for security of chemical facilities.
(Sec. 537) Prohibits the use of funds to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions of, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who is not a U.S. citizen or a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, or who is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense (DOD).
(Sec. 540) Requires any company that collects or retains personal information directly from any individual who participates in TSA's Registered Traveler or successor program to safeguard and dispose of such information in accordance with specified requirements.
(Sec. 542) Requires the DHS Secretary, in developing any process to screen aviation passengers and crews for transportation or national security purposes to consider the privacy and civil liberties of such passengers and crews.
(Sec. 550) Prohibits funds made available under this Act or any prior appropriations Act from being provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations.
(Sec. 552) Requires the DHS Secretary to ensure enforcement of immigration laws as defined by INA.
(Sec. 555) Prohibits the use of funds to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual if a U.S. law enforcement officer knows or suspects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless law enforcement personnel continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.
(Sec. 560) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay for the travel to or attendance of more than 50 employees of a single component of DHS, who are stationed in the United States, at a single international conference, unless the Deputy Secretary determines that such attendance is in the national interest and notifies the House and Senate Appropriations Committees within at least 10 days of that determination and its basis.
(Sec. 561) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into a contract, agreement, make a grant, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation (or corporate officer or agent) that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under federal or state law within the preceding 24 months or that has any unpaid federal tax liability.
(Sec. 563) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to reimburse any federal department or agency for its participation in a National Special Security Event.
(Sec. 564) Prohibits the use of funds for new CBP air preclearance agreements entering into force after February 1, 2014, unless: (1) the DHS Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, has certified to Congress that air preclearance operations at the airport provide a homeland or national security benefit to the United States; (2) U.S. passenger air carriers are not precluded from operating at existing preclearance locations; and (3) a U.S. passenger air carrier is operating at all airports contemplated for establishment of new air preclearance operations.
(Sec. 566) Prohibits the DHS Secretary from establishing, collecting, or otherwise imposing any new border crossing fee on individuals crossing the Southern or Northern border at a land port of entry, or from conducting any study for imposing such a fee. Defines "border crossing fee" as a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay to cross such borders at a land port of entry.
(Sec. 571) Requires the Commissioner of CBP to develop metrics that support a goal of reducing passenger processing times at air, land, and sea ports of entry and develop and implement operational work plans to meet such goals at U.S. air, land, and sea ports with the highest passenger volume and longest wait times.
(Sec. 572) Prohibits the use of funds to implement, carry out, administer, or enforce provisions of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to adjust risk premium rates for property located in an area that is participating in the national flood insurance program.
(Sec. 573) Rescinds specified funds and unobligated balances.
Division G: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2014.
Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) land acquisition; (3) Oregon and California grant lands; (4) range improvements; (5) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (6) miscellaneous trust funds.
Appropriates funds for FY2014 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to state conservation programs under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) expenses related to carrying out the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes.
Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the National Park Service (NPS) (including a transfer of funds) for: (1) the National Park System, (2) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs, (3) expenses related to carrying out the National Historic Preservation Act, (4) construction, and (5) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2014.
Authorizes the NPS to accept and use other federal or non-federal funds for the implementation of the Tamiami Trail project and to enter into a cooperative agreement or other agreements with the state of Florida to transfer funds to the state for the planning and construction of the project. Bars a contract from being awarded for the project until sufficient federal funds and written commitments from non-federal entities are available to cover the total estimated cost of the contract. States that, because the project provides significant environmental benefits for Everglades National Park, certain requirements relating to public parks, recreation areas, wildlife and waterfowl refuges, and historic sites are deemed satisfied with respect to such project and no additional documentation shall be required.
Makes appropriations for FY2014 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for ocean energy management (including for expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities); (3) the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement for offshore safety and environmental enforcement and oil spill research; (4) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (5) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Bureau of Education (BIE) for operation of Indian programs (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, and for Indian guaranteed loans; (6) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (7) provide assistance to U.S. territories (including transfer of funds) and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia; (7) the Office of the Solicitor; (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfers of funds); (10) wildland fire management, including wildfire suppression (and including transfers of funds); (11) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund for large fire suppression operations (including a transfer of funds); (12) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (13) the Department of the Interior for natural resources damage assessment and restoration.
Declares that, for FY2014, not less than 50% of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including the review of applications for permits to drill.
Authorizes the use of funds under title IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines.
Makes funds appropriated for Wildland Fire Management available for assistance to or through the Department of State in connection with forest and rangeland assistance in foreign countries available to support forestry, wildland fire management, and related natural resource activities outside of the United States and U.S. territories and possessions.
Rescinds a specified amount from funds for urgent wildland fire suppression activities. Declares that the remaining balances of such funds shall not be subject to specified pro rata replenishment requirements.
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds.
(Sec. 105) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary in this title) to redistribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, dual enrollment, overlapping service areas, or inaccurate distribution methodologies. Prohibits any tribe from receiving a reduction in such funds of more than 10% in FY2014. Makes the 10% limitation inapplicable under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas, or inaccurate distribution methodologies.
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands.
(Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary, in FY2014, to collect a nonrefundable inspection fee from operators of facilities subject to inspection under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Requires such fee to be deposited in the Offshore Safety and Environmental Enforcement account.
Requires annual fees to be collected, as prescribed by this section, for facilities that are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and that are in place at the start of FY2014.
Requires fees for drilling rigs to be assessed, as prescribed by this section, for all inspections completed in FY2014.
(Sec. 108) Grants the Secretary the authority to implement an oil and gas leasing Internet program, under which lease sales may be conducted through methods other than oral bidding.
(Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to implement a reorganization of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), to transfer funds among and between its successor offices and bureaus affected by such reorganization only in conformance with the Division G reprogramming guidelines in the explanatory statement regarding this Act.
(Sec. 110) Requires, beginning July 1, 2008, any funds (except for construction funds) held by a P.L. 100-297 tribally controlled grant school or a P.L. 93-638 tribally controlled contract school, upon retrocession to or re-assumption by the BIE, to remain available for a five-year period for the benefit of the programs approved for such a school on October 1, 1995.
(Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into certain multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofits and other appropriate entities, and certain multiyear contracts for the long-term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming horses and burros by nonprofits and other appropriate entities on private lands. Limits such an agreement or contract to ten years, subject to renewal at the discretion of the Secretary.
(Sec. 112) Directs the USFWS, in carrying out responsibilities to protect threatened and endangered species of salmon, to implement a system of mass marketing of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from federally operated or financed hatcheries.
(Sec. 113) Authorizes the Secretary, in FY2014-FY2019, to accept contributions of money and services from public and private sources for use by the Bureau of Ocean Management or the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of OCS resources, including the preparation of environmental documents such as impact statements and assessments, studies, and related research.
(Sec. 114) Bars any proposed new use of the Arizona & California Railroad Company's right-of-way for the conveyance of water from proceeding unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that such use is within the scope of the right-of-way.
Prohibits funds made available to the Department of the Interior from being used, in relation to any proposal to store water underground for the purpose of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the BLM, or for carrying out any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar approval.
(Sec. 115) Releases the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area in Clark County, Nevada, from further study for designation as wilderness.
Allows the Secretary of the Interior, recognizing that such area presents unique opportunities for the granting of additional rights-of-way, including for high voltage transmission facilities, to accommodate multiple applicants within a particular right-of-way.
(Sec. 116) Prohibits the use of any funds to process or grant a right-of-way, lease, or other property interest for the siting of commercial energy generation facilities on those exclusion lands identified by the Record of Decision for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States signed by the Secretary on October 12, 2012, that lie within the boundaries of the proposed Mojave Trails National Monument.
(Sec. 117) Allows the Secretary to use FY2014-FY2015 funds for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to establish the higher minimum rates of basic pay specified in P.L. 112-74 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012) for employees of the Department of the Interior in the Gulf of Mexico Region in the Geophysicist, Geologist, and Petroleum Engineer job series.
(Sec. 118) Provides for FY2014 assistance levels to Palau. Limits assistance to FY2009 levels. Withholds such assistance if trust fund withdrawals exceed $5 million.
(Sec. 119) Extends through FY2015 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance for: (1) the National Coal Heritage Area (West Virginia), (2) the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area, (3) the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area (Georgia), (4) the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania), (5) the Essex National Heritage Area (Massachusetts), (6) the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, (7) the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership (Iowa), (8) the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, and (9) the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area (New York).
Extends the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission (Massachusetts and Rhode Island) through FY2015.
Amends the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 to extend through FY2015: (1) the authorization of appropriations for the management action plan respecting the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor in Pennsylvania, and (2) the authority of the Secretary to provide financial assistance under such Act for such Corridor.
Amends the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Act of 2000 to extend through FY2015 the authority of the Secretary to provide grants or other assistance for the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania.
(Sec. 120) Redesignates the White River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas as the Senator Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge.
(Sec. 121) Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to require a certain reduction to any payment to a state or Indian tribe of 50% of a civil penalty collected by the federal government which results from certain oil and gas royalty management activities conducted by the state or Indian tribe pursuant to a cooperative agreement, or by the state under a delegation by the Secretary (or the Secretary's designee). Requires such a payment to be reduced by an amount equal to any payments provided or due under the agreement or delegation during the fiscal year in which the civil penalty is received, up to the total amount provided or due.
(Sec. 122) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 to allow, through FY2015, a person to bring a civil action challenging a BLM decision concerning grazing on public lands only if the person has exhausted the administrative hearings and appeals procedures established by the Department of the Interior, including having filed a timely appeal and a request for stay.
(Sec. 123) Allows, for FY2014-FY2015, the use of funds under this title for the BLM and the BIA by the Secretary of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of basic pay for employees of the Department of the Interior to carry out the inspection and regulation of onshore oil and gas operations on public lands in the Petroleum Engineer and the Petroleum Engineering Technician job series at rates no greater than 25% above the minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled.
(Sec. 124) Prohibits funds under this Act, or any other Act, from being used to implement, administer, or enforce Secretarial Order No. 3310 issued by the Secretary of the Interior on December 22, 2010, relating to the protection of wilderness characteristics on public lands under the management of the BLM.
Declares that nothing in this section shall restrict the Secretary's authorities under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to inventory and identify public lands on a continual basis and to develop and revise land use plans.
(Sec. 125) Authorizes the BLM, during FY2014-FY2015 and at its sole discretion, to review planning and implementation decisions regarding the trailing of livestock across public lands, including the issuance of crossing or trailing authorizations or permits under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). Prohibits subjecting temporary trailing or crossing authorizations across public lands to protest and/or appeal under specified federal regulations.
(Sec. 126) Redesignates the visitor center at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in the state of Washington as the "Norm Dicks Visitor Center."
(Sec. 127) Instructs the Secretary, before the end of the 60-year period beginning on this Act's enactment, to reissue the final rule published in the Federal Register on September 2, 2005, respecting the exclusion of U.S. captive Scimitar-Horned Ornyx, Addax, and Dama Gazelle from certain otherwise prohibited activities without regard to any other provision of statute or regulation that is applicable to the issuance of the rule.
Title II: Environmental Protection Agency - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the hazardous waste electronic manifest system; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) buildings and facilities; (6) carrying out the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program, and EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning inland oil spill programs; and (7) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, including capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, activities in connection with the construction of high priority water and wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, grants to Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska native villages, brownfields revitalization funding, grants under the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program, and grants under the Clean Air Act for particulate matter monitoring and data collection activities.
Authorizes the EPA Administrator: (1) in carrying out EPA's function to implement directly federal environmental programs in the absence of an acceptable tribal program, to award cooperative agreements to federally recognized Indian tribes or intertribal consortia to assist the Administrator in implementing such programs, except that no such cooperative agreements may be awarded from funds designated for state financial assistance agreements; (2) to collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees in accordance with the Federal Insecticide Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA); (3) to assess pesticide registration service fees under FIFRA; and (4) to transfer specified funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Initiative to any federal department or agency for activities that would support the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities and make grants to specified entities for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation to further the Initiative and the Agreement.
Makes the Science and Technology, Environmental Programs and Management, Office of Inspector General, Hazardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program accounts available for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed a specified amount per project.
Authorizes the Administrator to employ up to 50 (currently 30) persons at any one time in the Office of Research and Development under the authority to make Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps appointments.
Authorizes the EPA Administrator to use the amounts appropriated under the Nonpoint Source Management Program of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to make grants to federally recognized Indian tribes to implement a management program to control nonpoint source pollution.
Title III: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (NFS) (including transfer of funds); (4) capital improvement and maintenance of forest roads and trails (including transfer of funds); (5) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (6) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (7) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (8) federal land management for subsistence uses in Alaska; (9) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (10) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund (including transfers of funds).
Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities, and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Makes appropriations for FY2014 in specified amounts for various purposes to: (1) the Executive Office of the President, including the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture; (6) the National Gallery of Art; (7) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) the Commission of Fine Arts; (11) the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (12) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (13) the National Capital Planning Commission; (14) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; and (15) the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission.
Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
(Sec. 404) Requires estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities, and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional, or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the congressional appropriations committees.
(Sec. 405) Prohibits funds from being used to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim, subject to exception.
(Sec. 408) Prohibits the use of funds provided in this Act to conduct preleasing, leasing, and related activities under either the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within the boundaries of a National Monument as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument.
(Sec. 409) Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands, , unless otherwise provided in this Act, from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to funds appropriated for the implementation of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 or to funds appropriated for federal assistance to Florida for the acquisition of lands for Everglades restoration.
(Sec. 410) Declares that no timber sale in Alaska's Region 10, when appraised using a residual value appraisal, shall be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (that is, the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk allowance under the Forest Service's appraisal process). Requires any western red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska to be made available at prevailing domestic prices to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United States. Allows exportation of all unsold western red cedar volume to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale holder. Allows the sale of Alaska yellow cedar at prevailing export prices also at the timber sale holder's election.
(Sec. 411) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 to keep in effect through FY2015 the terms and conditions of provisions of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 regarding the renewal of certain NFS lands grazing permits at the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service that have expired or were transferred or waived during FY2004-FY2008.
(Sec. 412) Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to executive agencies to enter into a federal contract unless the contract is entered into in accordance with provisions and regulations relating to civilian and military contracts, except when: (1) federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be entered into without regard to such provisions and regulations, including formula grants for states or federally recognized Indian tribes; (2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act or by any other federal laws that specifically authorize a contract within a tribe; or (3) the contract was awarded before this Act's enactment.
(Sec. 413) Requires agencies receiving funds in this Act to post on their public websites any report required to be submitted by Congress in this or any other Act if it serves the national interest. Makes such requirement inapplicable to a report if the public posting of such report compromises national security or the report contains proprietary information.
(Sec. 417) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture via cooperative agreement or contract (including sole source contract), as appropriate, to permit the head of a state agency with jurisdiction over state forestry programs in a state containing NFS land (currently, the Colorado State Forest Service) to perform watershed restoration and protection services on NFS lands in the state when such similar and complementary services are being performed by the state's Forest Service on adjacent state or private lands; (2) make such authority also available to the Secretary of the Interior respecting public lands in a state administered through the BLM; and (3) extend the authority provided under this section through FY2018.
(Sec. 418) Directs the Department of the Interior, the EPA, the Forest Service, and IHS to report quarterly to the congressional appropriations committees on the status of the balances of their separate appropriations.
(Sec. 419) Directs the President to report quarterly to the congressional appropriations committees on all federal agency funding for climate change programs, projects, and activities in FY2013-FY2014, including: (1) an accounting of funding identifying climate change programs, projects and activities and associated costs; and (2) citations and linkages to each strategic plan that is driving funding within each program, project, and activity.
(Sec. 420) Prohibits the use of any funds in this Act or any other Act to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production.
(Sec. 421) Prohibits the use of any funds in this or any other Act to implement any provision in a rule if such provision requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
(Sec. 422) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation convicted within the preceding 24 months of a felony criminal offense under any federal law, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that this further action is not necessary to protect government interests.
(Sec. 423) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation assessed an unpaid federal tax liability for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner, where the awarding agency is aware of the liability, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that this further action is not necessary to protect government interests.
(Sec. 424) Bars the IHS, until October 1, 2018, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation located within an area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc., the Council of Athabasan Tribal Governments, and the Native Village of Eyak as entities to which funds may be disbursed.
(Sec. 425) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a program (currently, a pilot program) for the purpose of enhancing Forest Service administration of rights-of-way and other land uses.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to continue through each fiscal year to deposit into a special account all fees collected in order to recover the costs of processing applications for, and monitoring compliance with, authorizations to use and occupy NFS lands.
(Sec. 426) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements pertaining to the conduct of certain forest service activities with federal, tribal, state, or local government or nonprofit entities for the following additional purposes of: (1) developing, conducting, producing, or selling education and interpretive materials, products, programs, and services; (2) constructing, maintaining, and operating facilities; (3) selling health and safety products and visitor convenience items; and (4) collecting funds from the sale of materials, products, programs, and services.
Permits the Forest Service to consider the value of services performed by volunteers recruited, trained, and supported by a cooperator as an in-kind contribution of the cooperator for purposes of any cost sharing requirement under any Forest Service authority to enter into mutual benefit agreements.
Terminates the authorities provided under this section on September 30, 2019.
(Sec. 427) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 to continue through FY2015 the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes under the Act, to consider local contractors from economically disadvantaged rural communities who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers.
(Sec. 428) Amends the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network through FY2015.
(Sec. 429) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to extend through FY2014 the authorization of appropriations for grants respecting the American Battlefield Protection Program.
(Sec. 430) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, with respect to the Service First initiative, to change from mandatory to discretionary the authority of the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to promulgate special rules to test the feasibility of issuing unified permits, applications, and leases.
(Sec. 431) Makes the Forest Service's separate decision making and appeals reform process and the Forest Service's pre-decisional objection process inapplicable to any project or activity that implements a land and resource management plan developed under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 that is categorically excluded from documentation in an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement under the NEPA.
(Sec. 432) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, with respect to a pilot program for the sale of forest botanical products by the Forest Service, to extend through FY2019 the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to charge and collect fees from persons who harvest such products on NFS lands.
(Sec. 433) Extends through FY2019 the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture deposit all collected permit fees for a marina in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in a special account for certain recreation enhancement purposes as well as for direct operating or capital costs associated with the issuance of a marina permit.
(Sec. 434) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend through FY2014 the authority of the Forest Service and the BLM to enter into stewardship contracts with private persons or other public or private entities to achieve land management goals for the national forests and the public lands that meet local and rural community needs.
(Sec. 435) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to allow in Region 10 reasonable access for the orderly development of mining claims located inside areas subject to mineral lands use designations.
(Sec. 436) Prohibits any funds made available by a state water pollution control revolving fund as authorized by the Clean Water Act or made available by a drinking water treatment revolving loan fund as authorized by the Safe Drinking Water Act from being used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and steel products used in the project are U.S. produced, subject to specified exceptions.
Requires the EPA Administrator, upon request for a waiver under this section, to: (1) make available to the public on an informal basis a copy of the request and information available to the Administrator concerning it, and (2) allow for informal public input on the request for at least 15 days before making a finding. Requires the Administrator to make the request and accompanying information available electronically, including on the official EPA public Internet website.
Permits the Administrator to retain up to 0.25% of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to carry out the management and oversight of the U.S. production requirements of this section.
Makes this section inapplicable to a project if before enactment of this Act a state agency approves its engineering plans and specifications.
(Sec. 437) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 to extend the legislative authority for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial for seven years beyond September 30, 2014.
States that, for FY2014, the authority provided by the provisos of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 regarding the authorization of appropriations for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission shall not be in effect. (Such provisos that are not in effect for FY2014: (1) authorize the issuance of any procurement for the construction of the permanent memorial to include the full scope of the project, (2) require the solicitation and procurement contract to contain a statement that appropriated funds are not presently available for the contract and the government's contract obligation is contingent upon their availability, and (3) any funds appropriated shall be deemed to satisfy the criteria for issuance of a construction permit which require the sponsor to have sufficient funds available to complete project construction and to donate 10% of the total estimated construction cost to offset the costs of perpetual maintenance and preservation.)
Division H: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, including training and employment services; (2) the Office of the Job Corps; (3) community service employment for older Americans; (4) federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (5) state unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (6) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund; (7) employment and training program administration; (8) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (9) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (10) the Wage and Hour Division; (11) the Office of Labor Management Standards; (12) the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs; (13) the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; (14) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (15) administrative expenses for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (16) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (17) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); (18) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (19) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (20) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (21) departmental management; (22) veterans employment and training; (23) Department infrastructure technology (IT) modernization, and (24) the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title.
(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds to pay individual salary and bonuses at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
(Sec. 102) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between a program, project, or activity. Prohibits any increase of any such program, project, or activity by more than 3% by any such transfer.
(Sec. 103) Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to procure 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 already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.
(Sec. 104) Prohibits the availability of funds to the Department of Labor for grants under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (ACWIA) for any purpose except for competitive grants for training individuals over age 16 who are not currently enrolled in school within a local educational agency in the occupations and industries for which employers are using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers, and necessary related activities. Declares such prohibition shall not apply to funding for grant application solicitations issued before January 15, 2014.
(Sec. 105) Prohibits recipients of employment and training funds from using them to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual at a rate in excess of Executive Level II, with an exception for specified vendors.
(Sec. 106) Prohibits the Secretary of Labor (Secretary in this title) from taking any action, with certain exceptions, to amend a specified definition for functions and activities or to modify a certain procedure for redesignation of local areas under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) until legislation reauthorizing the Act has been enacted.
(Sec. 107) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to Program Administration funds made available to the Employment and Training Administration for technical assistance services to grantees, if those services will be more efficiently performed by federal staff.
(Sec. 108) Prohibits the Secretary from reserving more than 0.5% from each appropriation made available for certain named programs to carry out evaluations of such programs. Requires the transfer to departmental management of any reserved funds for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation Officer within the Department of Labor.
Makes such funds available only if the Chief Evaluation Officer submits a plan to the appropriate appropriations committees describing such evaluations 15 days in advance of any transfer.
(Sec. 109) Prohibits the use of funds to promulgate the Definition of "Fiduciary" regulation published by the Employee Benefits Security Administration on October 22, 2010.
(Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary to reserve at least 3% of the authorization of appropriations for FY2011-FY2013 for the Community College and Career Training Grant Program to evaluate and provide technical assistance for program activities.
(Sec. 111) Changes the pay rate from Level V to Level IV of the Executive Schedule for the Department's Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division, renamed the Wage and Hour Division.
(Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) exclude an H-2B employer from debarment proceedings commenced on or after January 1, 2013, if the employer demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence that an agent of the employer engaged in fraud or misrepresentation to the Department relating to admission of the H-2B workers that was outside the scope of authority conferred by the employer; and (2) initiate or continue such proceedings against the agent.
(Sec. 113) Allows an employer in the seafood industry, upon the Secretary's approval of a petition for H-2B nonimmigrants (temporary nonagricultural workers), to bring the H-2B workers into the United States at any time during 120 days after the start date without filing another petition. Prohibits the employer, however, from bringing H-2B workers into the United States after 90 days following the start date unless the employer completes a new assessment of the local labor market as well as offer the job to an equally or better qualified U.S. worker.
Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), (3) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), (4) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, (5) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, (6) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), (7) the Administration for Children and Families, (8) the Administration for Community Living, and (9) the Office of the Secretary.
(Sec. 202) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary in this title) to make Public Health Service employees available to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), or the World Health Organization (WHO).
(Sec. 204) Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being expended to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), except for funds specifically provided for in the PHSA, or for other taps and assessments made by any HHS office, before reporting to the appropriation committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.
(Sec. 205) Caps at 2.5% the amount of funds appropriated to a program under the PHSA that may be made available to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of programs funded in this title.
(Sec. 207) Authorizes the Director of NIH, jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, to transfer up to 3% among institutes and centers from amounts identified as funding for HIV research, provided that the appropriations committees are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. Requires such amounts to be made available to the Office of AIDS Research for disbursement to NIH agencies in accordance with the comprehensive plan for the conduct and support of all AIDS activities of NIH.
(Sec. 209) Prohibits the use of funds for voluntary family planning projects unless the applicant certifies that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it provides counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities.
(Sec. 210) Prohibits any provider of voluntary planning services under the PHSA from being exempt from any state law requiring notifications or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
(Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity because it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.
(Sec. 212) Allows the Secretary to exercise certain authority in order to carry out international health activities during FY2014.
(Sec. 215) Sets a cap on the total amount of funds NIH may use for the alteration, repair, or improvement of facilities and limits the amount that can be spent per project.
(Sec. 217) Prohibits funds made available in this title from being used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control.
(Sec. 218) Requires the Secretary to establish a publicly accessible website to provide information regarding the uses of funds made available to the Prevention and Public Health Fund.
(Sec. 219) Requires the Secretary, within 45 days of enactment of this Act, to transfer funds appropriated for the Prevention and Public Health Fund to specific accounts for specified activities. Prohibits the Secretary from further transferring such amounts, notwithstanding requirements that the Secretary to use such funds to increase funding over the FY2008 level for programs authorized by the PHSA for prevention, wellness, and public health activities.
Declares that funds transferred for the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Grant Program shall be made available without regard to the specific allocation of such funds in the PHSA.
(Sec. 220) Authorizes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to enter into a contract for one to ten years for the purchase of research services or of security countermeasures if funds are available and obligated for: (1) the full period of the contract or for the first fiscal year in which the contract is in effect, and (2) the estimated costs associated with a necessary termination of the contract. Makes the additional condition on such a multi-year contract that the Secretary determine that it will serve the best interests of the federal government by encouraging full and open competition or promoting economic in administration, performance, and operation of BARDA's programs.
(Sec. 221) Requires the Secretary to publish in the FY2015 budget justification and on the departmental website information concerning the employment of full-time equivalent federal employees or contracts for the purpose of implementing, administering, enforcing, or otherwise carrying out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in the proposed fiscal year and the four prior fiscal years.
(Sec. 222) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the CMS for Program Management up to an additional $305 million from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (Medicare Trust Funds) to support program management activity related to the Medicare program. Prohibits any other use of such funds to support any provision of PPACA or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, or any amendment made by either law, or to supplant any other amounts within such account.
(Sec. 223) Revises the time frame in which the Secretary may terminate a Public Health Service loan repayment contract with an individual from 45 days before the end of the fiscal year in which the contract was entered to 60 days after the execution of a contract awarded in 2014.
(Sec. 224) Requires the Secretary to publish information in the FY2015 budget that details: (1) the uses of all funds used by CMS specifically for health insurance marketplaces for each fiscal year since the enactment of PPACA, and (2) the proposed uses for such funds for FY2015.
(Sec. 225) Continues through FY2014, in the manner authorized for FY2013, activities authorized under part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (including those authorized for additional matching grants to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, but excluding those authorized for grants from the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs). Makes appropriations for such purposes.
(Sec. 226) Directs the Secretary to analyze in the FY2016 budget justification the impact on eligibility for discretionary HHS programs of the PHSA requirement that group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage provide coverage of preventive health services without cost-sharing.
Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) career, technical, and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as federal administrative expenses for such programs (setting a maximum individual Federal Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; and (18) departmental management, including program administration, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of the Inspector General.
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,860 during award year 2014-2015.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school, or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except for the transportation of a student requiring special education to the school offering that special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing, or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.
(Sec. 303) Prohibits the use of funds to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer.
(Sec. 305) Authorizes the Outlying Areas to consolidate funds received under this Act under part A (Innovative Programs) of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
(Sec. 306) Amends the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 to continue the eligibility of the government, institutions, and people of Palau for Pell Grant and supplemental education grant funding until the end of FY2014 to the extent they were eligible for such funding in FY2003.
(Sec. 307) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to change the name of the Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education to the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education.
(Sec. 308) Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve funds for studies and evaluations of programs funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 without regard to the source of funds for those activities.
(Sec. 309) Allows certain local educational agencies formed by the consolidation of two or more former school districts to have their eligibility for Impact Aid payments determined on the basis of one or more of those former school districts if at least one of those school districts was eligible for Impact Aid payments for the fiscal year preceding that consolidation. (The Impact Aid program compensates LEAs for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts.)
(Sec. 310) Directs the Secretary to: (1) modify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid so that it contains an individual box for identifying students who are foster youth or who were in the foster care system, and (2) use that identification as a tool to notify those students of their potential eligibility for federal student aid.
Title IV: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for: (1) the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (2) the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to carry out programs under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 and the National and Community Service Act of 1990, including Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the National Senior Volunteer Corps, Americorps state and national grants, and the National Civilian Community Corps; (3) the National Service Trust; (4) the CNCS Office of Inspector General; (5) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (6) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (7) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (8) the Institute of Museum and Library Services; (9) the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission; (10) the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC); (11) the National Council on Disability; (12) the National Labor Relations Board; (13) the National Mediation Board; (14) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (15) the Railroad Retirement Board for retirement account payments; (16) payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund; (17) payments under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act; and (18) the Office of Inspector General of the Social Security Administration.
(Sec. 405) Authorizes state Commissions on National and Community Service established under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to receive criminal history record information.
(Sec. 406) Prohibits the NLRB from using any appropriations to issue a new administrative directive or regulation that would provide employees a way to vote through electronic means in an election to determine a collective bargaining representative.
Title V: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
(Sec. 501) Authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services, and of Education to transfer unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in this Act, to be used for the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated.
(Sec. 503) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for lobbying before Congress or a state legislature, including activities designed to influence enactment of proposed or pending federal or state regulations, administrative actions, or Executive orders. Includes under such prohibitions any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, pending, or future federal, state, or local tax increase, or any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restriction on any legal consumer product, including but not limited to the advocacy or promotion of gun control.
(Sec. 506) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated in this Act, and in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated in this Act, for: (1) any abortion, or (2) health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion.
(Sec. 507) Declares that this prohibition does not apply: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.
Declares that nothing in Sec. 506 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than Medicaid matching funds).
Bars the availability of funds to a federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if it subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.
(Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under certain federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act.
(Sec. 509) Bars the use of funds for activities promoting the legalization of any drug or other substance included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act, except for normal and recognized executive-congressional communications.
Makes such limitation inapplicable when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or that federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted to determine therapeutic advantage.
(Sec. 510) Bars the use of funds to promulgate or adopt any final standard under the Social Security Act providing for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or a health care provider), until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
(Sec. 511) Bars the obligation or expenditure of funds to enter into or renew a contract with an entity if: (1) it is otherwise a contractor with the United States and is subject to the requirement regarding submission of an annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employment of certain veterans, and (2) it has not submitted the required report for the most recent applicable year.
(Sec. 512) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to an appropriation Act.
(Sec. 513) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act, as amended by the Children's Internet Protection Act, to certain libraries unless they have made specified required certifications.
(Sec. 515) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) request that a candidate for appointment to a federal scientific advisory committee disclose his or her political affiliation or voting history or the position he or she holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the committee involved, or (2) disseminate information that is deliberately false or misleading.
(Sec. 516) Requires each department and related agency funded through this Act, within 45 days of enactment of this Act, to submit an operating plan that details at the program, project, and activity level any funding FY2014 allocations that are different than those specified in this Act, the detailed table accompanying a specified explanatory statement, or the FY2014 budget request.
(Sec. 517) Requires the Secretaries of Labor, of HHS, and of Education each to report to the congressional appropriations committees on the number, amount, and other specified details of contracts, non-formula grants, and cooperative agreements exceeding $500,000 in value and awarded by the respective Department on a noncompetitive basis during each quarter of FY2014.
(Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5 million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, it has: (1) filed all federal tax returns required during the three years preceding the certification; (2) not been convicted of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) not, within 90 days before certification, been notified of any unpaid federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has been approved by the IRS and is not in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial proceeding.
(Sec. 519) Prohibits the Commissioner of Social Security, while administering Social Security benefit payments under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act, from expending or obligating appropriations in this Act to process a claim for credit for a quarter of coverage based on work performed under a Social Security account number that is not the claimant's number when the performance of such work has formed the basis for the claimant's conviction for specified OASDI-related fraud.
(Sec. 520) Prohibits the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Security Administration (SSA) from using appropriations in this Act to pay the compensation of SSA employees to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any agreement between the United States and Mexico establishing totalization arrangements between the U.S. Social Security system and the Social Security system of Mexico, which would not otherwise be payable but for such agreement.
(Sec. 521) Rescinds permanently specified funds made available for performance bonus payments under title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act.
(Sec. 522) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
(Sec. 523) Rescinds specified funds made available for FY2014 for the Independent Payment Advisory Board established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to develop and submit to the President, for Congress to consider, detailed proposals to reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending.
(Sec. 524) Requires the Departments of Labor, of HHS, and of Education as well as the Social Security Administration, beginning with the first quarter of FY2013, to make quarterly reports to specified congressional committees on the status of appropriations balances. Requires such reports to identify separately the amounts attributable to each source year of appropriation (beginning with FY2012, or, to the extent feasible, earlier fiscal years) from which were derived any balances that are unobligated and uncommitted, committed, and obligated but unexpended.
(Sec. 525) Transfers permanently from the HHS Secretary to the Secretary of Education the Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) program under the Public Health Service Act, and the authority to administer the program, including servicing, collecting, and enforcing any HEAL loans that remain outstanding.
(Sec. 526) Authorizes federal agencies to use federal discretionary funds made available in this Act to carry out up to 13 Performance Partnership Pilots.
Defines a "Performance Partnership Pilot" as a project that seeks to identify, through a demonstration, cost-effective strategies for providing services at the state, regional, or local level that: (1) involve two or more federal programs (administered by one or more federal agencies) with related policy goals, at least one of which is administered (in whole or in part) by a state, local, or tribal government; and (2) achieve better results for regions, communities, or specific at-risk populations through making better use of the budgetary resources that are available for supporting such programs.
Requires that such Pilots: (1) be designed to increase the rate at which disconnected youth ages 14-24 (who are low-income and either homeless, in foster care, involved in the juvenile justice system, unemployed, or not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution) achieve success in meeting educational, employment, or other key goals; and (2) involve federal programs targeted on such youth, or designed to prevent youth from disconnecting from school or work, that provide education, training, employment, and other related social services.
Prescribes requirements for Performance Partnership Agreements between a lead federal administering agency (designated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget [OMB]) and a state, local, or tribal government.
(Sec. 527) Requires each federal agency or bureau (or operating division) in an agency with multiple bureaus, which is funded under this Act and has research and development expenditures exceeding $100 million per year, to develop a federal research public access policy.
Requires such a policy to provide for: (1) submission to the agency, agency bureau, or design ated entity acting on the agency's behalf, a machine-readable version of the author's final peer-reviewed manuscripts that have been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals describing research supported, in whole or in part, from funding by the federal government; (2) free online public access to such final peer-reviewed manuscripts or published versions within 12 months after the official publication date; and (3) compliance with all relevant copyright laws.
(Sec. 528) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to maintain or establish a computer network unless it blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography. Declares, however, that nothing in this prohibition 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.
Division I: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2014 - Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Legislative Branch Appropriations - Makes appropriations to the Senate for FY2014 for: (1) expense allowances; (2) representation allowances for the Majority and Minority Leaders; (3) salaries of specified officers, employees, and committees (including the Committee on Appropriations); (4) agency contributions for employee benefits; (5) inquiries and investigations; (6) the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control; (7) the Offices of the Secretary and of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate; (8) miscellaneous items; (9) the Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account; and (10) official mail costs.
(Sec. 1) Makes balances of expired appropriations, subject to disbursement by the Secretary of the Senate, available to the Secretary for the mandatory deposit to the credit of the Employees' Compensation Fund.
Makes appropriations to the House of Representatives for FY2014 for: (1) a payment to Beverly A. Young, widow of C.W. Bill Young, late a Representative from Florida; (2) salaries and/or expenses of the House leadership offices, committees (including the Committee on Appropriations), and officers and employees; and (3) Members' representational allowances.
(Sec. 101) Requires deposit in the Treasury of any amounts of a Member's representational allowance remaining after all payments are made, to be used for federal deficit reduction, or, if there is no deficit, federal debt reduction.
(Sec. 102) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 to require reimbursement to the Secretary of Labor for unemployment compensation payments to former House employees out of the House account for making payments to the Employees' Compensation Fund.
(Sec. 103) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993, with respect to authorized transfer of amounts appropriated for any fiscal year among specified headings, to add "Joint Items" (to the extent that amounts appropriated to a joint committee are disbursed by the House Chief Administrative Officer) and "Office of the Attending Physician" to the current list consisting of "House Leadership Offices," "Members' Representational Allowances," "Committee Employees," "Salaries, Officers, and Employees," and "Allowances and Expenses."
Makes appropriations for salaries and/or expenses of: (1) the Joint Economic Committee; (2) the Joint Committee on Taxation; (3) the Office of the Attending Physician; (4) the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services; (5) the Capitol Police; (6) the Office of Compliance; (7) the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); and (8) the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), including for the care and operation of Capitol buildings and grounds, Senate office buildings, House office buildings, the Capitol power plant, the Library of Congress buildings and grounds, the Capitol Police buildings, grounds, and security, the Botanic Garden, and the Capitol Visitor Center.
(Sec. 1002) Makes balances of expired U.S. Capitol Police appropriations available to the Capitol Police for the mandatory deposit to the credit of the Employees' Compensation Fund.
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2003 to eliminate the separate Capitol Police account for making worker's compensation payments to Capitol Police employees.
(Sec. 1101) Amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to make appropriations (currently appropriations are only authorized) to the account of federal Offices (except the Government Accountability Office [GAO], the Government Printing Office [GPO], or the Library of Congress) in the Treasury for the payment of awards and settlements under the Act.
(Sec. 1102) Requires the Executive Director of the Office of Compliance to report semiannually to specified congressional committees on disbursements for Office operations.
Authorizes the Executive Director to exclude from any report any information the disclosure of which would violate the Office's confidentiality policies.
(Sec. 1201) Authorizes CBO to accept voluntary student services, except that: (1) any student who provides such voluntary service shall be considered a CBO employee for purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (relating to the level of confidentiality of budget data), and (2) the authority granted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over such services shall be exercised by the Director of CBO.
(Sec. 1301) Requires the AOC to report semiannually to specified congressional committees on disbursements for the operations of the AOC Office.
(Sec. 1302) Authorizes the House Office Building Commission to enter into agreements for the use of a certain building located at 501 First Street, SE, Washington, DC, by the House of Representatives to provide office and accommodations for itself, or for use of the building by other appropriate persons.
(Sec. 1303) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2009 to extend indefinitely the AOC program for the collection and sale of certain recyclable materials collected from or on the Capitol buildings and grounds.
Appropriates funds for: (1) the Library of Congress for salaries and expenses, the Copyright Office, Congressional Research Service (CRS), and Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; (2) the Government Printing Office (GPO); (3) GPO for the Office of Superintendent of Documents; (4) a payment to the Government Printing Office Revolving Fund; (5) the Government Accountability Office (GAO); (6) a payment to the Open World Leadership Center Trust Fund; and (7) a payment to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund.
(Sec. 1401) Establishes an upper limit of $185.579 million for the FY2014 obligational authority of the Library of Congress with regard to certain reimbursable and revolving fund activities.
(Sec. 1402) Authorizes the Librarian of Congress, during FY2014 and any succeeding fiscal year, to transfer Library of Congress appropriations between any "Library of Congress" categories of appropriations provided under law for such fiscal year, up to 10% per category, upon the approval of congressional appropriations committees.
(Sec. 1501) Revises the authority of the Comptroller General to prescribe procedures for the electronic filing and dissemination of documents and information relating to the expeditious decision of protests against specified federal actions in connection with procurement bid solicitations or requests and contract awards.
Requires the Comptroller General to operate an electronic filing and document dissemination system under which: (1) a person may file a protest electronically, and (2) all documents and information required for the protest may be disseminated and made available to appropriate parties electronically.
Authorizes the Comptroller General to require each person filing a protest to pay a fee to support the establishment and operation of the electronic system, without regard to whether or not the person uses it.
Requires the Comptroller General to:
establish (and from time to time update) a schedule setting forth the amount of the required fee,
maintain a separate account for the system among GAO accounts, and
deposit all fees received into the account.
Makes amounts in the account available to the Comptroller General, without fiscal year limitation, solely to establish and operate the system.
Title II: General Provisions - Specifies authorized and prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2013.
(Sec. 206) Authorizes the AOC to maintain and improve the landscape features, excluding streets, in specified grassy areas of Washington, DC, SW.
(Sec. 208) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the AOC in this Act to eliminate or restrict guided tours of the U.S. Capitol led by congressional employees and interns.
Allows temporary suspension or restriction of such tours for security or related reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the U.S. Capitol led by the AOC.
(Sec. 209) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to deliver a printed copy of a bill, joint resolution, or resolution to the office of a Member of the House unless the Member requests a copy.
(Sec. 210) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to deliver a printed copy of any version of the Congressional Record to the office of a Member.
(Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House to make any payments from any Members' Representational Allowance for the leasing of a vehicle (except mobile district offices) in an aggregate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any month.
(Sec. 212) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to provide an aggregate number of more than 50 printed copies of any edition of the U.S. Code to all House offices.
(Sec. 213) Authorizes the Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police to: (1) issue a permit authorizing a person to engage in commercial activity in Union Square if such activity is similar to the types of commercial activity permitted in Union Square before its transfer of jurisdiction and control to the AOC under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012; and (2) require such individual, under the terms and conditions of such a permit, to pay a fee to cover any AOC costs resulting from its issuance, if the fees are similar to those collected by the Director of the National Park Service (NPS) for such commercial activity.
Establishes a Capitol Trust Account in the Treasury consisting of all such fees, to be made available, without fiscal year limitations, for appropriate maintenance, improvements, and projects for Union Square, subject to approval of congressional appropriations committees.
Division J: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of Defense - Appropriates funds for FY2014 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force (military departments), DOD, the Army and Air National Guard, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force reserves; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (3) family housing construction and family housing operation and maintenance for the military departments and DOD; (4) the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund; (5) chemical demilitarization construction; and (6) the Department of Defense Base Closure Account.
(Sec. 101) Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this title and in other military construction appropriations Acts.
(Sec. 110) Prohibits appropriated funds (funds) from being used to initiate a new installation overseas without prior notification to the congressional appropriations committees.
(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction costs are anticipated to exceed $100,000.
(Sec. 120) Authorizes the transfer of DOD funds for expenses associated with the Homeowners Assistance Program under the Metropolitan Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966.
(Sec. 123) Places specified restrictions and limitations on the obligation or expenditure of funds made available in this title or in any other military construction appropriations Act to carry out a military construction, land acquisition, or family housing project at or for a military installation approved for closure, or for supporting a function that has been approved for realignment to another installation, in 2005 under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.
(Sec. 124) Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense account.
(Sec. 125) Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from using appropriated funds to relocate an Army unit that: (1) performs a testing mission or function that is not performed by any other Army unit and that is statutorily required, and (2) is located at a military installation at which the total number of Army and Army contractor personnel exceeds 10% of the total number of regular and reserve Army personnel assigned there. Allows an exception if such Secretary notifies the defense committees of such relocation's compliance with Army Regulation 5-10 concerning the policy, procedures, and responsibilities for Army stationing actions.
(Sec. 127) Prohibits funds from being used for planning and design and construction of projects at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Sec. 128) Prohibits funds from being used to decommission the Combined Heat and Power Plant at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, until the Comptroller General conducts a review of whether such action is the most cost-effective and beneficial option for the day-to-day operations and missions at such installation.
(Sec. 130) Rescinds specified funds under prior appropriations Acts for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, DOD, and the Air National Guard; and (2) the DOD Homeowners Assistance Program. Excludes from such rescissions any appropriations designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism or as an emergency requirement.
Title II: Department of Veterans Affairs - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) the Veterans Benefits Administration, (2) readjustment benefits, (3) veterans insurance and indemnities, (4) the Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund, (5) the Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program, (6) the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program, (7) the Veterans Health Administration (including for medical and prosthetic research and information technology systems), (8) the National Cemetery Administration, and (9) departmental administration, including for operating expenses of the Veterans Benefits Administration, expenses of the Office of Inspector General, construction for major and minor projects, and grants for the construction of state extended care facilities and veterans cemeteries.
(Sec. 201) Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this title.
(Sec. 210) Makes funds from this title available to reimburse expenses of the Office of Resolution Management and the Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication, within specified limits.
(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to enter into agreements with certain Indian tribes and tribal organizations in rural Alaska to provide health care, including behavioral health and dental care.
(Sec. 219) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to the appropriations committees on the financial status of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
(Sec. 224) Allows certain VA funds to be used to fund operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. Requires written notification from the Secretary to the appropriations committees of any fund transfers for such purpose.
(Sec. 226) Rescinds specified amounts in, and appropriates specified amounts to, the VA medical services, medical support and compliance, and medical facilities accounts.
(Sec. 227) Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriations committees on all bid savings in major construction projects that total at least $5 million or 5% of the programmed amount, whichever is less.
(Sec. 229) Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriations committees on a quarterly basis concerning any single national outreach and awareness marketing campaign in which obligations exceed $2 million.
(Sec. 230) Directs the Secretary to submit on a quarterly basis to the appropriations committees specified information concerning veterans' disability compensation claims, including the number pending, the timeliness of their completion, and error rates.
(Sec. 231) Requires the Secretary to submit a reprogramming request to the appropriations committees if, at any time during FY2014, the funding allocated for a medical care initiative identified in the FY2014 expenditure plan is adjusted by more than $25 million from the allocation shown in the corresponding budget justification.
(Sec. 232) Allows the obligation of specified funds in the VA medical services and medical support and compliance accounts for the VistA Evolution and electronic health record interoperability projects.
(Sec. 233) Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriations committees 15 days in advance of any organizational changes which result in the transfer of 25 or more full-time equivalents from one VA organizational unit to another.
(Sec. 234) Rescinds a specified amount of unobligated balances from prior-year discretionary appropriations.
Title III: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (3) maintenance, operation, and improvement of Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery and Arlington National Cemetery (including for the relocation of the federally owned water main to make additional land available for ground burials); and (4) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Title IV: General Provisions - (Sec. 401) Specifies restrictions and authorities regarding the use of funds appropriated in this Act.
(Sec. 407) Prohibits this Act's funds from being used for: (1) a project or program named for an individual serving as a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the U.S. House of Representatives; (2) maintaining or establishing a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography; (3) funding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN); (4) paying for first-class travel by an agency employee in contravention of federal employee travel requirements; (5) renovating, expanding, or constructing any facility in the United States in order to house any non-U.S. citizen detained at U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of June 24, 2009; (6) entering into a contract or agreement with any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation within the preceding 24 months or that carries an unpaid federal tax liability; or (7) leasing or purchasing new light duty vehicles for any agency fleet or inventory, except in accordance with a specified presidential memorandum.
Division K: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2014 - Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of State and Related Agency - Makes FY2014 appropriations for the Department of State (Department) for: (1) administration of foreign affairs and diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (7) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (8) the repatriation loans program account; (9) the American Institute in Taiwan; (10) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (11) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (12) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (13) international fisheries commissions; (14) international broadcasting operations and capital improvements; (15) the Asia Foundation; (16) the United States Institute for Peace; (17) the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (18) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (19) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (20) the East-West Center; (21) the National Endowment for Democracy; (22) the Commission for Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (23) the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (24) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (25) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; and (26) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Title II: United States Agency for International Development - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) operating expenses of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), (2) the capital investment fund, and (3) the Office of Inspector General.
Title III: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) global health and child survival; (3) specified development assistance; (4) international disaster assistance; (5) transition initiatives; (6) development credit authority; (7) the Economic Support Fund; (8) promotion of democracy; (9) the Complex Foreign Crisis Fund; (10) migration and refugee assistance; (11) the Peace Corps; (12) the Millennium Challenge Corporation; (13) the Inter-American Foundation; (14) the African Development Foundation; and (15) the Department of the Treasury for international affairs technical assistance activities.
Title IV: International Security Assistance - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (2) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, and demining; (3) international peacekeeping operations; (4) international military education and training; and (5) foreign military financing grants.
Title V: Multilateral Assistance - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) international organizations and programs, (2) the Global Environment Facility, (3) the International Development Association, (4) the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, (5) the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, (6) the Inter-American Development Bank, (7) the Asian Development Bank, (8) the Asian Development Fund, (9) the African Development Bank, (10) the African Development Fund, (11) the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and (12) the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund.
Sets forth limitations on callable capital subscriptions with respect to: (1) the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, (2) the Inter-American Development Bank, (3) the Asian Development Bank, and (4) the African Development Bank.
Title VI: Export and Investment Assistance - Makes FY2014 appropriations for: (1) the Export-Import Bank of the United States, including the Office of Inspector General and administrative expenses; (2) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) credit and insurance programs, including administrative expenses, and for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency.
Title VII: General Provisions - Sets forth certain limits and prohibitions on the use of appropriations for specified activities.
(Sec. 7002) Requires any federal department or agency that has funds made available to it under this Act to provide Congress with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds received during FY2014 or in any previous fiscal year.
(Sec. 7003) Limits the use of funds under title I of this Act for any consulting service through procurement contracts to those contracts available for public inspection.
(Sec. 7004) Sets forth restrictions on office space for federal employees with respect to U.S. diplomatic facility construction, with an exception for Marine Corps use.
Declares that: (1) appropriations for the Department, foreign operations, and related programs which may be made available for the acquisition of property for diplomatic facilities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations; (2) during FY2014 a certain limitation on funding sources for site acquisition and mitigation, planning, design or construction of the New London Embassy, United Kingdom, as well as a related reporting requirement shall remain in effect; and (3) certain embassy security, construction, and maintenance appropriations may be obligated for the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See only if the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and embassy staff will retain their independence from other U.S. missions in Rome, and any relocation of the chancery will not increase annual operating costs or result in a reduction in staff, and will enhance the Embassy's overall security.
Requires at least $25 million in general embassy security, construction, and maintenance appropriations to be made available to address security vulnerabilities at expeditionary, interim, and temporary facilities abroad, including physical security upgrades and local guard staffing.
(Sec. 7005) States that costs incurred by an agency or department funded under title I of this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within such agency's or department's budgetary resources.
(Sec. 7006) Authorizes local guard contracts to be awarded on a best value basis.
(Sec. 7007) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for direct assistance or reparations to Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or Syria.
(Sec. 7008) Prohibits the use of funds under titles III through VI this Act for assistance to any country whose elected head of government is deposed by military or military-supported coup or decree. Permits resuming assistance if a democratic government is subsequently elected to office.
(Sec. 7009) Limits certain agency, Department, and Broadcasting Board of Governors transfer authority.
(Sec. 7010) Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary in this title) to report to Congress quarterly on fund use for foreign military financing, international military education and training, peacekeeping operations, and the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund.
(Sec. 7011) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, appropriations under this Act from remaining available for obligation after the expiration of the current fiscal year unless expressly provided for.
(Sec. 7012) Prohibits funds under titles III through VI of this Act from being used for assistance to any country in default in excess of a year on payments on a U.S. loan unless the President determines such assistance is in the U.S. national interest.
(Sec. 7013) Prohibits funds under titles III through VI of this Act from being used for assistance under a new bilateral agreement unless such assistance is exempt from taxation, or reimbursed, by the foreign government.
(Sec. 7014) Authorizes specifically designated appropriations under titles II through VI of this Act to be reprogrammed for other programs within the same account subject to the appropriate congressional committees' regular notification procedures.
Extends the availability of program-specific appropriations for one fiscal year if the Secretary or USAID reports to Congress that program termination or changed circumstances makes it unlikely that such appropriations can be obligated during the original period of availability.
States that ceilings and specifically designated funding levels under this Act shall not be applicable to funds or authorities appropriated or otherwise made available by any subsequent Act unless such Act specifically so directs.
(Sec. 7015) Prohibits funds that remain available for FY2014 obligation under titles I and II of this Act or in prior appropriations Acts from being made available for specified reprogramming purposes unless the appropriate congressional committees are notified 15 days in advance of such programming.
States that the requirements of this section or any similar provision may be waived if failure to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health or welfare.
Prohibits the use of funds under titles III through VI of this Act for Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bolivia, Burma, Cambodia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe except through the regular notification procedures of the appropriate congressional committees.
(Sec. 7016) Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to notify Congress before: (1) providing certain excess defense articles under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or (2) issuing a letter of offer to sell certain defense articles under the Arms Export Control Act.
(Sec. 7017) States that funds appropriated under titles III through VI of this Act or in prior appropriations Acts for the Department, foreign operations, export financing, and related programs that are returned or not made available for international organizations and programs shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2015.
(Sec. 7018) Prohibits certain funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being: (1) used to pay for abortions, involuntary sterilizations, or related biomedical research as a method of family planning; or (2) obligated or expended for any country or organization if such funds' use would violate specified provisions related to abortions and involuntary sterilizations.
(Sec. 7019) Allocates funds for specified accounts.
(Sec. 7020) Prohibits the obligation of certain funds to pay for alcoholic beverages or entertainment expenses for recreational activities.
(Sec. 7021) Prohibits the provision of funds under titles III through VI of this Act to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country that supports international terrorism unless the President reports to Congress that such assistance is in the U.S. national interest.
Prohibits bilateral assistance from being made to a government that: (1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism, (2) otherwise supports international terrorism, or (3) is controlled by a terrorist organization.
Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for humanitarian or national security purposes.
(Sec. 7022) Extends, with an exception, certain authorities necessary to expend Department and foreign assistance funds.
(Sec. 7024) States that, unless expressly provided to the contrary, provisions authorizing or making appropriations for the Department, foreign operations, and related programs shall not be construed to prohibit activities authorized by the Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African Development Foundation Act.
(Sec. 7025) Prohibits funds under titles III through VI of this Act and funds available to the Export-Import Bank and OPIC from being used for production of any export commodity by a foreign country if the commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar or competing commodity (with exceptions for benefits to U.S. producers).
(Sec. 7026) Directs USAID to require countries that receive foreign assistance which results in the generation of local currencies to deposit such currencies in a separate account to be used to finance foreign assistance activities.
(Sec. 7027) States that: (1) restrictions on assistance for a country shall not be construed to restrict specified assistance for nongovernmental organizations, and (2) nothing in this section shall be construed to alter existing prohibitions against abortion or involuntary sterilizations in this or any other Act.
States that: (1) during FY2014 restrictions contained in this or any other Act with respect to assistance for a country shall not be construed to restrict assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480), and (2) this section shall not apply to assistance restrictions regarding support of international terrorism and human rights violations.
(Sec. 7028) Sets forth the conditions under which funds available under this Act for USAID may be provided for limited competitions through local entities.
(Sec. 7029) States that none of the funds under title V of this Act should be paid to any international financial institution unless the Secretary of the Treasury certifies to Congress that such institution requires independent evaluations of each project, program loan or grant, or significant non-lending activity.
Prohibits payments under title V of this Act to any international financial institution while the U.S. executive director to the institution is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level IV of the Executive Schedule, or any alternate U.S. director is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level V of such Schedule.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct: (1) the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to oppose assistance to a Heavily Indebted Poor Country that imposes budget caps or restraints that do not allow the maintenance of or an increase in governmental spending on health care or education, and (2) the U.S. executive directors at international financial entities to oppose assistance that requires user fees or service charges on poor people for primary education or primary health care.
(Sec. 7030) Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which are USAID grantees or contractors to place funds made available to them under title III of this Act in interest bearing accounts in order to enhance their participation in debt-for-development and debt-for-nature exchanges.
(Sec. 7031) Sets forth requirements for direct government-to government assistance.
(Sec. 7032) Obligates funds for democracy programs, including programs to: (1) support freedom of religion; and (2) rescue scholars, and fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges in the Middle East and North Africa region for academic professionals and university students from countries in such region.
Directs the Secretary to submit to the congressional appropriations committees a strategy for promoting democracy in each country that: (1) receives funds appropriated in title III of this Act, and (2) is important to U.S. security interests but whose central government does not govern justly or in accordance with the rule of law.
States that any funds made available by this Act for a business and human rights program in China (PRC) shall be made available on a cost-matching basis from sources other than the U.S. government.
(Sec. 7033) Conditions the use of funds appropriated by this Act to make any pledge for future year funding for any multilateral or bilateral program funded in titles III through VI of this Act.
(Sec. 7034) Makes funds under titles III through VI of this Act available for: (1) war victims, (2) displaced children, (3) displaced Burmese, and (4) victims of trafficking in persons and to combat such trafficking.
Expands authorities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for civilian police assistance for a regional, district, municipal, or other sub-national entity emerging from instability.
Makes specified funds available for: (1) the World Food Program; (2) programs to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate into civilian society former members of foreign terrorist organizations; (3) the Partner Vetting System pilot program; (4) the program for research and training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union; and (5) contingencies.
Authorizes the Secretary to withhold funds under title III of this Act for the central government of any country that is not taking appropriate steps to comply with the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abductions.
Authorizes the Secretary to transfer unobligated expired FY2014 diplomatic and consular program balances to the protection of foreign missions account, except for funds designated for overseas contingency operations and the war on terror.
Extends: (1) passport surcharge fee authority; (2) the exemption of the Secretary from the requirement to convene an Accountability Review Board in the case of an incident that involves serious injury, loss of life, or significant destruction of property at a federal mission in Afghanistan; (3) funding authority for recruitment, relocation, and retention bonuses to Foreign Service members, other than chiefs of mission and ambassadors at large, who are on official duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan; (4) specified authorities on reemployment requirements for certain annuitants reemployed in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; (5) refugee set-asides for nationals of the former Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania who are current, active members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church or the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; and (6) the period of eligibility for status adjustment from a parolee who was denied refugee status to a lawfully admitted permanent resident for certain aliens from the former Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia.
States that funds under this Act should not be used for crowd control items for foreign security forces that use excessive force to repress peaceful expression or assembly in countries undergoing democratic transition.
Increases the number of Afghan aliens who may be provided special immigrant status in FY2014.
Permits any unused balance of the total number of Afghan aliens who may be provided special immigrant status in FY2014 to be carried forward through FY2015.
Limits the use of funds made available to the Department's Working Capital Fund to only those amounts and activities provided for in the President's FY2014 budget.
Makes funds available in the HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund for pharmaceuticals and other products for other global health and child survival, malaria, and tuberculosis to the same extent as HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals and other products.
(Sec. 7035) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Arab League boycott of Israel (reinstated in 1997), and the secondary boycott of American firms that have commercial ties with Israel, is an impediment to regional peace and to U.S. investment and trade in the Middle East and North Africa and should be terminated; and (2) the President should report annually to Congress on steps taken to encourage Arab League states to normalize their relations with Israel to end the boycott.
(Sec. 7036) Prohibits, with a national security interest waiver, the use of funds under titles III through VI of this Act from being used to support a Palestinian state unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that: (1) the Palestinian governing entity has demonstrated a commitment to peaceful coexistence with Israel and is taking measures to counter terrorism, and (2) the Palestinian Authority (PA) or a new governing entity is working to establish a lasting peace in the Middle East.
Exempts from such restriction assistance to help reform the PA and affiliated institutions or a governing entity meet such assistance requirements.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the governing entity should enact a constitution assuring the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and respect for human rights, and should enact other laws assuring accountable governance.
(Sec. 7037) Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated under titles II through VI of this Act, except for acquisition of additional space for the Consulate General, to create in Jerusalem a new U.S. agency office for the purpose of conducting official U.S. business with the PA over Gaza and Jericho (or any successor Palestinian governing entity) provided for in the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization Declaration of Principles.
(Sec. 7038) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to provide equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any other assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
(Sec. 7039) Directs the Secretary, for FY2014, to certify to Congress prior to the initial obligation of funds for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza program that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will have access to necessary financial information to evaluate the uses of U.S. assistance.
Directs the Secretary, before obligating economic support funds under this Act for the West Bank and Gaza, to take steps to ensure that such assistance is not provided to or through any individual or entity that advocates or engages in terrorist activity.
Prohibits funds from being used to honor individuals who commit, or have committed, acts of terrorism.
Requires and obligates funds for program audits.
(Sec. 7040) Prohibits specified assistance to the PA unless the President certifies to Congress that it is in the U.S. national security interest.
States that any such waiver shall: (1) not be for more than six months at a time, and (2) not apply beyond 12 months after enactment of this Act. Requires a report to Congress when such waiver is exercised.
Prohibits the use of appropriations under titles III through VI of this Act for salaries of PA personnel in Gaza or for assistance to Hamas or any Hamas-controlled or power-sharing government unless the President certifies to Congress that it has accepted Israel's right to exist and is adhering to previous agreements with the United States, Israel, and the international community.
Prohibits the obligation of funds under titles III through VI of this Act for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
(Sec. 7041) Makes funds under this Act available for the government of Egypt only if the Secretary certifies to Congress that such government is: (1) sustaining the strategic relationship with the United States, and (2) meeting its obligations under the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.
Makes available specified: (1) Economic Support Fund amounts for Egypt, with a specified set-aside for higher education programs including scholarships for students with high financial need; (2) foreign military financing funds to Egypt until September 30, 2015; (3) economic and military funds under this Act if Egypt has held a constitutional referendum and is taking steps to support a democratic transition; and (4) economic and military funds under this Act if Egypt has held parliamentary and presidential elections, and that a newly elected government is taking steps to govern democratically.
Makes funds available to Egypt for counterterrorism, border security, nonproliferation programs, and development activities in the Sinai.
Prohibits the use of specified funds by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide new financing to any person subject to sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 during FY2014.
States that funds under this Act for Iraq should be made available to Iraq to support international efforts to promote regional stability, including in Syria.
Obligates specified Economic Support Fund assistance for democracy programs in Iraq.
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress regarding operational alternatives for Consulate Basrah in Iraq.
Conditions the obligation of funds under title I this Act for the Embassy in Baghdad.
Makes specified funds available to Jordan for: (1) foreign military financing; and (2) costs related to instability in the region, including for security requirements along the Iraq border.
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) if the LAF is controlled by a foreign terrorist organization.
Makes Economic Support Fund assistance available for Lebanon as well as specified military financing funds, but only to professionalize the LAF, strengthen border security, and combat terrorism.
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for the central government of Libya unless the Secretary reports to Congress that Libya is cooperating with U.S. efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the Benghazi attack in September 2012. Exempts from such limitation funding for protecting U.S. government personnel or facilities.
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to Libya for infrastructure projects, except on a loan basis under specified circumstances.
Makes economic support funds available for: (1) loan guarantees for Tunisia and Jordan; and (2) enterprise funds for Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan.
States that funds appropriated under title III of this Act that are available for Morocco should also be available for the territory of the Western Sahara.
Makes specified funds available for Syria to: (1) address the needs of civilians affected by conflict in Syria, (2) establish democratic political processes, (3) further the legitimacy of the Syrian opposition through cross-border programs, (4) develop civil society and an independent media, (5) promote economic development, (6) prosecute human rights violations in Syria, and (7) counter extremist ideologies.
Directs the Secretary, before any obligation of funds under this Act for Syria, to ensure that mechanisms are in place for the adequate monitoring and control of assistance inside Syria.
Requires congressional consultation before making funds under this section available for Syria.
Directs the Secretary, before any obligation of Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act for the Palestinian Authority (PA), to report to Congress that the purpose of such assistance is to: (1) advance Middle East peace, (2) improve regional security, (3) continue support for accountable government institutions, (4) promote a private sector economy, or (5) address urgent humanitarian needs.
Prohibits the availability of Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act for the PA if: (1) the Palestinians obtain the same standing as a United Nations (U.N.) member state or full membership in the U.N. or any specialized U.N. agency outside an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians; or (2) the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to the Armed Forces of Yemen if they are controlled by a foreign terrorist organization.
(Sec. 7042) Makes funds under this Act for the Central African Republic available for reconciliation and peace building programs, including for programs to prevent crimes against humanity.
Urges that specified funds should be made available for the trans-Sahara counterterrorism partnership program and the partnership for regional East Africa counterterrorism program.
Makes specified economic support funds available for programs to counter extremism in East Africa.
Authorizes specified funds under this Act to be made available for unanticipated crises in Africa.
Prohibits military and police assistance to Ethiopia unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that Ethiopia is: (1) implementing policies to protect judicial independence, due process, and freedom of expression; and (2) permitting access to human rights and humanitarian organizations to the Somalia region of Ethiopia.
Exempts from such restriction: (1) Ethiopian military efforts in support of international peacekeeping operations, (2) counterterrorism efforts, (3) assistance to the Ethiopian Defense Command and Staff College.
States that specified funds under this Act for the lower Omo and Gambella regions of Ethiopia: (1) shall not be used to support forced evictions, but (2) shall support local development initiatives.
Makes specified military education and training assistance for Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia, Guinea, and Zimbabwe available only for training related to international peacekeeping operations and expanded military education and training.
Prohibits such assistance to Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea.
Obligates specified economic support funds for programs in areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including programs to improve physical access and telecommunications infrastructure, and to support the disarmament and reintegration of former LRA combatants, especially child soldiers.
Obligates specified funds for pilot programs to address: (1) health and development challenges in Africa and increased economic engagement opportunities with the United States, and (2) security challenges in Africa.
States that Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act for Somalia shall be used to promote reconciliation between the central government and Somali regions.
Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available for lethal assistance for Somali security forces.
Directs the Secretary to submit a transition strategy to Congress for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in South Africa, including projections for levels and types of U.S. assistance.
Prohibits assistance for the government of Sudan.
Authorizes assistance under this Act for South Sudan.
Withholds certain funds from the central government of South Sudan until the Secretary reports to Congress that such government is: (1) implementing policies to establish democratic institutions and support democratic freedoms, and (2) investigating members of security forces who have violated human rights.
Prohibits foreign military financing funds to Rwanda, with specified exceptions, if it is supporting armed groups in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that are involved in the illegal exportation of minerals, wildlife, or contraband, or have violated human rights.
Reaffirms the support of Congress for the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) to bring to justice individuals responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Authorizes funds under this Act to be made available to the government of a country in which individuals indicted by the ICTR and the SCSL are alleged to be living if the Secretary reports to Congress that such government is cooperating with the ICTR and the SCSL.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct U.S. executive directors to international financial institutions to vote against any loan extensions to the government of Zimbabwe, except to meet basic human needs or to promote democracy, unless the Secretary reports to Congress that Zimbabwe has restored the rule of law.
Prohibits funds under this Act from being made to the government of Zimbabwe, except for health and education, unless the rule of law has been reestablished.
Authorizes macroeconomic growth assistance if Zimbabwe is implementing transparent fiscal policies, including public disclosure of revenues from the extraction of natural resources.
(Sec. 7043) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a multi-year planning and budget strategy for a rebalancing of U.S. policy in Asia that links U.S. interests with necessary resources and personnel. Requires any related funds to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Asia.
Authorizes Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act to Burma, except that such funds shall not be made available to any successor of the State Peace and Development Council controlled by former Council members who promote its repressive policies.
States that funds under title III of this Act for Burma: (1) may not be made available for budget support for the government; (2) shall be provided to strengthen civil society organizations; (3) shall be made available for community-based organizations operating in Thailand to provide food, medical, and other humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons in eastern Burma; and (4) shall be made available for ethnic and religious reconciliation programs.
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a comprehensive strategy for the promotion of democracy and human rights in Burma.
States that funds under this Act should be made available to the government of Burma only if it has implemented constitutional reforms providing for inclusive participation in presidential and parliamentary elections.
Withholds funds under title III of this Act from Cambodia until the Secretary submits a specified report to Congress.
Prohibits funds under titles III and IV of this Act for Cambodia unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that Cambodia has taken steps to support credible parliamentary elections. Exempts from such requirements humanitarian demining programs or programs to enhance the Cambodian navy.
Prohibits funds under this act for a U.S. contribution to a Khmer Rouge tribunal unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that Cambodia has provided funding for the national side of such tribunal.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director of the World Bank to report to Congress on steps being taken by the World Bank to provide redress to the Boeung Kak Lake families.
Makes funds available for: (1) broadcasts into North Korea; and (2) assistance for refugees from North Korea, including for protection activities in China.
Prohibits economic support funds from being made available for the government of North Korea.
Prohibits: (1) specified funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for export licenses of U.S. origin satellites (including commercial satellites and satellite components) to China (PRC) without prior notice to Congress; and (2) the use of funds under this Act to finance any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement with the People's Liberation Army or any affiliated entity.
Makes specified funds under this Act available to counter China's strategic influence.
Urges the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to support projects in Tibet if such projects do not provide incentives for the migration and settlement of non-Tibetans into Tibet or facilitate the transfer of ownership of Tibetan land and natural resources to non-Tibetans.
Makes specified funds under this Act funds available to nongovernmental organizations to preserve cultural traditions and promote sustainable development and environmental conservation in Tibetan communities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in other Tibetan communities in China.
Makes specified economic support funds available for remediation of dioxin contaminated areas in Vietnam.
(Sec. 7044) Prohibits the availability of funds under titles I and II of this Act for construction and renovation of U.S. government facilities in Afghanistan to accommodate federal employee positions or to expand aviation facilities or assets above those notified by the Department and USAID or contractors in addition to those in place on the date of enactment of this Act. Exempts from such restriction funds that are necessary to protect such facilities or the security and welfare of U.S. personnel.
Withholds specified assistance from Afghanistan until the Secretary submits a required report to Congress regarding Department and USAID transition and security plans.
States that specified funds under this Act for Afghanistan: (1) may not be used to initiate any new program or activity, including site visits, for which regular Department or USAID oversight is not possible; (2) shall only be made for programs that the government of Afghanistan or another Afghan entity is capable of sustaining; (3) may be made for independent election bodies; (4) may be made for reconciliation programs and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration activities for former combatants; (5) should not be used to initiate new major infrastructure projects; (6) shall be used to implement the United States Embassy Kabul Gender Strategy and for programs to protect the rights of women and girls; and (7) may not be made to any individual or organization that the Secretary believes is involved in corrupt practices.
Prohibits the obligation of specified funds under this Act for the government of Afghanistan unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that: (1) credible elections in Afghanistan have taken place, and a peaceful transfer of power has occurred; (2) the United States and Afghanistan have agreed to a Bilateral Security Agreement that further defines the security partnership with Afghanistan, including support for counterterrorism operations; (3) Afghanistan is taking steps to protect the rights of Afghan women and girls; and (4) Afghanistan is making credible efforts to reduce corruption and recover the stolen assets associated with Kabul Bank.
Obligates funds for rule of law programs.
Reduces assistance for the government of Afghanistan by $5 for every $1 that Afghanistan imposes in taxes or other fees on the transport of U.S. government property entering or leaving Afghanistan.
Prohibits U.S. government use of funds under this Act to enter into a permanent basing rights agreement between the United States and Afghanistan.
Obligates specified funds for programs in Central and South Asia relating to a transition in Afghanistan, including expanding Afghanistan linkages with the region.
Makes specified funds available for Bangladesh to strengthen the capacity of independent workers' organizations in Bangladesh's ready-made garment, shrimp, and fish export sectors.
Makes certain military financing funds available for Nepal only if the Secretary certifies to Congress that Nepal is investigating and prosecuting violations of human rights and the laws of war, and the Nepal army is cooperating fully with civilian judicial authorities. Exempts assistance for humanitarian relief and reconstruction activities from such restriction.
Withholds specified assistance for Pakistan until the Secretary certifies to Congress that Pakistan is: (1) cooperating with the United States in counterterrorism efforts, (2) not supporting terrorist activities against the United States or coalition forces in Afghanistan, (3) preventing the proliferation of nuclear-related material and expertise, (4) issuing visas in a timely manner for U.S. visitors engaged in counterterrorism and assistance efforts, (5) dismantling improvised explosive device (IED) networks, and (6) providing humanitarian organizations access to detainees and internally displaced persons.
Authorizes the availability of specified military assistance to Pakistan only for counterterrorism and counterinsurgency capabilities in Pakistan.
Makes specified assistance for Pakistan available to: (1) interdict precursor materials from Pakistan to Afghanistan that are used to manufacture IEDs, and (2) encourage alternative fertilizer use among Pakistani farmers.
Withholds specified foreign military financing funds from Pakistan until the Secretary reports to Congress that Dr. Shakil Afridi has been released from prison and cleared of all charges relating to the assistance provided to the United States in locating Osama bin Laden.
Urges the Secretary to suspend assistance for the government of Pakistan if Pakistan fails to make progress in meeting certain benchmarks regarding combating poverty, countering extremism, and establishing conditions conducive to the rule of law and accountable governance.
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress detailing the costs and objectives associated with significant infrastructure projects supported by the United States in Pakistan.
Prohibits the availability of specified funds to Sri Lanka, the issuance of any defense export license, and the sale or transfer of military equipment or technology unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that Sri Lanka is meeting specified conditions.
States that, if the Secretary makes such certification, foreign military financing funds should be used to support the recruitment and training of Tamils into the Sri Lankan military, Tamil language training for Sinhalese military personnel, and human rights training for all military personnel.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct U.S. executive directors at international financial institutions to vote against any loan, agreement, or other financial support for Sri Lanka, except to meet basic human needs, unless the Secretary makes specified certifications.
Makes specified economic support funds available for cross border stabilization and development programs between Afghanistan and Pakistan or between either country and the Central Asian countries.
(Sec. 7045) Authorizes the use of funds under this Act for Columbia for a campaign against narcotics trafficking, illegal armed groups, and foreign terrorist organizations and to protect human health and welfare in emergency circumstances.
Limits certain funding under this Act for aerial drug eradication in Colombia and for the Colombian armed forces until the Secretary makes certain certifications to Congress. Makes economic support funds under this Act available for Cuba only for humanitarian assistance and private business development.
Makes certain military education and financing funds under this Act available for the Guatemalan army only if the Secretary certifies that Guatemala is implementing the Reparations Plan for Damages Suffered by the Communities Affected by the Construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam (April 2010).
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for the Guatemalan armed forces until the Secretary certifies to Congress that Guatemala has resolved, or is making progress towards resolving, all cases involving Guatemalan children and American adoptive parents pending since December 31, 2007.
Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for the government of Haiti until the Secretary certifies to Congress that Haiti: (1) has held free and fair parliamentary elections and a new Haitian Parliament is functioning, (2) is respecting the independence of the judiciary, and (3) is taking effective steps to combat corruption and improve governance.
Makes Haiti eligible to purchase U.S. defense articles and services for its Coast Guard. Makes certain law enforcement/narcotics control and military funds under this Act available for the Mexican and Honduran armies and police only in accordance with specified requirements.
Exempts from such restriction assistance to promote transparency and anti-corruption.
(Sec. 7046) Prohibits the use of funds under titles III through VI of this Act to pay any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any U.N. member, or from certain funds under this Act for the costs for attendance of another country's delegation at international conferences held under the auspices of multilateral or international organizations.
(Sec. 7047) Permits the President to provide up to a specified amount of commodities and services to the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal if doing so will contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide or other violations of international law in the former Yugoslavia.
(Sec. 7048) Withholds specified funds under titles I and V of this Act for contributions to any U.N. agency or the Organization of American States (OAS) if the Secretary reports to Congress that the agency or organization is not taking specified actions regarding whistle blower protection and financial and performance transparency.
Prohibits funds under title I of this Act from being used to pay expenses for any U.S. delegation to any specialized U.N. agency, body, or commission that is presided over by a country that supports international terrorism.
Makes specified funds available for U.S. contributions or assessments for the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) only if the Secretary reports to Congress that UNRHC participation is in the U.S. national interest.
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the design, renovation, or construction of the U.N. Headquarters in New York.
(Sec. 7049) Authorizes the use of specified funds under titles III and IV of this Act to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of civilian police authority through human rights training and through the promotion of civilian police roles that support democratic governance, including programs on conflict prevention, police-community relations, disaster assistance, and gender-based violence.
(Sec. 7050) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.
(Sec. 7051) Prohibits the use of specified funds to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 U.S.-stationed employees from a federal department or agency at any single conference outside the United States unless such attendance is important to the national interest.
(Sec. 7052) Authorizes the transfer of certain aircraft including for the transportation of active and standby Civilian Response Corps personnel and equipment.
Requires that the use of Department and USAID aircraft used primarily to transport personnel be coordinated under the authority of the appropriate Chief of Mission.
(Sec. 7053) Withholds assistance from a foreign country in an amount equal to 110% of the total unpaid property tax and unpaid parking fines and penalties incurred April 1, 1997-September 30, 2013, and owed by the country to the District of Columbia or New York City.
(Sec. 7054) Authorizes disposal on a grant basis in foreign countries of demining equipment used in support of the clearance of land mines and unexploded ordnance for humanitarian purposes.
Restricts military assistance for cluster munitions.
(Sec. 7055) Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States that were not authorized before the enactment of this Act.
Makes specified funds available for USAID assistance to private and voluntary organizations engaged in facilitating public discussion of hunger and other related issues.
(Sec. 7056) Limits the amount of funds under title II of this Act that may be used for official USAID residence expenses.
(Sec. 7057) Allocates specified funds under title III of this Act for USAID to hire up to 175 persons per fiscal year on a limited appointment basis in the United States and abroad. Conditions such hirings upon an equivalent elimination of USAID nondirect-hire employees. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2015.
Authorizes up to four-year extensions for limited-appointment Foreign Service personnel.
Authorizes specified funds under title III of this Act for the costs of persons detailed to or employed by USAID to carry out natural or man-made disaster response programs.
Authorizes specified funds under this Act to be used by USAID to employ up to 40 personal services contractors in the United States for new or expanded overseas programs until permanent personnel are hired.
Limits to 15 the number of such contractors that may be assigned to any bureau or office.
Continues USAID authority to appoint into the Senior Foreign Service and employ up to 10 individuals for programs in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
(Sec. 7058) States that funds appropriated by titles III and IV of this Act for bilateral assistance for child survival activities or disease programs, including HIV/AIDS research, prevention and treatment activities, may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law with specified exceptions.
States that specified funds under title III of this Act should be made available for family planning/reproductive health, including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species.
Authorizes specified funds to be made available to combat a pandemic virus if the President reports to Congress that the virus is severe and is spreading internationally.
Withholds specified funds under this Act from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria until the Secretary reports to Congress that the Fund is implementing a policy of transparency and maintaining a policy to protect whistleblowers from retaliation.
(Sec. 7059) Makes specified funds under this Act available for: (1) gender programs, (2) programs to increase political opportunities for women in countries where women and girls suffer severe forms of discrimination, and (3) a multi-year strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in countries where it is common.
Makes funds under this Act available to: (1) promote gender equality in U.S. diplomatic and development efforts; and (2) empower women as equal partners in conflict prevention, peace building, and reconstruction efforts.
States that programs funded under titles III and IV of this Act to train foreign police and judicial and military personnel shall: (1) address prevention and response to gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, and (2) promote the integration of women into the police and other security forces of their countries.
(Sec. 7060) Allocates specified funds for: (1) basic and higher education, (2) the development grants program, (3) environment programs, (4) food security and agriculture development programs, (5) microenterprise and microfinance development programs for the poor and women, (6) reconciliation programs which bring together individuals of different backgrounds from areas of civil strife and war, (7) activities to combat trafficking in persons, and (8) water and sanitation supply projects.
(Sec. 7061) Applies specified human-rights-based conditions on assistance to the government of Uzbekistan under this Act, except that the Secretary may waive such conditions for six-month periods through September 30, 2015, if in the U.S. national security interest and necessary to obtain access to and from Afghanistan.
(Sec. 7062) Prohibits funds under titles III through VI of this Act from being provided to a nongovernmental organization or contractor which fails to provide documents, files, or records for USAID auditing requirements.
(Sec. 7063) Makes specified funds available in FY2014 for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Prohibits UNFPA use of funds under this Act for a program in China.
(Sec. 7064) Authorizes the transfer of certain funds under title III of this Act for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
(Sec. 7065) Obligates specified funds under this Act for assistance to eliminate inhumane conditions in foreign prisons and other detention facilities.
(Sec. 7066) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to support or justify the use of torture, cruel, or inhumane treatment by any U.S. government official or contract employee.
(Sec. 7067) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act (other than funds for narcotics control and law enforcement, refugee assistance, or antiterrorism activities) to assist the government of a country with which the United States has diplomatic relations and an extradition treaty and refuses to extradite to the United States any individual charged with a criminal offense for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment without parole, or for killing a law enforcement officer.
Authorizes the Secretary to waive such restriction on a case-by-case basis if important to U.S. national interests.
(Sec. 7068) Authorizes the commercial leasing of certain defense articles (instead of the government-to-government sale) to Israel, Egypt, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons.
(Sec. 7069) Prohibits the availability of specified funds under this Act, subject to a U.S. national interest waiver, to a government of an Independent State of the former Soviet Union that directs any action in violation of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other Independent State of the former Soviet Union.
Authorizes Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act to specified countries pursuant to the Support for Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 and the FREEDOM Support Act.
(Sec. 7070) Extends certain IMF transparency requirements to this Act.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF to ensure that any loan will be repaid to the IMF before other private creditors, and (2) ensure that the IMF is implementing whistleblower best practices.
(Sec. 7071) Requires the Secretary to consult with Congress before the obligation of funds under title III of this Act for the government of the Russian Federation.
Makes funds under this Act for the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) available to advance the signing and implementation of Association Agreements, trade agreements, and visa agreements with the European Union (EU), and to reduce such countries' vulnerability to external pressure to refrain from entering into such EU agreements.
Makes funds available for democracy and rule of law programs in countries of the former Soviet Union.
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress regarding: (1) Russian actions taken to deter Eastern Partnership countries' integration with European institutions, (2) Russian support for Syria and Iran, and (3) U.S. steps to assist in the restoration of Georgia's territorial integrity.
(Sec. 7072) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used for first-class travel by employees of agencies funded under this Act in contravention of the Federal Travel Regulation System.
(Sec. 7073) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act, with a specified exception, to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to a corporation that was convicted of a federal felony or has unpaid federal taxes if the awarding agency has direct knowledge of the conviction or unpaid taxes.
(Sec. 7074) Prohibits funds under titles III through VI of this Act from being made available for Enterprise Funds unless Congress is notified 15 days in advance.
Directs the President to submit to Congress a plan for the distribution of the assets of an Enterprise Fund before any distribution resulting from liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Fund.
(Sec. 7075) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for the Treaty.
(Sec. 7076) Requires each department, agency, or organization funded under titles I and II of this Act, and the Department of the Treasury and the independent agencies funded under title III of this Act to submit to Congress an operating plan for funds appropriated or otherwise available for obligation in FY2014.
Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a spend plan for funds made available under titles III and IV of this Act for: (1) Afghanistan, Colombia, Egypt, Haiti, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Pakistan, Yemen, and the West Bank and Gaza; (2) democracy programs and food security and agriculture development programs; and (3) the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, the Central American Regional Security Initiative, the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership program, and the Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism program.
(Sec. 7077) Obligates funds for the Special Defense Acquisition Fund, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2016.
(Sec. 7078) States that, if the executive branch makes a determination not to comply with any provision of this Act on constitutional grounds, the head of the relevant federal agency shall notify Congress concerning the basis for such determination and any resulting program and policy changes.
(Sec. 7079) Makes specified funds available for USAID programs for people with disabilities in developing countries.
(Sec. 7080) Obligates specified funds under titles I and III of this Act for programs to promote Internet freedom globally.
Prioritizes such funds for those countries whose governments restrict Internet freedom and that are important to U.S. national interests.
(Sec. 7081) Prohibits the provision of funds under titles III through VI of this Act for: (1) any financial incentive to a business for purposes of inducing it to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of U.S. employees, or (2) assistance for any program that contributes to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights in the recipient country.
(Sec. 7082) Amends the Foreign Service Act regarding death gratuities and other benefits to provide that: (1) for employees compensated under local compensation plans the amount shall be equal to the greater of either one year's salary at the time of death, or one year's basic salary at the highest step of the highest grade on the local compensation plan from which the employee was being paid at the time of death; and (2) the head of an executive agency shall, pursuant to specified guidance under this Act, make a death gratuity payment authorized to the survivors of any employee of that agency who dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad while subject to the authority of the chief of mission.
Provides a group life insurance supplement for: (1) a Foreign Service employee who dies while on duty abroad as a result of a terrorist attack; and (2) an executive agency employee who dies while on duty abroad, and while subject to the authority of the chief of mission, as a result of a terrorist act.
Requires up to 48 months of educational assistance to: (1) a widow, widower, familial designee, or child of a U.S. national Foreign Service employee who dies while on duty abroad as a result of a terrorist attack; and (2) a widow, widower, domestic partner, or child of an executive agency employee who dies while on duty abroad, and while to the authority of the chief of mission, as a result of a terrorist act.
Rescinds a specified amount of certain unexpended balances available from prior Acts for the Department, foreign operations, and related programs.
(Sec. 7083) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the preadoption visitation requirement to allow one parent to personally see and observe a child before or during the adoption proceedings. (Current law requires both parents.)
Title VIII: Overseas Contingency Operations - Appropriates additional funds to the Department for: (1) administration and diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) educational and cultural exchange programs; (4) embassy security, construction, and maintenance; and (5) conflict stabilization operations.
Appropriates additional funds for: (1) contributions to international organizations, (2) international broadcasting operations, and (3) the United States Institute for Peace (to remain available until September 20, 2015).
Appropriates additional funds to USAID for: (1) operating expenses, and (2) the Office of Inspector General.
Appropriates additional bilateral assistance funds to the President for: (1) international disaster assistance, (2) transition initiatives, (3) the Complex Crises Fund, and (4) the Economic Support Fund.
Appropriates additional bilateral assistance funds to the Department for migration and refugee assistance.
Appropriates additional security assistance funds to the Department for: (1) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (2) nonproliferation, antiterrorism, and demining; and (3) peacekeeping operations.
Appropriates additional funds to the President for the foreign military financing program.
(Sec. 801) States that: (1) funds appropriated in this title are in addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act for FY2014, and (2) such additional funds shall be available under the authorities and conditions applicable to such appropriations accounts.
(Sec. 803) Authorizes the transfer of specified funds under this title.
(Sec. 804) Rescinds a specified amount of certain unexpended balances available from prior Acts for the Department, foreign operations, and related programs. States that no amounts may be rescinded from amounts designated for worldwide security protection.
Division L: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Transportation (DOT), including: (1) the Office of the Secretary, (2) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), (3) the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), (4) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), (5) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), (6) the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), (7) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), (8) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, (9) the Maritime Administration, (10) the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), (11) the Office of Inspector General, and (12) the Surface Transportation Board (STB).
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title.
(Sec. 102) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary in this title) or designee to lobby states and state legislators to consider proposals for the reduction of motorcycle fatalities.
(Sec. 103) Authorizes the DOT's Working Capital fund to provide advanced payments to vendors to carry out the federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit program for federal employees.
(Sec. 104) Directs the Secretary to: (1) post on the DOT website a schedule of all Credit Council meetings, including the agenda for each meeting; and (2) require the Council to record the decisions and actions of the meetings.
(Sec. 110) Prohibits the use of funds to compensate more than 600 technical staff-years under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY2014.
(Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of funds to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to the FAA without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation, or weather reporting. Exempts from this prohibition any negotiations between the agency and airport sponsors to: (1) achieve agreement on "below-market" rates for these items, or (2) grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities.
(Sec. 112) Authorizes the FAA Administrator to reimburse amounts made available from certain fees to carry out the Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
(Sec. 113) Requires that amounts collected for safety-related training and operational services to foreign aviation authorities be credited to the appropriation current at the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same purposes of such appropriation.
(Sec. 114) Prohibits the availability of funds for paying premium pay (pay for Sunday and holiday work) to an FAA employee unless the employee actually performed worked during the time corresponding to such pay.
(Sec. 115) Prohibits the obligation of funds for an FAA employee to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of a government-issued credit card.
(Sec. 116) Requires the Secretary to make the minimum apportionment for primary and cargo airports to sponsors of airports that: (1) received scheduled or unscheduled air service from large certified air carriers, and (2) had more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the preceding calendar year.
(Sec. 117) Prohibits the obligation of funds for retention bonuses for an FAA employee without the prior written approval of the DOT Assistant Secretary for Administration.
(Sec. 118) Caps at 20% the maximum allowable local share of costs of an airport sponsor or state or local government with jurisdiction over an airport in cases where the operating costs of an air traffic tower under the Contract Air Traffic Control Tower Program exceed the benefits.
(Sec. 119) Prohibits the use of funds to implement, or to continue to implement, any limitation on the ability of a private aircraft owner or operator, upon a request to the FAA Administrator, to block, with respect to its noncommercial flights, the display of the owner's or operator's registration number in the Aircraft Situational Display to Industry data provided by the FAA to the public, unless the data has been made available to a government agency.
(Sec. 119A) Prohibits the availability of funds for salaries and expenses of more than eight FAA political and Presidential appointees.
(Sec. 119B) Prohibits the use of funds to increase fees the FAA Administrator may assess a state, federal agency, public or private organization, or individual to conduct special services or develop special products relating to navigation, transportation, or public safety, until the FAA provides Congress the aeronautical navigation products report described in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act.
(Sec. 119C) Bars the use of funds to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
(Sec. 119D) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate and adjust existing helicopter routes above Los Angeles if they would lessen impacts on residential areas and noise-sensitive landmarks, (2) analyze whether helicopters could safely fly at higher altitudes in certain areas above Los Angeles, (3) develop and promote best practices for helicopter hovering and electronic news gathering, (4) conduct outreach to helicopter pilots to inform them of voluntary policies and increase awareness of noise sensitive areas and events, (5) work with local stakeholders to develop a more comprehensive noise complaint system, and (6) continue to participate in collaborative engagement between community representatives and helicopter operators.
Requires the Secretary to begin a regulatory process related the impact of helicopter use on the quality of life and safety of the Los Angeles County people unless the Secretary can demonstrate significant progress in undertaking the actions required.
(Sec. 119E) Extends through September 30, 2014, the termination date of any insurance policy that DOT issued to an air carrier for war risk insurance and reinsurance against loss or damage arising out of any risk from the operation of a domestic or foreign aircraft.
Extends through September 30, 2014, the limitation on air carrier liability for third party claims arising out of acts of terrorism.
Extends until September 30, 2014, the authority of the Secretary of Transportation to provide aviation insurance and reinsurance.
(Sec. 120) Prescribes requirements, including a formula, for certain FY2014 distributions from the obligation limitation for federal-aid highways.
(Sec. 121) Allows crediting to the federal-aid highways account of funds received by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products to reimburse the Bureau for necessary expenses.
(Sec. 122) Requires the Secretary to make an informal public notice and comment opportunity on the intent of the waiver before waiving any Buy American requirement for federal-aid highway projects.
(Sec. 123) Prohibits the use of funds to approve or authorize the imposition of a toll on any segment of a federal highway in the state of Texas that is not already tolled, is constructed with federal assistance, and is in actual operation.
States that this prohibition does not apply to: (1) any federal-aid system highway segment that will have the same number of nontoll lanes as existed before a toll is imposed, or (2) any high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane converted to a toll lane if an HOV may use the toll lane without paying a toll or the HOV lane was constructed as a temporary lane to be replaced by a toll lane.
(Sec. 124) Prohibits the use of funds by DOT to provide direct loans, loan guarantees, or lines of credit for eligible infrastructure projects unless the Secretary notifies Congress at least three days before any loan or credit application approval.
(Sec. 130) Subjects funds appropriated or limited in this Act to certain safety examination and other requirements of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 and the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 relating to Mexico-domiciled motor carriers involved in cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico.
(Sec. 140) Makes certain additional funds available to NHTSA to pay for: (1) travel and related expenses for state management reviews, and (2) core competency development training and related expenses for highway safety staff.
(Sec. 141) Declares that certain limitations on obligations for NHTSA programs shall not apply to any obligational authority made available in previous public laws, except to the extent that the obligational authority has not lapsed or been used.
(Sec. 142) Prohibits the use of funds to implement establishment in the DOT of a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.
(Sec. 150) Declares that funds provided in this Act for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) shall immediately cease to be available to Amtrak in the event that it contracts to have provided at or from any location outside the United States any service that was, as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time or part-time Amtrak employee whose base of employment is located within the United States.
(Sec. 151) Authorizes the Secretary to receive cash or spare parts from non-federal sources to repair damages to or replace federally-owned automated track inspection cars and equipment as a result of third party liability for such damages.
(Sec. 152) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to DOT to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to DOT of an amount the Secretary determines.
(Sec. 153) Bars the use of funds for Amtrak to pay overtime costs in excess of $35,000 for any Amtrak employee.
Authorizes the president of Amtrak to waive such cap in cases where it poses a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the Amtrak system.
(Sec. 154) Revises the condition of eligibility for Amtrak receipt of grant funds to limit the prohibition against the use of certain funds for operating expenses, including a temporary transfer of such funds, to those funds provided to Amtrak for Capital and Debt Service Grants under the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013.
(Sec. 160) Declares that the limitations on obligations for FTA programs shall not apply to any grant authority previously made available for obligation, or to any other authority previously made available for obligation.
(Sec. 161) Declares that funds appropriated by this Act for specified FTA discretionary program projects which are not obligated by September 30, 2018, and other recoveries, shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for which they were originally provided.
(Sec. 162) Authorizes certain transfers of any public transportation funds appropriated before October 1, 2013, that remain available for expenditure.
(Sec. 163) Prohibits the Secretary from enforcing federal charter bus service regulations against any transit agency that during FY2008 was both initially granted a 60-day period to comply with such regulations, and then was subsequently granted an exception from them.
(Sec. 164) Authorizes the Secretary, when applying project justification and local commitment criteria to a New Starts project, to consider the costs and ridership of any connected project where private parties are making significant financial contributions to the construction of the connected project. Authorizes the Secretary also to consider the significant financial contributions of such parties to the connected project when calculating the non-federal share of net capital project costs for the New Starts project.
(Sec. 165) Bars the use of funds to enter into a full funding grant agreement for a major transit capital project with a New Starts program share greater than 60%.
(Sec. 166) Bars the use of funds to advance in any way a new fixed guideway capital project towards a full funding agreement for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, if the proposed capital project is constructed on (or planned to be constructed on) Richmond Avenue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak Boulevard north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas.
(Sec. 167) Makes unobligated FY2010-FY2012 funds for capital projects for buses and bus-related equipment and facilities available for fixed guideway capital investment projects, subject to specified terms and conditions.
(Sec. 168) Requires new bus rapid transit projects recommended in the President's budget submission to Congress for capital investment grant funds appropriated under this Act to be funded from a specified amount of unobligated discretionary funds for the bus and bus facilities program in FY1999-FY2010. Subjects all such projects to Capital Investment Grants Program requirements for New Starts, Small Starts, or Core Capacity projects.
(Sec. 169) Makes certain permanent rescissions.
(Sec. 170) Authorizes the Maritime Administration to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy of property under its control.
(Sec. 171) Bars the use of funds by DOT or the Maritime Administration to negotiate or execute, enter into, facilitate or perform fee-for-service contracts for vessel disposal, scrapping, or recycling, unless there is no qualified domestic ship recycler that will pay to purchase and scrap or recycle a vessel owned or operated by the Maritime Administration or that is part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
(Sec. 182) Prohibits the availability of the funds in this Act for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and presidential appointees in DOT. Prohibits assignment of any of such appointees on temporary detail outside DOT.
(Sec. 183) Bars recipients of funds made available in this Act from disseminating personal information obtained by a state department of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record, except as permitted under specified federal criminal law. Prohibits the Secretary, however, from withholding funds for any grantee if a state fails to comply with this prohibition.
(Sec. 185) Requires the Secretary to notify the congressional appropriations committees at least three full business days before announcing any project competitively selected to receive a discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement from certain grant programs, including the federal highway emergency relief program, the FAA AIP, any FRA program, any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs, any Maritime Administration program, or any funding for national infrastructure investments.
(Sec. 187) Makes available for reimbursement of recovery costs any recovered funds that the Secretary has determined represent improper DOT payments to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award.
(Sec. 189) Prohibits the use of funds by the STB to charge or collect any filing fee for rate or practice complaints filed with it in an amount in excess of that authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under the federal judicial code.
(Sec. 190) Authorizes the obligation of funds appropriated to the modal administrations for the Office of the Secretary for costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when such amounts are for the costs of goods or services purchased to provide a direct benefit to such administrations.
(Sec. 191) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to establish uniform standards for developing and supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits, including distribution of such benefits by various paper and electronic media.
(Sec. 192) Makes certain unobligated funds for the magnetic levitation (MAGLEV) transportation project between Las Vegas and Primm, Nevada, available to the Secretary to make capital grants for intercity passenger rail service projects and for deployment of railroad safety technology and high-speed rail corridor planning.
Requires the Secretary to make at least $20 million available for high-speed rail corridor planning improvement grants.
Makes such corridor planning improvement grants available for passenger rail corridors that have not completed a tier 1 environmental impact statement within the last 10 years.
Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) administration, operations, and management; (2) the Office of Public and Indian Housing; (3) the Office of Community Planning and Development; (4) the Office of Housing and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (5) the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae); (6) Office of Policy Development and Research; (7) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; (8) the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control; and (9) the Office of Inspector General.
(Sec. 201) Requires rescission of 50% of the amounts of budget authority (or, in the alternative, remittance to the Treasury of 50% of the associated cash amounts) that are recaptured from certain state-, local government-, or local housing agency-financed projects under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988. Requires such recaptured budget authority or funds, as well as any budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury, to be used by state housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies with HUD-approved projects for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992.
Authorizes the Secretary of HUD (Secretary in this title), all the same, to award up to 15% of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance their projects at a lower interest rate.
(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds during FY2014 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely to achieve or prevent action by a government official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction.
(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to make a grant under certain authority of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act for any state that received an allocation in a prior fiscal year, but is not otherwise eligible for an FY2014 allocation because the areas in the state outside of qualifying metropolitan statistical areas in FY2014 do not have the number of cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) otherwise required.
Prescribes a formula for the allocation of such grants to Jersey City and Paterson, New Jersey.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) adjust the funds allocated for FY2014 under the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act to Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division; and (2) allocate a portion to the state of New Jersey according to a specified formula.
Directs the Secretary to allocate to Wake County, North Carolina, certain funds that otherwise would be allocated for FY2014 under such Act to Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) adjust FY2014 allocations under such Act upon the written request of a grant applicant for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropolitan statistical area, and (2) designate the state or states in which the metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s) of the allocation.
(Sec. 204) Requires any grant, cooperative agreement, or other assistance made pursuant to this title to be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
(Sec. 205) Makes certain funds available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for: (1) legal services on a contract or fee basis; and (2) payment for services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Ginnie Mae, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any bank insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act.
(Sec. 207) Authorizes any HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make expenditures, contracts, and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as necessary to carry out their FY2014 budgets.
(Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to congressional appropriations committees regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured, and excess funds in each program and activity within HUD jurisdiction, along with additional, updated budget information upon request.
(Sec. 210) Requires the President's formal budget request for FY2015 and HUD's congressional budget justifications to use the identical account and subaccount structure provided under this Act.(Sec. 209) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require public housing agencies (PHAs) to establish a flat rental amount for a PHA dwelling unit at levels no lower than 80% of the applicable fair market rental established under the Act.
Directs PHAs to comply by June 1, 2014, with such requirement, except that if a new flat rate amount for a dwelling unit will increase a family's existing rental payment by more than 35%, the new flat rental amount shall be phased in to ensure that the family's existing rental payment does not increase by more than 35% annually. States that this requirement shall not be construed to require establishment of rental amounts equal to 80% of the fair market rental in years when it falls from the prior year.
(Sec. 211) Declares that a PHA (or other entity) that administers federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California, or the states of Alaska, Iowa, or Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 rental assistance (under the United States Housing Act of 1937) on the agency or entity governing board.
Requires each such PHA (or other entity) that chooses not to include such individuals on its governing board to establish an advisory board, which shall meet at least quarterly, consisting of at least six residents of public housing or section 8 rental assistance recipients.
(Sec. 212) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to treat as a PHA, for purposes of rental payments under the program of assisted low-income housing, a consortium of states, counties, municipalities, or other governmental entities or public bodies (or their agencies or instrumentalities) authorized to engage in or assist in the development or operation of public housing.
(Sec. 213) Prohibits the use of funds provided under this title for an audit of Ginnie Mae that applies certain requirements of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.
(Sec. 214) Authorizes the Secretary for FY2014-FY2015, subject to specified conditions, to authorize the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associated with one or more multifamily housing project, to another multifamily housing project or projects.
(Sec. 215) Prohibits any section 8 rental assistance to any individual who: (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher education; (2) is under age 24; (3) is not a veteran; (4) is unmarried; (5) does not have a dependent child; (6) is not a person with disabilities, and was not receiving section 8 assistance as of November 30, 2005; and (7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive such assistance.
Declares that, for section 8 rental assistance eligibility purposes, any financial assistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition) that an individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965, from private sources, or an institution of higher education shall be considered income to that individual, except for a person over age 23 with dependent children.
(Sec. 216) Requires that the funds made available for Native American Housing Block Grants in title III of this Act be allocated to the same recipients that received funds in FY2005.
(Sec. 217) Authorizes the Secretary through FY2014 to insure, and enter into commitments to insure, home equity conversion mortgages (HECMs, or reverse mortgages) for elderly homeowners.
(Sec. 218) Requires the Secretary during FY2014, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that is owned or has a mortgage held by HUD, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with a contract for section 8 rental assistance payments or other federal programs, to maintain any rental assistance payments attached to any dwelling units in the property. Authorizes the Secretary, however, to the extent that such a multifamily property is not feasible for continued payments, based on specified cost, operation, or environmental considerations, to: (1) contract, in consultation with the property's tenants, for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties; or (2) provide other rental assistance.
(Sec. 219) Authorizes any recipient after December 26, 2000, of a grant for conversion of elderly housing to assisted living facilities to: (1) establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own the project; and (2) lend the grant funds to such entity, which may be a for-profit limited partnership the sole general partner of which is a private nonprofit organization meeting specified requirements, or a corporation wholly owned and controlled by such a private nonprofit organization.
(Sec. 220) Revises requirements for PHA inspections of each dwelling unit for which a housing assistance payment contract is established. Requires biennial inspections, in lieu of current annual inspections, to determine compliance. Permits alternative inspection methods if specified standards are met. Allows the Secretary to adjust the frequency of inspections for mixed-finance properties assisted with vouchers to facilitate the use of such alternative inspections.
Requires interim inspections, upon family request, within 24 hours if a noncompliant condition is life-threatening (unless waived by the Secretary in extraordinary circumstances), or within a reasonable time frame if not life-threatening.
(Sec. 221) Authorizes the use of Community Development Loan Guarantee funds in FY2014 to guarantee, or make commitments to guarantee, notes or other obligations issued by any state on behalf of its non-entitlement communities.
(Sec. 222) Authorizes PHAs that own and operate 400 or fewer public housing units to elect to be exempt from any asset management requirements imposed by the Secretary in connection with the operating fund rule.
Prohibits exemption from such requirements, however, for an agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula.
(Sec. 223) Prohibits the Secretary, with respect to the use of funds for the operation, capital improvement, and management of public housing authorized by the United States Housing Act of 1937, from imposing any asset management requirement or guideline that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital funds for central office costs.
Prohibits a PHA, however, from using capital funds authorized for eligible operation and management activities with operating funds in excess of specified permitted amounts.
(Sec. 224) Prohibits designation of a HUD official or employee as an allotment holder unless he or she has: (1) implemented an adequate system of funds control, and (2) received training in funds control procedures and directives.
(Sec. 225) Requires the Secretary to report quarterly to congressional appropriations committees on the status of all section 8 project-based housing, including the number of all project-based units by region, as well as an analysis of all federally subsidized housing being refinanced under the Mark-to-Market program.
(Sec. 226) Requires the Secretary for FY2014 and thereafter to notify the public through the Federal Register and other appropriate means of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund that is to be awarded competitively.
Authorizes the Secretary for such period to make the NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate government website or through other electronic media.
(Sec. 227) Requires payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation from individual program office personnel benefits and compensation funding.
(Sec. 229) Considers the HUD-administered Disaster Housing Assistance Programs as a HUD program under the McKinney Act for income verification and matching purposes.
(Sec. 230) Requires the Secretary to take specified actions when a multifamily housing project with a section 8 contract or contract for similar project-based assistance: (1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) score of 30 or less; or (2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59 and fails to certify in writing to HUD, within 60 days, that all deficiencies have been corrected, or receives consecutive scores of less than 60 on REAC inspections.
Applies such requirements to insured and noninsured projects with section 8 rental assistance attached to the units; but not to units receiving PHA project-based assistance under the voucher program, or to public housing units assisted with capital or operating funds.
(Sec. 231) Prohibits during any PHA FY2014 the use of funds, made available for specified purposes of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (including the Section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program), by any PHA for any amount of salary for its chief executive officer, or any other official or employee that exceeds the annual rate of basic pay for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule.
(Sec. 232) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 to repeal the mandatory transfer to the Flexible Subsidy Fund of all uncommitted balances in the Rental Housing Assistance Fund of certain excess rental charges as of September 30, 2007, as well as any collections made during FY2008 and all subsequent fiscal years.
(Sec. 233) Amends the National Housing Act to extend through July 31, 2016, the exemption that authorizes the Secretary to provide mortgage insurance to critical access hospitals.
(Sec. 234) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend through FY2014 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants for severely distressed public housing projects; and (2) grants for assisting affordable housing developed through main street projects in smaller communities.
(Sec. 235) Allows up to $10 million out of funds appropriated for salaries and expenses under all accounts under this title (except for the Office of Inspector General account) to be transferred and merged with amounts appropriated for the Information Technology Fund account.
(Sec. 236) Changes from quarterly to annual the reports to congressional appropriations committees on all steps taken to prevent fraud and abuse of Community Development Funds, especially in the form of duplication of benefits.
(Sec. 237) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act for the HUD doctoral dissertation research grant program.
(Sec. 238) Defines "extremely low-income families," under the program of assisted low-income housing, as very low-income families whose incomes do not exceed the higher of: (1) specified poverty guidelines updated periodically by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); or (2) 30% of the median family income for the area, with adjustments for smaller and larger families. Authorizes the Secretary to establish income ceilings higher or lower than 30% if necessary because of unusually high or low family incomes.
Revises income eligibility requirements for public housing, for tenant-based section 8 assistance, and for project-based section 8 assistance to substitute "extremely low-income families" for the respective eligibility formula.
(Sec. 239) Modifies funding requirements for Rental Assistance Demonstration provided in the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012. Extends through calendar 2014 a specified program for conversion of tenant-based rental assistance vouchers to PHA project-based vouchers.
(Sec. 240) Bars the use of funds in this Act provided to HUD to make a grant award unless the Secretary notifies congressional appropriations committees at least three full business days before any project, state, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced by HUD or its offices.
(Sec. 241) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to revise requirements for HUD assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for the elderly.
Requires the Secretary to establish procedures to delegate the award, review and processing of projects, selected by the Secretary in a national competition, to specified state or local housing agencies for issuance of capital advances to applicants. (Currently, the Secretary, within 30 days of award of the capital advance, is required to delegate such review and processing to such agencies.)
Repeals the agencies' authority to: (1) assess a reasonable fee to be included in the capital advance amounts, and (2) recommend project rental assistance amounts in excess of those initially awarded by the Secretary.
Authorizes project rental assistance for projects which identify in their applications a defined health and other supportive services program, including sources of financing and memoranda of understanding with service provision agencies and organizations.
(Sec. 242) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to prohibit, in determining the monthly tenant-based assistance payment for a family under the section 8 (voucher program), the amount allowed for tenant-paid utilities from exceeding the appropriate utility allowance for the family unit size regardless of the size of the dwelling unit leased by the family.
Requires a PHA to approve a higher utility allowance, upon request, for a family including a person with disabilities if one is needed as a reasonable accommodation to make the program accessible to and usable by that family member.
Title III: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to: (1) the Access Board, (2) the Federal Maritime Commission, (3) the Office of Inspector General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), (4) the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), (5) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and (6) the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Title IV: General Provisions (This Act) - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
(Sec. 401) Prohibits the use of funds for the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, nonfederal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
(Sec. 404) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds made available in this Act for any employee training that meets specified negative criteria. Declares that nothing in this prohibition shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the performance of official duties.
(Sec. 407) Prohibits the use of funds to support any federal, state, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use.
(Sec. 408) Requires all federal agencies and departments funded by this Act to report by July 30, 2012, to the congressional appropriations committees on all sole source contracts.
(Sec. 409) Prohibits the transfer of duns made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
(Sec. 410) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a position (other than temporary) formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military or naval service; (3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for up to one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position, but not been restored to it.
(Sec. 411) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act by an entity unless the entity agrees to comply with the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 412) Prohibits the availability of funds to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 413) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of specified federal regulations.
(Sec. 414) Prohibits the provision of any funds made available under this or prior Acts to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations.
(Sec. 415) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has: (1) considered suspension or debarment of the corporation, and (2) made a determination that this further action is not necessary to protect government interests.
(Sec. 416) Makes the same prohibition as in Sec. 414 with respect to any corporation with any unpaid federal tax liability that is not being paid in a timely manner, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the government.
(Sec. 417) Declares the sense of Congress that Congress should not pass any legislation that authorizes spending cuts that would increase poverty in the United States.
(Sec. 418) Requires all agencies and departments funded by this Act to report to Congress at the end of the fiscal year a complete inventory of the total number of vehicles owned, permanently retired, and purchased during FY2014 as well as the total cost of the vehicle fleet, including maintenance, fuel, storage, purchasing, and leasing.