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                                                 Union Calendar No. 122
118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4820

                          [Report No. 118-154]

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2023

Mr. Cole, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
 bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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                                 A BILL


 
   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.


 


    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, $176,859,000 
to remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That of the 
sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $3,569,000 shall be available for the immediate Office 
        of the Secretary;
            (2) $1,277,000 shall be available for the immediate Office 
        of the Deputy Secretary;
            (3) $28,089,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        General Counsel;
            (4) $22,769,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, of which 
        $7,300,000 is for the Office for Multimodal Freight 
        Infrastructure and Policy;
            (5) $21,026,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs;
            (6) $3,968,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs;
            (7) $41,399,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Assistant Secretary for Administration;
            (8) $2,093,000 shall be available for the Office of Public 
        Affairs and Public Engagement;
            (9) $2,312,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Executive Secretariat;
            (10) $15,533,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response;
            (11) $33,195,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Chief Information Officer; and
            (12) $1,629,000 shall be available for the Office of Tribal 
        Government Affairs:
  Provided further, That the Secretary of Transportation (referred to 
in this title as the ``Secretary'') is authorized to transfer funds 
appropriated for any office of the Office of the Secretary to any other 
office of the Office of the Secretary:  Provided further, That no 
appropriation for any office shall be increased or decreased by more 
than 7 percent by all such transfers:  Provided further, That notice of 
any change in funding greater than 7 percent shall be submitted for 
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:  
Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 shall be for allocation 
within the Department for official reception and representation 
expenses as the Secretary may determine:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may be credited to 
this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in user fees.

                        research and technology

    For necessary expenses related to the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Research and Technology, $41,713,000, of which 
$30,259,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, That there 
may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until expended, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for training:  
Provided further, That any reference in law, regulation, judicial 
proceedings, or elsewhere to the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration shall continue to be deemed to be a reference to the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology of the 
Department of Transportation.

     national surface transportation and innovative finance bureau

    For necessary expenses of the National Surface Transportation and 
Innovative Finance Bureau as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 116, $10,550,000, 
to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the Secretary may 
collect and spend fees, as authorized by title 23, United States Code, 
to cover the costs of services of expert firms, including counsel, in 
the field of municipal and project finance to assist in the 
underwriting and servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a 
portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit 
instruments:  Provided further, That such fees are available until 
expended to pay for such costs:  Provided further, That such amounts 
are in addition to other amounts made available for such purposes and 
are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limitation on 
administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, United States 
Code.

       railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program

    The Secretary is authorized to issue direct loans and loan 
guarantees pursuant to chapter 224 of title 49, United States Code, and 
such authority shall exist as long as any such direct loan or loan 
guarantee is outstanding.

                      financial management capital

    For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the Department 
of Transportation's financial systems and re-engineering business 
processes, $5,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2025.

                       cyber security initiatives

    For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, including 
necessary upgrades to network and information technology 
infrastructure, improvement of identity management and authentication 
capabilities, securing and protecting data, implementation of Federal 
cyber security initiatives, and implementation of enhanced security 
controls on agency computers and mobile devices, $49,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025.

                         office of civil rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $14,800,000.

           transportation planning, research, and development

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, $25,017,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That of such amount, $8,517,000 shall be for necessary expenses of the 
Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center (IIPIC):  
Provided further, That there may be transferred to this appropriation, 
to remain available until expended, amounts transferred from other 
Federal agencies for expenses incurred under this heading for IIPIC 
activities not related to transportation infrastructure:  Provided 
further, That the tools and analysis developed by the IIPIC shall be 
available to other Federal agencies for the permitting and review of 
major infrastructure projects not related to transportation only to the 
extent that other Federal agencies provide funding to the Department in 
accordance with the preceding proviso.

                          working capital fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of 
the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $522,165,000, shall be paid 
from appropriations made available to the Department of Transportation: 
 Provided, That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation:  Provided further, 
That the limitation in the preceding proviso on operating expenses 
shall not apply to entities external to the Department of 
Transportation or for funds provided in Public Law 117-58:  Provided 
further, That no funds made available by this Act to an agency of the 
Department shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without 
majority approval of the Working Capital Fund Steering Committee and 
approval of the Secretary:  Provided further, That no assessments may 
be levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project 
funded by this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis 
therefor are presented to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations and are approved by such Committees.

       small and disadvantaged business utilization and outreach

    For necessary expenses for small and disadvantaged business 
utilization and outreach activities, $5,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That notwithstanding section 332 
of title 49, United States Code, such amounts may be used for business 
opportunities related to any mode of transportation:  Provided further, 
That appropriations made available under this heading shall be 
available for any purpose consistent with prior year appropriations 
that were made available under the heading ``Office of the Secretary--
Minority Business Resource Center Program''.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry 
out the essential air service program under sections 41731 through 
41742 of title 49, United States Code, $348,554,000, to be derived from 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended:  
Provided, That in determining between or among carriers competing to 
provide service to a community, the Secretary may consider the relative 
subsidy requirements of the carriers:  Provided further, That basic 
essential air service minimum requirements shall not include the 15-
passenger capacity requirement under section 41732(b)(3) of title 49, 
United States Code:  Provided further, That amounts authorized to be 
distributed for the essential air service program under section 
41742(b) of title 49, United States Code, shall be made available 
immediately from amounts otherwise provided to the Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration:  Provided further, That the 
Administrator may reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the 
account established under section 45303 of title 49, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 41733 of title 
49, United States Code, for fiscal year 2024, the requirements 
established under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 41731(a)(1) of 
title 49, United States Code, and the subsidy cap established by 
section 332 of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2000, shall not apply to maintain eligibility under 
section 41731 of title 49, United States Code.

  administrative provisions--office of the secretary of transportation

                    (including rescission of funds)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 101.  None of the funds made available by this Act to the 
Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the 
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable 
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the operating 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for congressional 
notification.
    Sec. 102.  The Secretary shall post on the web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Council 
on Credit and Finance, including the agenda for each meeting, and 
require the Council on Credit and Finance to record the decisions and 
actions of each meeting.
    Sec. 103.  In addition to authority provided by section 327 of 
title 49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is 
authorized to provide partial or full payments in advance and accept 
subsequent reimbursements from all Federal agencies from available 
funds for transit benefit distribution services that are necessary to 
carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit 
program under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 3049 of SAFETEA-LU 
(5 U.S.C. 7905 note):  Provided, That the Department shall maintain a 
reasonable operating reserve in the Working Capital Fund, to be 
expended in advance to provide uninterrupted transit benefits to 
Government employees:  Provided further, That such reserve shall not 
exceed 1 month of benefits payable and may be used only for the purpose 
of providing for the continuation of transit benefits:  Provided 
further, That the Working Capital Fund shall be fully reimbursed by 
each customer agency from available funds for the actual cost of the 
transit benefit.
    Sec. 104.  Receipts collected in the Department's Working Capital 
Fund, as authorized by section 327 of title 49, United States Code, for 
unused transit and van pool benefits, in an amount not to exceed 10 
percent of fiscal year 2024 collections, shall be available until 
expended in the Department's Working Capital Fund to provide 
contractual services in support of section 189 of this Act:  Provided, 
That obligations in fiscal year 2024 of such collections shall not 
exceed $1,000,000.
    Sec. 105.  None of the funds in this title may be obligated or 
expended for retention or senior executive bonuses for an employee of 
the Department of Transportation without the prior written approval of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration.
    Sec. 106.  In addition to authority provided by section 327 of 
title 49, United States Code, the Department's Administrative Working 
Capital Fund is hereby authorized to transfer information technology 
equipment, software, and systems from Departmental sources or other 
entities and collect and maintain a reserve at rates which will return 
full cost of transferred assets.
    Sec. 107.  None of the funds provided in this Act to the Department 
of Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance unless not 
less than 3 days before any application approval to provide credit 
assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code, 
the Secretary provides notification in writing to the following 
committees: the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives:  
Provided, That such notification shall include, but not be limited to, 
the name of the project sponsor; a description of the project; whether 
credit assistance will be provided as a direct loan, loan guarantee, or 
line of credit; and the amount of credit assistance.
    Sec. 108.  Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available 
for ``Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program'' in 
title I of division L of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 
(Public Law 117-103), $8,948,237.30 is hereby permanently rescinded.
    Sec. 109.  With respect to amounts provided under the heading 
``National Infrastructure Investments'' in title VIII of division J of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58) for 
fiscal year 2024 to carry out section 6702 of title 49, United States 
Code, the set aside for historically disadvantaged communities or areas 
of persistent poverty under subsection (f)(2) of such section shall be 
treated as not less than 5 percent for fiscal year 2024.
    Sec. 109A.  The Secretary of Transportation may transfer amounts 
awarded to a Federally recognized Tribe under a funding agreement 
entered into under part 29 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, 
from the Department of Transportation's Operating Administrations to 
the Office of Tribal Government Affairs: Provided, That any amounts 
retroceded or reassumed under such part may be transferred back to the 
appropriate Operating Administration.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, including operations and research activities 
related to commercial space transportation, administrative expenses for 
research and development, establishment of air navigation facilities, 
the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, 
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the 
public, the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only, $12,729,627,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025, of which $8,740,627,000 to be derived from the Airport and 
Airway Trust Fund:  Provided, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading--
            (1) not less than $1,745,532,000 shall be available for 
        aviation safety activities;
            (2) $9,439,068,000 shall be available for air traffic 
        organization activities;
            (3) $47,018,000 shall be available for commercial space 
        transportation activities;
            (4) $949,376,000 shall be available for finance and 
        management activities;
            (5) $70,097,000 shall be available for NextGen and 
        operations planning activities;
            (6) $163,951,000 shall be available for security and 
        hazardous materials safety activities; and
            (7) $314,585,000 shall be available for staff offices:
  Provided further, That not to exceed 5 percent of any budget 
activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may be 
transferred to any budget activity under this heading:  Provided 
further, That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation 
under this heading by more than 5 percent:  Provided further, That any 
transfer in excess of 5 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of 
funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for 
obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section:  Provided further, That not later than 60 days 
after the submission of the budget request, the Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual 
update to the report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to 
section 221 of the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act 
(49 U.S.C. 40101 note):  Provided further, That the amounts made 
available under this heading shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day 
after 60 days after the submission of the budget request that such 
report has not been transmitted to Congress:  Provided further, That 
not later than 60 days after the submission of the budget request, the 
Administrator shall transmit to Congress a companion report that 
describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, hiring, and training 
flight standards and aircraft certification staff in a format similar 
to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan, including stated 
attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year:  
Provided further, That the amounts made available under this heading 
shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after the date that is 60 
days after the submission of the budget request that such report has 
not been submitted to Congress:  Provided further, That funds may be 
used to enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting 
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety standards: 
 Provided further, That none of the funds made available by this Act 
shall be available for new applicants for the second career training 
program:  Provided further, That none of the funds made available by 
this Act shall be available for the Federal Aviation Administration to 
finalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate new aviation 
user fees not specifically authorized by law after the date of the 
enactment of this Act:  Provided further, That there may be credited to 
this appropriation, as offsetting collections, funds received from 
States, counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred in the provision 
of agency services, including receipts for the maintenance and 
operation of air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or 
modification of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair 
station certificates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing 
major repair or alteration forms:  Provided further, That of the 
amounts made available under this heading, not less than $194,000,000 
shall be used to fund direct operations of the current air traffic 
control towers in the contract tower program, including the contract 
tower cost share program, and any airport that is currently qualified 
or that will qualify for the program during the fiscal year:  Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available by this Act for 
aeronautical charting and cartography are available for activities 
conducted by, or coordinated through, the Working Capital Fund:  
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to eliminate the 
Contract Weather Observers program at any airport.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and 
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A of 
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and 
service testing, including construction of test facilities and 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and 
furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and 
employees of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote 
localities where such accommodations are not available; and the 
purchase, lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds made available 
under this heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and 
certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$2,972,949,000, of which $617,020,000 is for personnel and related 
expenses and shall remain available until September 30, 2025; 
$2,330,929,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2026; and 
$25,000,000 shall remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation funds received from States, 
counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private 
sources, for expenses incurred in the establishment, improvement, and 
modernization of national airspace systems:  Provided further, That not 
later than 60 days after submission of the budget request, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to the Congress an 
investment plan for the Federal Aviation Administration which includes 
funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, 
with total funding for each year of the plan constrained to the funding 
targets for those years as estimated and approved by the Office of 
Management and Budget:  Provided further, That section 405 of this Act 
shall apply to amounts made available under this heading in title VIII 
of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (division J of Public Law 
117-58).

                 research, engineering, and development

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research, 
engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of subtitle 
VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of 
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or 
grant, $196,050,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources, which shall be available for expenses 
incurred for research, engineering, and development:  Provided further, 
That amounts made available under this heading shall be used in 
accordance with the Report accompanying this Act:  Provided further, 
That not to exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified under this 
heading in the Report accompanying this Act may be transferred to any 
other funding level specified under this heading in the Report 
accompanying this Act:  Provided further, That no transfer may increase 
or decrease any funding level by more than 10 percent:  Provided 
further, That any transfer in excess of 10 percent shall be treated as 
a reprogramming of funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section:  Provided further, That any 
activity carried out using funds made available under this heading for 
counter-unmanned aerial systems research, testing, and evaluation may 
be carried out notwithstanding section 46502 of title 49, United States 
Code, or sections 32, 1030, or 1367 and chapters 119 and 206 of title 
18 of such code.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid for 
airport planning and development, and noise compatibility planning and 
programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and subchapter 
I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under other law 
authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, and 
commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at 
airports of such title; for grants authorized under section 41743 of 
title 49, United States Code; and for inspection activities and 
administration of airport safety programs, including those related to 
airport operating certificates under section 44706 of title 49, United 
States Code, $3,350,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That none 
of the amounts made available under this heading shall be available for 
the planning or execution of programs the obligations for which are in 
excess of $3,350,000,000, in fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding section 
47117(g) of title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That none 
of the amounts made available under this heading shall be available for 
the replacement of baggage conveyor systems, reconfiguration of 
terminal baggage areas, or other airport improvements that are 
necessary to install bulk explosive detection systems:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 47109(a) of title 49, United 
States Code, the Government's share of allowable project costs under 
paragraph (2) of such section for subgrants or paragraph (3) of such 
section shall be 95 percent for a project at other than a large or 
medium hub airport that is a successive phase of a multi-phased 
construction project for which the project sponsor received a grant in 
fiscal year 2011 for the construction project:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, of amounts limited under 
this heading, not less than $157,475,000 shall be available for 
administration, $15,000,000 shall be available for the Airport 
Cooperative Research Program, $41,801,000 shall be available for 
Airport Technology Research, and $10,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available and transferred to ``Office of the 
Secretary, Salaries and Expenses'' to carry out the Small Community Air 
Service Development Program:  Provided further, That in addition to 
airports eligible under section 41743 of title 49, United States Code, 
such program may include the participation of an airport that serves a 
community or consortium that is not larger than a small hub airport, 
according to FAA hub classifications effective at the time the Office 
of the Secretary issues a request for proposals.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

    For an additional amount for ``Grants-In-Aid for Airports'', to 
enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects as 
authorized by subchapter 1 of chapter 471 and subchapter 1 of chapter 
475 of title 49, United States Code, $303,921,257 to remain available 
through September 30, 2026:  Provided, That amounts made available 
under this heading shall be derived from the general fund, and such 
funds shall not be subject to apportionment formulas, special 
apportionment categories, or minimum percentages under chapter 471 of 
title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That the sums 
appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the 
purposes, and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in 
the table entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report 
accompanying this Act.

       administrative provisions--federal aviation administration

    Sec. 110.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the 
federally funded research and development center contract between the 
Federal Aviation Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation 
Systems Development during fiscal year 2024.
    Sec. 111.  None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport 
sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Administration 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:  Provided, That the 
prohibition on the use of funds in this section does not apply to 
negotiations between the agency and airport sponsors to achieve 
agreement on ``below-market'' rates for these items or to grant 
assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost 
to the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control 
facilities.
    Sec. 112.  The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) of 
title 49, United States Code, from fees credited under section 45303 of 
title 49, United States Code, and any amount remaining in such account 
at the close of any fiscal year may be made available to satisfy 
section 41742(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, for the subsequent 
fiscal year.
    Sec. 113.  Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of title 49, 
United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation current at 
the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same 
purposes as such appropriation.
    Sec. 114.  None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for paying premium pay under section 5546(a) of title 5, 
United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee 
unless such employee actually performed work during the time 
corresponding to such premium pay.
    Sec. 115.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
obligated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation 
Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate 
through use of a Government-issued credit card.
    Sec. 116.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be used to 
implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the ability of 
any owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request 
to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, a blocking 
of that owner's or operator's aircraft registration number, Mode S 
transponder code, flight identification, call sign, or similar 
identifying information from any ground based display to the public 
that would allow the real-time or near real-time flight tracking of 
that aircraft's movements, except data made available to a Government 
agency, for the noncommercial flights of that owner or operator.
    Sec. 117.  None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for salaries and expenses of more than nine political and 
Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration.
    Sec. 118.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, United States 
Code, until the Federal Aviation Administration provides to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a report that justifies all 
fees related to aeronautical navigation products and explains how such 
fees are consistent with Executive Order No. 13642.
    Sec. 119.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation 
Administration or reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 90 full 
business days in advance.
    Sec. 119A.  None of the funds made available by or limited by this 
Act may be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules 
at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
    Sec. 119B.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
withhold from consideration and approval any new application for 
participation in the Contract Tower Program, or for reevaluation of 
Cost-share Program participants so long as the Federal Aviation 
Administration has received an application from the airport, and so 
long as the Administrator determines such tower is eligible using the 
factors set forth in Federal Aviation Administration published 
establishment criteria.
    Sec. 119C.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to open, close, redesignate as a lesser office, or reorganize a 
regional office, the aeronautical center, or the technical center 
unless the Administrator submits a request for the reprogramming of 
funds under section 405 of this Act.
    Sec. 119D.  The Federal Aviation Administration Administrative 
Services Franchise Fund may be reimbursed after performance or paid in 
advance from funds available to the Federal Aviation Administration and 
other Federal agencies for which the Fund performs services.
    Sec. 119E.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the FAA may be used to carry out the FAA's obligations 
under section 44502(e) of title 49, United States Code, unless the 
eligible air traffic system or equipment to be transferred to the FAA 
under section 44502(e) of title 49, United States Code, was purchased 
by the transferor airport--
            (1) during the period of time beginning on October 5, 2018 
        and ending on December 31, 2021; or
            (2) on or after January 1, 2022 for transferor airports 
        located in a non-contiguous States.
    Sec. 119F.  Of the funds provided under the heading ``Grants-in-aid 
for Airports'', up to $3,500,000 shall be for necessary expenses, 
including an independent verification regime, to provide reimbursement 
to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and 
providers of general aviation ground support services, or other 
aviation tenants, located at those airports closed during a temporary 
flight restriction (TFR) for any residence of the President that is 
designated or identified to be secured by the United States Secret 
Service, and for direct and incremental financial losses incurred while 
such airports are closed solely due to the actions of the Federal 
Government:  Provided, That no funds shall be obligated or distributed 
to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and 
providers of general aviation ground support services until an 
independent audit is completed:  Provided further, That losses incurred 
as a result of violations of law, or through fault or negligence, of 
such operators and service providers or of third parties (including 
airports) are not eligible for reimbursements:  Provided further, That 
obligation and expenditure of funds are conditional upon full release 
of the United States Government for all claims for financial losses 
resulting from such actions.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

                          (highway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Not to exceed $483,551,671 together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be 
obligated for necessary expenses for administration and operation of 
the Federal Highway Administration:  Provided, That in addition, 
$3,248,000 shall be transferred to the Appalachian Regional Commission 
in accordance with section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code.

                          federal-aid highways

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Funds available for the implementation or execution of authorized 
Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs shall not 
exceed total obligations of $60,095,782,888 for fiscal year 2024:  
Provided, That the limitation on obligations under this heading shall 
only apply to contract authority authorized from the Highway Trust Fund 
(other than the Mass Transit Account), unless otherwise specified in 
law.

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For the payment of obligations incurred in carrying out authorized 
Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, 
$60,834,782,888 shall be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until expended.

                    highway infrastructure programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary $1,361,627,349:  
Provided, That the funds made available under this heading shall be 
derived from the general fund, shall be in addition to any funds 
provided for fiscal year 2024 in this or any other Act for: (1) 
``Federal-aid Highways'' under chapter 1 of title 23, United States 
Code; or (2) activities eligible under the Tribal Transportation 
Program under section 202 of such title, and shall not affect the 
distribution or amount of funds provided in any other Act:  Provided 
further, That section 11101(e) of Public Law 117-58 shall apply to 
funds made available under this heading:  Provided further, That 
amounts made available under this heading shall be available until 
September 30, 2027, and shall not be subject to any limitation on 
obligations for Federal-aid highways or highway safety construction 
programs set forth in any Act making annual appropriations:  Provided 
further, That of the sums made available under this heading--
            (1) $1,211,627,349 shall be for the purposes, and in the 
        amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in the table 
        entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report 
        accompanying this Act:  Provided, That, except as otherwise 
        provided under this heading, the funds made available under 
        this paragraph shall be administered as if apportioned under 
        chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code:  Provided further, 
        That funds made available under this paragraph that are used 
        for Tribal projects shall be administered as if allocated under 
        chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code, except that the set-
        asides described in subparagraph (C) of section 202(b)(3) of 
        title 23, United States Code, and subsections (a)(6), (c), and 
        (e) of section 202 of such title, and section 1123(h)(1) of 
        MAP-21 (as amended by Public Law 117-58), shall not apply to 
        such funds; and
            (2) $150,000,000 shall be available for activities eligible 
        under the Tribal Transportation Program, as described in 
        section 202 of title 23, United States Code:  Provided, That, 
        except as otherwise provided under this heading, the funds made 
        available under this paragraph shall be administered as if 
        allocated under chapter 2 of title 23, United States Code:  
        Provided further, That the set-asides described in subparagraph 
        (C) of section 202(b)(3) of title 23, United States Code, and 
        subsections (a)(6), (c), (d), and (e) of section 202 of such 
        title shall not apply to funds made available under this 
        paragraph:  Provided further, That the set-aside described in 
        section 1123(h)(1) of MAP-21 (as amended by Public Law 117-58), 
        shall not apply to such funds.

       administrative provisions--federal highway administration

                    (including rescission of funds)

    Sec. 120. (a) For fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall--
            (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid highways--
                    (A) amounts authorized for administrative expenses 
                and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United 
                States Code; and
                    (B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of 
                Transportation Statistics;
            (2) not distribute an amount from the obligation limitation 
        for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the unobligated 
        balance of amounts--
                    (A) made available from the Highway Trust Fund 
                (other than the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid 
                highway and highway safety construction programs for 
                previous fiscal years the funds for which are allocated 
                by the Secretary (or apportioned by the Secretary under 
                section 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code); 
                and
                    (B) for which obligation limitation was provided in 
                a previous fiscal year;
            (3) determine the proportion that--
                    (A) the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
                highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed 
                under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection; bears 
                to
                    (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 
                appropriated for the Federal-aid highway and highway 
                safety construction programs (other than sums 
                authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law 
                described in paragraphs (1) through (11) of subsection 
                (b) and sums authorized to be appropriated for section 
                119 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the 
                amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for such 
                fiscal year), less the aggregate of the amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this 
                subsection;
            (4) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2), for each of the programs (other than 
        programs to which paragraph (1) applies) that are allocated by 
        the Secretary under authorized Federal-aid highway and highway 
        safety construction programs, or apportioned by the Secretary 
        under section 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code, by 
        multiplying--
                    (A) the proportion determined under paragraph (3); 
                by
                    (B) the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
                each such program for such fiscal year; and
            (5) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) and the amounts distributed under 
        paragraph (4), for Federal-aid highway and highway safety 
        construction programs that are apportioned by the Secretary 
        under title 23, United States Code (other than the amounts 
        apportioned for the National Highway Performance Program in 
        section 119 of title 23, United States Code, that are exempt 
        from the limitation under subsection (b)(12) and the amounts 
        apportioned under sections 202 and 204 of that title) in the 
        proportion that--
                    (A) amounts authorized to be appropriated for the 
                programs that are apportioned under title 23, United 
                States Code, to each State for such fiscal year; bears 
                to
                    (B) the total of the amounts authorized to be 
                appropriated for the programs that are apportioned 
                under title 23, United States Code, to all States for 
                such fiscal year.
    (b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--The obligation 
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations 
under or for--
            (1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code;
            (2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance 
        Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 Stat. 2714);
            (3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 (95 
        Stat. 1701);
            (4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the Surface 
        Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 2119);
            (5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the Surface 
        Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 
        (101 Stat. 198);
            (6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface 
        Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2027);
            (7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect on June 8, 1998);
            (8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
            (9) Federal-aid highway programs for which obligation 
        authority was made available under the Transportation Equity 
        Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 107) or subsequent Acts for 
        multiple years or to remain available until expended, but only 
        to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or 
        been used;
            (10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect for fiscal years 2005 through 2012, but only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
            (11) section 1603 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 118 note; 119 
        Stat. 1248), to the extent that funds obligated in accordance 
        with that section were not subject to a limitation on 
        obligations at the time at which the funds were initially made 
        available for obligation; and
            (12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code (but, for 
        each of fiscal years 2013 through 2024, only in an amount equal 
        to $639,000,000).
    (c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--Notwithstanding 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal 
year--
            (1) revise a distribution of the obligation limitation made 
        available under subsection (a) if an amount distributed cannot 
        be obligated during that fiscal year; and
            (2) redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to 
        obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed 
        during that fiscal year, giving priority to those States having 
        large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under sections 
        144 (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
        Public Law 112-141) and 104 of title 23, United States Code.
    (d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to Transportation 
Research Programs.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall apply to 
        contract authority for transportation research programs carried 
        out under--
                    (A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code;
                    (B) title VI of the Fixing America's Surface 
                Transportation Act; and
                    (C) title III of division A of the Infrastructure 
                Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).
            (2) Exception.--Obligation authority made available under 
        paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) remain available for a period of 4 fiscal 
                years; and
                    (B) be in addition to the amount of any limitation 
                imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway and 
                highway safety construction programs for future fiscal 
                years.
    (e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
        distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the 
        Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds (excluding 
        funds authorized for the program under section 202 of title 23, 
        United States Code) that--
                    (A) are authorized to be appropriated for such 
                fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs; and
                    (B) the Secretary determines will not be allocated 
                to the States (or will not be apportioned to the States 
                under section 204 of title 23, United States Code), and 
                will not be available for obligation, for such fiscal 
                year because of the imposition of any obligation 
                limitation for such fiscal year.
            (2) Ratio.--Funds shall be distributed under paragraph (1) 
        in the same proportion as the distribution of obligation 
        authority under subsection (a)(5).
            (3) Availability.--Funds distributed to each State under 
        paragraph (1) shall be available for any purpose described in 
        section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 121.  Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received by the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, for 
necessary expenses incurred pursuant to chapter 63 of title 49, United 
States Code, may be credited to the Federal-aid highways account for 
the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses.
    Sec. 122.  Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under his or her 
statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-aid 
highways projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall make an 
informal public notice and comment opportunity on the intent to issue 
such waiver and the reasons therefor:  Provided, That the Secretary 
shall post on a website any waivers granted under the Buy America 
requirements.
    Sec. 123.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to make a grant for a project under section 117 of title 23, United 
States Code, unless the Secretary, at least 60 days before making a 
grant under that section, provides written notification to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations of the proposed grant, 
including an evaluation and justification for the project and the 
amount of the proposed grant award.
    Sec. 124. (a) A State or territory, as defined in section 165 of 
title 23, United States Code, may use for any project eligible under 
section 133(b) of title 23 or section 165 of title 23 and located 
within the boundary of the State or territory any earmarked amount, and 
any associated obligation limitation:  Provided, That the Department of 
Transportation for the State or territory for which the earmarked 
amount was originally designated or directed notifies the Secretary of 
its intent to use its authority under this section and submits an 
annual report to the Secretary identifying the projects to which the 
funding would be applied. Notwithstanding the original period of 
availability of funds to be obligated under this section, such funds 
and associated obligation limitation shall remain available for 
obligation for a period of 3 fiscal years after the fiscal year in 
which the Secretary is notified. The Federal share of the cost of a 
project carried out with funds made available under this section shall 
be the same as associated with the earmark.
    (b) In this section, the term ``earmarked amount'' means--
            (1) congressionally directed spending, as defined in rule 
        XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, identified in a prior 
        law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was 
        authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10 
        fiscal years prior to the current fiscal year, and administered 
        by the Federal Highway Administration; or
            (2) a congressional earmark, as defined in rule XXI of the 
        Rules of the House of Representatives, identified in a prior 
        law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was 
        authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10 
        fiscal years prior to the current fiscal year, and administered 
        by the Federal Highway Administration.
    (c) The authority under subsection (a) may be exercised only for 
those projects or activities that have obligated less than 10 percent 
of the amount made available for obligation as of October 1 of the 
current fiscal year, and shall be applied to projects within the same 
general geographic area within 25 miles for which the funding was 
designated, except that a State or territory may apply such authority 
to unexpended balances of funds from projects or activities the State 
or territory certifies have been closed and for which payments have 
been made under a final voucher.
    (d) The Secretary shall submit consolidated reports of the 
information provided by the States and territories annually to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 125. (a) Of the unallocated and unobligated balances available 
to the Federal Highway Administration, the following funds are hereby 
permanently cancelled, subject to subsections (b) and (c), from the 
following accounts and programs in the specified amounts:
            (1) $53,160,115 from funds available in the ``Surface 
        Transportation Priorities'' account (69 X 0538);
            (2) $1,839,130 from funds available in the ``Delta Regional 
        Transportation Development Program'' account (69 X 0551);
            (3) $11,814,580 from funds available in the ``Appalachian 
        Development Highway System'' account (69 X 0640);
            (4) $392,112 from funds available in the ``Bridge Capacity 
        Improvements'' account (69 X 8057);
            (5) $30,640,110 from funds available in the ``Miscellaneous 
        Highway Project'' account (69 X 8058); and
            (6) $7,063,307 from funds available in the ``Highway 
        Projects'' account (69 X 8382).
    (b) No amounts may be cancelled under subsection (a) from any funds 
for which a State exercised its authority under section 125 of division 
L of Public Law 114-113, section 422 of division K of Public Law 115-
31, section 126 of division L of Public Law 115-141, section 125 of 
division G of Public Law 116-6, section 125 of division H of Public Law 
116-94, section 124 of division L of Public Law 116-260, section 124 of 
division L of Public Law 117-103, or section 124 of division L of 
Public Law 117-328.
    (c) No amounts may be cancelled under subsection (a) from any 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    Sec. 126.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the 
proposed rule entitled ``National Performance Management Measures; 
Assessing Performance of the National Highway System, Greenhouse Gas 
Emissions Measure'' published by the Federal Highway Administration in 
the Federal Register on July 15, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 42401) or successor 
regulation.

              Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

              motor carrier safety operations and programs

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in the implementation, 
execution and administration of motor carrier safety operations and 
programs pursuant to section 31110 of title 49, United States Code, as 
amended by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-
58), $375,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account), together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, the sum of which shall remain available until expended: 
 Provided, That funds available for implementation, execution, or 
administration of motor carrier safety operations and programs 
authorized under title 49, United States Code, shall not exceed total 
obligations of $375,000,000, for ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and 
Programs'' for fiscal year 2024, of which $14,073,000, to remain 
available for obligation until September 30, 2026, is for the research 
and technology program, and of which not less than $63,098,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2026, is for 
development, modernization, enhancement, and continued operation and 
maintenance of information technology and information management.

                      motor carrier safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out sections 31102, 
31103, 31104, and 31313 of title 49, United States Code, $516,300,000, 
to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account) and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That funds 
available for the implementation or execution of motor carrier safety 
programs shall not exceed total obligations of $516,300,000 in fiscal 
year 2024 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Grants'':  Provided further, That 
of the amounts made available under this heading--
            (1) $406,500,000, to remain available for obligation until 
        September 30, 2025, shall be for the motor carrier safety 
        assistance program;
            (2) $43,500,000, to remain available for obligation until 
        September 30, 2025, shall be for the commercial driver's 
        license program implementation program;
            (3) $60,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
        September 30, 2025, shall be for the high priority program;
            (4) $1,300,000, to remain available for obligation until 
        September 30, 2025, shall be for the commercial motor vehicle 
        operators grant program; and
            (5) $5,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
        September 30, 2025, shall be for the commercial motor vehicle 
        enforcement training and support grant program.

 administrative provisions--federal motor carrier safety administration

    Sec. 130.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall 
send notice of section 385.308 of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, violations by certified mail, registered mail, or another 
manner of delivery, which records the receipt of the notice by the 
persons responsible for the violations.
    Sec. 131.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to promulgate any 
rule or regulation to require vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 
more than 26,000 pounds operating in interstate commerce to be equipped 
with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed.
    Sec. 132.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to require the use 
of inward facing cameras as a condition for participation in the 
apprenticeship pilot program under section 23022 of the Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act (49 U.S.C. 31315 note).
    Sec. 133.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to implement a 
policy or regulation for the requirement that a motor carrier register 
an apprenticeship program with the Department of Labor, including 
registration under part 29 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, in 
order to participate in the apprenticeship pilot program under section 
23022 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (49 U.S.C. 31315 
note).
    Sec. 134.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Transportation by this Act or any other 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement, administer, or enforce 
the requirements of section 31137 of title 49, United States Code, or 
any regulation issued by the Secretary pursuant to such section, with 
respect to the use of electronic logging devices by operators of 
commercial motor vehicles, as defined in section 31132(1) of such 
title, transporting livestock as defined in section 602 of the 
Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C. 1471) or 
insects.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                        operations and research

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary, 
with respect to traffic and highway safety, authorized under chapter 
301 and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, 
$260,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2025.

                        operations and research

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions 
of section 403 of title 23, United States Code, including behavioral 
research on Automated Driving Systems and Advanced Driver Assistance 
Systems and improving consumer responses to safety recalls, section 
25024 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-
58), and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, $201,200,000, to 
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account) and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That none 
of the funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or 
execution of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 
2024, are in excess of $201,200,000:  Provided further, That of the 
sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $194,000,000 shall be for programs authorized under 
        section 403 of title 23, United States Code, including 
        behavioral research on Automated Driving Systems and Advanced 
        Driver Assistance Systems and improving consumer responses to 
        safety recalls, and section 25024 of the Infrastructure 
        Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58); and
            (2) $7,200,000 shall be for the National Driver Register 
        authorized under chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code:
  Provided further, That within the $201,200,000 obligation limitation 
for operations and research, $57,500,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2025, and shall be in addition to the amount of any 
limitation imposed on obligations for future years:  Provided further, 
That amounts for behavioral research on Automated Driving Systems and 
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and improving consumer responses to 
safety recalls are in addition to any other funds provided for those 
purposes for fiscal year 2024 in this Act.

                     highway traffic safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out provisions of 
sections 402, 404, and 405 of title 23, United States Code, and grant 
administration expenses under chapter 4 of title 23, United States 
Code, to remain available until expended, $813,300,800, to be derived 
from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account):  
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
planning or execution of programs for which the total obligations in 
fiscal year 2024 are in excess of $813,300,800 for programs authorized 
under sections 402, 404, and 405 of title 23, United States Code, and 
grant administration expenses under chapter 4 of title 23, United 
States Code:  Provided further, That of the sums appropriated under 
this heading--
            (1) $378,400,000 shall be for ``Highway Safety Programs'' 
        under section 402 of title 23, United States Code;
            (2) $353,500,000 shall be for ``National Priority Safety 
        Programs'' under section 405 of title 23, United States Code;
            (3) $40,300,000 shall be for the ``High Visibility 
        Enforcement Program'' under section 404 of title 23, United 
        States Code; and
            (4) $41,100,800 shall be for grant administrative expenses 
        under chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code:
  Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used for 
construction, rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office 
furnishings and fixtures for State, local or private buildings or 
structures:  Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds 
made available for ``National Priority Safety Programs'' under section 
405 of title 23, United States Code, for ``Impaired Driving 
Countermeasures'' (as described in subsection (d) of that section) 
shall be available for technical assistance to the States:  Provided 
further, That with respect to the ``Transfers'' provision under section 
405(a)(8) of title 23, United States Code, any amounts transferred to 
increase the amounts made available under section 402 shall include the 
obligation authority for such amounts:  Provided further, That the 
Administrator shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations of any exercise of the authority granted under the 
preceding proviso or under section 405(a)(8) of title 23, United States 
Code, within 5 days.

       administrative provision--national highway traffic safety 
                             administration

    Sec. 140.  The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act shall 
not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made 
available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the 
obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                         safety and operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $273,458,000, of which $25,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended.

                   railroad research and development

    For necessary expenses for railroad research and development, 
$44,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That of the 
amounts provided under this heading, up to $3,000,000 shall be 
available pursuant to section 20108(d) of title 49, United States Code, 
for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and 
improvements at the Transportation Technology Center.

        consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements

    For necessary expenses related to Consolidated Rail Infrastructure 
and Safety Improvements grants, as authorized by section 22907 of title 
49, United States Code, $258,464,439 to remain available until 
expended:  Provided, That of the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act, $28,864,439 shall be made available for the 
purposes, and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding in 
the table entitled ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report 
accompanying this Act:  Provided further, That amounts made available 
for Community Project Funding under this heading in this Act shall be 
available for railroad project planning activities of projects 
otherwise eligible under 22907(c):  Provided further, That requirements 
under subsections (g) and (l) of section 22907 of title 49, United 
States Code, shall not apply to the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act for Community Project Funding:  Provided further, 
That for amounts made available under this heading in this Act, 
eligible recipients under section 22907(b)(7) of title 49, United 
States Code, shall include any holding company of a Class II railroad 
or Class III railroad (as those terms are defined in section 20102 of 
title 49, United States Code):  Provided further, That the Secretary 
may withhold up to 2 percent of the amounts made available under this 
heading in this Act for the costs of award and project management 
oversight of grants carried out under title 49, United States Code.

     northeast corridor grants to the national railroad passenger 
                              corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with 
the Northeast Corridor as authorized by section 22101(a) of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), 
$99,231,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the 
Secretary may retain up to one-half of one percent of the amounts made 
available under both this heading in this Act and the ``National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' heading 
in this Act to fund the costs of project management and oversight of 
activities authorized by section 22101(c) of the Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).

 national network grants to the national railroad passenger corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with 
the National Network as authorized by section 22101(b) of division B of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), 
$776,376,000, to remain available until expended.

       administrative provisions--federal railroad administration

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 150.  The amounts made available to the Secretary or to the 
Federal Railroad Administration for the costs of award, administration, 
and project management oversight of financial assistance which are 
administered by the Federal Railroad Administration, in this and prior 
Acts, may be transferred to the Federal Railroad Administration's 
``Financial Assistance Oversight and Technical Assistance'' account for 
the necessary expenses to support the award, administration, project 
management oversight, and technical assistance of financial assistance 
administered by the Federal Railroad Administration, in the same manner 
as appropriated for in this and prior Acts:  Provided, That this 
section shall not apply to amounts that were previously designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent 
resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985.
    Sec. 151.  None of the funds made available to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any overtime costs 
in excess of $35,000 for any individual employee:  Provided, That the 
President of Amtrak may waive the cap set in the preceding proviso for 
specific employees when the President of Amtrak determines such a cap 
poses a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the system:  
Provided further, That the President of Amtrak shall report to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no later than 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, a summary of all overtime 
payments incurred by Amtrak for 2023 and the three prior calendar 
years:  Provided further, That such summary shall include the total 
number of employees that received waivers and the total overtime 
payments Amtrak paid to employees receiving waivers for each month for 
2023 and for the three prior calendar years.
    Sec. 152.  None of the funds made available to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation under the headings ``Northeast Corridor 
Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' and ``National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' may be 
used to reduce the total number of Amtrak Police Department uniformed 
officers patrolling on board passenger trains or at stations, 
facilities or rights-of-way below the staffing level on May 1, 2019.
    Sec. 153.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act or any other Act may be provided to the State 
of California for a high-speed rail corridor development project that 
is the same or substantially similar to the project that is the subject 
of Cooperative Agreement No. FR-HSR-0118-12-01-01 entered into between 
the California High-Speed Rail Authority and the Federal Railroad 
Administration.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                         transit formula grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in the Federal Public 
Transportation Assistance Program in this account, and for payment of 
obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 
5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 5329(e)(6), 5334, 5335, 5337, 5339, 
and 5340, as amended by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 
section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, and section 3006(b) of the 
Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, $13,990,000,000, to be 
derived from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That funds available for 
the implementation or execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 
5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 5314, 5318, 5329(e)(6), 5334, 5335, 5337, 
5339, and 5340, as amended by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act, section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, and section 3006(b) of the 
Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, shall not exceed total 
obligations of $13,990,000,000 in fiscal year 2024.

                     transit infrastructure grants

    For an additional amount for Community Project Funding for projects 
and activities eligible under chapter 53 of such title, $130,828,124, 
to remain available until expended, for the purposes, and in amounts, 
specified for Community Project Funding in the table entitled 
``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report accompanying this 
Act:  Provided, That unless otherwise specified, applicable 
requirements under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, shall 
apply to amounts made available in this paragraph, except that the 
Federal share of the costs for a project in this paragraph shall be in 
an amount equal to 80 percent of the net costs of the project, unless 
the Secretary approves a higher maximum Federal share of the net costs 
of the project consistent with administration of similar projects 
funded under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code:  Provided 
further, That amounts made available under this heading in this Act 
shall be derived from the general fund:  Provided further, That amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act shall not be subject to 
any limitation on obligations for transit programs set forth in this or 
any other Act.

                   technical assistance and training

    For necessary expenses to carry out section 5314 of title 49, 
United States Code, $8,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025, of which $500,000 shall be for the purpose of providing technical 
assistance and resources to Federally Recognized Tribes through the 
National Rural Transportation Assistance Program authorized under 
5311(b)(3)(C) of title 49, United States Code:  Provided, That the 
assistance provided under this heading does not duplicate the 
activities of section 5312 of title 49, United States Code:  Provided 
further, That amounts made available under this heading are in addition 
to any other amounts made available for such purposes:  Provided 
further, That amounts made available under this heading shall not be 
subject to any limitation on obligations set forth in this or any other 
Act.

                       capital investment grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out fixed guideway capital 
investment grants under section 5309 of title 49, United States Code, 
and section 3005(b) of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act 
(Public Law 114-94), $392,204,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $388,281,960 shall be available for projects authorized under 
section 5309(d) of title 49, United States Code.

      grants to the washington metropolitan area transit authority

    For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as 
authorized under section 601 of division B of the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-432), 
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the 
Secretary of Transportation shall approve grants for capital and 
preventive maintenance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority only after receiving and reviewing a request for 
each specific project:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
determine that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has 
placed the highest priority on those investments that will improve the 
safety of the system before approving such grants.

       administrative provisions--federal transit administration

    Sec. 160.  The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority under 
49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any 
other authority previously made available for obligation.
    Sec. 161.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading ``Capital 
Investment Grants'' of the Federal Transit Administration for projects 
specified in this Act not obligated by September 30, 2027, and other 
recoveries, shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for 
the purposes for which they were originally provided.
    Sec. 162.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds 
appropriated before October 1, 2023, under any section of chapter 53 of 
title 49, United States Code, that remain available for expenditure, 
may be transferred to and administered under the most recent 
appropriation heading for any such section.
    Sec. 163.  None of the funds made available by this Act or any 
other Act shall be used to adjust apportionments or withhold funds from 
apportionments pursuant to section 9503(e)(4) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9503(e)(4)).

        Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

    The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is 
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds 
and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accord 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations, as provided by section 9104 of title 31, 
United States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs 
set forth in the Corporation's budget for the current fiscal year.

                       operations and maintenance

                    (harbor maintenance trust fund)

    For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, maintenance, and 
capital infrastructure activities on portions of the St. Lawrence 
Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Great Lakes St. Lawrence 
Seaway Development Corporation, $40,288,000, to be derived from the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to section 210 of the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238):  Provided, That of 
the amounts made available under this heading, not less than 
$16,300,000 shall be for the seaway infrastructure program.

                        Maritime Administration

                       maritime security program

                    (including rescission of funds)

    For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag 
merchant fleet as authorized under chapter 531 of title 46, United 
States Code, to serve the national security needs of the United States, 
$318,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the 
unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available under 
this heading, $6,000,000 are hereby permanently rescinded.

                          cable security fleet

    For the cable security fleet program, as authorized under chapter 
532 of title 46, United States Code, $10,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.

                        tanker security program

    For Tanker Security Fleet payments, as authorized under section 
53406 of title 46, United States Code, $60,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds appropriated for the Tanker 
Security Fleet Program in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 
(P.L. 117-103) shall be available as authorized under section 53406 of 
title 46, United States Code, and for the Secretary to timely reimburse 
each program participant up to $2,500,000 for each of its vessels 
covered by an operating agreement under section 53403 of title 46, 
United States Code, for verifiable training and other costs incurred to 
ensure that mariners on such vessels are fully qualified to meet the 
specialized requirements to serve on product tank vessels.

                        operations and training

    For necessary expenses of operations and training activities 
authorized by law, $210,181,000:  Provided, That of the sums 
appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $89,507,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
        2025, for the operations of the United States Merchant Marine 
        Academy;
            (2) $11,900,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        facilities maintenance and repair, and equipment, at the United 
        States Merchant Marine Academy;
            (3) $31,921,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine 
        Academy;
            (4) $6,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
        2025, for the Maritime Environmental and Technical Assistance 
        program authorized under section 50307 of title 46, United 
        States Code; and
            (5) $10,000,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        the United States Marine Highway Program to make grants for the 
        purposes authorized under section 55601 of title 46, United 
        States Code:
  Provided further, That the Administrator of the Maritime 
Administration shall transmit to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations the annual report on sexual assault and sexual 
harassment at the United States Merchant Marine Academy as required 
pursuant to section 3510 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 2017 (46 U.S.C. 51318):  Provided further, That available 
balances under this heading for the Short Sea Transportation Program or 
America's Marine Highway Program (now known as the United States Marine 
Highway Program) from prior year recoveries shall be available to carry 
out activities authorized under section 55601 of title 46, United 
States Code.

                   state maritime academy operations

    For necessary expenses of operations, support, and training 
activities for State Maritime Academies, $56,400,000:  Provided, That 
of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $22,000,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        maintenance, repair, and life extension of training ships at 
        the State Maritime Academies;
            (2) $19,200,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program, including 
        funds for construction, planning, administration, and design of 
        school ships and, as determined by the Secretary, necessary 
        expenses to design, plan, construct infrastructure, and 
        purchase equipment necessary to berth such ships;
            (3) $2,400,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
        2028, for the Student Incentive Program;
            (4) $6,800,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
        training ship fuel assistance; and
            (5) $6,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
        2025, for direct payments for State Maritime Academies:
  Provided further, That the Administrator of the Maritime 
Administration may use the funds made available under paragraph (2) and 
the funds provided for shoreside infrastructure improvements in Public 
Law 117-103 for the purposes described in paragraph (2):  Provided 
further, That such funds may be used to reimburse State Maritime 
Academies for costs incurred prior to the date of enactment of this 
Act: Provided further, That such funds shall be available for 
reimbursement only for those costs incurred in compliance with all 
applicable Federal law, including the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the National Historic Preservation 
Act (54 U.S.C. 300101 et seq.).

                     assistance to small shipyards

    To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized under section 
54101 of title 46, United States Code, $20,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.

                             ship disposal

    For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete vessels 
in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime Administration, 
$6,000,000, to remain available until expended.

          maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan 
program, $3,000,000, which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriations for ``Maritime Administration--Operations and 
Training''.

                port infrastructure development program

    To make grants to improve port facilities as authorized under 
section 54301 of title 46, United States Code, $69,727,566 to remain 
available until expended, for the purposes, and in the amounts, 
specified for Community Project Funding in the table entitled 
``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report accompanying this 
Act.

           administrative provisions--maritime administration

    Sec. 170.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in 
addition to any existing authority, the Maritime Administration is 
authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs 
in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving 
Government property under control of the Maritime Administration:  
Provided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to the 
appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall remain available 
until expended:  Provided further, That rental payments under any such 
lease, contract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities, 
services, or repairs shall be deposited into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts.
    Sec. 171.  In addition to amounts otherwise made available by this 
or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated $6,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to carry out section 3546 of Public Law 117-
263, Recapitalization of National Defense Reserve Fleet.

         Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

                          operational expenses

    For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Hazardous 
Materials Safety Administration, $31,681,000, of which $4,500,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2026.

                       hazardous materials safety

    For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials safety 
functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $80,874,000; of which $14,070,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2026, of which $1,000,000 shall be made 
available for carrying out section 5107(i) of title 49, United States 
Code:  Provided, That up to $800,000 in fees collected under section 
5108(g) of title 49, United States Code, shall be deposited in the 
general fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts:  Provided further, 
That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training, for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel 
expenses incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and 
approvals functions.

                            pipeline safety

                         (pipeline safety fund)

                    (oil spill liability trust fund)

    For expenses necessary to carry out a pipeline safety program, as 
authorized by section 60107 of title 49, United States Code, and to 
discharge the pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-380), $197,441,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2026, of which $30,000,000 shall be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which $160,041,000 shall be 
derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund; of which $400,000 shall be 
derived from the fees collected under section 60303 of title 49, United 
States Code, and deposited in the Liquefied Natural Gas Siting Account 
for compliance reviews of liquefied natural gas facilities; and of 
which $7,000,000 shall be derived from fees collected under section 
60302 of title 49, United States Code, and deposited in the Underground 
Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account for the purpose of carrying 
out section 60141 of title 49, United States Code:  Provided, That not 
less than $1,058,000 of the amounts made available under this heading 
shall be for the One-Call State grant program:  Provided further, That 
any amounts made available under this heading in this Act or in prior 
Acts for research contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or research 
other transactions agreements (``OTAs'') shall require written 
notification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not 
less than 3 full business days before such research contracts, grants, 
cooperative agreements, or research OTAs are announced by the 
Department of Transportation.

                     emergency preparedness grants

                      (limitation on obligations)

                     (emergency preparedness fund)

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Emergency Preparedness 
Grants program, not more than $28,318,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2026, from amounts made available by section 5116(h) and 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 5128 of title 49, United States 
Code:  Provided, That notwithstanding section 5116(h)(4) of title 49, 
United States Code, not more than 4 percent of the amounts made 
available from this account shall be available to pay the 
administrative costs of carrying out sections 5116, 5107(e), and 
5108(g)(2) of title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c) of section 5128 of title 49, 
United States Code, and the limitation on obligations provided under 
this heading, prior year recoveries recognized in the current year 
shall be available to develop and deliver hazardous materials emergency 
response training for emergency responders, including response 
activities for the transportation of crude oil, ethanol, flammable 
liquids, and other hazardous commodities by rail, consistent with 
National Fire Protection Association standards, and to make such 
training available through an electronic format:  Provided further, 
That the prior year recoveries made available under this heading shall 
also be available to carry out sections 5116(a)(1)(C), 5116(h), 
5116(i), 5116(j), and 5107(e) of title 49, United States Code.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General to carry 
out the provisions of section 404 of title 5, United States Code, as 
amended, $121,001,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the 
Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), to investigate 
allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the Department of Transportation: Provided further, That the Inspector 
General shall have independent authority over all personnel issues 
within this office.

            General Provisions--Department of Transportation

    Sec. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available 
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor 
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department 
business; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code.
    (b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations to 
the Department and its operating administrations shall be available for 
the purchase, maintenance, operation, and deployment of unmanned 
aircraft systems that advance the missions of the Department of 
Transportation or an operating administration of the Department of 
Transportation.
    (c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased, procured, or contracted 
for by the Department prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall 
be deemed authorized by Congress as if this provision was in effect 
when the system was purchased, procured, or contracted for.
    Sec. 181.  Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates for 
individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for 
an Executive Level IV.
    Sec. 182. (a) No recipient of amounts made available by this Act 
shall disseminate personal information (as defined in section 2725(3) 
of title 18, United States Code) obtained by a State department of 
motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record as defined in 
section 2725(1) of title 18, United States Code, except as provided in 
section 2721 of title 18, United States Code, for a use permitted under 
section 2721 of title 18, United States Code.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not 
withhold amounts made available by this Act for any grantee if a State 
is in noncompliance with this provision.
    Sec. 183.  None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for salaries and expenses of more than 125 political and 
Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation:  Provided, 
That none of the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on 
temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 184.  Funds received by the Federal Highway Administration and 
Federal Railroad Administration from States, counties, municipalities, 
other public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training may be credited respectively to the Federal Highway 
Administration's ``Federal-Aid Highways'' account and to the Federal 
Railroad Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for 
State rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 
section 20105 of title 49, United States Code.
    Sec. 185.  None of the funds made available by this Act or in title 
VIII of division J of Public Law 117-58 to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, line of 
credit, letter of intent, federally funded cooperative agreement, full 
funding grant agreement, or discretionary grant unless the Secretary of 
Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project 
competitively selected to receive any discretionary grant award, letter 
of intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of credit 
commitment, federally funded cooperative agreement, or full funding 
grant agreement is announced by the Department or its operating 
administrations:  Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation shall 
provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with a 
comprehensive list of all such loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, 
letters of intent, federally funded cooperative agreements, full 
funding grant agreements, and discretionary grants prior to the 
notification required under the preceding proviso:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary gives concurrent notification to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations for any ``quick release'' of funds 
from the emergency relief program:  Provided further, That no 
notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation.
    Sec. 186.  Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees, and 
other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building 
space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations 
of the Department of Transportation and allocated to organizational 
units of the Department of Transportation using fair and equitable 
criteria and such funds shall be available until expended.
    Sec. 187.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any funds 
provided by or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogramming 
action that requires notice to be provided to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, transmission of such reprogramming notice 
shall be provided solely to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, and such reprogramming action shall be approved or 
denied solely by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:  
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation may provide notice to 
other congressional committees of the action of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 
30 days after the date on which the reprogramming action has been 
approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Sec. 188.  Funds appropriated by this Act to the operating 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for 
the costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when 
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are purchased 
to provide a direct benefit to the applicable operating administration 
or administrations.
    Sec. 189.  The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to carry 
out a program that establishes uniform standards for developing and 
supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits authorized under 
section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of 
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media.
    Sec. 190.  The Department of Transportation may use funds provided 
by this Act, or any other Act, to assist a contract under title 49 or 
23 of the United States Code utilizing geographic, economic, or any 
other hiring preference not otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a 
rule, regulation, policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of a 
Federal Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administration grant 
from imposing such hiring preference on a contract or construction 
project with which the Department of Transportation is assisting, only 
if the grant recipient certifies the following:
            (1) that except with respect to apprentices or trainees, a 
        pool of readily available but unemployed individuals possessing 
        the knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the work that the 
        contract requires resides in the jurisdiction;
            (2) that the grant recipient will include appropriate 
        provisions in its bid document ensuring that the contractor 
        does not displace any of its existing employees in order to 
        satisfy such hiring preference; and
            (3) that any increase in the cost of labor, training, or 
        delays resulting from the use of such hiring preference does 
        not delay or displace any transportation project in the 
        applicable Statewide Transportation Improvement Program or 
        Transportation Improvement Program.
    Sec. 191.  The Secretary of Transportation shall coordinate with 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that best practices for 
Industrial Control Systems Procurement are up-to-date and shall ensure 
that systems procured with funds provided under this title were 
procured using such practices.
    Sec. 192.  None of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act may be used to require information, criteria, reporting 
requirements, or submissions with respect to any grant program of the 
Department of Transportation in accordance with an equity action plan, 
including the Equity Action Plan of the Department of Transportation 
published in January 2022.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Transportation 
Appropriations Act, 2024''.

                                TITLE II

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                     Management and Administration

                           executive offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Offices, which 
shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, 
Adjudicatory Services, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, 
Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the 
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $18,699,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That not to 
exceed $25,000 of the amount made available under this heading shall be 
available to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (referred 
to in this title as ``the Secretary'') for official reception and 
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine.

                     administrative support offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative Support 
Offices, $664,287,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $90,380,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Chief Financial Officer;
            (2) $125,833,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        General Counsel, of which not less than $20,300,000 shall be 
        for the Departmental Enforcement Center;
            (3) $226,682,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Administration, of which not less than $4,680,000 may be for 
        modernization and deferred maintenance of the Weaver Building;
            (4) $51,743,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Chief Human Capital Officer;
            (5) $28,137,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Chief Procurement Officer;
            (6) $66,130,000 shall be available for the Office of Field 
        Policy and Management;
            (7) $4,630,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; and
            (8) $70,752,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
        Chief Information Officer:
  Provided further, That funds made available under this heading may be 
used for necessary administrative and non-administrative expenses of 
the Department, not otherwise provided for, including purchase of 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 
5902 of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
and services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds appropriated under this heading may be used for advertising 
and promotional activities that directly support program activities 
funded in this title.

                            program offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Program Offices, 
$1,062,065,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $280,117,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Public and Indian Housing;
            (2) $164,507,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Community Planning and Development;
            (3) $468,286,000 shall be available for the Office of 
        Housing, of which not less than $13,300,000 shall be for the 
        Office of Recapitalization;
            (4) $39,884,000 shall be available for the Office of Policy 
        Development and Research;
            (5) $98,081,000 shall be available for the Office of Fair 
        Housing and Equal Opportunity; and
            (6) $11,190,000 shall be available for the Office of Lead 
        Hazard Control and Healthy Homes.

                          working capital fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the working capital fund for the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development (referred to in this paragraph as the ``Fund''), 
pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred, 
including reimbursements pursuant to section 7(f), to the Fund under 
this heading shall be available only for Federal shared services used 
by offices and agencies of the Department, and for any such portion of 
any office or agency's information technology end-user devices and 
wireless support, printing, records management, space renovation, 
furniture, or supply services the Secretary has determined shall be 
provided through the Fund, and the operational expenses of the Fund:  
Provided, That amounts within the Fund shall not be available to 
provide services not specifically authorized under this heading:  
Provided further, That upon a determination by the Secretary that any 
other service (or portion thereof) authorized under this heading shall 
be provided through the Fund, amounts made available in this title for 
salaries and expenses under the headings ``Executive Offices'', 
``Administrative Support Offices'', ``Program Offices'', and 
``Government National Mortgage Association'', for such services shall 
be transferred to the Fund, to remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That the Secretary shall notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations of its plans for executing such transfers 
at least 15 days in advance of such transfers.

                       Public and Indian Housing

                     tenant-based rental assistance

    For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act of 
1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (in this title ``the Act''), 
not otherwise provided for, $27,131,600,000 to remain available until 
expended, which shall be available on October 1, 2023 (in addition to 
the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading that 
shall be available on October 1, 2023), and $4,000,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be available on October 1, 2024:  
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $27,374,554,000 shall be available for renewals of 
        expiring section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts 
        (including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision of 
        law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act), 
        including renewal of other special purpose incremental 
        vouchers:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any 
        carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 2024 funding 
        cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing 
        agency based on validated voucher management system (VMS) 
        leasing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by 
        applying an inflation factor as established by the Secretary, 
        by notice published in the Federal Register, and by making any 
        necessary adjustments for the costs associated with the first-
        time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph including tenant 
        protection and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers:  Provided 
        further, That none of the funds provided under this paragraph 
        may be used to fund a total number of unit months under lease 
        which exceeds a public housing agency's authorized level of 
        units under contract, except for public housing agencies 
        participating in the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, which 
        are instead governed in accordance with the requirements of the 
        MTW demonstration program or their MTW agreements, if any:  
        Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to the extent 
        necessary to stay within the amount specified under this 
        paragraph (except as otherwise modified under this paragraph), 
        prorate each public housing agency's allocation otherwise 
        established pursuant to this paragraph:  Provided further, That 
        except as provided in the following provisos, the entire amount 
        specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified 
        under this paragraph) shall be obligated to the public housing 
        agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method described 
        above, and the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies 
        of their annual budget by the latter of 60 days after enactment 
        of this Act or March 1, 2024:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary may extend the notification period with the prior 
        written approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations:  Provided further, That public housing agencies 
        participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded in 
        accordance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration 
        program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall be subject 
        to the same pro rata adjustments under the preceding provisos:  
        Provided further, That the Secretary may offset public housing 
        agencies' calendar year 2024 allocations based on the excess 
        amounts of public housing agencies' net restricted assets 
        accounts, including HUD-held programmatic reserves (in 
        accordance with VMS data in calendar year 2023 that is 
        verifiable and complete), as determined by the Secretary:  
        Provided further, That public housing agencies participating in 
        the MTW demonstration shall also be subject to the offset, as 
        determined by the Secretary, excluding amounts subject to the 
        single fund budget authority provisions of their MTW 
        agreements, from the agencies' calendar year 2024 MTW funding 
        allocation:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall use any 
        offset referred to in the preceding two provisos throughout the 
        calendar year to prevent the termination of rental assistance 
        for families as the result of insufficient funding, as 
        determined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the 
        proration of renewal funding allocations:  Provided further, 
        That up to $100,000,000 shall be available only--
                    (A) for adjustments in the allocations for public 
                housing agencies, after application for an adjustment 
                by a public housing agency that experienced a 
                significant increase, as determined by the Secretary, 
                in renewal costs of vouchers resulting from unforeseen 
                circumstances or from portability under section 8(r) of 
                the Act;
                    (B) for vouchers that were not in use during the 
                previous 12-month period in order to be available to 
                meet a commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the 
                Act, or an adjustment for a funding obligation not yet 
                expended in the previous calendar year for a MTW-
                eligible activity to develop affordable housing for an 
                agency added to the MTW demonstration under the 
                expansion authority provided in section 239 of the 
                Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
                Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division L 
                of Public Law 114-113);
                    (C) for adjustments for costs associated with HUD-
                Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) 
                vouchers;
                    (D) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
                reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
                Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate 
                rental assistance for families as a result of 
                insufficient funding;
                    (E) for adjustments in the allocations for public 
                housing agencies that--
                            (i) are leasing a lower-than-average 
                        percentage of their authorized vouchers,
                            (ii) have low amounts of budget authority 
                        in their net restricted assets accounts and 
                        HUD-held programmatic reserves, relative to 
                        other agencies, and
                            (iii) are not participating in the Moving 
                        to Work demonstration, to enable such agencies 
                        to lease more vouchers;
                    (F) for withheld payments in accordance with 
                section 8(o)(8)(A)(ii) of the Act for months in the 
                previous calendar year that were subsequently paid by 
                the public housing agency after the agency's actual 
                costs were validated; and
                    (G) for public housing agencies that have 
                experienced increased costs or loss of units in an area 
                for which the President declared a disaster under title 
                IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
                Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.):
          Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts 
        under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined by the 
        Secretary;
            (2) $337,000,000 shall be available for section 8 rental 
        assistance for relocation and replacement of housing units that 
        are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the 
        Act, conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under 
        section 8, relocation of witnesses (including victims of 
        violent crimes) in connection with efforts to combat crime in 
        public and assisted housing pursuant to a request from a law 
        enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers under any 
        provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) 
        of the Act, Choice Neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and 
        voluntary conversions, and tenant protection assistance 
        including replacement and relocation assistance or for project-
        based assistance to prevent the displacement of unassisted 
        elderly tenants currently residing in section 202 properties 
        financed between 1959 and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to 
        Public Law 106-569, as amended, or under the authority as 
        provided under this Act:  Provided, That when a public housing 
        development is submitted for demolition or disposition under 
        section 18 of the Act, the Secretary may provide section 8 
        rental assistance when the units pose an imminent health and 
        safety risk to residents:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
        may provide section 8 rental assistance from amounts made 
        available under this paragraph for units assisted under a 
        project-based subsidy contract funded under the ``Project-Based 
        Rental Assistance'' heading under this title where the owner 
        has received a Notice of Default and the units pose an imminent 
        health and safety risk to residents:  Provided further, That of 
        the amounts made available under this paragraph, no less than 
        $5,000,000 may be available to provide tenant protection 
        assistance, not otherwise provided under this paragraph, to 
        residents residing in low vacancy areas and who may have to pay 
        rents greater than 30 percent of household income, as the 
        result of (A) the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or 
        section 202 loan that requires the permission of the Secretary 
        prior to loan prepayment; (B) the expiration of a rental 
        assistance contract for which the tenants are not eligible for 
        enhanced voucher or tenant protection assistance under existing 
        law; or (C) the expiration of affordability restrictions 
        accompanying a mortgage or preservation program administered by 
        the Secretary:  Provided further, That such tenant protection 
        assistance made available under the preceding proviso may be 
        provided under the authority of section 8(t) or section 
        8(o)(13) of the Act:  Provided further, That any tenant 
        protection voucher made available from amounts under this 
        paragraph shall not be reissued by any public housing agency, 
        except the replacement vouchers as defined by the Secretary by 
        notice, when the initial family that received any such voucher 
        no longer receives such voucher, and the authority for any 
        public housing agency to issue any such voucher shall cease to 
        exist:  Provided further, That the Secretary may only provide 
        replacement vouchers for units that were occupied within the 
        previous 24 months that cease to be available as assisted 
        housing, subject only to the availability of funds;
            (3) $2,734,046,000 shall be available for administrative 
        and other expenses of public housing agencies in administering 
        the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which 
        up to $30,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to 
        allocate to public housing agencies that need additional funds 
        to administer their section 8 programs, including fees 
        associated with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, 
        the administration of disaster related vouchers, HUD-VASH 
        vouchers, and other special purpose incremental vouchers:  
        Provided, That no less than $2,704,046,000 of the amount 
        provided in this paragraph shall be allocated to public housing 
        agencies for the calendar year 2024 funding cycle based on 
        section 8(q) of the Act (and related appropriation Act 
        provisions) as in effect immediately before the enactment of 
        the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public 
        Law 105-276):  Provided further, That if the amounts made 
        available under this paragraph are insufficient to pay the 
        amounts determined under the preceding proviso, the Secretary 
        may decrease the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform 
        percentage applicable to all agencies receiving funding under 
        this paragraph or may, to the extent necessary to provide full 
        payment of amounts determined under the preceding proviso, 
        utilize unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
        carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department 
        of Housing and Urban Development under this heading from prior 
        fiscal years, excluding special purpose vouchers, 
        notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were 
        appropriated:  Provided further, That all public housing 
        agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded 
        in accordance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration 
        program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall be subject 
        to the same uniform percentage decrease as under the preceding 
        proviso:  Provided further, That amounts provided under this 
        paragraph shall be only for activities related to the provision 
        of tenant-based rental assistance authorized under section 8, 
        including related development activities;
            (4) $686,000,000 shall be available for the renewal of 
        tenant-based assistance contracts under section 811 of the 
        Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
        8013), including necessary administrative expenses:  Provided, 
        That administrative and other expenses of public housing 
        agencies in administering the special purpose vouchers in this 
        paragraph shall be funded under the same terms and be subject 
        to the same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for 
        administrative and other expenses to public housing agencies 
        under paragraph (3) of this heading:  Provided further, That up 
        to $10,000,000 shall be available only--
                    (A) for adjustments in the allocation for public 
                housing agencies, after applications for an adjustment 
                by a public housing agency that experienced a 
                significant increase, as determined by the Secretary, 
                in Mainstream renewal costs resulting from unforeseen 
                circumstances; and
                    (B) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
                reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
                Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate the 
                rental assistance for Mainstream families as a result 
                of insufficient funding:
          Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts 
        under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined by the 
        Secretary:  Provided further, That upon turnover, section 811 
        special purpose vouchers funded under this heading in this or 
        prior Acts, or under any other heading in prior Acts, shall be 
        provided to non-elderly persons with disabilities;
            (5) Of the amounts provided under paragraph (1), up to 
        $5,000,000 shall be available for rental assistance and 
        associated administrative fees for Tribal HUD-VASH to serve 
        Native American veterans that are homeless or at-risk of 
        homelessness living on or near a reservation or other Indian 
        areas:  Provided, That such amount shall be made available for 
        renewal grants to recipients that received assistance under 
        prior Acts under the Tribal HUD-VASH program:  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary shall be authorized to specify 
        criteria for renewal grants, including data on the utilization 
        of assistance reported by grant recipients:  Provided further, 
        That such assistance shall be administered in accordance with 
        program requirements under the Native American Housing 
        Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and modeled after 
        the HUD-VASH program:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
        shall be authorized to waive, or specify alternative 
        requirements for any provision of any statute or regulation 
        that the Secretary administers in connection with the use of 
        funds made available under this paragraph (except for 
        requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor 
        standards, and the environment), upon a finding by the 
        Secretary that any such waivers or alternative requirements are 
        necessary for the effective delivery and administration of such 
        assistance:  Provided further, That grant recipients shall 
        report to the Secretary on utilization of such rental 
        assistance and other program data, as prescribed by the 
        Secretary:  Provided further, That the Secretary may 
        reallocate, as determined by the Secretary, amounts returned or 
        recaptured from awards under the Tribal HUD-VASH program under 
        prior Acts to existing recipients under the Tribal HUD-VASH 
        program; and
            (6) The Secretary shall separately track all special 
        purpose vouchers funded under this heading.

                        housing certificate fund

                        (including rescissions)

    Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing'' and the heading ``Project-Based Rental Assistance'', 
for fiscal year 2024 and prior years may be used for renewal of or 
amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for performance-
based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such funds were appropriated:  Provided, That any obligated balances of 
contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior fiscal years that 
have been terminated shall be rescinded:  Provided further, That 
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current fiscal 
year, from section 8 project-based contracts from source years fiscal 
year 1975 through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount 
of additional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded 
is hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, for the 
purposes set forth under this heading, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available.

                          public housing fund

    For 2024 payments to public housing agencies for the operation and 
management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)) (the ``Act''), 
and to carry out capital and management activities for public housing 
agencies, as authorized under section 9(d) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 
1437g(d)), $8,363,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2027:  Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $5,103,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
        allocate pursuant to the Operating Fund formula at part 990 of 
        title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, for 2024 payments;
            (2) $25,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
        allocate pursuant to a need-based application process 
        notwithstanding section 203 of this title and not subject to 
        such Operating Fund formula to public housing agencies that 
        experience, or are at risk of, financial shortfalls, as 
        determined by the Secretary:  Provided, That after all such 
        shortfall needs are met, the Secretary may distribute any 
        remaining funds to all public housing agencies on a pro-rata 
        basis pursuant to such Operating Fund formula;
            (3) $3,180,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
        allocate pursuant to the Capital Fund formula at section 
        905.400 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations:  Provided, 
        That for funds provided under this paragraph, the limitation in 
        section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 percent:  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary may waive the limitation in the 
        preceding proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund 
        activities authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act:  
        Provided further, That the Secretary shall notify public 
        housing agencies requesting waivers under the preceding proviso 
        if the request is approved or denied within 14 days of 
        submitting the request:  Provided further, That from the funds 
        made available under this paragraph, the Secretary shall 
        provide bonus awards in fiscal year 2024 to public housing 
        agencies that are designated high performers:  Provided 
        further, That the Department shall notify public housing 
        agencies of their formula allocation within 60 days of 
        enactment of this Act;
            (4) $40,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
        make grants, notwithstanding section 203 of this title, to 
        public housing agencies for emergency capital needs, including 
        safety and security measures necessary to address crime and 
        drug-related activity, as well as needs resulting from 
        unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and natural disasters 
        excluding Presidentially declared emergencies and natural 
        disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
        Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 
        2024:  Provided, That of the amount made available under this 
        paragraph, not less than $20,000,000 shall be for safety and 
        security measures:  Provided further, That in addition to the 
        amount in the preceding proviso for such safety and security 
        measures, any amounts that remain available, after all 
        applications received on or before September 30, 2025, for 
        emergency capital needs have been processed, shall be allocated 
        to public housing agencies for such safety and security 
        measures; and
            (5) $15,000,000 shall be available to support the costs of 
        administrative and judicial receiverships and for competitive 
        grants to PHAs in receivership, designated troubled or 
        substandard, or otherwise at risk, as determined by the 
        Secretary, for costs associated with public housing asset 
        improvement, in addition to other amounts for that purpose 
        provided under any heading under this title:
          Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law or regulation, during fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of 
        Housing and Urban Development may not delegate to any 
        Department official other than the Deputy Secretary and the 
        Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing any authority 
        under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) of the Act regarding the 
        extension of the time periods under such section: Provided 
        further, That for purposes of such section 9(j), the term 
        ``obligate'' means, with respect to amounts, that the amounts 
        are subject to a binding agreement that will result in outlays, 
        immediately or in the future.

        operational performance evaluation and risk assessments

    For the Department's inspection and assessment programs, including 
travel, training, and program support contracts, $51,000,000 to remain 
available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That unobligated 
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Public Housing Fund'' to support 
ongoing public housing financial and physical assessment activities 
shall be available for the purposes authorized under this heading in 
addition to the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated.

                       self-sufficiency programs

    For activities and assistance related to Self-Sufficiency Programs, 
to remain available until September 30, 2027, $175,000,000:  Provided, 
That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $125,000,000 shall be available for the Family Self-
        Sufficiency program to support family self-sufficiency 
        coordinators under section 23 of the United States Housing Act 
        of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u), to promote the development of local 
        strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under sections 8 
        and 9 of such Act with public and private resources, and enable 
        eligible families to achieve economic independence and self-
        sufficiency;
            (2) $35,000,000 shall be available for the Resident 
        Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency program to provide for 
        supportive services, service coordinators, and congregate 
        services as authorized by section 34 of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437z-6) and the Native American 
        Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
        U.S.C. 4101 et seq.):  Provided, That amounts made available 
        under this paragraph may be used to renew Resident Opportunity 
        and Self-Sufficiency program grants to allow the public housing 
        agency, or a new owner, to continue to serve (or restart 
        service to) residents of a project with assistance converted 
        from public housing to project-based rental assistance under 
        section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
        1437f) or assistance under section 8(o)(13) of such Act under 
        the heading ``Rental Assistance Demonstration'' in the 
        Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 
        2012 (Public Law 112-55), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f note); 
        and
            (3) $15,000,000 shall be available for a Jobs-Plus 
        Initiative, modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration:  
        Provided, That funding provided under this paragraph shall be 
        available for competitive grants to partnerships between public 
        housing authorities, local workforce investment boards 
        established under section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and 
        Opportunity Act of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and other agencies 
        and organizations that provide support to help public housing 
        residents obtain employment and increase earnings:  Provided 
        further, That applicants must demonstrate the ability to 
        provide services to residents, partner with workforce 
        investment boards, and leverage service dollars:  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary may allow public housing agencies 
        to request exemptions from rent and income limitation 
        requirements under sections 3 and 6 of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437d), as necessary to 
        implement the Jobs-Plus program, on such terms and conditions 
        as the Secretary may approve upon a finding by the Secretary 
        that any such waivers or alternative requirements are necessary 
        for the effective implementation of the Jobs-Plus Initiative as 
        a voluntary program for residents:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal Register any 
        waivers or alternative requirements pursuant to the preceding 
        proviso no later than 10 days before the effective date of such 
        notice.

                        native american programs

    For activities and assistance authorized under title I of the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
(in this heading ``NAHASDA'') (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), title I of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 
with respect to Indian tribes, and related training and technical 
assistance, $1,344,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2028:  Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $1,110,000,000 shall be available for the Native 
        American Housing Block Grants program, as authorized under 
        title I of NAHASDA:  Provided, That, notwithstanding NAHASDA, 
        to determine the amount of the allocation under title I of such 
        Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the 
        formula under section 302 of such Act with the need component 
        based on single-race census data and with the need component 
        based on multi-race census data, and the amount of the 
        allocation for each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the 
        two resulting allocation amounts:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary shall notify grantees of their formula allocation not 
        later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act;
            (2) $150,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants 
        under the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as 
        authorized under title I of NAHASDA:  Provided, That the 
        Secretary shall obligate such amount for competitive grants to 
        eligible recipients authorized under NAHASDA that apply for 
        funds:  Provided further, That in awarding amounts made 
        available in this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider need 
        and administrative capacity, and shall give priority to 
        projects that will spur construction and rehabilitation of 
        housing:  Provided further, That any amounts transferred for 
        the necessary costs of administering and overseeing the 
        obligation and expenditure of such additional amounts in prior 
        Acts may also be used for the necessary costs of administering 
        and overseeing such additional amount;
            (3) $2,000,000 shall be available for the cost of 
        guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title 
        VI of NAHASDA:  Provided, That such costs, including the cost 
        of modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as 
        defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        (2 U.S.C. 661a):  Provided further, That amounts made available 
        in this and prior Acts for the cost of such guaranteed notes 
        and other obligations that are unobligated, including 
        recaptures and carryover, shall be available to subsidize the 
        total principal amount of any notes and other obligations, any 
        part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $50,000,000, 
        to remain available until September 30, 2025;
            (4) $75,000,000 shall be available for grants to Indian 
        tribes for carrying out the Indian Community Development Block 
        Grant program under title I of the Housing and Community 
        Development Act of 1974, notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of 
        such Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision of law 
        (including section 203 of this Act), not more than $5,000,000 
        may be used for emergencies that constitute imminent threats to 
        health and safety:  Provided, That not to exceed 20 percent of 
        any grant made with amounts made available in this paragraph 
        shall be expended for planning and management development and 
        administration; and
            (5) $7,000,000, in addition to amounts otherwise available 
        for such purpose, shall be available for providing training and 
        technical assistance to Indian tribes, Indian housing 
        authorities, and tribally designated housing entities, to 
        support the inspection of Indian housing units, for contract 
        expertise, and for training and technical assistance related to 
        amounts made available under this heading and other headings in 
        this Act for the needs of Native American families and Indian 
        country:  Provided, That of the amounts made available in this 
        paragraph, not less than $2,000,000 shall be for a national 
        organization as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA (25 
        U.S.C. 4212):  Provided further, That amounts made available in 
        this paragraph may be used, contracted, or competed as 
        determined by the Secretary:  Provided further, That 
        notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code 
        (commonly known as the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements 
        Act of 1977), the amounts made available in this paragraph may 
        be used by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements 
        with public and private organizations, agencies, institutions, 
        and other technical assistance providers to support the 
        administration of negotiated rulemaking under section 106 of 
        NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4116), the administration of the allocation 
        formula under section 302 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the 
        administration of performance tracking and reporting under 
        section 407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167).

           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13a), $1,500,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 661a):  Provided further, That amounts made available in this 
and prior Acts for the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 
section 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 
U.S.C. 1715z-13a), that are unobligated, including recaptures and 
carryover, shall be available to subsidize total loan principal, any 
part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,800,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025.

                  native hawaiian housing block grant

    For the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program, as authorized 
under title VIII of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.), $22,300,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2028:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 812(b) of such Act, the Department of Hawaiian 
Home Lands may not invest grant amounts made available under this 
heading in investment securities and other obligations:  Provided 
further, That amounts made available under this heading in this and 
prior fiscal years may be used to provide rental assistance to eligible 
Native Hawaiian families both on and off the Hawaiian Home Lands, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law:  Provided further, That up 
to $1,000,000 of the amounts made available under this heading shall be 
for training and technical assistance related to amounts made available 
under this heading and other headings in this Act for the needs of 
Native Hawaiians and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

      native hawaiian housing loan guarantee fund program account

    New commitments to guarantee loans, as authorized by section 184A 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13b), any part of which is to be guaranteed, shall not exceed 
$21,000,000 in total loan principal, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025:  Provided, That the Secretary may enter into 
commitments to guarantee loans used for refinancing.

                   Community Planning and Development

              housing opportunities for persons with aids

    For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 
program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12901 et seq.), $505,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(5) of 
such Act shall remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided, 
That the Secretary shall renew or replace all expiring contracts for 
permanent supportive housing that initially were funded under section 
854(c)(5) of such Act from funds made available under this heading in 
fiscal year 2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program 
requirements before awarding funds for new contracts under such 
section:  Provided further, That the process for submitting amendments 
and approving replacement contracts shall be established by the 
Secretary in a notice:  Provided further, That the Department shall 
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment 
of this Act.

                       community development fund

    For assistance to States and units of general local government, and 
other entities, for economic and community development activities, and 
other purposes, $5,554,267,912 to remain available until September 30, 
2027:  Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $3,300,000,000 shall be available for carrying out the 
        community development block grant program under title I of the 
        Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 
        U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) (in this heading ``the Act''):  Provided, 
        That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds made 
        available under this paragraph shall be expended for planning 
        and management development and administration:  Provided 
        further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit of 
        general local government, or insular area that directly or 
        indirectly receives funds under this paragraph may not sell, 
        trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of such funds 
        to another such entity in exchange for any other funds, 
        credits, or non-Federal considerations, but shall use such 
        funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act:  
        Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of the 
        Act, no funds made available under this paragraph may be 
        provided to a for-profit entity for an economic development 
        project under section 105(a)(17) unless such project has been 
        evaluated and selected in accordance with guidelines required 
        under subsection (e)(2) of section 105;
            (2) $30,000,000 shall be available for activities 
        authorized under section 8071 of the SUPPORT for Patients and 
        Communities Act (Public Law 115-271):  Provided, That funds 
        allocated pursuant to this paragraph shall not adversely affect 
        the amount of any formula assistance received by a State under 
        paragraph (1) of this heading:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary shall allocate the funds for such activities based on 
        the notice establishing the funding formula published in 84 FR 
        16027 (April 17, 2019) except that the formula shall use age-
        adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths for 2021 based on data 
        from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
            (3) $2,224,267,912 shall be available for grants for the 
        Economic Development Initiative (EDI) for the purposes 
        authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of section 
        105(a) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)), and in amounts, 
        specified for Community Project Funding in the table entitled 
        ``Community Project Funding'' included in the Report 
        accompanying this Act:  Provided, That such grants for the EDI 
        shall be available for reimbursement of otherwise eligible 
        expenses incurred on or after the date of enactment of this Act 
        and prior to the date of grant execution:  Provided further, 
        That none of the amounts made available under this paragraph 
        for grants for the EDI shall be used for reimbursement of 
        expenses incurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act:
  Provided further, That for amounts made available under paragraphs 
(1) and (2), the Secretary shall notify grantees of their formula 
allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

         community development loan guarantees program account

    Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 661a), during fiscal year 2024, commitments to guarantee loans 
under section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a 
total principal amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection (k) of 
such section 108:  Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from 
borrowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section 108, to 
result in a credit subsidy cost of zero for guaranteeing such loans, 
and any such fees shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That such 
commitment authority funded by fees may be used to guarantee, or make 
commitments to guarantee, notes or other obligations issued by any 
State on behalf of non-entitlement communities in the State in 
accordance with the requirements of such section 108:  Provided 
further, That any State receiving such a guarantee or commitment under 
the preceding proviso shall distribute all funds subject to such 
guarantee to the units of general local government in non-entitlement 
areas that received the commitment.

                  home investment partnerships program

    For the HOME Investment Partnerships program, as authorized under 
title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.), $500,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027:  Provided, That notwithstanding section 
231(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)), all unobligated balances 
remaining from amounts recaptured pursuant to such section that remain 
available until expended shall be combined with amounts made available 
under this heading and allocated in accordance with the formula under 
section 217(b)(1)(A) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12747(b)(1)(A)):  Provided 
further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their formula 
allocations within 60 days after enactment of this Act:  Provided 
further, That section 218(g) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12748(g)) shall not 
apply with respect to the right of a jurisdiction to draw funds from 
its HOME Investment Trust Fund that otherwise expired or would expire 
in any calendar year from 2018 through 2026 under that section:  
Provided further, That section 231(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12771(b)) 
shall not apply to any uninvested funds that otherwise were deducted or 
would be deducted from the line of credit in the participating 
jurisdiction's HOME Investment Trust Fund in any calendar year from 
2018 through 2026 under that section.

   preservation and reinvestment initiative for community enhancement

    For competitive grants to preserve and revitalize manufactured 
housing and eligible manufactured housing communities (including pre-
1976 mobile homes) under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 
$20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, 
That recipients of grants provided with amounts made available under 
this heading shall be States, units of general local government, 
resident-owned manufactured housing communities, cooperatives, 
nonprofit entities including consortia of nonprofit entities, community 
development financial institutions, Indian Tribes (as such term is 
defined in section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4103)), or other 
entities approved by the Secretary:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall reserve an amount for Indian Tribes within such 
competition:  Provided further, That the Secretary may approve entities 
for selection that partner with one or several residents of such 
eligible communities or that propose to implement a grant program that 
would assist residents of such eligible communities:  Provided further, 
That eligible uses of such grants may include infrastructure, planning, 
resident and community services (including relocation assistance and 
eviction prevention), resiliency activities, and providing other 
assistance to residents or owners of manufactured homes, which may 
include providing assistance for manufactured housing land and site 
acquisition:  Provided further, That, except as determined by the 
Secretary, participation in this program shall not encumber the future 
transfer of title or use of property by the residents, owners, or 
communities:  Provided further, That when selecting recipients, the 
Secretary shall prioritize applications that primarily benefit low- or 
moderately low-income residents and preserve long-term housing 
affordability for residents of manufactured housing or a manufactured 
housing community:  Provided further, That eligible manufactured 
housing communities may include those that are--
            (1) owned by the residents of the manufactured housing 
        community through a resident-controlled entity, as defined by 
        the Secretary; or
            (2) determined by the Secretary to be subject to binding 
        agreements that will preserve the community and maintain 
        affordability on a long-term basis:
  Provided further, That resiliency activities means the 
reconstruction, repair, or replacement of manufactured housing and 
manufactured housing communities to protect the health and safety of 
manufactured housing residents and to address weatherization and energy 
efficiency needs, except that for pre-1976 mobile homes, funds made 
available under this heading may be used only for replacement:  
Provided further, That the Secretary may waive or specify alternative 
requirements for any provision of any statute or regulation that the 
Secretary administers in connection with the use of amounts made 
available under this heading (except for requirements related to fair 
housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment), upon 
a finding that such waiver or alternative requirement is necessary to 
facilitate the use of such amounts.

        self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program

    For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program, 
as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program 
Extension Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 12805 note), and for related 
activities and assistance, $60,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2026:  Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this 
heading--
            (1) $10,000,000 shall be available for the Self-Help 
        Homeownership Opportunity Program as authorized under such 
        section 11;
            (2) $42,000,000 shall be available for the second, third, 
        and fourth capacity building entities specified in section 4(a) 
        of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), of 
        which not less than $5,000,000 shall be for rural capacity 
        building activities:  Provided, That for purposes of awarding 
        grants from amounts made available in this paragraph, the 
        Secretary may enter into multiyear agreements, as appropriate, 
        subject to the availability of annual appropriations;
            (3) $7,000,000 shall be available for capacity building by 
        national rural housing organizations having experience 
        assessing national rural conditions and providing financing, 
        training, technical assistance, information, and research to 
        local nonprofit organizations, local governments, and Indian 
        Tribes serving high need rural communities; and
            (4) $1,000,000 shall be available for a program to 
        rehabilitate and modify the homes of disabled or low-income 
        veterans, as authorized under section 1079 of the Carl Levin 
        and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization 
        Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (38 U.S.C. 2101 note):  Provided, That 
        the issuance of a Notice of Funding Opportunity for the amounts 
        made available in this paragraph shall be completed not later 
        than 120 days after enactment of this Act and such amounts 
        shall be awarded not later than 180 days after such issuance.

                       homeless assistance grants

    For assistance under title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), and for related activities 
and assistance, $3,729,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2026:  Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading--
            (1) $290,000,000 shall be available for the Emergency 
        Solutions Grants program authorized under subtitle B of such 
        title IV (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.):  Provided, That the 
        Department shall notify grantees of their formula allocation 
        from amounts allocated (which may represent initial or final 
        amounts allocated) for the Emergency Solutions Grant program 
        not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act;
            (2) $3,350,000,000 shall be available for the Continuum of 
        Care program authorized under subtitle C of such title IV (42 
        U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) and the Rural Housing Stability 
        Assistance programs authorized under subtitle D of such title 
        IV (42 U.S.C. 11408):  Provided, That the Secretary shall 
        prioritize funding under the Continuum of Care program to 
        continuums of care that have demonstrated a capacity to 
        reallocate funding from lower performing projects to higher 
        performing projects:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
        shall provide incentives to create projects that coordinate 
        with housing providers and healthcare organizations to provide 
        permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing services:  
        Provided further, That the Secretary may establish by notice an 
        alternative maximum amount for administrative costs related to 
        the requirements described in sections 402(f)(1) and 402(f)(2) 
        of subtitle A of such title IV or no more than 5 percent or 
        $50,000, whichever is greater, notwithstanding the 3 percent 
        limitation in section 423(a)(10) of such subtitle C:  Provided 
        further, That of the amounts made available for the Continuum 
        of Care program under this paragraph, not less than $52,000,000 
        shall be for grants for new rapid re-housing projects and 
        supportive service projects providing coordinated entry, and 
        for eligible activities that the Secretary determines to be 
        critical in order to assist survivors of domestic violence, 
        dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking:  Provided 
        further, That amounts made available for the Continuum of Care 
        program under this paragraph and any remaining unobligated 
        balances under this heading in prior Acts may be used to 
        competitively or non-competitively renew or replace grants for 
        youth homeless demonstration projects under the Continuum of 
        Care program, notwithstanding any conflict with the 
        requirements of the Continuum of Care program;
            (3) $7,000,000 shall be available for the national homeless 
        data analysis project: Provided, That notwithstanding the 
        provisions of the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act 
        of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 6301-6308), the amounts made available under 
        this paragraph and any remaining unobligated balances under 
        this heading for such purposes in prior Acts may be used by the 
        Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with such 
        entities as may be determined by the Secretary, including 
        public and private organizations, agencies, and institutions; 
        and
            (4) $82,000,000 shall be available to implement projects to 
        demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless 
        youth, age 24 and under, in up to 25 communities with a 
        priority for communities with substantial rural populations in 
        up to eight locations, can dramatically reduce youth 
        homelessness:  Provided, That of the amount made available 
        under this paragraph, not less than $25,000,000 shall be for 
        youth homelessness system improvement grants to support 
        communities, including but not limited to the communities 
        assisted under the matter preceding this proviso, in 
        establishing and implementing a response system for youth 
        homelessness, or for improving their existing system:  Provided 
        further, That of the amount made available under this 
        paragraph, up to $10,000,000 shall be to provide technical 
        assistance to communities, including but not limited to the 
        communities assisted in the preceding proviso and the matter 
        preceding such proviso, on improving system responses to youth 
        homelessness, and collection, analysis, use, and reporting of 
        data and performance measures under the comprehensive 
        approaches to serve homeless youth, in addition to and in 
        coordination with other technical assistance funds provided 
        under this title:  Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
        up to 10 percent of the amount made available under the 
        preceding proviso to build the capacity of current technical 
        assistance providers or to train new technical assistance 
        providers with verifiable prior experience with systems and 
        programs for youth experiencing homelessness:
  Provided further, That youth aged 24 and under seeking assistance 
under this heading shall not be required to provide third party 
documentation to establish their eligibility under subsection (a) or 
(b) of section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11302) to receive services:  Provided further, That 
unaccompanied youth aged 24 and under or families headed by youth aged 
24 and under who are living in unsafe situations may be served by 
youth-serving providers funded under this heading: Provided further, 
That persons eligible under section 103(a)(5) of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act may be served by any project funded under this 
heading to provide both transitional housing and rapid re-housing: 
Provided further, That for all matching funds requirements applicable 
to funds made available under this heading for this fiscal year and 
prior fiscal years, a grantee may use (or could have used) as a source 
of match funds other funds administered by the Secretary and other 
Federal agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory 
prohibition on any such use of any such funds: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available under this heading shall be available 
to provide funding for new projects, except for projects created 
through reallocation, unless the Secretary determines that the 
continuum of care has demonstrated that projects are evaluated and 
ranked based on the degree to which they improve the continuum of 
care's system performance: Provided further, That any unobligated 
amounts remaining from funds made available under this heading in 
fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project-based rental assistance 
for rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms may be used for 
purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such funds were appropriated: Provided further, That unobligated 
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds 
transferred to or appropriated under this heading in fiscal year 2019 
or prior years, except for rental assistance amounts that were 
recaptured and made available until expended, shall be available for 
the current purposes authorized under this heading in addition to the 
purposes for which such funds originally were appropriated.

                            Housing Programs

                    project-based rental assistance

    For activities and assistance for the provision of project-based 
subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act''), not otherwise provided for, 
$15,420,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available 
on October 1, 2023 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 
appropriated under this heading that became available October 1, 2023), 
and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
available on October 1, 2024:  Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this heading shall be available for expiring or 
terminating section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including 
section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section 
8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate 
rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units in projects that 
are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low Income 
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation 
and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administrative and 
other expenses associated with project-based activities and assistance 
funded under this heading:  Provided further, That of the total amounts 
provided under this heading, not to exceed $448,000,000 shall be 
available for performance-based contract administrators for section 8 
project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f):  Provided 
further, That the Secretary may also use such amounts in the preceding 
proviso for performance-based contract administrators for the 
administration of: interest reduction payments pursuant to section 
236(a) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(a)); rent 
supplement payments pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) rental 
assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(f)(2)); project rental 
assistance contracts for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental assistance 
contracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under 
section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing 
Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance contracts pursuant to 
section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 
667); and loans under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public 
Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667):  Provided further, That amounts recaptured 
under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted 
Housing'', or the heading ``Housing Certificate Fund'', may be used for 
renewals of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts or for 
performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes 
for which such amounts were appropriated:  Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of the 
Secretary, project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts 
for any project subject to a section 8 project-based housing assistance 
payments contract that authorizes the Department or a housing finance 
agency to require that surplus project funds be deposited in an 
interest-bearing residual receipts account and that are in excess of an 
amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the 
Department and deposited in this account, to be available until 
expended:  Provided further, That amounts deposited pursuant to the 
preceding proviso shall be available in addition to the amount 
otherwise provided by this heading for uses authorized under this 
heading.

                        housing for the elderly

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For capital advances, including amendments to capital advance 
contracts, for housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of 
the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q), for project rental 
assistance for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, 
including amendments to contracts for such assistance and renewal of 
expiring contracts for such assistance for up to a 5-year term, for 
senior preservation rental assistance contracts, including renewals, as 
authorized by section 811(e) of the American Homeownership and Economic 
Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note), and for supportive 
services associated with the housing, $913,000,000 to remain available 
until September 30, 2027:  Provided, That of the amount made available 
under this heading, up to $112,000,000 shall be for service 
coordinators and the continuation of existing congregate service grants 
for residents of assisted housing projects:  Provided further, That any 
funding for existing service coordinators under the preceding proviso 
shall be provided within 120 days of enactment of this Act:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 
governing the terms and conditions of project rental assistance, except 
that the initial contract term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 
years in duration:  Provided further, That upon request of the 
Secretary, project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts 
for any project subject to a section 202 project rental assistance 
contract, and that upon termination of such contract are in excess of 
an amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the 
Department and deposited in this account, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027:  Provided further, That amounts deposited in this 
account pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be available, in 
addition to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading, for the 
purposes authorized under this heading:  Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading shall be 
available for the current purposes authorized under this heading in 
addition to the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated:  Provided further, That of the total amount made 
available under this heading, up to $25,000,000 shall be used to expand 
the supply of intergenerational dwelling units (as such term is defined 
in section 202 of the Legacy Act of 2003 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note)) for 
elderly caregivers raising children:  Provided further, That for the 
purposes of the preceding proviso the Secretary may waive, or specify 
alternative requirements for, any provision of section 202 of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) in order to facilitate the 
development of such units, except for requirements related to fair 
housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment:  
Provided further, That of the total amount made available under this 
heading, up to $6,000,000 shall be used by the Secretary to support 
preservation transactions of housing for the elderly originally 
developed with a capital advance and assisted by a project rental 
assistance contract under the provisions of section 202(c) of the 
Housing Act of 1959.

                 housing for persons with disabilities

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For capital advances, including amendments to capital advance 
contracts, for supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as 
authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), for project rental assistance for 
supportive housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of such Act, for project assistance contracts pursuant to 
subsection (h) of section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as added by 
section 205(a) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 
1978 (Public Law 95-557: 92 Stat. 2090), including amendments to 
contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for 
such assistance for up to a 5-year term, for project rental assistance 
to State housing finance agencies and other appropriate entities as 
authorized under section 811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act, and for supportive services associated with the 
housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 
811(b)(1) of such Act, $208,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027:  Provided, That, upon the request of the Secretary, 
project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for any 
project subject to a section 811 project rental assistance contract, 
and that upon termination of such contract are in excess of an amount 
to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the Department 
and deposited in this account, to remain available until September 30, 
2027:  Provided further, That amounts deposited in this account 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be available in addition to the 
amounts otherwise provided by this heading for the purposes authorized 
under this heading:  Provided further, That unobligated balances, 
including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds transferred to 
or appropriated under this heading shall be used for the current 
purposes authorized under this heading in addition to the purposes for 
which such funds originally were appropriated.

                     housing counseling assistance

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding loans, as 
authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1968, as amended, $57,500,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025, including up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract 
services:  Provided, That funds shall be used for providing counseling 
and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current and prospective, 
with respect to property maintenance, financial management or literacy, 
and such other matters as may be appropriate to assist them in 
improving their housing conditions, meeting their financial needs, and 
fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership; for 
program administration; and for housing counselor training:  Provided 
further, That for purposes of awarding grants from amounts provided 
under this heading, the Secretary may enter into multiyear agreements, 
as appropriate, subject to the availability of annual appropriations.

            payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund

    For necessary expenses as authorized by the National Manufactured 
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 
et seq.), up to $14,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $14,000,000 shall be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees 
Trust Fund (established under section 620(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
5419(e)):  Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appropriated 
under this heading shall be available from the general fund of the 
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make 
expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to 
section 620 of such Act:  Provided further, That the amount made 
available under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as 
such collections are received during fiscal year 2024 so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be 
modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal year 2024 
appropriation:  Provided further, That for the dispute resolution and 
installation programs, the Secretary may assess and collect fees from 
any program participant:  Provided further, That such collections shall 
be deposited into the Trust Fund, and the Secretary, as provided 
herein, may use such collections, as well as fees collected under 
section 620 of such Act, for necessary expenses of such Act:  Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of such 
Act, the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the Secretary 
under such Act through the use of approved service providers that are 
paid directly by the recipients of their services.

                     Federal Housing Administration

               mutual mortgage insurance program account

    New commitments to guarantee single family loans insured under the 
Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed $400,000,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That during 
fiscal year 2024, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the 
purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, 
shall not exceed $1,000,000:  Provided further, That the foregoing 
amount in the preceding proviso shall be for loans to nonprofit and 
governmental entities in connection with sales of single family real 
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual 
Mortgage Insurance Fund:  Provided further, That for administrative 
contract expenses of the Federal Housing Administration, $150,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding the limitation in the first sentence of section 255(g) 
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)), during fiscal year 
2024 the Secretary may insure and enter into new commitments to insure 
mortgages under section 255 of the National Housing Act only to the 
extent that the net credit subsidy cost for such insurance does not 
exceed zero.

                general and special risk program account

    New commitments to guarantee loans insured under the General and 
Special Risk Insurance Funds, as authorized by sections 238 and 519 of 
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 1735c), shall not 
exceed $35,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which is to 
be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, 
That during fiscal year 2024, gross obligations for the principal 
amount of direct loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, 
and 519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $1,000,000, 
which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in 
connection with the sale of single family real properties owned by the 
Secretary and formerly insured under such Act.

                Government National Mortgage Association

guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

    New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the purposes of 
section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 
1721(g)), shall not exceed $550,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025:  Provided, That $51,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025, shall be for necessary salaries and expenses 
of the Government National Mortgage Association:  Provided further, 
That receipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pursuant to 
title III of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1716 et seq.) shall be 
credited as offsetting collections to this account.

                    Policy Development and Research

                        research and technology

    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), including 
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 
1968, and for technical assistance, $139,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That with respect to amounts made 
available under this heading, notwithstanding section 203 of this 
title, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with 
philanthropic entities, other Federal agencies, State or local 
governments and their agencies, Indian Tribes, tribally designated 
housing entities, or colleges or universities for research projects:  
Provided further, That with respect to the preceding proviso, such 
partners to the cooperative agreements shall contribute at least a 50 
percent match toward the cost of the project:  Provided further, That 
for non-competitive agreements entered into in accordance with the 
preceding two provisos, the Secretary shall comply with section 2(b) of 
the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public 
Law 109-282; 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section 
102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform 
Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545(a)(4)(C)) with respect to documentation of 
award decisions:  Provided further, That prior to obligation of 
technical assistance funding, the Secretary shall submit a plan to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on how the Secretary will 
allocate funding for this activity at least 30 days prior to 
obligation:  Provided further, That none of the funds provided under 
this heading may be available for the doctoral dissertation research 
grant program.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

                        fair housing activities

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), and section 561 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 3616a), $85,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary may assess 
and collect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training 
Academy, and may use such funds to develop online courses and provide 
such training:  Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
under this heading may be used to lobby the executive or legislative 
branches of the Federal Government in connection with a specific 
contract, grant, or loan:  Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $1,000,000 may be available to the 
Secretary for the creation and promotion of translated materials and 
other programs that support the assistance of persons with limited 
English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development.

            Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes

                         lead hazard reduction

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by section 
1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 
(42 U.S.C. 4852), the Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sections 
501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 
1701z-1 and 1701z-2), and for related activities and assistance, 
$345,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided, 
That the amounts made available under this heading are provided as 
follows:
            (1) $200,000,000 shall be for the award of grants pursuant 
        to such section 1011, of which not less than $80,000,000 shall 
        be provided to areas with the highest lead-based paint 
        abatement need.
            (2) $140,000,000 shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, 
        pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban 
        Development Act of 1970, which shall include research, studies, 
        testing, and demonstration efforts, including education and 
        outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other 
        housing-related diseases and hazards, and mitigating housing-
        related health and safety hazards in housing of low-income 
        families, of which $10,000,000 shall be for the establishment 
        and implementation of a national pilot program to facilitate 
        new financing mechanisms to address lead and other residential 
        environmental stressors in low-income communities.
            (3) $3,000,000 shall be for the award of grants and 
        contracts for research pursuant to sections 1051 and 1052 of 
        the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 
        (42 U.S.C. 4854, 4854a).
            (4) Up to $2,000,000 in total of the amounts made available 
        under paragraphs (2) and (3) may be transferred to the heading 
        ``Research and Technology'' for the purposes of conducting 
        research and studies and for use in accordance with the 
        provisos under that heading for non-competitive agreements.
            (5) $2,000,000 shall be for grants for a radon testing and 
        mitigation safety demonstration program (the radon 
        demonstration) in public housing:  Provided, That the testing 
        method, mitigation method, or action level used under the radon 
        demonstration shall be as specified by applicable State or 
        local law, if such law is more protective of human health or 
        the environment than the method or level specified by the 
        Secretary:
  Provided further, That for purposes of environmental review, pursuant 
to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
seq.) and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such 
Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, or the Lead Technical 
Studies program, or other demonstrations or programs under this heading 
or under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under this 
heading, or under the heading ``Housing for the Elderly'' under prior 
Appropriations Acts, shall be considered to be funds for a special 
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing 
Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994:  Provided further, That each 
applicant for a grant or cooperative agreement under this heading shall 
certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to carry 
out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a notice of funding 
opportunity:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall conduct a 
demonstration to harmonize income eligibility criteria for grants under 
this heading in this and prior Acts with the income eligibility 
criteria of certain other Federal programs: Provided further, That for 
purposes of such demonstration, the Secretary may establish income 
eligibility criteria for such grants using income eligibility criteria 
of any program administered by the Secretary, the Department of Energy 
weatherization assistance program (42 U.S.C. 6851 et seq.), the 
Department of Health and Human Services low income home energy 
assistance program (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.), and the Department of 
Veterans Affairs supportive services for veteran families program (38 
U.S.C. 2044):  Provided further, That amounts made available under this 
heading, in this or prior appropriations Acts, still remaining 
available, may be used for any purpose under this heading 
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appropriated if 
a program competition is undersubscribed and there are other program 
competitions under this heading that are oversubscribed.

                      Information Technology Fund

    For Department-wide and program-specific information technology 
systems and infrastructure, $371,250,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2026: Provided, That not more than 10 percent of the 
funds made available under this heading for development, modernization, 
and enhancement may be obligated until 90 days after the Secretary 
submits a plan and quarterly reports in accordance with the 
requirements stated in the Report accompanying this Act.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$154,000,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
independent authority over all personnel issues within this office.

    General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban Development

                     (including transfer of funds)

                        (including rescissions)

    Sec. 201.  Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in 
lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget 
authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 
1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act 
of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget 
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the 
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local 
governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement 
occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. 
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or 
remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to 
refinance their project at a lower interest rate.
    Sec. 202.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
during fiscal year 2024 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 nonfrivolous legal 
action, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a court of 
competent jurisdiction.
    Sec. 203.  Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant, 
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title II of 
this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with 
section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform 
Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545).
    Sec. 204.  Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section 402 of the 
Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the 
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a 
contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for 
services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, 
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any 
member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within 
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as 
amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1).
    Sec. 205.  Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through a 
reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program, 
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 
estimates submitted to Congress.
    Sec. 206.  Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development which are subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the 
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such 
corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by section 104 of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out 
the programs set forth in the budget for 2024 for such corporation or 
agency except as hereinafter provided:  Provided, That collections of 
these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage 
purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this 
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance 
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States 
Government.
    Sec. 207.  The Secretary shall provide quarterly reports to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all 
uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each program 
and activity within the jurisdiction of the Department and shall submit 
additional, updated budget information to these Committees upon 
request.
    Sec. 208.  None of the funds made available by this title may be 
used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that 
makes applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 
1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
    Sec. 209. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject 
to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 2024 and 
2025, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the 
transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt held or insured 
by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income and very low-
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more multifamily 
housing project or projects to another multifamily housing project or 
projects.
    (b) Phased Transfers.--Transfers of project-based assistance under 
this section may be done in phases to accommodate the financing and 
other requirements related to rehabilitating or constructing the 
project or projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure 
that such project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c).
    (c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the 
following conditions:
            (1) Number and bedroom size of units.--
                    (A) For occupied units in the transferring project: 
                The number of low-income and very low-income units and 
                the configuration (i.e., bedroom size) provided by the 
                transferring project shall be no less than when 
                transferred to the receiving project or projects and 
                the net dollar amount of Federal assistance provided to 
                the transferring project shall remain the same in the 
                receiving project or projects.
                    (B) For unoccupied units in the transferring 
                project: The Secretary may authorize a reduction in the 
                number of dwelling units in the receiving project or 
                projects to allow for a reconfiguration of bedroom 
                sizes to meet current market demands, as determined by 
                the Secretary and provided there is no increase in the 
                project-based assistance budget authority.
            (2) The transferring project shall, as determined by the 
        Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically 
        nonviable, or be reasonably expected to become economically 
        nonviable when complying with State or Federal requirements for 
        community integration and reduced concentration of individuals 
        with disabilities.
            (3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or exceed 
        applicable physical standards established by the Secretary.
            (4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring project 
        shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the 
        transferring project and provide a certification of approval by 
        all appropriate local governmental officials.
            (5) The tenants of the transferring project who remain 
        eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project 
        or projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the 
        transferring project or projects until new units in the 
        receiving project are available for occupancy.
            (6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is in the 
        best interest of the tenants.
            (7) If either the transferring project or the receiving 
        project or projects meets the condition specified in subsection 
        (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting from 
        additional financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate 
        to any FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, 
        such project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary may 
        waive this requirement upon determination that such a waiver is 
        necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition, 
        construction, and/or rehabilitation of the receiving project or 
        projects.
            (8) If the transferring project meets the requirements of 
        subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving 
        project or projects shall execute and record either a 
        continuation of the existing use agreement or a new use 
        agreement for the project where, in either case, any use 
        restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than 
        the existing use restrictions.
            (9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as defined in 
        section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
        661a)) of any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent that 
        appropriations are provided in advance for the amount of any 
        such increased cost.
    (d) For purposes of this section--
            (1) the terms ``low-income'' and ``very low-income'' shall 
        have the meanings provided by the statute and/or regulations 
        governing the program under which the project is insured or 
        assisted;
            (2) the term ``multifamily housing project'' means housing 
        that meets one of the following conditions--
                    (A) housing that is subject to a mortgage insured 
                under the National Housing Act;
                    (B) housing that has project-based assistance 
                attached to the structure including projects undergoing 
                mark to market debt restructuring under the Multifamily 
                Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act;
                    (C) housing that is assisted under section 202 of 
                the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q);
                    (D) housing that is assisted under section 202 of 
                the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q), as such 
                section existed before the enactment of the Cranston-
                Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act;
                    (E) housing that is assisted under section 811 of 
                the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 8013); or
                    (F) housing or vacant land that is subject to a use 
                agreement;
            (3) the term ``project-based assistance'' means--
                    (A) assistance provided under section 8(b) of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(b));
                    (B) assistance for housing constructed or 
                substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
                provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as such 
                section existed immediately before October 1, 1983);
                    (C) rent supplement payments under section 101 of 
                the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 
                U.S.C. 1701s);
                    (D) interest reduction payments under section 236 
                and/or additional assistance payments under section 
                236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
                1);
                    (E) assistance payments made under section 
                202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
                1701q(c)(2)); and
                    (F) assistance payments made under section 
                811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
                Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2));
            (4) the term ``receiving project or projects'' means the 
        multifamily housing project or projects to which some or all of 
        the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required 
        low-income and very low-income use restrictions are to be 
        transferred;
            (5) the term ``transferring project'' means the multifamily 
        housing project which is transferring some or all of the 
        project-based assistance, debt, and the statutorily required 
        low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the 
        receiving project or projects; and
            (6) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing 
        and Urban Development.
    (e) Research Report.--The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of 
the transfer authority under this section, including the effect of such 
transfers on the operational efficiency, contract rents, physical and 
financial conditions, and long-term preservation of the affected 
properties.
    Sec. 210. (a) No assistance shall be provided under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to any 
individual who--
            (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher 
        education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));
            (2) is under 24 years of age;
            (3) is not a veteran;
            (4) is unmarried;
            (5) does not have a dependent child;
            (6) is not a person with disabilities, as such term is 
        defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act 
        of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving 
        assistance under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005;
            (7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 14 or older 
        and is at risk of becoming homeless; and
            (8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents 
        who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive 
        assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
        1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
    (b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a person to 
receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess of amounts 
received for tuition and any other required fees and charges) that an 
individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1001 et seq.), from private sources, or from an institution of higher 
education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income to that individual, 
except for a person over the age of 23 with dependent children.
    Sec. 211.  The funds made available for Native Alaskans under 
paragraph (1) under the heading ``Native American Programs'' in title 
II of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing 
block grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005, and 
only such recipients shall be eligible to apply for funds made 
available under paragraph (2) of such heading.
    Sec. 212.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2024, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that 
is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with 
a contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or any other Federal 
programs, the Secretary shall maintain any rental assistance payments 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and other 
programs that are attached to any dwelling units in the property. To 
the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 
and the local government that such a multifamily property owned or 
having a mortgage held by the Secretary is not feasible for continued 
rental assistance payments under such section 8 or other programs, 
based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating 
the property and all available Federal, State, and local resources, 
including rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily 
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (in this section 
``MAHRAA'') (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), and (2) environmental conditions 
that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, 
in consultation with the tenants of that property, contract for 
project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of 
other existing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance. 
The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure that project-
based contracts remain in effect prior to foreclosure, subject to the 
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of 
tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety after written 
notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other 
available remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. After 
disposition of any multifamily property described in this section, the 
contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall be subject 
to the requirements under section 524 of MAHRAA.
    Sec. 213.  Public housing agencies that own and operate 400 or 
fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset 
management requirement imposed by the Secretary in connection with the 
operating fund rule:  Provided, That an agency seeking a discontinuance 
of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula shall not be 
exempt from asset management requirements.
    Sec. 214.  With respect to the use of amounts provided in this Act 
and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement, and 
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d),(e)), the 
Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to 
asset management that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital 
funds for central office costs pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of 
section 9(g) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g(g)(1), (2)):  Provided, That a public housing agency may not use 
capital funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are 
eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the 
operating fund in excess of the amounts permitted under paragraph (1) 
or (2) of section 9(g).
    Sec. 215.  No official or employee of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder unless the 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined that such 
allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds control 
and has received training in funds control procedures and directives. 
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a trained 
allotment holder for each HUD appropriation under the accounts 
``Executive Offices'', ``Administrative Support Offices'', ``Program 
Offices'', ``Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of 
Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account'', and 
``Office of Inspector General'' within the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.
    Sec. 216.  The Secretary shall, for fiscal year 2024, notify the 
public through the Federal Register and other means, as determined 
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of 
assistance or notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for any program or 
discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that is to be 
competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
fiscal year 2024, the Secretary may make the NOFO available only on the 
Internet at the appropriate Government website or through other 
electronic media, as determined by the Secretary.
    Sec. 217.  Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation 
shall be paid from the individual program office and Office of General 
Counsel salaries and expenses appropriations.
    Sec. 218.  The Secretary is authorized to transfer up to 10 percent 
or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds appropriated for any office 
under the headings ``Administrative Support Offices'', or ``Program 
Offices'', to any other such office under such headings:  Provided, 
That no appropriation for any such office under such headings shall be 
increased or decreased by more than 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever 
is less, without prior written approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide notification to such Committees 3 business days in 
advance of any such transfers under this section up to 10 percent or 
$5,000,000, whichever is less.
    Sec. 219. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance payments 
shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary conditions, as determined by 
the Secretary, and comply with any standards under applicable State or 
local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations relating to the physical 
condition of any property covered under a housing assistance payment 
contract.
    (b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection (c) when a 
multifamily housing project with a contract under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or a contract for 
similar project-based assistance--
            (1) receives a failing score under the Uniform Physical 
        Condition Standards (UPCS) or a successor standard; or
            (2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary within 3 
        days that all Exigent Health and Safety deficiencies or those 
        deficiencies requiring correction within 24 hours identified by 
        the inspector at the project have been corrected.
    Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured projects 
with assistance attached to the units under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but shall not apply to 
such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(13)) or to public housing units assisted with capital or 
operating funds under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g).
    (c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the Real Estate Assessment 
Center (``REAC'') inspection, the Secretary shall provide the owner 
with a Notice of Default with a specified timetable, determined by the 
Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide 
a copy of the Notice of Default to the tenants, the local government, 
any mortgagees, and any contract administrator. If the owner's appeal 
results in a passing score, the Secretary may withdraw the Notice of 
Default.
    (2) At the end of the time period for correcting all deficiencies 
specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner fails to fully correct 
such deficiencies, the Secretary may--
            (A) require immediate replacement of project management 
        with a management agent approved by the Secretary;
            (B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be used 
        solely for the purpose of supporting safe and sanitary 
        conditions at applicable properties, as designated by the 
        Secretary, with priority given to the tenants of the property 
        affected by the penalty;
            (C) abate the section 8 contract, including partial 
        abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until all 
        deficiencies have been corrected;
            (D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, approved by 
        the Secretary under established procedures, who will be 
        obligated to promptly make all required repairs and to accept 
        renewal of the assistance contract if such renewal is offered;
            (E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to another 
        project or projects and owner or owners;
            (F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including suspensions or 
        debarments from Federal programs;
            (G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to manage the 
        property and cure all project deficiencies or seek a judicial 
        order of specific performance requiring the owner to cure all 
        project deficiencies;
            (H) work with the owner, lender, or other related party to 
        stabilize the property in an attempt to preserve the property 
        through compliance, transfer of ownership, or an infusion of 
        capital provided by a third-party that requires time to 
        effectuate; or
            (I) take any other regulatory or contractual remedies 
        available as deemed necessary and appropriate by the Secretary.
    (d) The Secretary shall take appropriate steps to ensure that 
project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the exercise of 
contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants for 
major threats to health and safety after written notice to the affected 
tenants. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with 
the tenants and the local government, that the property is not feasible 
for continued rental assistance payments under such section 8 or other 
programs, based on consideration of--
            (1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property 
        and all available Federal, State, and local resources, 
        including rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily 
        Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 
        (``MAHRAA''); and
            (2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in a 
        cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may contract for project-
        based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of 
        other existing housing properties, or provide other rental 
        assistance.
    (e) The Secretary shall report semi-annually on all properties 
covered by this section that are assessed through the Real Estate 
Assessment Center and have failing physical inspection scores or have 
received an unsatisfactory management and occupancy review within the 
past 36 months. The report shall include--
            (1) identification of the enforcement actions being taken 
        to address such conditions, including imposition of civil money 
        penalties and termination of subsidies, and identification of 
        properties that have such conditions multiple times;
            (2) identification of actions that the Department of 
        Housing and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of 
        such identified properties; and
            (3) any administrative or legislative recommendations to 
        further improve the living conditions at properties covered 
        under a housing assistance payment contract.
    The first report shall be submitted to the Senate and House 
Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 days after the enactment 
of this Act, and the second report shall be submitted within 180 days 
of the transmittal of the first report.
    Sec. 220.  None of the funds made available by this Act, or any 
other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with respect 
to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used 
by any public housing agency for any amount of salary, including 
bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, or any other 
official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic 
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule at any 
time during any public housing agency fiscal year 2024.
    Sec. 221.  None of the funds made available by this Act and 
provided to the Department of Housing and Urban Development may be used 
to make a grant award unless the Secretary notifies the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 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 the Department or its offices:  Provided, That 
such notification shall list each grant award by State and 
congressional district.
    Sec. 222.  None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government National 
Mortgage Association, or the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of 
any mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise 
replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain 
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any other 
political subdivision of a State.
    Sec. 223.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to terminate the status of a unit of general local government as a 
metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306).
    Sec. 224.  Amounts made available by this Act that are 
appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, or 
transferred to the Office of Policy Development and Research of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development and functions thereof, for 
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and that are unexpended 
at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately become available 
and may be reobligated in that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal 
year for the research, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which 
the amounts are made available to that Office subject to reprogramming 
requirements in section 405 of this Act.
    Sec. 225.  None of the funds provided in this Act or any other Act 
may be used for awards, including performance, special act, or spot, 
for any employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
subject to administrative discipline (including suspension from work), 
in this fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not be effective prior 
to the effective date of any such administrative discipline or after 
any final decision over-turning such discipline.
    Sec. 226.  With respect to grant amounts awarded under the heading 
``Homeless Assistance Grants'' for fiscal years 2015 through 2024 for 
the Continuum of Care (CoC) program as authorized under subtitle C of 
title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs paid by 
program income of grant recipients may count toward meeting the 
recipient's matching requirements, provided the costs are eligible CoC 
costs that supplement the recipient's CoC program.
    Sec. 227. (a) From amounts made available under this title under 
the heading ``Homeless Assistance Grants'', the Secretary may award 1-
year transition grants to recipients of funds for activities under 
subtitle C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum of Care program 
component to another.
    (b) In order to be eligible to receive a transition grant, the 
funding recipient must have the consent of the continuum of care and 
meet standards determined by the Secretary.
    Sec. 228.  The Promise Zone designations and Promise Zone 
Designation Agreements entered into pursuant to such designations, made 
by the Secretary in prior fiscal years, shall remain in effect in 
accordance with the terms and conditions of such agreements.
    Sec. 229.  Any public housing agency designated as a Moving to Work 
agency pursuant to section 239 of division L of Public Law 114-113 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f note; 129 Stat. 2897) may, upon such designation, use 
funds (except for special purpose funding, including special purpose 
vouchers) previously allocated to any such public housing agency under 
section 8 or 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, including any 
reserve funds held by the public housing agency or funds held by the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the authority 
for use of section 8 or 9 funding provided under such section and 
section 204 of title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-134; 110 Stat. 1321-28), notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such funds were appropriated.
    Sec. 230.  None of the amounts made available by this Act may be 
used to prohibit any public housing agency under receivership or the 
direction of a Federal monitor from applying for, receiving, or using 
funds made available under the heading ``Public Housing Fund'' for 
competitive grants to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in 
this Act or that remain available and not awarded from prior Acts, or 
be used to prohibit a public housing agency from using such funds to 
carry out any required work pursuant to a settlement agreement, consent 
decree, voluntary agreement, or similar document for a violation of the 
Lead Safe Housing or Lead Disclosure Rules.
    Sec. 231.  None of the funds made available by this title may be 
used to issue rules or guidance in contravention of section 1210 of 
Public Law 115-254 (132 Stat. 3442) or section 312 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155).
    Sec. 232.  The language under the heading ``RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
DEMONSTRATION'' in the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-55), as most recently amended 
by Public Law 117-103, is further amended--
     (1) in the matter before the first proviso, by striking ``and 
`Public Housing Operating Fund''' and inserting ``, `Public Housing 
Operating Fund' and `Public Housing Fund''';
    (2) in the second proviso, by striking ``until September 30, 2024'' 
and inserting ``for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter'';
    (3) by striking the fourth proviso and inserting the following new 
provisos: ``Provided further, That at properties with assistance under 
section 9 of the Act requesting to partially convert such assistance, 
and where an event under section 18 of the Act occurs that results in 
the eligibility for tenant protection vouchers under section 8(o) of 
the Act, the Secretary may convert the tenant protection voucher 
assistance to assistance under a project-based subsidy contract under 
section 8 of the Act, which shall be eligible for renewal under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 
1997, or assistance under section 8(o)(13) of the Act, but only if the 
property meets any additional requirements established by the Secretary 
to facilitate conversion: Provided further, That to facilitate the 
conversion of assistance under the preceding proviso, the Secretary may 
transfer an amount equal to the total amount that would have been 
allocated for tenant protection voucher assistance for properties that 
have requested such conversions from amounts made available for tenant 
protection voucher assistance under the heading `Tenant-Based Rental 
Assistance' to the heading `Project-Based Rental Assistance': Provided 
further, That at properties with assistance previously converted 
hereunder to assistance under the heading `Project-Based Rental 
Assistance,' which are also separately assisted under section 8(o)(13) 
of the Act, the Secretary may, with the consent of the public housing 
agency and owner, terminate such project-based subsidy contracts and 
immediately enter into one new project-based subsidy contract under 
section 8 of the Act, which shall be eligible for renewal under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 
1997, subject to the requirement that any residents assisted under 
section 8(o)(13) of the Act at the time of such termination of such 
project-based subsidy contract shall retain all rights accrued under 
section 8(o)(13)(E) of the Act under the new project-based subsidy 
contract and section 8(o)(13)(F)(iv) of the Act shall not apply: 
Provided further, That to carry out the previous proviso, the Secretary 
may transfer from the heading `Tenant-Based Rental Assistance' to the 
heading `Project-Based Rental Assistance' an amount equal to the 
amounts associated with such terminating contract under section 
8(o)(13) of the Act:'';
    (4) in the thirteenth proviso, as so reordered by the preceding 
provisions of this section--
            (A) by inserting ```Public Housing Fund', `Self-Sufficiency 
        Programs', `Family Self-Sufficiency', `Housing for the 
        Elderly','' after ```Public Housing Operating Fund','' ;and
            (B) by inserting ``or the ongoing availability of services 
        for residents'' after ``effective conversion of assistance 
        under the demonstration'';
    (5) after the twenty-third proviso, as so reordered by the 
preceding provisions of this section, by inserting the following 
proviso: ``Provided further, That owners of properties with a senior 
preservation rental assistance contract under section 811 of the 
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q note), shall be eligible, subject to requirements established by 
the Secretary as necessary to facilitate the conversion of assistance 
while maintaining the affordability period and the designation of the 
property as serving elderly families, and tenant consultation 
procedures, for conversion of assistance available for such assistance 
contracts to assistance under a long-term project-based subsidy 
contract under section 8 of the Act'';
    (6) in the twenty-eighth proviso, as so reordered by the preceding 
provisions of this section, by inserting ``, section 811 of the 
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000,'' after 
``Housing Act of 1959''; and
    (7) in the thirty-third proviso, as so reordered by the preceding 
provisions of this section, by striking ``any section 202 project 
rental assistance contract or section 811 project rental assistance 
contract conversions'' and inserting ``the conversion of assistance 
from section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959, section 811 of the 
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, or section 
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act''.
    Sec. 233.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled 
``Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing'' published by the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development in the Federal Register on February 9, 
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 8516), or to direct a grantee to undertake specific 
changes to existing zoning laws as a part of carrying out the interim 
final rule entitled ``Restoring Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 
Definitions and Certifications'' published by such Department in the 
Federal Register on June 10, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 30779).
    Sec. 234.  For fiscal year 2024, if the Secretary determines or has 
determined, for any prior formula grant allocation administered by the 
Secretary through the Offices of Public and Indian Housing, Community 
Planning and Development, or Housing, that a recipient received an 
allocation greater than the amount such recipient should have received 
for a formula allocation cycle pursuant to applicable statutes and 
regulations, the Secretary may adjust for any such funding error in the 
next applicable formula allocation cycle by (a) offsetting each such 
recipient's formula allocation (if eligible for a formula allocation in 
the next applicable formula allocation cycle) by the amount of any such 
funding error, and (b) reallocating any available balances that are 
attributable to the offset to the recipient or recipients that would 
have been allocated additional funds in the formula allocation cycle in 
which any such error occurred (if such recipient or recipients are 
eligible for a formula allocation in the next applicable formula 
allocation cycle) in an amount proportionate to such recipient's 
eligibility under the next applicable formula allocation cycle:  
Provided, That all offsets and reallocations from such available 
balances shall be recorded against funds available for the next 
applicable formula allocation cycle:  Provided further, That the term 
``next applicable formula allocation cycle'' means the first formula 
allocation cycle for a program that is reasonably available for 
correction following such a Secretarial determination:  Provided 
further, That if, upon request by a recipient and giving consideration 
to all Federal resources available to the recipient for the same grant 
purposes, the Secretary determines that the offset in the next 
applicable formula allocation cycle would critically impair the 
recipient's ability to accomplish the purpose of the formula grant, the 
Secretary may adjust for the funding error across two or more formula 
allocation cycles.
    Sec. 235.  The Secretary may transfer from amounts made available 
for salaries and expenses under all headings in this title (excluding 
amounts made available under the heading ``Office of Inspector 
General'') to the heading ``Information Technology Fund'' for 
information technology needs, including for additional development, 
modernization, and enhancement, to remain available until September 30, 
2026:  Provided, That the total amount of such transfers shall not 
exceed $5,000,000:  Provided further, That this transfer authority 
shall not be used to fund information technology projects or activities 
that have known out-year development, modernization, or enhancement 
costs in excess of $500,000:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide notification to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations no less than three business days in advance of any such 
transfer.
    Sec. 236.  The Secretary shall comply with all process 
requirements, including public notice and comment, when seeking to 
revise any annual contributions contract.
    Sec. 237.  There is hereby established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Nonrecurring Expenses Fund (the Fund): Provided, That 
unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated in 
this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the 
Treasury to the Department of Housing and Urban Development by this or 
any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth 
fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are 
available for the purposes for which they were appropriated) into the 
Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be 
available until expended, in addition to such other funds as may be 
available for such purposes, for capital needs of the Department, 
including facilities infrastructure and information technology 
infrastructure, subject to approval by the Office of Management and 
Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated 
only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance 
of the planned use of funds.
    Sec. 238.  For the fiscal year 2024 allocation of amounts under the 
Native American Housing Block Grants program, as authorized under title 
I of Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), the number of qualifying low-income housing 
dwelling units under section 302(b)(1) of such Act (25 U.S.C. 
4152(b)(1)) shall not be reduced due to the placement of a Native 
American veteran assisted with amounts provided under the Tribal HUD-
VASH Program within any such qualifying unit.
    Sec. 239. (a) Subsection (a) of section 184 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-13a(a)) is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``(a) Authority.--To provide access to sources of private financing 
to Indian families, Indian housing authorities, and Indian tribes, who 
otherwise could not acquire housing financing because of the unique 
legal status of Indian lands and the unique nature of tribal economies; 
and to expand homeownership opportunities to Indian families, Indian 
housing authorities and Indian tribes on fee simple lands, the 
Secretary may guarantee not to exceed 100 percent of the unpaid 
principal and interest due on any loan eligible under subsection (b) 
made to an Indian family, Indian housing authority, or Indian tribe on 
trust land and fee simple land.''.
    (b) Paragraph (2) of section 184(b) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-13a(b)(2)) is amended to read 
as follows:
            ``(2) Eligible housing.--The loan shall be used to 
        construct, acquire, refinance, or rehabilitate 1- to 4-family 
        dwellings that are standard housing.''.
    Sec. 240.  Section 105 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(i) Special Activities by Indian Tribes.--Indian tribes receiving 
grants under section 106(a)(1) of this Act are authorized to carry out 
activities described in subsection (a)(15) of this section directly.''.
    Sec. 241.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
in contravention of existing Federal law regarding non-citizen 
eligibility and ineligibility for occupancy in federally assisted 
housing or for participation in and assistance under federal housing 
programs, including section 214 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) and title IV of the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.).
    Sec. 242.  Of the unobligated balances of amounts made available 
under the heading ``Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes'' 
from prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, $564,200,000 are hereby permanently rescinded.
    Sec. 243.  None of the funds made available to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development in this or prior Acts may be used to 
issue a solicitation or accept bids on any solicitation that is 
substantially equivalent to the draft solicitation entitled ``Housing 
Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract Support Services (HAPSS)'' posted to 
www.Sam.gov on July 27, 2022.
    Sec. 244.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to provide Federal funds to a local jurisdiction that refuses to comply 
with a request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide 
advance notice of the scheduled release date and time for a particular 
illegal alien in local custody.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Appropriations Act, 2024''.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                              Access Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized by 
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 792), 
$9,955,000.

                      Federal Maritime Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission as 
authorized by section 46107 of title 46, United States Code, including 
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by section 1343(b) of 
title 31, United States Code; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, 
$43,720,000, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2025:  Provided, That not to exceed $3,500 shall be for official 
reception and representation expenses.

                National Railroad Passenger Corporation

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General for the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the provisions of 
the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 3), $30,410,000:  
Provided, That the Inspector General shall have all necessary 
authority, in carrying out the duties specified in such Act, to 
investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the 
Government under section 1001 of title 18, United States Code, by any 
person or entity that is subject to regulation by the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation:  Provided further, That the Inspector General 
may enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, studies, 
analyses, and other services with public agencies and with private 
persons, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern the 
obtaining of such services within the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation:  Provided further, That the Inspector General may select, 
appoint, and employ such officers and employees as may be necessary for 
carrying out the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of 
Inspector General, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that 
govern such selections, appointments, and employment within the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation:  Provided further, That 
concurrent with the President's budget request for fiscal year 2025, 
the Inspector General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2025 in similar 
format and substance to budget requests submitted by executive agencies 
of the Federal Government.

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; services as 
authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates 
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate 
for a GS-15; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, $145,000,000, of 
which not to exceed $2,000 may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in 
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $172,000,000.

                      Surface Transportation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, $48,184,000:  Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees established by the Surface 
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading:  Provided further, That the amounts made available 
under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-
for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections are received during 
fiscal year 2024, to result in a final appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at not more than $46,934,000.

           United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses, including payment of salaries, authorized 
travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code, of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title 
II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, 
$4,188,000.

                                TITLE IV

                      GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

                        (including rescissions)

    Sec. 401.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the 
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or 
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
    Sec. 402.  None of the 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 
herein.
    Sec. 403.  The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through a procurement contract pursuant to 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to 
existing law.
    Sec. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
obligated or expended for any employee training that--
            (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
        and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
        duties;
            (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
        emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;
            (3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
        content and methods to be used in the training and written end 
        of course evaluation;
            (4) contains any methods or content associated with 
        religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
            (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
        personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Sec. 405.  Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of the 
funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to 
the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and 
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that--
            (1) creates a new program;
            (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
            (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
        or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by 
        the Congress;
            (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
        by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
        a different purpose;
            (5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
        excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
            (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
        $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
            (7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, 
        division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, 
        administration, or department different from the budget 
        justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or 
        the table in the Report accompanying this Act, whichever is 
        more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the House 
        and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
  Provided, That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of 
Representatives to establish the baseline for application of 
reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year:  
Provided further, That the report shall include--
                    (A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
                column to display the prior year enacted level, the 
                President's budget request, adjustments made by 
                Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
                appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
                    (B) a delineation in the table for each 
                appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 
                level by object class and program, project, and 
                activity as detailed in this Act, the table in the 
                Report accompanying this Act or in the budget appendix 
                for the respective appropriations whichever is more 
                detailed, and shall apply to all items for which a 
                dollar amount is specified and to all programs for 
                which new budget (obligational) authority is provided, 
                as well as to discretionary grants and discretionary 
                grant allocations; and
                    (C) an identification of items of special 
                congressional interest.
    Sec. 406.  Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to 
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of fiscal year 2024 from appropriations made available for salaries 
and expenses for fiscal year 2024 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2025, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized:  Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the 
expenditure of such funds:  Provided further, That these requests shall 
be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 
of this Act.
    Sec. 407.  No funds in this Act may be used 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:  Provided, 
That for purposes of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits private entities:  
Provided further, That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad, 
airport, seaport or highway projects, as well as utility projects which 
benefit or serve the general public (including energy-related, 
communication-related, water-related and wastewater-related 
infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions 
that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and 
oversight by the government, and projects for the removal of an 
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownfields as defined 
in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107-118) shall be considered a public use for purposes 
of eminent domain.
    Sec. 408.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
transferred to any 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. 409.  No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be 
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the 
assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act 
of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 8301-8305, popularly known as the ``Buy 
American Act'').
    Sec. 410.  No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under 
this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been 
convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301-8305).
    Sec. 411.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of sections 
301-10.122 and 301-10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 412.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees 
of a single agency or department of the United States Government, who 
are stationed in the United States, at any single international 
conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance that 
such attendance is important to the national interest:  Provided, That 
for purposes of this section the term ``international conference'' 
shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United States attended 
by representatives of the United States Government and of foreign 
governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 
organizations.
    Sec. 413.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation 
Board to charge or collect any filing fee for rate or practice 
complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the amount 
authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under section 1914 
of title 28, United States Code.
    Sec. 414. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network 
blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography.
    (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds 
necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement 
agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, 
prosecution, or adjudication activities.
    Sec. 415. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely access 
to any records, documents, or other materials available to the 
department or agency over which that Inspector General has 
responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.), or to prevent or impede that Inspector General's access to such 
records, documents, or other materials, under any provision of law, 
except a provision of law that expressly refers to the Inspector 
General and expressly limits the Inspector General's right of access.
    (b) A department or agency covered by this section shall provide 
its Inspector General with access to all such records, documents, and 
other materials in a timely manner.
    (c) Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance with statutory 
limitations on disclosure relevant to the information provided by the 
establishment over which that Inspector General has responsibilities 
under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).
    (d) Each Inspector General covered by this section shall report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate within 5 calendar days any failures to comply with this 
requirement.
    Sec. 416.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for 
contractors whose performance has been judged to be below satisfactory, 
behind schedule, over budget, or has failed to meet the basic 
requirements of a contract, unless the Agency determines that any such 
deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government-driven scope 
changes, or are not significant within the overall scope of the project 
and/or program unless such awards or incentive fees are consistent with 
16.401(e)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
    Sec. 417.  No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to 
enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily 
completed his or her period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his or her release from such service or from 
hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more 
than 1 year, made application for restoration to his or her former 
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management 
as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position 
and has not been restored thereto.
    Sec. 418. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 41301 
through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption application 
under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding an 
air operators certificate issued by a country that is party to the 
U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such approval 
would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-
Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise 
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign air 
carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where such 
authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air 
Transport Agreement and United States law.
    Sec. 419. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used to operate, procure, or enter into 
a contracting action related to acquire unmanned aircraft systems, as 
defined under section 44801 of title 49, United States Code, 
manufactured by an entity that is--
            (1) included on the Consolidated Screening List or Entity 
        List as designated by the Secretary of Commerce;
            (2) included in the Chinese Military-Industrial Complex 
        list by the Secretary of the Treasury;
            (3) included in the 1260H list by the Secretary of Defense;
            (4) domiciled in the People's Republic of China;
            (5) subject to influence or control by the government of 
        the People's Republic of China; or
            (6) a subsidiary or affiliate of an entity described in 
        paragraphs (1) through (5).
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to an operation, procurement, or 
contracting action that--
            (1) is for purposes of counter-UAS testing, analysis, 
        training, or aviation safety testing and research; and
            (2) notification is provided in writing not later than 15 
        days after making an expenditure to such an operation, 
        procurement, or contracting action to the Committees on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
        in a manner that identifies the unmanned aircraft system and 
        intended use of such system, provided that such notification 
        may include a classified annex, as necessary.
    Sec. 420.  Of the unobligated balances available in Public Law 117-
169, $25,035,000,000 available under section 10301(1)(A)(ii) as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act are permanently rescinded.
    Sec. 421.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to provide any education, training, or professional development that 
utilizes, promotes, or teaches Critical Race Theory, any concept 
associated with Critical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any 
idea or concept that condones an individual being discriminated against 
or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based on race or sex, that 
condones an individual feeling discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other 
form of psychological distress on account of that individual's race or 
sex, as well as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently 
superior to another race, the United States or its institutions as 
being systemically racist or sexist, an individual as being inherently 
racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue of that individual's race or 
sex, an individual's moral character as being necessarily determined by 
race or sex, an individual as bearing responsibility for actions 
committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex, or 
meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created by a 
particular race to oppress another race.
    Sec. 422.  The Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall provide the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations quarterly written notification regarding 
the status of pending congressional reports.
    Sec. 423.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish, 
administer, or enforce any requirement to elevate any structure that is 
newly constructed, substantially repaired, or substantially improved 
and is located within the areas impacted or distressed as a result of a 
major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and within 
a special flood hazard area for purposes of the National Flood 
Insurance Program, to an elevation higher than the elevation required 
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the National Flood 
Insurance Program.
    Sec. 424.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in contravention of 
section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155).
    Sec. 425.  With respect to a person who has received Federal 
assistance for a major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 
et seq.) related to Major Disaster Declarations for Disaster Number 
4263 from March of 2016 or Disaster Number 4277 from August of 2016, 
none of the funds under this or a prior Act shall be used to enforce an 
income threshold to limit the eligibility of such recipient from 
qualifying for a waiver of the general prohibition of the duplication 
of benefits under section 312(b)(4) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5155(b)(4)) 
for assistance made available under section 145(a) of division C of 
Public Law 114-223, section 192(b) of division C of Public Law 114-223, 
or section 421 of division K of Public Law 115-31.
    Sec. 426.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to facilitate new scheduled air transportation originating from the 
United States if such flights would land on, or pass through, property 
confiscated by the Cuban Government, including property in which a 
minority interest was confiscated, as the terms confiscated, by the 
Cuban Government, and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and 
(12)(A), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023 (4), (5), and 7 
(12)(A)): Provided, That for this section, new scheduled air 
transportation shall include any flights not already regularly 
scheduled prior to May 2022.
    Sec. 427. (a) In the table of projects in the explanatory statement 
referenced in section 417 of the Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 (division L 
of Public Law 117-103) the item relating to ``Midland Center for the 
Arts only for structural improvements'' is deemed to be amended by 
striking recipient ``City of Midland'' and inserting ``Midland Center 
for the Arts.''
    (b) In the table of projects entitled ``Community Project Funding/
Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in the explanatory 
statement that accompanied the Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 (division L 
of Public Law 117-328)--
            (1) the item relating to ``River Road Homes Affordable 
        Housing Infrastructure'' is deemed to be amended by striking 
        recipient ``Town of Canaan'' and inserting ``Falls Village 
        Housing Trust Inc.''; and
            (2) the item relating to ``The Star Community Family Life 
        Center'' is deemed to be amended by striking recipient ``The 
        Star Community Family Life Center'' and inserting ``Morning 
        Star Baptist Life Center Five Star Program, Inc.''
    Sec. 428.  None of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act may be used for any activities related to the implementation 
of Priced Zones (Cordon Pricing) under the Value Pricing Pilot Program 
or New York City's Central Business District Tolling Program.
    Sec. 429.  None of the funds made available by this Act or any 
other Act may be used for any program, project, or activity associated 
with the collection of tolls on Interstate Route 5 or Interstate Route 
205 in the State of Oregon.
    Sec. 430.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
obligated or expended to fly or display a flag over a facility of a 
Department or agency funded by this Act other than the flag of the 
United States; the flag of a State, insular area, or the District of 
Columbia; the flag of a Federally recognized Tribal entity; the 
official flag of the Secretary of Transportation or the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development; the official flag of a U.S. Department 
or agency; or the POW/MIA flag.
    Sec. 431. (a) IN GENERAL.--Notwithstanding section 7 of title 1, 
United States Code, section 1738C of title 28, United States Code, or 
any other provision of law, none of the funds provided by this Act, or 
previous appropriations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on the 
basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely 
held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or should 
be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman.
    (b) DISCRIMINATORY ACTION DEFINED.--As used in subsection (a), a 
discriminatory action means any action taken by the Federal Government 
to--
            (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause 
        any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, 
        delay, or revoke an exemption from taxation under section 
        501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person 
        referred to in subsection (a);
            (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any 
        charitable contribution made to or by such person;
            (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, exclude, 
        terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any Federal 
        grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, guarantee, 
        loan, scholarship, license, certification, accreditation, 
        employment, or other similar position or status from or to such 
        person;
            (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
        unavailable or deny, any entitlement or benefit under a Federal 
        benefit program, including admission to, equal treatment in, or 
        eligibility for a degree from an educational program, from or 
        to such person; or
            (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
        unavailable or deny access or an entitlement to Federal 
        property, facilities, educational institutions, speech fora 
        (including traditional, limited, and nonpublic fora), or 
        charitable fundraising campaigns from or to such person.
    (c) ACCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.--The Federal 
Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or certified for 
purposes of Federal law any person that would be accredited, licensed, 
or certified, respectively, for such purposes but for a determination 
against such person wholly or partially on the basis that the person 
speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 
or moral conviction described in subsection (a).
    Sec. 432.  None of the funds made available by this title may be 
used in contravention of section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform 
and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
    Sec. 433. (a) IN GENERAL.--None of the funds made available, 
limited, or otherwise affected by this Act shall be used to approve or 
otherwise authorize the imposition of any toll on any segment of 
highway or bridge located on the Federal-aid system in the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania that--
    (1) as of the date of enactment of this Act, is not tolled;
    (2) is constructed with Federal assistance provided under title 23, 
United States Code;
    (3) is constructed with Federal assistance provided under section 
141 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
    (4) is in actual operation as of the date of enactment of this Act.
    (b) EXCEPTIONS.--
    (1) NUMBER OF TOLL LANES.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
segment of highway on the Federal-aid system described in that 
subsection that, as of the date on which a toll is imposed on the 
segment, will have the same number of nontoll lanes as were in 
existence prior to that date.
    (2) HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES.--A high-occupancy vehicle lane 
that is converted to a toll lane shall not be subject to this section, 
and shall not be considered to be a non-toll lane for purposes of 
determining whether a highway will have fewer non-toll lanes than prior 
to the date of imposition of the toll, if--
            (A) high-occupancy vehicles occupied by the number of 
        passengers specified by the entity operating the toll lane may 
        use the toll lane without paying a toll, unless otherwise 
        specified by the appropriate county, town, municipal or other 
        local government entity, or public toll road or transit 
        authority; or
            (B) each high-occupancy vehicle lane that was converted to 
        a toll lane was constructed as a temporary lane to be replaced 
        by a toll lane under a plan approved by the appropriate county, 
        town, municipal or other local government entity, or public 
        toll road or transit authority.
    Sec. 434.  Spending Reduction Account--The amount by which the 
applicable allocation of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under section 302(b) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 exceeds the amount of proposed new 
budget authority is $0.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 122

118th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 4820

                          [Report No. 118-154]

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                                 A BILL

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.

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                             July 24, 2023

   Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
                    Union and ordered to be printed