--- kind: "diff" citation: "H.R. 4660" bill: "113-hr-4660" heading: "Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2015" from: "rh" from_label: "Reported in House" to: "eh" to_label: "Engrossed in House" sections_amended: 1 sections_added: 25 sections_removed: 0 url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/113/hr/4660/changes/eh" --- # H.R. 4660 — what changed H.R. 4660, Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2015 — 1 section amended and 25 added between Reported in House and Engrossed in House. Edits are marked `struck` and `inserted`. ## Sec. 540 (unnamed section) - 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.$0 (increased by $866,000). ## Sec. 541 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act under the heading “Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery” may be used for grant guidelines or requirements to establish minimum riparian buffers. ## Sec. 542 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011. ## Sec. 543 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any of its principals— - (1) within a three-year period preceding this offer has been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against it for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, State, or local) contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, tax evasion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; - (2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any of the offenses enumerated above in paragraph (1); or - (3) within a three-year period preceding this offer, has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains unsatisfied. ## Sec. 544 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement Executive Order No. 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed under such Executive order. ## Sec. 545 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to enforce section 221 of title 13, United States Code, with respect to the American Community Survey. ## Sec. 546 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act for the “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE—administrative review and appeals” may be used in contravention of sections 509 and 510 of title 28, United States Code. ## Sec. 547 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to assess or collect the fee established by section 660.115 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations. ## Sec. 548 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used in contravention of any of the following: - (1) The fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution of the United States. - (2) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (relating to nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs). - (3) Section 809(c)(1) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (relating to prohibition of discrimination). - (4) Section 210401(a) of the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (relating to unlawful police pattern or practice). ## Sec. 549 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Advanced Food Technology Project. ## Sec. 550 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for a loan guarantee for Innovative Technologies in Manufacturing under the heading “Economic Development Administration, Economic Development Assistance Programs”. ## Sec. 551 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to negotiate an agreement that includes a waiver of the “Buy American Act”. ## Sec. 552 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available to the National Science Foundation by this Act may be used to examine climate effects on tea quality and socioeconomic responses under award number 1313775–CNH. ## Sec. 553 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or carry out the U.S. Global Climate Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866. ## Sec. 554 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to carry out Operation Choke Point. ## Sec. 555 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide assistance to a State, or political subdivision of a State, that has in effect any law, policy, or procedure in contravention of immigration laws (as defined in section 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(17))). ## Sec. 556 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for the Investigative and Public Affairs Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation except for the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, the Most Wanted Terrorists, and missing children programs. ## Sec. 557 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used to prevent a State from implementing its own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of industrial hemp, as defined in section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). ## Sec. 558 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. ## Sec. 559 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to transfer or temporarily assign employees to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for the purpose of screening clemency applications. ## Sec. 560 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (“Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research”) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. ## Sec. 561 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to compel a journalist or reporter to testify about information or sources that the journalist or reporter states in a motion to quash the subpoena that he has obtained as a journalist or reporter and that he regards as confidential. ## Sec. 562 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with respect to Internet domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions. ## Sec. 563 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Department of Justice to enforce the Fair Housing Act in a manner that relies upon an allegation of liability under 24 CFR 100.500. ## Sec. 564 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act under the heading “Department of Justice—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance” may be used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)). ## Sec. 565 (unnamed section) — added - None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to negotiate or enter into a trade agreement that establishes a limit on greenhouse gas emissions. The limitation described in this section shall not apply in the case of the administration of a tax or tariff.