Sec. 115.
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None of the funds appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2026 for a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives may be obligated, awarded, or expended to procure or purchase covered information technology equipment in cases where the manufacturer, bidder, or offeror, or any subsidiary or parent entity of the manufacturer, bidder, or offeror, of the equipment is an entity or parent company of an entity listed on any of the following:
The Chinese Military Company List of the Department of Defense. The Non-SDN Chinese Military Industrial Complex Companies List of the Department of the Treasury. The Denied Persons List, Entity List, or Military End User List of the Department of Commerce, if the entity is— an agency or instrumentality of the People’s Republic of China; an entity headquartered in the People’s Republic of China; or directly or indirectly owned or controlled by an agency, instrumentality, or entity described in subparagraph
(A)or (B). The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List of the Department of Homeland Security. The prohibition under subsection
(a)shall apply to a case in which a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives has entered into a contract with another entity for the procurement or purchase of, or the expenditure of funds on, covered information technology equipment. In this section, the term covered information technology equipment — means a computer, printer, or interoperable videoconferencing equipment for direct use by a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives in an office environment; and does not include services that use such equipment, including cloud services.