Sec. 256.
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None of the funds appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Veterans Affairs 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 Department of Defense’s Chinese Military Company List; the Department of the Treasury’s Non-SDN Chinese Military Industrial Complex Companies List; the Department of Commerce’s Denied Persons List, Entity List, or Military End User List, 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); or the Department of Homeland Security’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The prohibition in subsection
(a)also applies in cases in which the Secretary has contracted with a third party for the procurement, purchase, or expenditure of funds on any of the equipment and software described in such subsection. For purposes of this section, the term covered information technology equipment shall mean the following equipment used in an office environment: computers, printers, or interoperable videoconferencing equipment used in or by the Department of Veterans Affairs directly. Covered information technology equipment shall not refer to services that use such equipment, including cloud services.