The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 is the appropriations bill for the

Department of Commerce The United States Department of Commerce is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for bu ...

, Department of Justice, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the

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, and several independent agencies for the fiscal year 2016.

Legislative history

The bill was introduced in the House as , which passed the House on June 3, 2015. On June 16, the Senate Committee on Appropriations reported the bill to the full Senate with amendments. It later became Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, , which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 18, 2015.

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