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Calendar No. 128
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1284
[Report No.
113–71]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES
July 11, 2013
Mr. Harkin, from the
Committee on
Appropriations, reported the following original bill; which
was read twice and placed on the calendar
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Departments
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other
purposes.
That the following sums are appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes,
namely:
I
Department of Labor
Employment and training
administration
Training and employment
services
(Including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 (referred to in this Act as WIA), the
Second Chance Act of 2007, the Women in Apprenticeship and Non-Traditional
Occupations Act of 1992 (WANTO Act), and the Workforce
Innovation Fund, as established by this Act,
$3,264,213,000, plus reimbursements, shall be
available. Of the amounts provided:
(1) for grants to States for adult employment
and training activities, youth activities, and dislocated worker employment and
training activities, $2,683,766,000 as
follows:
(A) $791,644,000
for adult employment and training activities, of which
$79,644,000 shall be available for the period
July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015, and of which
$712,000,000 shall be available for the period
October 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015;
(B) $846,632,000
for youth activities, which shall be available for the period April 1, 2014
through June 30, 2015; and
(C) $1,045,490,000
for dislocated worker employment and training activities, of which
$185,490,000 shall be available for the period
July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, and of which
$860,000,000 shall be available for the period
October 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015:
Provided,
That notwithstanding the transfer limitation under section 133(b)(4) of the
WIA, up to 30 percent of such funds may be transferred by a local board if
approved by the Governor:
Provided further,
That a local board may award a contract to an institution of higher education
or other eligible training provider if the local board determines that it would
facilitate the training of multiple individuals in high-demand occupations, if
such contract does not limit customer choice:
Provided further,
That notwithstanding section 128(a)(1) of the WIA, the amount available to the
Governor for statewide workforce investment activities shall not exceed 7.5
percent of the amount allotted to the State from each of the appropriations
under the preceding subparagraphs;
(2) for federally administered programs,
$487,779,000 as follows:
(A) $220,859,000
for the dislocated workers assistance national reserve, of which
$20,859,000 shall be available for the period
July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, and of which
$200,000,000 shall be available for the period
October 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015:
Provided, That funds provided to
carry out section 132(a)(2)(A) of the WIA may be used to provide assistance to
a State for statewide or local use in order to address cases where there have
been worker dislocations across multiple sectors or across multiple local areas
and such workers remain dislocated; coordinate the State workforce development
plan with emerging economic development needs; and train such eligible
dislocated workers:
Provided further,
That funds provided to carry out section 171(d) of the WIA may be used for
demonstration projects that provide assistance to new entrants in the workforce
and incumbent workers:
Provided further,
That none of the funds shall be obligated to carry out section 173(e) of the
WIA;
(B) $47,467,000
for Native American programs, which shall be available for the period July 1,
2014 through June 30, 2015;
(C) $84,123,000
for migrant and seasonal farmworker programs under section 167 of the WIA,
including $77,949,000 for formula grants (of
which not less than 70 percent shall be for employment and training services),
$5,667,000 for migrant and seasonal housing (of
which not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), and
$507,000 for other discretionary purposes, which
shall be available for the period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015:
Provided, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law or related regulation, the Department of Labor shall
take no action limiting the number or proportion of eligible participants
receiving related assistance services or discouraging grantees from providing
such services;
(D) $994,000 for
carrying out the WANTO Act, which shall be available for the period July 1,
2014 through June 30, 2015;
(E) $84,530,000
for YouthBuild activities as described in section 173A of the WIA, which shall
be available for the period April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015; and
(F) $49,806,000
to be available to the Secretary of Labor (referred to in this title as
Secretary) for the Workforce Innovation Fund to carry out
projects that demonstrate innovative strategies or replicate effective
evidence-based strategies that align and strengthen the workforce investment
system in order to improve program delivery and education and employment
outcomes for beneficiaries, which shall be for the period July 1, 2014 through
September 30, 2015:
Provided, That amounts shall be
available for awards to States or State agencies that are eligible for
assistance under any program authorized under the WIA, consortia of States, or
partnerships, including regional partnerships:
Provided further,
That not more than 5 percent of the funds available for workforce innovation
activities shall be for technical assistance and evaluations related to the
projects carried out with these funds:
Provided further,
That the Secretary may authorize awardees to use a portion of awarded funds for
evaluation, upon the Chief Evaluation Officer's approval of an evaluation plan:
Provided further,
That $5,000,000 of the funds provided for the
Workforce Innovation Fund shall be used for innovative and evidence-based
approaches to improving outcomes for disconnected youth:
Provided further,
That up to $10,000,000 of the funds provided for
the Workforce Innovation Fund may be used for performance-based awards or other
agreements under the Pay for Success program:
Provided further,
That any funds obligated for Pay for Success projects or agreements shall
remain available for disbursement until expended, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
1552(a), and that any funds deobligated from such projects or agreements shall
immediately be available for Workforce Innovation Fund activities;
(3) for national activities,
$92,668,000, as follows:
(A) $6,590,000,
in addition to any amounts available under paragraph (2) for Pilots,
Demonstrations, and Research, which shall be available for the period April 1,
2014 through June 30, 2015;
(B) $80,078,000
for ex-offender activities, under the authority of section 171 of the WIA and
section 212 of the Second Chance Act of 2007, which shall be available for the
period April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, notwithstanding the requirements of
section 171(b)(2)(B) or 171(c)(4)(D) of the WIA:
Provided, That of this amount,
$20,000,000 shall be for competitive grants to
national and regional intermediaries for activities that prepare young
ex-offenders and school dropouts for employment, with a priority for projects
serving high-crime, high-poverty areas; and
(C) $6,000,000
for the Workforce Data Quality Initiative, under the authority of section
171(c)(2) of the WIA, which shall be available for the period July 1, 2014
through June 30, 2015, and which shall not be subject to the requirements of
section 171(c)(4)(D).
Office of Job Corps
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the
WIA, including Federal administrative expenses, the purchase and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and repairs of
buildings and other facilities, and the purchase of real property for training
centers as authorized by the WIA,
$1,706,923,000, plus reimbursements, as
follows:
(1) $1,586,776,000
for Job Corps Operations, which shall be available for the period July 1, 2014
through June 30, 2015;
(2) $90,000,000
for construction, rehabilitation and acquisition of Job Corps Centers, which
shall be available for the period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017:
Provided, That the Secretary may
transfer up to 15 percent of such funds to meet the operational needs of such
centers or to achieve administrative efficiencies:
Provided further,
That any funds transferred pursuant to the preceding proviso shall not be
available for obligation after June 30, 2015:
Provided further,
That the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer; and
(3) $30,147,000
for necessary expenses of the Office of Job Corps, which shall be available for
obligation for the period October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014:
Provided
further, That no funds from any other
appropriation shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps
centers.
Community service employment for older
americans
To carry out title V
of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (referred to in this Act as
OAA), $447,355,000, which shall
be available for the period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, and may be
recaptured and reobligated in accordance with section 517(c) of the
OAA.
Federal unemployment benefits and
allowances
For payments during
fiscal year 2014 of trade adjustment benefit payments and allowances under part
I of subchapter B of chapter 2 of title II of the
Trade Act of 1974, and section 246 of
that Act; and for training, employment and case management services, allowances
for job search and relocation, and related State administrative expenses under
part II of subchapter B of chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974,
including benefit payments, allowances, training, employment and case
management services, and related State administration provided pursuant to
section 231(a) of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011,
$656,000,000, together with such amounts as may
be necessary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation for payments for any
period subsequent to September 15, 2014.
State unemployment insurance and employment
service operations
For
authorized administrative expenses, $85,896,000,
together with not to exceed $3,742,198,000 which
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration Account in the
Unemployment Trust Fund (the Trust Fund), of
which:
(1) $2,911,575,000
from the Trust Fund is for grants to States for the administration of State
unemployment insurance laws as authorized under title III of the Social
Security Act (including not less than
$60,000,000 to conduct in-person reemployment
and eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper payment
reviews, and $10,000,000 for activities to
address the misclassification of workers), the administration of unemployment
insurance for Federal employees and for ex-service members as authorized under
5 U.S.C. 8501–8523, and the administration of trade readjustment allowances,
reemployment trade adjustment assistance, and alternative trade adjustment
assistance under the Trade Act of 1974 and under section 231(a) of the Trade
Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, and shall be available for
obligation by the States through December 31, 2014, except that funds used for
automation acquisitions or competitive grants awarded to States for improved
operations, reemployment and eligibility assessments and improper payments, or
activities to address misclassification of workers shall be available for
Federal obligation through December 31, 2014 and for obligation by the States
through September 30, 2016, and funds used for unemployment insurance workloads
experienced by the States through September 30, 2014 shall be available for
Federal obligation through December 31, 2014;
(2) $11,243,000
from the Trust Fund is for national activities necessary to support the
administration of the Federal-State unemployment insurance system;
(3) $708,247,000
from the Trust Fund, together with $22,550,000
from the General Fund of the Treasury, is for grants to States in accordance
with section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, of which not less than
$30,000,000 shall be used to provide
reemployment services to beneficiaries of unemployment insurance, and shall be
available for Federal obligation for the period July 1, 2014 through June 30,
2015;
(4) $20,871,000
from the Trust Fund is for national activities of the Employment Service,
including administration of the work opportunity tax credit under section 51 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the provision of technical assistance
and staff training under the Wagner-Peyser Act, including not to exceed
$1,166,000 that may be used for amortization
payments to States which had independent retirement plans in their State
employment service agencies prior to 1980;
(5) $65,262,000
from the Trust Fund is for the administration of foreign labor certifications
and related activities under the Immigration and Nationality Act and related
laws, of which $50,222,000 shall be available
for the Federal administration of such activities, and
$15,040,000 shall be available for grants to
States for the administration of such activities;
(6) $63,346,000
from the General Fund is to provide workforce information, national electronic
tools, and one-stop system building under the Wagner-Peyser Act and section 171
(e)(2)(C) of the WIA and shall be available for Federal obligation for the
period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015; and
(7) $25,000,000
from the Trust Fund is for competitive grants to States for the administration
and evaluation of demonstration projects under section 305 of the Social
Security Act (as added by section 2102 of the Middle Class Tax Relief Act and
Job Creation Act of 2012), except that section 305(d)(3) shall be applied by
substituting 2017 for 2015, and these funds shall
be available for Federal obligation through December 31, 2017:
Provided,
That to the extent that the Average Weekly Insured Unemployment
(AWIU) for fiscal year 2014 is projected by the Department of
Labor to exceed 3,357,000, an additional
$28,600,000 from the Trust Fund shall be
available for obligation for every 100,000 increase in the AWIU level
(including a pro rata amount for any increment less than 100,000) to carry out
title III of the Social Security Act:
Provided further,
That funds appropriated in this Act that are allotted to a State to carry out
activities under title III of the Social Security
Act may be used by such State to assist other States in carrying out
activities under such title III if the other States include areas that have
suffered a major disaster declared by the President under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act:
Provided further,
That the Secretary may use funds appropriated for grants to States under title
III of the Social Security Act to make
payments on behalf of States for the use of the National Directory of New Hires
under section 453(j)(8) of such Act:
Provided further,
That funds appropriated in this Act which are used to establish a national
one-stop career center system, or which are used to support the national
activities of the Federal-State unemployment insurance or immigration programs,
may be obligated in contracts, grants, or agreements with non-State entities:
Provided further,
That States awarded competitive grants for improved operations under title III
of the Social Security Act, or awarded grants to support the national
activities of the Federal-State unemployment insurance system, may award
subgrants to other States under such grants, subject to the conditions
applicable to the grants:
Provided further,
That funds appropriated under this Act for activities authorized under title
III of the Social Security Act and the
Wagner-Peyser Act may be used by States to fund integrated Unemployment
Insurance and Employment Service automation efforts, notwithstanding cost
allocation principles prescribed under the Office of Management and Budget
Circular A–87:
Provided further,
That the Secretary, at the request of a State participating in a consortium
with other States, may reallot funds allotted to such State under title III of
the Social Security Act to other
States participating in the consortium in order to carry out activities that
benefit the administration of the unemployment compensation law of the State
making the request:
Provided further,
That the Secretary may collect fees for the costs associated with additional
data collection, analyses, and reporting services relating to the National
Agricultural Workers Survey requested by State and local governments, public
and private institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations and
may utilize such sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, for
the National Agricultural Workers Survey infrastructure, methodology, and data
to meet the information collection and reporting needs of such entities, which
shall be credited to this appropriation and shall remain available until
September 30, 2015, for such purposes.
In addition,
$20,000,000 from the Employment Security
Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund shall be available to
conduct in-person reemployment and eligibility assessments and unemployment
insurance improper payment reviews.
State Paid Leave Fund
For grants and contracts to assist in the
start-up of new paid leave programs in the States,
$5,000,000.
Advances to the unemployment trust fund and
other funds
For repayable
advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and
1203 of the Social Security Act, and
to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and for nonrepayable advances to the
revolving fund established by section 901(e) of the Social Security Act, to the
Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8509, and to the
Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances account, such sums
as may be necessary, which shall be available for obligation through September
30, 2015.
Program administration
For expenses of administering employment and
training programs, $100,994,000, together with
not to exceed $50,608,000 which may be expended
from the Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust
Fund.
Employee benefits security
administration
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Employee
Benefits Security Administration,
$176,472,000.
Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation
Pension benefit guaranty corporation
fund
The Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (Corporation) is authorized to make such
expenditures, including financial assistance authorized by subtitle E of title
IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, within 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 31 U.S.C. 9104, as may be necessary in carrying out
the program, including associated administrative expenses, through September
30, 2014, for the Corporation:
Provided, That none of the funds
available to the Corporation for fiscal year 2014 shall be available for
obligations for administrative expenses in excess of
$505,441,000:
Provided further, That
to the extent that the number of new plan participants in plans terminated by
the Corporation exceeds 100,000 in fiscal year 2014, an amount not to exceed an
additional $9,200,000 shall be available through
September 30, 2015, for obligation for administrative expenses for every 20,000
additional terminated participants:
Provided further, That
an additional $50,000 shall be made available
through September 30, 2015, for obligation for investment management fees for
every $25,000,000 in assets received by the
Corporation as a result of new plan terminations or asset growth, after
approval by the Office of Management and Budget and notification of the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate:
Provided further, That
obligations in excess of the amounts provided in this paragraph may be incurred
for unforeseen and extraordinary pretermination expenses or extraordinary
multiemployer program related expenses after approval by the Office of
Management and Budget and notification of the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Wage and Hour
Division
Salaries and
expenses
For necessary expenses for the Wage and Hour
Division, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and
their employees for inspection services rendered,
$243,254,000.
Office of Labor-Management
Standards
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Office of
Labor-Management Standards,
$41,206,000.
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Office of
Federal Contract Compliance Programs,
$106,000,000.
Office of Workers' Compensation
Programs
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Office of
Workers' Compensation Programs, $115,488,000,
together with $2,116,000 which may be expended
from the Special Fund in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d), and 44(j) of
the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation
Act.
Special
benefits
(including transfer of funds)
For the payment of compensation, benefits,
and expenses (except administrative expenses) accruing during the current or
any prior fiscal year authorized by 5 U.S.C. 81; continuation of benefits as
provided for under the heading Civilian War Benefits in the
Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the Employees' Compensation
Commission Appropriation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims
Act of 1948; and 50 percent of the additional compensation and benefits
required by section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation
Act, $396,000,000, together with such amounts as
may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent year appropriation for the
payment of compensation and other benefits for any period subsequent to August
15 of the current year:
Provided, That amounts appropriated
may be used under 5 U.S.C. 8104 by the Secretary to reimburse an employer, who
is not the employer at the time of injury, for portions of the salary of a
re-employed, disabled beneficiary:
Provided further, That
balances of reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 2013, shall remain
available until expended for the payment of compensation, benefits, and
expenses:
Provided further, That
in addition there shall be transferred to this appropriation from the Postal
Service and from any other corporation or instrumentality required under 5
U.S.C. 8147(c) to pay an amount for its fair share of the cost of
administration, such sums as the Secretary determines to be the cost of
administration for employees of such fair share entities through September 30,
2014:
Provided further, That
of those funds transferred to this account from the fair share entities to pay
the cost of administration of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act,
$60,017,000 shall be made available to the
Secretary as follows:
(1) For enhancement and maintenance of
automated data processing systems operations and telecommunications systems,
$19,499,000;
(2) For automated workload processing
operations, including document imaging, centralized mail intake, and medical
bill processing, $22,968,000;
(3) For periodic roll disability management and
medical review, $16,190,000;
(4) For program integrity,
$1,360,000; and
(5) The remaining funds shall be paid into the
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts:
Provided further, That the Secretary
may require that any person filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits
under 5 U.S.C. 81, or the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act,
provide as part of such notice and claim, such identifying information
(including Social Security account number) as such regulations may
prescribe.
Special benefits for disabled coal
miners
For carrying out title
IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law
107–275, $98,235,000, to remain available until
expended. For making after July
31 of the current fiscal year, benefit payments to individuals under title IV
of such Act, for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, such amounts as may
be necessary. For making benefit
payments under title IV for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015,
$24,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
Administrative expenses, energy employees
occupational illness compensation fund
For necessary expenses to administer the
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act,
$55,176,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the Secretary may
require that any person filing a claim for benefits under the Act provide as
part of such claim such identifying information (including Social Security
account number) as may be prescribed.
Black lung disability trust
fund
(including transfer of funds)
Such sums as may be necessary from the Black
Lung Disability Trust Fund (the Fund), to remain available until
expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by section 9501(d)(1), (2),
(6), and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and repayment of, and
payment of interest on advances, as authorized by section 9501(d)(4) of that
Act. In addition, the following amounts may be expended from the Fund for
fiscal year 2014 for expenses of operation and administration of the Black Lung
Benefits program, as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): not to exceed
$33,033,000 for transfer to the Office of
Workers’ Compensation Programs, Salaries and Expenses; not to
exceed $25,365,000 for transfer to Departmental
Management, Salaries and Expenses; not to exceed
$327,000 for transfer to Departmental
Management, Office of Inspector General; and not to exceed
$356,000 for payments into miscellaneous
receipts for the expenses of the Department of the
Treasury.
Occupational safety and health
administration
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, $567,012,000,
including not to exceed $103,987,000 which shall
be the maximum amount available for grants to States under section 23(g) of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (the Act), which grants shall
be no less than 50 percent of the costs of State occupational safety and health
programs required to be incurred under plans approved by the Secretary under
section 18 of the Act; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration may retain up to
$200,000 per fiscal year of training institute
course tuition fees, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, and may
utilize such sums for occupational safety and health training and education:
Provided, That notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary is authorized, during the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2014, to collect and retain fees for services provided to
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may utilize such sums, in
accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, to administer national and
international laboratory recognition programs that ensure the safety of
equipment and products used by workers in the workplace:
Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, rule,
regulation, or order under the Act which is applicable to any person who is
engaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp
and employs 10 or fewer employees:
Provided further, That
no funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to
administer or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act
with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees who is included within a
category having a Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART)
occupational injury and illness rate, at the most precise industrial
classification code for which such data are published, less than the national
average rate as such rates are most recently published by the Secretary, acting
through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of the
Act, except—
(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act,
consultation, technical assistance, educational and training services, and to
conduct surveys and studies;
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation
in response to an employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations found
during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for violations which are not
corrected within a reasonable abatement period and for any willful violations
found;
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act
with respect to imminent dangers;
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act
with respect to health hazards;
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act
with respect to a report of an employment accident which is fatal to one or
more employees or which results in hospitalization of two or more employees,
and to take any action pursuant to such investigation authorized by the Act;
and
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act
with respect to complaints of discrimination against employees for exercising
rights under the Act:
Provided further, That the foregoing
proviso shall not apply to any person who is engaged in a farming operation
which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer
employees:
Provided further,
That $10,709,000 shall be available for Susan
Harwood training grants.
Mine safety and health
administration
Salaries and
expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety
and Health Administration, $380,721,000,
including purchase and bestowal of certificates and trophies in connection with
mine rescue and first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles,
including up to $2,000,000 for mine rescue and
recovery activities; in addition, not to exceed
$750,000 may be collected by the National Mine
Health and Safety Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale of training
materials, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, to be available for
mine safety and health education and training activities, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302; in addition, the Mine Safety and Health Administration is
authorized to collect and retain up to
$2,499,000 from fees collected for the approval
and certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines, and
may utilize such sums for such activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; in
addition, the Mine Safety and Health Administration is authorized to collect
and retain fees for services related to the analysis of rock dust samples, and
may utilize such sums to administer such activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
3302; the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and
other contributions from public and private sources and to prosecute projects
in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety
and Health Administration is authorized to promote health and safety education
and training in the mining community through cooperative programs with States,
industry, and safety associations; the Secretary is authorized to recognize the
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association as a principal safety association and,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, may provide funds and, with or
without reimbursement, personnel, including service of Mine Safety and Health
Administration officials as officers in local chapters or in the national
organization; any funds available to the Department of Labor may be used, with
the approval of the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue and
survival operations in the event of a major disaster; and the Secretary may
reallocate among the items funded under this heading up to
$3,000,000 to support inspections or
investigations pursuant to section 103 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health
Act of 1977:
Provided, That the Secretary may
transfer such sums as may be necessary to Departmental
Management for the Office of the Solicitor move related to the
relocation of the Mine Safety and Health Administration
headquarters.
Bureau of labor
statistics
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and
local agencies and their employees for services rendered,
$542,811,000, together with not to exceed
$67,041,000 which may be expended from the
Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust
Fund.
Office of disability employment
policy
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Office of
Disability Employment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and
initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective of eliminating barriers
to the training and employment of people with disabilities,
$42,432,000.
Departmental
management
Salaries and
expenses
(Including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for Departmental
Management, including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles,
$346,359,000, together with not to exceed
$326,000, which may be expended from the
Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund:
Provided, That
$66,375,000 for the Bureau of International
Labor Affairs shall be available for obligation through December 31, 2014:
Provided further, That
funds available to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs may be used to
administer or operate international labor activities, bilateral and
multilateral technical assistance, and microfinance programs, by or through
contracts, grants, subgrants and other arrangements:
Provided further, That
not more than $59,887,000 shall be for programs
to combat exploitative child labor internationally and not less than
$6,488,000 shall be used to implement model
programs that address worker rights issues through technical assistance in
countries with which the United States has free trade agreements or trade
preference programs:
Provided further, That
$8,467,000 shall be used for program evaluation
and shall be available for obligation through September 30, 2015:
Provided further,
That funds available for program evaluation may be transferred to any other
appropriate account in the Department for such purpose:
Provided further,
That the funds available to the Women's Bureau may be used for grants to serve
and promote the interests of women in the
workforce.
Veterans employment and
training
Not to exceed
$262,333,000 may be derived from the Employment
Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund to carry out the
provisions of chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, of
which:
(1) $203,081,000
is for Jobs for Veterans State grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support
disabled veterans' outreach program specialists under section 4103A of such
title and local veterans' employment representatives under section 4104(b) of
such title, and for the expenses described in section 4102A(b)(5)(C), which
shall be available for obligation by the States through December 31, 2014:
Provided, That, in addition, such
funds may be used to support such specialists and representatives in the
provision of services to transitioning members of the Armed Forces who have
participated in the Transition Assistance Program and have been identified as
in need of intensive services, to members of the Armed Forces who are wounded,
ill, or injured and receiving treatment in military treatment facilities or
warrior transition units, and to the spouses or other family caregivers of such
wounded, ill, or injured members;
(2) $14,000,000
if for carrying out the Transition Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and
10 U.S.C. 1144;
(3) $41,838,000
is for Federal administration of chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United
States Code; and
(4) $3,414,000
is for the National Veterans' Employment and Training Services Institute under
38 U.S.C. 4109:
Provided further, That the Secretary
may reallocate among the appropriations provided under paragraphs (1) through
(4) above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropriation from which
such reallocation is made.
In addition, from the General Fund of the
Treasury, $38,185,000 is for carrying out the
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Programs under 38 U.S.C.
2021.
IT modernization
For necessary expenses for Department of
Labor centralized infrastructure technology investment activities related to
support systems and modernization,
$19,775,000.
Office of inspector general
For salaries and expenses of the Office of
Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act
of 1978, $77,634,000, together with not to
exceed $5,886,000 which may be expended from the
Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust
Fund.
General
provisions
101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
for the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual,
either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a rate in
excess of Executive Level II.
(transfer of
funds)
102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any
discretionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the
Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred between a program, project,
or activity, but no such program, project, or activity shall be increased by
more than 3 percent by any such transfer:
Provided, That the transfer
authority granted by this section shall not be used to create any new program
or to fund any project or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act:
Provided further,
That the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
103. In accordance with Executive Order 13126,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act
shall be obligated or expended for the procurement of goods mined, produced,
manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced
or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified
by the United States Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act.
104. None of the funds made available to the
Department of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American
Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 may be used for any
purpose other than competitive grants for training in the occupations and
industries for which employers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign workers,
and the related activities necessary to support such training.
105. None of the funds made available by this
Act under the heading Employment and Training Administration
shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary
and bonuses of an individual, either as direct costs or indirect costs, at a
rate in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation shall not apply to
vendors providing goods and services as defined in Office of Management and
Budget Circular A–133. Where States are recipients of such funds, States may
establish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of those receiving salaries
and bonuses from subrecipients of such funds, taking into account factors
including the relative cost-of-living in the State, the compensation levels for
comparable State or local government employees, and the size of the
organizations that administer Federal programs involved including Employment
and Training Administration programs. Notwithstanding this section, the
limitation on salaries for the Job Corps shall continue to be governed by
section 101.
106. The Secretary shall take no action to
amend, through regulatory or administration action, the definition established
in section 667.220 of title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations for functions
and activities under title I of WIA, or to modify, through regulatory or
administrative action, the procedure for redesignation of local areas as
specified in subtitle B of title I of that Act (including applying the
standards specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that Act, but notwithstanding
the time limits specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time
as legislation reauthorizing the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding
sentence shall permit or require the Secretary to withdraw approval for such
redesignation from a State that received the approval not later than October
12, 2005, or to revise action taken or modify the redesignation procedure being
used by the Secretary in order to complete such redesignation for a State that
initiated the process of such redesignation by submitting any request for such
redesignation not later than October 26, 2005.
(Including Transfer of
Funds)
107. Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary
may transfer funds made available to the Employment and Training Administration
by this Act, either directly or through a set-aside, for technical assistance
services to grantees to Program Administration when it is
determined that those services will be more efficiently performed by Federal
employees:
Provided, That this section shall
not apply to section 173A(f)(2) of the WIA.
(including transfer of
funds)
108.
(a) The Secretary may reserve not more than 0.5
percent from each appropriation made available in this Act identified in
subsection (b) in order to carry out evaluations of any of the programs or
activities that are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under this
section shall be transferred to Departmental Management for use
by the Office of the Chief Evaluation Officer within the Department of Labor,
and shall be available for obligation through September 30, 2015:
Provided, That such funds shall
only be available if the Chief Evaluation Officer of the Department of Labor
submits a plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate describing the evaluations to be carried out 15
days in advance of any transfer.
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a)
are: Training and Employment Services, Office of Job
Corps, Community Service Employment for Older Americans,
State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations,
Employee Benefits Security Administration, Office of
Workers' Compensation Programs, Wage and Hour Division,
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Office of
Labor Management Standards, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Mine Safety and Health Administration,
funding made available to the Bureau of International Affairs
and Women's Bureau within the Departmental Management,
Salaries and Expenses account, and Veterans Employment and
Training.
109.
(a) Of the funds appropriated under section
272(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 for fiscal year 2014, the Secretary may reserve
no more than 3 percent of such funds to conduct evaluations and provide
technical assistance relating to the activities carried out under section 271
of such Act, including activities carried out under such section supported by
the appropriations provided for fiscal years 2011 through 2013.
(b) Institutions of higher education awarded
grants under section 271 of the Trade Act of 1974 may award subgrants to other
institutions of higher education that meet the definition of eligible
institution under section 271(b)(1)(A) of such Act, subject to the
conditions applicable to such grants.
TRANSFER OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL
AUTHORITIES
110.
(a)
Authority of comptroller general To pay
wages and list contractors violating contracts
40 U.S.C. 3144, is amended—
(1) in the title, by striking of
Comptroller General; and
(2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking
The Comptroller General and inserting The Secretary of
Labor.
(b)
Report of violations and withholding of
amounts for unpaid wages and liquidated damages
40 U.S.C. 3703, is amended in subsection
(b)(3), by—
(1) striking The Comptroller
General in the first sentence and inserting The Secretary of
Labor; and
(2) striking the Comptroller
General in the second sentence and inserting the Secretary of
Labor.
111.
(a) Section 5315 of title 5, United States
Code, is amended after the item relating to the Assistant Secretaries of Labor
by inserting Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of
Labor.
(b) Section 5316, title 5, United States Code,
is amended by striking Administrator, Wage and Hour and Public Contracts
Division, Department of Labor.
112.
(a)
Flexibility with respect to the crossing of
H–2B nonimmigrants working in the seafood industry
(1)
In general
Subject to paragraph (2), if a petition for
H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an employer in the seafood industry is granted, the
employer may bring the nonimmigrants described in the petition into the United
States at any time during the 120-day period beginning on the start date for
which the employer is seeking the services of the nonimmigrants without filing
another petition.
(2)
Requirements for crossings after 90th
day
An employer in the
seafood industry may not bring H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States after
the date that is 90 days after the start date for which the employer is seeking
the services of the nonimmigrants unless the employer—
(A) completes a new assessment of the local
labor market by—
(i) listing job orders in local newspapers on 2
separate Sundays; and
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the
appropriate Department of Labor Electronic Job Registry and at the employer’s
place of employment; and
(B) offers the job to an equally or better
qualified United States worker who—
(i) applies for the job; and
(ii) will be available at the time and place of
need.
(3)
Exemption from rules with respect to
staggering
The Secretary of
Labor shall not consider an employer in the seafood industry who brings H–2B
nonimmigrants into the United States during the 120-day period specified in
paragraph (1) to be staggering the date of need in violation of section
655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, or any other applicable
provision of law.
(b)
H–2B nonimmigrants defined
In this section, the term H–2B
nonimmigrants means aliens admitted to the United States pursuant to
section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)).
(c)
Consultation and delegation
authority
(1)
In general
Section 214(c) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(c)) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the
following: In this subsection, the term consultation
includes, with respect to nonimmigrants described in section
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B), the authority of the Secretary of Labor to issue labor
market determinations, including temporary labor certifications, and to
establish regulations and policies for such issuance, including determining the
appropriate prevailing wage rates for occupations in which such nonimmigrants
will be employed.; and
(B) in paragraph (14)(B) (8 U.S.C.
1184(c)(14)(B)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A)(i) and
inserting subparagraph (A).
(2)
Effective
date
The amendment made by
paragraph (1)(A) shall apply to the promulgation of regulations, the issuance
of labor market determinations, and other actions carried out by the Secretary
of Labor and the Secretary of Homeland Security before, on, or after the date
of the enactment of this Act.
(d)
Rule of construction
Nothing in the amendments made by this
section may be construed to limit or modify any other authority provided or
exercised under section 214(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1184(c)) or any other law governing the authority of the Secretary of Homeland
Security, the Secretary of Labor, or any other officer or employee of the
Federal Government.
Directive for the Secretary of
Labor
113. In an investigation by the Department of
substantial violations related to the admission of nonimmigrants described in
section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, if the
employer of such nonimmigrants demonstrates, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that an agent of the employer engaged in fraud or misrepresentation
to the Department that was outside the scope of the authority conferred by the
employer, the Secretary is authorized—
(1) to exclude the employer of such
nonimmigrants from debarment proceedings under section 655.118 of title 20,
Code of Federal Regulations, which were commenced on or after January 1, 2013;
and
(2) to initiate or continue debarment
proceedings against the agent who engaged in such fraud or
misrepresentation.
This title may be cited as the
Department of Labor Appropriations
Act, 2014.
II
Department of health and human
services
Health resources and services
administration
Primary health care
For carrying out titles II and III of the
Public Health Service Act (referred to in this Act as the PHS
Act) with respect to primary health care and the Native Hawaiian Health
Care Act of 1988, $1,574,646,000:
Provided, That no more than
$40,000 shall be available until expended for
carrying out the provisions of section 224(o) of the PHS Act, including
associated administrative expenses and relevant evaluations:
Provided further, That
no more than $94,893,000 shall be available
until expended for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104–73 and for
expenses incurred by the Department of Health and Human Services (referred to
in this Act as HHS) pertaining to administrative claims made
under such law:
Provided further, That
all funds provided for Health Centers program, as defined by section 330 of the
PHS Act, by this Act or any other Act for fiscal year 2014 shall be obligated
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this title as
Secretary) by September 30, 2014, of which not less than
$142,000,000 shall be made available as base
grant adjustments and of which not less than
$700,000,000 shall be used to support new access
points including approved and unfunded applications from fiscal year 2013,
grants to expand medical services, behavioral health, oral health, pharmacy,
and vision services, and costs associated with the HHS administration of these
grants.
Health workforce
For carrying out titles III, VII, and VIII
of the PHS Act with respect to the health workforce, section 1128E of the
Social Security Act, and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986,
$773,190,000:
Provided, That sections 340G–1(b),
747(c)(2), 751(j)(2), 762(k), and the proportional funding amounts in
paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 756(e) of the PHS Act shall not apply to
funds made available under this heading:
Provided further, That
for any program operating under section 751 of the PHS Act on or before January
1, 2009, the Secretary may hereafter waive any of the requirements contained in
sections 751(d)(2)(A) and 751(d)(2)(B) of such Act for the full project period
of a grant under such section:
Provided further, That
in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality
Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the full disclosure of
information under such Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating
the National Practitioner Data Bank and shall remain available until expended
to carry out that Act:
Provided further, That
fees collected for the full disclosure of information under the Health
Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Program, authorized by section
1128E(d)(2) of the Social Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the full
costs of operating the program, and shall remain available until expended to
carry out that Act:
Provided further, That
fees collected for the disclosure of information under the information
reporting requirement program authorized by section 1921 of the Social Security
Act shall be sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the program and
shall remain available until expended to carry out that Act:
Provided further, That
funds transferred to this account to carry out section 846 and subpart 3 of
part D of title III of the PHS Act may be used to make prior year adjustments
to awards made under such sections.
Maternal and child health
For carrying out titles III, XI, XII, and
XIX of the PHS Act with respect to maternal and child health, title V of the
Social Security Act, and section 712 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004,
$858,600,000:
Provided, That notwithstanding
sections 502(a)(1) and 502(b)(1) of the Social Security Act, not more than
$78,641,000 shall be available for carrying out
special projects of regional and national significance pursuant to section
501(a)(2) of such Act and $10,276,000 shall be
available for projects described in paragraphs (A) through (F) of section
501(a)(3) of such Act.
Ryan white HIV/AIDS program
For carrying out title XXVI of the PHS Act
with respect to the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program,
$2,368,951,000, of which
$2,039,242,000 shall remain available to the
Secretary through September 30, 2016, for parts A and B of title XXVI of the
PHS Act, and of which not less than $943,299,000
shall be for State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs under the authority of section
2616 or 311(c) of such Act:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $25,000,000 shall be
available from amounts available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out
parts A, B, C, and D of title XXVI of the PHS Act to fund Special Projects of
National Significance under section 2691.
Health care systems
For carrying out titles III and XII of the
PHS Act with respect to health care systems, and the Stem Cell Therapeutic and
Research Act of 2005, $103,515,000, of which
$128,000 shall be available until expended for
facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center:
Provided, That the Secretary may
collect a fee of 0.1 percent of each purchase of 340B drugs from entities
participating in the Drug Pricing Program pursuant to section 340B of the PHS
Act to pay for the operating costs of such program:
Provided further, That
fees pursuant to the 340B Drug Pricing Program shall be collected by the
Secretary based on sales data that shall be submitted by drug manufacturers and
shall be credited to this account, to remain available until
expended.
Rural health
For carrying out titles III and IV of the
PHS Act with respect to rural health, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine
Health and Safety Act, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, and sections
711 and 1820 of the Social Security Act,
$141,798,000, of which
$40,958,000 from general revenues,
notwithstanding section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall be available
for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants program:
Provided, That of the funds made
available under this heading for Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants,
$14,942,000 shall be available for the Small
Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program for quality improvement and adoption
of health information technology and up to
$1,000,000 shall be to carry out section
1820(g)(6) of the Social Security Act, with funds provided for grants under
section 1820(g)(6) available for the purchase and implementation of telehealth
services, including pilots and demonstrations on the use of electronic health
records to coordinate rural veterans care between rural providers and the
Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health record system:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 338J(k) of the PHS Act,
$10,016,000 shall be available for State Offices
of Rural Health.
Family Planning
For carrying out the program under title X
of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects,
$327,402,000:
Provided, That amounts provided to
said projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, that all
pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be
expended for any activity (including the publication or distribution of
literature) that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to
any legislative proposal or candidate for public
office.
Program management
For program support in the Health Resources
and Services Administration, $161,794,000:
Provided, That funds made available
under this heading may be used to supplement program support funding provided
under the headings “Primary Health Care”, “Health Workforce”, “Maternal and
Child Health”, “Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program”, “Health Care Systems”, and “Rural
Health”.
Health education assistance loans program
account
Such sums as may be
necessary to carry out the purpose of the program, as authorized by title VII
of the PHS Act. For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, including section 709 of the PHS Act,
$2,807,000.
Vaccine injury compensation program trust
fund
For payments from the
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund (the Trust Fund),
such sums as may be necessary for claims associated with vaccine-related injury
or death with respect to vaccines administered after September 30, 1988,
pursuant to subtitle 2 of title XXI of the PHS
Act, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That for necessary
administrative expenses, not to exceed
$6,464,000 shall be available from the Trust
Fund to the Secretary.
Centers for disease control and
prevention
Immunization and respiratory
diseases
For carrying out
titles II, III, XVII, and XXI, and section 2821 of the PHS Act, titles II and
IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the Refugee
Education Assistance Act, with respect to immunization and respiratory
diseases, $575,095,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $12,864,000 shall be
available from amounts available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out
the National Immunization Surveys.
HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually
transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII,
XXIII, and XXVI of the PHS Act with respect to HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis,
sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention,
$1,097,823,000.
Emerging and zoonotic infectious
diseases
For carrying out
titles II, III, and XVII, and section 2821 of the PHS Act, titles II and IV of
the Immigration and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the Refugee Education
Assistance Act, with respect to emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases,
$283,237,000, of which
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended
for costs related to persons quarantined or isolated pursuant to Federal
quarantine orders.
Chronic disease prevention and health
promotion
For carrying out titles
II, III, XI, XV, XVII, and XIX of the PHS Act with respect to chronic disease
prevention and health promotion, $774,831,000:
Provided, That the proportional
funding requirements under section 1503(a) of the PHS Act shall not apply to
funds made available under this heading:
Provided further, That
funds appropriated under this account may be available for making grants under
section 1509 of the PHS Act for not less than 21 States, tribes, or tribal
organizations.
Birth defects, developmental disabilities,
disabilities and health
For
carrying out titles II, III, XI, and XVII of the PHS Act with respect to birth
defects, developmental disabilities, disabilities and health,
$123,483,000.
Public Health Scientific
Services
For carrying out
titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS Act with respect to health statistics,
surveillance, informatics, and workforce development,
$143,726,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $247,769,000 shall be
available from amounts available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out
public health scientific services.
Environmental health
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of
the PHS Act with respect to environmental health,
$113,827,000.
Injury prevention and control
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of
the PHS Act with respect to injury prevention and control,
$162,456,000:
Provided, That funds appropriated
under this heading may be used to fund evaluation, research, and pilot programs
for sexual violence prevention programs.
Occupational safety and
health
For carrying out titles
II, III, and XVII of the PHS Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203, 301,
501, and 514 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act, section 13 of the Mine
Improvement and New Emergency Response Act, and sections 20, 21, and 22 of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act, with respect to occupational safety and
health, $181,551,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $110,724,000 shall be
available from amounts available under section 241 of the PHS
Act.
Energy employees occupational illness
compensation program
For
necessary expenses to administer the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act, $55,358,000, to remain
available until expended:
Provided, That this amount shall be
available consistent with the provision regarding administrative expenses in
section 151(b) of division B, title I of Public Law
106–554.
Global health
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of
the PHS Act with respect to global health,
$391,964,000, of which
$116,883,000 for international HIV/AIDS shall
remain available through September 30, 2015, and of which
$10,000,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2015, to support national public health institutes:
Provided, That funds may be used
for purchase and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign
countries.
Public health preparedness and
response
For carrying out
titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS Act with respect to public health
preparedness and response, and for expenses necessary to support activities
related to countering potential biological, nuclear, radiological, and chemical
threats to civilian populations, $1,292,498,000,
of which $495,602,000 shall remain available
until expended for the Strategic National Stockpile:
Provided, That in the event the
Director of the CDC activates the Emergency Operations Center, the Director of
the CDC may detail CDC staff without reimbursement for up to 30 days to support
the work of the CDC Emergency Operations Center, so long as the Director
provides a notice to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate within 15 days of the use of this authority and
a full report within 30 days after use of this authority which includes the
number of staff and funding level broken down by the originating center and
number of days detailed:
Provided further, That
in the previous proviso the annual reimbursement cannot exceed
$3,000,000 across
CDC.
CDC-wide activities and program
support
(including transfer of
funds)
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII and
XIX, and section 2821 of the PHS Act and for cross-cutting activities and
program support that supplement activities funded under the headings
“Immunization and Respiratory Diseases”, “HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually
Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis Prevention”, “Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases”, “Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion”, “Birth
Defects, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities and Health”, “Environmental
Health”, “Injury Prevention and Control”, “Occupational Safety and Health”,
“Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program”, “Global Health”,
“Public Health Preparedness and Response”, and “Public Health Scientific
Services”, $616,563,000, of which
$394,004,000 shall be available until September
30, 2015, for business services and transfer to the Working Capital Fund, and
of which $24,805,000 shall be available until
September 30, 2018, for acquisition of real property, equipment, construction
and renovation of facilities:
Provided, That paragraphs (1)
through (3) of subsection (b) of section 2821 of the PHS Act shall not apply to
funds appropriated under this heading and in all other accounts of the CDC:
Provided further, That
funds appropriated under this heading and in all other accounts of CDC may be
used to support the purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft for
use and support of the activities of CDC:
Provided further, That
employees of CDC or the Public Health Service, both civilian and commissioned
officers, detailed to States, municipalities, or other organizations under
authority of section 214 of the PHS Act, or in overseas assignments, shall be
treated as non-Federal employees for reporting purposes only and shall not be
included within any personnel ceiling applicable to the Agency, Service, or HHS
during the period of detail or assignment:
Provided further, That
CDC may use up to $10,000 from amounts
appropriated to CDC in this Act for official reception and representation
expenses when specifically approved by the Director of CDC:
Provided further, That
in addition, such sums as may be derived from authorized user fees, which shall
be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof:
Provided further, That
with respect to the previous proviso, authorized user fees from the Vessel
Sanitation Program shall be available through September 30, 2015:
Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading and in all other accounts of
CDC, up to $1,000 per eligible employee of CDC
shall be made available until expended for Individual Learning Accounts:
Provided further, That
to facilitate the implementation of the permanent Working Capital Fund
(WCF) authorized under this heading in division F of Public Law
112–74, on or after October 1, 2013, unobligated balances of amounts
appropriated for business services for fiscal year 2013 shall be transferred to
the WCF:
Provided further, That
on or after October 1, 2013, CDC shall transfer amounts available for business
services to other CDC appropriations consistent with the benefit each
appropriation received from the business services appropriation in fiscal year
2013:
Provided further, That
once the WCF is implemented in fiscal year 2014, assets purchased in any prior
fiscal year with funds appropriated for or reimbursed to business services may
be transferred to the WCF and customers billed for depreciation of those
assets:
Provided further, That
CDC shall, consistent with the authorities provided in 42 U.S.C. 231, ensure
that the WCF is used only for administrative support services and not for
programmatic activities:
Provided further, That
CDC shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate not later than 15 days prior to any transfers
made with funds provided under this heading.
National institutes of
health
National cancer institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to cancer,
$5,091,885,000, of which up to
$8,000,000 may be used for facilities repairs
and improvements at the National Cancer Institute—Frederick Federally Funded
Research and Development Center in Frederick,
Maryland.
National heart, lung, and blood
institute
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases, and
blood and blood products,
$3,077,916,000.
National institute of dental and
craniofacial research
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to dental and craniofacial diseases,
$409,947,000.
National institute of diabetes and
digestive and kidney diseases
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to diabetes
and digestive and kidney disease,
$1,799,745,000.
National institute of neurological
disorders and stroke
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke,
$1,631,703,000.
National institute of allergy and
infectious diseases
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases,
$4,548,383,000.
National institute of general medical
sciences
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to general medical sciences,
$2,435,570,000:
Provided, That not less than
$275,957,000 is provided for the Institutional
Development Awards program.
Eunice kennedy shriver national institute
of child health and human development
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to child
health and human development,
$1,330,459,000.
National eye institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to eye
diseases and visual disorders,
$701,407,000.
National institute of environmental health
sciences
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to environmental health sciences,
$686,753,000.
National institute on aging
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to aging,
$1,185,439,000.
National institute of arthritis and
musculoskeletal and skin diseases
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to arthritis
and musculoskeletal and skin diseases,
$537,398,000.
National institute on deafness and other
communication disorders
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to deafness and other communication disorders,
$420,125,000.
National institute of nursing
research
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to nursing research,
$145,272,000.
National institute on alcohol abuse and
alcoholism
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism,
$460,765,000.
National institute on drug
abuse
For carrying out section
301 and title IV of the PHS Act with
respect to drug abuse,
$1,064,490,000.
National institute of mental
health
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to mental health,
$1,456,041,000.
National human genome research
institute
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to human genome research,
$513,881,000.
National institute of biomedical imaging
and bioengineering
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to biomedical imaging and bioengineering research,
$337,728,000.
National center for complementary and
alternative medicine
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to complementary and alternative medicine,
$128,183,000.
National institute on minority health and
health disparities
For
carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS
Act with respect to minority health and health disparities research,
$281,416,000.
John e. fogarty international
center
For carrying out the
activities of the John E. Fogarty International Center (described in subpart 2
of part E of title IV of the PHS
Act),
$72,380,000.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL
SCIENCES
For carrying out
section 301 and title IV of the PHS Act with respect to translational sciences,
$661,264,000:
Provided, That up to
$50,000,000 shall be available to implement
section 480 of the PHS Act, relating to the Cures Acceleration
Network.
National library of medicine
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of
the PHS Act with respect to health
information communications, $379,712,000, of
which $4,000,000 shall be available until
September 30, 2015, for improvement of information systems:
Provided, That in fiscal year 2014,
the National Library of Medicine may enter into personal services contracts for
the provision of services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed under
the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health (referred to in this
title as NIH):
Provided further, That
in addition to amounts provided herein,
$8,200,000 shall be available from amounts
available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out the purposes of the
National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care
Technology established under section 478A of the PHS Act and related health
information services.
Office of the
director
For carrying out the responsibilities of the
Office of the Director, NIH, $1,463,606,000, of
which up to $25,000,000 shall be used to carry
out section 213 of this Act:
Provided, That funding shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 29 passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only:
Provided further, That
NIH is authorized to collect third-party payments for the cost of clinical
services that are incurred in NIH research facilities and that such payments
shall be credited to the NIH Management Fund:
Provided further, That
all funds credited to the NIH Management Fund shall remain available for one
fiscal year after the fiscal year in which they are deposited:
Provided further, That
up to $165,000,000 shall be available for
continuation of the National Children’s Study (NCS), except that
not later than July 15, 2014, the Director shall estimate the amount needed for
the NCS during fiscal year 2014, and any funds in excess of the estimated need
may be transferred by the NIH Director within the Office of the Director or to
NIH Institutes or Centers for priority activities:
Provided further, That
$568,151,000 shall be available for the Common
Fund established under section 402A(c)(1) of the PHS Act:
Provided further, That
of the funds provided $10,000 shall be for
official reception and representation expenses when specifically approved by
the Director of the NIH:
Provided further, That
the Office of AIDS Research within the Office of the Director of the NIH may
spend up to $8,000,000 to make grants for
construction or renovation of facilities as provided for in section
2354(a)(5)(B) of the PHS Act.
Buildings and facilities
For the study of, construction or demolition
of, renovation of, and acquisition of equipment for, facilities of or used by
NIH, including the acquisition of real property,
$125,308,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2018.
Substance abuse and mental health services
administration
MENTAL
HEALTH
For carrying out
titles III, V, and XIX of the PHS Act with respect to mental health, and the
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act,
$1,038,243,000:
Provided, That notwithstanding
section 520A(f)(2) of the PHS Act, no funds appropriated for carrying out
section 520A shall be available for carrying out section 1971 of the PHS Act:
Provided further,
That in addition to amounts provided herein,
$21,039,000 shall be available under section 241
of the PHS Act to carry out subpart I of part B of title XIX of the PHS Act to
fund section 1920(b) technical assistance, national data, data collection and
evaluation activities, and further that the total available under this Act for
section 1920(b) activities shall not exceed 5 percent of the amounts
appropriated for subpart I of part B of title XIX:
Provided further,
That section 520E(b)(2) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds appropriated
under this Act for fiscal year 2014:
Provided further,
That of the amount appropriated under this heading,
$46,000,000 shall be for the National Child
Traumatic Stress Initiative as described in section 582 of the PHS Act:
Provided further, That
States shall expend at least 5 percent of the amount each receives for carrying
out section 1911 of the PHS Act to support evidence-based programs that address
the needs of individuals with early serious mental illness, including psychotic
disorders, regardless of the age of the individual at
onset.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
For carrying out titles III, V, and XIX of
the PHS Act with respect to substance abuse treatment and section 1922(a) of
the PHS Act with respect to substance abuse prevention,
$2,047,107,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, the following amounts shall be available under section
241 of the PHS Act: (1) $79,200,000 to carry out
subpart II of part B of title XIX of the PHS Act to fund section 1935(b)
technical assistance, national data, data collection and evaluation activities,
and further that the total available under this Act for section 1935(b)
activities shall not exceed 5 percent of the amounts appropriated for subpart
II of part B of title XIX; and (2) $2,000,000 to
evaluate substance abuse treatment programs.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION
For carrying out titles III and V of the PHS
Act with respect to substance abuse prevention,
$175,631,000.
HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM
SUPPORT
For program support
and cross-cutting activities that supplement activities funded under the
headings Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Treatment, and Substance Abuse Prevention in carrying
out titles III, V, and XIX of the PHS Act and the Protection and Advocacy for
Individuals with Mental Illness Act in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, $136,296,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $30,428,000 shall be
available under section 241 of the PHS Act to supplement funds available to
carry out national surveys on drug abuse and mental health, to collect and
analyze program data, and to conduct public awareness and technical assistance
activities:
Provided further,
That, in addition, fees may be collected for the costs of publications, data,
data tabulations, and data analysis completed under title V of the PHS Act and
provided to a public or private entity upon request, which shall be credited to
this appropriation and shall remain available until expended for such purposes:
Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading may be used to supplement program
support funding provided under the headings Mental Health,
Substance Abuse Treatment, and Substance Abuse
Prevention.
Agency for healthcare research and
quality
Healthcare research and
quality
For carrying out
titles III and IX of the PHS Act,
part A of title XI of the Social Security
Act, and section 1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug,
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003,
$364,008,000 shall be available from amounts
available under section 241 of the PHS Act, notwithstanding subsection 947(c)
of such Act:
Provided, That in addition, amounts
received from Freedom of Information Act fees, reimbursable and interagency
agreements, and the sale of data shall be credited to this appropriation and
shall remain available until September 30, 2015.
Centers for medicare and medicaid
services
Grants to states for medicaid
For carrying out, except as otherwise
provided, titles XI and XIX of the Social
Security Act, $177,872,985,000, to
remain available until expended.
For making, after May 31, 2014, payments to
States under title XIX or in the case of section 1928 on behalf of States under
title XIX of the Social Security Act
for the last quarter of fiscal year 2014 for unanticipated costs incurred for
the current fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary.
For making payments to States or in the case
of section 1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the
Social Security Act for the first
quarter of fiscal year 2015, $103,472,323,000,
to remain available until expended.
Payment under such title XIX may be made for
any quarter with respect to a State plan or plan amendment in effect during
such quarter, if submitted in or prior to such quarter and approved in that or
any subsequent quarter.
Payments to health care trust
funds
For payment to the
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical
Insurance Trust Fund, as provided under sections 217(g), 1844, and 1860D–16 of
the Social Security Act, sections 103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security
Amendments of 1965, section 278(d)(3) of Public Law 97–248, and for
administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g) of the Social
Security Act,
$255,697,000,000.
In addition, for making matching payments
under section 1844 and benefit payments under section 1860D–16 of the Social
Security Act that were not anticipated in budget estimates, such sums as may be
necessary.
Program management
For carrying out, except as otherwise
provided, titles XI, XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles XIII and XXVII of
the PHS Act, the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments of 1988, and other responsibilities of the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, not to exceed
$5,217,357,000, to be transferred from the
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical
Insurance Trust Fund, as authorized by section 201(g) of the
Social Security Act; together with all
funds collected in accordance with section 353 of the PHS Act and section
1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act,
funds retained by the Secretary pursuant to section 302 of the Tax Relief and
Health Care Act of 2006; and such sums as may be collected from authorized user
fees and the sale of data, which shall be credited to this account and remain
available until September 30, 2019:
Provided, That all funds derived in
accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established under title XIII
of the PHS Act shall be credited to and available for carrying out the purposes
of this appropriation:
Provided further, That
the Secretary is directed to collect fees in fiscal year 2014 from Medicare
Advantage organizations pursuant to section 1857(e)(2) of the
Social Security Act and from eligible
organizations with risk-sharing contracts under section 1876 of that Act
pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D) of that Act.
Health care fraud and abuse control
account
In addition to amounts
otherwise available for program integrity and program management,
$640,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2015, to be transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust
Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, as authorized
by section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, of which
$429,846,000 shall be for the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services Program Integrity Activities, including
administrative costs, to conduct oversight activities for the Medicare program,
including but not limited to Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription
Drug Program authorized in title XVIII of the Social Security Act, and for
activities described in section 1893 of such Act and for Medicaid and
Children's Health Insurance Program integrity activities, of which
$107,541,000 shall be for the Department of
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to carry out fraud and
abuse activities authorized by section 1817(k)(3) of such Act, and of which
$102,613,000 shall be for the Department of
Justice to carry out fraud and abuse activities authorized by section
1817(k)(3) of such Act:
Provided, That of the amount
provided under this heading, $311,000,000 is
provided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and
$329,000,000 is additional new budget authority
specified for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(C) of such Act:
Provided further, That
the report required by section 1817(k)(5) of the Social Security Act for fiscal
year 2014 shall include measures of the operational efficiency and impact on
fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs for the
funds provided by this appropriation.
Administration for children and
families
Payments to states for child support
enforcement and family support programs
For carrying out, except as otherwise
provided under titles I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the
Social Security Act and the Act of
July 5, 1960, $2,965,245,000, to remain
available until expended; and for such purposes for the first quarter of fiscal
year 2015, $1,250,000,000, to remain available
until expended. For making,
after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States or other
non-Federal entities under titles I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the
Social Security Act and the Act of
July 5, 1960, for the last 3 months of the current fiscal year for
unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary.
Low income home energy
assistance
For making payments
under subsections (b) and (d) of section 2602 of the Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Act of 1981, $3,614,729,000:
Provided, That all but
$496,000,000 of this amount shall be allocated
as though the total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 2014 was
less than $1,975,000,000:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 2609A(a), of the amounts appropriated under section
2602(b), not more than $2,988,000 of such
amounts may be reserved by the Secretary for technical assistance, training,
and monitoring of program activities for compliance with internal controls,
policies and procedures and may, in addition to the authorities provided in
section 2609A(a)(1), use such funds through contracts with private entities
that do not qualify as nonprofit organizations.
Refugee and entrant
assistance
For necessary
expenses for refugee and entrant assistance activities authorized by section
414 of the Immigration and Nationality
Act and section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980,
and for carrying out section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, section
235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization
Act of 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
(TVPA), section 203 of the Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998,
$1,121,432,000 of which
$1,092,612,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2016 for carrying out such sections 414, 501, 462, and 235:
Provided, That amounts available
under this heading to carry out such section 203 and the TVPA shall also be
available for research and evaluation with respect to activities under those
authorities.
Payments to states for the child care and
development block grant
For
carrying out the Child Care and Development
Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBG Act),
$2,500,000,000 shall be used to supplement, not
supplant State general revenue funds for child care assistance for low-income
families:
Provided, That
$19,357,000 shall be available for child care
resource and referral and school-aged child care activities, of which
$996,000 shall be available to the Secretary for
a competitive grant for the operation of a national toll free referral line and
Web site to develop and disseminate child care consumer education information
for parents and help parents access child care in their local community:
Provided further,
That, in addition to the amounts required to be reserved by the States under
section 658G of the CCDBG Act, $296,484,000
shall be reserved by the States for activities authorized under section 658G,
of which $108,732,000 shall be for activities
that improve the quality of infant and toddler care:
Provided further, That
in addition to the amounts in the previous proviso,
$110,000,000 shall be made available, using the
allocation formula in section 658O of the CCDBG Act, for grants to each State,
territory, and Indian tribe that submits a plan to be approved by the Secretary
demonstrating how it will use these funds to improve the quality of child care,
including the quality of the child care workforce and health and safety
measures:
Provided further, That
$9,851,000 shall be for use by the Secretary for
child care research, demonstration, and evaluation
activities.
Social services block grant
For making grants to States pursuant to
section 2002 of the Social Security
Act, $1,700,000,000:
Provided, That notwithstanding
subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such Act, the applicable percent
specified under such subparagraph for a State to carry out State programs
pursuant to title XX–A of such Act shall be 10
percent.
Children and families services
programs
For carrying out, except as otherwise
provided, the Runaway and Homeless Youth
Act, the Head Start Act,
the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act, sections 303 and 313 of the Family Violence Prevention and
Services Act, the Native American Programs Act of 1974, title II of the Child
Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 (adoption
opportunities), the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988, part B–1 of title
IV and sections 413, 1110, and 1115 of the Social
Security Act; for making payments under the Community Services Block
Grant Act (CSBG Act), sections 473B and 477(i) of the
Social Security Act, and the Assets
for Independence Act; for necessary administrative expenses to carry out such
Acts and titles I, IV, V, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and XX of the
Social Security Act, the Act of July
5, 1960, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, title IV of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, and
section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; and for the
administration of prior year obligations made by the Administration for
Children and Families under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill
of Rights Act and the Help America Vote Act of 2002,
$11,412,114,000, of which
$39,268,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2015, shall be for grants to States for adoption incentive
payments, as authorized by section 473A of the Social Security Act and may be made for
adoptions completed before September 30, 2014:
Provided, That
$9,621,070,000 shall be for making payments
under the Head Start Act:
Provided further, That
of the amount in the previous proviso,
$8,165,694,000 shall be available for payments
under section 640 of the Head Start Act and
$25,000,000 shall be available for allocation by
the Secretary to supplement activities described in paragraphs (7)(B) and (9)
of section 641(c) of such Act under the Designation Renewal System, established
under the authority of sections 641(c)(7), 645A(b)(12) and 645A(d) of such Act:
Provided further, That
amounts allocated to Head Start grantees at the discretion of the Secretary to
supplement activities pursuant to the previous proviso shall not be included in
the calculation of the base grant in subsequent fiscal years, as
such term is used in section 640(a)(7)(A) of the Head Start Act:
Provided further, That
for purposes of allocating funds under section 640 of the Head Start Act,
subsection (a)(2) of such section shall be applied by substituting
fiscal year 2012 for the prior fiscal year each
place it appears in such subsection:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 640 of the Head Start Act, of the amount provided for
making payments under the Head Start Act,
$1,430,376,000 shall be available to entities
defined as eligible under section 645A(d) of such Act for expansion of Early
Head Start programs as described in section 645A of such Act, for conversion of
Head Start services to Early Head Start services as described in section
645(a)(5)(A) of such Act, and for new discretionary grants for high quality
infant and toddler care through Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, and,
notwithstanding section 645A(c)(2) of such Act, these funds are available to
serve children under age 4:
Provided further, That
of the amount made available in the immediately preceding proviso, up to
$15,000,000 shall be available for the Federal
costs of administration and evaluation activities of the program described in
such proviso:
Provided further, That
an Early Head Start agency awarded funds for an Early Head Start-Child Care
Partnership after October 1, 2014, shall not be subject to the requirements of
the system for designation renewal as defined by section 641 of the Head Start
Act, for this award only, prior to 18 months after the date of such award:
Provided further, That
$711,857,000 shall be for making payments under
the CSBG Act:
Provided further,
That $36,204,000 shall be for sections 680 and
678E(b)(2) of the CSBG Act, of which not less than
$29,883,000 shall be for section 680(a)(2) and
not less than $5,971,000 shall be for section
680(a)(3)(B) of such Act:
Provided further, That
to the extent Community Services Block Grant funds are distributed as grant
funds by a State to an eligible entity as provided under the CSBG Act, and have
not been expended by such entity, they shall remain with such entity for
carryover into the next fiscal year for expenditure by such entity consistent
with program purposes:
Provided further, That
the Secretary shall establish procedures regarding the disposition of
intangible assets and program income that permit such assets acquired with, and
program income derived from, grant funds authorized under section 680 of the
CSBG Act to become the sole property of such grantees after a period of not
more than 12 years after the end of the grant period for any activity
consistent with section 680(a)(2)(A) of the CSBG Act:
Provided further, That
intangible assets in the form of loans, equity investments and other debt
instruments, and program income may be used by grantees for any eligible
purpose consistent with section 680(a)(2)(A) of the CSBG Act:
Provided further, That
these procedures shall apply to such grant funds made available after November
29, 1999:
Provided further, That
funds appropriated for section 680(a)(2) of the CSBG Act shall be available for
financing construction and rehabilitation and loans or investments in private
business enterprises owned by community development corporations:
Provided further, That
to the extent funds provided in this Act for the Assets for Independence Act
are distributed as grant funds to a qualified entity and have not been expended
by such entity within three years after the date of award, such funds may be
recaptured and reallocated among other qualified entities, to remain available
to such other qualified entities for five years:
Provided further,
That, notwithstanding section 414(e) of the Assets for Independence Act, the
Secretary may award up to $1,000,000 to support
evidence-based research to evaluate the demonstration project:
Provided further, That
in addition to amounts provided herein,
$5,762,000 shall be available from amounts
available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out the provisions of
section 1110 of the Social Security
Act:
Provided further, That
amounts provided under this heading to carry out section 1110 of the Social
Security Act, other than amounts made available for that purpose under the
immediately preceding proviso, shall remain available until expended:Provided further, That section
303(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act shall not
apply to amounts provided herein:
Provided further, That
$1,988,000 shall be for a human services case
management system for federally declared disasters, to include a comprehensive
national case management contract and Federal costs of administering the
system:
Provided further, That
up to $2,000,000 shall be for improving the
Public Assistance Reporting Information System, including grants to States to
support data collection for a study of the system's
effectiveness.
Promoting Safe and Stable
Families
For carrying out,
except as otherwise provided, section 436 of the Social Security Act,
$345,000,000 and in addition, for carrying out,
except as otherwise provided, section 437 of such Act,
$63,065,000.
Payments for foster care and
permanency
For carrying out,
except as otherwise provided, title IV–E of the Social Security Act,
$4,806,000,000. For carrying out, except as otherwise
provided, title IV–E of the Social Security
Act, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015,
$2,200,000,000. For making, after May 31 of the current
fiscal year, payments to States or other non-Federal entities under section 474
of title IV–E of the Social Security
Act, for the last 3 months of the current fiscal year for
unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary.
Administration for community
living
Aging and disability services
programs
(including transfer of
funds)
For carrying out, to the extent not
otherwise provided, the OAA, titles III and XXIX of the PHS Act, section 119 of
the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, section
6021(d) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, title XX–B of the Social Security
Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, parts 2
and 5 of subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, and for
Department-wide coordination of policy and program activities that assist
individuals with disabilities, $1,664,549,000,
together with $52,115,000 to be transferred from
the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical
Insurance Trust Fund to carry out section 4360 of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990:
Provided, That amounts appropriated
under this heading may be used for grants to States under section 361 of the
OAA only for disease prevention and health promotion programs and activities
which have been demonstrated through rigorous evaluation to be evidence-based
and effective:
Provided further, That
none of the funds provided shall be used to carry out sections 1701 and 1703 of
the PHS Act (with respect to chronic disease self-management activity grants),
except that such funds may be used for necessary expenses associated with
administering any such grants awarded prior to the date of the enactment of
this Act:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, funds made available under
this heading to carry out section 311 of the OAA may be transferred to the
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with such
section.
Office of the
secretary
General departmental
management
For necessary expenses, not otherwise
provided, for general departmental management, including hire of passenger
motor vehicles, and for carrying out titles III, XVII, XXI, and section 229 of
the PHS Act, the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act, and
research studies under section 1110 of the Social
Security Act, $447,208,000, together
with $70,173,000 from the amounts available
under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out national health or human services
research and evaluation activities:
Provided, That of this amount,
$53,891,000 shall be for minority AIDS
prevention and treatment activities:
Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading,
$104,790,000 shall be for making competitive
contracts and grants to public and private entities to fund medically accurate
and age appropriate programs that reduce teen pregnancy and for the Federal
costs associated with administering and evaluating such contracts and grants,
of which not less than $75,000,000 shall be for
replicating programs that have been proven effective through rigorous
evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying
teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors, of which not less than
$25,000,000 shall be available for research and
demonstration grants to develop, replicate, refine, and test additional models
and innovative strategies for preventing teenage pregnancy, and of which any
remaining amounts shall be available for training and technical assistance,
evaluation, outreach, and additional program support activities:
Provided further, That
of the amounts provided under this heading from amounts available under section
241 of the PHS Act, $8,455,000 shall be
available to carry out evaluations (including longitudinal evaluations) of
teenage pregnancy prevention approaches:
Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading,
$1,750,000 is for strengthening the Department's
acquisition workforce capacity and capabilities:
Provided further, That
with respect to the previous proviso, such funds shall be available for
training, recruitment, retention and hiring members of the acquisition
workforce as defined by 41 U.S.C. 1703, and for information technology in
support of acquisition workforce effectiveness or for management solutions to
improve acquisition management.
Office of medicare hearings and
appeals
For expenses necessary
for the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals,
$82,381,000, to be transferred in appropriate
part from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
Office of the national coordinator for
health information technology
For expenses necessary for the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, including grants,
contracts, and cooperative agreements for the development and advancement of
interoperable health information technology,
$20,290,000:
Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, $51,307,000 shall be
available from amounts available under section 241 of the
PHS Act:
Provided further, That
health information technology user fees collected in fiscal year 2014, as
provided in this Act, shall be credited to this account as offsetting
collections, to remain available until expended.
Office of inspector general
For expenses necessary for the Office of
Inspector General, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles for
investigations, in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of
1978, $59,879,000:
Provided, That of such amount,
necessary sums shall be available for providing protective services to the
Secretary and investigating non-payment of child support cases for which
non-payment is a Federal offense under 18 U.S.C.
228.
Office for civil rights
For expenses necessary for the Office for
Civil Rights,
$42,205,000.
Retirement pay and medical benefits for
commissioned officers
For
retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health Service Commissioned
Officers as authorized by law, for payments under the Retired Serviceman's
Family Protection Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan, and for medical care of
dependents and retired personnel under the Dependents' Medical Care Act, such
amounts as may be required during the current fiscal
year.
Public health and social services emergency
fund
For expenses necessary to support activities
related to countering potential biological, nuclear, radiological, chemical,
and cybersecurity threats to civilian populations, and for other public health
emergencies, $873,391,000, of which
$415,000,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2015, for expenses necessary to support advanced research and
development pursuant to section 319L of the PHS Act, and other administrative
expenses of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and of
which up to $5,000,000 shall remain available
through September 30, 2016, to support the delivery of medical countermeasures
and shall be in addition to any other amounts available for such purpose:
Provided, That funds provided under
this heading for the purpose of acquisition of security countermeasures shall
be in addition to any other funds available for such purpose:
Provided further, That
products purchased with funds provided under this heading may, at the
discretion of the Secretary, be deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile
pursuant to section 319F–2 of the PHS Act:
Provided further, That
$5,000,000 of the amounts made available to
support emergency operations shall remain available through September 30, 2016:
Provided further, That
of the amounts made available under this heading,
$15,000,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2015, for the purposes of establishing and funding, using for
either such purpose contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other
transactions as described in section 319L of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–7e), a
strategic investment corporation, which shall not be deemed to be a Federal
agency for any purpose, to further the purposes of such section 319L to foster
innovation in the development of medical
countermeasures.
For necessary expenses for procuring
security countermeasures (as defined in section 319F–2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS
Act), $250,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
For expenses necessary to prepare for and
respond to an influenza pandemic, $140,009,000;
of which $108,000,000 shall be available until
expended, for activities including the development and purchase of vaccine,
antivirals, necessary medical supplies, diagnostics, and other surveillance
tools:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 496(b) of the PHS Act, funds may be used for the
construction or renovation of privately owned facilities for the production of
pandemic influenza vaccines and other biologics, if the Secretary finds such
construction or renovation necessary to secure sufficient supplies of such
vaccines or biologics.
In addition, for expenses necessary for
replacement of building leases and associated renovation costs for Public
Health Service agencies and other components of HHS, including relocation and
fit-out costs, $41,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
General
provisions
201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be
available for not to exceed $50,000 for official
reception and representation expenses when specifically approved by the
Secretary.
202. The Secretary shall make available through
assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in
child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds
provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund or the World Health
Organization.
203. None of the funds appropriated in this
title shall be used to pay the salary of an individual, through a grant or
other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be expended pursuant to section 241 of the PHS Act, except for funds specifically provided
for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located
in HHS, prior to the preparation and submission of a report by the Secretary to
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
detailing the planned uses of such funds.
205. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of the
PHS Act, such portion as the
Secretary shall determine, but not more than 2.5 percent, of any amounts
appropriated for programs authorized under such Act shall be made available for
the evaluation (directly, or by grants or contracts) of the implementation and
effectiveness of such programs.
(transfer of
funds)
206. Not to exceed 1 percent of any
discretionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for HHS
in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such
appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer:
Provided, That the transfer
authority granted by this section shall not be used to create any new program
or to fund any project or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act:
Provided further,
That the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
(transfer of
funds)
207. The Director of the NIH, jointly with the
Director of the Office of AIDS Research, may transfer up to 3 percent among
institutes and centers from the total amounts identified by these two Directors
as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus:
Provided, That the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at
least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
(transfer of
funds)
208. Of the amounts made available in this Act
for NIH, the amount for research related to the human immunodeficiency virus,
as jointly determined by the Director of NIH and the Director of the Office of
AIDS Research, shall be made available to the Office of AIDS
Research account. The Director of the Office of AIDS Research shall
transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out section 2353(d)(3) of
the PHS Act.
209. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be made available to any entity under title X of the
PHS Act unless the applicant for the
award certifies to the Secretary that it encourages family participation in the
decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it provides
counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging
in sexual activities.
210. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
no provider of services under title X of the PHS
Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the
reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or
incest.
211. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
(including funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be used to carry out the
Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary denies participation in such
program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored
Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not
provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions:
Provided, That the Secretary
shall make appropriate prospective adjustments to the capitation payment to
such an entity (based on an actuarially sound estimate of the expected costs of
providing the service to such entity's enrollees):
Provided further,
That nothing in this section shall be construed to change the Medicare
program's coverage for such services and a Medicare Advantage organization
described in this section shall be responsible for informing enrollees where to
obtain information about all Medicare covered services.
212. In order for HHS to carry out international
health activities, including HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and
environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during fiscal year
2014:
(1) The Secretary may exercise authority
equivalent to that available to the Secretary of State in section 2(c) of the
State Department Basic Authorities Act of
1956. The Secretary shall consult with the Secretary of State and
relevant Chief of Mission to ensure that the authority provided in this section
is exercised in a manner consistent with section 207 of the
Foreign Service Act of 1980 and
other applicable statutes administered by the Department of State.
(2) The Secretary is authorized to provide such
funds by advance or reimbursement to the Secretary of State as may be necessary
to pay the costs of acquisition, lease, alteration, renovation, and management
of facilities outside of the United States for the use of HHS. The Department
of State shall cooperate fully with the Secretary to ensure that HHS has
secure, safe, functional facilities that comply with applicable regulation
governing location, setback, and other facilities requirements and serve the
purposes established by this Act. The Secretary is authorized, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, through grant or cooperative agreement, to make
available to public or nonprofit private institutions or agencies in
participating foreign countries, funds to acquire, lease, alter, or renovate
facilities in those countries as necessary to conduct programs of assistance
for international health activities, including activities relating to HIV/AIDS
and other infectious diseases, chronic and environmental diseases, and other
health activities abroad.
(3) The Secretary is authorized to provide to
personnel appointed or assigned by the Secretary to serve abroad, allowances
and benefits similar to those provided under chapter 9 of title I of the
Foreign Service Act of 1980, and 22 U.S.C. 4081 through 4086 and subject to
such regulations prescribed by the Secretary. The Secretary is further
authorized to provide locality-based comparability payments (stated as a
percentage) up to the amount of the locality-based comparability payment
(stated as a percentage) that would be payable to such personnel under section
5304 of title 5, United States Code if such personnel's official duty station
were in the District of Columbia. Leaves of absence for personnel under this
subsection shall be on the same basis as that provided under subchapter I of
chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, or section 903 of the Foreign
Service Act of 1980, to individuals serving in the Foreign Service.
213.
(a)
Authority
Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Director of NIH (Director) may use funds available under
section 402(b)(7) or 402(b)(12) of the PHS
Act to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative
agreements, or grants) to carry out research identified pursuant to such
section 402(b)(7) (pertaining to the Common Fund) or research and activities
described in such section 402(b)(12).
(b)
Peer review
In entering into transactions under
subsection (a), the Director may utilize such peer review procedures (including
consultation with appropriate scientific experts) as the Director determines to
be appropriate to obtain assessments of scientific and technical merit. Such
procedures shall apply to such transactions in lieu of the peer review and
advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under
sections 301(a)(3), 405(b)(1)(B), 405(b)(2), 406(a)(3)(A), 492, and 494 of the
PHS Act.
214. Funds which are available for Individual
Learning Accounts for employees of CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) may be transferred to appropriate
accounts of CDC, to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts:
Provided, That such funds may be
used for any individual full-time equivalent employee while such employee is
employed either by CDC or ATSDR.
215. Not to exceed
$45,000,000 of funds
appropriated by this Act to the institutes and centers of the National
Institutes of Health may be used for alteration, repair, or improvement of
facilities, as necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the activities
authorized herein, at not to exceed $3,500,000
per project.
(transfer of
funds)
216. Of the amounts made available for NIH, 1
percent of the amount made available for National Research Service Awards
(NRSA) shall be made available to the Administrator of the
Health Resources and Services Administration to make NRSA awards for research
in primary medical care to individuals affiliated with entities who have
received grants or contracts under section 747 of the
PHS Act, and 1 percent of the amount
made available for NRSA shall be made available to the Director of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality to make NRSA awards for health service
research.
217. Funds provided to the National Institutes
of Health in this and subsequent acts may be used to support the Sanctuary
System for Surplus Chimpanzees authorized by section 404K of the PHS Act,
including for the construction, renovation, and funding of current or
additional facilities of the sanctuary system as authorized by section 404K,
notwithstanding the limitations in subsection (g) of such section.
218. None of the funds made available in this
title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun
control.
219.
(a) The Secretary shall establish a publicly
accessible Web site to provide information regarding the uses of funds made
available under section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
of 2010 (ACA).
(b) With respect to funds provided under
section 4002 of the ACA, the Secretary shall include on the Web site
established under subsection (a) at a minimum the following information:
(1) In the case of each transfer of funds under
section 4002(c), a statement indicating the program or activity receiving
funds, the operating division or office that will administer the funds, and the
planned uses of the funds, to be posted not later than the day after the
transfer is made.
(2) Identification (along with a link to the
full text) of each funding opportunity announcement, request for proposals, or
other announcement or solicitation of proposals for grants, cooperative
agreements, or contracts intended to be awarded using such funds, to be posted
not later than the day after the announcement or solicitation is issued.
(3) Identification of each grant, cooperative
agreement, or contract with a value of $25,000
or more awarded using such funds, including the purpose of the award and the
identity of the recipient, to be posted not later than 5 days after the award
is made.
(4) A report detailing the uses of all funds
transferred under section 4002(c) during the fiscal year, to be posted not
later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year.
(c) With respect to awards made in fiscal years
2013 and 2014, the Secretary shall also include on the Web site established
under subsection (a), semi-annual reports from each entity awarded a grant,
cooperative agreement, or contract from such funds with a value of
$25,000 or more, summarizing the activities
undertaken and identifying any sub-grants or sub-contracts awarded (including
the purpose of the award and the identity of the recipient), to be posted not
later than 30 days after the end of each 6-month period.
(d) In carrying out this section, the Secretary
shall:
(1) present the information required in
subsection (b)(1) on a single webpage or on a single database;
(2) ensure that all information required in
this section is directly accessible from the single webpage or database;
and
(3) ensure that all information required in
this section is able to be organized by program or State.
(Transfer of
Funds)
220.
(a) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act,
the Secretary shall transfer funds appropriated under section 4002 of the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) to the
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the activities specified
under the heading Prevention and Public Health Fund in the
Committee report of the Senate accompanying this Act.
(b) Notwithstanding section 4002(c) of the ACA,
the Secretary may not further transfer these amounts.
(c) Funds transferred for activities authorized
under section 2821 of the PHS Act shall be made available without reference to
section 2821(b) of such Act.
221.
(a) The Secretary shall prescribe by
regulation, for application in the current fiscal year and in subsequent fiscal
years, a schedule of fees for certification of health information technology as
established by section 300jj–11(c)(5) of title 42. The fees shall be paid by
health information technology vendors based on the fee structure established by
the Secretary and published in the Federal Register. The Secretary shall
periodically update this schedule of fees through a notice in the Federal
Register. This fee structure shall be designed to be sufficient to recover
costs associated with the administration of certification programs authorized
by section 300jj–11(c)(5) of title 42, including the costs for health
information technology standards, testing and certification, and other related
costs for improving the efficiency of certification programs.
(b)
Collection procedures
The Secretary shall prescribe procedures to
collect the fees. The Secretary may, for the purpose of collecting fees, use
the services of a department, agency, or instrumentality authorized by the
National Coordinator to perform the certification of health information
technology in accordance with section 300jj–11(c)(5) of title 42, and may
reimburse such department, agency, or instrumentality a reasonable amount for
its services.
(c)
Collection, deposit, and use
(1) Fees collected under this section shall be
deposited in the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology account as offsetting collections.
(2) Such fees shall be collected and available
only to the extent and in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriations
acts.
222.
(a) The Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority (BARDA) may enter into a contract, for
more than one but no more than 10 program years, for purchase of research
services or of security countermeasures, as that term is defined in section
319F–2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6b(c)(1)(B)), if—
(1) funds are available and obligated—
(A) for the full period of the contract or for
the first fiscal year in which the contract is in effect; and
(B) for the estimated costs associated with a
necessary termination of the contract; and
(2) the Secretary determines that a multi-year
contract will serve the best interests of the Federal Government by encouraging
full and open competition or promoting economy in administration, performance,
and operation of BARDA's programs.
(b) A contract entered into under this
section:
(1) shall include a termination clause as
described by subsection (c) of section 3903 of title 41, United States Code;
and
(2) shall be subject to the congressional
notice requirement stated in subsection (d) of such section.
223.
(a) The Secretary shall publish in the fiscal
year 2015 budget justification and on Departmental Web sites information
concerning the employment of full-time equivalent Federal employees or
contractors for the purposes of implementing, administering, enforcing, or
otherwise carrying out the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act of 2010 (ACA), and the amendments made by that Act, in
the proposed fiscal year and the 4 prior fiscal years.
(b) With respect to employees or contractors
supported by all funds appropriated for purposes of carrying out the ACA (and
the amendments made by that Act), the Secretary shall include, at a minimum,
the following information:
(1) For each such fiscal year, the section of
such Act under which such funds were appropriated, a statement indicating the
program, project, or activity receiving such funds, the Federal operating
division or office that administers such program, and the amount of funding
received in discretionary or mandatory appropriations.
(2) For each such fiscal year, the number of
full-time equivalent employees or contracted employees assigned to each
authorized and funded provision detailed in accordance with paragraph
(1).
(c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary
may exclude from the report employees or contractors who:
(1) Are supported through appropriations
enacted in laws other than the ACA and work on programs that existed prior to
the passage of the ACA;
(2) spend less than 50 percent of their time on
activities funded by or newly authorized in the ACA;
(3) or who work on contracts for which FTE
reporting is not a requirement of their contract, such as fixed-price
contracts.
224. In lieu of the timeframe specified in
section 338E(c)(2) of the PHS Act, terminations described in such section may
occur up to 60 days after the execution of a contract awarded in fiscal year
2014 under section 338 of such Act.
225.
(a) With respect to a contract, contract
option, or modification executed in fiscal year 2014 between the National
Institutes of Health or any of its components and the contract operator of a
Federally Funded Research and Development Center for severable services, if the
period of the contract, option, or modification begins in one fiscal year, ends
in the next fiscal year, and does not exceed one year, and if the contract,
option, or modification is funded incrementally in the manner specified in
sections 32.703–1(b) and 32.704 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation—
(1) any increment of such contract, contract
option, or modification may begin in one fiscal year and end in the next fiscal
year; and
(2) funds available for the first of such
fiscal years may be obligated for the total amount of such increment.
(b) The authority provided in this section
shall apply only to funds appropriated in this Act.
226. It is the sense of the Senate that American
Health Benefit Exchanges should verify annual household or individual income
prior to making available premium tax credits under the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), and the amendment made by that
Act.
227. The Secretary shall publish, as part of the
fiscal year 2015 budget of the President submitted under section 1105(a) of
title 31, United States Code, information that details the uses of all funds
used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services specifically for Health
Insurance Marketplaces for each fiscal year since the enactment of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148) and the proposed uses
for such funds for fiscal year 2015. Such information shall include, for each
such fiscal year—
(1) the section(s) of such Act under which such
funds were appropriated or used;
(2) the program, project, or activity for which
such funds were used;
(3) the amount of funds that were used for the
Health Insurance Marketplaces within each such program, project, or activity;
and
(4) the milestones completed for data hub
functionality and implementation readiness.
This title may be cited as the
Department of Health and Human
Services Appropriations Act,
2014.
III
Department of Education
Education for the
disadvantaged
For carrying out
title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (referred to in this Act as
ESEA) and section 418A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (referred to in
this Act as HEA),
$15,875,231,000, of which
$4,941,691,000 shall become available on July 1,
2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, and of which
$10,841,177,000 shall become available on
October 1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, for
academic year 2014–2015:
Provided, That
$6,562,024,000 shall be for basic grants under
section 1124 of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
up to $4,000,000 of these funds shall be
available to the Secretary of Education (referred to in this title as
Secretary) on October 1, 2013, to obtain annually updated local
educational agency-level census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census:
Provided further, That
$1,362,301,000 shall be for concentration grants
under section 1124A of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
$3,344,050,000 shall be for targeted grants
under section 1125 of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
$3,344,050,000 shall be for education finance
incentive grants under section 1125A of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
funds available under sections 1124, 1124A, 1125 and 1125A of the ESEA may be
used to provide homeless children and youths with services not ordinarily
provided to other students under those sections, including supporting the
liaison designated pursuant to section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento
Homeless Assistance Act, and providing transportation pursuant to section
722(g)(1)(J)(iii) of such Act:
Provided further, That
$3,028,000 shall be to carry out sections 1501
and 1503 of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
$567,485,000 shall be available until expended
for school improvement grants under section 1003(g) of the ESEA, which shall be
allocated by the Secretary through the formula described in section 1003(g)(2)
and shall be used consistent with the requirements of section 1003(g), except
that State and local educational agencies may use such funds to serve any
school eligible to receive assistance under part A of title I that has not made
adequate yearly progress for at least 2 years or is in the State's lowest
quintile of performance based on proficiency rates and, in the case of
secondary schools, priority shall be given to those schools with graduation
rates below 60 percent:
Provided further, That
funds available for school improvement grants may be used by a local
educational agency to implement a whole-school reform strategy for a school
using an evidence-based strategy that ensures whole-school reform is undertaken
in partnership with a strategy developer offering a whole-school reform program
that is based on at least a moderate level of evidence that the program will
have a statistically significant effect on student outcomes, including more
than one well-designed or well-implemented experimental or quasi-experimental
study: Provided further, That
funds available for school improvement grants may be used by a local
educational agency to implement an alternative State-determined school
improvement strategy that has been established by a State educational agency
with the approval of the Secretary: Provided
further, That a local educational agency that is determined
to be eligible for services under subpart 1 or 2 of part B of title VI of the
ESEA may modify not more than one element of a school improvement grant model:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 1003(g)(5)(A), each State educational agency may
establish a maximum subgrant size of not more than
$2,000,000 for each participating school
applicable to such funds:
Provided further,
That the Secretary may reserve up to 5 percent of the funds available for
section 1003(g) of the ESEA to carry out activities to build State and local
educational agency capacity to implement effectively the school improvement
grants program:
Provided further, That
$164,378,000 shall be available under section
1502 of the ESEA for a comprehensive literacy development and education program
to advance literacy skills, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and
writing, for students from birth through grade 12, including
limited-English-proficient students and students with disabilities, of which
one-half of 1 percent shall be reserved for the Secretary of the Interior for
such a program at schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education, one-half of
1 percent shall be reserved for grants to the outlying areas for such a
program, up to 5 percent may be reserved for national activities, and the
remainder shall be used to award competitive grants to State educational
agencies for such a program, of which a State educational agency may reserve up
to 5 percent for State leadership activities, including technical assistance
and training, data collection, reporting, and administration, and shall
subgrant not less than 95 percent to local educational agencies or, in the case
of early literacy, to local educational agencies or other nonprofit providers
of early childhood education that partner with a public or private nonprofit
organization or agency with a demonstrated record of effectiveness in improving
the early literacy development of children from birth through kindergarten
entry and in providing professional development in early literacy, giving
priority to such agencies or other entities serving greater numbers or
percentages of disadvantaged children:
Provided further, That
the State educational agency shall ensure that at least 15 percent of the
subgranted funds are used to serve children from birth through age 5, 40
percent are used to serve students in kindergarten through grade 5, and 40
percent are used to serve students in middle and high school including an
equitable distribution of funds between middle and high schools:
Provided further, That
eligible entities receiving subgrants from State educational agencies shall use
such funds for services and activities that have the characteristics of
effective literacy instruction through professional development, screening and
assessment, targeted interventions for students reading below grade level and
other research-based methods of improving classroom instruction and
practice.
School Readiness
For carrying out activities authorized by
part D of title V of the ESEA, $750,000,000 for
a preschool development grants program:
Provided, That such funds shall be
available for obligation through December 31, 2014:
Provided further, That
the Secretary shall make competitive grants to States to carry out activities
that support high-quality preschool programs for children from families at or
below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may permit or require States to subgrant a portion of grant funds
to local educational agencies, or local educational agencies in partnership
with other early learning providers, for the implementation of high-quality
preschool programs for children from families at or below 200 percent of the
Federal poverty line:
Provided further, That
up to 5 percent of such funds for competitive grants shall be available for
national activities.
Impact aid
For carrying out programs of financial
assistance to federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the
ESEA,
$1,290,945,000, of which
$1,153,540,000 shall be for basic support
payments under section 8003(b), $48,316,000
shall be for payments for children with disabilities under section 8003(d),
$17,441,000 shall be for construction under
section 8007(a), $66,813,000 shall be for
Federal property payments under section 8002, and
$4,835,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be for facilities maintenance under section 8008:
Provided, That for purposes of
computing the amount of a payment for an eligible local educational agency
under section 8003(a) for school year 2013–2014, children enrolled in a school
of such agency that would otherwise be eligible for payment under section
8003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but due to the deployment of both parents or legal
guardians, or a parent or legal guardian having sole custody of such children,
or due to the death of a military parent or legal guardian while on active duty
(so long as such children reside on Federal property as described in section
8003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such section, shall be considered
as eligible students under such section, provided such students remain in
average daily attendance at a school in the same local educational agency they
attended prior to their change in eligibility status:
Provided further, That
the Secretary shall deem each local educational agency that received a fiscal
year 2009 basic support payment for heavily impacted local educational agencies
under section 8003(b)(2) of such Act as eligible to receive fiscal year 2014
basic support payments for heavily impacted local educational agencies under
such section and make payments to such local educational agencies under such
section for fiscal year 2014.
School improvement programs
For carrying out school improvement
activities authorized by parts A and B of title II, part B of title IV, subpart
6 of part D of title V, parts A and B of title VI, and parts B and C of title
VII of the ESEA; the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; section 203 of the
Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002; the Compact of Free Association
Amendments Act of 2003; and the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, $4,621,862,000, of which
$2,782,412,000 shall become available on July 1,
2014, and remain available through September 30, 2015, and of which
$1,681,441,000 shall become available on October
1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, for academic
year 2014–2015:
Provided, That funds made available
to carry out part B of title VII of the ESEA may be used for construction,
renovation, and modernization of any elementary school, secondary school, or
structure related to an elementary school or secondary school, run by the
Department of Education of the State of Hawaii, that serves a predominantly
Native Hawaiian student body:
Provided further, That
funds made available to carry out part C of title VII of the ESEA shall be
awarded on a competitive basis, and also may be used for construction:
Provided further, That
$51,113,000 shall be available to carry out
section 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002:
Provided further, That
$17,583,000 shall be available to carry out the
Supplemental Education Grants program for the Federated States of Micronesia
and the Republic of the Marshall Islands:
Provided further, That
up to 5 percent of the amount referred to in the previous proviso may be
reserved by the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall
Islands to administer the Supplemental Education Grants programs and to obtain
technical assistance, oversight and consultancy services in the administration
of these grants and to reimburse the United States Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education for such services:
Provided further, That
State educational agencies may subgrant funds available under part B of title
IV of the ESEA for expanded learning time programs that significantly increase
the number of hours in a regular school schedule and comprehensively redesign
the school schedule for all students in the school:
Provided further, That
such expanded learning time programs shall provide additional learning time in
the core academic and other subjects, provide opportunities for student
participation in experiential, hands-on learning, and include enrichment and
youth development activities:
Provided further, That
programs awarded subgrants under such part shall include strong partnerships
between schools and community partners:
Provided further, That
up to 5.5 percent of the funds for subpart 1 of part A of title II of the ESEA
shall be reserved by the Secretary for competitive awards for teacher or
principal recruitment and training or professional enhancement activities to
national not-for-profit organizations, of which up to 10 percent may be used
for related research, development, evaluation, technical assistance, and
outreach activities:
Provided further, That
$149,417,000 shall be to carry out part B of
title II of the ESEA.
Indian education
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the
extent not otherwise provided, title VII, part A of the
ESEA,
$130,318,000.
Innovation and improvement
For carrying out activities authorized by
part G of title I, subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title II, parts B,
C, and D of title V of the ESEA, and sections 14006 and 14007 of division A of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as amended,
$1,331,598,000:
Provided, That the Secretary may
use up to $250,000,000, which shall remain
available for obligation through December 31, 2014, for section 14006 of
division A of Public Law 111–5, as amended, to make awards (including on the
basis of previously submitted applications) to State educational agencies,
local educational agencies, or consortia of either, in accordance with the
applicable requirements of that section, as determined by the Secretary:
Provided further, That
funds for section 14006 may be available for carrying out a Race to the Top:
College Affordability and Completion program (referred to in this Act as
CAC):
Provided further, That
the Secretary is authorized to make CAC grants to States for the purpose of
undertaking reforms and innovations to improve college affordability and
quality, and increase institutional capacity to graduate more students,
including low-income, minority, and non-traditional students and students with
disabilities:
Provided further, That
before awarding or otherwise making CAC funds available to States, the
Secretary may require States to provide evidence of implementing, or a
commitment to implement, reforms in (1) increasing or sustaining fiscal support
for public higher education while modernizing funding policies to constrain
costs and improve student outcomes; (2) creating, or removing barriers
preventing the creation of, innovative and effective methods of student
learning and degree pathways; (3) empowering consumer choice in postsecondary
education through increased transparency on college costs, quality,
affordability, and student outcomes; and (4) increasing awareness about college
and financial aid among secondary school students, providing accelerated
learning opportunities, and providing for the seamless transition from
secondary into postsecondary education and between institutions of higher
education:
Provided further, That
in making a CAC grant to a State, the Secretary may withhold a portion of the
funds to be awarded until such time as the Secretary has determined that the
State has demonstrated that it has made sufficient progress in the areas of
reform described in the previous proviso:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may reserve up to 2 percent of funds provided under section 14006
to obtain qualified readers and staff to review applications; to conduct
oversight and monitoring; to provide technical assistance to potential and
successful applicants; and to conduct evaluations of the projects funded in the
first proviso:
Provided further, That
a State receiving a CAC grant under this section may make subgrants to public
and non-profit organizations located within the State, subject to limitations
to be established by the Secretary:
Provided further, That
the Secretary shall administer State grants for improving early childhood care
and education under such section jointly with the Secretary of HHS on such
terms as such Secretaries set forth in an interagency agreement:
Provided further,
That up to $170,000,000 shall be available until
expended for section 14007 of division A of Public Law 111–5, and up to 5
percent of such funds may be used for technical assistance and the evaluation
of activities carried out under such section:
Provided further, That
funds available for section 2151(b) of the ESEA may be used to train other
school leaders and district-level personnel, in addition to the individuals
described in subsection (b)(1) and may be used to make grants to State
educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit
organizations, in partnership with local educational agencies, in addition to
the entities described in subsection (b)(2):
Provided further, That
in making grants under such section, the Secretary may designate local
educational agencies as high-need local educational agencies
under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may establish so long as each
such local educational agency meets the requirements of 2102(3)(A) of the ESEA:
Provided further, That
the education facilities clearinghouse established through a competitive award
process in fiscal year 2013 is authorized to collect and disseminate
information on effective educational practices and the latest research
regarding the planning, design, financing, construction, improvement,
operation, and maintenance of safe, healthy, high-performance public facilities
for early learning programs, kindergarten through grade 12, and higher
education:
Provided further, That
$298,834,000 of the funds for subpart 1 of part
D of title V of the ESEA shall be for competitive grants to local educational
agencies, including charter schools that are local educational agencies, or
States, or partnerships of: (1) a local educational agency, a State, or both;
and (2) at least one nonprofit organization to develop and implement
performance-based compensation systems for teachers, principals, and other
personnel in high-need schools:
Provided further, That
such performance-based compensation systems must consider gains in student
academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times
during each school year among other factors and provide educators with
incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles:
Provided further, That
recipients of such grants shall demonstrate that such performance-based
compensation systems are developed with the input of teachers and school
leaders in the schools and local educational agencies to be served by the
grant:
Provided further, That
recipients of such grants may use such funds to develop or improve systems and
tools (which may be developed and used for the entire local educational agency
or only for schools served under the grant) that would enhance the quality and
success of the compensation system, such as high-quality teacher evaluations
and tools to measure growth in student achievement:
Provided further, That
applications for such grants shall include a plan to sustain financially the
activities conducted and systems developed under the grant once the grant
period has expired:
Provided further, That
up to 5 percent of such funds for competitive grants shall be available for
technical assistance, training, peer review of applications, program outreach,
and evaluation activities:
Provided further, That
$55,000,000 of the funds for subpart 1 of part D
of title V of the ESEA shall be available for programs to improve teacher
effectiveness and student academic achievement and preparedness for careers in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through competitive grants to
local educational agencies in partnership with institutions of higher
education, nonprofit organizations, other public agencies, museums, and
businesses to identify, develop, validate, and expand the use for high-need
students of evidence-based STEM educational strategies and practices in
pre-kindergarten through grade 12, including informal educational strategies
and practices, of which up to 5 percent may be reserved by the Secretary for
national activities, including a STEM virtual learning network:
Provided further, That
of the funds available for part B of title V of the ESEA, the Secretary may use
up to $11,000,000 to carry out activities under
section 5205(b) and shall use not less than
$12,000,000 for subpart 2:
Provided further, That
of the funds available for subpart 1 of part B of title V of the ESEA, and
notwithstanding section 5205(a), the Secretary shall reserve not less than
$45,000,000 to make multiple awards to
non-profit charter management organizations and other entities that are not
for-profit entities for the replication and expansion of successful charter
school models and shall reserve up to
$11,000,000 to carry out the activities
described in section 5205(a), including improving quality and oversight of
charter schools and providing technical assistance and grants to authorized
public chartering agencies in order to increase the number of high-performing
charter schools:
Provided further, That
funds available for part B of title V of the ESEA may be used for grants that
support preschool education in charter schools:
Provided further, That
each application submitted pursuant to section 5203(a) shall describe a plan to
monitor and hold accountable authorized public chartering agencies through such
activities as providing technical assistance or establishing a professional
development program, which may include evaluation, planning, training, and
systems development for staff of authorized public chartering agencies to
improve the capacity of such agencies in the State to authorize, monitor, and
hold accountable charter schools:
Provided further, That
each application submitted pursuant to section 5203(a) shall contain assurances
that State law, regulations, or other policies require that: (1) each
authorized charter school in the State operate under a legally binding charter
or performance contract between itself and the school’s authorized public
chartering agency that describes the rights and responsibilities of the school
and the public chartering agency; conduct annual, timely, and independent
audits of the school’s financial statements that are filed with the school’s
authorized public chartering agency; and demonstrate improved student academic
achievement; and (2) authorized public chartering agencies use increases in
student academic achievement for all groups of students described in section
1111(b)(2)(C)(v) of the ESEA as the most important factor when determining to
renew or revoke a school’s charter.
Safe schools and citizenship
education
For carrying out
activities authorized by part A of title IV and subparts 1, 2, and 10 of part D
of title V of the ESEA, $330,481,000:
Provided, That
$143,000,000 shall be available for subpart 2 of
part A of title IV, of which $75,000,000 may be
used for multi-tier systems of support and for mental health treatment and up
to $8,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be for the Project School Emergency Response to Violence
(Project SERV) program to provide education-related services to
local educational agencies and institutions of higher education in which the
learning environment has been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic crisis:
Provided further, That
$56,754,000 shall be available for Promise
Neighborhoods and shall be available through December 31,
2014.
English language acquisition
For carrying out part A of title III of the
ESEA,
$730,680,000, which shall become available on
July 1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, except
that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be available on October 1, 2013, and
shall remain available through September 30, 2015, to carry out activities
under section 3111(c)(1)(C):
Provided, That the Secretary shall
use estimates of the American Community Survey child counts for the most recent
3-year period available to calculate allocations under such
part.
Special education
For carrying out the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport and
Empowerment Act of 2004, $12,803,387,000, of
which $3,274,919,000 shall become available on
July 1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, and of
which $9,283,383,000 shall become available on
October 1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, for
academic year 2014–2015:
Provided, That the amount for
section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall be equal to the lesser of the amount
available for that activity during fiscal year 2013, increased by the amount of
inflation as specified in section 619(d)(2)(B) of the IDEA, or the percent
change in the funds appropriated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2013:
Provided further, That
the Secretary shall, without regard to section 611(d) of the IDEA, distribute
to all other States (as that term is defined in section 611(g)(2)), subject to
the third proviso, any amount by which a State's allocation under section
611(d), from funds appropriated under this heading, is reduced under section
612(a)(18)(B), according to the following: 85 percent on the basis of the
States' relative populations of children aged 3 through 21 who are of the same
age as children with disabilities for whom the State ensures the availability
of a free appropriate public education under this part, and 15 percent to
States on the basis of the States' relative populations of those children who
are living in poverty:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may not distribute any funds under the previous proviso to any
State whose reduction in allocation from funds appropriated under this heading
made funds available for such a distribution:
Provided further, That
the States shall allocate such funds distributed under the second proviso to
local educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f):
Provided further, That
the amount by which a State's allocation under section 611(d) of the IDEA is
reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) and the amounts distributed to States under
the previous provisos in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not be
considered in calculating the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013
or for any subsequent fiscal years:
Provided further, That
the funds reserved under 611(c) of the IDEA may be used to provide technical
assistance to States to improve the capacity of the States to meet the data
collection requirements of sections 616 and 618 and to administer and carry out
other services and activities to improve data collection, coordination,
quality, and use under parts B and C of the IDEA:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may, notwithstanding section 643(e)(1) of the IDEA, reserve up to
$2,710,000 of the amount provided under section
644 for incentive grants to States to carry out section 635(c):
Provided further, That
funds made available for the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004
may be used to support expenses associated with the Special Olympics National
and World Games:
Provided further, That
the level of effort a local educational agency must meet under section
613(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the IDEA, in the year after it fails to maintain effort is
the level of effort that would have been required in the absence of that
failure and not the LEA's reduced level of expenditures:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may use funds made available for the State Personnel Development
Grants program under part D, subpart 1 of IDEA to evaluate program
performance.
Rehabilitation services and disability
research
For carrying out, to
the extent not otherwise provided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the
Assistive Technology Act of 1998, and the Helen Keller National Center Act,
$3,698,174,000, of which
$3,302,053,000 shall be for grants for
vocational rehabilitation services under title I of the Rehabilitation Act:
Provided, That the Secretary may
use amounts provided in this Act that remain available subsequent to the
reallotment of funds to States pursuant to section 110(b) of the Rehabilitation
Act for innovative activities aimed at improving the outcomes of individuals
with disabilities as defined in section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act,
including activities aimed at improving the education and post-school outcomes
of children receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and
their families that may result in long-term improvement in the SSI child
recipient's economic status and self-sufficiency:
Provided further, That
States may award subgrants for a portion of the funds to other public and
private, non-profit entities:
Provided further,
That any funds made available subsequent to reallotment for innovative
activities aimed at improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities
shall remain available until September 30, 2015:
Provided further, That
not to exceed $20,000,000 of the amounts made
available in the first proviso may be used for performance-based awards for Pay
for Success projects:
Provided further,
That, with respect to the previous proviso, any funds obligated for such
projects shall remain available for disbursement until expended,
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1552(a):
Provided further,
That, with respect to the third proviso, any deobligated funds from such
projects shall immediately be available for programs authorized under the
Rehabilitation Act.
Special institutions for persons with
disabilities
American printing house for the
blind
For carrying out the Act
of March 3, 1879,
$24,456,000.
National technical institute for the
deaf
For the National
Technical Institute for the Deaf under titles I and II of the Education of the
Deaf Act of 1986, $66,422,000:
Provided, That from the total
amount available, the Institute may at its discretion use funds for the
endowment program as authorized under section 207 of such
Act.
Gallaudet university
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary
School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial support of
Gallaudet University under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of
1986, $118,541,000:
Provided, That from the total
amount available, the University may at its discretion use funds for the
endowment program as authorized under section 207 of such
Act.
Career, technical, and adult
education
For carrying out, to
the extent not otherwise provided, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act of 2006 and the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act
(AEFLA), $1,743,949,000, of which
$952,949,000 shall become available on July 1,
2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, and of which
$791,000,000 shall become available on October
1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2015:
Provided, That of the amount
available for section 114 of the Perkins Act,
$5,000,000 shall be used to help establish or
expand dual enrollment career and technical education programs:
Provided further, That
such funds may be used to assist individuals in adult education programs to
enroll in postsecondary career and technical education courses for credit:
Provided further, That
such funds shall supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, or local
public funds expended for adult education and literacy activities:
Provided further, That
of the amount provided for Adult Education State Grants,
$74,559,000 shall be made available for
integrated English literacy and civics education services to immigrants and
other limited-English-proficient populations:
Provided further, That
of the amount reserved for integrated English literacy and civics education,
notwithstanding section 211 of the AEFLA, 65 percent shall be allocated to
States based on a State's absolute need as determined by calculating each
State's share of a 10-year average of the United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services data for immigrants admitted for legal permanent residence
for the 10 most recent years, and 35 percent allocated to States that
experienced growth as measured by the average of the 3 most recent years for
which United States Citizenship and Immigration Services data for immigrants
admitted for legal permanent residence are available, except that no State
shall be allocated an amount less than $60,000:
Provided further, That
of the amounts made available for AEFLA,
$14,302,000 shall be for national leadership
activities under section 243.
Student financial
assistance
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 10 of
part A, and part C of title IV of the HEA,
$24,536,210,000, which shall remain available
through September 30, 2015. The
maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be eligible during award year
2014–2015 shall be
$4,860.
Student aid administration
For Federal administrative expenses to carry
out part D of title I, and subparts 1, 3, 9, and 10 of part A, and parts B, C,
D, and E of title IV of the HEA,
$1,044,301,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015.
Higher education
For carrying out, to the extent not
otherwise provided, titles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the HEA, the
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, and section 117 of the
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006,
$1,912,615,000:
Provided, That
$20,606,000 shall be for data collection,
evaluation, research, and demonstration activities relating to programs under
the HEA, including activities that are designed to test approaches for
providing grant, loan, or work assistance under title IV of the HEA in ways
that promote access to, and completion of, affordable and high-quality
postsecondary education programs:
Provided further, That
the Secretary may use funds under the preceding proviso for the costs of
postsecondary tuition, fees, textbooks, and related costs for students enrolled
in postsecondary courses who are participating in evaluation, research, and
demonstration activities funded under the preceding proviso:
Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made available in this Act to
carry out title VI of the HEA and section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to support visits and study in
foreign countries by individuals who are participating in advanced foreign
language training and international studies in areas that are vital to United
States national security and who plan to apply their language skills and
knowledge of these countries in the fields of government, the professions, or
international development:
Provided further, That
of the funds referred to in the preceding proviso up to 1 percent may be used
for program evaluation, national outreach, and information dissemination
activities:
Provided further,
That, of the amount available under subpart 2 of part A of title VII of the
HEA, the Secretary may use up to $1,485,000 to
fund continuation awards for projects originally supported under subpart 1 of
part A of title VII of the HEA:
Provided further, That
up to 1.5 percent of the funds made available under chapter 2 of subpart 2 of
part A of title IV may be used for
evaluation.
Howard university
For partial support of Howard University,
$234,064,000, of which not less than
$3,593,000 shall be for a matching endowment
grant pursuant to the Howard University Endowment Act and shall remain
available until expended.
College housing and academic facilities
loans program
For Federal
administrative expenses to carry out activities related to existing facility
loans pursuant to section 121 of the HEA,
$459,000.
Historically Black College and University
Capital Financing Program Account
For the cost of guaranteed loans,
$20,150,000, as authorized pursuant to part D of
title III of the HEA, which shall remain available through September 30, 2015:
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:
Provided further, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $320,350,000:
Provided further,
That these funds may be used to support loans to public and private
Historically Black Colleges and Universities without regard to the limitations
within section 344(a) of the HEA.
In addition, for administrative expenses to
carry out the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing
Program entered into pursuant to part D of title III of the HEA,
$352,000.
Institute of education
sciences
For carrying out
activities authorized by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, the
National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act, section 208 of
the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002, and section 664 of the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,
$652,937,000, which shall remain available
through September 30, 2015:
Provided, That funds available to
carry out section 208 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act may be used
to link Statewide elementary and secondary data systems with early childhood,
postsecondary, and workforce data systems, or to further develop such systems:
Provided further, That
up to $21,000,000 of the funds available to
carry out section 208 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act may be used
for awards to public or private organizations or agencies to support activities
to improve data coordination, quality, and use at the local, State, and
national levels.
Departmental
management
Program administration
For carrying out, to the extent not
otherwise provided, the Department of Education Organization Act, including
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of three
passenger motor vehicles, $447,366,000, of which
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be for relocation of, and renovation of buildings occupied by, Department
staff.
Office for civil rights
For expenses necessary for the Office for
Civil Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Education
Organization Act,
$102,418,000.
Office of the inspector
general
For expenses necessary
for the Office of the Inspector General, as authorized by section 212 of the
Department of Education Organization Act,
$59,700,000.
General
provisions
301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be
used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of
equipment for such transportation) in order to overcome racial imbalance in any
school or school system, or for the transportation of students or teachers (or
for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to carry out a
plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system.
302. None of the funds contained in this Act
shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any
student to a school other than the school which is nearest the student's home,
except for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such
special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of transportation
of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan
involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of
schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade
restructuring, pairing, or clustering. The prohibition described in this
section does not include the establishment of magnet schools.
303. No funds appropriated in this Act may be
used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and
meditation in the public schools.
(transfer of
funds)
304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any
discretionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the Department of Education in
this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation
shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer:
Provided, That the transfer
authority granted by this section shall not be used to create any new program
or to fund any project or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act:
Provided further,
That the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
305. The Outlying Areas may consolidate funds
received under this Act, pursuant to 48 U.S.C. 1469a, under part A of title V
of the ESEA.
306. Section 105(f)(1)(B)(ix) of the Compact of
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d(f)(1)(B)(ix)) shall be
applied by substituting 2014 for 2009.
307.
(a) Section 206 of the Department of Education
Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3416) is amended—
(1) by striking out the heading and inserting
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education;
(2) by striking out Office of Vocational
and Adult Education and inserting Office of Career, Technical,
and Adult Education;
(3) by striking out Assistant Secretary
for Vocational and Adult Education and inserting Assistant
Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education; and
(4) by striking out vocational and adult
education each place it appears and inserting career, technical,
and adult education.
(b) Section 202 of the Department of Education
Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3412) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(1)(C), by striking out
Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education and
inserting Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult
Education; and
(2) in subsection (h), by striking out
Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education each
place it appears and inserting Assistant Secretary for Career,
Technical, and Adult Education.
(c) Section 1 of the Department of Education
Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3401 note) is amended by striking out the entry for
section 206 and inserting Sec. 206. Office of Career, Technical, and
Adult Education..
(d) Section 114(b)(1) of the Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324(b)(1)) is amended by
striking out Office of Vocational and Adult Education and
inserting Office of Career, Technical, and Adult
Education.
308. The Secretary may reserve funds under
section 9601 of the ESEA (subject to the limitations in subsections (b) and (c)
of that section) in order to carry out activities authorized under that section
with respect to any ESEA program funded in this Act and without respect to the
source of funds for those activities:
Provided, That any funds reserved
under this section shall be available from July 1, 2014 through September 30,
2015:
Provided further,
That not later than 10 days prior to the initial obligation of funds reserved
under this section, the Secretary shall submit an evaluation plan to the Senate
Committees on Appropriations and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the
House Committees on Appropriations and Education and the Workforce which
identifies the source and amount of funds reserved under this section, the
impact on program grantees if funds are withheld, and the programs to be
evaluated with such funds.
309. None of the funds made available by this
Act to carry out the HEA may be disbursed or delivered to an institution of
higher education (or other postsecondary educational institution) on behalf of
a student, or to a student to be used to attend the institution, unless the
institution certifies to the Secretary that it will not use revenues derived
from educational assistance funds provided in any form under any Federal law
for advertising, marketing or student recruitment activities (other than
activities required or specifically authorized by title IV of the HEA or
otherwise specified by the Secretary).
310.
(a)
Consolidations
For fiscal year 2006 and each succeeding
fiscal year, if a local educational agency described in subsection (b) is
formed at any time after 1938 by the consolidation of 2 or more former school
districts, the local educational agency may elect to have the Secretary
determine its eligibility for any fiscal year on the basis of 1 or more of
those former districts, as designated by the local educational agency.
(b)
Eligible local educational
agencies
A local educational
agency referred to in subsection (a) is—
(1) any local educational agency that, for
fiscal year 1994 or any preceding fiscal year, applied, and was determined to
be eligible under, section 2(c) of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law
874, 81st Congress) as that section was in effect for that fiscal year;
or
(2) a local educational agency formed by the
consolidation of 2 or more districts, at least 1 of which was eligible for
assistance under this section for the fiscal year preceding the year of the
consolidation, if—
(A) for fiscal years 2006 through 2013 the
local educational agency notified the Secretary not later than 30 days after
the date of enactment of this Act; and
(B) for fiscal year 2014 the local educational
agency includes the designation in its application under section 8005 or any
timely amendment to such application.
(c)
Amount
A local educational agency eligible under
subsection (b) shall receive a foundation payment as provided for under
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (h)(1), as in effect on the date of
enactment of this Act, except that the foundation payment shall be calculated
based on the most recent payment received by the local educational agency based
on its former common status.
311. None of the funds made available by this
Act to carry out the HEA may be disbursed or delivered on behalf of a student
or to a student to be used to attend a program, pursuant to section 481(b) of
the HEA, that prepares students for gainful employment in recognized
occupations requiring licensing or other established requirements as a
pre-condition for entry into such occupations, at an institution of higher
education (or other post-secondary education institution), unless such program
meets, in the State where the Department has approved the location offering the
program, all applicable State or professionally mandated licensing,
certification, and programmatic or specialized accreditation requirements to
fully qualify a student who successfully completes the program to take
licensing examinations or obtain credentials associated with the training
provided in the program.
312. The Secretary of Education shall—
(1) modify the Free Application for Federal
Student Aid described in section 483 of the HEA so that the Free Application
for Federal Student Aid contains an individual box for the purpose of
identifying students who are foster youth or were in the foster care system;
and
(2) utilize such identification as a tool to
notify students who are foster youth or were in the foster care system of their
potential eligibility for Federal student aid, including postsecondary
education programs through the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
and any other Federal programs under which such students may be eligible to
receive assistance.
This title may be cited as the
Department of Education Appropriations
Act, 2014.
IV
Related Agencies
Committee for purchase from people who are
blind or severely disabled
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by Public
Law 92–28,
$5,396,000.
Corporation for national and community
service
Operating
expenses
For necessary expenses for the Corporation
for National and Community Service (referred to in this title as
CNCS) to carry out the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973
(referred to in this title as 1973 Act) and the National and
Community Service Act of 1990 (referred to in this title as 1990
Act), $756,641,000, notwithstanding
sections 198B(b)(3), 198S(g), 501(a)(6), 501(a)(4)(C), and 501(a)(4)(F) of the
1990 Act:
Provided, That of the amounts
provided under this heading: (1) up to 1 percent of program grant funds may be
used to defray the costs of conducting grant application reviews, including the
use of outside peer reviewers and electronic management of the grants cycle;
(2) $46,724,000 shall be available for expenses
authorized under section 501(a)(4)(E) of the 1990 Act; (3)
$15,306,000 shall be available to provide
assistance to State commissions on national and community service, under
section 126(a) of the 1990 Act and notwithstanding section 501(a)(5)(B) of the
1990 Act; (4) $30,000,000 shall be available to
carry out subtitle E of the 1990 Act; and (5)
$5,000,000 shall be available for expenses
authorized under section 501(a)(4)(F) of the 1990 Act, which, notwithstanding
the provisions of section 198P shall be awarded by CNCS on a competitive basis:
Provided further, That
not to exceed 20 percent of funds made available under section 501(a)(4)(E) of
the 1990 Act may be used for Social Innovation Funds Pilot Program-related
performance-based awards for Pay for Success projects:
Provided further,
That, with respect to the previous proviso, any funds obligated for such
projects shall remain available for disbursement until expended,
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1552(a), and that any funds deobligated from such
projects shall immediately be available for activities authorized under 198K of
such Act.
Payment to the National service
trust
(including transfer of funds)
For payment to the National Service Trust
established under subtitle D of title I of the 1990 Act,
$209,840,000, to remain available until
expended:
Provided, That CNCS may transfer
additional funds from the amount provided within Operating
Expenses allocated to grants under subtitle C of title I of the 1990
Act to the National Service Trust upon determination that such transfer is
necessary to support the activities of national service participants and after
notice is transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate:
Provided further,
That amounts appropriated for or transferred to the National Service Trust may
be invested under section 145(b) of the 1990 Act without regard to the
requirement to apportion funds under 31 U.S.C.
1513(b).
Salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of administration as
provided under section 501(a)(5) of the 1990 Act and under section 504(a) of
the 1973 Act, including payment of salaries, authorized travel, hire of
passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference rooms in the District of
Columbia, the employment of experts and consultants authorized under 5 U.S.C.
3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official
reception and representation expenses,
$88,209,000.
Office of inspector general
For necessary expenses of the Office of
Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$6,466,000.
Administrative
provisions
401. CNCS shall make any significant changes to
program requirements, service delivery or policy only through public notice and
comment rulemaking. For fiscal year 2014, during any grant selection process,
an officer or employee of CNCS shall not knowingly disclose any covered grant
selection information regarding such selection, directly or indirectly, to any
person other than an officer or employee of CNCS that is authorized by CNCS to
receive such information.
402. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants under
the National Service Trust program shall meet an overall minimum share
requirement of 24 percent for the first 3 years that they receive AmeriCorps
funding, and thereafter shall meet the overall minimum share requirement as
provided in section 2521.60 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, without
regard to the operating costs match requirement in section 121(e) or the member
support Federal share limitations in section 140 of the 1990 Act, and subject
to partial waiver consistent with section 2521.70 of title 45, Code of Federal
Regulations.
403. Donations made to CNCS under section 196 of
the 1990 Act for the purposes of financing programs and operations under titles
I and II of the 1973 Act or subtitle B, C, D, or E of title I of the 1990 Act
shall be used to supplement and not supplant current programs and
operations.
404. In addition to the requirements in section
146(a) of the 1990 Act, use of an educational award for the purpose described
in section 148(a)(4) shall be limited to individuals who are veterans as
defined under section 101 of the Act.
405. For the purpose of carrying out section
189D of the 1990 Act:
(1) Entities described in paragraph (a) of such
section shall be considered qualified entities under section 3
of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 (NCPA); and
(2) Individuals described in such section shall
be considered volunteers under section 3 of NCPA; and
(3) State Commissions on National and Community
Service established pursuant to section 178 of the 1990 Act, are authorized to
receive criminal history record information, consistent with Public Law
92–544.
Corporation for public
broadcasting
For payment to
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), as authorized by
the Communications Act of 1934, an
amount which shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, for
the fiscal year 2016, $445,000,000:
Provided, That none of the funds
made available to CPB by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, parties,
or similar forms of entertainment for Government officials or employees:
Provided further, That
none of the funds made available to CPB by this Act shall be available or used
to aid or support any program or activity from which any person is excluded, or
is denied benefits, or is discriminated against, on the basis of race, color,
national origin, religion, or sex:
Provided further, That
none of the funds made available to CPB by this Act shall be used to apply any
political test or qualification in selecting, appointing, promoting, or taking
any other personnel action with respect to officers, agents, and employees of
CPB:
Provided further, That
none of the funds made available to CPB by this Act shall be used to support
the Television Future Fund or any similar
purpose.
Federal mediation and conciliation
service
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service (Service) to carry out the
functions vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles; for expenses necessary for the
Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978; and for expenses necessary for the
Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Civil Service Reform
Act, $47,000,000, including up to
$400,000 to remain available through September
30, 2015 for activities authorized by the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of
1978:
Provided, That notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost recovery, for special training
activities and other conflict resolution services and technical assistance,
including those provided to foreign governments and international
organizations, and for arbitration services shall be credited to and merged
with this account, and shall remain available until expended:
Provided further, That
fees for arbitration services shall be available only for education, training,
and professional development of the agency workforce:
Provided further, That
the Director of the Service is authorized to accept and use on behalf of the
United States gifts of services and real, personal, or other property in the
aid of any projects or functions within the Director's
jurisdiction.
Federal mine safety and health review
commission
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Review Commission,
$17,000,000.
Institute of museum and library
services
Office of museum and library services:
grants and administration
For
carrying out the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 and the National
Museum of African American History and Culture Act,
$231,490,000.
Medicaid and CHIP payment and access
commission
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary to carry out section
1900 of the Social Security Act,
$9,000,000.
Medicare payment advisory
commission
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary to carry out section
1805 of the Social Security Act,
$11,954,000, to be transferred to this
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
National council on
disability
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the National
Council on Disability as authorized by title IV of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
$3,345,000.
National health care workforce
commission
For necessary
expenses for the National Health Care Workforce Commission, as authorized by
title V, subtitle B, section 5101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act, $3,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
National labor relations
board
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the National
Labor Relations Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and other laws,
$284,991,000:
Provided, That no part of this
appropriation shall be available to organize or assist in organizing
agricultural laborers or used in connection with investigations, hearings,
directives, or orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural
laborers as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935, and as
amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in section
3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938, and including in said definition employees
engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, reservoirs, and
waterways when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least
95 percent of the water stored or supplied thereby is used for farming
purposes.
National mediation
board
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary to carry out the
provisions of the Railway Labor Act, including emergency boards appointed by
the President,
$13,384,000.
Occupational safety and health review
commission
Salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the Occupational
Safety and Health Review Commission,
$12,300,000.
Railroad retirement
board
Dual benefits payments
account
For payment to the
Dual Benefits Payments Account, authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad
Retirement Act of 1974, $39,000,000, which shall
include amounts becoming available in fiscal year 2014 pursuant to section
224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addition, an amount, not to exceed 2
percent of the amount provided herein, shall be available proportional to the
amount by which the product of recipients and the average benefit received
exceeds the amount available for payment of vested dual benefits:
Provided, That the total amount
provided herein shall be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts on the
first day of each month in the fiscal year.
Federal payments to the railroad retirement
accounts
For payment to the
accounts established in the Treasury for the payment of benefits under the
Railroad Retirement Act for interest earned on unnegotiated checks,
$150,000, to remain available through September
30, 2015, which shall be the maximum amount available for payment pursuant to
section 417 of Public Law 98–76.
Limitation on administration
For necessary expenses for the Railroad
Retirement Board (Board) for administration of the Railroad
Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act,
$110,927,000, to be derived in such amounts as
determined by the Board from the railroad retirement accounts and from moneys
credited to the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund:
Provided, That notwithstanding
section 7(b)(9) of the Railroad Retirement Act this limitation may be used to
hire attorneys only through the excepted service:
Provided further, That
the previous proviso shall not change the status under Federal employment laws
of any attorney hired by the Railroad Retirement Board prior to January 1,
2013.
Limitation on the office of inspector
general
For expenses necessary
for the Office of Inspector General for audit, investigatory and review
activities, as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, not more than
$8,638,000, to be derived from the railroad
retirement accounts and railroad unemployment insurance
account.
Social security
administration
Payments to social security trust
funds
For payment to the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability
Insurance Trust Fund, as provided under sections 201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2)
of the Social Security Act,
$16,400,000.
Supplemental security income
program
For carrying out
titles XI and XVI of the Social Security Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603,
section 212 of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law
95–216, including payment to the Social Security trust funds for administrative
expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act,
$40,568,741,000, to remain available until
expended:
Provided, That any portion of the
funds provided to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the
State during that year shall be returned to the Treasury:
Provided further, That
not more than $54,000,000 shall be available for
research and demonstrations under sections 1110, 1115, and 1144 of the Social
Security Act and remain available through September 30, 2015. For making, after June 15 of the current
fiscal year, benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social
Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the current fiscal year,
such sums as may be necessary. For making benefit payments under title XVI
of the Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015,
$19,700,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
Limitation on administrative
expenses
For necessary expenses, including the hire
of two passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed
$20,000 for official reception and
representation expenses, not more than
$10,594,473,000 may be expended, as authorized
by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all of the
trust funds referred to in such section:
Provided, That not less than
$2,300,000 shall be for the Social Security
Advisory Board:
Provided further, That
unobligated balances of funds provided under this paragraph at the end of
fiscal year 2014 not needed for fiscal year 2014 shall remain available until
expended to invest in the Social Security Administration information technology
and telecommunications hardware and software infrastructure, including related
equipment and non-payroll administrative expenses associated solely with this
information technology and telecommunications infrastructure:
Provided further, That
the Commissioner of Social Security shall notify the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate prior to making
unobligated balances available under the authority in the previous proviso:
Provided further, That
reimbursement to the trust funds under this heading for expenditures for
official time for employees of the Social Security Administration pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 7131, and for facilities or support services for labor organizations
pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures referred to in section 7135(b)
of such title shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, with interest,
from amounts in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as soon as
possible after such expenditures are made. In addition, for the costs associated with
continuing disability reviews under titles II and XVI of the Social Security
Act and for the cost associated with conducting redeterminations of eligibility
under title XVI of the Social Security Act,
$1,197,000,000 may be expended, as authorized by
section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all of the trust
funds referred to therein:
Provided, That, of such amount,
$273,000,000 is provided to meet the terms of
section 251(b)(2)(B)(ii)(III) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended, and
$924,000,000 is additional new budget authority
specified for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(B) of such Act:
Provided further, That
the Commissioner shall provide to the Congress (at the conclusion of the fiscal
year) a report on the obligation and expenditure of these funds, similar to the
reports that were required by section 103(d)(2) of Public Law 104–121 for
fiscal years 1996 through 2002.
In addition,
$173,000,000 to be derived from administration
fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary
payment collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security Act or
section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, which shall remain available until
expended. To the extent that the amounts collected pursuant to such sections in
fiscal year 2014 exceed $173,000,000, the
amounts shall be available in fiscal year 2015 only to the extent provided in
advance in appropriations Acts.
In addition, up to
$1,000,000 to be derived from fees collected
pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security Protection Act, which shall
remain available until expended.
Office of inspector
general
(including transfer of funds)
For expenses necessary for the Office of
Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act
of 1978, $29,698,000, together with not to
exceed $74,972,000, to be transferred and
expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the
Social Security Act from the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance
Trust Fund. In addition, an
amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total provided in this appropriation may
be transferred from the Limitation on Administrative Expenses,
Social Security Administration, to be merged with this account, to be available
for the time and purposes for which this account is available:
Provided, That notice of such
transfers shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 15 days in advance of any
transfer.
V
General Provisions
(transfer of
funds)
501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended balances of prior
appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in
this Act. Such transferred balances shall be used for the same purpose, and for
the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated.
502. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
503.
(a) No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 111–148 shall be
used, other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships,
for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use
of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, electronic communication, radio,
television, or video presentation designed to support or defeat the enactment
of legislation before the Congress or any State or local legislature or
legislative body, except in presentation to the Congress or any State or local
legislature itself, or designed to support or defeat any proposed or pending
regulation, administrative action, or order issued by the executive branch of
any State or local government, except in presentation to the executive branch
of any State or local government itself.
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 111–148 shall be
used to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent
acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the
enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, administrative action, or
Executive order proposed or pending before the Congress or any State
government, State legislature or local legislature or legislative body, other
than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships or
participation by an agency or officer of a State, local or tribal government in
policymaking and administrative processes within the executive branch of that
government.
(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b)
shall include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, pending or
future Federal, State or local tax increase, or any proposed, pending, or
future requirement or restriction on any legal consumer product, including its
sale or marketing, including but not limited to the advocacy or promotion of
gun control.
504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are
authorized to make available not to exceed
$28,000 and
$20,000, respectively, from funds available for
salaries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for official
reception and representation expenses; the Director of the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service is authorized to make available for official reception
and representation expenses not to exceed $5,000
from the funds available for Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,
Salaries and Expenses; and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board
is authorized to make available for official reception and representation
expenses not to exceed $5,000 from funds
available for National Mediation Board, Salaries and
Expenses.
505. When issuing statements, press releases,
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing
projects or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal money, all
grantees receiving Federal funds included in this Act, including but not
limited to State and local governments and recipients of Federal research
grants, shall clearly state—
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the
program or project which will be financed with Federal money;
(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the
project or program; and
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total
costs of the project or program that will be financed by non-governmental
sources.
506.
(a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act,
and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated in this
Act, shall be expended for any abortion.
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act,
and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated in this
Act, shall be expended for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of
abortion.
(c) The term health benefits
coverage means the package of services covered by a managed care
provider or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement.
507.
(a) The limitations established in the
preceding section shall not apply to an abortion—
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of
rape or incest; or
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a
physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a
life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy
itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of
death unless an abortion is performed.
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be
construed as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or
private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or
locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be
construed as restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering
abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately
with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's
or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
(d)
(1) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be made available to a Federal agency or program, or to a State or
local government, if such agency, program, or government subjects any
institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis
that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or
refer for abortions.
(2) In this subsection, the term health
care entity includes an individual physician or other health care
professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health
maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health
care facility, organization, or plan.
508.
(a) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for—
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos
for research purposes; or
(2) research in which a human embryo or embryos
are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death
greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR
46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)).
(b) For purposes of this section, the term
human embryo or embryos includes any organism, not protected as a
human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that
is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from
one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
509.
(a) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any activity that promotes the legalization of any drug or
other substance included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled
substances established under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act except for normal and
recognized executive-congressional communications.
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not
apply when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to
the use of such drug or other substance or that federally sponsored clinical
trials are being conducted to determine therapeutic advantage.
510. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard under section 1173(b)
of the Social Security Act providing
for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health identifier for an
individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or a health care
provider), until legislation is enacted specifically approving the
standard.
511. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract with an
entity if—
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with
the United States and is subject to the requirement in 38 U.S.C. 4212(d)
regarding submission of an annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning
employment of certain veterans; and
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as
required by that section for the most recent year for which such requirement
was applicable to such entity.
512. 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 appropriation Act.
513. None of the funds made available by this
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act may be made available
to any library covered by paragraph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as
amended by the Children's Internet Protection Act, unless such library has made
the certifications required by paragraph (4) of such section.
514.
(a) None of the funds provided under this Act,
or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2014, or
provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the
collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be
available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds
that—
(1) creates new programs;
(2) eliminates a program, project, or
activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means
for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or
restricted;
(4) relocates an office or employees;
(5) reorganizes or renames offices;
(6) reorganizes programs or activities;
or
(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions
or activities presently performed by Federal employees;
unless the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified
15 days in advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of intent
relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier.
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act,
or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2014, or
provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the
collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be
available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds in
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is
less, that—
(1) augments existing programs, projects
(including construction projects), or activities;
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any
existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent
as approved by Congress; or
(3) results from any general savings from a
reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs,
activities, or projects as approved by Congress;
unless the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified
15 days in advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of intent
relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier.
515.
(a) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to request that a candidate for appointment to a Federal
scientific advisory committee disclose the political affiliation or voting
history of the candidate or the position that the candidate holds with respect
to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the
committee involved.
(b) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to disseminate information that is deliberately false or
misleading.
516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act,
each department and related agency funded through this Act shall submit an
operating plan that details at the program, project, and activity level any
funding allocations for fiscal year 2014 that are different than those
specified in this Act, the accompanying detailed table in the Committee report
accompanying this Act, or the fiscal year 2014 budget request.
517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education shall each prepare and submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on the
number and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements exceeding
$500,000 in value and awarded by the Department
on a non-competitive basis during each quarter of fiscal year 2014, but not to
include grants awarded on a formula basis or directed by law. Such report shall
include the name of the contractor or grantee, the amount of funding, the
governmental purpose, including a justification for issuing the award on a
non-competitive basis. Such report shall be transmitted to the Committees
within 30 days after the end of the quarter for which the report is
submitted.
518. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount
greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in
excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in
writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best of its
knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has filed all Federal tax
returns required during the 3 years preceding the certification, has not been
convicted of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and
has not, more than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any unpaid
Federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the
assessment is the subject of an installment agreement or offer in compromise
that has been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not in default,
or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial
proceeding.
(rescission)
519. Of the funds made available for performance
bonus payments under section 2105(a)(3)(E) of the Social Security Act,
$5,000,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
520. None of the funds contained in this Act may
be used to distribute any needle or syringe for the purpose of preventing the
spread of blood borne pathogens in any location that has been determined by the
local public health or local law enforcement authorities to be inappropriate
for such distribution.
(Including transfer of
funds)
521.
(a)
In general
The Health Education Assistance Loan
(HEAL) program under title VII, part A, subpart I of the PHS
Act, and the authority to administer such program, including servicing,
collecting, and enforcing any loans that were made under such program that
remain outstanding, shall be permanently transferred from the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to the Secretary of Education no later than the end
of the first fiscal quarter that begins after the date of enactment of this
act.
(b)
Transfer of functions, assets, and
liabilities
The functions,
assets, and liabilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating
to such program shall be transferred to the Secretary of Education.
(c)
Interdepartmental coordination of
transfer
The Secretary of
Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education shall carry out the
transfer of the HEAL program described in subsection (a), including the
transfer of the functions, assets, and liabilities specified in subsection (b),
in the manner that they determine is most appropriate.
(d)
Use of authorities under HEA of
1965
In servicing,
collecting, and enforcing the loans described in subsection (a), the Secretary
of Education shall have available any and all authorities available to such
Secretary in servicing, collecting, or enforcing a loan made, insured, or
guaranteed under part B of title IV of the HEA of 1965.
(e)
Conforming amendments
Effective as of the date on which the
transfer of the HEAL program under subsection (a) takes effect, section 719 of
the PHS Act is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
(6) The term Secretary means the
Secretary of
Education.
.
(including transfer of
funds)
522.
(a)
Definitions
In this section,
(1) Performance Partnership Pilot
(or Pilot) is a project that seeks to identify, through a
demonstration, cost-effective strategies for providing services at the State,
regional, or local level that—
(A) involve two or more Federal programs
(administered by one or more Federal agencies)—
(i) which have related policy goals, and
(ii) at least one of which is administered (in
whole or in part) by a State, local, or tribal government; and
(B) achieve better results for regions,
communities, or specific at-risk populations through making better use of the
budgetary resources that are available for supporting such programs.
(2) To improve outcomes for disconnected
youth means to increase the rate at which individuals between the ages
of 14 and 24 (who are low-income and either homeless, in foster care, involved
in the juvenile justice system, unemployed, or not enrolled in or at risk of
dropping out of an educational institution) achieve success in meeting
educational, employment, or other key goals.
(3) The lead Federal administering
agency is the Federal agency, to be designated by the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget (from among the participating Federal agencies
that have statutory responsibility for the Federal discretionary funds that
will be used in a Performance Partnership Pilot), that will enter into and
administer the particular Performance Partnership Agreement on behalf of that
agency and the other participating Federal agencies.
(b)
Use of discretionary funds in fiscal year
2014
Federal agencies may use
Federal discretionary funds that are made available in this Act to carry out up
to 13 Performance Partnership Pilots. Such Pilots shall:
(1) be designed to improve outcomes for
disconnected youth, and
(2) involve Federal programs targeted on
disconnected youth, or designed to prevent youth from disconnecting from school
or work, that provide education, training, employment, and other related social
services.
(c)
Performance partnership
agreements
Federal agencies
may use Federal discretionary funds, as authorized in subsection (b), to
participate in a Performance Partnership Pilot only in accordance with the
terms of a Performance Partnership Agreement that—
(1) is entered into between—
(A) the head of the lead Federal administering
agency, on behalf of all of the participating Federal agencies (subject to the
head of the lead Federal administering agency having received from the heads of
each of the other participating agencies their written concurrence for entering
into the Agreement), and
(B) the respective representatives of all of
the State, local, or tribal governments that are participating in the
Agreement; and
(2) specifies, at a minimum, the following
information:
(A) the length of the Agreement (which shall
not extend beyond September 30, 2018);
(B) the Federal programs and federally funded
services that are involved in the Pilot;
(C) the Federal discretionary funds that are
being used in the Pilot (by the respective Federal account identifier, and the
total amount from such account that is being used in the Pilot), and the period
(or periods) of availability for obligation (by the Federal Government) of such
funds;
(D) the non-Federal funds that are involved in
the Pilot, by source (which may include private funds as well as governmental
funds) and by amount;
(E) the State, local, or tribal programs that
are involved in the Pilot;
(F) the populations to be served by the
Pilot;
(G) the cost-effective Federal oversight
procedures that will be used for the purpose of maintaining the necessary level
of accountability for the use of the Federal discretionary funds;
(H) the cost-effective State, local, or tribal
oversight procedures that will be used for the purpose of maintaining the
necessary level of accountability for the use of the Federal discretionary
funds;
(I) the outcome (or outcomes) that the Pilot is
designed to achieve;
(J) the appropriate, reliable, and objective
outcome-measurement methodology that the Federal Government and the
participating State, local, or tribal governments will use, in carrying out the
Pilot, to determine whether the Pilot is achieving, and has achieved, the
specified outcomes that the Pilot is designed to achieve;
(K) the statutory, regulatory, or
administrative requirements related to Federal mandatory programs that are
barriers to achieving improved outcomes of the Pilot; and
(L) in cases where, during the course of the
Pilot, it is determined that the Pilot is not achieving the specified outcomes
that it is designed to achieve,
(i) the consequences that will result from such
deficiencies with respect to the Federal discretionary funds that are being
used in the Pilot, and
(ii) the corrective actions that will be taken
in order to increase the likelihood that the Pilot, upon completion, will have
achieved such specified outcomes.
(d)
Agency head determinations
A Federal agency may participate in a
Performance Partnership Pilot (including by providing Federal discretionary
funds that have been appropriated to such agency) only upon the written
determination by the head of such agency that the agency's participation in
such Pilot—
(1) will not result in denying or restricting
the eligibility of any individual for any of the services that (in whole or in
part) are funded by the agency's programs and Federal discretionary funds that
are involved in the Pilot, and
(2) based on the best available information,
will not otherwise adversely affect vulnerable populations that are the
recipients of such services.
In making this
determination, the head of the agency may take into consideration the other
Federal discretionary funds that will be used in the Pilot as well as any
non-Federal funds (including from private sources as well as governmental
sources) that will be used in the Pilot.
(e)
Transfer authority
For the purpose of carrying out the Pilot
in accordance with the Performance Partnership Agreement, and subject to the
written approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the
head of each participating Federal agency may transfer Federal discretionary
funds that are being used in the Pilot to an account of the lead Federal
administering agency that includes Federal discretionary funds that are being
used in the Pilot. Subject to the waiver authority under subsection (f), such
transferred funds shall remain available for the same purposes for which such
funds were originally appropriated:
Provided, That such transferred
funds shall remain available for obligation by the Federal Government until the
expiration of the period of availability for those Federal discretionary funds
(which are being used in the Pilot) that have the longest period of
availability, except that any such transferred funds shall not remain available
beyond September 30, 2018.
(f)
Waiver authority
In connection with a Federal agency's
participation in a Performance Partnership Pilot, and subject to the other
provisions of this section (including subsection (e)), the head of the Federal
agency to which the Federal discretionary funds were appropriated may waive (in
whole or in part) the application, solely to such discretionary funds that are
being used in the Pilot, of any statutory, regulatory, or administrative
requirement that such agency head—
(1) is otherwise authorized to waive (in
accordance with the terms and conditions of such other authority), and
(2) is not otherwise authorized to waive,
provided that in such case the agency head shall—
(A) not waive any requirement related to
nondiscrimination, wage and labor standards, or allocation of funds to State
and substate levels;
(B) issue a written determination, prior to
granting the waiver, with respect to such discretionary funds that the granting
of such waiver for purposes of the Pilot—
(i) is consistent with both—
(I) the statutory purposes of the Federal
program for which such discretionary funds were appropriated, and
(II) the other provisions of this section,
including the written determination by the agency head issued under subsection
(d);
(ii) is necessary to achieve the outcomes of the
Pilot as specified in the Performance Partnership Agreement, and is no broader
in scope than is necessary to achieve such outcomes; and
(iii) will result in either—
(I) realizing efficiencies by simplifying
reporting burdens or reducing administrative barriers with respect to such
discretionary funds, or
(II) increasing the ability of individuals to
obtain access to services that are provided by such discretionary funds;
and
(C) provide at least 60 days advance written
notice to the Committees on Appropriations and other committees of jurisdiction
in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
523.
(a) The head of any Executive branch
department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this Act shall
submit annual reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official for
any entity without an Inspector General, regarding the costs and contracting
procedures related to each conference held by any such department, agency,
board, commission, or office during fiscal year 2014 for which the cost to the
United States Government was more than
$100,000.
(b) Each report submitted shall include, for
each conference described in subsection (a) held during the applicable
period—
(1) a description of its purpose;
(2) the number of participants
attending;
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the
United States Government, including—
(A) the cost of any food or beverages;
(B) the cost of any audio-visual
services;
(C) the cost of employee or contractor travel
to and from the conference; and
(D) a discussion of the methodology used to
determine which costs relate to the conference; and
(4) a description of the contracting procedures
used including—
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a
competitive basis; and
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison
conducted by the departmental component or office in evaluating potential
contractors for the conference.
(c) Within 15 days of the date of a conference
held by any Executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office
funded by this Act during fiscal year 2014 for which the cost to the United
States Government was more than $20,000, the
head of any such department, agency, board, commission, or office shall notify
the Inspector General or senior ethics official for any entity without an
Inspector General, of the date, location, and number of employees attending
such conference.
(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts
appropriated by this Act to an Executive branch agency may not be used for the
purpose of defraying the costs of a conference described in subsection (c) that
is not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant
or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning,
training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project
funded by the grant or contract.
(e) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for travel and conference activities that are not in compliance
with Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 dated May 11,
2012.
524. Each Federal agency, or in the case of an
agency with multiple bureaus, each bureau (or operating division) funded under
this Act that has research and development expenditures in excess of
$100,000,000 per year shall develop a Federal
research public access policy that provides for—
(1) the submission to the agency, agency
bureau, or designated entity acting on behalf of the agency, a machine-readable
version of the author’s final peer-reviewed manuscripts that have been accepted
for publication in peer-reviewed journals describing research supported, in
whole or in part, from funding by the Federal Government;
(2) free online public access to such final
peer-reviewed manuscripts or published versions not later than 12 months after
the official date of publication; and
(3) compliance with all relevant copyright
laws.
This Act may be cited as the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2014.
July 11, 2013
Read twice and placed on
the calendar