H.R. 3037 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3037 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 211
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3037

                          [Report No. 106-370]

 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
   Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 1999

    Mr. Porter, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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                                 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, 2000, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 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, 2000, and for 
other purposes, namely:

                      TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                 Employment and Training Administration

                    training and employment services

    For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, including 
the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, 
alteration, and repair of buildings and other facilities, and the 
purchase of real property for training centers as authorized by the 
Workforce Investment Act; the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Act; the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act; 
and the National Skill Standards Act of 1994; $1,964,758,000 plus 
reimbursements, of which $1,025,889,000 is available for obligation for 
the period July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001, of which $900,869,000 
is available for obligation for the period April 1, 2000, through June 
30, 2001, and of which $34,000,000 is available for the period July 1, 
2000, through June 30, 2003, for necessary expenses of construction, 
rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps centers: Provided, That 
$53,815,000 shall be for carrying out section 166 of the Workforce 
Investment Act, and $7,000,000 shall be for carrying out the National 
Skill Standards Act of 1994: Provided further, That no funds from any 
other appropriation shall be used to provide meal services at or for 
Job Corps centers.
    For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, including 
the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, 
alteration, and repair of buildings and other facilities, and the 
purchase of real property for training centers as authorized by the 
Workforce Investment Act; $2,607,300,000 plus reimbursements, of which 
$2,507,300,000 is available for obligation for the period October 1, 
2000, through June 30, 2001; and of which $100,000,000 is available for 
the period October 1, 2000, through June 30, 2003, for necessary 
expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps 
centers.

            community service employment for older americans

    To carry out the activities for national grants or contracts with 
public agencies and public or private nonprofit organizations under 
paragraph (1)(A) of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans 
Act of 1965, as amended, or to carry out older worker activities as 
subsequently authorized, $343,356,000.
    To carry out the activities for grants to States under paragraph 
(3) of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as 
amended, or to carry out older worker activities as subsequently 
authorized, $96,844,000.

              federal unemployment benefits and allowances

    For payments during the current fiscal year of trade adjustment 
benefit payments and allowances under part I; and for training, 
allowances for job search and relocation, and related State 
administrative expenses under part II, subchapters B and D, chapter 2, 
title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, $314,400,000, together 
with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent 
appropriation for payments for any period subsequent to September 15 of 
the current year.

     state unemployment insurance and employment service operations

    For authorized administrative expenses, $123,452,000, together with 
not to exceed $3,018,288,000 (including not to exceed $1,228,000 which 
may be used for amortization payments to States which had independent 
retirement plans in their State employment service agencies prior to 
1980), which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund including the 
cost of administering section 1201 of the Small Business Job Protection 
Act of 1996, section 7(d) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the 
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Immigration Act of 1990, and the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and of which the sums 
available in the allocation for activities authorized by title III of 
the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502-504), and the sums 
available in the allocation for necessary administrative expenses for 
carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501-8523, shall be available for obligation by 
the States through December 31, 2000, except that funds used for 
automation acquisitions shall be available for obligation by the States 
through September 30, 2002; and of which $123,452,000, together with 
not to exceed $738,283,000 of the amount which may be expended from 
said trust fund, shall be available for obligation for the period July 
1, 2000, through June 30, 2001, to fund activities under the Act of 
June 6, 1933, as amended, including the cost of penalty mail authorized 
under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made available to States in lieu of 
allotments for such purpose, and of which $75,000,000 shall be 
available only to the extent necessary for additional State allocations 
to administer unemployment compensation laws to finance increases in 
the number of unemployment insurance claims filed and claims paid or 
changes in a State law: Provided, That to the extent that the Average 
Weekly Insured Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year 2000 is projected by 
the Department of Labor to exceed 2,638,000, an additional $28,600,000 
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) from the Employment Security Administration Account of the 
Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided further, That funds appropriated in 
this Act which are used to establish a national one-stop career center 
network may be obligated in contracts, grants or agreements with non-
State entities: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 
Act for activities authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, 
and title III of the Social Security Act, may be used by the States to 
fund integrated Employment Service and Unemployment Insurance 
automation efforts, notwithstanding cost allocation principles 
prescribed under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87.

        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, as amended, and 
to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as authorized by section 
9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; and for 
nonrepayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by 
section 8509 of title 5, United States Code, and to the ``Federal 
unemployment benefits and allowances'' account, to remain available 
until September 30, 2001, $356,000,000.
    In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black Lung 
Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year after September 15, 
2000, for costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.

                         program administration

    For expenses of administering employment and training programs, 
$94,410,000, including $6,360,000 to support up to 75 full-time 
equivalent staff, the majority of which will be term Federal 
appointments lasting no more than one year, to administer welfare-to-
work grants, together with not to exceed $43,716,000, which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund.

              Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration, $90,000,000.

                  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

               pension benefit guaranty corporation fund

    The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to make such 
expenditures, including financial assistance authorized by section 104 
of Public Law 96-364, within limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to such Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be necessary in carrying out the 
program through September 30, 2000, for such Corporation: Provided, 
That not to exceed $10,958,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses of the Corporation: Provided further, That expenses of such 
Corporation in connection with the termination of pension plans, for 
the acquisition, protection or management, and investment of trust 
assets, and for benefits administration services shall be considered as 
non-administrative expenses for the purposes hereof, and excluded from 
the above limitation.

                  Employment Standards Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards Administration, 
including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their 
employees for inspection services rendered, $312,076,000, together with 
$1,924,000 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: Provided, That $2,000,000 shall be for the 
development of an alternative system for the electronic submission of 
reports as required to be filed under the Labor-Management Reporting 
and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended, and for a computer database of 
the information for each submission by whatever means, that is indexed 
and easily searchable by the public via the Internet: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to accept, retain, and spend, 
until expended, in the name of the Department of Labor, all sums of 
money ordered to be paid to the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with 
the terms of the Consent Judgment in Civil Action No. 91-0027 of the 
United States District Court for the District of the Northern Mariana 
Islands (May 21, 1992): Provided further, That the Secretary of Labor 
is authorized to establish and, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
collect and deposit in the Treasury fees for processing applications 
and issuing certificates under sections 11(d) and 14 of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for 
processing applications and issuing registrations under Title I of the 
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. 1801 
et seq.

                            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 title 5, chapter 81 of the United States 
Code; continuation of benefits as provided for under the head 
``Civilian War Benefits'' in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation 
Act, 1947; the Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 
1944; and sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 
U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 percent of the additional compensation and 
benefits required by Section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
Compensation Act, as amended, $79,000,000, 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 section 8104 of title 5, United States 
Code, by the Secretary of Labor to reimburse an employer, who is not 
the employer at the time of injury, for portions of the salary of a 
reemployed, disabled beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of 
reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 1999, 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 section 8147(c) of title 
5, United States Code, 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, 2000: Provided further, That of those funds transferred 
to this account from the fair share entities to pay the cost of 
administration, $21,849,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as 
follows: for the operation of and enhancement to the automated data 
processing systems, including document imaging and medical bill review, 
in support of Federal Employees' Compensation Act administration, 
$13,433,000; for program staff training to operate the new imaging 
system, $1,300,000; for the periodic roll review program, $7,116,000; 
and 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 chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, or 33 U.S.C. 
901 et seq., provide as part of such notice and claim, such identifying 
information (including Social Security account number) as such 
regulations may prescribe.

                    black lung disability trust fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, 
$1,013,266,000, of which $963,506,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2001, for payment of all benefits as authorized by 
section 9501(d) (1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1954, as amended, and interest on advances as authorized by section 
9501(c)(2) of that Act, and of which $28,676,000 shall be available for 
transfer to Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and Expenses, 
$20,422,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Salaries and 
Expenses, $306,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Office of 
Inspector General, and $356,000 for payment into miscellaneous receipts 
for the expenses of the Department of Treasury, for expenses of 
operation and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program as 
authorized by section 9501(d)(5) of that Act: Provided, That, in 
addition, such amounts as may be necessary may be charged to the 
subsequent year appropriation for the payment of compensation, 
interest, or other benefits for any period subsequent to August 15 of 
the current year.

             Occupational Safety and Health Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, $337,408,000, including not to exceed $76,080,000 which 
shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States under 
section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health 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 Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration may retain up to $750,000 
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 grants: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary of Labor is 
authorized, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, 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 Occupational Safety and Health Act 
of 1970 which is applicable to any person who is engaged in a farming 
operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 
ten 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 Occupational 
Safety and Health Act of 1970 with respect to any employer of ten or 
fewer employees who is included within a category having an 
occupational injury lost workday case rate, at the most precise 
Standard 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 that Act (29 U.S.C. 673), 
except--
            (1) to provide, as authorized by such 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 such Act with respect 
        to imminent dangers;
            (4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
        to health hazards;
            (5) to take any action authorized by such 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 such Act; and
            (6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
        to complaints of discrimination against employees for 
        exercising rights under such 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 ten or fewer employees.

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $211,165,000, 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 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; 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; and any funds available to the Department 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: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
paragraph shall be obligated or expended to carry out section 115 of 
the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 or to carry out that 
portion of section 104(g)(1) of such Act relating to the enforcement of 
any training requirements, with respect to shell dredging, or with 
respect to any sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, colloidal 
phosphate, or surface limestone mine prior to June 1, 2000.

                       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, $340,551,000, of 
which $6,986,000 shall be for expenses of revising the Consumer Price 
Index and shall remain available until September 30, 2001, together 
with not to exceed $54,146,000, which may be expended from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund.

                         Departmental Management

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, including the 
hire of three sedans, and including up to $6,750,000 for the 
President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 
$190,832,000; together with not to exceed $299,000, which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided, That no funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Solicitor of Labor to participate in a review in 
any United States court of appeals of any decision made by the Benefits 
Review Board under section 21 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 921) where such participation is precluded 
by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Director, Office 
of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Newport News Shipbuilding, 115 S. 
Ct.1278 (1995), notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary 
contained in Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure: 
Provided further, That no funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Secretary of Labor to review a decision under the Longshore and 
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) that has been 
appealed and that has been pending before the Benefits Review Board for 
more than 12 months: Provided further, That any such decision pending a 
review by the Benefits Review Board for more than one year shall be 
considered affirmed by the Benefits Review Board on the one-year 
anniversary of the filing of the appeal, and shall be considered the 
final order of the Board for purposes of obtaining a review in the 
United States courts of appeals: Provided further, That these 
provisions shall not be applicable to the review or appeal of any 
decision issued under the Black Lung Benefits Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et 
seq.).

        assistant secretary for veterans employment and training

    Not to exceed $182,719,000 may be derived from the Employment 
Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund to carry 
out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100-4110A, 4212, 4214, and 4321-4327, 
and Public Law 103-353, and which shall be available for obligation by 
the States through December 31, 2000.

                      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, as 
amended, $43,852,000, together with not to exceed $3,648,000, which may 
be expended from the Employment Security Administration account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title for the Job 
Corps shall be used to pay the compensation 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)

    Sec. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as 
amended) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the 
Department of Labor 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 Appropriations 
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least fifteen 
days in advance of any transfer.
    Sec. 103. None of the funds made available in this title may be 
used to implement, administer, or enforce the rule entitled 
``Procedures for Predetermination of Wage Rates'' published by the Wage 
and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, Department of 
Labor on April 9, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 17441 et seq.).
    Sec. 104. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the rules revising 29 CFR parts 
2520 and 2560 published by the Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration on September 9, 1998, in Volume 63, No. 174 of the 
Federal Register.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Labor Appropriations 
Act, 2000''.

           TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration

                     health resources and services

    For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and XXVI 
of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal 
Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and section 1820 of the Social 
Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as 
amended, and the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, 
$4,204,395,000, of which $150,000 shall remain available until expended 
for interest subsidies on loan guarantees made prior to fiscal year 
1981 under part B of title VII of the Public Health Service Act, and of 
which $25,000,000 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 under section 
1820 of such Act: Provided, That the Division of Federal Occupational 
Health may utilize personal services contracting to employ professional 
management/administrative and occupational health professionals: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$250,000 shall be available until expended for facilities renovations 
at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center: 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 the 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 no more than $5,000,000 is available for carrying out the 
provisions of Public Law 104-73: Provided further, That of the funds 
made available under this heading, $215,000,000 shall be for the 
program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
voluntary family planning projects: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That $500,000,000 shall 
be for State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 
of the Public Health Service Act: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding section 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to 
exceed $198,742,000 is available for carrying out special projects of 
regional and national significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of 
such Act.

               medical facilities guarantee and loan fund

           federal interest subsidies for medical facilities

    For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1602 of the 
Public Health Service Act, $1,000,000, together with any amounts 
received by the Secretary in connection with loans and loan guarantees 
under title VI of the Public Health Service Act, to be available 
without fiscal year limitation for the payment of interest subsidies. 
During the fiscal year, no commitments for direct loans or loan 
guarantees shall be made.

               health education assistance loans program

    Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the 
program, as authorized by title VII of the Public Health Service Act, 
as amended. For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed 
loan program, including section 709 of the Public Health Service Act, 
$3,688,000.

             vaccine injury compensation program trust fund

    For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program 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 Public 
Health Service Act, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
for necessary administrative expenses, not to exceed $3,000,000 shall 
be available from the Trust Fund to the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services.

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

                disease control, research, and training

    To carry out titles II, III, VII, XI, XV, XVII, XIX, and XXVI of 
the Public Health Service Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203, 
301, and 501 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, 
sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970, title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act and section 501 
of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; including insurance of 
official motor vehicles in foreign countries; and hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft, $2,621,476,000, of which $40,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for equipment and construction and 
renovation of facilities, and in addition, such sums as may be derived 
from authorized user fees, which shall be credited to this account: 
Provided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, up to 
$71,793,000 shall be available from amounts available under section 241 
of the Public Health Service Act, to carry out the National Center for 
Health Statistics surveys: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun 
control: Provided further, That the Director may redirect the total 
amount made available under authority of Public Law 101-502, section 3, 
dated November 3, 1990, to activities the Director may so designate: 
Provided further, That the Congress is to be notified promptly of any 
such transfer.
    In addition, $51,000,000, to be derived from the Violent Crime 
Reduction Trust Fund, for carrying out sections 40151 and 40261 of 
Public Law 103-322.

                     National Institutes of Health

                       national cancer institute

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to cancer, $3,163,417,000.

               national heart, lung, and blood institute

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases, 
and blood and blood products, $1,937,404,000.

         national institute of dental and craniofacial research

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to dental disease, $256,022,000.

    national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and kidney disease, 
$1,087,455,000.

        national institute of neurological disorders and stroke

     For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke, 
$979,281,000.

         national institute of allergy and infectious diseases

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases, 
$1,694,019,000.

             national institute of general medical sciences

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to general medical sciences, $1,298,551,000.

        national institute of child health and human development

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to child health and human development, 
$815,970,000.

                         national eye institute

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders, 
$428,594,000.

          national institute of environmental health sciences

    For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to environmental health sciences, 
$419,009,000.

                      national institute on aging

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to aging, $651,665,000.

 national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin 
diseases, $333,378,000.

    national institute on deafness and other communication disorders

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to deafness and other communication disorders, 
$251,218,000.

                 national institute of nursing research

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to nursing research, $76,204,000.

           national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism, $279,901,000.

                    national institute on drug abuse

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to drug abuse, $656,551,000.

                  national institute of mental health

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to mental health, $930,436,000.

                national human genome research institute

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to human genome research, $308,012,000.

                 national center for research resources

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to research resources and general research 
support grants, $639,251,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall 
be used to pay recipients of the general research support grants 
program any amount for indirect expenses in connection with such 
grants: Provided further, That $30,000,000 shall be for extramural 
facilities construction grants.

                  john e. fogarty international center

    For carrying out the activities at the John E. Fogarty 
International Center, $40,190,000.

                      national library of medicine

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to health information communications, 
$202,027,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be available until expended for 
improvement of information systems: Provided, That in fiscal year 2000, 
the Library 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.

       national center for complementary and alternative medicine

    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to complementary and alternative medicine, 
$68,000,000.

                         office of the director

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of the 
Director, National Institutes of Health, $270,383,000, of which 
$44,953,000 shall be for the Office of AIDS Research: Provided, That 
funding shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed twenty-
nine passenger motor vehicles for replacement only: Provided further, 
That the Director may direct up to 1 percent of the total amount made 
available in this or any other Act to all National Institutes of Health 
appropriations to activities the Director may so designate: Provided 
further, That no such appropriation shall be decreased by more than 1 
percent by any such transfers and that the Congress is promptly 
notified of the transfer: Provided further, That NIH is authorized to 
collect third party payments for the cost of clinical services that are 
incurred in National Institutes of Health research facilities and that 
such payments shall be credited to the National Institutes of Health 
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 
$500,000 shall be available to carry out section 499 of the Public 
Health Service Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 
499(k)(10) of the Public Health Service Act, funds from the Foundation 
for the National Institutes of Health may be transferred to the 
National Institutes of Health.

                        buildings and facilities

    For the study of, construction of, and acquisition of equipment 
for, facilities of or used by the National Institutes of Health, 
including the acquisition of real property, $108,376,000, to remain 
available until expended.

       Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

               substance abuse and mental health services

    For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Public Health Service Act 
with respect to substance abuse and mental health services, the 
Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986, and 
section 301 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to program 
management, $2,413,731,000.

               Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

                    health care policy and research

    For carrying out titles III and IX of the Public Health Service 
Act, and part A of title XI of the Social Security Act, $104,403,000; 
in addition, amounts received from Freedom of Information Act fees, 
reimbursable and interagency agreements, and the sale of data tapes 
shall be credited to this appropriation and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the amount made available pursuant to 
section 926(b) of the Public Health Service Act shall not exceed 
$70,647,000.

                  Health Care Financing Administration

                     grants to states for medicaid

    For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI and XIX 
of the Social Security Act, $86,087,393,000, to remain available until 
expended.
    For making, after May 31, 2000, payments to States under title XIX 
of the Social Security Act for the last quarter of fiscal year 2000 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 2001, $30,589,003,000, to remain available 
until expended.
    Payment under 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 and the Federal 
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under sections 
217(g) and 1844 of the Social Security Act, sections 103(c) and 111(d) 
of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, section 278(d) of Public Law 
97-248, and for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 
201(g) of the Social Security Act, $69,289,100,000.

                           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 
Public Health Service Act, and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement 
Amendments of 1988, not to exceed $1,752,050,000 to be transferred from 
the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Funds, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social 
Security Act; together with all funds collected in accordance with 
section 353 of the Public Health Service Act and such sums as may be 
collected from authorized user fees and the sale of data, which shall 
remain available until expended, and together with administrative fees 
collected relative to Medicare overpayment recovery activities, which 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That all funds derived 
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established under 
title XIII of the Public Health Service Act shall be credited to and 
available for carrying out the purposes of this appropriation: Provided 
further, That $18,000,000 appropriated under this heading for the 
managed care system redesign shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of Health and Human Services is 
directed to collect, in aggregate, $15,000,000 in fees in fiscal year 
2000 from Medicare+Choice 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: Provided further, That, for the current 
fiscal year, not more than $560,000,000 may be made available under 
section 1817(k)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i(k)(4)) 
from the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account of the Federal 
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to carry out the Medicare Integrity 
Program under section 1893 of such Act.

      health maintenance organization loan and loan guarantee fund

    For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1308 of the 
Public Health Service Act, any amounts received by the Secretary in 
connection with loans and loan guarantees under title XIII of the 
Public Health Service Act, to be available without fiscal year 
limitation for the payment of outstanding obligations. During fiscal 
year 2000, no commitments for direct loans or loan guarantees shall be 
made.

                Administration for Children and Families

  payments to states for child support enforcement and family support 
                                programs

    For making 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 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for the first quarter of fiscal 
year 2001, $650,000,000.
    For making payments to each State for carrying out the program of 
Aid to Families with Dependent Children under title IV-A of the Social 
Security Act before the effective date of the program of Temporary 
Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) with respect to such State, such 
sums as may be necessary: Provided, That the sum of the amounts 
available to a State with respect to expenditures under such title IV-A 
in fiscal year 1997 under this appropriation and under such title IV-A 
as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 shall not exceed the limitations under 
section 116(b) of such Act.
    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 (24 
U.S.C. ch. 9), for the last three months of the current 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 title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981, $1,100,000,000, to be available for 
obligation in the period October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2001.
    For making payments under title XXVI of such Act, $300,000,000: 
Provided, That these funds are hereby designated by Congress to be 
emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, 
That these funds shall be made available only after submission to 
Congress of a formal budget request by the President that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985.
    The $1,100,000,000 provided in the first paragraph under this 
heading in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained 
in section 101(f) of division A of Public Law 105-277) is hereby 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985: Provided, That such funds shall be available only 
if the President submits to the Congress one official budget request 
for $1,100,000,000 that includes designation of the entire amount as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to such section: Provided further, That 
such funds shall be distributed in accordance with section 2604 of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623), other than 
subsection (e) of such section.

                     refugee and entrant assistance

    For making payments for refugee and entrant assistance activities 
authorized by title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act and 
section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 
96-422), $416,000,000: Provided, That funds appropriated pursuant to 
section 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act under Public Law 
105-78 for fiscal year 1998 and under Public Law 105-277 for fiscal 
year 1999 shall be available for the costs of assistance provided and 
other activities through September 30, 2001.
    For carrying out section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief Act of 
1998 (Public Law 105-320), $7,500,000.

                      social services block grant

    For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 of the Social 
Security Act, $1,909,000,000: Provided, That (1) notwithstanding 
section 2003(c) of such Act, as amended, the amount specified for 
allocation under such section for fiscal year 2000 shall be 
$1,909,000,000 and (2) 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 of such Act for fiscal year 2000 shall be 4.25 percent.

                children and families services programs

                        (including rescissions)

    For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway and 
Homeless Youth Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill 
of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and 
Treatment Act, the Native American Programs Act of 1974, title II of 
Public Law 95-266 (adoption opportunities), the Adoption and Safe 
Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), the Abandoned Infants 
Assistance Act of 1988, part B(1) of title IV and sections 413, 429A, 
1110, and 1115 of the Social Security Act; for making payments under 
the Community Services Block Grant Act, section 473A of the Social 
Security Act, and title IV of Public Law 105-285; and for necessary 
administrative expenses to carry out said Acts and titles I, IV, X, XI, 
XIV, XVI, and XX of the Social Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 
(24 U.S.C. ch. 9), the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, title 
IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 501 of the Refugee 
Education Assistance Act of 1980, section 5 of the Torture Victims 
Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320), sections 40155, 40211, and 
40241 of Public Law 103-322 and section 126 and titles IV and V of 
Public Law 100-485, $6,135,216,000, of which $20,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2001, shall be for grants to States for 
adoption incentive payments, as authorized by section 473A of title IV 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 670-679); of which $568,555,000 
shall be for making payments under the Community Services Block Grant 
Act; and of which $4,760,000,000 shall be for making payments under the 
Head Start Act, of which $1,400,000,000 shall become available October 
1, 2000, and remain available through September 30, 2001: Provided, 
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 
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.
    In addition, $105,000,000, to be derived from the Violent Crime 
Reduction Trust Fund for carrying out sections 40155, 40211, and 40241 
of Public Law 103-322.
    Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000 under section 429A(e), part 
B of title IV of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by 
$6,000,000.
    Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000 under section 413(h)(1) of 
the Social Security Act shall be reduced by $15,000,000.

                    family preservation and support

    For carrying out section 430 of the Social Security Act, 
$295,000,000.

       payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance

    For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities under 
title IV-E of the Social Security Act, $4,307,300,000.
    For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities under 
title IV-E of the Social Security Act, for the first quarter of fiscal 
year 2001, $1,538,000,000.

                        Administration on Aging

                        aging services programs

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Older 
Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and sections 339A, 398, and 399 of 
the Public Health Service Act, $881,976,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 308(b)(1) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, 
as amended, the amounts available to each State for administration of 
the State plan under title III of such Act shall be reduced not more 
than 5 percent below the amount that was available to such State for 
such purpose for fiscal year 1995: Provided further, That in 
considering grant applications for nutrition services for elder Indian 
recipients, the Assistant Secretary shall provide maximum flexibility 
to applicants who seek to take into account subsistence, local customs, 
and other characteristics that are appropriate to the unique cultural, 
regional, and geographic needs of the American Indian, Alaska, and 
Hawaiian Native communities to be served.

                        Office of the Secretary

                    general departmental management

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general 
departmental management, including hire of six sedans, and for carrying 
out titles III, XVII, and XX of the Public Health Service Act, and the 
United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act, $221,936,000, of 
which $50,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2000, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2001, together with $5,851,000, to 
be transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the 
Social Security Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the 
Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund: Provided, That $450,000 
shall be for a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to 
conduct a study of the proposed tuberculosis standard promulgated by 
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Provided further, 
That said contract shall be awarded not later than sixty days after 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That said study shall be 
submitted to the Congress not later than twelve months after the award 
of the contract.

                      office of inspector general

    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $29,000,000: Provided, That, for the current fiscal year, not 
more than $100,000,000 may be made available under section 
1817(k)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i(k)(3)(A)) 
from the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account of the Federal 
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for purposes of the activities of the 
Office of Inspector General with respect to the Medicare and Medicaid 
programs.

                        office for civil rights

    For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, 
$17,338,000, together with not to exceed $3,314,000, to be transferred 
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security 
Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplemental Medical 
Insurance Trust Fund.

                            policy research

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, research 
studies under section 1110 of the Social Security Act, $14,000,000.

     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, 
for medical care of dependents and retired personnel under the 
Dependents' Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), and for payments 
pursuant to section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
429(b)), 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, disease and chemical threats to civilian 
populations, $201,833,000: Provided, That this amount is distributed as 
follows: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $118,000,000; 
Office of the Secretary, $30,000,000; Office of Emergency Preparedness, 
$24,600,000; and National Institutes of Health, $29,233,000. In 
addition, $150,000,000 for carrying out the Department's Year 2000 
computer conversion activities, $20,000,000 for carrying out polio 
eradication activities, and $20,000,000 to support the Ricky Ray 
Hemophilia Relief Fund Act: Provided, That the entire amount under this 
heading is hereby designated by Congress to be emergency requirements 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
entire amount under this heading shall be made available only after 
submission to Congress of a formal budget request by the President that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That no 
funds shall be obligated until the Department of Health and Human 
Services submits an operating plan to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be available for 
not to exceed $37,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses when specifically approved by the Secretary.
    Sec. 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.
    Sec. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may be used 
to implement section 399L(b) of the Public Health Service Act or 
section 1503 of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 
1993, Public Law 103-43.
    Sec. 204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
expended pursuant to section 241 of the Public Health Service Act, 
except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other 
taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of 
Health and Human Services, prior to the Secretary's preparation and 
submission of a report to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
and of the House detailing the planned uses of such funds.

                          (transfer of funds)

    Sec. 205. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as 
amended) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the 
Department of Health and Human Services 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 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at 
least fifteen days in advance of any transfer.
    Sec. 206. The Director of the National Institutes of Health, 
jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, may transfer 
up to 3 percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total 
amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research 
pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus: Provided, That the 
Congress is promptly notified of the transfer.
    Sec. 207. Of the amounts made available in this Act for the 
National Institutes of Health, 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 Public Health Service 
Act.
    Sec. 208. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be made 
available to any entity under title X of the Public Health Service 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.
    Sec. 209. The final rule entitled ``Organ Procurement and 
Transplantation Network'', promulgated by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services on April 2, 1998 (63 FR 16295 et seq.) (relating to part 
121 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations), shall not become 
effective before October 1, 2000.
    Sec. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act (including 
funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be used to carry out the 
Medicare+Choice 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+Choice organization 
described in this section shall be responsible for informing enrollees 
where to obtain information about all Medicare covered services.
    Sec. 211. (a) Mental Health.--Section 1918(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-7(b)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Minimum Allotments for States.--With respect to fiscal year 
2000, the amount of the allotment of a State under section 1911 shall 
not be less than the amount the State received under section 1911 for 
fiscal year 1998.''.
    (b) Substance Abuse.--Section 1933(b) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-33(b)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Minimum Allotments for States.--Each State's allotment for 
fiscal year 2000 for programs under this subpart shall be equal to such 
State's allotment for such programs for fiscal year 1999.''.
    Sec. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider 
of services under title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be 
exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of 
child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Health and Human 
Services Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                   TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                            education reform

    For carrying out activities authorized by sections 3122, 3132, and 
3136, and part I of title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965, $800,100,000, of which $10,000,000 shall be for section 
3122: Provided, That up to one-half of 1 percent of the amount 
available under section 3132 shall be set aside for the outlying areas, 
to be distributed on the basis of their relative need as determined by 
the Secretary in accordance with the purposes of the program: Provided 
further, That if any State educational agency does not apply for a 
grant under section 3132, that State's allotment under section 3131 
shall be reserved by the Secretary for grants to local educational 
agencies in that State that apply directly to the Secretary according 
to the terms and conditions published by the Secretary in the Federal 
Register.

                    education for the disadvantaged

    For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965, and section 418A of the Higher Education Act, 
$8,417,897,000, of which $1,524,134,000 shall become available on July 
1, 2000, and shall remain available through September 30, 2001, and of 
which $6,204,763,000 shall become available on October 1, 2000, and 
shall remain available through September 30, 2001, for academic year 
2000-2001: Provided, That $6,574,000,000 shall be available for basic 
grants under section 1124: Provided further, That up to $3,500,000 of 
these funds shall be available to the Secretary on October 1, 1999 to 
obtain updated local-educational-agency-level census poverty data from 
the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That $1,158,397,000 shall 
be available for concentration grants under section 1124A, $7,500,000 
shall be available for evaluations under section 1501 and not more than 
$8,500,000 shall be reserved for section 1308, of which not more than 
$3,000,000 shall be reserved for section 1308(d): Provided further, 
That $120,000,000 shall be available under section 1002(g)(2) to 
demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school reform to be 
allocated and expended in accordance with the instructions relating to 
this activity in the statement of the managers on the conference report 
accompanying Public Law 105-78 and in the statement of the managers on 
the conference report accompanying Public Law 105-277: Provided 
further, That in carrying out this initiative, the Secretary and the 
States shall support only approaches that show the most promise of 
enabling children served by title I to meet challenging State content 
standards and challenging State student performance standards based on 
reliable research and effective practices, and include an emphasis on 
basic academics and parental involvement.

                               impact aid

    For carrying out programs of financial assistance to federally 
affected schools authorized by title VIII of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, $907,200,000, of which $737,200,000 
shall be for basic support payments under section 8003(b), $50,000,000 
shall be for payments for children with disabilities under section 
8003(d), $76,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for 
payments under section 8003(f), $7,000,000 shall be for construction 
under section 8007, $32,000,000 shall be for Federal property payments 
under section 8002 and $5,000,000 to remain available until expended 
shall be for facilities maintenance under section 8008.--

                      school improvement programs

    For carrying out school improvement activities authorized by titles 
IV, V-A and B, VI, IX, X, and XIII of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965; the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; 
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and part B of title VIII of the Higher 
Education Act; $3,115,188,000, of which $1,018,300,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2000, and remain available through September 30, 
2001, and of which $1,638,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2000, and shall remain available through September 30, 2001, for 
academic year 2000-2001: Provided, That of the amount appropriated, 
$385,000,000 shall be for title VI: Provided further, That of the 
amount appropriated, $1,800,000,000 shall be for the Teacher 
Empowerment Act, if such legislation is enacted.

                           reading excellence

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Reading Excellence Act, 
$200,000,000, which shall become available on July 1, 2000, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2001.

                            indian education

    For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise 
provided, title IX, part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965, as amended, $66,000,000.

                   bilingual and immigrant education

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, bilingual, 
foreign language and immigrant education activities authorized by parts 
A and C and section 7203 of title VII of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965, without regard to section 7103(b), $380,000,000: 
Provided, That State educational agencies may use all, or any part of, 
their part C allocation for competitive grants to local educational 
agencies.

                           special education

    For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 
$5,833,146,000, of which $1,981,885,000 shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2000, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2001, and of which $3,608,000,000 shall become available 
on October 1, 2000, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2001, for academic year 2000-2001.

            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, $2,687,150,000.

           Special Institutions for Persons With Disabilities

                 american printing house for the blind

    For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 U.S.C. 
101 et seq.), $9,000,000.

               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 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et 
seq.), $48,151,000, of which $2,651,000 shall be for construction and 
remain available until expended: Provided, That from the total amount 
available, the Institute may at its discretion use funds for the 
endowment program as authorized under section 207.

                          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 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $85,980,000, of which $2,500,000 shall 
be for construction and shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That from the total amount available, the University may at 
its discretion use funds for the endowment program as authorized under 
section 207.

                     vocational and adult education

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Carl D. 
Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act and the Adult Education 
and Family Literacy Act, $1,582,247,000, of which $533,147,000 shall 
become available on July 1, 2000, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2001, and of which $1,045,000,000 shall become available 
on October 1, 2000, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2001, for academic year 2000-2001: Provided, That of the amounts made 
available for the Perkins Act, $4,100,000 shall be for tribally 
controlled vocational institutions under section 117: Provided further, 
That, of the amounts made available for the Adult Education and Family 
Literacy Act, $7,000,000 shall be for national leadership activities 
under section 243 and $6,000,000 shall be for the National Institute 
for Literacy under section 242.

                      student financial assistance

    For carrying out subparts 1 and 3 of part A, part C and part E of 
title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, 
$9,249,000,000, which shall remain available through September 30, 
2001, and of which $2,286,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2000, and shall remain available through September 30, 2001.
    The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be eligible during 
award year 2000-2001 shall be $3,275: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 401(g) of the Act, if the Secretary determines, prior to 
publication of the payment schedule for such award year, that the 
amount included within this appropriation for Pell Grant awards in such 
award year, and any funds available from the fiscal year 1999 
appropriation for Pell Grant awards, are insufficient to satisfy fully 
all such awards for which students are eligible, as calculated under 
section 401(b) of the Act, the amount paid for each such award shall be 
reduced by either a fixed or variable percentage, or by a fixed dollar 
amount, as determined in accordance with a schedule of reductions 
established by the Secretary for this purpose.
    For an additional amount for ``student financial assistance'' for 
payment of allocations to institutions of higher education for Federal 
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants for award years 1999-2000 
and 2000-2001, made under title IV, part A, subpart 3, of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965, as amended, $10,000,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Education 
may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to 
the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program and the 
determination of need for such grants, that the Secretary deems 
necessary to assist individuals who suffered financial harm resulting 
from the hurricanes, and the flooding associated with the hurricanes, 
that struck the eastern United States in August and September 1999, and 
who, at the time of the disaster were residing, attending an 
institution of higher education, or employed within an area affected by 
such a disaster on the date which the President declared the existence 
of a major disaster (or, in the case of an individual who is a 
dependent student, whose parent or stepparent suffered financial harm 
from such disaster, and who resided, or was employed in such an area at 
that time): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 437 of the 
General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232) and section 553 of 
title 5, United States Code, the Secretary shall, by notice in the 
Federal Register, exercise this authority, through publication of 
waivers or modifications of statutory and regulatory provisions, as the 
Secretary deems necessary to assist such individuals: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 413D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 
allocations from such additional amount shall not be taken into account 
in determining institutional allocations under such section in future 
years: Provided further, That the entire amount made available under 
this paragraph is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, and that the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request for the entire 
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

             federal family education loan program account

    For Federal administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed student 
loans authorized by title IV, part B, of the Higher Education Act, as 
amended, $46,482,000.

                            higher education

    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, section 121 
and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the Higher Education Act of 
1965, as amended, and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act 
of 1961; $1,151,786,000, of which $12,000,000 for interest subsidies 
authorized by section 121 of the Higher Education Act, shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That funds available for part A, 
subpart 2 of title VII of the Higher Education Act shall be available 
to fund awards for academic year 2000-2001 for fellowships under part 
A, subpart 1 of title VII of said Act, under the terms and conditions 
of part A, subpart 1: Provided further, That $4,000,000 is for data 
collection and evaluation activities for programs under the Higher 
Education Act, including such activities needed to comply with the 
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.

                           howard university

    For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), 
$219,444,000, of which not less than $3,530,000 shall be for a matching 
endowment grant pursuant to the Howard University Endowment Act (Public 
Law 98-480) and shall remain available until expended.

         college housing and academic facilities loans program

    For Federal administrative expenses authorized under section 121 of 
the Higher Education Act, $698,000 to carry out activities related to 
existing facility loans entered into under the Higher Education Act.

 historically black college and university capital financing, program 
                                account

    The total amount of bonds insured pursuant to section 344 of title 
III, part D of the Higher Education Act shall not exceed $357,000,000, 
and the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, of such bonds shall not exceed zero.
    For administrative expenses to carry out the Historically Black 
College and University Capital Financing Program entered into pursuant 
to title III, part D of the Higher Education Act, as amended, $96,000.

            education research, statistics, and improvement

    For carrying out activities authorized by the Educational Research, 
Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994, including part 
E; the National Education Statistics Act of 1994, including sections 
411 and 412; section 2102 of title II, and parts A, B, and K and 
section 10601 of title X, and part C of title XIII of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, and title VI of Public 
Law 103-227, $390,867,000: Provided, That $25,000,000 shall be 
available to demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school 
reform to be allocated and expended in accordance with the instructions 
relating to this activity in the statement of managers on the 
conference report accompanying Public Law 105-78 and in the statement 
of the managers on the conference report accompanying Public Law 105-
277: Provided further, That the funds made available for comprehensive 
school reform shall become available on July 1, 2000, and remain 
available through September 30, 2001, and in carrying out this 
initiative, the Secretary and the States shall support only approaches 
that show the most promise of enabling children to meet challenging 
State content standards and challenging State student performance 
standards based on reliable research and effective practices, and 
include an emphasis on basic academics and parental involvement: 
Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the funds provided for the 
national education research institutes shall be allocated 
notwithstanding section 931(c)(2)(B) of Public Law 103-227.

                        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 two passenger 
motor vehicles, $362,000,000.

                        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, $66,000,000.

                      office of inspector general

    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, as 
authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education Organization 
Act, $31,242,000.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 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.
    Sec. 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.
    Sec. 303. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to 
prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and 
meditation in the public schools.

                          (transfer of funds)

    Sec. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as 
amended) 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 Appropriations Committees of both Houses 
of Congress are notified at least fifteen days in advance of any 
transfer.
    Sec. 305. (a) From the funds appropriated for payments to local 
educational agencies under section 8003(f) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) for fiscal year 2000, the 
Secretary of Education shall distribute supplemental payments for 
certain local educational agencies, as follows:
            (1) First, from the amount of $74,000,000, the Secretary 
        shall make supplemental payments to the following agencies 
        under section 8003(b) of the ESEA:
                    (A) Local educational agencies that received 
                assistance under section 8003(f) for fiscal year 1999; 
                and
                            (i) in fiscal year 1997 had at least 40 
                        percent federally connected children described 
                        in section 8003(a)(1) in average daily 
                        attendance; and in fiscal year 1997 had an 
                        adopted operations tax rate which was at least 
                        95 percent of the state average operations tax 
                        rate; or
                            (ii) whose boundary is coterminous with the 
                        boundary of a federal military installation.
                    (B) Local educational agencies that received 
                assistance under section 8003(f) for fiscal year 1999; 
                and in fiscal year 1997 had at least 30 percent 
                federally connected children described in section 
                8003(a)(1) in average daily attendance; and in fiscal 
                year 1997 had an adopted operations tax rate which was 
                at least 125 percent of the State average operations 
                tax rate.
                    (C) Any eligible local educational agency that in 
                fiscal year 1997, which had at least 25,000 children in 
                average daily attendance, at least 50 percent federally 
                connected children described in section 8003(a)(1) in 
                average daily attendance, and at least 6,000 children 
                described in sections 8003(a)(1) (A) and (B) in average 
                daily attendance.
            (2) From the remaining $2,000,000 and any amounts available 
        after making payments under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
        then make supplemental payments to local educational agencies 
        that are not described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, but 
        that meet the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (4) of section 
        8003(f) of the ESEA for fiscal year 2000.
    (b) In calculating the amounts of supplemental payments for 
agencies described in subparagraphs (1) (A) and (B) and paragraph (2) 
of subsection (a), the Secretary shall use the formula contained in 
section 8003(b)(1)(C) of the ESEA, except that---
            (1) eligible local educational agencies may count all 
        children described in section 8003(a)(1) in computing the 
        amount of those payments;
            (2) maximum payments for any of those agencies that use 
        local contribution rates identified in section 8003(b)(1)(C) 
        (i) or (ii) shall be computed by using four-fifths instead of 
        one-half of those rates;
            (3) the learning opportunity threshold percentage of all 
        such agencies under section 8003(b)(2)(B) shall be deemed to be 
        100;
            (4) for an eligible local educational agency with 35 
        percent or more of its children in average daily attendance 
        described in either subparagraph (D) or (E) of section 
        8003(a)(1) in fiscal year 1997, the weighted student unit 
        figure from its regular basic support payment shall be 
        recomputed by using a factor of 0.55 for such children;
            (5) for an eligible local educational agency with fewer 
        than 100 children in average daily attendance in fiscal year 
        1997, the weighted student unit figure from its regular basic 
        support payment shall be recomputed by multiplying the total 
        number of children described in section 8003(a)(1) by a factor 
        of 1.75; and
            (6) for an eligible local educational agency whose total 
        number of children in average daily attendance in fiscal year 
        1997 was at least 100, but fewer than 750, the weighted student 
        unit figure from its regular basic support payment shall be 
        recomputed by multiplying the total number of children 
        described in section 8003(a)(1) by a factor of 1.25.
    (c) For a local educational agency described in subsection 
(a)(1)(C) above, the Secretary shall use the formula contained in 
section 8003(b)(1)(C) of the ESEA, except that the weighted student 
unit total from its regular basic support payment shall be recomputed 
by using a factor of 1.35 for children described in 8003(a)(1) (A) and 
(B) and its learning opportunity threshold percentage shall be deemed 
to be 100.
    (d) For each eligible local educational agency, the calculated 
supplemental basic support payment shall be reduced by subtracting the 
agency's regular fiscal year 2000 section 8003(b) basic support 
payment.
    (e) The actual supplemental basic support payment that local 
educational agencies receive shall be treated under section 8009 in the 
same manner as payments under section 8003(f).
    (f) If the sums described in subsections (a)(1) and (2) above are 
insufficient to pay in full the calculated supplemental basic support 
payments for the local educational agencies identified in those 
subsections, the Secretary shall ratably reduce the supplemental basic 
support payment to each local educational agency.--
    (g) After making payments to all eligible local educational 
agencies described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall use any remaining funds from paragraph (1) for making payments to 
the eligible local educational agencies described in paragraph (2) of 
that subsection.
    (h) After making payments to all eligible local educational 
agencies described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall use any remaining funds from paragraph (2) for making payments to 
the eligible local educational agencies described in paragraph (1) of 
subsection (a) if the amount available under paragraph (1) is 
insufficient to fully fund all eligible local educational agencies.
    (i) After making payments to all eligible local educational 
agencies as described in subsections (g) and (h), the Secretary shall 
use any remaining funds to increase basic support payments under 
section 8003(b) for fiscal year 2000 for all eligible students.
    Sec. 306. (a) Section 1204(b)(1)(A) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6364(b)(1)(a)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (iv), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by striking clause (v) and adding the following:
            ``(v) 50 percent in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth 
        such years; and
            ``(vi) 35 percent in any subsequent such year.''.
    (b) Section 1208(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:
            ``(3) Continuing eligibility.--In awarding subgrant funds 
        to continue a program under this part after the first year, the 
        State educational agency shall review the progress of each 
        eligible entity in meeting the goals of the program referred to 
        in section 1207(c)(1)(A) and shall evaluate the program based 
        on the indicators of program quality developed by the State 
        under section 1210.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking the last sentence.
    Sec. 307. Title III of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as 
contained in division A, section 101(f) of the Omnibus Consolidated and 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277)), 
is amended under the heading ``Education Research, Statistics, and 
Improvement'' by striking ``at the former LaSalle Academy''.
    Sec. 308. The Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) 
is amended in Section 458 (a)(1) by striking ``$735,000,000'' and 
inserting ``$617,000,000''.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Education 
Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                       TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES

                      armed forces retirement home

    For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retirement Home to 
operate and maintain the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home and 
the United States Naval Home, to be paid from funds available in the 
Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund, $68,295,000, of which 
$12,696,000 shall remain available until expended for construction and 
renovation of the physical plants at the United States Soldiers' and 
Airmen's Home and the United States Naval Home: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single contract or 
related contracts for development and construction, to include 
construction of a long-term care facility at the United States Naval 
Home, may be employed which collectively include the full scope of the 
project: Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall 
contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found at 48 CFR 52.232-18 
and 252.232-7007, Limitation of Government Obligations.

             Corporation for National and Community Service

        domestic volunteer service programs, operating expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Corporation for National and 
Community Service to carry out the provisions of the Domestic Volunteer 
Service Act of 1973, as amended, $274,959,000.

                  Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as 
authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which shall be 
available within limitations specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 
2002, $340,000,000: Provided, That no funds made available to the 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting 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 contained in this paragraph 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 in 
addition to the amounts provided above, $10,000,000 shall be for 
digitalization, only if specifically authorized by subsequent 
legislation enacted by September 30, 2000.

               Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation 
Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor Management 
Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171-180, 182-183), including hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; for expenses necessary for the Labor-
Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for expenses 
necessary for the Service to carry out the functions vested in it by 
the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95-454 (5 U.S.C. ch. 71), 
$34,620,000, including $1,500,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2001, for activities authorized by the Labor-Management 
Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a): Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost recovery, 
for special training activities 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 (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $6,060,000.

                Institute of Museum and Library Services

    For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Library Services Act, 
$149,500,000.

                  Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the Social 
Security Act, $7,015,000, to be transferred to this appropriation from 
the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Funds.

        National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the National Commission on Libraries and 
Information Science, established by the Act of July 20, 1970 (Public 
Law 91-345, as amended by Public Law 102-95), $1,000,000.

                     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, as amended, 
$2,344,000.

                     National Education Goals Panel

    For expenses necessary for the National Education Goals Panel, as 
authorized by title II, part A of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, 
$2,100,000.

                     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, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141-167), and other laws, 
$174,661,000: 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 (29 U.S.C. 152), 
and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended, 
and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203), 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: Provided further, That none of the funds made available by 
this Act shall be used in any way to promulgate a final rule (altering 
29 CFR part 103) regarding single location bargaining units in 
representation cases.

                        National Mediation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Railway 
Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151-188), including emergency boards 
appointed by the President, $8,400,000: Provided, That unobligated 
balances at the end of fiscal year 2000 not needed for emergency boards 
shall remain available for other statutory purposes through September 
30, 2001.

            Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $8,100,000.

                       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, $175,000,000, 
which shall include amounts becoming available in fiscal year 2000 
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 $175,000,000: 
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, 2001, 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 for 
administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad 
Unemployment Insurance Act, $90,000,000, 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.

             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, as amended, not more than $5,400,000, to 
be derived from the railroad retirement accounts and railroad 
unemployment insurance account: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available in any other paragraph of this Act may be transferred to the 
Office; used to carry out any such transfer; used to provide any office 
space, equipment, office supplies, communications facilities or 
services, maintenance services, or administrative services for the 
Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or award for any personnel of 
the Office; used to pay any other operating expense of the Office; or 
used to reimburse the Office for any service provided, or expense 
incurred, by the Office.

                     Social Security Administration

                payments to social security trust funds

    For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the 
Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, as provided under sections 
201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, $20,764,000.

               special benefits for disabled coal miners

    For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act 
of 1977, $383,638,000, to remain available until expended.
    For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and 
Health Act of 1977, for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, such 
amounts as may be necessary.
    For making benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine 
Safety and Health Act of 1977 for the first quarter of fiscal year 
2001, $124,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                  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, 
$21,474,000,000, 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.
    From funds provided under the previous paragraph, not less than 
$100,000,000 shall be available for payment to the Social Security 
trust funds for administrative expenses for conducting continuing 
disability reviews.
    In addition, $200,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2001, for payment to the Social Security trust funds for administrative 
expenses for continuing disability reviews as authorized by section 103 
of Public Law 104-121 and section 10203 of Public Law 105-33. The term 
``continuing disability reviews'' means reviews and redeterminations as 
defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act, as 
amended.
    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 2001, $9,890,000,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                 limitation on administrative expenses

    For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger motor 
vehicles, and not to exceed $10,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses, not more than $5,996,000,000 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 not 
less than $1,800,000 shall be for the Social Security Advisory Board: 
Provided further, That unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 
2000 not needed for fiscal year 2000 shall remain available until 
expended to invest in the Social Security Administration computing 
network, including related equipment and non-payroll administrative 
expenses associated solely with this network: 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 section 7131 of title 5, United States Code, 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.
    From funds provided under the previous paragraph, notwithstanding 
the provision under this heading in Public Law 105-277 regarding 
unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 1999 not needed for such 
fiscal year, an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 from such unobligated 
balances shall, in addition to funding already available under this 
heading for fiscal year 2000, be available for necessary expenses.
    From funds provided under the first paragraph, not less than 
$200,000,000 shall be available for conducting continuing disability 
reviews.
    In addition to funding already available under this heading, and 
subject to the same terms and conditions, $405,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2001, for continuing disability reviews 
as authorized by section 103 of Public Law 104-121 and section 10203 of 
Public Law 105-33. The term ``continuing disability reviews'' means 
reviews and redeterminations as defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of 
the Social Security Act as amended.
    In addition, $80,000,000 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 section 1616(d) or 212(b)(3) in 
fiscal year 2000 exceed $80,000,000, the amounts shall be available in 
fiscal year 2001 only to the extent provided in advance in 
appropriations Acts.
    From amounts previously made available under this heading for a 
state-of-the-art computing network, not to exceed $100,000,000 shall be 
available for necessary expenses under this heading, subject to the 
same terms and conditions.

                      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, as 
amended, $12,000,000, together with not to exceed $44,000,000, 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 and Senate.

                    United States Institute of Peace

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Institute of Peace as 
authorized in the United States Institute of Peace Act, $12,160,000.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 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: Provided, That such transferred balances are used 
for the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they 
were originally appropriated.
    Sec. 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.
    Sec. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
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, radio, television, or video presentation designed to 
support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress or any State 
legislature, except in presentation to the Congress or any State 
legislature itself.
    (b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 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 legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress or 
any State legislature.
    Sec. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are each 
authorized to make available not to exceed $15,000 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 $2,500 from the funds available for ``Salaries and expenses, 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service''; and the Chairman of the 
National Mediation Board is authorized to make available for official 
reception and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds 
available for ``Salaries and expenses, National Mediation Board''.
    Sec. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no funds 
appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry out any program of 
distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection 
of any illegal drug.
    Sec. 506. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--It 
is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, 
all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this 
Act should be American-made.
    (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance to, or 
entering into any contract with, any entity using funds made available 
in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent 
practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling Products 
as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a court or 
Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 
``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is 
not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in 
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility 
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code 
of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 507. 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 nongovernmental sources.
    Sec. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and 
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated 
under this Act, shall be expended for any abortion.
    (b) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and none of the 
funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under 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.
    Sec. 509. (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).
    Sec. 510. (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 46.208(a)(2) 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.
    Sec. 511. (a) Limitation on Use of Funds for Promotion of 
Legalization of Controlled Substances.--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 by section 202 of 
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).
    (b) Exceptions.--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.
    Sec. 512. 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 section 4212(d) of 
        title 38, United States Code, 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.
    Sec. 513. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
unobligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2000 
from appropriations made available for salaries and expenses for fiscal 
year 2000 in this Act, shall remain available through December 31, 
2000, for each such account for the purposes authorized: Provided, That 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations shall be notified at 
least fifteen days prior to the obligation of such funds.
    Sec. 514. 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 (42 U.S.C. 1320d-2(b)) 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.

 TITLE VI--EARLY DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND INTERVENTIONS FOR NEWBORNS 
                     AND INFANTS WITH HEARING LOSS

    Sec. 601. (a) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section only, 
the following terms in this section are defined as follows:
            (1) Hearing screening.--Newborn and infant hearing 
        screening consists of objective physiologic procedures to 
        detect possible hearing loss and to identify newborns and 
        infants who, after rescreening, require further audiologic and 
        medical evaluations.
            (2) Audiologic evaluation.--Audiologic evaluation consists 
        of procedures to assess the status of the auditory system; to 
        establish the site of the auditory disorder; the type and 
        degree of hearing loss, and the potential effects of hearing 
        loss on communication; and to identify appropriate treatment 
        and referral options. Referral options should include linkage 
        to State IDEA part C coordinating agencies or other appropriate 
        agencies, medical evaluation, hearing aid/sensory aid 
        assessment, audiologic rehabilitation treatment, national and 
        local consumer, self-help, parent, and education organizations, 
        and other family-centered services.
            (3) Medical evaluation.--Medical evaluation by a physician 
        consists of key components including history, examination, and 
        medical decision making focused on symptomatic and related body 
        systems for the purpose of diagnosing the etiology of hearing 
        loss and related physical conditions, and for identifying 
        appropriate treatment and referral options.
            (4) Medical intervention.--Medical intervention is the 
        process by which a physician provides medical diagnosis and 
        direction for medical and/or surgical treatment options of 
        hearing loss and/or related medical disorder associated with 
        hearing loss.
            (5) Audiologic rehabilitation.--Audiologic rehabilitation 
        (intervention) consists of procedures, techniques, and 
        technologies to facilitate the receptive and expressive 
        communication abilities of a child with hearing loss.
            (6) Early intervention.--Early intervention (e.g., 
        nonmedical) means providing appropriate services for the child 
        with hearing loss and ensuring that families of the child are 
        provided comprehensive, consumer-oriented information about the 
        full range of family support, training, information services, 
        communication options and are given the opportunity to consider 
        the full range of educational and program placements and 
        options for their child.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are to clarify the 
authority within the Public Health Service Act to authorize statewide 
newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and intervention 
programs and systems, technical assistance, a national applied research 
program, and interagency and private sector collaboration for policy 
development, in order to assist the States in making progress toward 
the following goals:
            (1) All babies born in hospitals in the United States and 
        its territories should have a hearing screening before leaving 
        the birthing facility. Babies born in other countries and 
        residing in the United States via immigration or adoption 
        should have a hearing screening as early as possible.
            (2) All babies who are not born in hospitals in the United 
        States and its territories should have a hearing screening 
        within the first 3 months of life.
            (3) Appropriate audiologic and medical evaluations should 
        be conducted by 3 months for all newborns and infants suspected 
        of having hearing loss to allow appropriate referral and 
        provisions for audiologic rehabilitation, medical and early 
        intervention before the age of 6 months.
            (4) All newborn and infant hearing screening programs and 
        systems should include a component for audiologic 
        rehabilitation, medical and early intervention options that 
        ensures linkage to any new and existing statewide systems of 
        intervention and rehabilitative services for newborns and 
        infants with hearing loss.
            (5) Public policy in regard to newborn and infant hearing 
        screening and intervention should be based on applied research 
        and the recognition that newborns, infants, toddlers, and 
        children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have unique language, 
        learning, and communication needs, and should be the result of 
        consultation with pertinent public and private sectors.
    (c) Statewide Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, Evaluation and 
Intervention Programs and Systems.--Under the existing authority of the 
Public Health Service Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(in this section referred to as the ``Secretary''), acting through the 
Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, 
shall make awards of grants or cooperative agreements to develop 
statewide newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and 
intervention programs and systems for the following purposes:
            (1) To develop and monitor the efficacy of statewide 
        newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and 
        intervention programs and systems. Early intervention includes 
        referral to schools and agencies, including community, 
        consumer, and parent-based agencies and organizations and other 
        programs mandated by part C of the Individuals with 
        Disabilities Education Act, which offer programs specifically 
        designed to meet the unique language and communication needs of 
        deaf and hard of hearing newborns, infants, toddlers, and 
        children.
            (2) To collect data on statewide newborn and infant hearing 
        screening, evaluation and intervention programs and systems 
        that can be used for applied research, program evaluation and 
        policy development.
    (d) Technical Assistance, Data Management, and Applied Research.--
            (1) Centers for disease control and prevention.--Under the 
        existing authority of the Public Health Service Act, the 
        Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
        Disease Control and Prevention, shall make awards of grants or 
        cooperative agreements to provide technical assistance to State 
        agencies to complement an intramural program and to conduct 
        applied research related to newborn and infant hearing 
        screening, evaluation and intervention programs and systems. 
The program shall develop standardized procedures for data management 
and program effectiveness and costs, such as--
                    (A) to ensure quality monitoring of newborn and 
                infant hearing loss screening, evaluation, and 
                intervention programs and systems;
                    (B) to provide technical assistance on data 
                collection and management;
                    (C) to study the costs and effectiveness of newborn 
                and infant hearing screening, evaluation and 
                intervention programs and systems conducted by State-
                based programs in order to answer issues of importance 
                to State and national policymakers;
                    (D) to identify the causes and risk factors for 
                congenital hearing loss;
                    (E) to study the effectiveness of newborn and 
                infant hearing screening, audiologic and medical 
                evaluations and intervention programs and systems by 
                assessing the health, intellectual and social 
                developmental, cognitive, and language status of these 
                children at school age; and
                    (F) to promote the sharing of data regarding early 
                hearing loss with state-based birth defects and 
                developmental disabilities monitoring programs for the 
                purpose of identifying previously unknown causes of 
                hearing loss.
            (2) National institutes of health.--Under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, the Director of the 
        National Institutes of Health, acting through the Director of 
        the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication 
        Disorders, shall for purposes of this section, continue a 
        program of research and development on the efficacy of new 
        screening techniques and technology, including clinical studies 
        of screening methods, studies on efficacy of intervention, and 
        related research.
    (e) Coordination and Collaboration.--
            (1) In general.--Under the existing authority of the Public 
        Health Service Act, in carrying out programs under this 
        section, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
        and Prevention, and the Director of the National Institutes of 
        Health shall collaborate and consult with other Federal 
        agencies; State and local agencies, including those responsible 
        for early intervention services pursuant to title XIX of the 
        Social Security Act (Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, 
        Diagnosis and Treatment Program); title XXI of the Social 
        Security Act (State Children's Health Insurance Program); title 
        V of the Social Security Act (Maternal and Child Health Block 
        Grant Program); and part C of the Individuals with Disabilities 
        Education Act; consumer groups of and that serve individuals 
        who are deaf and hard-of-hearing and their families; 
        appropriate national medical and other health and education 
        specialty organizations; persons who are deaf and hard-of-
        hearing and their families; other qualified professional 
        personnel who are proficient in deaf or hard-of-hearing 
        children's language and who possess the specialized knowledge, 
        skills, and attributes needed to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing 
        newborns, infants, toddlers, children, and their families; 
        third-party payers and managed care organizations; and related 
        commercial industries.
            (2) Policy development.--Under the existing authority of 
        the Public Health Service Act, the Administrator of the Health 
        Resources and Services Administration, the Director of the 
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Director of 
        the National Institutes of Health shall coordinate and 
        collaborate on recommendations for policy development at the 
        Federal and State levels and with the private sector, including 
        consumer, medical and other health and education professional-
        based organizations, with respect to newborn and infant hearing 
        screening, evaluation and intervention programs and systems.
            (3) State early detection, diagnosis, and intervention 
        programs and systems; data collection.--Under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, the Administrator 
        of the Health Resources and Services Administration and the 
        Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
        shall coordinate and collaborate in assisting States to 
        establish newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and 
        intervention programs and systems under subsection (c) and to 
        develop a data collection system under subsection (d).
    (f) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to preempt any State law.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) Statewide newborn and infant hearing screening, 
        evaluation and intervention programs and systems.--For the 
        purpose of carrying out subsection (c) under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, there are 
        authorized to the Health Resources and Services Administration 
        appropriations in the amount of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 
        2000, $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and such sums as may be 
        necessary for fiscal year 2002.
            (2) Technical assistance, data management, and applied 
        research; centers for disease control and prevention.--For the 
        purpose of carrying out subsection (d)(1) under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, there are 
        authorized to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
        appropriations in the amount of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 
        2000, $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and such sums as may be 
        necessary for fiscal year 2002.
            (3) Technical assistance, data management, and applied 
        research; national institute on deafness and other 
        communication disorders.--For the purpose of carrying out 
        subsection (d)(2) under the existing authority of the Public 
        Health Service Act, there are authorized to the National 
        Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 
        appropriations for such sums as may be necessary for each of 
        the fiscal years 2000 through 2002.

                TITLE VII--CHILD PROTECTION ACT OF 1999

    Sec. 701. This title may be cited as the ``Child Protection Act of 
1999''.
    Sec. 702. (a) Computer Software Installation Required.--Any 
elementary or secondary school or public library that has received 
under any program or activity of any Federal agency any funds for the 
acquisition or operation of any computer that is accessible to minors 
and that has access to the Internet shall--
            (1) install software on that computer that is determined 
        (in accordance with subsection (b)) to be adequately designed 
        to prevent minors from obtaining access to any obscene 
        information or child pornography using that computer; and
            (2) ensure that such software is operational whenever that 
        computer is used by minors, except that such software's 
        operation may be temporarily interrupted to permit a minor to 
        have access to information that is not obscene, is not child 
        pornography, or is otherwise unprotected by the Constitution 
        under the direct supervision of an adult designated by such 
        school or library.
    (b) Determination of Adequate Design.--For any elementary or 
secondary school or public library within the jurisdiction of any 
State, the determinations required for purposes of subsection (a)(1) 
shall be made by an agency or official designated by the chief 
executive officer of such State. For any elementary or secondary school 
or public library that is not within the jurisdiction of any State, the 
determinations required for purposes of subsection (a)(1) shall be made 
by the Secretary of Education.
    (c) Consequences of Violations.--
            (1) Use of general education provisions act remedies.--
        Whenever the head of any Federal agency has reason to believe 
        that any recipient of funds under any program or activity is 
        failing to comply substantially with the requirements of 
        subsection (a), the head of such agency may--
                    (A) withhold further payments under that program or 
                activity,
                    (B) issue a complaint to compel compliance through 
                a cease and desist order, or
                    (C) enter into a compliance agreement with a 
                recipient to bring it into compliance,
        in same manner as the Secretary of Education is authorized to 
        take such actions under sections 455, 456, and 457, 
        respectively, of the General Education Provisions Act (20 
        U.S.C. 1234d).
            (2) Recovery of funds prohibited.--The actions authorized 
        by paragraph (1) are the exclusive remedies available with 
        respect to a violation of subsection (a), and the head of any 
        Federal agency shall not seek a recovery of funds from the 
        recipient.
    (d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) Elementary or secondary school.--The term ``elementary 
        or secondary school'' means an elementary school or a secondary 
        school as such terms are defined in section 14101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
        8801).
            (2) Public library.--The term ``public library'' has the 
        meaning given the term ``library'' by section 213 of the 
        Library Services and Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9122).
            (3) Computer.--The term ``computer'' includes any hardware, 
        software, or other technology attached or connected to, 
        installed in, or otherwise used in connection with a computer.
            (4) Access to internet.--A computer shall be considered to 
        have access to the Internet if such computer is equipped with a 
        modem or is connected to a computer network which has access to 
        the Internet.
            (5) Acquisition or operation.--An elementary or secondary 
        school or public library shall be considered to have received 
        under a program or activity of any Federal agency any funds for 
        the acquisition or operation of any computer if such funds are 
        used in any manner, directly or indirectly--
                    (A) to purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire or 
                obtain the use of such computer, or
                    (B) to obtain services, supplies, software, or 
                other actions or materials to support, or in connection 
                with, the operation of such computer.
            (6) Federal agency.--The term ``Federal agency'' has the 
        meaning given the term ``agency'' by section 551(1) of title 5, 
        United States Code.
            (7) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States, 
        the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
        Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 
        the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
            (8) Child pornography.--The term ``child pornography'' has 
        the meaning provided in section 2256(8) of title 18, United 
        States Code.

TITLE VIII--INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS TO MANDATORY JURISDICTION THRESHOLDS 
                   OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

    Sec. 801. Section 14(c)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 
U.S.C. 164(c)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c)(1)(A) Mandatory Jurisdiction.--The Board shall assert 
jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving any class or category of 
employers over which it would assert jurisdiction under the standards 
prevailing on August 1, 1959, with the financial threshold amounts 
adjusted for inflation under subparagraph (B).
    ``(B) Inflation Adjustments.--The Board, beginning on October 1, 
1999, and not less often than every 5 years thereafter, shall adjust 
each of the financial threshold amounts referred to in subparagraph (A) 
for inflation, using as the base period the later of (i) the most 
recent calendar quarter ending before the financial threshold amount 
was established, or (ii) the calendar quarter ending June 30, 1959. The 
inflation adjustments shall be determined using changes in the Consumer 
Price Index for all urban consumers published by the Department of 
Labor and shall be rounded to the nearest $10,000. The Board shall 
prescribe any regulations necessary for making the inflation 
adjustments.''.

                   TITLE IX--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SEC. 901. INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS OF EARNED INCOME CREDIT REFUNDS; 
              TERMINATION OF ADVANCE PAYMENTS OF EARNED INCOME CREDIT.

    (a) Installment Payments of Earned Income Credit Refunds.--
            (1) In general.--Section 6402 of the Internal Revenue Code 
        of 1986 (relating to authority to make credits or refunds) is 
        amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(l) Installment Payments of Earned Income Credit Refunds.--
            ``(1) In general.--Earned income credit refunds shall be 
        paid in 12 substantially equal installments with--
                    ``(A) the first installment payable without regard 
                to this subsection,
                    ``(B) the second installment payable not later than 
                the 90th day after the first installment is paid, and
                    ``(C) the remaining installments payable at monthly 
                intervals over the 10 months following the month in 
                which the second installment is paid.
            ``(2) Earned income credit refunds.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `earned income credit refund' means, with 
        respect to any taxable year, the lesser of--
                    ``(A) the credit allowed by section 32 for such 
                year (determined without regard to section 32(n)), or
                    ``(B) the overpayment for such year determined 
                after the reductions under subsections (c), (d), and 
                (e) and without regard to the credit under section 31.
            ``(3) Exception if earned income credit refund is $600 or 
        less.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any earned income 
        credit refund which does not exceed $600 for the taxable year.
            ``(4) Interest.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this title, interest shall not be allowed or paid on--
                    ``(A) any earned income credit refund payable in 
                installments under this subsection, or
                    ``(B) any such installment under this subsection 
                which is paid within 45 days after the due date for the 
                payment of such installment.''
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Subsection (a) of section 6402 
        of such Code is amended by striking ``(c) and (d)'' and 
        inserting ``(c), (d), and (l)''.
    (b) Termination of Advance Payments of Earned Income Credit.--
Section 3507 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(g) Termination.--
            ``(1) In general.--This section shall not apply after 
        September 30, 1999.
            ``(2) Exception for certificates in effect.--Paragraph (1) 
        shall not apply to earned income eligibility certificates in 
        effect on September 30, 1999, and to renewals of such 
        certificates which are so in effect.''
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1998.
    Sec. 902. The General Accounting Office is directed to conduct a 
study of the impact on EITC recipients with respect to a disbursement 
over 12 months versus the current one-time, lump-sum, payment.

SEC. 903. CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR ORIGINATION FEES.

    Section 455(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087e(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Secretary shall'' and inserting 
        ``Notwithstanding subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of 
        subsection (a)(1), this subsection is one of many provisions of 
        this part that specifies a term, condition, or benefit of a 
        loan under this part that is different than the terms, 
        conditions, and benefits of loans made to borrowers under 
        sections 428, 428B, and 428H of this title.''.
    Sec. 904. Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund Premiums.--Section 
203(c)(2)(A) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(c)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``Notwithstanding any 
other provision of this section or section 205, in the case of a 
mortgage executed after the date of the enactment of this sentence, the 
entire premium charge collected pursuant to this subparagraph shall be 
considered to be earned by the Secretary at the time of insurance, and 
no portion of the premium charge collected may be refunded to the 
mortgagor as unearned.''.

                  TITLE X--DISASTER RELIEF FOR FARMERS

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                      Commodity Credit Corporation

                          disaster assistance

    From funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, $508,000,000 shall 
be available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to 
producers for crop and livestock losses incurred as a result of the 
hurricanes, and the flooding associated with the hurricanes, that 
struck the eastern United States in August and September 1999: 
Provided, That, of the entire amount made available, $494,000,000 shall 
be available for crop loss assistance to such producers, which shall be 
provided in the same manner as the Secretary provided assistance under 
section 1102(b) of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (7 U.S.C. 
1421 note; Public Law 105-277): Provided further, That, of the entire 
amount made available, $14,000,000 shall be available to provide 
assistance, in a manner determined appropriate by the Secretary, to 
such producers for livestock losses: Provided further, That the entire 
amount made available under this paragraph is designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and that the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for the entire amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, is transmitted by the President 
to the Congress.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2000''.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 211

106th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3037

                          [Report No. 106-370]

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                                 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, 2000, and for other purposes.

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                            October 7, 1999

    Reported from the Committee on Appropriations, committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to 
                               be printed
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

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