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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 217. Of the amounts made available for NIH, 1 percent 
of the amount made available for National Research Service Awards 
(‘‘NRSA’’) shall be made available to the Administrator of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration to make NRSA awards for 
research in primary medical care to individuals affiliated with 
entities who have received grants or contracts under sections 736, 
739, or 747 of the PHS Act, and 1 percent of the amount made 
available for NRSA shall be made available to the Director of 
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to make NRSA 
awards for health service research. 
SEC. 218. (a) The Biomedical Advanced Research and Develop-
ment Authority (‘‘BARDA’’) may enter into a contract, for more 
than one but no more than 10 program years, for purchase of 
research services or of security countermeasures, as that term is 
defined in section 319F–2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d– 
6b(c)(1)(B)), if— 
(1) funds are available and obligated— 
(A) for the full period of the contract or for the first 
fiscal year in which the contract is in effect; and 
(B) for the estimated costs associated with a necessary 
termination of the contract; and 
(2) the Secretary determines that a multi-year contract 
will serve the best interests of the Federal Government by 
encouraging full and open competition or promoting economy 
in administration, performance, and operation of BARDA’s pro-
grams. 
(b) A contract entered into under this section— 
(1) shall include a termination clause as described by sub-
section (c) of section 3903 of title 41, United States Code; 
and 
(2) shall be subject to the congressional notice requirement 
stated in subsection (d) of such section. 
SEC. 219. (a) The Secretary shall establish a publicly accessible 
Web site to provide information regarding the uses of funds made 
available under section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Afford-
able Care Act of 2010 (‘‘ACA’’). 
(b) With respect to funds provided under section 4002 of the 
ACA, the Secretary shall include on the Web site established under 
subsection (a) at a minimum the following information: 
(1) In the case of each transfer of funds under section 
4002(c), a statement indicating the program or activity receiving 
funds, the operating division or office that will administer the 
funds, and the planned uses of the funds, to be posted not 
later than the day after the transfer is made. 
(2) Identification (along with a link to the full text) of 
each funding opportunity announcement, request for proposals, 
or other announcement or solicitation of proposals for grants, 
cooperative agreements, or contracts intended to be awarded 
using such funds, to be posted not later than the day after 
the announcement or solicitation is issued. 
(3) Identification of each grant, cooperative agreement, or 
contract with a value of $25,000 or more awarded using such 
funds, including the purpose of the award and the identity 
of the recipient, to be posted not later than 5 days after the 
award is made.
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(4) A report detailing the uses of all funds transferred 
under section 4002(c) during the fiscal year, to be posted not 
later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year. 
(c) With respect to awards made in fiscal years 2013 through 
2017, the Secretary shall also include on the Web site established 
under subsection (a), semi-annual reports from each entity awarded 
a grant, cooperative agreement, or contract from such funds with 
a value of $25,000 or more, summarizing the activities undertaken 
and identifying any sub-grants or sub-contracts awarded (including 
the purpose of the award and the identity of the recipient), to 
be posted not later than 30 days after the end of each 6-month 
period. 
(d) In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— 
(1) present the information required in subsection (b)(1) 
on a single webpage or on a single database; 
(2) ensure that all information required in this section 
is directly accessible from the single webpage or database; 
and 
(3) ensure that all information required in this section 
is able to be organized by program or State. 
SEC. 220. (a) The Secretary shall publish in the fiscal year 
2018 budget justification and on Departmental Web sites informa-
tion concerning the employment of full-time equivalent Federal 
employees or contractors for the purposes of implementing, admin-
istering, enforcing, or otherwise carrying out the provisions of the 
ACA, and the amendments made by that Act, in the proposed 
fiscal year and each fiscal year since the enactment of the ACA. 
(b) With respect to employees or contractors supported by all 
funds appropriated for purposes of carrying out the ACA (and 
the amendments made by that Act), the Secretary shall include, 
at a minimum, the following information: 
(1) For each such fiscal year, the section of such Act under 
which such funds were appropriated, a statement indicating 
the program, project, or activity receiving such funds, the Fed-
eral operating division or office that administers such program, 
and the amount of funding received in discretionary or manda-
tory appropriations. 
(2) For each such fiscal year, the number of full-time 
equivalent employees or contracted employees assigned to each 
authorized and funded provision detailed in accordance with 
paragraph (1). 
(c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary may exclude 
from the report employees or contractors who— 
(1) are supported through appropriations enacted in laws 
other than the ACA and work on programs that existed prior 
to the passage of the ACA; 
(2) spend less than 50 percent of their time on activities 
funded by or newly authorized in the ACA; or 
(3) work on contracts for which FTE reporting is not a 
requirement of their contract, such as fixed-price contracts. 
SEC. 221. The Secretary shall publish, as part of the fiscal 
year 2018 budget of the President submitted under section 1105(a) 
of title 31, United States Code, information that details the uses 
of all funds used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 
specifically for Health Insurance Exchanges for each fiscal year 
since the enactment of the ACA and the proposed uses for such 
funds for fiscal year 2018. Such information shall include, for each
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such fiscal year, the amount of funds used for each activity specified 
under the heading ‘‘Health Insurance Exchange Transparency’’ in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
SEC. 222. (a) The Secretary shall provide to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 
(1) 
Detailed 
monthly 
enrollment 
figures 
from 
the 
Exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Afford-
able Care Act of 2010 pertaining to enrollments during the 
open enrollment period; and 
(2) Notification of any new or competitive grant awards, 
including supplements, authorized under section 330 of the 
Public Health Service Act. 
(b) The Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate 
must be notified at least 2 business days in advance of any public 
release of enrollment information or the award of such grants. 
SEC. 223. None of the funds made available by this Act from 
the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Supple-
mental Medical Insurance Trust Fund, or transferred from other 
accounts funded by this Act to the ‘‘Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services—Program Management’’ account, may be used 
for payments under section 1342(b)(1) of Public Law 111–148 
(relating to risk corridors). 
SEC. 224. In addition to the amounts otherwise available for 
‘‘Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Program Manage-
ment’’, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may transfer 
up to $305,000,000 to such account from the Federal Hospital 
Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Fund to support program management activity 
related to the Medicare Program: Provided, That except for the 
foregoing purpose, such funds may not be used to support any 
provision of Public Law 111–148 or Public Law 111–152 (or any 
amendment made by either such Public Law) or to supplant any 
other amounts within such account. 
SEC. 225. The Secretary shall include in the fiscal year 2018 
budget justification an analysis of how section 2713 of the PHS 
Act will impact eligibility for discretionary HHS programs. 
SEC. 226. Effective during the period beginning on November 
1, 2015 and ending January 1, 2019, any provision of law that 
refers (including through cross-reference to another provision of 
law) to the current recommendations of the United States Preven-
tive Services Task Force with respect to breast cancer screening, 
mammography, and prevention shall be administered by the Sec-
retary involved as if— 
(1) such reference to such current recommendations were 
a reference to the recommendations of such Task Force with 
respect to breast cancer screening, mammography, and preven-
tion last issued before 2009; and 
(2) such recommendations last issued before 2009 applied 
to any screening mammography modality under section 1861(jj) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(jj)). 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services Appropriations Act, 2017’’.
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TITLE III 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out title I and subpart 2 of part B of title II 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (referred 
to in this Act as ‘‘ESEA’’) and section 418A of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (referred to in this Act as ‘‘HEA’’), $16,143,790,000, 
of which $5,225,990,000 shall become available on July 1, 2017, 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2018, and of 
which $10,841,177,000 shall become available on October 1, 2017, 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2018, for aca-
demic year 2017–2018: Provided, That $6,459,401,000 shall be for 
basic grants under section 1124 of the ESEA: Provided further, 
That up to $5,000,000 of these funds shall be available to the 
Secretary of Education (referred to in this title as ‘‘Secretary’’) 
on October 1, 2016, to obtain annually updated local educational 
agency-level census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census: 
Provided further, That $1,362,301,000 shall be for concentration 
grants under section 1124A of the ESEA: Provided further, That 
$3,819,050,000 shall be for targeted grants under section 1125 
of the ESEA: Provided further, That $3,819,050,000 shall be for 
education finance incentive grants under section 1125A of the 
ESEA: Provided further, That $217,000,000 shall be for carrying 
out subpart 2 of part B of title II: Provided further, That $44,623,000 
shall be for carrying out section 418A of the HEA. 
IMPACT AID 
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to federally 
affected schools authorized by title VII of the ESEA, $1,328,603,000, 
of which $1,189,233,000 shall be for basic support payments under 
section 7003(b), $48,316,000 shall be for payments for children 
with disabilities under section 7003(d), $17,406,000, to remain avail-
able for obligation through September 30, 2018, shall be for 
construction under section 7007(b), $68,813,000 shall be for Federal 
property payments under section 7002, and $4,835,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for facilities maintenance under 
section 7008: Provided, That for purposes of computing the amount 
of a payment for an eligible local educational agency under section 
7003(a) for school year 2016–2017, children enrolled in a school 
of such agency that would otherwise be eligible for payment under 
section 7003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but due to the deployment of 
both parents or legal guardians, or a parent or legal guardian 
having sole custody of such children, or due to the death of a 
military parent or legal guardian while on active duty (so long 
as such children reside on Federal property as described in section 
7003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such section, shall be 
considered as eligible students under such section, provided such 
students remain in average daily attendance at a school in the 
same local educational agency they attended prior to their change 
in eligibility status.