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to carry out activities related to existing facility loans en-
tered into under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL
FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT
The aggregate principal amount of outstanding bonds
insured pursuant to section 344 of title III, part D of the
Higher 
Education 
Act 
of 
1965 
shall 
not 
exceed
$355,000,000, 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 Histori-
cally Black College and University Capital Financing Pro-
gram entered into pursuant to title III, part D of the High-
er Education Act of 1965, as amended, $210,000.
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES
For carrying out activities authorized by Public Law
107–279, $452,956,000: Provided, That, of the amount ap-
propriated, $144,090,000 shall be available for obligation
through September 30, 2005: Provided further, That of the
amount provided to carry out title I, parts B and D of
Public Law 107–279, $24,362,000 shall be for the national
research and development centers authorized under section
133(c): Provided further, That $4,968,000 shall be available
to extend for one additional year the contract for the Eisen-
hower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science
Education authorized under section 2102(a)(2) of the Ele-
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mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, prior to
its amendment by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,
Public Law 107–110.
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
the Department of Education Organization Act, including
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and
hire of three passenger motor vehicles, $409,863,000, of
which $13,644,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be for building alterations and related expenses for
the relocation of Department staff to Potomac Center Plaza
in Washington, D.C.: Provided, That of this amount, suffi-
cient funds shall be available for the Secretary of Edu-
cation, not later than 60 days after the last day of the fiscal
year, to submit to Congress a report on the amount of ac-
quisitions made by the Department of Education during
such fiscal year of articles, materials, or supplies that were
manufactured outside the United States. Such report shall
separately indicate the dollar value of any articles, mate-
rials, or supplies purchased by the Department of Edu-
cation that were manufactured outside the United States,
an itemized list of all waivers under the Buy American Act
(41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) that were granted with respect to
such articles, materials, or supplies, and a summary of
total procurement funds spent on goods manufactured in
the United States versus funds spent on goods manufactured
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outside of the United States. The Secretary of Education
shall make the report publicly available by posting the re-
port on an Internet website.
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights,
as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Edu-
cation Organization Act, $91,275,000.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department
of Education Organization Act, $44,137,000.
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 edu-
cation, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights
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Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect re-
quirement of transportation of students includes the trans-
portation of students to carry out a plan involving the reor-
ganization 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 vol-
untary 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 of 1985, as amended) which are appro-
priated for the Department of Education in this Act may
be transferred between appropriations, but no such appro-
priation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any
such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations Commit-
tees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days
in advance of any transfer.
SEC. 305. (a) The matter under the heading ‘‘Title
III—Department of Education, Education for the Dis-
advantaged’’, in Public Law 108–7 (117 Stat. 326) is
amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘$4,651,199,000’’ and inserting
‘‘$6,895,199,000’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘$9,027,301,000’’ and inserting
‘‘$6,783,301,000’’.
(b) The additional fiscal year 2003 budget authority
provided under subsection (a) shall not be subject to the re-
scission required by Division N, section 601, of Public Law
108–7.
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) shall become effective im-
mediately upon enactment of this Act.
SEC. 306. None of the funds provided under this Act
shall be used to implement or enforce the annual updates
to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used
in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a
student’s expected family contribution for the award year
2004-2005 under part F of title IV of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087kk et seq.) published in the Fed-
eral Register on Friday, May 30, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg.
32473), to the extent that such implementation or enforce-
ment of the updates will reduce the amount of Federal stu-
dent financial assistance for which a student is eligible:
Provided, That of the funds appropriated in this Act for
the National Institutes of Health, $200,000,000 shall not
be available for obligation until September 30, 2004.