(c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary may 
exclude from the report employees or contractors who: 
(1) Are supported through appropriations en-
acted in laws other than the ACA and work on pro-
grams that existed prior to the passage of the ACA; 
(2) spend less than 50 percent of their time on 
activities funded by or newly authorized in the ACA; 
(3) or who work on contracts for which FTE 
reporting is not a requirement of their contract, 
such as fixed-price contracts. 
SEC. 221. In lieu of the timeframe specified in section 
338E(c)(2) of the PHS Act, terminations described in 
such section may occur up to 60 days after the execution 
of a contract awarded in fiscal year 2016 under section 
338B of such Act. 
SEC. 222. In addition to amounts provided herein, 
payments made for research organisms or substances, au-
thorized under section 301(a) of the PHS Act, shall be 
retained and credited to the appropriations accounts of the 
Institutes and Centers of the NIH making the substance 
or organism available under section 301(a). Amounts cred-
ited to the account under this authority shall be available 
for obligation through September 30, 2017. 
SEC. 223. The Secretary shall publish, as part of the 
fiscal year 2017 budget of the President submitted under 
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section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, informa-
tion that details the uses of all funds used by the Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services specifically for Health 
Insurance Marketplaces for each fiscal year since the en-
actment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111–148) and the proposed uses for such 
funds for fiscal year 2017. Such information shall include, 
for each such fiscal year— 
(1) the amount of funds used for each activity 
specified under the heading ‘‘Health Insurance Mar-
ketplace Transparency’’ in the committee report ac-
companying this Act; and 
(2) the milestones completed for data hub 
functionality and implementation readiness. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds made available by this 
Act from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or 
the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund, 
or transferred from other accounts funded by this Act to 
the ‘‘Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—Pro-
gram Management’’ account, may be used for payments 
under section 1342(b)(1) of Public Law 111–148 (relating 
to risk corridors). 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 225. (a) The ‘‘Nonrecurring expenses fund’’ es-
tablished in section 223 of division G of Public Law 110– 
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161 is terminated, the amount of expired discretionary 
funds available for reappropriation by transfer into such 
Fund under such section is reduced to $0, and the unobli-
gated balance of amounts available in such Fund is re-
scinded. 
(b) Section 223 of division G of Public Law 110–161 
is repealed. 
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect on Octo-
ber 1, 2015. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 226. (a) Termination.—Effective October 1, 
2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is 
terminated. 
(b) Activities in connection with termination.— 
(1) In general.—The Secretary— 
(A) shall take such actions as may be nec-
essary for orderly termination of the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality, which may 
include, notwithstanding subsection (c), the pro-
vision of fiscal year 2016 continuation funding 
for Agency grants; and 
(B) to support such actions, shall use dis-
cretionary amounts made available by this Act 
for accounts of HHS, to be derived on a pro-
portional basis from all such accounts. 
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(2) Unobligated balances.—Any unobligated 
balances of funds appropriated to the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality are hereby re-
scinded. 
(c) Activities by other agencies.—An agency may 
carry out an activity that, on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, is being carried out by the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality only if— 
(1) the agency has authority to carry out such 
activity under other provisions of law; 
(2) the head of such agency determines that 
such activity— 
(A) incorporates high-quality activities that 
support the mission of the agency; and 
(B) does not expand the authority of such 
agency or duplicate ongoing efforts of such 
agency; and 
(3) the activity relates to— 
(A) in the case of the NIH, biomedical re-
search; 
(B) in the case of the CDC, disease control 
and prevention activities; 
(C) in the case of the Office of the Na-
tional Coordinator for Health Information 
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Technology, health information technology ac-
tivities; and 
(D) in the case of the Office of the Assist-
ant Secretary for Health, patient safety activi-
ties. 
(d) Transfer of Preventive Services Task Force.— 
Subsection (a) of section 915 of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 
299b–4)— 
(1) is amended to read as such subsection was 
in effect on March 1, 2010; 
(2) is further amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The Di-
rector’’ and inserting ‘‘The Assistant Secretary 
for Health’’ ; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘agency’’ and inserting 
‘‘assistant Secretary’’ ; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘The Agency’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The Assistant Secretary for 
Health’’ ; 
(3) is redesignated as subsection (n); and 
(4) is transferred to the end of section 317 of 
the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247b). 
SEC. 227. The Secretary shall include in the fiscal 
year 2017 budget justification an analysis of how section 
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2713 of the PHS Act will impact eligibility for discre-
tionary HHS programs. 
SEC. 228. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the discretionary funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used to support any patient-centered outcomes 
research. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to carry out title X of the PHS Act. 
SEC. 230. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to implement, further, enforce, or advance 
the Navigators program as provided under Section 1311(i) 
of Public Law 111–148 and title I and subtitle B of title 
II of Public Law 111–152. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 231. The following unobligated balances of 
amounts appropriated prior to fiscal year 2007 for ‘‘De-
partment of Health and Human Services–Health Re-
sources and Services Administration’’ are hereby perma-
nently rescinded: 
(1) $281,003 made available to carry out section 
1610(b) of the PHS Act; 
(2) $3,611 made available to carry out section 
1602(c) of the PHS Act; 
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(3) $105,576 made available in section 167 of Divi-
sion H of Public Law 108–199; and 
(4) $55,793 made available for the National Cord 
Blood Stem Cell Bank Program. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to release or implement the final version 
of the eighth edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Ameri-
cans, revised pursuant to section 301 of the National Nu-
trition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (7 
U.S.C. 5341), unless the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services comply with 
each of the following requirements: 
(1) Each revision to any nutritional or dietary 
information or guideline contained in the 2010 edi-
tion of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and 
any new nutritional or dietary information or guide-
line to be included in the eighth edition of the Die-
tary Guidelines for Americans— 
(A) shall be based on scientific evidence 
that has been rated ‘‘Grade I: Strong’’ by the 
grading rubric developed by the Nutrition Evi-
dence Library of the Department of Agri-
culture; and 
(B) shall be limited in scope to only mat-
ters of diet and nutrient intake. 
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(2) The Secretaries shall release a preliminary 
draft of the eighth edition of the Dietary Guidelines 
for Americans, including a list of the scientific stud-
ies and evidence supporting each revised or new nu-
tritional or dietary information or guideline, for a 
period of public comment of at least 90 days. 
(3) Following the end of the public comment 
period, the Secretaries shall provide a period for 
agency review of public comments of at least 60 
days. 
SEC. 233. (a) None of the funds described in sub-
section (b) may be used to issue or facilitate the issuance 
of any recommendations of the United States Preventive 
Services Task Force with respect to breast cancer screen-
ing, mammography, and prevention. 
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), funds described 
in this subsection include the following: 
(1) Funds appropriated by this Act (including 
funds appropriated to any trust fund). 
(2) Funds provided under previous appropria-
tions Acts to the agencies funded by this title that 
remain available for obligation or expenditure. 
(3) Funds provided to any trust fund other 
than under this Act that remain available for obliga-
tion or expenditure. 
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health 
and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2016’’. 
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary 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’’), 
$14,869,641,000, of which $3,987,006,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2016, and shall remain available 
through 
September 
30, 
2017, 
and 
of 
which 
$10,841,177,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2016, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2017, for academic year 2016–2017: Provided, That 
$6,459,401,000 shall be for basic grants under section 
1124 of the ESEA: Provided further, That up to 
$3,984,000 of these funds shall be available to the Sec-
retary of Education (referred to in this title as ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) on October 1, 2015, 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 
$3,294,050,000 shall be for targeted grants under section 
1125 
of 
the 
ESEA: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
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$3,294,050,000 shall be for education finance incentive 
grants under section 1125A of the ESEA: Provided fur-
ther, That funds available under sections 1124, 1124A, 
1125 and 1125A of the ESEA may be used to provide 
homeless children and youths with services not ordinarily 
provided to other students under those sections, including 
supporting the liaison designated pursuant to section 
722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act, and providing transportation pursuant to section 
722(g)(1)(J)(iii) of such Act: Provided further, That 
$37,474,000 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 VIII of the 
ESEA, $1,298,603,000, of which $1,161,233,000 shall be 
for basic support payments under section 8003(b), 
$48,316,000 shall be for payments for children with dis-
abilities under section 8003(d), $17,406,000 shall be for 
construction under section 8007(a), $66,813,000 shall be 
for Federal property payments under section 8002, and 
$4,835,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for facilities maintenance under section 8008: Provided, 
That for purposes of computing the amount of a payment 
for an eligible local educational agency under section 
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8003(a) for school year 2015–2016, children enrolled in 
a school of such agency that would otherwise be eligible 
for payment under section 8003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but 
due to the deployment of both parents or legal guardians, 
or a parent or legal guardian having sole custody of such 
children, or due to the death of a military parent or legal 
guardian while on active duty (so long as such children 
reside on Federal property as described in section 
8003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such section, 
shall be considered as eligible students under such section, 
provided such students remain in average daily attendance 
at a school in the same local educational agency they at-
tended prior to their change in eligibility status. 
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out school improvement activities au-
thorized by part A of title II, part B of title IV, parts 
A and B of title VI, and parts B and C of title VII of 
the ESEA; the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; 
section 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act 
of 2002; the Compact of Free Association Amendments 
Act of 2003; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
$3,500,720,000, of which $1,686,555,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2016, and remain available through 
September 30, 2017, and of which $1,681,441,000 shall 
become available on October 1, 2016, and shall remain 
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available through September 30, 2017, for academic year 
2016–2017: Provided, That funds made available to carry 
out part B of title VII of the ESEA may be used for con-
struction, renovation, and modernization of any elemen-
tary school, secondary school, or structure related to an 
elementary school or secondary school, run by the Depart-
ment of Education of the State of Hawaii, that serves a 
predominantly Native Hawaiian student body: Provided 
further, That funds made available to carry out part C 
of title VII of the ESEA shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis, and also may be used for construction: Provided fur-
ther, That $43,600,000 shall be available to carry out sec-
tion 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 
2002 and the Secretary shall make such arrangements as 
determined to be necessary to ensure that the Bureau of 
Indian Education has access to services provided under 
this section: Provided further, That $16,699,000 shall be 
available to carry out the Supplemental Education Grants 
program for the Federated States of Micronesia and the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may reserve up to 5 percent of the amount 
referred to in the previous proviso to provide technical as-
sistance in the implementation of these grants: Provided 
further, That up to 3.2 percent of the funds for subpart 
1 of part A of title II of the ESEA shall be reserved by 
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the Secretary for competitive awards for teacher or prin-
cipal recruitment and training or professional enhance-
ment activities, including for civic education instruction, 
to national not-for-profit organizations: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be used to allow 21st Century Community Learning Cen-
ters initiative funding for expanded learning time that 
adds additional learning hours to the school day, addi-
tional days to the school week, or additional days to the 
school year. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent 
not otherwise provided, title VII, part A of the ESEA, 
$143,939,000. 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by part B of 
title V of the ESEA,$275,000,000: Provided, That of the 
funds available for part B of title V of the ESEA, the 
Secretary shall use up to $11,000,000 to carry out activi-
ties under section 5205(b) and shall use not less than 
$13,000,000 for subpart 2: Provided further, That of the 
funds available for subpart 1 of part B of title V of the 
ESEA, and notwithstanding section 5205(a), the Sec-
retary shall reserve up to $75,000,000 to make multiple 
awards to non-profit charter management organizations 
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and other entities that are not for-profit entities for the 
replication and expansion of successful charter school 
models and shall reserve not less than $11,000,000 to 
carry out the activities described in section 5205(a), in-
cluding improving quality and oversight of charter schools 
and providing technical assistance and grants to author-
ized public chartering agencies in order to increase the 
number of high-performing charter schools: Provided fur-
ther, That funds available for part B of title V of the 
ESEA may be used for grants that support preschool edu-
cation in charter schools: Provided further, That each ap-
plication submitted pursuant to section 5203(a) shall de-
scribe a plan to monitor and hold accountable authorized 
public chartering agencies through such activities as pro-
viding technical assistance or establishing a professional 
development program, which may include evaluation, plan-
ning, training, and systems development for staff of au-
thorized public chartering agencies to improve the capacity 
of such agencies in the State to authorize, monitor, and 
hold accountable charter schools: Provided further, That 
each application submitted pursuant to section 5203(a) 
shall contain assurances that State law, regulations, or 
other policies require that: (1) each authorized charter 
school in the State operate under a legally binding charter 
or performance contract between itself and the school’s 
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authorized public chartering agency that describes the 
rights and responsibilities of the school and the public 
chartering agency; conduct annual, timely, and inde-
pendent audits of the school’s financial statements that 
are filed with the school’s authorized public chartering 
agency; and demonstrate improved student academic 
achievement; and (2) authorized public chartering agen-
cies use increases in student academic achievement for all 
groups of students described in section 1111(b)(2)(C)(v) 
of the ESEA as one of the most important factors when 
determining to renew or revoke a school’s charter. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by subpart 1 
of part D of title V of the ESEA, $56,754,000, which shall 
remain available through December 31, 2016 for Promise 
Neighborhoods. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, 
$737,400,000, which shall become available on July 1, 
2016, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2017, except that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be 
available on October 1, 2015, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2017, to carry out activities under 
section 3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall 
use estimates of the American Community Survey child 
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counts for the most recent 3-year period available to cal-
culate allocations under such part. 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (IDEA), $13,024,510,000, of which 
$3,367,611,000 shall become available on July 1, 2016, 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2017, 
and of which $9,424,183,000 shall become available on 
October 1, 2016, and shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2017, for academic year 2016–2017: Provided, 
That the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall 
be equal to the lesser of the amount available for that ac-
tivity during fiscal year 2015, increased by the amount 
of inflation as specified in section 619(d)(2)(B) of the 
IDEA, or the percent change in the funds appropriated 
under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less than the 
amount for that activity during fiscal year 2015: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall, without regard to section 
611(d) of the IDEA, distribute to all other States (as that 
term is defined in section 611(g)(2)), subject to the third 
proviso, any amount by which a State’s allocation under 
section 611(d), from funds appropriated under this head-
ing, is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B), according to 
the following: 85 percent on the basis of the States’ rel-
ative populations of children aged 3 through 21 who are 
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of the same age as children with disabilities for whom the 
State ensures the availability of a free appropriate public 
education under this part, and 15 percent to States on 
the basis of the States’ relative populations of those chil-
dren who are living in poverty: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may not distribute any funds under the previous 
proviso to any State whose reduction in allocation from 
funds appropriated under this heading made funds avail-
able for such a distribution: Provided further, That the 
States shall allocate such funds distributed under the sec-
ond proviso to local educational agencies in accordance 
with section 611(f): Provided further, That the amount by 
which a State’s allocation under section 611(d) of the 
IDEA is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) and the 
amounts distributed to States under the previous provisos 
in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not be 
considered in calculating the awards under section 611(d) 
for fiscal year 2013 or for any subsequent fiscal years: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding the provision in 
section 612(a)(18)(B) regarding the fiscal year in which 
a State’s allocation under section 611(d) is reduced for 
failure to comply with the requirement of section 
612(a)(18)(A), the Secretary may apply the reduction 
specified in section 612(a)(18)(B) over a period of con-
secutive fiscal years, not to exceed five, until the entire 
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reduction is applied: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may, in any fiscal year in which a State’s allocation under 
section 611 is reduced in accordance with section 
612(a)(18)(B), reduce the amount a State may reserve 
under section 611(e)(1) by an amount that bears the same 
relation to the maximum amount described in that para-
graph as the reduction under section 612(a)(18)(B) bears 
to the total allocation the State would have received in 
that fiscal year under section 611(d) in the absence of the 
reduction: Provided further, That the Secretary shall ei-
ther reduce the allocation of funds under section 611 for 
any fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the State 
fails to comply with the requirement of section 
612(a)(18)(A) as authorized by section 612(a)(18)(B), or 
seek to recover funds under section 452 of the General 
Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1234a): Provided 
further, That the funds reserved under 611(c) of the 
IDEA may be used to provide technical assistance to 
States to improve the capacity of the States to meet the 
data collection requirements of sections 616 and 618 and 
to administer and carry out other services and activities 
to improve data collection, coordination, quality, and use 
under parts B and C of the IDEA: Provided further, That 
the level of effort a local educational agency must meet 
under section 613(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the IDEA, in the year 
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after it fails to maintain effort is the level of effort that 
would have been required in the absence of that failure 
and not the LEA’s reduced level of expenditures: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may use funds made available 
for the State Personnel Development Grants program 
under part D, subpart 1 of IDEA to evaluate program 
performance under such subpart. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Helen Keller 
National 
Center 
Act, 
$3,529,605,000, 
of 
which 
$3,391,770,000 shall be for grants for vocational rehabili-
tation services under title I of the Rehabilitation Act. 
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH 
DISABILITIES 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, 
$25,431,000. 
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, $68,016,000: Provided, That from the total 
amount available, the Institute may at its discretion use 
funds for the endowment program as authorized under 
section 207 of such Act. 
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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, $121,275,000: 
Provided, That from the total amount available, the Uni-
versity may at its discretion use funds for the endowment 
program as authorized under section 207 of such Act. 
CAREER, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Edu-
cation Act of 2006 and the Adult Education and Family 
Literacy Act (‘‘AEFLA’’), $1,700,609,000, of which 
$909,609,000 shall become available on July 1, 2016, and 
shall remain available through September 30, 2017, and 
of which $791,000,000 shall become available on October 
1, 2016, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2017: Provided, That of the amount provided for Adult 
Education State Grants, $71,439,000 shall be made avail-
able for integrated English literacy and civics education 
services to immigrants and other limited-English-pro-
ficient populations: Provided further, That of the amount 
reserved for integrated English literacy and civics edu-
cation, notwithstanding section 211 of the AEFLA, 65 
percent shall be allocated to States based on a State’s ab-
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solute need as determined by calculating each State’s 
share of a 10-year average of the United States Citizen-
ship and Immigration Services data for immigrants admit-
ted for legal permanent residence for the 10 most recent 
years, and 35 percent allocated to States that experienced 
growth as measured by the average of the 3 most recent 
years for which United States Citizenship and Immigra-
tion Services data for immigrants admitted for legal per-
manent residence are available, except that no State shall 
be allocated an amount less than $60,000: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts made available for AEFLA, 
$10,240,000 shall be for national leadership activities 
under section 243. 
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 10 of part A, 
and part C of title IV of the HEA, $23,828,210,000, 
which shall remain available through September 30, 2017. 
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall 
be eligible during award year 2016–2017 shall be $4,860. 
STUDENT AID ADMINISTRATION 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out part 
D of title I, and subparts 1, 3, 9, and 10 of part A, and 
parts B, C, D, and E of title IV of the HEA, and subpart 
1 of part A of title VII of the Public Health Service Act, 
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$1,446,924,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2017. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, titles III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the HEA, 
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 
1961, and section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and 
Technical Education Act of 2006, $1,909,042,000: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds made available in this Act to carry out title VI of 
the HEA and section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational 
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to sup-
port visits and study in foreign countries by individuals 
who are participating in advanced foreign language train-
ing and international studies in areas that are vital to 
United States national security and who plan to apply 
their language skills and knowledge of these countries in 
the fields of government, the professions, or international 
development: Provided further, That of the funds referred 
to in the preceding proviso up to 1 percent may be used 
for program evaluation, national outreach, and informa-
tion dissemination activities: Provided further, That up to 
1.5 percent of the funds made available under chapter 2 
of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the HEA may be 
used for evaluation. 
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For 
partial 
support 
of 
Howard 
University, 
$221,821,000, of which not less than $3,405,000 shall be 
for a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard 
University Endowment Act and shall remain available 
until expended. 
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS 
PROGRAM 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out ac-
tivities related to existing facility loans pursuant to section 
121 of the HEA, $435,000. 
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY 
CAPITAL FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $19,096,000, as au-
thorized pursuant to part D of title III of the HEA, which 
shall remain available through September 30, 2017: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$303,593,000: Provided further, That these funds may be 
used to support loans to public and private Historically 
Black Colleges and Universities without regard to the limi-
tations within section 344(a) of the HEA. 
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