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Union Calendar No. 69 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4502 
[Report No. 117–96] 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2022, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2021 
Ms. DELAURO, 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 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 
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Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2022, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Innovation 
and Opportunity Act (referred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’) 
and the National Apprenticeship Act, $4,407,108,000, 
plus reimbursements, shall be available. Of the amounts 
provided: 
(1) for grants to States for adult employment 
and training activities, youth activities, and dis-
located worker employment and training activities, 
$3,095,332,000 as follows: 
(A) $923,174,000 for adult employment 
and training activities, of which $211,174,000 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2022 
through 
June 
30, 
2023, 
and 
of 
which 
$712,000,000 shall be available for the period 
October 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023; 
(B) $988,604,000 for youth activities, 
which shall be available for the period April 1, 
2022 through June 30, 2023; and 
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(notwithstanding the 10 percent limitation in 
such section) and 170 of the WIOA as follows: 
(i) $100,000,000 shall be for the pur-
pose of developing, offering, or improving 
educational or career training programs at 
community colleges, defined as public insti-
tutions of higher education, as described in 
section 101(a) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 and at which the associate’s 
degree is primarily the highest degree 
awarded, with other eligible institutions of 
higher education, as defined in section 
101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965, eligible to participate through con-
sortia, with community colleges as the lead 
grantee: Provided, That the Secretary shall 
follow the requirements for the program in 
House Report 116–62 and in the report 
accompanying this Act: Provided further, 
That any grant funds used for apprentice-
ships shall be used to support only appren-
ticeship programs registered under the Na-
tional Apprenticeship Act and as referred 
to in section 3(7)(B) of the WIOA; 
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(ii) $100,000,000 shall be for training 
and employment assistance for workers in 
communities that have experienced job 
losses due to dislocations in industries re-
lated to fossil fuel extraction or energy 
production; 
(B) $58,000,000 for Native American pro-
grams under section 166 of the WIOA, which 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2022 
through June 30, 2023; 
(C) $96,711,000 for migrant and seasonal 
farmworker programs under section 167 of the 
WIOA, including $89,693,000 for formula 
grants (of which not less than 70 percent shall 
be for employment and training services), 
$6,444,000 for migrant and seasonal housing 
(of which not less than 70 percent shall be for 
permanent housing), and $574,000 for other 
discretionary purposes, which shall be available 
for the period April 1, 2022 through June 30, 
2023: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law or related regulation, the 
Department of Labor shall take no action lim-
iting the number or proportion of eligible par-
ticipants receiving related assistance services or 
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discouraging grantees from providing such serv-
ices: Provided further, That notwithstanding the 
definition of ‘‘eligible seasonal farmworker’’ in 
section 167(i)(3)(A) of the WIOA relating to an 
individual being ‘‘low-income’’, an individual is 
eligible for migrant and seasonal farmworker 
programs under section 167 of the WIOA under 
that definition if, in addition to meeting the re-
quirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of section 
167(i)(3)(A), such individual is a member of a 
family with a total family income equal to or 
less than 150 percent of the poverty line; 
(D) $145,000,000 for YouthBuild activi-
ties as described in section 171 of the WIOA, 
which shall be available for the period April 1, 
2022 through June 30, 2023; 
(E) $150,000,000 for ex-offender activi-
ties, under the authority of section 169 of the 
WIOA, which shall be available for the period 
April 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023: Provided, 
That of this amount, $25,000,000 shall be for 
competitive grants to national and regional 
intermediaries for activities that prepare for 
employment young adults with criminal legal 
histories, young adults who have been justice 
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system-involved, or young adults who have 
dropped out of school or other educational pro-
grams, with a priority for projects serving high- 
crime, high-poverty areas; 
(F) $7,250,000 for the Workforce Data 
Quality Initiative, under the authority of section 
169 of the WIOA, which shall be available for 
the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 
2023; and 
(G) $285,000,000 to expand opportunities 
through apprenticeships only registered under 
the National Apprenticeship Act and as referred 
to in section 3(7)(B) of the WIOA, to be avail-
able to the Secretary to carry out activities 
through grants, cooperative agreements, con-
tracts and other arrangements, with States and 
other appropriate entities, including equity 
intermediaries and business and labor industry 
partner intermediaries, which shall be available 
for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 
2023. 
(H) $50,000,000 for a National Youth 
Employment Program, under the authority of 
section 169 of the WIOA, including the expan-
sion of summer and year-round job opportuni-
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ties for disadvantaged youth, which shall be 
available for the period April 1, 2022 through 
June 30, 2023; 
(I) $20,000,000 for a national training 
program for veterans, members of the armed 
forces who are separating from active duty, and 
the spouses of veterans and such members, fo-
cused on training related to employment in 
clean energy sectors and occupations, under the 
authority of section 169 of the WIOA, which 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2022 
through June 30, 2023; and 
(J) $63,956,000 for carrying out Dem-
onstration and Pilot projects under section 
169(c) of the WIOA, which shall be available 
for the period April 1, 2022 through June 30, 
2023, in addition to funds available for such ac-
tivities 
under 
subparagraph 
(A) 
for 
the 
projects, and in the amounts, specified under 
the heading ‘‘Training and Employment Serv-
ices’’ in the report accompanying this Act: Pro-
vided, That such funds may be used for 
projects that are related to the employment and 
training needs of dislocated workers, other 
adults, or youth: Provided further, That the 10 
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