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, $2,450,000.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Rela-
tions 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, $205,717,000: Pro-
vided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available
to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or
used in connection with investigations, hearings, direc-
tives, 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 amend-
ed, and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 25,
1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said definition em-
ployees engaged in the maintenance and operation of
ditches, canals, reservoirs, and waterways when main-
tained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at
least 95 percent of the water stored or supplied thereby
is used for farming purposes.
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 Presi-
dent, $9,800,000.
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),
$8,600,000.
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Ac-
count, authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Re-
tirement Act of 1974, $160,000,000, which shall include
amounts becoming available in fiscal year 2001 pursuant
to section 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addi-
tion, 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 $160,000,000: Provided, That the
total amount provided herein shall be credited in 12 ap-
proximately 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, 2002, 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,
$95,000,000, to be derived in such amounts as determined
by the Board from the railroad retirement accounts and
from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment insur-
ance 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 $5,380,000, to be derived from
the railroad retirement accounts and railroad unemploy-
ment 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, of-
fice supplies, communications facilities or services, mainte-
nance 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, $20,400,000.
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety
and Health Act of 1977, $365,748,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year,
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of the Fed-
eral Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, for costs in-
curred 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 2002, $114,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Se-
curity 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 Secu-
rity trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pur-
suant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act,
$22,791,000,000 (increased by $35,000,000), 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 re-
turned to the Treasury.
In addition, $245,000,000 (reduced by $35,000,000),
to remain available until September 30, 2002, for payment
to the Social Security trust funds for administrative ex-
penses 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 re-
views’’ 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 So-
cial 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
2002, $10,470,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two pas-
senger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $10,000 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses, not more than
$6,367,036,000 (increased by $70,000,000) may be ex-
pended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social
Security Act, from any one or all of the trust funds re-
ferred 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
2001 not needed for fiscal year 2001 shall remain avail-
able until expended to invest in the Social Security Admin-
istration information technology and telecommunications
hardware and software infrastructure, including related
equipment and non-payroll administrative expenses associ-
ated solely with this information technology and tele-
communications infrastructure: Provided further, That re-
imbursement to the trust funds under this heading for ex-
penditures for official time for employees of the Social Se-
curity 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 inter-
est, from amounts in the general fund not otherwise ap-
propriated, as soon as possible after such expenditures are
made.
From funds provided under the first paragraph, not
less than $130,000,000 (increased by $70,000,000) 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,
$520,000,000 (reduced by $70,000,000), to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2002, 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 redeter-
minations as defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the
Social Security Act, as amended.
In addition, $91,000,000 to be derived from adminis-
tration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment
collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Secu-
rity 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 2001 exceed $91,000,000, the
amounts shall be available in fiscal year 2002 only to the
extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
From funds previously appropriated for this purpose,
any unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 2000
shall be available to continue Federal-State partnerships
which will evaluate means to promote Medicare buy-in pro-
grams targeted to elderly and disabled individuals under
titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act.
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, $14,944,000, together
with not to exceed $50,808,000, to be transferred and ex-
pended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social
Security Act from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance 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 trans-
fers 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, $15,000,000.
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 recog-
nized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or
propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or
use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, tele-
vision, or video presentation designed to support or defeat
legislation pending before the Congress or any State legis-
lature, 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 recipi-
ent, 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 authorized to make available not to exceed $20,000
and $15,000, respectively, from funds available for sala-
ries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for
official reception and representation expenses; the Direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is
authorized to make available for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from the funds
available for ‘‘Salaries and expenses, Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service’’; and the Chairman of the Na-
tional Mediation Board is authorized to make available for
official reception and representation expenses not to ex-
ceed $2,500 from funds available for ‘‘Salaries and ex-
penses, 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 nee-
dles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal
drug.
SEC. 506. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equip-
ment and Products.—It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts 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 enti-
ty 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 bear-
ing 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 con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility 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 docu-
ments 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 re-
search 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 non-governmental 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 abor-
tion.
(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 arrange-
ment.
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos
for research purposes; or
(2) research in which a human embryo or em-
bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly sub-
jected 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 SUB-
STANCES.—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 sec-
tion 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 Sec-
retary 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 enti-
ty.
SEC. 513. Except as otherwise specifically provided
by law, unobligated balances remaining available at the
end of fiscal year 2000 from appropriations made avail-
able 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: Pro-
vided, That the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations shall be notified at least 15 days prior to the
obligation of such funds: Provided further, That the provi-
sions of this section shall not apply to any funds appro-
priated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
or to the Department of Education.
SEC. 514. Section 5527 of Public Law 105–33, The
Balanced Budget Act of 1997, is repealed.
SEC. 515. (a) DATES FOR EVALUATION.—Section
403(a)(5)(H)(iii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
603(a)(5)(H)(iii)) is amended by striking ‘‘2001’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2005’’.
(b) 
INTERIM
REPORT
REQUIRED.—Section
403(a)(5)(H) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(5)(G)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(iv) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later
than January 1, 2002, the Secretary shall
submit to the Congress an interim report
on the evaluations referred to in clause
(i).’’.
SEC. 
516. 
Section 
403(a)(3)(A) 
(42 
U.S.C.
603(a)(3)(A)) is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(2) in clause (ii)—
(A) by striking ‘‘1999, 2000, and 2001’’
and inserting ‘‘1999 and 2000’’; and
(B) by striking the period at the end and
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
clause:
‘‘(iii) for fiscal year 2001, a grant in
an amount equal to the amount of the
grant to the State under clause (i) for fis-
cal year 1998.’’.
SEC. 517. Section 410(b) of The Ticket to Work and
Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (Public Law
106–170) is amended by striking ‘‘2009’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘2001’’.
SEC. 518. If the total level of discretionary advance
appropriations for fiscal year 2002 and subsequent fiscal
years provided in general appropriation Acts for fiscal year
2001 exceeds $23,500,000,000, there shall be rescinded
from the amount made available in this Act for fiscal year
2002 under the heading ‘‘ADMINISTRATION FOR CHIL-
DREN AND FAMILIES—PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE
CHILD
CARE
AND
DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK
GRANT’’ an
amount sufficient to reduce the total level of such discre-
tionary advance appropriations to $23,500,000,000: Pro-
vided, That the rescission shall not exceed an amount that
would cause the amount provided under such heading to
be less than the amount provided for fiscal year 2001 in
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public
Law 106–113).
SEC. 519. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final stand-
ard under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1320d–2(b)).
SEC. 520. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to prohibit military recruiting at sec-
ondary schools.
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the National Institutes of Health may be used to
grant an exclusive or partially exclusive license pursuant
to chapter 18 of title 35, United States Code, except in
accordance with section 209 of such title (relating to the
availability to the public of an invention and its benefits
on reasonable terms).
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 14, 2000.
Attest:
Clerk.