fied arbitrator who is jointly selected and inde-
pendent of the parties. 
(B) APPOINTMENT BY SECRETARY.—If the 
parties cannot agree on an arbitrator within 5 
days of submitting the grievance to binding ar-
bitration under subparagraph (A), one of the 
parties may submit a request to the Secretary 
to appoint a qualified and independent arbi-
trator. The Secretary shall appoint a qualified 
and independent arbitrator within 15 days after 
receiving the request. 
(C) HEARING.—Unless the parties mutu-
ally agree otherwise, the arbitrator shall con-
duct a hearing on the grievance and issue a de-
cision not later than 30 days after the date 
such arbitrator is selected or appointed. 
(D) COSTS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided 
in clause (ii), the cost of an arbitration 
proceeding shall be divided evenly between 
the parties to the arbitration. 
(ii) EXCEPTION.—If a grievant pre-
vails under an arbitration proceeding, the 
unit of general local government or State 
involved in the dispute shall pay the cost 
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necessary to make the grievant whole, including the 
reinstatement of a displaced employee or the pay-
ment of back wages, and may submit recommenda-
tions to the Secretary to ensure further compliance 
with the requirements of this title, including rec-
ommendations to suspend or terminate funding, or 
to require the repayment of funds received under 
this title during any period of noncompliance. 
(2) EXISTING
GRIEVANCE
PROCEDURES.—A 
party to a dispute described in paragraph (1) may 
use the existing grievance procedure of a unit or 
State involved in such dispute, or the arbitration 
procedure described in this subsection, to resolve 
such dispute. 
(d) PARTY DEFINED.—For purposes of subsections 
(a), (b), and (c), the term ‘‘party’’ means an employee, 
employee representative, unit of general local government, 
or State, involved in a dispute described in subsection (b) 
or (c). 
(e) WHISTLEBLOWER HOTLINE; ENFORCEMENT BY 
THE SECRETARY.— 
(1) WHISTLEBLOWER
HOTLINE.—The Sec-
retary shall post on a publicly accessible Internet 
Web site of the Department of Labor the contact in-
formation for reporting noncompliance with this title 
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by a State or unit of general local government or in-
dividual receiving funding under this title. 
(2) ENFORCEMENT BY THE SECRETARY.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—If the Secretary re-
ceives a complaint alleging noncompliance with 
this title, the Secretary may conduct an inves-
tigation and after notice and an opportunity for 
a hearing, may order such remedies as the Sec-
retary determines appropriate, including— 
(i) withholding further funds under 
this title to a noncompliant entity; 
(ii) requiring the entity to make an 
injured party whole; or 
(iii) requiring the entity to repay to 
the Secretary any funds received under 
this title during any period of noncompli-
ance. 
(B) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term ‘‘entity’’ means State, unit 
of general local government, or individual. 
(C) 
RECOMMENDATION
BY
AN
ARBI-
TRATOR.—A remedy described in subparagraph 
(A) may also be ordered by the Secretary upon 
recommendation by an arbitrator appointed or 
selected under this section. 
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SEC. 610. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘city’’; ‘‘extent of 
poverty’’; ‘‘metropolitan city’’; ‘‘urban county’’; 
‘‘nonentitlement area’’; ‘‘population’’; and ‘‘State’’ 
have the meanings given the terms in section 102 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302). 
(2) BENEFITS.—The term ‘‘benefits’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘employment benefits’’ in 
section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 
1993 (29 U.S.C. 2611). 
(3) EMPLOYEE
COMPENSATION.—The term 
‘‘employee compensation’’ includes wages and bene-
fits. 
(4) ENTITLEMENT
COMMUNITIES.—The term 
‘‘entitlement communities’’ includes metropolitan cit-
ies and urban counties. 
(5) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 4(e) of 
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)). 
(6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Labor. 
(7) UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘un-
employed individual’’ has the meaning given such 
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term in section 101 of the Workforce Investment 
Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801). 
(8) UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— 
The term ‘‘unit of general local government’’ means 
any city, county, town, township, parish, village, or 
other general purpose political subdivision of a 
State; Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, or a general 
purpose political subdivision thereof; a combination 
of such political subdivisions that is recognized by 
the Secretary; and the District of Columbia. 
(9) VETERAN.—The term ‘‘veteran’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 101 of the 
Workforce Investment Act (29 U.S.C. 2801). 
(10) WAGE.—The term ‘‘wage’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 3 of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203). 
TITLE VII—CHILD 
DEVELOPMENT CORPS 
SEC. 701. PURPOSE. 
It is the purpose of this title to provide for the cre-
ation of an additional 100,000 jobs through the Head 
Start Act. 
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SEC. 702. CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPS. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO THE HEAD START ACT.—The 
Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by inserting after section 639 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 639A. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR EM-
PLOYING EARLY HEAD START PROFESSIONAL 
EMPLOYEES. 
‘‘There 
is 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated 
$3,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2014 and 2015 
to carry out section 640A.’’; and 
(2) by inserting after section 640 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 640A. EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFANT AND 
TODDLER SPECIALISTS. 
‘‘(a) EMPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL FULL-TIME IN-
FANT AND TODDLER SPECIALISTS.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall provide funds appropriated under section 
639A to Early Head Start programs to pay the cost of 
employing additional full-time infant and toddler special-
ists. 
‘‘(b) FUNDS TO SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—An 
Early Head Start program that receives funds under sub-
section (a) shall use such funds only to supplement and 
not supplant the amount of funds that would, in the ab-
sence of such Federal funds, be available to pay the cost 
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