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shall be available proportional to the amount by which the 
product of recipients and the average benefit received ex-
ceeds the amount available for payment of vested dual 
benefits: Provided, That the total amount provided herein 
shall be credited in 12 approximately 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, 2009, which shall be the maximum amount available 
for payment pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98– 
76 (45 U.S.C. 231n note). 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement 
Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act 
(45 U.S.C. 231 et seq.) and the Railroad Unemployment 
Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.), $103,694,000, to 
be derived in such amounts as determined by the Board 
from the railroad retirement accounts and from moneys 
credited to the railroad unemployment insurance adminis-
tration fund. 
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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 (5 U.S.C. 
appendix), not more than $7,606,000, to be derived from 
the railroad retirement accounts and railroad unemploy-
ment insurance account. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 
Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-
ance Trust Fund, as provided under sections 201(m), 
217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 401(m), 417(g), 428(g), and 1320b–1(b)(2)), 
$28,140,000. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 1301 et seq., 1381 et seq.), 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 Security trust funds 
for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
401(g)(1)), $26,948,525,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That any portion of the funds provided 
to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by 
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the State during that year shall be returned to the Treas-
ury. 
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), for unantici-
pated 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 (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.) for the first 
quarter of fiscal year 2009, $14,800,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two pas-
senger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $15,000 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses, not more than 
$9,347,953,000 may be expended, as authorized by sec-
tion 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
401(g)(1)), from any one or all of the trust funds referred 
to therein: Provided, That not less than $2,000,000 shall 
be for the Social Security Advisory Board: Provided fur-
ther, That unobligated balances of funds provided under 
this paragraph at the end of fiscal year 2008 not needed 
for fiscal year 2008 shall remain available until expended 
to invest in the Social Security Administration information 
technology and telecommunications hardware and soft-
ware infrastructure, including related equipment and non- 
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payroll administrative expenses associated solely with this 
information technology and telecommunications infra-
structure: Provided further, That reimbursement to the 
trust funds under this heading for expenditures for official 
time for employees of the Social Security Administration 
pursuant to section 7131 of title 5, United States Code, 
and for facilities or support services for labor organiza-
tions pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures re-
ferred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall be made 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, with interest, from 
amounts in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, 
as soon as possible after such expenditures are made. 
From funds provided under the first paragraph, not 
less than $263,970,000 shall be available for conducting 
continuing disability reviews under title II and XVI of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq., 1381 et seq.) 
and for conducting redeterminations of eligibility under 
title XVI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1381 et 
seq.). 
In addition to amounts made available above, and 
subject to the same terms and conditions, $213,000,000, 
for additional continuing disability reviews and redeter-
minations of eligibility. 
In addition, $135,000,000 to be derived from admin-
istration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary pay-
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ment collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1382e(d)) or section 212(b)(3) 
of Public Law 93–66, which shall remain available until 
expended. To the extent that the amounts collected pursu-
ant to such sections in fiscal year 2008 exceed 
$135,000,000, the amounts shall be available in fiscal year 
2009 only to the extent provided in advance in appropria-
tions Acts. 
In addition, up to $1,000,000 to be derived from fees 
collected pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security 
Protection Act (Public Law 108–203), which shall remain 
available until expended. 
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 (5 U.S.C. App.), $27,000,000, to-
gether with not to exceed $68,047,000, to be transferred 
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401(g)(1)) from the Fed-
eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 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, 
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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 of Representatives and the 
Senate. 
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. Such transferred balances shall be 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. 
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(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 $28,000 
and $20,000, 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 $5,000 from the funds 
available for ‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 
Salaries and expenses’’; and the Chairman of the National 
Mediation Board is authorized to make available for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses not to exceed 
$5,000 from funds available for ‘‘National Mediation 
Board, Salaries and expenses’’. 
SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles 
or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal 
drug. 
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SEC. 506. 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 pro-
gram 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. 507. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which 
funds are appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for 
any abortion. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and 
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for health ben-
efits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the 
package of services covered by a managed care provider 
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or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrange-
ment. 
SEC. 508. (a) The limitations established in the pre-
ceding section shall not apply to an abortion— 
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
rape or incest; or 
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a 
physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, 
including a life-endangering physical condition 
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 
would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 
in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. 
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-
strued as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, 
entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds 
(other than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid 
matching funds). 
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-
strued as restricting the ability of any managed care pro-
vider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a 
State or locality to contract separately with such a pro-
vider for such coverage with State funds (other than a 
State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching 
funds). 
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(d)(1) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be made available to a Federal agency or program, 
or to a State or local government, if such agency, program, 
or government subjects any institutional or individual 
health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the 
health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide cov-
erage of, or refer for abortions. 
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ 
includes an individual physician or other health care pro-
fessional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a 
health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, 
or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or 
plan. 
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used for— 
(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 sec-
tion 46.204(b) of title 45, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, and section 498(b) of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 
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(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human 
embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected 
as a human subject under part 46 of title 45, Code of 
Federal Regulations, 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. 510. (a) 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 estab-
lished under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 812) except for normal and recognized execu-
tive-congressional communications. 
(b) 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. 511. 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)) providing for, or providing for the as-
signment of, a unique health identifier for an individual 
(except in an individual’s capacity as an employer or a 
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health care provider), until legislation is enacted specifi-
cally approving the standard. 
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. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act 
may be made available to any library covered by para-
graph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
9134(f)), as amended by the Children’s Internet Protec-
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tion Act, unless such library has made the certifications 
required by paragraph (4) of such section. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to carry out part D of title II of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2401 et 
seq.) may be made available to any elementary or sec-
ondary school covered by paragraph (1) of section 2441(a) 
of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6777(a)), as amended by the Chil-
dren’s Internet Protection Act and the No Child Left Be-
hind Act, unless the local educational agency with respon-
sibility for such covered school has made the certifications 
required by paragraph (2) of such section. 
SEC. 516. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
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(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes or renames offices; 
(6) reorganizes programs or activities; or 
(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are notified 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects (in-
cluding construction projects), or activities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
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(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are notified 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier. 
SEC. 517. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to request that a candidate for ap-
pointment to a Federal scientific advisory committee dis-
close the political affiliation or voting history of the can-
didate or the position that the candidate holds with re-
spect to political issues not directly related to and nec-
essary for the work of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to disseminate scientific information that is delib-
erately false or misleading. 
SEC. 518. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 
each department and related agency funded through this 
Act shall submit an operating plan that details at the pro-
gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 
for fiscal year 2008 that are different than those specified 
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in this Act, the accompanying detailed table in the com-
mittee report, or the fiscal year 2008 budget request. 
SEC. 519. The Department of Labor and the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services shall provide con-
gressional budget justifications for their fiscal year 2009 
budget requests in the format and level of detail used by 
the Department of Education in its fiscal year 2008 con-
gressional budget justifications. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or 
the Social Security Administration to develop guidelines, 
policies, or procedures, or to pay the compensation of em-
ployees of the Social Security Administration, to admin-
ister Social Security benefit payments, under any agree-
ment between the United States and any foreign country 
establishing totalization arrangements between the social 
security system established by title II of the Social Secu-
rity Act and the social security system of such foreign 
country, which would be inconsistent with existing statu-
tory law. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with an entity 
that does not participate in the basic pilot program de-
scribed in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Re-
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