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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 Represent-
atives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming or of an announcement of intent relating to such 
reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier, and are notified in writing 
10 days in advance of such reprogramming. 
(b) 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 obligation or expenditure in fiscal 
year 2015, 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 
(including 
construction projects), or activities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, 
project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in 
personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, 
activities, or projects as approved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming or of an announcement of intent relating to such 
reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier, and are notified in writing 
10 days in advance of such reprogramming. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to request that a candidate for appointment to a 
Federal scientific advisory committee disclose the political affiliation 
or voting history of the candidate or the position that the candidate 
holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and 
necessary for the work of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to disseminate information that is deliberately false or mis-
leading. 
SEC. 516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, each depart-
ment and related agency funded through this Act shall submit 
an operating plan that details at the program, project, and activity 
level any funding allocations for fiscal year 2015 that are different 
than those specified in this Act, the accompanying detailed table 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act) accompanying this 
Act, or the fiscal year 2015 budget request. 
SEC. 517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Serv-
ices, and Education shall each prepare and submit to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report on the number and amount of contracts, grants, 
and cooperative agreements exceeding $500,000 in value and 
awarded by the Department on a non-competitive basis during 
each quarter of fiscal year 2015, but not to include grants awarded 
on a formula basis or directed by law. Such report shall include 
the name of the contractor or grantee, the amount of funding,
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the governmental purpose, including a justification for issuing the 
award on a non-competitive basis. Such report shall be transmitted 
to the Committees within 30 days after the end of the quarter 
for which the report is submitted. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of Social Security, 
for purposes of administering Social Security benefit payments 
under title II of the Social Security Act, to process any claim 
for credit for a quarter of coverage based on work performed under 
a social security account number that is not the claimant’s number 
and the performance of such work under such number has formed 
the basis for a conviction of the claimant of a violation of section 
208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Secu-
rity Administration to pay the compensation of employees of the 
Social Security Administration to administer Social Security benefit 
payments, under any agreement between the United States and 
Mexico establishing totalization arrangements between the social 
security system established by title II of the Social Security Act 
and the social security system of Mexico, which would not otherwise 
be payable but for such agreement. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 520. Of the funds made available for performance bonus 
payments under section 2105(a)(3)(E) of the Social Security Act, 
$1,745,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 521. 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 hypo-
dermic injection of any illegal drug. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 522. Of the funds made available for fiscal year 2015 
under section 3403 of Public Law 111–148, $10,000,000 are 
rescinded. 
SEC. 523. Not later than 30 days after the end of each calendar 
quarter, beginning with the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education 
and the Social Security Administration shall provide the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 
a quarterly report on the status of balances of appropriations: 
Provided, That for balances that are unobligated and uncommitted, 
committed, and obligated but unexpended, the quarterly reports 
shall separately identify the amounts attributable to each source 
year of appropriation (beginning with fiscal year 2012, or, to the 
extent feasible, earlier fiscal years) from which balances were 
derived. 
SEC. 524. (a) Federal agencies may use Federal discretionary 
funds that are made available in this Act to carry out up to 
10 Performance Partnership Pilots. Such Pilots shall: 
(1) be designed to improve outcomes for disconnected youth, 
and 
(2) involve Federal programs targeted on disconnected 
youth, or designed to prevent youth from disconnecting from 
school or work, that provide education, training, employment,
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and other related social services. Such Pilots shall be governed 
by the provisions of section 526 of the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2014, except that in carrying out such 
Pilots section 526 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘FISCAL YEAR 
2015’’ for ‘‘FISCAL YEAR 2014’’ in the title of subsection (b) and 
by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2019’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2018’’ 
each place it appears. 
(b) In addition, Federal agencies may use Federal discretionary 
funds that are made available in this Act to participate in Perform-
ance Partnership Pilots that are being carried out pursuant to 
the authority provided by section 526 of the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2014. 
SEC. 525. Each Federal agency, or in the case of an agency 
with multiple bureaus, each bureau (or operating division) funded 
under this Act that has research and development expenditures 
in excess of $100,000,000 per year shall develop a Federal research 
public access policy that provides for— 
(1) the submission to the agency, agency bureau, or des-
ignated entity acting on behalf of the agency, a machine-read-
able version of the author’s final peer-reviewed manuscripts 
that have been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed jour-
nals describing research supported, in whole or in part, from 
funding by the Federal Government; 
(2) free online public access to such final peer-reviewed 
manuscripts or published versions not later than 12 months 
after the official date of publication; and 
(3) compliance with all relevant copyright laws. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless 
such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging 
of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds nec-
essary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency 
or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, 
or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 527. For purposes of carrying out Executive Order 13589, 
Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 dated 
May 11, 2012, and requirements contained in the annual appropria-
tions bills relating to conference attendance and expenditures: 
(1) the operating divisions of HHS shall be considered 
independent agencies; and 
(2) attendance at and support for scientific conferences 
shall be tabulated separately from and not included in agency 
totals. 
(TRANSFER) 
SEC. 528. (a) This section applies to the amounts that— 
(1) are made available in this Act— 
(A) under the heading ‘‘REHABILITATION SERVICES AND 
DISABILITY RESEARCH’’ in title III; or 
(B) under the heading ‘‘PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATION’’ 
under the heading ‘‘DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT’’ in title 
III; and
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(2) relate to functions described in subsection (b), (m)(1), 
or (n)(2) of section 491 of the WIOA. 
(b) Amounts described in subsection (a) shall be obligated, 
expended, and transferred in accordance with that section 491. 
SEC. 529. None of the funds made available under this or 
any other Act, or any prior Appropriations Act, may be provided 
to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now 
(ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, allied organizations, 
or successors. 
TITLE VI 
EBOLA RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION 
CDC-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘CDC-Wide Activities and Pro-
gram Support,’’ $1,771,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2019, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to Ebola domestically 
and internationally; for the transportation, medical care, treatment, 
and other related costs of persons quarantined or isolated under 
Federal or State quarantine law; and to carry out titles II, III, 
and XVII of the Public Health Service (‘‘PHS’’) Act with respect 
to domestic preparedness and global health: Provided, That no 
less than $10,000,000 shall be for worker-based training to prevent 
and reduce exposure of hospital employees, emergency first 
responders and other workers who are at risk of exposure to Ebola 
through their work duties: Provided further, That $597,000,000 
shall be used to support national public health institutes and global 
health security: Provided further, That $155,000,000 shall be to 
support the Public Health Emergency Preparedness program: Pro-
vided further, That products purchased with these funds may, at 
the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
be deposited in the Strategic National Stockpile under section 319F– 
2 of the PHS Act: Provided further, That funds may be used for 
purchase and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign coun-
tries: Provided further, That such funds may be transferred by 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(‘‘CDC’’) to other accounts of the CDC for the purposes provided 
in this paragraph: Provided further, That the Director of the CDC 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate promptly after any transfer under 
the preceding proviso: Provided further, That the transfer authority 
provided in this paragraph is in addition to any other transfer 
authority provided by law: Provided further, That such amount 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.