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tions, and section 498(b) of the Public Health Serv-
ice 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 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-
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signment of, a unique health identifier for an individual 
(except in an individual’s capacity as an employer or a 
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-
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graph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
9134(f)), as amended by the Children’s Internet Protec-
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;
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(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(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;
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(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 
(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-
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gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 
for fiscal year 2008 that are different than those specified 
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-
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scribed in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Re-
form and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 
1324a note). 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the basic pay of any individual 
serving as Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, Social 
Security Administration, whose appointment to such posi-
tion has not been confirmed by a vote of the Senate pursu-
ant to section 702(b)(1) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to establish or implement any require-
ment that individuals receive vaccination for human 
papillomavirus (HPV) as a condition of school admittance 
or matriculation. 
SEC. 524. The amounts otherwise provided by this 
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available 
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF LABOR—Departmental Man-
agement—Salaries and Expenses’’, and increasing the 
amount made available for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF EDU-
CATION—School Improvement Programs’’ (for activities 
authorized by part B of title II of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965), by $15,665,760. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services to implement the final rule published on March
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30, 2007, on page 15275 of volume 72, Federal Register 
(relating to section 482.82(b) of title 42, Code of Federal 
Regulations). 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out the evaluation of the Upward 
Bound program described in the absolute priority for Up-
ward Bound Program participant selection and evaluation 
published by the Department of Education in the Federal 
Register on September 22, 2006 (71 Fed. Reg. 55447 et 
seq.). 
SEC. 527. The amount otherwise provided in this Act 
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION—DEPART-
MENTAL MANAGEMENT—Office of Civil Rights’’ is 
hereby decreased by $2,000,000 and increased by 
$2,000,000. 
SEC. 528. The amount otherwise provided in this Act 
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION—EDUCATION 
FOR THE DISADVANTAGED’’ is hereby decreased by 
$2,000,000 and increased by $2,000,000. 
SEC. 529. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to carry out the Entertainment Edu-
cation Program of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used for the Ombudsman Program of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention. 
(c) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
to provide additional rotating pastel lights, zero-gravity 
chairs, or dry-heat saunas for its fitness center. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase light bulbs unless the light 
bulbs have the ‘‘ENERGY STAR’’ designation. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency at any single conference occurring outside 
the United States. 
SEC. 532. The amounts otherwise provided by this 
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available 
for the ‘‘Department of Labor, Employment and Training 
Administration, Training and Employment Services’’, by 
increasing the amount made available for the ‘‘National 
Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute’’, and by 
increasing the amount made available for the ‘‘National 
Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological 
Disorders and Stroke’’ by $49,000,000, $10,000,000, and 
$10,000,000, respectively.
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SEC. 533. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to employ workers described in section 274A(h)(3) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 534. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Public Broadcasting Service to 
sponsor events at the Filmmaker Lodge at the Sundance 
Film Festival. 
SEC. 535. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or 
the Social Security Administration to pay the compensa-
tion of employees of the Social Security Administration 
to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any 
agreement between the United States and Mexico estab-
lishing totalization arrangements between the social secu-
rity 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. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to take any action to finalize (or other-
wise implement) provisions contained in the proposed rule 
published on May 3, 2007, on pages 24680 through 25135 
of volume 72, Federal Register, insofar as such provisions 
propose— 
(1) to alter payments for services under the 
hospital inpatient prospective payment system under
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section 1886(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C 
1395ww(d)) based on use of a Medicare severity di-
agnosis related group (MS-DRG) system; or 
(2) to implement a prospective behavioral offset 
in response to the implementation of such a Medi-
care Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG) 
system for purposes of such hospital inpatient pro-
spective payment system. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 19, 2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3043 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Edu-
cation, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2008, and for other pur-
poses.