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back, and other facilities requirements and serve the 
purposes established by this Act. The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services is authorized, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of State, through grant 
or cooperative agreement, to make available to pub-
lic or nonprofit private institutions or agencies in 
participating foreign countries, funds to acquire, 
lease, alter, or renovate facilities in those countries 
as necessary to conduct programs of assistance for 
international health activities, including activities re-
lating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, 
chronic and environmental diseases, and other health 
activities abroad. 
SEC. 216. The Division of Federal Occupational 
Health hereafter may utilize personal services contracting 
to employ professional management/administrative and oc-
cupational health professionals. 
SEC. 217. (a) AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Director of the National Insti-
tutes of Health may use funds available under section 
402(i) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282(i)) 
to enter into transactions (other than contracts, coopera-
tive agreements, or grants) to carry out research in sup-
port of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.
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(b) PEER REVIEW.—In entering into transactions 
under subsection (a), the Director of the National Insti-
tutes of Health may utilize such peer review procedures 
(including consultation with appropriate scientific experts) 
as the Director determines to be appropriate to obtain as-
sessments of scientific and technical merit. Such proce-
dures shall apply to such transactions in lieu of the peer 
review and advisory council review procedures that would 
otherwise
be
required
under
sections
301(a)(3), 
405(b)(1)(B), 405(b)(2), 406(a)(3)(A), 492, and 494 of 
the
Public
Health
Service
Act
(42
U.S.C.
241, 
284(b)(1)(B), 284(b)(2), 284a(a)(3)(A), 289a, and 289c). 
SEC. 218. Funds which are available for Individual 
Learning Accounts for employees of the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry may be transferred to 
‘‘Disease Control, Research, and Training,’’ to be avail-
able only for Individual Learning Accounts: Provided, 
That such funds may be used for any individual full-time 
equivalent employee while such employee is employed ei-
ther by CDC or ATSDR. 
SEC. 219. $15,912,000 of the unobligated balance of 
the Health Professions Student Loan program authorized 
in subpart II, Federally-Supported Student Loan Funds, 
of title VII of the Public Health Service Act is rescinded.
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health 
and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (‘‘ESEA’’) and section 
418A
of
the
Higher
Education
Act
of
1965, 
$14,728,735,000, of which $7,144,426,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2006, and shall remain available 
through
September
30,
2007,
and
of
which 
$7,383,301,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2006, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2007, for academic year 2006–2007: Provided, That 
$6,934,854,000 shall be available for basic grants under 
section 1124: Provided further, That up to $3,472,000 of 
these funds shall be available to the Secretary of Edu-
cation on October 1, 2005, to obtain annually updated 
educational-agency-level census poverty data from the Bu-
reau
of
the
Census:
Provided
further,
That 
$1,365,031,000 shall be available for concentration grants 
under
section
1124A:
Provided
further,
That 
$2,269,843,000 shall be available for targeted grants 
under
section
1125:
Provided
further,
That 
$2,269,843,000 shall be available for education finance in-
centive grants under section 1125A: Provided further,
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That $9,424,000 shall be available to carry out part E 
of title I: Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be 
available for comprehensive school reform grants under 
part F of the ESEA. 
IMPACT AID 
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to 
federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
$1,240,862,000, of which $1,102,896,000 shall be for 
basic
support
payments
under
section
8003(b), 
$49,966,000 shall be for payments for children with dis-
abilities under section 8003(d), $18,000,000 shall be for 
construction under section 8007 and shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2007, $65,000,000 shall be 
for Federal property payments under section 8002, and 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for facilities maintenance under section 8008: Provided, 
That for purposes of computing the amount of a payment 
for an eligible local educational agency under section 
8003(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 7703(a)) for school year 2005–2006, children 
enrolled in a school of such agency that would otherwise 
be eligible for payment under section 8003(a)(1)(B) of 
such Act, but due to the deployment of both parents or 
legal guardians, or a parent or legal guardian having sole
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custody of such children, or due to the death of a military 
parent or legal guardian while on active duty (so long as 
such children reside on Federal property as described in 
section 8003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such 
section, shall be considered as eligible students under such 
section, provided such students remain in average daily 
attendance at a school in the same local educational agen-
cy they attended prior to their change in eligibility status. 
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out school improvement activities au-
thorized by titles II, part B of title IV, part A of title 
V, parts A and B of title VI, and parts B and C of title 
VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (‘‘ESEA’’); the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act; section 203 of the Educational Technical Assist-
ance Act of 2002; the Compact of Free Association 
Amendments Act of 2003; and the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, $5,393,765,000, of which $3,805,882,000 shall be-
come available on July 1, 2006, and remain available 
through
September
30,
2007,
and
of
which 
$1,435,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2006, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2007, for academic year 2006–2007: Provided, That 
$411,680,000 shall be for State assessments and related 
activities authorized under sections 6111 and 6112 of the
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ESEA: Provided further, That $56,825,000 shall be avail-
able to carry out section 203 of the Educational Technical 
Assistance
Act
of
2002:
Provided
further,
That 
$12,132,000 shall be available to carry out the Supple-
mental Education Grants program for the Federated 
States of Micronesia, and $6,051,000 shall be available 
to carry out the Supplemental Education Grants program 
for the Republic of the Marshall Islands: Provided further, 
That up to 5 percent of these amounts may be reserved 
by the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic 
of the Marshall Islands to administer the Supplemental 
Education Grants programs and to obtain technical assist-
ance, oversight and consultancy services in the administra-
tion of these grants and to reimburse the United States 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education for such services. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent 
not otherwise provided, title VII, part A of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $119,889,000. 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by part G of 
title I, subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title 
II, parts B, C, and D of title V, and section 1504 of the 
Elementary
and
Secondary
Education
Act
of
1965
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(‘‘ESEA’’), $708,522,000: Provided, That $36,981,000 
shall be for subpart 2 of part B of title V: Provided fur-
ther, That $127,000,000 shall be available to carry out 
part D of title V of the ESEA, of which $100,000,000 
of the funds for subpart 1 shall be for competitive grants 
to local educational agencies, including charter schools 
that are local educational agencies, or States, or partner-
ships of (1) a local educational agency, a State, or both 
and (2) at least one non-profit organization to develop and 
implement performance-based teacher and principal com-
pensation systems in high-need areas: Provided further, 
That such performance-based compensation systems must 
consider gains in student achievement, among other fac-
tors, and may reward educators who choose to work in 
hard-to-staff
schools:
Provided
further,
That
up
to 
$700,000 of the funds available under title V, part D, sub-
part 1 of the ESEA may be used for evaluation of the 
program carried out under the DC School Choice Incentive 
Act of 2003. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by subpart 3 
of part C of title II, part A of title IV, and subparts 2, 
3, and 10 of part D of title V of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (‘‘ESEA’’), $763,870,000, 
of which $400,000,000, shall become available on July 1,
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2006, and remain available through September 30, 2007: 
Provided, That $400,000,000 shall be available for sub-
part 1 of part A of title IV and $152,537,000 shall be 
available for subpart 2 of part A of title IV: Provided fur-
ther, That $132,621,000 shall be available to carry out 
part D of title V of the ESEA: Provided further, That of 
the funds available to carry out subpart 3 of part C of 
title II, up to $12,193,000 may be used to carry out sec-
tion 2345 and $3,035,000 shall be used by the Center for 
Civic Education to implement a comprehensive program 
to improve public knowledge, understanding, and support 
of the Congress and the State legislatures. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, 
$675,765,000, which shall become available on July 1, 
2006, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2007, except that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be 
available on October 1, 2005, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007, to carry out activities under 
section 3111(c)(1)(C). 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education
Act,
$11,813,783,000,
of
which 
$6,202,804,000 shall become available for obligation on 
July 1, 2006, and shall remain available through Sep-
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tember 30, 2007, and of which $5,413,000,000 shall be-
come available on October 1, 2006, and shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2007, for academic year 
2006–2007: Provided, That $11,400,000 shall be for Re-
cording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Inc., to support the 
development, production, and circulation of recorded edu-
cational materials: Provided further, That the amount for 
section 611(b)(2) of the Act shall be equal to the amount 
available for that activity during fiscal year 2005, in-
creased by the amount of inflation as specified in section 
619(d)(2)(B) of the Act. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Tech-
nology Act of 1998 (‘‘the AT Act’’), and the Helen Keller 
National Center Act, $3,128,638,000: Provided, That 
$29,760,000 shall be used for carrying out the AT Act, 
including $4,385,000 for State grants for protection and 
advocacy under section 5 of the AT Act and $5,086,000 
shall be for alternative financing programs under section 
4(b)(2)(D) of the AT Act: Provided further, That the Fed-
eral share of grants for alternative financing programs 
shall not exceed 75 percent, and the requirements in sec-
tion 301(c)(2) and section 302 of the AT Act (as in effect
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on the day before the date of enactment of the Assistive 
Technology Act of 2004) shall not apply to such grants. 
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH 
DISABILITIES 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as 
amended (20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $17,000,000. 
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf 
under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act 
of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $56,137,000, of which 
$800,000 shall be for construction and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That from the total amount 
available, the Institute may at its discretion use funds for 
the endowment program as authorized under section 207. 
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY 
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, 
the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial 
support of Gallaudet University under titles I and II of 
the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 
et seq.), $107,657,000: Provided, That from the total 
amount available, the University may at its discretion use 
funds for the endowment program as authorized under 
section 207.
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VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Edu-
cation Act of 1998, the Adult Education and Family Lit-
eracy Act, and subparts 4 and 11 of part D of title V 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(‘‘ESEA’’), $1,991,782,000, of which $1,196,058,000 
shall become available on July 1, 2006, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2007, and of which 
$791,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2006, 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2007: 
Provided, That of the amount provided for Adult Edu-
cation State Grants, $68,581,000 shall be made available 
for integrated English literacy and civics education serv-
ices to immigrants and other limited English proficient 
populations: Provided further, That of the amount re-
served for integrated English literacy and civics education, 
notwithstanding section 211 of the Adult Education and 
Family Literacy Act, 65 percent shall be allocated to 
States based on a State’s absolute need as determined by 
calculating each State’s share of a 10-year average of the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service data for immi-
grants admitted for legal permanent residence for the 10 
most recent years, and 35 percent allocated to States that 
experienced growth as measured by the average of the 3
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most recent years for which Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service data for immigrants admitted for legal perma-
nent residence are available, except that no State shall be 
allocated an amount less than $60,000: Provided further, 
That of the amounts made available for the Adult Edu-
cation and Family Literacy Act, $9,096,000 shall be for 
national leadership activities under section 243 and 
$6,638,000 shall be for the National Institute for Literacy 
under section 242: Provided further, That $94,476,000 
shall be available to support the activities authorized 
under subpart 4 of part D of title V of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, of which up to 5 
percent shall become available October 1, 2005, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2007, for evalua-
tion, technical assistance, school networking, peer review 
of applications, and program outreach activities, and of 
which not less than 95 percent shall become available on 
July 1, 2006, and remain available through September 30, 
2007, for grants to local educational agencies: Provided 
further, That funds made available to local education agen-
cies under this subpart shall be used only for activities 
related to establishing smaller learning communities in 
high schools.
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STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 4 of part A, part 
C and part E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
1965, as amended, $15,283,752,000, which shall remain 
available through September 30, 2007. 
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall 
be eligible during award year 2006–2007 shall be $4,100. 
STUDENT AID ADMINISTRATION 
For Federal administrative expenses (in addition to 
funds made available under section 458), to carry out part 
D of title I, and subparts 1, 3, and 4 of part A, and parts 
B, C, D, and E of title IV of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965, as amended, $124,084,000. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, section 121 and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (‘‘HEA’’), as amend-
ed, section 1543 of the Higher Education Amendments 
of 1992, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act of 1961, and section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Technical Education Act, $1,936,936,000 (in-
creased by $27,000,000): Provided, That $9,797,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2007, shall be 
available to fund fellowships for academic year 2007–2008 
under part A, subpart 1 of title VII of said Act, under
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the terms and conditions of part A, subpart 1: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or any regulation, the Secretary of Education shall not 
require the use of a restricted indirect cost rate for grants 
issued pursuant to section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Vo-
cational and Technical Education Act of 1998: Provided 
further, That $980,000 is for data collection and evalua-
tion activities for programs under the HEA, including 
such activities needed to comply with the Government Per-
formance and Results Act of 1993: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made 
available in this Act to carry out title VI of the HEA and 
section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to support visits and 
study in foreign countries by individuals who are partici-
pating in advanced foreign language training and inter-
national studies in areas that are vital to United States 
national security and who plan to apply their language 
skills and knowledge of these countries in the fields of gov-
ernment, the professions, or international development: 
Provided further, That of the funds referred to in the pre-
ceding proviso up to 1 percent may be used for program 
evaluation, national outreach, and information dissemina-
tion activities: Provided further, That the funds provided
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for title II of the HEA shall be allocated notwithstanding 
section 210 of such Act. 
HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 
121 et seq.), $240,790,000, of which not less than 
$3,524,000 shall be for a matching endowment grant pur-
suant to the Howard University Endowment Act (Public 
Law 98–480) and shall remain available until expended. 
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS 
PROGRAM 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out ac-
tivities related to existing facility loans pursuant to section 
121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended 
$573,000. 
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY 
CAPITAL FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
The aggregate principal amount of outstanding bonds 
insured pursuant to section 344 of title III, part D of the 
Higher
Education
Act
of
1965,
shall
not
exceed 
$357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of such bonds shall 
not exceed zero. 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Histori-
cally Black College and University Capital Financing Pro-
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gram entered into pursuant to title III, part D of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, $210,000. 
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Edu-
cation Sciences Reform Act of 2002, as amended, the Na-
tional Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization 
Act, section 208 of the Educational Technical Assistance 
Act of 2002, and section 664 of the Individuals with Dis-
abilities
Education
Act,
$522,696,000,
of
which 
$271,560,000 shall be available until September 30, 2007. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Department of Education Organization Act, in-
cluding rental of conference rooms in the District of Co-
lumbia and hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 
$418,992,000. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil 
Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department 
of Education Organization Act, $91,526,000. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector 
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department 
of Education Organization Act, $49,000,000.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 
used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for 
the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in 
order to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school 
system, or for the transportation of students or teachers 
(or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) 
in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any 
school or school system. 
SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act 
shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the trans-
portation of any student to a school other than the school 
which is nearest the student’s home, except for a student 
requiring special education, to the school offering such 
special education, in order to comply with title VI of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section 
an indirect requirement of transportation of students in-
cludes the transportation of students to carry out a plan 
involving the reorganization of the grade structure of 
schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, 
or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clus-
tering. The prohibition described in this section does not 
include the establishment of magnet schools.
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SEC. 303. No funds appropriated under this Act may 
be used to prevent the implementation of programs of vol-
untary prayer and meditation in the public schools. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended) 
which are appropriated for the Department of Education 
in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but 
no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 
percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appro-
priations Committees of both Houses of Congress are noti-
fied at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. In addition, for carrying out subpart 1 of 
part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 
$4,300,000,000 for the purpose of eliminating the esti-
mated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such 
subpart for awards made through the award year 2005– 
2006, pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th 
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fis-
cal year 2006. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-
cation Appropriations Act, 2006’’.
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TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE 
BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary of the Committee for Pur-
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 
established by Public Law 92–28, $4,669,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING 
EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the provisions 
of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amend-
ed, $357,962,000: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available to the Corporation for National and Community 
Service in this Act for activities authorized by section 122 
of part C of title I and part E of title II of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 shall be used to provide 
stipends or other monetary incentives to volunteers or vol-
unteer leaders whose incomes exceed 125 percent of the 
national poverty level: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 122(c) of the Act, the Corporation shall 
make available up to $2,000,000 under part C of title I 
of the Act in a grant to support Teach for America’s ef-