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annual report to the Secretary 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 require-
ment was applicable to such entity. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priation 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 paragraph (1) of section 224(f) 
of such Act, as amended by the Children’s Internet Protection 
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 may be made available to any elementary 
or secondary school covered by paragraph (1) of section 2441(a) 
of such Act, as amended by the Children’s Internet Protection 
Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, unless the local educational 
agency with responsibility 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 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 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; 
(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 notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming or of an announcement of intent relating to such 
reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier. 
(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 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 
(including 
construction projects), or activities;
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(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 notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming or of an announcement of intent relating to such 
reprogramming, whichever occurs earlier. 
SEC. 517. (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 scientific information that is deliberately false 
or misleading. 
SEC. 518. 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 2008 that are different 
than those specified in this Act, the accompanying detailed table 
in the committee report, or the fiscal year 2008 budget request. 
SEC. 519. 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 Upward 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. 520. 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. 
SEC. 521. 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 $100,000 in value and 
awarded by the Department on a non-competitive basis during 
each quarter of fiscal year 2008, but not to include grants awarded 
on a formula basis. Such report shall include the name of the 
contractor or grantee, the amount of funding, and the governmental 
purpose. Such report shall be transmitted to the Committees within 
30 days after the end of the quarter for which the report is sub-
mitted. 
SEC. 522. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Departments, agencies, and commissions funded 
under this Act, shall establish and maintain on the homepages 
of their Internet websites— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their Offices 
of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors General 
website by which individuals may anonymously report cases 
of waste, fraud, or abuse with respect to those Departments, 
agencies, and commissions.
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SEC. 523. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in 
an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess 
of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies 
in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that, 
to the best of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee 
has filed all Federal tax returns required during the three years 
preceding the certification, has not been convicted of a criminal 
offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, 
more than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any unpaid 
Federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied, 
unless the assessment is the subject of an installment agreement 
or offer in compromise that has been approved by the Internal 
Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assessment is the 
subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial proceeding. 
SEC. 524. Section 1848(l)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act, as 
amended by section 6 of the TMA, Abstinence Education, and 
QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–90), is 
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘$1,350,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$1,200,000,000, but in no case shall expenditures from the Fund 
in fiscal year 2008 exceed $650,000,000’’ in the first sentence. 
SEC. 525. Iraqi and Afghan aliens granted special immigrant 
status under section 101(a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act shall be eligible for resettlement assistance, entitlement pro-
grams, and other benefits available to refugees admitted under 
section 207 of such Act for a period not to exceed 6 months. 
SEC. 526. 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. 
SEC. 527. 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 claims for 
credit for quarters of coverage based on work performed under 
a social security account number that was not the claimant’s 
number which is an offense prohibited under section 208 of the 
Social Security Act.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2008’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.