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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 legisla-
ture, except in presentation to the Congress or any State 
legislature itself. 
(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 recipient, re-
lated to any activity designed to influence legislation or ap-
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propriations pending before the Congress or any State legis-
lature. 
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 salaries and 
expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for official re-
ception and representation expenses; the Director of the 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized 
to make available for official reception and representation 
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 official reception 
and representation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from funds 
available for ‘‘National Mediation Board, Salaries and ex-
penses’’. 
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 sy-
ringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. 
SEC. 506. When issuing statements, press releases, re-
quests for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents 
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
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local governments and recipients of Federal research 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 bene-
fits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the 
package of services covered by a managed care provider or 
organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement. 
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
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(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 construed 
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 match-
ing funds). 
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed 
as restricting the ability of any managed care provider 
from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or 
locality to contract separately with such a provider for such 
coverage with State funds (other than a State’s or locality’s 
contribution of Medicaid matching funds). 
(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.
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(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 subjected 
to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed 
for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 
46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human em-
bryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as 
a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, par-
thenogenesis, 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 legaliza-
tion of any drug or other substance included in schedule
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I of the schedules of controlled substances established under 
section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
812) except for normal and recognized executive-congres-
sional 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 de-
termine therapeutic advantage. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard 
under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1320d–2(b)) providing for, or providing for the assignment 
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 specifically 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, re-
garding submission of an annual report to the Sec-
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retary of Labor concerning employment of certain vet-
erans; and 
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as re-
quired by that section for the most recent year for 
which such requirement was applicable to such entity. 
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 pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
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 paragraph 
(1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as amended by the Chil-
dren’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 para-
graph (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 re-
sponsibility for such covered school has made the certifi-
cations required by paragraph (2) of such section.
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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; 
(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 ad-
vance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of in-
tent relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs ear-
lier. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or pro-
vided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies
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funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided from any ac-
counts 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 per-
cent, 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 
(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 ad-
vance of such reprogramming or of an announcement of in-
tent relating to such reprogramming, whichever occurs ear-
lier. 
SEC. 517. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to request that a candidate for appoint-
ment to a Federal scientific advisory committee disclose the 
political affiliation or voting history of the candidate or
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the position that the candidate holds with respect to polit-
ical 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 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 
in this Act, the accompanying detailed table in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act), 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 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. 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.
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SEC. 521. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the number 
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments exceeding $100,000 in value and awarded by the De-
partment 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 gov-
ernmental purpose. Such report shall be transmitted to the 
Committees within 30 days after the end of the quarter for 
which the report is submitted. 
SEC. 522. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Departments, agencies, and com-
missions funded under this Act, shall establish and main-
tain 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 anony-
mously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with re-
spect to those Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions.
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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 con-
tractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency award-
ing 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 re-
mains 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 Edu-
cation, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–90), is amended by reducing the dollar amount 
in the first sentence by $150,000,000. 
SEC. 525. Iraqi and Afghan aliens granted special im-
migrant status under section 101(a)(27) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act shall be eligible for resettlement assist-
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ance, entitlement programs, 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 Security Administration to pay the compensation of 
employees of the Social Security Administration to admin-
ister Social Security benefit payments, under any agree-
ment between the United States and Mexico establishing to-
talization 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 So-
cial 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 pro-
hibited under section 208 of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 528. (a) ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.— 
There is hereby rescinded an amount equal to 1.747 percent 
of the fiscal year 2008 budget authority—
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(1) provided for any discretionary account of 
this Act; and 
(2) provided in any advance appropriation for 
fiscal year 2008 for any discretionary account of this 
Act made available by any prior fiscal year appro-
priation Act. 
(b) PROPORTIONATE APPLICATION.—Any rescission 
made by subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately— 
(1) to each discretionary account and each item 
of budget authority described in such subsection; and 
(2) within each such account and item, to each 
program, project, and activity (with programs, 
projects, and activities as delineated in the appro-
priation Act, accompanying reports, or explanitory 
statement for fiscal year 2008 covering such account 
or item, or for accounts and items not included in ap-
propriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently 
submitted President’s budget). 
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—This section shall not apply— 
(1) to discretionary budget authority that has 
been designated as described in section 5 (in the mat-
ter preceding division A of this consolidated Act); or 
(2) to discretionary budget authority made 
available under title III under the Student Financial
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Assistance account for the Federal Pell Grants pro-
gram. 
(d) OMB REPORT.—Within 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this section the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report specifying the account and amount of each 
rescission made pursuant to this section. 
TITLE VI 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND 
DISASTERS 
SECTION 601. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Kids in Disasters Well- 
being, Safety, and Health Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 602. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) ALL HAZARDS.—The term ‘‘all hazards’’ has 
the meaning given the term ‘‘hazard’’ under section 
602(a)(1) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5195a), and includes 
natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man- 
made disasters. 
(2) CHILD; CHILDREN.—The terms ‘‘child’’ and 
‘‘children’’ mean an individual or individuals, respec-
tively, who have not attained 18 years of age.
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(3) EMERGENCY.—The term ‘‘emergency’’ has the 
meaning given such term under section 102(1) of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5122(1)). 
(4) MAJOR
DISASTER.—The term ‘‘major dis-
aster’’ has the meaning given such term under section 
102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)). 
SEC. 603. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION. 
There is established a commission to be known as the 
‘‘National Commission on Children and Disasters’’ (re-
ferred to in this title as the ‘‘Commission’’). 
SEC. 604. PURPOSES OF COMMISSION. 
The purposes of the Commission are to— 
(1) conduct a comprehensive study to examine 
and assess the needs of children as they relate to prep-
aration for, response to, and recovery from all haz-
ards, including major disasters and emergencies; 
(2) build upon the evaluations of other entities 
and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the 
findings, conclusions, and recommendations of other 
commissions, Federal, State, and local governments, 
or nongovernmental entities, relating to the needs of 
children as they relate to preparation for, response to,
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and recovery from all hazards, including major disas-
ters and emergencies; and 
(3) submit a report to the President and Con-
gress on specific findings, conclusions, and rec-
ommendations to address the needs of children as they 
relate to preparation for, response to, and recovery 
from all hazards, including major disasters and emer-
gencies. 
SEC. 605. COMPOSITION OF COMMISSION. 
(a) MEMBERS.—The Commission shall be composed of 
10 members, of whom— 
(1) 1 member shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent; 
(2) 1 member, who is of a different political 
party than that of the member appointed under para-
graph (1), shall be appointed by the President; 
(3) 2 members shall be appointed by the major-
ity leader of the Senate; 
(4) 2 members shall be appointed by the minor-
ity leader of the Senate; 
(5) 2 members shall be appointed by the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(6) 2 members shall be appointed by the minor-
ity leader of the House of Representatives.
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(b) CHAIRPERSON, VICE-CHAIRPERSON, AND MEET-
INGS.—Not later than 30 days after the date on which all 
members of the Commission are appointed under subsection 
(a), such members shall meet to elect a Chairperson and 
Vice Chairperson from among such members and shall de-
termine a schedule of Commission meetings. 
(c) GOVERNMENTAL APPOINTEES.—An individual ap-
pointed to the Commission may not be an official or em-
ployee of the Federal Government. 
(d) COMMISSION REPRESENTATION.—The Commission 
shall include at least one— 
(1) representative from private nonprofit entities 
with demonstrated expertise in addressing the needs 
of children as they relate to preparation for, response 
to, and recovery from all hazards, including major 
disasters and emergencies; and 
(2) State emergency manager or local emergency 
manager. 
(e) QUALIFICATIONS.—Members appointed under sub-
section (a) may include— 
(1) individuals involved with providing services 
to children, including health, education, housing, and 
other social services; 
(2) individuals with experience in emergency 
management, including coordination of resources and
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services among State and local governments, the Fed-
eral Government, and nongovernmental entities; 
(3) individuals with philanthropic experience fo-
cused on the needs of children in all hazards, includ-
ing major disasters and emergencies; 
(4) individuals with experience in providing do-
nated goods and services, including personnel services, 
to meet the needs of children and families as they re-
late to preparation for, response to, and recovery from 
all hazards, including major disasters and emer-
gencies; and 
(5) individuals who have conducted academic re-
search related to addressing the needs of children in 
all hazards, including major disasters and emer-
gencies. 
(f) INITIAL MEETING.—The Commission shall meet 
and begin the operations of the Commission not later than 
120 days after the appointment of members of the Commis-
sion. 
(g) QUORUM AND VACANCY.— 
(1) QUORUM.—A majority of the members of the 
Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser 
number of members may hold hearings. 
(2) VACANCY.—Any vacancy in the Commission 
shall not affect its powers and shall be filled in the