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‘‘(iii) data collected from each designated State
unit under this Act with the approval of the Office of
Management and Budget; and
‘‘(iv) monitoring reports conducted under this
Act.
‘‘(C) The Commissioner shall maintain, and post on
the website, a listing of the reports, information, and data
required to be submitted by designated State units under
this Act.
‘‘(D) The Commissioner shall post on the website, or
establish links on the website to, evaluations, studies, and
audits, including evaluations, studies, and audits conducted
by agencies of the Federal Government, concerning pro-
grams carried out under this Act.
‘‘(E) The Commissioner shall maintain on the website
a list of the designated State units and shall establish links
on the website to websites maintained by those units.
‘‘(2) The Commissioner shall maintain public use
read-only access to the State and aggregated reports and
analyzed data filed and maintained on the Rehabilitation
Services Administration management information system
or a similar system maintained by the Department of Edu-
cation.’’.
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SEC. 408. CARRYOVER.
Section 19 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C.
716) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘(except for the client as-
sistance program funded under section 112)’’
after ‘‘any grant program under part B of title
I’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘, section 509 (except as
provided in section 509(b))’’;
(C) by striking ‘‘or C’’; and
(D) by striking ‘‘752(b)’’ and inserting
‘‘753(b)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) CLIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM; PROTECTION AND
ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.—
‘‘(1) 
APPROPRIATED
AMOUNTS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, any funds ap-
propriated for a fiscal year to carry out a grant pro-
gram under section 112 or 509 (except as provided in
section 509(b)), including any funds reallotted under
such grant program, that are not obligated and ex-
pended by recipients prior to the beginning of the suc-
ceeding fiscal year shall remain available for obliga-
tion and expenditure by such recipients during such
succeeding fiscal year.
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‘‘(2) PROGRAM
INCOME.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, any amounts of program in-
come received by recipients under a grant program
under section 112 or 509 in a fiscal year that are not
obligated and expended by recipients prior to the be-
ginning of the succeeding fiscal year, shall remain
available until expended.’’.
Subtitle A—Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
SEC. 411. DECLARATION OF POLICY; AUTHORIZATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 100(b)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29
U.S.C. 720(b)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1999
through 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2006 through
2011’’.
SEC. 412. STATE PLANS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(a) of the Rehabilita-
tion Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 721(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(D) STATE AGENCY FOR REIMBURSEMENT
PURPOSES.—A governing body of an Indian
tribe that receives a grant under section 121
shall be considered, for purposes of the cost reim-
bursement provisions—
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‘‘(i) in section 222(d)(1) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 422(d)(1)), to be a
State; and
‘‘(ii) in subsections (d) and (e) of sec-
tion 1615 of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1382d), to be a State agency de-
scribed in subsection (d) of that section.’’;
(2) in paragraph (6)(B), by striking ‘‘to employ
and advance in employment’’ and inserting ‘‘to re-
cruit, employ, and advance in employment’’;
(3) in paragraph (7)(A)(v), by striking subclause
(I) and inserting the following:
‘‘(I) a system for the continuing
education 
of 
rehabilitation 
profes-
sionals and paraprofessionals within
the designated State unit, particularly
with respect to rehabilitation tech-
nology, 
including 
training 
imple-
mented in coordination with State pro-
grams carried out under section 4 of
the Assistive Technology Act of 1998
(29 U.S.C. 3003); and’’;
(4) in paragraph (10)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘an-
nual reporting on the eligible individuals receiv-
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ing the services, on those specific data elements
described in section 136(d)(2) of the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998’’ and inserting ‘‘annual
reporting of information on eligible individuals
receiving the services that is needed to assess per-
formance on the core indicators of performance
described in section 136(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Work-
force Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C.
2871(b)(2)(A)(i))’’;
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking
clauses (iii) and (iv) and inserting the following:
‘‘(iii) the number of applicants and el-
igible recipients, including the number of
individuals with significant disabilities,
who exited the program carried out under
this title and the number of such individ-
uals who achieved employment outcomes
after receiving vocational rehabilitation
services; and
‘‘(iv) the number of individuals who
received vocational rehabilitation services
who entered and retained employment and
the earnings of such individuals, as such
entry, retention, and earnings are defined
for purposes of the core indicators of per-
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formance 
described 
in 
section
136(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Workforce Investment
Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2871(b)(2)(A)(i)).’’;
and
(C) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by striking
‘‘in meeting’’ and all that follows through the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘in meeting the standards
and indicators established pursuant to section
106.’’;
(5) in paragraph (11)—
(A) by striking subparagraph (C) and in-
serting the following:
‘‘(C) INTERAGENCY
COOPERATION
WITH
OTHER AGENCIES.—The State plan shall include
descriptions of interagency cooperation with, and
utilization of the services and facilities of, Fed-
eral, State, and local agencies and programs, in-
cluding the State programs carried out under
section 4 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998
(29 U.S.C. 3003), programs carried out by the
Under Secretary for Rural Development of the
Department of Agriculture, and State use con-
tracting programs, to the extent that such agen-
cies and programs are not carrying out activities