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States through December 31, 2014: Provided, That, in addition, 
such funds may be used to support such specialists and rep-
resentatives in the provision of services to transitioning mem-
bers of the Armed Forces who have participated in the Transi-
tion Assistance Program and have been identified as in need 
of intensive services, to members of the Armed Forces who 
are wounded, ill, or injured and receiving treatment in military 
treatment facilities or warrior transition units, and to the 
spouses or other family caregivers of such wounded, ill, or 
injured members; 
(2) $14,000,000 is for carrying out the Transition Assistance 
Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 10 U.S.C. 1144; 
(3) $39,000,000 is for Federal administration of chapters 
41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code; and 
(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ Employment 
and Training Services Institute under 38 U.S.C. 4109: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may reallocate among the 
appropriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) above 
an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropriation from which 
such reallocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$38,109,000 is for carrying out the Homeless Veterans Reintegration 
Programs under 38 U.S.C. 2021. 
IT MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor centralized 
infrastructure technology investment activities related to support 
systems and modernization, $19,778,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, $74,721,000, together with not to exceed $5,590,000 which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act for the 
Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bonuses of an 
individual, either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect 
cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year 
for the Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred between 
a program, project, or activity, but no such program, project, or 
activity shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such 
transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted by this 
section shall not be used to create any new program or to fund 
any project or activity for which no funds are provided in this 
Act: Provided further, That the Committees on Appropriations of
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the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 
15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 13126, none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the procurement 
of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services 
rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor 
in industries and host countries already identified by the United 
States Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American Competi-
tiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 may be used 
for any purpose other than competitive grants for training individ-
uals over the age of 16 who are not currently enrolled in school 
within a local educational agency in the occupations and industries 
for which employers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign workers, 
and the related activities necessary to support such training: Pro-
vided, That the preceding limitation shall not apply to funding 
provided pursuant to solicitations for grant applications issued prior 
to January 15, 2014. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Administration’’ shall be 
used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary 
and bonuses of an individual, either as direct costs or indirect 
costs, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation 
shall not apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 
in Office of Management and Budget Circular A–133. Where States 
are recipients of such funds, States may establish a lower limit 
for salaries and bonuses of those receiving salaries and bonuses 
from subrecipients of such funds, taking into account factors 
including the relative cost-of-living in the State, the compensation 
levels for comparable State or local government employees, and 
the size of the organizations that administer Federal programs 
involved including Employment and Training Administration pro-
grams. Notwithstanding this section, the limitation on salaries for 
the Job Corps shall continue to be governed by section 101. 
SEC. 106. The Secretary shall take no action to amend, through 
regulatory or administration action, the definition established in 
section 667.220 of title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
for functions and activities under title I of WIA, or to modify, 
through regulatory or administrative action, the procedure for 
redesignation of local areas as specified in subtitle B of title I 
of that Act (including applying the standards specified in section 
116(a)(3)(B) of that Act, but notwithstanding the time limits speci-
fied in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time as legislation 
reauthorizing the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding sentence 
shall permit or require the Secretary to withdraw approval for 
such redesignation from a State that received the approval not 
later than October 12, 2005, or to revise action taken or modify 
the redesignation procedure being used by the Secretary in order 
to complete such redesignation for a State that initiated the process 
of such redesignation by submitting any request for such redesigna-
tion not later than October 26, 2005.
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 
transfer funds made available to the Employment and Training 
Administration by this Act, either directly or through a set-aside, 
for technical assistance services to grantees to ‘‘Program Adminis-
tration’’ when it is determined that those services will be more 
efficiently performed by Federal employees: Provided, That this 
section shall not apply to section 173A(f)(2) of the WIA. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 108. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more than 0.5 
percent from each appropriation made available in this Act identi-
fied in subsection (b) in order to carry out evaluations of any 
of the programs or activities that are funded under such accounts. 
Any funds reserved under this section shall be transferred to 
‘‘Departmental Management’’ for use by the Office of the Chief 
Evaluation Officer within the Department of Labor, and shall be 
available for obligation through September 30, 2015: Provided, That 
such funds shall only be available if the Chief Evaluation Officer 
of the Department of Labor submits a plan to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
describing the evaluations to be carried out 15 days in advance 
of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: ‘‘Training 
and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Office of Job Corps’’, ‘‘Community 
Service Employment for Older Americans’’, ‘‘State Unemployment 
Insurance and Employment Service Operations’’, ‘‘Employee Bene-
fits Security Administration’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation 
Programs’’, ‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management Standards’’, 
‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety 
and Health Administration’’, funding made available to the ‘‘Bureau 
of International Affairs’’ and ‘‘Women’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Depart-
mental Management, Salaries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Vet-
erans Employment and Training’’. 
SEC. 109. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to promulgate the Definition of ‘‘Fiduciary’’ regulation 
(Regulatory Identification Number 1210–AB32) published by the 
Employee Benefits Security Administration of the Department of 
Labor on October 22, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 65263). 
SEC. 110. (a) Of the funds appropriated under section 272(b) 
of the Trade Act of 1974 for fiscal year 2014, the Secretary may 
reserve no more than 3 percent of such funds to conduct evaluations 
and provide technical assistance relating to the activities carried 
out under section 271 of such Act, including activities carried out 
under such section supported by the appropriations provided for 
fiscal years 2011 through 2013. 
(b) Institutions of higher education awarded grants under sec-
tion 271 of the Trade Act of 1974 may award subgrants to other 
institutions of higher education that meet the definition of ‘‘eligible 
institution’’ under section 271(b)(1)(A) of such Act, subject to the 
conditions applicable to such grants. 
SEC. 111. (a) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended after the item relating to the Assistant Secretaries of 
Labor by inserting ‘‘Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, 
Department of Labor.’’
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(b) Section 5316, title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ‘‘Administrator, Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divi-
sion, Department of Labor.’’ 
DIRECTIVE FOR THE SECRETARY OF LABOR 
SEC. 112. In an investigation by the Department of substantial 
violations related to the admission of nonimmigrants described 
in section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act, if the employer of such nonimmigrants demonstrates, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that an agent of the employer 
engaged in fraud or misrepresentation to the Department that 
was outside the scope of the authority conferred by the employer, 
the Secretary is authorized— 
(1) to exclude the employer of such nonimmigrants from 
debarment proceedings under section 655.118 of title 20, Code 
of Federal Regulations, which were commenced on or after 
January 1, 2013; and 
(2) to initiate or continue debarment proceedings against 
the agent who engaged in such fraud or misrepresentation. 
SEC. 113. (a) FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT
TO
THE CROSSING 
OF H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS WORKING IN THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if a petition 
for H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an employer in the seafood 
industry is granted, the employer may bring the nonimmigrants 
described in the petition into the United States at any time 
during the 120-day period beginning on the start date for 
which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants without filing another petition. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR CROSSINGS AFTER 90TH DAY.—An 
employer in the seafood industry may not bring H–2B non-
immigrants into the United States after the date that is 90 
days after the start date for which the employer is seeking 
the services of the nonimmigrants unless the employer— 
(A) completes a new assessment of the local labor 
market by— 
(i) listing job orders in local newspapers on 2 sepa-
rate Sundays; and 
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the appropriate 
Department of Labor Electronic Job Registry and at 
the employer’s place of employment; and 
(B) offers the job to an equally or better qualified 
United States worker who— 
(i) applies for the job; and 
(ii) will be available at the time and place of need. 
(3) EXEMPTION
FROM
RULES
WITH
RESPECT
TO
STAG-
GERING.—The Secretary of Labor shall not consider an employer 
in the seafood industry who brings H–2B nonimmigrants into 
the United States during the 120-day period specified in para-
graph (1) to be staggering the date of need in violation of 
section 655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
any other applicable provision of law. 
(b) H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘H–2B nonimmigrants’’ means aliens admitted to the United States 
pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)). 
(c) This section shall be in effect until September 30, 2014.