Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of the Act, 
except — 
(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act, con-
sultation, technical assistance, educational and train-
ing services, and to conduct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in 
response to an employee complaint, to issue a cita-
tion for violations found during such inspection, and 
to assess a penalty for violations which are not cor-
rected within a reasonable abatement period and for 
any willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act 
with respect to imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act 
with respect to health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act 
with respect to a report of an employment accident 
which is fatal to one or more employees or which re-
sults in hospitalization of two or more employees, 
and to take any action pursuant to such investiga-
tion authorized by the Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act 
with respect to complaints of discrimination against 
employees for exercising rights under the Act: 
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Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not 
apply to any person who is engaged in a farming operation 
which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and em-
ploys 10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That not 
less than $3,500,000 shall be for Voluntary Protection 
Programs. 
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and 
Health Administration, $367,589,000, including purchase 
and bestowal of certificates and trophies in connection 
with mine rescue and first-aid work, and the hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, including up to $2,000,000 for 
mine rescue and recovery activities and not less than 
$10,537,000 for State assistance grants: Provided, That 
amounts available for State assistance grants may be used 
for the purchase and maintenance of new equipment re-
quired by the final rule entitled ‘‘Lowering Miners’ Expo-
sure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous 
Personal Dust Monitors’’ published by the Department of 
Labor in the Federal Register on May 1, 2014 (79 Fed. 
Reg. 24813 et seq.), for operators that demonstrate finan-
cial need as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed 
$750,000 may be collected by the National Mine Health 
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and Safety Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale 
of training materials, otherwise authorized by law to be 
collected, to be available for mine safety and health edu-
cation and training activities: Provided further, That not-
withstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration is authorized to collect and retain up to 
$2,499,000 from fees collected for the approval and cer-
tification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use 
in mines, and may utilize such sums for such activities: 
Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized to ac-
cept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions 
from public and private sources and to prosecute projects 
in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or pri-
vate: Provided further, That the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration is authorized to promote health and safety 
education and training in the mining community through 
cooperative programs with States, industry, and safety as-
sociations: Provided further, That the Secretary is author-
ized to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association 
as a principal safety association and, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, may provide funds and, with or 
without reimbursement, personnel, including service of 
Mine Safety and Health Administration officials as offi-
cers in local chapters or in the national organization: Pro-
vided further, That any funds available to the Department 
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of Labor may be used, with the approval of the Secretary, 
to provide for the costs of mine rescue and survival oper-
ations in the event of a major disaster. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics, including advances or reimbursements to State, 
Federal, and local agencies and their employees for serv-
ices rendered, $547,000,000, together with not to exceed 
$65,000,000 which may be expended from the Employ-
ment Security Administration account in the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund. 
OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability 
Employment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy 
and initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective 
of eliminating barriers to the training and employment of 
people with disabilities, $38,203,000. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Manage-
ment, including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 
$270,136,000, together with not to exceed $308,000, 
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which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund: Provided, That funds available to the Bureau of 
International Labor Affairs may be used to administer or 
operate international labor activities, bilateral and multi-
lateral technical assistance, and microfinance programs, 
by or through contracts and other arrangements; and 
manage grants that were awarded prior to December 31, 
2018: Provided further, That $8,040,000 shall be used for 
program evaluation and shall be available for obligation 
through September 30, 2020: Provided further, That 
funds available for program evaluation may be used to ad-
minister grants for the purpose of evaluation: Provided 
further, That grants made for the purpose of evaluation 
shall be awarded through fair and open competition: Pro-
vided further, That funds available for program evaluation 
may be transferred to any other appropriate account in 
the Department for such purpose: Provided further, That 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days 
in advance of any transfer: Provided further, That the 
funds available to the Women’s Bureau may be used for 
grants to serve and promote the interests of women in the 
workforce: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available to the Women’s Bureau, $994,000 shall be used 
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for grants authorized by the Women in Apprenticeship 
and Nontraditional Occupations Act. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $249,662,000 may be derived from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, 
of which: 
(1) $180,000,000 is for Jobs for Veterans State 
grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support dis-
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists under 
section 4103A of such title and local veterans’ em-
ployment representatives under section 4104(b) of 
such title, and for the expenses described in section 
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for obliga-
tion by the States through December 31, 2019, and 
not to exceed 3 percent for the necessary Federal ex-
penditures for data systems and contract support to 
allow for the tracking of participant and perform-
ance information: Provided, That, in addition, such 
funds may be used to support such specialists and 
representatives in the provision of services to 
transitioning members of the Armed Forces who 
have participated in the Transition Assistance Pro-
gram and have been identified as in need of inten-
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sive 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) $23,000,000 is for carrying out the Transi-
tion Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 
10 U.S.C. 1144: Provided, That not more than 
$3,500,000 shall be used by the Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Sec-
retary of the Veterans Affairs, to carry out a pilot 
project designed to prepare transitioning service 
members to qualify for, and to assist in placing 
them in, apprenticeship programs, as an additional 
training opportunity under subsection (f) of 10 
U.S.C. 1144, including the costs of federal adminis-
tration and evaluation of such pilot, and that the 
funds shall remain available for the pilot through 
September 30, 2020; 
(3) $43,248,000 is for Federal administration 
of chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, and sections 
2021, 2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States 
Code: Provided, That up to $500,000 may be used 
to carry out division O of Public Law 115-31 
(‘‘HIRE Vets Act’’); and 
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(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ 
Employment and Training Services Institute under 
38 U.S.C. 4109: 
Provided, That the Secretary may reallocate among the 
appropriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) 
above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropria-
tion from which such reallocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$50,000,000 is for carrying out programs to assist home-
less veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness who are 
transitioning from certain institutions under sections 
2021, 2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: 
Provided, That notwithstanding subsections (c)(3) and (d) 
of section 2023, the Secretary may award grants through 
September 30, 2019, to provide services under such sec-
tion: Provided further, That services provided under sec-
tion 2021 or under 2021A may include, in addition to 
services to homeless veterans described in section 
2002(a)(1), services to veterans who were homeless at 
some point within the 60 days prior to program entry or 
veterans who are at risk of homelessness within the next 
60 days, and that services provided under section 2023 
may include, in addition to services to the individuals de-
scribed in subsection (e) of such section, services to vet-
erans recently released from incarceration who are at risk 
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of homelessness: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
paragraph (3) under this heading, funds appropriated in 
this paragraph may be used for data systems and contract 
support to allow for the tracking of participant and per-
formance information: Provided further, That notwith-
standing sections 2021(e)(2) and 2021A(f)(2) of title 38, 
United States Code, such funds shall be available for ex-
penditure pursuant to 31 U.S.C. § 1553. 
In addition, fees may be assessed and deposited in 
the HIRE Vets Medallion Award Fund pursuant to sec-
tion 5(b) of the HIRE Vets Act, as amended herein, and 
such amounts shall be available to the Secretary to carry 
out the HIRE Vets Medallion Award Program, as author-
ized by such Act, and shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That such sums shall be in addition to 
any other funds available for such purposes, including 
funds available under paragraph (3) of this heading: Pro-
vided further, That section 2(d) of division O of the Con-
solidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115–31; 
38 U.S.C. 4100 note) shall not apply. 
IT MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor cen-
tralized infrastructure technology investment activities re-
lated to support systems and modernization, $29,169,000, 
which shall be available through September 30, 2020. 
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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, $83,487,000, together with not to 
exceed $5,660,000 which may be expended from the Em-
ployment Security Administration account in the Unem-
ployment 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 bo-
nuses of an individual, either as direct costs or any prora-
tion 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 discre-
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-
priated 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 activ-
ity 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 Commit-
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tees on Appropriations of 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 ex-
pended 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. Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, none of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American 
Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 
(29 U.S.C. 2916a) may be used for any purpose other 
than competitive grants for training individuals who are 
older than 16 years of age and are not currently enrolled 
in school within a local educational agency in the occupa-
tions and industries for which employers are using H–1B 
visas to hire foreign workers, and the related activities 
necessary to support such training. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Ad-
ministration’’ shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient 
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of such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an indi-
vidual, 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 es-
tablish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of those re-
ceiving 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 pro-
grams involved including Employment and Training Ad-
ministration programs. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. (a) Notwithstanding section 102, the Sec-
retary may transfer funds made available to the Employ-
ment and Training Administration by this Act, either di-
rectly or through a set-aside, for technical assistance serv-
ices to grantees to ‘‘Program Administration’’ when it is 
determined that those services will be more efficiently per-
formed by Federal employees: Provided, That this section 
shall not apply to section 171 of the WIOA. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 
transfer not more than 0.5 percent of each discretionary 
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appropriation made available to the Employment and 
Training Administration by this Act to ‘‘Program Admin-
istration’’ in order to carry out program integrity activities 
relating to any of the programs or activities that are fund-
ed under any such discretionary appropriations: Provided, 
That notwithstanding section 102 and the preceding pro-
viso, the Secretary may transfer not more than 0.5 percent 
of funds made available in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the 
‘‘Office of Job Corps’’ account to paragraph (3) of such 
account to carry out program integrity activities related 
to the Job Corps program: Provided further, That funds 
transferred under the authority provided by this sub-
section shall be available for obligation through September 
30, 2020. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 
than 0.75 percent from each appropriation made available 
in this Act identified 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 Man-
agement’’ for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation 
Officer within the Department of Labor, and shall be 
available for obligation through September 30, 2020: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall only be available if the Chief 
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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 evalua-
tions to be carried out 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 
‘‘Training and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, 
‘‘Community Service Employment for Older Americans’’, 
‘‘State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service 
Operations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security Administra-
tion’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, 
‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management 
Standards’’, ‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-
tration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Of-
fice of Disability Employment Policy’’, funding made 
available to the ‘‘Bureau of International Labor Affairs’’ 
and ‘‘Women’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental Man-
agement, Salaries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans 
Employment and Training’’. 
SEC. 108. (a) Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall be applied as if the 
following text is part of such section: 
‘‘(s)(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply 
for a period of 2 years after the occurrence of a major 
disaster to any employee— 
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‘‘(A) employed to adjust or evaluate claims re-
sulting from or relating to such major disaster, by 
an employer not engaged, directly or through an af-
filiate, in underwriting, selling, or marketing prop-
erty, casualty, or liability insurance policies or con-
tracts; 
‘‘(B) who receives from such employer on aver-
age weekly compensation of not less than $591.00 
per week or any minimum weekly amount estab-
lished by the Secretary, whichever is greater, for the 
number of weeks such employee is engaged in any 
of the activities described in subparagraph (C); and 
‘‘(C) whose duties include any of the following: 
‘‘(i) interviewing insured individuals, indi-
viduals who suffered injuries or other damages 
or losses arising from or relating to a disaster, 
witnesses, or physicians; 
‘‘(ii) inspecting property damage or review-
ing factual information to prepare damage esti-
mates; 
‘‘(iii) evaluating and making recommenda-
tions regarding coverage or compensability of 
claims or determining liability or value aspects 
of claims; 
‘‘(iv) negotiating settlements; or 
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‘‘(v) making recommendations regarding 
litigation. 
‘‘(2) The exemption in this subsection shall not affect 
the exemption provided by section 13(a)(1). 
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘major disaster’ means any dis-
aster or catastrophe declared or designated by any 
State or Federal agency or department; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘employee employed to adjust or 
evaluate claims resulting from or relating to such 
major disaster’ means an individual who timely se-
cured or secures a license required by applicable law 
to engage in and perform the activities described in 
clauses (i) through (v) of paragraph (1)(C) relating 
to a major disaster, and is employed by an employer 
that maintains worker compensation insurance cov-
erage or protection for its employees, if required by 
applicable law, and withholds applicable Federal, 
State, and local income and payroll taxes from the 
wages, salaries and any benefits of such employees; 
and 
‘‘(C) the term ‘affiliate’ means a company that, 
by reason of ownership or control of 25 percent or 
more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting 
securities of one or more companies, directly or indi-
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