contract from such funds with a value of $25,000 or more, 
summarizing the activities undertaken and identifying any 
sub-grants or sub-contracts awarded (including the pur-
pose of the award and the identity of the recipient), to 
be posted not later than 30 days after the end of each 
6-month period. 
(d) In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall: 
(1) present the information required in sub-
section (b)(1) on a single webpage or on a single 
database; 
(2) ensure that all information required in this 
section is directly accessible from the single webpage 
or database; and 
(3) ensure that all information required in this 
section is able to be organized by program or State. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 217. (a) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall transfer funds appropriated under 
section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act of 2010 (‘‘ACA’’) to the accounts specified, in 
the amounts specified, and for the activities specified 
under the heading ‘‘Prevention and Public Health Fund’’ 
in the table accompanying this Act. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 4002(c) of the ACA, the 
Secretary may not further transfer these amounts. 
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(c) Funds transferred for activities authorized under 
section 2821 of the PHS Act shall be made available with-
out reference to section 2821(b) of such Act. 
SEC. 218. (a) The Biomedical Advanced Research 
and Development Authority (‘‘BARDA’’) may enter into 
a contract, for more than one but no more than 10 pro-
gram years, for purchase of research services or of security 
countermeasures, as that term is defined in section 319F– 
2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6b(c)(1)(B)), 
if— 
(1) funds are available and obligated— 
(A) for the full period of the contract or 
for the first fiscal year in which the contract is 
in effect; and 
(B) for the estimated costs associated with 
a necessary termination of the contract; and 
(2) the Secretary determines that a multi-year 
contract will serve the best interests of the Federal 
Government by encouraging full and open competi-
tion or promoting economy in administration, per-
formance, and operation of BARDA’s programs. 
(b) A contract entered into under this section: 
(1) shall include a termination clause as de-
scribed by subsection (c) of section 3903 of title 41, 
United States Code; and 
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(2) shall be subject to the congressional notice 
requirement stated in subsection (d) of such section. 
SEC. 219. (a) The Secretary shall publish in the fiscal 
year 2016 budget justification and on Departmental Web 
sites information concerning the employment of full-time 
equivalent Federal employees or contractors for the pur-
poses of implementing, administering, enforcing, or other-
wise carrying out the provisions of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (‘‘ACA’’), and the 
amendments made by that Act, in the proposed fiscal year 
and the 4 prior fiscal years. 
(b) With respect to employees or contractors sup-
ported by all funds appropriated for purposes of carrying 
out the ACA (and the amendments made by that Act), 
the Secretary shall include, at a minimum, the following 
information: 
(1) For each such fiscal year, the section of 
such Act under which such funds were appropriated, 
a statement indicating the program, project, or ac-
tivity receiving such funds, the Federal operating di-
vision or office that administers such program, and 
the amount of funding received in discretionary or 
mandatory appropriations. 
(2) For each such fiscal year, the number of 
full-time equivalent employees or contracted employ-
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ees assigned to each authorized and funded provision 
detailed in accordance with paragraph (1). 
(c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary may 
exclude from the report employees or contractors who: 
(1) Are supported through appropriations en-
acted in laws other than the ACA and work on pro-
grams that existed prior to the passage of the ACA; 
(2) spend less than 50 percent of their time on 
activities funded by or newly authorized in the ACA; 
(3) or who work on contracts for which FTE 
reporting is not a requirement of their contract, 
such as fixed-price contracts. 
SEC. 220. In lieu of the timeframe specified in section 
338E(c)(2) of the PHS Act, terminations described in 
such section may occur up to 60 days after the execution 
of a contract awarded in fiscal year 2015 under section 
338B of such Act. 
SEC. 221. Title IV of the PHS Act is amended by: 
(1) Striking ‘‘National Center for Complemen-
tary and Alternative Medicine’’ and ‘‘Office of Alter-
native Medicine’’ in each place either appears and 
replacing it with ‘‘National Center for Complemen-
tary and Integrative Health’’; 
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(2) Striking ‘‘alternative medicine’’ in each 
place it appears and replacing it with ‘‘integrative 
health’’; 
(3) Striking all references to ‘‘alternative and 
complementary medical treatment’’ or ‘‘complemen-
tary and alternative treatment’’ in each place either 
appears and inserting ‘‘complementary and integra-
tive health’’; 
(4) Striking references to ‘‘alternative medical 
treatment’’ in each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘integrative health treatment’’; and 
(5) Striking section 485D(c) and inserting: 
‘‘(c) In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of 
the Center shall, as appropriate, study the integration of 
new and non-traditional approaches to health care treat-
ment and consumption, including but not limited to non- 
traditional treatment, diagnostic and prevention systems, 
modalities, and disciplines.’’. 
SEC. 222. In addition to amounts provided herein, 
payments made for research organisms or substances, au-
thorized under section 301(a) of the PHS Act, shall be 
retained and credited to the appropriations accounts of the 
Institutes and Centers of the NIH making the substance 
or organism available under section 301(a). Amounts cred-
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ited to the account under this authority shall be available 
for obligation through September 30, 2016. 
SEC. 223. The Secretary shall publish, as part of the 
fiscal year 2016 budget of the President submitted under 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, informa-
tion that details the uses of all funds used by the Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services specifically for Health 
Insurance Marketplaces for each fiscal year since the en-
actment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111–148) and the proposed uses for such 
funds for fiscal year 2016. Such information shall include, 
for each such fiscal year— 
(1) the amount of funds used for each activity 
specified in the tables under the heading ‘‘Health In-
surance Marketplace Activity’’ in the table accom-
panying this Act; and 
(2) the milestones completed for data hub 
functionality and implementation readiness. 
SEC. 224. That the authority provided by sections 
399AA(e), 399BB(g), and 399CC(f) of the PHS Act shall 
remain in effect through September 30, 2015. 
SEC. 225. The NIH director shall require registra-
tions and results from NIH funded clinical trials to be 
included in the clinical trials registry data bank. 
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health 
and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2015’’. 
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TITLE III 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (referred to in this Act as 
‘‘ESEA’’) and section 418A of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (referred to in this Act as ‘‘HEA’’), 
$15,673,887,000, of which $4,788,520,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2015, and shall remain available 
through 
September 
30, 
2016, 
and 
of 
which 
$10,841,177,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2015, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2016, for academic year 2015–2016: Provided, That 
$6,459,401,000 shall be for basic grants under section 
1124 of the ESEA: Provided further, That up to 
$3,984,000 of these funds shall be available to the Sec-
retary of Education (referred to in this title as ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) on October 1, 2014, to obtain annually updated 
local educational agency-level census poverty data from 
the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That 
$1,362,301,000 shall be for concentration grants under 
section 1124A of the ESEA: Provided further, That 
$3,347,378,000 shall be for targeted grants under section 
1125 
of 
the 
ESEA: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
$3,347,378,000 shall be for education finance incentive 
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grants under section 1125A of the ESEA: Provided fur-
ther, That funds available under sections 1124, 1124A, 
1125 and 1125A of the ESEA may be used to provide 
homeless children and youths with services not ordinarily 
provided to other students under those sections, including 
supporting the liaison designated pursuant to section 
722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act, and providing transportation pursuant to section 
722(g)(1)(J)(iii) of such Act: Provided further, That 
$680,000 shall be to carry out sections 1501 and 1503 
of the ESEA: Provided further, That $505,756,000 shall 
be available for school improvement grants under section 
1003(g) of the ESEA, which shall be allocated by the Sec-
retary 
through 
the 
formula 
described 
in 
section 
1003(g)(2) and shall be used consistent with the require-
ments of section 1003(g), except that State and local edu-
cational agencies may use such funds to serve any school 
eligible to receive assistance under part A of title I that 
has not made adequate yearly progress for at least 2 years 
or is in the State’s lowest quintile of performance based 
on proficiency rates and, in the case of secondary schools, 
priority shall be given to those schools with graduation 
rates below 60 percent: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 1003(g)(5)(C) of the ESEA, the Sec-
retary may permit a State educational agency to establish 
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an award period of up to 5 years for each participating 
local educational agency: Provided further, That funds 
available for school improvement grants may be used by 
a local educational agency to implement a whole-school re-
form strategy for a school using an evidence-based strat-
egy that ensures whole-school reform is undertaken in 
partnership with a strategy developer offering a whole- 
school reform program that is based on at least a mod-
erate level of evidence that the program will have a statis-
tically significant effect on student outcomes, including 
more than one well-designed or well-implemented experi-
mental or quasi-experimental study: Provided further, 
That funds available for school improvement grants may 
be used by a local educational agency to implement an al-
ternative State-determined school improvement strategy 
that has been established by a State educational agency 
with the approval of the Secretary: Provided further, That 
a local educational agency that is determined to be eligible 
for services under subpart 1 or 2 of part B of title VI 
of the ESEA may modify not more than one element of 
a school improvement grant model: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 1003(g)(5)(A), each State edu-
cational agency may establish a maximum subgrant size 
of not more than $2,000,000 for each participating school 
applicable to such funds: Provided further, That the Sec-
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retary may reserve up to 5 percent of the funds available 
for section 1003(g) of the ESEA to carry out activities 
to build State and local educational agency capacity to im-
plement effectively the school improvement grants pro-
gram: Provided further, That $168,000,000 shall be avail-
able under section 1502 of the ESEA for a comprehensive 
literacy development and education program to advance 
literacy skills, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and 
writing, for students from birth through grade 12, includ-
ing limited-English-proficient students and students with 
disabilities, of which one-half of 1 percent shall be reserved 
for the Secretary of the Interior for such a program at 
schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education, one- 
half of 1 percent shall be reserved for grants to the out-
lying areas for such a program, up to 5 percent may be 
reserved for national activities, and the remainder shall 
be used to award competitive grants to State educational 
agencies for such a program, of which a State educational 
agency may reserve up to 5 percent for State leadership 
activities, including technical assistance and training, data 
collection, reporting, and administration, and shall 
subgrant not less than 95 percent to local educational 
agencies or, in the case of early literacy, to local edu-
cational agencies or other nonprofit providers of early 
childhood education that partner with a public or private 
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nonprofit organization or agency with a demonstrated 
record of effectiveness in improving the early literacy de-
velopment of children from birth through kindergarten 
entry and in providing professional development in early 
literacy, giving priority to such agencies or other entities 
serving greater numbers or percentages of disadvantaged 
children: Provided further, That the State educational 
agency shall ensure that at least 15 percent of the sub-
granted funds are used to serve children from birth 
through age 5, 40 percent are used to serve students in 
kindergarten through grade 5, and 40 percent are used 
to serve students in middle and high school including an 
equitable distribution of funds between middle and high 
schools: Provided further, That eligible entities receiving 
subgrants from State educational agencies shall use such 
funds for services and activities that have the characteris-
tics of effective literacy instruction through professional 
development, screening and assessment, targeted interven-
tions for students reading below grade level and other re-
search-based methods of improving classroom instruction 
and practice. 
PRESCHOOL DEVELOPMENT 
For carrying out, in accordance with the applicable 
requirements of part D of title V of the ESEA, 
$250,000,000 for a preschool development grants pro-
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gram: Provided, That the Secretary, jointly with the Sec-
retary of HHS, shall make competitive awards to States 
for activities that build the capacity within the State to 
develop, enhance, or expand high-quality preschool pro-
grams, including comprehensive services and family en-
gagement, for preschool-aged children from families at or 
below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line: Provided 
further, That each State may subgrant a portion of such 
grant funds to local educational agencies and other early 
learning providers (including, but not limited to, Head 
Start programs and licensed child care providers), or con-
sortia thereof, for the implementation of high-quality pre-
school programs for children from families at or below 200 
percent of the Federal poverty line: Provided further, That 
subgrantees that are local educational agencies shall form 
strong partnerships with early learning providers and that 
subgrantees that are early learning providers shall form 
strong partnerships with local educational agencies, in 
order to carry out the requirements of the subgrant: Pro-
vided further, That up to 3 percent of such funds for pre-
school development grants shall be available for technical 
assistance, evaluation, and other national activities related 
to such grants: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
administer State grants for improving early childhood care 
and education under such section jointly with the Sec-
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retary of Health and Human Services on such terms as 
such Secretaries set forth in an interagency agreement. 
IMPACT AID 
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to 
federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the 
ESEA, $1,291,186,000, of which $1,153,540,000 shall be 
for basic support payments under section 8003(b), 
$48,413,000 shall be for payments for children with dis-
abilities under section 8003(d), $17,441,000 shall be for 
construction under section 8007(b) and be available for 
obligation through September 30, 2016, $66,947,000 shall 
be for Federal property payments under section 8002, and 
$4,845,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
for facilities maintenance under section 8008: Provided, 
That for purposes of computing the amount of a payment 
for an eligible local educational agency under section 
8003(a) for school year 2014–2015, children enrolled in 
a school of such agency that would otherwise be eligible 
for payment under section 8003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but 
due to the deployment of both parents or legal guardians, 
or a parent or legal guardian having sole custody of such 
children, or due to the death of a military parent or legal 
guardian while on active duty (so long as such children 
reside on Federal property as described in section 
8003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such section, 
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shall be considered as eligible students under such section, 
provided such students remain in average daily attendance 
at a school in the same local educational agency they at-
tended prior to their change in eligibility status. 
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out school improvement activities au-
thorized by parts A and B of title II, part B of title IV, 
parts A and B of title VI, and parts B and C of title VII 
of the ESEA; the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act; section 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance 
Act of 2002; the Compact of Free Association Amend-
ments Act of 2003; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
$4,541,744,000, of which $2,724,347,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2015, and remain available through 
September 30, 2016, and of which $1,681,441,000 shall 
become available on October 1, 2015, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2016, for academic year 
2015–2016: Provided, That funds made available to carry 
out part B of title VII of the ESEA may be used for con-
struction, renovation, and modernization of any elemen-
tary school, secondary school, or structure related to an 
elementary school or secondary school, run by the Depart-
ment of Education of the State of Hawaii, that serves a 
predominantly Native Hawaiian student body: Provided 
further, That funds made available to carry out part C 
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of title VII of the ESEA shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis, and also may be used for construction: Provided fur-
ther, That $48,445,000 shall be available to carry out sec-
tion 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 
2002: Provided further, That $16,699,000 shall be avail-
able to carry out the Supplemental Education Grants pro-
gram for the Federated States of Micronesia and the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may reserve up to 5 percent of the amount re-
ferred to in the previous proviso to provide technical as-
sistance in the implementation of these grants: Provided 
further, That up to 2 percent of the funds for subpart 1 
of part A of title II of the ESEA shall be reserved by 
the Secretary for competitive awards for teacher or prin-
cipal recruitment and training and professional enhance-
ment activities, including for civic education instruction, 
to national not-for-profit organizations: Provided further, 
That $155,000,000 shall be to carry out part B of title 
II of the ESEA. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent 
not otherwise provided, title VII, part A of the ESEA, 
$130,779,000. 
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INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by part G of 
title I, subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title 
II, parts B, C, and D of title V of the ESEA, and section 
14007 of division A of the American Recovery and Rein-
vestment Act of 2009, as amended, $882,398,000: Pro-
vided, That up to $141,602,000 shall be available through 
December 31, 2015 for section 14007 of division A of 
Public Law 111–5, and up to 5 percent of such funds may 
be used for technical assistance and the evaluation of ac-
tivities carried out under such section: Provided further, 
That $230,000,000 of the funds for subpart 1 of part D 
of title V of the ESEA shall be for competitive grants to 
local educational agencies, including charter schools that 
are local educational agencies, or States, or partnerships 
of: (1) a local educational agency, a State, or both; and 
(2) at least one nonprofit organization to develop and im-
plement performance-based compensation systems for 
teachers, principals, and other personnel in high-need 
schools: Provided further, That such performance-based 
compensation systems must consider gains in student aca-
demic achievement as well as classroom evaluations con-
ducted multiple times during each school year among 
other factors and provide educators with incentives to take 
on additional responsibilities and leadership roles: Pro-
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vided further, That recipients of such grants shall dem-
onstrate that such performance-based compensation sys-
tems are developed with the input of teachers and school 
leaders in the schools and local educational agencies to be 
served by the grant: Provided further, That recipients of 
such grants may use such funds to develop or improve sys-
tems and tools (which may be developed and used for the 
entire local educational agency or only for schools served 
under the grant) that would enhance the quality and suc-
cess of the compensation system, such as high-quality 
teacher evaluations and tools to measure growth in stu-
dent achievement: Provided further, That applications for 
such grants shall include a plan to sustain financially the 
activities conducted and systems developed under the 
grant once the grant period has expired: Provided further, 
That up to 5 percent of such funds for competitive grants 
shall be available for technical assistance, training, peer 
review of applications, program outreach, and evaluation 
activities: Provided further, That of the funds available for 
part B of title V of the ESEA, the Secretary shall use 
up to $11,000,000 to carry out activities under section 
5205(b) and shall use not less than $13,000,000 for sub-
part 2: Provided further, That of the funds available for 
subpart 1 of part B of title V of the ESEA, and notwith-
standing section 5205(a), the Secretary shall reserve up 
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to $75,000,000 to make multiple awards to non-profit 
charter management organizations and other entities that 
are not for-profit entities for the replication and expansion 
of successful charter school models and shall reserve up 
to $12,000,000 to carry out the activities described in sec-
tion 5205(a), including improving quality and oversight of 
charter schools and providing technical assistance and 
grants to authorized public chartering agencies in order 
to increase the number of high-performing charter schools: 
Provided further, That funds available for part B of title 
V of the ESEA may be used for grants that support pre-
school education in charter schools: Provided further, That 
each application submitted pursuant to section 5203(a) 
shall describe a plan to monitor and hold accountable au-
thorized public chartering agencies through such activities 
as providing technical assistance or establishing a profes-
sional development program, which may include evalua-
tion, planning, training, and systems development for staff 
of authorized public chartering agencies to improve the ca-
pacity of such agencies in the State to authorize, monitor, 
and hold accountable charter schools: Provided further, 
That each application submitted pursuant to section 
5203(a) shall contain assurances that State law, regula-
tions, or other policies require that: (1) each authorized 
charter school in the State operate under a legally binding 
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charter or performance contract between itself and the 
school’s authorized public chartering agency that describes 
the rights and responsibilities of the school and the public 
chartering agency; conduct annual, timely, and inde-
pendent audits of the school’s financial statements that 
are filed with the school’s authorized public chartering 
agency; and demonstrate improved student academic 
achievement; and (2) authorized public chartering agen-
cies use increases in student academic achievement for all 
groups of students described in section 1111(b)(2)(C)(v) 
of the ESEA as the most important factor when deter-
mining to renew or revoke a school’s charter: Provided fur-
ther, That $10,000,000 of the funds for subpart 1 of part 
D of title V of the ESEA shall be for competitive grants 
to local educational agencies to develop, implement, and 
evaluate interventions to improve the non-cognitive skills 
of students in the middle grades. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by part A of 
title IV and subparts 1, 2, and 10 of part D of title V 
of the ESEA, $280,876,000: Provided, That $90,000,000 
shall be available for subpart 2 of part A of title IV, of 
which up to $5,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for the Project School Emergency Re-
sponse to Violence (‘‘Project SERV’’) program to provide 
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education-related services to local educational agencies 
and institutions of higher education in which the learning 
environment has been disrupted due to a violent or trau-
matic crisis: Provided further, That $59,887,000 shall be 
available for Promise Neighborhoods. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, 
$732,144,000, which shall become available on July 1, 
2015, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2016, except that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be 
available on October 1, 2014, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2016, to carry out activities under 
section 3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall 
use estimates of the American Community Survey child 
counts for the most recent 3-year period available to cal-
culate allocations under such part. 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport 
and Empowerment Act of 2004, $12,648,712,000, of 
which $3,109,827,000 shall become available on July 1, 
2015, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2016, and of which $9,283,383,000 shall become available 
on October 1, 2015, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2016, for academic year 2015–2016: Pro-
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vided, That the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA 
shall be equal to the lesser of the amount available for 
that activity during fiscal year 2014, increased by the 
amount of inflation as specified in section 619(d)(2)(B) 
of the IDEA, or the percent change in the funds appro-
priated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less 
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2014: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, without regard 
to section 611(d) of the IDEA, distribute to all other 
States (as that term is defined in section 611(g)(2)), sub-
ject to the third proviso, any amount by which a State’s 
allocation under section 611(d), from funds appropriated 
under 
this 
heading, 
is 
reduced 
under 
section 
612(a)(18)(B), according to the following: 85 percent on 
the basis of the States’ relative populations of children 
aged 3 through 21 who are of the same age as children 
with disabilities for whom the State ensures the avail-
ability of a free appropriate public education under this 
part, and 15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of those children who are living in pov-
erty: Provided further, That the Secretary may not dis-
tribute any funds under the previous proviso to any State 
whose reduction in allocation from funds appropriated 
under this heading made funds available for such a dis-
tribution: Provided further, That the States shall allocate 
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such funds distributed under the second proviso to local 
educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f): 
Provided further, That the amount by which a State’s allo-
cation under section 611(d) of the IDEA is reduced under 
section 612(a)(18)(B) and the amounts distributed to 
States under the previous provisos in fiscal year 2012 or 
any subsequent year shall not be considered in calculating 
the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013 or 
for any subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding section 612(a)(18)(B), in reducing a 
State’s allocation under section 611 for failure to comply 
with the requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A), the Sec-
retary may apply that reduction over a period of consecu-
tive fiscal years, not to exceed five, until the entire reduc-
tion is applied: Provided further, That the Secretary may, 
in any fiscal year in which a State’s allocation under sec-
tion 611 is reduced in accordance with section 
612(a)(18)(B), reduce the amount a State may reserve 
under section 611(e)(1) by an amount that bears the same 
relation to the maximum amount described in that para-
graph as the reduction under section 612(a)(18)(B) bears 
to the total allocation the State would have received in 
that fiscal year under section 611(d) in the absence of the 
reduction: Provided further, That the Secretary shall ei-
ther reduce the allocation of funds under section 611 for 
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any fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the State 
fails to comply with the requirement of section 
612(a)(18)(A) as authorized by section 612(a)(18)(B), or 
seek to recover funds under section 452 of the General 
Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1234a): Provided 
further, That the funds reserved under 611(c) of the 
IDEA may be used to provide technical assistance to 
States to improve the capacity of the States to meet the 
data collection requirements of sections 616 and 618 and 
to administer and carry out other services and activities 
to improve data collection, coordination, quality, and use 
under parts B and C of the IDEA: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may reserve up to $10,000,000 of the funds 
made available for section 663 of the IDEA to support: 
(1) grants to States, outlying areas, freely associated 
states, and the Secretary of the Interior to carry out ac-
tivities identified in their State Systemic Improvement 
Plans to improve results for children with disabilities birth 
through age 21 under Parts B and C of the IDEA; and 
(2) related activities for carrying out and assessing the 
performance of those grants: Provided further, That funds 
reserved under the preceding proviso shall remain avail-
able for obligation through September 30, 2016: Provided 
further, That each entity that receives a grant under the 
second preceding proviso may make subgrants, contracts, 
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or otherwise distribute those funds on a competitive, tar-
geted, or formula basis to public, private, and non-profit 
entities, including local educational agencies and early 
intervention service providers, to carry out activities au-
thorized under that proviso: Provided further, That the 
level of effort a local educational agency must meet under 
section 613(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the IDEA, in the year after 
it fails to maintain effort is the level of effort that would 
have been required in the absence of that failure and not 
the LEA’s reduced level of expenditures: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may use funds made available for the 
State Personnel Development Grants program under Part 
D, subpart 1 of IDEA to evaluate program performance. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Tech-
nology Act of 1998, and the Helen Keller National Center 
Act, $3,722,853,000, of which $3,335,074,000 shall be for 
grants for vocational rehabilitation services under title I 
of the Rehabilitation Act: Provided, That section 
302(g)(3) of the Rehabilitation Act shall not apply to 
funds provided under section 302 of such Act: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may use amounts provided in 
this Act that remain available subsequent to the reallot-
ment of funds to States pursuant to section 110(b) of the 
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Rehabilitation Act for innovative activities aimed at im-
proving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities as de-
fined in section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act, includ-
ing activities aimed at improving the education and post- 
school outcomes of children receiving Supplemental Secu-
rity Income (‘‘SSI’’) and their families that may result 
in long-term improvement in the SSI child recipient’s eco-
nomic status and self-sufficiency: Provided further, That 
States may award subgrants for a portion of the funds 
to other public and private, non-profit entities: Provided 
further, That any funds made available subsequent to real-
lotment for innovative activities aimed at improving the 
outcomes of individuals with disabilities shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2016. 
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH 
DISABILITIES 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, 
$25,000,000. 
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf 
under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act 
of 1986, $67,741,000: Provided, That from the total 
amount available, the Institute may at its discretion use 
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funds for the endowment program as authorized under 
section 207 of such Act. 
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY 
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, 
the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial 
support of Gallaudet University under titles I and II of 
the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986, $121,550,000: 
Provided, That from the total amount available, the Uni-
versity may at its discretion use funds for the endowment 
program as authorized under section 207 of such Act. 
CAREER, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Edu-
cation Act of 2006 and the Adult Education and Family 
Literacy Act (‘‘AEFLA’’), $1,739,156,000, of which 
$948,156,000 shall become available on July 1, 2015, and 
shall remain available through September 30, 2016, and 
of which $791,000,000 shall become available on October 
1, 2015, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2016: Provided, That of the amount provided for Adult 
Education State Grants, $72,425,000 shall be made avail-
able for integrated English literacy and civics education 
services to immigrants and other limited-English-pro-
ficient populations: Provided further, That of the amount 
reserved for integrated English literacy and civics edu-
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cation, notwithstanding section 211 of the AEFLA, 65 
percent shall be allocated to States based on a State’s ab-
solute need as determined by calculating each State’s 
share of a 10-year average of the United States Citizen-
ship and Immigration Services data for immigrants admit-
ted for legal permanent residence for the 10 most recent 
years, and 35 percent allocated to States that experienced 
growth as measured by the average of the 3 most recent 
years for which United States Citizenship and Immigra-
tion Services data for immigrants admitted for legal per-
manent residence are available, except that no State shall 
be allocated an amount less than $60,000: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts made available for AEFLA, 
$13,712,000 shall be for national leadership activities 
under section 243. 
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 10 of part A, 
and part C of title IV of the HEA, $24,233,210,000, 
which shall remain available through September 30, 2016. 
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall 
be eligible during award year 2015–2016 shall be $4,860. 
STUDENT AID ADMINISTRATION 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out part 
D of title I, and subparts 1, 3, 9, and 10 of part A, and 
parts B, C, D, and E of title IV of the HEA, and subpart 
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1 of part A of title VII of the Public Health Service Act, 
$1,446,924,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2016. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, titles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the HEA, 
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 
1961, and section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and 
Technical Education Act of 2006, $1,969,893,000: Pro-
vided, That $1,000,000 shall be for data collection and 
evaluation activities for programs under the HEA, includ-
ing such activities needed to comply with the Government 
Performance and Results Act of 1993: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available in this Act to carry out title VI of the HEA 
and section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and Cul-
tural Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to support visits 
and study in foreign countries by individuals who are par-
ticipating in advanced foreign language training and inter-
national studies in areas that are vital to United States 
national security and who plan to apply their language 
skills and knowledge of these countries in the fields of gov-
ernment, the professions, or international development: 
Provided further, That of the funds referred to in the pre-
ceding proviso up to 1 percent may be used for program 
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