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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 Management, 
including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, $337,756,000, 
together with not to exceed $308,000, which may be expended 
from the Employment Security Administration account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided, That $59,825,000 for the 
Bureau of International Labor Affairs shall be available for obliga-
tion through December 31, 2019: Provided further, That funds avail-
able to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs may be used 
to administer or operate international labor activities, bilateral 
and multilateral technical assistance, and microfinance programs, 
by or through contracts, grants, subgrants and other arrangements: 
Provided further, That not more than $53,825,000 shall be for 
programs to combat exploitative child labor internationally and 
not less than $6,000,000 shall be used to implement model programs 
that address worker rights issues through technical assistance in 
countries with which the United States has free trade agreements 
or trade preference programs: 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 administer 
grants for the purpose of evaluation: Provided further, That grants 
made for the purpose of evaluation shall be awarded through fair 
and open competition: Provided 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 Representa-
tives 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, not less 
than $994,000 shall be used for grants authorized by the Women 
in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $250,041,000 may be derived from the Employ-
ment Security Administration account in the Unemployment 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 disabled veterans’ outreach
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program specialists under section 4103A of such title and local 
veterans’ employment representatives under section 4104(b) 
of such title, and for the expenses described in section 
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for obligation by the 
States through December 31, 2019, and not to exceed 3 percent 
for the necessary Federal expenditures for data systems and 
contract support to allow for the tracking of participant and 
performance information: Provided, That, in addition, such 
funds may be used to support such specialists and representa-
tives in the provision of services to transitioning members 
of the Armed Forces who have participated in the Transition 
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) $23,379,000 is for carrying out the Transition 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 consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 
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 administration and evalua-
tion 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 the Hire VETS Act (division O 
of Public Law 115–31); and 
(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 appropria-
tions provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) above an amount 
not to exceed 3 percent of the appropriation from which such re-
allocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$50,000,000 is for carrying out programs to assist homeless 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 section: 
Provided further, That services provided under sections 2021 or 
under 2021A may include, in addition to services to homeless vet-
erans 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 described in subsection 
(e) of such section, services to veterans recently released from 
incarceration who are at risk of homelessness: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding paragraph (3) under this heading, funds 
appropriated in this paragraph may be used for data systems and
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contract support to allow for the tracking of participant and 
performance information: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
sections 2021(e)(2) and 2021A(f)(2) of title 38, United States Code, 
such funds shall be available for expenditure pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 
1553. 
In addition, fees may be assessed and deposited in the HIRE 
Vets Medallion Award Fund pursuant to section 5(b) of the HIRE 
Vets Act, 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 expended: Pro-
vided, That such sums shall be in addition to any other funds 
available for such purposes, including funds available under para-
graph (3) of this heading: Provided further, That section 2(d) of 
division O of the Consolidated 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 centralized 
infrastructure technology investment activities related to support 
systems and modernization, $23,269,000, which shall be available 
through September 30, 2020. 
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 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 
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
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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 section, 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 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. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. (a) 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 171 of the WIOA. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may transfer 
not more than 0.5 percent of each discretionary appropriation made 
available to the Employment and Training Administration by this 
Act to ‘‘Program Administration’’ in order to carry out program 
integrity activities relating to any of the programs or activities 
that are funded under any such discretionary appropriations: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding section 102 and the preceding proviso, 
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 pro-
gram integrity activities related to the Job Corps program: Provided 
further, That funds transferred under the authority provided by 
this subsection 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 identi-
fied in subsection (b) in order to carry out evaluations of any 
of the programs or activities that are funded under such accounts.