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needed for fiscal year 2019 shall remain available until 
expended to invest in the Social Security Administration 
information technology and telecommunications hardware 
and software infrastructure, including related equipment 
and non-payroll administrative expenses associated solely 
with this information technology and telecommunications 
infrastructure: Provided further, That the Commissioner 
of Social Security shall notify the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
prior to making unobligated balances available under the 
authority in the previous proviso: Provided further, That 
reimbursement to the trust funds under this heading for 
expenditures for official time for employees of the Social 
Security Administration pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7131, and 
for facilities or support services for labor organizations 
pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures referred 
to in section 7135(b) of such title shall be made by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, with interest, from amounts in 
the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as soon as 
possible after such expenditures are made. 
Of the total amount made available in the first para-
graph under this heading, not more than $1,683,000,000, 
to remain available through March 31, 2020, is for the 
costs associated with continuing disability reviews under 
titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act, including 
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work-related continuing disability reviews to determine 
whether earnings derived from services demonstrate an in-
dividual’s ability to engage in substantial gainful activity, 
for the cost associated with conducting redeterminations 
of eligibility under title XVI of the Social Security Act, 
for the cost of co-operative disability investigation units, 
and for the cost associated with the prosecution of fraud 
in the programs and operations of the Social Security Ad-
ministration by Special Assistant United States Attorneys: 
Provided, That, of such amount, $273,000,000 is provided 
to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(B)(ii)(III) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, and $1,410,000,000 is additional new 
budget authority specified for purposes of section 
251(b)(2)(B) of such Act: Provided further, That, of the 
additional new budget authority described in the preceding 
proviso, up to $10,000,000 may be transferred to the 
″Office of Inspector General″, Social Security Administra-
tion, for the cost of jointly operated co-operative disability 
investigation units: Provided further, That such transfer 
authority is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law: Provided further, That the Commissioner 
shall provide to the Congress (at the conclusion of the fis-
cal year) a report on the obligation and expenditure of 
these funds, similar to the reports that were required by 
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section 103(d)(2) of Public Law 104–121 for fiscal years 
1996 through 2002. 
In addition, $134,000,000 to be derived from admin-
istration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary pay-
ment collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social 
Security Act or section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, 
which shall remain available until expended. To the extent 
that the amounts collected pursuant to such sections in 
fiscal year 2019 exceed $134,000,000, the amounts shall 
be available in fiscal year 2020 only to the extent provided 
in advance in appropriations Acts. 
In addition, up to $1,000,000 to be derived from fees 
collected pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security 
Protection Act, which shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $31,000,000, together with not to 
exceed $77,500,000, to be transferred and expended as 
authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act 
from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. 
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In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of 
the total provided in this appropriation may be transferred 
from the ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’, Social 
Security Administration, to be merged with this account, 
to be available for the time and purposes for which this 
account is available: Provided, That notice of such trans-
fers shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education are authorized to transfer 
unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts 
corresponding to current appropriations provided in this 
Act. Such transferred balances shall be used for the same 
purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they 
were originally appropriated. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of 
Public Law 111–148 shall be used, other than for normal 
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and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for pub-
licity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, dis-
tribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, 
electronic communication, radio, television, or video pres-
entation designed to support or defeat the enactment of 
legislation before the Congress or any State or local legis-
lature or legislative body, except in presentation to the 
Congress or any State or local legislature itself, or de-
signed to support or defeat any proposed or pending regu-
lation, administrative action, or order issued by the execu-
tive branch of any State or local government, except in 
presentation to the executive branch of any State or local 
government itself. 
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 
111–148 shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of 
any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such 
recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the 
enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, ad-
ministrative action, or Executive order proposed or pend-
ing before the Congress or any State government, State 
legislature or local legislature or legislative body, other 
than for normal and recognized executive-legislative rela-
tionships or participation by an agency or officer of a 
State, local or tribal government in policymaking and ad-
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ministrative processes within the executive branch of that 
government. 
(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall 
include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, 
pending or future Federal, State or local tax increase, or 
any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restric-
tion on any legal consumer product, including its sale or 
marketing, including but not limited to the advocacy or 
promotion of gun control. 
SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education 
are authorized to make available not to exceed $28,000 
and $20,000, respectively, from funds available for sala-
ries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for 
official reception and representation expenses; the Direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is 
authorized to make available for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from the funds 
available for ‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 
Salaries and Expenses’’; and the Chairman of the Na-
tional Mediation Board is authorized to make available for 
official reception and representation expenses not to ex-
ceed $5,000 from funds available for ‘‘National Mediation 
Board, Salaries and Expenses’’. 
SEC. 505. When issuing statements, press releases, 
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-
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or government subjects any institutional or individual 
health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the 
health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide cov-
erage of, or refer for abortions. 
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ 
includes an individual physician or other health care pro-
fessional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a 
health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, 
or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or 
plan. 
SEC. 508. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used for— 
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos 
for research purposes; or 
(2) research in which a human embryo or em-
bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly sub-
jected to risk of injury or death greater than that 
allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 
CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human 
embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected 
as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, 
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parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or 
more human gametes or human diploid cells. 
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used for any activity that promotes the 
legalization of any drug or other substance included in 
schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances estab-
lished under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act 
except for normal and recognized executive-congressional 
communications. 
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply 
when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic 
advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or 
that federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted 
to determine therapeutic advantage. 
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final stand-
ard under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act pro-
viding for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique 
health identifier for an individual (except in an individ-
ual’s capacity as an employer or a health care provider), 
until legislation is enacted specifically approving the 
standard. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew 
a contract with an entity if— 
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(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with 
the United States and is subject to the requirement 
in 38 U.S.C. 4212(d) regarding submission of an 
annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning 
employment of certain veterans; and 
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as 
required by that section for the most recent year for 
which such requirement was applicable to such enti-
ty. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act 
may be made available to any library covered by para-
graph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as amended by 
the Children’s Internet Protection Act, unless such library 
has made the certifications required by paragraph (4) of 
such section. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2019, or provided from 
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any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes or renames offices; 
(6) reorganizes programs or activities; or 
(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 
of such reprogramming. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2019, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
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the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects (in-
cluding construction projects), or activities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; 
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 
of such reprogramming. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to request that a candidate for ap-
pointment to a Federal scientific advisory committee dis-
close the political affiliation or voting history of the can-
didate or the position that the candidate holds with re-
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spect to political issues not directly related to and nec-
essary for the work of the committee involved. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to disseminate information that is deliberately 
false or misleading. 
SEC. 516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 
each department and related agency funded through this 
Act shall submit an operating plan that details at the pro-
gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 
for fiscal year 2019 that are different than those specified 
in this Act, the accompanying detailed table in the Com-
mittee report accompanying this Act, or the fiscal year 
2019 budget request. 
SEC. 517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the number 
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments exceeding $500,000 in value and awarded by the 
Department on a non-competitive basis during each quar-
ter of fiscal year 2019, but not to include grants awarded 
on a formula basis or directed by law. Such report shall 
include the name of the contractor or grantee, the amount 
of funding, the governmental purpose, including a jus-
tification for issuing the award on a non-competitive basis. 
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Such report shall be transmitted to the Committees within 
30 days after the end of the quarter for which the report 
is submitted. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of So-
cial Security, for purposes of administering Social Security 
benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, 
to process any claim for credit for a quarter of coverage 
based on work performed under a social security account 
number that is not the claimant’s number and the per-
formance of such work under such number has formed the 
basis for a conviction of the claimant of a violation of sec-
tion 208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or 
the Social Security Administration to pay the compensa-
tion of employees of the Social Security Administration 
to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any 
agreement between the United States and Mexico estab-
lishing totalization arrangements between the social secu-
rity system established by title II of the Social Security 
Act and the social security system of Mexico, which would 
not otherwise be payable but for such agreement. 
SEC. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
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to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic 
injection of any illegal drug: Provided, That such limita-
tion does not apply to the use of funds for elements of 
a program other than making such purchases if the rel-
evant State or local health department, in consultation 
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, de-
termines that the State or local jurisdiction, as applicable, 
is experiencing, or is at risk for, a significant increase in 
hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection 
drug use, and such program is operating in accordance 
with State and local law: Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated in this Act may be used for the 
operation of a supervised drug consumption facility that 
permits the consumption onsite of any substance listed in 
the schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances 
Act (21 U.S.C. 812). 
SEC. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
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SEC. 522. None of the funds made available under 
this or any other Act, or any prior Appropriations Act, 
may be provided to the Association of Community Organi-
zations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, 
subsidiaries, allied organizations, or successors. 
SEC. 523. For purposes of carrying out Executive 
Order 13589, Office of Management and Budget Memo-
randum M–12–12 dated May 11, 2012, and requirements 
contained in the annual appropriations bills relating to 
conference attendance and expenditures: 
(1) the operating divisions of HHS shall be con-
sidered independent agencies; and 
(2) attendance at and support for scientific con-
ferences shall be tabulated separately from and not 
included in agency totals. 
SEC. 524. Federal agencies funded under this Act 
shall clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for 
advertising or educational purposes, including emails or 
Internet postings, that the communication is printed, pub-
lished, or produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer ex-
pense. The funds used by a Federal agency to carry out 
this requirement shall be derived from amounts made 
available to the agency for advertising or other commu-
nications regarding the programs and activities of the 
agency. 
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SEC. 525. (a) Federal agencies may use Federal dis-
cretionary funds that are made available in this Act to 
carry out up to 10 Performance Partnership Pilots. Such 
Pilots shall be governed by the provisions of section 526 
of division H of Public Law 113–76, except that in car-
rying out such Pilots section 526 shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘FISCAL YEAR 2019’’ for ‘‘FISCAL YEAR 2014’’ 
in the title of subsection (b) and by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2023’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2018’’ each place 
it appears: Provided, That such pilots shall include com-
munities that have experienced civil unrest. 
(b) In addition, Federal agencies may use Federal 
discretionary funds that are made available in this Act to 
participate in Performance Partnership Pilots that are 
being carried out pursuant to the authority provided by 
section 526 of division H of Public Law 113–76, section 
524 of division G of Public Law 113–235, section 525 of 
division H of Public Law 114–113, section 525 of division 
H of Public Law 115–31, and section 525 of division H 
of Public Law 115-141. 
(c) Pilot sites selected under authorities in this Act 
and prior appropriations Acts may be granted by relevant 
agencies up to an additional 5 years to operate under such 
authorities. 
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019’’. 
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