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Service Trust program authorized under subtitle C of title I of 
the 1990 Act may be used to administer, reimburse, or support 
any national service program authorized under section 129(d)(2) 
of such Act; (3) $12,000,000 shall be to provide assistance to State 
commissions on national and community service, under section 
126(a) of the 1990 Act and notwithstanding section 501(a)(4) of 
the 1990 Act; and (4) not less than $5,000,000 shall be for the 
acquisition, renovation, equipping and startup costs for a campus 
located in Vinton, Iowa, and a campus in Vicksburg, Mississippi, 
to carry out subtitle G of title I of the 1990 Act. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administration as provided under 
section 501(a)(4) of the National and Community Service Act of 
1990 and under section 504(a) of the Domestic Volunteer Service 
Act of 1973, including payment of salaries, authorized travel, hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference rooms in 
the District of Columbia, the employment of experts and consultants 
authorized under 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for 
official reception and representation expenses, $68,964,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, $6,900,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to national service edu-
cation awards shall mean any loan determined by an institution 
of higher education to be necessary to cover a student’s cost of 
attendance at such institution and made, insured, or guaranteed 
directly to a student by a State agency, in addition to other 
meanings under section 148(b)(7) of the National and Community 
Service Act. 
SEC. 402. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available under section 129(d)(5)(B) of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990 to assist entities in placing 
applicants who are individuals with disabilities may be provided 
to any entity that receives a grant under section 121 of the Act. 
SEC. 403. The Inspector General of the Corporation for National 
and Community Service shall conduct random audits of the grantees 
that administer activities under the AmeriCorps programs and 
shall levy sanctions in accordance with standard Inspector General 
audit resolution procedures which include, but are not limited to, 
debarment of any grantee (or successor in interest or any entity 
with substantially the same person or persons in control) that 
has been determined to have committed any substantial violation 
of the requirements of the AmeriCorps programs, including any 
grantee that has been determined to have violated the prohibition 
of using Federal funds to lobby the Congress: Provided, That the 
Inspector General shall obtain reimbursements in the amount of 
any misused funds from any grantee that has been determined 
to have committed any substantial violation of the requirements 
of the AmeriCorps programs.
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SEC. 404. The Corporation for National and Community Service 
shall make any significant changes to program requirements, 
service delivery or policy only through public notice and comment 
rulemaking. For fiscal year 2008, during any grant selection process, 
an officer or employee of the Corporation shall not knowingly dis-
close any covered grant selection information regarding such selec-
tion, directly or indirectly, to any person other than an officer 
or employee of the Corporation that is authorized by the Corporation 
to receive such information. 
SEC. 405. Professional Corps programs described in section 
122(a)(8) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 may 
apply to the Corporation for a waiver of application of section 
140(c)(2). 
SEC. 406. Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, United 
States Code, the Corporation may solicit and accept the services 
of organizations and individuals (other than participants) to assist 
the Corporation in carrying out the duties of the Corporation under 
the national service laws: Provided, That an individual who provides 
services under this section shall be subject to the same protections 
and limitations as volunteers under section 196(a) of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990. 
SEC. 
407. 
Organizations 
operating 
projects 
under 
the 
AmeriCorps Education Awards Program shall do so without regard 
to the requirements of sections 121(d) and (e), 131(e), 132, and 
140(a), (d), and (e) of the National and Community Service Act 
of 1990. 
SEC. 408. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants under the 
National Service Trust program shall meet an overall minimum 
share requirement of 24 percent for the first three years that 
they receive AmeriCorps funding, and thereafter shall meet the 
overall minimum share requirement as provided in section 2521.60 
of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, without regard to the 
operating costs match requirement in section 121(e) or the member 
support Federal share limitations in section 140 of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990, and subject to partial waiver 
consistent with section 2521.70 of title 45, Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as 
authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which 
shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, for the 
fiscal year 2010, $420,000,000: Provided, That no funds made avail-
able to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall 
be used to pay for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertain-
ment for Government officials or employees: Provided further, That 
none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall be available 
or used to aid or support any program or activity from which 
any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, or is discriminated 
against, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or 
sex: Provided further, That no funds made available to the Corpora-
tion for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to apply 
any political test or qualification in selecting, appointing, promoting, 
or taking any other personnel action with respect to officers, agents, 
and employees of the Corporation: Provided further, That for fiscal 
year 2008, in addition to the amounts provided above, $29,700,000
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shall be for costs related to digital program production, develop-
ment, and distribution, associated with the transition of public 
broadcasting to digital broadcasting, to be awarded as determined 
by the Corporation in consultation with public radio and television 
licensees or permittees, or their designated representatives: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2008, in addition to the amounts 
provided above, $26,750,000 is available pursuant to section 
396(k)(10) of the Communications Act of 1934 for replacement and 
upgrade of the public radio interconnection system: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds made available to the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting by this Act, the Continuing Appropriations 
Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110–5), or the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–149), shall be used to 
support the Television Future Fund or any similar purpose. 
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Concilia-
tion Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor 
Management Relations Act, 1947, including hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; for expenses necessary for the Labor-Management 
Cooperation Act of 1978; and for expenses necessary for the Service 
to carry out the functions vested in it by the Civil Service Reform 
Act, Public Law 95–454, $44,450,000, including $650,000 to remain 
available through September 30, 2009, for activities authorized 
by the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost 
recovery, for special training activities and other conflict resolution 
services and technical assistance, including those provided to foreign 
governments and international organizations, and for arbitration 
services shall be credited to and merged with this account, and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That fees 
for arbitration services shall be available only for education, 
training, and professional development of the agency workforce: 
Provided further, That the Director of the Service is authorized 
to accept and use on behalf of the United States gifts of services 
and real, personal, or other property in the aid of any projects 
or functions within the Director’s jurisdiction. 
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Review Commission, $8,096,000. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services Act of 
1996 and the National Museum of African American History and 
Culture Act, $277,131,000: Provided, That funds may be made 
available for support through inter-agency agreement or grant to 
commemorative Federal commissions that support museum and
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library activities, in partnership with libraries and museums that 
are eligible for funding under programs carried out by the Institute 
of Museum and Library Services. 
MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the Social 
Security Act, $10,748,000, to be transferred to this appropriation 
from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supple-
mentary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For close out activities of the National Commission on Libraries 
and Information Science, established by the Act of July 20, 1970 
(Public Law 91–345, as amended), $400,000. 
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Council on Disability 
as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
$3,113,000. 
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board 
to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management 
Relations Act, 1947, and other laws, $256,988,000: Provided, That 
no part of this appropriation shall be available to organize or 
assist in organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection 
with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning bar-
gaining units composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in 
section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935, and as amended by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in section 
3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938, and including in said definition 
employees engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, 
canals, reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated 
on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95 percent of the water 
stored or supplied thereby is used for farming purposes. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Rail-
way Labor Act, including emergency boards appointed by the Presi-
dent, $12,992,000, of which $750,000 shall be for arbitrator salaries 
and expenses pursuant to section 153(1).
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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Review Commission, $10,696,000. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, author-
ized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, 
$79,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming available in 
fiscal year 2008 pursuant to section 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 
98–76; and in addition, an amount, not to exceed 2 percent of 
the amount provided herein, shall be available proportional to the 
amount by which the product of recipients and the average benefit 
received exceeds the amount available for payment of vested dual 
benefits: Provided, That the total amount provided herein shall 
be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts on the first day 
of each month in the fiscal year. 
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS 
For payment to the accounts established in the Treasury for 
the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for 
interest earned on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2009, which shall be the maximum 
amount available for payment pursuant to section 417 of Public 
Law 98–76. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board for 
administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad 
Unemployment Insurance Act, $103,694,000, to be derived in such 
amounts as determined by the Board from the railroad retirement 
accounts and from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment 
insurance administration fund. 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General 
for audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized by the 
Inspector General Act of 1978, not more than $7,803,000, to be 
derived from the railroad retirement accounts and railroad 
unemployment insurance account: Provided, That none of the funds 
made available in any other paragraph of this Act may be trans-
ferred to the Office; used to carry out any such transfer; used 
to provide any office space, equipment, office supplies, communica-
tions facilities or services, maintenance services, or administrative 
services for the Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or award 
for any personnel of the Office; used to pay any other operating 
expense of the Office; or used to reimburse the Office for any 
service provided, or expense incurred, by the Office: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available under the heading in this Act, 
or subsequent Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, may
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be used for any audit, investigation, or review of the Medicare 
Program. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, as 
provided under sections 201(m), 217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of 
the Social Security Act, $28,140,000. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Security Act, 
section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 of Public Law 93– 
66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95–216, including 
payment to the Social Security trust funds for administrative 
expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Secu-
rity Act, $27,014,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That any portion of the funds provided to a State in the 
current fiscal year and not obligated by the State during that 
year shall be returned to the Treasury. 
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social Security 
Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the current fiscal year, 
such sums as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title XVI of the Social 
Security 
Act 
for 
the 
first 
quarter 
of 
fiscal 
year 
2009, 
$14,800,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger 
motor vehicles, and not to exceed $15,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses, not more than $9,522,953,000 may 
be expended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Secu-
rity Act, from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein: 
Provided, That not less than $2,000,000 shall be for the Social 
Security Advisory Board: Provided further, That unobligated bal-
ances of funds provided under this paragraph at the end of fiscal 
year 2008 not needed for fiscal year 2008 shall remain available 
until expended to invest in the Social Security Administration 
information technology and telecommunications hardware and soft-
ware infrastructure, including related equipment and non-payroll 
administrative expenses associated solely with this information 
technology and telecommunications infrastructure: 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 section 7131 of title 5, United States 
Code, 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. 
From funds provided under the first paragraph, not less than 
$263,970,000 shall be available for conducting continuing disability 
reviews under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act and
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for conducting redeterminations of eligibility under title XVI of 
the Social Security Act. 
In addition to amounts made available above, and subject to 
the same terms and conditions, $213,000,000, for additional con-
tinuing disability reviews and redeterminations of eligibility. 
In addition, $135,000,000 to be derived from administration 
fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment collected pursu-
ant 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 2008 exceed $135,000,000, the amounts shall be 
available in fiscal year 2009 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 
(Public Law 108–203), which shall remain available until expended. 
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, $27,000,000, together with not to exceed $68,047,000, 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. 
In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total 
provided in this appropriation may be transferred from the ‘‘Limita-
tion 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 transfers shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Serv-
ices, and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended balances 
of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appro-
priations 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 shall be used, other than for normal and recognized executive- 
legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for 
the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, 
publication, radio, television, or video presentation designed to sup-
port or defeat legislation pending before the Congress or any State 
legislature, except in presentation to the Congress or any State 
legislature itself.
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(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 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 legislation or appropriations pending before 
the Congress or any State legislature. 
SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are author-
ized to make available not to exceed $28,000 and $20,000, respec-
tively, from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles 
I and III, respectively, for official reception and representation 
expenses; the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation 
Service is authorized to make available for official reception and 
representation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from the funds avail-
able for ‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Salaries and 
expenses’’; and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board 
is authorized to make available for official reception and representa-
tion expenses not to exceed $5,000 from funds available for 
‘‘National Mediation Board, Salaries and expenses’’. 
SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to carry out any 
program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypo-
dermic injection of any illegal drug. 
SEC. 506. When issuing statements, press releases, requests 
for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing 
projects or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal 
money, all grantees receiving Federal funds included in this Act, 
including but not limited to State and local governments and recipi-
ents of Federal research grants, shall clearly state— 
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the program or 
project which will be financed with Federal money; 
(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the project 
or program; and 
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total costs of the 
project or program that will be financed by non-governmental 
sources. 
SEC. 507. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and 
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated 
in this Act, shall be expended for any abortion. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and none of 
the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated in 
this Act, shall be expended for health benefits coverage that includes 
coverage of abortion. 
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the package 
of services covered by a managed care provider or organization 
pursuant to a contract or other arrangement. 
SEC. 508. (a) The limitations established in the preceding sec-
tion shall not apply to an abortion— 
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or 
incest; or 
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical 
disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life- 
endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the 
pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place 
the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. 
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as 
prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private 
person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State’s or 
locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
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(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as 
restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering 
abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract 
separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds 
(other than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching 
funds). 
(d)(1) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
made available to a Federal agency or program, or to a State 
or local government, if such agency, program, or government sub-
jects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimina-
tion on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, 
pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. 
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ includes 
an individual physician or other health care professional, a hospital, 
a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organiza-
tion, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care 
facility, organization, or plan. 
SEC. 509. (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 embryos are 
destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected 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, parthenogenesis, cloning, or 
any other means from one or more human gametes or human 
diploid cells. 
SEC. 510. (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 established under section 202 of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) except for normal and recog-
nized 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 advan-
tage. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard under section 
1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d–2(b)) providing 
for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health identifier 
for an individual (except in an individual’s capacity as an employer 
or a health care provider), until legislation is enacted specifically 
approving the standard. 
SEC. 512. 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— 
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the United 
States and is subject to the requirement in section 4212(d) 
of title 38, United States Code, regarding submission of an