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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, 
as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education 
Organization Act, $59,256,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase 
of equipment for such transportation) in order to overcome racial 
imbalance in any school or school system, or for the transportation 
of students or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such 
transportation) in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation 
of any school or school system. 
SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be 
used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any 
student to a school other than the school which is nearest the 
student’s home, except for a student requiring special education, 
to the school offering such special education, in order to comply 
with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose 
of this section an indirect requirement of transportation of students 
includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving 
the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing 
of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade 
restructuring, pairing, or clustering. The prohibition described in 
this section does not include the establishment of magnet schools. 
SEC. 303. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer 
and meditation in the public schools. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 304. 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 Department of Edu-
cation in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but 
no such appropriation 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 Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. The Outlying Areas may consolidate funds received 
under this Act, pursuant to 48 U.S.C. 1469a, under part A of 
title V of the ESEA. 
SEC. 306. Section 105(f)(1)(B)(ix) of the Compact of Free 
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d(f)(1)(B)(ix)) 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2016’’ for ‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 307. The Secretary, in consultation with the Director 
of the Institute of Education Sciences, may reserve funds under 
section 9601 of the ESEA (subject to the limitations in subsections 
(b) and (c) of that section) in order to carry out activities authorized 
under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of that section with 
respect to any ESEA program funded in this Act and without 
respect to the source of funds for those activities: Provided, That 
high-quality evaluations of ESEA programs shall be prioritized,
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before using funds for any other evaluation activities: Provided 
further, That any funds reserved under this section shall be avail-
able from July 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017: Provided 
further, That not later than 10 days prior to the initial obligation 
of funds reserved under this section, the Secretary, in consultation 
with the Director, shall submit an evaluation plan to the Senate 
Committees on Appropriations and Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions and the House Committees on Appropriations and Edu-
cation and the Workforce which identifies the source and amount 
of funds reserved under this section, the impact on program 
grantees if funds are withheld, the programs to be evaluated with 
such funds, how ESEA programs will be regularly evaluated, and 
how findings from evaluations completed under this section will 
be widely disseminated. 
SEC. 308. (a) An institution of higher education that maintains 
an endowment fund supported with funds appropriated for title 
III or V of the HEA for fiscal year 2016 may use the income 
from that fund to award scholarships to students, subject to the 
limitation in section 331(c)(3)(B)(i) of the HEA. The use of such 
income for such purposes, prior to the enactment of this Act, shall 
be considered to have been an allowable use of that income, subject 
to that limitation. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall be in effect until titles III and V of 
the HEA are reauthorized. 
SEC. 309. Section 114(f) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1011c(f)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘2015’’ and inserting ‘‘2016’’. 
SEC. 310. Section 458(a) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1087h(a)) is 
amended in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2016’’. 
SEC. 311. Section 428(c)(1) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1078(c)(1)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘95 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘100 percent’’. 
SEC. 312. Notwithstanding section 5(b) of the Every Student 
Succeeds Act, funds provided in this Act for non-competitive formula 
grant programs authorized by the ESEA for use during academic 
year 2016–2017 shall be administered in accordance with the ESEA 
as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the Every 
Student Succeeds Act. 
SEC. 313. CAREER PATHWAYS PROGRAMS.— 
(1) Subsection (d) of section 484 of the HEA is amended 
by replacing (d)(2) with the following: 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE
CAREER
PATHWAY
PROGRAM.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘eligible career pathway program’ means a 
program that combines rigorous and high-quality education, 
training, and other services that— 
‘‘(A) aligns with the skill needs of industries in the 
economy of the State or regional economy involved; 
‘‘(B) prepares an individual to be successful in any 
of a full range of secondary or postsecondary education 
options, including apprenticeships registered under the Act 
of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ‘National 
Apprenticeship Act’; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 
50 et seq.) (referred to individually in this Act as an 
‘apprenticeship’, except in section 171); 
‘‘(C) includes counseling to support an individual in 
achieving the individual’s education and career goals;
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‘‘(D) includes, as appropriate, education offered concur-
rently with and in the same context as workforce prepara-
tion activities and training for a specific occupation or 
occupational cluster; 
‘‘(E) organizes education, training, and other services 
to meet the particular needs of an individual in a manner 
that accelerates the educational and career advancement 
of the individual to the extent practicable; 
‘‘(F) enables an individual to attain a secondary school 
diploma or its recognized equivalent, and at least 1 recog-
nized postsecondary credential; and 
‘‘(G) helps an individual enter or advance within a 
specific occupation or occupational cluster.’’. 
(2) Subsection (b) of section 401 of the HEA is amended 
by striking the addition to (b)(2)(A)(ii) made by subsection 
309(b) of division G of Public Law 113–235. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Education Appro-
priations Act, 2016’’. 
TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 
SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established under sec-
tion 8502 of title 41, United States Code, $6,191,000: Provided, 
That in order to authorize any central nonprofit agency designated 
pursuant to section 8503(c) of title 41, United States Code, to 
perform contract requirements of the Committee as prescribed 
under section 51–3.2 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, the 
Committee shall within 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act enter into a written agreement with any such central 
nonprofit agency: Provided further, That such agreement entered 
into under the preceding proviso shall contain such auditing, over-
sight, and reporting provisions as necessary to implement chapter 
85 of title 41, United States Code: Provided further, That such 
agreement shall include the elements listed under the heading 
‘‘Committee For Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
Disabled—Written Agreement Elements’’ in the explanatory state-
ment described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That after 180 days 
from the date of enactment of this Act a fee may not be charged 
under section 51–3.5 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, unless 
such fee is under the terms of the written agreement between 
the Committee and any such central nonprofit agency: Provided 
further, That no less than $750,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Inspector General. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. (a) Section 8G of the Inspector General Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App.) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)—
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(A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘the Committee for 
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Dis-
abled,’’ after ‘‘the Board for International Broadcasting,’’; 
and 
(B) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through 
(H) as subparagraphs (E) through (I), respectively; and 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) with respect to the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, such term 
means the Chairman of the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled;’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘board or commission’’, the first place 
it appears, and inserting ‘‘board, chairman of a committee, 
or commission’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘board or commission’’, the second place 
it appears, and inserting ‘‘board, committee, or commis-
sion’’. 
(b) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Chairman of the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled shall appoint an 
Inspector General for the Committee. 
(c) This section, and the amendments made by this section, 
shall take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 402. Not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal 
year quarter, beginning with the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, 
the Committee For Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
Severely Disabled shall submit to the Committees on Oversight 
and Government Reform and Education and the Workforce of the 
House of Representatives, the Committees on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs and Health, Education, Labor, and Pen-
sions of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, the reports described 
under the heading ‘‘Committee For Purchase From People Who 
Are Blind or Severely Disabled—Requested Reports’’ in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for National and 
Community Service (referred to in this title as ‘‘CNCS’’) to carry 
out the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (referred to in 
this title as ‘‘1973 Act’’) and the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 (referred to in this title as ‘‘1990 Act’’), $787,929,000, 
notwithstanding sections 198B(b)(3), 198S(g), 501(a)(4)(C), and 
501(a)(4)(F) of the 1990 Act: Provided, That of the amounts provided 
under this heading: (1) up to 1 percent of program grant funds 
may be used to defray the costs of conducting grant application 
reviews, including the use of outside peer reviewers and electronic 
management of the grants cycle; (2) $50,000,000 shall be available 
for expenses to carry out section 198K of the 1990 Act; (3)