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For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments 
to States or other non-Federal entities under titles I, IV–D, X, 
XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of July 
5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. chapter 9), for the last 3 months of the current 
fiscal year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal 
year, such sums as may be necessary. 
LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 
For making payments under section 2604(a)–(d) of the Low- 
Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(a)– 
(d)), $2,015,206,000. 
For making payments under section 2604(e) of the Low-Income 
Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(e)), 
$596,379,000, notwithstanding the designation requirement of sec-
tion 2602(e) of such Act: Provided, That of the amount provided 
by this paragraph, $250,000,000 is designated as described in sec-
tion 5 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act). 
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses for refugee and entrant assistance 
activities and for costs associated with the care and placement 
of unaccompanied alien children authorized by title IV of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee 
Education Assistance Act of 1980, for carrying out section 462 
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, and for carrying out the 
Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998, $667,288,000, of which up to 
$9,988,000 shall be available to carry out the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading pursuant to section 414(a) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act and section 462 of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 for fiscal year 2008 shall be available for the costs of 
assistance provided and other activities to remain available through 
September 30, 2010. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT 
BLOCK GRANT 
For carrying out the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990, $2,098,746,000 shall be used to supplement, not sup-
plant State general revenue funds for child care assistance for 
low-income families: Provided, That $18,777,370 shall be available 
for child care resource and referral and school-aged child care 
activities, of which $982,080 shall be for the Child Care Aware 
toll-free hotline: Provided further, That, in addition to the amounts 
required to be reserved by the States under section 658G, 
$267,785,718 shall be reserved by the States for activities author-
ized under section 658G, of which $98,208,000 shall be for activities 
that improve the quality of infant and toddler care: Provided further, 
That $9,821,000 shall be for use by the Secretary for child care 
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities. 
SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 
For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 of the 
Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 
subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such Act, the applicable
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percent specified under such subparagraph for a State to carry 
out State programs pursuant to title XX of such Act shall be 
10 percent. 
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway 
and Homeless Youth Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance 
and Bill of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the Child Abuse Preven-
tion and Treatment Act, sections 310 and 316 of the Family Violence 
Prevention and Services Act, the Native American Programs Act 
of 1974, title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment 
and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 (adoption opportunities), sections 
330F and 330G of the Public Health Service Act, the Abandoned 
Infants Assistance Act of 1988, sections 261 and 291 of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002, part B(1) of title IV and sections 413, 
1110, and 1115 of the Social Security Act; for making payments 
under the Community Services Block Grant Act, sections 439(i), 
473B, and 477(i) of the Social Security Act, and the Assets for 
Independence Act, and for necessary administrative expenses to 
carry out such Acts and titles I, IV, V, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and 
XX of the Social Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. 
chapter 9), the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, 
title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 501 of 
the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, and section 505 
of the Family Support Act of 1988, $9,129,990,000, of which 
$4,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009, shall 
be for grants to States for adoption incentive payments, as author-
ized by section 473A of the Social Security Act and may be made 
for adoptions completed before September 30, 2008: Provided, That 
$7,000,270,000 shall be for making payments under the Head Start 
Act, of which $1,388,800,000 shall become available October 1, 
2008, and remain available through September 30, 2009: Provided 
further, That $705,451,000 shall be for making payments under 
the Community Services Block Grant Act: Provided further, That 
not less than $8,000,000 shall be for section 680(3)(B) of the Commu-
nity Services Block Grant Act: Provided further, That in addition 
to amounts provided herein, $6,000,000 shall be available from 
amounts available under section 241 of the Public Health Service 
Act to carry out the provisions of section 1110 of the Social Security 
Act: Provided further, That to the extent Community Services Block 
Grant funds are distributed as grant funds by a State to an eligible 
entity as provided under the Act, and have not been expended 
by such entity, they shall remain with such entity for carryover 
into the next fiscal year for expenditure by such entity consistent 
with program purposes: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall establish procedures regarding 
the disposition of intangible property which permits grant funds, 
or intangible assets acquired with funds authorized under section 
680 of the Community Services Block Grant Act to become the 
sole property of such grantees after a period of not more than 
12 years after the end of the grant for purposes and uses consistent 
with the original grant: Provided further, That funds appropriated 
for section 680(a)(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act 
shall be available for financing construction and rehabilitation and 
loans or investments in private business enterprises owned by 
community development corporations: Provided further, That 
$53,625,000 is for a compassion capital fund to provide grants
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to charitable organizations to emulate model social service programs 
and to encourage research on the best practices of social service 
organizations: Provided further, That $17,720,000 shall be for activi-
ties authorized by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, of which 
$12,370,000 shall be for payments to States to promote access 
for voters with disabilities, and of which $5,350,000 shall be for 
payments to States for protection and advocacy systems for voters 
with disabilities: Provided further, That $110,836,000 shall be for 
making competitive grants to provide abstinence education (as 
defined by section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act) to adoles-
cents, and for Federal costs of administering the grant: Provided 
further, That grants under the immediately preceding proviso shall 
be made only to public and private entities which agree that, 
with respect to an adolescent to whom the entities provide 
abstinence education under such grant, the entities will not provide 
to that adolescent any other education regarding sexual conduct, 
except that, in the case of an entity expressly required by law 
to provide health information or services the adolescent shall not 
be precluded from seeking health information or services from the 
entity in a different setting than the setting in which abstinence 
education was provided: Provided further, That within amounts 
provided herein for abstinence education for adolescents, up to 
$10,000,000 may be available for a national abstinence education 
campaign: Provided further, That in addition to amounts provided 
herein for abstinence education for adolescents, $4,500,000 shall 
be available from amounts available under section 241 of the Public 
Health Service Act to carry out evaluations (including longitudinal 
evaluations) of adolescent pregnancy prevention approaches: Pro-
vided further, That up to $2,000,000 shall be for improving the 
Public Assistance Reporting Information System, including grants 
to States to support data collection for a study of the system’s 
effectiveness: Provided further, That $17,301,000 shall be available 
for the projects and in the amounts specified in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act). 
PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES 
For carrying out section 436 of the Social Security Act, 
$345,000,000 and section 437, $64,437,000. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE 
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under title IV–E of the Social Security Act, $5,067,000,000. 
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under title IV–E of the Act, for the first quarter of fiscal year 
2009, $1,776,000,000. 
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments 
to States or other non-Federal entities under section 474 of title 
IV–E, for the last 3 months of the current fiscal year for unantici-
pated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums as 
may be necessary.
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ADMINISTRATION ON AGING 
AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Older Americans Act of 1965 and section 398 of the Public Health 
Service Act, $1,438,567,000, of which $5,500,000 shall be available 
for activities regarding medication management, screening, and 
education to prevent incorrect medication and adverse drug reac-
tions: Provided, That $6,431,000 shall be available for the projects 
and in the amounts specified in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act). 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general 
departmental management, including hire of six sedans, and for 
carrying out titles III, XVII, XX, and XXI of the Public Health 
Service Act, the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission 
Act, and research studies under section 1110 of the Social Security 
Act, $355,518,000, together with $5,792,000 to be transferred and 
expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security 
Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplemental 
Medical Insurance Trust Fund, and $46,756,000 from the amounts 
available under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to 
carry out national health or human services research and evaluation 
activities: Provided, That of the funds made available under this 
heading for carrying out title XX of the Public Health Service 
Act, $13,120,000 shall be for activities specified under section 
2003(b)(2), all of which shall be for prevention service demonstration 
grants under section 510(b)(2) of title V of the Social Security 
Act, as amended, without application of the limitation of section 
2010(c) of said title XX: Provided further, That of this amount, 
$51,891,000 shall be for minority AIDS prevention and treatment 
activities; and $5,892,000 shall be to assist Afghanistan in the 
development of maternal and child health clinics, consistent with 
section 103(a)(4)(H) of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 
2002; and $1,000,000 shall be transferred, not later than 30 days 
after enactment of this Act, to the National Institute of Mental 
Health to administer the Interagency Autism Coordinating Com-
mittee: Provided further, That specific information requests from 
the chairmen and ranking members of the Subcommittees on Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, 
on scientific research or any other matter, shall be transmitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations in a prompt, professional 
manner and within the time frame specified in the request: Provided 
further, That scientific information, including such information pro-
vided in congressional testimony, requested by the Committees 
on Appropriations and prepared by government researchers and 
scientists shall be transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations, 
uncensored and without delay: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided in this Act for embryo adoption activities may be used to 
provide, to individuals adopting embryos, through grants and other