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(e) Section 413(h)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
613(h)(1)) is amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘Out of any money in the Treasury of the United 
States 
not 
otherwise 
appropriated, 
there 
are 
appropriated 
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 2012’’ and inserting ‘‘Funds made avail-
able to carry out this section for a fiscal year shall be used’’. 
(f) Section 414 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 614) is 
repealed. 
(g) Expenditures made pursuant to Public Law 113–164 for 
section 403(b) of the Social Security Act for fiscal year 2015 shall 
be charged to the appropriation provided by subsection (b)(1) for 
such fiscal year. 
SEC. 229. The remaining unobligated balances of the amount 
appropriated for fiscal year 2015 by section 510(d) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 710(d)) for which no application has been 
received by the Funding Opportunity Announcement deadline, shall 
be made available to States that require the implementation of 
each element described in subparagraphs (A) through (H) of the 
definition of abstinence education in section 510(b)(2). The 
remaining unobligated balances shall be reallocated to such States 
that submit a valid application consistent with the original formula 
for this funding. 
SEC. 230. Hereafter, for each fiscal year through fiscal year 
2025, the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall prepare 
and submit directly to the President for review and transmittal 
to Congress, after reasonable opportunity for comment, but without 
change, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 
Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services, an 
annual budget estimate (including an estimate of the number and 
type of personnel needs for the Institutes) for the initiatives of 
the National Institutes of Health pursuant to the National 
Alzheimer’s Plan, as required under section 2(d)(2) of Public Law 
111–375. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services Appropriations Act, 2015’’. 
TITLE III 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (referred to in this Act as ‘‘ESEA’’) and section 
418A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (referred to in this 
Act as ‘‘HEA’’), $15,536,107,000, of which $4,652,762,000 shall 
become available on July 1, 2015, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2016, and of which $10,841,177,000 shall 
become available on October 1, 2015, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2016, for academic year 2015–2016: Pro-
vided, That $6,459,401,000 shall be for basic grants under section 
1124 of the ESEA: Provided further, That up to $3,984,000 of 
these funds shall be available to the Secretary of Education (referred 
to in this title as ‘‘Secretary’’) on October 1, 2014, to obtain annually 
updated local educational agency-level census poverty data from 
the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That $1,362,301,000 
shall be for concentration grants under section 1124A of the ESEA:
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Provided further, That $3,294,050,000 shall be for targeted grants 
under section 1125 of the ESEA: Provided further, That 
$3,294,050,000 shall be for education finance incentive grants under 
section 1125A of the ESEA: Provided further, That funds available 
under sections 1124, 1124A, 1125 and 1125A of the ESEA may 
be used to provide homeless children and youths with services 
not ordinarily provided to other students under those sections, 
including supporting the liaison designated pursuant to section 
722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
and providing transportation pursuant to section 722(g)(1)(J)(iii) 
of such Act: Provided further, That $710,000 shall be to carry 
out sections 1501 and 1503 of the ESEA: Provided further, That 
$505,756,000 shall be available for school improvement grants 
under section 1003(g) of the ESEA, which shall be allocated by 
the Secretary through the formula described in section 1003(g)(2) 
and shall be used consistent with the requirements of section 
1003(g), except that State and local educational agencies may use 
such funds to serve any school eligible to receive assistance under 
part A of title I that has not made adequate yearly progress for 
at least 2 years or is in the State’s lowest quintile of performance 
based on proficiency rates and, in the case of secondary schools, 
priority shall be given to those schools with graduation rates below 
60 percent: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
1003(g)(5)(C) of the ESEA, the Secretary may permit a State edu-
cational agency to establish an award period of up to 5 years 
for each participating local educational agency: Provided further, 
That funds available for school improvement grants for fiscal year 
2014 and thereafter may be used by a local educational agency 
to implement a whole-school reform strategy for a school using 
an evidence-based strategy that ensures whole-school reform is 
undertaken in partnership with a strategy developer offering a 
whole-school reform program that is based on at least a moderate 
level of evidence that the program will have a statistically signifi-
cant effect on student outcomes, including at least one well-designed 
and well-implemented experimental or quasi-experimental study: 
Provided further, That funds available for school improvement 
grants may be used by a local educational agency to implement 
an alternative State-determined school improvement strategy that 
has been established by a State educational agency with the 
approval of the Secretary: Provided further, That a local educational 
agency that is determined to be eligible for services under subpart 
1 or 2 of part B of title VI of the ESEA may modify not more 
than one element of a school improvement grant model: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 1003(g)(5)(A), each State edu-
cational agency may establish a maximum subgrant size of not 
more than $2,000,000 for each participating school applicable to 
such funds: Provided further, That the Secretary may reserve up 
to 5 percent of the funds available for section 1003(g) of the ESEA 
to carry out activities to build State and local educational agency 
capacity to implement effectively the school improvement grants 
program: Provided further, That $160,000,000 shall be available 
under section 1502 of the ESEA for a comprehensive literacy 
development and education program to advance literacy skills, 
including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for students from 
birth through grade 12, including limited-English-proficient stu-
dents and students with disabilities, of which one-half of 1 percent 
shall be reserved for the Secretary of the Interior for such a program
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at schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education, one-half 
of 1 percent shall be reserved for grants to the outlying areas 
for such a program, up to 5 percent may be reserved for national 
activities, and the remainder shall be used to award competitive 
grants to State educational agencies for such a program, of which 
a State educational agency may reserve up to 5 percent for State 
leadership activities, including technical assistance and training, 
data collection, reporting, and administration, and shall subgrant 
not less than 95 percent to local educational agencies or, in the 
case of early literacy, to local educational agencies or other nonprofit 
providers of early childhood education that partner with a public 
or private nonprofit organization or agency with a demonstrated 
record of effectiveness in improving the early literacy development 
of children from birth through kindergarten entry and in providing 
professional development in early literacy, giving priority to such 
agencies or other entities serving greater numbers or percentages 
of disadvantaged children: Provided further, That the State edu-
cational agency shall ensure that at least 15 percent of the sub-
granted funds are used to serve children from birth through age 
5, 40 percent are used to serve students in kindergarten through 
grade 5, and 40 percent are used to serve students in middle 
and high school including an equitable distribution of funds between 
middle and high schools: Provided further, That eligible entities 
receiving subgrants from State educational agencies shall use such 
funds for services and activities that have the characteristics of 
effective literacy instruction through professional development, 
screening and assessment, targeted interventions for students 
reading below grade level and other research-based methods of 
improving classroom instruction and practice: Provided further, 
That $37,474,000 shall be for carrying out section 418A of the 
HEA. 
IMPACT AID 
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to federally 
affected 
schools 
authorized 
by 
title 
VIII 
of 
the 
ESEA, 
$1,288,603,000, of which $1,151,233,000 shall be for basic support 
payments under section 8003(b), $48,316,000 shall be for payments 
for children with disabilities under section 8003(d), $17,406,000 
shall be for construction under section 8007(b) and be available 
for obligation through September 30, 2016, $66,813,000 shall be 
for Federal property payments under section 8002, and $4,835,000, 
to remain available until expended, shall be for facilities mainte-
nance under section 8008: Provided, That for purposes of computing 
the amount of a payment for an eligible local educational agency 
under section 8003(a) for school year 2014–2015, children enrolled 
in a school of such agency that would otherwise be eligible for 
payment under section 8003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but due to the 
deployment of both parents or legal guardians, or a parent or 
legal guardian having sole custody of such children, or due to 
the death of a military parent or legal guardian while on active 
duty (so long as such children reside on Federal property as 
described in section 8003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under 
such section, shall be considered as eligible students under such 
section, provided such students remain in average daily attendance 
at a school in the same local educational agency they attended 
prior to their change in eligibility status.
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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out school improvement activities authorized by 
parts A and B of title II, part B of title IV, parts A and B of 
title VI, and parts B and C of title VII of the ESEA; the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act; section 203 of the Educational 
Technical Assistance Act of 2002; the Compact of Free Association 
Amendments Act of 2003; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 
$4,402,671,000, of which $2,585,661,000 shall become available on 
July 1, 2015, and remain available through September 30, 2016, 
and of which $1,681,441,000 shall become available on October 
1, 2015, and shall remain available through September 30, 2016, 
for academic year 2015–2016: Provided, That funds made available 
to carry out part B of title VII of the ESEA may be used for 
construction, renovation, and modernization of any elementary 
school, secondary school, or structure related to an elementary 
school or secondary school, run by the Department of Education 
of the State of Hawaii, that serves a predominantly Native 
Hawaiian student body: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to carry out part C of title VII of the ESEA shall be awarded 
on a competitive basis, and also may be used for construction: 
Provided further, That $48,445,000 shall be available to carry out 
section 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002: 
Provided further, That $16,699,000 shall be available to carry out 
the Supplemental Education Grants program for the Federated 
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may reserve up to 5 percent 
of the amount referred to in the previous proviso to provide technical 
assistance in the implementation of these grants: Provided further, 
That up to 2.3 percent of the funds for subpart 1 of part A of 
title II of the ESEA shall be reserved by the Secretary for competi-
tive awards for teacher or principal recruitment and training or 
professional enhancement activities, including for civic education 
instruction, to national not-for-profit organizations, of which up 
to 8 percent may only be used for research, dissemination, evalua-
tion, and technical assistance for competitive awards carried out 
under this proviso: Provided further, That $152,717,000 shall be 
to carry out part B of title II of the ESEA. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise 
provided, title VII, part A of the ESEA, $123,939,000. 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by part G of title I, 
subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title II, parts B, C, 
and D of title V of the ESEA, and section 14007 of division A 
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as 
amended, $1,102,111,000: Provided, That up to $120,000,000 shall 
be available through December 31, 2015 for section 14007 of division 
A of Public Law 111–5, and up to 5 percent of such funds may 
be used for technical assistance and the evaluation of activities 
carried out under such section: Provided further, That the education 
facilities clearinghouse established through a competitive award 
process in fiscal year 2013 is authorized to collect and disseminate 
information on effective educational practices and the latest