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take prompt steps to ensure that a skilled and sensitive re-
quest for organ or tissue donation is provided to eligible
families by—
(1) working with the designated organ procure-
ment organization or other suitable agency to assess
donor potential and performance in their institutions;
(2) establishing protocols for organ donation that
incorporate best-demonstrated practices;
(3) providing education to hospital staff to en-
sure adequate skills related to organ and tissue dona-
tion;
(4) establishing teams of skilled hospital staff to
respond to potential organ donor situations, ensure
optimal communication with the patient’s surviving
family, and achieve smooth coordination of activities
with the designated organ procurement organization;
and
(5) monitoring organ donation effectiveness
through quality assurance mechanisms.
PROTECTING VICTIMS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
SEC. 220. (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) the intent of Congress in amending part A
of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601
et seq.) in section 103(a) of the Personal Responsibil-
ity and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
(Public Law 104–193; 110 Stat 2112) was to allow
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States to take into account the effects of the epidemic
of domestic violence in establishing their welfare pro-
grams, by giving States the flexibility to grant indi-
vidual, temporary waivers for good cause to victims
of domestic violence who meet the criteria set forth in
section 402(a)(7)(B) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 602(a)(7)(B));
(2) the allowance of waivers under such sections
was not intended to be limited by other, separate, and
independent provisions of part A of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
(3) under section 402(a)(7)(A)(iii) of such Act
(42 U.S.C. 602(a)(7)(A)(iii)), requirements under the
temporary assistance for needy families program
under part A of title IV of such Act may, for good
cause, be waived for so long as necessary; and
(4) good cause waivers granted pursuant to sec-
tion 402(a)(7)(A)(iii) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
602(a)(7)(A)(iii)) are intended to be temporary and
directed only at particular program requirements
when needed on an individual case-by-case basis, and
are intended to facilitate the ability of victims of do-
mestic violence to move forward and meet program
requirements when safe and feasible without inter-
ference by domestic violence.
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(b) CLARIFICATION OF WAIVER PROVISIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(a)(7) of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 602(a)(7)) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) NO
NUMERICAL
LIMITS.—In imple-
menting this paragraph, a State shall not be
subject to any numerical limitation in the grant-
ing of good cause waivers under subparagraph
(A)(iii).
‘‘(D) WAIVERED
INDIVIDUALS
NOT
IN-
CLUDED
FOR
PURPOSES
OF
CERTAIN
OTHER
PROVISIONS OF THIS PART.—Any individual to
whom a good cause waiver of compliance with
this Act has been granted in accordance with
subparagraph (A)(iii) shall not be included for
purposes of determining a State’s compliance
with the participation rate requirements set
forth in section 407, for purposes of applying the
limitation described in section 408(a)(7)(C)(ii),
or for purposes of determining whether to impose
a penalty under paragraph (3), (5), or (9) of sec-
tion 409(a).’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
paragraph (1) takes effect as if it had been included
in the enactment of section 103(a) of the Personal Re-
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sponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–193; 110 Stat. 2112).
(c) FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERVICE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 453 of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 653), as amended by section
5534 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law
105–33; 111 Stat. 627), is amended—
(A) in subsection (b)(2)—
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by inserting ‘‘or that the health,
safety, or liberty or a parent or child would
by unreasonably put at risk by the disclo-
sure of such information,’’ before ‘‘provided
that’’;
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting
‘‘, that the health, safety, or liberty or a
parent or child would by unreasonably put
at risk by the disclosure of such informa-
tion,’’ before ‘‘and that information’’; and
(iii) in subparagraph (B)(i), by strik-
ing ‘‘be harmful to the parent or the child’’
and inserting ‘‘place the health, safety, or
liberty of a parent or child unreasonably at
risk’’; and
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(B) in subsection (c)(2), by inserting ‘‘, or
to serve as the initiating court in an action to
seek and order,’’ before ‘‘against a noncustodial’’.
(2) STATE PLAN.—Section 454(26) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654), as amended by section
5552 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law
105–33; 111 Stat. 635), is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘re-
sult in physical or emotional harm to the party
or the child’’ and inserting ‘‘place the health,
safety, or liberty of a parent or child unreason-
ably at risk’’;
(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘of
domestic violence or child abuse against a party
or the child and that the disclosure of such infor-
mation could be harmful to the party or the
child’’ and inserting ‘‘that the health, safety, or
liberty of a parent or child would be unreason-
ably put at risk by the disclosure of such infor-
mation’’; and
(C) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘of
domestic violence’’ and all that follows through
the semicolon and inserting ‘‘that the health,
safety, or liberty of a parent or child would be
unreasonably put at risk by the disclosure of
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such information pursuant to section 453(b)(2),
the court shall determine whether disclosure to
any other person or persons of information re-
ceived from the Secretary could place the health,
safety, or liberty or a parent or child unreason-
ably at risk (if the court determines that disclo-
sure to any other person could be harmful, the
court and its agents shall not make any such
disclosure);’’.
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by this section shall take effect 1 day after the effec-
tive date described in section 5557(a) of the Balanced
Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–33).
SEC. 221. (a) TRANSFER.—Using $5,000,000 of the
amounts appropriated under this title, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall carry out activities
under subsection (b) to address urgent health threats posed
by E. coli:0157H7.
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—From amounts transferred under
subsection (a) the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall—
(1) provide $1,000,000 for the development of
improved medical treatments for patients infected
with E. coli:0157H7-related disease (HUS);
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(2) provide $550,000 to fund ongoing research to
detect or prevent colonization of E. coli:0157H7 in
live cattle;
(3) provide, through the existing partnership be-
tween 
the 
Federal 
Government, 
industry, 
and
consumer 
groups, 
$1,000,000 
for 
the 
National
Consumer Education Campaign on Food Safety as
part of the activities to address safe food handling
practices;
(4) provide $1,000,000 for a study to determine
the feasibility of the use of electronic pasteurization
on red meats to eliminate pathogens and to carry out
activities to educate the public on the safety of that
process; and
(5) provide $1,000,000 for a contract to be en-
tered into with the National Academy of Sciences to
assess the effectiveness of testing to ensure zero toler-
ance of E. coli:0157H7 in raw ground beef products.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health
and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1998’’.
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION REFORM
For carrying out activities authorized by titles III and
IV of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School-to-
Work Opportunities Act, and sections 3132, 3136, and 3141
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of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
$1,271,000,000, of which $530,000,000 for the Goals 2000:
Educate America Act and $200,000,000 for the School-to-
Work Opportunities Act shall become available on July 1,
1998, and remain available through September 30, 1999:
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be obligated or expended to carry out section
304(a)(2)(A) of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, ex-
cept that no more than $1,500,000 may be used to carry
out activities under section 314(a)(2) of that Act: Provided
further, That section 315(a)(2) of the Goals 2000 Act shall
not apply: Provided further, That up to one-half of one per-
cent of the amount available under section 3132 shall be
set aside for the outlying areas, to be distributed on the
basis of their relative need as determined by the Secretary
in accordance with the purposes of the program: Provided
further, That if any State educational agency does not
apply for a grant under section 3132, that State’s allotment
under section 3131 shall be reserved by the Secretary for
grants to local educational agencies in that State that apply
directly to the Secretary according to the terms and condi-
tions published by the Secretary in the Federal Register.
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Second-
ary Education Act of 1965, and section 418A of the Higher
Education Act, $7,807,349,000, of which $6,488,271,000
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shall become available on July 1, 1998, and shall remain
available through September 30, 1999, and of which
$1,298,386,000 shall become available on October 1, 1998
and shall remain available through September 30, 1999, for
academic year 1998–1999: Provided, That $6,273,712,000
shall be available for basic grants under section 1124: Pro-
vided further, That up to $4,000,000 of these funds shall
be available to the Secretary on October 1, 1997, to obtain
updated local-educational-agency-level census poverty data
from the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That
$1,022,020,000 shall be available for concentration grants
under section 1124A, $6,977,000 shall be available for eval-
uations under section 1501 and not more than $7,500,000
shall be reserved for section 1308, of which not more than
$3,000,000 shall be reserved for section 1308(d): Provided
further, That grant awards under section 1124 and 1124(A)
of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
shall be made to each State or local educational agency at
no less than 100 percent of the amount such State or local
educational agency received under this authority for fiscal
year 1997 under Public Laws 104–208 and 105–18: Pro-
vided further, That in determining State allocations under
any other program administered by the Secretary, amounts
provided under Public Law 105–18, or equivalent amounts
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provided for in this bill, will not be taken into account in
determining State allocations.
IMPACT AID
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to
federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the Ele-
mentary 
and 
Secondary 
Education 
Act 
of 
1965,
$794,500,000, of which $623,500,000 shall be for basic sup-
port payments under section 8003(b), $80,000,000 shall be
for payments for children with disabilities under section
8003(d), $52,000,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be for payments under section 8003(f), $5,000,000
shall be for construction under section 8007, and
$24,000,000 shall be for Federal property payments under
section 8002 and $10,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for facilities maintenance under section
8008.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS
For carrying out school improvement activities author-
ized by titles II, IV–A–1 and 2, V–A and B, VI, IX, X,
XII and XIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965; the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Act; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; $1,482,293,000, of
which $1,206,278,000 shall become available on July 1,
1998, and remain available through September 30, 1999:
Provided, That of the amount appropriated, $310,000,000
shall be for Eisenhower professional development State
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grants under title II–B of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, $310,000,000 shall be for innovative edu-
cation program strategies State grants under title VI–A of
said Act and $750,000 shall be for an evaluation of com-
prehensive regional assistance centers under title XIII of
said Act: Provided further, That—
(1) of the amount appropriated under this head-
ing and notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Education may award $1,000,000 to
a State educational agency (as defined in section
14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801)) to pay for appraisals,
resource studies, and other expenses associated with
the exchange of State school trust lands within the
boundaries of a national monument for Federal lands
outside the boundaries of the monument; and
(2) the State educational agency is eligible to re-
ceive a grant under paragraph (1) only if the agency
serves a State that—
(A) has a national monument declared
within the State under the authority of the Act
entitled ‘‘An Act for the preservation of Amer-
ican antiquities’’, approved June 8, 1906 (16
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) (commonly known as the An-
tiquities Act of 1906) that incorporates more
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than 100,000 acres of State school trust lands
within the boundaries of the national monument;
and
(B) ranks in the lowest 25 percent of all
States when comparing the average per pupil ex-
penditure (as defined in section 14101 of the El-
ementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 8801)) in the State to the average per
pupil expenditure for each State in the United
States.
INDIAN EDUCATION
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not
otherwise provided, title IX, part A of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, and section
215 of the Department of Education Organization Act,
$62,600,000.
BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
bilingual, foreign language and immigrant education ac-
tivities authorized by parts A and C and section 7203 of
title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
without regard to section 7103(b), $354,000,000: Provided,
That State educational agencies may use all, or any part
of, their part C allocation for competitive grants to local
educational agencies: Provided further, That the Depart-
ment of Education should only support instructional pro-
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grams which ensure that students completely master Eng-
lish in a timely fashion (a period of three to five years)
while meeting rigorous achievement standards in the aca-
demic content areas.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, $4,958,073,000, of which $4,713,112,000
shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1998, and
shall remain available through September 30, 1999: Pro-
vided, That $1,500,000 of the funds provided shall be for
secton 687(b)(2)(G), and shall remain available until ex-
pended.
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Technology-Related As-
sistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act, and the
Helen 
Keller 
National 
Center 
Act, 
as 
amended,
$2,591,286,000.
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended
(20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $7,906,000.
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of
1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $44,141,000: Provided, That
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from the amount available, the Institute may at its discre-
tion use funds for the endowment program as authorized
under section 207.
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School,
the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial
support of Gallaudet University under titles I and II of
the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et
seq.), $81,000,000: Provided, That from the amount avail-
able, the University may at its discretion use funds for the
endowment program as authorized under section 207.
VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act and the Adult Education Act and the Na-
tional Literacy Act of 1991, $1,487,698,000, of which
$1,484,598,000 shall become available on July 1, 1998 and
shall remain available through September 30, 1999; and of
which $5,491,000 from amounts available under the Adult
Education Act shall be for the National Institute for Lit-
eracy under section 384(c) which shall be derived from un-
obligated Pell Grant funds: Provided, That, of the amounts
made available for title II of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
and Applied Technology Education Act, $13,497,000 shall
be used by the Secretary for national programs under title
IV, without regard to section 451: Provided further, That
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the Secretary may reserve up to $4,998,000 under section
313(d) of the Adult Education Act for activities carried out
under section 383 of that Act: Provided further, That no
funds shall be awarded to a State Council under section
112(f) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Tech-
nology Education Act, and no State shall be required to
operate such a Council.
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 4 of part A, part
C and part E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of
1965, as amended, $8,556,641,000, which shall remain
available through September 30, 1999: Provided, That,
$35,000,000 shall be available for State Student Incentive
grants derived from unobligated balances: Provided further,
That $60,000,000 shall be for education infrastructure au-
thorized under title XII of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act to be derived from unobligated balances.
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall
be eligible during award year 1998–1999 shall be $3,000:
Provided, That notwithstanding section 401(g) of the Act,
if the Secretary determines, prior to publication of the pay-
ment schedule for such award year, that the amount in-
cluded within this appropriation for Pell Grant awards in
such award year, and any funds available from the fiscal
year 1997 appropriation for Pell Grant awards, are insuffi-
cient to satisfy fully all such awards for which students are
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eligible, as calculated under section 401(b) of the Act, the
amount paid for each such award shall be reduced by either
a fixed or variable percentage, or by a fixed dollar amount,
as determined in accordance with a schedule of reductions
established by the Secretary for this purpose.
FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out
guaranteed student loans authorized by title IV, part B, of
the Higher Education Act, as amended, $46,482,000.
HIGHER EDUCATION
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
parts A and B of title III, without regard to section
360(a)(1)(B)(ii), titles IV, V, VI, VII, and IX, and part
A and subpart 1 of parts B and E of title X and title XI
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, part G
of title XV of Public Law 102–325, the Mutual Educational
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, and Public Law 102–
423; $929,752,000, of which $13,700,000 for interest sub-
sidies under title VII of the Higher Education Act shall re-
main available until expended: Provided, That funds avail-
able for part D of title IX of the Higher Education Act
shall be available to fund new and noncompeting continu-
ation awards for academic year 1998–1999 for fellowships
awarded originally under part C of title IX of said Act,
under the terms and conditions of part C.
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY
For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C.
121 et seq.), $198,000,000: Provided, That not less than
$3,530,000, shall be for a matching endowment grant pur-
suant to the Howard University Endowment Act (Public
Law 98–480) and shall remain available until expended.
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS
PROGRAM
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out ac-
tivities related to facility loans entered into under title VII,
part C and section 702 of the Higher Education Act, as
amended, $698,000.
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL
FINANCING, PROGRAM ACCOUNT
The total amount of bonds insured pursuant to section
724 of title VII, part B of the Higher Education Act shall
not exceed $357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of such bonds
shall not exceed zero.
For administrative expenses to carry out the Histori-
cally Black College and University Capital Financing Pro-
gram entered into pursuant to title VII, part B of the High-
er Education Act, as amended, $104,000.
EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT
For carrying out activities authorized by the Edu-
cational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Im-
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provement Act of 1994, including part E; the National
Education Statistics Act of 1994; section 2102 of title II,
and parts B, C, and D of title III, and parts A, B, I, and
K and section 10601 of title X, and part C of title XIII
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
as amended, and title VI of Public Law 103–227,
$362,225,000.
CHILD LITERACY INITIATIVE
For 
carrying 
out 
a 
child 
literacy 
initiative,
$260,000,000, which shall become available on October 1,
1998 and shall remain available through September 30,
1999 only if specifically authorized by subsequent legisla-
tion enacted by April 1, 1998.
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Li-
brary Services Act, $146,369,000, of which $15,455,000
shall be for national leadership grants, notwithstanding sec-
tion 221(a)(1)(B).
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
the Department of Education Organization Act, including
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and
hire of two passenger motor vehicles, $340,064,000: Pro-
vided, That $1,100,000 shall be used for the Millennium
2000 project.
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OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights,
as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Edu-
cation Organization Act, $57,522,000.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department
of Education Organization Act, $32,000,000.
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 edu-
cation, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect re-
quirement of transportation of students includes the trans-
portation of students to carry out a plan involving the reor-
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ganization 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 under this Act may
be used to prevent the implementation of programs of vol-
untary 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, as amended) which are appropriated
for the Department of Education may be transferred be-
tween appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be
increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Pro-
vided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses
of Congress are notified at least fifteen days in advance of
any transfer.
SEC. 305. Of the funds made available under this title,
the Secretary of Education shall establish a program to pro-
vide training and technical assistance to State educational
agencies and local educational agencies (as defined in sec-
tion 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801) in developing, establishing, and
implementing procedures and programs designed to protect
victims of and witnesses to incidents of elementary school
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and secondary school violence, including procedures and
programs designed to protect witnesses testifying in school
disciplinary proceedings.
SEC. 306. Of the funds made available under this title,
$450,000 shall be awarded by the Secretary of Education
for grants for the establishment, operation, and evaluation
of pilot student safety toll-free hotlines to provide elemen-
tary school and secondary school students with confidential
assistance regarding school crime, violence, drug dealing,
and threats to the personal safety of the students.
SEC. 307. The Secretary of Education shall annually
provide to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources
and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and
the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives a certification that not less than 95 percent of the
amount appropriated for a fiscal year for the activities of
the Department of Education is being used directly for
teachers and students. If the Secretary determines that less
than 95 percent of such amount appropriated for a fiscal
year is being used directly for teachers and students, the
Secretary shall certify the percentage of such amount that
is being directly used for teachers and students.
SEC. 308. (a) The Secretary of Education shall con-
duct a study that examines—
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(1) the economic, educational, and societal costs
of—
(A) the increase in enrollments of secondary
school students during the period 1998 through
2008;
(B) the creation of smaller class sizes for
students enrolled in grades 1 through 3; and
(C) the increase in enrollments described in
subparagraph (A) in relation to the creation of
smaller class sizes described in subparagraph
(B); and
(2) the costs to States and local school districts
for taking no action with respect to such increase in
enrollments and smaller class sizes.
(b) The Secretary of Education shall report to Con-
gress within 9 months of the date of enactment of this Act
regarding the results of the study conducted under sub-
section (a). Such report shall include recommendations re-
garding what local school districts, States and the Federal
Government can do to address the issue of the increase in
enrollments of secondary school students and the need for
smaller class sizes in grades 1 through 3.
SEC. 309. (a) The Senate finds that—
(1) Federal Pell Grants are a crucial source of
college aid for low- and middle-income students;
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(2) in addition to the increase in the maximum
Federal Pell Grant from $2,700 to $3,000, which will
increase aid to more than 3,600,000 low- and middle-
income students, our Nation should provide addi-
tional funds to help more than 250,000 independent
and dependent students obtain crucial aid in order to
help the students obtain the education, training, or
retraining the students need to obtain good jobs;
(3) our Nation needs to help children learn to
read well in fiscal year 1998, as 40 percent of the Na-
tion’s young children cannot read at the basic level;
and
(4) the Bipartisan Budget Agreement includes a
total 
funding 
level 
for 
fiscal 
year 
1998 
of
$7,600,000,000 for Federal Pell Grants, and of
$260,000,000 for a child literacy initiative.
(b) It is the sense of the Senate that prompt action
should be taken by the authorizing committees to—
(1) make the change in the needs analysis for
Federal Pell Grants for independent and for depend-
ent students; and
(2) enact legislation and authorize the funds
needed to cover the cost of the changes for a
$260,000,000 child literacy initiative.
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(c) It is the sense of the Senate that the maximum level
possible of fiscal year 1998 funding should be achieved in
the appropriations conference committee.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-
cation Appropriations Act, 1998’’.
TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES
ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME
For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retire-
ment Home to operate and maintain the United States Sol-
diers’ and Airmen’s Home and the United States Naval
Home, to be paid from funds available in the Armed Forces
Retirement Home Trust Fund, $65,452,000, of which
$10,000,000 shall remain available until expended for con-
struction and renovation of the physical plants at the Unit-
ed States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home and the United
States Naval Home.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING
EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the provisions
of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended,
$232,604,000.
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CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcast-
ing, as authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an
amount which shall be available within limitations speci-
fied by that Act, for the fiscal year 2000, $300,000,000: Pro-
vided, That no funds made available to the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay for
receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment 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, na-
tional origin, religion, or sex.
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in
it by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C.
171–180, 182–183), including hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles; and for expenses necessary for the Labor-Management
Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); 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
(5 U.S.C. chapter 71), $33,481,000, including $1,500,000,
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(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 match-
ing funds) for abortion services or coverage of abortion by
contract or other arrangement.
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed
as restricting the ability of any managed care provider or
organization 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).
SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law—
(1) no amount may be transferred from an ap-
propriation account for the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education except
as authorized in this or any subsequent appropriation
Act, or in the Act establishing the program or activity
for which funds are contained in this Act;
(2) no department, agency, or other entity, other
than the one responsible for administering the pro-
gram or activity for which an appropriation is made
in this Act, may exercise authority for the timing of