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SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are author-
ized to make available not to exceed $20,000 and $15,000, 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 $2,500 from the funds avail-
able for ‘‘Salaries and expenses, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service’’; and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board is
authorized to make available for official reception and representa-
tion expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds available for ‘‘Salaries
and expenses, National Mediation Board’’.
SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry out
any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the
hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
SEC. 506. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND
PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest
extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with
funds made available in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial assistance
to, or entering into any contract with, any entity using funds
made available in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to
the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice
describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF
CONTRACTS
WITH
PERSONS
FALSELY
LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—If it has been finally
determined by a court or Federal agency that any person inten-
tionally affixed a label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription,
or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold
in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or
subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant
to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described
in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
SEC. 507. 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 percent-
age 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. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this Act,
and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appro-
priated under this Act, shall be expended for any abortion.
(b) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and none
of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated
under 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.
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SEC. 509. (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).
(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).
SEC. 510. (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 46.208(a)(2) 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. 511. (a) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PROMOTION
OF LEGALIZATION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.—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
by section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—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 advantage.
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
annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employment
of certain veterans; and
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as required
by that section for the most recent year for which such require-
ment was applicable to such entity.
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SEC. 513. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law,
unobligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal year
2000 from appropriations made available for salaries and expenses
for fiscal year 2000 in this Act, shall remain available through
December 31, 2000, for each such account for the purposes author-
ized: Provided, That the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations shall be notified at least 15 days prior to the obligation
of such funds.
SEC. 514. 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. 515. Section 520(c)(2)(D) of the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1997, as amended, is further amended by
striking ‘‘December 31, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 1999’’.
SEC. 516. The United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
Act (22 U.S.C. 290n et seq.) is amended—
(1) by striking section 2 and inserting the following:
‘‘SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF BORDER HEALTH COMMIS-
SION.
‘‘Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of
this section, the President shall appoint the United States members
of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, and shall
attempt to conclude an agreement with Mexico providing for the
establishment of such Commission.’’; and
(2) in section 3—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking the semicolon and
inserting ‘‘; and’’;
(B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and
inserting a period; and
(C) by striking paragraph (3).
SEC. 517. The applicable time limitations with respect to the
giving of notice of injury and the filing of a claim for compensation
for disability or death by an individual under the Federal
Employees’ Compensation Act, as amended, for injuries sustained
as a result of the person’s exposure to a nitrogen or sulfur mustard
agent in the performance of official duties as an employee at the
Department of the Army’s Edgewood Arsenal before March 20,
1944, shall not begin to run until the date of the enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 518. Section 169(d)(2)(B) of Public Law 105–220, the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, is amended by striking ‘‘or
Alaska Native villages or Native groups (as such terms are defined
in section 3 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
1602)).’’ and inserting ‘‘or Alaska Natives.’’.
SEC. 519. Of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able in this Act for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2000,
$121,000,000, to be allocated by the Office of Management and
Budget, are permanently canceled: Provided, That, within 30 days
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall submit a report to the Committees on
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Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
showing the allocation of the $121,000,000.
TITLE VI—EARLY DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND INTERVEN-
TIONS FOR NEWBORNS AND INFANTS WITH HEARING
LOSS
SEC. 601. (a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section
only, the following terms in this section are defined as follows:
(1) HEARING
SCREENING.—Newborn and infant hearing
screening consists of objective physiologic procedures to detect
possible hearing loss and to identify newborns and infants
who, after rescreening, require further audiologic and medical
evaluations.
(2) AUDIOLOGIC EVALUATION.—Audiologic evaluation con-
sists of procedures to assess the status of the auditory system;
to establish the site of the auditory disorder; the type and
degree of hearing loss, and the potential effects of hearing
loss on communication; and to identify appropriate treatment
and referral options. Referral options should include linkage
to State IDEA part C coordinating agencies or other appropriate
agencies, medical evaluation, hearing aid/sensory aid assess-
ment, audiologic rehabilitation treatment, national and local
consumer, self-help, parent, and education organizations, and
other family-centered services.
(3) MEDICAL EVALUATION.—Medical evaluation by a physi-
cian consists of key components including history, examination,
and medical decision making focused on symptomatic and
related body systems for the purpose of diagnosing the etiology
of hearing loss and related physical conditions, and for identi-
fying appropriate treatment and referral options.
(4) MEDICAL INTERVENTION.—Medical intervention is the
process by which a physician provides medical diagnosis and
direction for medical and/or surgical treatment options of
hearing loss and/or related medical disorder associated with
hearing loss.
(5) AUDIOLOGIC REHABILITATION.—Audiologic rehabilitation
(intervention) consists of procedures, techniques, and tech-
nologies to facilitate the receptive and expressive communica-
tion abilities of a child with hearing loss.
(6) EARLY
INTERVENTION.—Early intervention (e.g., non-
medical) means providing appropriate services for the child
with hearing loss and ensuring that families of the child are
provided comprehensive, consumer-oriented information about
the full range of family support, training, information services,
communication options and are given the opportunity to con-
sider the full range of educational and program placements
and options for their child.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are to clarify the
authority within the Public Health Service Act to authorize state-
wide newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and inter-
vention programs and systems, technical assistance, a national
applied research program, and interagency and private sector
collaboration for policy development, in order to assist the States
in making progress toward the following goals:
(1) All babies born in hospitals in the United States and
its territories should have a hearing screening before leaving