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SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 13126, none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the procurement 
of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services 
rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor 
in industries and host countries already identified by the United 
States Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American Competi-
tiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 may be used 
for any purpose other than competitive grants for training individ-
uals over the age of 16 who are not currently enrolled in school 
within a local educational agency in the occupations and industries 
for which employers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign workers, 
and the related activities necessary to support such training: Pro-
vided, That the preceding limitation shall not apply to funding 
provided pursuant to solicitations for grant applications issued prior 
to January 15, 2014. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Administration’’ shall be 
used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary 
and bonuses of an individual, either as direct costs or indirect 
costs, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation 
shall not apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 
in Office of Management and Budget Circular A–133. Where States 
are recipients of such funds, States may establish a lower limit 
for salaries and bonuses of those receiving salaries and bonuses 
from subrecipients of such funds, taking into account factors 
including the relative cost-of-living in the State, the compensation 
levels for comparable State or local government employees, and 
the size of the organizations that administer Federal programs 
involved including Employment and Training Administration pro-
grams. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 
transfer funds made available to the Employment and Training 
Administration by this Act, either directly or through a set-aside, 
for technical assistance services to grantees to ‘‘Program Adminis-
tration’’ when it is determined that those services will be more 
efficiently performed by Federal employees: Provided, That this 
section shall not apply to section 171 of the WIOA. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more than 0.5 
percent from each appropriation made available in this Act identi-
fied in subsection (b) in order to carry out evaluations of any 
of the programs or activities that are funded under such accounts. 
Any funds reserved under this section shall be transferred to 
‘‘Departmental Management’’ for use by the Office of the Chief 
Evaluation Officer within the Department of Labor, and shall be 
available for obligation through September 30, 2016: Provided, That 
such funds shall only be available if the Chief Evaluation Officer 
of the Department of Labor submits a plan to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
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describing the evaluations to be carried out 15 days in advance 
of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: ‘‘Training 
and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, ‘‘Community Service 
Employment for Older Americans’’, ‘‘State Unemployment Insurance 
and Employment Service Operations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security 
Administration’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, 
‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract Compliance 
Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management Standards’’, ‘‘Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety and Health 
Administration’’, funding made available to the ‘‘Bureau of Inter-
national Affairs’’ and ‘‘Women’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental 
Management, Salaries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans 
Employment and Training’’. 
SEC. 108. (a) FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT
TO
THE CROSSING 
OF H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS WORKING IN THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if a petition 
for H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an employer in the seafood 
industry is granted, the employer may bring the nonimmigrants 
described in the petition into the United States at any time 
during the 120-day period beginning on the start date for 
which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants without filing another petition. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR CROSSINGS AFTER 90TH DAY.—An 
employer in the seafood industry may not bring H–2B non-
immigrants into the United States after the date that is 90 
days after the start date for which the employer is seeking 
the services of the nonimmigrants unless the employer— 
(A) completes a new assessment of the local labor 
market by— 
(i) listing job orders in local newspapers on 2 sepa-
rate Sundays; and 
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the appropriate 
Department of Labor Electronic Job Registry and at 
the employer’s place of employment; and 
(B) offers the job to an equally or better qualified 
United States worker who— 
(i) applies for the job; and 
(ii) will be available at the time and place of need. 
(3) EXEMPTION
FROM
RULES
WITH
RESPECT
TO
STAG-
GERING.—The Secretary of Labor shall not consider an employer 
in the seafood industry who brings H–2B nonimmigrants into 
the United States during the 120-day period specified in para-
graph (1) to be staggering the date of need in violation of 
section 655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
any other applicable provision of law. 
(b) H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘H–2B nonimmigrants’’ means aliens admitted to the United States 
pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)). 
SEC. 109. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to take any 
action in connection with any asserted liability under subsection 
(e) of section 4062 of the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974: Provided, That this section shall cease to apply upon 
the enactment of any bill that amends such subsection.
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 110. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more than 0.25 
percent from each appropriation made available in this Act identi-
fied in subsection (b) in order to carry out information technology 
purchases and upgrades for any of the programs or activities that 
are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under this 
section shall be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Management’’ for 
use by the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Depart-
ment of Labor, and shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2016: Provided, That such funds shall only be available 
if the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Labor submits 
a plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate describing the purchases and upgrades 
to be carried out and an explanation of why funds are not needed 
in the donor account 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: ‘‘Employment 
and Training Administration Program Administration’’, funding 
made available for Federal administration within ‘‘Job Corps’’, ‘‘For-
eign Labor Certification Program Administration’’, ‘‘Employee Bene-
fits Security Administration’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation 
Programs’’, ‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management Standards’’, 
‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety 
and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Veterans Employment and Training’’, 
‘‘Bureau of Labor Statistics’’, and ‘‘Office of Disability Employment 
Policy’’. 
SEC. 111. (a) Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall be applied as if the following text 
is part of such section: 
‘‘(s)(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply for a 
period of 2 years after the occurrence of a major disaster to any 
employee— 
‘‘(A) employed to adjust or evaluate claims resulting 
from or relating to such major disaster, by an employer 
not engaged, directly or through an affiliate, in under-
writing, selling, or marketing property, casualty, or liability 
insurance policies or contracts; 
‘‘(B) who receives from such employer on average 
weekly compensation of not less than $591.00 per week 
or any minimum weekly amount established by the Sec-
retary, whichever is greater, for the number of weeks such 
employee is engaged in any of the activities described in 
subparagraph (C); and 
‘‘(C) whose duties include any of the following: 
‘‘(i) interviewing insured individuals, individuals 
who suffered injuries or other damages or losses arising 
from or relating to a disaster, witnesses, or physicians; 
‘‘(ii) inspecting property damage or reviewing fac-
tual information to prepare damage estimates; 
‘‘(iii) evaluating and making recommendations 
regarding coverage or compensability of claims or 
determining liability or value aspects of claims; 
‘‘(iv) negotiating settlements; or 
‘‘(v) making recommendations regarding litigation. 
‘‘(2) The exemption in this subsection shall not affect the 
exemption provided by section 13(a)(1).
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‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘major disaster’ means any disaster or 
catastrophe declared or designated by any State or Federal 
agency or department; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘employee employed to adjust or evaluate 
claims resulting from or relating to such major disaster’ 
means an individual who timely secured or secures a 
license required by applicable law to engage in and perform 
the activities described in clauses (i) through (v) of para-
graph (1)(C) relating to a major disaster, and is employed 
by an employer that maintains worker compensation insur-
ance coverage or protection for its employees, if required 
by applicable law, and withholds applicable Federal, State, 
and local income and payroll taxes from the wages, salaries 
and any benefits of such employees; and 
‘‘(C) the term ‘affiliate’ means a company that, by 
reason of ownership or control of 25 percent or more of 
the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities 
of one or more companies, directly or indirectly, controls, 
is controlled by, or is under common control with, another 
company.’’. 
(b) This section shall be effective on the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor Appropria-
tions Act, 2015’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 
For carrying out titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘PHS Act’’) with respect to 
primary health care and the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act 
of 1988, $1,491,522,000: Provided, That no more than $100,000 
shall be available until expended for carrying out the provisions 
of section 224(o) of the PHS Act, including associated administrative 
expenses and relevant evaluations: Provided further, That no more 
than $99,893,000 shall be available until expended for carrying 
out the provisions of Public Law 104–73 and for expenses incurred 
by the Department of Health and Human Services (referred to 
in this Act as ‘‘HHS’’) pertaining to administrative claims made 
under such law: Provided further, That of funds provided for the 
Health Centers program, as defined by section 330 of the PHS 
Act, by this Act or any other Act for fiscal year 2015, not less 
than $165,000,000 shall be obligated in fiscal year 2015 as base 
grant adjustments, not less than $350,000,000 shall be obligated 
in fiscal year 2015 to support new access points including approved 
and unfunded applications from fiscal year 2014, grants to expand 
medical services, behavioral health, oral health, pharmacy, and 
vision services, and up to $150,000,000 shall be obligated in fiscal 
year 2015 for construction and capital improvement costs.