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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, $9,220,695,000, 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 
$7,042,196,000 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 $706,125,000 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 
to charitable organizations to emulate model social service programs
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and to encourage research on the best practices of social service 
organizations: Provided further, That $18,820,000 shall be for activi-
ties authorized by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, of which 
$12,920,000 shall be for payments to States to promote access 
for voters with disabilities, and of which $5,900,000 shall be for 
payments to States for protection and advocacy systems for voters 
with disabilities: Provided further, That $136,664,000 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. 
PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES 
For carrying out section 436 of the Social Security Act, 
$345,000,000 and section 437, $89,100,000. 
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. 
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, $1,446,651,000, of which $5,500,000 shall be available 
for activities regarding medication management, screening, and
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education to prevent incorrect medication and adverse drug reac-
tions. 
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 Lifespan Respite Care Act, the United States- 
Mexico Border Health Commission Act, and research studies under 
section 1110 of the Social Security Act, $387,070,000, together with 
$5,851,000 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 $5,941,000 
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 Committee; and $5,500,000 
shall be for a Health Diplomacy Initiative and may be used to 
carry out health diplomacy activities such as health training, serv-
ices, education, and program evaluation, provided directly, through 
grants, or through contracts: 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 speci-
fied in the request: Provided further, That scientific information, 
including such information provided 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: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided in this Act for embryo adoption 
activities may be used to provide, to individuals adopting embryos, 
through grants and other mechanisms, medical and administrative 
services deemed necessary for such adoptions: Provided further, 
That such services shall be provided consistent with 42 CFR 
59.5(a)(4).
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OFFICE OF MEDICARE HEARINGS AND APPEALS 
For expenses necessary for administrative law judges respon-
sible for hearing cases under title XVIII of the Social Security 
Act (and related provisions of title XI of such Act), $67,500,000, 
to be transferred in appropriate part from the Federal Hospital 
Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust 
Funds. 
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR HEALTH INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the National Coordi-
nator for Health Information Technology, including grants, con-
tracts and cooperative agreements for the development and advance-
ment of an interoperable national health information technology 
infrastructure, $27,651,000: Provided, That in addition to amounts 
provided herein, $38,500,000 shall be available from amounts avail-
able under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to carry 
out health information technology network development. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, 
including the hire of passenger motor vehicles for investigations, 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, $45,187,000: Provided, That of such amount, necessary sums 
are available for providing protective services to the Secretary and 
investigating non-payment of child support cases for which non- 
payment is a Federal offense under 18 U.S.C. 228. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, 
$33,748,000, together with not to exceed $3,314,000 to be trans-
ferred 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. 
RETIREMENT PAY AND MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR COMMISSIONED 
OFFICERS 
For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health 
Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, for payments 
under the Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan and Sur-
vivor Benefit Plan, for medical care of dependents and retired 
personnel under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. 
chapter 55), such amounts as may be required during the current 
fiscal year. 
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to support activities related to coun-
tering potential biological, disease, nuclear, radiological and chem-
ical threats to civilian populations, and for other public health 
emergencies, $741,586,000, of which not to exceed $22,363,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2009, is to pay the costs 
described in section 319F–2(c)(7)(B) of the Public Health Service