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color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, or dis-
ability.
(6) Funds appropriated under authority of this
Act shall not be expended for wages of students.
(7) The Secretaries shall provide such other
safeguards as they may deem appropriate in order
to ensure that School-to-Work Opportunities partici-
pants are afforded adequate supervision by skilled
adult workers, or, otherwise, to further the purposes
of this Act.
SEC. 505. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Secretaries $300,000,000 in fiscal year
1995, and such sums as may be necessary in each of the
seven succeeding fiscal years for allocations to carry out
this Act.
(b) HIGH POVERTY AREAS.—The Secretaries may re-
serve up to $30,000,000 in fiscal year 1995, and such
sums as may be necessary in each of the succeeding seven
years under this Act, to carry out section 303, which may
be used in conjunction with funds available under the
Youth Fair Chance Program, title IV–H of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.).
(c) NATIONAL PROGRAMS.—The Secretaries may re-
serve up to $30,000,000 in fiscal year 1995 and such
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sums as they may deem necessary under this Act, in each
of the seven succeeding fiscal years to carry out title IV.
(d) TERRITORIES.—The Secretaries may reserve up
to one quarter of one percent for School-to-Work Opportu-
nities programs under this Act for the territories of the
United States, which are the Virgin Islands, Guam, the
Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Mar-
shall Islands, and which include Palau until the Compact
of Free Association is signed.
(e) NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS.—(1) The Sec-
retaries may reserve up to one quarter of one percent of
the funds appropriated for any fiscal year under section
505(a) for School-to-Work Opportunities programs for In-
dian youth that are consistent with School-to-Work Op-
portunities programs carried out under title II of this Act
and that involve Bureau funded schools, as defined in sec-
tion 1139(3) of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25
U.S.C. 2019(3)).
(2) The Secretaries may carry out this subsection
through such means as they find appropriate, including,
but not limited to—
(A) the transfer of funds to the Secretary of the
Interior; and
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(B) the provision of financial assistance to In-
dian tribes and Indian organizations.
(f) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Funds obligated for
any fiscal year for programs authorized under this Act
shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 506. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS, AND OTHER MATTERS.
The Secretaries are authorized, in carrying out this
Act, to accept, purchase, or lease in the name of the De-
partment of Labor or the Department of Education, and
employ or dispose of in furtherance of the purposes of this
Act, any money or property, real, personal, or mixed, tan-
gible or intangible, received by gift, devise, bequest, or oth-
erwise, and to accept voluntary and uncompensated serv-
ices notwithstanding the provisions of section 1342 of title
31.
SEC. 507. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect on the day of enactment.
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