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PAYMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE AND PERMANENCY 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, title IV–E of 
the Social Security Act, $4,806,000,000. 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, title IV–E of 
the Social Security Act, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, 
$2,200,000,000. 
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 of the Social Security Act, for the last 3 months of the 
current fiscal year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current 
fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING 
AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
OAA, titles III and XXIX of the PHS Act, section 119 of the Medicare 
Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, title XX– 
B of the Social Security Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assist-
ance and Bill of Rights Act, parts 2 and 5 of subtitle D of title 
II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, and for Department- 
wide coordination of policy and program activities that assist 
individuals 
with 
disabilities, 
$1,610,143,000, 
together 
with 
$52,115,000 to be transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
Trust Fund to carry out section 4360 of the Omnibus Budget Rec-
onciliation Act of 1990: Provided, That amounts appropriated under 
this heading may be used for grants to States under section 361 
of the OAA only for disease prevention and health promotion pro-
grams and activities which have been demonstrated through rig-
orous evaluation to be evidence-based and effective: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds provided shall be used to carry out 
sections 1701 and 1703 of the PHS Act (with respect to chronic 
disease self-management activity grants), except that such funds 
may be used for necessary expenses associated with administering 
any such grants awarded prior to the date of the enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, funds made available under this heading to carry 
out section 311 of the OAA may be transferred to the Secretary 
of Agriculture in accordance with such section. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general 
departmental management, including hire of six passenger motor 
vehicles, and for carrying out titles III, XVII, XXI, and section 
229 of the PHS Act, the United States-Mexico Border Health 
Commission Act, and research studies under section 1110 of the 
Social Security Act, $458,056,000, together with $69,211,000 from 
the amounts available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry 
out national health or human services research and evaluation 
activities: Provided, That of this amount, $52,224,000 shall be for
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minority AIDS prevention and treatment activities: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$101,000,000 shall be for making competitive contracts and grants 
to public and private entities to fund medically accurate and age 
appropriate programs that reduce teen pregnancy and for the Fed-
eral costs associated with administering and evaluating such con-
tracts and grants, of which not less than $72,200,000 shall be 
for replicating programs that have been proven effective through 
rigorous evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk 
factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk fac-
tors, of which not less than $24,000,000 shall be available for 
research and demonstration grants to develop, replicate, refine, 
and test additional models and innovative strategies for preventing 
teenage pregnancy, and of which any remaining amounts shall 
be available for training and technical assistance, evaluation, out-
reach, and additional program support activities: Provided further, 
That of the amounts provided under this heading from amounts 
available under section 241 of the PHS Act, $8,455,000 shall be 
available to carry out evaluations (including longitudinal evalua-
tions) of teenage pregnancy prevention approaches: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$1,750,000 is for strengthening the Department’s acquisition 
workforce capacity and capabilities: Provided further, That with 
respect to the previous proviso, such funds shall be available for 
training, recruitment, retention and hiring members of the acquisi-
tion workforce as defined by 41 U.S.C. 1703, and for information 
technology in support of acquisition workforce effectiveness or for 
management solutions to improve acquisition management: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be for making competitive grants to provide 
abstinence education (as defined by section 510(b)(2)(A)–(H) of the 
Social Security Act) to adolescents, and for Federal costs of admin-
istering the grant: Provided further, That grants made under the 
authority of section 510(b)(2)(A)–(H) of the Social Security Act shall 
be made only to public and private entities that 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 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). 
OFFICE OF MEDICARE HEARINGS AND APPEALS 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Medicare Hearings 
and Appeals, $82,381,000, to be transferred in appropriate part 
from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal 
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
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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 
advancement of interoperable health information technology, 
$15,556,000: Provided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, 
$44,811,000 shall be available from amounts available under section 
241 of the PHS Act. 
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, $71,000,000: Provided, That of such amount, necessary sums 
shall be 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, 
$38,798,000. 
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, and for medical care of dependents and retired 
personnel under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act, such amounts 
as may be required during the current fiscal year. 
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND 
For expenses necessary to support activities related to coun-
tering potential biological, nuclear, radiological, chemical, and 
cybersecurity threats to civilian populations, and for other public 
health emergencies, $857,290,000, of which $415,000,000 shall 
remain available through September 30, 2015, for expenses nec-
essary to support advanced research and development pursuant 
to section 319L of the PHS Act, and other administrative expenses 
of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, 
and of which up to $5,000,000 shall remain available through 
September 30, 2016, to support the delivery of medical counter-
measures and shall be in addition to any other amounts available 
for such purpose: Provided, That funds provided under this heading 
for the purpose of acquisition of security countermeasures shall 
be in addition to any other funds available for such purpose: Pro-
vided further, That products purchased with funds provided under 
this heading may, at the discretion of the Secretary, be deposited 
in the Strategic National Stockpile pursuant to section 319F–2 
of the PHS Act: Provided further, That $5,000,000 of the amounts 
made available to support emergency operations shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2016.
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For necessary expenses for procuring security countermeasures 
(as defined in section 319F–2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act), $255,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
For expenses necessary to prepare for and respond to an 
influenza pandemic, $115,009,000; of which $83,000,000 shall be 
available until expended, for activities including the development 
and purchase of vaccine, antivirals, necessary medical supplies, 
diagnostics, and other surveillance tools: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 496(b) of the PHS Act, funds may be used 
for the construction or renovation of privately owned facilities for 
the production of pandemic influenza vaccines and other biologics, 
if the Secretary finds such construction or renovation necessary 
to secure sufficient supplies of such vaccines or biologics. 
In addition, for expenses necessary for replacement of building 
leases and associated renovation costs for Public Health Service 
agencies and other components of HHS, including relocation and 
fit-out costs, $16,131,000, to remain available until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be available 
for not to exceed $50,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses when specifically approved by the Secretary. 
SEC. 202. The Secretary shall make available through assign-
ment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service 
to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs 
through and with funds provided by the Agency for International 
Development, the United Nations International Children’s Emer-
gency Fund or the World Health Organization. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated in this title shall 
be used to pay the salary of an individual, through a grant or 
other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level 
II. 
SEC. 204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may 
be expended pursuant to section 241 of the PHS Act, except for 
funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and 
assessments made by any office located in HHS, prior to the 
preparation and submission of a report by the Secretary to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate detailing the planned uses of such funds. 
SEC. 205. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of the PHS Act, such 
portion as the Secretary shall determine, but not more than 2.5 
percent, of any amounts appropriated for programs authorized 
under such Act shall be made available for the evaluation (directly, 
or by grants or contracts) and the implementation and effectiveness 
of programs funded in this title. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 206. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year 
for HHS in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, 
but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent 
by any such transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted 
by this section shall not be used to create any new program or 
to fund any project or activity for which no funds are provided