Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003

Bill: 108-hr-246
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Accidents
Administrative procedure
Adoption
Adult education
Aid to dependent children
Allergies
Annuities
Appropriations
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Biological warfare
Black colleges
Black lung
Blind
Block grants
Bonds
Building construction
Buy American
Cash welfare block grants
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical warfare
Child abuse
Child health
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Child welfare
Cigarettes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Claims
Cloning
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation for National and Community Service
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Day care
Deaf
Deceptive advertising
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Desegregation in education
Disabled
District of Columbia
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug interactions
Drug legalization
Drug therapy
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Employment agencies
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
English language
Environmental Protection
Environmentally induced diseases
Executive compensation
Families
Family planning and birth control
Family services
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foster home care
Fraud
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health
Health education
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human embryology
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Identification devices
Immigration
Impact aid
Incest
Indian education
Industrial relations
Infants
Inspectors general
International Affairs
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Language and languages
Law
Libraries
Lobbying
Maintenance and repair
Malaria
Managed care
Mediation
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical libraries
Medical records
Medical research
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Meditation
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Mine safety
Miners
Minorities
Minority education
Museums
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
National Council on Disability
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
National service
Needle exchange programs
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear weapons
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Parent and child
Peace
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Policy sciences
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Public broadcasting
Public health
Public health personnel
Radiation victims
Railroad Retirement Board
Railroad retirement plans
Rape
Refugees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescue work
Research centers
Retail trade
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Salaries
Scholarships
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sexual abstinence
Sheltered workshops
Smokeless tobacco
Smoking and youth
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Soldiers' homes
Special education
State laws
Student aid
Student housing
Student loan funds
Supplemental security income program
Terrorism
Tuberculosis
U.S. Institute of Peace
Unemployment insurance
Vaccines
Veterans' employment
Vocational and technical education
Weapons of mass destruction
Workers' compensation
World health
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds and transfers of funds.
Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; and (19) the Office of Inspector General.
Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) children and families services programs; (15) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (16) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (17) the Administration on Aging; (18) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (19) the Office of Inspector General; (20) the Office for Civil Rights; (21) policy research; (22) medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (23) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations.
Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (6) special education; (7) rehabilitation services and disability research; (8) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (9) vocational and adult education; (10) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (11) the Federal Family Education Loan program account; (12) specified higher education programs; (13) Howard University; (14) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (15) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (16) education research, statistics, and improvement; (17) departmental management; (18) the Office for Civil Rights; and (19) the Office of the Inspector General.
Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Educational Goals Panel; (11) National Labor Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (15) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (16) U.S. Institute of Peace.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E56-57)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House