Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004

Bill: 108-hr-2618
Sponsor: Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Adoption
Adult education
Afghanistan
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Appropriations
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Biological warfare
Black colleges
Black lung
Blind
Block grants
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Building construction
Buy American
Capitation (Medical care)
Cash welfare block grants
Chemical warfare
Child health
Child labor
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Coal
Collection of accounts
Colorado
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Computer security measures
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Congressional oversight
Corporation for National and Community Service
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 legalization
Dyslexia
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
English language
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Family services
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal-territorial relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foster home care
Fraud
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Health
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Human embryology
Human experimentation in medicine
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Identification devices
Immigrant education
Immigration
Impact aid
Incest
Income tax
Indian education
Industrial arbitration
Industrial relations
Influenza
Information technology
Inspectors general
International Affairs
International education
Internet
Job hunting
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Law
Legislation
Libraries
Literacy programs
Lobbying
Managed care
Maryland
Maternal and infant welfare
Mediation
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical libraries
Medical records
Medical research
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Medicinal plants
Meditation
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military pensions
Mine safety
Miners
Minorities
Minority health
Museums
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
National Council on Disability
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
National service
Needle exchange programs
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Officer personnel
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Policy sciences
Pornography
Preventive medicine
Public broadcasting
Public health personnel
Radiation victims
Railroad Retirement Board
Railroad retirement plans
Rape
Refugees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Relocation
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescission of appropriated funds
Research centers
Research grants
Retired military personnel
Rural health
Salaries
Scholarships
School buildings
School security
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sexual abstinence
Slavery
Smoking and youth
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Soldiers' homes
Sound recording and reproducing
South Asia
Special education
Standards
State laws
Student aid
Student housing
Student loan funds
Subcontractors
Supplemental security income program
Surveys
Tax rates
Taxation
Terrorism
Torture
Trade adjustment assistance
Transportation and Public Works
U.S. Institute of Peace
Unemployment insurance
United Nations
Vaccines
Veterans' employment
Victims of crimes
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Voting of the disabled
Workers' compensation
World health
Youth services
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 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.
 
Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 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 Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) adminisrative expenses for 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; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system. 
Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 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) disabled voter services; (15) children and families services programs; (16) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (17) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (18) the Administration on Aging; (19) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (20) the Office of Inspector General; (21) the Office for Civil Rights; (22) policy research; (23) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, including payments to survivors and medical care of active duty and retired members and dependents and beneficiaries; and (24) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations. 
Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) 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; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the Historically Black College and University capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General. 
Makes appropriations for FY 2004 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, 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: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House