Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007

Bill: 109-hr-5647
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2006-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Adoption
Adult education
Afghanistan
Age and employment
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Antibiotics
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Biological warfare
Black colleges
Black lung
Blind
Block grants
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Building construction
Cash welfare block grants
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical warfare
Child abuse
Child health
Child labor
Child safety
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Coal
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Commerce
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
Commuting
Compensation (Law)
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation for National and Community Service
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Deaf
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Desegregation in education
Disabled
Dislocated workers
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug interactions
Drug legalization
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
English language
Executive reorganization
Families
Family planning and birth control
Family services
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Federal employees
Federal libraries
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Firearms control
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foster home care
Foundations
Fraud
Genetic research
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Government travel
Government trust funds
Health
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health surveys
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human embryology
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Identification devices
Illinois
Immigrants
Immigration
Impact aid
Incest
Indian education
Industrial relations
Information technology
Inspectors general
International Affairs
Internet
Irrigation
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Law
Libraries
Literacy programs
Lobbying
Managed care
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Mass rapid transit
Maternal health services
Mediation
Medicaid
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical libraries
Medical records
Medical research
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Meditation
Mental health services
Micronesia
Migrant labor
Military dependents
Mine safety
Miners
Minimum wages
Minorities
Minority education
Minority health
Motor vehicle safety
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
Native Americans
Needle exchange programs
Northern Mariana Islands
Nuclear terrorism
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Oceania
Officer personnel
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Parent and child
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Poor children
Pornography
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Product safety
Prostitution
Public broadcasting
Public health personnel
Railroad Retirement Board
Railroad retirement plans
Rape
Rating of teachers
Refugees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescission of appropriated funds
Research centers
Research grants
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Safety appliances
Salaries
Scholarships
School administration
School buildings
School buses
School districts
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Seasonal labor
Secondary education
Service learning
Sex counseling
Sexual abstinence
Sheltered workshops
Slavery
Smoking and youth
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
South Asia
Special education
Student housing
Student loan funds
Student transportation
Supplemental security income program
Survivors' benefits
Tax rates
Taxation
Teacher salaries
Teachers
Telephone
Tobacco
Torture
Trade adjustment assistance
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Unemployment insurance
User charges
Vaccines
Veterans' employment
Victims of crimes
Vocational and technical education
Women
Workers' compensation
World health
Youth employment
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2007. 
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds and transfers of funds. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2007 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration; (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) 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 FY2007 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (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; (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, and program management; (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, including amounts for disabled voter services; (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 Medicare Hearings and Appeals for administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (20) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (21) the Office of Inspector General; (22) the Office for Civil Rights; (23) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (24) the public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and other public health emergencies. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2007 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 (setting 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 FY2007 to the: (1) Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses, administrative expenses and salaries, and the Office of Inspector General; (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 Labor Relations Board; (11) National Mediation Board; (12) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; and (14) 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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 289.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-515, by Mr. Regula.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-515, by Mr. Regula.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Introduced in House