Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

Bill: 109-hr-3010
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2005-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Administrative law judges
Administrative procedure
Adoption
Adult education
Afghanistan
Age and employment
Aid to dependent children
Airline employees
Airlines
Aliens
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Biological warfare
Black colleges
Black lung
Blind
Block grants
Bonds
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Building construction
Capitation (Medical care)
Cash welfare block grants
Chemical warfare
Child abuse
Child health
Child labor
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Church and state
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Class size
Clinics
Coal
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Commerce
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Corporation for National and Community Service
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Cytology
Day care
Deaf
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 treatment
Drug interactions
Drug legalization
Drugs
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
English language
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive orders
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 education
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal libraries
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foster home care
Fraud
Genetic research
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publications
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Health
Health education
Health information systems
Health maintenance organizations
Health surveys
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human embryology
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Immigration
Impact aid
Incest
Indian education
Industrial relations
Infants
Influenza
Information technology
Inspectors general
International Affairs
International education
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Laboratories
Language and languages
Latin America
Law
Layoffs
Libraries
Literacy programs
Lobbying
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Meditation
Mental health services
Mexico
Micronesia
Military dependents
Military pensions
Mine safety
Miners
Minorities
Minority education
Minority health
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
New York City
Nuclear terrorism
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Oceania
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension funds
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Pornography
Preschool education
Printing
Privatization
Prostitution
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
Reproduction
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescission of appropriated funds
Research centers
Research grants
Rural health
Safety appliances
Salaries
Scholarships
School buildings
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
September 11, 2001
Sex offenders
Sexual abstinence
Slavery
Smoking and youth
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Social security taxes
South Asia
Special education
State laws
Student aid
Student housing
Student loan funds
Subsidiary corporations
Supplemental security income program
Tax treaties
Telephone
Terrorism
Tobacco
Trade adjustment assistance
Transportation and Public Works
Tuberculosis
Unemployment insurance
Vaccination
Vaccines
Veterans' employment
Vocational and technical education
Voting of the disabled
Workers' compensation
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 2006. 
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds and transfers of funds. 
 
Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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) workers compensation programs; (8) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (9) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (10) the Employment Standards Administration; (11) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (12) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (13) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (14) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (16) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (17) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (18) departmental management; (19) veterans employment and training; (20) the Office of Inspector General; and (21) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system. 
 
Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (10) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs; (11) low-income home energy assistance; (12) refugee and entrant assistance; (13) payments to states for the child care and development block grant; (14) the social services block grant; (15) disabled voter services; (16) children and families services programs; (17) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (18) payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (19) the Administration on Aging; (20) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (21) administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (22) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (23) the Office of Inspector General; (24) the Office for Civil Rights; (25) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (26) the public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary.
 
Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 FY 2006 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.

action_date: 2005-06-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 2006. 
 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 
 
Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
 
(Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.
 
(Sec. 103) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.
 
(Sec. 104) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.
 

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (10) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs; (11) low-income home energy assistance; (12) refugee and entrant assistance; (13) payments to states for the child care and development block grant; (14) the social services block grant; (15) disabled voter services; (16) children and families services programs; (17) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (18) payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (19) the Administration on Aging; (20) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (21) administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (22) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (23) the Office of Inspector General; (24) the Office for Civil Rights; (25) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (26) the public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.
 
(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for Head Start to pay an individual, either as direct costs or any peroration as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.
 
(Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 1.3%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.
 
(Sec. 208) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
 
(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 
(Sec. 210) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.
 
(Sec. 211) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.
 
(Sec. 212) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.
 
(Sec. 213) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
 
(Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the state will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. 
 
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2005, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.
 
(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.
 
(Sec. 217) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 218) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.
 
(Sec. 219) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.
 

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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. 
 
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,100 during award year 2006-2007.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
 
(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. 
 
(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006 (pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 in the 109th Congress, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006).
 

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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. 
 
Rescinds a certain amount under specified federal law for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
 
(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.
 
(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
 
(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
 
(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 
 
(Sec. 512) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
 
(Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 515) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 516) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.
 
(Sec. 517) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.
 
(Sec. 518) Extends through FY 2006 the availability of certain appropriations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and to the Social Security Administration for start-up administrative costs under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173). 
 
(Sec. 519) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to make a payment or reimbursement for the cost of a drug for the treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction prescribed to any individual who has a conviction for sexual abuse, sexual assault, or any other sexual offense, including any individual who is registered or required to register under certain provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Prohibits such use of funds for payment or reimbursement under any program, including Medicaid, Medicare, and health-related programs funded under PHSA.

action_date: 2005-06-24
text: 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 2006. 
 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 
 
Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
 
(Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.
 
(Sec. 103) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.
 
(Sec. 104) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.
 

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (10) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs; (11) low-income home energy assistance; (12) refugee and entrant assistance; (13) payments to states for the child care and development block grant; (14) the social services block grant; (15) disabled voter services; (16) children and families services programs; (17) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (18) payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (19) the Administration on Aging; (20) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (21) administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (22) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (23) the Office of Inspector General; (24) the Office for Civil Rights; (25) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (26) the public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.
 
(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for Head Start to pay an individual, either as direct costs or any peroration as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.
 
(Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 1.3%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.
 
(Sec. 208) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
 
(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 
(Sec. 210) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.
 
(Sec. 211) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.
 
(Sec. 212) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.
 
(Sec. 213) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
 
(Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the state will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. 
 
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2005, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.
 
(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.
 
(Sec. 217) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 218) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.
 
(Sec. 219) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.
 

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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. 
 
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,100 during award year 2006-2007.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
 
(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. 
 
(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006 (pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 in the 109th Congress, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006).
 

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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. 
 
Rescinds a certain amount under specified federal law for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (But, in section 519, prohibits using funds under this Act to carry out such rescission.)
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
 
(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.
 
(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
 
(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
 
(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 
 
(Sec. 511) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
 
(Sec. 513) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 515) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.
 
(Sec. 516) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.
 
(Sec. 517) Extends through FY 2006 the availability of certain appropriations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and to the Social Security Administration for start-up administrative costs under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173). 
 
(Sec. 518) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to make a payment or reimbursement for the cost of a drug for the treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction prescribed to any individual who has a conviction for sexual abuse, sexual assault, or any other sexual offense, including any individual who is registered or required to register under certain provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Prohibits such use of funds for payment or reimbursement under any program, including Medicaid, Medicare, and health-related programs funded under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 519) Prohibits using funds under this Act to carry out the rescission of funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting under title IV of this Act. Reduces by specified amounts the following accounts and activities: (1) Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) Department of Labor, departmental management, salaries and expenses; (3) Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, health resources and services; (4) Department of Education, higher education; and (5) Department of Education, departmental management, program administration.
 
(Sec. 520) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to enforce the Department of Education's Determination ED-OIG/A05-D0008, which relates to auditing 20 Arizona charter schools.
 
(Sec. 521) Prohibits the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from using funds under this Act to enforce or implement the settlement agreement by and among UAL Corporation and all direct and indirect subsidiaries and the PBGC, dated April 22, 2005.
 
(Sec. 522) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to place social security account numbers on identification cards issued to Medicare beneficiaries.
 
(Sec. 523) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to reimburse, or provide reimbursement, for Viagra, Levitra, or Cialis.
 
(Sec. 524) Prohibits the Department of Education from expending funds under this Act in contravention of specified provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 525) Prohibits the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from using funds under this Act for specified grants relating to: (1) perceived regard and relationship resilience in newlyweds; or (2) perceptual bases of visual concepts in pigeons.
 
(Sec. 526) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to implement any strategic plan under section 3 of Executive Order No. 13335 (regarding interoperable health information technology) that does not require the Department of HHS to give notice to any patient whose information maintained by the Department under the strategic plan is lost, stolen, or used for a purpose other than the purpose for which the information was collected.
 
(Sec. 527) Prohibits the Department of HHS from using funds under this Act to appoint an individual to a federal advisory committee on the basis of political affiliation, unless required by federal statute.
 
(Sec. 528) Prohibits the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Security Administration (SSA) from using funds under this Act to pay the compensation of SSA employees to administer Social Security benefit payments under a totalization agreement with Mexico which are inconsistent with federal law.
 
(Sec. 529) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to administer or pay any special allowance to lenders or holders of student loans, under specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965, with respect to any student loan: (1) made or purchased after enactment of this Act; (2) not qualified for such payments before such enactment; or (3) made or purchased before such enactment, but having matured, or having retired or defeased obligations after such enactment, or having a maturity or retirement date extended after such enactment.

action_date: 2005-07-14
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 2006. 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 

Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.

(Sec. 101) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.

(Sec. 102) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.

(Sec. 103) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission through the Department of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed.

(Sec. 104) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.

(Sec. 105) Directs the Department of Labor to submit its FY 2007 congressional budget justifications to specified congressional committees in the format and level of detail used by the Department of Education in its FY 2006 congressional budget justifications.

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (10) the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account; (11) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs; (12) low-income home energy assistance; (13) refugee and entrant assistance; (14) payments to states for the child care and development block grant; (15) the social services block grant; (16) children and families services programs; (17) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (18) payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (19) the Administration on Aging; (20) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (21) administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (22) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (23) the Office of Inspector General; (24) the Office for Civil Rights; (25) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (26) the public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary.

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.

(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.

(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.

(Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.

(Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.5%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.

(Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

(Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.

(Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.

(Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.

(Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.

(Sec. 213) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the state will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. 

(Sec. 214) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2006, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.

(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.

(Sec. 216) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.

(Sec. 217) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.

(Sec. 218) Allows funds under this Act to be used to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. 

(Sec. 219) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance under the heading of Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund appropriated by the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.

(Sec. 220) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.

(Sec. 221) Provides that funds appropriated for State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 for FY 2005 shall remain available through FY 2006.

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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. 

Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,100 during award year 2006-2007.

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.

(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.

(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.

(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. 

(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006 (pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 in the 109th Congress, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006).

(Sec. 306) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize certain funds for cultural and educational programs relating to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Choctaw, Mississippi.

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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 and national and community 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. 

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.

(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.

(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.

(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).

(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 

(Sec. 512) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.

(Sec. 514) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.

(Sec. 515) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.

(Sec. 516) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to reimburse, or provide reimbursement, for drugs approved to treat erectile dysfunction.

action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2006. 
 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 
 
Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.
 
(Sec. 101) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer.
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds under this Act to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.
 
(Sec. 103) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission through the Department of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed.
 
(Sec. 104) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for the processing of claims related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks under the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.
 
(Sec. 105) Directs the Department of Labor to submit its FY2007 congressional budget justifications to specified congressional committees in the format and level of detail used by the Department of Education in its FY2006 congressional budget justifications.
 
(Sec. 106) Requires a specified amount to be made available until expended to replace the funds appropriated but not expended for the processing of claims related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks under the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002. Requires certain portions of such amount to be made available: (1) for payment to the New York State Uninsured Employers Fund for reimbursement of claims related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and to the first response emergency services personnel who were injured, were disabled, or died because of those terrorist attacks; and (2) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) for purposes related to those terrorist attacks. Requires the CDCP Director, in expending such funds, to give first priority to existing programs coordinated by the Mount Sinai Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Fire Department of New York City Bureau of Health Services and Counseling Services Unit, the New York City Police Foundation's Project COPE, Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance, and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene World Trade Center Health Registry that administer baseline and follow-up screening, clinical examinations, or long-term medical health monitoring, analysis, or treatment for emergency services personnel or rescue and recovery personnel, and secondary priority to similar programs coordinated by other entities working with the State of New York and New York City.
 

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 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) 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 Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (10) the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account; (11) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs; (12) low-income home energy assistance; (13) refugee and entrant assistance; (14) payments to states for the child care and development block grant; (15) social services block grant; (16) children and families services programs; (17) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (18) payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (19) the Administration on Aging; (20) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (21) administrative law judges for Medicare appeals; (22) the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (23) the Office of Inspector General; (24) the Office for Civil Rights; (25) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (26) public health and social services emergency fund, for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.

(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.
 
(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation requirements of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, before a Secretary of HHS report to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.
 
(Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.5%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.
 
(Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer; but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional 2%, subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
 
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to 3% among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) .
 
(Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act) , as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account.
 
(Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services, and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.
 
(Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.

(Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
 
(Sec. 213) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if the state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under age 18.
 
(Sec. 214) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities during FY 2006 to utilize specified authorities under: (1) State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.
 
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.

(Sec. 216) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.

(Sec. 217) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.

(Sec. 218) Allows funds under this Act to be used to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. 

(Sec. 219) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance under the heading of Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund appropriated by the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.

(Sec. 220) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.

(Sec. 221) Provides that funds appropriated for State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 for FY2005 shall remain available through FY2006.

 (Sec. 222) Directs the Secretary of HHS to report to Congress on a plan, and implementation costs, to change the numerical identifier for Medicare beneficiaries so that their Social Security account numbers are no longer displayed on their Medicare identification cards or on explanations of Medicare benefits mailed to them.

(Sec. 223) Renames the following at CDCP: (1) Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building (Building 21) as the Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center; and (2) Global Communications Center Building (Building 19) as the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center.
 
(Sec. 224) Directs the Secretary of HHS to use amounts appropriated under title II to purchase at least one million rapid oral HIV tests.
 
(Sec. 225) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to implement or enforce the interim final rule published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on August 26, 2005, or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling before April 1, 2006, and on or after such date, unless the Secretary of HHS publishes a proposed and a final rule with respect to motorized or powered wheelchairs, by certain deadlines and with certain comment and transition periods. Requires a specified reduction of the payment amount otherwise applicable under the Social Security Act with respect to a covered item consisting of a motorized or power wheelchair furnished during 2006.
 
(Sec. 226) Reserves a specified portion of appropriations to the Health Resource and Services Administration for programs and activities under the Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2002 and for other telehealth programs under PHSA, with certain amounts for: (1) at least 10 telehealth resource centers that provide assistance with respect to technical, legal, and regulatory service delivery or other related barriers to the deployment of telehealth technologies, and with at least two of such centers located in a rural state with a small population; (2) network grants and demonstration or pilot projects for telehomecare; and (3) grants for programs under which health licensing boards or various states cooperate to develop and implement policies to reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telehealth.
 
(Sec. 227) Reserves a specified portion of appropriations to the Health Resources and Services Administration for grants for innovative programs to address dental workforce needs under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 228) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to provide abstinence education that includes medically inaccurate information.
 
(Sec. 229) Makes additional appropriations to carry out the Low-Vision Rehabilitation Services Demonstration Project by the Secretary of HHS.
 
(Sec. 230) Expresses the sense of the Senate that it is aware of an issue regarding the definition of hospital costs incurred by the state of Virginia for purposes of Medicaid reimbursement to that state, and urges the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to work with the state to resolve the pending issue.
 
(Sec. 231) Makes additional appropriations for public access defibrillation programs under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 232) Makes additional appropriations for the Office of Minority Health.
 
Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available funds, up to a specifed maximum, for grants for prevention and treatment of sickle cell disease, from appropriations under this title for the Office of the Secretary. 
 
Offsets such amounts under this section by reducing funds made available under this Act under the heading Program Management for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
 
(Sec. 233) Tranfers a specified amount of CDCP West Nile Virus appropriations to carry out mosquito abatement.
 
(Sec. 234) Increases amounts appropriated under this title for community health center programs under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 235) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement any strategic plan under a specified Executive Order regarding interoperable health information technology that lacks a requirement that the Department of HHS give notice to any patient whose information maintained by the Department under the strategic plan is lost, stolen, or used for a purpose other than the purpose for which the information was collected.
 
(Sec. 236) Reduces appropriations for travel, conference programs, and related expenses for the Department of HHS.
 
(Sec. 237) Makes additional appropriations for activities authorized by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, with speciifed payments to states for promoting access for voters with disabilities, and for protection and advocacy systems for voters with disabilities.
 
(Sec. 238) Delays until June 30, 2006, applicability of certain federal transportation safety regulations to any Head Start agency or its designee that provides transportation services for children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if that agency or designee places such children in child restraint systems.
 
Amends the Head Start Act to authorize the Secretary of HHS to waive transportation safety requirements pertaining to child restraint systems and bus monitors, for one or more vehicles used by a Head Start agency or its designee in transporting children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if the agency demonstrates that compliance will result in a significant disruption to the program, and if the waiver is in the best interest of the child.
 

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 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) college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) 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. 
 
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,100 during award year 2006-2007.

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than one nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
 
(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer. 
 
(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) , for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006.
 
(Sec. 306) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize certain funds for cultural and educational programs relating to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Choctaw, Mississippi.

(Sec. 307) Directs the Secretary of Education to treat as timely filed for FY2005 applications for impact aid from local educational agencies which had filed timely applications for each of FY2000-FY2004 and for which a reduction of more than $1 million was made by such Secretary as a result of that agency's failure to file a timely FY2005 application.

(Sec. 308) Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report to Congress on evaluation of the effectiveness of violence prevention programs receiving funding under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.

(Sec. 309) Makes appropriations to the National Assessment Governing Board to implement a National Assessment of Educational Progress test in U.S. history.

(Sec. 310) Makes additional appropriations to carry out School Dropout Prevention programs under ESEA.

Offsets such amount by reducing funds made available under the heading Health Resources and Services Administration for construction and renovation.

(Sec. 311) Makes additional appropriations to carry out Advanced Placement programs under ESEA.

(Sec. 312) Makes additional appropriations: (1) for the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) to the Office of Special Education Programs for the expansion of positive behavioral interventions and supports. 

Offsets such amounts by reducing funds under this Act for consulting expenses for the Department of HHS.

Directs the Secretary of Education to report to Congress on evaluation data regarding the educational and professional performance of individuals who have participated, during FY2006 or any preceding year, in the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program.

(Sec. 313) Makes additional appropriations to carry out the federal TRIO programs under HEA.

(Sec. 314) Makes additional appropriations for: (1) education of migratory children under ESEA; (2) English language acquisition programs under ESEA; (3) High School Equivalency Program and the College Assistance Migrant Program under HEA; (3) English as a second language programs and civics education programs under the Adult Education Act; (4) Parent Assistance and Local Family Information Centers under ESEA; and (5) Hispanic-serving institutions under HEA.
 

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to: (1) the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (2) the Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service and national and community service programs and operating expenses, including a study of national service programs in rural areas, administrative expenses and salaries, and the Office of Inspector General; (3) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) the Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) the National Council on Disability; (10) the National Labor Relations Board; (11) the National Mediation Board; (12) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) the 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) the 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. 
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
 
(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.
 
(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds) .
 
(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
 
(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 
 
(Sec. 512) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
 
(Sec. 514) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.
 
(Sec. 515) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.

(Sec. 516) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to reimburse, or provide reimbursement, for drugs approved to treat erectile dysfunction.
 
(Sec. 517) Requires any limitation, directive, or earmarking contained in either the House of Representatives or Senate report accompanying H.R. 3010 also to be included in the conference report or joint statement accompanying H.R. 3010 in order to be considered as having been approved by both Houses of Congress.
 
(Sec. 518) Diversity Visa Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the diversity visa lottery program to permit an alien to remain eligible for a diversity visa or status adjustment beyond the fiscal year of acceptance if: (1) visa or status adjustment was properly applied for during the fiscal year of selection; and (2) notice of application authorization was given through publication in the Visa Bulletin.
 
Authorizes reopening of a prior fiscal year visa lottery application if: (1) the alien was eligible for, and properly applied for, status adjustment during FY1998-2004; (2) the application was denied because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) failed to adjudicate the application during the fiscal year of application; (3) the alien moves to reopen the application; and (4) the alien has continuously resided in the United States since submitting the application. 
 
(Sec. 519) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the continuous residency requirement to be reduced to three years for an applicant for naturalization if: (1) applicant is the beneficiary of an approved petition for classification; (2) applicant has been approved for adjustment of status; and (3) such reduction is necessary for the applicant to represent the United States at an international event. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjudicate such an application within 30 days after submission, upon an applicant's request and demonstration of necessity, unless the Secretary determines that such expedited adjudication poses a national security risk. Requires collection of a $1,000 premium processing fee to offset additional costs incurred to expedite processing of such applications.
 
(Sec. 520) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois, shall be designated as a port of entry.
 
(Sec. 521) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to request that a candidate for appointment to a federal scientific advisory committee disclose his or her political affiliation or voting history or the position that the candidate holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the committee involved.
 
 Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to disseminate scientific information that is deliberately false or misleading.
 
(Sec. 522) Directs the Secretaries of HHS and of Education, respectively, to estimate improper payments pursuant to specified provisions of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, under: (1) (HHS) , the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF) under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Program under part E of title IV of such Act, the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act, the State Children's Health Insurance Program under title XXI of such Act, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990; and (2) (Education) , title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Requires the Secretaries to report to Congress on actions to comply with such Act, including a schedule for full compliance within FY2006.
 
(Sec. 523) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) Secretary of the Treasury should, to the maximum extent practicable, ensure that existing federal employment preferences for disabled veterans and federal policies promoting opportunities for other disabled persons are carried forward as a part of any tax collection contract program carried out under certain requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; and (2) criteria applied by the Internal Revenue Service in awarding contracts to private-sector tax collection companies under such program should incorporate a preference for companies hiring disabled veterans and other disabled persons.

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2006. 
 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 
 
Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
 
(Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an Office of Job Corps within the Office on the Secretary in the Department of Labor.
 
(Sec. 103) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional 2% subject to approval by the congressional committees on Appropriations.
 
(Sec. 104) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.
 
(Sec. 105) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission through the Department of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed. 
 
(Sec. 106) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.
 
(Sec. 107) Directs the Department of Labor to submit its FY2007 congressional budget justifications to the congressional committees on Appropriations in the format and level of detail used by the Department of Education in its FY2006 congressional budget justifications.
 
(Sec. 108) Directs the Secretary of Labor to prepare and submit, by July 1, 2006 to specified congressional committees, an operating plan that outlines the planned allocation by major project and activity of FY2006 funds made available for demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects under specified provisions of the Workforce Investment Act. 
 

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for health resources and services, health education assistance loans, and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (3) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (4) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; (5) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (6) 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; (7) the Administration for Children and Families, for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs, low-income home energy assistance, refugee and entrant assistance, payments to states for the child care and development block grant, the social services block grant, children and families services programs, promoting safe and stable families through family preservation and support, payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (8) the Administration on Aging, for aging services programs; and (9) the Office of the Secretary, for general departmental management, administrative law judges for Medicare hearings and appeals, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Office of Inspector General, the Office for Civil Rights, retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel, and the public health and social services emergency fund (for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary).
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.
 
(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for Head Start to pay an individual, either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to the congressional committees on Appropriations detailing the planned uses of such funds.
 
(Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.4%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.
 
(Sec. 208) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional 2% subject to approval by the congressional committees on Appropriations.
 
(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to 3% among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 
(Sec. 210) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.
 
(Sec. 211) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.
 
(Sec. 212) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.
 
(Sec. 213) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
 
(Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the state will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. 
 
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY2006, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.
 
(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.
 
(Sec. 217) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 218) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.
 
(Sec. 219) Allows funds under this Act to be used to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. 
 
(Sec. 220) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance under the heading of Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund appropriated by the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.
 
(Sec. 221) Renames the following at CDCP: (1) Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building (Building 21) as the Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center; and (2) Global Communications Center Building (Building 19) as the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center. 
 
(Sec. 222) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to implement or enforce the interim final rule (relating to motorized or powered wheelchairs) published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on August 26, 2005, before April 1, 2006. 
 
(Sec. 223) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, for FY2006, to waive transportation safety requirements pertaining to child restraint systems and bus monitors, for one or more vehicles used by a Head Start agency or its designee in transporting children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if the agency demonstrates that compliance will result in a significant disruption to the program, and if the waiver is in the best interest of the child. Prohibits issuance of such a waiver after the earlier of: (1) the end of FY2006; or (2) the enactment of a statute that authorizes appropriations for FY2006 to carry out the Head Start Act.
 
(Sec. 224) Delays until June 30, 2006, applicability of certain federal transportation safety regulations to any Head Start agency or its designee that provides transportation services for children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if that agency or designee places such children in child restraint systems. 
 
(Sec. 225) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 226) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Nursing Student Loan program under PHSA.
 
(Sec. 227) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS and the CDC Director to use for their travel certain amounts available for purchase, hire, maintenance, or operation of aircraft by CDC.
 

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 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; and (18) departmental management, including program administration, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of the Inspector General. 
 
Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2006-2007.
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
 
(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer. 
 
(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006 (pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 in the 109th Congress, the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY2006).
 
(Sec. 306) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for certain programs under the Fund for the Improvement of Education to add provisions for cultural and educational programs relating to any federally-recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi, through grants and contracts to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Choctaw, Mississippi. 
 

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 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. 
 
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
 
(Sec. 503) Prohibits any part of an appropriation in this Act from being used: (1) other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, or video presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or a state legislature, except in presentation to Congress or a state legislature itself; or (2) to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before Congress or a state legislature. 
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
 
(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.
 
(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
 
(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
 
(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 
 
(Sec. 511) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
 
(Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 515) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.
 
(Sec. 516) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.
 
(Sec. 517) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.
 
(Sec. 518) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the continuous residency requirement to be reduced to three years for an applicant for naturalization if: (1) applicant is the beneficiary of an approved petition for classification; (2) applicant has been approved for adjustment of status; and (3) such reduction is necessary for the applicant to represent the United States at an international event. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjudicate such an application within 30 days after submission, upon an applicant's request and demonstration of necessity, unless the Secretary determines that such expedited adjudication poses a national security risk. Requires collection of a $1,000 premium processing fee to offset additional costs incurred to expedite processing of such applications. Repeals the amendment made by this section on January 1, 2006.
 
(Sec. 519) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to request that a candidate for appointment to a federal scientific advisory committee disclose his or her political affiliation or voting history or the position that the candidate holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the committee involved. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to disseminate scientific information that is deliberately false or misleading. 
 
(Sec. 520) Reduces by a specified amount funds made available to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the heading of Program Management. Prohibits such reduction from being taken from research, demonstration, and evaluation activities or from state survey and certification activities. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to reduce the amounts specified under such heading for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services System Revitalization Plan and for contract costs for the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System.

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(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on December 13, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2006. 

Title I: Department of Labor
 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 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) 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. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. 

Rescinds certain amounts under specified federal laws for: (1) workers compensation programs; and (2) ETA training and employment services.
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.

(Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an Office of Job Corps within the Office on the Secretary in the Department of Labor.

(Sec. 103) Allows not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional 2% subject to approval by the congressional committees on Appropriations.

(Sec. 104) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended to procure goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act, in accordance with a specified executive order.

(Sec. 105) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission through the Department of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed. 

(Sec. 106) Provides that payments made by the New York Workers' Compensation Board to the New York Crime Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been made for workers compensation programs, for purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002.

(Sec. 107) Directs the Department of Labor to submit its FY2007 congressional budget justifications to the congressional committees on Appropriations in the format and level of detail used by the Department of Education in its FY2006 congressional budget justifications.

(Sec. 108) Directs the Secretary of Labor to prepare and submit, by July 1, 2006 to specified congressional committees, an operating plan that outlines the planned allocation by major project and activity of FY2006 funds made available for demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects under specified provisions of the Workforce Investment Act. 

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
 - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for health resources and services, health education assistance loans, and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (3) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (4) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; (5) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (6) 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; (7) the Administration for Children and Families, for payments to states for child support enforcement and family support programs, low-income home energy assistance, refugee and entrant assistance, payments to states for the child care and development block grant, the social services block grant, children and families services programs, promoting safe and stable families through family preservation and support, payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance; (8) the Administration on Aging, for aging services programs; and (9) the Office of the Secretary, for general departmental management, administrative law judges for Medicare hearings and appeals, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Office of Inspector General, the Office for Civil Rights, retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel, and the public health and social services emergency fund (for activities related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and to developing and implementing rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies and purchasing influenza vaccine as necessary).

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment 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 Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.

(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.

(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.

(Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for Head Start to pay an individual, either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.

(Sec. 206) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to the congressional committees on Appropriations detailing the planned uses of such funds.

(Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.4%, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.

(Sec. 208) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional 2% subject to approval by the congressional committees on Appropriations.

(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to 3% among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

(Sec. 210) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.

(Sec. 211) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.

(Sec. 212) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.

(Sec. 213) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.

(Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a state pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such state certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the state will commit additional state funds to ensure compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. 

(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY2006, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.

(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.

(Sec. 217) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA.

(Sec. 218) Allows funds available for Individual Learning Accounts for employees of CDCP and and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to be transferred to the category of Disease Control, Research, and Training and to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees while they employed either by CDCP or ATSDR.

(Sec. 219) Allows funds under this Act to be used to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. 

(Sec. 220) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance under the heading of Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund appropriated by the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.

(Sec. 221) Renames the following at CDCP: (1) Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building (Building 21) as the Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center; and (2) Global Communications Center Building (Building 19) as the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center. 

(Sec. 222) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to implement or enforce the interim final rule (relating to motorized or powered wheelchairs) published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on August 26, 2005, before April 1, 2006. 

(Sec. 223) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, for FY2006, to waive transportation safety requirements pertaining to child restraint systems and bus monitors, for one or more vehicles used by a Head Start agency or its designee in transporting children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if the agency demonstrates that compliance will result in a significant disruption to the program, and if the waiver is in the best interest of the child. Prohibits issuance of such a waiver after the earlier of: (1) the end of FY2006; or (2) the enactment of a statute that authorizes appropriations for FY2006 to carry out the Head Start Act.

(Sec. 224) Delays until June 30, 2006, applicability of certain federal transportation safety regulations to any Head Start agency or its designee that provides transportation services for children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start program, if that agency or designee places such children in child restraint systems. 

(Sec. 225) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Health Professions Student Loan program under PHSA.

(Sec. 226) Rescinds a specified amount of the unobligated balance of the Nursing Student Loan program under PHSA.

(Sec. 227) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS and the CDC Director to use for their travel certain amounts available for purchase, hire, maintenance, or operation of aircraft by CDC.

Title III: Department of Education
 - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 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; and (18) departmental management, including program administration, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of the Inspector General. 

Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2006-2007.

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.

(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.

(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.

(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than 1% of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than 3% by any such transfer. 

(Sec. 305) Provides an additional specified amount to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for the purpose of eliminating the estimated accumulated shortfall of budget authority for such program for Pell Grant awards made through the award year 2005-2006 (pursuant to section 303 of H. Con. Res. 95 in the 109th Congress, the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY2006).

(Sec. 306) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for certain programs under the Fund for the Improvement of Education to add provisions for cultural and educational programs relating to any federally-recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi, through grants and contracts to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Choctaw, Mississippi. 

Title IV: Related Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 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. 

Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.

Title V: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.

(Sec. 503) Prohibits any part of an appropriation in this Act from being used: (1) other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, or video presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or a state legislature, except in presentation to Congress or a state legislature itself; or (2) to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before Congress or a state legislature. 

(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.

(Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 508 of this Act.

(Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 507 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 507 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a state, locality, entity, or private person of state, local, or private funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a state or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with state funds (other than a state's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).

(Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified federal regulations and the PHSA. Defines &quot;human embryo or embryos&quot; to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. 

(Sec. 511) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.

(Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.

(Sec. 515) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety.

(Sec. 516) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act.

(Sec. 517) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress.

(Sec. 518) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the continuous residency requirement to be reduced to three years for an applicant for naturalization if: (1) applicant is the beneficiary of an approved petition for classification; (2) applicant has been approved for adjustment of status; and (3) such reduction is necessary for the applicant to represent the United States at an international event. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjudicate such an application within 30 days after submission, upon an applicant's request and demonstration of necessity, unless the Secretary determines that such expedited adjudication poses a national security risk. Requires collection of a $1,000 premium processing fee to offset additional costs incurred to expedite processing of such applications. Repeals the amendment made by this section on January 1, 2006.

(Sec. 519) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to request that a candidate for appointment to a federal scientific advisory committee disclose his or her political affiliation or voting history or the position that the candidate holds with respect to political issues not directly related to and necessary for the work of the committee involved. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to disseminate scientific information that is deliberately false or misleading. 
 
(Sec. 520) Reduces by a specified amount funds made available to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the heading of Program Management. Prohibits such reduction from being taken from research, demonstration, and evaluation activities or from state survey and certification activities. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to reduce the amounts specified under such heading for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services System Revitalization Plan and for contract costs for the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-30
text: Became Public Law No: 109-149.
action_date: 2005-12-30
text: Became Public Law No: 109-149.
action_date: 2005-12-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-12-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-12-28
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-12-28
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 12/22/2005 S14281-14289)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 12/22/2005 S14281-14289)
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S13600-13608)
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 215 - 213 (Roll no. 628).
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 215 - 213 (Roll no. 628).
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H11552)
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 3010.
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Mr. Regula brought up conference report H. Rept. 109-337 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 596. (consideration: CR H11544-11552)
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Rule H. Res. 596 passed House.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 596 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 3010 with 1 hour of general debate.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Conference report H. Rept. 109-337 filed. (text of conference report: CR H11348-11441)
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 109-337 filed.(text of conference report: CR H11348-11441)
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Regula, Istook, Wicker, Northup, Granger, Peterson (PA), Sherwood, Weldon (FL), Walsh, Lewis (CA), Obey, Hoyer, Lowey, DeLauro, Jackson (IL), Kennedy (RI), and Roybal-Allard.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: On motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 196 (Roll no. 615). (consideration: CR H11180-11181)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Mr. Regula moved to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: APPEAL OF THE RULING OF THE CHAIR - Mr. Obey appealed the ruling of the Chair.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: RULING OF THE CHAIR - The Chair sustained the point of order against the Obey motion to instruct and the motion was ruled out of order.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: POINT OF ORDER - Mr. Regula raised a point of order against the Obey motion to instruct conferees and stated that the provisions of the instructions exceeded the scope of the conference.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: The instructions contained within the motion seek to insist that the conference agreement include $4.183 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), including $2 billion in emergency funding, thereby bringing the total for LIHEAP $2.176 billion over the House bill and $2 billion over the Senate bill. The emergency funds should be appropriated to the LIHEAP contingency fund, and in allocating the funds among States the Secretary should be directed to give due regard to the estimated increases in the heating and cooling costs for low-income households during fiscal year 2006 as compared to the previous year.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Mr. Obey moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H11180)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: POINT OF ORDER - Mr. Regula raised a point of order against the Obey motion to instruct conferees stating that it was in violation of clause 9 of rule 22. The point of order was sustained and the motion was ruled out of order.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: The instructions contained within the motion seek to insist that the conference agreement include $4.183 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), an increase of $2.176 billion over the House bill an d $2 billion over the Senate bill. The additional amounts above the House-passed level should be appropriated to the LIHEAP contingency fund, and in allocating the funds among State the Secretary should be directed to give due regard to estimated increases in the heating and cooling costs for low-income households during fiscal year 2006 as compared to the previous year.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Mr. Obey moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H11179)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a further conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H11179-11181)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Mr. Regula moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a further conference.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Senate further requests conference. Appoints conferees. Specter; Cochran; Gregg; Craig; Hutchison; Stevens; DeWine; Shelby; Domenici; Harkin; Inouye; Reid; Kohl; Murray; Landrieu; Durbin; Byrd.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Senate Conferees instructed be instructed to insist on retaining the Senate passed provisions relating to funding for the National Institutes of Health by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 36. Record Vote Number: 350.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Senate Conferees instructed to insist that $2,183,000,000 be available for the Low Income Home Energy Heating Assistance program-and that such funds shall be designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress) the Concurrent Resolution on the budget for Fiscal Year 2006 by Yea-Nay Vote. 66 - 28. Record Vote Number: 349.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Motion by Senator Durbin to instruct Senate conferees made in Senate. (consideration: CR S13290-13291; text: CR S13290)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Motion by Senator Specter to instruct Senate conferees made in Senate. (consideration: CR S13288-13290, S13291)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk:.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: On motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Mr. Regula moved that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H10531)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: On agreeing to the conference report Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 209 - 224 (Roll no. 598).
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Conference report disagreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 209 - 224 (Roll no. 598).
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H10529)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 3010.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Mr. Regula brought up conference report H. Rept. 109-300 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 559. (consideration: CR H10518-10530)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Rule H. Res. 559 passed House.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 559 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 3010 with 1 hour of general debate.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Conference report H. Rept. 109-300 filed. (text of conference report: CR H10383-10476)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 109-300 filed.(text of conference report: CR H10383-10476)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Conference held.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Conference committee actions: Conference held.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Regula, Istook, Wicker, Northup, Cunningham, Granger, Peterson (PA), Sherwood, Weldon (FL), Walsh, Lewis (CA), Obey, Hoyer, Lowey, DeLauro, Jackson (IL), Kennedy (RI), and Roybal-Allard.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: On motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 173 (Roll no. 573). (consideration: CR H9989-9990)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Mr. Regula moved to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Mr. Obey moved to appeal the ruling of the Chair.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Mr. Regula raised a point of order against the instructions contained in the motion to instruct on the grounds that the provisions of the amendments in the motion exceed the scope of the conference. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Obey motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist that the conference agreement include: not less than $8.095 billion to adequately prepare the nation for a flu pandemic; $5.1 billion for LIHEAP; an additional $1.583 billion over the House bill to promote life through doing real things to reduce the pressure for abortions; an addtional $476 million over the House bill to help maintain the basic health care safety net; an additional $5.5 billion over the House bill to provide meaningful educational opportunities for America's children; an addtional $439 million over the House bill to protect American workers, wages and jobs; and offsetting the cost of the foregoing through reductions in tax cuts for households above $1,000,000.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Mr. Obey moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H9988-9989; text: CR H9988)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H9988)
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Mr. Regula moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Specter; Cochran; Gregg; Craig; Hutchison; Stevens; DeWine; Shelby; Domenici; Harkin; Inouye; Reid; Kohl; Murray; Landrieu; Durbin; Byrd.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 94 - 3. Record Vote Number: 281.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 94 - 3. Record Vote Number: 281.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Cloture on the bill invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 0. Record Vote Number: 275. (consideration: CR S11957-11958; text: CR S11957)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S11953-11954, S11955-11964, S11964-11966, S11967-11969, S11972-11976, S11978-11999)
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S11857-11892, S11894-11905, S11905-11910)
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S11814)
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S11784-11791, S11793-11796, S11798-11799, S11804-11807, S11809-11813, S11814-11815)
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S11753-11756, S11758-11762)
action_date: 2005-10-21
text: The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-10-21
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S11702-11731; text measure as reported in Senate: CR S11702-11731)
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 163.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Specter with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-103.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Specter with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-103.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 250 - 151 (Roll no. 321).
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 250 - 151 (Roll no. 321).
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: On motion to recommit Failed by recorded vote: 185 - 216 (Roll no. 320).
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H5163-5164)
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Floor summary: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the House proceeded with 2 minutes of debate on the Obey motion to recommit.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Mr. Obey moved to recommit to Appropriations.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: UNANIMOUS CONSENT - The Majority Leader asked unanimous consent that the time on a vote on a motion to recommit be 5 minutes, notwithstanding that it is the first vote in a series.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: The House adopted the remaining amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H5163)
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3010.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Engel amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Regula demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hinchey amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the DeLauro amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. DeLauro demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Delauro amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Paul amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Paul demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Paul amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Van Hollen amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Van Hollen demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Van Hollen amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hayworth amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hayworth demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Commitee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hayworth amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Regula amendments en bloc.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hinchey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hinchey amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hefley amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hefley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a unamimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hefley amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the King (IA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. King (IA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the King (IA) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Filner amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Filner demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Filner amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tancredo amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Kind amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Kolbe amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Honda amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Brown (OH) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Brown (OH) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Brown (OH) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the George Miller amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. George Miller demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the George Miller (CA) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Mr. Shays raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr Shays raised a point of order against section 511 of the bill stating that it violated clause 2b of Rule 21 and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Price (GA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Price (GA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Price (GA) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Nadler amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5105-5165; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H5111-5113; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H5113-5114, H5114, H5156)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3010 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5069-5070, H5070-5073)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3010 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Capuano amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Johnson (CT) amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Bradley (NH) amendment, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Bradley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Bradley amendment pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Owens amendment, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Owens demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Owens amendment pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Peterson (PA) amendment pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Fossella amendment pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement. In addition, a point of order was reserved.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Obey amendment, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Obey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Obey amendment pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 3010.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Adam H. Putnam to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 337 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3010 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 337. (consideration: CR H5000-5069; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H5037, H5049-5051, H5061, H5062; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H5062, H5063-5064, H5064-5066, H5066-5068; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H5068-5069, CR 6/24/2005 H5110-5111)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Rule H. Res. 337 passed House.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 337 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3010 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 85.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-143, by Mr. Regula.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-143, by Mr. Regula.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-149