Us Congress Senate Bill SB4942 Introduced / Bill

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Calendar No. 471 
118THCONGRESS 
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DSESSION S. 4942 
[Report No. 118–207] 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
AUGUST1, 2024 
Ms. B
ALDWIN, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 5 2 
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Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 1
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, namely: 2
TITLE I 3
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 4
E
MPLOYMENT AND TRAININGADMINISTRATION 5
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 6
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Innovation 7
and Opportunity Act (referred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’) 8
and the National Apprenticeship Act, $4,019,669,000 plus 9
reimbursements, shall be available. Of the amounts pro-10
vided: 11
(1) for grants to States for adult employment 12
and training activities, youth activities, and dis-13
located worker employment and training activities, 14
$2,929,332,000 as follows: 15
(A) $885,649,000 for adult employment 16
and training activities, of which $173,649,000 17
shall be available for the period July 1, 2025 18
through June 30, 2026, and of which 19
$712,000,000 shall be available for the period 20
October 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026; 21
(B) $948,130,000 for youth activities, 22
which shall be available for the period April 1, 23
2025 through June 30, 2026; and 24 3 
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(C) $1,095,553,000 for dislocated worker 1
employment and training activities, of which 2
$235,553,000 shall be available for the period 3
July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, and of 4
which $860,000,000 shall be available for the 5
period October 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026: 6
Provided, That the funds available for allotment to 7
outlying areas to carry out subtitle B of title I of the 8
WIOA shall not be subject to the requirements of 9
section 127(b)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act: Provided fur-10
ther, That notwithstanding the requirements of 11
WIOA, outlying areas may submit a single applica-12
tion for a consolidated grant that awards funds that 13
would otherwise be available to such areas to carry 14
out the activities described in subtitle B of title I of 15
the WIOA: Provided further, That such application 16
shall be submitted to the Secretary of Labor (re-17
ferred to in this title as ‘‘Secretary’’), at such time, 18
in such manner, and containing such information as 19
the Secretary may require: Provided further, That 20
outlying areas awarded a consolidated grant de-21
scribed in the preceding provisos may use the funds 22
for any of the programs and activities authorized 23
under such subtitle B of title I of the WIOA subject 24 4 
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to approval of the application and such reporting re-1
quirements issued by the Secretary; and 2
(2) for national programs, $1,090,337,000 as 3
follows: 4
(A) $302,859,000 for the dislocated work-5
ers assistance national reserve, of which 6
$102,859,000 shall be available for the period 7
July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, and 8
of which $200,000,000 shall be available for the 9
period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 10
2026: Provided, That funds provided to carry 11
out section 132(a)(2)(A) of the WIOA may be 12
used to provide assistance to a State for state-13
wide or local use in order to address cases 14
where there have been worker dislocations 15
across multiple sectors or across multiple local 16
areas and such workers remain dislocated; co-17
ordinate the State workforce development plan 18
with emerging economic development needs; and 19
train such eligible dislocated workers: Provided 20
further, That funds provided to carry out sec-21
tions 168(b) and 169(c) of the WIOA may be 22
used for technical assistance and demonstration 23
projects, respectively, that provide assistance to 24
new entrants in the workforce and incumbent 25 5 
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workers: Provided further, That notwithstanding 1
section 168(b) of the WIOA, of the funds pro-2
vided under this subparagraph, the Secretary 3
may reserve not more than 10 percent of such 4
funds to provide technical assistance and carry 5
out additional activities related to the transition 6
to the WIOA: Provided further, That of the 7
funds provided under this subparagraph, 8
$115,000,000 shall be for training and employ-9
ment assistance under sections 168(b), 169(c) 10
(notwithstanding the 10 percent limitation in 11
such section) and 170 of the WIOA as follows: 12
(i) $50,000,000 shall be for workers 13
in the Appalachian region, as defined by 14
40 U.S.C. 14102(a)(1), workers in the 15
Lower Mississippi, as defined in section 16
4(2) of the Delta Development Act (Public 17
Law 100–460, 102 Stat. 2246; 7 U.S.C. 18
2009aa(2)), and workers in the region 19
served by the Northern Border Regional 20
Commission, as defined by 40 U.S.C. 21
15733; and 22
(ii) $65,000,000 shall be for the pur-23
pose of developing, offering, or improving 24
educational or career training programs at 25 6 
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community colleges, defined as public insti-1
tutions of higher education, as described in 2
section 101(a) of the Higher Education 3
Act of 1965 and at which the associate’s 4
degree is primarily the highest degree 5
awarded, with other eligible institutions of 6
higher education, as defined in section 7
101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 8
1965, eligible to participate through con-9
sortia, with community colleges as the lead 10
grantee: Provided, That the Secretary shall 11
follow the requirements for the program in 12
House Report 116–62: Provided further, 13
That any grant funds used for apprentice-14
ships shall be used to support only appren-15
ticeship programs registered under the Na-16
tional Apprenticeship Act and as referred 17
to in section 3(7)(B) of the WIOA; 18
(B) $60,000,000 for Native American pro-19
grams under section 166 of the WIOA, which 20
shall be available for the period July 1, 2025 21
through June 30, 2026; 22
(C) $97,396,000 for migrant and seasonal 23
farmworker programs under section 167 of the 24
WIOA, including $90,134,000 for formula 25 7 
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grants (of which not less than 70 percent shall 1
be for employment and training services), 2
$6,591,000 for migrant and seasonal housing 3
(of which not less than 70 percent shall be for 4
permanent housing), and $671,000 for other 5
discretionary purposes, which shall be available 6
for the period April 1, 2025 through June 30, 7
2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 8
other provision of law or related regulation, the 9
Department of Labor shall take no action lim-10
iting the number or proportion of eligible par-11
ticipants receiving related assistance services or 12
discouraging grantees from providing such serv-13
ices: Provided further, That notwithstanding the 14
definition of ‘‘eligible seasonal farmworker’’ in 15
section 167(i)(3)(A) of the WIOA relating to an 16
individual being ‘‘low-income’’, an individual is 17
eligible for migrant and seasonal farmworker 18
programs under section 167 of the WIOA under 19
that definition if, in addition to meeting the re-20
quirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of section 21
167(i)(3)(A), such individual is a member of a 22
family with a total family income equal to or 23
less than 150 percent of the poverty line; 24 8 
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(D) $110,000,000 for YouthBuild activi-1
ties as described in section 171 of the WIOA, 2
which shall be available for the period April 1, 3
2025 through June 30, 2026; 4
(E) $115,000,000 for ex-offender activi-5
ties, under the authority of section 169 of the 6
WIOA, which shall be available for the period 7
April 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026: Provided, 8
That of this amount, $30,000,000 shall be for 9
competitive grants to national and regional 10
intermediaries for activities that prepare for 11
employment young adults with criminal legal 12
histories, young adults who have been justice 13
system-involved, or young adults who have 14
dropped out of school or other educational pro-15
grams, with a priority for projects serving high- 16
crime, high-poverty areas; 17
(F) $6,000,000 for the Workforce Data 18
Quality Initiative, under the authority of section 19
169 of the WIOA, which shall be available for 20
the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 21
2026; 22
(G) $290,000,000 to expand opportunities 23
through apprenticeships only registered under 24
the National Apprenticeship Act and as referred 25 9 
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to in section 3(7)(B) of the WIOA, to be avail-1
able to the Secretary to carry out activities 2
through grants, cooperative agreements, con-3
tracts and other arrangements, with States and 4
other appropriate entities, including equity 5
intermediaries and business and labor industry 6
partner intermediaries, which shall be available 7
for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 8
2026; and 9
(H) $109,082,000 for carrying out Dem-10
onstration and Pilot projects under section 11
169(c) of the WIOA, which shall be available 12
for the period April 1, 2025 through June 30, 13
2026, in addition to funds available for such ac-14
tivities under subparagraph (A) for the 15
projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 16
table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spend-17
ing’’ included in the report accompanying this 18
Act: Provided, That such funds may be used for 19
projects that are related to the employment and 20
training needs of dislocated workers, other 21
adults, or youth: Provided further, That the 10 22
percent funding limitation under such section of 23
the WIOA shall not apply to such funds: Pro-24
vided further, That section 169(b)(6)(C) of the 25 10 
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WIOA shall not apply to such funds: Provided 1
further, That sections 102 and 107 of this Act 2
shall not apply to such funds. 3
JOB CORPS 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the WIOA, includ-6
ing Federal administrative expenses, the purchase and 7
hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alter-8
ation, and repairs of buildings and other facilities, and the 9
purchase of real property for training centers as author-10
ized by the WIOA, $1,760,155,000, plus reimbursements, 11
as follows: 12
(1) $1,603,325,000 for Job Corps Operations, 13
which shall be available for the period July 1, 2025 14
through June 30, 2026; 15
(2) $123,000,000 for construction, rehabilita-16
tion and acquisition of Job Corps Centers, which 17
shall be available for the period July 1, 2025 18
through June 30, 2028, and which may include the 19
acquisition, maintenance, and repair of major items 20
of equipment: Provided, That the Secretary may 21
transfer up to 15 percent of such funds to meet the 22
operational needs of such centers or to achieve ad-23
ministrative efficiencies: Provided further, That any 24
funds transferred pursuant to the preceding proviso 25 11 
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shall not be available for obligation after June 30, 1
2025: Provided further, That the Committees on Ap-2
propriations of the House of Representatives and the 3
Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of 4
any transfer; and 5
(3) $33,830,000 for necessary expenses of Job 6
Corps, which shall be available for obligation for the 7
period October 1, 2024 through September 30, 8
2025: 9
Provided, That no funds from any other appropriation 10
shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 11
Centers. 12
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER 13
AMERICANS 14
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 15
1965 (referred to in this Act as ‘‘OAA’’), $405,000,000, 16
which shall be available for the period April 1, 2025 17
through June 30, 2026, and may be recaptured and reobli-18
gated in accordance with section 517(c) of the OAA. 19
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 20
For payments during fiscal year 2025 of trade ad-21
justment benefit payments and allowances under part I 22
of subchapter B of chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act 23
of 1974, and section 246 of that Act; and for training, 24
employment and case management services, allowances for 25 12 
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job search and relocation, and related State administrative 1
expenses under part II of subchapter B of chapter 2 of 2
title II of the Trade Act of 1974, and including benefit 3
payments, allowances, training, employment and case 4
management services, and related State administration 5
provided pursuant to section 231(a) of the Trade Adjust-6
ment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, sections 405(a) 7
and 406 of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, 8
and section 285(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, 9
$33,900,000 together with such amounts as may be nec-10
essary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation for 11
payments for any period subsequent to September 15, 12
2025: Provided, That notwithstanding section 502 of this 13
Act, any part of the appropriation provided under this 14
heading may remain available for obligation beyond the 15
current fiscal year pursuant to the authorities of section 16
245(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2317(c)). 17
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT 18
SERVICE OPERATIONS 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 20
For authorized administrative expenses, 21
$84,066,000, together with not to exceed $3,954,084,000 22
which may be expended from the Employment Security 23
Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund 24
(‘‘the Trust Fund’’), of which— 25 13 
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(1) $3,172,635,000 from the Trust Fund is for 1
grants to States for the administration of State un-2
employment insurance laws as authorized under title 3
III of the Social Security Act (including not less 4
than $388,000,000 to carry out reemployment serv-5
ices and eligibility assessments under section 306 of 6
such Act, any claimants of regular compensation, as 7
defined in such section, including those who are 8
profiled as most likely to exhaust their benefits, may 9
be eligible for such services and assessments: Pro-10
vided, That of such amount, $117,000,000 is speci-11
fied for grants under section 306 of the Social Secu-12
rity Act and is provided to meet the terms of section 13
251(b)(2)(E)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-14
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and $271,000,000 15
is additional new budget authority specified for pur-16
poses of section 251(b)(2)(E) of such Act; and 17
$9,000,000 for continued support of the Unemploy-18
ment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence), the 19
administration of unemployment insurance for Fed-20
eral employees and for ex-service members as au-21
thorized under 5 U.S.C. 8501–8523, and the admin-22
istration of trade readjustment allowances, reem-23
ployment trade adjustment assistance, and alter-24
native trade adjustment assistance under the Trade 25 14 
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Act of 1974 and under section 231(a) of the Trade 1
Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, sec-2
tions 405(a) and 406 of the Trade Preferences Ex-3
tension Act of 2015, and section 285(a) of the 4
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and shall be avail-5
able for obligation by the States through December 6
31, 2025, except that funds used for automation 7
shall be available for Federal obligation through De-8
cember 31, 2025, and for State obligation through 9
September 30, 2027, or, if the automation is being 10
carried out through consortia of States, for State ob-11
ligation through September 30, 2031, and for ex-12
penditure through September 30, 2032, and funds 13
for competitive grants awarded to States for im-14
proved operations and to conduct in-person reem-15
ployment and eligibility assessments and unemploy-16
ment insurance improper payment reviews and pro-17
vide reemployment services and referrals to training, 18
as appropriate, shall be available for Federal obliga-19
tion through December 31, 2025 (except that funds 20
for outcome payments pursuant to section 306(f)(2) 21
of the Social Security Act shall be available for Fed-22
eral obligation through March 31, 2026), and for ob-23
ligation by the States through September 30, 2027, 24
and funds for the Unemployment Insurance Integ-25 15 
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rity Center of Excellence shall be available for obli-1
gation by the State through September 30, 2026, 2
and funds used for unemployment insurance work-3
loads experienced through September 30, 2025 shall 4
be available for Federal obligation through Decem-5
ber 31, 2025; 6
(2) $18,000,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-7
tional activities necessary to support the administra-8
tion of the Federal-State unemployment insurance 9
system; 10
(3) $653,639,000 from the Trust Fund, to-11
gether with $21,413,000 from the General Fund of 12
the Treasury, is for grants to States in accordance 13
with section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and shall 14
be available for Federal obligation for the period 15
July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026; 16
(4) $25,000,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-17
tional activities of the Employment Service, includ-18
ing administration of the work opportunity tax cred-19
it under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of 20
1986 (including assisting States in adopting or mod-21
ernizing information technology for use in the proc-22
essing of certification requests), and the provision of 23
technical assistance and staff training under the 24
Wagner-Peyser Act; 25 16 
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(5) $84,810,000 from the Trust Fund is for the 1
administration of foreign labor certifications and re-2
lated activities under the Immigration and Nation-3
ality Act and related laws, of which $61,528,000 4
shall be available for the Federal administration of 5
such activities, and $23,282,000 shall be available 6
for grants to States for the administration of such 7
activities; and 8
(6) $62,653,000 from the General Fund is to 9
provide workforce information, national electronic 10
tools, and one-stop system building under the Wag-11
ner-Peyser Act and shall be available for Federal ob-12
ligation for the period July 1, 2025 through June 13
30, 2026, of which up to $9,800,000 may be used 14
to carry out research and demonstration projects re-15
lated to testing effective ways to promote greater 16
labor force participation of people with disabilities: 17
Provided, That the Secretary may transfer amounts 18
made available for research and demonstration 19
projects under this paragraph to the ‘‘Office of Dis-20
ability Employment Policy’’ account for such pur-21
poses: 22
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly In-23
sured Unemployment (‘‘AWIU’’) for fiscal year 2025 is 24
projected by the Department of Labor to exceed 25 17 
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2,121,000, an additional $28,600,000 from the Trust 1
Fund shall be available for obligation for every 100,000 2
increase in the AWIU level (including a pro rata amount 3
for any increment less than 100,000) to carry out title 4
III of the Social Security Act: Provided further, That 5
funds appropriated in this Act that are allotted to a State 6
to carry out activities under title III of the Social Security 7
Act may be used by such State to assist other States in 8
carrying out activities under such title III if the other 9
States include areas that have suffered a major disaster 10
declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford 11
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act: Provided 12
further, That the Secretary may use funds appropriated 13
for grants to States under title III of the Social Security 14
Act to make payments on behalf of States for the use of 15
the National Directory of New Hires under section 16
453(j)(8) of such Act: Provided further, That the Sec-17
retary may use funds appropriated for grants to States 18
under title III of the Social Security Act to make pay-19
ments on behalf of States to the entity operating the State 20
Information Data Exchange System: Provided further, 21
That funds appropriated in this Act which are used to es-22
tablish a national one-stop career center system, or which 23
are used to support the national activities of the Federal- 24
State unemployment insurance, employment service, or 25 18 
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immigration programs, may be obligated in contracts, 1
grants, or agreements with States and non-State entities: 2
Provided further, That States awarded competitive grants 3
for improved operations under title III of the Social Secu-4
rity Act, or awarded grants to support the national activi-5
ties of the Federal-State unemployment insurance system, 6
may award subgrants to other States and non-State enti-7
ties under such grants, subject to the conditions applicable 8
to the grants: Provided further, That funds appropriated 9
under this Act for activities authorized under title III of 10
the Social Security Act and the Wagner-Peyser Act may 11
be used by States to fund integrated Unemployment In-12
surance and Employment Service automation efforts, not-13
withstanding cost allocation principles prescribed under 14
the final rule entitled ‘‘Uniform Administrative Require-15
ments, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Fed-16
eral Awards’’ at part 200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regu-17
lations: Provided further, That the Secretary, at the re-18
quest of a State participating in a consortium with other 19
States, may reallot funds allotted to such State under title 20
III of the Social Security Act to other States participating 21
in the consortium or to the entity operating the Unemploy-22
ment Insurance Information Technology Support Center 23
in order to carry out activities that benefit the administra-24
tion of the unemployment compensation law of the State 25 19 
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making the request: Provided further, That the Secretary 1
may collect fees for the costs associated with additional 2
data collection, analyses, and reporting services relating 3
to the National Agricultural Workers Survey requested by 4
State and local governments, public and private institu-5
tions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations and 6
may utilize such sums, in accordance with the provisions 7
of 29 U.S.C. 9a, for the National Agricultural Workers 8
Survey infrastructure, methodology, and data to meet the 9
information collection and reporting needs of such entities, 10
which shall be credited to this appropriation and shall re-11
main available until September 30, 2026, for such pur-12
poses. 13
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND 14
OTHER FUNDS 15
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust 16
Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the 17
Social Security Act, and to the Black Lung Disability 18
Trust Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the In-19
ternal Revenue Code of 1986; and for nonrepayable ad-20
vances to the revolving fund established by section 901(e) 21
of the Social Security Act, to the Unemployment Trust 22
Fund as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8509, and to the ‘‘Federal 23
Unemployment Benefits and Allowances’’ account, such 24 20 
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sums as may be necessary, which shall be available for 1
obligation through September 30, 2026. 2
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 3
For expenses of administering employment and train-4
ing programs, $118,900,000, together with not to exceed 5
$54,015,000 which shall be available from the Employ-6
ment Security Administration Account in the Unemploy-7
ment Trust Fund. 8
V
ETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 9
Not to exceed $269,841,000 may be derived from the 10
Employment Security Administration account in the Un-11
employment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 12
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, 13
of which— 14
(1) $185,000,000 is for Jobs for Veterans State 15
grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support dis-16
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists under 17
section 4103A of such title and local veterans’ em-18
ployment representatives under section 4104(b) of 19
such title, and for the expenses described in section 20
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for expend-21
iture by the States through September 30, 2027, 22
and not to exceed 3 percent for the necessary Fed-23
eral expenditures for data systems and contract sup-24
port to allow for the tracking of participant and per-25 21 
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formance information: Provided, That, in addition, 1
such funds may be used to support such specialists 2
and representatives in the provision of services to 3
transitioning members of the Armed Forces who 4
have participated in the Transition Assistance Pro-5
gram and have been identified as in need of inten-6
sive services, to members of the Armed Forces who 7
are wounded, ill, or injured and receiving treatment 8
in military treatment facilities or warrior transition 9
units, to the spouses or other family caregivers of 10
such wounded, ill, or injured members, and to sur-11
viving spouses of individuals who died while serving 12
as members of the Armed Forces or as a result of 13
a service-connected disability; 14
(2) $34,379,000 is for carrying out the Transi-15
tion Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 16
10 U.S.C. 1144; 17
(3) $47,048,000 is for Federal administration 18
of chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, and sections 19
2021, 2021A and 2023 of title 38, United States 20
Code: Provided, That up to $500,000 may be used 21
to carry out the Hire VETS Act (division O of Pub-22
lic Law 115–31); and 23 22 
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(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ 1
Employment and Training Services Institute under 2
38 U.S.C. 4109: 3
Provided, That the Secretary may reallocate among the 4
appropriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) 5
above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropria-6
tion from which such reallocation is made. 7
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 8
$65,500,000 is for carrying out programs to assist home-9
less veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness who are 10
transitioning from certain institutions under sections 11
2021, 2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: 12
Provided, That notwithstanding subsections (c)(3) and (d) 13
of section 2023, the Secretary may award grants through 14
September 30, 2025, to provide services under such sec-15
tion: Provided further, That services provided under sec-16
tions 2021 or under 2021A may include, in addition to 17
services to homeless veterans described in section 18
2002(a)(1), services to veterans who were homeless at 19
some point within the 60 days prior to program entry or 20
veterans who are at risk of homelessness within the next 21
60 days, and that services provided under section 2023 22
may include, in addition to services to the individuals de-23
scribed in subsection (e) of such section, services to vet-24
erans recently released from incarceration who are at risk 25 23 
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of homelessness: Provided further, That notwithstanding 1
paragraph (3) under this heading, funds appropriated in 2
this paragraph may be used for data systems and contract 3
support to allow for the tracking of participant and per-4
formance information: Provided further, That notwith-5
standing sections 2021(e)(2) and 2021A(f)(2) of title 38, 6
United States Code, such funds shall be available for ex-7
penditure pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1553. 8
In addition, fees may be assessed and deposited in 9
the HIRE Vets Medallion Award Fund pursuant to sec-10
tion 5(b) of the HIRE Vets Act, and such amounts shall 11
be available to the Secretary to carry out the HIRE Vets 12
Medallion Award Program, as authorized by such Act, and 13
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 14
sums shall be in addition to any other funds available for 15
such purposes, including funds available under paragraph 16
(3) of this heading: Provided further, That section 2(d) 17
of division O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 18
(Public Law 115–31; 38 U.S.C. 4100 note) shall not 19
apply. 20
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MPLOYEEBENEFITSSECURITYADMINISTRATION 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For necessary expenses for the Employee Benefits 23
Security Administration, $206,100,000, of which up to 24
$3,000,000 shall be made available through September 30, 25 24 
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2026, for the procurement of expert witnesses for enforce-1
ment litigation. 2
P
ENSIONBENEFITGUARANTYCORPORATION 3
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 4
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (‘‘Cor-5
poration’’) is authorized to make such expenditures, in-6
cluding financial assistance authorized by subtitle E of 7
title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 8
of 1974, within limits of funds and borrowing authority 9
available to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and 10
to make such contracts and commitments without regard 11
to fiscal year limitations, as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, 12
as may be necessary in carrying out the program, includ-13
ing associated administrative expenses, through Sep-14
tember 30, 2025, for the Corporation: Provided, That 15
none of the funds available to the Corporation for fiscal 16
year 2025 shall be available for obligations for administra-17
tive expenses in excess of $514,063,000: Provided further, 18
That of the amount made available under this heading, 19
not less than $8,384,000 shall be for necessary expenses 20
of the Office of Inspector General: Provided further, That 21
to the extent that the number of new plan participants 22
in plans terminated by the Corporation exceeds 100,000 23
in fiscal year 2025, an amount not to exceed an additional 24
$9,200,000 shall be available through September 30, 25 25 
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2029, for obligations for administrative expenses for every 1
20,000 additional terminated participants: Provided fur-2
ther, That obligations in excess of the amounts provided 3
for administrative expenses in this paragraph may be in-4
curred and shall be available through September 30, 2029 5
for obligation for unforeseen and extraordinary pre-termi-6
nation or termination expenses or extraordinary multiem-7
ployer program related expenses after approval by the Of-8
fice of Management and Budget and notification of the 9
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-10
atives and the Senate: Provided further, That an addi-11
tional amount shall be available for obligation through 12
September 30, 2029 to the extent the Corporation’s costs 13
exceed $250,000 for the provision of credit or identity 14
monitoring to affected individuals upon suffering a secu-15
rity incident or privacy breach, not to exceed an additional 16
$100 per affected individual. 17
W
AGE ANDHOURDIVISION 18
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 19
For necessary expenses for the Wage and Hour Divi-20
sion, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local 21
agencies and their employees for inspection services ren-22
dered, $267,500,000. 23 26 
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OFFICE OFLABOR-MANAGEMENTSTANDARDS 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses for the Office of Labor-Man-3
agement Standards, $48,515,000. 4
O
FFICE OFFEDERALCONTRACTCOMPLIANCE 5
P
ROGRAMS 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses for the Office of Federal Con-8
tract Compliance Programs, $110,976,000. 9
O
FFICE OFWORKERS’ COMPENSATIONPROGRAMS 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For necessary expenses for the Office of Workers’ 12
Compensation Programs, $120,500,000, together with 13
$2,205,000 which may be expended from the Special Fund 14
in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d), and 44(j) of the 15
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. 16
SPECIAL BENEFITS 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 18
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and ex-19
penses (except administrative expenses not otherwise au-20
thorized) accruing during the current or any prior fiscal 21
year authorized by 5 U.S.C. 81; continuation of benefits 22
as provided for under the heading ‘‘Civilian War Benefits’’ 23
in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; 24
the Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation 25 27 
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Act, 1944; section 5(f) of the War Claims Act (50 U.S.C. 1
App. 2012); obligations incurred under the War Hazards 2
Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and 50 per-3
cent of the additional compensation and benefits required 4
by section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ 5
Compensation Act, $726,670,000, together with such 6
amounts as may be necessary to be charged to the subse-7
quent year appropriation for the payment of compensation 8
and other benefits for any period subsequent to August 9
15 of the current year, for deposit into and to assume 10
the attributes of the Employees’ Compensation Fund es-11
tablished under 5 U.S.C. 8147(a): Provided, That 12
amounts appropriated may be used under 5 U.S.C. 8104 13
by the Secretary to reimburse an employer, who is not the 14
employer at the time of injury, for portions of the salary 15
of a re-employed, disabled beneficiary: Provided further, 16
That balances of reimbursements unobligated on Sep-17
tember 30, 2024, shall remain available until expended for 18
the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses: Pro-19
vided further, That in addition there shall be transferred 20
to this appropriation from the Postal Service and from 21
any other corporation or instrumentality required under 22
5 U.S.C. 8147(c) to pay an amount for its fair share of 23
the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary de-24
termines to be the cost of administration for employees 25 28 
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of such fair share entities through September 30, 2025: 1
Provided further, That of those funds transferred to this 2
account from the fair share entities to pay the cost of ad-3
ministration of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, 4
$84,106,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as 5
follows: 6
(1) For enhancement and maintenance of auto-7
mated data processing systems operations and tele-8
communications systems, $28,323,000; 9
(2) For automated workload processing oper-10
ations, including document imaging, centralized mail 11
intake, and medical bill processing, $26,685,000; 12
(3) For periodic roll disability management and 13
medical review, $26,686,000; 14
(4) For program integrity, $2,412,000; and 15
(5) The remaining funds shall be paid into the 16
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: 17
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any 18
person filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits 19
under 5 U.S.C. 81, or the Longshore and Harbor Work-20
ers’ Compensation Act, provide as part of such notice and 21
claim, such identifying information (including Social Secu-22
rity account number) as such regulations may prescribe. 23 29 
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SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 1
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety 2
and Health Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law 107– 3
275, $24,367,000, to remain available until expended. 4
For making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, 5
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of such Act, 6
for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, such amounts 7
as may be necessary. 8
For making benefit payments under title IV for the 9
first quarter of fiscal year 2026, $6,000,000, to remain 10
available until expended. 11
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES , ENERGY EMPLOYEES 12
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND 13
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy 14
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 15
Act, $66,966,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-16
vided, That the Secretary may require that any person fil-17
ing a claim for benefits under the Act provide as part of 18
such claim such identifying information (including Social 19
Security account number) as may be prescribed. 20
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
Such sums as may be necessary from the Black Lung 23
Disability Trust Fund (the ‘‘Fund’’), to remain available 24
until expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by 25 30 
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section 9501(d)(1), (2), (6), and (7) of the Internal Rev-1
enue Code of 1986; and repayment of, and payment of 2
interest on advances, as authorized by section 9501(d)(4) 3
of that Act. In addition, the following amounts may be 4
expended from the Fund for fiscal year 2025 for expenses 5
of operation and administration of the Black Lung Bene-6
fits program, as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): not to 7
exceed $51,580,000 for transfer to the Office of Workers’ 8
Compensation Programs, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to 9
exceed $41,570,000 for transfer to Departmental Manage-10
ment, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed $373,000 11
for transfer to Departmental Management, ‘‘Office of In-12
spector General’’; and not to exceed $356,000 for pay-13
ments into miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of the 14
Department of the Treasury. 15
O
CCUPATIONALSAFETY ANDHEALTHADMINISTRATION 16
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 17
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety 18
and Health Administration, $637,309,000, including not 19
to exceed $121,000,000 which shall be the maximum 20
amount available for grants to States under section 23(g) 21
of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (the ‘‘Act’’), 22
which grants shall be no less than 50 percent of the costs 23
of State occupational safety and health programs required 24
to be incurred under plans approved by the Secretary 25 31 
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under section 18 of the Act; and, in addition, notwith-1
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Occupational Safety and 2
Health Administration may retain up to $499,000 per fis-3
cal year of training institute course tuition and fees, other-4
wise authorized by law to be collected, and may utilize 5
such sums for occupational safety and health training and 6
education: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 7
3302, the Secretary is authorized, during the fiscal year 8
ending September 30, 2025, to collect and retain fees for 9
services provided to Nationally Recognized Testing Lab-10
oratories, and may utilize such sums, in accordance with 11
the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, to administer national and 12
international laboratory recognition programs that ensure 13
the safety of equipment and products used by workers in 14
the workplace: Provided further, That none of the funds 15
appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 16
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any 17
standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act which 18
is applicable to any person who is engaged in a farming 19
operation which does not maintain a temporary labor 20
camp and employs 10 or fewer employees: Provided fur-21
ther, That no funds appropriated under this paragraph 22
shall be obligated or expended to administer or enforce 23
any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act with 24
respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees who is 25 32 
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included within a category having a Days Away, Re-1
stricted, or Transferred (‘‘DART’’) occupational injury 2
and illness rate, at the most precise industrial classifica-3
tion code for which such data are published, less than the 4
national average rate as such rates are most recently pub-5
lished by the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of 6
Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of the Act, 7
except— 8
(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act, con-9
sultation, technical assistance, educational and train-10
ing services, and to conduct surveys and studies; 11
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in 12
response to an employee complaint, to issue a cita-13
tion for violations found during such inspection, and 14
to assess a penalty for violations which are not cor-15
rected within a reasonable abatement period and for 16
any willful violations found; 17
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act 18
with respect to imminent dangers; 19
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act 20
with respect to health hazards; 21
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act 22
with respect to a report of an employment accident 23
which is fatal to one or more employees or which re-24
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and to take any action pursuant to such investiga-1
tion authorized by the Act; and 2
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act 3
with respect to complaints of discrimination against 4
employees for exercising rights under the Act: 5
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not 6
apply to any person who is engaged in a farming operation 7
which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and em-8
ploys 10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That 9
$12,787,000 shall be available for Susan Harwood train-10
ing grants: Provided further, That not less than 11
$3,500,000 shall be for Voluntary Protection Programs. 12
M
INESAFETY ANDHEALTHADMINISTRATION 13
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and 15
Health Administration, $392,816,000, including purchase 16
and bestowal of certificates and trophies in connection 17
with mine rescue and first-aid work, and the hire of pas-18
senger motor vehicles, including up to $2,000,000 for 19
mine rescue and recovery activities and not less than 20
$10,537,000 for State assistance grants: Provided, That 21
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed $750,000 22
may be collected by the National Mine Health and Safety 23
Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale of training 24
materials, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, to 25 34 
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be available for mine safety and health education and 1
training activities: Provided further, That notwithstanding 2
31 U.S.C. 3302, the Mine Safety and Health Administra-3
tion is authorized to collect and retain up to $2,499,000 4
from fees collected for the approval and certification of 5
equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines, and 6
may utilize such sums for such activities: Provided further, 7
That the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, build-8
ings, equipment, and other contributions from public and 9
private sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation 10
with other agencies, Federal, State, or private: Provided 11
further, That the Mine Safety and Health Administration 12
is authorized to promote health and safety education and 13
training in the mining community through cooperative 14
programs with States, industry, and safety associations: 15
Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized to rec-16
ognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association as a prin-17
cipal safety association and, notwithstanding any other 18
provision of law, may provide funds and, with or without 19
reimbursement, personnel, including service of Mine Safe-20
ty and Health Administration officials as officers in local 21
chapters or in the national organization: Provided further, 22
That any funds available to the Department of Labor may 23
be used, with the approval of the Secretary, to provide 24 35 
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for the costs of mine rescue and survival operations in the 1
event of a major disaster. 2
B
UREAU OFLABORSTATISTICS 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Sta-5
tistics, including advances or reimbursements to State, 6
Federal, and local agencies and their employees for serv-7
ices rendered, $634,952,000, together with not to exceed 8
$68,000,000 which may be expended from the Employ-9
ment Security Administration account in the Unemploy-10
ment Trust Fund. 11
O
FFICE OFDISABILITYEMPLOYMENTPOLICY 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability 15
Employment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy 16
and initiatives, and award grants, cooperative agreements 17
and contracts furthering the objective of eliminating bar-18
riers to the training and employment of people with dis-19
abilities, $43,000,000, of which not less than $9,000,000 20
shall be for research and demonstration projects related 21
to testing effective ways to promote greater labor force 22
participation of people with disabilities: Provided, That the 23
Secretary may transfer amounts made available under this 24
heading for research and demonstration projects to the 25 36 
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‘‘State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service 1
Operations’’ account for such purposes. 2
D
EPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
For necessary expenses for Departmental Manage-6
ment, including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 7
$394,889,000, together with not to exceed $308,000, 8
which may be expended from the Employment Security 9
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust 10
Fund: Provided, That $82,725,000 for the Bureau of 11
International Labor Affairs shall be available for obliga-12
tion through December 31, 2025: Provided further, That 13
funds available to the Bureau of International Labor Af-14
fairs may be used to administer or operate international 15
labor activities, bilateral and multilateral technical assist-16
ance, and microfinance programs, by or through contracts, 17
grants, subgrants and other arrangements: Provided fur-18
ther, That not less than $30,175,000 shall be for programs 19
to combat exploitative child labor internationally and not 20
less than $30,175,000 shall be used to implement model 21
programs that address worker rights issues through tech-22
nical assistance in countries with which the United States 23
has free trade agreements or trade preference programs: 24
Provided further, That $4,281,000 shall be used for pro-25 37 
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gram evaluation and shall be available for obligation 1
through September 30, 2026: Provided further, That funds 2
available for program evaluation may be used to admin-3
ister grants for the purpose of evaluation: Provided fur-4
ther, That grants made for the purpose of evaluation shall 5
be awarded through fair and open competition: Provided 6
further, That funds available for program evaluation may 7
be transferred to any other appropriate account in the De-8
partment for such purpose: Provided further, That the 9
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-10
atives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in ad-11
vance of any transfer: Provided further, That the funds 12
available to the Women’s Bureau may be used for grants 13
to serve and promote the interests of women in the work-14
force: Provided further, That of the amounts made avail-15
able to the Women’s Bureau, not less than $5,000,000 16
shall be used for grants authorized by the Women in Ap-17
prenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act. 18
IT MODERNIZATION 19
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor cen-20
tralized infrastructure technology investment activities re-21
lated to support systems and modernization, $29,269,000, 22
which shall be available through September 30, 2026. 23 38 
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 2
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 3
General Act of 1978, $91,187,000, together with not to 4
exceed $5,841,000 which may be expended from the Em-5
ployment Security Administration account in the Unem-6
ployment Trust Fund: Provided, That not more than 7
$2,000,000 of the total amount provided under this head-8
ing may be available until expended. 9
G
ENERALPROVISIONS 10
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EC. 101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 11
for the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bo-12
nuses of an individual, either as direct costs or any prora-13
tion as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive 14
Level II. 15
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
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EC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-17
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 18
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-19
priated for the current fiscal year for the Department of 20
Labor in this Act may be transferred between a program, 21
project, or activity, but no such program, project, or activ-22
ity shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such 23
transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted by 24
this section shall not be used to create any new program 25 39 
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or to fund any project or activity for which no funds are 1
provided in this Act: Provided further, That the Commit-2
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 3
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance 4
of any transfer. 5
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EC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 6
13126, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 7
available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or ex-8
pended for the procurement of goods mined, produced, 9
manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole 10
or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries 11
and host countries already identified by the United States 12
Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 13
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EC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in this sec-14
tion, none of the funds made available to the Department 15
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American 16
Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 17
(29 U.S.C. 2916a) may be used for any purpose other 18
than competitive grants for training individuals who are 19
older than 16 years of age and are not currently enrolled 20
in school within a local educational agency in the occupa-21
tions and industries for which employers are using H–1B 22
visas to hire foreign workers, and the related activities 23
necessary to support such training. 24 40 
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SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act under the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Ad-2
ministration’’ shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient 3
of such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an indi-4
vidual, either as direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate 5
in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation shall not 6
apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 7
in Office of Management and Budget Circular A–133. 8
Where States are recipients of such funds, States may es-9
tablish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of those re-10
ceiving salaries and bonuses from subrecipients of such 11
funds, taking into account factors including the relative 12
cost-of-living in the State, the compensation levels for 13
comparable State or local government employees, and the 14
size of the organizations that administer Federal pro-15
grams involved including Employment and Training Ad-16
ministration programs. 17
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 18
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EC. 106. (a) Notwithstanding section 102, the Sec-19
retary may transfer funds made available to the Employ-20
ment and Training Administration by this Act, either di-21
rectly or through a set-aside, for technical assistance serv-22
ices to grantees to ‘‘Program Administration’’ when it is 23
determined that those services will be more efficiently per-24 41 
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formed by Federal employees: Provided, That this section 1
shall not apply to section 171 of the WIOA. 2
(b) Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 3
transfer not more than 0.5 percent of each discretionary 4
appropriation made available to the Employment and 5
Training Administration by this Act to ‘‘Program Admin-6
istration’’ in order to carry out program integrity activities 7
relating to any of the programs or activities that are fund-8
ed under any such discretionary appropriations: Provided, 9
That notwithstanding section 102 and the preceding pro-10
viso, the Secretary may transfer not more than 0.5 percent 11
of funds made available in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the 12
‘‘Office of Job Corps’’ account to paragraph (3) of such 13
account to carry out program integrity activities related 14
to the Job Corps program: Provided further, That funds 15
transferred under this subsection shall be available to the 16
Secretary to carry out program integrity activities directly 17
or through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts and 18
other arrangements with States and other appropriate en-19
tities: Provided further, That funds transferred under the 20
authority provided by this subsection shall be available for 21
obligation through September 30, 2026. 22
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 23
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EC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 24
than 0.75 percent from each appropriation made available 25 42 
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in this Act identified in subsection (b) in order to carry 1
out evaluations of any of the programs or activities that 2
are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under 3
this section shall be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Man-4
agement’’ for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation 5
Officer within the Department of Labor, and shall be 6
available for obligation through September 30, 2026: Pro-7
vided, That such funds shall only be available if the Chief 8
Evaluation Officer of the Department of Labor submits 9
a plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 10
of Representatives and the Senate describing the evalua-11
tions to be carried out 15 days in advance of any transfer. 12
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 13
‘‘Training and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, 14
‘‘Community Service Employment for Older Americans’’, 15
‘‘State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service 16
Operations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security Administra-17
tion’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, 18
‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract 19
Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management 20
Standards’’, ‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-21
tration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Of-22
fice of Disability Employment Policy’’, funding made 23
available to the ‘‘Bureau of International Labor Affairs’’ 24
and ‘‘Women’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental Man-25 43 
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agement, Salaries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans’ 1
Employment and Training’’. 2
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EC. 108. (a) Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards 3
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall be applied as if the 4
following text is part of such section: 5
‘‘(s)(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply 6
for a period of 2 years after the occurrence of a major 7
disaster to any employee— 8
‘‘(A) employed to adjust or evaluate claims re-9
sulting from or relating to such major disaster, by 10
an employer not engaged, directly or through an af-11
filiate, in underwriting, selling, or marketing prop-12
erty, casualty, or liability insurance policies or con-13
tracts; 14
‘‘(B) who receives from such employer on aver-15
age weekly compensation of not less than $591.00 16
per week or any minimum weekly amount estab-17
lished by the Secretary, whichever is greater, for the 18
number of weeks such employee is engaged in any 19
of the activities described in subparagraph (C); and 20
‘‘(C) whose duties include any of the following: 21
‘‘(i) interviewing insured individuals, indi-22
viduals who suffered injuries or other damages 23
or losses arising from or relating to a disaster, 24
witnesses, or physicians; 25 44 
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‘‘(ii) inspecting property damage or review-1
ing factual information to prepare damage esti-2
mates; 3
‘‘(iii) evaluating and making recommenda-4
tions regarding coverage or compensability of 5
claims or determining liability or value aspects 6
of claims; 7
‘‘(iv) negotiating settlements; or 8
‘‘(v) making recommendations regarding 9
litigation. 10
‘‘(2) The exemption in this subsection shall not affect 11
the exemption provided by section 13(a)(1). 12
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection— 13
‘‘(A) the term ‘major disaster’ means any dis-14
aster or catastrophe declared or designated by any 15
State or Federal agency or department; 16
‘‘(B) the term ‘employee employed to adjust or 17
evaluate claims resulting from or relating to such 18
major disaster’ means an individual who timely se-19
cured or secures a license required by applicable law 20
to engage in and perform the activities described in 21
clauses (i) through (v) of paragraph (1)(C) relating 22
to a major disaster, and is employed by an employer 23
that maintains worker compensation insurance cov-24
erage or protection for its employees, if required by 25 45 
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applicable law, and withholds applicable Federal, 1
State, and local income and payroll taxes from the 2
wages, salaries and any benefits of such employees; 3
and 4
‘‘(C) the term ‘affiliate’ means a company that, 5
by reason of ownership or control of 25 percent or 6
more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting 7
securities of one or more companies, directly or indi-8
rectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common 9
control with, another company.’’. 10
(b) This section shall be effective on the date of en-11
actment of this Act. 12
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EC. 109. (a) FLEXIBILITYWITHRESPECT TO THE 13
C
ROSSING OFH–2B NONIMMIGRANTSWORKING IN THE 14
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EAFOODINDUSTRY.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if 16
a petition for H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an em-17
ployer in the seafood industry is granted, the em-18
ployer may bring the nonimmigrants described in 19
the petition into the United States at any time dur-20
ing the 120-day period beginning on the start date 21
for which the employer is seeking the services of the 22
nonimmigrants without filing another petition. 23
(2) R
EQUIREMENTS FOR CROSSINGS AFTER 24
90TH DAY.—An employer in the seafood industry 25 46 
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may not bring H–2B nonimmigrants into the United 1
States after the date that is 90 days after the start 2
date for which the employer is seeking the services 3
of the nonimmigrants unless the employer— 4
(A) completes a new assessment of the 5
local labor market by— 6
(i) listing job orders in local news-7
papers on 2 separate Sundays; and 8
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the 9
appropriate Department of Labor Elec-10
tronic Job Registry and at the employer’s 11
place of employment; and 12
(B) offers the job to an equally or better 13
qualified United States worker who— 14
(i) applies for the job; and 15
(ii) will be available at the time and 16
place of need. 17
(3) E
XEMPTION FROM RULES WITH RESPECT 18
TO STAGGERING.—The Secretary of Labor shall not 19
consider an employer in the seafood industry who 20
brings H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States 21
during the 120-day period specified in paragraph (1) 22
to be staggering the date of need in violation of sec-23
tion 655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regula-24
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(b) H–2B NONIMMIGRANTSDEFINED.—In this sec-1
tion, the term ‘‘H–2B nonimmigrants’’ means aliens ad-2
mitted to the United States pursuant to section 3
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality 4
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)). 5
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EC. 110. The determination of prevailing wage for 6
the purposes of the H–2B program shall be the greater 7
of—(1) the actual wage level paid by the employer to other 8
employees with similar experience and qualifications for 9
such position in the same location; or (2) the prevailing 10
wage level for the occupational classification of the posi-11
tion in the geographic area in which the H–2B non-12
immigrant will be employed, based on the best information 13
available at the time of filing the petition. In the deter-14
mination of prevailing wage for the purposes of the H– 15
2B program, the Secretary shall accept private wage sur-16
veys even in instances where Occupational Employment 17
Statistics survey data are available unless the Secretary 18
determines that the methodology and data in the provided 19
survey are not statistically supported. 20
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EC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 21
to enforce the definition of corresponding employment 22
found in 20 CFR 655.5 or the three-fourths guarantee 23
rule definition found in 20 CFR 655.20, or any references 24
thereto. Further, for the purpose of regulating admission 25 48 
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of temporary workers under the H–2B program, the defi-1
nition of temporary need shall be that provided in 8 CFR 2
214.2(h)(6)(ii)(B). 3
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EC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of 4
law, the Secretary may furnish through grants, coopera-5
tive agreements, contracts, and other arrangements, not 6
more than $450,000 of excess personal property, at a 7
value determined by the Secretary, to apprenticeship pro-8
grams for the purpose of training apprentices in those pro-9
grams. 10
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EC. 113. (a) The Act entitled ‘‘An Act to create a 11
Department of Labor’’, approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 12
736, chapter 141) is amended by adding at the end the 13
following new section: 14
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Labor is au-15
thorized to employ law enforcement officers or special 16
agents to— 17
‘‘(1) provide protection for the Secretary of 18
Labor during the workday of the Secretary and dur-19
ing any activity that is preliminary or postliminary 20
to the performance of official duties by the Sec-21
retary; 22
‘‘(2) provide protection, incidental to the protec-23
tion provided to the Secretary, to a member of the 24
immediate family of the Secretary who is partici-25 49 
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pating in an activity or event relating to the official 1
duties of the Secretary; 2
‘‘(3) provide continuous protection to the Sec-3
retary (including during periods not described in 4
paragraph (1)) and to the members of the imme-5
diate family of the Secretary if there is a unique and 6
articulable threat of physical harm, in accordance 7
with guidelines established by the Secretary; and 8
‘‘(4) provide protection to the Deputy Secretary 9
of Labor or another senior officer representing the 10
Secretary of Labor at a public event if there is a 11
unique and articulable threat of physical harm, in 12
accordance with guidelines established by the Sec-13
retary. 14
‘‘(b) A
UTHORITIES.—The Secretary of Labor may 15
authorize a law enforcement officer or special agent em-16
ployed under subsection (a), for the purpose of performing 17
the duties authorized under subsection (a), to— 18
‘‘(1) carry firearms; 19
‘‘(2) make arrests without a warrant for any of-20
fense against the United States committed in the 21
presence of such officer or special agent; 22
‘‘(3) perform protective intelligence work, in-23
cluding identifying and mitigating potential threats 24 50 
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and conducting advance work to review security mat-1
ters relating to sites and events; 2
‘‘(4) coordinate with local law enforcement 3
agencies; and 4
‘‘(5) initiate criminal and other investigations 5
into potential threats to the security of the Sec-6
retary, in coordination with the Inspector General of 7
the Department of Labor. 8
‘‘(c) C
OMPLIANCEWITHGUIDELINES.—A law en-9
forcement officer or special agent employed under sub-10
section (a) shall exercise any authority provided under this 11
section in accordance with any— 12
‘‘(1) guidelines issued by the Attorney General; 13
and 14
‘‘(2) guidelines prescribed by the Secretary of 15
Labor.’’. 16
(b) This section shall be effective on the date of en-17
actment of this Act. 18
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EC. 114. The Secretary is authorized to dispose of 19
or divest, by any means the Secretary determines appro-20
priate, including an agreement or partnership to construct 21
a new Job Corps center, all or a portion of the real prop-22
erty on which the Treasure Island Job Corps Center and 23
the Gary Job Corps Center are situated. Any sale or other 24
disposition, to include any associated construction project, 25 51 
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will not be subject to any requirement of any Federal law 1
or regulation relating to the disposition of Federal real 2
property or relating to Federal procurement, including but 3
not limited to subchapter III of chapter 5 of title 40 of 4
the United States Code, subchapter V of chapter 119 of 5
title 42 of the United States Code, and chapter 33 of divi-6
sion C of subtitle I of title 41 of the United States Code. 7
The net proceeds of such a sale shall be transferred to 8
the Secretary, which shall be available until expended for 9
such project to carry out the Job Corps Program on 10
Treasure Island and the Job Corps Program in and 11
around San Marcos, Texas, respectively. 12
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EC. 115. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to— 14
(1) alter or terminate the Interagency Agree-15
ment between the United States Department of 16
Labor and the United States Department of Agri-17
culture; or 18
(2) close any of the Civilian Conservation Cen-19
ters, except if such closure is necessary to prevent 20
the endangerment of the health and safety of the 21
students, the capacity of the program is retained, 22
and the requirements of section 159(j) of the WIOA 23
are met. 24 52 
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(RESCISSION) 1
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EC. 116. Of the unobligated funds available under 2
section 286(s)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 3
(8 U.S.C. 1356(s)(2)), $217,000,000 are hereby perma-4
nently rescinded not later than September 30, 2025. 5
(RESCISSION) 6
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EC. 117. Of the funds made available under the 7
heading ‘‘Employment and Training Administration– 8
Training and Employment Services’’ in division D of Pub-9
lic Law 118–47, $65,000,000 are hereby permanently re-10
scinded from the amounts specified in paragraph (2)(A) 11
under such heading for the period October 1, 2024, 12
through September 30, 2025. 13
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EC. 118. Funds made available to the Employment 14
and Training Administration by this Act, either directly 15
or through a set-aside, to provide technical assistance 16
services to grantees may also be used by the Employment 17
and Training Administration to assist in the establishment 18
and operation of workforce development technical assist-19
ance centers, through grants, contracts, or cooperative 20
agreements, to provide technical assistance relating to any 21
of the activities administered by the Employment and 22
Training Administration. 23 53 
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 1
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EC. 119. Of the funds appropriated in this title to 2
Department of Labor accounts available for salaries and 3
expenses, the Secretary may transfer up to 1 percent from 4
each such account to the Working Capital Fund for the 5
design, project management, construction, move solution, 6
information technology configurations, and other costs as-7
sociated with projects that will result in more efficient or 8
effective use of office or other work space funded by the 9
transferring appropriation: Provided, That amounts trans-10
ferred under this section shall remain available until ex-11
pended and shall be in addition to funds otherwise avail-12
able for such purposes: Provided further, That the Com-13
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 14
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance 15
of any transfer. 16
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor 17
Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 18 54 
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TITLE II 1
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 2
SERVICES 3
H
EALTHRESOURCES ANDSERVICESADMINISTRATION 4
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 5
For carrying out titles II and III of the Public Health 6
Service Act (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘PHS Act’’) 7
with respect to primary health care and the Native Hawai-8
ian Health Care Act of 1988, $1,858,772,000: Provided, 9
That no more than $1,000,000 shall be available until ex-10
pended for carrying out the provisions of section 224(o) 11
of the PHS Act: Provided further, That no more than 12
$120,000,000 shall be available until expended for car-13
rying out subsections (g) through (n) and (q) of section 14
224 of the PHS Act, and for expenses incurred by the 15
Department of Health and Human Services (referred to 16
in this Act as ‘‘HHS’’) pertaining to administrative claims 17
made under such law. 18
HEALTH WORKFORCE 19
For carrying out titles III, VII, and VIII of the PHS 20
Act with respect to the health workforce, sections 1128E 21
and 1921 of the Social Security Act, and the Health Care 22
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, $1,411,376,000: Pro-23
vided, That section 751(j)(2) of the PHS Act and the pro-24
portional funding amounts in paragraphs (1) through (4) 25 55 
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of section 756(f) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds 1
made available under this heading: Provided further, That 2
for any program operating under section 751 of the PHS 3
Act on or before January 1, 2009, the Secretary of Health 4
and Human Services (referred to in this title as the ‘‘Sec-5
retary’’) may hereafter waive any of the requirements con-6
tained in sections 751(d)(2)(A) and 751(d)(2)(B) of such 7
Act for the full project period of a grant under such sec-8
tion: Provided further, That section 756(c) of the PHS Act 9
shall apply to paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 10
756(a) of such Act: Provided further, That no funds shall 11
be available for section 340G–1 of the PHS Act: Provided 12
further, That fees collected for the disclosure of informa-13
tion under section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Im-14
provement Act of 1986 and sections 1128E(d)(2) and 15
1921 of the Social Security Act shall be sufficient to re-16
cover the full costs of operating the programs authorized 17
by such sections and shall remain available until expended 18
for the National Practitioner Data Bank: Provided further, 19
That funds transferred to this account to carry out section 20
846 and subpart 3 of part D of title III of the PHS Act 21
may be used to make prior year adjustments to awards 22
made under such section and subpart: Provided further, 23
That $128,600,000 shall remain available until expended 24
for the purposes of providing primary health services, as-25 56 
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signing National Health Service Corps (‘‘NHSC’’) partici-1
pants to expand the delivery of substance use disorder 2
treatment services, notwithstanding the assignment prior-3
ities and limitations under sections 333(a)(1)(D), 333(b), 4
and 333A(a)(1)(B)(ii) of the PHS Act, and making pay-5
ments under the NHSC Loan Repayment Program under 6
section 338B of such Act: Provided further, That, within 7
the amount made available in the previous proviso, 8
$16,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the 9
purposes of making payments under the NHSC Loan Re-10
payment Program under section 338B of the PHS Act 11
to individuals participating in such program who provide 12
primary health services in Indian Health Service facilities, 13
Tribally-Operated 638 Health Programs, and Urban In-14
dian Health Programs (as those terms are defined by the 15
Secretary), notwithstanding the assignment priorities and 16
limitations under section 333(b) of such Act: Provided fur-17
ther, That for purposes of the previous two provisos, sec-18
tion 331(a)(3)(D) of the PHS Act shall be applied as if 19
the term ‘‘primary health services’’ includes clinical sub-20
stance use disorder treatment services, including those 21
provided by masters level, licensed substance use disorder 22
treatment counselors: Provided further, That of the funds 23
made available under this heading, $6,000,000 shall be 24
available to make grants to establish, expand, or maintain 25 57 
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optional community-based nurse practitioner fellowship 1
programs that are accredited or in the accreditation proc-2
ess, with a preference for those in Federally Qualified 3
Health Centers, for practicing postgraduate nurse practi-4
tioners in primary care or behavioral health: Provided fur-5
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 6
$10,000,000 shall remain available until expended for ac-7
tivities under section 775 of the PHS Act: Provided fur-8
ther, That the United States may recover liquidated dam-9
ages in an amount determined by the formula under sec-10
tion 338E(c)(1) of the PHS Act if an individual either 11
fails to begin or complete the service obligated by a con-12
tract under section 775(b) of the PHS Act: Provided fur-13
ther, That for purposes of section 775(c)(1) of the PHS 14
Act, the Secretary may include other mental and behav-15
ioral health disciplines as the Secretary deems appro-16
priate: Provided further, That the Secretary may termi-17
nate a contract entered into under section 775 of the PHS 18
Act in the same manner articulated in section 206 of this 19
title for fiscal year 2025 contracts entered into under sec-20
tion 338B of the PHS Act. 21
Of the funds made available under this heading, 22
$36,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 23
grants to public institutions of higher education to expand 24
or support graduate education for physicians provided by 25 58 
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such institutions, including funding for infrastructure de-1
velopment, maintenance, equipment, and minor renova-2
tions or alterations: Provided, That, in awarding such 3
grants, the Secretary shall give priority to public institu-4
tions of higher education located in States with a projected 5
primary care provider shortage, as determined by the Sec-6
retary: Provided further, That grants so awarded are lim-7
ited to such public institutions of higher education in 8
States in the top half of States with a projected primary 9
care provider shortage, as determined by the Secretary: 10
Provided further, That the minimum amount of a grant 11
so awarded to such an institution shall be not less than 12
$1,000,000 per year: Provided further, That such a grant 13
may be awarded for a period not to exceed 5 years: Pro-14
vided further, That such a grant awarded with respect to 15
a year to such an institution shall be subject to a matching 16
requirement of non-Federal funds in an amount that is 17
not more than 10 percent of the total amount of Federal 18
funds provided in the grant to such institution with re-19
spect to such year. 20
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH 21
For carrying out titles III, XI, XII, and XIX of the 22
PHS Act with respect to maternal and child health and 23
title V of the Social Security Act, $1,181,180,000: Pro-24
vided, That notwithstanding sections 502(a)(1) and 25 59 
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502(b)(1) of the Social Security Act, not more than 1
$213,116,000 shall be available for carrying out special 2
projects of regional and national significance pursuant to 3
section 501(a)(2) of such Act and $10,276,000 shall be 4
available for projects described in subparagraphs (A) 5
through (F) of section 501(a)(3) of such Act. 6
RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM 7
For carrying out title XXVI of the PHS Act with 8
respect to the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, 9
$2,571,041,000, of which $2,045,630,000 shall remain 10
available to the Secretary through September 30, 2027, 11
for parts A and B of title XXVI of the PHS Act, and 12
of which not less than $900,313,000 shall be for State 13
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs under the authority of 14
section 2616 or 311(c) of such Act; and of which 15
$165,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 16
available to the Secretary for carrying out a program of 17
grants and contracts under title XXVI or section 311(c) 18
of such Act focused on ending the nationwide HIV/AIDS 19
epidemic, with any grants issued under such section 20
311(c) administered in conjunction with title XXVI of the 21
PHS Act, including the limitation on administrative ex-22
penses. 23 60 
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HEALTH SYSTEMS 1
For carrying out titles III and XII of the PHS Act 2
with respect to health care systems, and the Stem Cell 3
Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, $135,009,000, of 4
which $122,000 shall be available until expended for facil-5
ity renovations and other facilities-related expenses of the 6
National Hansen’s Disease Program. 7
RURAL HEALTH 8
For carrying out titles III and IV of the PHS Act 9
with respect to rural health, section 427(a) of the Federal 10
Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, and sections 11
711 and 1820 of the Social Security Act, $385,907,000, 12
of which $64,277,000 from general revenues, notwith-13
standing section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall 14
be available for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital 15
flexibility grants program: Provided, That of the funds 16
made available under this heading for Medicare rural hos-17
pital flexibility grants, up to $20,942,000 shall be avail-18
able for the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant 19
Program for quality improvement and adoption of health 20
information technology, no less than $5,000,000 shall be 21
available to award grants to public or non-profit private 22
entities for the Rural Emergency Hospital Technical As-23
sistance Program, and up to $1,000,000 shall be to carry 24
out section 1820(g)(6) of the Social Security Act, with 25 61 
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funds provided for grants under section 1820(g)(6) avail-1
able for the purchase and implementation of telehealth 2
services and other efforts to improve health care coordina-3
tion for rural veterans between rural providers and the 4
Department of Veterans Affairs: Provided further, That 5
notwithstanding section 338J(k) of the PHS Act, 6
$14,500,000 shall be available for State Offices of Rural 7
Health: Provided further, That $14,000,000 shall remain 8
available through September 30, 2027, to support the 9
Rural Residency Development Program: Provided further, 10
That $155,000,000 shall be for the Rural Communities 11
Opioids Response Program. 12
FAMILY PLANNING 13
For carrying out the program under title X of the 14
PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning 15
projects, $286,479,000: Provided, That amounts provided 16
to said projects under such title shall not be expended for 17
abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirec-18
tive, and that such amounts shall not be expended for any 19
activity (including the publication or distribution of lit-20
erature) that in any way tends to promote public support 21
or opposition to any legislative proposal or candidate for 22
public office. 23 62 
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HRSA-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 1
For carrying out title III of the Public Health Service 2
Act and for cross-cutting activities and program support 3
for activities funded in other appropriations included in 4
this Act for the Health Resources and Services Adminis-5
tration, $1,092,665,000, of which $44,050,000 shall be 6
for expenses necessary for the Office for the Advancement 7
of Telehealth, including grants, contracts, and cooperative 8
agreements for the advancement of telehealth activities: 9
Provided, That funds made available under this heading 10
may be used to supplement program support funding pro-11
vided under the headings ‘‘Primary Health Care’’, 12
‘‘Health Workforce’’, ‘‘Maternal and Child Health’’, 13
‘‘Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’’, ‘‘Health Systems’’, 14
and ‘‘Rural Health’’: Provided further, That of the amount 15
made available under this heading, $871,077,000 shall be 16
used for the projects financing the construction and ren-17
ovation (including equipment) of health care and other fa-18
cilities, and for the projects financing one-time grants that 19
support health-related activities, including training and in-20
formation technology, and in the amounts specified in the 21
table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included 22
in the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, 23
That none of the funds made available for projects de-24 63 
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scribed in the preceding proviso shall be subject to section 1
241 of the PHS Act or section 205 of this Act. 2
VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM TRUST FUND 3
For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation 4
Program Trust Fund (the ‘‘Trust Fund’’), such sums as 5
may be necessary for claims associated with vaccine-re-6
lated injury or death with respect to vaccines administered 7
after September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 of title 8
XXI of the PHS Act, to remain available until expended: 9
Provided, That for necessary administrative expenses, not 10
to exceed $15,200,000 shall be available from the Trust 11
Fund to the Secretary. 12
COVERED COUNTERMEASURES PROCESS FUND 13
For carrying out section 319F–4 of the PHS Act, 14
$7,000,000, to remain available until expended. 15
C
ENTERS FORDISEASECONTROL ANDPREVENTION 16
IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES 17
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII, and XXI, and 18
section 2821 of the PHS Act, and titles II and IV of the 19
Immigration and Nationality Act, with respect to immuni-20
zation and respiratory diseases, $464,941,000. 21
HIV/AIDS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED 22
DISEASES, AND TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION 23
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII, and XXIII of 24
the PHS Act with respect to HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, 25 64 
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sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention, 1
$1,394,056,000. 2
EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 3
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII, and section 4
2821 of the PHS Act, and titles II and IV of the Immigra-5
tion and Nationality Act, with respect to emerging and 6
zoonotic infectious diseases, $753,272,000: Provided, That 7
of the amounts made available under this heading, up to 8
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended to pay 9
for the transportation, medical care, treatment, and other 10
related costs of persons quarantined or isolated under 11
Federal or State quarantine law. 12
CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH 13
PROMOTION 14
For carrying out titles II, III, XI, XV, XVII, and 15
XIX of the PHS Act with respect to chronic disease pre-16
vention and health promotion, $1,192,964,000: Provided, 17
That funds made available under this heading may be 18
available for making grants under section 1509 of the 19
PHS Act for not less than 21 States, tribes, or tribal orga-20
nizations: Provided further, That the proportional funding 21
requirements under section 1503(a) of the PHS Act shall 22
not apply to funds made available under this heading. 23 65 
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BIRTH DEFECTS, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES , 1
DISABILITIES AND HEALTH 2
For carrying out titles II, III, XI, and XVII of the 3
PHS Act with respect to birth defects, developmental dis-4
abilities, disabilities and health, $210,060,000. 5
PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENTIFIC SERVICES 6
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 7
Act with respect to health statistics, surveillance, health 8
informatics, and workforce development, $481,564,000: 9
Provided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, 10
$110,033,000 shall be from funds available under section 11
241 of the PHS Act for health statistics. 12
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 13
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 14
Act with respect to environmental health, $193,850,000. 15
INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL 16
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 17
Act with respect to injury prevention and control, 18
$776,379,000. 19
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND 20
HEALTH 21
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 22
Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203, 301, and 501 23
of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act, section 13 24
of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response 25 66 
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Act, and sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupational Safe-1
ty and Health Act, with respect to occupational safety and 2
health, $364,030,000. 3
ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS 4
COMPENSATION PROGRAM 5
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy 6
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 7
Act, $55,358,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-8
vided, That this amount shall be available consistent with 9
the provision regarding administrative expenses in section 10
151(b) of division B, title I of Public Law 106–554. 11
GLOBAL HEALTH 12
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 13
Act with respect to global health, $697,613,000, of which: 14
(1) $128,921,000 shall remain available through Sep-15
tember 30, 2026 for international HIV/AIDS; and (2) 16
$296,970,000 shall remain available through September 17
30, 2027 for global public health protection: Provided, 18
That funds may be used for purchase and insurance of 19
official motor vehicles in foreign countries. 20
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE 21
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII, and XXVIII of 22
the PHS Act with respect to public health preparedness 23
and response, and for expenses necessary to support ac-24
tivities related to countering potential biological, nuclear, 25 67 
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radiological, and chemical threats to civilian populations, 1
$953,200,000: Provided, That the Director of the Centers 2
for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this 3
title as ‘‘CDC’’) or the Administrator of the Agency for 4
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry may detail staff 5
without reimbursement to support an activation of the 6
CDC Emergency Operations Center, so long as the Direc-7
tor or Administrator, as applicable, provides a notice to 8
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-9
resentatives and the Senate within 15 days of the use of 10
this authority, a full report within 30 days after use of 11
this authority which includes the number of staff and 12
funding level broken down by the originating center and 13
number of days detailed, and an update of such report 14
every 180 days until staff are no longer on detail without 15
reimbursement to the CDC Emergency Operations Center. 16
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 18
For acquisition of real property, equipment, construc-19
tion, installation, demolition, and renovation of facilities, 20
$40,000,000, which shall remain available until expended: 21
Provided, That funds made available to this account in 22
this or any prior Act that are available for the acquisition 23
of real property or for construction or improvement of fa-24
cilities shall be available to make improvements on non- 25 68 
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federally owned property, provided that any improvements 1
that are not adjacent to federally owned property do not 2
exceed $2,500,000, and that the primary benefit of such 3
improvements accrues to CDC: Provided further, That 4
funds previously set-aside by CDC for repair and upgrade 5
of the Lake Lynn Experimental Mine and Laboratory 6
shall be used to acquire a replacement mine safety re-7
search facility: Provided further, That funds made avail-8
able to this account in this or any prior Act that are avail-9
able for the acquisition of real property or for construction 10
or improvement of facilities in conjunction with the new 11
replacement mine safety research facility shall be available 12
to make improvements on non-federally owned property, 13
provided that any improvements that are not adjacent to 14
federally owned property do not exceed $5,000,000: Pro-15
vided further, That in addition, the prior year unobligated 16
balance of any amounts assigned to former employees in 17
accounts of CDC made available for Individual Learning 18
Accounts shall be credited to and merged with the 19
amounts made available under this heading to support the 20
replacement of the mine safety research facility. 21
CDC-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 22
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 23
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII and XIX, and 24
section 2821 of the PHS Act and for cross-cutting activi-25 69 
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ties and program support for activities funded in other 1
appropriations included in this Act for the Centers for 2
Disease Control and Prevention, $521,570,000, of which 3
$365,000,000 shall remain available through September 4
30, 2026, for public health infrastructure and capacity: 5
Provided, That paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection 6
(b) of section 2821 of the PHS Act shall not apply to 7
funds appropriated under this heading and in all other ac-8
counts of the CDC: Provided further, That of the amounts 9
made available under this heading, $25,000,000, to re-10
main available until expended, shall be available to the Di-11
rector of the CDC for deposit in the Infectious Diseases 12
Rapid Response Reserve Fund established by section 231 13
of division B of Public Law 115–245: Provided further, 14
That funds appropriated under this heading may be used 15
to support a contract for the operation and maintenance 16
of an aircraft in direct support of activities throughout 17
CDC to ensure the agency is prepared to address public 18
health preparedness emergencies: Provided further, That 19
employees of CDC or the Public Health Service, both civil-20
ian and commissioned officers, detailed to States, munici-21
palities, or other organizations under authority of section 22
214 of the PHS Act, or in overseas assignments, shall be 23
treated as non-Federal employees for reporting purposes 24
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applicable to the Agency, Service, or HHS during the pe-1
riod of detail or assignment: Provided further, That CDC 2
may use up to $10,000 from amounts appropriated to 3
CDC in this Act for official reception and representation 4
expenses when specifically approved by the Director of 5
CDC: Provided further, That in addition, such sums as 6
may be derived from authorized user fees, which shall be 7
credited to the appropriation charged with the cost there-8
of: Provided further, That with respect to the previous pro-9
viso, authorized user fees from the Vessel Sanitation Pro-10
gram and the Respirator Certification Program shall be 11
available through September 30, 2026. 12
N
ATIONALINSTITUTES OFHEALTH 13
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 14
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 15
Act with respect to cancer, $7,490,159,000, of which up 16
to $30,000,000 may be used for facilities repairs and im-17
provements at the National Cancer Institute—Frederick 18
Federally Funded Research and Development Center in 19
Frederick, Maryland: Provided, That of the amounts made 20
available under this heading, $216,000,000 is designated 21
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 22
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-23
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 24 71 
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NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE 1
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 2
Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood dis-3
eases, and blood and blood products, $3,982,345,000. 4
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 5
RESEARCH 6
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 7
Act with respect to dental and craniofacial diseases, 8
$520,163,000. 9
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND 10
KIDNEY DISEASES 11
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 12
Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and kidney dis-13
ease, $2,360,721,000. 14
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 15
AND STROKE 16
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 17
Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke, 18
$2,951,925,000: Provided, That of the amounts made 19
available under this heading, $179,500,000 is designated 20
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 21
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-22
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS 1
DISEASES 2
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 3
Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases, 4
$6,692,279,000. 5
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES 6
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 7
Act with respect to general medical sciences, 8
$3,269,679,000, of which $1,412,482,000 shall be from 9
funds available under section 241 of the PHS Act: Pro-10
vided, That not less than $455,956,000 is provided for the 11
Institutional Development Awards program. 12
EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 13
CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 14
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 15
Act with respect to child health and human development, 16
$1,779,078,000. 17
NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE 18
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 19
Act with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders, 20
$896,549,000. 21 73 
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 1
SCIENCES 2
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 3
Act with respect to environmental health sciences, 4
$913,979,000. 5
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING 6
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 7
Act with respect to aging, $4,645,123,000. 8
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND 9
MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES 10
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 11
Act with respect to arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin 12
diseases, $685,465,000. 13
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER 14
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 15
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 16
Act with respect to deafness and other communication dis-17
orders, $534,333,000. 18
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH 19
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 20
Act with respect to nursing research, $197,693,000. 21 74 
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND 1
ALCOHOLISM 2
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 3
Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism, 4
$595,318,000. 5
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE 6
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 7
Act with respect to drug abuse, $1,667,695,000. 8
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH 9
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 10
Act with respect to mental health, $2,642,343,000: Pro-11
vided, That of the amounts made available under this 12
heading, $179,500,000 is designated by the Congress as 13
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 14
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 15
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 16
NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE 17
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 18
Act with respect to human genome research, 19
$663,200,000. 20
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND 21
BIOENGINEERING 22
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 23
Act with respect to biomedical imaging and bioengineering 24
research, $440,627,000. 25 75 
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND 1
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH 2
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 3
Act with respect to complementary and integrative health, 4
$170,384,000. 5
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND 6
HEALTH DISPARITIES 7
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 8
Act with respect to minority health and health disparities 9
research, $539,395,000. 10
JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER 11
For carrying out the activities of the John E. Fogarty 12
International Center (described in subpart 2 of part E of 13
title IV of the PHS Act), $95,162,000. 14
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE 15
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 16
Act with respect to health information communications, 17
$597,548,000: Provided, That of the amounts available for 18
improvement of information systems, $4,000,000 shall be 19
available until September 30, 2026: Provided further, That 20
in fiscal year 2025, the National Library of Medicine may 21
enter into personal services contracts for the provision of 22
services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed under 23
the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health (re-24
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL 1
SCIENCES 2
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 3
Act with respect to translational sciences, $933,323,000: 4
Provided, That $75,000,000 shall be available to imple-5
ment section 480 of the PHS Act, relating to the Cures 6
Acceleration Network: Provided further, That at least 7
$629,560,000 is provided to the Clinical and Translational 8
Sciences Awards program. 9
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 10
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 11
For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of 12
the Director, NIH, $3,096,914,000: Provided, That fund-13
ing shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed 14
29 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only: Pro-15
vided further, That all funds credited to the NIH Manage-16
ment Fund shall remain available for one fiscal year after 17
the fiscal year in which they are deposited: Provided fur-18
ther, That $180,000,000 shall be for the Environmental 19
Influences on Child Health Outcomes study: Provided fur-20
ther, That $692,401,000 shall be available for the Com-21
mon Fund established under section 402A(c)(1) of the 22
PHS Act: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 23
$10,000 shall be for official reception and representation 24
expenses when specifically approved by the Director of the 25 77 
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NIH: Provided further, That the Office of AIDS Research 1
within the Office of the Director of the NIH may spend 2
up to $8,000,000 to make grants for construction or ren-3
ovation of facilities as provided for in section 4
2354(a)(5)(B) of the PHS Act: Provided further, That 5
$80,000,000 shall be used to carry out section 404I of 6
the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 283k), relating to biomedical and 7
behavioral research facilities: Provided further, That 8
$5,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the 9
appropriation for the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ for 10
oversight of grant programs and operations of the NIH, 11
including agency efforts to ensure the integrity of its grant 12
application evaluation and selection processes, and shall 13
be in addition to funds otherwise made available for over-14
sight of the NIH: Provided further, That amounts made 15
available under this heading are also available to establish, 16
operate, and support the Research Policy Board author-17
ized by section 2034(f) of the 21st Century Cures Act: 18
Provided further, That the funds made available under this 19
heading for the Office of Research on Women’s Health 20
shall also be available for making grants to serve and pro-21
mote the interests of women in research, and the Director 22
of such Office may, in making such grants, use the au-23
thorities available to NIH Institutes and Centers: Pro-24
vided further, That of the amounts made available under 25 78 
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this heading, $625,000,000 is designated by the Congress 1
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-2
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-3
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 4
In addition to other funds appropriated for the Com-5
mon Fund established under section 402A(c) of the PHS 6
Act, $12,600,000 is appropriated to the Common Fund 7
from the 10-year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund de-8
scribed in section 9008 of the Internal Revenue Code of 9
1986 (26 U.S.C. 9008), for the purpose of carrying out 10
section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the PHS Act (relating to pedi-11
atric research), as authorized in the Gabriella Miller Kids 12
First Research Act. 13
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 14
For the study of, construction of, demolition of, ren-15
ovation of, and acquisition of equipment for, facilities of 16
or used by NIH, including the acquisition of real property, 17
$350,000,000, to remain available until expended. 18
NIH INNOVATION ACCOUNT , CURES ACT 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 20
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes de-21
scribed in section 1001(b)(4) of the 21st Century Cures 22
Act, in addition to amounts available for such purposes 23
in the appropriations provided to the NIH in this Act, 24
$127,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-25 79 
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vided, That such amounts are appropriated pursuant to 1
section 1001(b)(3) of such Act, are to be derived from 2
amounts transferred under section 1001(b)(2)(A) of such 3
Act, and may be transferred by the Director of the Na-4
tional Institutes of Health to other accounts of the Na-5
tional Institutes of Health solely for the purposes provided 6
in such Act: Provided further, That upon a determination 7
by the Director that funds transferred pursuant to the 8
previous proviso are not necessary for the purposes pro-9
vided, such amounts may be transferred back to the Ac-10
count: Provided further, That the transfer authority pro-11
vided under this heading is in addition to any other trans-12
fer authority provided by law. 13
ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH 14
For carrying out section 301 and part J of title IV 15
of the PHS Act with respect to advanced research projects 16
for health, $1,500,000,000, to remain available through 17
September 30, 2027. 18
S
UBSTANCEABUSE ANDMENTALHEALTHSERVICES 19
A
DMINISTRATION 20
MENTAL HEALTH 21
For carrying out titles III, V, and XIX of the PHS 22
Act with respect to mental health, the Protection and Ad-23
vocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act, and the 24
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, 25 80 
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$2,869,507,000: Provided, That of the funds made avail-1
able under this heading, $103,887,000 shall be for the Na-2
tional Child Traumatic Stress Initiative: Provided further, 3
That notwithstanding section 520A(f)(2) of the PHS Act, 4
no funds appropriated for carrying out section 520A shall 5
be available for carrying out section 1971 of the PHS Act: 6
Provided further, That in addition to amounts provided 7
herein, $21,039,000 shall be available under section 241 8
of the PHS Act to carry out subpart I of part B of title 9
XIX of the PHS Act to fund section 1920(b) technical 10
assistance, national data, data collection and evaluation 11
activities, and further that the total available under this 12
Act for section 1920(b) activities shall not exceed 5 per-13
cent of the amounts appropriated for subpart I of part 14
B of title XIX: Provided further, That of the funds made 15
available under this heading for subpart I of part B of 16
title XIX of the PHS Act, at least 5 percent shall be avail-17
able to support evidence-based crisis systems: Provided 18
further, That up to 10 percent of the amounts made avail-19
able to carry out the Children’s Mental Health Services 20
program may be used to carry out demonstration grants 21
or contracts for early interventions with persons not more 22
than 25 years of age at clinical high risk of developing 23
a first episode of psychosis: Provided further, That section 24
520E(b)(2) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds ap-25 81 
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propriated in this Act for fiscal year 2025: Provided fur-1
ther, That $400,000,000 shall be available until Sep-2
tember 30, 2027 for grants to communities and commu-3
nity organizations who meet criteria for Certified Commu-4
nity Behavioral Health Clinics pursuant to section 223(a) 5
of Public Law 113–93: Provided further, That none of the 6
funds provided for section 1911 of the PHS Act shall be 7
subject to section 241 of such Act: Provided further, That 8
of the funds made available under this heading, 9
$21,420,000 shall be to carry out section 224 of the Pro-10
tecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (Public Law 113– 11
93; 42 U.S.C. 290aa 22 note). 12
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT 13
For carrying out titles III and V of the PHS Act 14
with respect to substance abuse treatment and title XIX 15
of such Act with respect to substance abuse treatment and 16
prevention, section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act, 17
and the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, 18
$4,154,098,000: Provided, That $1,600,000,000 shall be 19
for carrying out section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures 20
Act: Provided further, That of such amount in the pre-21
ceding proviso not less than 4 percent shall be made avail-22
able to Indian Tribes or tribal organizations: Provided fur-23
ther, That in addition to amounts provided herein, the fol-24
lowing amounts shall be available under section 241 of the 25 82 
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PHS Act: (1) $79,200,000 to carry out subpart II of part 1
B of title XIX of the PHS Act to fund section 1935(b) 2
technical assistance, national data, data collection and 3
evaluation activities, and further that the total available 4
under this Act for section 1935(b) activities shall not ex-5
ceed 5 percent of the amounts appropriated for subpart 6
II of part B of title XIX; and (2) $2,000,000 to evaluate 7
substance abuse treatment programs: Provided further, 8
That none of the funds provided for section 1921 of the 9
PHS Act or State Opioid Response Grants shall be subject 10
to section 241 of such Act: Provided further, That of the 11
amounts made available under this heading, $600,000,000 12
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 13
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 14
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 15
1985. 16
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION 17
For carrying out titles III and V of the PHS Act 18
with respect to substance abuse prevention, $246,879,000. 19
HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 20
For program support and cross-cutting activities that 21
supplement activities funded under the headings ‘‘Mental 22
Health’’, ‘‘Substance Abuse Treatment’’, and ‘‘Substance 23
Abuse Prevention’’ in carrying out titles III, V, and XIX 24
of the PHS Act and the Protection and Advocacy for Indi-25 83 
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viduals with Mental Illness Act in the Substance Abuse 1
and Mental Health Services Administration, 2
$201,492,000: Provided, That of the amount made avail-3
able under this heading, $63,337,000 shall be used for the 4
projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 5
‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included in the re-6
port accompanying this Act: Provided further, That none 7
of the funds made available for projects described in the 8
preceding proviso shall be subject to section 241 of the 9
PHS Act or section 205 of this Act: Provided further, That 10
in addition to amounts provided herein, $31,428,000 shall 11
be available under section 241 of the PHS Act to supple-12
ment funds available to carry out national surveys on drug 13
abuse and mental health, to collect and analyze program 14
data, and to conduct public awareness and technical as-15
sistance activities: Provided further, That, in addition, fees 16
may be collected for the costs of publications, data, data 17
tabulations, and data analysis completed under title V of 18
the PHS Act and provided to a public or private entity 19
upon request, which shall be credited to this appropriation 20
and shall remain available until expended for such pur-21
poses: Provided further, That amounts made available in 22
this Act for carrying out section 501(o) of the PHS Act 23
shall remain available through September 30, 2026: Pro-24
vided further, That funds made available under this head-25 84 
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ing (other than amounts specified in the first proviso 1
under this heading) may be used to supplement program 2
support funding provided under the headings ‘‘Mental 3
Health’’, ‘‘Substance Abuse Treatment’’, and ‘‘Substance 4
Abuse Prevention’’. 5
A
GENCY FORHEALTHCARERESEARCH ANDQUALITY 6
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY 7
For carrying out titles III and IX of the PHS Act, 8
part A of title XI of the Social Security Act, and section 9
1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, 10
and Modernization Act of 2003, $376,000,000: Provided, 11
That section 947(c) of the PHS Act shall not apply in 12
fiscal year 2025: Provided further, That in addition, 13
amounts received from Freedom of Information Act fees, 14
reimbursable and interagency agreements, and the sale of 15
data shall be credited to this appropriation and shall re-16
main available until September 30, 2026. 17
C
ENTERS FORMEDICARE& MEDICAIDSERVICES 18
GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID 19
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 20
XI and XIX of the Social Security Act, $383,609,399,000, 21
to remain available until expended. 22
In addition, for carrying out such titles after May 31, 23
2025, for the last quarter of fiscal year 2025 for unantici-24 85 
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pated costs incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums 1
as may be necessary, to remain available until expended. 2
In addition, for carrying out such titles for the first 3
quarter of fiscal year 2026, $261,063,820,000, to remain 4
available until expended. 5
Payment under such title XIX may be made for any 6
quarter with respect to a State plan or plan amendment 7
in effect during such quarter, if submitted in or prior to 8
such quarter and approved in that or any subsequent 9
quarter. 10
PAYMENTS TO THE HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS 11
For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance 12
Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical In-13
surance Trust Fund, as provided under sections 217(g), 14
1844, and 1860D–16 of the Social Security Act, sections 15
103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security Amendments of 16
1965, section 278(d)(3) of Public Law 97–248, and for 17
administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 18
201(g) of the Social Security Act, $521,757,000,000. 19
In addition, for making matching payments under 20
section 1844 and benefit payments under section 1860D– 21
16 of the Social Security Act that were not anticipated 22
in budget estimates, such sums as may be necessary. 23 86 
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 1
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 2
XI, XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles 3
XIII and XXVII of the PHS Act, the Clinical Laboratory 4
Improvement Amendments of 1988, and other responsibil-5
ities of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, not 6
to exceed $3,669,744,000 to be transferred from the Fed-7
eral Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Sup-8
plementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, as authorized 9
by section 201(g) of the Social Security Act; together with 10
all funds collected in accordance with section 353 of the 11
PHS Act and section 1857(e)(2) of the Social Security 12
Act, funds retained by the Secretary pursuant to section 13
1893(h) of the Social Security Act, and such sums as may 14
be collected from authorized user fees and the sale of data, 15
which shall be credited to this account and remain avail-16
able until expended: Provided, That all funds derived in 17
accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations estab-18
lished under title XIII of the PHS Act shall be credited 19
to and available for carrying out the purposes of this ap-20
propriation: Provided further, That the Secretary is di-21
rected to collect fees in fiscal year 2025 from Medicare 22
Advantage organizations pursuant to section 1857(e)(2) 23
of the Social Security Act and from eligible organizations 24
with risk-sharing contracts under section 1876 of that Act 25 87 
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pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D) of that Act: Provided 1
further, That of the amount made available under this 2
heading, $397,334,000 shall remain available until Sep-3
tember 30, 2026, and shall be available for the Survey 4
and Certification Program: Provided further, That 5
amounts available under this heading to support quality 6
improvement organizations (as defined in section 1152 of 7
the Social Security Act) shall not exceed the amount spe-8
cifically provided for such purpose under this heading in 9
division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 10
(Public Law 115–141). 11
HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL ACCOUNT 12
In addition to amounts otherwise available for pro-13
gram integrity and program management, $941,000,000, 14
to remain available through September 30, 2026, to be 15
transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 16
Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 17
Trust Fund, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social 18
Security Act, of which $699,058,000 shall be for the Cen-19
ters for Medicare & Medicaid Services program integrity 20
activities, of which $108,735,000 shall be for the Depart-21
ment of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector 22
General to carry out fraud and abuse activities authorized 23
by section 1817(k)(3) of such Act, and of which 24
$133,207,000 shall be for the Department of Justice to 25 88 
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carry out fraud and abuse activities authorized by section 1
1817(k)(3) of such Act: Provided, That the report re-2
quired by section 1817(k)(5) of the Social Security Act 3
for fiscal year 2025 shall include measures of the oper-4
ational efficiency and impact on fraud, waste, and abuse 5
in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs for the 6
funds provided by this appropriation: Provided further, 7
That of the amount provided under this heading, 8
$311,000,000 is provided to meet the terms of section 9
251(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 10
Deficit Control Act of 1985, and $630,000,000 is addi-11
tional new budget authority specified for purposes of sec-12
tion 251(b)(2)(C) of such Act for additional health care 13
fraud and abuse control activities: Provided further, That 14
the Secretary shall provide not less than $35,000,000 15
from amounts made available under this heading and 16
amounts made available for fiscal year 2025 under section 17
1817(k)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act for the Senior 18
Medicare Patrol program to combat health care fraud and 19
abuse. 20
A
DMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN ANDFAMILIES 21
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES 22
AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS 23
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 24
I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act 25 89 
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and the Act of July 5, 1960, $3,924,000,000, to remain 1
available until expended; and for such purposes for the 2
first quarter of fiscal year 2026, $1,700,000,000, to re-3
main available until expended. 4
For carrying out, after May 31 of the current fiscal 5
year, except as otherwise provided, titles I, IV–D, X, XI, 6
XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of 7
July 5, 1960, for the last 3 months of the current fiscal 8
year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal 9
year, such sums as may be necessary. 10
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 11
For making payments under subsections (b) and (d) 12
of section 2602 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assist-13
ance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.), 14
$4,125,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 15
2609A(a) of such Act, not more than $10,000,000 may 16
be reserved by the Secretary for technical assistance, 17
training, and monitoring of program activities for compli-18
ance with internal controls, policies and procedures, and 19
to supplement funding otherwise available for necessary 20
administrative expenses to carry out such Act, and the 21
Secretary may, in addition to the authorities provided in 22
section 2609A(a)(1), use such funds through contracts 23
with private entities that do not qualify as nonprofit orga-24
nizations: Provided further, That all but $947,348,000 of 25 90 
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the amount appropriated under this heading shall be allo-1
cated as though the total appropriation for such payments 2
for fiscal year 2025 was less than $1,975,000,000: Pro-3
vided further, That, after applying all applicable provisions 4
of section 2604 of such Act and the previous proviso, each 5
State or territory that would otherwise receive an alloca-6
tion that is less than 97 percent of the amount that it 7
received under this heading for fiscal year 2024 from 8
amounts appropriated in Public Law 118–47 shall have 9
its allocation increased to that 97 percent level, with the 10
portions of other States’ and territories’ allocations that 11
would exceed 100 percent of the amounts they respectively 12
received in such fashion for fiscal year 2024 being ratably 13
reduced: Provided further, That of the amounts made 14
available under this heading, $2,500,000,000 is des-15
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-16
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-17
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 18
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 20
For necessary expenses for refugee and entrant as-21
sistance activities authorized by section 414 of the Immi-22
gration and Nationality Act and section 501 of the Ref-23
ugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, and for carrying 24
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section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 1
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Trafficking 2
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (‘‘TVPA’’), and the Tor-3
ture Victims Relief Act of 1998, $6,355,214,000, of which 4
$6,304,459,000 shall remain available through September 5
30, 2027 for carrying out such sections 414, 501, 462, 6
and 235: Provided, That amounts available under this 7
heading to carry out the TVPA shall also be available for 8
research and evaluation with respect to activities under 9
such Act: Provided further, That the limitation in section 10
205 of this Act regarding transfers increasing any appro-11
priation shall apply to transfers to appropriations under 12
this heading by substituting ‘‘15 percent’’ for ‘‘3 percent’’: 13
Provided further, That the contribution of funds require-14
ment under section 235(c)(6)(C)(iii) of the William Wil-15
berforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization 16
Act of 2008 shall not apply to funds made available under 17
this heading: Provided further, That for any month in fis-18
cal year 2025 that the number of unaccompanied children 19
referred to the Department of Health and Human Serv-20
ices pursuant to section 462 of the Homeland Security Act 21
of 2002 and section 235 of the William Wilberforce Traf-22
ficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 23
exceeds 16,000, as determined by the Secretary of Health 24
and Human Services, an additional $15,000,000, to re-25 92 
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main available until September 30, 2026, shall be made 1
available for obligation for every 500 unaccompanied chil-2
dren above that level (including a pro rata amount for any 3
increment less than 500), for carrying out such sections 4
462 and 235: Provided further, That if less than 5
$65,000,000 has been made available pursuant to the pre-6
ceding proviso as of September 15, 2025, then the dif-7
ference between $65,000,000 and the amount made avail-8
able pursuant to such proviso shall become available, and 9
shall remain available until September 30, 2027, for car-10
rying out such sections 462 and 235. 11
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND 12
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 13
For carrying out the Child Care and Development 14
Block Grant Act of 1990 (‘‘CCDBG Act’’), 15
$10,346,387,000 shall be used to supplement, not sup-16
plant State general revenue funds for child care assistance 17
for low-income families: Provided, That technical assist-18
ance under section 658I(a)(3) of such Act may be provided 19
directly, or through the use of contracts, grants, coopera-20
tive agreements, or interagency agreements: Provided fur-21
ther, That all funds made available to carry out section 22
418 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 618), including 23
funds appropriated for that purpose in such section 418 24
or any other provision of law, shall be subject to the res-25 93 
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ervation of funds authority in paragraphs (4) and (5) of 1
section 658O(a) of the CCDBG Act: Provided further, 2
That in addition to the amounts required to be reserved 3
by the Secretary under section 658O(a)(2)(A) of such Act, 4
$280,000,000 shall be for Indian tribes and tribal organi-5
zations: Provided further, That of the amounts made avail-6
able under this heading, the Secretary may reserve up to 7
0.5 percent for Federal administrative expenses: Provided 8
further, That of the amounts made available under this 9
heading, $500,000,000 is designated by the Congress as 10
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 11
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 12
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 13
SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 14
For making grants to States pursuant to section 15
2002 of the Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Pro-16
vided, That notwithstanding subparagraph (B) of section 17
404(d)(2) of such Act, the applicable percent specified 18
under such subparagraph for a State to carry out State 19
programs pursuant to title XX–A of such Act shall be 10 20
percent. 21
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS 22
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the 23
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, the Head Start Act, 24
the Every Student Succeeds Act, the Child Abuse Preven-25 94 
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tion and Treatment Act, sections 303 and 313 of the 1
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Native 2
American Programs Act of 1974, title II of the Child 3
Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform 4
Act of 1978 (adoption opportunities), part B–1 of title IV 5
and sections 429, 473A, 477(i), 1110, 1114A, and 1115 6
of the Social Security Act, and the Community Services 7
Block Grant Act (‘‘CSBG Act’’); and for necessary admin-8
istrative expenses to carry out titles I, IV, V, X, XI, XIV, 9
XVI, and XX–A of the Social Security Act, the Act of 10
July 5, 1960, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assist-11
ance Act of 1981, $15,544,939,000, of which 12
$75,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 13
2026, shall be for grants to States for adoption and legal 14
guardianship incentive payments, as defined by section 15
473A of the Social Security Act and may be made for 16
adoptions and legal guardianships completed before Sep-17
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That $12,971,820,000 shall 18
be for making payments under the Head Start Act, includ-19
ing for Early Head Start–Child Care Partnerships, and, 20
of which, notwithstanding section 640 of such Act: 21
(1) $544,000,000 shall be available for a cost 22
of living adjustment, and with respect to any con-23
tinuing appropriations act, funding available for a 24 95 
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cost of living adjustment shall not be construed as 1
an authority or condition under this Act; 2
(2) $25,000,000 shall be available for allocation 3
by the Secretary to supplement activities described 4
in paragraphs (7)(B) and (9) of section 641(c) of 5
the Head Start Act under the Designation Renewal 6
System, established under the authority of sections 7
641(c)(7), 645A(b)(12), and 645A(d) of such Act, 8
and such funds shall not be included in the calcula-9
tion of ‘‘base grant’’ in subsequent fiscal years, as 10
such term is used in section 640(a)(7)(A) of such 11
Act; 12
(3) $125,000,000 shall be available for quality 13
improvement consistent with section 640(a)(5) of 14
such Act except that any amount of the funds may 15
be used on any of the activities in such paragraph 16
of such section; 17
(4) $10,000,000 shall be available for the Trib-18
al Colleges and Universities Head Start Partnership 19
Program consistent with section 648(g) of such Act; 20
(5) Not to exceed $8,000,000 shall be available 21
until September 30, 2026 for the Marshall Islands 22
and Micronesia for the start-up and operation of 23
Head Start services and for the provision of training 24
and technical assistance: Provided, That an agency 25 96 
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awarded these funds shall not be subject to the re-1
quirements of the system for designation renewal as 2
defined by section 641 of the Head Start Act, for 3
this award only, prior to 24 months after the date 4
of such award; and 5
(6) Not to exceed $42,000,000 shall be avail-6
able to supplement funding otherwise available for 7
research, evaluation, and Federal administrative 8
costs: 9
Provided further, That the Secretary may reduce the res-10
ervation of funds under section 640(a)(2)(C) of such Act 11
in lieu of reducing the reservation of funds under sections 12
640(a)(2)(B), 640(a)(2)(D), and 640(a)(2)(E) of such 13
Act: Provided further, That $315,000,000 shall be avail-14
able until December 31, 2025 for carrying out sections 15
9212 and 9213 of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Pro-16
vided further, That up to 3 percent of the funds in the 17
preceding proviso shall be available for technical assist-18
ance and evaluation related to grants awarded under such 19
section 9212: Provided further, That $804,383,000 shall 20
be for making payments under the CSBG Act: Provided 21
further, That for services furnished under the CSBG Act 22
with funds made available for such purpose in this fiscal 23
year and in fiscal year 2024, States may apply the last 24
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stituting ‘‘200 percent’’ for ‘‘125 percent’’: Provided fur-1
ther, That $34,383,000 shall be for section 680 of the 2
CSBG Act, of which not less than $22,383,000 shall be 3
for section 680(a)(2) and not less than $12,000,000 shall 4
be for section 680(a)(3)(B) of such Act: Provided further, 5
That, notwithstanding section 675C(a)(3) of the CSBG 6
Act, to the extent Community Services Block Grant funds 7
are distributed as grant funds by a State to an eligible 8
entity as provided under such Act, and have not been ex-9
pended by such entity, they shall remain with such entity 10
for carryover into the next fiscal year for expenditure by 11
such entity consistent with program purposes: Provided 12
further, That the Secretary shall establish procedures re-13
garding the disposition of intangible assets and program 14
income that permit such assets acquired with, and pro-15
gram income derived from, grant funds authorized under 16
section 680 of the CSBG Act to become the sole property 17
of such grantees after a period of not more than 12 years 18
after the end of the grant period for any activity consistent 19
with section 680(a)(2)(A) of the CSBG Act: Provided fur-20
ther, That intangible assets in the form of loans, equity 21
investments and other debt instruments, and program in-22
come may be used by grantees for any eligible purpose 23
consistent with section 680(a)(2)(A) of the CSBG Act: 24
Provided further, That these procedures shall apply to 25 98 
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such grant funds made available after November 29, 1999: 1
Provided further, That funds appropriated for section 2
680(a)(2) of the CSBG Act shall be available for financing 3
construction and rehabilitation and loans or investments 4
in private business enterprises owned by community devel-5
opment corporations: Provided further, That 6
$242,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 303(a) of 7
the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, of which 8
$7,000,000 shall be allocated notwithstanding section 9
303(a)(2) of such Act for carrying out section 309 of such 10
Act: Provided further, That the percentages specified in 11
section 112(a)(2) of the Child Abuse Prevention and 12
Treatment Act shall not apply to funds appropriated 13
under this heading: Provided further, That $1,864,000 14
shall be for a human services case management system 15
for federally declared disasters, to include a comprehensive 16
national case management contract and Federal costs of 17
administering the system: Provided further, That up to 18
$2,000,000 shall be for improving the Public Assistance 19
Reporting Information System, including grants to States 20
to support data collection for a study of the system’s effec-21
tiveness: Provided further, That $42,850,000 shall be used 22
for the projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table 23
titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included in the 24
report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That none 25 99 
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of the funds made available for projects described in the 1
preceding proviso shall be subject to section 241 of the 2
PHS Act or section 205 of this Act: Provided further, That 3
of the amounts made available under this heading, 4
$700,000,000 is designated by the Congress as being for 5
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 6
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 7
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 8
PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES 9
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, sec-10
tion 436 of the Social Security Act, $345,000,000 and, 11
for carrying out, except as otherwise provided, section 437 12
of such Act, $72,515,000: Provided, That of the funds 13
available to carry out section 437, $59,765,000 shall be 14
allocated consistent with subsections (b) through (d) of 15
such section: Provided further, That of the funds available 16
to carry out section 437, to assist in meeting the require-17
ments described in section 471(e)(4)(C), $10,000,000 18
shall be for grants to each State, territory, and Indian 19
tribe operating title IV–E plans for developing, enhancing, 20
or evaluating kinship navigator programs, as described in 21
section 427(a)(1) of such Act and $2,750,000, in addition 22
to funds otherwise appropriated in section 476 for such 23
purposes, shall be for the Family First Clearinghouse and 24
to support evaluation and technical assistance relating to 25 100 
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the evaluation of child and family services: Provided fur-1
ther, That section 437(b)(1) shall be applied to amounts 2
in the previous proviso by substituting ‘‘5 percent’’ for 3
‘‘3.3 percent’’, and notwithstanding section 436(b)(1), 4
such reserved amounts may be used for identifying, estab-5
lishing, and disseminating practices to meet the criteria 6
specified in section 471(e)(4)(C): Provided further, That 7
the reservation in section 437(b)(2) and the limitations 8
in section 437(d) shall not apply to funds specified in the 9
second proviso: Provided further, That the minimum grant 10
award for kinship navigator programs in the case of States 11
and territories shall be $200,000, and, in the case of 12
tribes, shall be $25,000. 13
PAYMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE AND PERMANENCY 14
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, title 15
IV–E of the Social Security Act, $6,768,000,000. 16
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, title 17
IV–E of the Social Security Act, for the first quarter of 18
fiscal year 2026, $3,600,000,000. 19
For carrying out, after May 31 of the current fiscal 20
year, except as otherwise provided, section 474 of title IV– 21
E of the Social Security Act, for the last 3 months of the 22
current fiscal year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the 23
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 24 101 
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ADMINISTRATION FOR COMMUNITYLIVING 1
AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-4
vided, the Older Americans Act of 1965 (‘‘OAA’’), the 5
RAISE Family Caregivers Act, the Supporting Grand-6
parents Raising Grandchildren Act, titles III and XXIX 7
of the PHS Act, sections 1252 and 1253 of the PHS Act, 8
section 119 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients 9
and Providers Act of 2008, title XX–B of the Social Secu-10
rity Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and 11
Bill of Rights Act of 2000, parts 2 and 5 of subtitle D 12
of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the As-13
sistive Technology Act of 1998, titles II and VII (and sec-14
tion 14 with respect to such titles) of the Rehabilitation 15
Act of 1973, and for Department-wide coordination of pol-16
icy and program activities that assist individuals with dis-17
abilities, $2,460,875,000, together with $55,242,000 to be 18
transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 19
Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 20
Trust Fund to carry out section 4360 of the Omnibus 21
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990: Provided, That of 22
amounts made available under this heading to carry out 23
sections 311, 331, and 336 of the OAA, up to one percent 24
of such amounts shall be available for developing and im-25 102 
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plementing evidence-based practices for enhancing senior 1
nutrition, including medically-tailored meals: Provided fur-2
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 3
funds made available under this heading to carry out sec-4
tion 311 of the OAA may be transferred to the Secretary 5
of Agriculture in accordance with such section: Provided 6
further, That up to 5 percent of the funds provided for 7
adult protective services grants under section 2042 of title 8
XX of the Social Security Act may be used to make grants 9
to Tribes and tribal organizations: Provided further, That 10
none of the funds made available under this heading may 11
be used by an eligible system (as defined in section 102 12
of the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Men-13
tal Illness Act (42 U.S.C. 10802)) to continue to pursue 14
any legal action in a Federal or State court on behalf of 15
an individual or group of individuals with a developmental 16
disability (as defined in section 102(8)(A) of the Develop-17
mental Disabilities and Assistance and Bill of Rights Act 18
of 2000 (20 U.S.C. 15002(8)(A)) that is attributable to 19
a mental impairment (or a combination of mental and 20
physical impairments), that has as the requested remedy 21
the closure of State operated intermediate care facilities 22
for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, 23
unless reasonable public notice of the action has been pro-24
vided to such individuals (or, in the case of mental inca-25 103 
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pacitation, the legal guardians who have been specifically 1
awarded authority by the courts to make healthcare and 2
residential decisions on behalf of such individuals) who are 3
affected by such action, within 90 days of instituting such 4
legal action, which informs such individuals (or such legal 5
guardians) of their legal rights and how to exercise such 6
rights consistent with current Federal Rules of Civil Pro-7
cedure: Provided further, That the limitations in the imme-8
diately preceding proviso shall not apply in the case of an 9
individual who is neither competent to consent nor has a 10
legal guardian, nor shall the proviso apply in the case of 11
individuals who are a ward of the State or subject to pub-12
lic guardianship: Provided further, That of the amount 13
made available under this heading, $22,043,000 shall be 14
used for the projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 15
table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included 16
in the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, 17
That none of the funds made available for projects de-18
scribed in the preceding proviso shall be subject to section 19
241 of the PHS Act or section 205 of this Act. 20
A
DMINISTRATION FOR STRATEGICPREPAREDNESS AND 21
R
ESPONSE 22
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND PROCUREMENT 23
For carrying out title III and subtitles A and B of 24
title XXVIII of the PHS Act, with respect to the research, 25 104 
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development, storage, production, and procurement of 1
medical countermeasures to counter potential chemical, bi-2
ological, radiological, and nuclear threats to civilian popu-3
lations, $3,250,991,000: Provided, That of such amount: 4
(1) $1,070,000,000, to remain available 5
through September 30, 2026, shall be for expenses 6
necessary to support advanced research and develop-7
ment pursuant to section 319L of the PHS Act and 8
other administrative expenses of the Biomedical Ad-9
vanced Research and Development Authority; 10
(2) $835,000,000, to remain available until ex-11
pended, shall be for expenses necessary for pro-12
curing security countermeasures (as defined in sec-13
tion 319F–2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act); 14
(3) $1,010,000,000, to remain available until 15
expended, shall be for expenses necessary to carry 16
out section 319F–2(a) of the PHS Act; and 17
(4) $335,991,000 shall be for expenses nec-18
essary to prepare for or respond to an influenza 19
pandemic, of which $280,000,000 shall remain avail-20
able until expended for activities including the devel-21
opment and purchase of vaccines, antivirals, nec-22
essary medical supplies, diagnostics, and surveillance 23
tools: Provided, That notwithstanding section 496(b) 24
of the PHS Act, funds allocated under this para-25 105 
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graph may be used for the construction or renova-1
tion of privately owned facilities for the production 2
of pandemic influenza vaccines and other biologics, 3
if the Secretary finds such construction or renova-4
tion necessary to secure sufficient supplies of such 5
vaccines or biologics: 6
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 7
for purposes of acquisition of security countermeasures 8
shall be in addition to any other funds made available for 9
such purposes: Provided further, That products purchased 10
with funds made available under this heading may, at the 11
discretion of the Secretary, be deposited in the Strategic 12
National Stockpile pursuant to section 319F–2 of the 13
PHS Act: Provided further, That of the amounts made 14
available under this heading, $1,500,000,000 is des-15
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-16
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-17
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 18
OPERATIONS, PREPAREDNESS, AND EMERGENCY 19
RESPONSE 20
For carrying out titles III, XII, and subtitles A and 21
B of title XXVIII of the PHS Act, operations and emer-22
gency response activities related to countering potential 23
chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats and 24
other public health emergencies, $576,606,000: Provided, 25 106 
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That of the amounts made available under this heading, 1
$5,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2
2027, to support emergency operations: Provided further, 3
That of the amounts made available under this heading, 4
$15,000,000 shall remain available through September 5
30, 2026, to support coordination of the development, pro-6
duction, and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and 7
other medical countermeasures: Provided further, That of 8
the amounts made available under this heading, 9
$80,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 10
2026, for advanced research and development, manufac-11
turing, production, procurement, distribution, and the ac-12
quisition, construction, alteration, or renovation of non- 13
federally owned facilities for the production and purchase 14
of medical countermeasures, which may include the devel-15
opment, translation, and demonstration at scale of innova-16
tions in manufacturing platform. 17
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 18
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 19
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for 20
general departmental management, including hire of six 21
passenger motor vehicles, and for carrying out titles III, 22
XVII, XXI, and section 229 of the PHS Act, the United 23
States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act, and re-24
search studies under section 1110 of the Social Security 25 107 
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Act, $537,144,000, together with $64,828,000 from the 1
amounts available under section 241 of the PHS Act to 2
carry out national health or human services research and 3
evaluation activities: Provided, That of this amount, 4
$60,000,000 shall be for minority AIDS prevention and 5
treatment activities: Provided further, That of the funds 6
made available under this heading, $101,000,000 shall be 7
for making competitive contracts and grants to public and 8
private entities to fund medically accurate and age appro-9
priate programs that reduce teen pregnancy and for the 10
Federal costs associated with administering and evalu-11
ating such contracts and grants, of which not more than 12
10 percent of the available funds shall be for training and 13
technical assistance, evaluation, outreach, and additional 14
program support activities, and of the remaining amount 15
75 percent shall be for replicating programs that have 16
been proven effective through rigorous evaluation to re-17
duce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying 18
teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors, and 19
25 percent shall be available for research and demonstra-20
tion grants to develop, replicate, refine, and test additional 21
models and innovative strategies for preventing teenage 22
pregnancy: Provided further, That of the amounts provided 23
under this heading from amounts available under section 24
241 of the PHS Act, $6,800,000 shall be available to carry 25 108 
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out evaluations (including longitudinal evaluations) of 1
teenage pregnancy prevention approaches: Provided fur-2
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 3
$35,000,000 shall be for making competitive grants which 4
exclusively implement education in sexual risk avoidance 5
(defined as voluntarily refraining from non-marital sexual 6
activity): Provided further, That funding for such competi-7
tive grants for sexual risk avoidance shall use medically 8
accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publica-9
tions by educational, scientific, governmental, or health or-10
ganizations; implement an evidence-based approach inte-11
grating research findings with practical implementation 12
that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the 13
intended audience; and teach the benefits associated with 14
self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, 15
healthy relationships, goal setting, and resisting sexual co-16
ercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors 17
such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without nor-18
malizing teen sexual activity: Provided further, That no 19
more than 10 percent of the funding for such competitive 20
grants for sexual risk avoidance shall be available for tech-21
nical assistance and administrative costs of such pro-22
grams: Provided further, That funds provided in this Act 23
for embryo adoption activities may be used to provide to 24
individuals adopting embryos, through grants and other 25 109 
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mechanisms, medical and administrative services deemed 1
necessary for such adoptions: Provided further, That such 2
services shall be provided consistent with 42 CFR 3
59.5(a)(4): Provided further, That of the funds made 4
available under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be for car-5
rying out prize competitions sponsored by the Office of 6
the Secretary to accelerate innovation in the prevention, 7
diagnosis, and treatment of kidney diseases (as authorized 8
by section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innova-9
tion Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719)). 10
In addition, for expenses necessary to carry out title 11
II of the PHS Act to support, except as otherwise pro-12
vided, activities related to safeguarding classified national 13
security information and providing intelligence and na-14
tional security support across the Department and to 15
counter cybersecurity threats to civilian populations, 16
$118,983,000. 17
In addition, for expenses necessary to prevent, pre-18
pare for, or respond to an influenza pandemic, 19
$7,009,000. 20
MEDICARE HEARINGS AND APPEALS 21
For expenses necessary for Medicare hearings and 22
appeals in the Office of the Secretary, $196,000,000 shall 23
remain available until September 30, 2026, to be trans-24
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surance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Med-1
ical Insurance Trust Fund. 2
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR HEALTH 3
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 4
For expenses necessary for the Office of the National 5
Coordinator for Health Information Technology, including 6
grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for the de-7
velopment and advancement of interoperable health infor-8
mation technology, $69,238,000 shall be from amounts 9
made available under section 241 of the PHS Act. 10
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 11
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector 12
General, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles for 13
investigations, in carrying out the provisions of the Inspec-14
tor General Act of 1978, $87,000,000: Provided, That of 15
such amount, necessary sums shall be available for pro-16
viding protective services to the Secretary and inves-17
tigating non-payment of child support cases for which non- 18
payment is a Federal offense under 18 U.S.C. 228: Pro-19
vided further, That of the amount appropriated under this 20
heading, necessary sums shall be available for carrying out 21
activities authorized under section 3022 of the PHS Act 22
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OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 1
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil 2
Rights, $39,798,000. 3
RETIREMENT PAY AND MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR 4
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 5
For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public 6
Health Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by 7
law, for payments under the Retired Serviceman’s Family 8
Protection Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan, and for med-9
ical care of dependents and retired personnel under the 10
Dependents’ Medical Care Act, such amounts as may be 11
required during the current fiscal year. 12
G
ENERALPROVISIONS 13
S
EC. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be 14
available for not to exceed $50,000 for official reception 15
and representation expenses when specifically approved by 16
the Secretary. 17
S
EC. 202. None of the funds appropriated in this title 18
shall be used to pay the salary of an individual, through 19
a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess 20
of Executive Level II: Provided, That none of the funds 21
appropriated in this title shall be used to prevent the NIH 22
from paying up to 100 percent of the salary of an indi-23
vidual at this rate. 24 112 
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SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 1
may be expended pursuant to section 241 of the PHS Act, 2
except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or 3
for other taps and assessments made by any office located 4
in HHS, prior to the preparation and submission of a re-5
port by the Secretary to the Committees on Appropria-6
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate de-7
tailing the planned uses of such funds. 8
S
EC. 204. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of the 9
PHS Act, such portion as the Secretary shall determine, 10
but not more than 2.5 percent, of any amounts appro-11
priated for programs authorized under such Act shall be 12
made available for the evaluation (directly, or by grants 13
or contracts) and the implementation and effectiveness of 14
programs funded in this title. 15
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
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EC. 205. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-17
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 18
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-19
priated for the current fiscal year for HHS in this Act 20
may be transferred between appropriations, but no such 21
appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent 22
by any such transfer: Provided, That the transfer author-23
ity granted by this section shall not be used to create any 24
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no funds are provided in this Act: Provided further, That 1
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-2
resentatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days 3
in advance of any transfer. 4
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EC. 206. In lieu of the timeframe specified in section 5
338E(c)(2) of the PHS Act, terminations described in 6
such section may occur up to 60 days after the effective 7
date of a contract awarded in fiscal year 2025 under sec-8
tion 338B of such Act, or at any time if the individual 9
who has been awarded such contract has not received 10
funds due under the contract. 11
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EC. 207. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 12
may be made available to any entity under title X of the 13
PHS Act unless the applicant for the award certifies to 14
the Secretary that it encourages family participation in 15
the decision of minors to seek family planning services and 16
that it provides counseling to minors on how to resist at-17
tempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities. 18
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EC. 208. Notwithstanding any other provision of 19
law, no provider of services under title X of the PHS Act 20
shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification 21
or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual 22
abuse, rape, or incest. 23
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EC. 209. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 24
(including funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be 25 114 
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used to carry out the Medicare Advantage program if the 1
Secretary denies participation in such program to an oth-2
erwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Or-3
ganization) because the entity informs the Secretary that 4
it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide 5
referrals for abortions: Provided, That the Secretary shall 6
make appropriate prospective adjustments to the capita-7
tion payment to such an entity (based on an actuarially 8
sound estimate of the expected costs of providing the serv-9
ice to such entity’s enrollees): Provided further, That noth-10
ing in this section shall be construed to change the Medi-11
care program’s coverage for such services and a Medicare 12
Advantage organization described in this section shall be 13
responsible for informing enrollees where to obtain infor-14
mation about all Medicare covered services. 15
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EC. 210. None of the funds made available in this 16
title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or pro-17
mote gun control. 18
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EC. 211. The Secretary shall make available through 19
assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public 20
Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to 21
work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided 22
by the Agency for International Development, the United 23
Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or the 24
World Health Organization. 25 115 
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SEC. 212. In order for HHS to carry out inter-1
national health activities, including HIV/AIDS and other 2
infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and 3
other health activities abroad during fiscal year 2025: 4
(1) The Secretary may exercise authority equiv-5
alent to that available to the Secretary of State in 6
section 2(c) of the State Department Basic Authori-7
ties Act of 1956. The Secretary shall consult with 8
the Secretary of State and relevant Chief of Mission 9
to ensure that the authority provided in this section 10
is exercised in a manner consistent with section 207 11
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and other appli-12
cable statutes administered by the Department of 13
State. 14
(2) The Secretary is authorized to provide such 15
funds by advance or reimbursement to the Secretary 16
of State as may be necessary to pay the costs of ac-17
quisition, lease, alteration, renovation, and manage-18
ment of facilities outside of the United States for 19
the use of HHS. The Department of State shall co-20
operate fully with the Secretary to ensure that HHS 21
has secure, safe, functional facilities that comply 22
with applicable regulation governing location, set-23
back, and other facilities requirements and serve the 24
purposes established by this Act. The Secretary is 25 116 
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authorized, in consultation with the Secretary of 1
State, through grant or cooperative agreement, to 2
make available to public or nonprofit private institu-3
tions or agencies in participating foreign countries, 4
funds to acquire, lease, alter, or renovate facilities in 5
those countries as necessary to conduct programs of 6
assistance for international health activities, includ-7
ing activities relating to HIV/AIDS and other infec-8
tious diseases, chronic and environmental diseases, 9
and other health activities abroad. 10
(3) The Secretary is authorized to provide to 11
personnel appointed or assigned by the Secretary to 12
serve abroad, allowances and benefits similar to 13
those provided under chapter 9 of title I of the For-14
eign Service Act of 1980, and 22 U.S.C. 4081 15
through 4086 and subject to such regulations pre-16
scribed by the Secretary. The Secretary is further 17
authorized to provide locality-based comparability 18
payments (stated as a percentage) up to the amount 19
of the locality-based comparability payment (stated 20
as a percentage) that would be payable to such per-21
sonnel under section 5304 of title 5, United States 22
Code if such personnel’s official duty station were in 23
the District of Columbia. Leaves of absence for per-24
sonnel under this subsection shall be on the same 25 117 
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basis as that provided under subchapter I of chapter 1
63 of title 5, United States Code, or section 903 of 2
the Foreign Service Act of 1980, to individuals serv-3
ing in the Foreign Service. 4
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
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EC. 213. The Director of the NIH, jointly with the 6
Director of the Office of AIDS Research, may transfer up 7
to 3 percent among institutes and centers from the total 8
amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for 9
research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus: 10
Provided, That the Committees on Appropriations of the 11
House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at 12
least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 13
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
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EC. 214. Of the amounts made available in this Act 15
for NIH, the amount for research related to the human 16
immunodeficiency virus, as jointly determined by the Di-17
rector of NIH and the Director of the Office of AIDS Re-18
search, shall be made available to the ‘‘Office of AIDS 19
Research’’ account. The Director of the Office of AIDS 20
Research shall transfer from such account amounts nec-21
essary to carry out section 2353(d)(3) of the PHS Act. 22
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EC. 215. (a) AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any 23
other provision of law, the Director of NIH (‘‘Director’’) 24
may use funds authorized under section 402(b)(12) of the 25 118 
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PHS Act to enter into transactions (other than contracts, 1
cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research 2
identified pursuant to or research and activities described 3
in such section 402(b)(12). 4
(b) P
EERREVIEW.—In entering into transactions 5
under subsection (a), the Director may utilize such peer 6
review procedures (including consultation with appropriate 7
scientific experts) as the Director determines to be appro-8
priate to obtain assessments of scientific and technical 9
merit. Such procedures shall apply to such transactions 10
in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review pro-11
cedures that would otherwise be required under sections 12
301(a)(3), 405(b)(1)(B), 405(b)(2), 406(a)(3)(A), 492, 13
and 494 of the PHS Act. 14
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EC. 216. Not to exceed $100,000,000 of funds ap-15
propriated by this Act to the institutes and centers of the 16
National Institutes of Health may be used for alteration, 17
repair, or improvement of facilities, as necessary for the 18
proper and efficient conduct of the activities authorized 19
herein, at not to exceed $5,000,000 per project. 20
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
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EC. 217. Of the amounts made available for NIH, 22
1 percent of the amount made available for National Re-23
search Service Awards (‘‘NRSA’’) shall be made available 24
to the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 25 119 
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Administration to make NRSA awards for research in pri-1
mary medical care to individuals affiliated with entities 2
who have received grants or contracts under sections 736, 3
739, or 747 of the PHS Act, and 1 percent of the amount 4
made available for NRSA shall be made available to the 5
Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qual-6
ity to make NRSA awards for health service research. 7
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EC. 218. (a) The Biomedical Advanced Research 8
and Development Authority (‘‘BARDA’’) may enter into 9
a contract, for more than one but no more than 10 pro-10
gram years, for purchase of research services or of security 11
countermeasures, as that term is defined in section 319F– 12
2(c)(1)(B) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6b(c)(1)(B)), 13
if— 14
(1) funds are available and obligated— 15
(A) for the full period of the contract or 16
for the first fiscal year in which the contract is 17
in effect; and 18
(B) for the estimated costs associated with 19
a necessary termination of the contract; and 20
(2) the Secretary determines that a multi-year 21
contract will serve the best interests of the Federal 22
Government by encouraging full and open competi-23
tion or promoting economy in administration, per-24
formance, and operation of BARDA’s programs. 25 120 
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(b) A contract entered into under this section— 1
(1) shall include a termination clause as de-2
scribed by subsection (c) of section 3903 of title 41, 3
United States Code; and 4
(2) shall be subject to the congressional notice 5
requirement stated in subsection (d) of such section. 6
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EC. 219. (a) The Secretary shall publish in the fiscal 7
year 2026 budget justification and on Departmental Web 8
sites information concerning the employment of full-time 9
equivalent Federal employees or contractors for the pur-10
poses of implementing, administering, enforcing, or other-11
wise carrying out the provisions of the ACA, and the 12
amendments made by that Act, in the proposed fiscal year 13
and each fiscal year since the enactment of the ACA. 14
(b) With respect to employees or contractors sup-15
ported by all funds appropriated for purposes of carrying 16
out the ACA (and the amendments made by that Act), 17
the Secretary shall include, at a minimum, the following 18
information: 19
(1) For each such fiscal year, the section of 20
such Act under which such funds were appropriated, 21
a statement indicating the program, project, or ac-22
tivity receiving such funds, the Federal operating di-23
vision or office that administers such program, and 24 121 
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the amount of funding received in discretionary or 1
mandatory appropriations. 2
(2) For each such fiscal year, the number of 3
full-time equivalent employees or contracted employ-4
ees assigned to each authorized and funded provision 5
detailed in accordance with paragraph (1). 6
(c) In carrying out this section, the Secretary may 7
exclude from the report employees or contractors who— 8
(1) are supported through appropriations en-9
acted in laws other than the ACA and work on pro-10
grams that existed prior to the passage of the ACA; 11
(2) spend less than 50 percent of their time on 12
activities funded by or newly authorized in the ACA; 13
or 14
(3) work on contracts for which FTE reporting 15
is not a requirement of their contract, such as fixed- 16
price contracts. 17
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EC. 220. The Secretary shall publish, as part of the 18
fiscal year 2026 budget of the President submitted under 19
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, informa-20
tion that details the uses of all funds used by the Centers 21
for Medicare & Medicaid Services specifically for Health 22
Insurance Exchanges for each fiscal year since the enact-23
ment of the ACA and the proposed uses for such funds 24
for fiscal year 2026. Such information shall include, for 25 122 
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each such fiscal year, the amount of funds used for each 1
activity specified under the heading ‘‘Health Insurance 2
Exchange Transparency’’ in the report accompanying this 3
Act. 4
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EC. 221. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or 6
the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund, 7
or transferred from other accounts funded by this Act to 8
the ‘‘Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—Program 9
Management’’ account, may be used for payments under 10
section 1342(b)(1) of Public Law 111–148 (relating to 11
risk corridors). 12
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 13
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EC. 222. (a) Within 45 days of enactment of this 14
Act, the Secretary shall transfer funds appropriated under 15
section 4002 of the ACA to the accounts specified, in the 16
amounts specified, and for the activities specified under 17
the heading ‘‘Prevention and Public Health Fund’’ in the 18
report accompanying this Act. 19
(b) Notwithstanding section 4002(c) of the ACA, the 20
Secretary may not further transfer these amounts. 21
(c) Funds transferred for activities authorized under 22
section 2821 of the PHS Act shall be made available with-23
out reference to section 2821(b) of such Act. 24 123 
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SEC. 223. Effective during the period beginning on 1
November 1, 2015 and ending January 1, 2027, any pro-2
vision of law that refers (including through cross-reference 3
to another provision of law) to the current recommenda-4
tions of the United States Preventive Services Task Force 5
with respect to breast cancer screening, mammography, 6
and prevention shall be administered by the Secretary in-7
volved as if— 8
(1) such reference to such current recommenda-9
tions were a reference to the recommendations of 10
such Task Force with respect to breast cancer 11
screening, mammography, and prevention last issued 12
before 2009; and 13
(2) such recommendations last issued before 14
2009 applied to any screening mammography modal-15
ity under section 1861(jj) of the Social Security Act 16
(42 U.S.C. 1395x(jj)). 17
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EC. 224. In making Federal financial assistance, the 18
provisions relating to indirect costs in part 75 of title 45, 19
Code of Federal Regulations, including with respect to the 20
approval of deviations from negotiated rates, shall con-21
tinue to apply to the National Institutes of Health to the 22
same extent and in the same manner as such provisions 23
were applied in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017. None 24
of the funds appropriated in this or prior Acts or otherwise 25 124 
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made available to the Department of Health and Human 1
Services or to any department or agency may be used to 2
develop or implement a modified approach to such provi-3
sions, or to intentionally or substantially expand the fiscal 4
effect of the approval of such deviations from negotiated 5
rates beyond the proportional effect of such approvals in 6
such quarter. 7
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 8
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EC. 225. The NIH Director may transfer funds for 9
opioid addiction, opioid alternatives, stimulant misuse and 10
addiction, pain management, and addiction treatment to 11
other Institutes and Centers of the NIH to be used for 12
the same purpose 15 days after notifying the Committees 13
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 14
Senate: Provided, That the transfer authority provided in 15
the previous proviso is in addition to any other transfer 16
authority provided by law. 17
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EC. 226. (a) The Secretary shall provide to the 18
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-19
atives and the Senate: 20
(1) Detailed monthly enrollment figures from 21
the Exchanges established under the Patient Protec-22
tion and Affordable Care Act of 2010 pertaining to 23
enrollments during the open enrollment period; and 24 125 
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(2) Notification of any new or competitive grant 1
awards, including supplements, authorized under 2
section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. 3
(b) The Committees on Appropriations of the House 4
and Senate must be notified at least 2 business days in 5
advance of any public release of enrollment information 6
or the award of such grants. 7
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EC. 227. In addition to the amounts otherwise avail-8
able for ‘‘Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Pro-9
gram Management’’, the Secretary of Health and Human 10
Services may transfer up to $525,000,000 to such account 11
from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the 12
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to 13
support program management activity related to the Medi-14
care Program: Provided, That except for the foregoing 15
purpose, such funds may not be used to support any provi-16
sion of Public Law 111–148 or Public Law 111–152 (or 17
any amendment made by either such Public Law) or to 18
supplant any other amounts within such account. 19
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EC. 228. The Department of Health and Human 20
Services shall provide the Committees on Appropriations 21
of the House of Representatives and Senate a biannual 22
report 30 days after enactment of this Act on staffing de-23
scribed in the report accompanying this Act. 24 126 
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SEC. 229. Funds appropriated in this Act that are 1
available for salaries and expenses of employees of the De-2
partment of Health and Human Services shall also be 3
available to pay travel and related expenses of such an 4
employee or of a member of his or her family, when such 5
employee is assigned to duty, in the United States or in 6
a U.S. territory, during a period and in a location that 7
are the subject of a determination of a public health emer-8
gency under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act 9
and such travel is necessary to obtain medical care for 10
an illness, injury, or medical condition that cannot be ade-11
quately addressed in that location at that time. For pur-12
poses of this section, the term ‘‘U.S. territory’’ means 13
Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern 14
Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or 15
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 16
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EC. 230. The Department of Health and Human 17
Services may accept donations from the private sector, 18
nongovernmental organizations, and other groups inde-19
pendent of the Federal Government for the care of unac-20
companied alien children (as defined in section 462(g)(2) 21
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 22
279(g)(2))) in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettle-23
ment of the Administration for Children and Families, in-24
cluding medical goods and services, which may include 25 127 
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early childhood developmental screenings, school supplies, 1
toys, clothing, and any other items intended to promote 2
the wellbeing of such children. 3
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EC. 231. None of the funds made available in this 4
Act under the heading ‘‘Department of Health and 5
Human Services—Administration for Children and Fami-6
lies—Refugee and Entrant Assistance’’ may be obligated 7
to a grantee or contractor to house unaccompanied alien 8
children (as such term is defined in section 462(g)(2) of 9
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2))) 10
in any facility that is not State-licensed for the care of 11
unaccompanied alien children, except in the case that the 12
Secretary determines that housing unaccompanied alien 13
children in such a facility is necessary on a temporary 14
basis due to an influx of such children or an emergency, 15
provided that— 16
(1) the terms of the grant or contract for the 17
operations of any such facility that remains in oper-18
ation for more than six consecutive months shall re-19
quire compliance with— 20
(A) the same requirements as licensed 21
placements, as listed in Exhibit 1 of the Flores 22
Settlement Agreement that the Secretary deter-23
mines are applicable to non-State licensed facili-24
ties; and 25 128 
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(B) staffing ratios of one (1) on-duty 1
Youth Care Worker for every eight (8) children 2
or youth during waking hours, one (1) on-duty 3
Youth Care Worker for every sixteen (16) chil-4
dren or youth during sleeping hours, and clini-5
cian ratios to children (including mental health 6
providers) as required in grantee cooperative 7
agreements; 8
(2) the Secretary may grant a 60-day waiver 9
for a contractor’s or grantee’s non-compliance with 10
paragraph (1) if the Secretary certifies and provides 11
a report to Congress on the contractor’s or grantee’s 12
good-faith efforts and progress towards compliance; 13
(3) not more than four consecutive waivers 14
under paragraph (2) may be granted to a contractor 15
or grantee with respect to a specific facility; 16
(4) ORR shall ensure full adherence to the 17
monitoring requirements set forth in section 5.5 of 18
its Policies and Procedures Guide as of May 15, 19
2019; 20
(5) for any such unlicensed facility in operation 21
for more than three consecutive months, ORR shall 22
conduct a minimum of one comprehensive moni-23
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ation, with quarterly monitoring visits thereafter; 1
and 2
(6) not later than 60 days after the date of en-3
actment of this Act, ORR shall brief the Committees 4
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 5
and the Senate outlining the requirements of ORR 6
for influx facilities including any requirement listed 7
in paragraph (1)(A) that the Secretary has deter-8
mined are not applicable to non-State licensed facili-9
ties. 10
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EC. 232. In addition to the existing Congressional 11
notification for formal site assessments of potential influx 12
facilities, the Secretary shall notify the Committees on Ap-13
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-14
ate at least 15 days before operationalizing an unlicensed 15
facility, and shall (1) specify whether the facility is hard- 16
sided or soft-sided, and (2) provide analysis that indicates 17
that, in the absence of the influx facility, the likely out-18
come is that unaccompanied alien children will remain in 19
the custody of the Department of Homeland Security for 20
longer than 72 hours or that unaccompanied alien children 21
will be otherwise placed in danger. Within 60 days of 22
bringing such a facility online, and monthly thereafter, the 23
Secretary shall provide to the Committees on Appropria-24
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate a 25 130 
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report detailing the total number of children in care at 1
the facility, the average length of stay and average length 2
of care of children at the facility, and, for any child that 3
has been at the facility for more than 60 days, their length 4
of stay and reason for delay in release. 5
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EC. 233. None of the funds made available in this 6
Act may be used to prevent a United States Senator or 7
Member of the House of Representatives from entering, 8
for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility in the 9
United States used for the purpose of maintaining custody 10
of, or otherwise housing, unaccompanied alien children (as 11
defined in section 462(g)(2) of the Homeland Security Act 12
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2))), provided that such Senator 13
or Member has coordinated the oversight visit with the 14
Office of Refugee Resettlement not less than two business 15
days in advance to ensure that such visit would not inter-16
fere with the operations (including child welfare and child 17
safety operations) of such facility. 18
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EC. 234. Not later than 14 days after the date of 19
enactment of this Act, and monthly thereafter, the Sec-20
retary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 21
of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and make 22
publicly available online, a report with respect to children 23
who were separated from their parents or legal guardians 24
by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (regard-25 131 
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less of whether or not such separation was pursuant to 1
an option selected by the children, parents, or guardians), 2
subsequently classified as unaccompanied alien children, 3
and transferred to the care and custody of ORR during 4
the previous month. Each report shall contain the fol-5
lowing information: 6
(1) the number and ages of children so sepa-7
rated subsequent to apprehension at or between 8
ports of entry, to be reported by sector where sepa-9
ration occurred; and 10
(2) the documented cause of separation, as re-11
ported by DHS when each child was referred. 12
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EC. 235. Funds appropriated in this Act that are 13
available for salaries and expenses of employees of the 14
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall also be 15
available for the primary and secondary schooling of eligi-16
ble dependents of personnel stationed in a U.S. territory 17
as defined in section 229 of this Act at costs not in excess 18
of those paid for or reimbursed by the Department of De-19
fense. 20
(RESCISSION) 21
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EC. 236. Of the unobligated balances in the ‘‘Non-22
recurring Expenses Fund’’ established in section 223 of 23
division G of Public Law 110–161, $1,656,000,000 are 24
hereby rescinded not later than September 30, 2025, ex-25 132 
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cept that no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 1
were previously designated by the Congress as being for 2
an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent reso-3
lution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-4
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 5
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EC. 237. The Director of the National Institutes of 6
Health shall hereafter require institutions that receive 7
funds through a grant or cooperative agreement or other 8
form of extramural award during fiscal year 2025 and in 9
future years to complete any investigation undertaken due 10
to concerns about harassment, bullying retaliation, or hos-11
tile working conditions regarding any individual identified 12
as a principal investigator or key personnel in an NIH 13
notice of award or progress report even if during the 14
course of the investigation the individual under investiga-15
tion leaves their current position and is no longer em-16
ployed by the institution. The Director may hereafter de-17
cline transfer of an ongoing extramural award to a dif-18
ferent institution if concerns about harassment, bullying, 19
hostile work environment, or other professional mis-20
conduct on the part of a principle investigator or key per-21
sonnel named in the Notice of Award or progress report 22
have not been resolved to the NIH’s satisfaction. The Di-23
rector may issue regulations consistent with this section. 24 133 
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Health 1
and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 2 134 
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TITLE III 1
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 2
E
DUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 3
For carrying out title I and subpart 2 of part B of 4
title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 5
of 1965 (referred to in this Act as ‘‘ESEA’’) and section 6
418A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (referred to 7
in this Act as ‘‘HEA’’), $19,387,790,000, of which 8
$8,459,490,000 shall become available on July 1, 2025, 9
and shall remain available through September 30, 2026, 10
and of which $10,841,177,000 shall become available on 11
October 1, 2025, and shall remain available through Sep-12
tember 30, 2026, for academic year 2025–2026: Provided, 13
That $6,459,401,000 shall be for basic grants under sec-14
tion 1124 of the ESEA: Provided further, That up to 15
$5,000,000 of these funds shall be available to the Sec-16
retary of Education (referred to in this title as ‘‘Sec-17
retary’’) on October 1, 2024, to obtain annually updated 18
local educational agency-level census poverty data from 19
the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That 20
$1,362,301,000 shall be for concentration grants under 21
section 1124A of the ESEA: Provided further, That 22
$5,432,550,000 shall be for targeted grants under section 23
1125 of the ESEA: Provided further, That 24
$5,432,550,000 shall be for education finance incentive 25 135 
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grants under section 1125A of the ESEA: Provided fur-1
ther, That $224,000,000 shall be for carrying out subpart 2
2 of part B of title II: Provided further, That $52,123,000 3
shall be for carrying out section 418A of the HEA: Pro-4
vided further, That subsection (b) of section 1004 of the 5
ESEA shall be applied by substituting the sum of the 6
amounts appropriated for parts A, C, and D of title I of 7
the ESEA by division H of Public Law 117–328 for each 8
of the amounts specified in that subsection: Provided fur-9
ther, That subsection (a)(2) of section 1004 of the ESEA 10
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘$800,000’’ for 11
‘‘$400,000’’ and by substituting ‘‘$100,000’’ for 12
‘‘$50,000’’. 13
I
MPACTAID 14
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to 15
federally affected schools authorized by title VII of the 16
ESEA, $1,645,151,000, of which $1,490,500,000 shall be 17
for basic support payments under section 7003(b), 18
$48,316,000 shall be for payments for children with dis-19
abilities under section 7003(d), $20,500,000, to remain 20
available through September 30, 2026, shall be for con-21
struction under section 7007(b), $81,000,000 shall be for 22
Federal property payments under section 7002, and 23
$4,835,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 24
for facilities maintenance under section 7008: Provided, 25 136 
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That for purposes of computing the amount of a payment 1
for an eligible local educational agency under section 2
7003(a) for school year 2024–2025, children enrolled in 3
a school of such agency that would otherwise be eligible 4
for payment under section 7003(a)(1)(B) of such Act, but 5
due to the deployment of both parents or legal guardians, 6
or a parent or legal guardian having sole custody of such 7
children, or due to the death of a military parent or legal 8
guardian while on active duty (so long as such children 9
reside on Federal property as described in section 10
7003(a)(1)(B)), are no longer eligible under such section, 11
shall be considered as eligible students under such section, 12
provided such students remain in average daily attendance 13
at a school in the same local educational agency they at-14
tended prior to their change in eligibility status. 15
S
CHOOLIMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 16
For carrying out school improvement activities au-17
thorized by part B of title I, part A of title II, subpart 18
1 of part A of title IV, part B of title IV, part B of title 19
V, and parts B and C of title VI of the ESEA; the McKin-20
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; section 203 of the 21
Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002; and the 22
Civil Rights Act of 1964, $5,796,178,000, of which 23
$3,967,312,000 shall become available on July 1, 2025, 24
and remain available through September 30, 2026, and 25 137 
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of which $1,681,441,000 shall become available on Octo-1
ber 1, 2025, and shall remain available through September 2
30, 2026, for academic year 2025–2026: Provided, That 3
$380,000,000 shall be for part B of title I: Provided fur-4
ther, That $1,329,673,000 shall be for part B of title IV: 5
Provided further, That $45,897,000 shall be for part B 6
of title VI, which may be used for construction, renova-7
tion, and modernization of any public elementary school, 8
secondary school, or structure related to a public elemen-9
tary school or secondary school that serves a predomi-10
nantly Native Hawaiian student body, and that the 5 per-11
cent limitation in section 6205(b) of the ESEA on the use 12
of funds for administrative purposes shall apply only to 13
direct administrative costs: Provided further, That the Sec-14
retary shall use $650,000 of funds made available in the 15
preceding proviso to carry out section 6204 of the ESEA: 16
Provided further, That $44,953,000 shall be for part C 17
of title VI, which shall be awarded on a competitive basis, 18
and may be used for construction, and that the 5 percent 19
limitation in section 6305 of the ESEA on the use of 20
funds for administrative purposes shall apply only to di-21
rect administrative costs: Provided further, That 22
$50,000,000 shall be available to carry out section 203 23
of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 and 24
the Secretary shall make such arrangements as deter-25 138 
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mined to be necessary to ensure that the Bureau of Indian 1
Education has access to services provided under this sec-2
tion: Provided further, That $230,000,000 shall be for 3
part B of title V: Provided further, That in carrying out 4
such part B the percentage in section 316(b)(1)(E) of title 5
III of division H of Public Law 116–260 shall be deemed 6
83.33 percent: Provided further, That $1,390,000,000 7
shall be available for grants under subpart 1 of part A 8
of title IV: Provided further, That funds provided by this 9
Act for subpart B of title VII of the McKinney-Vento 10
Homeless Assistance Act shall be available for expenditure 11
by educational agencies and institutions for an additional 12
fiscal year following the succeeding fiscal year provided by 13
subsection 421(b)(1) of the General Education Provisions 14
Act. 15
I
NDIANEDUCATION 16
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent 17
not otherwise provided, title VI, part A of the ESEA, 18
$194,746,000, of which $72,000,000 shall be for subpart 19
2 of part A of title VI and $12,365,000 shall be for sub-20
part 3 of part A of title VI: Provided, That the 5 percent 21
limitation in sections 6115(d), 6121(e), and 6133(g) of 22
the ESEA on the use of funds for administrative purposes 23
shall apply only to direct administrative costs: Provided 24
further, That grants awarded under sections 6132 and 25 139 
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6133 of the ESEA with funds provided under this heading 1
may be for a period of up to 5 years: Provided further, 2
That the Secretary may make awards under subpart 3 of 3
part A of title VI without regard to the funding limitation 4
in section 6133(b)(1) of the ESEA. 5
I
NNOVATION ANDIMPROVEMENT 6
For carrying out activities authorized by subparts 1, 7
3, and 4 of part B of title II, and parts C, D, and E 8
and subparts 1 and 4 of part F of title IV of the ESEA, 9
$1,115,000,000: Provided, That $173,000,000 shall be for 10
subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part B of title II and shall be made 11
available without regard to sections 2201, 2231(b) and 12
2241: Provided further, That $683,000,000 shall be for 13
parts C, D, and E and subpart 4 of part F of title IV, 14
and shall be made available without regard to sections 15
4311, 4409(a), and 4601 of the ESEA: Provided further, 16
That section 4303(d)(3)(A)(i) shall not apply to the funds 17
available for part C of title IV: Provided further, That of 18
the funds available for part C of title IV, the Secretary 19
shall use not less than $60,000,000 to carry out section 20
4304, not more than $140,000,000, to remain available 21
through March 31, 2026, to carry out section 4305(b), 22
from which the amount necessary for continuation grants 23
may be available for obligation through March 31, 2026, 24
and not more than $16,000,000 to carry out the activities 25 140 
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in section 4305(a)(3): Provided further, That notwith-1
standing section 4601(b), $259,000,000 shall be available 2
through December 31, 2025 for subpart 1 of part F of 3
title IV: Provided further, That of the funds available for 4
subpart 4 of part F of title IV, not less than $8,000,000 5
shall be used for grants for eligible national nonprofit or-6
ganizations, as described in the Applications for New 7
Awards; Assistance for Arts Education Program published 8
in the Federal Register on May 31, 2022, for activities 9
described under section 4642(a)(1)(C): Provided further, 10
That the competitive preference priority described in such 11
notice shall be given only to an eligible national nonprofit 12
organization that previously received the competitive pref-13
erence priority pursuant to such notice. 14
S
AFESCHOOLS ANDCITIZENSHIPEDUCATION 15
For carrying out activities authorized by subparts 2 16
and 3 of part F of title IV of the ESEA, $464,000,000, 17
to remain available through December 31, 2025: Provided, 18
That $221,000,000 shall be available for section 4631, of 19
which up to $5,000,000, to remain available until ex-20
pended, shall be for the Project School Emergency Re-21
sponse to Violence (Project SERV) program: Provided fur-22
ther, That $150,000,000 shall be available for section 23
4625: Provided further, That $93,000,000 shall be for sec-24
tion 4624. 25 141 
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ENGLISHLANGUAGEACQUISITION 1
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, 2
$895,000,000, which shall become available on July 1, 3
2025, and shall remain available through September 30, 4
2026, except that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be 5
available on October 1, 2024, and shall remain available 6
through September 30, 2026, to carry out activities under 7
section 3111(c)(1)(C). 8
S
PECIALEDUCATION 9
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 10
Education Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport 11
and Empowerment Act of 2004, $15,768,264,000, of 12
which $6,190,321,000 shall become available on July 1, 13
2025, and shall remain available through September 30, 14
2026, and of which $9,283,383,000 shall become available 15
on October 1, 2025, and shall remain available through 16
September 30, 2026, for academic year 2025–2026: Pro-17
vided, That the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA 18
shall be equal to the lesser of the amount available for 19
that activity during fiscal year 2024, increased by the 20
amount of inflation as specified in section 619(d)(2)(B) 21
of the IDEA, or the percent change in the funds appro-22
priated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less 23
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2024: 24
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, without regard 25 142 
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to section 611(d) of the IDEA, distribute to all other 1
States (as that term is defined in section 611(g)(2)), sub-2
ject to the third proviso, any amount by which a State’s 3
allocation under section 611, from funds appropriated 4
under this heading, is reduced under section 5
612(a)(18)(B), according to the following: 85 percent on 6
the basis of the States’ relative populations of children 7
aged 3 through 21 who are of the same age as children 8
with disabilities for whom the State ensures the avail-9
ability of a free appropriate public education under this 10
part, and 15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ 11
relative populations of those children who are living in pov-12
erty: Provided further, That the Secretary may not dis-13
tribute any funds under the previous proviso to any State 14
whose reduction in allocation from funds appropriated 15
under this heading made funds available for such a dis-16
tribution: Provided further, That the States shall allocate 17
such funds distributed under the second proviso to local 18
educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f): 19
Provided further, That the amount by which a State’s allo-20
cation under section 611(d) of the IDEA is reduced under 21
section 612(a)(18)(B) and the amounts distributed to 22
States under the previous provisos in fiscal year 2012 or 23
any subsequent year shall not be considered in calculating 24
the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013 or 25 143 
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for any subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That, 1
notwithstanding the provision in section 612(a)(18)(B) re-2
garding the fiscal year in which a State’s allocation under 3
section 611(d) is reduced for failure to comply with the 4
requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A), the Secretary may 5
apply the reduction specified in section 612(a)(18)(B) over 6
a period of consecutive fiscal years, not to exceed 5, until 7
the entire reduction is applied: Provided further, That the 8
Secretary may, in any fiscal year in which a State’s alloca-9
tion under section 611 is reduced in accordance with sec-10
tion 612(a)(18)(B), reduce the amount a State may re-11
serve under section 611(e)(1) by an amount that bears 12
the same relation to the maximum amount described in 13
that paragraph as the reduction under section 14
612(a)(18)(B) bears to the total allocation the State 15
would have received in that fiscal year under section 16
611(d) in the absence of the reduction: Provided further, 17
That the Secretary shall either reduce the allocation of 18
funds under section 611 for any fiscal year following the 19
fiscal year for which the State fails to comply with the 20
requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A) as authorized by 21
section 612(a)(18)(B), or seek to recover funds under sec-22
tion 452 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 23
U.S.C. 1234a): Provided further, That the funds reserved 24
under 611(c) of the IDEA may be used to provide tech-25 144 
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nical assistance to States to improve the capacity of the 1
States to meet the data collection requirements of sections 2
616 and 618 and to administer and carry out other serv-3
ices and activities to improve data collection, coordination, 4
quality, and use under parts B and C of the IDEA: Pro-5
vided further, That the Secretary may use funds made 6
available for the State Personnel Development Grants pro-7
gram under part D, subpart 1 of IDEA to evaluate pro-8
gram performance under such subpart: Provided further, 9
That States may use funds reserved for other State-level 10
activities under sections 611(e)(2) and 619(f) of the IDEA 11
to make subgrants to local educational agencies, institu-12
tions of higher education, other public agencies, and pri-13
vate non-profit organizations to carry out activities au-14
thorized by those sections: Provided further, That, not-15
withstanding section 643(e)(2)(A) of the IDEA, if 5 or 16
fewer States apply for grants pursuant to section 643(e) 17
of such Act, the Secretary shall provide a grant to each 18
State in an amount equal to the maximum amount de-19
scribed in section 643(e)(2)(B) of such Act: Provided fur-20
ther, That if more than 5 States apply for grants pursuant 21
to section 643(e) of the IDEA, the Secretary shall award 22
funds to those States on the basis of the States’ relative 23
populations of infants and toddlers except that no such 24
State shall receive a grant in excess of the amount de-25 145 
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scribed in section 643(e)(2)(B) of such Act: Provided fur-1
ther, That States may use funds allotted under section 2
643(c) of the IDEA to make subgrants to local edu-3
cational agencies, institutions of higher education, other 4
public agencies, and private non-profit organizations to 5
carry out activities authorized by section 638 of IDEA: 6
Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 638 of the 7
IDEA, a State may use funds it receives under section 8
633 of the IDEA to offer continued early intervention 9
services to a child who previously received services under 10
part C of the IDEA from age 3 until the beginning of 11
the school year following the child’s third birthday with 12
parental consent and without regard to the procedures in 13
section 635(c) of the IDEA. 14
R
EHABILITATIONSERVICES 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-17
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Helen Keller 18
National Center Act, $4,219,297,000, of which 19
$4,076,098,000 shall be for grants for vocational rehabili-20
tation services under title I of the Rehabilitation Act: Pro-21
vided, That the last proviso of section 547 of title V of 22
division C of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 23
Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) is amended to read as fol-24
lows: ‘‘Provided further, That, for fiscal year 2025, each 25 146 
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State shall be entitled to an allotment pursuant to section 1
110(a) of the Rehabilitation Act that shall be calculated 2
as if the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index 3
determined under section 100(c) of such Act was not used 4
to set the amount of the appropriation in fiscal year 5
2024.’’: Provided further, That, for fiscal year 2026, each 6
State shall be entitled to an allotment pursuant to section 7
110(a) of the Rehabilitation Act that shall be calculated 8
as if the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index 9
determined under section 100(c) of such Act had been 10
used to set the amount of the appropriation in both fiscal 11
years 2024 and 2025: Provided further, That the Sec-12
retary may use amounts provided in this Act that remain 13
available subsequent to the reallotment of funds to States 14
pursuant to section 110(b) of the Rehabilitation Act for 15
innovative activities aimed at increasing competitive inte-16
grated employment as defined in section 7 of such Act 17
for youth and other individuals with disabilities, including 18
related Federal administrative expenses, for improving 19
monitoring and oversight of grants for vocational rehabili-20
tation services under title I of the Rehabilitation Act, and 21
information technology needs under section 15 and titles 22
I, III, VI, and VII of the Rehabilitation Act: Provided fur-23
ther, That up to 15 percent of the amounts available sub-24
sequent to reallotment for the activities described in the 25 147 
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third proviso from funds provided under this paragraph 1
in this Act, may be used for evaluation and technical as-2
sistance related to such activities: Provided further, That 3
any funds made available subsequent to reallotment for 4
the activities described in the third proviso may be pro-5
vided to States and other public, private and nonprofit en-6
tities, including Indian tribes and institutions of higher 7
education for carrying out such activities: Provided fur-8
ther, That States and other public and nonprofit entities, 9
including Indian tribes and institutions of higher edu-10
cation may award subgrants for a portion of the funds 11
to other eligible entities: Provided further, That any funds 12
provided in this Act and made available subsequent to re-13
allotment for the purposes described in the third proviso 14
shall remain available until September 30, 2026: Provided 15
further, That the Secretary may transfer funds provided 16
in this Act and made available subsequent to the reallot-17
ment of funds to States pursuant to section 110(b) of the 18
Rehabilitation Act to ‘‘Institute of Education Sciences’’ 19
for the evaluation of outcomes for students receiving serv-20
ices and supports under IDEA and under title I, section 21
504 of title V, and title VI of the Rehabilitation Act: Pro-22
vided further, That the transfer authority in the preceding 23
proviso is in addition to any other transfer authority in 24
this Act. 25 148 
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SPECIALINSTITUTIONS FORPERSONSWITH 1
D
ISABILITIES 2
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 3
For carrying out the Act to Promote the Education 4
of the Blind of March 3, 1879, $53,431,000. 5
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 6
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf 7
under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act 8
of 1986, $96,500,000: Provided, That from the total 9
amount available, the Institute may at its discretion use 10
funds for the endowment program as authorized under 11
section 207 of such Act. 12
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY 13
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, 14
the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial 15
support of Gallaudet University under titles I and II of 16
the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986, $171,361,000, of 17
which up to $19,000,000, to remain available until ex-18
pended, shall be for construction, as defined by section 19
201(2) of such Act: Provided, That from the total amount 20
available, the University may at its discretion use funds 21
for the endowment program as authorized under section 22
207 of such Act. 23 149 
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CAREER, TECHNICAL, ANDADULTEDUCATION 1
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-2
vided, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Edu-3
cation Act of 2006 (‘‘Perkins Act’’) and the Adult Edu-4
cation and Family Literacy Act (‘‘AEFLA’’), 5
$2,226,436,000, of which $1,435,436,000 shall become 6
available on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available 7
through September 30, 2026, and of which $791,000,000 8
shall become available on October 1, 2025, and shall re-9
main available through September 30, 2026: Provided, 10
That up to $16,100,000 shall be available for innovation 11
and modernization grants under such section 114(e) of the 12
Perkins Act: Provided further, That of the amounts made 13
available for AEFLA, $13,712,000 shall be for national 14
leadership activities under section 242. 15
S
TUDENTFINANCIALASSISTANCE 16
For carrying out subparts 1, 3, and 10 of part A, 17
and part C of title IV of the HEA, $24,615,352,000 which 18
shall remain available through September 30, 2026. 19
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall 20
be eligible during award year 2025–2026 shall be $6,435. 21
S
TUDENTAIDADMINISTRATION 22
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out part 23
D of title I, and subparts 1, 3, 9, and 10 of part A, and 24
parts B, C, D, and E of title IV of the HEA, and subpart 25 150 
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1 of part A of title VII of the Public Health Service Act, 1
$2,158,943,000, to remain available through September 2
30, 2026: Provided, That the Secretary shall allocate new 3
student loan borrower accounts to eligible student loan 4
servicers on the basis of their past performance compared 5
to all loan servicers utilizing established common metrics, 6
and on the basis of the capacity of each servicer to process 7
new and existing accounts: Provided further, That in order 8
to promote accountability and high-quality service to bor-9
rowers, the Secretary shall not award funding for any con-10
tract solicitation for a new Federal student loan servicing 11
environment, including the solicitation for the Federal 12
Student Aid (FSA) Next Generation Processing and Serv-13
icing Environment, unless such an environment provides 14
for the participation of multiple student loan servicers that 15
contract directly with the Department of Education to 16
manage a unique portfolio of borrower accounts and the 17
full life-cycle of loans from disbursement to pay-off with 18
certain limited exceptions, and allocates student loan bor-19
rower accounts to eligible student loan servicers based on 20
performance: Provided further, That the Department shall 21
re-allocate accounts from servicers for recurring non-com-22
pliance with FSA guidelines, contractual requirements, 23
and applicable laws, including for failure to sufficiently in-24
form borrowers of available repayment options: Provided 25 151 
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further, That such servicers shall be evaluated based on 1
their ability to meet contract requirements (including an 2
understanding of Federal and State law), future perform-3
ance on the contracts, and history of compliance with ap-4
plicable consumer protections laws: Provided further, That 5
to the extent FSA permits student loan servicing subcon-6
tracting, FSA shall hold prime contractors accountable for 7
meeting the requirements of the contract, and the per-8
formance and expectations of subcontractors shall be ac-9
counted for in the prime contract and in the overall per-10
formance of the prime contractor: Provided further, That 11
FSA shall ensure that the Next Generation Processing 12
and Servicing Environment, or any new Federal loan serv-13
icing environment, incentivize more support to borrowers 14
at risk of delinquency or default: Provided further, That 15
FSA shall ensure that in such environment contractors 16
have the capacity to meet and are held accountable for 17
performance on service levels; are held accountable for and 18
have a history of compliance with applicable consumer pro-19
tection laws; and have relevant experience and dem-20
onstrated effectiveness: Provided further, That the Sec-21
retary shall provide quarterly briefings to the Committees 22
on Appropriations and Education and the Workforce of 23
the House of Representatives and the Committees on Ap-24
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of the Senate on general progress related to implementa-1
tion of Federal student loan servicing contracts: Provided 2
further, That FSA shall strengthen transparency through 3
expanded publication of aggregate data on student loan 4
and servicer performance: Provided further, That 5
$60,000,000 shall be for ensuring the continuation of stu-6
dent loan servicing activities, including supporting bor-7
rowers reentering repayment: Provided further, That 8
$40,000,000 shall be for the adjudication and processing 9
of borrower defense claims for class members under the 10
settlement agreement in Sweet v. Cardona, No. 3:19–cv– 11
3674 (N.D. Cal.): Provided further, That the limitation in 12
section 302 of this Act regarding transfers increasing any 13
appropriation shall apply to transfers to appropriations 14
under this heading by substituting ‘‘10 percent’’ for ‘‘3 15
percent’’ for the purposes of the continuation of basic op-16
erations, including student loan servicing, business process 17
operations, digital customer care, common origination and 18
disbursement, cybersecurity activities, and information 19
technology systems: Provided further, That not later than 20
45 days after enactment of this Act, FSA shall provide 21
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and the Senate a detailed spend plan of an-23
ticipated uses of funds made available in this account for 24
fiscal year 2025 and provide quarterly updates on this 25 153 
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plan (including contracts awarded, change orders, bonuses 1
paid to staff, reorganization costs, and any other activity 2
carried out using amounts provided under this heading for 3
fiscal year 2025) no later than 10 days prior to the start 4
of such quarter: Provided further, That FSA shall notify 5
the Committees within 10 days of any modification of such 6
spend plan that exceeds five percent of the amount appro-7
priated under the heading ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’: 8
Provided further, That the FSA Next Generation Proc-9
essing and Servicing Environment, or any new Federal 10
student loan servicing environment, shall include account-11
ability measures that account for the performance of the 12
portfolio and contractor compliance with FSA guidelines. 13
H
IGHEREDUCATION 14
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-15
vided, titles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the HEA, 16
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 17
1961, and section 117 of the Perkins Act, 18
$3,352,102,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 19
other provision of law, funds made available in this Act 20
to carry out title VI of the HEA and section 102(b)(6) 21
of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 22
1961 may be used to support visits and study in foreign 23
countries by individuals who are participating in advanced 24
foreign language training and international studies in 25 154 
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areas that are vital to United States national security and 1
who plan to apply their language skills and knowledge of 2
these countries in the fields of government, the profes-3
sions, or international development: Provided further, That 4
of the funds referred to in the preceding proviso up to 5
1 percent may be used for program evaluation, national 6
outreach, and information dissemination activities: Pro-7
vided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds made 8
available under chapter 2 of subpart 2 of part A of title 9
IV of the HEA may be used for evaluation: Provided fur-10
ther, That section 313(d) of the HEA shall not apply to 11
an institution of higher education that is eligible to receive 12
funding under section 318 of the HEA: Provided further, 13
That amounts made available for carrying out section 14
419N of the HEA may be awarded notwithstanding the 15
limitations in section 419N(b)(2) of the HEA: Provided 16
further, That of the amounts made available under this 17
heading, $206,150,000 shall be used for the projects, and 18
in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Congression-19
ally Directed Spending’’ included in the report accom-20
panying this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds 21
made available for projects described in the preceding pro-22
viso shall be subject to section 302 of this Act : Provided 23
further, That activities authorized under sections 24
317(c)(2)(B), 319(c)(2)(B), and 320(c)(2)(B) of the HEA 25 155 
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may include construction and maintenance in classrooms, 1
libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities. 2
H
OWARDUNIVERSITY 3
For partial support of Howard University, 4
$297,018,000, of which not less than $3,405,000 shall be 5
for a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard 6
University Endowment Act and shall remain available 7
until expended. 8
C
OLLEGEHOUSING ANDACADEMICFACILITIESLOANS 9
P
ROGRAM 10
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out ac-11
tivities related to existing facility loans pursuant to section 12
121 of the HEA, $298,000. 13
H
ISTORICALLYBLACKCOLLEGE ANDUNIVERSITY 14
C
APITALFINANCINGPROGRAMACCOUNT 15
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $20,150,000, as au-16
thorized pursuant to part D of title III of the HEA, which 17
shall remain available through September 30, 2026: Pro-18
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 19
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-20
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 21
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 22
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 23
$344,444,444: Provided further, That these funds may be 24
used to support loans to public and private Historically 25 156 
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Black Colleges and Universities without regard to the limi-1
tations within section 344(a) of the HEA. 2
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 3
the Historically Black College and University Capital Fi-4
nancing Program entered into pursuant to part D of title 5
III of the HEA, $528,000. 6
I
NSTITUTE OFEDUCATIONSCIENCES 7
For necessary expenses for the Institute of Education 8
Sciences as authorized by section 208 of the Department 9
of Education Organization Act and carrying out activities 10
authorized by the National Assessment of Educational 11
Progress Authorization Act, section 208 of the Edu-12
cational Technical Assistance Act of 2002, and section 13
664 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 14
$798,106,000, which shall remain available through Sep-15
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That funds available to carry 16
out section 208 of the Educational Technical Assistance 17
Act may be used to link Statewide elementary and sec-18
ondary data systems with early childhood, postsecondary, 19
and workforce data systems, or to further develop such 20
systems: Provided further, That up to $6,000,000 of the 21
funds available to carry out section 208 of the Educational 22
Technical Assistance Act may be used for awards to public 23
or private organizations or agencies to support activities 24 157 
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to improve data coordination, quality, and use at the local, 1
State, and national levels. 2
D
EPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 3
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 4
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-5
vided, the Department of Education Organization Act, in-6
cluding rental of conference rooms in the District of Co-7
lumbia and hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 8
$419,907,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 9
provision of law, none of the funds provided by this Act 10
or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the De-11
partment of Education available for obligation or expendi-12
ture in the current fiscal year may be used for any activity 13
relating to implementing a reorganization that decentral-14
izes, reduces the staffing level, or alters the responsibil-15
ities, structure, authority, or functionality of the Budget 16
Service of the Department of Education, relative to the 17
principal office functional statement, organization, and op-18
eration of the Budget Service as in effect on January 1, 19
2024: Provided further, That the preceding proviso shall 20
not apply to an internal reorganization of the Budget 21
Service that does not decentralize, reduce the staffing 22
level, or alter the overall responsibilities, authority, or 23
functionality of the Budget Service of the Department of 24
Education, relative to the principal office functional state-25 158 
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ment, staffing level, and operation of the Budget Service 1
as in effect on January 1, 2024: Provided further, That 2
none of the funds provided by this Act may be used to 3
support a number of non-career employees that is more 4
than the number of non-career employees as of December 5
31, 2022. 6
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 7
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil 8
Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department 9
of Education Organization Act, $150,000,000. 10
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 11
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector 12
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department 13
of Education Organization Act, $67,500,000, of which 14
$3,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 15
2026. 16
G
ENERALPROVISIONS 17
S
EC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 18
used to prevent the implementation of programs of vol-19
untary prayer and meditation in the public schools. 20
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 21
S
EC. 302. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-22
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 23
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-24
priated for the Department of Education in this Act may 25 159 
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be transferred between appropriations, but no such appro-1
priation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any 2
such transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority grant-3
ed by this section shall not be used to create any new pro-4
gram or to fund any project or activity for which no funds 5
are provided in this Act: Provided further, That the Com-6
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 7
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance 8
of any transfer. 9
S
EC. 303. Funds appropriated in this Act and con-10
solidated for evaluation purposes under section 8601(c) of 11
the ESEA shall be available from July 1, 2025, through 12
September 30, 2026. 13
S
EC. 304. (a) An institution of higher education that 14
maintains an endowment fund supported with funds ap-15
propriated for title III or V of the HEA for fiscal year 16
2025 may use the income from that fund to award schol-17
arships to students, subject to the limitation in section 18
331(c)(3)(B)(i) of the HEA. The use of such income for 19
such purposes, prior to the enactment of this Act, shall 20
be considered to have been an allowable use of that in-21
come, subject to that limitation. 22
(b) Subsection (a) shall be in effect until titles III 23
and V of the HEA are reauthorized. 24 160 
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SEC. 305. Section 114(f) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1
1011c(f)) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2025’’ for 2
‘‘2021’’. 3
S
EC. 306. Section 458(a)(4) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 4
1087h(a)) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2025’’ for 5
‘‘2021’’. 6
S
EC. 307. Funds appropriated in this Act under the 7
heading ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’ may be available 8
for payments for student loan servicing to an institution 9
of higher education that services outstanding Federal Per-10
kins Loans under part E of title IV of the Higher Edu-11
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087aa et seq.). 12
(RESCISSION) 13
S
EC. 308. Of the amounts appropriated under section 14
401(b)(7)(A)(ii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 15
U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(A)(ii)) for fiscal year 2025, 16
$15,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 17
S
EC. 309. Of the amounts made available in this title 18
under the heading ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’, 19
$2,300,000 shall be used by the Secretary of Education 20
to conduct outreach to borrowers of loans made under part 21
D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 who 22
may intend to qualify for loan cancellation under section 23
455(m) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)), to ensure that 24
borrowers are meeting the terms and conditions of such 25 161 
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loan cancellation: Provided, That the Secretary shall spe-1
cifically conduct outreach to assist borrowers who would 2
qualify for loan cancellation under section 455(m) of such 3
Act except that the borrower has made some, or all, of 4
the 120 required payments under a repayment plan that 5
is not described under section 455(m)(A) of such Act, to 6
encourage borrowers to enroll in a qualifying repayment 7
plan: Provided further, That the Secretary shall also com-8
municate to all Direct Loan borrowers the full require-9
ments of section 455(m) of such Act and improve the fil-10
ing of employment certification by providing improved out-11
reach and information such as outbound calls, electronic 12
communications, ensuring prominent access to program 13
requirements and benefits on each servicer’s website, and 14
creating an option for all borrowers to complete the entire 15
payment certification process electronically and on a cen-16
tralized website. 17
S
EC. 310. The Secretary may reserve not more than 18
0.5 percent from any amount made available in this Act 19
for an HEA program, except for any amounts made avail-20
able for subpart 1 of part A of title IV of the HEA, to 21
carry out rigorous and independent evaluations and to col-22
lect and analyze outcome data for any program authorized 23
by the HEA: Provided, That no funds made available in 24
this Act for the ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’ account 25 162 
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shall be subject to the reservation under this section: Pro-1
vided further, That any funds reserved under this section 2
shall be available through September 30, 2027: Provided 3
further, That if, under any other provision of law, funds 4
are authorized to be reserved or used for evaluation activi-5
ties with respect to a program or project, the Secretary 6
may also reserve funds for such program or project for 7
the purposes described in this section so long as the total 8
reservation of funds for such program or project does not 9
exceed any statutory limits on such reservations: Provided 10
further, That not later than 30 days prior to the initial 11
obligation of funds reserved under this section, the Sec-12
retary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 13
of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Com-14
mittee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the 15
Senate, and the Committee on Education and the Work-16
force of the House of Representatives a plan that identi-17
fies the source and amount of funds reserved under this 18
section, the impact on program grantees if funds are with-19
held for the purposes of this section, and the activities to 20
be carried out with such funds. 21
S
EC. 311. In addition to amounts otherwise appro-22
priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Innovation and 23
Improvement’’ for purposes authorized by the Elementary 24
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, there are hereby 25 163 
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appropriated an additional $116,461,000 which shall be 1
used for the projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 2
table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included 3
in the report accompanying this Act: Provided, That none 4
of the funds made available for such projects shall be sub-5
ject to section 302 of this Act. 6
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 7
S
EC. 312. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 8
for ‘‘Institute of Education Sciences’’, up to $21,390,000 9
shall be available for the Secretary of Education (‘‘the 10
Secretary’’) to provide support services to the Institute of 11
Education Sciences (including, but not limited to informa-12
tion technology services, lease or procurement of office 13
space, human resource services, financial management 14
services, financial systems support, budget formulation 15
and execution, legal counsel, equal employment oppor-16
tunity services, physical security, facilities management, 17
acquisition and contract management, grants administra-18
tion and policy, and enterprise risk management): Pro-19
vided, That the Secretary shall calculate the actual 20
amounts obligated and expended for such support services 21
by using a standard Department of Education method-22
ology for allocating the cost of all such support services: 23
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer any 24
amounts available for IES support services in excess of 25 164 
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actual amounts needed for IES support services, as so cal-1
culated, to the ‘‘Program Administration’’ account from 2
the ‘‘Institute of Education Sciences’’ account: Provided 3
further, That in order to address any shortfall between 4
amounts available for IES support services and amounts 5
needed for IES support services, as so calculated, the Sec-6
retary may transfer necessary amounts to the ‘‘Institute 7
of Education Sciences’’ account from the ‘‘Program Ad-8
ministration’’ account: Provided further, That the Com-9
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 10
and the Senate are notified at least 14 days in advance 11
of any transfer made pursuant to this section. 12
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-13
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TITLE IV 1
RELATED AGENCIES 2
C
OMMITTEE FORPURCHASEFROMPEOPLEWHOARE 3
B
LIND ORSEVERELYDISABLED 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For expenses necessary for the Committee for Pur-6
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 7
(referred to in this title as ‘‘the Committee’’) established 8
under section 8502 of title 41, United States Code, 9
$13,124,000: Provided, That in order to authorize any 10
central nonprofit agency designated pursuant to section 11
8503(c) of title 41, United States Code, to perform re-12
quirements of the Committee as prescribed under section 13
51–3.2 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, the Com-14
mittee shall enter into a written agreement with any such 15
central nonprofit agency: Provided further, That such 16
agreement shall contain such auditing, oversight, and re-17
porting provisions as necessary to implement chapter 85 18
of title 41, United States Code: Provided further, That 19
such agreement shall include the elements listed under the 20
heading ‘‘Committee For Purchase From People Who Are 21
Blind or Severely Disabled—Written Agreement Ele-22
ments’’ in the explanatory statement described in section 23
4 of Public Law 114–113 (in the matter preceding division 24
A of that consolidated Act): Provided further, That any 25 166 
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such central nonprofit agency may not charge a fee under 1
section 51–3.5 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, 2
prior to executing a written agreement with the Com-3
mittee: Provided further, That no less than $3,150,000 4
shall be available for the Office of Inspector General. 5
C
ORPORATION FORNATIONAL ANDCOMMUNITYSERVICE 6
OPERATING EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-8
tional and Community Service (referred to in this title as 9
‘‘CNCS’’) to carry out the Domestic Volunteer Service Act 10
of 1973 (referred to in this title as ‘‘1973 Act’’) and the 11
National and Community Service Act of 1990 (referred 12
to in this title as ‘‘1990 Act’’), $1,010,525,000, notwith-13
standing sections 198B(b)(3), 198S(g), 501(a)(4)(C), and 14
501(a)(4)(F) of the 1990 Act: Provided, That of the 15
amounts provided under this heading: (1) up to 1 percent 16
of program grant funds may be used to defray the costs 17
of conducting grant application reviews, including the use 18
of outside peer reviewers and electronic management of 19
the grants cycle; (2) $19,538,000 shall be available to pro-20
vide assistance to State commissions on national and com-21
munity service, under section 126(a) of the 1990 Act and 22
notwithstanding section 501(a)(5)(B) of the 1990 Act; (3) 23
$37,735,000 shall be available to carry out subtitle E of 24
the 1990 Act; and (4) $8,558,000 shall be available for 25 167 
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expenses authorized under section 501(a)(4)(F) of the 1
1990 Act, which, notwithstanding the provisions of section 2
198P shall be awarded by CNCS on a competitive basis: 3
Provided further, That for the purposes of carrying out 4
the 1990 Act, satisfying the requirements in section 5
122(c)(1)(D) may include a determination of need by the 6
local community. 7
PAYMENT TO THE NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST 8
(INCLUDING RESCISSION AND TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For payment to the National Service Trust estab-10
lished under subtitle D of title I of the 1990 Act, 11
$160,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-12
vided, That CNCS may transfer additional funds from the 13
amount provided within ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ allocated 14
to grants under subtitle C of title I of the 1990 Act to 15
the National Service Trust upon determination that such 16
transfer is necessary to support the activities of national 17
service participants and after notice is transmitted to the 18
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-19
atives and the Senate: Provided further, That amounts ap-20
propriated for or transferred to the National Service Trust 21
may be invested under section 145(b) of the 1990 Act 22
without regard to the requirement to apportion funds 23
under 31 U.S.C. 1513(b): Provided further, That of the 24
discretionary unobligated balances from amounts made 25 168 
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available in prior appropriations Acts to the National 1
Service Trust, $15,000,000 are hereby permanently re-2
scinded, except that no amounts may be rescinded from 3
amounts that were previously designated by the Congress 4
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-5
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 6
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 7
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 8
For necessary expenses of administration as provided 9
under section 501(a)(5) of the 1990 Act and under section 10
504(a) of the 1973 Act, including payment of salaries, au-11
thorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental 12
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, the em-13
ployment of experts and consultants authorized under 5 14
U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official recep-15
tion and representation expenses, $99,686,000. 16
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 18
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 19
$7,595,000. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 21
S
EC. 401. CNCS shall make any significant changes 22
to program requirements, service delivery or policy only 23
through public notice and comment rulemaking. For fiscal 24
year 2025, during any grant selection process, an officer 25 169 
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or employee of CNCS shall not knowingly disclose any cov-1
ered grant selection information regarding such selection, 2
directly or indirectly, to any person other than an officer 3
or employee of CNCS that is authorized by CNCS to re-4
ceive such information. 5
S
EC. 402. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants 6
under the National Service Trust program shall meet an 7
overall minimum share requirement of 24 percent for the 8
first 3 years that they receive AmeriCorps funding, and 9
thereafter shall meet the overall minimum share require-10
ment as provided in section 2521.60 of title 45, Code of 11
Federal Regulations, without regard to the operating costs 12
match requirement in section 121(e) or the member sup-13
port Federal share limitations in section 140 of the 1990 14
Act, and subject to partial waiver consistent with section 15
2521.70 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations. 16
S
EC. 403. Donations made to CNCS under section 17
196 of the 1990 Act for the purposes of financing pro-18
grams and operations under titles I and II of the 1973 19
Act or subtitle B, C, D, or E of title I of the 1990 Act 20
shall be used to supplement and not supplant current pro-21
grams and operations. 22
S
EC. 404. In addition to the requirements in section 23
146(a) of the 1990 Act, use of an educational award for 24
the purpose described in section 148(a)(4) shall be limited 25 170 
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to individuals who are veterans as defined under section 1
101 of the Act. 2
S
EC. 405. For the purpose of carrying out section 3
189D of the 1990 Act— 4
(1) entities described in paragraph (a) of such 5
section shall be considered ‘‘qualified entities’’ under 6
section 3 of the National Child Protection Act of 7
1993 (‘‘NCPA’’); 8
(2) individuals described in such section shall 9
be considered ‘‘volunteers’’ under section 3 of 10
NCPA; and 11
(3) State Commissions on National and Com-12
munity Service established pursuant to section 178 13
of the 1990 Act, are authorized to receive criminal 14
history record information, consistent with Public 15
Law 92–544. 16
S
EC. 406. Notwithstanding sections 139(b), 146, and 17
147 of the 1990 Act, the Corporation may determine the 18
number of hours required to successfully complete any 19
term of service of less than 1,700 hours, except that any 20
reduction of the required term of service below 1,700 21
hours shall include a corresponding reduction in the 22
amount of any national service educational award that 23
may be available under subtitle D with regard to that serv-24
ice. 25 171 
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SEC. 407. Section 148(f)(2)(A)(i) of the 1990 Act 1
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘an approved national 2
service position’’ for ‘‘a national service program that re-3
ceives grants under subtitle C’’. 4
C
ORPORATION FORPUBLICBROADCASTING 5
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broad-6
casting (‘‘CPB’’), as authorized by the Communications 7
Act of 1934, an amount which shall be available within 8
limitations specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2027, 9
$535,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds made 10
available to CPB by this Act shall be used to pay for re-11
ceptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment for 12
Government officials or employees: Provided further, That 13
none of the funds made available to CPB by this Act shall 14
be available or used to aid or support any program or ac-15
tivity from which any person is excluded, or is denied ben-16
efits, or is discriminated against, on the basis of race, 17
color, national origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, 18
That none of the funds made available to CPB by this 19
Act shall be used to apply any political test or qualification 20
in selecting, appointing, promoting, or taking any other 21
personnel action with respect to officers, agents, and em-22
ployees of CPB. 23
In addition, for the costs associated with replacing 24
and upgrading the public broadcasting interconnection 25 172 
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system and other technologies and services that create in-1
frastructure and efficiencies within the public media sys-2
tem, $60,000,000. 3
F
EDERALMEDIATION ANDCONCILIATIONSERVICE 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation 6
and Conciliation Service (‘‘Service’’) to carry out the func-7
tions vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 8
1947, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; for ex-9
penses necessary for the Labor-Management Cooperation 10
Act of 1978; and for expenses necessary for the Service 11
to carry out the functions vested in it by the Civil Service 12
Reform Act, $53,705,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 13
31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost recovery, for 14
special training activities and other conflict resolution 15
services and technical assistance, including those provided 16
to foreign governments and international organizations, 17
and for arbitration services shall be credited to and 18
merged with this account, and shall remain available until 19
expended: Provided further, That fees for arbitration serv-20
ices shall be available only for education, training, and 21
professional development of the agency workforce: Pro-22
vided further, That the Director of the Service is author-23
ized to accept and use on behalf of the United States gifts 24
of services and real, personal, or other property in the aid 25 173 
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of any projects or functions within the Director’s jurisdic-1
tion. 2
F
EDERALMINESAFETY ANDHEALTHREVIEW 3
C
OMMISSION 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety 6
and Health Review Commission, $17,572,000. 7
I
NSTITUTE OFMUSEUM ANDLIBRARYSERVICES 8
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES : GRANTS 9
AND ADMINISTRATION 10
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services 11
Act of 1996 and the National Museum of African Amer-12
ican History and Culture Act, $294,800,000. 13
M
EDICAID ANDCHIPPAYMENT ANDACCESS 14
C
OMMISSION 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1900 of 17
the Social Security Act, $10,000,000. 18
M
EDICAREPAYMENTADVISORYCOMMISSION 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of 21
the Social Security Act, $14,477,000, to be transferred to 22
this appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance 23
Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical In-24
surance Trust Fund. 25 174 
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NATIONALCOUNCIL ONDISABILITY 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For expenses necessary for the National Council on 3
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation 4
Act of 1973, $4,000,000. 5
N
ATIONALLABORRELATIONSBOARD 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Rela-8
tions Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the 9
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and other laws, 10
$299,224,000, of which $1,860,000 shall be for the Office 11
of the Inspector General: Provided, That no part of this 12
appropriation shall be available to organize or assist in 13
organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection with 14
investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning 15
bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers as re-16
ferred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935, and 17
as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 18
1947, and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 19
25, 1938, and including in said definition employees en-20
gaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, 21
reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated on 22
a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95 percent of the 23
water stored or supplied thereby is used for farming pur-24
poses. 25 175 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 1
S
EC. 408. None of the funds provided by this Act 2
or previous Acts making appropriations for the National 3
Labor Relations Board may be used to issue any new ad-4
ministrative directive or regulation that would provide em-5
ployees any means of voting through any electronic means 6
in an election to determine a representative for the pur-7
poses of collective bargaining. 8
N
ATIONALMEDIATIONBOARD 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 11
of the Railway Labor Act, including emergency boards ap-12
pointed by the President, $15,113,000. 13
O
CCUPATIONALSAFETY ANDHEALTHREVIEW 14
C
OMMISSION 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety 17
and Health Review Commission, $15,449,000. 18
R
AILROADRETIREMENTBOARD 19
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 20
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Ac-21
count, authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Re-22
tirement Act of 1974, $7,000,000, which shall include 23
amounts becoming available in fiscal year 2025 pursuant 24
to section 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addi-25 176 
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tion, an amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the amount 1
provided herein, shall be available proportional to the 2
amount by which the product of recipients and the average 3
benefit received exceeds the amount available for payment 4
of vested dual benefits: Provided, That the total amount 5
provided herein shall be credited in 12 approximately 6
equal amounts on the first day of each month in the fiscal 7
year. 8
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT 9
ACCOUNTS 10
For payment to the accounts established in the 11
Treasury for the payment of benefits under the Railroad 12
Retirement Act for interest earned on unnegotiated 13
checks, $150,000, to remain available through September 14
30, 2026, which shall be the maximum amount available 15
for payment pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98– 16
76. 17
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 18
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement 19
Board (‘‘Board’’) for administration of the Railroad Re-20
tirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance 21
Act, $129,000,000, to be derived in such amounts as de-22
termined by the Board from the railroad retirement ac-23
counts and from moneys credited to the railroad unem-24
ployment insurance administration fund: Provided, That 25 177 
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notwithstanding section 7(b)(9) of the Railroad Retire-1
ment Act this limitation may be used to hire attorneys 2
only through the excepted service: Provided further, That 3
the previous proviso shall not change the status under 4
Federal employment laws of any attorney hired by the 5
Railroad Retirement Board prior to January 1, 2013: Pro-6
vided further, That notwithstanding section 7(b)(9) of the 7
Railroad Retirement Act, this limitation may be used to 8
hire students attending qualifying educational institutions 9
or individuals who have recently completed qualifying edu-10
cational programs using current excepted hiring authori-11
ties established by the Office of Personnel Management: 12
Provided further, That of the unobligated balances of 13
funds provided under this heading at the end of fiscal year 14
2025 not needed for fiscal year 2025, not to exceed 15
$2,680,000 shall remain available until expended for infor-16
mation technology improvements and investments. 17
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 18
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector 19
General for audit, investigatory and review activities, as 20
authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, not more 21
than $14,000,000, to be derived from the railroad retire-22
ment accounts and railroad unemployment insurance ac-23
count. 24 178 
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SOCIALSECURITYADMINISTRATION 1
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 2
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 3
Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-4
ance Trust Fund, as provided under sections 201(m) and 5
1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, $15,000,000. 6
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 7
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Se-8
curity Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 9
of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of 10
Public Law 95–216, including payment to the Social Secu-11
rity trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pur-12
suant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, 13
$46,388,833,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-14
vided, That any portion of the funds provided to a State 15
in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State 16
during that year shall be returned to the Treasury: Pro-17
vided further, That not more than $91,000,000 shall be 18
available for research and demonstrations under sections 19
1110, 1115, and 1144 of the Social Security Act, and re-20
main available through September 30, 2027. 21
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 22
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the So-23
cial Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the 24
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 25 179 
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For making benefit payments under title XVI of the 1
Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2
2026, $22,100,000,000, to remain available until ex-3
pended. 4
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 6
For necessary expenses, including the hire and pur-7
chase of two passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed 8
$20,000 for official reception and representation expenses, 9
not more than $14,564,978,000 may be expended, as au-10
thorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, 11
from any one or all of the trust funds referred to in such 12
section: Provided, That not less than $2,993,000 shall be 13
for the Social Security Advisory Board: Provided further, 14
That unobligated balances of funds provided under this 15
paragraph at the end of fiscal year 2025 not needed for 16
fiscal year 2025 shall remain available until expended to 17
invest in the Social Security Administration information 18
technology and telecommunications hardware and soft-19
ware infrastructure, including related equipment and non- 20
payroll administrative expenses associated solely with this 21
information technology and telecommunications infra-22
structure, except unobligated balances of funds described 23
in the first proviso of this paragraph at the end of fiscal 24
year 2025 not needed for fiscal year 2025 shall remain 25 180 
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available until expended to invest in the Social Security 1
Advisory Board information technology: Provided further, 2
That the Commissioner of Social Security shall notify the 3
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-4
atives and the Senate prior to making unobligated bal-5
ances available under the authority in the previous pro-6
viso: Provided further, That reimbursement to the trust 7
funds under this heading for expenditures for official time 8
for employees of the Social Security Administration pursu-9
ant to 5 U.S.C. 7131, and for facilities or support services 10
for labor organizations pursuant to policies, regulations, 11
or procedures referred to in section 7135(b) of such title 12
shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, with inter-13
est, from amounts in the general fund not otherwise ap-14
propriated, as soon as possible after such expenditures are 15
made. 16
From funds provided under the first paragraph under 17
this heading, not more than $1,903,000,000, to remain 18
available through March 31, 2026, is for the costs associ-19
ated with continuing disability reviews under titles II and 20
XVI of the Social Security Act, including work-related 21
continuing disability reviews to determine whether earn-22
ings derived from services demonstrate an individual’s 23
ability to engage in substantial gainful activity, for the 24
cost associated with conducting redeterminations of eligi-25 181 
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bility under title XVI of the Social Security Act, for the 1
cost of co-operative disability investigation units, and for 2
the cost associated with the prosecution of fraud in the 3
programs and operations of the Social Security Adminis-4
tration by Special Assistant United States Attorneys: Pro-5
vided, That, of such amount, $273,000,000 is provided to 6
meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(B)(ii)(III) of the Bal-7
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 8
and $1,630,000,000 is additional new budget authority 9
specified for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(B) of such Act: 10
Provided further, That, of the additional new budget au-11
thority described in the preceding proviso, up to 12
$19,600,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspec-13
tor General’’, Social Security Administration, for the cost 14
of jointly operated co-operative disability investigation 15
units: Provided further, That such transfer authority is in 16
addition to any other transfer authority provided by law: 17
Provided further, That the Commissioner shall provide to 18
the Congress (at the conclusion of the fiscal year) a report 19
on the obligation and expenditure of these funds, similar 20
to the reports that were required by section 103(d)(2) of 21
Public Law 104–121 for fiscal years 1996 through 2002: 22
Provided further, That none of the funds described in this 23
paragraph shall be available for transfer or reprogram-24
ming except as specified in this paragraph. 25 182 
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In addition, $170,000,000 to be derived from admin-1
istration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary pay-2
ment collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social 3
Security Act or section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, 4
which shall remain available until expended: Provided, 5
That to the extent that the amounts collected pursuant 6
to such sections in fiscal year 2025 exceed $170,000,000, 7
the amounts shall be available in fiscal year 2026 only 8
to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts. 9
In addition, up to $1,000,000 to be derived from fees 10
collected pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security 11
Protection Act, which shall remain available until ex-12
pended. 13
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 15
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector 16
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 17
General Act of 1978, $32,000,000, together with not to 18
exceed $82,665,000, to be transferred and expended as 19
authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act 20
from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 21
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund: 22
Provided, That $2,000,000 shall remain available until ex-23
pended for information technology modernization, includ-24
ing related hardware and software infrastructure and 25 183 
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equipment, and for administrative expenses directly asso-1
ciated with information technology modernization. 2
In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of 3
the total provided in this appropriation may be transferred 4
from the ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’, Social 5
Security Administration, to be merged with this account, 6
to be available for the time and purposes for which this 7
account is available: Provided, That notice of such trans-8
fers shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on 9
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 10
Senate at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 11 184 
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TITLE V 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
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EC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 4
Human Services, and Education are authorized to transfer 5
unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts 6
corresponding to current appropriations provided in this 7
Act. Such transferred balances shall be used for the same 8
purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they 9
were originally appropriated. 10
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EC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in 11
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 12
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 13
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EC. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained 14
in this Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of 15
Public Law 111–148 shall be used, other than for normal 16
and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for pub-17
licity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, dis-18
tribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, 19
electronic communication, radio, television, or video pres-20
entation designed to support or defeat the enactment of 21
legislation before the Congress or any State or local legis-22
lature or legislative body, except in presentation to the 23
Congress or any State or local legislature itself, or de-24
signed to support or defeat any proposed or pending regu-25 185 
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lation, administrative action, or order issued by the execu-1
tive branch of any State or local government, except in 2
presentation to the executive branch of any State or local 3
government itself. 4
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this 5
Act or transferred pursuant to section 4002 of Public Law 6
111–148 shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of 7
any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such 8
recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the 9
enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, ad-10
ministrative action, or Executive order proposed or pend-11
ing before the Congress or any State government, State 12
legislature or local legislature or legislative body, other 13
than for normal and recognized executive-legislative rela-14
tionships or participation by an agency or officer of a 15
State, local or tribal government in policymaking and ad-16
ministrative processes within the executive branch of that 17
government. 18
(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall 19
include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, 20
pending or future Federal, State or local tax increase, or 21
any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restric-22
tion on any legal consumer product, including its sale or 23
marketing, including but not limited to the advocacy or 24
promotion of gun control. 25 186 
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SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education 1
are authorized to make available not to exceed $33,000 2
and $20,000, respectively, from funds available for sala-3
ries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for 4
official reception and representation expenses; the Direc-5
tor of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is 6
authorized to make available for official reception and rep-7
resentation expenses not to exceed $5,000 from the funds 8
available for ‘‘Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 9
Salaries and Expenses’’; and the Chairman of the Na-10
tional Mediation Board is authorized to make available for 11
official reception and representation expenses not to ex-12
ceed $5,000 from funds available for ‘‘National Mediation 13
Board, Salaries and Expenses’’. 14
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EC. 505. When issuing statements, press releases, 15
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-16
ments describing projects or programs funded in whole or 17
in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal 18
funds included in this Act, including but not limited to 19
State and local governments and recipients of Federal re-20
search grants, shall clearly state— 21
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the pro-22
gram or project which will be financed with Federal 23
money; 24 187 
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(2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 1
project or program; and 2
(3) percentage and dollar amount of the total 3
costs of the project or program that will be financed 4
by non-governmental sources. 5
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EC. 506. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 6
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which 7
funds are appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for 8
any abortion. 9
(b) None of the funds appropriated in this Act, and 10
none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 11
appropriated in this Act, shall be expended for health ben-12
efits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 13
(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the 14
package of services covered by a managed care provider 15
or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrange-16
ment. 17
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EC. 507. (a) The limitations established in the pre-18
ceding section shall not apply to an abortion— 19
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of 20
rape or incest; or 21
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a 22
physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, 23
including a life-endangering physical condition 24
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that 25 188 
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would, as certified by a physician, place the woman 1
in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. 2
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-3
strued as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, 4
entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds 5
(other than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid 6
matching funds). 7
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be con-8
strued as restricting the ability of any managed care pro-9
vider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a 10
State or locality to contract separately with such a pro-11
vider for such coverage with State funds (other than a 12
State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching 13
funds). 14
(d)(1) None of the funds made available in this Act 15
may be made available to a Federal agency or program, 16
or to a State or local government, if such agency, program, 17
or government subjects any institutional or individual 18
health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the 19
health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide cov-20
erage of, or refer for abortions. 21
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘health care entity’’ 22
includes an individual physician or other health care pro-23
fessional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a 24
health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, 25 189 
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or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or 1
plan. 2
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EC. 508. (a) None of the funds made available in 3
this Act may be used for— 4
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos 5
for research purposes; or 6
(2) research in which a human embryo or em-7
bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly sub-8
jected to risk of injury or death greater than that 9
allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 10
CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public 11
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). 12
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human 13
embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected 14
as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of 15
the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, 16
parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or 17
more human gametes or human diploid cells. 18
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EC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in 19
this Act may be used for any activity that promotes the 20
legalization of any drug or other substance included in 21
schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances estab-22
lished under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act 23
except for normal and recognized executive-congressional 24
communications. 25 190 
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(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply 1
when there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic 2
advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or 3
that federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted 4
to determine therapeutic advantage. 5
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EC. 510. None of the funds made available in this 6
Act may be used to promulgate or adopt any final stand-7
ard under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act pro-8
viding for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique 9
health identifier for an individual (except in an individ-10
ual’s capacity as an employer or a health care provider), 11
until legislation is enacted specifically approving the 12
standard. 13
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EC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 14
Act may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew 15
a contract with an entity if— 16
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with 17
the United States and is subject to the requirement 18
in 38 U.S.C. 4212(d) regarding submission of an 19
annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning 20
employment of certain veterans; and 21
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as 22
required by that section for the most recent year for 23
which such requirement was applicable to such enti-24
ty. 25 191 
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SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 1
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-2
strumentality of the United States Government, except 3
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-4
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 5
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EC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act 7
may be made available to any library covered by para-8
graph (1) of section 224(f) of such Act, as amended by 9
the Children’s Internet Protection Act, unless such library 10
has made the certifications required by paragraph (4) of 11
such section. 12
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EC. 514. (a) None of the funds provided under this 13
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 14
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-15
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2025, or provided from 16
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 17
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 18
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 19
through a reprogramming of funds that— 20
(1) creates new programs; 21
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 22
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 23
for any project or activity for which funds have been 24
denied or restricted; 25 192 
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(4) relocates an office or employees; 1
(5) reorganizes or renames offices; 2
(6) reorganizes programs or activities; or 3
(7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 4
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 5
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 6
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 7
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 8
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-9
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 10
of such reprogramming. 11
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 12
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-13
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 14
or expenditure in fiscal year 2025, or provided from any 15
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 16
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 17
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 18
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 19
or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 20
(1) augments existing programs, projects (in-21
cluding construction projects), or activities; 22
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-23
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-24
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 25 193 
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(3) results from any general savings from a re-1
duction in personnel which would result in a change 2
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-3
proved by Congress; 4
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 5
Representatives and the Senate are consulted 15 days in 6
advance of such reprogramming or of an announcement 7
of intent relating to such reprogramming, whichever oc-8
curs earlier, and are notified in writing 10 days in advance 9
of such reprogramming. 10
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EC. 515. (a) None of the funds made available in 11
this Act may be used to request that a candidate for ap-12
pointment to a Federal scientific advisory committee dis-13
close the political affiliation or voting history of the can-14
didate or the position that the candidate holds with re-15
spect to political issues not directly related to and nec-16
essary for the work of the committee involved. 17
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may 18
be used to disseminate information that is deliberately 19
false or misleading. 20
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EC. 516. Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 21
each department and related agency funded through this 22
Act shall submit an operating plan that details at the pro-23
gram, project, and activity level any funding allocations 24
for fiscal year 2025 that are different than those specified 25 194 
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in this Act, the detailed table in the report accompanying 1
this Act or the fiscal year 2025 budget request. 2
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EC. 517. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and 3
Human Services, and Education shall each prepare and 4
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 5
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the number 6
and amount of contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-7
ments exceeding $500,000, individually or in total for a 8
particular project, activity, or programmatic initiative, in 9
value and awarded by the Department on a non-competi-10
tive basis during each quarter of fiscal year 2025, but not 11
to include grants awarded on a formula basis or directed 12
by law. Such report shall include the name of the con-13
tractor or grantee, the amount of funding, the govern-14
mental purpose, including a justification for issuing the 15
award on a non-competitive basis. Such report shall be 16
transmitted to the Committees within 30 days after the 17
end of the quarter for which the report is submitted. 18
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EC. 518. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 19
shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of So-20
cial Security, for purposes of administering Social Security 21
benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, 22
to process any claim for credit for a quarter of coverage 23
based on work performed under a social security account 24
number that is not the claimant’s number and the per-25 195 
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formance of such work under such number has formed the 1
basis for a conviction of the claimant of a violation of sec-2
tion 208(a)(6) or (7) of the Social Security Act. 3
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EC. 519. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 4
may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or 5
the Social Security Administration to pay the compensa-6
tion of employees of the Social Security Administration 7
to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any 8
agreement between the United States and Mexico estab-9
lishing totalization arrangements between the social secu-10
rity system established by title II of the Social Security 11
Act and the social security system of Mexico, which would 12
not otherwise be payable but for such agreement. 13
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EC. 520. (a) None of the funds made available in 14
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 15
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 16
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 17
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 18
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 19
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-20
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 21
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EC. 521. For purposes of carrying out Executive 22
Order 13589, Office of Management and Budget Memo-23
randum M–12–12 dated May 11, 2012, and requirements 24 196 
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contained in the annual appropriations bills relating to 1
conference attendance and expenditures: 2
(1) the operating divisions of HHS shall be con-3
sidered independent agencies; and 4
(2) attendance at and support for scientific con-5
ferences shall be tabulated separately from and not 6
included in agency totals. 7
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EC. 522. Federal agencies funded under this Act 8
shall clearly state within the text, audio, or video used for 9
advertising or educational purposes, including emails or 10
Internet postings, that the communication is printed, pub-11
lished, or produced and disseminated at United States tax-12
payer expense. The funds used by a Federal agency to 13
carry out this requirement shall be derived from amounts 14
made available to the agency for advertising or other com-15
munications regarding the programs and activities of the 16
agency. 17
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EC. 523. (a) Federal agencies may use Federal dis-18
cretionary funds that are made available in this Act to 19
carry out up to 10 Performance Partnership Pilots. Such 20
Pilots shall be governed by the provisions of section 526 21
of division H of Public Law 113–76, except that in car-22
rying out such Pilots section 526 shall be applied by sub-23
stituting ‘‘Fiscal Year 2025’’ for ‘‘Fiscal Year 2014’’ in 24
the title of subsection (b) and by substituting ‘‘September 25 197 
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30, 2029’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2018’’ each place it ap-1
pears: Provided, That such pilots shall include commu-2
nities that have experienced civil unrest. 3
(b) In addition, Federal agencies may use Federal 4
discretionary funds that are made available in this Act to 5
participate in Performance Partnership Pilots that are 6
being carried out pursuant to the authority provided by 7
section 526 of division H of Public Law 113–76, section 8
524 of division G of Public Law 113–235, section 525 of 9
division H of Public Law 114–113, section 525 of division 10
H of Public Law 115–31, section 525 of division H of 11
Public Law 115–141, section 524 of division A of Public 12
Law 116–94, section 524 of division H of Public Law 13
116–260, section 523 of division H of Public Law 117– 14
103, section 523 of division H of Public Law 117–328, 15
and section 523 of division D of Public Law 118–47. 16
(c) Pilot sites selected under authorities in this Act 17
and prior appropriations Acts may be granted by relevant 18
agencies up to an additional 5 years to operate under such 19
authorities. 20
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EC. 524. Not later than 30 days after the end of 21
each calendar quarter, beginning with the first month of 22
fiscal year 2025 the Departments of Labor, Health and 23
Human Services and Education and the Social Security 24
Administration shall provide the Committees on Appro-25 198 
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priations of the House of Representatives and Senate a 1
report on the status of balances of appropriations: Pro-2
vided, That for balances that are unobligated and uncom-3
mitted, committed, and obligated but unexpended, the 4
monthly reports shall separately identify the amounts at-5
tributable to each source year of appropriation (beginning 6
with fiscal year 2012, or, to the extent feasible, earlier 7
fiscal years) from which balances were derived. 8
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EC. 525. The Departments of Labor, Health and 9
Human Services, and Education shall provide to the Com-10
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 11
and the Senate a comprehensive list of any new or com-12
petitive grant award notifications, including supplements, 13
issued at the discretion of such Departments not less than 14
3 full business days before any entity selected to receive 15
a grant award is announced by the Department or its of-16
fices (other than emergency response grants at any time 17
of the year or for grant awards made during the last 10 18
business days of the fiscal year, or if applicable, of the 19
program year). 20
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EC. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of 21
this Act, no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 22
to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic 23
injection of any illegal drug: Provided, That such limita-24
tion does not apply to the use of funds for elements of 25 199 
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a program other than making such purchases if the rel-1
evant State or local health department, in consultation 2
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, de-3
termines that the State or local jurisdiction, as applicable, 4
is experiencing, or is at risk for, a significant increase in 5
hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection 6
drug use, and such program is operating in accordance 7
with State and local law. 8
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EC. 527. Each department and related agency fund-9
ed through this Act shall provide answers to questions 10
submitted for the record by members of the Committee 11
within 45 business days after receipt. 12
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EC. 528. In addition to the amount otherwise avail-13
able for ‘‘National Labor Relations Board, Salaries and 14
Expenses’’, $5,000,000 shall be available for obligation 15
through September 30, 2027, solely for the costs necessary 16
for information technology modernization associated with 17
the Agency’s case management system, including hard-18
ware and software infrastructure and equipment, and nec-19
essary and direct oversight of such modernization efforts: 20
Provided, That none of the funds made available by this 21
section shall be used to supplant any other amounts within 22
such account. 23
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EC. 529. Of amounts deposited in the Child Enroll-24
ment Contingency Fund under section 2104(n)(2) of the 25 200 
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Social Security Act and the income derived from invest-1
ment of those funds pursuant to section 2104(n)(2)(C) of 2
that Act, $21,380,813,000 shall not be available for obli-3
gation in this fiscal year. 4
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EC. 530. Of the unobligated balances made available 5
by section 301(b)(3) of Public Law 114–10, 6
$2,028,187,000 shall not be available for obligation in this 7
fiscal year. 8
(RESCISSION) 9
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EC. 531. Of the unobligated balances of funds made 10
available by sections 2301, 2302, 2303, 2401, 2402, 2403, 11
2404, 2501, 2502, 2704, 3101 and 9911 of the American 12
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2), 13
$10,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That not 14
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 15
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit 16
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-17
resentatives and the Senate a report specifying the unobli-18
gated balances rescinded pursuant to this section by both 19
account and amount from each applicable appropriation 20
in Public Law 117–2. 21
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EC. 532. (a) This section applies to: (1) the Admin-22
istration for Children and Families in the Department of 23
Health and Human Services; and (2) the Chief Evaluation 24
Office and the statistical-related cooperative and inter-25 201 
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agency agreements and contracting activities of the Bu-1
reau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. 2
(b) Amounts made available under this Act which are 3
either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable 4
basis, or transferred to the functions and organizations 5
identified in subsection (a) for research, evaluation, or sta-6
tistical purposes shall be available for obligation through 7
September 30, 2029: Provided, That when an office ref-8
erenced in subsection (a) receives research and evaluation 9
funding from multiple appropriations, such offices may 10
use a single Treasury account for such activities, with 11
funding advanced on a reimbursable basis. 12
(c) Amounts referenced in subsection (b) that are un-13
expended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, 14
or cooperative agreement may be deobligated and shall im-15
mediately become available and may be reobligated in that 16
fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, 17
evaluation, or statistical purposes for which such amounts 18
are available. 19
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EC. 533. Each amount designated in this Act by the 20
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-21
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-22
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or 23
repurposed, rescinded, or transferred, if applicable) only 24 202 
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if the President subsequently so designates all such 1
amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress. 2
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor, 3
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 4
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025’’. 5  Calendar No. 
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118
TH
CONGRESS 
2
D
S
ESSION
 
S. 4942 
[Report No. 118–207] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Edu-
cation, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2025, and for other pur-
poses. 
A
UGUST
1, 2024 
Read twice and placed on the calendar