[House Report 106-419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-419
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
  AND OTHER ACTIVITIES CHARGEABLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART AGAINST REVENUES OF 
  SAID DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2000, AND FOR 
  OTHER PURPOSES

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                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                              to accompany

                               H.R. 3064




                October 27, 1999.--Ordered to be printed


106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-419

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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
  AND OTHER ACTIVITIES CHARGEABLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART AGAINST REVENUES OF 
  SAID DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2000, AND FOR 
  OTHER PURPOSES

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                October 27, 1999.--Ordered to be printed

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 Mr. Istook, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 3064]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
3064) ``making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole 
or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes'', 
having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to 
recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as 
follows:
      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
amendment, as follows:
      In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
amendment, insert:

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the District of 
Columbia, and for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:

                               DIVISION A

                  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS

    For programs, projects, or activities in the District of 
Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000, provided as follows, to be 
effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular 
appropriations Act:
    An Act making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole 
or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

                TITLE I--FISCAL YEAR 2000 APPROPRIATIONS

                             FEDERAL FUNDS

              Federal Payment for Resident Tuition Support

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia for a 
program to be administered by the Mayor for District of 
Columbia resident tuition support, subject to the enactment of 
authorizing legislation for such program by Congress, 
$17,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such funds may be used on behalf of eligible District of 
Columbia residents to pay an amount based upon the difference 
between in-State and out-of-State tuition at public 
institutions of higher education, usable at both public and 
private institutions of higher education: Provided further, 
That the awarding of such funds may be prioritized on the basis 
of a resident's academic merit and such other factors as may be 
authorized: Provided further, That if the authorized program is 
a nationwide program, the Mayor may expend up to $17,000,000: 
Provided further, That if the authorized program is for a 
limited number of States, the Mayor may expend up to 
$11,000,000: Provided further, That the District of Columbia 
may expend funds other than the funds provided under this 
heading, including local tax revenues and contributions, to 
support such program.

        Federal Payment for Incentives for Adoption of Children

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia to create 
incentives to promote the adoption of children in the District 
of Columbia foster care system, $5,000,000: Provided, That such 
funds shall remain available until September 30, 2001 and shall 
be used in accordance with a program established by the Mayor 
and the Council of the District of Columbia and approved by the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate: Provided further, That funds provided under 
this heading may be used to cover the costs to the District of 
Columbia of providing tax credits to offset the costs incurred 
by individuals in adopting children in the District of Columbia 
foster care system and in providing for the health care needs 
of such children, in accordance with legislation enacted by the 
District of Columbia government.

         Federal Payment to the Citizen Complaint Review Board

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia for 
administrative expenses of the Citizen Complaint Review Board, 
$500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001.

          Federal Payment to the Department of Human Services

    For a Federal payment to the Department of Human Services 
for a mentoring program and for hotline services, $250,000.

    Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee 
                               Operations

    For salaries and expenses of the District of Columbia 
Corrections Trustee, $176,000,000 for the administration and 
operation of correctional facilities and for the administrative 
operating costs of the Office of the Corrections Trustee, as 
authorized by section 11202 of the National Capital 
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 
(Public Law 105-33; 111 Stat. 712): Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated 
in this Act for the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee 
shall be apportioned quarterly bythe Office of Management and 
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal agencies: 
Provided further, That in addition to the funds provided under this 
heading, the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee may use a portion 
of the interest earned on the Federal payment made to the Trustee under 
the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1998, (not to exceed 
$4,600,000) to carry out the activities funded under this heading.

           Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts

    For salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia 
Courts, $99,714,000 to be allocated as follows: for the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, $7,209,000; for the 
District of Columbia Superior Court, $68,351,000; for the 
District of Columbia Court System, $16,154,000; and $8,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2001, for capital 
improvements for District of Columbia courthouse facilities: 
Provided, That of the amounts available for operations of the 
District of Columbia Courts, not to exceed $2,500,000 shall be 
for the design of an Integrated Justice Information System and 
that such funds shall be used in accordance with a plan and 
design developed by the courts and approved by the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, all amounts under this heading shall be 
apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and Budget 
and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal 
agencies, with payroll and financial services to be provided on 
a contractual basis with the General Services Administration 
(GSA), said services to include the preparation of monthly 
financial reports, copies of which shall be submitted directly 
by GSA to the President and to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives.

            Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts

    For payments authorized under section 11-2604 and section 
11-2605, D.C. Code (relating to representation provided under 
the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Act), payments for 
counsel appointed in proceedings in the Family Division of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia under chapter 23 of 
title 16, D.C. Code, and payments for counsel authorized under 
section 21-2060, D.C. Code (relating to representation provided 
under the District of Columbia Guardianship, Protective 
Proceedings, and Durable Power of Attorney Act of 1986), 
$33,336,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the funds provided in this Act under the heading ``Federal 
Payment to the District of Columbia Courts'' (other than the 
$8,000,000 provided under such heading for capital improvements 
for District of Columbia courthouse facilities) may also be 
used for payments under this heading: Provided further, That in 
addition to the funds provided under this heading, the Joint 
Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of 
Columbia may use a portion (not to exceed $1,200,000) of the 
interest earned on the Federal payment made to the District of 
Columbia courts under the District of Columbia Appropriations 
Act, 1999, together with funds provided in this Act under the 
heading ``Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts'' 
(other than the $8,000,000 provided under such heading for 
capital improvements for District of Columbia courthouse 
facilities), to make payments described under this heading for 
obligations incurred during fiscal year 1999 if the Comptroller 
General certifies that the amount of obligations lawfully 
incurred for such payments during fiscal year 1999 exceeds the 
obligational authority otherwise available for making such 
payments: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
administered by the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration 
in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation 
shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for expenses of other Federal agencies, with 
payroll and financial services to be provided on a contractual 
basis with the General Services Administration (GSA), said 
services to include the preparation of monthly financial 
reports, copies of which shall be submitted directly by GSA to 
the President and to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and House of Representatives, the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives.

 Federal Payment to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
                      for the District of Columbia

    For salaries and expenses of the Court Services and 
Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, as 
authorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self-
Government Improvement Act of 1997, (Public Law 105-33; 111 
Stat. 712), $93,800,000, of which $58,600,000 shall be for 
necessary expenses of Parole Revocation, Adult Probation, 
Offender Supervision, and Sex Offender Registration, to include 
expenses relating to supervision of adults subject to 
protection orders or provision of servicesfor or related to 
such persons; $17,400,000 shall be available to the Public Defender 
Service; and $17,800,000 shall be available to the Pretrial Services 
Agency: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, all 
amounts under this heading shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office 
of Management and Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner 
as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal 
agencies: Provided further, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $20,492,000 shall be used in support of universal drug 
screening and testing for those individuals on pretrial, probation, or 
parole supervision with continued testing, intermediate sanctions, and 
treatment for those identified in need, of which $7,000,000 shall be 
for treatment services.

                   Children's National Medical Center

    For a Federal contribution to the Children's National 
Medical Center in the District of Columbia, $2,500,000 for 
construction, renovation, and information technology 
infrastructure costs associated with establishing community 
pediatric health clinics for high risk children in medically 
underserved areas of the District of Columbia.

           Federal Payment for Metropolitan Police Department

    For payment to the Metropolitan Police Department, 
$1,000,000, for a program to eliminate open air drug 
trafficking in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the 
Chief of Police shall provide quarterly reports to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
Representatives by the 15th calendar day after the end of each 
quarter beginning December 31, 1999, on the status of the 
project financed under this heading.

                       DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS

                           OPERATING EXPENSES

                          Division of Expenses

    The following amounts are appropriated for the District of 
Columbia for the current fiscal year out of the general fund of 
the District of Columbia, except as otherwise specifically 
provided.

                   Governmental Direction and Support

    Governmental direction and support, $162,356,000 (including 
$137,134,000 from local funds, $11,670,000 from Federal funds, 
and $13,552,000 from other funds): Provided, That not to exceed 
$2,500 for the Mayor, $2,500 for the Chairman of the Council of 
the District of Columbia, and $2,500 for the City Administrator 
shall be available from this appropriation for official 
purposes: Provided further, That any program fees collected 
from the issuance of debt shall be available for the payment of 
expenses of the debt management program of the District of 
Columbia: Provided further, That no revenues from Federal 
sources shall be used to support the operations or activities 
of the Statehood Commission and Statehood Compact Commission: 
Provided further, That the District of Columbia shall identify 
the sources of funding for Admission to Statehood from its own 
locally-generated revenues: Provided further, That all 
employees permanently assigned to work in the Office of the 
Mayor shall be paid from funds allocated to the Office of the 
Mayor: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law now or hereafter enacted, no Member of the 
District of Columbia Council eligible to earn a part-time 
salary of $92,520, exclusive of the Council Chairman, shall be 
paid a salary of more than $84,635 during fiscal year 2000.

                  Economic Development and Regulation

    Economic development and regulation, $190,335,000 
(including $52,911,000 from local funds, $84,751,000 from 
Federal funds, and $52,673,000 from other funds), of which 
$15,000,000 collected by the District of Columbia in the form 
of BID tax revenue shall be paid to the respective BIDs 
pursuant to the Business Improvement Districts Act of 1996 
(D.C. Law 11-134; D.C. Code, sec. 1-2271 et seq.), and the 
Business Improvement Districts Temporary Amendment Act of 1997 
(D.C. Law 12-23): Provided, That such funds are available for 
acquiring services provided by the General Services 
Administration: Provided further, That Business Improvement 
Districts shall be exempt from taxes levied by the District of 
Columbia.

                       Public Safety and Justice

    Public safety and justice, including purchase or lease of 
135 passenger-carrying vehicles for replacement only, including 
130 for police-type use and five for fire-type use, without 
regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current 
fiscal year, $778,770,000 (including $565,511,000 from local 
funds, $29,012,000 from Federal funds, and $184,247,000 from 
other funds): Provided, That the Metropolitan Police Department 
is authorized to replace not to exceed 25 passenger-carrying 
vehicles and the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical 
Services of the District of Columbia is authorized to replace 
not to exceed five passenger-carrying vehicles annually 
whenever the cost of repair to any damaged vehicle exceeds 
three-fourths of the cost of the replacement: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $500,000 shall be available from this 
appropriation for the Chief of Police for the prevention and 
detection of crime: Provided further, That the Metropolitan 
Police Department shall provide quarterly reportsto the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate on efforts to increase efficiency and improve the 
professionalism in the department: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, or Mayor's Order 86-45, 
issued March 18, 1986, the Metropolitan Police Department's delegated 
small purchase authority shall be $500,000: Provided further, That the 
District of Columbia government may not require the Metropolitan Police 
Department to submit to any other procurement review process, or to 
obtain the approval of or be restricted in any manner by any official 
or employee of the District of Columbia government, for purchases that 
do not exceed $500,000: Provided further, That the Mayor shall 
reimburse the District of Columbia National Guard for expenses incurred 
in connection with services that are performed in emergencies by the 
National Guard in a militia status and are requested by the Mayor, in 
amounts that shall be jointly determined and certified as due and 
payable for these services by the Mayor and the Commanding General of 
the District of Columbia National Guard: Provided further, That such 
sums as may be necessary for reimbursement to the District of Columbia 
National Guard under the preceding proviso shall be available from this 
appropriation, and the availability of the sums shall be deemed as 
constituting payment in advance for emergency services involved: 
Provided further, That the Metropolitan Police Department is authorized 
to maintain 3,800 sworn officers, with leave for a 50 officer 
attrition: Provided further, That no more than 15 members of the 
Metropolitan Police Department shall be detailed or assigned to the 
Executive Protection Unit, until the Chief of Police submits a 
recommendation to the Council for its review: Provided further, That 
$100,000 shall be available for inmates released on medical and 
geriatric parole: Provided further, That commencing on December 31, 
1999, the Metropolitan Police Department shall provide to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, 
quarterly reports on the status of crime reduction in each of the 83 
police service areas established throughout the District of Columbia: 
Provided further, That up to $700,000 in local funds shall be available 
for the operations of the Citizen Complaint Review Board.

                        Public Education System

    Public education system, including the development of 
national defense education programs, $867,411,000 (including 
$721,847,000 from local funds, $120,951,000 from Federal funds, 
and $24,613,000 from other funds), to be allocated as follows: 
$713,197,000 (including $600,936,000 from local funds, 
$106,213,000 from Federal funds, and $6,048,000 from other 
funds), for the public schools of the District of Columbia; 
$10,700,000 from local funds for the District of Columbia 
Teachers' Retirement Fund; $17,000,000 from local funds, 
previously appropriated in this Act as a Federal payment, for 
resident tuition support at public and private institutions of 
higher learning for eligible District of Columbia residents; 
$27,885,000 from local funds for public charter schools: 
Provided, That if the entirety of this allocation has not been 
provided as payments to any public charter schools currently in 
operation through the per pupil funding formula, the funds 
shall be available for new public charter schools on a per 
pupil basis: Provided further, That $480,000 of this amount 
shall be available to the District of Columbia Public Charter 
School Board for administrative costs; $72,347,000 (including 
$40,491,000 from local funds, $13,536,000 from Federal funds, 
and $18,320,000 from other funds) for the University of the 
District of Columbia; $24,171,000 (including $23,128,000 from 
local funds, $798,000 from Federal funds, and $245,000 from 
other funds) for the Public Library; $2,111,000 (including 
$1,707,000 from local funds and $404,000 from Federal funds) 
for the Commission on the Arts and Humanities: Provided 
further, That the public schools of the District of Columbia 
are authorized to accept not to exceed 31 motor vehicles for 
exclusive use in the driver education program: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $2,500 for the Superintendent of 
Schools, $2,500 for the President of the University of the 
District of Columbia, and $2,000 for the Public Librarian shall 
be available from this appropriation for official purposes: 
Provided further, That none of the funds contained in this Act 
may be made available to pay the salaries of any District of 
Columbia Public School teacher, principal, administrator, 
official, or employee who knowingly provides false enrollment 
or attendance information under article II, section 5 of the 
Act entitled ``An Act to provide for compulsory school 
attendance, for the taking of a school census in the District 
of Columbia, and for other purposes'', approved February 4, 
1925 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-401 et seq.): Provided further, That 
this appropriation shall not be available to subsidize the 
education of any nonresident of the District of Columbia at any 
District of Columbia public elementary and secondary school 
during fiscal year 2000 unless the nonresident pays tuition to 
the District of Columbia at a rate that covers 100 percent of 
the costs incurred by the District of Columbia which are 
attributable to the education of the nonresident (as 
established by the Superintendent of the District of 
ColumbiaPublic Schools): Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall not be available to subsidize the education of nonresidents of 
the District of Columbia at the University of the District of Columbia, 
unless the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of 
Columbia adopts, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, a 
tuition rate schedule that will establish the tuition rate for 
nonresident students at a level no lower than the nonresident tuition 
rate charged at comparable public institutions of higher education in 
the metropolitan area: Provided further, That the District of Columbia 
Public Schools shall not spend less than $365,500,000 on local schools 
through the Weighted Student Formula in fiscal year 2000: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall apportion from the 
budget of the District of Columbia Public Schools a sum totaling 5 
percent of the total budget to be set aside until the current student 
count for Public and Charter schools has been completed, and that this 
amount shall be apportioned between the Public and Charter schools 
based on their respective student population count: Provided further, 
That the District of Columbia Public Schools may spend $500,000 to 
engage in a Schools Without Violence program based on a model developed 
by the University of North Carolina, located in Greensboro, North 
Carolina.

                         Human Support Services

    Human support services, $1,526,361,000 (including 
$635,373,000 from local funds, $875,814,000 from Federal funds, 
and $15,174,000 from other funds): Provided, That $25,150,000 
of this appropriation, to remain available until expended, 
shall be available solely for District of Columbia employees' 
disability compensation: Provided further, That a peer review 
committee shall be established to review medical payments and 
the type of service received by a disability compensation 
claimant: Provided further, That the District of Columbia shall 
not provide free government services such as water, sewer, 
solid waste disposal or collection, utilities, maintenance, 
repairs, or similar services to any legally constituted private 
nonprofit organization, as defined in section 411(5) of the 
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (101 Stat. 485; 
Public Law 100-77; 42 U.S.C. 11371), providing emergency 
shelter services in the District, if the District would not be 
qualified to receive reimbursement pursuant to such Act (101 
Stat. 485; Public Law 100-77; 42 U.S.C. 11301 et seq.).

                              Public Works

    Public works, including rental of one passenger-carrying 
vehicle for use by the Mayor and three passenger-carrying 
vehicles for use by the Council of the District of Columbia and 
leasing of passenger-carrying vehicles, $271,395,000 (including 
$258,341,000 from local funds, $3,099,000 from Federal funds, 
and $9,955,000 from other funds): Provided, That this 
appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or 
miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business.

                         Receivership Programs

    For all agencies of the District of Columbia government 
under court ordered receivership, $342,077,000 (including 
$217,606,000 from local funds, $106,111,000 from Federal funds, 
and $18,360,000 from other funds).

                         Workforce Investments

    For workforce investments, $8,500,000 from local funds, to 
be transferred by the Mayor of the District of Columbia within 
the various appropriation headings in this Act for which 
employees are properly payable.

                                Reserve

    For a reserve to be established by the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia and the District of 
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority, $150,000,000.

District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
                               Authority

    For the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority, established by section 101(a) 
of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Act of 1995 (109 Stat. 97; Public Law 
104-8), $3,140,000: Provided, That none of the funds contained 
in this Act may be used to pay any compensation of the 
Executive Director or General Counsel of the Authority at a 
rate in excess of the maximum rate of compensation which may be 
paid to such individual during fiscal year 2000 under section 
102 of such Act, as determined by the Comptroller General (as 
described in GAO letter report B-279095.2).

                    Repayment of Loans and Interest

    For payment of principal, interest and certain fees 
directly resulting from borrowing by the District of Columbia 
to fund District of Columbia capital projects as authorized by 
sections 462, 475, and 490 of the District of Columbia Home 
Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973, as amended, and that 
funds shall be allocated for expenses associated with the 
Wilson Building, $328,417,000 from local funds: Provided, That 
for equipment leases, the Mayor may finance $27,527,000 of 
equipment cost, plus cost of issuance not to exceed 2 percent 
of the par amount beingfinanced on a lease purchase basis with 
a maturity not to exceed 5 years: Provided further, That $5,300,000 is 
allocated to the Metropolitan Police Department, $3,200,000 for the 
Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, $350,000 for the 
Department of Corrections, $15,949,000 for the Department of Public 
Works and $2,728,000 for the Public Benefit Corporation.

                Repayment of General Fund Recovery Debt

    For the purpose of eliminating the $331,589,000 general 
fund accumulated deficit as of September 30, 1990, $38,286,000 
from local funds, as authorized by section 461(a) of the 
District of Columbia Home Rule Act (105 Stat. 540; D.C. Code, 
sec. 47-321(a)(1)).

              Payment of Interest on Short-Term Borrowing

    For payment of interest on short-term borrowing, $9,000,000 
from local funds.

                     Certificates of Participation

    For lease payments in accordance with the Certificates of 
Participation involving the land site underlying the building 
located at One Judiciary Square, $7,950,000 from local funds.

                 Optical and Dental Insurance Payments

    For optical and dental insurance payments, $1,295,000 from 
local funds.

                           Productivity Bank

    The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia, 
under the direction of the Mayor and the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, 
shall finance projects totaling $20,000,000 in local funds that 
result in cost savings or additional revenues, by an amount 
equal to such financing: Provided, That the Mayor shall provide 
quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate by the 15th calendar 
day after the end of each quarter beginning December 31, 1999, 
on the status of the projects financed under this heading.

                       Productivity Bank Savings

    The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia, 
under the direction of the Mayor and the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, 
shall make reductions totaling $20,000,000 in local funds. The 
reductions are to be allocated to projects funded through the 
Productivity Bank that produce cost savings or additional 
revenues in an amount equal to the Productivity Bank financing: 
Provided, That the Mayor shall provide quarterly reports to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate by the 15th calendar day after the end of each 
quarter beginning December 31, 1999, on the status of the cost 
savings or additional revenues funded under this heading.

                   Procurement and Management Savings

    The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia, 
under the direction of the Mayor and the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, 
shall make reductions of $14,457,000 for general supply 
schedule savings and $7,000,000 for management reform savings, 
in local funds to one or more of the appropriation headings in 
this Act: Provided, That the Mayor shall provide quarterly 
reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate by the 15th calendar day after 
the end of each quarter beginning December 31, 1999, on the 
status of the general supply schedule savings and management 
reform savings projected under this heading.

                       ENTERPRISE AND OTHER FUNDS

         Water and Sewer Authority and the Washington Aqueduct

    For operation of the Water and Sewer Authority and the 
Washington Aqueduct, $279,608,000 from other funds (including 
$236,075,000 for the Water and Sewer Authority and $43,533,000 
for the Washington Aqueduct) of which $35,222,000 shall be 
apportioned and payable to the District's debt service fund for 
repayment of loans and interest incurred for capital 
improvement projects.
    For construction projects, $197,169,000, as authorized by 
the Act entitled ``An Act authorizing the laying of watermains 
and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of 
assessments therefor, and for other purposes'' (33 Stat. 244; 
Public Law 58-140; D.C. Code, sec. 43-1512 et seq.): Provided, 
That the requirements and restrictions that are applicable to 
general fund capital improvements projects and set forth in 
this Act under the Capital Outlay appropriation title shall 
apply to projects approved under this appropriation title.

              Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund

    For the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund, 
established by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982 (95 Stat. 1174 and 
1175; Public Law 97-91), for the purpose of implementing the 
Law to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers Games, and Bingo and 
Raffles for Charitable Purposes in the District of Columbia 
(D.C. Law 3-172; D.C. Code, sec. 2-2501 et seq. and sec. 22-
1516 et seq.), $234,400,000: Provided, That the District of 
Columbia shall identify the source of funding for this 
appropriation title from the District's own locally generated 
revenues: Provided further, That no revenues from Federal 
sourcesshall be used to support the operations or activities of 
the Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board.

                  Sports and Entertainment Commission

    For the Sports and Entertainment Commission, $10,846,000 
from other funds for expenses incurred by the Armory Board in 
the exercise of its powers granted by the Act entitled ``An Act 
To Establish A District of Columbia Armory Board, and for other 
purposes'' (62 Stat. 339; D.C. Code, sec. 2-301 et seq.) and 
the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 (71 Stat. 619; 
Public Law 85-300; D.C. Code, sec. 2-321 et seq.): Provided, 
That the Mayor shall submit a budget for the Armory Board for 
the forthcoming fiscal year as required by section 442(b) of 
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (87 Stat. 824; Public 
Law 93-198; D.C. Code, sec. 47-301(b)).

  District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation

    For the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public 
Benefit Corporation, established by D.C. Law 11-212; D.C. Code, 
sec. 32-262.2, $133,443,000 of which $44,435,000 shall be 
derived by transfer from the general fund and $89,008,000 from 
other funds.

                 District of Columbia Retirement Board

    For the District of Columbia Retirement Board, established 
by section 121 of the District of Columbia Retirement Reform 
Act of 1979 (93 Stat. 866; D.C. Code, sec. 1-711), $9,892,000 
from the earnings of the applicable retirement funds to pay 
legal, management, investment, and other fees and 
administrative expenses of the District of Columbia Retirement 
Board: Provided, That the District of Columbia Retirement Board 
shall provide to the Congress and to the Council of the 
District of Columbia a quarterly report of the allocations of 
charges by fund and of expenditures of all funds: Provided 
further, That the District of Columbia Retirement Board shall 
provide the Mayor, for transmittal to the Council of the 
District of Columbia, an itemized accounting of the planned use 
of appropriated funds in time for each annual budget submission 
and the actual use of such funds in time for each annual 
audited financial report: Provided further, That section 
121(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Retirement Reform Act 
(D.C. Code, sec. 1-711(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``the 
total amount to which a member may be entitled'' and all that 
follows and inserting the following: ``the total amount to 
which a member may be entitled under this subsection during a 
year (beginning with 1998) may not exceed $5,000, except that 
in the case of the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of 
the Investment Committee of the Board, such amount may not 
exceed $7,500 (beginning with 2000).''.

                      Correctional Industries Fund

    For the Correctional Industries Fund, established by the 
District of Columbia Correctional Industries Establishment Act 
(78 Stat. 1000; Public Law 88-622), $1,810,000 from other 
funds.

              Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund

    For the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund, 
$50,226,000 from other funds.

                             Capital Outlay


                        (including rescissions)


    For construction projects, $1,260,524,000 of which 
$929,450,000 is from local funds, $54,050,000 is from the 
highway trust fund, and $277,024,000 is from Federal funds, and 
a rescission of $41,886,500 from local funds appropriated under 
this heading in prior fiscal years, for a net amount of 
$1,218,637,500 to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That funds for use of each capital project implementing agency 
shall be managed and controlled in accordance with all 
procedures and limitations established under the Financial 
Management System: Provided further, That all funds provided by 
this appropriation title shall be available only for the 
specific projects and purposes intended: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding the foregoing, all authorizations for capital 
outlay projects, except those projects covered by the first 
sentence of section 23(a) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 
1968 (82 Stat. 827; Public Law 90-495; D.C. Code, sec. 7-134, 
note), for which funds are provided by this appropriation 
title, shall expire on September 30, 2001, except 
authorizations for projects as to which funds have been 
obligated in whole or in part prior to September 30, 2001: 
Provided further, That upon expiration of any such project 
authorization, the funds provided herein for the project shall 
lapse.

                           General Provisions

    Sec. 101. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts 
where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise 
provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law.
    Sec. 102. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all 
vouchers covering expenditures of appropriations contained in 
this Act shall be audited before payment by the designated 
certifying official, and the vouchers as approved shall be paid 
by checks issued by the designated disbursing official.
    Sec. 103. Whenever in this Act, an amount is specified 
within an appropriation for particular purposes orobjects of 
expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be 
considered as the maximum amount that may be expended for said purpose 
or object rather than an amount set apart exclusively therefor.
    Sec. 104. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, 
when authorized by the Mayor, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles and motorcycles used for the performance of 
official duties at rates established by the Mayor: Provided, 
That such rates shall not exceed the maximum prevailing rates 
for such vehicles as prescribed in the Federal Property 
Management Regulations 101-7 (Federal Travel Regulations).
    Sec. 105. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for 
expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations 
concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, 
when authorized by the Mayor: Provided, That in the case of the 
Council of the District of Columbia, funds may be expended with 
the authorization of the chair of the Council.
    Sec. 106. There are appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for 
making refunds and for the payment of judgments that have been 
entered against the District of Columbia government: Provided, 
That nothing contained in this section shall be construed as 
modifying or affecting the provisions of section 11(c)(3) of 
title XII of the District of Columbia Income and Franchise Tax 
Act of 1947 (70 Stat. 78; Public Law 84-460; D.C. Code, sec. 
47-1812.11(c)(3)).
    Sec. 107. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for 
the payment of public assistance without reference to the 
requirement of section 544 of the District of Columbia Public 
Assistance Act of 1982 (D.C. Law 4-101; D.C. Code, sec. 3-
205.44), and for the payment of the non-Federal share of funds 
necessary to qualify for grants under subtitle A of title II of 
the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
    Sec. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 109. No funds appropriated in this Act for the 
District of Columbia government for the operation of 
educational institutions, the compensation of personnel, or for 
other educational purposes may be used to permit, encourage, 
facilitate, or further partisan political activities. Nothing 
herein is intended to prohibit the availability of school 
buildings for the use of any community or partisan political 
group during non-school hours.
    Sec. 110. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
be made available to pay the salary of any employee of the 
District of Columbia government whose name, title, grade, 
salary, past work experience, and salary history are not 
available for inspection by the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of 
the House Committee on Government Reform, the Subcommittee on 
Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the 
District of Columbia of the Senate Committee on Governmental 
Affairs, and the Council of the District of Columbia, or their 
duly authorized representative.
    Sec. 111. There are appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for 
making payments authorized by the District of Columbia Revenue 
Recovery Act of 1977 (D.C. Law 2-20; D.C. Code, sec. 47-421 et 
seq.).
    Sec. 112. No part of this appropriation shall be used for 
publicity or propaganda purposes or implementation of any 
policy including boycott designed to support or defeat 
legislation pending before Congress or any State legislature.
    Sec. 113. At the start of the fiscal year, the Mayor shall 
develop an annual plan, by quarter and by project, for capital 
outlay borrowings: Provided, That within a reasonable time 
after the close of each quarter, the Mayor shall report to the 
Council of the District of Columbia and the Congress the actual 
borrowings and spending progress compared with projections.
    Sec. 114. The Mayor shall not borrow any funds for capital 
projects unless the Mayor has obtained prior approval from the 
Council of the District of Columbia, by resolution, identifying 
the projects and amounts to be financed with such borrowings.
    Sec. 115. The Mayor shall not expend any moneys borrowed 
for capital projects for the operating expenses of the District 
of Columbia government.
    Sec. 116. None of the funds provided under this Act to the 
agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and District 
government agencies, that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2000, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection 
of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure for an agency through a 
reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) 
eliminates a program, project, or responsibility center; (3) 
establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, limited 
or increased by Congress in this Act; (4) increases funds or 
personnel by any means for any program, project, or 
responsibility center for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; (5) reestablishes through reprogramming any program 
or project previously deferred through reprogramming; (6) 
augments existing programs, projects, or responsibility centers 
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $1,000,000 or 10 
percent, whichever is less; or (7) increases by 20 percent or 
more personnel assigned to a specific program, project, or 
responsibility center; unless the Appropriations Committees of 
both the Senate and House of Representatives are notified in 
writing 30 days in advance of any reprogramming as set forth in 
this section.
    Sec. 117. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, 
chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or 
employee of the District of Columbia government.
    Sec. 118. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger automobiles 
as defined in the Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980 (94 
Stat. 1824; Public Law 96-425; 15 U.S.C. 2001(2)), with an 
Environmental Protection Agency estimated miles per gallon 
average of less than 22 miles per gallon: Provided, That this 
section shall not apply to security, emergency rescue, or 
armored vehicles.
    Sec. 119. (a) City Administrator.--The last sentence of 
section 422(7) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. 
Code, sec. 1-242(7)) is amended by striking ``, not to exceed'' 
and all that follows and inserting a period.
    (b) Board of Directors of Redevelopment Land Agency.--
Section 1108(c)(2)(F) of the District of Columbia Government 
Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-
612.8(c)(2)(F)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(F) Redevelopment Land Agency board members shall 
        be paid per diem compensation at a rate established by 
        the Mayor, except that such rate may not exceed the 
        daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for 
        level 15 of the District Schedule for each day 
        (including travel time) during which they are engaged 
        in the actual performance of their duties.''.
    Sec. 120. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
provisions of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive 
Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Code, sec. 1-
601.1 et seq.), enacted pursuant to section 422(3) of the 
District of Columbia Home Rule Act (87 Stat. 790; Public Law 
93-198; D.C. Code, sec. 1-242(3)), shall apply with respect to 
the compensation of District of Columbia employees: Provided, 
That for pay purposes, employees of the District of Columbia 
government shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, 
United States Code.
    Sec. 121. No later than 30 days after the end of the first 
quarter of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, the Mayor 
of the District of Columbia shall submit to the Council of the 
District of Columbia the new fiscal year 2000 revenue estimates 
as of the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2000. These 
estimates shall be used in the budget request for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2001. The officially revised 
estimates at midyear shall be used for the midyear report.
    Sec. 122. No sole source contract with the District of 
Columbia government or any agency thereof may be renewed or 
extended without opening that contract to the competitive 
bidding process as set forth in section 303 of the District of 
Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. Law 6-85; D.C. 
Code, sec. 1-1183.3), except that the District of Columbia 
government or any agency thereof may renew or extend sole 
source contracts for which competition is not feasible or 
practical: Provided, That the determination as to whether to 
invoke the competitive bidding process has been made in 
accordance with duly promulgated rules and procedures and said 
determination has been reviewed and approved by the District of 
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority.
    Sec. 123. For purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (99 Stat. 1037; Public Law 99-177), 
the term ``program, project, and activity'' shall be synonymous 
with and refer specifically to each account appropriating 
Federal funds in this Act, and any sequestration order shall be 
applied to each of the accounts rather than to the aggregate 
total of those accounts: Provided, That sequestration orders 
shall not be applied to any account that is specifically 
exempted from sequestration by the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    Sec. 124. In the event a sequestration order is issued 
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (99 Stat. 1037; Public Law 99-177), after the 
amounts appropriated to the District of Columbia for the fiscal 
year involved have been paid to the District of Columbia, the 
Mayor of the District of Columbia shall pay to the Secretary of 
the Treasury, within 15 days after receipt of a request 
therefor from the Secretary of the Treasury, such amounts as 
are sequestered by the order: Provided, That the sequestration 
percentage specified in the order shall be applied 
proportionately to each of the Federal appropriation accounts 
in this Act that are not specifically exempted from 
sequestration by such Act.
    Sec. 125. (a) An entity of the District of Columbia 
government may accept and use a gift or donation during fiscal 
year 2000 if--
            (1) the Mayor approves the acceptance and use of 
        the gift or donation: Provided, That the Council of the 
        District of Columbia may accept and use gifts without 
        prior approval by the Mayor; and
            (2) the entity uses the gift or donation to carry 
        out its authorized functions or duties.
    (b) Each entity of the District of Columbia government 
shall keep accurate and detailed records of the acceptance and 
use of any gift or donation under subsection (a) of this 
section, and shall make such records available for audit and 
public inspection.
    (c) For the purposes of this section, the term ``entity of 
the District of Columbia government'' includes an independent 
agency of the District of Columbia.
    (d) This section shall not apply to the District of 
Columbia Board of Education, which may, pursuant to the laws 
and regulations of the District of Columbia, accept and use 
gifts to the public schools without prior approval by the 
Mayor.
    Sec. 126. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
may be used by the District of Columbia to provide for 
salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the offices 
of United States Senator or United States Representative under 
section 4(d) of the District of Columbia Statehood 
Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 (D.C. Law 3-171; 
D.C. Code, sec. 1-113(d)).
    Sec. 127. (a) The University of the District of Columbia 
shall submit to the Mayor, the District of Columbia Financial 
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority and the 
Council of the District of Columbia no later than 15 calendar 
days after the end of each quarter a report that sets forth--
            (1) current quarter expenditures and obligations, 
        year-to-date expenditures and obligations, and total 
        fiscal year expenditure projections versus budget 
        broken out on the basis of control center, 
        responsibility center, and object class, and for all 
        funds, non-appropriated funds, and capital financing;
            (2) a list of each account for which spending is 
        frozen and the amount of funds frozen, broken out by 
        control center, responsibility center, detailed object, 
        and for all funding sources;
            (3) a list of all active contracts in excess of 
        $10,000 annually, which contains the name of each 
        contractor; the budget to which the contract is 
        charged, broken out on the basis of control center and 
        responsibility center, and contract identifying codes 
used by the University of the District of Columbia; payments made in 
the last quarter and year-to-date, the total amount of the contract and 
total payments made for the contract and any modifications, extensions, 
renewals; and specific modifications made to each contract in the last 
month;
            (4) all reprogramming requests and reports that 
        have been made by the University of the District of 
        Columbia within the last quarter in compliance with 
        applicable law; and
            (5) changes made in the last quarter to the 
        organizational structure of the University of the 
        District of Columbia, displaying previous and current 
        control centers and responsibility centers, the names 
        of the organizational entities that have been changed, 
        the name of the staff member supervising each entity 
        affected, and the reasons for the structural change.
    (b) The Mayor, the Authority, and the Council shall provide 
the Congress by February 1, 2000, a summary, analysis, and 
recommendations on the information provided in the quarterly 
reports.
    Sec. 128. Funds authorized or previously appropriated to 
the government of the District of Columbia by this or any other 
Act to procure the necessary hardware and installation of new 
software, conversion, testing, and training to improve or 
replace its financial management system are also available for 
the acquisition of accounting and financial management services 
and the leasing of necessary hardware, software or any other 
related goods or services, as determined by the District of 
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority.
    Sec. 129. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be made available to pay the fees of an attorney who represents 
a party who prevails in an action, including an administrative 
proceeding, brought against the District of Columbia Public 
Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) if--
            (1) the hourly rate of compensation of the attorney 
        exceeds 120 percent of the hourly rate of compensation 
        under section 11-2604(a), District of Columbia Code; or
            (2) the maximum amount of compensation of the 
        attorney exceeds 120 percent of the maximum amount of 
        compensation under section 11-2604(b)(1), District of 
        Columbia Code, except that compensation and 
        reimbursement in excess of such maximum may be approved 
        for extended or complex representation in accordance 
        with section 11-2604(c), District of Columbia Code.
    (b) Notwithstanding the preceding subsection, if the Mayor, 
District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management 
Assistance Authority and the Superintendent of the District of 
Columbia Public Schools concur in a Memorandum of Understanding 
setting forth a new rate and amount of compensation, then such 
new rates shall apply in lieu of the rates set forth in the 
preceding subsection.
    Sec. 130. None of the funds appropriated under this Act 
shall be expended for any abortion except where the life of the 
mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or 
where the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.
    Sec. 131. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to implement or enforce the Health Care Benefits 
Expansion Act of 1992 (D.C. Law 9-114; D.C. Code, sec. 36-1401 
et seq.) or to otherwise implement or enforce any system of 
registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples (whether 
homosexual, heterosexual, or lesbian), including but not 
limited to registration for the purpose of extending 
employment, health, or governmental benefits to such couples on 
the same basis that such benefits are extended to legally 
married couples.
    Sec. 132. The Superintendent of the District of Columbia 
Public Schools shall submit to the Congress, the Mayor, the 
District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management 
Assistance Authority, and the Council of the District of 
Columbia no later than 15 calendar days after the end of each 
quarter a report that sets forth--
            (1) current quarter expenditures and obligations, 
        year-to-date expenditures and obligations, and total 
        fiscal year expenditure projections versus budget, 
        broken out on the basis of control center, 
        responsibility center, agency reporting code, and 
        object class, and for all funds, including capital 
        financing;
            (2) a list of each account for which spending is 
        frozen and the amount of funds frozen, broken out by 
        control center, responsibility center, detailed object, 
        and agency reporting code, and for all funding sources;
            (3) a list of all active contracts in excess of 
        $10,000 annually, which contains the name of each 
        contractor; the budget to which the contract is 
        charged, broken out on the basis of control center, 
        responsibility center, and agency reporting code; and 
        contract identifying codes used by the District of 
        Columbia Public Schools; payments made in the last 
        quarter and year-to-date, the total amount of the 
        contract and total payments made for the contract and 
        any modifications, extensions, renewals; and specific  
        modifications made to each contract in the last month;
            (4) all reprogramming requests and reports that are 
        required to be, and have been, submitted to the Board 
        of Education; and
            (5) changes made in the last quarter to the 
        organizational structure of the District of Columbia 
        Public Schools, displaying previous and current control 
        centers and responsibility centers, the names of the 
        organizational entities that have been changed, the 
        name of the staff member supervising each entity 
        affected, and the reasons for the structural change.
    Sec. 133. (a) In General.--The Superintendent of the 
District of Columbia Public Schools and the University of the 
District of Columbia shall annually compile an accurate and 
verifiable report on the positions and employees in the public 
school system and the university, respectively. The annual 
report shall set forth--
            (1) the number of validated schedule A positions in 
        the District of Columbia public schools and the 
        University of the District of Columbia for fiscal year 
        1999, fiscal year 2000, and thereafter on full-time 
        equivalent basis, including a compilation of all 
        positions by control center, responsibility center, 
        funding source, position type, position title, pay 
        plan, grade, and annual salary; and
            (2) a compilation of all employees in the District 
        of Columbia public schools and the University of the 
        District of Columbia as of the preceding December 31, 
        verified as to its accuracy in accordance with the 
        functions that each employee actually performs, by 
        control center, responsibility center, agency reporting 
        code, program (including funding source), activity, 
        location for accounting purposes, job title, grade and 
        classification, annual salary, and position control 
        number.
    (b) Submission.--The annual report required by subsection 
(a) of this section shall be submitted to the Congress, the 
Mayor, the District of Columbia Council, the Consensus 
Commission, and the Authority, not later than February 15 of 
each year.
    Sec. 134. (a) No later than November 1, 1999, or within 30 
calendar days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
whichever occurs later, and each succeeding year, the 
Superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools and 
the University of the District of Columbia shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees, the Mayor, the District 
of Columbia Council, the Consensus Commission, and the District 
of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority, a revised appropriated funds operating budget for 
the public school system and the University of the District of 
Columbia for such fiscal year that is in the total amount of 
the approved appropriation and that realigns budgeted data for 
personal services and other-than-personal services, 
respectively, with anticipated actual expenditures.
    (b) The revised budget required by subsection (a) of this 
section shall be submitted in the format of the budget that the 
Superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools and 
the University of the District of Columbia submit to the Mayor 
of the District of Columbia for inclusion in the Mayor's budget 
submission to the Council of the District of Columbia pursuant 
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
(Public Law 93-198; D.C. Code, sec. 47-301).
    Sec. 135. The District of Columbia Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Authority, acting on behalf of the 
District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) in formulating the 
DCPS budget, the Board of Trustees of the University of the 
District of Columbia, the Board of Library Trustees, and the 
Board of Governors of the University of the District of 
Columbia School of Law shall vote on and approve the respective 
annual or revised budgets for such entities before submission 
to the Mayor of the District of Columbia for inclusion in the 
Mayor's budget submission to the Council of the District of 
Columbia in accordance with section 442 of the District of 
Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 93-198; D.C. Code, sec. 47-
301), or before submitting their respective budgets directly to 
the Council.
    Sec. 136. (a) Ceiling on Total Operating Expenses.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, the total amount appropriated in this 
        Act for operating expenses for the District of Columbia 
        for fiscal year 2000 under the heading ``Division of 
        Expenses'' shall not exceed the lesser of--
                    (A) the sum of the total revenues of the 
                District of Columbia for such fiscal year; or
                    (B) $5,515,379,000 (of which $152,753,000 
                shall be from intra-District funds and 
                $3,113,854,000 shall be from local funds), 
                which amount may be increased by the following:
                            (i) proceeds of one-time 
                        transactions, which are expended for 
                        emergency or unanticipated operating or 
                        capital needs approved by the District 
                        of Columbia Financial Responsibility 
                        and Management Assistance Authority; or
                            (ii) after notification to the 
                        Council, additional expenditures which 
                        the Chief Financial Officer of the 
                        District of Columbia certifies will 
                        produce additional revenues during such 
                        fiscal year at least equal to 200 
                        percent of such additional 
                        expenditures, and that are approved by 
                        the Authority.
            (2) Enforcement.--The Chief Financial Officer of 
        the District of Columbia and the Authority shall take 
        such steps as are necessary to assure that the District 
        of Columbia meets the requirements of this section, 
        including the apportioning by the Chief Financial 
        Officer of the appropriations and funds made available 
        to the District during fiscal year 2000, except that 
        the Chief Financial Officer may not reprogram for 
        operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, 
        or other obligations issued for capital projects.
    (b) Acceptance and Use of Grants Not Included in Ceiling.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), 
        the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Financial 
        Officer, during a control year, as defined in section 
        305(4) of the District of Columbia Financial 
        Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 
        (Public Law 104-8; 109 Stat. 152), may accept, 
        obligate, and expend Federal, private, and other grants 
        received by the District government that are not 
        reflected in the amounts appropriated in this Act.
            (2) Requirement of chief financial officer report 
        and authority approval.--No such Federal, private, or 
        other grant may be accepted, obligated, or expended 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) until--
                    (A) the Chief Financial Officer of the 
                District of Columbia submits to the Authority a 
                report setting forth detailed information 
                regarding such grant; and
                    (B) the Authority has reviewed and approved 
                the acceptance, obligation, and expenditure of 
                such grant in accordance with review and 
                approval procedures consistent with the 
                provisions of the District of Columbia 
                Financial Responsibility and Management 
                Assistance Act of 1995.
            (3) Prohibition on spending in anticipation of 
        approval or receipt.--No amount may be obligated or 
        expended from the general fund or other funds of the 
        District government in anticipation of the approval or 
        receipt of a grant under paragraph (2)(B) of this 
        subsection or in anticipation of the approval or 
        receipt of a Federal, private, or other grant not 
        subject to such paragraph.
            (4) Quarterly reports.--The Chief Financial Officer 
        of the District of Columbia shall prepare a quarterly 
        report setting forth detailed information regarding all 
        Federal, private, and other grants subject to this 
        subsection. Each such report shall be submitted to the 
        Council of the District of Columbia, and to the 
        Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, not later than 15 days 
        after the end of the quarter covered by the report.
    (c) Report on Expenditures by Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority.--Not later than 20 calendar 
days after the end of each fiscal quarter starting October 1, 
1999, the Authority shall submit a report to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, 
the Committee on Government Reform of the House, and the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate providing an 
itemized accounting of all non-appropriated funds obligated or 
expended by the Authority for the quarter. The report shall 
include information on the date, amount, purpose, and vendor 
name, and a description of the services or goods provided with 
respect to the expenditures of such funds.
    Sec. 137. If a department or agency of the government of 
the District of Columbia is under the administration of a 
court-appointed receiver or other court-appointed official 
during fiscal year 2000 or any succeeding fiscal year, the 
receiver or official shall prepare and submit to the Mayor, for 
inclusion in the annual budget of the District of Columbia for 
the year, annual estimates of the expenditures and 
appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of 
the department or agency. All such estimates shall be forwarded 
by the Mayor to the Council, for its action pursuant to 
sections 446 and 603(c) of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act, without revision but subject to the Mayor's 
recommendations. Notwithstanding any provision of the District 
of Columbia Home Rule Act (87 Stat. 774; Public Law 93-198) the 
Council may comment or make recommendations concerning such 
annual estimates but shall have no authority under such Act to 
revise such estimates.
    Sec. 138. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
rule, or regulation, an employee of the District of Columbia 
public schools shall be--
            (1) classified as an Educational Service employee;
            (2) placed under the personnel authority of the 
        Board of Education; and
            (3) subject to all Board of Education rules.
    (b) School-based personnel shall constitute a separate 
competitive area from nonschool-based personnel who shall not 
compete with school-based personnel for retention purposes.
    Sec. 139. (a) Restrictions on Use of Official Vehicles.--
Except as otherwise provided in this section, none of the funds 
made available by this Act or by any other Act may be used to 
provide any officer or employee of the District of Columbia 
with an official vehicle unless the officer or employee uses 
the vehicle only in the performance of the officer's or 
employee's official duties. For purposes of this paragraph, the 
term ``official duties'' does not include travel between the 
officer's or employee's residence and workplace (except: (1) in 
the case of an officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police 
Department who resides in the District of Columbia or is 
otherwise designated by the Chief of the Department; (2) at the 
discretion of the Fire Chief, an officer or employee of the 
District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services 
Department who resides in the District of Columbia and is on 
call 24 hours a day; (3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; 
and (4) the Chairman of the Council of the District of 
Columbia).
    (b) Inventory of Vehicles.--The Chief Financial Officer of 
the District of Columbia shall submit, by November 15, 1999, an 
inventory, as of September 30, 1999, of all vehicles owned, 
leased or operated by the District of Columbia government. The 
inventory shall include, but not be limited to, the department 
to which the vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the 
vehicle; the acquisition date and cost; the general condition 
of the vehicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current 
mileage; and whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken home by 
a District officer or employee and if so, the officer or 
employee's title and resident location.
    Sec. 140. (a) Source of Payment for Employees Detailed 
Within Government.--For purposes of determining the amount of 
funds expended by any entity within the District of Columbia 
government during fiscal year 2000 and each succeeding fiscal 
year, any expenditures of the District government attributable 
to any officer or employee of the District government who 
provides services which are within the authority and 
jurisdiction of the entity (including any portion of the 
compensation paid to the officer or employee attributable to 
the time spent in providing such services) shall be treated as 
expenditures made from the entity's budget, without regard to 
whether the officer or employee is assigned to the entity or 
otherwise treated as an officer or employee of the entity.
    (b) Modification of Reduction in Force Procedures.--The 
District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel 
Act of 1978 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-601.1 et seq.), is further 
amended in section 2408(a) by striking ``1999'' and inserting 
``2000''; in subsection (b), by striking ``1999'' and inserting 
``2000''; in subsection (i), by striking ``1999'' and inserting 
``2000''; and in subsection (k), by striking ``1999'' and 
inserting ``2000''.
    Sec. 141. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 
later than 120 days after the date that a District of Columbia 
Public Schools (DCPS) student is referred for evaluation or 
assessment--
            (1) the District of Columbia Board of Education, or 
        its successor, and DCPS shall assess or evaluate a 
        student who may have a disability and who may require 
        special education services; and
            (2) if a student is classified as having a 
        disability, as defined in section 101(a)(1) of the 
        Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (84 Stat. 
        175; 20 U.S.C. 1401(a)(1)) or in section 7(8) of the 
        Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 359; 29 U.S.C. 
        706(8)), the Board and DCPS shall place that student in 
        an appropriate program of special education services.
    Sec. 142. (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of 
the funds made available in this Act may be expended by an 
entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the funds the 
entity will comply with the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-
10c).
    (b) Sense of the Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
            (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and 
        products.--In the case of any equipment or product that 
        may be authorized to be purchased with financial 
        assistance provided using funds made available in this 
        Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities 
        receiving the assistance should, in expending the 
        assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and 
        products to the greatest extent practicable.
            (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In 
        providing financial assistance using funds made 
        available in this Act, the head of each agency of the 
        Federal or District of Columbia government shall 
        provide to each recipient of the assistance a notice 
        describing the statement made in paragraph (1) by the 
        Congress.
    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined 
by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally 
affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or any 
inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to 
the United States that is not made in the United States, the person 
shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with 
funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, 
suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 143. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
used for purposes of the annual independent audit of the 
District of Columbia government (including the District of 
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority) for fiscal year 2000 unless--
            (1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector General 
        of the District of Columbia pursuant to section 
        208(a)(4) of the District of Columbia Procurement 
        Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1182.8(a)(4)); 
        and
            (2) the audit includes a comparison of audited 
        actual year-end results with the revenues submitted in 
        the budget document for such year and the 
        appropriations enacted into law for such year.
    Sec. 144. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
authorize any office, agency or entity to expend funds for 
programs or functions for which a reorganization plan is 
required but has not been approved by the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority. 
Appropriations made by this Act for such programs or functions 
are conditioned only on the approval by the Authority of the 
required reorganization plans.
    Sec. 145. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, 
or regulation, the evaluation process and instruments for 
evaluating District of Columbia Public School employees shall 
be a non-negotiable item for collective bargaining purposes.
    Sec. 146. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
used by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any 
other officer or entity of the District government to provide 
assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks 
to require Congress to provide for voting representation in 
Congress for the District of Columbia.
    Sec. 147. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
used to transfer or confine inmates classified above the medium 
security level, as defined by the Federal Bureau of Prisons 
classification instrument, to the Northeast Ohio Correctional 
Center located in Youngstown, Ohio.
    Sec. 148. (a) Section 202(i) of the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 
(Public Law 104-8), as added by section 155 of the District of 
Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999, is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``( j) Reserve.--
            ``(1) In general.--Beginning with fiscal year 2000, 
        the plan or budget submitted pursuant to this Act shall 
        contain $150,000,000 for a reserve to be established by 
        the Mayor, Council of the District of Columbia, Chief 
        Financial Officer for the District of Columbia, and the 
        District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
        Management Assistance Authority.
            ``(2) Conditions on use.--The reserve funds--
                    ``(A) shall only be expended according to 
                criteria established by the Chief Financial 
                Officer and approved by the Mayor, Council of 
                the District of Columbia, and District of 
                Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
                Management Assistance Authority, but, in no 
                case may any of the reserve funds be expended 
                until any other surplus funds have been used;
                    ``(B) shall not be used to fund the 
                agencies of the District of Columbia government 
                under court ordered receivership; and
                    ``(C) shall not be used to fund shortfalls 
                in the projected reductions budgeted in the 
                budget proposed by the District of Columbia 
                government for general supply schedule savings 
                and management reform savings.
            ``(3) Report requirement.--The Authority shall 
        notify the Appropriations Committees of both the Senate 
        and House of Representatives in writing 30 days in 
        advance of any expenditure of the reserve funds.''.
    (b) Section 202 of such Act (Public Law 104-8), as amended 
by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(k) Positive Fund Balance.--
            ``(1) In general.--The District of Columbia shall 
        maintain at the end of a fiscal year an annual positive 
        fund balance in the general fund of not less than 4 
        percent of the projected general fund expenditures for 
        the following fiscal year.
            ``(2) Excess funds.--Of funds remaining in excess 
        of the amounts required by paragraph (1)--
                    ``(A) not more than 50 percent may be used 
                for authorized non-recurring expenses; and
                    ``(B) not less than 50 percent shall be 
                used to reduce the debt of the District of 
                Columbia.''.
    Sec. 149. (a) No later than November 1, 1999, or within 30 
calendar days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
whichever occurs later, the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia shall submit to the appropriate committees 
of Congress, the Mayor, and the District of Columbia Financial 
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority a revised 
appropriated funds operating budget for all agencies of the 
District of Columbia government for such fiscal year that is in 
the total amount of the approved appropriation and that 
realigns budgeted data for personal services and other-than-
personal-services, respectively, with anticipated actual 
expenditures.
    (b) The revised budget required by subsection (a) of this 
section shall be submitted in the format of the budget that the 
District of Columbia government submitted pursuant to section 
442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 93-
198; D.C. Code, sec. 47-301).
    Sec. 150. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
used for any program of distributing sterile needles or 
syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
    Sec. 151. (a) Restrictions on Leases.--Upon the expiration 
of the 60-day period that begins on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, none of the funds contained in this Act may be 
used to make rental payments under a lease for the use of real 
property by the District of Columbia government (including any 
independent agency of the District) unless the lease and an 
abstract of the lease have been filed (by the District of 
Columbia or any other party to the lease) with the central 
office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, in an 
indexed registry available for public inspection.
    (b) Additional Restrictions on Current Leases.--
            (1) In general.--Upon the expiration of the 60-day 
        period that begins on the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, in the case of a lease described in paragraph (3), 
        none of the funds contained in this Act may be used to 
        make rental payments under the lease unless the lease 
        is included in periodic reports submitted by the Mayor 
        and Council of the District of Columbia to the 
        Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and Senate describing for each such 
        lease the following information:
                    (A) The location of the property involved, 
                the name of the owners of record according to 
                the land records of the District of Columbia, 
                the name of the lessors according to the lease, 
                the rate of payment under the lease, the period 
                of time covered by the lease, and the 
                conditions under which the lease may be 
                terminated.
                    (B) The extent to which the property is or 
                is not occupied by the District of Columbia 
                government as of the end of the reporting 
                period involved.
                    (C) If the property is not occupied and 
                utilized by the District government as of the 
                end of the reporting period involved, a plan 
                for occupying and utilizing the property 
                (including construction or renovation work) or 
                a status statement regarding any efforts by the 
                District to terminate or renegotiate the lease.
            (2) Timing of reports.--The reports described in 
        paragraph (1) shall be submitted for each calendar 
        quarter (beginning with the quarter ending December 31, 
        1999) not later than 20 days after the end of the 
        quarter involved, plus an initial report submitted not 
        later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act, which shall provide information as of the 
        date of the enactment of this Act.
            (3) Leases described.--A lease described in this 
        paragraph is a lease in effect as of the date of the 
        enactment of this Act for the use of real property by 
        the District of Columbia government (including any 
        independent agency of the District) which is not being 
        occupied by the District government (including any 
        independent agency of the District) as of such date or 
        during the 60-day period which begins on the date of 
        the enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 152. (a) Management of Existing District Government 
Property.--Upon the expiration of the 60-day period that begins 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, none of the funds 
contained in this Act may be used to enter into a lease (or to 
make rental payments under such a lease) for the use of real 
property by the District of Columbia government (including any 
independent agency of the District) or to purchase real 
property for the use of the District of Columbia government 
(including any independent agency of the District) or to manage 
real property for the use of the District of Columbia 
(including any independent agency of the District) unless the 
following conditions are met:
            (1) The Mayor and Council of the District of 
        Columbia certify to the Committees on Appropriations of 
        the House of Representatives and Senate that existing 
        real property available to the District (whether leased 
        or owned by the District government) is not suitable 
        for the purposes intended.
            (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, 
        there is made available for sale or lease all real 
        property of the District of Columbia that the Mayor 
        from time-to-time determines is surplus to the needs of 
        the District of Columbia, unless a majority of the 
        members of the Council override the Mayor's 
        determination during the 30-day period which begins on 
        the date the determination is published.
            (3) The Mayor and Council implement a program for 
        the periodic survey of all District property to 
        determine if it is surplus to the needs of the 
        District.
            (4) The Mayor and Council within 60 days of the 
        date of the enactment of this Act have filed with the 
        Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and Senate, the Committee on Government 
        Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
        and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate 
        a report which provides a comprehensive plan for the 
        management of District of Columbia real property 
        assets, and are proceeding with the implementation of 
        the plan.
    (b) Termination of Provisions.--If the District of Columbia 
enacts legislation to reform the practices and procedures 
governing the entering into of leases for the use of real 
property by the District of Columbia government and the 
disposition of surplus real property of the District 
government, the provisions of subsection (a) shall cease to be 
effective upon the effective date of the legislation.
    Sec. 153. Section 603(e)(2)(B) of the Student Loan 
Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996 (Public Law 
104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-293) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``and public charter'' after 
        ``public''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``Of such 
        amounts and proceeds, $5,000,000 shall be set aside for 
        use as a credit enhancement fund for public charter 
        schools in the District of Columbia, with the 
        administration of the fund (including the making of 
        loans) to be carried out by the Mayor through a 
        committee consisting of three individuals appointed by 
        the Mayor of the District of Columbia and two 
        individuals appointed by the Public Charter School 
        Board established under section 2214 of the District of 
        Columbia School Reform Act of 1995.''.
    Sec. 154. The Mayor, District of Columbia Financial 
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, and the 
Superintendent of Schools shall implement a process to dispose 
of excess public school real property within 90 days of the 
enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 155. Section 2003 of the District of Columbia School 
Reform Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-134; D.C. Code, sec. 31-
2851) is amended by striking ``during the period'' and ``and 
ending 5 years after such date.''.
    Sec. 156. Section 2206(c) of the District of Columbia 
School Reform Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-134; D.C. Code, sec. 
31-2853.16(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
``, except that a preference in admission may be given to an 
applicant who is a sibling of a student already attending or 
selected for admission to the public charter school in which 
the applicant is seeking enrollment.''.
    Sec. 157. (a) Transfer of Funds.--There is hereby 
transferred from the District of Columbia Financial 
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority (hereafter 
referred to as the ``Authority'') to the District of Columbia 
the sum of $18,000,000 for severance payments to individuals 
separated from employment during fiscal year 2000 (under such 
terms and conditions as the Mayor considers appropriate), 
expanded contracting authority of the Mayor, and the 
implementation of a system of managed competition among public 
and private providers of goods and services by and on behalf of 
the District of Columbia: Provided, That such funds shall be 
used only in accordance with a plan agreed to by the Council 
and the Mayor and approved by the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided 
further, That the Authority and the Mayor shall coordinate the 
spending of funds for this program so that continuous progress 
is made. The Authority shall release said funds, on a quarterly 
basis, to reimburse such expenses, so long as the Authority 
certifies that the expenses reduce re-occurring future costs at 
an annual ratio of at least 2 to 1 relative to the funds 
provided, and that the program is in accordance with the best 
practices of municipal government.
    (b) Source of Funds.--The amount transferred under 
subsection (a) shall be derived from interest earned on 
accounts held by the Authority on behalf of the District of 
Columbia.
    Sec. 158. (a) In General.--The District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority 
(hereafter referred to as the ``Authority''), working with the 
Commonwealth of Virginia and the Director of the National Park 
Service, shall carry out a project to complete all design 
requirements and all requirements for compliance with the 
National Environmental Policy Act for the construction of 
expanded lane capacity for the Fourteenth Street Bridge.
    (b) Source of Funds; Transfer.--For purposes of carrying 
out the project under subsection (a), there is hereby 
transferred to the Authority from the District of Columbia 
dedicated highway fund established pursuant to section 3(a) of 
the District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act (Public 
Law 104-21; D.C. Code, sec. 7-134.2(a)) an amount not to exceed 
$5,000,000.
    Sec. 159. (a) In General.--The Mayor of the District of 
Columbia shall carry out through the Army Corps of Engineers, 
an Anacostia River environmental cleanup program.
    (b) Source of Funds.--There are hereby transferred to the 
Mayor from the escrow account held by the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority 
pursuant to section 134 of division A of the Omnibus 
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
1999 (Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 2681-552), for 
infrastructure needs of the District of Columbia, $5,000,000.
    Sec. 160. (a) Prohibiting Payment of Administrative Costs 
From Fund.--Section 16(e) of the Victims of Violent Crime 
Compensation Act of 1996 (D.C. Code, sec. 3-435(e)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and administrative costs 
        necessary to carry out this chapter''; and
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
        the following: ``, and no monies in the Fund may be 
        used for any other purpose.''.
    (b) Maintenance of Fund in Treasury of the United States.--
            (1) In general.--Section 16(a) of such Act (D.C. 
        Code, sec. 3-435(a)) is amended by striking the second 
        sentence and inserting the following: ``The Fund shall 
        be maintained as a separate fund in the Treasury of the 
        United States. All amounts deposited to the credit of 
        the Fund are appropriated without fiscal year 
        limitation to make payments as authorized under 
        subsection (e).''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 16 of such Act 
        (D.C. Code, sec. 3-435) is amended by striking 
        subsection (d).
    (c) Deposit of Other Fees and Receipts Into Fund.--Section 
16(c) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 3-435(c)) is amended by 
inserting after ``1997,'' the second place it appears the 
following: ``any other fines, fees, penalties, or assessments 
that the Court determines necessary to carry out the purposes 
of the Fund,''.
    (d) Annual Transfer of Unobligated Balances to 
Miscellaneous Receipts of Treasury.--Section 16 of such Act 
(D.C. Code, sec. 3-435), as amended by subsection (b)(2), is 
further amended by inserting after subsection (c) the following 
new subsection:
    ``(d) Any unobligated balance existing in the Fund in 
excess of $250,000 as of the end of each fiscal year (beginning 
with fiscal year 2000) shall be transferred to miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury of the United States not later than 30 
days after the end of the fiscal year.''.
    (e) Ratification of Payments and Deposits.--Any payments 
made from or deposits made to the Crime Victims Compensation 
Fund on or after April 9, 1997 are hereby ratified, to the 
extent such payments and deposits are authorized under the 
Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1996 (D.C. Code, 
sec. 3-421 et seq.), as amended by this section.
    Sec. 161. Certification.--None of the funds contained in 
this Act may be used after the expiration of the 60-day period 
that begins on the date of the enactment of this Act to pay the 
salary of any chief financial officer of any office of the 
District of Columbia government (including any independent 
agency of the District) who has not filed a certification with 
the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia that the officer understands the duties and 
restrictions applicable to the officer and their agency as a 
result of this Act.
    Sec. 162. The proposed budget of the government of the 
District of Columbia for fiscal year 2001 that is submitted by 
the District to Congress shall specify potential adjustments 
that might become necessary in the event that the management 
savings achieved by the District during the year do not meet 
the level of management savings projected by the District under 
the proposed budget.
    Sec. 163. In submitting any document showing the budget for 
an office of the District of Columbia government (including an 
independent agency of the District) that contains a category of 
activities labeled as ``other'', ``miscellaneous'', or a 
similar general, nondescriptive term, the document shall 
include a description of the types of activities covered in the 
category and a detailed breakdown of the amount allocated for 
each such activity.
    Sec. 164. (a) Authorizing Corps of Engineers To Perform 
Repairs and Improvements.--In using the funds made available 
under this Act for carrying out improvements to the Southwest 
Waterfront in the District of Columbia (including upgrading 
marina dock pilings and paving and restoring walkways in the 
marina and fish market areas) for the portions of Federal 
property in the Southwest quadrant of the District of Columbia 
within Lots 847 and 848, a portion of Lot 846, and the 
unassessed Federal real property adjacent to Lot 848 in Square 
473, any entity of the District of Columbia government 
(including the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Authority or its designee) may place 
orders for engineering and construction and related services 
with the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of 
Engineers. The Chief of Engineers may accept such orders on a 
reimbursable basis and may provide any part of such services by 
contract. In providing such services, the Chief of Engineers 
shall follow the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the 
implementing Department of Defense regulations.
    (b) Timing for Availability of Funds Under 1999 Act.--
            (1) In general.--The District of Columbia 
        Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 
        2681-124) is amended in the item relating to ``FEDERAL 
        FUNDS--Federal Payment for Waterfront Improvements''--
                    (A) by striking ``existing lessees'' the 
                first place it appears and inserting ``existing 
                lessees of the Marina''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the existing lessees'' 
                the second place it appears and inserting 
                ``such lessees''.
            (2) Effective date.--This subsection shall take 
        effect as if included in the District of Columbia 
        Appropriations Act, 1999.
    (c) Additional Funding for Improvements Carried Out Through 
Corps of Engineers.--
            (1) In general.--There is hereby transferred from 
        the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
        Management Assistance Authority to the Mayor the sum of 
        $3,000,000 for carrying out the improvements described 
        in subsection (a) through the Chief of Engineers of the 
        United States Army Corps of Engineers.
            (2) Source of funds.--The funds transferred under 
        paragraph (1) shall be derived from the escrow account 
        held by the District of Columbia Financial 
        Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority 
        pursuant to section 134 of division A of the Omnibus 
        Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
        Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 2681-552), for 
        infrastructure needs of the District of Columbia.
    (d) Quarterly Reports on Project.--The Mayor shall submit 
reports to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate on the status of the improvements described in 
subsection (a) for each calendar quarter occurring until the 
improvements are completed.
    Sec. 165. It is the sense of the Congress that the District 
of Columbia should not impose or take into consideration any 
height, square footage, set-back, or other construction or 
zoning requirements in authorizing the issuance of industrial 
revenue bonds for a project of the American National Red Cross 
at 2025 E Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., in as much as 
this project is subject to approval of the National Capital 
Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts pursuant to 
section 11 of the joint resolution entitled ``Joint Resolution 
to grant authority for the erection of a permanent building for 
the American National Red Cross, District of Columbia Chapter, 
Washington, District of Columbia'', approved July 1, 1947 
(Public Law 100-637; 36 U.S.C. 300108 note).
    Sec. 166. (a) Permitting Court Services and Offender 
Supervision Agency To Carry Out Sex Offender Registration.--
Section 11233(c) of the National Capital Revitalization and 
Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (D.C. Code, sec. 24-
1233(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(5) Sex offender registration.--The Agency shall 
        carry out sex offender registration functions in the 
        District of Columbia, and shall have the authority to 
        exercise all powers and functions relating to sex 
        offender registration that are granted to the Agency 
        under any District of Columbia law.''.
    (b) Authority During Transition to Full Operation of 
Agency.--
            (1) Authority of pretrial services, parole, adult 
        probation and offender supervision trustee.--
        Notwithstanding section 11232(b)(1) of the National 
        Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement 
        Act of 1997 (D.C. Code, sec. 24-1232(b)(1)), the 
        Pretrial Services, Parole, Adult Probation and Offender 
        Supervision Trustee appointed under section 11232(a) of 
        such Act (hereafter referred to as the ``Trustee'') 
        shall, in accordance with section 11232 of such Act, 
        exercise the powers and functions of the Court Services 
        and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of 
        Columbia (hereafter referred to as the ``Agency'') 
        relating to sex offender registration (as granted to 
        the Agency under any District of Columbia law) only 
        upon the Trustee's certification that the Trustee is 
        able to assume such powers and functions.
            (2) Authority of metropolitan police department.--
        During the period that begins on the date of the 
        enactment of the Sex Offender Registration Emergency 
        Act of 1999 and ends on the date the Trustee makes the 
        certification described in paragraph (1), the 
        Metropolitan Police Department of the District of 
        Columbia shall have the authority to carry out any 
        powers and functions relating to sex offender 
        registration that are granted to the Agency or to the 
        Trustee under any District of Columbia law.
    Sec. 167. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to 
legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 
possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance 
under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) or any 
tetrahydrocannabinols derivative.
    (b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment 
Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by 
the electors of the District of Columbia on November 3, 1998, 
shall not take effect.
    Sec. 168. (a) In General.--There is hereby transferred from 
the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority (hereinafter referred to as the 
``Authority'') to the District of Columbia the sum of 
$5,000,000 for the Mayor, in consultation with the Council of 
the District of Columbia, to provide offsets against local 
taxes for a commercial revitalization program, such program to 
be available in enterprise zones and low and moderate income 
areas in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in carrying 
out such a program, the Mayor shall use Federal commercial 
revitalization proposals introduced in Congress as a guideline.
    (b) Source of Funds.--The amount transferred under 
subsection (a) shall be derived from interest earned on 
accounts held by the Authority on behalf of the District of 
Columbia.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Mayor shall report to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives on 
the progress made in carrying out the commercial revitalization 
program.
    Sec. 169. Section 456 of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act (section 47-231 et seq. of the D.C. Code, as added by the 
Federal Payment Reauthorization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-
373)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``District of 
        Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management 
        Assistance Authority'' and inserting ``Mayor''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``Authority'' 
        and inserting ``Mayor''.
    Sec. 170. (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The District of Columbia has recently witnessed 
        a spate of senseless killings of innocent citizens 
        caught in the crossfire of shootings. A Justice 
        Department crime victimization survey found that while 
        the city saw a decline in the homicide rate between 
        1996 and 1997, the rate was the highest among a dozen 
        cities and more than double the second highest city.
            (2) The District of Columbia has not made adequate 
        funding available to fight drug abuse in recent years, 
        and the city has not deployed its resources as 
        effectively as possible. In fiscal year 1998, 
        $20,900,000 was spent on publicly funded drug treatment 
        in the District compared to $29,000,000 in fiscal year 
        1993. The District's Addiction and Prevention and 
        Recovery Agency currently has only 2,200 treatment 
        slots, a 50 percent drop from 1994, with more than 
        1,100 people on waiting lists.
            (3) The District of Columbia has seen a rash of 
        inmate escapes from halfway houses. According to 
        Department of Corrections records, between October 21, 
        1998 and January 19, 1999, 376 of the 1,125 inmates 
        assigned to halfway houses walked away. Nearly 280 of 
        the 376 escapees were awaiting trial including two 
        charged with murder.
            (4) The District of Columbia public schools system 
        faces serious challenges in correcting chronic 
        problems, particularly long-standing deficiencies in 
        providing special education services to the 1 in 10 
        District students needing program benefits, including 
        backlogged assessments, and repeated failure to meet a 
        compliance agreement on special education reached with 
        the Department of Education.
            (5) Deficiencies in the delivery of basic public 
        services from cleaning streets to waiting time at 
        Department of Motor Vehicles to a rat population 
        estimated earlier this year to exceed the human 
        population have generated considerable public 
        frustration.
            (6) Last year, the District of Columbia forfeited 
        millions of dollars in Federal grants after Federal 
        auditors determined that several agencies exceeded 
        grant restrictions and in other instances, failed to 
        spend funds before the grants expired.
            (7) Findings of a 1999 report by the Annie E. Casey 
        Foundation that measured the well-being of children 
        reflected that, with one exception, the District ranked 
        worst in the United States in every category from 
        infant mortality to the rate of teenage births to 
        statistics chronicling child poverty.
    (b) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
that in considering the District of Columbia's fiscal year 2001 
budget, the Congress will take into consideration progress or 
lack of progress in addressing the following issues:
            (1) Crime, including the homicide rate, 
        implementation of community policing, the number of 
        police officers on local beats, and the closing down of 
        open-air drug markets.
            (2) Access to drug abuse treatment, including the 
        number of treatment slots, the number of people served, 
        the number of people on waiting lists, and the 
        effectiveness of treatment programs.
            (3) Management of parolees and pretrial violent 
        offenders, including the number of halfway house 
        escapes and steps taken to improve monitoring and 
        supervision of halfway house residents to reduce the 
        number of escapes.
            (4) Education, including access to special 
        education services and student achievement.
            (5) Improvement in basic city services, including 
        rat control and abatement.
            (6) Application for and management of Federal 
        grants.
            (7) Indicators of child well-being.
    Sec. 171. The Mayor, prior to using Federal Medicaid 
payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals to serve a small 
number of childless adults, should consider the recommendations 
of the Health Care Development Commission that has been 
appointed by the Council of the District of Columbia to review 
this program, and consult and report to Congress on the use of 
these funds.
    Sec. 172. GAO Study of District of Columbia Criminal 
Justice System.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall--
            (1) conduct a study of the law enforcement, court, 
        prison, probation, parole, and other components of the 
        criminal justice system of the District of Columbia, in 
        order to identify the components most in need of 
        additional resources, including financial, personnel, 
        and management resources; and
            (2) submit to Congress a report on the results of 
        the study under paragraph (1).
    Sec. 173. Nothing in this Act bars the District of Columbia 
Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in 
private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the 
District government regarding such lawsuits.
    Sec. 174. Wireless Communications.--(a) In General.--Not 
later than 7 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of 
the National Park Service, shall--
            (1) implement the notice of decision approved by 
        the National Capital Regional Director, dated April 7, 
        1999, including the provisions of the notice of 
        decision concerning the issuance of right-of-way 
        permits at market rates; and
            (2) expend such sums as are necessary to carry out 
        paragraph (1).
    (b) Antenna Applications.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the 
        receipt of an application, a Federal agency that 
        receives an application submitted after the enactment 
        of this Act to locate a wireless communications antenna 
        on Federal property in the District of Columbia or 
        surrounding area over which the Federal agency 
        exercises control shall take final action on the 
        application, including action on the issuance of right-
        of-way permits at market rates.
            (2) Existing law.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
        be construed to affect the applicability of existing 
        laws regarding--
                    (A) judicial review under chapter 7 of 
                title 5, United States Code (the Administrative 
                Procedure Act), and the Communications Act of 
                1934;
                    (B) the National Environmental Policy Act, 
                the National Historic Preservation Act and 
                other applicable Federal statutes; and
                    (C) the authority of a State or local 
                government or instrumentality thereof, 
                including the District of Columbia, in the 
                placement, construction, and modification of 
                personal wireless service facilities.
    Sec. 175. (a)(1) The first paragraph under the heading 
``Community Development Block Grants'' in title II of H.R. 2684 
(Public Law 106-74) is amended by inserting after ``National 
American Indian Housing Council,'' the following: ``$4,000,000 
shall be available as a grant for the Special Olympics in 
Anchorage, Alaska to develop the Ben Boeke Arena and Hilltop 
Ski Area,''; and
    (2) The paragraph that includes the words ``Economic 
Development Initiative (EDI)'' under the heading ``Community 
Development Block Grants'' in title II of H.R. 2684 (Public Law 
106-74) is amended by striking ``$240,000,000'' and inserting 
``$243,500,000''.
    (b) The statement of the managers of the committee of 
conference accompanying H.R. 2684 is deemed to be amended under 
the heading ``Community Development Block Grants'' to include 
in the description of targeted economic development initiatives 
the following:
            ``--$1,000,000 for the New Jersey Community 
        Development Corporation for the construction of the New 
        Jersey Community Development Corporation's 
        Transportation Opportunity Center;
            ``--$750,000 for South Dakota State University in 
        Brookings, South Dakota for the development of a 
        performing arts center;
            ``--$925,000 for the Florida Association of 
        Counties for a Rural Capacity Building Pilot Project in 
        Tallahassee, Florida;
            ``--$500,000 for the Osceola County Agriculture 
        Center for construction of a new and expanded 
        agriculture center in Osceola County, Florida;
            ``--$1,000,000 for the University of Syracuse in 
        Syracuse, New York for electrical infrastructure 
        improvements.''; and the current descriptions are 
        amended as follows:
            ``--$1,700,000 to the City of Miami, Florida for 
        the development of a Homeownership Zone to assist 
        residents displaced by the demolition of public housing 
        in the Model City area;'' is amended to read as 
        follows:
            ``--$1,700,000 to Miami-Dade County, Florida for an 
        economic development project at the Opa-locka 
        Neighborhood Center;'';
            ``--$250,000 to the Arizona Science Center in Yuma, 
        Arizona for its after-school program for inner-city 
        youth;'' is amended to read as follows:
            ``--$250,000 to the Arizona Science Center in 
        Phoenix, Arizona for its after-school program for 
        inner-city youth;'';
            ``--$200,000 to the Schuylkill County Fire Fighters 
        Association for a smoke-maze building on the grounds of 
        the firefighters facility in Morea, Pennsylvania;'' is 
        amended to read as follows:
            ``--$200,000 to the Schuylkill County Fire Fighters 
        Association for a smoke-maze building and other 
        facilities and improvements on the grounds of the 
        firefighters facility in Morea, Pennsylvania;''.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
$2,000,000 made available pursuant to Public Law 105-276 for 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to redevelop the Sun Co./LTV Steel 
Site in Hazelwood, Pennsylvania is available to the Department 
of Economic Development in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for 
the development of a technology based project in the county.
    (d) Insert the following new sections at the end of the 
administrative provisions in title II of H.R. 2684 (Public Law 
106-74):


            ``fha multifamily mortgage credit demonstration


    ``Sec. 226. Section 542 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1992 is amended--
            ``(1) in subsection (b)(5) by striking `during 
        fiscal year 1999' and inserting `in each of the fiscal 
        years 1999 and 2000'; and
            ``(2) in the first sentence of subsection (c)(4) by 
        striking `during fiscal year 1999' and inserting `in 
        each of fiscal years 1999 and 2000'.


                       ``drug elimination program


    ``Sec. 227. (a) Section 5126(4) of the Public and Assisted 
Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 is amended--
            ``(1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting after 
        `1965;' the following: `or';
            ``(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking `1937: or' 
        and inserting `1937.'; and
            ``(3) by striking subparagraph (D).
    ``(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall be 
construed to have taken effect on October 21, 1998.''.
    This title may be cited as the ``District of Columbia 
Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                        TITLE II--TAX REDUCTION

    Sec. 201. Commending Reduction of Taxes by District of 
Columbia.--The Congress commends the District of Columbia for 
its action to reduce taxes, and ratifies D.C. Act 13-110 
(commonly known as the Service Improvement and Fiscal Year 2000 
Budget Support Act of 1999).
    Sec. 202. Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this title may 
be construed to limit the ability of the Council of the 
District of Columbia to amend or repeal any provision of law 
described in this title.

                               DIVISION B

  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                    RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

    For programs, projects, and activities in the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, provided as follows, to be 
effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular 
appropriations Act:
    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
purposes.

                      TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                 Employment and Training Administration


                    training and employment services


    For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, 
including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other 
facilities, and the purchase of real property for training 
centers as authorized by the Workforce Investment Act; the 
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; the Women in 
Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act; the National 
Skill Standards Act of 1994; and the School-to-Work 
Opportunities Act; $3,002,618,000 plus reimbursements, of which 
$1,650,153,000 is available for obligation for the period July 
1, 2000 through June 30, 2001; of which $1,250,965,000 is 
available for obligation for the period April 1, 2000 through 
June 30, 2001; of which $35,500,000 is available for the period 
July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2003 including $34,000,000 for 
necessary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and 
acquisition of Job Corps centers, and $1,500,000 under 
authority of section 171(d) of the Workforce Investment Act for 
use by the Organizing Committee for the 2001 Special Olympics 
World Winter Games in Alaska to promote employment 
opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other 
staffing needs; and of which $55,000,000 shall be available 
from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2001, for carrying out 
activities of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Provided, 
That $58,800,000 shall be for carrying out section 166 of the 
Workforce Investment Act, including $5,000,000 for carrying out 
section 166( j)(1) of the Workforce Investment Act, including 
the provision of assistance to American Samoans who reside in 
Hawaii for the co-location of federally funded and State-funded 
workforce investment activities, and $7,000,000 shall be for 
carrying out the National Skills Standards Act of 1994: 
Provided further, That no funds from any other appropriation 
shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 
centers: Provided further, That funds provided to carry out 
section 171(d) of such Act may be used for demonstration 
projects that provide assistance to new entrants in the 
workforce and incumbent workers: Provided further, That funding 
provided to carry out projects under section 171 of the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 that are identified in the 
Conference Agreement, shall not be subject to the requirements 
of section 171(b)(2)(B) of such Act, the requirements of 
section 171(c)(4)(D) of such Act, or the joint funding 
requirements of sections 171(b)(2)(A) and 171(c)(4)(A) of such 
Act: Provided further, That funding appropriated herein for 
Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Activities under 
section 132(a)(2)(A) of theWorkforce Investment Act of 1998 may 
be distributed for Dislocated Worker Projects under section 171(d) of 
the Act without regard to the 10 percent limitation contained in 
section 171(d) of the Act.
    For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, 
including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other 
facilities, and the purchase of real property for training 
centers as authorized by the Workforce Investment Act; 
$2,463,000,000 plus reimbursements, of which $2,363,000,000 is 
available for obligation for the period October 1, 2000 through 
June 30, 2001; and of which $100,000,000 is available for the 
period October 1, 2000 through June 30, 2003, for necessary 
expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of 
Job Corps centers.


            community service employment for older americans


    To carry out the activities for national grants or 
contracts with public agencies and public or private nonprofit 
organizations under paragraph (1)(A) of section 506(a) of title 
V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, or to carry 
out older worker activities as subsequently authorized, 
$343,356,000.
    To carry out the activities for grants to States under 
paragraph (3) of section 506(a) of title V of the Older 
Americans Act of 1965, as amended, or to carry out older worker 
activities as subsequently authorized, $96,844,000.


              federal unemployment benefits and allowances


    For payments during the current fiscal year of trade 
adjustment benefit payments and allowances under part I; and 
for training, allowances for job search and relocation, and 
related State administrative expenses under part II, 
subchapters B and D, chapter 2, title II of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended, $415,150,000, together with such amounts as 
may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation 
for payments for any period subsequent to September 15 of the 
current year.


     state unemployment insurance and employment service operations


    For authorized administrative expenses, $163,452,000, 
together with not to exceed $3,090,288,000 (including not to 
exceed $1,228,000 which may be used for amortization payments 
to States which had independent retirement plans in their State 
employment service agencies prior to 1980), which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in 
the Unemployment Trust Fund including the cost of administering 
section 1201 of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, 
section 7(d) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the Trade 
Act of 1974, as amended, the Immigration Act of 1990, and the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and of which the 
sums available in the allocation for activities authorized by 
title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
502-504), and the sums available in the allocation for 
necessary administrative expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.C. 
8501-8523, shall be available for obligation by the States 
through December 31, 2000, except that funds used for 
automation acquisitions shall be available for obligation by 
the States through September 30, 2002; and of which 
$163,452,000, together with not to exceed $738,283,000 of the 
amount which may be expended from said trust fund, shall be 
available for obligation for the period July 1, 2000 through 
June 30, 2001, to fund activities under the Act of June 6, 
1933, as amended, including the cost of penalty mail authorized 
under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made available to States in lieu 
of allotments for such purpose, and of which $125,000,000 shall 
be available only to the extent necessary for additional State 
allocations to administer unemployment compensation laws to 
finance increases in the number of unemployment insurance 
claims filed and claims paid or changes in a State law: 
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly Insured 
Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year 2000 is projected by the 
Department of Labor to exceed 2,638,000, an additional 
$28,600,000 shall be available for obligation for every 100,000 
increase in the AWIU level (including a pro rata amount for any 
increment less than 100,000) from the Employment Security 
Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated in this Act which are used to 
establish a national one-stop career center network may be 
obligated in contracts, grants or agreements with non-State 
entities: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 
Act for activities authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as 
amended, and title III of the Social Security Act, may be used 
by the States to fund integrated Employment Service and 
Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding cost 
allocation principles prescribed under Office of Management and 
Budget Circular A-87.


        advances to the unemployment trust fund and other funds


    For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as 
authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security 
Act, as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as 
authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1954, as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the 
Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 
5, United States Code, and to the ``Federal unemployment 
benefits and allowances'' account, to remain available until 
September 30, 2001, $356,000,000.
    In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black 
Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscalyear after 
September 15, 2000, for costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability 
Trust Fund in the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.


                         program administration


    For expenses of administering employment and training 
programs, $100,944,000, including $6,431,000 to support up to 
75 full-time equivalent staff, the majority of which will be 
term Federal appointments lasting no more than 1 year, to 
administer welfare-to-work grants, together with not to exceed 
$45,056,000, which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

              Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration, $96,000,000.

                  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation


               pension benefit guaranty corporation fund


    The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to 
make such expenditures, including financial assistance 
authorized by section 104 of Public Law 96-364, within limits 
of funds and borrowing authority available to such Corporation, 
and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and 
commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be necessary in 
carrying out the program through September 30, 2000, for such 
Corporation: Provided, That not to exceed $11,155,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses of the Corporation: 
Provided further, That expenses of such Corporation in 
connection with the termination of pension plans, for the 
acquisition, protection or management, and investment of trust 
assets, and for benefits administration services shall be 
considered as non-administrative expenses for the purposes 
hereof, and excluded from the above limitation.

                  Employment Standards Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards 
Administration, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and 
local agencies and their employees for inspection services 
rendered, $333,260,000, together with $1,740,000 which may be 
expended from the Special Fund in accordance with sections 
39(c), 44(d) and 44( j) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
Compensation Act: Provided, That $2,000,000 shall be for the 
development of an alternative system for the electronic 
submission of reports as required to be filed under the Labor-
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended, 
and for a computer database of the information for each 
submission by whatever means, that is indexed and easily 
searchable by the public via the Internet: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to accept, retain, 
and spend, until expended, in the name of the Department of 
Labor, all sums of money ordered to be paid to the Secretary of 
Labor, in accordance with the terms of the Consent Judgment in 
Civil Action No. 91-0027 of the United States District Court 
for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands (May 21, 
1992): Provided further, That the Secretary of Labor is 
authorized to establish and, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
collect and deposit in the Treasury fees for processing 
applications and issuing certificates under sections 11(d) and 
14 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 
U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for processing applications and 
issuing registrations under title I of the Migrant and Seasonal 
Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).


                            special benefits


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses 
(except administrative expenses) accruing during the current or 
any prior fiscal year authorized by title 5, chapter 81 of the 
United States Code; continuation of benefits as provided for 
under the heading ``Civilian War Benefits'' in the Federal 
Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the Employees' 
Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) 
and 5(f ) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); 
and 50 percent of the additional compensation and benefits 
required by section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
Compensation Act, as amended, $79,000,000 together with such 
amounts as may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent 
year appropriation for the payment of compensation and other 
benefits for any period subsequent to August 15 of the current 
year: Provided, That amounts appropriated may be used under 
section 8104 of title 5, United States Code, by the Secretary 
of Labor to reimburse an employer, who is not the employer at 
the time of injury, for portions of the salary of a reemployed, 
disabled beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of 
reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 1999, shall remain 
available until expended for the payment of compensation, 
benefits, and expenses: Provided further, That in addition 
there shall be transferred to this appropriation from the 
Postal Service and from any other corporation or 
instrumentality required under section 8147(c) of title 5, 
United States Code, to pay an amount for its fair share of the 
cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary determines 
to be the cost of administration for employees of such fair 
share entities through September 30, 2000: Provided further, 
That of those funds transferred to this account from the fair 
share entities to pay the cost of administration,$21,849,000 
shall be made available to the Secretary as follows: (1) for the 
operation of and enhancement to the automated data processing systems, 
including document imaging and medical bill review, in support of 
Federal Employees' Compensation Act administration, $13,433,000; (2) 
for program staff training to operate the new imaging system, 
$1,300,000; (3) for the periodic roll review program, $7,116,000; and 
(4) the remaining funds shall be paid into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
require that any person filing a notice of injury or a claim for 
benefits under chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, or 33 U.S.C. 
901 et seq., provide as part of such notice and claim, such identifying 
information (including Social Security account number) as such 
regulations may prescribe.


                    black lung disability trust fund


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, 
$1,013,633,000, of which $963,506,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2001, for payment of all benefits as authorized 
by section 9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and interest on advances as 
authorized by section 9501(c)(2) of that Act, and of which 
$28,676,000 shall be available for transfer to Employment 
Standards Administration, Salaries and Expenses, $20,783,000 
for transfer to Departmental Management, Salaries and Expenses, 
$312,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Office of 
Inspector General, and $356,000 for payment into miscellaneous 
receipts for the expenses of the Department of Treasury, for 
expenses of operation and administration of the Black Lung 
Benefits program as authorized by section 9501(d)(5) of that 
Act: Provided, That, in addition, such amounts as may be 
necessary may be charged to the subsequent year appropriation 
for the payment of compensation, interest, or other benefits 
for any period subsequent to August 15 of the current year.

             Occupational Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration, $370,000,000, including not to exceed 
$81,000,000 which shall be the maximum amount available for 
grants to States under section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety 
and Health Act, which grants shall be no less than 50 percent 
of the costs of State occupational safety and health programs 
required to be incurred under plans approved by the Secretary 
under section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration may retain up to 
$750,000 per fiscal year of training institute course tuition 
fees, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, and may 
utilize such sums for occupational safety and health training 
and education grants: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3302, the Secretary of Labor is authorized, during the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, to collect and retain fees for 
services provided to Nationally Recognized Testing 
Laboratories, and may utilize such sums, in accordance with the 
provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, to administer national and 
international laboratory recognition programs that ensure the 
safety of equipment and products used by workers in the 
workplace: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any 
standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Occupational 
Safety and Health Act of 1970 which is applicable to any person 
who is engaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a 
temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees: 
Provided further, That no funds appropriated under this 
paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or 
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 with respect to any 
employer of 10 or fewer employees who is included within a 
category having an occupational injury lost workday case rate, 
at the most precise Standard Industrial Classification Code for 
which such data are published, less than the national average 
rate as such rates are most recently published by the 
Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 
accordance with section 24 of that Act (29 U.S.C. 673), 
except--
            (1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, 
        consultation, technical assistance, educational and 
        training services, and to conduct surveys and studies;
            (2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in 
        response to an employee complaint, to issue a citation 
        for violations found during such inspection, and to 
        assess a penalty for violations which are not corrected 
        within a reasonable abatement period and for any 
        willful violations found;
            (3) to take any action authorized by such Act with 
        respect to imminent dangers;
            (4) to take any action authorized by such Act with 
        respect to health hazards;
            (5) to take any action authorized by such Act with 
        respect to a report of an employment accident which is 
        fatal to one or more employees or which results in 
        hospitalization of two or more employees, and to take 
        any action pursuant to such investigation authorized by 
        such Act; and
            (6) to take any action authorized by such Act with 
        respect to complaints of discrimination against 
        employees for exercising rights under such Act:
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to 
any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does not 
maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer 
employees.

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $228,373,000, including purchase and bestowal 
of certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and 
first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
including not to exceed $750,000 may be collected by the 
National Mine Health and Safety Academy for room, board, 
tuition, and the sale of training materials, otherwise 
authorized by law to be collected, to be available for mine 
safety and health education and training activities, 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; the Secretary is authorized to 
accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions 
from public and private sources and to prosecute projects in 
cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private; 
the Mine Safety and Health Administration is authorized to 
promote health and safety education and training in the mining 
community through cooperative programs with States, industry, 
and safety associations; and any funds available to the 
department may be used, with the approval of the Secretary, to 
provide for the costs of mine rescue and survival operations in 
the event of a major disaster.

                       Bureau of Labor Statistics


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 
including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and 
local agencies and their employees for services rendered, 
$353,781,000, of which $6,986,000 shall be for expenses of 
revising the Consumer Price Index and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2001, together with not to exceed 
$55,663,000, which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

                        Departmental Management


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, 
including the hire of three sedans, and including up to 
$7,250,000 for the President's Committee on Employment of 
People With Disabilities, and including the management or 
operation of Departmental bilateral and multilateral foreign 
technical assistance, $210,478,000; together with not to exceed 
$310,000, which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund: 
Provided, That no funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Solicitor of Labor to participate in a review in any 
United States court of appeals of any decision made by the 
Benefits Review Board under section 21 of the Longshore and 
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 921) where such 
participation is precluded by the decision of the United States 
Supreme Court in Director, Office of Workers' Compensation 
Programs v. Newport News Shipbuilding, 115 S. Ct. 1278 (1995), 
notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in 
Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure: Provided 
further, That no funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Secretary of Labor to review a decision under the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 
et seq.) that has been appealed and that has been pending 
before the Benefits Review Board for more than 12 months: 
Provided further, That any such decision pending a review by 
the Benefits Review Board for more than 1 year shall be 
considered affirmed by the Benefits Review Board on the 1-year 
anniversary of the filing of the appeal, and shall be 
considered the final order of the Board for purposes of 
obtaining a review in the United States courts of appeals: 
Provided further, That these provisions shall not be applicable 
to the review or appeal of any decision issued under the Black 
Lung Benefits Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.).


        assistant secretary for veterans employment and training


    Not to exceed $184,341,000 may be derived from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Unemployment 
Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100-4110A, 
4212, 4214, and 4321-4327, and Public Law 103-353, and which 
shall be available for obligation by the States through 
December 31, 2000.


                      office of inspector general


    For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, as amended, $48,095,000, together with not to 
exceed $3,830,000, which may be expended from the Employment 
Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title for 
the Job Corps shall be used to pay the compensation of an 
individual, either as direct costs or any proration as an 
indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.


                          (transfer of funds)


    Sec. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget andEmergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the current 
fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred 
between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by 
more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at 
least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Labor 
Appropriations Act, 2000''.

           TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration


                     health resources and services


    For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, 
and XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of 
the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and 
section 1820 of the Social Security Act, the Health Care 
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, and the Native 
Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, $4,429,292,000, 
of which $150,000 shall remain available until expended for 
interest subsidies on loan guarantees made prior to fiscal year 
1981 under part B of title VII of the Public Health Service 
Act, and of which $104,052,000 shall be available for the 
construction and renovation of health care and other 
facilities, and of which $25,000,000 from general revenues, 
notwithstanding section 1820( j) of the Social Security Act, 
shall be available for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital 
flexibility grants program under section 1820 of such Act: 
Provided, That the Division of Federal Occupational Health may 
utilize personal services contracting to employ professional 
management/administrative and occupational health 
professionals: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under this heading, $250,000 shall be available until 
expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long 
Hansen's Disease Center: Provided further, That in addition to 
fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality 
Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the full 
disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to recover 
the full costs of operating the National Practitioner Data 
Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry out 
that Act: Provided further, That no more than $5,000,000 is 
available for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104-73: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $214,932,000 shall be for the program under title X of 
the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family 
planning projects: Provided further, That amounts provided to 
said projects under such title shall not be expended for 
abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, 
and that such amounts shall not be expended for any activity 
(including the publication or distribution of literature) that 
in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any 
legislative proposal or candidate for public office: Provided 
further, That $518,000,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug 
Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 of the Public 
Health Service Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
section 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed 
$108,742,000 is available for carrying out special projects of 
regional and national significance pursuant to section 
501(a)(2) of such Act: Provided further, That of the amount 
provided under the heading, $20,000,000 shall be available for 
children's hospitals graduate medical education payments, 
subject to authorization: Provided further, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, $900,000 shall be for the American 
Federation of Negro Affairs Education and Research Fund.


               medical facilities guarantee and loan fund


           federal interest subsidies for medical facilities


    For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1602 of 
the Public Health Service Act, $1,000,000, together with any 
amounts received by the Secretary in connection with loans and 
loan guarantees under title VI of the Public Health Service 
Act, to be available without fiscal year limitation for the 
payment of interest subsidies. During the fiscal year, no 
commitments for direct loans or loan guarantees shall be made.


               health education assistance loans program


    Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of 
the program, as authorized by title VII of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended. For administrative expenses to carry 
out the guaranteed loan program, including section 709 of the 
Public Health Service Act, $3,688,000.


             vaccine injury compensation program trust fund


    For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program 
Trust Fund, such sums as may be necessary for claims associated 
with vaccine-related injury or death with respect to vaccines 
administered after September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 
of title XXI of the Public Health Service Act, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That for necessary 
administrative expenses, not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be 
available from the Trust Fund to the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


                disease control, research, and training


    To carry out titles II, III, VII, XI, XV, XVII, XIX and 
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 
201, 202, 203, 301, and 501 of the Federal Mine Safety and 
Health Act of 1977, sections 20, 21, and 22 ofthe Occupational 
Safety and Health Act of 1970, title IV of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act 
of 1980; including insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign 
countries; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, 
$2,798,886,000 of which $60,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended for equipment and construction and renovation of facilities, 
and in addition, such sums as may be derived from authorized user fees, 
which shall be credited to this account: Provided, That in addition to 
amounts provided herein, up to $71,690,000 shall be available from 
amounts available under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act, 
to carry out the National Center for Health Statistics surveys: 
Provided further, That none of the funds made available for injury 
prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control: Provided 
further, That the Director may redirect the total amount made available 
under authority of Public Law 101-502, section 3, dated November 3, 
1990, to activities the Director may so designate: Provided further, 
That the Congress is to be notified promptly of any such transfer: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 
single contract or related contracts for the development and 
construction of the infectious disease laboratory through the General 
Services Administration may be employed which collectively include the 
full scope of the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and 
contract shall contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found at 48 
CFR 52.232-18: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000,000 may be 
available for making grants under section 1509 of the Public Health 
Service Act to not more than 10 States: Provided further, That of the 
amount provided under this heading, $3,000,000 shall be for the Center 
for Environmental Medicine and Toxicology at the University of 
Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson and $1,000,000 shall be for the 
University of South Alabama birth defects monitoring and prevention 
activities.
    In addition, $51,000,000, to be derived from the Violent 
Crime Reduction Trust Fund, for carrying out sections 40151 and 
40261 of Public Law 103-322.

                     National Institutes of Health


                       national cancer institute


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to cancer, $3,332,317,000.


               national heart, lung, and blood institute


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and 
blood diseases, and blood and blood products, $2,040,291,000.


         national institute of dental and craniofacial research


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to dental disease, 
$270,253,000.


    national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and 
kidney disease, $1,147,588,000.


        national institute of neurological disorders and stroke


     For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to neurological disorders and 
stroke, $1,034,886,000.


         national institute of allergy and infectious diseases


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious 
diseases, $1,803,063,000.


             national institute of general medical sciences


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to general medical sciences, 
$1,361,668,000.


        national institute of child health and human development


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to child health and human 
development, $862,884,000.


                         national eye institute


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to eye diseases and visual 
disorders, $452,706,000.


          national institute of environmental health sciences


    For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title IV of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental health 
sciences, $444,817,000.


                      national institute on aging


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to aging, $690,156,000.


 national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to arthritis and 
musculoskeletal and skin diseases, $351,840,000.


    national institute on deafness and other communication disorders


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to deafness and other 
communication disorders, $265,185,000.


                 national institute of nursing research


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to nursing research, 
$90,000,000.


           national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to alcohol abuse and 
alcoholism, $293,935,000.


                    national institute on drug abuse


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to drug abuse, $689,448,000.


                  national institute of mental health


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to mental health, $978,360,000.


                national human genome research institute


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to human genome research, 
$337,322,000.


                 national center for research resources


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to research resources and 
general research support grants, $680,176,000: Provided, That 
none of these funds shall be used to pay recipients of the 
general research support grants program any amount for indirect 
expenses in connection with such grants: Provided further, That 
$75,000,000 shall be for extramural facilities construction 
grants.


                  john e. fogarty international center


    For carrying out the activities at the John E. Fogarty 
International Center, $43,723,000.


                      national library of medicine


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to health information 
communications, $215,214,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be 
available until expended for improvement of information 
systems: Provided, That in fiscal year 2000, the Library may 
enter into personal services contracts for the provision of 
services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed under 
the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health.


       national center for complementary and alternative medicine


    For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to complementary and 
alternative medicine, $68,753,000.


                         office of the director


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of the 
Director, National Institutes of Health, $283,509,000, of which 
$44,953,000 shall be for the Office of AIDS Research: Provided, 
That funding shall be available for the purchase of not to 
exceed 29 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only: 
Provided further, That the Director may direct up to 1 percent 
of the total amount made available in this or any other Act to 
all National Institutes of Health appropriations to activities 
the Director may so designate: Provided further, That no such 
appropriation shall be decreased by more than 1 percent by any 
such transfers and that the Congress is promptly notified of 
the transfer: Provided further, That the National Institutes of 
Health is authorized to collect third party payments for the 
cost of clinical services that are incurred in National 
Institutes of Health research facilities and that such payments 
shall be credited to the National Institutes of Health 
Management Fund: Provided further, That all funds credited to 
the National Institutes of Health Management Fund shall remain 
available for one fiscal year after the fiscal year in which 
they are deposited: Provided further, That up to $500,000 shall 
be available to carry out section 499 of the Public Health 
Service Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 
499(k)(10) of the Public Health Service Act, funds from the 
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health may be 
transferred to the National Institutes of Health.


                        buildings and facilities


    For the study of, construction of, and acquisition of 
equipment for, facilities of or used by the National Institutes 
of Health, including the acquisition of real property, 
$135,376,000, to remain available until expended.

       Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


               substance abuse and mental health services


    For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to substance abuse and mental health 
services, the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill 
Individuals Act of 1986, and section 301 of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to program management, $2,549,728,000.

               Agency for Health Care Policy and Research


                    health care policy and research


    For carrying out titles III and IX of the Public Health 
Service Act, and part A of title XI of the SocialSecurity Act, 
$111,424,000; in addition, amounts received from Freedom of Information 
Act fees, reimbursable and interagency agreements, and the sale of data 
tapes shall be credited to this appropriation and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the amount made available 
pursuant to section 926(b) of the Public Health Service Act shall not 
exceed $83,576,000.

                  Health Care Financing Administration


                     grants to states for medicaid


    For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI 
and XIX of the Social Security Act, $86,087,393,000, to remain 
available until expended.
    For making, after May 31, 2000, payments to States under 
title XIX of the Social Security Act for the last quarter of 
fiscal year 2000 for unanticipated costs, incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.
    For making payments to States or in the case of section 
1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social Security 
Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001, $30,589,003,000, 
to remain available until expended.
    Payment under title XIX may be made for any quarter with 
respect to a State plan or plan amendment in effect during such 
quarter, if submitted in or prior to such quarter and approved 
in that or any subsequent quarter.


                  payments to health care trust funds


    For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the 
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as 
provided under sections 217(g) and 1844 of the Social Security 
Act, sections 103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security 
Amendments of 1965, section 278(d) of Public Law 97-248, and 
for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g) 
of the Social Security Act, $69,289,100,000.


                           program management


    For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI, 
XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles XIII and 
XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Clinical 
Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, not to exceed 
$1,971,648,000, to be transferred from the Federal Hospital 
Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust 
Funds, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social Security 
Act; together with all funds collected in accordance with 
section 353 of the Public Health Service Act and such sums as 
may be collected from authorized user fees and the sale of 
data, which shall remain available until expended, and together 
with administrative fees collected relative to Medicare 
overpayment recovery activities, which shall remain available 
until expended: Provided, That all funds derived in accordance 
with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established under title 
XIII of the Public Health Service Act shall be credited to and 
available for carrying out the purposes of this appropriation: 
Provided further, That $18,000,000 appropriated under this 
heading for the managed care system redesign shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That $2,000,000 of 
the amount available for research, demonstration, and 
evaluation activities shall be available to continue carrying 
out demonstration projects on Medicaid coverage of community-
based attendant care services for people with disabilities 
which ensures maximum control by the consumer to select and 
manage their attendant care services: Provided further, That 
$3,000,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, 
and evaluation activities shall be awarded to an application 
from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, the 
University of Louisville Sciences Center, and St. Vincent's 
Hospital in Montana to conduct a demonstration to reduce 
hospitalizations among high-risk patients with congestive heart 
failure: Provided further, That $2,000,000 of the amount 
available for research, demonstration, and evaluation 
activities shall be awarded to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation 
in Los Angeles: Provided further, That $100,000 of the amount 
available for research, demonstration, and evaluation 
activities shall be awarded to Littleton Regional Hospital in 
New Hampshire, to assist in the development of rural emergency 
medical services: Provided further, That $250,000 of the amount 
available for research, demonstration, and evaluation 
activities shall be awarded to the University of Missouri-
Kansas City to test behavorial interventions of nursing home 
residents with moderate to severe dementia: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to 
collect, in aggregate, $95,000,000 in fees in fiscal year 2000 
from Medicare+Choice organizations pursuant to section 
1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act and from eligible 
organizations with risk-sharing contracts under section 1876 of 
that Act pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D) of that Act.


      health maintenance organization loan and loan guarantee fund


    For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1308 of 
the Public Health Service Act, any amounts received by the 
Secretary in connection with loans and loan guarantees under 
title XIII of the Public Health Service Act, to be available 
without fiscal year limitation for the payment of outstanding 
obligations. During fiscal year 2000, no commitments for direct 
loans or loan guarantees shall be made.

                Administration for Children and Families


  payments to states for child support enforcement and family support 
                                programs


    For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under titles I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social 
Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for 
the first quarter of fiscal year 2001, $650,000,000.
    For making payments to each State for carrying out the 
program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children under title 
IV-A of the Social Security Act before the effective date of 
the program of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) 
with respect to such State, such sums as may be necessary: 
Provided, That the sum of the amounts available to a State with 
respect to expenditures under such title IV-A in fiscal year 
1997 under this appropriation and under such title IV-A as 
amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 shall not exceed the limitations 
under section 116(b) of such Act.
    For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, 
payments to States or other non-Federal entities under titles 
I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the 
Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for the last 3 months of 
the current year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.


                   low income home energy assistance


    For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981, $1,100,000,000, to be available for 
obligation in the period October 1, 2000 through September 30, 
2001.
    For making payments under title XXVI of such Act, 
$300,000,000: Provided, That these funds are hereby designated 
by Congress to be emergency requirements pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That these funds shall 
be made available only after submission to Congress of a formal 
budget request by the President that includes designation of 
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985.
    The $1,100,000,000 provided in the first paragraph under 
this heading in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(f ) of division A of 
Public Law 105-277) is hereby designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
Provided, That such funds shall be available only if the 
President submits to the Congress one official budget request 
for $1,100,000,000 that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to such section: 
Provided further, That such funds shall be distributed in 
accordance with section 2604 of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623), other than 
subsection (e) of such section.


                     refugee and entrant assistance


    For making payments for refugee and entrant assistance 
activities authorized by title IV of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee Education 
Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-422), $419,005,000: 
Provided, That funds appropriated pursuant to section 414(a) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act under Public Law 105-78 for 
fiscal year 1998 and under Public Law 105-277 for fiscal year 
1999 shall be available for the costs of assistance provided 
and other activities through September 30, 2001.
    For carrying out section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief 
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320), $7,500,000.
    The $426,505,000 provided under this heading is hereby 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That such funds shall be 
available only if the President submits to the Congress one 
official budget request for $426,505,000 that includes 
designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to such section.


   payments to states for the child care and development block grant


    For carrying out sections 658A through 658R of the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (The Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990), to become available on 
October 1, 2000 and remain available through September 30, 
2001, $1,182,672,000: Provided, That $19,120,000 shall be 
available for child care resource and referral and school-aged 
child care activities.


                      social services block grant


    For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 of the 
Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Provided, That: (1) 
notwithstanding section 2003(c) of such Act, as amended, the 
amount specified for allocation under such section for fiscal 
year 2000 shall be $1,700,000,000; and (2) notwithstanding 
subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such Act, the 
applicable percent specified under such subparagraph for a 
State to carry out State programs pursuant to title XX of such 
Act for fiscal year 2000 shall be 4.25 percent.


                children and families services programs


                        (including rescissions)


    For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway 
and Homeless Youth Act, the Developmental Disabilities 
Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the 
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the Native American 
Programs Act of 1974, title II of Public Law 95-266 (adoption 
opportunities), the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 
(Public Law 105-89), the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 
1988, part B(1) of title IV and sections 413, 429A, 1110, and 
1115 of the Social Security Act; for making payments under the 
Community Services Block Grant Act, section 473A of the Social 
Security Act, and title IV of Public Law 105-285; and for 
necessary administrative expenses to carry out said Acts and 
titles I, IV, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and XX of the Social Security 
Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, title IV of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, section 501 of the Refugee Education 
Assistance Act of 1980, section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief 
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320), sections 40155, 40211, and 
40241 of Public Law 103-322 and section 126 and titles IV and V 
of Public Law 100-485, $6,708,733,000, of which $43,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2001, shall be for grants 
to States for adoption incentive payments, as authorized by 
section 473A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
670-679); of which $567,065,000 shall be for making payments 
under the Community Services Block Grant Act; and of which 
$5,267,000,000 shall be for making payments under the Head 
Start Act, of which $1,400,000,000 shall become available 
October 1, 2000 and remain available through September 30, 
2001: Provided, That to the extent Community Services Block 
Grant funds are distributed as grant funds by a State to an 
eligible entity as provided under the Act, and have not been 
expended by such entity, they shall remain with such entity for 
carryover into the next fiscal year for expenditure by such 
entity consistent with program purposes: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall establish procedures regarding the 
disposition of intangible property which permits grant funds, 
or intangible assets acquired with funds authorized under 
section 680 of the Community Services Block Grant Act, as 
amended, to become the sole property of such grantees after a 
period of not more than 12 years after the end of the grant for 
purposes and uses consistent with the original grant.
    In addition, $101,000,000, to be derived from the Violent 
Crime Reduction Trust Fund for carrying out sections 40155, 
40211, and 40241 of Public Law 103-322.
    Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000 under section 
429A(e), part B of title IV of the Social Security Act shall be 
reduced by $6,000,000.
    Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000 under section 
413(h)(1) of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by 
$15,000,000.


                   promoting safe and stable families


    For carrying out section 430 of the Social Security Act, 
$295,000,000.


       payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance


    For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, $4,307,300,000.
    For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, for the first 
quarter of fiscal year 2001, $1,538,000,000.

                        Administration on Aging


                        aging services programs


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and section 398 of the 
Public Health Service Act, $930,225,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 308(b)(1) of the Older Americans Act of 
1965, as amended, the amounts available to each State for 
administration of the State plan under title III of such Act 
shall be reduced not more than 5 percent below the amount that 
was available to such State for such purpose for fiscal year 
1995: Provided further, That in considering grant applications 
for nutrition services for elder Indian recipients, the 
Assistant Secretary shall provide maximum flexibility to 
applicants who seek to take into account subsistence, local 
customs, and other characteristics that are appropriate to the 
unique cultural, regional, and geographic needs of the American 
Indian, Alaska and Hawaiian Native communities to be served.

                        Office of the Secretary


                    general departmental management


    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general 
departmental management, including hire of six sedans, and for 
carrying out titles III, XVII, and XX of the Public Health 
Service Act, and the United States-Mexico Border Health 
Commission Act, $209,701,000, of which $20,000,000 shall become 
available on October 1, 2000, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2001, together with $5,851,000, to be transferred 
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social 
Security Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the 
Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund: Provided, That 
$450,000 shall be for a contract with the National Academy of 
Sciences to conduct a study of the proposed tuberculosis 
standard promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration: Provided further, That said contract shall be 
awarded not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That said study shall be submitted to the 
Congress not later than 12 months after award of the contract: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading for carrying out title XX of the Public Health Service 
Act, $10,569,000 shall be for activities specified under 
section 2003(b)(2), of which $9,131,000 shall be for prevention 
service demonstration grants under section 510(b)(2) of title V 
of the Social Security Act, as amended, without application of 
the limitation of section 2010(c) of said title XX: Provided 
further, That $2,000,000 shall be available to the Office of 
the Surgeon General, within the Office of Public Health and 
Science, to prepare and disseminate the findings of the Surgeon 
General's report on youth violence, and to coordinate with 
other agencies throughout the Federal Government, through the 
establishment of a Federal Coordinating Committee, activities 
to prevent youth violence: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may transfer a portion of such funds to other Federal entities 
for youth violence prevention coordination activities.


                      office of inspector general


    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $31,500,000.


                        office for civil rights


    For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, 
$18,338,000, together with not to exceed $3,314,000, to be 
transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of 
the Social Security Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund 
and the Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund.


                            policy research


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, 
research studies under section 1110 of the Social Security Act, 
$17,000,000.


     retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers


    For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health 
Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, for 
payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan 
and Survivor Benefit Plan, for medical care of dependents and 
retired personnel under the Dependents' Medical Care Act (10 
U.S.C. ch. 55), and for payments pursuant to section 229(b) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), such amounts as may 
be required during the current fiscal year.


            public health and social services emergency fund


    For expenses necessary to support activities related to 
countering potential biological, disease and chemical threats 
to civilian populations, $181,600,000: Provided, That this 
amount is distributed as follows: Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, $122,000,000, of which $30,000,000 shall be for 
the Health Alert Network, $1,000,000 shall be for the Carnegie 
Mellon Research Institute, $1,000,000 shall be for the St. 
Louis University School of Public Health, $1,000,000 shall be 
for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and 
$1,000,000 shall be for the Johns Hopkins University Center for 
Civilian Biodefense; Office of the Secretary, $30,000,000, 
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, $5,000,000, and 
Office of Emergency Preparedness, $24,600,000. In addition, for 
expenses necessary for the portion of the Global Health 
Initiative conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, $69,000,000: Provided further, That this amount is 
distributed as follows: $35,000,000 shall be for international 
HIV/AIDS programs, $9,000,000 shall be for malaria programs, 
$5,000,000 shall be for global micronutrient malnutrition 
programs and $20,000,000 shall be for carrying out polio 
eradication activities. In addition, $150,000,000 for carrying 
out the Department's Year 2000 computer conversion activities, 
$5,000,000 for the environmental health laboratory at the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $35,000,000 for 
minority AIDS prevention and treatment activities, $20,000,000 
for the National Institutes of Health challenge grant program, 
and $50,000,000 to support the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund 
Act of 1998: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, up to $10,000,000 of the amount provided for 
the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act may be available for 
administrative expenses: Provided further, That the entire 
amount under this heading is hereby designated by the Congress 
to be emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount 
under this heading shall be made available only after 
submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the 
President that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
Provided further, That no funds shall be obligated until the 
Department of Health and Human Services submits an operating 
plan to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be 
available for not to exceed $37,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses when specifically approved by the 
Secretary.
    Sec. 202. The Secretary shall make available through 
assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health 
Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in 
AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for 
International Development, the United Nations International 
Children's Emergency Fund or the World Health Organization.
    Sec. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may 
be used to implement section 399L(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act or section 1503 of the National Institutes of 
Health Revitalization Act of 1993, Public Law 103-43.
    Sec. 204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for 
the National Institutes of Health and the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration shall be used to pay the 
salary of an individual, through a grant or other extramural 
mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
    Sec. 205. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
expended pursuant to section 241 of the Public Health Service 
Act, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or 
for other taps and assessments made by any office located in 
the Department of Health and Human Services, prior to the 
Secretary's preparation and submission of a report to the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House 
detailing the planned uses of such funds.


                          (transfer of funds)


    Sec. 206. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the 
current fiscal year for the Department of Health and Human 
Services in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, 
but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 
percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations 
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 
days in advance of any transfer.
    Sec. 207. The Director of the National Institutes of 
Health, jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS 
Research, may transfer up to 3 percent among institutes, 
centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by 
these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the 
human immunodeficiency virus: Provided, That the Congress is 
promptly notified of the transfer.
    Sec. 208. Of the amounts made available in this Act for the 
National Institutes of Health, the amount for research related 
to the human immunodeficiency virus, as jointly determined by 
the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the 
Director of the Office of AIDS Research, shall be made 
available to the ``Office of AIDS Research'' account. The 
Director of the Office of AIDS Research shall transfer from 
such account amounts necessary to carry out section 2353(d)(3) 
of the Public Health Service Act.
    Sec. 209. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
made available to any entity under title X of the Public Health 
Service Act unless the applicant for the award certifies to the 
Secretary that it encourages family participation in the 
decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it 
provides counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to 
coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities.
    Sec. 210. (a) The final rule entitled ``Organ Procurement 
and Transplantation Network'', promulgated by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services on April 2, 1998 (63 Fed. Reg. 16295 
et seq.) (relating to part 121 of title 42, Code of Federal 
Regulations), together with the amendments to such rules 
promulgated on October 20, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 56649 et seq.) 
shall not become effective before the expiration of the 90 day 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) For purposes of subsection (a):
            (1) Not later than 3 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
        Human Services (referred to in this section as the 
        ``Secretary'') shall publish in the Federal Register a 
        notice providing that the period within which comments 
        on the final rule may be submitted to the Secretary is 
        60 days after the date of such publication of the 
        notice.
            (2) Not later than 21 days after the expiration of 
        such 60-day period, the Secretary shall complete the 
        review of the comments submitted pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) and shall amend the final rule with any revisions 
        appropriate according to the review by the Secretary of 
        such comments. The final rule may be in the form of 
        amendments to the rule referred to in subsection (a) 
        that was promulgated on April 2, 1998, and in the form 
        of amendments to the rule referred to in such 
        subsection that was promulgated on October 20, 1999.
    Sec. 211. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
(including funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be used to 
carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary denies 
participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity 
(including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the 
entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, 
provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions: 
Provided, That the Secretary shall make appropriate prospective 
adjustments to the capitation payment to such an entity (based 
on an actuarially sound estimate of the expected costs of 
providing the service to such entity's enrollees): Provided 
further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to 
change the Medicare program's coverage for such services and a 
Medicare+Choice organization described in this section shall be 
responsible for informing enrollees where to obtain information 
about all Medicare covered services.
    Sec. 212. (a) Mental Health.--Section 1918(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-7(b)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(b) Minimum Allotments for States.--With respect to 
fiscal year 2000, the amount of the allotment of a State under 
section 1911 shall not be less than the amount the State 
received under section 1911 for fiscal year 1998.''.
    (b) Substance Abuse.--Section 1933(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-33(b)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(b) Minimum Allotments for States.--Each State's 
allotment for fiscal year 2000 for programs under this subpart 
shall be equal to such State's allotment for such programs for 
fiscal year 1999, except that, if the amount appropriated in 
fiscal year 2000 is less than the amount appropriated in fiscal 
year 1999, then the amount of a State's allotment under section 
1921 shall be equal to the amount that the State received under 
section 1921 in fiscal year 1999 decreased by the percentage by 
which the amount appropriated for fiscal year 2000 is less than 
the amount appropriated for such section for fiscal year 
1999.''.
    Sec. 213. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
provider of services under title X of the Public Health Service 
Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification 
or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual 
abuse, rape, or incest.
    Sec. 214. Extension of Certain Adjudication Provisions.--
The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-167) is amended--
            (1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)--
                    (A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking 
                ``1997, 1998, and 1999'' and inserting ``1997, 
                1998, 1999, and 2000''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e), by striking 
                ``October 1, 1999'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``October 1, 2000''; and
            (2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) in 
        subsection (b)(2), by striking ``September 30, 1999'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2000''.
    Sec. 215. None of the funds provided in this Act or in any 
other Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2000 may be 
used to administer or implement in Arizona or in the Kansas 
City, Missouri or in the Kansas City, Kansas area the Medicare 
Competitive Pricing Demonstration Project (operated by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services under authority granted 
in section 4011 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 
105-33)).
    Sec. 216. Of the funds appropriated for the National 
Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2000, $7,500,000,000 shall 
not be available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of 
the funds appropriated for the Health Resources and Services 
Administration for fiscal year 2000, $1,120,000,000 shall not 
be available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of the 
funds appropriated for the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention for fiscal year 2000, $965,000,000 shall not be 
available for obligation until September 29, 2000. Of the funds 
appropriated for the Children and Families Services Programs 
for fiscal year 2000, $400,000,000 shall not be available for 
obligation until September 29, 2000. Of the funds appropriated 
for the Social Services Block Grant for fiscal year 2000, 
$425,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
September 29, 2000. Of the funds appropriated for the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for fiscal year 
2000, $450,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
September 29, 2000.
    Sec. 217. Study and Report on the Geographic Adjustment 
Factors Under the Medicare Program. (a) Study.--The Secretary 
of Health and Human Services shall conduct a study on--
            (1) the reasons why, and the appropriateness of the 
        fact that, the geographic adjustment factor (determined 
        under paragraph (2) of section 1848(e) (42 U.S.C. 
        1395w-4(e)) used in determining the amount of payment 
        for physicians' services under the Medicare program is 
        less for physicians' services provided in New Mexico 
        than for physicians' services provided in Arizona, 
        Colorado, and Texas; and
            (2) the effect that the level of the geographic 
        cost-of-practice adjustment factor (determined under 
        paragraph (3) of such section) has on the recruitment 
        and retention of physicians in small rural States, 
        including New Mexico, Iowa, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 3 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall submit a report to Congress on the study 
conducted under subsection (a), together with any 
recommendations for legislation that the Secretary determines 
to be appropriate as a result of such study.
    Sec. 218. Withholding of Substance Abuse Funds. (a) In 
General.--None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant 
to section 1926 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300x-26) if such State certifies to the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services that the State will commit additional State 
funds, in accordance with subsection (b), to ensure compliance 
with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to 
individuals under 18 years of age.
    (b) Amount of State Funds.--The amount of funds to be 
committed by a State under subsection (a) shall be equal to 1 
percent of such State's substance abuse block grant allocation 
for each percentage point by which the State misses the 
retailer compliance rate goal established by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services under section 1926 of such Act, 
except that the Secretary may agree to a smaller commitment of 
additional funds by the State.
    (c) Supplement not Supplant.--Amounts expended by a State 
pursuant to a certification under subsection (a) shall be used 
to supplement and not supplant State funds used for tobacco 
prevention programs and for compliance activities described in 
such subsection in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year to 
which this section applies.
    (d) Enforcement of State Expenditure.--The Secretary shall 
exercise discretion in enforcing the timing of the State 
expenditure required by the certification described in 
subsection (a) as late as July 31, 2000.
    Sec. 219. None of the funds made available under this title 
may be used to carry out the transmittal of August 13, 1997 
(relating to self-administered drugs) of the Deputy Director of 
the Division of Acute Care of the Health Care Financing 
Administration to regional offices of such Administration or to 
promulgate any regulation or other transmittal or policy 
directive that has the effect of imposing (or clarifying the 
imposition of ) a restriction on the coverage of injectable 
drugs under section 1861(s)(2) of the Social Security Act 
beyond the restrictions applied before the date of such 
transmittal.
    Sec. 220. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31, 
United States Code, funds obligated and awarded in fiscal years 
1994 and 1995 under the heading ``National Cancer Institute'' 
for the Cancer Therapy and Research Center inSan Antonio, 
Texas, grant numbers 1 C06 CA58690-01 and 3 C06 CA58690-01S1, shall be 
exempt from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and the obligated 
unexpended dollars shall remain available to the grantee for 
expenditure without fiscal year limitation to fulfill the purpose of 
the award.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Health and 
Human Services Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                   TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


                            education reform


    For carrying out activities authorized by titles III and IV 
of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School-to-Work 
Opportunities Act, and sections 3122, 3132, 3136, and 3141, 
parts B, C, and D of title III, and part I of title X of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $1,586,560,000, 
of which $456,500,000 for the Goals 2000: Educate America Act 
and $55,000,000 for the School-to-Work Opportunities Act shall 
become available on July 1, 2000 and remain available through 
September 30, 2001, and of which $87,000,000 shall be for 
section 3122: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated 
under this heading shall be obligated or expended to carry out 
section 304(a)(2)(A) of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, 
except that no more than $1,500,000 may be used to carry out 
activities under section 314(a)(2) of that Act: Provided 
further, That section 315(a)(2) of the Goals 2000: Educate 
America Act shall not apply: Provided further, That up to one-
half of 1 percent of the amount available under section 3132 
shall be set aside for the outlying areas, to be distributed on 
the basis of their relative need as determined by the Secretary 
in accordance with the purposes of the program: Provided 
further, That if any State educational agency does not apply 
for a grant under section 3132, that State's allotment under 
section 3131 shall be reserved by the Secretary for grants to 
local educational agencies in that State that apply directly to 
the Secretary according to the terms and conditions published 
by the Secretary in the Federal Register: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available to carry out section 3136 and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $500,000 shall be 
awarded to the Houston Independent School District for 
technology infrastructure, $8,000,000 shall be awarded to the I 
CAN LEARN program, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to the Linking 
Education Technology and Educational Reform (LINKS) project for 
educational technology, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) for 
comprehensive secondary education reform, $250,000 shall be 
awarded to the Vaughn Reno Starks Community Center in 
Elizabethtown, Kentucky for a technology program, $125,000 
shall be awarded to the Wyandanch Compel Youth Academy 
Educational Assistance Program in New York, $3,000,000 shall be 
awarded to Hi-Technology High School in San Bernardino County, 
California for technology enhancement, $300,000 shall be 
awarded to the Long Island 21st Century Technology and E-
Commerce Alliance, $800,000 shall be awarded to Montana State 
University for a distance learning initiative, $2,000,000 for 
the Tupelo School District in Tupelo, Mississippi for 
technology innovation in education, $900,000 for the University 
of Alaska at Anchorage for distance learning education, 
$1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Seton Hill College in 
Greensburg, Pennsylvania for a model education technology 
training program, $500,000 shall be awarded to the University 
of Alaska-Fairbanks, in Fairbanks, Alaska for a teacher 
technology training program, $200,000 shall be awarded to the 
Alaska Department of Education for the Alaska State Distance 
Education Technology Consortium, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to 
the North East Vocational Area Cooperative in Washington State 
for a multi-district technology education center, $400,000 
shall be awarded to the University of Vermont for the Vermont 
Learning Gateway Program, $2,500,000 shall be awarded to the 
State University of New Jersey for the RUNet 2000 project at 
Rutgers for an integrated voice-video-data network to link 
students, faculty and administration via a high-speed, broad 
band fiber optic network, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Iowa 
Area Education Agency 13 for a public/private partnership to 
demonstrate the effective use of technology in grades 1-3, 
$235,000 shall be for the Louisville Deaf Oral School for 
technology enhancements: Provided further, That in the State of 
Alabama $50,000 shall be awarded to the Bibb County Board of 
Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded 
to the Calhoun County Board of Education for technology 
enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Chambers County 
Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall 
be awarded to the Chilton County Board of Education for 
technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Clay 
County Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 
shall be awarded to the Cleburne County Board of Education for 
technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Coosa 
County Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 
shall be awarded to the Lee County Board of Education for 
technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Macon 
County Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 
shall be awarded to the St. Clair County Board of Education for 
technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the 
Talladega County Boardof Education for technology enhancements, 
$50,000 shall be awarded to the Tallapoosa County Board of Education 
for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Randolph 
County Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be 
awarded to the Russell County Board of Education for technology 
enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Alexander City Board of 
Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the 
Anniston City Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 
shall be awarded to the Lanett City Board of Education for technology 
enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Pell City Board of 
Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 shall be awarded to the 
Roanoke City Board of Education for technology enhancements, $50,000 
shall be awarded to the Talledega City Board of Education for 
technology enhancements and $500,000 shall be to continue a state-of-
the-art information technology system at Mansfield University, 
Mansfield, Pennsylvania: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available to carry out title III, part B of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 and notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, $750,000 shall be awarded to the Technology Literacy Center at 
the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, $1,000,000 shall be 
awarded to an on-line math and science training program at Oklahoma 
State University, $4,000,000 shall be awarded to continue and expand 
the Iowa Communications Network statewide fiber optic demonstration 
project: Provided further, That of the funds made available for title 
X, part I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $6,000 shall be awarded to 
the Study Partners Program, Inc., in Louisville, Kentucky, $12,000 
shall be awarded to the Shawnee Gardens Tenants Association Inc., in 
Louisville, Kentucky for a tutorial program, $12,000 shall be awarded 
to the 100 Black Men of Louisville, Kentucky for a mentoring and 
leadership training program, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Omaha, 
Nebraska Public Schools for the OPS 21st Century Learning Grant, 
$25,000 shall be for the Plymouth Renewal Center in Kentucky for a 
tutoring program, $25,000 shall be for the Canaan Community Development 
Corporation's Village Learning Center Program, $25,000 shall be for the 
St. Stephen Life Center After School Program, $25,000 shall be for the 
Louisville Central Community Centers Youth Education Program, $15,000 
shall be for the Trinity Family Life Center tutoring program, $15,000 
shall be for the New Zion Community Development Foundation, Inc., after 
school mentoring program, $20,000 shall be for the St. Joseph Catholic 
Orphan Society program for abused and neglected children, $25,000 shall 
be for the Portland Neighborhood House after school program, and 
$25,000 shall be for the St. Anthony Community Outreach Center, Inc., 
for the Education PAYs program.


                    education for the disadvantaged


    For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965, and section 418A of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965, $8,547,986,000, of which $2,317,823,000 shall 
become available on July 1, 2000, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2001, and of which $6,204,763,000 shall 
become available on October 1, 2000 and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2001, for academic year 2000-2001: 
Provided, That $6,649,000,000 shall be available for basic 
grants under section 1124: Provided further, That up to 
$3,500,000 of these funds shall be available to the Secretary 
on October 1, 1999, to obtain updated local-educational-agency-
level census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census: 
Provided further, That $1,158,397,000 shall be available for 
concentration grants under section 1124A: Provided further, 
That $8,900,000 shall be available for evaluations under 
section 1501 and not more than $8,500,000 shall be reserved for 
section 1308, of which not more than $3,000,000 shall be 
reserved for section 1308(d): Provided further, That grant 
awards under sections 1124 and 1124A of title I of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall be made to 
each State and local educational agency at no less than 100 
percent of the amount such State or local educational agency 
received under this authority for fiscal year 1999: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, grant 
awards under section 1124A of title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall be made to those local 
educational agencies that received a Concentration Grant under 
the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1998, but are 
not eligible to receive such a grant for fiscal year 2000: 
Provided further, That each such local educational agency shall 
receive an amount equal to the Concentration Grant the agency 
received in fiscal year 1998, ratably reduced, if necessary, to 
ensure that these local educational agencies receive no greater 
share of their hold-harmless amounts than other local 
educational agencies: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall not take into account the hold harmless provisions in 
this section in determining State allocations under any other 
program administered by the Secretary in any fiscal year: 
Provided further, That $160,000,000 shall be available under 
section 1002(g)(2) to demonstrate effective approaches to 
comprehensive school reform to be allocated and expended in 
accordance with the instructions relating to this activity in 
the statement of the managers on theconference report 
accompanying Public Law 105-78 and in the statement of the managers on 
the conference report accompanying Public Law 105-277: Provided 
further, That in carrying out this initiative, the Secretary and the 
States shall support only approaches that show the most promise of 
enabling children served by title I to meet challenging State content 
standards and challenging State student performance standards based on 
reliable research and effective practices, and include an emphasis on 
basic academics and parental involvement.


                               impact aid


    For carrying out programs of financial assistance to 
federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $910,500,000, 
of which $737,200,000 shall be for basic support payments under 
section 8003(b), $50,000,000 shall be for payments for children 
with disabilities under section 8003(d), $76,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for payments under section 
8003(f ), $10,300,000 shall be for construction under section 
8007, $32,000,000 shall be for Federal property payments under 
section 8002 and $5,000,000 to remain available until expended 
shall be for facilities maintenance under section 8008: 
Provided, That of the funds available for section 8007 and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $500,000 shall be 
awarded to the Fort Sam Houston Independent School District, 
Texas, $800,000 shall be awarded to the Hays Lodgepole School 
District, Montana, and $2,000,000 shall be awarded to the North 
Chicago Community Unit SD 187: Provided further, That these 
funds shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Education shall treat as timely filed, 
and shall process for payment, an application for a fiscal year 
1999 payment from the local educational agency for Brookeland, 
Texas under section 8002 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 if the Secretary has received that 
application not later than 30 days after the enactment of this 
Act: Provided further, That section 8002(f ) of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding a new 
paragraph ``(3)'' at the end to read as follows:
            ``(3) For each fiscal year beginning with fiscal 
        year 2000, the Secretary shall treat the Central Union, 
        California; Island, California; Hill City, South 
        Dakota; and Wall, South Dakota local educational 
        agencies as meeting the eligibility requirements of 
        subsection (a)(1)(C) of this section.'':
Provided further, That the Secretary of Education shall 
consider all payments received by the educational agency for 
Hatboro-Horsham and Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania for fiscal 
year 1995 under section 8002(a) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(a)), and all payments 
under section 8002(h)(2)(A) for subsequent years through fiscal 
year 1999, to be correct: Provided further, That section 8002(f 
) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is 
amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph (4) to 
read as follows:
            ``(4) For the purposes of payments under this 
        section for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 
        2000, the Secretary shall treat the Hot Springs, South 
        Dakota local educational agency as if it had filed a 
        timely application under section 8002 of the Elementary 
        and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for fiscal year 
        1994 if the Secretary has received the fiscal year 1994 
        application, as well as Exhibits A and B not later than 
        December 1, 1999.'':
Provided further, That section 8002(f ) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding at the end 
thereof a new paragraph (5) to read as follows:
            ``(5) For purposes of payments under this section 
        for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2000, 
        the Secretary shall treat the Hueneme, California local 
        educational agency as if it had filed a timely 
        application under section 8002 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 if the Secretary has 
        received the fiscal year 1995 application not later 
        than December 1, 1999.'':
Provided further, That the Secretary of Education shall treat 
as timely filed, and shall process for payment, an application 
for a fiscal year 1998 payment from the local educational 
agency for Hydaburg, Alaska, under section 8003 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 if the Secretary 
has received that application not later than 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
Education shall treat as timely, and process for payment, an 
application for fiscal years 1996 and 1997 payment from the 
local education agency for Fallbrook Unified High School 
District, California, under section 8002 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, if the Secretary has received 
that application not later than 30 days after the enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That for the purpose of computing 
the amount of a payment for a local educational agency for 
children identified under section 8003 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, children residing in housing 
initially acquired or constructed under section 801 of the 
Military Construction Authorization Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-
115) (``Build to Lease'' program) shall be considered as 
children described under section 8003(a)(1)(B) if the property 
described is within the fenced security perimeter of the 
military facility upon which such housing is situated: Provided 
further, That if such property is not owned by the Federal 
Government, is subject to taxation by a State or political 
subdivision of a State, and thereby generates revenues for a 
local educational agency which received a payment from the 
Secretary under section 8003, the Secretary shall: (1) require 
such local educational agency to provide certification from an 
appropriate official of the Department of Defense that such 
property is being used to provide military housing; and (2) 
reduce the amount of such payment by an amount equal to the 
amount of revenue from such taxation received in the second 
preceding fiscal year by such local educational agency, unless 
the amount of such revenue was taken into account by the State 
for such second preceding fiscal year and already resulted in a 
reduction in the amount of State aid paid to such local 
educational agency.


                      school improvement programs


    For carrying out school improvement activities authorized 
by titles II, IV, V-A and B, VI, IX, X, and XIII of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (``ESEA''); the 
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 and part B of title VIII of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965; $2,926,134,000,of which $875,300,000 
shall become available on July 1, 2000, and remain available through 
September 30, 2001, and of which $1,530,000,000 shall become available 
on October 1, 2000 and shall remain available through September 30, 
2001 for academic year 2000-2001: Provided, That of the amount 
appropriated, $335,000,000 shall be for Eisenhower professional 
development State grants under title II-B and $380,000,000 shall be for 
title VI and up to $750,000 shall be for an evaluation of comprehensive 
regional assistance centers under title XIII of ESEA: Provided further, 
That $1,200,000,000 is for a class size/teacher assistance initiative 
to be distributed as described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 
307(b)(1) of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1999. 
School districts may use the funds for class size reduction activities 
as described in section 307(c)(2)(A)(i)-(iii) of the Department of 
Education Appropriations Act, 1999: Provided further, That, if the 
local educational agency determines that it wishes to use the funds for 
purposes other than class size reduction as part of a local strategy 
for improving academic achievement, funds may be used for professional 
development activities, teacher training or any other local need that 
is designed to improve student performance: Provided further, That each 
such agency shall use funds under this section only to supplement, and 
not to supplant, State and local funds, that in absence of such funds, 
would otherwise be spent for activities under this section.


                           reading excellence


    For necessary expenses to carry out the Reading Excellence 
Act, $65,000,000, which shall become available on July 1, 2000 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2001 and 
$195,000,000 which shall become available on October 1, 2000 
and remain available through September 30, 2001.


                            indian education


    For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not 
otherwise provided, title IX, part A of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, $77,000,000.


                   bilingual and immigrant education


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, 
bilingual, foreign language and immigrant education activities 
authorized by parts A and C and section 7203 of title VII of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, without 
regard to section 7103(b), $387,000,000: Provided, That State 
educational agencies may use all, or any part of, their part C 
allocation for competitive grants to local educational 
agencies.


                           special education


    For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act, $6,036,646,000, of which $2,047,885,000 shall 
become available for obligation on July 1, 2000, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2001, and of which 
$3,742,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2000 and 
shall remain available through September 30, 2001, for academic 
year 2000-2001: Provided, That $1,500,000 shall be for the 
recipient of funds provided by Public Law 105-78 under section 
687(b)(2)(G) of the Act to provide information on diagnosis, 
intervention, and teaching strategies for children with 
disabilities: Provided further, That $1,500,000 shall be 
awarded to the Organizing Committee for the 2001 Special 
Olympics World Winter Games in Alaska and $1,000,000 shall be 
awarded to the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the VIII 
Paralympic Winter Games: Provided further, That $1,000,000 
shall be for the Early Childhood Development Project of the 
National Easter Seal Society for the Mississippi Delta Region, 
which funds shall be used to provide training, technical 
support, services and equipment to address personnel and other 
needs: Provided further, That $1,000,000 shall be awarded to 
the Center for Literacy and Assessment at the University of 
Southern Mississippi for research dissemination and teacher and 
parent training.


            rehabilitation services and disability research


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Technology Act of 
1998, and the Helen Keller National Center Act, $2,701,772,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 105(b)(1) of the 
Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (``the AT Act''), each State 
shall be provided $50,000 for activities under section 102 of 
the AT Act: Provided further, That of the funds available for 
section 303 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $750,000 shall be 
awarded to the Krasnow Institute at George Mason University for 
a Receptive Language Disorders research center, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the University of Central Florida for a 
virtual reality-based education and training program for the 
deaf, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to the Seattle Lighthouse for 
the Blind for interpreter, orientation, mobility, and education 
services for deaf, blind and other visually impaired adults, 
$1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Professional Development and 
Research Institute on Blindness in Louisiana for the training 
of professionals in the field of education and rehabilitation 
of blind adults and children, and $600,000 shall be awarded to 
the Alaska Center for Independent Living in Anchorage, Alaska 
to develop capacity to implement a self-directed model for 
personal assistance services, including training of self-
employed personal assistants and their clients: Provided 
further, That of the funds available for section 305 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the California 
State University at Northridge for a Western Center for 
Adaptive Therapy.

           Special Institutions for Persons With Disabilities


                 american printing house for the blind


    For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 
U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $10,100,000.


               national technical institute for the deaf


    For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf under 
titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 
U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $48,151,000, of which $2,651,000 shall be 
for construction and shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That from the total amount available, the Institute 
may at its discretion use funds for the endowment program as 
authorized under section 207.


                          gallaudet university


    For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model 
Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial support of 
Gallaudet University under titles I and II of the Education of 
the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $85,980,000, of 
which $2,500,000 shall be for construction and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That from the total amount 
available, the University may at its discretion use funds for 
the endowment program as authorized under section 207.


                     vocational and adult education


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, the 
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and title VIII-D of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and Public Law 
102-73, $1,656,750,000, of which $3,500,000 shall remain 
available until expended, and of which $833,150,000 shall 
become available on July 1, 2000 and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2001 and of which $791,000,000 shall 
become available on October 1, 2000 and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2001: Provided, That of the amounts made 
available for the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical 
Education Act, $4,600,000 shall be for tribally controlled 
vocational institutions under section 117: Provided further, 
That $9,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 118 of such 
act for all activities conducted by and through the National 
Occupational Information Coordinating Committee: Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available for the Adult 
Education and Family Literacy Act, $14,000,000 shall be for 
national leadership activities under section 243 and $6,000,000 
shall be for the National Institute for Literacy under section 
242: Provided further, That $19,000,000 shall be for Youth 
Offender Grants, of which $5,000,000, which shall become 
available on July 1, 2000, and remain available through 
September 30, 2001, shall be used in accordance with section 
601 of Public Law 102-73 as that section was in effect prior to 
the enactment of Public Law 105-220.


                      student financial assistance


    For carrying out subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part A, part C and 
part E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 
amended, $9,435,000,000, which shall remain available through 
September 30, 2001.
    The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be 
eligible during award year 2000-2001 shall be $3,300: Provided, 
That notwithstanding section 401(g) of the Act, if the 
Secretary determines, prior to publication of the payment 
schedule for such award year, that the amount included within 
this appropriation for Pell Grant awards in such award year, 
and any funds available from the fiscal year 1999 appropriation 
for Pell Grant awards, are insufficient to satisfy fully all 
such awards for which students are eligible, as calculated 
under section 401(b) of the Act, the amount paid for each such 
award shall be reduced by either a fixed or variable 
percentage, or by a fixed dollar amount, as determined in 
accordance with a schedule of reductions established by the 
Secretary for this purpose.
    For an additional amount for ``student financial 
assistance'' for payment of allocations to institutions of 
higher education for Federal Supplemental Educational 
Opportunity Grants for award years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, 
made under title IV, part A, subpart 3, of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965, as amended, $10,000,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Education may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory 
provision applicable to the Federal Supplemental Educational 
Opportunity Grant program and the determination of need for 
such grants, that the Secretary deems necessary to assist 
individuals who suffered financial harm resulting from the 
hurricanes, and the flooding associated with the hurricanes, 
that struck the eastern United States in August and September 
1999, and who, at the time of the disaster were residing, 
attending an institution of higher education, or employed 
within an area affected by such a disaster on the date which 
the President declared the existence of a major disaster (or, 
in the case of an individual who is a dependent student, whose 
parent or stepparent suffered financial harm from such 
disaster, and who resided, or was employed in such an area at 
that time): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 437 
of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232) and 
section 553 of title 5, United States Code, the Secretary 
shall, by notice in the Federal Register, exercise this 
authority, through publication of waivers or modifications of 
statutory and regulatory provisions, as the Secretary deems 
necessary to assist such individuals: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 413D of the Higher Education Act of 
1965, allocations from such additional amount shall not be 
taken into account in determining institutional allocations 
under such section in future years: Provided further, That the 
entire amount made available under this paragraph is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, and that the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request for the 
entire amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress.


             federal family education loan program account


    For Federal administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed 
student loans authorized by title IV, part B, of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965, as amended, $48,000,000.


                            higher education


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, 
section 121 and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; $1,466,826,000, 
of which $12,000,000 for interest subsidies authorized by 
section 121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds available 
for part A, subpart 2 of title VII of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965, $10,000,000 shall be available to fund awards for 
academic year 2000-2001, and $10,000,000 to remain available 
through September 30, 2001, shall be available to fund awards 
for academic year 2001-2002, for fellowships under part A, 
subpart 1 of title VII of said Act, under the terms and 
conditions of part A, subpart 1: Provided further, That section 
852(b)(1) of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 is 
amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
        striking ``14'' and inserting ``16'';
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' after 
        the semicolon;
            (3) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) one member shall be appointed by the 
                Chairperson of the Committee on Health, 
                Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate 
                from among members of the Senate; and
                    ``(H) one member shall be appointed by the 
                Chairperson of the Committee on Education and 
                the Workforce of the House of Representatives 
                from among members of the House of 
                Representatives.'':
Provided further, That the matter preceding paragraph (1) of 
section 853(b) of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 is 
amended by striking ``6 months'' and inserting ``12 months'': 
Provided further, That the amounts provided under this heading 
in division A, section 101(f ) of Public Law 105-277 for the 
Web-Based Education Commission, authorized by part J of title 
VIII of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, shall remain 
available through September 30, 2000: Provided further, That 
$3,000,000 is for data collection and evaluation activities for 
programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, including such 
activities needed to comply with the Government Performance and 
Results Act of 1993: Provided further, That of the funds 
available for title IV, part A, subpart 8 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 and notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, $3,000,000 shall be awarded to the University of South 
Florida for a distance learning program, $190,000 shall be 
awarded to the New York Global Communication Center in West 
Islip, New York for a distance learning program, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the Alliance for Technology, Learning and 
Society (ATLAS) at the University of Colorado for technology-
enhanced learning, $2,500,000 shall be awarded to the Illinois 
Community College Board to develop a systemwide, on-line 
virtual degree program for the community college system in 
Illinois, and $1,250,000 shall be made available to the 
University of Idaho Interactive Learning Environments to 
develop and improve Internet-based delivery of education 
programs.


                           howard university


    For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 121 et 
seq.), $219,444,000, of which not less than $3,530,000 shall be 
for a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard 
University Endowment Act (Public Law 98-480) and shall remain 
available until expended.


         college housing and academic facilities loans program


    For Federal administrative expenses authorized under 
section 121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $737,000 to 
carry out activities related to existing facility loans entered 
into under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


  historically black college and university capital financing program 
                                account


    The total amount of bonds insured pursuant to section 344 
of title III, part D of the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall 
not exceed $357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of such bonds 
shall not exceed zero.
    For administrative expenses to carry out the Historically 
Black College and University Capital Financing Program entered 
into pursuant to title III, part D of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965, as amended, $207,000.


            education research, statistics, and improvement


    For carrying out activities authorized by the Educational 
Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 
1994, including part E; the National Education Statistics Act 
of 1994, including sections 411 and 412; section 2102 of title 
II, and parts A, B, and K and section 10102 and section 10601 
of title X, and part C of title XIII of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, and title VI of 
Public Law 103-227, $492,679,000: Provided, That $25,000,000 
shall be available to demonstrate effective approaches to 
comprehensive school reform, to be allocated and expended in 
accordance with the instructions relating to this activity in 
the statement of managers on the conference report accompanying 
Public Law 105-78 and in the statement of the managers on the 
conference report accompanying Public Law 105-277: Provided 
further, That the funds made available for comprehensive school 
reform shall become available on July 1, 2000, and remain 
available through September 30, 2001, and in carrying out this 
initiative, the Secretary and the States shall support only 
approaches that show the most promise of enabling children to 
meet challenging State content standards and challenging State 
student performance standards based on reliable research and 
effective practices, and include an emphasis on basic academics 
and parental involvement: Provided further, That $10,000,000 of 
the funds provided for the national education research 
institutes shall be allocated notwithstanding subparagrphs (B) 
and (C) of section 931(c)(2) of Public Law 103-227: Provided 
further, That of the funds appropriated under section 10601 of 
title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
as amended, $1,500,000 shall be used to conduct a violence 
prevention demonstration program: Provided further, That of the 
funds available for part A of title X of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, $10,000,000 shall be awarded 
to the National Constitution Center, established by Public Law 
100-433, for exhibition design, program planning and operation 
of the center, $10,000,000 shall be provided to continue a 
demonstration of public school facilities to the Iowa 
Department of Education, $1,000,000 shall be made available to 
the New Mexico Department of Education for school performance 
improvement and drop-out prevention, $300,000 shall be made 
available to Semos Unlimited, Inc., in New Mexico to support 
bilingual education and literacy programs, $700,000 shall be 
awarded to Loyola University Chicago for recruitment and 
preparation of new teacher candidates for employment in rural 
and inner-city schools, $500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd 
Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo for science education/exposure programs 
for local elementary school students, $3,000,000 shall be 
awarded to Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America to expand 
school-based mentoring, $2,500,000 shall be awarded to the 
Chicago Public School System to support a substance abuse pilot 
program in conjunction with Elgin and East Aurora School 
Systems, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Virginia Center for Governmental Studies for the Youth 
Leadership Initiative, $800,000 shall be awarded to the 
Institute for Student Achievement at Holmes Middle School and 
Annandale High School in Virginia for academic enrichment 
programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Mountain Arts Center 
for educational programming, $1,500,000 shall be awarded to the 
University of Louisville for research in the area of academic 
readiness, $500,000 shall be awarded to the West Ed Regional 
Educational Laboratory for the 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels 
Math Demonstration Project, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to 
Central Michigan University for a charter schools development 
and performance institute, $950,000 shall be awarded to the 
Living Science Interactive Learning Model partnership in Indian 
River, Florida for a science education program, $825,000 shall 
be awarded to the North Babylon Community Youth Services for an 
educational program, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Los 
Angeles County Office of Education/Educational 
Telecommunications and Technology for a pilot program for 
teachers, $650,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Northern Iowa for an institute of technology for inclusive 
education, $500,000 shall be awarded to Youth Crime Watch of 
America to expand a program to prevent crime, drugs and 
violence in schools, $892,000 shall be awarded to Muhlenberg 
College in Pennsylvania for an environmental science program, 
$560,000 shall be awarded to the Western Suffolk St. Johns-
LaSalle Academy Science and Technology Mentoring Program, 
$4,000,000 shall be awarded to the National Teaching Academy of 
Chicago for a model teacher recruitment, preparation and 
professional development program, $2,000,000 shall be awarded 
to the University of West Florida for a teacher enhancement 
program, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Delta State University 
in Mississippi for innovative teacher training, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the Alaska Humanities Forum, Inc., in 
Anchorage, Alaska, $250,000 shall be awarded to An Achievable 
Dream in Newport News, Virginia to improve academic performance 
of at-risk youths, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Rock School 
of Ballet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to expand its 
community-outreach programs for inner-city children and 
underprivileged youth in Camden, New Jersey and southern New 
Jersey, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the University of 
Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity to provide a link 
for the Blue Ribbon Schools, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the 
Continuing Education Center and Teachers' Institute in South 
Boston, Virginia to promote participation among youth in the 
United States democratic process, $1,000,000 shall be for the 
National Museum of Women in the Arts to expand its 
``Discovering Art'' program to elementary and secondary schools 
and other educational organizations, $400,000 shall be awarded 
to the Alaska Department of Education's summer reading program, 
$400,000 shall be awarded to the Partners in Education, Inc., 
to foster successful business-school partnerships, $250,000 
shall be for the Kodiak Island Borough School District for 
development of an environmental education program, $2,000,000 
shall be for theReach Out and Read Program to expand literacy 
and health awareness for at-risk families, $1,000,000 shall be for the 
Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia for an educational 
program, $450,000 shall be for the Challenger Learning Center in Hardin 
County, Kentucky for technology assistance and teacher training, 
$250,000 shall be for the Crawford County School System in Georgia for 
technology and curriculum support, $500,000 shall be for the Berrien 
County School System in Georgia for technology development, $35,000 
shall be for the Louisville Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club 
Diversion Enhancement Program, $100,000 shall be awarded to the 
Philadelphia Orchestra's Philly Pops to operate the Jazz in the Schools 
program in the Philadelphia school district, $500,000 for the 
Mississippi Delta Education for a teacher incentive program initiative, 
$500,000 shall be for enhanced teacher training in reading in the 
District of Columbia, and $100,000 shall be awarded to the Project 2000 
D.C. mentoring project: Provided further, That of the funds available 
for section 10601 of title X of such Act, $2,000,000 shall be awarded 
to the Center for Educational Technologies for production and 
distribution of an effective CD-ROM product that would complement the 
``We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution'' curriculum: 
Provided further, That, in addition to the funds for title VI of Public 
Law 103-227 and notwithstanding the provisions of section 601(c)(1)(C) 
of that Act, $1,000,000 shall be available to the Center for Civic 
Education to conduct a civic education program with Northern Ireland 
and the Republic of Ireland and, consistent with the civics and 
Government activities authorized in section 601(c)(3) of Public Law 
103-227, to provide civic education assistance to democracies in 
developing countries. The term ``developing countries'' shall have the 
same meaning as the term ``developing country'' in the Education for 
the Deaf Act.

                        Departmental Management


                         program administration


    For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of 
conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of two 
passenger motor vehicles, $370,184,000.


                        office for civil rights


    For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as 
authorized by section 203 of the Department of Education 
Organization Act, $71,200,000.


                      office of inspector general


    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, 
as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education 
Organization Act, $34,000,000.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for 
the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase 
of equipment for such transportation) in order to overcome 
racial imbalance in any school or school system, or for the 
transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of 
equipment for such transportation) in order to carry out a plan 
of racial desegregation of any school or school system.
    Sec. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be 
used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of 
any student to a school other than the school which is nearest 
the student's home, except for a student requiring special 
education, to the school offering such special education, in 
order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of 
transportation of students includes the transportation of 
students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of 
the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the 
clustering of schools, or any combination of grade 
restructuring, pairing or clustering. The prohibition described 
in this section does not include the establishment of magnet 
schools.
    Sec. 303. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used 
to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer 
and meditation in the public schools.


                          (transfer of funds)


    Sec. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the 
Department of Education in this Act may be transferred between 
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by 
more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are 
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
    Sec. 305. (a) From the funds appropriated for payments to 
local educational agencies under section 8003(f ) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (``ESEA'') for 
fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of Education shall distribute 
supplemental payments for certain local educational agencies, 
as follows:
            (1) First, from the amount of $74,000,000, the 
        Secretary shall make supplemental payments to the 
        following agencies under section 8003(f ) of ESEA:
                    (A) Local educational agencies that 
                received assistance under section 8003(f ) for 
                fiscal year 1999--
                            (i) in fiscal year 1997 had at 
                        least 40 percent federally connected 
                        children described in section 
                        8003(a)(1) in average daily attendance; 
                        and in fiscal year 1997 had a tax rate 
                        for general fund purposes which was at 
                        least 95 percent of the State average 
                        tax rate for general fund purposes; or
                            (ii) whose boundary is coterminous 
                        with the boundary of a Federal military 
                        installation.
                    (B) Local educational agencies that 
                received assistance under section 8003(f ) for 
                fiscal year 1999; and in fiscal year 1997 had 
                at least 30 percent federally connected 
                children described in section 8003(a)(1) in 
                average daily attendance; and in fiscal year 
                1997 had a tax rate for general fund purposes 
                which was at least 125 percent of the State 
                average tax rate for general fund purposes.
                    (C) Any eligible local educational agency 
                that in fiscal year 1997, which had at least 
                25,000 children in average daily attendance, at 
                least 50 percent federally connected children 
                described in section 8003(a)(1) in average 
                daily attendance, and at least 6,000 children 
                described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
                section 8003(a)(1) in average daily attendance.
            (2) From the remaining $2,000,000 and any amounts 
        available after making payments under paragraph (1), 
        the Secretary shall then make supplemental payments to 
        local educational agencies that are not described in 
        paragraph (1) of this subsection, but that meet the 
        requirements of paragraphs (2) and (4) of section 
        8003(f ) of ESEA for fiscal year 2000.
            (3) After making payments to all eligible local 
        educational agencies described in paragraph (2) of 
        subsection (a), the Secretary shall use any remaining 
        funds from paragraph (2) for making payments to the 
        eligible local educational agencies described in 
        paragraph (1) of subsection (a) if the amount available 
        under paragraph (1) is insufficient to fully fund all 
        eligible local educational agencies.
            (4) After making payments to all eligible local 
        educational agencies as described in paragraphs 1 
        through 3, the Secretary shall use any remaining funds 
        to increase basic support payments under section 
        8003(b) for fiscal year 2000 for all eligible 
        applicants.
    (b) In calculating the amounts of supplemental payments for 
agencies described in subparagraphs (1)(A) and (B) and 
paragraph (2) of subsection (a), the Secretary shall use the 
formula contained in section 8003(b)(1)(C) of ESEA, except 
that--
            (1) eligible local educational agencies may count 
        all children described in section 8003(a)(1) in 
        computing the amount of those payments;
            (2) maximum payments for any of those agencies that 
        use local contribution rates identified in section 
        8003(b)(1)(C) (i) or (ii) shall be computed by using 
        four-fifths instead of one-half of those rates;
            (3) the learning opportunity threshold percentage 
        of all such agencies under section 8003(b)(2)(B) shall 
        be deemed to be 100;
            (4) for an eligible local educational agency with 
        35 percent or more of its children in average daily 
        attendance described in either subparagraph (D) or (E) 
        of section 8003(a)(1) in fiscal year 1997, the weighted 
        student unit figure from its regular basic support 
        payment shall be recomputed by using a factor of 0.55 
        for such children;
            (5) for an eligible local educational agency with 
        fewer than 100 children in average daily attendance in 
        fiscal year 1997, the weighted student unit figure from 
        its regular basic support payment shall be recomputed 
        by multiplying the total number of children described 
        in section 8003(a)(1) by a factor of 1.75; and
            (6) for an eligible local educational agency whose 
        total number of children in average daily attendance in 
        fiscal year 1997 was at least 100, but fewer than 750, 
        the weighted student unit figure from its regular basic 
        support payment shall be recomputed by multiplying the 
        total number of children described in section 
        8003(a)(1) by a factor of 1.25.
    (c) For a local educational agency described in subsection 
(a)(1)(C) above, the Secretary shall use the formula contained 
in section 8003(b)(1)(C) of ESEA, except that the weighted 
student unit total from its regular basic support payment shall 
be recomputed by using a factor of 1.35 for children described 
in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 8003(a)(1) and its 
learning opportunity threshold percentage shall be deemed to be 
100.
    (d) For each eligible local educational agency, the 
calculated supplemental section 8003(f ) payment shall be 
reduced by subtracting the agency's fiscal year 2000 section 
8003(b) basic support payment.
    (e) If the sums described in subsections (a)(1) and (2) 
above are insufficient to pay in full the calculated 
supplemental payments for the local educational agencies 
identified in those subsections, the Secretary shall ratably 
reduce the supplemental section 8003(f ) payment to each local 
educational agency.
    Sec. 306. (a) Section 1204(b)(1)(A) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6364(b)(1)(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in clause (iv), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by striking clause (v) and adding the 
        following:
            ``(v) 50 percent in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and 
        eighth such years; and
            ``(vi) 35 percent in any subsequent such year.''.
    (b) Section 1208(b) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(3) Continuing eligibility.--In awarding subgrant 
        funds to continue a program under this part after the 
        first year, the State educational agency shall review 
        the progress of each eligible entity in meeting the 
        goals of the program referred to in section 
        1207(c)(1)(A) and shall evaluate the program basedon 
the indicators of program quality developed by the State under section 
1210.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking the last 
        sentence.
    Sec. 307. (a) Notwithstanding sections 401( j) and 
435(a)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a( 
j) and 1085(a)(2)) and subject to the requirements of 
subsection (b), the Secretary of Education shall--
            (1) recalculate the official fiscal year 1996 
        cohort default rate for Jacksonville College of 
        Jacksonville, Texas, on the basis of data corrections 
        confirmed by the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan 
        Corporation; and
            (2) restore the eligibility of Jacksonville College 
        to participate in the Federal Pell Grant Program for 
        the 1999-2000 award year and succeeding award years.
    (b) Jacksonville College shall implement a default 
management plan that is satisfactory to the Secretary of 
Education.
    (c) For purposes of determining its Federal Pell Grant 
Program eligibility, Jacksonville College shall be deemed to 
have withdrawn from the Federal Family Education Loan program 
as of October 6, 1998.
    Sec. 308. An amount of $14,500,000 from the balances of 
returned reserve funds, formerly held by the Higher Education 
Assistance Foundation, that are currently held in Higher 
Education Assistance Foundation Claims Reserves, Treasury 
account number 91X6192, and $12,000,000 from funds formerly 
held by the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, that are 
currently held in trust, shall be deposited in the general fund 
of the Treasury.
    Sec. 309. Of the funds provided in title III of this Act, 
under the heading ``Higher Education'', for title VII, part B 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $250,000 shall be awarded 
to the Snelling Center for Government at the University of 
Vermont for a model school program, $750,000 shall be awarded 
to Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, for operation of the 
Early Childhood Development Center, $1,000,000 shall be awarded 
to Southeast Missouri State University for equipment and 
curriculum development associated with the University's 
Polytechnic Institute, $800,000 shall be awarded to the 
Washington Virtual Classroom Consortium to develop, equip and 
implement an ecosystem curriculum, $500,000 shall be provided 
to the Puget Sound Center for Technology for faculty 
development activities for the use of technology in the 
classroom, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Center for the 
Advancement of Distance Education in Rural America, $3,000,000, 
to be available until expended, shall be awarded to the 
University Center of Lake County, Illinois and $1,000,000, to 
be available until expended, shall be awarded to the Oregon 
University System for activities authorized under title III, 
part A, section 311(c)(2), of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 
as amended, $500,000 shall be awarded to Columbia College 
Illinois for a freshman retention program, $1,500,000 shall be 
awarded to the University of Hawaii at Manoa for a 
Globalization Research Center, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to 
the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for technology 
infrastructure, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the I Have a 
Dream Foundation, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to a 
demonstration program for activities authorized under part G of 
title VIII of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, 
$1,500,000 shall be awarded to the Daniel J. Evans School of 
Public Policy at the University of Washington, $200,000 shall 
be awarded to North Dakota State University for the Career 
Program for Dislocated Farmers and Ranchers, $350,000 shall be 
awarded to North Dakota State University for the Tech-based 
Industry Traineeship Program, $1,500,000 shall be awarded to 
Washington State University for the Thomas S. Foley Institute 
to support programs in congressional studies, public policy, 
voter education, and to ensure community access and outreach, 
$200,000 shall be awarded to Minot State University for the 
Rural Communications Disabilities Program, $300,000 shall be 
awarded to Bryant College for the Linking International Trade 
Education Program (LITE), $1,000,000 shall be awarded to 
Concord College, West Virginia for a technology center to 
further enhance the technical skills of West Virginia teachers 
and students, $200,000 shall be awarded to Peirce College in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for education and training programs, 
$250,000 shall be awarded to the Philadelphia Zoo for 
educational programs, $800,000 shall be awarded to Spelman 
College in Georgia for educational operations, $1,000,000 shall 
be awarded to the Philadelphia University Education Center for 
technology education, $725,000 shall be awarded to Lock Haven 
University for technology innovations, $250,000 for Middle 
Georgia College for an advanced distributed learning center 
demonstration program, $1,000,000 for the University of the 
Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, to improve teacher 
capabilities in technology, $1,000,000 for Elmira College in 
New York for a technology enhancement initiative, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium on 
Higher Education for education programs, $400,000 shall be 
awarded to Lehigh University Iacocca Institute for educational 
training, $250,000 shall be awarded to Lafayette College for 
arts education, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Lewis and 
ClarkCollege for the Crime Victims Law Institute, $1,650,000 for Rust 
College in Mississippi for technology infrastructure, $500,000 for the 
University of Notre Dame for a teacher quality initiative, and 
$2,000,000 shall be awarded to the Western Governors University for a 
distance learning initiative.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Education 
Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                       TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES


                      armed forces retirement home


    For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retirement Home 
to operate and maintain the United States Soldiers' and 
Airmen's Home and the United States Naval Home, to be paid from 
funds available in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund, 
$68,295,000, of which $12,696,000 shall remain available until 
expended for construction and renovation of the physical plants 
at the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home and the United 
States Naval Home: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a single contract or related contracts for 
development and construction, to include construction of a 
long-term care facility at the United States Naval Home, may be 
employed which collectively include the full scope of the 
project: Provided further, That the solicitation and contract 
shall contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found at 48 
CFR 52.232-18 and 252.232-7007, Limitation of Government 
Obligations.

             Corporation for National and Community Service


        domestic volunteer service programs, operating expenses


    For expenses necessary for the Corporation for National and 
Community Service to carry out the provisions of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended, $295,645,000: 
Provided, That none of the funds made available to the 
Corporation for National and Community Service in this Act for 
activities authorized by part E of title II of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 shall be used to provide stipends 
to volunteers or volunteer leaders whose incomes exceed the 
income guidelines established for payment of stipends under the 
Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion programs: Provided 
further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to the 
Seniors for Schools program.

                  Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as 
authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which 
shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, 
for the fiscal year 2002, $350,000,000: Provided, That no funds 
made available to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by 
this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, parties, or 
similar forms of entertainment for Government officials or 
employees: Provided further, That none of the funds contained 
in this paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support 
any program or activity from which any person is excluded, or 
is denied benefits, or is discriminated against, on the basis 
of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex: Provided 
further, That in addition to the amounts provided above, 
$10,000,000 shall be for digitalization, only if specifically 
authorized by subsequent legislation enacted by September 30, 
2000.

               Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in it by 
the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171-180, 
182-183), including hire of passenger motor vehicles; for 
expenses necessary for the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 
1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for expenses necessary for the 
Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Civil 
Service Reform Act, Public Law 95-454 (5 U.S.C. ch. 71), 
$36,834,000, including $1,500,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2001, for activities authorized by the Labor-
Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a): Provided, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-
cost recovery, for special training activities and other 
conflict resolution services and technical assistance, 
including those provided to foreign governments and 
international organizations, and for arbitration services shall 
be credited to and merged with this account, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That fees for 
arbitration services shall be available only for education, 
training, and professional development of the agency workforce: 
Provided further, That the Director of the Service is 
authorized to accept and use on behalf of the United States 
gifts of services and real, personal, or other property in the 
aid of any projects or functions within the Director's 
jurisdiction.

            Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and 
Health Review Commission (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $6,159,000.

                Institute of Museum and Library Services

         Office of Library Services: Grants and Administration

    For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Library 
Services Act, $163,250,000, of which $19,356,000shall be 
awarded to national leadership projects, notwithstanding section 
221(a)(1)(B): Provided, That of the amount provided, $700,000 shall be 
awarded to the Library and Archives of New Hampshire's Political 
Tradition at the New Hampshire State Library, $1,000,000 shall be 
awarded to the Vermont Department of Libraries in Montpelier, Vermont, 
$750,000 shall be awarded to consolidation and preservation of archives 
and special collections at the University of Miami Library in Coral 
Gables, Florida, $1,900,000 shall be awarded to exhibits and library 
improvements for the Mississippi River Museum and Discovery Center in 
Dubuque, Iowa, $750,000 shall be awarded to the Alaska Native Heritage 
Center in Anchorage, Alaska, $750,000 shall be awarded to the Peabody-
Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, $750,000 shall be awarded to the 
Bishop Museum in Hawaii, $200,000 shall be awarded to Oceanside Public 
Library in California for a local cultural heritage project, $1,000,000 
shall be awarded to the Urban Children's Museum Collaborative to 
develop and implement pilot programs dedicated to serving at-risk 
children and their families, $150,000 shall be awarded to the Troy 
State University Dothan in Alabama for archival of a special 
collection, $450,000 shall be awarded to Chadron State College in 
Nebraska for the Mari Sandoz Center, and $350,000 shall be awarded to 
the Alabama A&M University Alabama State Black Archives Research Center 
and Museum.

                  Medicare Payment Advisory Commission


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the 
Social Security Act, $7,015,000, to be transferred to this 
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the 
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds.

        National Commission on Libraries and Information Science


                         salaries and expenses


    For necessary expenses for the National Commission on 
Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act of 
July 20, 1970 (Public Law 91-345, as amended), $1,300,000.

                     National Council on Disability


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary for the National Council on 
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation Act 
of 1973, as amended, $2,400,000.

                     National Education Goals Panel

    For expenses necessary for the National Education Goals 
Panel, as authorized by title II, part A of the Goals 2000: 
Educate America Act, $2,250,000.

                     National Labor Relations Board


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations 
Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141-167), 
and other laws, $199,500,000: Provided, That no part of this 
appropriation shall be available to organize or assist in 
organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection with 
investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning 
bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers as referred 
to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (29 U.S.C. 152), 
and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as 
amended, and as defined in section 3(f ) of the Act of June 25, 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said definition 
employees engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, 
canals, reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated 
on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95 percent of the 
water stored or supplied thereby is used for farming purposes.

                        National Mediation Board


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151-188), including 
emergency boards appointed by the President, $9,100,000: 
Provided, That unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 
2000 not needed for emergency boards shall remain available for 
other statutory purposes through September 30, 2001.

            Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission


                         salaries and expenses


    For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and 
Health Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $8,500,000.

                       Railroad Retirement Board


                     dual benefits payments account


    For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, 
authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act 
of 1974, $174,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming 
available in fiscal year 2000 pursuant to section 224(c)(1)(B) 
of Public Law 98-76; and in addition, an amount, not to exceed 
2 percent of the amount provided herein, shall be available 
proportional to the amount by which the product of recipients 
and the average benefit received exceeds $174,000,000: 
Provided, That the total amount provided herein shall be 
credited in 12 approximately equal amounts on the first day of 
each month in the fiscal year.


          federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts


    For payment to the accounts established in the Treasury for 
the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for 
interest earned on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2001, which shall be the 
maximum amount available for payment pursuant to section 417 of 
Public Law 98-76.


                      limitation on administration


    For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board 
for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the 
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, $91,000,000, to be derived 
in such amounts as determined by the Board from the railroad 
retirement accounts and from moneys credited to the railroad 
unemployment insurance administration fund.


             limitation on the office of inspector general


    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General 
for audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized 
by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, not more than 
$5,400,000, to be derived from the railroad retirement accounts 
and railroad unemployment insurance account: Provided, That 
none of the funds made available in any other paragraph of this 
Act may be transferred to the Office; used to carry out any 
such transfer; used to provide any office space, equipment, 
office supplies, communications facilities or services, 
maintenance services, or administrative services for the 
Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or award for any 
personnel of the Office; used to pay any other operating 
expense of the Office; or used to reimburse the Office for any 
service provided, or expense incurred, by the Office.

                     Social Security Administration


                payments to social security trust funds


    For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
and the Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, as provided 
under sections 201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social 
Security Act, $20,764,000.


               special benefits for disabled coal miners


    For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and 
Health Act of 1977, $383,638,000, to remain available until 
expended.
    For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of the Federal 
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, for costs incurred in the 
current fiscal year, such amounts as may be necessary.
    For making benefit payments under title IV of the Federal 
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 for the first quarter of 
fiscal year 2001, $124,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.


                  supplemental security income program


    For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Security 
Act, section 401 of Public Law 92-603, section 212 of Public 
Law 93-66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95-216, 
including payment to the Social Security trust funds for 
administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g)(1) 
of the Social Security Act, $21,503,085,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That any portion of the 
funds provided to a State in the current fiscal year and not 
obligated by the State during that year shall be returned to 
the Treasury.
    From funds provided under the previous paragraph, not less 
than $100,000,000 shall be available for payment to the Social 
Security trust funds for administrative expenses for conducting 
continuing disability reviews.
    In addition, $200,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2001, for payment to the Social Security trust 
funds for administrative expenses for continuing disability 
reviews as authorized by section 103 of Public Law 104-121 and 
section 10203 of Public Law 105-33. The term ``continuing 
disability reviews'' means reviews and redeterminations as 
defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act, 
as amended.
    For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social 
Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the current 
fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.
    For making benefit payments under title XVI of the Social 
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001, 
$9,890,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                 limitation on administrative expenses


    For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger 
motor vehicles, and not to exceed $10,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, not more than 
$6,093,871,000 may be expended, as authorized by section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all of 
the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, That not less 
than $1,800,000 shall be for the Social Security Advisory 
Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances at the end 
of fiscal year 2000 not needed for fiscal year 2000 shall 
remain available until expended to invest in the Social 
Security Administration computing network, including related 
equipment and non-payroll administrative expenses associated 
solely with this network: Provided further, That reimbursement 
to the trust funds under this heading for expenditures for 
official time for employees of the Social Security 
Administration pursuant to section 7131 of title 5, United 
States Code, and for facilities or support services for labor 
organizations pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures 
referred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall be made by 
the Secretary of theTreasury, with interest, from amounts in 
the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as soon as possible after 
such expenditures are made.
    From funds provided under the previous paragraph, 
notwithstanding the provision under this heading in Public Law 
105-277 regarding unobligated balances at the end of fiscal 
year 1999 not needed for such fiscal year, an amount not to 
exceed $50,000,000 from such unobligated balances shall, in 
addition to funding already available under this heading for 
fiscal year 2000, be available for necessary expenses.
    From funds provided under the first paragraph, not less 
than $200,000,000 shall be available for conducting continuing 
disability reviews.
    In addition to funding already available under this 
heading, and subject to the same terms and conditions, 
$405,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001, for 
continuing disability reviews as authorized by section 103 of 
Public Law 104-121 and section 10203 of Public Law 105-33. The 
term ``continuing disability reviews'' means reviews and 
redeterminations as defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the 
Social Security Act, as amended.
    In addition, $80,000,000 to be derived from administration 
fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment collected 
pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security Act or 
section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93-66, which shall remain 
available until expended. To the extent that the amounts 
collected pursuant to such section 1616(d) or 212(b)(3) in 
fiscal year 2000 exceed $80,000,000, the amounts shall be 
available in fiscal year 2001 only to the extent provided in 
advance in appropriations Acts.
    From amounts previously made available under this heading 
for a state-of-the-art computing network, not to exceed 
$100,000,000 shall be available for necessary expenses under 
this heading, subject to the same terms and conditions.
    From funds provided under the first paragraph, the 
Commissioner of Social Security may direct up to $3,000,000, in 
addition to funds previously appropriated for this purpose, to 
continue Federal-State partnerships which will evaluate means 
to promote Medicare buy-in programs targeted to elderly and 
disabled individuals under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social 
Security Act.


                      office of inspector general


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $15,000,000, together with not to exceed 
$51,000,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized by 
section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from the Federal 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal 
Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
    In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total 
provided in this appropriation may be transferred from the 
``Limitation on Administrative Expenses'', Social Security 
Administration, to be merged with this account, to be available 
for the time and purposes for which this account is available: 
Provided, That notice of such transfers shall be transmitted 
promptly to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate.

                    United States Institute of Peace


                           operating expenses


    For necessary expenses of the United States Institute of 
Peace as authorized in the United States Institute of Peace 
Act, $13,000,000.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended 
balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to 
current appropriations provided in this Act: Provided, That 
such transferred balances are used for the same purpose, and 
for the same periods of time, for which they were originally 
appropriated.
    Sec. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be used, other than for normal and recognized 
executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or 
propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use 
of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, 
or video presentation designed to support or defeat legislation 
pending before the Congress or any State legislature, except in 
presentation to the Congress or any State legislature itself.
    (b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or 
contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient, related 
to any activity designed to influence legislation or 
appropriations pending before the Congress or any State 
legislature.
    Sec. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are 
authorized to make available not to exceed $20,000 and $15,000, 
respectively, from funds available for salaries and expenses 
under titles I and III, respectively, for official reception 
and representation expenses; the Director of the Federal 
Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized to make 
available for official reception and representationexpenses not 
to exceed $2,500 from the funds available for ``Salaries and expenses, 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service''; and the Chairman of the 
National Mediation Board is authorized to make available for official 
reception and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds 
available for ``Salaries and expenses, National Mediation Board''.
    Sec. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry out 
any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the 
hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
    Sec. 506. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
Products.--It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
American-made.
    (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance 
to, or entering into any contract with, any entity using funds 
made available in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to 
the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a 
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the 
Congress.
    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined 
by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally 
affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or 
any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in 
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United 
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract 
or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, 
pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility 
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 
48, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 507. When issuing statements, press releases, requests 
for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing 
projects or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal 
money, all grantees receiving Federal funds included in this 
Act, including but not limited to State and local governments 
and recipients of Federal research grants, shall clearly state: 
(1) the percentage of the total costs of the program or project 
which will be financed with Federal money; (2) the dollar 
amount of Federal funds for the project or program; and (3) 
percentage and dollar amount of the total costs of the project 
or program that will be financed by non-governmental sources.
    Sec. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this 
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
appropriated under this Act, shall be expended for any 
abortion.
    (b) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and none 
of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated 
under this Act, shall be expended for health benefits coverage 
that includes coverage of abortion.
    (c) The term ``health benefits coverage'' means the package 
of services covered by a managed care provider or organization 
pursuant to a contract or other arrangement.
    Sec. 509. (a) The limitations established in the preceding 
section shall not apply to an abortion--
            (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
        rape or incest; or
            (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a 
        physical disorder, physical injury, or physical 
        illness, including a life-endangering physical 
        condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy 
        itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place 
        the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is 
        performed.
    (b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as 
prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or 
private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a 
State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
    (c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as 
restricting the ability of any managed care provider from 
offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or 
locality to contract separately with such a provider for such 
coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's 
contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
    Sec. 510. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used for--
            (1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for 
        research purposes; or
            (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are 
        destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of 
        injury or death greater than that allowed for research 
        on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and 
        section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
        U.S.C. 289g(b)).
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``human embryo 
or embryos'' includes any organism, not protected as a human 
subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, 
cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or 
human diploid cells.
    Sec. 511. (a) Limitation on Use of Funds for Promotion of 
Legalization of Controlled Substances.--None of the funds made 
available in this Act may be used for any activity that 
promotes the legalization of any drug or other substance 
included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled 
substances established bysection 202 of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).
    (b) Exceptions.--The limitation in subsection (a) shall not 
apply when there is significant medical evidence of a 
therapeutic advantage to the use of such drug or other 
substance or that federally sponsored clinical trials are being 
conducted to determine therapeutic advantage.
    Sec. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract with 
an entity if--
            (1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the 
        United States and is subject to the requirement in 
        section 4212(d) of title 38, United States Code, 
        regarding submission of an annual report to the 
        Secretary of Labor concerning employment of certain 
        veterans; and
            (2) such entity has not submitted a report as 
        required by that section for the most recent year for 
        which such requirement was applicable to such entity.
    Sec. 513. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
unobligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal 
year 2000 from appropriations made available for salaries and 
expenses for fiscal year 2000 in this Act, shall remain 
available through December 31, 2000, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations shall be notified at least 15 days 
prior to the obligation of such funds.
    Sec. 514. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard under section 
1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d-2(b)) 
providing for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique 
health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's 
capacity as an employer or a health care provider), until 
legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
    Sec. 515. Section 520(c)(2)(D) of the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1997, as amended, is further amended by 
striking ``December 31, 1997'' and inserting ``December 31, 
1999''.
    Sec. 516. The United States-Mexico Border Health Commission 
Act (22 U.S.C. 290n et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by striking section 2 and inserting the 
        following:

``SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF BORDER HEALTH COMMISSION.

    ``Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of 
this section, the President shall appoint the United States 
members of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, 
and shall attempt to conclude an agreement with Mexico 
providing for the establishment of such Commission.''; and
            (2) in section 3--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking the 
                semicolon and inserting ``; and'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``; 
                and'' and inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (3).
    Sec. 517. The applicable time limitations with respect to 
the giving of notice of injury and the filing of a claim for 
compensation for disability or death by an individual under the 
Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended, for injuries 
sustained as a result of the person's exposure to a nitrogen or 
sulfur mustard agent in the performance of official duties as 
an employee at the Department of the Army's Edgewood Arsenal 
before March 20, 1944, shall not begin to run until the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 518. Section 169(d)(2)(B) of Public Law 105-220, the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, is amended by striking ``or 
Alaska Native villages or Native groups (as such terms are 
defined in section 3 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1602)).'' and inserting ``or Alaska Natives.''.
    Sec. 519. Of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 
2000, $121,000,000, to be allocated by the Office of Management 
and Budget, are permanently canceled: Provided, That, within 30 
days of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate showing the allocation of the $121,000,000.

 TITLE VI--EARLY DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND INTERVENTIONS FOR NEWBORNS 
                     AND INFANTS WITH HEARING LOSS

    Sec. 601. (a) Definitions.--For the purposes of this 
section only, the following terms in this section are defined 
as follows:
            (1) Hearing screening.--Newborn and infant hearing 
        screening consists of objective physiologic procedures 
        to detect possible hearing loss and to identify 
        newborns and infants who, after rescreening, require 
        further audiologic and medical evaluations.
            (2) Audiologic evaluation.--Audiologic evaluation 
        consists of procedures to assess the status of the 
        auditory system; to establish the site of the auditory 
        disorder; the type and degree of hearing loss, and the 
        potential effects of hearing loss on communication;and 
to identify appropriate treatment and referral options. Referral 
options should include linkage to State IDEA part C coordinating 
agencies or other appropriate agencies, medical evaluation, hearing 
aid/sensory aid assessment, audiologic rehabilitation treatment, 
national and local consumer, self-help, parent, and education 
organizations, and other family-centered services.
            (3) Medical evaluation.--Medical evaluation by a 
        physician consists of key components including history, 
        examination, and medical decision making focused on 
        symptomatic and related body systems for the purpose of 
        diagnosing the etiology of hearing loss and related 
        physical conditions, and for identifying appropriate 
        treatment and referral options.
            (4) Medical intervention.--Medical intervention is 
        the process by which a physician provides medical 
        diagnosis and direction for medical and/or surgical 
        treatment options of hearing loss and/or related 
        medical disorder associated with hearing loss.
            (5) Audiologic rehabilitation.--Audiologic 
        rehabilitation (intervention) consists of procedures, 
        techniques, and technologies to facilitate the 
        receptive and expressive communication abilities of a 
        child with hearing loss.
            (6) Early intervention.--Early intervention (e.g., 
        nonmedical) means providing appropriate services for 
        the child with hearing loss and ensuring that families 
        of the child are provided comprehensive, consumer-
        oriented information about the full range of family 
        support, training, information services, communication 
        options and are given the opportunity to consider the 
        full range of educational and program placements and 
        options for their child.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are to clarify 
the authority within the Public Health Service Act to authorize 
statewide newborn and infant hearing screening, evaluation and 
intervention programs and systems, technical assistance, a 
national applied research program, and interagency and private 
sector collaboration for policy development, in order to assist 
the States in making progress toward the following goals:
            (1) All babies born in hospitals in the United 
        States and its territories should have a hearing 
        screening before leaving the birthing facility. Babies 
        born in other countries and residing in the United 
        States via immigration or adoption should have a 
        hearing screening as early as possible.
            (2) All babies who are not born in hospitals in the 
        United States and its territories should have a hearing 
        screening within the first 3 months of life.
            (3) Appropriate audiologic and medical evaluations 
        should be conducted by 3 months for all newborns and 
        infants suspected of having hearing loss to allow 
        appropriate referral and provisions for audiologic 
        rehabilitation, medical and early intervention before 
        the age of 6 months.
            (4) All newborn and infant hearing screening 
        programs and systems should include a component for 
        audiologic rehabilitation, medical and early 
        intervention options that ensures linkage to any new 
        and existing statewide systems of intervention and 
        rehabilitative services for newborns and infants with 
        hearing loss.
            (5) Public policy in regard to newborn and infant 
        hearing screening and intervention should be based on 
        applied research and the recognition that newborns, 
        infants, toddlers, and children who are deaf or hard-
        of-hearing have unique language, learning, and 
        communication needs, and should be the result of 
        consultation with pertinent public and private sectors.
    (c) Statewide Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, 
Evaluation and Intervention Programs and Systems.--Under the 
existing authority of the Public Health Service Act, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section 
referred to as the ``Secretary''), acting through the 
Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
Administration, shall make awards of grants or cooperative 
agreements to develop statewide newborn and infant hearing 
screening, evaluation and intervention programs and systems for 
the following purposes:
            (1) To develop and monitor the efficacy of 
        statewide newborn and infant hearing screening, 
        evaluation and intervention programs and systems. Early 
        intervention includes referral to schools and agencies, 
        including community, consumer, and parent-based 
        agencies and organizations and other programs mandated 
        by part C of the Individuals with Disabilities 
        Education Act, which offer programs specifically 
        designed to meet the unique language and communication 
        needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, infants, 
        toddlers, and children.
            (2) To collect data on statewide newborn and infant 
        hearing screening, evaluation and intervention programs 
        and systems that can be used for applied research, 
        program evaluation and policy development.
    (d) Technical Assistance, Data Management, and Applied 
Research.--
            (1) Centers for disease control and prevention.--
        Under the existing authority of the Public Health 
        Service Act, the Secretary, acting through the Director 
        of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
        shall make awards of grants or cooperative agreements 
        to provide technical assistance to State agencies to 
        complement an intramural program and to conduct applied 
        research related to newborn and infant hearing 
        screening, evaluation and intervention programs and 
        systems. The program shall develop standardized 
        procedures for data management and program 
        effectiveness and costs, such as--
                    (A) to ensure quality monitoring of newborn 
                and infant hearing loss screening, evaluation, 
                and intervention programs and systems;
                    (B) to provide technical assistance on data 
                collection and management;
                    (C) to study the costs and effectiveness of 
                newborn and infant hearing screening, 
                evaluation and intervention programs and 
                systems conducted by State-based programs in 
                order to answer issues of importance to State 
                and national policymakers;
                    (D) to identify the causes and risk factors 
                for congenital hearing loss;
                    (E) to study the effectiveness of newborn 
                and infant hearing screening, audiologic and 
                medical evaluations and intervention programs 
                and systems by assessing the health, 
                intellectual and social developmental, 
                cognitive, and language status of these 
                children at school age; and
                    (F) to promote the sharing of data 
                regarding early hearing loss with State-based 
                birth defects and developmental disabilities 
                monitoring programs for the purpose of 
                identifying previously unknown causes of 
                hearing loss.
            (2) National institutes of health.--Under the 
        existing authority of the Public Health Service Act, 
        the Director of the National Institutes of Health, 
        acting through the Director of the National Institute 
        on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, shall 
        for purposes of this section, continue a program of 
        research and development on the efficacy of new 
        screening techniques and technology, including clinical 
        studies of screening methods, studies on efficacy of 
        intervention, and related research.
    (e) Coordination and Collaboration.--
            (1) In general.--Under the existing authority of 
        the Public Health Service Act, in carrying out programs 
        under this section, the Administrator of the Health 
        Resources and Services Administration, the Director of 
        the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the 
        Director of the National Institutes of Health shall 
        collaborate and consult with other Federal agencies; 
        State and local agencies, including those responsible 
        for early intervention services pursuant to title XIX 
        of the Social Security Act (Medicaid Early and Periodic 
        Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program); title XXI 
        of the Social Security Act (State Children's Health 
        Insurance Program); title V of the Social Security Act 
        (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Program); and 
        part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
        Act; consumer groups of and that serve individuals who 
        are deaf and hard-of-hearing and their families; 
        appropriate national medical and other health and 
        education specialty organizations; persons who are deaf 
        and hard-of-hearing and their families; other qualified 
        professional personnel who are proficient in deaf or 
        hard-of-hearing children's language and who possess the 
        specialized knowledge, skills, and attributes needed to 
        serve deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, infants, 
        toddlers, children, and their families; third-party 
        payers and managed care organizations; and related 
        commercial industries.
            (2) Policy development.--Under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, the 
        Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration, the Director of the Centers for Disease 
        Control and Prevention, and the Director of the 
        National Institutes of Health shall coordinate and 
        collaborate on recommendations for policy development 
        at the Federal and State levels and with the private 
        sector, including consumer, medical and other health 
        and education professional-based organizations, with 
        respect to newborn and infant hearing screening, 
        evaluation and intervention programs and systems.
            (3) State early detection, diagnosis, and 
        intervention programs and systems; data collection.--
        Under the existing authority of the Public Health 
        Service Act, the Administrator of the Health Resources 
        and Services Administration and the Director of the 
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall 
        coordinate and collaborate in assisting States to 
        establish newborn and infant hearing screening, 
        evaluation and intervention programs and systems 
undersubsection (c) and to develop a data collection system under 
subsection (d).
    (f ) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to preempt any State law.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) Statewide newborn and infant hearing screening, 
        evaluation and intervention programs and systems.--For 
        the purpose of carrying out subsection (c) under the 
        existing authority of the Public Health Service Act, 
        there are authorized to the Health Resources and 
        Services Administration appropriations in the amount of 
        $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2000, $8,000,000 for fiscal 
        year 2001, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
        year 2002.
            (2) Technical assistance, data management, and 
        applied research; centers for disease control and 
        prevention.--For the purpose of carrying out subsection 
        (d)(1) under the existing authority of the Public 
        Health Service Act, there are authorized to the Centers 
        for Disease Control and Prevention, appropriations in 
        the amount of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2000, 
        $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and such sums as may 
        be necessary for fiscal year 2002.
            (3) Technical assistance, data management, and 
        applied research; national institute on deafness and 
        other communication disorders.--For the purpose of 
        carrying out subsection (d)(2) under the existing 
        authority of the Public Health Service Act, there are 
        authorized to the National Institute on Deafness and 
        Other Communication Disorders appropriations for such 
        sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 
        2000 through 2002.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2000''.

                               DIVISION C

                        RESCISSIONS AND OFFSETS

    Sec. 1001. (a) Across-the-Board Rescissions.--There is 
hereby rescinded an amount equal to 0.97 percent of--
            (1) the budget authority provided (or obligation 
        limitation established) for fiscal year 2000 for any 
        discretionary account in any fiscal year 2000 
        appropriation law;
            (2) the budget authority provided (or obligation 
        limitation established) in any advance appropriation 
        for fiscal year 2000 for any discretionary account in 
        any prior fiscal year appropriation law; and
            (3) the budget authority provided in any fiscal 
        year 2000 appropriation law that would have been 
        estimated as increasing direct spending for fiscal year 
        2000 under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and 
        Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 were it included 
        in a law other than an appropriation law and not 
        designated as an emergency requirement.
    (b) Proportionate Application.--Any rescission made by 
subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately--
            (1) to each discretionary account and each item of 
        budget authority described in subsection (a)(3); and
            (2) within each such account and item, to each 
        program, project, and activity (with programs, 
        projects, and activities as delineated in the 
        appropriation Act or accompanying report for the 
        relevant fiscal year covering such account or item, or 
        for accounts and items not included in appropriation 
        Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted 
        President's budget).
    (c) Subsequent Appropriation Laws.--In the case of any 
fiscal year 2000 appropriation law enacted after the enactment 
of this section, any rescission required by subsection (a) 
shall take effect immediately after the enactment of such law.
    (d) OMB Reports.--Within 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this section (or, if later, 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of any fiscal year 2000 appropriation law), 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate a report specifying the amount 
of each rescission made pursuant to this section.
    (e) Same Percentage Reduction Applicable to Pay for Members 
of Congress.--
            (1) In general.--In determining rates of pay for 
        service performed in any fiscal year beginning after 
        September 30, 1999, the rate of pay for a Member of 
        Congress shall be determined as if the fiscal year 2000 
        pay adjustment (taking effect in January 2000) had 
        resulted in a rate equal to--
                    (A) the rate of pay that would otherwise 
                have taken effect for the position involved 
                beginning in January 2000 (if this section had 
                not been enacted), reduced by
                    (B) the same percentage as specified in 
                subsection (a).
            (2) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection--
                    (A) the term ``Member of Congress'' refers 
                to any position under subparagraph (A), (B), or 
                (C) of section 601(a)(1) of the Legislative 
                Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31(1)(A)-
                (C)); and
                    (B) the term ``fiscal year 2000 pay 
                adjustment'' means the adjustment in rates of 
                pay scheduled to take effect in fiscal year 
                2000 under section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative 
                Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31(2)).
    Sec. 1002. (a) Section 453( j) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 653( j)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(6) Information comparisons and disclosure for 
        enforcement of obligations on higher education act 
        loans and grants.--
                    ``(A) Furnishing of information by the 
                secretary of education.--The Secretary of 
                Education shall furnish to the Secretary, on a 
                quarterly basis or at such less frequent 
                intervals as may be determined by the Secretary 
                of Education, information in the custody of the 
                Secretary of Education for comparison with 
                information in the National Directory of New 
                Hires, in order to obtain the information in 
                such directory with respect to individuals 
                who--
                            ``(i) are borrowers of loans made 
                        under title IV of the Higher Education 
                        Act of 1965 that are in default; or
                            ``(ii) owe an obligation to refund 
                        an overpayment of a grant awarded under 
                        such title.
                    ``(B) Requirement to seek minimum 
                information necessary.--The Secretary of 
                Education shall seek information pursuant to 
                this section only to the extent essential to 
                improving collection of the debt described in 
                subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) Duties of the secretary.--
                            ``(i) Information comparison; 
                        disclosure to the secretary of 
                        education.--The Secretary, in 
                        cooperation with the Secretary of 
                        Education, shall compare information in 
                        the National Directory of New Hires 
                        with information in the custody of the 
                        Secretary of Education, and disclose 
                        information in that Directory to the 
                        Secretary of Education, in accordance 
                        with this paragraph, for the purposes 
                        specified in this paragraph.
                            ``(ii) Condition on disclosure.--
                        The Secretary shall make disclosures in 
                        accordance with clause (i) only to the 
                        extent that the Secretary determines 
                        that such disclosures do not interfere 
                        with the effective operation of the 
                        program under this part. Support 
                        collection under section 466(b) shall 
                        be given priority over collection of 
                        any defaulted student loan or grant 
                        overpayment against the same income.
                    ``(D) Use of information by the secretary 
                of education.--The Secretary of Education may 
                use information resulting from a data match 
                pursuant to this paragraph only--
                            ``(i) for the purpose of collection 
                        of the debt described in subparagraph 
                        (A) owed by an individual whose 
                        annualized wage level (determined by 
                        taking into consideration information 
                        from the National Directory of New 
                        Hires) exceeds $16,000; and
                            ``(ii) after removal of personal 
                        identifiers, to conduct analyses of 
                        student loan defaults.
                    ``(E) Disclosure of information by the 
                secretary of education.--
                            ``(i) Disclosures permitted.--The 
                        Secretary of Education may disclose 
                        information resulting from a data match 
                        pursuant to this paragraph only to--
                                    ``(I) a guaranty agency 
                                holding a loan made under part 
                                B of title IV of the Higher 
                                Education Act of 1965 on which 
                                the individual is obligated;
                                    ``(II) a contractor or 
                                agent of the guaranty agency 
                                described in subclause (I);
                                    ``(III) a contractor or 
                                agent of the Secretary; and
                                    ``(IV) the Attorney 
                                General.
                            ``(ii) Purpose of disclosure.--The 
                        Secretary of Education may make a 
                        disclosure under clause (i) only for 
                        the purpose of collection of the debts 
                        owed on defaulted student loans, or 
                        overpayments of grants, made under 
                        title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
                        1965.
                            ``(iii) Restriction on 
                        redisclosure.--An entity to which 
                        information isdisclosed under clause 
(i) may use or disclose such information only as needed for the purpose 
of collecting on defaulted student loans, or overpayments of grants, 
made under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
                    ``(F) Reimbursement of hhs costs.--The 
                Secretary of Education shall reimburse the 
                Secretary, in accordance with subsection 
                (k)(3), for the additional costs incurred by 
                the Secretary in furnishing the information 
                requested under this subparagraph.''.
    (b) Penalties for Misuse of Information.--Section 402(a) of 
the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 (112 
Stat. 669) is amended in the matter added by paragraph (2) by 
inserting ``or any other person'' after ``officer or employee 
of the United States''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
shall become effective October 1, 1999.
    Sec. 1003. Section 110 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) After making any calculation necessary to implement 
this section for fiscal year 2001, the amount available under 
paragraph (a)(1) shall be increased by $328,655,000. The 
amounts added under this subsection shall not apply to any 
calculation in any other fiscal year.
    ``(f) For fiscal year 2001, prior to making any 
distribution under this section, $56,231,000 of the allocation 
under paragraph (a)(1) shall be available only for each program 
authorized under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, 
and title III of Public Law 105-178, in proportion to each such 
program's share of the total authorizations in section 5338 
(other than 5338(h)) of such title and sections 3037 and 3038 
of such Public Law, under the terms and conditions of chapter 
53 of such title.
    ``(g) For fiscal year 2001, prior to making any 
distribution under this section, $1,019,000 of the allocation 
under paragraph (a)(1) shall be available only for motor 
carrier safety programs under sections 31104 and 31107 of title 
49, United States Code; $698,000 for NHTSA operations and 
research under section 403 of title 23, United States Code; and 
$2,008,000 for NHTSA highway traffic safety grants under 
chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code.''.
      Amend the title so as to read ``An Act making 
appropriations for the District of Columbia, and for the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2000, and for other purposes.''.
      And the Senate agree to the same.
                                   Ernest J. Istook, Jr.,
                                   Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham,
                                   Todd Tiahrt,
                                   Robert B. Aderholt,
                                   Jo Ann Emerson,
                                   John E. Sununu,
                                   Bill Young,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Kay Bailey Hutchison,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Pete Domenici,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House and Senate on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the 
Senate to the bill (H.R. 3064) making appropriations for the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole 
or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, submit 
the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in 
explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the 
mangers and recommended in the accompanying conference report.
      The composition of this conference agreement includes 
more than the District of Columbia Appropriations Act for 
fiscal year 2000. While the House version of H.R. 3064 and the 
Senate amendment in the nature of a substitute dealt only with 
District of Columbia appropriations, the conference report was 
expanded to include Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and related agencies appropriations. 
Appropriations for the District of Columbia are included in 
Division A. Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies are 
included in Division B.
      Since the conference agreement is expanded to include the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
and related agencies, the title of the bill is amended to 
reflect this.

                               DIVISION A

                  District of Columbia Appropriations

      The conferees on H.R. 3064 agree with the matter inserted 
in this division of this conference agreement and the following 
description of this matter. This matter was developed through 
the negotiations on the differences in the House and Senate 
versions of H.R. 3064, the District of Columbia Appropriations 
Act, 2000, by members of the appropriations subcommittee of 
both the House and Senate with jurisdiction over H.R. 3064.
      The Division A portion of this joint explanatory 
statement includes more than a description of the resolution of 
the differences between the House and Senate versions of H.R. 
3064. It also provides a more full description of the matter 
not in disagreement between the two Houses. Since H.R. 2587, 
the initial District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000, was 
vetoed, the conferees have expanded this statement to provide 
an explanation of the additional matter that was not changed in 
H.R. 3064 as guidance in implementing this conference 
agreement.
      A description of the resolution of the differences 
between the House and Senate on H.R. 3064 follows next.

                       DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS

                    Government Direction and Support

      The conference action inserts a proviso as proposed by 
the Senate concerning the salary of members of the Council of 
the District of Columbia.

                        Public Education System

      The conferees are aware of the Values First program that 
is designed to bring character education to the District's 
public elementary schools. The conferees are aware that ten 
schools now have such a program. The conferees encourage the 
public school system to continue to expand the Values First 
program and expend the funds necessary to implement this 
program on a broader basis.

                           General Provisions

      The conference action inserts a new subsection (b) in 
section 129 as proposed by the Senate that allows an increase 
in payments to attorneys representing special education 
students if the Mayor, control board, and Superintendent of 
Public Schools concur in a Memorandum of Understanding setting 
forth the increase.
      The conference action continues the prohibition in 
section 150 on using Federal or local funds to support needle 
exchange programs, but without the restriction on privately-
funded programs.
      The conference action revises section 151 concerning the 
monitoring of real property leases entered into by the District 
government.
      The conference action revises section 152 concerning new 
leases and purchases of real property by the District 
government.
      The conference action inserts a new section 173 as 
proposed by the Senate that allows the DC Corporation Counsel 
to review and comment on briefs in private lawsuits and to 
consult with officials of the District government regarding 
such lawsuits.
      The conference action inserts a new section 174 as 
proposed by the Senate concerning wireless communication and 
antenna applications. The language recommended by the conferees 
requires the National Park Service to implement the notice of 
decision approved by the National Capital Regional Director, 
dated April 7, 1999, including the issuance of right-of-way 
permits, within 7 days of the enactment of this Act. Concerning 
future applications for siting on Federal land, the responsible 
Federal agency is directed to take final action to approve or 
deny each application, including action on the issuance of 
right-of-way permits at market rates, within 120 days of the 
receipt of such application. This 120-day directive does not 
change or eliminate the obligation that the responsible Federal 
agency must comply with existing laws.
      The conference action inserts a new section 175 that 
amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2000 (Public Law 106-74), by making certain technical 
corrections and adding language reflecting the intent of the 
conferees on that Act.
      What follows next is a description of the resolution of 
selected differences between the House and Senate on the 
initial District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000, H.R. 
2587, that was vetoed. Even though there were differences 
between the House and Senate versions of H.R. 2587, the 
resolution of these selected differences was incorporated as 
identical text in both versions of H.R. 3064. A description of 
the resolution of these selected differences is included in 
this conference agreement on H.R. 3064 because an understanding 
of them is important to the overall implementation of this Act.
      The conference agreement on H.R. 3064 incorporates some 
of the provisions of both the House and Senate versions of H.R. 
2587. The language and allocations set forth in House Report 
106-249 and Senate Report 106-88 are to be complied with unless 
specifically addressed in the accompanying bill and statement 
of the managers to the contrary. The agreement herein, while 
repeating some report language for emphasis, does not negate 
the language referenced above unless expressly provided. 
General provisions which were identical in the House and Senate 
passed versions of H.R. 2587 and not changed in H.R. 3064 and 
that are unchanged by this conference agreement are approved 
unless provided to the contrary herein.

                TITLE I--FISCAL YEAR 2000 APPROPRIATIONS


                             FEDERAL FUNDS


              Federal Payment for Resident Tuition Support

      Appropriates $17,000,000 as proposed by the House and the 
Senate and makes modifications specifying that the entire 
$17,000,000 will be available if the authorized program is a 
nationwide program and $11,000,000 will be available if the 
program is for a limited number of States. The language also 
allows the District to use local tax revenues for this program.

        Federal Payment for Incentives for Adoption of Children

      Appropriates $5,000,000 instead of $8,500,000 as proposed 
by the House and includes language allowing the funds to be 
used for local tax credits to offset costs incurred by 
individuals in adopting children in the District's foster care 
system and for health care needs of the children in accordance 
with legislation to be enacted by the District government.

         Federal Payment to the Citizen Complaint Review Board

      Appropriates $500,000 instead of $1,200,000 as proposed 
by the House. This amount together with $700,000 in local funds 
will provide a total of $1,200,000 for the Board's operations 
in fiscal year 2000. The conferees recognize the importance of 
an independent review body to act as a forum for the review and 
resolution of complaints against officers of the Metropolitan 
Police Department and special officers employed by the District 
of Columbia. The conferees also request that the Mayor's office 
provide a comprehensive plan for the use of the Civilian 
Complaint Review Board. The plan/report should contain 
information about the problems of the previous review board and 
what will be done to avoid these problems with the new board.

          Federal Payment to the Department of Human Services

      Appropriates $250,000 for a mentoring program and for 
hotline services as proposed by the House.

    Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee 
                               Operations

      Appropriates $176,000,000 as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $183,000,000 as proposed by the House and includes 
language allowing the Corrections Trustee to use interest 
earnings of up to $4,600,000 to assist the Trustee with the 
sharp, rather unexpected increase in the overall inmate 
population.

           Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts

      Appropriates $99,714,000 instead of $100,714,000 as 
proposed by the House and $136,440,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The reduction below the House allowance reflects the 
$1,000,000 in the capital program as proposed by the Senate.
      Courts' budget.--The conferees request that budget 
information submitted by the Courts with their FY 2001 and 
future budgets include grants and reimbursements from all other 
sources so that information on total resources available to the 
courts will be available.

          Defender Services in the District of Columbia Courts

      Appropriates $33,336,000 as proposed by the House and 
includes language proposed by the Senate requiring monthly 
financial reports. The conferees have included language 
allowing the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration to use 
interest earnings of up to $1,200,000 to make payments for 
obligations incurred during fiscal year 1999 for services 
provided by attorneys for indigents. The availability of this 
additional amount is contingent on a certification by the 
Comptroller General. The Courts have reported that they 
anticipate a shortfall of ``approximately$1,000,000'' in fiscal 
year 1999 for the Criminal Justice Act program.

 Federal Payment to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
                      for the District of Columbia

      Appropriates $93,800,000 instead of $105,500,000 as 
proposed by the House and $80,300,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The increase above the Senate allowance includes 
$7,000,000 for increased drug testing and treatment and 
$6,500,000 for additional parole and probation officers instead 
of $13,200,000 and $10,000,000, respectively, as proposed by 
the House.

                   Children's National Medical Center

      Appropriates $2,500,000 for Children's National Medical 
Center instead of $3,500,000 as proposed by the House.

           Federal Payment for Metropolitan Police Department

      Appropriates $1,000,000 for the Metropolitan Police as 
proposed by the Senate. The conferees recognize the devastating 
problems caused by illegal drug use and fully support this 
program to eliminate open air drug trafficking in all four 
quadrants of the District of Columbia. The conferees have 
included language requiring quarterly reports to the Congress 
on all four quadrants. The reports should include, at a 
minimum, the amounts expended, the number of personnel 
involved, and the overall results and effectiveness of the open 
air drug program in eliminating the drug trafficking problem.

                       DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS


                   Governmental Direction and Support


                 office of the chief technology officer

      The conferees are concerned that the District's child 
support system is not Y2K compliant. The conferees have been 
advised that the Office of Corporation Counsel is responsible 
for developing, operating, and maintaining this system which is 
used by the District's courts to collect child support payments 
from absentee parents, disburse payments to custodial parents, 
and account for these activities. The conferees urge the 
District's Chief Technology Officer to provide the Office of 
Corporation Counsel with the necessary support to ensure that: 
(1) The system is promptly remediated and tested, and (2) a 
business continuity and contingency plan that includes a 
Courts' child support functions is in place. The conferees 
request a report on this matter by November 1, 1999.

                       public safety and justice

      Appropriates $778,770,000 including $565,511,000 from 
local funds and $184,247,000 from other funds instead of 
$785,670,000including $565,411,000 from local funds and 
$191,247,000 from other funds as proposed by the House and $778,470,000 
including $565,211,000 from local funds and $184,247,000 from other 
funds as proposed by the Senate. The increase of $300,000 above the 
Senate allowance will provide a total of $1,200,000 for the Citizen 
Complaint Review Board consisting of $500,000 in Federal funds and 
$700,000 in local funds instead of a total of $900,000 in local funds 
as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference action retains the proviso that caps the 
number of police officers assigned to the Mayor's security 
detail at 15 as proposed by the House.
      The conference action includes a proviso that allows up 
to $700,000 in local funds for the Citizen Complaint Review 
Board instead of $900,000 in local funds as proposed by the 
Senate.

                            fire department

      The conferees recommend that the Fire and Emergency 
Medical Services Department conduct a study about the need for 
placement of automated external defibrillators in Federal 
buildings.

                        public education system

      The conference action includes the proviso proposed by 
the Senate concerning the Weighted Student Formula and the 
setting aside of five percent of the total budget which is to 
be apportioned when the current student count for public and 
charter schools has been completed. The conference action also 
includes a proviso proposed by the Senate allowing $500,000 for 
a Schools Without Violence program.

                         human support services

      Appropriates $1,526,361,000 including $635,373,000 from 
local funds as proposed by the House instead of $1,526,111,000 
including $635,123,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                              public works

      The conference action deletes the proviso earmarking 
funds as proposed by the Senate.

                         receivership programs

      Appropriates $342,077,000 including $217,606,000 from 
local funds instead of $345,577,000 including $221,106,000 from 
local funds as proposed by the House and $337,077,000 including 
$212,606,000 from local funds as proposed by the Senate.

                                reserve

      The conference action deletes the proviso concerning 
expenditure criteria as proposed by the Senate.

district of columbia financial responsibility and management assistance 
                               authority

      The conference action retains the proviso concerning the 
cap on the salary levels of the Executive Director and the 
General Counsel as proposed by the House.

                           productivity bank

      The conference action retains the proviso requiring 
quarterly reports as proposed by the House.

                       productivity bank savings

      The conference action retains the proviso requiring 
quarterly reports as proposed by the House.

                   procurement and management savings

      The conference action restores the proviso requiring 
quarterly reports as proposed by the House and deletes the 
proviso requiring Council approval of a resolution authorizing 
management reform savings proposed by the Senate.

                         d.c. retirement board

      The conference action amends the cap on the compensation 
of the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of the Investment 
Committee of the Board to $7,500 instead of $10,000 as proposed 
by the House.

                             Capital Outlay

      The conference action revises the first paragraph for 
clarity as proposed by the House.

   Summary Table of Conference Recommendations by Agency and FY 2000 
                             Financial Plan

      A summary table showing the Federal appropriations by 
account and the allocation of District funds by agency or 
office under each appropriation heading for fiscal year 1999, 
the fiscal year 2000 request, the House and Senate 
recommendations, and the conference allowance, and the fiscal 
year 2000 Financial Plan which is the starting point for the 
independent auditor's comparison with actual year-end results 
as required by section 143 of the bill follow:


                           General Provisions

      The conference action changes several section numbers for 
sequential purposes and makes technical revisions in certain 
citations.
      The conference action restores section 117 of the House 
bill prohibiting the use of Federal funds for a personal cook, 
chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or 
employee of the District of Columbia government.
      The conference action approves section 119 of the House 
bill in lieu of section 118 of the Senate bill concerning the 
cap on the salary of the City Administrator and the per diem 
compensation to the directors of the Redevelopment Land Agency.
      The conference action approves section 127 of the Senate 
bill (new section 128) concerning financial management 
services.
      The conference action revises the ceiling on operating 
expenses in section 135 (new section 136) to $5,515,379,000 
including $3,113,854,000 from local funds instead of 
$5,522,779,000 including $3,117,254,000 as proposed by the 
House and $5,486,829,000 including $3,108,304,000 as proposed 
by the Senate.
      The conference action deletes subsection (d) of section 
135 of the House bill concerning the application of excess 
revenues as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference action deletes section 137 of the House 
bill concerning a report on public school openings as proposed 
by the Senate.
      The conference action requires the inventory of motor 
vehicles required by section 139 of the House bill and 138 of 
the Senate bill (new section 139) to be submitted by the Chief 
Financial Officer as proposed by the House instead of by the 
Mayor as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference action restores section 142 of the House 
bill concerning the Compliance with Buy American Act.
      The conference action deletes section 141 of the Senate 
bill concerning certain real property in the District of 
Columbia. The language was made permanent in Public Law 105-
277.
      The conference action deletes the date referenced in 
section 146 of the Senate bill concerning the correctional 
facility in Youngstown, Ohio as proposed by the Senate (new 
section 147).
      The conference action approves section 148 of the Senate 
bill concerning a reserve and positive fund balance for the 
District of Columbia. The conferees believe that the reserve 
fund will now serve as a true ``rainy day'' fund. Further, the 
conferees have now required the District to maintain a budget 
surplus of not less than 4 percent. Any funds in excess of this 
level could be used for debt reduction and non-recurring 
expenses. The conferees believe that this combination of 
reforms will provide the District with a stable financial 
situation that will in time reduce the District's debt and lead 
to an improved bond rating.
      The conference action deletes section 151 of the House 
bill which prohibits the use of Federal funds for legalizing 
marijuana or reducing penalties. Section 168 of the House bill 
(new section 167) prohibits Federal and local funds for 
legalizing marijuana or reducing penalties.
      The conference action restores section 154 of the House 
bill (new section 153) concerning public charter school 
construction and repair funds and amends the language to 
provide $5,000,000 for a credit enhancement fund.
      The conference action restores section 156 of the House 
bill (new section 155) concerning the authorization period for 
public charter schools.
      The conference action restores section 157 of the House 
bill (new section 156) concerning sibling preference at public 
charter schools.
      The conference action restores section 158 of the House 
bill (new section 157) concerning buyouts and management 
reforms and provides $18,000,000 instead of $20,000,000 as 
proposed by the House. The conference action also inserts a 
proviso concerning the spending and release of the funds.
      The conference action restores section 159 of the House 
bill (new section 158) concerning the 14th Street Bridge and 
provides $5,000,000 instead of $7,500,000 as proposed by the 
House. The conference action also changes the source of funds 
from the infrastructure fund to the District's highway trust 
fund. The conferees direct that responsibility for this project 
along with these funds be transferred to the Federal Highway 
Administration for execution.
      The conference action restores section 160 of the House 
bill (new section 159) concerning the Anacostia River 
environmental cleanup.
      The conference action restores section 161 of the House 
bill (new section 160) concerning the Crime Victims 
Compensation Fund and amends the language so that funds are 
retained each year to pay crime victims at the beginning of the 
next year. The conference action also inserts language that 
ratifies payments and deposits to conform with the 
Revitalization Act (Public Law 105-33).
      The conference action restores section 162 of the House 
bill (new section 161) requiring the chief financial officers 
of the District of Columbia government to certify that they 
understand the duties and restrictions required by this Act.
      The conference action restores section 163 of the House 
bill (new section 162) requiring the fiscal year 2001 budget to 
specify potential adjustments that might be necessary if the 
proposed management savings are not achieved.
      The conference action restores section 164 of the House 
bill (new section 163) requiring descriptions of certain budget 
categories.
      The conference action restores section 165 of the House 
bill (new section 164) concerning improvements to the Southwest 
Waterfront in the District and modifies the language to provide 
flexibility for the Mayor in executing new 30-year leases with 
the existing lessee or their successors at the Municipal Fish 
Wharf and the Washington Marina.
      The conference action restores section 166 of the House 
bill (new section 165) expressing the sense of Congress 
concerning the American National Red Cross project at 2025 E 
Street Northwest.
      The conference action restores section 167 of the House 
bill (new section 166) concerning sex offender registration.
      The conference action restores section 168 of the House 
bill (new section 167) prohibiting the use of funds to legalize 
marijuana or reduce penalties.
      The conference action retains and amends section 149 of 
the Senate bill (new section 168) providing $5,000,000 to 
offset local taxes for a commercial revitalization program in 
enterprise zones and low and moderate income areas in the 
District of Columbia. The conferees believe that the Commercial 
Revitalization program will be an important tool for the city 
to improve blighted neighborhoods in the District of Columbia. 
The conferees believe it is important to bring new commercial 
enterprises into neglected areas of the city. The conferees 
direct the District to review Congressional proposals on this 
issue in order to use the funds effectively.
      The conference action inserts section 151 of the Senate 
bill (new section 170) concerning quality-of-life issues and 
changes the findings from a sense of the Senate to a sense of 
the Congress.
      The conference action inserts section 152 of the Senate 
bill (new section 171) concerning the use of Federal Medicaid 
payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals.
      The conference action inserts section 153 of the Senate 
bill (new section 172) concerning a study by the General 
Accounting Office of the District's criminal justice system. 
The conferees request that this be a comprehensive study of all 
components of the criminal justice system including law 
enforcement, courts, corrections, probation, and parole. The 
report should include recommendations for improving the 
performance of the overall system as well as the individual 
agencies and programs.
      The conference action deletes section 154 of the Senate 
bill concerning termination of parole for illegal drug use.

                        TITLE II--TAX REDUCTION

      The conference action restores Title II--Tax Reduction 
commending the District of Columbia for its action to reduce 
taxes and ratifying the District's Service Improvement and 
Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Support Act of 1999 as proposed by the 
House.

                   Conference Total--With Comparisons

      The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
fiscal year 2000 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
with comparisons to the fiscal year 1999 amount, the 2000 
budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2000 
follow:

Federal Funds:
        New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 
          1999..........................................     683,639,000
        Budget estimates of new (obligational) 
          authority, fiscal year 2000...................     393,740,000
        House bill, fiscal year 2000....................     429,100,000
        Senate bill, fiscal year 2000...................     429,100,000
        Conference agreement, fiscal year 2000..........     429,100,000
        Conference agreement compared with:
              New budget (obligational) authority, 
              fiscal year 1999..........................    -254,539,000
              Budget estimates of new (obligations) 
              authority, fiscal year 2000...............      35,360,000
              House bill, fiscal year 2000..............
              Senate bill, fiscal year 2000.............
District of Columbia funds:
        New Budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 
          1999..........................................   6,790,168,737
        Budget estimates of new (obligational) 
          authority, fiscal year 2000...................   6,745,278,500
        House bill, fiscal year 2000....................   6,778,432,500
        Senate bill, fiscal year 2000...................   6,778,432,500
        Conference agreement, fiscal year 2000..........   6,778,432,500
        Conference agreement compared with:
              New budget (obligational) authority, 
              fiscal year 1999..........................     -11,736,237
              Budget estimates of new (obligations) 
              authority, fiscal year 2000...............      33,154,000
              House bill, fiscal year 2000..............
              Senate bill, fiscal year 2000.............

                               DIVISION B


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

      The conferees on H.R. 3064 agree with the matter inserted 
in this division of this conference agreement and the following 
description of this matter. This matter was developed through 
negotiations on the differences in the House reported version 
of H.R. 3037 and the Senate version of S. 1650, the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, by members of the 
subcommittee of both the House and Senate with jurisdiction 
over H.R. 3037 and S. 1650.
      In implementing this agreement, the Departments and 
agencies should comply with the language and instructions set 
forth in House Report 106-370 and Senate Report 106-166.
      In the case where the language and instructions 
specifically address the allocation of funds, the Departments 
and agencies are to follow the funding levels specified in the 
Congressional budget justifications accompanying the fiscal 
year 2000 budget or the underlying authorizing statute and 
should give full consideration to all items, including items 
allocating specific funding included in the House and Senate 
reports. With respect to the provisions in the House and Senate 
reports that specifically allocate funds, each has been 
reviewed and those which are jointly concurred in have been 
included in this joint statement.
      The provisions of the House Report (105-205) are endorsed 
that direct ``. . . the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and the Social Security Administration 
and the Railroad Retirement Board to submit operating plans 
with respect to discretionary appropriations to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations. These plans, which are to 
be submitted within 30 days of the final passage of the bill, 
must be signed by the respective Departmental Secretaries, the 
Social Security Commissioner and the Chairman of the Railroad 
Retirement Board.''
      The Departments and agencies covered by this directive 
are expected to meet with the House and Senate Committees as 
soon as possible after enactment of the bill to develop a 
methodology to assure adequate and timely information on the 
allocation of funds within accounts within this conference 
report while minimizing the need for unnecessary and 
duplicative submissions.
      The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY 2000, 
put in place by this bill, incorporates the following 
agreements of the managers:

                      TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


                 Employment and Training Administration


                    Training and Employment Services

      The conference agreement appropriates $5,465,618,000, 
instead of $4,572,058,000 as proposed by the House and 
$5,472,560,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the amount 
appropriated, $2,463,000,000 becomes available on October 1, 
2000, instead of $2,607,300,000 as proposed by the House and 
$2,720,315,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The agreement includes language authorizing the use of 
funds under the dislocated workers program for projects that 
provide assistance to new entrants in the workforce and 
incumbent workers as proposed by the Senate. It also includes 
language proposed by the Senate modified to waive a 10 percent 
limitation in the Workforce Investment Act with respect to the 
use of discretionary funds to carry out demonstration and pilot 
projects, multiservice projects and multistate projects with 
regard to dislocated workers and to waive certain other 
provisions in that Act. The House bill had no similar 
provisions.
      The Department is expected to make every effort to be 
flexible in the use of worker training funds for reactivated 
shipyards, such as those referenced in the Senate Report. The 
conference agreement encourages the Department to use national 
emergency grants under the dislocated workers program to 
supplement available resources for (1) worker training needs at 
reactivated shipyards that have experienced large-scale worker 
dislocation, (2) continuing training to utilize the workplace 
as site for learning, (3) supporting training for American 
workers at state-of-the-art foreign shipyards, and (4) 
continuing upgrading of workers skills to increase 
employability and job retention.
      The agreement includes a citation to the Women in 
Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act as proposed 
by the House. The Senate bill did not cite this Act.
      The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 under Job 
Corps for the purpose of constructing or rehabilitating 
facilities on some Job Corps campuses to co-locate Head Start 
programs to serve Job Corps students and their children as 
proposed in the House Report.
      The Labor Department is encouraged to continue and 
provide technical assistance to the Role Models America Academy 
Demonstration Program.
      The Ways to Work family loan program is an innovative 
micro-loan program which provides small loans to low-income 
families who are attempting to make the transition from public 
assistance to the workforce or retain employment. This program 
allows families who often lack access to loans from mainstream 
sources because of their weak credit histories to receive the 
necessary financial resources to meet emergency expenses. The 
Department is urged to consider making available up to $1 
million for this program to demonstrate its effectiveness in 
assisting low-income parents in obtaining and retaining jobs.
      The conference agreement includes the following amounts 
for the following projects and activities:

Dislocated workers

      --$1,000,000 for the York Skill Center, York, PA
      --$2,000,000 for development of a new model for high-tech 
workforce development at San Diego State University
      --$1,000,000 for the Central Indiana Technology Training 
Center at Ball State University
      --$1,000,000 for Clayton College and State University in 
Georgia for a virtual education and training project to improve 
military-to-civilian employment transition
      --$1,500,000 for a dislocated farmer retraining project 
at the University of Idaho
      --$1,000,000 for the Chipola Junior College in Florida to 
retrain dislocated workers.
      --$500,000 for the State of New Mexico for rural 
employment in telecommunications
      --$500,000 for the Puget Sound Center for Technology to 
help alleviate the shortage of information technology workers 
in the Puget Sound Region
      --$400,000 for the Philadelphia Area Accelerated 
Manufacturing Education, Inc.
      --$1,500,000 for the Pennsylvania training consortium
      --$600,000 for the Lehigh University integrated product 
development
      --$2,500,000 to train foreign workers, including Russians 
in oil field management in Alaska

Pilots and demonstrations

      --$800,000 for the Center for Workforce Preparation at 
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
      --$1,000,000 for Green Thumb for replication in rural 
areas of a project to train disadvantaged individuals for jobs 
in the information technology industry
      --$1,000,000 for Focus:HOPE in Detroit for information 
technology training
      --$300,000 for the Bowling Green, KY Housing Authority 
for workforce preparation and training for low-income youth and 
adults
      --$400,000 for the Collegiate Consortium for Workforce 
and Economic Development
      --$2,000,000 for the Springfield Workforce Development 
Center in Springfield, Vermont for a model regional workforce 
development
      --$200,000 to Northlands Job Corps Center in Vergennes, 
Vermont for a center child care project
      --$170,000 for the Greater Burlington Industrial 
Corporation in Burlington, Vermont for a model pre-employment 
counseling program
      --$100,000 for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
Department of Labor and Industry, to study the financial impact 
of professional employer arrangements on the Unemployment 
Compensation Fund
      --$1,000,000 for the Lorain County Community College for 
a workforce development project
      --$800,000 for Jobs for America's Graduates
      --$2,500,000 for Alaska Works in Fairbanks, Alaska for 
construction job training
      --$2,500,000 for Hutchinson Career Center in Fairbanks, 
Alaska to upgrade equipment to provide vocational training
      --$1,500,000 to train Alaska Native and local low income 
youth as cultural tour guides and in museum operations for the 
Alaska Native Heritage Center, Bishop Museum in Hawaii, and 
Peabody-Essex Museum in Massachusetts
      --$1,500,000 for the University of Missouri-St. Louis for 
the design and implementation of the Regional Center for 
Education and Work
      --$400,000 for the Vermont Technical College for a 
Technology Training Initiative
      --$150,000 to the Nebraska Urban League for a welfare-to-
work pilot project
      --$1,000,000 to the Des Moines Community College for 
SMART Partners, a public-private partnership which guarantees 
full-time employment to students who meet the competencies and 
skill standards required in modern advanced high performance 
manufacturing
      --$500,000 to the American Indian Science and Engineering 
Society for the Native American Rural Computer Utilization 
Training Program
      --$500,000 to the Maui Economic Development Board for the 
Rural Computer Utilization Training Program
      --$250,000 to the Job Corps of North Dakota for the 
Fellowship Executive Training Program
      --$250,000 for the University of Colorado Health Sciences 
Center to provide training and assistance through the 
University's telehealth/telemedicine distance learning.
      The conference agreement also provides funds to continue 
in FY 2000 those projects and activities which were awarded 
under the dislocated workers program and under pilots and 
demonstrations in FY 1999 as described in the Senate Report, 
subject to project performance, demand for activities and 
services, and utilization of prior year funding.
      The conference agreement includes $15,000,000 to continue 
and expand the Youth Offender grant program serving youth who 
are or have been under criminal justice system supervision.
      There is awareness of the job training activities of the 
South Dakota Intertribal Bison Cooperative. The Department is 
urged to consider funding of a proposal for a vocational 
training program which will provide employment-related skills 
for native tribes in bison herd management, meat processing, 
animal husbandry, hide tanning and leather work.

              federal unemployment benefits and allowances

      The conference agreement appropriates $415,150,000 as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $314,400,000 as proposed by 
the House.

     state unemployment insurance and employment service operations

      The conference agreement appropriates $3,253,740,000, 
instead of $3,141,740,000 as proposed by the House and 
$3,358,073,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The agreement includes $41,300,000 for the alien labor 
certification program as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$36,300,000 as proposed by the House. For administration of the 
work opportunity tax credit and the welfare-to-work tax credit, 
the agreement includes $22,000,000 as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $20,000,000 as proposed by the House. For one-stop 
centers/labor market information, the agreement includes 
$140,000,000 instead of $100,000,000 as proposed by the House 
and $146,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. Included in the 
amount of $140,000,000 is $20,000,000 for work incentives 
grants. The Senate proposed to fund this as a separate line 
item. The House did not propose to fund it. Funds are included 
for a ``talking'' America's Job Bank for the blind.
      The agreement does not include a citation to section 461 
of the Job Training Partnership Act proposed by the Senate. The 
House bill did not include this citation.

                         Program Administration

      The conference agreement appropriates $146,000,000, 
instead of $138,126,000 as proposed by the House and 
$149,340,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also 
includes language proposed by the House requiring that the 
majority of the welfare-to-work program staff shall be term 
appointments lasting no more than one year. The Senate bill 
contained no such language.
      The Department is expected to conduct an analysis of the 
case backlog in the alien labor certification program and 
report its findings to the Appropriations Committees by 
February 1, 2000. Further, it is expected that the Department 
will submit at the same time its proposed schedule for 
eliminating this backlog.
      There is a proposal by the City of Salinas, CA to 
transfer a DOL building to the local government for use as a 
child care facility. The Department of Labor is urged to work 
with the City of Salinas to resolve this matter in a timely 
manner.

              Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $96,000,000, 
instead of $90,000,000 as proposed by the House and $99,831,000 
as proposed by the Senate.

                  pension benefit guaranty corporation

      The conference agreement provides $11,155,000 for the 
administrative expense limitation, instead of $10,958,000 as 
proposed by the House and $11,352,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                  Employment Standards Administration


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $335,000,000, 
instead of $314,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
$342,787,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      There is concern about the December 3, 1997 Opinion 
Letter issued by the Employment Standards Administration 
regarding section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Within 
the constraints of not preempting the Department's discussions 
with industry or the courts' impartial consideration of the 
merits of this issue, the Department is urged to clarify this 
letter with regard to retroactivity and to existing collective 
bargaining agreements or private litigation.

                    black lung disability trust fund

      The conference agreement appropriates $49,771,000 for 
salaries and expenses from the Trust Fund, instead of 
$49,404,000 as proposed by the House and $50,138,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes a definite 
annual appropriation for black lung benefit payments and 
interest payments on advances made to the Trust Fund as 
proposed by the House instead of an indefinite permanent 
appropriation as proposed by the Senate.
      There is concern about the structural deficit in the 
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. The Administration is 
directed to provide its recommended solution for the problem of 
the increasing indebtedness of the Trust Fund to the Congress 
as part of its fiscal year 2001 budget request.

             Occupational Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $370,000,000, 
instead of $337,408,000 as proposed by the House and 
$388,142,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement does not 
include language proposed by the Senate that would have 
earmarked one-half of the increase over the FY 1999 
appropriation for State consultation grants and one-half for 
enforcement and all other purposes. The House bill had no 
similar provision. The detailed table at the end of this joint 
statement reflects the activity distribution agreed upon.
      The Department is urged to consider allowing the use of 
all FDA-approved devices which reduce the risk of needlestick 
injury, whether or not such safety feature is integrated into 
the needle or other sharp medical object, if the non-integrated 
device is at least as safe and effective as other FDA-approved 
devices.
      Without any intent to delay pending regulations, the 
conference agreement includes $450,000 elsewhere in this bill 
for a National Academy of Sciences study of the proposed 
standard on tuberculosis.
      Concerns have been expressed about recommendations of the 
Metalworking Fluids Standards Advisory Committee, established 
by the Department, with respect to metalworking fluids exposure 
levels. The Department is expected to carefully consider peer-
reviewed scientific research and examine the technical 
feasibility and economic consequences of its recommendations. 
An economic analysis to the three-digit SIC code and a risk 
assessment should be completed on the impact of reduced 
exposure levels.

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $228,373,000, 
instead of $211,165,000 as proposed by the House and 
$230,873,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes 
$2,500,000 over the budget request for physical improvements at 
the National Mine Safety and Health Academy.
      The agreement does not include language proposed by the 
House that would have prohibited the use of funds to carry out 
the miner training provisions of the Mine Safety and Health Act 
with respect to certain industries, including sand and gravel 
and surface stone, until June 1, 2000. The Senate bill did not 
include a similar provision.
      The agreement also does not include language proposed by 
the Senate that would have allowed MSHA to retain and spend up 
to $1,000,000 in fees collected for the approval and 
certification of mine equipment and materials. The House bill 
did not include a similar provision.
      Concerns have been expressed about the possible 
ramifications of a rulemaking on the use of conveyor belts in 
underground coal mines, including concerns about the validity 
of the testing on which the rule is based. MSHA is urged to 
carefully examine the record and to conduct additional research 
that may be required to address any significant concerns that 
have been raised.
      MSHA is urged to examine the ongoing NCI/NIOSH study of 
Lung Cancer and Diesel Exhaust among Non-Metal Miners in 
connection with the promulgation of a proposed rule on diesel 
exhaust.

                       Bureau of Labor Statistics


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $409,444,000 as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $394,697,000 as proposed by 
the House.

                        Departmental Management


                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $210,788,000, 
instead of $191,131,000 as proposed by the House and 
$247,311,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes 
language proposed by the Senate that authorizes the expenditure 
of funds for the management or operation of Departmental 
bilateral and multilateral foreign technical assistance. The 
House bill included no such language. The agreement does not 
include language proposed by the Senate that would have 
authorized the use of up to $10,000 of DOL salaries and 
expenses funds in this Act for receiving and hosting officials 
of foreign states and official foreign delegations. The House 
bill included no such language. Instead, the agreement 
authorizes the Secretary to use up to $20,000 from funds 
available for salaries and expenses for official reception and 
representation expenses in a general provision in title V of 
the bill (Sec. 504), instead of $15,000 as proposed in both the 
House and Senate bills.
      International child labor activities are funded at the 
level requested in the President's budget.
      The agreement does not include statutory language 
proposed by the Senate requiring a report to Congress 
containing options to promote a legal domestic workforce in the 
agricultural sector, provide for improved compensation and 
benefits, improved living conditions and better transportation 
between jobs and address other issues related to agricultural 
labor that the Secretary determines to be necessary. However, 
the Department is instructed to prepare such a report and 
submit it to Congress as soon as possible.

        Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training

      The conference agreement appropriates $184,341,000, 
instead of $182,719,000 as proposed by the House and 
$185,613,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                      Office of Inspector General

      The conference agreement appropriates $51,925,000 as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $47,500,000 as proposed by 
the House.

                           General Provisions


                           job corps pay cap

      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House adjusting the salary cap for employees of Job Corps 
contractors from Federal Executive Level III to Executive Level 
II. The Senate bill left the cap at the current level of 
Executive Level III.

                     davis-bacon helper regulations

      The conference agreement does not include language 
proposed by the House that would have prohibited the use of 
funds in the bill to implement the proposed Davis-Bacon helper 
regulations issued by the Wage and Hour Division on April 9, 
1999. The Senate bill contained no such provision.

                       health claims regulations

      The conference agreement does not include language 
proposed by the House that would have prohibited the use of 
funds in the bill to implement the proposed regulations issued 
by the Labor Department on September 9, 1998 concerning changes 
in ERISA health claims processing requirements. The Senate bill 
contained no such provision.

           TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


              Health Resources and Services Administration


                     health resources and services

      The conference agreement includes $4,429,292,000 for 
Health Resources and Services instead of $4,204,395,000 as 
proposed by the House and $4,365,498,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement includes bill language 
identifying $104,052,000 for the construction and renovation of 
health care and other facilities instead of $10,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar 
provision. These funds are to be used for the following 
projects: Northwestern University/Evanston Hospital Center for 
Genomics and Molecular Medicine; Sinai Family Health Centers of 
Chicago; Condell Medical Center Regional Center for Cardiac 
Health Services; Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Hackensack 
University Medical Center; Brookfield Zoo/Loyola University 
School of Medicine; Westcare Fresno Community Healthcare 
Campus, Fresno, California; Northern Illinois University Center 
for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault; Memorial 
Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, Texas; George Mason 
University Center for Services to Families and Schools; 
Dominican College Center for Health Sciences; Marklund 
Children's Home, Bloomingdale, Illinois; Lawton and Rhea Chiles 
Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies Perinatal Data Center; 
Aging Health Services Center, Somerset, Kentucky; St. Joseph's 
Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, New York; Northeastern Ohio 
Universities College of Medicine; Gateway Community Health 
Center, Laredo, Texas; Uvalde County Clinic, Uvalde, Texas; 
Vida y Salud Community Health Center, Crystal City, Texas; Sul 
Ross State University, Alpine, Texas; University of Mississippi 
Medical Center, Guyton Building; Children's Hospital of 
Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama; Edward Health Services, 
Naperville, Illinois; Marquette University School of Dentistry; 
St. Christopher-Ottilie Residential Treatment Center, Sea 
Cliff, Long Island; Louisiana State University Feist-Weiller 
Cancer Center, Shreveport, Louisiana; Columbus Community 
Healthcare Center, Buffalo, New York; Children's Hospital Los 
Angeles Research Institute; Englewood Hospital and Medical 
Center, Englewood, New Jersey; Marywood University Northeast 
Pennsylvania Healthy Families Center, Scranton, Pennsylvania; 
Temple University Outpatient Facility; Temple University 
Children's Medical Center; Pittsburgh Magee-Women's Hospital 
Women's Center; College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; Drexel University National Chemical and 
Biological Research Center; University of Pittsburgh Cancer 
Center; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Fairbanks 
Memorial Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska; Yukon-Kuskokwim Health 
Corporation, Bethel, Alaska; University of Vermont Cancer 
Center; Burlington, Vermont community health center; Central 
Wyoming community health center; Clinical Diabetes Islet 
Transplanation Research Center at the former NIH/Perrine, 
Florida Animal Research Facility; Cooper Green Hospital, 
Alabama; Central Ozarks Medical Center, Richland, Missouri; 
University of Alabama at Birmingham Interdisciplinary 
Biomedical Research Institute; Lawton Chiles Foundation, 
Florida; Mississippi Institute for Cancer Research; Jackson 
Medical Mall Foundation, Mississippi; Union Hospital, Terre 
Haute, Indiana; St. Joe's Hospital of Ohio; University of 
Northern Colorado, Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation 
Institute; National Jewish Medical and Research Center; 
University of Florida Genetics Institute; Hidalgo County Health 
Complex, Lordsburg, New Mexico; community health centers in 
Iowa; Medical University of South Carolina Cancer Center; Child 
Health Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of 
New Jersey; Harts Health Center, Harts, West Virginia; West 
Virginia University Eye Institute; University of South Dakota 
Medical School Research Facility; Tufts University, Biomedical/
Nutrition Research Center; New York University Program in 
Women's Cancer; Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, 
California; and University of Montana Institute for 
Environmental and Health Sciences.
      The conference agreement includes bill language 
identifying $214,932,000 for family planning instead of 
$215,000,000 as proposed by the House and $222,432,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      There is concern that there has been a steady erosion of 
title X funds being made available by the Department for 
authorized section 1001 clinical services. The Department is 
directed to allocate at least 90 percent of the funds 
appropriated for title X specifically for clinical services. 
The conference agreement concurs with the language contained in 
the Senate report regarding the expenditure of year-end funds 
and allocation of title X funds to regional offices.
      The conference agreement does not include a provision to 
allow funds to be used to operate the Council on Graduate 
Medical Education as proposed by the Senate. The House bill 
contained no similar provision. The Health Professions 
Education Partnerships Act of 1998 authorizes the use of funds 
for this purpose.
      The conference agreement provides $50,000,000 for the 
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $20,000,000 as proposed by the House. This funding 
is included in the Public Health and Social Services Emergency 
Fund as proposed by the House. The Senate bill provided funding 
in the HRSA account. Within the total provided, $10,000,000 
shall be for HRSA administrative costs.
      The conference agreement does not include a provision 
related to the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection 
Program as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no 
similar provision.
      The conference agreement provides $1,024,000,000 for 
community health centers as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$985,000,000 as proposed by the House. Within the total 
provided, $5,000,000 is for native Hawaiian health programs.
      The demonstration project by the Utah area health 
education centers was identified under community health centers 
in the Senate report and should be considered under the area 
health education centers account.
      The conference agreement provides $38,244,000 for the 
national health service corps, field placements as proposed by 
the House instead of $36,997,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
Within the total provided, $1,000,000 is to expand the 
availability of behavioral and mental health services 
nationwide.
      The conference agreement provides $78,666,000 for 
national health service corps, recruitment instead of 
$78,166,000 as proposed by both the House and Senate. The 
amount provided includes $500,000 to increase the number of 
SEARCH grantees so as to include the Illinois Primary Health 
Care Association. The conference agreement concurs with the 
Senate report language concerning increasing health care 
availability in underserved areas.
      The conference agreement provides $324,277,000 for health 
professions instead of $301,986,000 as proposed by the House 
and $226,916,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement includes $1,000,000 within allied health special 
projects for expansion of the Illinois Community College 
Board's program, in coordination with the Illinois Department 
of Human Services, to train and place welfare recipients in the 
allied health field using distance technology.
      The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 for 
pediatric graduate medical education, subject to authorization. 
The funds would be used to support health professions training 
at children's teaching hospitals. The Secretary is directed to 
provide a detailed operating plan that clearly specifies those 
hospitals deemed eligible for funding, the methodology and 
criteria used in determining payments, and performance 
measurements and outcomes. It is intended that the funds 
provided for this activity will be a one-time payment, pending 
action by the authorizing Committees to establish statutory 
guidelines for the structure and operation of the program.
      The conference agreement provides $20,282,000 for 
Hansen's Disease Services instead of $18,670,000 as proposed by 
the House and $17,282,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conference agreement includes $3,000,000 to continue the 
Diabetes Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention (LEAP) programs 
at the University of South Alabama, the Louisiana State 
University School of Medicine, and the Roosevelt Warm Springs 
Institute for Rehabilitation.
      The conference agreement provides $710,000,000 for the 
maternal and child health block grant instead of $800,000,000 
as proposed by the House and $695,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement includes bill language 
designating $108,742,000 of the funds provided for the block 
grant for special projects of regional and national 
significance (SPRANS) instead of $198,742,000 as proposed by 
the House. The Senate bill contained no similar provision. It 
is intended that $5,000,000 of this amount be used for the 
continuation of the traumatic brain injury State demonstration 
projects as authorized by title XII of the Public Health 
Service Act.
      Within the funds provided, sufficient funds are included 
to initiate a multi-state dental sealant demonstration program 
identified in the Senate bill. The agency is urged to work 
closely with the Departments of Health of New Mexico and Alaska 
to develop dental sealant programs that address the needs of 
medically underserved children, especially those living in 
rural, American Indian, and Native Alaskan communities.
      Within the total provided, $150,000 is included for the 
Whole Kids Outreach program in southeast Missouri.
      Within the total provided, the agency is encouraged to 
support the efforts of the Kids Peace program in Orefield, 
Pennsylvania, that assist children to overcome situational 
crises.
      The conference agreement provides $90,000,000 for healthy 
start instead of $110,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
House bill provided $90,000,000 for healthy start within the 
Maternal and Child Health block grant SPRANS account. It is 
intended that these projects will be evaluated and States will 
begin to incorporate those activities that are proven 
successful and can be replicated into the mission of the 
maternal and child health program.
      The conference agreement provides $3,500,000 for newborn 
and infant hearing screening instead of $2,500,000 as proposed 
by the House and $4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. These 
funds are to be used to implement title VI of this Act, Early 
Detection, Diagnosis, and Interventions for Newborns and 
Infants with Hearing Loss.
      The conference agreement provides $32,067,000 for rural 
health outreach grants instead of $38,892,000 as proposed by 
the House and $31,396,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the 
total provided, $1,200,000 is to continue and expand the 
development of the Center for Acadiana Genetics and Hereditary 
Health Care at Louisiana State University Medical Center.
      The conference agreement provides $30,548,000 for rural 
health research instead of $11,713,000 as proposed by the House 
and $6,085,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement includes the following amounts for the following 
projects and activities:
      --$300,000 for the Northern California Telemedicine 
Network at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital;
      --$385,000 for a rural telemedicine distance learning 
project at Daemen College, Amherst, New York;
      --$1,000,000 for a University of New Mexico and 
University of Hawaii joint telehealth initiative;
      --$1,000,000 for the Medical University of South Carolina 
Center for the joint MUSC/Walter Reed/Sloan Kettering 
Telemedicine program;
      --$1,500,000 for the Southwest Alabama Rural Telehealth 
Network at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine;
      --$1,500,000 for the Children's Hospital and Regional 
Medical Center, Seattle, telemedicine project;
      --$1,650,000 for the University of Maine rural children's 
health assessment and follow-up program;
      --$2,000,000 for the University of Mississippi Center for 
Sustainable Health Outreach;
      --$2,500,000 for the Mississippi State University Rural 
Health, Safety, and Security Institute;
      --$3,000,000 for a telehealth deployment research testbed 
program; and
      --$4,000,000 for the Alaska Federal Health Care Access 
Network, Anchorage.
      The conference agreement does not provide separate 
funding for the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth as 
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar 
provision.
      The conference agreement provides $5,000,000 for 
traumatic brain injury demonstrations within the Maternal and 
Child Health block grant SPRANS account as proposed by the 
House. The Senate bill provided $5,000,000 as a separate 
appropriation.
      The conference agreement does not provide separate 
funding for trauma care as proposed by the Senate. The House 
bill contained no similar provision. Within funds available for 
maternal and child health, HRSA is urged to work with the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American 
Trauma Society to assess emergency medical services systems.
      The conference agreement provides $3,000,000 for poison 
control as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no 
similar provision. Efforts are underway by HRSA and the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention to initiate planning for a 
national toll-free number for poison control services. Funding 
is provided to support this effort and related system 
enhancements such as the development and assessment of uniform 
patient management guidelines. The agency is also urged to 
assist the poison control centers' planning and stabilization 
efforts.
      The conference agreement provides $6,000,000 for black 
lung clinics as proposed by the Senate instead of $5,000,000 as 
proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides a total of 
$1,550,000,000 for Ryan White programs instead of 
$1,519,000,000 as proposed by the House and $1,610,500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. Included in this amount is $525,000,000 
for emergency assistance, $814,000,000 for comprehensive care, 
$132,000,000 for early intervention, $51,000,000 for pediatric 
demonstrations, $20,000,000 for dental services, and $8,000,000 
for education and training centers.
      The conference agreement includes bill language 
identifying $518,000,000 for the Ryan White Title II State AIDS 
drug assistance programs. The House bill identified 
$500,000,000 and the Senate bill identified $536,000,000.
      The conference agreement provides $125,000,000 for 
program management instead of $115,500,000 as proposed by the 
House and $133,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the 
total provided, it is intended that $900,000 will be allocated 
to support the efforts of the American Federation for Negro 
Affairs Education and Research Fund of Philadelphia and 
$750,000 is for the University of Northern Iowa Global Health 
Corps project.
      There are plans by several transplant organizations to 
hold a National Consensus Conference on Living Organ Donation 
in early 2000 to examine the opportunities and challenges 
surrounding living organ donation. Despite efforts to increase 
organ donation, the demand for donations continues to surpass 
the number of donated organs. Thesupport of the Administration 
is an important part of organ donation efforts. The Department is urged 
to be a partner in this upcoming conference.

               CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION


                Disease Control, Research, and Training

      The conference agreement includes $2,798,886,000 for 
disease control, research, and training instead of 
$2,621,476,000 as proposed by the House and $2,760,544,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. In addition, the conference agreement 
includes bill language designating $51,000,000 for violence 
against women programs financed from the Violent Crime 
Reduction Trust Fund as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $60,000,000 for 
equipment, construction, and renovation of facilities instead 
of $40,000,000 as proposed by the House and $59,800,000 as 
proposed by the Senate, of which $20,000,000 was included in 
the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. The 
conference agreement also repeats bill language included in the 
fiscal year 1999 appropriations bill to allow the General 
Services Administration to enter into a single contract or 
related contracts for the full scope of the infectious disease 
laboratory and that the solicitation and contract shall contain 
the clause ``availability of funds'' found in the Code of 
Federal Regulations.
      The conference agreement provides a total of $100,000,000 
for the National Center for Health Statistics instead of 
$94,573,000 as proposed by the House and $109,573,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement also includes 
bill language designating $71,690,000 of the total to be 
available to the Center under the Public Health Service one 
percent evaluation set-aside instead of $71,793,000 as proposed 
by the House and $109,573,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
Center is urged to give priority to the NHANES survey.
      The table accompanying the conference agreement includes 
a breakout of program costs and salaries and expenses by 
program. Salaries and expenses activities encompass all non-
extramural activities with the exception of program support 
services, centrally managed services, buildings and facilities, 
and the Office of the Director. It is intended that designated 
amounts for salaries and expenses are ceilings. The agency may 
allocate administrative funds for extramural program activities 
according to its judgment. Funds should be apportioned and 
allocated consistent with the table, and any changes in funding 
are subject to the normal notification procedures.
      The conference agreement provides $135,204,000 for the 
prevention health services block grant instead of $152,247,000 
as proposed by the House and $118,161,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $17,500,000 for 
prevention centers as proposed by the House instead of 
$15,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total 
provided, sufficient funds are included to establish an 
Appalachian prevention center at the University of Kentucky.
      The conference agreement provides $461,875,000 for 
childhood immunization instead of $421,477,000 as proposed by 
the House and $512,273,000 as proposed by the Senate. In 
addition, the conference agreement provides $20,000,000 for 
polio eradication in the Public Health and Social Services 
Emergency Fund. In addition, the Vaccines for Children (VFC) 
program funded through the Medicaid program is expected to 
provide $545,043,000 in vaccine purchases and distribution 
support in fiscal year 2000, for a total program level of 
$1,006,918,000.
      The conference agreement provides $662,276,000 for HIV/
AIDS as proposed by the Senate instead of $657,036,000 as 
proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides $123,574,000 for 
tuberculosis instead of $121,962,000 as proposed by the House 
and $125,185,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $129,097,000 for 
sexually transmitted diseases as proposed by the House instead 
of $128,808,000 as proposed by the Senate. CDC is encouraged to 
address chlamydia as a disease with widespread prevalence among 
teens and young adults.
      The conference agreement provides $361,705,000 for 
chronic and environmental diseases instead of $315,511,000 as 
proposed by the House and $327,081,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. In addition, the conference agreement provides 
$5,000,000 for the environmental health laboratory in the 
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. Included in 
this amount are increases for the following activities: 
$500,000 for oral health; $500,000 for prostate cancer; 
$500,000 for colorectal cancer; $500,000 for autism; $503,261 
for chronic fatigue syndrome; $538,820 for radiation; $539,055 
for folic acid; $1,000,000 for limb loss; $1,000,000 for 
arthritis; $1,000,000 for women's health/ovarian cancer; 
$1,176,793 for birth defects; $2,000,000 for diabetes; 
$2,300,000 for pfiesteria; $3,500,000 for newborn and infant 
hearing screening; $5,000,000 for nutrition/obesity; 
$10,000,000 for asthma; $10,000,000 for cardiovascular 
diseases; and $27,000,000 for smoking and health/tobacco. The 
agency is urged to give full and fair consideration to the Hale 
County, Alabama, HERO program.
      The conference agreement provides $167,051,000 for breast 
and cervical cancer screening as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $161,071,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement includes bill language to allow the agency to expand 
the WISEWOMAN program to not more than 10 States. The agency is 
urged to give full and fair consideration to proposals from 
Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Connecticut.
      The conference agreement provides a total of $165,610,000 
for infectious diseases as proposed by both the House, when 
adjusted for transfers from the Public Health and Social 
Services Emergency Fund, and the Senate. Within this amount, 
$145,610,000 is provided in this account and $20,000,000 is 
provided in the Public Health and Social Services Emergency 
Fund for bioterrorism surveillance-emergency preparedness and 
response activities.
      The conference agreement provides $38,248,000 for lead 
poisoning as proposed by the House instead of $37,205,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $86,198,000 for injury 
control instead of $57,581,000 as proposed by the House and 
$82,819,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement 
includes the following amounts for the following projects and 
activities:
      --$200,000 to the City of Waterloo, Iowa, for expansion 
of Fire PALS, a school-based injury prevention program;
      --$500,000 for the Trauma Information Exchange Program as 
described in the House and Senate reports;
      --$2,500,000 to expand injury control centers; and
      --$12,500,000 to initiate or expand youth violence 
programs, of which $10,000,000 shall be for national academic 
centers of excellence on youth violence prevention and 
$2,500,000 shall be for a national youth violence prevention 
resource center.
      The conference agreement provides $215,000,000 for the 
national occupational safety and health program as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $200,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides $85,916,000 for 
epidemic services as proposed by the House instead of 
$81,349,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total 
provided, it is intended that $1,600,000 will be allocated to 
support expansion of an existing post-traumatic peer support 
model intervention network to address the needs of landmine 
victims in affected regions overseas.
      The conference agreement provides $36,322,000 for the 
Office of the Director instead of $31,136,000 as proposed by 
the House and $32,322,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conference agreement includes the following amounts for the 
following projects and activities:
      --$1,000,000 to establish a sustainable pilot program 
that would initiate an interdisciplinary approach to mind-body 
medicine and to assess their preventive health impact. To 
ensure a program of the highest quality, a strong peer-review 
process for all proposals should be put in place.
      --$1,000,000 for the University of South Alabama birth 
defects monitoring and prevention activities; and
      --$3,000,000 for the Center for Environmental Medicine 
and Toxicology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center 
at Jackson.
      The conference agreement provides $30,000,000 for health 
disparities demonstrations instead of $10,000,000 as proposed 
by the House and $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
agency is urged to expand the REACH initiative to additional 
communities and collaborate with Missouri community health 
centers as well as other worthy centers across the country.

                     NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH


                       National Cancer Institute

      The conference agreement provides $3,332,317,000 for the 
National Cancer Institute instead of $3,163,727,000 as proposed 
by the House, when adjusted for transfers from the Public 
Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, and $3,286,859,000 
as proposed by the Senate.

                National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

      The conference agreement provides $2,040,291,000 for the 
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute instead of 
$1,937,404,000 as proposed by the House and $2,001,185,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.

         National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

      The conference agreement provides $270,253,000 for the 
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research instead 
of $257,349,000 as proposed by the House, when adjusted for 
transfers from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency 
Fund, and $267,543,000 as proposed by the Senate.

    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

      The conference agreement provides $1,147,588,000 for the 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney 
Diseases instead of $1,087,455,000 as proposed by the House and 
$1,130,056,000 as proposed by the Senate.

        National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

      The conference agreement provides $1,034,886,000 for the 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke instead 
of $979,281,000 as proposed by the House and $1,019,271,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.

         National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

      The conference agreement provides $1,803,063,000 for the 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases instead 
of $1,714,705,000 as proposed by the House, when adjusted for 
transfers from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency 
Fund, and $1,786,718,000 as proposed by the Senate.

             National Institute of General Medical Sciences

      The conference agreement provides $1,361,668,000 for the 
National Institute of General Medical Sciences instead of 
$1,298,551,000 as proposed by the House and $1,352,843,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.

        National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

      The conference agreement provides $862,884,000 for the 
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 
instead of $817,470,000 as proposed by the House, when adjusted 
for transfers from the Public Health and Social Services 
Emergency Fund, and $848,044,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                         National Eye Institute

      The conference agreement provides $452,706,000 for the 
National Eye Institute instead of $428,594,000 as proposed by 
the House and $445,172,000 as proposed by the Senate.

          National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

      The conference agreement provides $444,817,000 for the 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences instead of 
$421,109,000 as proposed by the House, when adjusted for 
transfers from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency 
Fund, instead of $436,113,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                      National Institute on Aging

      The conference agreement provides $690,156,000 for the 
National Institute on Aging instead of $651,665,000 as proposed 
by the House and $680,332,000 as proposed by the Senate.

 National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

      The conference agreement provides $351,840,000 for the 
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin 
Diseases instead of $333,378,000 as proposed by the House and 
$350,429,000 as proposed by the Senate.

    National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

      The conference agreement provides $265,185,000 for the 
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication 
Disorders instead of $251,218,000 as proposed by the House and 
$261,962,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                 National Institute of Nursing Research

      The conference agreement provides $90,000,000 for the 
National Institute of Nursing Research as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $76,204,000 as proposed by the House.

           National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

      The conference agreement provides $293,935,000 for the 
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism instead of 
$279,901,000 as proposed by the House and $291,247,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.

                    National Institute on Drug Abuse

      The conference agreement provides $689,448,000 for the 
National Institute on Drug Abuse instead of $656,551,000 as 
proposed by the House and $682,536,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                  National Institute of Mental Health

      The conference agreement provides $978,360,000 for the 
National Institute of Mental Health instead of $930,436,000 as 
proposed by the House and $969,494,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                National Human Genome Research Institute

      The conference agreement provides $337,322,000 for the 
National Human Genome Research Institute as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $308,012,000 as proposed by the House.

                 National Center for Research Resources

      The conference agreement provides $680,176,000 for the 
National Center for Research Resources instead of $642,311,000 
as proposed by the House, when adjusted for transfers from the 
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, and 
$655,988,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement also includes bill language designating $75,000,000 
for extramural facilities construction grants. These funds will 
provide seed money to stimulate greater public and private 
sector investments in this needed modernization effort. In 
awarding grants with these funds, NCRR is directed to recognize 
the special needs of smaller and developing institutions. NCRR 
shall assure that, given a sufficient number of meritorious 
applications from smaller and developing institutions, no less 
than 50 percent of the awards are made to these institutions. 
In addition, NCRR shall take all steps necessary to assure that 
small and developing institutions are notified of the funds 
available in this account and are provided adequate technical 
assistance in the application process. The conference agreement 
does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to provide 
$30,000,000 for extramural facilities available on October 1, 
2000. The House bill contained no similar provision.
      The total provided also includes $40,000,000 for the 
Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) program as proposed by 
the House instead of $20,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. In 
addition, $15,000,000 is included to enhance the science 
education program as referenced in the House and Senate 
reports.
      The conference agreement concurs with language contained 
in the Senate report concerning animal research facilities in 
minority health professional schools.

                  John E. Fogarty International Center

      The conference agreement provides $43,723,000 for the 
John E. Fogarty International Center as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $40,440,000 as proposed by the House, when adjusted 
for transfers from the Public Health and Social Services 
Emergency Fund.

                      National Library of Medicine

      The conference agreement provides $215,214,000 for the 
National Library of Medicine instead of $202,027,000 as 
proposed by the House and $210,183,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

       National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

      The conference agreement provides $68,753,000 for the 
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 
instead of $68,000,000 as proposed by the House and $56,214,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement does not 
include bill language proposed by the Senate to make these 
funds available for obligation through September 30, 2001. The 
House bill contained no similar provision.
      It is believed that Federal policy in a number of areas 
is failing to keep up with the increased use of complementary 
and alternative therapies. Funding was provided in fiscal year 
1999 to support the establishment and operation of a White 
House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine 
Policy to study and make recommendations to the Congress on 
appropriate policies regarding consumer information, training, 
insurance coverage, licensing, and other pressing issues in 
this area. It is believed that the Commission is not intended 
to review the work of or set the priorities for the Center. 
Rather, the Center is expected simply to provide administrative 
support to the Commission.
      The conference agreement concurs with the House and 
Senate report language regarding the training of physicians in 
integrative medicine, but urges the Center to also support the 
training of nurses in integrative medicine through appropriate 
mechanisms. The Center is also urged to study strategies for 
integrating complementary and alternative medicine into all 
nursing curricula.

                         Office of the Director


                     (Including Transfer of Funds)

      The conference agreement provides $283,509,000 for the 
Office of the Director instead of $270,383,000 as proposed by 
the House and $299,504,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conference agreement includes a designation in bill language of 
$44,953,000 for the operations of the Office of AIDS Research 
as proposed by the House. The Senate bill contained no similar 
provision.
      It is expected that the Minority Access to Research 
Careers, Minority Biomedical Research Support, Research Centers 
in Minority Institutions, and the Office of Research on 
Minority Health programs will continue to be supported at a 
level commensurate with their importance.
      Investigations into the causes, prevention, treatment, 
and cure for diabetes are important. The Diabetes Research 
Working Group report outlines many scientific opportunities and 
NIH is encouraged to pursue research on all types of diabetes 
with equal vigor.
      NIH is expected to consult closely with the research 
community, clinicians, patient advocates, and the Congress 
regarding Parkinson's research and fulfillment of the goals of 
the Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Research Act. NIH is requested 
to develop a report to Congress by March 1, 2000 outlining a 
research agenda for Parkinson's focused research for the next 
five years, along with professional judgment funding 
projections. The NIH Director should be prepared to discuss 
Parkinson's focused research planning and implementation for 
fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001.
      Continued advances in biomedical imaging and engineering, 
including the development of new techniques and technologies 
for both clinical applications and medical research and the 
transfer of new technologies from research projects to the 
public health sector are important. The disciplines of 
biomedical imaging and engineering have broad applications to a 
range of disease processes and organ systems and research in 
these fields does not fit into the current disease and organ 
system organizational structure of the NIH. The present 
organization of the NIH does not accommodate basic scientific 
research in these fields and encourages unproductive diffusion 
of imaging and engineering research. Several efforts have been 
made in the past to fit imaging into the NIH structure, but 
these have proved to be inadequate.
      For these reasons, NIH is urged to establish an Office of 
Bioimaging/Bioengineering and to review the feasibility of 
establishing an Institute of Biomedical Imaging and 
Engineering. This Office should coordinate imaging and 
bioengineering research activities, both across the NIH and 
with other Federal agencies. The NIH shall report to the 
Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate on the 
progress achieved by this Office no later than June 30, 2000.
      Security at Federal facilities is a growing concern and 
with the number of visitors to the NIH campus, including both 
domestic and foreign dignitaries, and the type of research that 
occurs on campus, adequate security at NIH is critical. The 
Director is requested to contract with an independent group to 
study the overall security situation at the Bethesda campus. 
This study should include, but not be limited to, 
recommendations regarding the appropriate manpower, training, 
and equipment needed to provide adequate security for NIH 
employees and all visitors to the campus as well as any 
recommended changes to the current security policy.
      Infantile autism and autism spectrum disorders are 
biologically based neurodevelopmental diseases that cause 
severe impairments in language and communication and generally 
manifest in young children sometime during the first two years 
of life. Best estimates indicate that 1 in 500 children born 
today will be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and 
that 400,000 Americans have autism or an autism spectrum 
disorder. NIH is strongly encouraged to dedicate more resources 
and to expand and intensify these efforts through the NIH 
Autism Coordinating Committee. More knowledge is needed 
concerning the underlying causes of autism and autism spectrum 
disorders, how to treat and prevent these disorders; the 
epidemiology and risk factors for the disorders; the 
development of methods for early medical diagnosis; 
dissemination to medical personnel, particularly pediatricians, 
to aid in the early diagnosis and treatment of this disease; 
and the costs incurred in educating and caring for individuals 
with autism and autism spectrum disorders. NIH is also 
encouraged to explore mechanisms, including innovative 
collaborative approaches in autism, supported by the Institutes 
to conduct basic and clinical research into the cause, 
diagnosis, early detection, prevention, control, and treatment 
of autism, including research in the fields of developmental 
neurobiology, genetics, and psychopharmacology.
      NIDDK and NIAID are to be commended for jointly 
supporting research on foodborne illness. The Institutes are 
encouraged to enhance research on the reaction of the gut to 
foodborne pathogens, including research on the pathogenesis of 
the disease, thereasons for antibiotic resistance, the reaction 
of the gut to infections, the development of animal models to test 
therapies, and the invention of vaccines or substances that bind with 
the toxins to prevent the illness.

                        Buildings and Facilities

      The conference agreement provides $135,376,000 for 
buildings and facilities instead of $108,376,000 as proposed by 
the House and $100,732,000 as proposed by the Senate. In 
addition, $40,000,000 was provided in the fiscal year 1999 
appropriations bill for the Clinical Center.

       Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


               substance abuse and mental health services

      The conference agreement provides $2,549,728,000 for 
substance abuse and mental health services instead of 
$2,413,731,000 as proposed by the House and $2,799,516,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement does not 
provide $148,816,000 to become available on October 1, 2000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar 
provisions.

Center for Mental Health Services

      The conference agreement provides $300,000,000 for the 
mental health block grant as proposed by the House instead of 
$358,816,000, of which $48,816,000 was to become available on 
October 1, 2000, as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $83,000,000 for 
children's mental health as proposed by the House instead of 
$78,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      Mental health services for children and adolescents could 
be strengthened by a comprehensive system that measures the 
quality and effectiveness of these services. The Center's 
Committee on Child and Adolescent Outcomes has supported the 
collaboration between Vanderbilt University and Australia in 
developing such an evaluation system in the United States. The 
Department is urged to continue this collaboration.
      The National Mental Health Self-Help Clearinghouse, the 
Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance 
Center, and the National Empowerment Center provide information 
and resources to individuals suffering from mental illnesses 
and their families. Continued funding of these Centers will 
allow services to be provided uninterrupted.
      The conference agreement provides $31,000,000 for grants 
to states for the homeless (PATH) as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $28,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides $25,000,000 for 
protection and advocacy as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$22,957,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement provides $137,932,000 for 
knowledge development and application as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $85,851,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement has doubled funding for mental health services for 
school-age children, as part of an effort to reduce school 
violence. It is intended that $80,000,000 be used for the 
support and delivery of school-based and school-related mental 
health services for school-age youth. It is intended that the 
Department will continue to collaborate its efforts with the 
Department of Education to develop a coordinated approach.
      Within the total provided, $1,000,000 is for the 
Northwest Suburban Cook County and Lake County Public Action to 
Deliver Shelter (PADS) provider organizations to address long-
term homelessness through service integration.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

      The conference agreement provides $1,585,000,000 for the 
substance abuse block grant as proposed by the House instead of 
$1,715,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate 
to provide $100,000,000 on October 1, 2000. The House bill 
contained no similar provision.
      The conference agreement provides $181,741,000 for 
knowledge development and application instead of $136,613,000 
as proposed by the House and $226,868,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. Within the total provided, $200,000 is for the Center 
Point Program in Marin County, California, for substance abuse 
and related services to high-risk individuals and families.
      Recent reports by NIH and the Institute of Medicine 
recommend expansion of effective treatment approaches for 
adolescent drug abusers. CSAT is to be commended for its work 
in developing and testing manuals for program interventions 
through the Cannabis Youth Treatment initiative. CSAT is 
encouraged to expand this initiative by examining the immediate 
and long-term outcomes across the developmental period when 
adolescents are at risk for peak drug use, and by taking steps 
to replicate and improve such treatment approaches.
      The Norton Sound Health Corporation project for substance 
abuse treatment services should be given full and fair 
consideration for funding.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

      The conference agreement provides $139,955,000 for 
knowledge development and application instead of $118,910,000 
as proposed by the House and $161,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. Within the total provided, $750,000 is for the Rio 
Arriba and Santa Fe Counties ``black tar'' heroin program and 
$3,000,000 is for a regional consortium of South Dakota, North 
Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana to provide Fetal Alcohol 
Syndrome services.
      The conference agreement provides $7,000,000 for high 
risk youth grants as proposed by the Senate. The House bill 
contained no similar provision.

Program Management

      The conference agreement provides $59,100,000 for program 
management instead of $53,400,000 as proposed by the House and 
$58,900,000 as proposed by the Senate. It is intended that 
$1,000,000 of the increase over the Administration request is 
to support the school violence prevention initiative.
      It is intended that, from within the funds reserved for 
rural programs, $12,000,000 be allocated for CSAT grants and 
$8,000,000 be allocated for CSAP grants.
      The conference agreement includes $3,700,000 to initiate 
and test the effectiveness of Community Assessment and 
Intervention Centers in providing integrated mental health and 
substance abuse services to troubled and at-risk children and 
youth, and their families in four Florida communities. Building 
upon successful juvenile programs, this effort responds 
directly to nationwide concerns about youth violence, substance 
abuse, declining levels of service availability and the 
inability of certain communities to respond to the needs of 
their youth in a coordinated manner. The total provided 
includes: $2,000,000 from mental health knowledge development 
and application; $500,000 from substance abuse prevention 
knowledge development and application; $1,000,000 from 
substance abuse treatment knowledge development and 
application; and $200,000 from program management.
      The Senate recently heard testimony about pathological 
gambling disorders and the importance of additional federal 
research in this area as recommended by the National Gambling 
Impact Study Commission. The Center is urged to conduct 
demonstration projects to determine effective strategies and 
best practices for preventing and treating pathological 
gambling.

               Agency for Health Care Policy and Research


                    health care policy and research

      The conference agreement provides $111,424,000 in 
appropriated funds instead of $104,403,000 as proposed by the 
House and $19,504,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement designates $83,576,000 to be 
available to the Agency under the Public Health Service one 
percent evaluation set-aside instead of $70,647,000 as proposed 
by the House and $191,751,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      In addition, $5,000,000 previously identified by the 
Senate report for bioterrorism activities is included in the 
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for the same 
purpose.

                  Health Care Financing Administration


                           program management

      The conference agreement provides $1,971,648,000 for 
program management instead of $1,752,050,000 as proposed by the 
House and $1,991,321,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House 
bill assumed that the Administration's user fee proposal would 
be enacted prior to conference. An additional appropriation of 
$630,000,000 has been provided for this activity in the Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
      The conference agreement provides $95,000,000 for 
Medicare+Choice as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$15,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement does not include language 
proposed by the Senate that would have allowed Medicaid and 
CHIP funding to be interchangeable. The House bill contained no 
similar provision.
      The conference agreement repeats language included in 
last year's bill related to administrative fees collected 
relative to Medicare overpayment recovery activities.
      The conference agreement does not include bill language 
proposed by the Senate to allow appropriated funds to be used 
to increase Medicare provider audits. The House bill contained 
no similar provision.

Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation

      The conference agreement provides $60,000,000 for 
research, demonstration, and evaluation instead of $50,000,000 
as proposed by the House and $65,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement includes the following amounts 
for the following projects and activities:
      --$100,000 for Littleton Regional Hospital in New 
Hampshire to assist in the development of rural emergency 
medical services;
      --$250,000 for the University of Missouri-Kansas City to 
test behavioral interventions of nursing home residents with 
moderate to severe dementia;
      --$2,000,000 for a nursing home transition initiative;
      --$2,000,000 for a demonstration of residential and 
outpatient treatment facilities at the AIDS Healthcare 
Foundation in Los Angeles; and
      --$3,000,000 for the University of Pennsylvania Medical 
Center, the University of Louisville Sciences Center, and St. 
Vincent's Hospital in Montana to conduct a demonstration to 
reduce hospitalizations among high-risk patients with 
congestive heart failure.
      HCFA is urged to conduct a demonstration project to test 
the potential savings to the Federal government and to the 
Medicare program by comparing different products used for 
diabetic wound-care treatment. Such a demonstration should 
compare the aggregate costs of wound care treatment using 
different wound-care gel products as well as different gel 
application regimens.
      HCFA is urged to conduct a demonstration project 
addressing the extraordinary adverse health status of native 
Hawaiians at the Waimanalo health center exploring the use of 
preventive and indigenous health care expertise.
      HCFA is urged to conduct a demonstration project in 
Hawaii and Alaska to address the extraordinary adverse health 
status and limited access to health services of the indigenous 
people in Hawaii and Alaska natives and others residing in 
southwest Alaska.
      There is strong concern over HCFA's failure to articulate 
clear guidelines and set expeditious timetables for 
consideration of new technologies, procedures and products for 
Medicare coverage. Two particularly troubling examples are 
HCFA's lengthy delays and failure to articulate clear standards 
regarding Medicare coverage of positron emission tomography 
(PET) and lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS). The effect of 
these delays in instituting Medicare coverage is to deny the 
benefits of these technologies and products to Medicare 
patients. There is also concern that HCFA appears to be 
requiring new technologies to repeat clinical trials and 
testing already successfully completed by the new products in 
the process of gaining FDA approval or in NIH clinical trials 
and which serve as signals to private insurers to cover new 
technologies. The recent creation of a 120-person advisory 
committee to review new technologies is also of some concern 
and it is noted that the Appropriations Committees will be 
observing the new advisory committee to review its costs and to 
see whether its use further delays Medicare coverage of new 
products. Because of the possible duplication of efforts among 
HHS agencies and related unnecessary costs to the Medicare 
program and the Department, it is expected that the Secretary 
will take a leadership role in resolving this matter 
expeditiously.
      The Secretary is strongly urged to appoint a three-person 
Medicare-Technology Consumer Advisory Committee. The Committee 
should be appointed from among knowledgeable patient advocates 
and members of the medical community with expert knowledge of 
new technologies and cost-benefit analysis. The new Committee 
should study the current HCFA process for determining new 
coverages and should report at least every six months to the 
Secretary, the Appropriations Committees, and the general 
public on its findings and recommendations. The Secretary is 
expected to report prior to fiscal year 2001 appropriations 
hearings about its recommendations on streamlining HCFA's 
approval process for Medicare coverage of new technologies.
      If the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human 
Services, under existing demonstration authority, chooses to 
implement a program to improve health care access for uninsured 
workers, the Secretary should encourage applications from 
private, not-for-profit multi-state health systems in urban and 
rural areas. Such multi-state systems should be given special 
consideration if they are willing to provide private matching 
funds to create model public-private partnerships which enhance 
integrated systems of health care for the working poor.

Medicare contractors

      The conference agreement provides $1,244,000,000 for 
Medicare contractors as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$1,176,950,000 as proposed by the House. The amount provided 
reflects HCFA's proposal to change its approach for processing 
managed care encounter data, which will result in estimated 
savings of $30,000,000.

State survey and certification

      The conference agreement provides $189,674,000 for State 
survey and certification instead of $106,000,000 as proposed by 
the House and $204,347,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Federal administration

      The conference agreement provides $480,000,000 for 
Federal administration as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$421,126,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement concurs with House report 
language regarding its concern that the current performance 
evaluation and recertification process for Organ Procurement 
Organizations (OPO) may hinder the goal of increased organ 
donations.HCFA is urged to work with and support the industry 
in its effort to develop alternative performance measures. HCFA is also 
urged to use existing authority to extend the OPO certification period 
until such time as an alternative process has been adopted.
      Hospices in Wichita, Kansas will be adversely affected in 
their Medicare reimbursement in fiscal year 2000 because of an 
error in a faulty hospital cost report in 1995, over which they 
had no control, and because of a faulty tabulation by HCFA or 
its fiscal intermediary. HCFA is expected to correct the error 
in the publication of the hospice wage index for the Wichita, 
Kansas MSA by using the July 30, 1999 hospital wage index, 
published in the Federal Register, for the current fiscal year, 
rather than delaying until the following fiscal year, and by 
publishing a revised notice to reflect this correction.
      Congress enacted the Indian Health Care Improvement Act 
with the intention of improving access to health care for 
Native Americans, including access to Medicaid-funded services. 
Congress intended to cover 100 percent of amounts that States 
expend for medical assistance received through an Indian Health 
Service (IHS) facility or a tribally-operated facility, 
including contractual and referral arrangements made through 
IHS or tribally-operated health programs. Moreover, medical 
assistance includes the full array of services for which a 
State Medicaid program can claim Federal matching funds. 
Therefore, HCFA is urged to reconsider its interpretation of 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

                Administration for Children and Families


  payments to states for child support enforcement and family support 
                                programs

      The conference agreement provides no extended 
availability of funds proposed by the Senate. The House bill 
proposed no extended availability.

                   low income home energy assistance

      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House designating that the $1,100,000,000 appropriated for 
LIHEAP for FY 2000 in the FY 1999 appropriations act is an 
emergency under the Budget Act and requiring that such funds be 
allocated in accordance with the statutory formula. The Senate 
bill contained no such language. The agreement also includes 
the House legal citation to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.

                     refugee and entrant assistance

      The conference agreement appropriates $426,505,000, 
instead of $423,500,000 as proposed by the House and 
$430,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement provides 
for an annual appropriation as proposed by the House instead of 
three-year availability of funds proposed by the Senate. In the 
case of the Torture Victims Relief Act funds, the agreement 
provides for an annual appropriation as proposed by the House 
instead of the funds remaining available until expended 
proposed by the Senate.
      In addition, the conference agreement includes language 
not contained in either bill that designates all funding in 
this account as an emergency requirement under the Budget Act.
      The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 from 
carryover funds that are to be used under social services to 
increase educational support to schools with a significant 
proportion of refugee children and for the development of 
alternative cash assistance programs that involve case 
management approaches to improve resettlement outcomes. Such 
support should include intensive English language training and 
cultural assimilation programs.
      The agreement also includes $26,000,000 for increased 
support to communities with large concentrations of refugees 
whose cultural differences make assimilation especially 
difficult justifying a more intense level and longer duration 
of Federal assistance.

                 Child Care and Development Block Grant

      The conference agreement appropriates $1,182,672,000 as 
an advance appropriation for fiscal year 2001, instead of 
$2,000,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement further 
provides that $19,120,000 shall be for child care resource and 
referral and school-aged child care activities as proposed by 
the Senate. The House bill had no appropriation for this 
account.
      The conference agreement includes $500,000 for a toll-
free child care services program hotline to be operated by 
Child Care Aware.
      States are encouraged to create or enhance systems of 
care that support and educate families expecting a baby or with 
young children, and help them understand that day-to-day 
interaction with children helps them develop cognitively, 
socially, physically and emotionally. Many states have already 
created state and local collaboratives that coordinate early 
childhood development, and these efforts are to be commended.
      In the case of states that have yet to initiate such 
coordination, they are encouraged to look at best practices 
from across the country. The National Governors Association has 
developed goals, model indicators, and measures of performance 
to help states focus on improving the conditions of young 
children and their families. The State of Ohio has a successful 
initiative known as Family and Children First that could serve 
as a model. All states are encouraged to continue to develop 
and expand healthy early childhood systems of care.

                      Social Services Block Grant

      The conference agreement includes $1,700,000,000, instead 
of $1,909,000,000 as proposed by the House and $1,050,000,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes the 
provision in the House bill that limits the ability of States 
to transfer TANF funds to the Social Services Block Grant to 
4.25 percent instead of the 5 percent proposed in the Senate 
bill.
      The conference agreement does not include section 216 of 
the Senate bill which increased the appropriation to 
$2,380,000,000 but specified that $1,330,000,000 of that amount 
would not become available for obligation until fiscal year 
2001 and that the amount available for allocation to States in 
fiscal year 2001 would be $3,030,000,000. The House had no 
similar provision.

                Children and Families Services Programs

                        (including rescissions)

      The conference agreement appropriates $6,809,733,000, 
instead of $6,240,216,000 as proposed by the House and 
$6,789,635,000 as proposed by the Senate. In addition, the 
agreement rescinds $21,000,000 from permanent appropriations as 
proposed by the House.
      The agreement includes an advance appropriation of 
$1,400,000,000 for Head Start for fiscal year 2001 as proposed 
by the House instead of $1,900,000,000 proposed by the Senate.
      An amount of $10,000,000 is included under social 
services and income maintenance research for establishing 
Individual Development Accounts. The House proposed to fund 
this as a separate line item.
      The Hull House Association's Neighbor to Neighbor (NTN) 
program in Chicago and Florida provides specialized placement 
and family services for sibling groups, keeping such children 
together, placed within their community, and stabilized in one 
foster home. Outcomes for this program have been noteworthy, 
including high rates of family reunification, placement 
stability and foster parent retention. The conference agreement 
includes $500,000 to support the Association's project to 
provide training, technical assistance and implementation 
assistance to establishment of NTN programs within public and 
private foster care agencies in other states and localities.
      The conference agreement includes language not contained 
in either House or Senate bills that requires the Department to 
establish certain procedures regarding the disposition of 
intangible property in the community economic development 
program under the Community Services Block Grant Act.
      There is awareness of efforts by the state information 
technology consortium to identify best practices with regard to 
implementing Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, including 
best practices developed by states, the federal government, and 
the private sector. The next phase of this effort will enable 
states to discern which best practices are appropriate for 
their particular needs, then work with the consortium to 
implement those practices. Continuation of this effort at the 
current level of support is urged.
      It is important that the Congress determine the economic 
status of former recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy 
Families, and the conference agreement provides funds to 
support such research and evaluation.
      Head Start grantees may use their basic grant funds, 
quality funds, and expansion funds for minor renovations and 
rehabilitation of existing Head Start facilities. The Secretary 
is urged to give special attention to Native American 
communities with particular needs, including the Alaskan 
communities of Chevak, Napakiak, Haines, Marshall, Noorvik, 
Selawik, Pilot Station, Hooper Bay, and Dillingham.
      Within the funds provided for Runaway Youth--Transitional 
Living, the conference agreement includes $500,000 for the 
House of Mercy in Des Moines, Iowa.
      Within the funds provided for child abuse prevention 
programs, the conference agreement includes $1,000,000 for a 
one-stop shopping demonstration for Catholic Social Services in 
Juneau, Alaska; $2,000,000 for the Healthy Beginnings Program 
in Alaska; $500,000 for Children's Advocacy Services Center of 
Greater St. Louis; $50,000 for the Taos Community Against 
Violence for ongoing services for children and victims of 
domestic violence; and $1,000,000 for the University of 
Louisville, Center for Research in Early Childhood Development.
      Within the funds provided for Native American programs, 
the conference agreement includes $700,000 for the Cook Inlet 
Tribal Council, Inc. and $300,000 for Kawerak, Inc.
      The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the 
Public Children Services Association of Ohio to build a multi-
State grassroots network that results in a State infrastructure 
of local child protection agencies.
      The conference agreement includes $400,000 for the 
National Adoption Center to develop a national adoption photo 
listing service on the Internet.
      Within the funds provided for developmental disabilities, 
projects of national significance, the conference agreement 
includes $1,000,000 for the Sertoma Center in Knoxville, 
Tennessee to work in conjunction with other entities to develop 
a training regime for providers of services for the 
developmentally disabled.

                   Promoting Safe and Stable Families

      The conference agreement changes the name of this 
appropriation account to ``Promoting Safe and Stable Families'' 
as proposed by the Senate instead of ``Family Preservation and 
Support'' proposed by the House.

       Payments to States for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance

      The conference agreement appropriates $4,307,300,000 as 
proposed by the House instead of $4,312,300,000 as proposed by 
the Senate.

                        Administration on Aging


                        Aging Services Programs

      The conference agreement appropriates $930,225,000, 
instead of $881,976,000 as proposed by the House and 
$942,355,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes 
a legal citation as proposed by the Senate with respect to the 
Alzheimer's initiative.
      The conference agreement includes the following amounts 
under aging research and training:
      --$3,000,000 for social research into Alzheimer's disease 
care options, best practices and other Alzheimer's research 
priorities as specified in the House Report
      --$10,000,000 for the ``Senior Waste Patrol'' pilot 
project to determine the most effective means of eliminating 
Medicare fraud, waste and abuse
      --$2,000,000 for the Texas Tech University Center for 
Healthy Aging
      --$500,000 for the West Virginia University Rural Aging 
Project
      --$850,000 for Elder Services, Inc. in Middlebury, 
Vermont
      --$2,200,000 for the Anchorage, Alaska Senior Center
      --$450,000 for the Deaconess Billings Clinic Northwest 
Area Center for Aging in Montana
      --$1,000,000 for Family Friends
      --$100,000 for the Nevada Rural Counties Retired and 
Senior Volunteer Home Companion Program to provide services to 
homebound elderly in rural areas
      Within the funds provided for state and local 
innovations/projects of national significance, the conference 
agreement intends that funds be used for ongoing projects 
scheduled for refunding in FY 2000.
      Nearly one in four American households is currently 
involved in family caregiving to elderly relatives or friends. 
The Administration on Aging should give full and fair 
consideration to a demonstration and evaluation of the 
Metropolitan Family Services' community-based program that 
builds on the strengths of families to provide cost-effective 
and high quality care.

                        Office of the Secretary


                    general departmental management

      The conference agreement appropriates $215,552,000, 
instead of $227,787,000 as proposed by the House and 
$189,420,000 as proposed by the Senate. To the extent that any 
staffing reductions are required to implement the conference 
agreement to freeze the basic salaries and expenses funding in 
this account at the fiscal year 1999 level, the Secretary 
should make the reductions in such overhead areas as the 
immediate office of the Secretary, public affairs, 
Congressional affairs, and intergovernmental affairs.
      The agreement includes $1,500,000 for the United States-
Mexico Border Health Commission. The conference agreement 
concurs with the Senate Report language concerning the human 
services transportation technical assistance program. It also 
concurs with the Senate Report language concerning the amount 
available for a public education campaign on osteoporosis in 
the Office on Women's Health. Within the amount allocated to 
the Office on Women's Health, $2,000,000 is for the initiation 
of biological, chemical and botanical studies to assist in the 
development of the clinical evaluation of phytomedicines in 
women's health.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House that earmarks $450,000 for a contract with the 
National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of OSHA's 
proposed rule relating to occupational exposure to 
tuberculosis. The study should address the following questions:
      1. Are health care workers at a greater risk of 
infection, disease, and mortality due to tuberculosis than the 
general community within which they reside? If so, what is the 
excess risk due to occupational exposure?
      2. Can the occupationally acquired risk be quantified for 
different work environments, different job classifications, 
etc., as a result of implementation of the 1994 Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for the 
prevention of tuberculosis transmission at the worksite or the 
implementation of specific parts of the CDC guidelines?
      3. What effect will the implementation of OSHA's proposed 
tuberculosis standard have in minimizing or eliminating the 
risk of infection, disease, and mortality due to tuberculosis?
      The agreement includes language as proposed by the Senate 
setting aside $10,569,000 under the adolescent family life 
program for activities specified under Sec. 2003(b)(2) of the 
Public Health Service Act, of which $9,131,000 shall be for 
prevention grants under Sec. 510(b)(2) of the Social Security 
Act, without application of the limitation of Sec. 2010(c) of 
the Public Health Service Act. The House bill had no similar 
provision.
      With respect to the advance appropriation of $20,000,000 
for title XX of the Public Health Service Act, it is intended 
that these funds be used for grants to organizations that 
clearly and consistently focus on abstinence for preventing 
STD's and unwanted pregnancy. [Abstinence shall have the same 
meaning as in Public Law 104-193, title IX, section 912.] 
Grants to these organizations should focus on training persons 
as abstinence instructors and on providing actual presentations 
to youth at vulnerable ages (grades 7 through 12). The 
Department shall hold competition for these grants during the 
regular grant cycle in fiscal year 2000 and issue these grants 
at the beginning of fiscal year 2001.
      The conference agreement concurs with the language in the 
House Report relating to an Institute of Medicine study on 
ethnic bias in medicine.
      Sufficient funds are available to continue the inner city 
childhood asthma project at the Children's Hospital of 
Philadelphia.
      It is understood that the screening of blood and blood 
products could be improved through the use of nucleic acid 
testing (NAT) to better detect known infectious diseases such 
as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) and Hepatitis C virus 
(HCV). The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in the 
National Institutes of Health has contracted with private 
companies to develop fully automated NAT tests for HIV-1 and 
HCV. In view of NIH's financial commitment to NAT and the 
approval of NAT in other countries, the Public Health Service 
Blood Safety Committee, chaired by the Surgeon General/
Assistant Secretary for Health, is urged to encourage the 
adoption of these screening tools for individual donor testing 
of blood and plasma.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate modified to earmark $2,000,000 to be utilized by the 
Surgeon General to prepare and disseminate the findings of the 
Surgeon General's report on youth violence and to coordinate 
with other agencies activities to prevent youth violence. The 
House bill had no similar provision.
      The conference agreement also includes the following 
amounts for the following projects:
      --$1,000,000 for the Albert Einstein Medical Center LIFE 
elderly care model
      --$500,000 for the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 
alternative medicine program
      --$500,000 for the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 
sickle cell program
      --$1,000,000 for the CORE Center at Cook County Hospital 
in Chicago to develop a model HIV/AIDS Education and Training 
Center.

                      Office of Inspector General

      The conference agreement appropriates $31,500,000, 
instead of $29,000,000 as proposed by the House and $35,000,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The agreement does not include 
language proposed by the House to limit the amount of funds 
available to the Inspector General in FY 2000 under the Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to 
no more than $100,000,000, the same amount as in FY 1999. The 
Senate bill had no similar provision.
      Sufficient funds are available to initiate activities in 
Pittsburgh, PA as mentioned in the Senate Report.

                        Office for Civil Rights

      The conference agreement appropriates $21,652,000, 
instead of $20,652,000 as proposed by the House and $22,159,000 
as proposed by the Senate.

                            Policy Research

      The conference agreement appropriates $17,000,000, 
instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and 
$14,000,000 as proposed by the House. The agreement includes 
$850,000 for the East St. Louis Center operated by Southern 
Illinois University to analyze problems faced by health service 
providers in administering multiple sources of funding.

            Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund

      The conference agreement provides $510,600,000 for the 
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund instead of 
$391,833,000 as proposed by the House and $475,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement also includes 
a provision that these funds shall be made available only upon 
submission of a budget request designating the entire amount as 
an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as proposed by the House. 
The Senate bill did not propose this account as an emergency.
      The amount provided includes $196,000,000 for the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention. Included in this amount is 
$122,000,000 for the following bioterrorism activities:
      --$1,000,000 to enhance technical capabilities to 
identify certain biological agents;
      --$2,000,000 to assist States in developing emergency 
preparedness plans;
      --$2,000,000 for public health training centers;
      --$2,000,000 to discover, develop, and transition anti-
infective agents to combat emerging diseases;
      --$2,000,000 to expand epidemiological intelligence 
service;
      --$4,000,000 for conducting independent studies of health 
and bioterrorism threats, of which $1,000,000 is for the 
Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, $1,000,000 is for the St. 
Louis University School of Public Health, $1,000,000 is for the 
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; and $1,000,000 
is for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian 
Biodefense;
      --$5,000,000 to develop rapid toxic screening;
      --$7,000,000 to strengthen State and local 
epidemiological and surveillance capacity;
      --$8,400,000 to better identify potential biological and 
chemical terrorism agents;
      --$9,000,000 to develop new sources and methods for 
surveillance;
      --$9,600,000 for regional laboratories for measuring 
biological and chemical agents;
      --$20,000,000 for infectious diseases emergency 
preparedness and response;
      --$30,000,000 for a national health alert network; and
      --$20,000,000 for a pharmaceutical and vaccine stockpile.
      The remaining $74,000,000 is provided for the following 
activities: $5,000,000 for the environmental health laboratory; 
and $69,000,000 for a global health initiative, of which 
$5,000,000 is for micronutrient malnutrition programs; 
$9,000,000 is for malaria programs; $20,000,000 is for polio 
eradication activities; and $35,000,000 is for international 
HIV/AIDS programs.
      The amount provided also includes $30,000,000 for the 
Office of the Secretary, $24,600,000 for the Office of 
Emergency Preparedness, and $5,000,000 for the Agency for 
Health Care Policy and Research for bioterrorism activities; 
$20,000,000 for NIH Challenge Grants; $35,000,000 for minority 
HIV/AIDS activities within the Office of the Secretary; 
$50,000,000 for Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act within the 
Health Resources and Services Administration, of which 
$10,000,000 is for program administration; and $150,000,000 for 
Y2K activities at the Health Care Financing Administration.
      Within the increase provided to NIH, sufficient funds are 
available for global health initiative activities identified in 
the Senate report.

                           General Provisions


                       NIH and SAMHSA Salary Cap

      The conference agreement includes a provision limiting 
the use of the National Institutes of Health and the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds to pay 
the salary of an individual, through a grant or other 
extramural mechanism, at a rate not to exceed Level II of the 
Executive Schedule instead of Level III as proposed by the 
Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision.

                           Transfer Authority

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the House to prohibit any appropriation from increasing by more 
than three percent as a result of use of the Secretary's one 
percent transfer authority. The Senate bill contained a similar 
provision except it exempted the Public Health and Social 
Services Emergency Fund.

                      Organ Allocation Final Rule

      The conference agreement includes a provision to provide 
a 60-day comment period on the final rule entitled ``Organ 
Procurement and Transplantation Network'', promulgated by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services on April 2, 1998 
together with the amendments to such rule promulgated on 
October 20, 1999. The comment period begins 3 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act. Following the comment period, 
the Department will have 21-days to review submitted comments 
and to amend the rule, if necessary. The rule shall not become 
effective before the end of a 90-day period beginning from the 
date of enactment of this Act. The House bill included a 
provision to prohibit the rule from becoming effective until 
October 1, 2000. The Senate bill contained no similar 
provision.

             Substance Abuse Block Grant Formula Allocation

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the House to provide each State with the same funding level in 
fiscal year 2000 as it received in fiscal year 1999. The Senate 
bill contained a similar provision except it was based on an 
increased appropriation amount.

              Extension of Certain Adjudication Provisions

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to extend the refugee status for persecuted 
religious groups. The House bill contained no similar 
provision.

           Medicare Competitive Pricing Demonstration Project

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to prohibit funding to implement or administer the 
Medicare Prepaid Competitive Pricing Demonstration Project in 
Arizona or in Kansas City, Missouri or in the Kansas City, 
Kansas area. The House bill contained no similar provision.

                          Delayed Obligations

      The conference agreement includes a provision to delay 
the obligation of $7,500,000,000 of NIH funds; $1,120,000,000 
of HRSA funds; $965,000,000 of CDC funds; $450,000,000 of 
SAMHSA funds; $425,000,000 of Social Services Block Grant 
funds; and $400,000,000 of Children and Families Services funds 
until September 29, 2000. The Senate bill contained a provision 
to delay the obligation of $3,000,000,000 of NIH funds until 
September 29, 2000. The House bill contained no similar 
provision.

      Sense of the Senate Regarding Diabetes Awareness and Funding

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision regarding diabetes awareness and 
support for increased diabetes research funding. The House bill 
contained no similar provision.

   Study of the Geographic Adjustment Factors in the Medicare Program

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to require the Secretary of HHS to conduct a study 
on appropriateness of the geographic adjustment factors used to 
determine the amount of payment for physicians' services under 
the Medicare program in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and 
Texas and the effect thesefactors have on recruitment and 
retention of physicians in small rural States. The House bill contained 
no similar provision.

                  Dental Sealant Demonstration Program

      The conference agreement deletes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to establish a multi-State dental sealant 
demonstration program. The House bill contained no similar 
provision. The agreement includes sufficient funds within the 
Maternal and Child Health block grant to initiate such a 
program.

                  Withholding of Substance Abuse Funds

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to allow a State to avoid a penalty under section 
1926 of the Public Health Service Act (commonly known as the 
Synar Amendment) if the State agrees to commit new State 
funding to help ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting 
youth purchase of tobacco products. It is noted that the 
provision applies only for fiscal year 2000 and States are 
expected to continue to try to meet the established Synar 
Amendment targets for enforcement of their youth tobacco laws. 
It is also noted that there is increasing sentiment that the 
Synar Amendment needs to be reexamined and all concerned 
parties are encouraged to work toward a compromise solution 
next year with the appropriate authorizing committees. The 
provision allows the Secretary to exercise discretion in 
enforcing the timing of the new State expenditures in order to 
provide flexibility to States that do not immediately have 
available funds for this purpose. It is expected that within 30 
days of accepting an agreement to increase funding for 
enforcement, the State will provide a report to the Secretary 
of all State resources spent in fiscal year 1999 on enforcement 
of the State law by program activity and by May 15, 2000, a 
report on FY 2000 obligations regarding enforcement unless 
otherwise negotiated by the Secretary. The Secretary shall 
deliver the findings of these reports to Congress. The language 
provides the Secretary authority to permit a State to commit an 
amount smaller than its formula amount as described in 
subsection (b) in order to recognize that an individual state 
may have been granted ``delayed applicability'' status under 
the Synar Amendment by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration.

                   Medicare Injectable Drug Coverage

      The conference agreement includes a provision not 
proposed by either House or Senate related to Medicare 
injectable drug coverage. There is concern that an August 13, 
1997 memorandum and subsequent interpretations will 
inappropriately restrict beneficiary access to injectable drugs 
that are and have been covered by the Medicare program. It is 
noted that for many years, Medicare policy (as stated in 
Section 2049.2 of the Medicare Carriers Manual) has allowed 
coverage of a drug or biological administered incident to a 
physician's service where the product is one that is not 
usually self-administered by the patient. It is intended that 
HCFA continue to cover such products under Social Security Act 
section 1861(s)(2) and communicate this policy through a 
program memorandum to all HCFA regional offices.

                       National Cancer Institute

      The conference agreement includes a provision to allow 
the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio, Texas to 
continue to use prior year construction grant funding without 
fiscal year limitation.

                            Childhood Asthma

      The conference agreement deletes a provision proposed by 
the Senate to provide an earmark of $8,706,000 for the asthma 
prevention program on October 1, 2000. The House bill contained 
no similar provision. The conference agreement includes 
$11,294,053 for asthma prevention as part of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.

                           Title II Citation

      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the House to cite title II as the ``Department of Health and 
Human Services Appropriations Act, 2000''. The Senate bill 
contained no similar provision.

                   TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


                            Education Reform

      The conference agreement includes $1,586,560,000 for 
Education Reform, instead of the $800,100,000 proposed by the 
House and $1,655,600,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
agreement does not include advance funding of $344,625,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The House had no similar provision.

Goals 2000

      For Goals 2000, the conference agreement provides 
$491,000,000. The Senate provided $494,000,000. The House 
proposed no funding for this program. This amount includes 
$458,000,000 for state grants, instead of $461,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no funding for this 
program. For parental assistance, the conference agreement 
includes $33,000,000, the same level as in the Senate bill. The 
House did not propose funding for this program.

School-to-Work Opportunities

      The conference agreement provides $55,000,000 for School-
to-Work Opportunities, the same amount provided by the Senate. 
The House provided no funding for this program.

Education technology

      For education technology, the conference agreement 
provides $740,560,000. The Senate provided $706,600,000. The 
House proposed $500,100,000.
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund
      For the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund, the 
conference agreement includes $425,000,000 proposed by the 
Senate. The House provided $375,000,000.
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants
      For the Technology Innovation Challenge Grants, the 
conference agreement provides $143,310,000. Both the House and 
the Senate provided $115,100,000. Within the amount provided 
for Technology Innovation Challenge Grants, the conference 
report specifies funding for the following activities:

Houston Independent School District for technology 
    infrastructure............................................  $500,000
Long Island 21st Century Technology and E-Commerce Alliance...   300,000
I CAN LEARN................................................... 8,000,000
Linking Education Technology and Educational Reform (LINKS) 
    for educational technology................................ 2,000,000
Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) for 
    comprehensive secondary education reform.................. 1,000,000
Vaughn Reno Starks Community Center in Elizabethtown, KY for a 
    technology program........................................   250,000
Wyandanch Compel Youth Academy Educational Assistance Program 
    in New York...............................................   125,000
Hi-Technology High School in San Bernardino County, California 
    for technology enhancement................................ 3,000,000
Montana State University for a distance learning initiative...   800,000
Tupelo School District in MS for technology innovation........ 2,000,000
Seton Hill College in Greensburg, PA for a model education 
    technology training program............................... 1,000,000
University of Alaska-Fairbanks................................   500,000
North East Vocational Area Cooperative in WA for a multi-
    district technology education center...................... 1,000,000
University of Vermont for the Vermont Learning Gateway Program   400,000
State University of New Jersey for the RUNet 2000 project at 
    Rutgers for an integrated voice-video-data network to link 
    students, faculty and administration via a high-speed, 
    broad band fiber optic network............................ 2,500,000
Iowa Area Education Agency 13 for a public/private partnership 
    to demonstrate the effective use of technology in grades 
    one through three.........................................   500,000
Louisville Deaf Oral School for technology enhancements.......   235,000
Bibb County Board of Education for technology enhancements....    50,000
Calhoun County Board of Education for technology enhancements.    50,000
Chambers County Board of Education for technology enhancements    50,000
Chilton County Board of Education for technology enhancements.    50,000
Clay County Board of Education for technology enhancements....    50,000
Cleburne County Board of Education for technology enhancements    50,000
Coosa County Board of Education for technology enhancements...    50,000
Lee County Board of Education for technology enhancements.....    50,000
Macon County Board of Education for technology enhancements...    50,000
St. Clair County Board of Education for technology 
    enhancements..............................................    50,000
Talladega County Board of Education for technology 
    enhancements..............................................    50,000
Tallapoosa County Board of Education for technology 
    enhancements..............................................    50,000
Randolph County Board of Education for technology enhancements    50,000
Russell County Board of Education for technology enhancements.    50,000
Alexander City Board of Education for technology enhancements.    50,000
Anniston City Board of Education for technology enhancements..    50,000
Lanett City Board of Education for technology enhancements....    50,000
Pell City Board of Education for technology enhancements......    50,000
Roanoke City Board of Education for technology enhancements...    50,000
Talledega City Board of Education for technology enhancements.    50,000
University of Alaska at Anchorage for distance learning 
    education.................................................   900,000
Alaska Department of Education for the Alaska State Distance 
    Education Technology Consortium...........................   200,000
Mansfield University to continue a technology demonstration...   500,000

Regional technology in education consortia
      For Regional technology in education consortia, the 
conference agreement includes $10,000,000 proposed by the 
Senate. The House provided no funding for this program.
National activities
      The conference agreement includes $87,000,000 for 
education technology initiatives funded under National 
Activities: $75,000 for teacher training in 
technology,$10,000,000 to establish computer learning centers in low-
income communities, and $2,000,000 for national technology leadership 
activities. The amounts provided are the same as provided by the 
Senate. The House provided $10,000,000 for Community Based Technology 
Centers and no funding for other programs within this account.

Star Schools

      For Star Schools, the conference agreement provides 
$50,750,000. The Senate bill provided $45,000,000. The House 
bill provided no funding for this program. Within the amount 
provided for Star Schools, the conference report specifies 
funding for the following activities:

Technology Literacy Center at the Museum of Science & 
    Industry, Chicago.........................................  $750,000
Oklahoma State University for an on-line math and science 
    training program.......................................... 1,000,000
Continuation and expansion of the Iowa Communications network 
    statewide fiber optic demonstration....................... 4,000,000
Ready to learn television
      The conference agreement provides $16,000,000 as proposed 
by the Senate. The House proposed no funds. The conference 
agreement notes that only $3,369,913 of the $25,000,000 
appropriated for this program since fiscal year 1997 have been 
outlayed to date. The conference agreement accordingly directs 
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to report to the 
Appropriations Committees in the House and the Senate during 
each quarter of fiscal year 2000 the amount of funds obligated 
and outlayed from each of the fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999 and 
2000 appropriations, the dates on which outlays occur during 
fiscal year 2000 and the specific uses to which such outlays 
are put.
Telecommunications demonstration project for mathematics
      The conference agreement provides $8,500,000 for 
telecommunications demonstration project for mathematics as 
proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no funds.
21st Century Learning Centers
      The conference agreement includes $300,000,000 for the 
21st Century Learning Centers proposed by the House instead of 
$400,000,000 proposed by the Senate. Within the amount 
provided, the conference report specifies funding for the 
following activities:
Study Partners Program, Inc. in Louisville, KY................    $6,000
Shawnee Gardens Tenants Association Inc. in Louisville, KY....    12,000
100 Black Men of Louisville, KY for a mentoring program.......    12,000
Omaha Nebraska Public Schools for the OPS 21st Century 
    Learning Grant............................................   500,000
Plymouth Renewal Center in Kentucky for a tutoring program....    25,000
Canaan Community Development Corporation's Village Learning 
    Center Program............................................    25,000
St. Stephen Life Center After School Program..................    25,000
Louisville Central Community Centers Youth Education Program..    25,000
Trinity Family Life Center tutoring program...................    15,000
New Zion Community Development Foundation, Inc. after school 
    mentoring program.........................................    15,000
St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society program for abused and 
    neglected children........................................    20,000
Portland Neighborhood House after school program..............    25,000
St. Anthony Community Outreach Center, Inc. for the Education 
    PAYs program..............................................    25,000

                    Education for the Disadvantaged

      The conference agreement includes $8,547,986,000 for 
Education for the Disadvantaged instead of the $8,750,986,000 
proposed by the Senate and $8,417,897,000as proposed by the 
House. The agreement includes advance funding for this account of 
$6,204,763,000, the same as both the House and the Senate.
      For Grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) the 
agreement provides $7,807,397,000, compared with $8,052,397,000 
provided in the Senate bill and $7,732,397,000 provided in the 
House bill. Of the funds made available for basic grants, 
$5,046,366,000 becomes available on October 1, 1999 for the 
academic year 1999-2000.
      The agreement includes $6,649,000,000 for basic state 
grants and $1,158,397,000 for concentration grants. Of this 
total, $1,158,397,000 for fiscal year 2000 was advance funded 
in the fiscal year 1999 Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services and Education and Related Agencies Act (P.L. 105-277). 
The conference agreement funding of $1,158,397,000 for 
concentration grants is advanced for fiscal year 2001.
      The conference agreement includes $12,000,000 for capital 
expenses for private school children, instead of $15,000,000 
proposed by the Senate. The House contained no funding for this 
program.
      The conference agreement provides $150,000,000 for the 
Even Start program as proposed by the House. The Senate 
provided $145,000,000 for this program.
      The conference agreement provides $42,000,000 for 
Neglected and Delinquent Youth as proposed by the Senate. The 
House provided $40,311,000 for this program.
      The conference agreement provides $8,900,000 for 
evaluation of title I programs as proposed by the Senate. The 
House provided $7,500,000 for this activity.
      The conference agreement includes the provision contained 
in the Senate bill regarding a 100% hold harmless for States 
and LEAs for both basic and concentration grants. The 
conference agreement also adopts language included in the 
Senate bill providing that the Department shall make 100% hold 
harmless awards to LEAs who were eligible for concentration 
grants in 1998 but are not eligible to receive grants in fiscal 
year 2000, ratably reduced if necessary.
      The House nevertheless opposes the hold harmless 
provision because it unfairly penalizes underprivileged and 
immigrant children in growing states, including Arizona, 
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, 
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia. These 
states represent over half of the U.S. population of 
underprivileged schoolchildren.
      The House also notes that the 100% hold harmless 
provision is opposed by the House authorizing committee of 
jurisdiction and the Administration. The House will continue to 
oppose the inclusion of such a provision in the future.
      The conference agreement also adopts language included in 
the Senate bill providing that the Secretary of Education shall 
not take into account the 100% hold harmless provision in 
determining State allocations under any other program.
      The conference agreement includes $160,000,000 for 
demonstrations of comprehensive school reform; both the House 
and Senate funded this program at $120,000,000. The conference 
agreement directs the Department to follow the directives in 
the conference report accompanying the fiscal year 1998 bill 
(House Report 105-390) and in the conference report 
accompanying the fiscal year 1999 bill (House Report 105-825).

                               IMPACT AID

      The conference agreement provides $910,500,000 for the 
Impact Aid programs. The House proposed $907,200,000. The 
Senate proposed $892,000,000. For basic grants the conference 
agreement includes $737,200,000, for payments for children with 
disabilities the agreement includes $50,000,000, and for 
payments for heavily impacted districts the agreement includes 
$76,000,000. The agreement also includes $5,000,000 for 
facilities maintenance, $10,300,000 for construction, and 
$32,000,000 for payments for federal property. The conference 
agreement provides within the account for construction, 
$500,000 for the Ft. Sam Houston ISD, $800,000 for the Hays 
Lodgepole School District in MT and $2,000,000 for the North 
Chicago Community Unit School District.
      The conference agreement also includes the following 
language provisions: eligibility for the Central Union, Island, 
and Hueneme School Districts in California and the Hill City, 
Wall, and Hot Springs School Districts in South Dakota; timely 
filing of applications by the Brookeland School District in 
Texas, the Fallbrook High School District in California and 
Hydaburg School District in Alaska; forgiveness of overpayment 
for the Hatboro-Horsham and Delaware Valley School Districts in 
Pennsylvania; and computing payments for Travis School District 
in California. Neither the House nor Senate bills contained 
similar provisions.
      The conference agreement notes the Administration's 
proposal to significantly expand the Military Family Housing 
Privatization Initiative, which has since been scaled back. In 
some privatization projects, the property itself is privatized, 
causing serious implications for the affected school districts' 
ability to receive funding under the Impact Aid program. Thus, 
the conference agreement strongly urges the Administration to 
clarify that military family housing privatization proposals 
will have no effect on Impact Aid payments to local school 
districts, even if land is privatized.

                      School Improvement Programs

      The conference agreement provides $2,926,134,000 for 
School Improvement Programs, instead of $3,115,188,000 as 
proposed by the House and $2,961,634,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The agreement provides $1,396,134,000 in fiscal year 
2000 and $1,530,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for this 
account.

Eisenhower professional development

      For the Eisenhower professional development activities, 
the agreement provides $335,000,000, the same level as in the 
Senate bill. The House provided no funding for this activity.

Innovative education program strategies

      For innovative education program strategies, title VI of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the 
conference agreement provides $380,000,000. The House provided 
$385,000,000 and the Senate bill included $375,000,000.

Class size/Teacher Assistance Initiative

      The conference agreement includes $1,200,000,000 for a 
class size/teacher assistance initiative. The House bill 
provided $1,800,000,000 for the Teacher Empowerment Act, 
subject to authorization. The Senate bill provided 
$1,200,000,000 for teacher assistance activities subject to 
authorization. The agreement provides $300,000,000 in fiscal 
year 2000 and $900,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for this 
account.
      The conference agreement modifies language contained in 
the Senate bill regarding a class size/teacher assistance 
initiative.
      The modified provision distributes funds according to the 
formula developed for the class size reduction initiative in 
the fiscal year 1999 Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services and Education and Related Agencies Act (P.L. 105-277). 
The provision allows school districts to use funds for class 
size reduction activities; however, if the local educational 
agency determines that it wishes to use the funds for purposes 
other than class size reduction as part of a local strategy for 
improving academic achievement, funds may be used for 
professional development activities, teacher training or any 
other local need that is designed to improve student 
performance. Funds must be used to supplement and not supplant 
state and local funds that would otherwise be spent for 
activities under this section.
      The Senate bill provided funds for the initiative if 
authorized by July 1, 2000. If the initiative was not 
authorized by July 1, 2000, funds could be used for any 
activity authorized by Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 that would improve the academic 
achievement of all students.

Safe and drug free schools

      The conference agreement includes $605,000,000 for the 
Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act instead of the 
$566,000,000 proposed by the House and $636,000,000 proposed by 
the Senate. The agreement provides $115,000,000 in fiscal year 
2000 and $345,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for this 
account.
      Included within this amount is $460,000,000 for state 
grants, instead of $441,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
$476,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement also includes $95,000,000 for 
national programs, instead of $90,000,000 as proposed by the 
House and $100,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $850,000 within the 
safe and drug free schools national programs to continue the 
National Recognition Awards programs to provide models of 
alcohol and drug abuse prevention and education at the college 
level.
      The conference agreement includes $50,000,000 under 
national programs for the Safe and Drug Free Schools 
coordinator initiative, instead of $35,000,000 as proposed by 
the House and $60,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Reading is Fundamental

      For the Reading is Fundamental program, the conference 
agreement provides $20,000,000 instead of $21,500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $18,000,000 as proposed by the 
House.

Arts in education

      For Arts in Education, the conference agreement provides 
$11,500,000, instead of $10,500,000 as proposed by the House 
and $12,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Magnet Schools Assistance Program

      For the Magnet Schools Assistance Program, the conference 
agreement provides $110,000,000 instead of $104,000,000 as 
proposed by the House and $112,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

Education of Native Hawaiians

      The conference agreement includes $23,000,000 for the 
Education of Native Hawaiians, the same level as in the Senate. 
The House included $20,000,000 for this account. The conference 
agreement assumes that when allocating these funds, the 
Secretary of Education will fund the following activities as 
described in the Report of the Senate Committee (Senate Report 
No. 106-166).

Alaska Native educational equity

      The conference agreement includes $13,000,000 for the 
Alaska Native Educational Equity program, the same level as in 
the Senate. The House included $10,000,000 for this account.

Charter schools

      The conference agreement includes $145,000,000 for 
Charter Schools, instead of $130,000,000 proposed by the House 
and $150,000,000 proposed by the Senate.

Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers

      The conference agreement includes $28,000,000 for 
Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $27,054,000 as proposed by the House. The 
conference agreement includes $750,000 within these funds for 
an evaluation to collect performance indicator data.

Advanced placement fees

      For advanced placement fees, the conference agreement 
provides $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$4,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
notes that less than half of our Nation's high schools offer 
some form of Advanced Placement (AP) course instruction for 
junior and senior high school students. The lack of access to 
this instruction is particularly acute in rural parts of the 
country. Internet-based AP course instruction is a dynamic and 
cost-effective way to deliver AP instruction to students living 
in rural areas and other areas where conventional instructor-
led training for AP courses is not available. Accordingly, the 
conference agreement encourages the Secretary to use some of 
the Advanced Placement Incentive Program funds to award grants 
to States or LEAs seeking to establish Internet-based AP pilot 
programs in rural parts of the country or other under-served 
districts where students would otherwise not have access to AP 
instruction.

                           READING EXCELLENCE

      The conference agreement includes $260,000,000 for 
activities authorized under the Reading Excellence Act instead 
of the $200,000,000 proposed by the House and $285,000,000 
proposed by the Senate. The agreement provides $65,000,000 in 
fiscal year 2000 and $195,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding 
for this account.

                            INDIAN EDUCATION

      The conference agreement includes $77,000,000 for Indian 
Education, the same level as in the Senate. The House proposed 
$66,000,000 for this account.

                   BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION

      The conference agreement includes $387,000,000 for 
Bilingual and Immigrant Education programs instead of the 
$380,000,000 proposed by the House and $394,000,000 proposed by 
the Senate.
      For Instructional Services, the agreement includes 
$162,500,000 instead of the $160,000,000 proposed by the House 
and $165,000,000 proposed by the Senate. For Support Services, 
the agreement provides $14,000,000, the same level as in the 
House and Senate bills. For Professional Services, the 
agreement provides $52,500,000 instead of the $50,000,000 
proposed by the House and $55,000,000 proposed by the Senate. 
Forimmigrant education, the agreement provides $150,000,000, 
the same level as in the House and Senate bills. The agreement also 
provides $8,000,000 for foreign language assistance instead of the 
$6,000,000 proposed by the House and $10,000,000 proposed by the 
Senate.

                           special education

      The conference agreement includes $6,036,646,000 for 
Special Education instead of the $5,833,146,000 proposed by the 
House and $6,035,646,000 proposed by the Senate. The agreement 
provides $2,294,646,000 in fiscal year 2000 and $3,742,000,000 
in fiscal year 2001 funding for this account.
      Included in these funds is $4,989,685,000 for Grants to 
the States, the same as the Senate level. The House provided 
$4,810,700,000. This funding level provides an additional 
$679,000,000 to assist the States in meeting the additional per 
pupil costs of services to special education students.
      The conference agreement provides $390,000,000 for 
Preschool Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$373,985,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $375,000,000 for Grants 
for Infants and Families as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$370,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $1,000,000 for the 
completion of the Easter Seal Society's Early Childhood 
Development Project for the Mississippi River Delta Region and 
$1,000,000 for the Center for Literacy and Assessment at the 
University of Southern Mississippi. The conference agreement 
also includes $1,500,000 for the 2001 Special Olympics World 
Winter Games in Alaska and $1,000,000 for the VIII Paralympic 
Winter Games.
      Included in the conference agreement is $34,523,000 for 
technology and media services proposed by the Senate instead of 
the $33,523,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement includes $7,500,000 for Recordings for the Blind and 
Dyslexic as described in the House and Senate Reports. The 
conference agreement contemplates that these funds be 
distributed to RFB&D as early in the fiscal year as possible.
      The conference agreement also includes $1,500,000 for 
Public Telecommunications Information and Training 
Dissemination as proposed by the Senate. The House did not 
contain funds for this activity.

            Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research

      The conference agreement includes $2,701,772,000 for 
Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research instead of 
$2,687,150,000 proposed by the House and $2,692,872,000 
proposed by the Senate.
      For Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants, the agreement 
provides $2,338,977,000, the same as the House and Senate 
levels.
      The conference agreement includes $21,842,000 for 
demonstration and training programs instead of $13,942,000 
proposed by the House and $18,942,000 proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement also includes $11,894,000 for 
Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights, the same level as 
in the House bill. The Senate provided $10,894,000.
      The conference agreement also provides $48,000,000 for 
Independent Living Centers proposed by the Senate instead of 
$46,109,000 proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
includes $15,000,000 for services for older blind individuals 
as proposed by the Senate instead of $11,169,000 as proposed by 
the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $34,000,000 for 
Assistive Technology, the same level as in the House bill. The 
Senate provided $30,000,000.
      Within the amounts provided, the conference report 
specifies funding for the following activities:

Krasnow Institute at George Mason University for a receptive 
    language disorders research center........................  $750,000
University of Central Florida for a virtual reality-based 
    education and training program for the deaf............... 1,000,000
Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind.............................. 2,000,000
Professional development and Research Institute on Blindness 
    in Louisiana.............................................. 1,000,000
California State University at Northridge for a Western Center 
    for Adaptive Aquatic Therapy.............................. 1,000,000
Alaska Center for Independent Living in Anchorage.............   600,000

      The conference agreement recognizes the importance of 
supporting grants for the purchase of assistive technology for 
persons with disabilities to help them become employable and 
live independently. This technology can improve the lives of 
over 50 million Americans with physical or mental disabilities. 
The conference agreement recommends that, after state assistive 
technology projects have been allocated, remaining funds should 
be used for Title III grants, which enable consumers with 
disabilities to purchase needed assistive technology.

           Special Institutions for Persons With Disabilities

                 American Printing House for the Blind

      The conference agreement provides $10,100,000 for 
American Printing House for the Blind as proposed by the 
Senate, instead of $9,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                          gallaudet university

      The conference agreement provides $85,980,000 for 
Gallaudet University as proposed by the House instead of 
$85,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                     Vocational and Adult Education

      The conference agreement includes $1,656,750,000 for 
Vocational and Adult Education instead of the $1,582,247,000 as 
proposed by the House and $1,676,750,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The agreement provides $865,750,000 in fiscal year 2000 
and $791,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 funding for this account.
      $1,055,650,000 is included in the agreement for 
Vocational Education basic state grants, instead of the 
$1,080,650,000 as proposed by the House and $1,030,650,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $4,600,000 for Tribally 
Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $4,100,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $17,500,000 for 
vocational education national programs instead of $13,497,000 
proposed by the House and $19,500,000 proposed by the Senate. 
The conference agreement provides $9,000,000 for National 
Occupational Information Coordinating Committee activities as 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not include funding for 
this activity.
      For Adult Education State Grants, the agreement provides 
$425,000,000 instead of the $365,000,000 provided in the House 
bill and $468,000,000 in the Senate bill.
      The conference agreement provides $14,000,000 for adult 
education national leadership activities as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $7,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $19,000,000 for 
State Grants for Incarcerated Youth as proposed by the Senate. 
The House did not provide funding for this activity.

                      Student Financial Assistance

      The conference agreement provides $9,435,000,000 for 
Student Financial Assistance instead of $9,259,000,000 as 
proposed by the House and $9,548,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement sets the maximum Pell Grant at 
$3,300 and provides a program level of $7,700,000,000 for 
current law Pell Grants. The conference agreement does not 
provide advance funding for this account. The House advance 
funded $2,286,000,000 and the Senate advance funded 
$1,226,400,000 for this account.
      $621,000,000 is included in the agreement for Federal 
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG), instead of 
the $619,000,000 as proposed by the House and $631,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes an 
additional emergency appropriation of $10,000,000 and allows 
the Secretary of Education to waive the usual rules regarding 
the SEOG program for low-income college students that live in 
or attend school in areas affected by Hurricane Floyd and 
subsequent flooding as proposed by the House. The Senate 
included no similar language.
      $934,000,000 is included in the agreement for Federal 
Work Study as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed 
$880,000,000.
      The agreement includes $40,000,000 for Leveraging 
Educational Assistance Partnerships (LEAP), instead of the 
$75,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House did not 
provide funding for this program.

             federal family education loan program account

      The conference agreement provides $48,000,000 for the 
Federal Family Education Loan Program Account as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $46,482,000 as proposed by the House.

                            higher education

      The conference agreement provides $1,466,826,000 for 
Higher Education instead of $1,151,786,000 as proposed by the 
House and $1,406,631,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $42,250,000 for 
Hispanic Serving Institutions as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $28,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $141,500,000 for 
strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $136,000,000 as proposed by 
the House.
      The conference agreement includes $31,000,000 for 
Historically Black Graduate Institutions as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for Alaska 
and Native Hawaiian Institutions proposed by the Senate instead 
of $3,000,000 proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $6,000,000 for 
strengthening Tribal Colleges proposed by the Senate instead of 
$3,000,000 proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $62,075,000 for the 
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education instead of 
$27,500,000 as proposed by the Senate and $22,500,000 as 
proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $62,000,000 for 
International Education domestic programs as proposed by the 
House instead of $61,320,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conference agreement also includes $6,680,000 for International 
Education overseas programs as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $6,536,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement also includes $1,022,000 for the Institute for 
International Public Policy as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $1,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $645,000,000 for TRIO 
rather than the $630,000,000 included in the Senate bill and 
the $660,000,000 included in the House bill.
      The conference agreement includes $180,000,000 for the 
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate 
Programs (GEAR UP), the same level proposed by the Senate. The 
House contained no funds for this program.
      The conference agreement includes $39,859,000 for Byrd 
Scholarships as proposed by the Senate. The House did not 
provide funding for this program.
      The conference agreement includes $51,000,000 for 
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $31,000,000 as proposed by 
the House. Within the total, $10,000,000 is provided to fund 
the Javits Fellowship program in school year 2000-2001. An 
additional $10,000,000 is also provided within this total to 
allow the Javits Fellowship program to be forward funded.
      The conference agreement includes $17,940,000 for the 
Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships instead of $10,000,000 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not fund this program. 
Within the amount provided, the conference report specifies 
funding for the following activities:

University of South Florida for a distance learning program...$3,000,000
New York Global Communication Center in West Islip, NY for a 
    distance learning program.................................   190,000
Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) at the 
    University of Colorado for technology-enhanced learning... 1,000,000
Interactive Learning Environments at the University of Idaho 
    for a distance learning program........................... 1,250,000
Illinois Community College Board to develop a systemwide, on-
    line virtual degree program for the community college 
    system.................................................... 2,500,000

      The conference agreement includes $80,000,000 for Teacher 
Quality Enhancement Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$75,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement also includes $1,750,000 for the 
Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program as 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not fund this activity.
      The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 for 
community scholarship mobilization, instead of $2,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not fund this program.
      The conference agreement includes $3,000,000 for data 
collection and program evaluations in higher education 
programs, including the development of performance measurement 
data, instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the House. The 
Senate did not provide separate line item funding for this 
activity.

             COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS

      The conference agreement includes $737,000 for 
administering the College Housing and Academic Facilities Loans 
program as proposed by the Senate instead of $698,000 as 
proposed by the House.

               HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY

                           CAPITAL FINANCING

                            PROGRAM ACCOUNT

      The conference agreement provides $207,000 for the 
Historically Black College and University Capital Financing 
Program Account as proposed by the Senate instead of $96,000 as 
proposed by the House.

             EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND IMPROVEMENT

      The conference agreement includes $492,679,000 for 
Education Research, Statistics and Improvement instead of the 
$390,867,000 as proposed by the House and $368,867,000 as 
proposed in the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $93,567,000 for 
research instead of $83,567,000 proposed by the House and 
$82,567,000 proposed by the Senate. Within this increase, 
$10,000,000 is included for an expansion of comprehensive 
school reform activities and $1,000,000 is included for the 
development of a five-year plan for an expanded research 
program of large-scale, systematic experimentation and 
demonstration focused on strategic education issues in 
accordance with the guidelines outlined in the Report of the 
House Committee (House Report 106-370).
      The conference agreement provides $65,000,000 for 
regional educational labs as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$61,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
provides that the regional laboratory governing boards set the 
research and development priorities to guide the work funded 
and that funds be obligated and distributed in accordance with 
the fiscal year 1999 allocations by December 1, 1999.
      The conference agreement provides $68,000,000 for 
statistics as proposed by the House instead of $70,000,000 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 for NAGB as 
proposed by the House instead of $4,500,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
Fund for the improvement of education
      For the fund for the improvement of education (FIE), the 
conference agreement provides $155,812,000 instead of the 
$76,000,000 as proposed by the House and $39,500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides $25,000,000 for 
continuation grants for schools in their third year of 
implementing comprehensive school reform.
      The conference agreement provides funds for the 
continuation of Project Jump Start and provides funds for the 
continuation and expansion of the Youth Safety Corps. The 
conference agreement also includes $400,000 for the National 
Student and Parent Mock Elections and $500,000 for the 
continuation and expansion of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 
education resource center.
      Within the amount provided, $20,000,000 is to be used for 
the Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Program to 
establish or expand counseling programs in elementary schools.
      Within the amount provided, the conference report 
specifies funding for the following activities:

Loyola University Chicago for recruitment and preparation of 
    new teacher candidates for employment in rural and inner-
    city schools..............................................  $700,000
Shedd Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo for science education programs..   500,000
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America to expand school-based 
    mentoring................................................. 3,000,000
Chicago Public School System to support a substance abuse 
    pilot program in conjunction with Elgin and East Aurora 
    School Systems............................................ 2,500,000
University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies for the 
    Youth Leadership Initiative............................... 1,000,000
Institute for Student Achievement at Holmes Middle School and 
    Annandale High School in Virginia for academic enrichment.   800,000
Mountain Arts Center in Kentucky for educational programming..   100,000
University of Louisville for research in the area of academic 
    readiness................................................. 1,500,000
WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory for the 24 Challenge 
    and Jumping Levels Math Demonstration Project.............   500,000
Central Michigan University for a charter schools development 
    and performance institute................................. 1,000,000
Living Science Interactive Learning Model partnership in 
    Indian River, FL for a science education program..........   950,000
North Babylon Community Youth Services for an educational 
    program...................................................   825,000
Los Angeles County Office of Education/Educational 
    Telecommunications and Technology for a pilot program for 
    teachers.................................................. 1,000,000
University of Northern Iowa for an institute of technology for 
    inclusive education.......................................   650,000
Youth Crime Watch of America to expand a program to prevent 
    crime, drugs and violence in schools......................   500,000
Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania for an environmental 
    science program...........................................   892,000
Western Suffolk St. Johns-LaSalle Academy Science and 
    Technology Mentoring Program..............................   560,000
National Teaching Academy of Chicago for a model teacher 
    recruitment, preparation and professional development 
    program................................................... 4,000,000
University of West Florida for a teacher enhancement program.. 2,000,000
Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, VA for an educational 
    program................................................... 1,000,000
Challenger Learning Center in Hardin County, KY for technology 
    assistance and teacher training...........................   450,000
Crawford County School System in Georgia for technology and 
    curriculum support........................................   250,000
Berrien County School System in Georgia for technology 
    development...............................................   500,000
Louisville Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club Diversion 
    Enhancement Program.......................................    35,000
New Mexico Department of Education for school performance 
    improvement and drop-out prevention....................... 1,000,000
Semos Unlimited Inc. in New Mexico to support bilingual 
    education and literacy programs...........................   300,000
Delta State University in MS for innovative teacher training.. 1,000,000
Alaska Humanities Forum, Inc. in Anchorage.................... 1,000,000
An Achievable Dream in Newport News to improve academic 
    performance of at-risk youths.............................   250,000
Rock School of Ballet in Philadelphia to expand its community-
    outreach programs for inner-city children and 
    underprivileged youth in Camden, NJ and southern NJ.......   250,000
University of Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity to 
    provide a link for the Blue Ribbon Schools................ 1,000,000
Continuing Education Center and Teachers' Institute in South 
    Boston, Virginia to promote participation among youth in 
    the U.S. democratic process............................... 1,000,000
National Museum of Women in the Arts to expand its 
    ``Discovering Art'' program to elementary and secondary 
    schools and other educational organizations............... 1,000,000
Alaska Department of Education's summer reading program.......   400,000
Partners in Education, Inc. to foster successful business-
    school partnerships.......................................   400,000
Kodiak Island Borough School district for development of an 
    environmental education program...........................   250,000
Reach out and Read Program to expand literacy and health 
    awareness for at-risk families............................ 2,000,000
Jazz in the Schools program for educational programs..........   100,000
Mississippi Delta Education Initiative........................   500,000
Project 2000 D.C. Mentoring Project...........................   100,000
National Constitution Center..................................10,000,000
Continuation of Iowa public school facilities repair 
    demonstration administered by the Iowa Department of 
    Education.................................................10,000,000
Continuation of Foorman, Frances, and Fletcher NICHD-approved 
    longitudinal project ``Early Interventions for Children 
    with Reading Problems'' in public elementary schools in 
    the District of Columbia..................................   500,000

      For Civics Education, the conference agreement provides 
$9,500,000, the same level as in the Senate, rather than the 
$5,500,000 included in the House bill.
      The conference agreement provides $9,000,000 for the 
National Writing Project instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by 
the Senate and $5,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                        Departmental Management

      The conference agreement includes $475,384,000 for 
Departmental Management as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$459,242,000 proposed by the House. Within this amount, the 
agreement provides $71,200,000 for the Office of Civil Rights 
and $34,000,000 for the Office of Inspector General as provided 
by the Senate. The House provided $66,000,000 for the Office of 
Civil Rights and $31,242,000 for the Office of the Inspector 
General.
      The conference agreement urges the Secretary of Education 
to take whatever steps are necessary to select and fill the 
Liaison for Proprietary Institutions of Higher Education 
position which is provided for in section 219 of the Higher 
Education Act, as amended (HEA). The conference agreement notes 
that section 219 requires the Secretary to appoint the Liaison 
within 6 months of passage of HEA.

                           General Provisions


           Calculations for Heavily Impacted School Districts

      The conference agreement modifies a legislative provision 
that was contained in the House bill relating to payments for 
heavily impacted school districts (section 8003(f)) that 
changes the method by which payments made under this section 
are allocated to provide supplemental payments for federally 
connected students. The Senate bill had no similar provision.

            Extension of Participation in Even Start Program

      The conference agreement contains an amendment to the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that was 
contained in the House bill that allows local grantees to 
continue to participate in the Even Start program beyond eight 
years and reduces the federal share for the ninth and 
succeeding years from 50 percent to 35 percent. The Senate bill 
had no similar provision.

                 Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL)

      The conference agreement includes a provision regarding 
the FFEL program that was not contained in either House or 
Senate bills.

             Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF)

      The conference agreement includes a provision regarding 
HEAF claims reserves that was not contained in either House or 
Senate bills.

                  Additional Higher Education Funding

      The conference agreement includes the following amounts 
for the following projects and activities. Neither the House 
nor the Senate bills contained this language.

Middle Georgia College for an advanced distributed learning 
    center demonstration program..............................  $250,000
University Center of Lake County, IL.......................... 3,000,000
Oregon University System...................................... 1,000,000
Columbia College in IL for a freshman retention program.......   500,000
University of Hawaii at Manoa for a globalization research 
    center.................................................... 1,500,000
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for technology 
    infrastructure............................................ 2,000,000
I Have a Dream Foundation..................................... 1,000,000
Demonstration program for activities authorized under part G 
    of title VII of the Higher Education Act.................. 1,000,000
University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX to improve 
    teacher capabilities in technology........................ 1,000,000
Elmira College in New York for a technology enhancement 
    initiative................................................ 1,000,000
Rust College in MS for technology infrastructure.............. 1,650,000
Snelling Center for Government at the University of Vermont 
    for a model school program................................   250,000
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi for the operation of the 
    Early Childhood Development Center........................   750,000
Southeast Missouri State University for equipment and 
    curriculum development associated with the university's 
    Polytechnic Institute..................................... 1,000,000
Washington Virtual Classroom Consortium.......................   800,000
Puget Sound Center for Technology for faculty development 
    activities for the use of technology in the classroom.....   500,000
Center for the Advancement of Distance Education in Rural 
    America...................................................   500,000
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy at the University of 
    Washington................................................ 1,500,000
North Dakota State University for the Career Program for 
    Dislocated Farmers and Ranchers...........................   200,000
North Dakota State University for the Tech-based Industry 
    Traineeship Program.......................................   350,000
Washington State University for the Thomas S. Foley Institute 
    to support programs in congressional studies, public 
    policy, voter education, and to ensure community access 
    and outreach.............................................. 1,500,000
Minot State University for the Rural Communications 
    Disabilities Program......................................   200,000
Bryant College for the Linking International Trade Education 
    Program (LITE)............................................   300,000
Concord College, WV for a technology center to further enhance 
    the technical skills of WV teachers and students.......... 1,000,000
Peirce College in Philadelphia for education and training 
    programs..................................................   200,000
Philadelphia Zoo for educational programs.....................   250,000
Philadelphia University Education Center for technology 
    education................................................. 1,000,000
Lock Haven University for technology innovations..............   725,000
Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium on Higher Education for 
    education programs........................................ 1,000,000
Lehigh University Iacocca Institute for educational training..   400,000
Lafayette College for arts education..........................   250,000
Lewis and Clark College for the Crime Victims Law Institute... 1,000,000
University of Notre Dame for a teacher quality initiative.....   500,000
Spelman College in Georgia for educational operations.........   800,000
Western Governors University for a distance learning 
    initiative................................................ 2,000,000

             Technical Correction to Fiscal Year 1999 Bill

      The conference agreement deletes a provision contained in 
the House bill which made a technical correction to P.L. 105-
277 (the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 1999). The Senate bill had no similar 
provision.

               Direct Student Loan Administrative Account

      The conference agreement deletes a provision contained in 
the House bill which froze the administrative account for the 
Direct Student Loan program at fiscal year 1999 levels. The 
Senate bill had no similar provision.

                        Voluntary National Tests

      The conference agreement does not include a provision 
contained in the Senate bill regarding voluntary national 
tests. This language is not necessary since P.L. 105-277 (the 
Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 1999) adopted a permanent change to the law that 
specifically prohibited any pilot testing, field testing, 
administration or distribution of individualized national tests 
that are not specifically and explicitly provided for in 
authorizing legislation enacted into law. At the present time, 
there is no specific and explicit authority in Federal law for 
individualized national tests.

                                Funding

      The conference agreement deletes a provision contained in 
the Senate bill which redistributed funding for certain 
education programs. The House bill contained no similar 
provision.

         Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program

      The conference agreement deletes a provision contained in 
the Senate bill that provided advance funding for the LEAP 
program. The House bill contained no similar provision.

                       TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES


                      Armed Forces Retirement Home

      The conference agreement provides $68,295,000 for the 
Armed Forces Retirement Home as proposed by the House. The 
Senate bill contained no appropriation for the Home.

             Corporation for National and Community Service


        DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING EXPENSES

      The conference agreement provides $295,645,000 for the 
Domestic Volunteer Service programs instead of $293,261,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $274,959,000 as proposed by the 
House.

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

      The conference agreement provides $81,000,000 for VISTA 
as proposed by the Senate instead of $73,000,000 proposed by 
the House.

National Senior Volunteer Corps

      The conference agreement provides $95,782,000 for the 
Foster Grandparent Program (FGP), $39,669,000 for the Senior 
Companion Program (SCP), and $46,565,000 for the Retired Senior 
Volunteer Program (RSVP). The House proposed $93,256,000 for 
Foster Grandparents, $36,573,000 for Senior Companions and 
$43,001,000 for Retired Senior Volunteers. The Senate proposed 
$95,000,000 for FGP, $39,031,000 for SCP and $46,001,000 for 
RSVP.
      One-third of the increases provided for the FGP, SCP, and 
RSVP programs shall be used to fund Programs of National 
Significance expansion grants to allow existing FGP, RSVP and 
SCP programs to expand the number of volunteers serving in 
areas of critical need as identified by Congress in the 
Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
      Sufficient funding has been included to provide a 2 
percent increase for administrative costs realized by all 
current grantees in the FGP and SCP programs, and a 4 percent 
increase for administrative costs realized by all current 
grantees in the RSVP program. Funds remaining above these 
amounts should be used to begin new FGP, RSVP and SCP programs 
in geographic areas currently unserved. The conference 
agreement expects these projects to be awarded via a nationwide 
competition among potential community-based sponsors.
      The Corporation for National and Community Service shall 
comply with the directive that use of funding increases in the 
Foster Grandparent Program, Retired and Senior Volunteer 
Program and VISTA not be restricted to America Reads 
activities. The agreement further directs that the Corporation 
shall not stipulate a minimum or maximum amount for PNS grant 
augmentations.
      The conference agreement also provides $1,500,000 for 
senior demonstration activities, instead of $3,100,000 proposed 
by the Senate. The House did not propose funding for this 
activity. Sufficient funds are provided for the third and final 
year of the Seniors for Schools demonstration. Of the total, 
$350,000 is provided to conduct an evaluation of existing 
demonstration activities and to bring to closure the Seniors 
for Schools demonstration project.
      Funds are also provided to continue other existing senior 
demonstration activities, except that no funds are provided for 
the payment of non-taxable, non-income stipends to individuals 
not meeting income requirements established by Congress. No new 
demonstration projects may be begun with these funds. None of 
the increases provided for FGP, SCP, or RSVP in fiscal year 
2000 may be used for demonstration activities. The agreement 
further expects that all future demonstration activities will 
be funded through allocations made through Part E of the 
Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
      Funds appropriated for Fiscal Year 2000 may not be used 
to implement or support service collaboration agreements or any 
other changes in the administration and/or governance of 
national service programs prior to passage of a bill by the 
authorizing committees of jurisdiction specifying such changes.

Program administration

      The conference agreement includes $31,129,000 for program 
administration of DVSA programs at the Corporation, instead of 
$29,129,000 that was provided in both House and Senate bills. 
The additional $2,000,000 is provided to assist the Corporation 
in correcting its financial management weaknesses and obtaining 
a clean opinion on its financial statements. Funding should be 
used to fully implement the new core financial management 
system and to make other technology enhancements that will 
improve customer service and field communications.

                  Corporation for Public Broadcasting

      The conference agreement provides $350,000,000 in advance 
funding for fiscal year 2002 for the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting as proposed by the Senate instead of $340,000,000 
as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House providing an additional $10,000,000 for 
digitalization, if specifically authorized by subsequent 
legislation by September 30, 2000. The Federal Communications 
Commission (FCC) has mandated that all public television be 
converted from analog to digital transmission by May 2003. 
Because television and radio broadcast infrastructures are 
closely linked, the conversion of television to digital will 
create immediate costs not only for television, but also for 
public radio stations. Public broadcasting stations with 
limited resources, in particular small rural stations, will be 
faced with extreme hardship because of the significant cost of 
converting to digital, therefore, the conference agreement 
encourages funds provided to be targeted to those stations with 
the most financial need.
      The conference agreement commends the Corporation for 
adoption of the Listener Access 2000 initiative and other 
related efforts that recognize the need to enhance service in 
rural and underserved areas. These steps will expand the number 
of stations defined as serving rural areas, create a new 
incentive grant tailored to areas with limited financial 
resources, while maintaining the public-private nature of 
public broadcasting.
      While this approach is a meaningful initial investment, 
the conference agreement urges the Corporation to continue to 
explore additional ways to ensure that its goal of universal 
service throughout the country is achieved. The conference 
agreement recognizes that stations serving rural and 
underserved audiences typically have limited local potential 
for fundraising because of sparse populations serviced, limited 
number of local businesses, and low-income levels.
      The conference agreement strongly urges the Corporation 
to consider expanding its Rural Listener Access Incentive Fund, 
which will support further enhancements to and reliability of 
service in rural and underserved areas. Furthermore, the 
conference agreement supports additional actions that will 
assist stations in serving rural and underserved areas.

               Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

      The conference agreement provides $36,834,000 for the 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service as proposed by the 
Senate instead of $34,620,000 as proposed by the House. The 
conference agreement also includes bill language proposed by 
the Senate stating that FMCS may charge for training 
activities, services, and assistance, including those provided 
to foreign governments and international organizations.

            Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

      The conference agreement provides $6,159,000 for the 
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $6,060,000 as proposed by the House.

                Institute of Museum and Library Services

      The conference agreement provides $163,250,000 for the 
Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Senate proposed 
$154,500,000. The House proposed $149,500,000. The conference 
agreement does not accept the President's request for 
$5,000,000 under National Leadership Grants for Libraries for 
the National Digital Library initiative. The increase in 
funding for this account should be used for new awards under 
the regular grant competition. Within the amount provided, the 
conference report specifies funding for the following 
activities:

Library & Archives of New Hampshire's Political Tradition at 
    the New Hampshire State Library...........................  $700,000
Vermont Department of Libraries in Montpelier, Vermont........ 1,000,000
Consolidation and preservation of archives and special 
    collections at the University of Miami Library in Coral 
    Gables, FL................................................   750,000
Exhibits and library improvements for the Mississippi River 
    Museum and Discovery Center in Dubuque, Iowa.............. 1,900,000
Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage....................   750,000
Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, MA.............................   750,000
Bishop Museum in Hawaii.......................................   750,000
Oceanside Public Library in California for a local cultural 
    heritage project..........................................   200,000
Urban Children's Museum Collaborative to develop and implement 
    pilot programs dedicated to serving at-risk children and 
    their families............................................ 1,000,000
Troy State University Dothan in Alabama for archival of a 
    special collection........................................   150,000
Chadron State College in Nebraska for the Mari Sandoz Center..   450,000
Alabama A&M University Alabama State Black Archives Research 
    Center and Museum.........................................   350,000

        National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

      The conference agreement provides $1,300,000 for the 
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $1,000,000 as proposed by the 
House. The conference agreement also includes bill language 
citing Public Law 91-345, as amended.

                     National Council on Disability

      The conference agreement provides $2,400,000 for the 
National Council on Disability as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $2,344,000 as proposed by the House.

                     National Education Goals Panel

      The conference agreement provides $2,250,000 for the 
National Education Goals Panel as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $2,100,000 as proposed by the House.

                     National Labor Relations Board

      The conference agreement provides $199,500,000 for the 
National Labor Relations Board instead of $210,193,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $174,661,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
House which prohibits the NLRB from expending any funds to 
promulgate a final rule regarding the use of single location 
bargaining units in representation cases. The conference 
agreement notes that the NLRB has indefinitely withdrawn from 
active consideration its proposed rulemaking proceedings in 
this area.

                        National Mediation Board

      The conference agreement provides $9,100,000 for the 
National Mediation Board as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$8,400,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
also includes bill language that unobligated balances at the 
end of fiscal year 2000 not needed for emergencies shall remain 
available through September 30, 2001.

            Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

      The conference agreement provides $8,500,000 for the 
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $8,100,000 as proposed by the House.

                       Railroad Retirement Board


                     DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENT ACCOUNT

      The conference agreement provides $174,000,000 for dual 
benefits payments instead of $175,000,000 as proposed by both 
the House and the Senate.

                      LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION

      The conference agreement includes a limitation on 
transfers from the railroad trust funds of $91,000,000 for 
administrative expenses instead of $90,000,000 as proposed by 
both the House and the Senate.

                     Social Security Administration


                  SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM

      The conference agreement includes $21,503,085,000 for the 
Supplemental Security Income Program instead of $21,553,085,000 
as proposed by the Senate and $21,474,000,000 as proposed by 
the House.

                 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

      The conference agreement includes a limitation of 
$6,093,871,000 on transfers from the Social Security and 
Medicare trust funds and Supplemental Security Income program 
for administrative activities instead of $6,188,871,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $5,996,000,000 as proposed by the 
House.
      The conference agreement includes language authorizing 
the Commissioner of Social Security to use up to $3,000,000, in 
addition to amounts appropriated previously, for Federal-State 
partnerships to evaluate ways to promote Medicare buy-in 
programs targeted to elderly and disabled individuals.

                      Office of Inspector General

      The conference agreement provides $66,000,000 for the 
Office of Inspector General through a combination of general 
revenues and limitations on trust fund transfers as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $56,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                    United States Institute of Peace

      The conference agreement provides $13,000,000 for the 
United States Institute of Peace as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $12,160,000 as proposed by the House. The conference 
agreement directs the United States Institute of Peace to 
provide information in the fiscal year 2001 Congressional 
budget justification regarding the use of appropriated funds in 
the Endowment. Included in this information should be the total 
amount of appropriated funds transferred into the Endowment 
from the most recent fiscal year available, the total amount of 
interest earned in the fiscal year on those funds, a list of 
all dates in which draw downs occur and those amounts, and a 
beginning and end of year balance of the Endowment.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS


                    Distribution of Sterile Needles

      The conference agreement includes a general provision as 
proposed by the House that prohibits the use of funds in this 
Act to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles or 
syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. The 
Senate bill included the same provision except that it would 
not have become effective until one day after the date of 
enactment of this Act.

                   Unobligated Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement includes a general provision 
proposed by the House that would allow salaries and expenses 
funds in the bill that are unobligated at the end of the fiscal 
year to remain available for three additional months, provided 
that the Appropriations Committees are notified before they are 
obligated. The Senate bill had no similar provision.

                   Railroad Retirement Board Buyouts

      The conference agreement includes a provision amending 
existing law as proposed by the Senate to allow the Railroad 
Retirement Board to offer voluntary separation incentives to 
Board employees who either retire or resign by December 31, 
1999. The House bill contained no similar provision.

                         Brooklyn Museum of Art

      The conference agreement does not include a provision 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the conferees on H.R. 
2466, the FY 2000 Interior Appropriations Act, shall include 
language prohibiting the use of funds for the Brooklyn Museum 
of Art unless the Museum immediately cancels the exhibit 
``Sensation'' which contains obscene and pornographic pictures 
and other offensive material.

                      Hospital Outpatient Services

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision that the Secretary of HHS should 
carry out congressional intent and cease her inappropriate 
interpretation of the provisions of the prospective payment 
system for hospital outpatient department services under 
section 1833(t) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
13951(t)).

                  Former Recipients of TANF Assistance

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that it is important that 
Congress determine the economic status of former recipients of 
assistance under the TANF program.

                   Scientific Validity of Polygraphy

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that the Director of the 
NIH should enter into appropriate arrangements with the 
National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study 
and investigation into the scientific validity of polygraphy as 
a screening tool for Federal and Federal contractor personnel. 
However, the Secretary of HHS is urged to conduct such a study 
and report her findings to Congress.

                        Prostate Cancer Research

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that finding treatment 
breakthroughs and a cure for prostate cancer should be made a 
national health priority, that significant increases in 
prostate cancer research funding should be made available to 
NIH and DoD, and that these agencies should prioritize research 
that is directed toward innovative clinical and translational 
projects.

                      Border Health Commission Act

      The conference agreement includes a Senate provision 
amending the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act 
to require the President to appoint the United States members 
of the Commission and attempt to conclude an agreement with 
Mexico providing for the establishment of such Commission no 
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
provision. The House bill contained no similar provision.

             Access to Obstetric and Gynecological Services

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that Congress should 
enact legislation that requires health plans to provide women 
with direct access to a participating obstetrician/gynecologist 
without first having to obtain a referral from a primary care 
provider or the health plan.

                        Public Education Reform

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that the Federal 
government should support state and local educational agencies 
engaged in comprehensive reform of their public education 
systems.

                  Federal Employees' Compensation Act

      The conference agreement includes a Senate provision with 
respect to a compensation claim arising from injuries sustained 
as a result of an employee's exposure to a nitrogen or sulfur 
mustard agent at the Department of the Army's Edgewood Arsenal 
before March 20, 1944. The House had no similar provision.

                        Workforce Investment Act

      The conference agreement includes a Senate provision 
amending the Workforce Investment Act with respect to Alaska 
Natives. The House had no similar provision.

                          Needlestick Injuries

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
sense of the Senate provision stating that the Senate should 
pass legislation to eliminate or minimize the risk of 
needlestick injury to health care workers.

                    Salaries and Expenses Reduction

      The conference agreement includes a reduction of 
$121,000,000 in the salaries and expenses funds contained in 
this bill to be allocated by the Office of Management and 
Budget among the Departments and agencies in the bill. This 
provision was not included in either House or Senate bills. 
Within 30 days of enactment, the Director of OMB shall submit a 
report showing the allocation of the reduction. In making these 
reductions, the Departments and agencies are strongly urged to 
make reductions first in such areas as public affairs, 
Congressional affairs, intergovernmental affairs, planning and 
evaluation, and the immediate offices of the Secretaries. 
Administrative travel costs should also be closely scrutinized 
and should be one of the first things to be reduced.

                                TITLE VI


         Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening and Intervention

      The conference agreement includes a separate title as 
proposed by the House which authorizes grants to States on a 
voluntary basis for a three-year period to aid in setting up 
newborn infant hearing screening programs. This language 
authorizes funding for the Health Resources and Services 
Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
and the National Institutes of Health for the implementation of 
these programs and provides that State programs shall work with 
participants to ensure that all children are given options for 
care to include, but not be limited to medical, audiologic, 
rehabilitative, education, and community service programs. The 
Senate bill contained no similar language.

                            Other Provisions

      The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a 
House provision to require any elementary or secondary school 
or public library that has received any Federal funds for the 
acquisition or operation of any computer that is accessible to 
minors and that has access to the Internet to install software 
on such computer designed to prevent minors from obtaining 
access to any obscene information using that computer and to 
ensure that such software is operational whenever that computer 
is used by minors. Exceptions are granted to permit a minor to 
have access to information that is not obscene or otherwise 
unprotected by the Constitution under the direct supervision of 
an adult designated by the school or library. The Senate bill 
contained no similar provision.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
amending the National Labor Relations Act to require the NLRB 
to adjust its jurisdictional threshold amounts for the 
inflation that has occurred since the adoption of the current 
thresholds on August 1, 1959. The Senate bill contained no 
similar provision.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
amending the Internal Revenue Code to require that Earned 
Income Tax Credit payments be paid on a monthly basis rather 
than in a lump sum annual payment. The Senate bill contained no 
similar language.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
amending the Higher Education Act to require the Secretary of 
Education to charge an origination fee on direct student loans 
of four percent. The Senate bill included no similar provision.
      The conference agreement does not include House language 
amending the National Housing Act to eliminate the premium 
rebate on FHA home mortgages. The Senate bill included no 
similar provision.
      The conference agreement does not include an 
appropriation of $508,000,000 proposed by the House for the 
Department of Agriculture to provide assistance to producers 
for crop and livestock losses incurred as a result of the 
hurricanes, and the flooding associated with the hurricanes, 
that struck the eastern United States in August and September, 
1999. The Senate bill included no similar appropriation.

                          Conference Agreement

      The following table displays the amounts agreed to for 
each program, project or activity with appropriate comparisons:


                               DIVISION C


                        RESCISSIONS AND OFFSETS

      Sec. 1001. The conference agreement includes a 
government-wide across-the-board reduction of 0.97 percent to 
all discretionary accounts. The managers expect that Federal 
agencies will, to the maximum extent possible, meet the reduced 
funding levels by eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and 
excessive overhead expenses in Federal programs.

                    National Directory of New Hires

      Sec. 1002. The conference agreement includes a provision 
that amends the Social Security Act and the Child Support 
Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 to allow the Department 
of Education to access data from the National Directory of New 
Hires, maintained by the Department of Health and Human 
Services, to enhance student loan default collection efforts. 
This provision was not contained in either the House or the 
Senate bills.

                                   Ernest J. Istook, Jr.,
                                   Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham,
                                   Todd Tiahrt,
                                   Robert B. Aderholt,
                                   Jo Ann Emerson,
                                   John E. Sununu,
                                   Bill Young,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Kay Bailey Hutchison,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Pete Domenici,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

                                  
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