SUMMARY AS OF:
5/12/2000--Introduced.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Title I: Department of Labor
- Title II: Department of Health and Human Services
- Title III: Department of Education
- Title IV: Related Agencies
- Title V: General Provisions
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related
agencies.
Title I: Department of Labor - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 to the
Department of Labor for: (1) training and employment services; (2) community
service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and
allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations;
(5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other trust funds; (6)
employment and training program administration; (7) the Pension and Welfare
Benefits Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (8) the
Employment Standards Administration; (9) certain special benefits; (10) the
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (11) the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration; (12) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (13) the Bureau
of Labor Statistics; (14) departmental management; (15) veterans employment and
training; and (16) the Office of Inspector General.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under
this title.
(Sec. 103) Amends part A (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) (TANF) of
title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) require entities receiving
welfare-to-work grant funds to remit to the Secretary of Labor any funds not
expended within five (currently, three) years after the date such funds are
provided; and (2) eliminate set-aside welfare-to-work grants for successful
performance States.
Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Makes
appropriations for FY 2001 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) the Ricky Ray
Hemophilia Relief Fund;(3) health education assistance loans; (4) the Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (5) the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention; (6) the National Institutes of Health, including amounts for the
John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, the
Office of the Director, and buildings and facilities; (7) the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration; (8) the Agency for Health Care
Research and Quality; (9) the Health Care Financing Administration for grants to
States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and program
management; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant
assistance; (12) child support enforcement and family support programs; (13) the
child care and development block grant; (14) the social services block grant;
(15) children and families services programs; (16) promoting safe and stable
families pursuant to a specified provision of the SSA; (17) payments to States
for foster care and adoption assistance; (18) the Administration on Aging; (19)
the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (20) the Office
of Inspector General; (21) the Office for Civil Rights; (22) policy research;
(23) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned
officers; and (24) the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
Rescinds FY 2000 funds for a sample study of child welfare.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under
this title.
(Sec. 209) Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being made available
under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of the Public
Health Service Act unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS
that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family
planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to
coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.
(Sec. 210) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to carry out
the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such
program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored
Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide,
pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.
(Sec. 211) Amends the Public Health Service Act to require State allotments
under block grants for community mental health services and prevention and
treatment of substance abuse for FY 2001 to be no less than the allotment for FY
2000.
(Sec. 213) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 2001 the authorization of
admission into the United States of a specified number of refugees from the
independent states of the former Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
based on religious persecution owing to participation in the Ukrainian Catholic
or Orthodox churches.
Makes September 30, 2001, the latest allowable entry date for specified
aliens from the former Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Vietnam, Laos,
and Cambodia for purposes of qualifying for adjustment of status.
(Sec. 214) Prohibits the use of funds provided in any Act making FY 2001
appropriations for the implementation in Arizona or in Kansas City, Missouri or
Kansas, of the Medicare Competitive Pricing Demonstration Project operated by
the Secretary of HHS.
(Sec. 215) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to
withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to Public Health Service
Act provisions for withholding funds from States that are not in compliance with
specified requirements prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors if a
State certifies to the Secretary of HHS by December 15, 2000, that it will
commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting
such sales. Requires States to maintain expenditures in FY 2001 for tobacco
prevention programs and compliance activities at a level not less than that
maintained for FY 2000 and adding to that level the additional funds for such
compliance activities required by this section.
(Sec. 216) Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of
title IV of the SSA to limit the amount of the FY 2001 State TANF supplemental
grant for population increases in certain States to the amount of such grant for
FY 1998.
(Sec. 217) Requires the Secretary of HHS to: (1) reduce amounts allotted to a
State for FY 1998 for the State Children's Health Insurance Program under title
XXI of the SSA by a specified amount; and (2) increase the amount for such
program otherwise payable to the State for FY 2003 by the amount of such
reduction.
Title III: Department of Education - Makes appropriations for FY 2001
to the Department of Education for: (1) education reform; (2) education for the
disadvantaged; (3) impact aid; (4) school improvement activities; (5) reading
excellence; (6) Indian education; (7) bilingual and immigrant education; (8)
special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10)
special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American
Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the
Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12)
student financial assistance; (13) the Federal Family Education Loan program
account; (14) higher education; (15) Howard University; (16) the college housing
and academic facilities loans program; (17) the historically Black college and
university capital financing program account; (18) education research,
statistics, and improvement; (19) departmental management; (20) the Office for
Civil Rights; and (21) the Office of the Inspector General.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under
this title.
(Sec. 301) Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to: (1)
transport teachers or students in order to overcome racial imbalance in any
school or to carry out a racial desegregation plan; or (2) prevent the
implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.
Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 to the:
(1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community
Service; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6)
Office of Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8)
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council
on Disability; (10) National Education Goals Panel; (11) National Labor
Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and
Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits
payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts,
administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (15) Social Security
Administration for payments to the social security trust funds, special benefits
for disabled coal miners, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program,
administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (16) U.S.
Institute of Peace.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under
this title.
Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and
limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for
programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal
drugs unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in
preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
(Sec. 506) Sets forth Buy American requirements.
(Sec. 508) Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act from being expended
for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of
abortion, except in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or
where a woman suffers from a physical condition that would, as certified by a
physician, place her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.
(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the
creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a
human embryo is destroyed or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death
greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under Federal
regulations and the Public Health Service Act.
(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for
activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is
significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such
substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine
such advantage.
(Sec. 514) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a
final standard under the SSA providing for a unique health identifier for an
individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care
provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.
(Sec. 515) Repeals a provision of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 that
designates the delivery date for SSI benefit payments under the SSA for October
2000.
(Sec. 516) Amends the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act to
apply a certain schedule for the delivery of SSI supplementation payments to
months after September 2001 (currently, 2009).