Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988

Summary

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1988 - Makes appropriations to the Department of Labor for FY 1988 for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for program administration, training and employment services, Federal unemployment benefits and allowances, and State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration for salaries and expenses; (3) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (4) the Employment Standards Administration for special benefits, salaries and expenses, and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (5) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (6) the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (7) the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses; and (8) departmental management for salaries and expenses, the Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training, and the Office of the Inspector General. Makes such appropriations which are available for salaries and expenses available for supplies, services, and rental of conference space within the District of Columbia, as deemed necessary for the settlement of labor-management disputes. Prohibits such funds from being used to grant variances, interim orders, or letters of clarification to employers which will allow exposure of workers to workplace hazards in excess of existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards for the purpose of conducting experiments on worker health or safety. Prohibits the use of funds to close certain Job Corps Centers prior to January 1, 1989. Prohibits the use of funds to execute any contract with a non-governmental entity to administer or manage a Civilian Conservation Center of the Job Corps which was not under such contract as of September 1, 1984. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1988 - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies: (1) the Office of the Secretary for priority disease control and research with respect to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); (2) the Health Resources and Services Administration for health resources and services, and for the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund; (3) the Centers for Disease Control; (4) the National Institutes of Health for the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, research resources, the National Center for Nursing Research, the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, buildings and facilities, and the Office of the Director; (5) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health programs and Saint Elizabeth's Hospital; (6) the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health for public health service management and retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers of the Public Health Service; (7) the Health Care Financing Administration for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and program management; (8) the Social Security Administration for payments to Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, the supplemental security income program, assistance payments programs, low income home energy assistance, family support payments to States, and refugee and entrant assistance; (9) the Office of Human Development for social services block grants, human development services, and family social services; (10) departmental management; (11) the Office of the Inspector General; (12) the Office for Civil Rights; and (13) policy research. Prohibits any of the funds appropriated for grants-in-aid to State agencies from being withheld from the agencies of any State which have established a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering their employees because of any disapproval of the manner of their selection or the rates of pay. Prohibits the use of funds for the National Institutes of Health for forward funding or multiyear funding of research project grants, except where the Director of the National Institutes of Health has determined that such funding is specifically required because of the scientific requirements of a particular project grant. Makes specified funds available for expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public Health Service Reserve Corps and for a limited number of commissioned officers in the Regular Corps. Makes such funds also available for specified activities of the Corps. Prohibits the use of funds to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. Makes funds advanced to the National Institutes of Health Management Fund available for the expenses of sharing medical care facilities and resources under the Public Health Service Act. Makes funds appropriated for the Social Security Administration available for official reception and representation expenses. Makes funds appropriated for the Health Care Financing Administration available for official reception and representation expenses. Prohibits the use of any funds for basic pay, special pay, basic allowances for subsistence and basic allowances for quarters of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service above a specified level. Prohibits the use of any funds to transfer the general administration of programs authorized under the Native American Programs Act from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of the Interior. Authorizes the use of funds for one-year contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years, if the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the year for which the funds are appropriated. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assign not more than 50 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities with funds provided by the Agency for International Development the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. Authorizes the use of funds to pay physicians' comparability allowances only to those persons who are licensed to practice medicine, except those individuals receiving such allowances prior to January 1, 1988. Makes funds available for the purchase of dedicated telephone service between the private residences of employees assigned to computer centers funded under this Act and the computer centers to which such employees are assigned. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1988 - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 to the Department of Education for: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) special programs; (4) bilingual education; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research; (7) vocational and adult education; (8) guaranteed student loans; (9) higher education; (10) college housing loans; (11) educational research and statistics; (12) libraries; (13) special institutions (American Printing House for the Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Gallaudet College, and Howard University); (14) departmental management for salaries and expenses, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of the Inspector General; (15) student financial assistance; and (16) college construction loan insurance; and (17) college housing and academic facilities loans. Prohibits withholding of funds appropriated by this title for grants-in-aid to cover State agency operating expenses because of any disapproval of their personnel or manner of personnel selection if a merit system and classification and compensation plan are in operation. Subjects the funds appropriated in this Act to the American Printing House for the Blind, Howard University, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet College to an audit by the Secretary of Education. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to: (1) force any school or school district which is desegregated to take any action to force the busing of students, to force on account of race, creed, or color the abolishment of any such school, or to force the transfer or assignment of any student attending such a school to or from a particular school over the protest of the student's parents; (2) transport students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalances or to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system; or (3) transport any student to a school other than the school which is nearest the student's home. Prohibits using funds appropriated under this Act to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 to: (1) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the Public Broadcasting Fund; (2) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for salaries and expenses; (3) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (4) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for salaries and expenses; (5) the National Council on the Handicapped for salaries and expenses; (6) the National Labor Relations Board for salaries and expenses; (7) the National Mediation Board for salaries and expenses; (8) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (9) the Physician Payment Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (10) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (11) the Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, for the Federal payment to the Railroad retirement accounts, for the expense of the Railroad Retirement Board, including the administration of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act; (12) the Soldier's and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance; and (13) the United States Institute of Peace. Title V: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. Sets forth limitations on the use of funds appropriated for salaries and expenses under this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for any loan, loan guarantee, grant, salary, or other remuneration for any individual applying for admission, attending, employed by, teaching at, or doing research at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or after August 1, 1969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to others in the use of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of property under the control of an institution of higher education, to require or prevent the availability of certain curricula, or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in such institution from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution. Authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, of Education, and of Health and Human Services 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 purposes, and for the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated. Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from: (1) remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided; (2) being used for publicity or propaganda to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself or for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships; (3) being used to pay for activities by grant or contract recipients or their agents designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress; or (4) being used for research, experimental, or other activities presenting a danger to participants or subjects, without their written, informed consent (or that of parents or legal guardians in the case of minors). Authorizes the Secretaries to make available specified amounts from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I, II, and III, for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board to make available specified amounts for such expenses.

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Timeline

1. 6 January 1987

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 6 January 1987

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Labor - Health and Human Services, and Education.

   Source: Committee

3. 3 February 1987

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

4. 26 February 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

5. 3 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

6. 4 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

7. 5 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

8. 10 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

9. 11 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

10. 12 March 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

11. 22 April 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

12. 23 April 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

13. 4 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

14. 5 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

15. 5 May 1987

    Committee

    Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

    Source: Committee

16. 6 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

17. 7 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

18. 8 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

19. 14 July 1987

    Committee

    First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

    Source: Committee

20. 15 July 1987

    Committee

    Final Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

    Source: Committee

21. 30 July 1987

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

22. 30 July 1987

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

23. 30 July 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Union Calendar No: 159.

    Source: Calendars

24. 30 July 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-256.

    Source: Committee

25. 30 July 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-256.

    Source: Committee

26. 30 July 1987

    Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

    Source: Committee

27. 30 July 1987

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

28. 30 July 1987

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

29. 5 August 1987

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 336 - 89 (Record Vote No: 307).

    Source: Floor

30. 5 August 1987

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 336 - 89 (Record Vote No: 307).

    Source: Floor

31. 5 August 1987

    Passed

    House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

32. 5 August 1987

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

33. 6 August 1987

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

34. 18 September 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

35. 1 October 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 358.

    Source: Calendars

36. 1 October 1987

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

37. 1 October 1987

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Chiles with amendments. With written report No. 100-189.

    Source: Committee

38. 13 October 1987

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

39. 14 October 1987

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Chiles; Byrd; Proxmire; Hollings; Burdick; Inouye; Harkin; Bumpers; Stennis; Weicker; Hatfield; Stevens; Rudman; Specter; McClure; Domenici.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

40. 14 October 1987

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

41. 14 October 1987

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 81-15. Record Vote No: 326.

    Source: Floor

42. 20 October 1987

    Passed

    House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Natcher, Smith (IA), Obey, Roybal, Stokes, Early, Dwyer (NJ), Hoyer, Whitten, Conte, Pursell, Porter, Young (FL), Weber.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

43. 20 October 1987

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

44. 20 October 1987

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

45. 20 October 1987

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

46. 22 December 1987

    Committee

    For Further Action See H.J.Res. 395.

    Source: Committee

Votes

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• Passed Senate amended

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

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Sponsors

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