Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985

Summary

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 1985. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Department of Labor for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for program administration, employment and training assistance, community service employment for older Americans, Federal unemployment benefits and allowances, grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services, and advances to the Unemployment Trust Funds and other funds; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration for salaries and expenses and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (3) the Employment Standards Administration for salaries and expenses, special benefits, and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (5) the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (6) the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses; (7) departmental management, salaries and expenses; (8) the special foreign currency program; (9) Office of the Inspector General; and (10) Veterans Employment Service. 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. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration for health resources and services; (2) the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund for Federal interest subsidies for medical facilities; (3) the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control for disease control; (5) 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 Arthritis, 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, and Research Resources, the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, the National Library of Medicine, buildings and facilities, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (7) the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health for public health service management; (8) retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; (9) the Health Care Financing Administration for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and program management; (10) the Social Security Administration for payments to Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, supplemental security income program, specified assistance payments programs, child support enforcement, low-income home energy assistance program; (11) the Office of Human Development Services for social services block grants, human development services, family social services, and work incentives; (12) the Office of Community Services for community services block grants; (13) departmental management; (14) the Office of the Inspector General; (15) the Office for Civil Rights; and (16) policy research. 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. Make such funds also available for specified activities of the Corps. Prohibits the use of funds provided by this Act to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or except for such medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest. Makes funds advanced to the National Institutes of Health Management Fund from appropriations in this Act available for the expenses of sharing medical care facilities and resources under the Public Health Service Act. Makes funds appropriated in this title for the Social Security Administration and the Office of Child Support Enforcement available for official reception and representation expenses related to income maintenance or child support enforcement activities. Makes funds appropriated by this title 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 allowance for quarters of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service above a specified level. Prohibits the use of 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. Requires that funds provided to the National Institutes of Health by this Act be used to maintain a specified minimum number of Federal full time equivalent positions. Prohibits the use of funds to bill persons receiving services from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in order to collect from third party payees, nor to charge those persons who may have financial means to pay, unless and until such time as Congress has agreed upon a specified policy to do so, and has directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement such a policy. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Department of Education for the following purposes: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) special programs; (3) bilingual education; (4) school assistance in federally affected areas; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research; (7) vocational and adult education; (8) student financial assistance; (9) guaranteed student loans; (10) higher education; (11) higher education facilities loan and insurance; (12) college housing loans; (13) educational research and statistics; (14) libraries; (15) Special Institutions including the American Printing House for the Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Gallaudet College, and Howard University; (16) the Office for Civil Rights for salaries and expenses; (17) departmental management for salaries and expenses; and (18) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses. 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 is 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 imbalance 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. Requires funds provided to the Department of Education by this Act to be used to maintain a specified minimum number of Federal full time equivalent positions. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to: (1) Action for operating expenses; (2) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the public broadcasting fund; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for salaries and expenses; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (5) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for salaries and expenses; (6) National Council on the Handicapped; (7) the National Labor Relations Board for salaries and expenses; (8) the National Mediation Board for salaries and expenses; (9) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (10) the Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account and payment to the railroad retirement account; (11) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance and capital outlay; and (12) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission. 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. Prohibits the expenditure of any funds appropriated by this Act by any executive agency pursuant to any obligation for services by contract, unless the contract was awarded and entered into in full compliance with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act. 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, Education, and 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 provided; (2) being used for publicity or propaganda to support or defeat legislation pending before 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 a specified amount, respectively, 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. Prohibits the use of funds provided by this Act for the transportation of any officer or employee of any department or agency between his domicile and his place of employment. Exempts the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services, and of Education, and medical officers and other health personnel on out-patient medical service who are exempted from such limitation by law. Declares that the number of full-time equivalent positions for which amounts are appropriated by this Act shall not be subject to any personnel ceiling or other restriction on permanent, temporary, or intermittent employment unless such ceiling or restriction is explicitly established by statute. Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act for personnel compensation and benefits shall be available for other object classifications set forth in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations.

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Timeline

1. 28 February 1984

   Reported

   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

   Source: Committee

2. 29 February 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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3. 1 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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4. 7 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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5. 8 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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6. 13 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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7. 15 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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8. 16 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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9. 20 March 1984

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   Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

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10. 21 March 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1083 Pt.1.

    Source: Committee

11. 27 March 1984

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    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

12. 28 March 1984

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    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

13. 30 March 1984

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    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

14. 3 April 1984

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    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

15. 4 April 1984

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    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

16. 5 April 1984

    Reported

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

17. 10 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1083 Pt.2.

    Source: Committee

18. 11 April 1984

    Reported

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

19. 12 April 1984

    Reported

    Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings held on the subject prior to the subcommittee ordering to be reported an original measure.

    Source: Committee

20. 24 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1083 Pt.3.

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21. 26 June 1984

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    Committee on Appropriations ordered to be reported an original measure.

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22. 29 June 1984

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1042.

    Source: Calendars

23. 29 June 1984

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Weicker. With written report No. 98-544.

    Source: Committee

24. 29 June 1984

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Weicker. With written report No. 98-544.

    Source: Committee

25. 29 June 1984

    Introduced

    Introduced in Senate

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• Sen. Weicker, Lowell P., Jr. [R-CT] · R · Sponsor
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