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H.R. 4783 (100th)

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

10 June 1988

Last action

20 September 1988 · President

Status

Became Public Law No: 100-436.

Sponsors

Rep. Natcher, William H. [D-KY-2]

Subjects

Education

Source updated

14 January 2025

Education

Summary

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for the Employment and Training Administration, for: (1) employment and training programs administration; (2) training and employment services; (3) community service employment for older Americans; (4) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (5) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; and (6) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other funds. Makes appropriations for Labor-Management Services, for salaries and expenses, with a specified amount for a pension plan data base. Makes appropriations for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fund and other expenses. Makes appropriations for the Employment Standards Administration, for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) special benefits (including transfer of funds); and (3) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (including transfer of funds). Makes appropriations for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) the Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Labor. Prohibits appropriations under this Act from being used to grant variances, interim orders or letters of clarification to employers which will allow exposure of workers to chemicals or other workplace hazards in excess of existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards for the purpose of conducting experiments on workers' health or safety. Prohibits appropriations in this Act from being obligated or expended to close any Job Corps Center operating prior to January 1, 1990. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for the Health Resources and Services Administration, for: (1) health resources and services program operations (including specified funds for the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center); and (2) the medical facilities guarantee and loan fund, and Federal interest subsidies for medical facilities. Earmarks specified funds for non-acute care facilities for AIDS patients. Makes appropriations for the Centers for Disease Control, for disease control, research, and training (including compensation for survivors of victims of the Tuskegee, Alabama, syphilis experiments of 1932). Makes appropriations for the National Institutes of Health, for: (1) the National Cancer Institute; (2) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; (3) the National Institute of Dental Research; (4) the National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; (5) the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (6) the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (7) the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; (8) the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (9) the National Eye Institute; (10) the National Institute of Environmental Health Services; (11) the National Institute on Aging; (12) the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; (13) research resources; (14) the National Center for Nursing Research; (15) the John E. Fogarty International Center, with a payment for the Gorgas Memorial Institute; (16) the National Library of Medicine; (17) the Office of the Director; and (18) buildings and facilities. Makes appropriations to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, for: (1) alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health programs; and (2) the Federal subsidy for Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in the District of Columbia. Makes appropriations for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health, for: (1) Public Health Service management; (2) retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; and (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. Makes appropriations for the Health Care Financing Administration, for: (1) grants to States for Medicaid; (2) payments to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds; and (3) program management. Makes appropriations for the Social Security Administration, for: (1) payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds; (2) special benefits for disabled coal miners; (3) the Supplemental Security Income Program; and (4) a limited amount of administrative expenses. Makes appropriations for the Family Support Administration, for: (1) family support payments to States or other non-Federal entities; (2) low-income home energy assistance; (3) the Community Services Block Grant; and (4) program administration. Makes appropriations for the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, for: (1) the Social Services Block Grant; (2) human development services (including programs for older Americans, Native Americans, child abuse and family violence prevention, dependent care, Head Start, and child development centers and associate scholarships); and (3) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) general departmental management; (2) the Office of the Inspector General; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; and (4) policy research. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services. Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assign not more than 60 Public Health Service employees 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. Allows funds available in this title for activities related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to be transferred between appropriation accounts, upon the approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of a transfer request submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs (including homeless assistance); (4) bilingual, immigrant, and refugee education; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research (including the Helen Keller National Center); (7) vocational and adult education; (8) student financial assistance (including Pell grants, supplemental educational opportunity grants, grants to States for State student incentives, work-study programs, the income contingent direct loan demonstration project, and direct loans to students in institutions of higher education); (9) the Guaranteed Student Loan program; (10) higher education institutional aid, for strengthening institutions, including historically black colleges and universities; (11) college housing and academic facilities loans; (12) higher education facilities loans; (13) college housing loans; (14) education research and statistics (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress); and (15) libraries. Makes appropriations for the following special institutions: (1) the American Printing House for the Blind; (2) the National Technical Institute for the Deaf; (3) Gallaudet University (partial support), the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the National Center for Law and the Deaf; and (4) Howard University (partial support). Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) program administration; (2) the Office for Civil Rights; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Education. Prohibits funds under this title from being used to force any school or school district which is desegregated to take any action to force the busing of students or the school's abolishment or the transfer of students to or from the school, on account of race, creed, or color, over the protest of the student's parents or as a condition precedent to obtaining otherwise available Federal funds. Prohibits appropriations in this Act from being used for the transportation of students or teachers (or the purchase of equipment for such transportation) to overcome racial imbalance or carry out a racial desegregation plan in any school or school system. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used, directly or indirectly, to require the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home (including any indirect requirement of student transportation to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools). Excludes from such prohibition: (1) transportation of students requiring special education to a school for such purpose; and (2) the establishment of magnet schools. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the following agencies: (1) ACTION; (2) the Commission on Railroad Retirement Reform; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (5) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (6) the National Commission on Migrant Education; (7) the National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education; (8) the National Council on the Handicapped; (9) the National Labor Relations Board; (10) the National Mediation Board; (11) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (12) the Physician Payment Review Commission; (13) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (14) the Railroad Retirement Board (for payments to the Dual Benefits Payments Account and to the railroad retirement accounts, with specified limitations on administrative expenses, the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund, and review activities); and (15) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (for operation and maintenance, and for construction and renovation of the physical plant). Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth general provisions relating to appropriations under this Act. Prohibits appropriations under this Act from being used to pay for any research, experimentation, or other activity involving human participants without their written, informed consent (or the consent of parents or legal guardian, where the participant is under 18), if such activity is determined to present a danger to their well-being. Directs the National Institutes of Health, in administering funds made available under this Act for research relating to the treatment of AIDS, to ensure that all experimental drugs for the treatment of AIDS, particularly antivirals and immunomodulators, that have shown some effectiveness in treating individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus are tested in clinical trials as expeditiously as possible and with as many subjects as scientifically acceptable.

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Timeline

  1. 18 February 1988

    Introduced

    Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 18 February 1988

    Referred

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

    Source: Committee

  3. 23 February 1988

    Committee

    First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

    Source: Committee

  4. 5 May 1988

    Committee

    Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

    Source: Committee

  5. 26 May 1988

    Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

    Source: Committee

  6. 26 May 1988

    Committee

    First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

    Source: Committee

  7. 10 June 1988

    Calendars

    Placed on Union Calendar No: 410.

    Source: Calendars

  8. 10 June 1988

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-689.

    Source: Committee

  9. 10 June 1988

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-689.

    Source: Committee

  10. 10 June 1988

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

  11. 10 June 1988

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

  12. 10 June 1988

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

  13. 10 June 1988

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

  14. 15 June 1988

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 362 - 46 (Record Vote No: 186).

    Source: Floor

  15. 15 June 1988

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 362 - 46 (Record Vote No: 186).

    Source: Floor

  16. 15 June 1988

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

  17. 20 June 1988

    Introduced

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

    Source: IntroReferral

  18. 21 June 1988

    Committee

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

    Source: Committee

  19. 23 June 1988

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 759.

    Source: Calendars

  20. 23 June 1988

    Reported

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

    Source: Committee

  21. 23 June 1988

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Chiles with amendments. With written report No. 100-399.

    Source: Committee

  22. 25 July 1988

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

  23. 26 July 1988

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

  24. 27 July 1988

    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

  25. 27 July 1988

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

  26. 27 July 1988

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 80-16. Record Vote No: 270.

    Source: Floor

  27. 2 August 1988

    Passed

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

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  28. 2 August 1988

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  29. 2 August 1988

    Passed

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

    Source: NotUsed

  30. 2 August 1988

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

  31. 9 August 1988

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  32. 9 August 1988

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  33. 11 August 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 100-880 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  34. 11 August 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 100-880 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  35. 9 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  36. 9 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 012, 028, 033, 036, 040, 041, 042, 045, 047, 050, 053, 057, 059, 060, 061, 062, 063, 064, 065, 067, 068, 069, 070, 071, 074, 078, 084, 087, 105, 115, 117, 120, 121.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  37. 9 September 1988

    NotUsed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 012, 028, 033, 036, 040, 041, 042, 045, 047, 050, 053, 057, 059, 060, 061, 062, 063, 064, 065, 067, 068, 069, 070, 071, 074, 078, 084, 087, 105, 115, 117, 120, 121.

    Source: NotUsed

  38. 9 September 1988

    Vote

    House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 335 - 60 (Record Vote No: 306).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  39. 9 September 1988

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 335 - 60 (Record Vote No: 306).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  40. 9 September 1988

    Vote

    Motion to Recommit (with Instructions) Failed in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 183 - 212 (Record Vote No: 305).

    Source: Floor

  41. 12 September 1988

    Floor

    Motion to further insist on Senate amendment number 126 made in Senate.

    Source: Floor

  42. 12 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report considered in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  43. 12 September 1988

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendments nos. 8, 10, 20, 30, 37, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 55, 58, 61, 72, 73, 75, 79, 80, 82, 85, 88, 100, 104, 106, 118, 130, 134, 137, 152, 153, 155, 157, 162, 165, 176, 177, 201, 203, 204, 209, 220, 222, 233, 245, 246, 250, and 256 by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

  44. 12 September 1988

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  45. 13 September 1988

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

  46. 13 September 1988

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate receded from its amendment no. 126 by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  47. 13 September 1988

    NotUsed

    Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate receded from its amendment no. 126 by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

  48. 14 September 1988

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

  49. 15 September 1988

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

  50. 15 September 1988

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

  51. 20 September 1988

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 100-436.

    Source: President

  52. 20 September 1988

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

  53. 20 September 1988

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

Votes

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Yes 0 · No 0 · Abstain — · Absent/not voting 0

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    • Public Law (PDF)

      Public Law · EN · 21 September 1988

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    • House receded and concurred with amendment

      summary · EN · 9 September 1988

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    • Conference report filed in House

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    • Passed Senate amended

      summary · EN · 27 July 1988

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    • Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

      summary · EN · 23 June 1988

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    • Passed House amended

      summary · EN · 15 June 1988

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    • Introduced in House

      summary · EN · 10 June 1988

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