Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
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
Title VI: Commission on Retirement Income Policy
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies, programs, and various trust funds, within the Department of Labor.
Prescribes uses and limitations on the use of funds under this title.
(Sec. 107) Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt inmates from minimum wage and overtime requirements.
Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and programs within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Prescribes limitations on the use of appropriated funds under this title.
(Sec. 216) Directs the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, with the assistance of the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, to report to the appropriate congressional committees a review of research on treatment of end-stage emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by specified surgical procedures, and recommend as to the appropriateness of Medicare coverage of such conditions and procedures.
(Sec. 217) Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to increase the maximum allowable State grant allotment.
(Sec. 218) Names the new clinical research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research and Patient Care Center.
Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1997 - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (including certain transfers of funds) for agencies and programs within the Department of Education, subject to certain requirements for and limitations of their use.
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.
(Sec. 303) Prohibits the use of funds to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools.
(Sec. 304) Limits the amount of funds which may be used for specified student aid programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA).
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from using HEA funds for subsequent fiscal years for administrative expenses of the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program.
(Sec. 307) Amends HEA with respect to the Quality Assurance Program to require experimental sites authorized by the Secretary of Education to test alternative data verification.
Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for the following agencies or programs: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service (for domestic volunteer service programs); (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (7) National Council on Disability; (8) National Education Goals Panel; (9) National Labor Relations Board; (10) National Mediation Board; (11) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (12) Physician Payment Review Commission; (13) Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (14) Social Security Administration, for various trust funds and programs; (15) Railroad Retirement Board; and (16) United States Institute of Peace.
Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions and limitations on the use of appropriated funds under this Act.
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
(Sec. 506) Expresses the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased under this Act should be American-made.
(Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of funds to perform abortions except to save the life of the mother or where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
(Sec. 510) Prohibits use of funds in this Act for the expenses of an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) task force.
(Sec. 511) Prohibits use of funds in this Act to enforce specified requirements under HEA with respect to any lender that has a guaranteed student loan portfolio less than a specified amount.
(Sec. 512) Prohibits use of funds in this Act 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 certain Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act.
(Sec. 524) Provides that not more than one percent of salaries appropriated for each agency in this Act may be expended on cash performance awards. Permanently cancels a specified amount of the budgetary resources available to agencies (except the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service) in this Act for salaries and expenses, such cancelled amount to be allocated by the Office of Management and Budget.
(Sec. 525) Provides for voluntary separation incentives for employees of the Railroad Retirement Board and its Office of Inspector General.
Title VI: Commission on Retirement Income Policy - Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act of 1996 - Establishes the Commission on Retirement Income Policy to study and report to the President and Congress on: (1) trends in retirement savings in the United States; (2) existing Federal incentives and programs to encourage and protect such savings; and (3) new Federal incentives and programs needed for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations.
Became Public Law No: 104-208.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to strike the enacting clause.
Floor summary: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 5 minutes of debate on the motion.
On motion to strike the enacting clause Failed by voice vote.
The Chair announced the unfinished business to be the further consideration of those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order: Hefley, Sanders, Lowey, Bunning, Hoyer (substitute to Bunning), Istook, Obey (substitute to Istook), and Gutknecht.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3755.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Mr. Obey moved to recommit to Appropriations.
The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit Failed by voice vote. (consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7373)
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 209 (Roll no. 313).(consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7366-7374)
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On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 209 (Roll no. 313). (consideration: 7/11/1996 CR H7366-7374)
Roll Call #313 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 3755.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Specter with amendments. With written report No. 104-368.
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Specter with amendments. With written report No. 104-368.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 589.
Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.