Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Appropriations with amendment (without written report))

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 1983.

Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Labor for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for 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; (3) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (4) the Employment Standards Administration for salaries and expenses, special benefits, and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (5) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses (with specified limits on the use of funds); (6) the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (7) the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses; (8) departmental management, salaries and expenses; (9) the special foreign currency program; and (10) 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.

Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies: (1) the Health Services Administration for health services; (2) the Centers for Disease Control for preventive health services; (3) 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; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health and Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (5) the Health Resources Administration for health resources and the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund; (6) the Assistant Secretary for Health for health services management; (7) Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (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 assistance payments program, low-income home energy assistance program, child support enforcement, and assistance payments program; (11) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services for services block grants, human development services, child welfare services, work incentives, community services block grants, and department management; (12) the Office of the Inspector General; (13) the Office for Civil Rights; and (14) research studies under the Social Security Act.

Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this title for grants-in-aid to State agencies from being withheld from the agencies of any State which have established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering their employees because of their selection or the rates of pay of such employees.

Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated in this title to pay any recipient of a grant for the conduct of research an amount equal to as much as the entire cost of such research.

Makes specified appropriations in this Act available for expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public Health Service Reserve Corps and in the Regular Corps.

Prohibits the use of any of the 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. Permits the States to remain free not to fund abortions to the extent that they in their sole discretion deem appropriate.

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.

Makes a specified amount of 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 a specified amount of funds appropriated in this title for the Health Care Financing Administration available for official reception and representation expenses.

Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 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 and continuing education; (11) higher education facilities loans and insurance; (12) college housing loans; (13) educational research and statistics; (14) educational, research, and training activities overseas (special foreign currency program); (15) libraries; (16) Special Institutions, the American Printing House for the Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Gallaudet College, and Howard University; (17) the Office for Civil Rights for salaries and expenses; (18) departmental management for salaries and expenses; and (19) the Office of the Inspector General.

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; (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.

Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated in this Act to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools.

Prohibits the use of funds to pay 100 percent of research costs to any grant recipient.

Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to: (1) Action for operating expenses; (2) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the public broadcasting fund; (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 Student Financial Assistance; (7) the National Labor Relations Board; (8) the National Mediation Board; and expenses; (9) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (10) the Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account; (11) the Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring, administration; and (13) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance.

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 Executive Order.

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.

Authorizes the Chairman of the National Mediation Board to make specified funds available for official reception and representation.

Declares that certain provisions of Public Law 97-276 shall be deemed to charge no amount appropriated by specified sections of such public law to any appropriation, fund, or authorization contained in this or any other measure whenever enacted.