H.R. 3293

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

Sponsor	Rep. Obey, David R.
Committee	Appropriations
Date	July 24, 2009 (111th Congress, 1st Session)
Staff Contact	Andy Koenig

The House is scheduled to begin consideration of H.R. 3293, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act of FY 2010 on Friday, July 24, 2009, under a structured rule making five amendments in order.  A complete summary of the amendments made in order will be released when they are available.

 

 

Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education in Millions
	FY 2009	President's Request	H.R. 3293	H.R. 3293 vs. FY 2009	H.R. 3293 vs. Request
Appropriation	152,255,000	161,552,470	163,400,000	11,145,000	1,847,530
Emergency Spending	137,000,000	0	0	137,000,000	0
Total	289,255,000	161,552,470	163,400,000	-125,855,000	1,847,530

 

H.R. 3293 contains a total of $163.4 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $11.1 billion or 7 percent above the non-emergency discretionary spending level for FY 2009.  H.R. 3293 is $1.8 billion above the President's request.

Agencies receiving funding from the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriation already received an additional $127 billion in emergency spending from the "stimulus" bill and $7.7 billion from the FY 2009 emergency supplemental appropriations bill.  Combined, agencies receiving funding under this bill received $289 billion in discretionary funding in FY 2009.

Since 2007, the nation's deficit has exploded by more than ten-fold, from $162 billion in FY 2007 under the Republican's last budget, to $1.8 trillion in FY 2009.  Over that same period of time, funding for programs within this bill have increased 93 percent since the Democrats took over in fiscal year 2007.  Some Members may be concerned the discretionary spending increases in H.R. 3293 are irresponsible given the nation's fiscal crisis and the large amounts of additional funding these agencies have already received.

H.R. 3293 provides funding for the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and a number of other agencies, including the Corporation for Community Service and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  Each of these federal agencies received supplemental funding in FY 2009 in addition to their regular appropriation.

The following is a summary of the spending highlights and other provisions in the bill.

TITLE I-Department of labor

The Department of Labor (DOL) receives $15.9 billion in discretionary spending, a decrease of $1.1 billion from FY 2009.  DOL agencies and programs funded under this title received approximately $4.5 billion in funding from the "stimulus" bill for a total amount of FY 2009 funding of $21.8 billion.  The bill provides $10.6 billion for the Employment and Training Administration, an increase of $1.1 billion or 12 percent over FY 2009.  The Employment and Training Administration also received $4 billion in emergency supplemental spending last fiscal year.

State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operation:  Provides $4.09 billion for Unemployment Insurance State and local operations and Employment Services, which is $402 million or 10 percent above the FY 2009 enacted level.

YouthBuild:  Provides $100 million for YouthBuild, an increase of $30 million or 42.9 percent over FY 2009.  The program provides federal funding for programs for low-income young people ages 16-24 to work toward their GEDs, learn job skills and build affordable housing.  The program also received $50 million in "stimulus" funds.

Green Jobs:  Provides $50 million for "green jobs," which were not funded in FY 2009 but received $500 million in the "stimulus."

Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners:  Provides $225.1 million for this program, $24.9 million below the program level for FY2009.  These funds would be used to provide benefits to coal miners unable to work due to black lung disease and to certain dependants on a monthly basis.

OSHA:  Provides Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) $554 million, an increase of $41 million or 8 percent over FY 2009.

Mine Safety and Health Administration: Provides $353.1 million, which is $6 million more than FY 2009.

Office of Job Corps:  Provides $1.7 billion for the Office of Job Corps, $21 million above FY 2009. The Jobs Corps is a nationwide network of residential facilities chartered by federal law to provide a comprehensive and intensive array of training, job placement, and support services to at-risk young adults.

TITLE II-Department of Health and Human services

The provides $73.7 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an increase of $6 billion or 9 percent over FY 2009.  HHS funding also includes $86.7 billion in advanced appropriations to fund HHS programs in FY 2011.  Advanced appropriations count against the budget cap for the year in which they become available but not in the year the appropriation is made.  As such, advanced appropriations are often employed as a budgetary "gimmick" to hide spending in later years

Title X Family Planning:  Provides $317.4 million for Title X family planning programs, $10 million or 3 percent above FY 2009.  Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, is the largest recipient of Title X.  While the bill prohibits funds from being used to pay for abortions, some Members may be concerned that Planned Parenthood is still allowed to receive funding given that money is fungible, and Title X money therefore allows Planned Parenthood to expand its operations.

Pro-Life Riders:  Retains prohibitions against using funding in the bill to be used for any abortions.

Needle Exchange:  Alters current needle exchange prohibitions to now allow federal funds to pay for needle exchange programs at least 1,000 feet of a public or private day care center, elementary school, vocational school, secondary school, college, junior college, or university.

National Cord Blood Inventory Program:  Provides $11.9 million for the National Cord Blood Inventory Program, the same as the FY 2009 enacted level.

NIH:  Provides $31.2 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an increase of $941 million or 3 percent over FY 2009.

CDC:  Provides $6.6 billion for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an increase of $67 million or 1 percent above FY 2009.

LIHEAP:  Provides $5.1 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which uses federal funds to assists low-income individuals pay their utility bills.  The funding represents an increase of $2.7 billion or 119 percent over FY 2009.

HIV/AIDS:  Provides $2.26 billion for the HIV/AIDS Bureau, an increase of $54 million or 3 percent over FY 2009.

Administration for Children and Families:  Provides $31.5 billion for the Administration for Children and Families, an increase of $5.8 billion or 22 percent above FY 2009.

Child Development Block Grants:  Provides $2.1 billion for Child Development Block Grants, the same level of funding as FY 2009.

Title III-Department of education

H.R. 3293 provides $64.6 billion for the Department of Education (DOE), an increase of $6 billion or 10 percent above FY 2009.  In FY 2009, programs funded through the DOE received billions in funds from supplemental appropriations, including $53.6 billion in State stabilization funds and $12 billion for special education.

Title I:  Provides $14.5 billion for Title I Local Education Agency Grants, the same funding level as last year. 

Student Financial Aid:  Provides $19.6 billion for student financial aid, an increase of $477 million or 2 percent above last year.  The funding includes $17.7 billion for Pell Grants, an increase of $495 million or 3 percent above last fiscal year.  In FY 2009, these programs received an additional $15.6 billion from the "stimulus" bill.

Indian Education:  Provides $132 million for Indian education programs, an increase of $10 million or 8 percent above FY 2009.

Innovation and Improvement:  Provides $1.3 billion for Title I Innovation and Improvement programs, an increase of $356 million or 36 percent over FY 2009.  Programs under this heading include the Troops-to-Teachers and Transition to Teaching programs, the National Writing Project, Charter School Grants, and Magnet Schools Assistance.  These programs received $200 million in FY 2010 from the "stimulus" bill.

Higher Education:  Provides $2.3 billion for Higher Education programs funded under the Student Financial Aid program, an increase of $193 million or 9 percent over FY 2009.

Abstinence Education:  Eliminates funding for abstinence education programs.

Title IV-Related agencies

H.R. 3293 provides $13.9 billion for a number of related agencies also funded through the Labor-HHS appropriations bill.  Combined, discretionary funding for these programs is increased by $1.2 billion or 10 percent. 

Corporation for Community Service:  Provides $1 billion for the Corporation for Community Service, an increase of $169 million or 19 percent.  These programs also received $200 million in the "stimulus" bill.  This spending funds programs such as the Senior Volunteer Program, Volunteers in Service to America and AmeriCorps, which some Members may consider to be taxpayer subsidized paid volunteerism.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting:  Provides $541 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), an increase of $61 million or 13 percent increase.  The CPB is a private corporation that uses taxpayer funds to pay for local television broadcasting that receives private income. 

H.R. 3293 Spending in Thousands

(Please note that the FY 2009 spending levels are based on regularly appropriated funding levels and do not reflect $61.8 billion in FY 2009 emergency spending.  Some scoring methods have based FY 2009 funding on appropriated levels combined with emergency spending.)

Program	FY 2009	H.R. 2892	FY 2009 vs. H.R. 2892	Change
Department of Labor	17,071,276	15,947,622	-1,123,654	-6.6%
Employment and Training Administration	9,404,501	10,600,248	1,195,747	12.7%
Training and Employment Services	3,626,448	3,802,961	176,513	4.9%
YouthBuild	70,000	100,000	30,000	42.9%
State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations	3,694,865	4,097,056	402,191	10.9%
Unemployment Compensation	2,833,455	3,256,955	423,500	14.9%
Program Administration	130,463	146,406	15,943	12.2%
Employee Benefits Security Administration	143,419	154,060	10,641	7.4%
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	444,722	464,067	19,345	4.3%
Employment Standards Administration Salaries and Expenses	440,267	486,756	46,489	10.6%
Occupational Safety and Health Administration	513,042	554,620	41,578	8.1%
Mine Safety and Health Administration	347,003	353,193	6,190	1.8%
Bureau of Labor Statistics	597,182	611,623	14,441	2.4%
Office of Disability Employment Policy	26,679	37,031	10,352	38.8%
Office of Job Corps	1,683,938	1,705,320	21,382	1.3%
Veterans Employment and Training	239,439	257,127	17,688	7.4%
Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services	7,381,802	7,457,074	75,272	1.0%
Bureau of Primary Health Care	2,283,276	2,283,276	0	0.0%
Bureau of Health Professionals	841,692	995,558	153,866	18.3%
Maternal Child and Health Bureau	870,633	882,263	11,630	1.3%
HIV/AIDS Bureau	2,213,421	2,267,414	53,993	2.4%
Healthcare Systems Bureau	89,333	89,333	0	0.0%
Centers for Disease Control	6,614,601	6,681,895	67,294	1.0%
Infectious Diseases	1,947,827	2,030,123	82,296	4.2%
Health Promotion	1,019,708	1,051,694	31,986	3.1%
Health Information	279,356	291,784	12,428	4.4%
Global Health	308,824	323,134	14,310	4.6%
Terrorism Preparedness	1,514,657	1,546,809	32,152	2.1%
National Institutes of Health	30,317,024	31,258,788	941,764	3.1%
Cancer Institute	4,968,973	5,150,170	181,197	3.6%
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute	3,015,698	3,123,403	107,705	3.6%
Diabetes Institute	1,761,338	1,824,251	62,913	3.6%
Stroke Institute	1,593,344	1,650,253	56,909	3.6%
Infectious Diseases Institute	4,402,572	4,559,502	156,930	3.6%
Child Development Institute	1,294,894	1,341,120	46,226	3.6%
Environmental Health Institute	662,820	695,497	32,677	4.9%
Alcohol Abuse Institute	450,230	466,308	16,078	3.6%
Mental Health Institute	1,450,491	1,502,266	51,775	3.6%
Human Genome Institute	502,367	520,311	17,944	3.6%
Minority Health Institute	205,959	213,316	7,357	3.6%
Substance abuse and Mental Health	3,334,906	3,419,438	84,532	2.5%
Total Public Health Services	47,346,440	48,477,690	1,131,250	2.4%
Child Support Payments	4,316,699	4,571,509	254,810	5.9%
LIHEAP	2,320,328	5,100,000	2,779,672	119.8%
Refugee Assistance	633,442	714,968	81,526	12.9%
Child Care Block Grants	2,127,081	2,127,081	0	0.0%
Administration for Children and Families	25,695,644	31,540,820	5,845,176	22.7%
Children and Family Services	9,301,111	9,436,951	135,840	1.5%
Foster Care	4,660,000	4,681,000	21,000	0.5%
Adoption Assistance	2,371,000	2,462,000	91,000	3.8%
Administration on Aging	1,493,843	1,530,881	37,038	2.5%
Office of the Secretary	2,419,299	3,141,183	721,884	29.8%
Department of Education
Education for the Disadvantaged	15,760,086	15,938,215	178,129	1.1%
Local Education Agency Grants	14,492,401	14,492,401	0	0.0%
Impact Aid	1,265,718	1,290,718	25,000	2.0%
School Improvement Programs	5,362,016	5,239,644	-122,372	-2.3%
Indian Education	122,282	132,282	10,000	8.2%
Innovation and Improvement	996,425	1,353,363	356,938	35.8%
Safe Schools	690,370	395,753	-294,617	-42.7%
English Language Acquisition	730,000	760,000	30,000	4.1%
Special Education	12,579,677	12,579,677	0	0.0%
Disability Research	210,811	211,036	225	0.1%
Adult Education	1,944,348	2,016,477	72,129	3.7%
Student Financial Aid	19,156,973	19,634,905	477,932	2.5%
Pell Grants	17,288,000	17,783,395	495,395	2.9%
Higher Education	2,100,150	293,882	-1,806,268	-86.0%
Howard University	234,977	234,977	0	0.0%
Institute of Education Sciences	617,175	664,256	47,081	7.6%
Departmental Management	584,847	615,277	30,430	5.2%
Related Agencies
Corporation for Community Service	889,866	1,059,016	169,150	19.0%
Senior Volunteer Program	213,785	220,900	7,115	3.3%
Volunteers in Service to America	96,050	97,932	1,882	2.0%
AmeriCorps	271,196	331,547	60,351	22.3%
Corporation for Public Broadcasting	479,233	541,000	61,767	12.9%
Total	152,255,000	163,400,000	11,145,000	7.3%

 

 

A CBO score for H.R. 3293 was not available as of press time.  However, the legislation would appropriate $163.4 billion in discretionary funding for FY 2010.