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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FY07 LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL
 
June 7th, 2006 - -
 
Bill Funding:
FY06 Comparable:    $141.088 billion ($460 billion mandatory)
FY07 Budget Request:    $137.794 billion
FY07 Bill:  $141.930 billion ($454.6 billion mandatory spending)
Discretionary spending in the bill will increase a little less than one percent over last year. 
 
Expanding Higher Education Opportunities for Low Income Students
Maximum Pell Grants are increased by $100 to $4150, the highest level in the history of the program and the largest single increase in over five years.  These grants provide portable financial aid for students to utilize at  more than 6000 post-secondary institutions across the country. 
 
Increasing Immunizations for Needy Children
To protect needy children from debilitating and potentially deadly diseases, the bill earmarks a substantial increase to assist states to immunize poor children through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  This increase will enable over 380 thousand children to receive critical immunizations. The bill provides $540 million, $102 million above the request and $70 million above last year. 
Maximizing Access to  Community-Based Health Care
The bill earmarks a record level of funding to expand access to community-based health care.  Total funding provided for Community Health Centers is $2 billion, $206 million above last year and $25 million above the request.  This funding increase will allow the creation or expansion of 300 medical facilities across the country.  These centers will provide high quality health care to rural communities, minority and underserved areas and homeless and needy populations. 
 
Supporting Healthier Neighborhoods and Strengthening Health Care Infrastructure
  • Centers for Disease Control funding is $6.2 billion, within those funds, resources were increased for emerging infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and immunization activities.
  • Health Professions Training—The bill restores devastating cuts in the budget request to critical programs that improve the availability of well-trained health care professionals to underserved areas.  The bill earmarks $313 million, $154 million above the request and $18 million above last year.  The bill also restores a major cut to programs that provide Scholarships to disadvantaged students.  The bill earmarks $47 million for this purpose, the same as last year’s level and $37 million above the President’s requests.  Funds to support graduate level medical programs at Children’s hospital are increased by $3 million over last year and $201 million over the budget request. 
  • Rural Health Programs—In addition to providing record levels of funding for Community Health Centers, the bill rejects many of the Administration’s budget cuts to critical rural health programs and earmarks funds that will expand health care opportunities for rural communities. 
    • Area Health Education Centers—The bill provides $29 million to level fund efforts which establish community- based training programs in rural and underserved areas.  The budget request zero funded for this program.
    • National Health Service Corps—The bill earmarks $132 million to ensure that health professionals are serving in areas where they are needed most.  This is a $6 million increase to both the FY06 and the requested level.
    • Rural Outreach Grants—The bill earmarks $40 million to improve health care services to rural Americans which $1 million above last year and $30 million above the request. 
    • Rural Hospital Flexibility Grants—The bill provides $40 million for these grants, rejecting the Administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for this important program. 
    • Rural Health Research—The bill fully funds the requested level of $9 million to support rural health centers of research.  In addition, the bill rejects the administration’s attempts to terminate the Rural and Community Access to Emergency Devices programs by earmarking $2 million for this initiative. 
    • State Offices of Rural Health—In order to better coordinate a national strategy for rural health care challenges, State Offices of Rural Health are funded at $8 million, slightly above last year and the budget request.
    • Rural Community Facilities program—This program is fully restored to last year’s level of $7 million.
    • Telehealth—The bill includes an increase of $3 million for a funding level of $10 million for telehealth activities.
  • Domestic HIV/AIDS—For the Ryan White AIDS program, the bill provides an increase of $70 million over last year and $25 million below the request with total funding of $2.1 billion.  This increase will permit States to provide needed medications for those with the greatest need.  In addition, the Committee includes $63 million for a new testing initiative at CDC to help stop the spread of this disease through increased levels of testing.
  • National Institutes of Health—Medical research at the National Institutes of Health is funded at a program level of $28.3 billion, slightly above last year’s level and equal to the budget request.  This represents a 120% increase from a decade ago.  The bill fully supports the peer review approach to the distribution of medical research grants by essentially following the NIH’s recommended funding distribution among the various institutes.
  • Child Care and Development Block Grant—The bill fully funds the administration’s $2.1 billion request for this program. 
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is essentially level funded at $2 billion, $329 million above the budget request. 
  • Abstinence Education- Provides level funded of $113 million for community-based abstinence education program.  
  • Social Services Block Grant is level funded at $1.7 billion, an increase of $500 million over the President’s request.

Protecting Priority Education Programs

  • Special Education State Grants are funded at $11.6 billion, $150 million above FY06 and $50 million above the request– almost four times the amount provided in 1995.
  • TRIO funding is restored to last year’s level of $828 million, rejecting the $448 million cut proposed in the President’s budget.  The bill also restores GEAR UP funding to last year’s level of $303 million.  The budget request had proposed to terminate the successful program that fosters partnerships between low income secondary education institutions and community organizations to encourage students to pursue higher education opportunities.
  • Title I grants to States are maintained at $12.7 billion.  This funding has increased almost 50 percent since FY01.  The bill also provides $200 million for a new School Improvement program to helps schools that have not been successful in raising the academic performance of disadvantaged children. 
  • Reading Programs -- Reading programs are level funded at $2 billion, the same as the President’s request.  This funding level will enable states to eliminate the reading deficit through scientific research-based reading programs. 
  • Teacher Incentive Fund—The bill continues a promising new program to develop and implement innovative ways to provide financial incentives for teachers and principals who raise student achievement and close the achievement gap in some of our Nation’s highest-need schools;
  • Competitiveness—Responding to the President’s request, the bill increases funding for math/science partnerships by $43 million and the advanced placement program by $48 million. Overall, $322 million has been provided for American Competitiveness programs. These proven programs will help make the United States more competitive with other industrialized nations by enhancing the number of teachers who are well trained in the fields of math and science and the number of students who take and pass rigorous math and science courses.
  • Vocational Education grants—The bill restores $1.3 billion for State vocational education grants that the President’s budget proposed to eliminate. This program is an important component of --the competitiveness initiative –to ensure ALL students have the high tech skills necessary to succeed.
  • Impact Aid is funded at the requested level of $1.23 billion, the same as last year’s level.
  • Head Start is level funded at $6.8 billion, $3 million above the request.
  • Safe and Drug Free Schools State Assistance is funded at $310 million which restores these programs from their proposed elimination the budget request. 
Other Items
  • The bill terminates 56 programs for a savings of $1.66 billion. 
  • The bill provides approximately $1 billion for Member projects, $100 million less than previous, comparable levels and less than 1% of the total funding in the bill. 
  • Maintains current law on all abortion restrictions.
 
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