CONSOLIDATED AND FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
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Public Law 113-235
113th Congress
An Act
Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2015, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 16, 2014 - [H.R. 83]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Consolidated and
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015.>>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Consolidated and Further Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2015''.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
Sec. 4. Explanatory statement.
Sec. 5. Statement of appropriations.
Sec. 6. Availability of funds.
Sec. 7. Technical allowance for estimating differences.
Sec. 8. Adjustments to compensation.
Sec. 9. Study of electric rates in the insular areas.
Sec. 10. Amendments to the Consolidated Natural Resources Act.
Sec. 11. Payments in lieu of taxes.
DIVISION A--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Agricultural Programs
Title II--Conservation Programs
Title III--Rural Development Programs
Title IV--Domestic Food Programs
Title V--Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
Title VI--Related Agency and Food and Drug Administration
Title VII--General Provisions
Title VIII--Ebola Response and Preparedness
DIVISION B--COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of Commerce
Title II--Department of Justice
Title III--Science
Title IV--Related Agencies
Title V--General Provisions
Title VI--Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014
Title VII--Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014
DIVISION C--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Military Personnel
Title II--Operation and Maintenance
Title III--Procurement
Title IV--Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
Title V--Revolving and Management Funds
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Title VI--Other Department of Defense Programs
Title VII--Related Agencies
Title VIII--General Provisions
Title IX--Overseas Contingency Operations
Title X--Ebola Response and Preparedness
DIVISION D--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Corps of Engineers--Civil
Title II--Department of the Interior
Title III--Department of Energy
Title IV--Independent Agencies
Title V--General Provisions
DIVISION E--FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of the Treasury
Title II--Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to
the President
Title III--The Judiciary
Title IV--District of Columbia
Title V--Independent Agencies
Title VI--General Provisions--This Act
Title VII--General Provisions--Government-Wide
Title VIII--General Provisions--District of Columbia
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of the Interior
Title II--Environmental Protection Agency
Title III--Related Agencies
Title IV--General Provisions
DIVISION G--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND
EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
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--Ebola Response and Preparedness
DIVISION H--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Legislative Branch
Title II--General Provisions
DIVISION I--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of Defense
Title II--Department of Veterans Affairs
Title III--Related Agencies
Title IV--Overseas Contingency Operations
Title V--General Provisions
DIVISION J--DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED
PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of State and Related Agency
Title II--United States Agency for International Development
Title III--Bilateral Economic Assistance
Title IV--International Security Assistance
Title V--Multilateral Assistance
Title VI--Export and Investment Assistance
Title VII--General Provisions
Title VIII--Overseas Contingency Operations
Title IX--Ebola Response and Preparedness
DIVISION K--TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
Title I--Department of Transportation
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Title II--Department of Housing and Urban Development
Title III--Related Agencies
Title IV--General Provisions--This Act
DIVISION L--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, 2015
DIVISION M--EXPATRIATE HEALTH COVERAGE CLARIFICATION ACT OF 2014
DIVISION N--OTHER MATTERS
DIVISION O--MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION REFORM
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of Contents.
TITLE I--MODIFICATIONS TO MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN RULES
Subtitle A--Amendments to Pension Protection Act of 2006
Sec. 101. Repeal of sunset of PPA funding rules.
Sec. 102. Election to be in critical status.
Sec. 103. Clarification of rule for emergence from critical status.
Sec. 104. Endangered status not applicable if no additional action is
required.
Sec. 105. Correct endangered status funding improvement plan target
funded percentage.
Sec. 106. Conforming endangered status and critical status rules during
funding improvement and rehabilitation plan adoption periods.
Sec. 107. Corrective plan schedules when parties fail to adopt in
bargaining.
Sec. 108. Repeal of reorganization rules for multiemployer plans.
Sec. 109. Disregard of certain contribution increases for withdrawal
liability purposes.
Sec. 110. Guarantee for pre-retirement survivor annuities under
multiemployer pension plans.
Sec. 111. Required disclosure of multiemployer plan information.
Subtitle B--Multiemployer Plan Mergers and Partitions
Sec. 121. Mergers.
Sec. 122. Partitions of eligible multiemployer plans.
Subtitle C--Strengthening the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Sec. 131. Premium increases for multiemployer plans.
TITLE II--REMEDIATION MEASURES FOR DEEPLY TROUBLED PLANS
Sec. 201. Conditions, limitations, distribution and notice requirements,
and approval process for benefit suspensions under
multiemployer plans in critical and declining status.
DIVISION P--OTHER RETIREMENT-RELATED MODIFICATIONS
Sec. 1. Substantial cessation of operations.
Sec. 2. Clarification of the normal retirement age.
Sec. 3. Application of cooperative and small employer charity pension
plan rules to certain charitable employers whose primary
exempt purpose is providing services with respect to
children.
DIVISION Q--BUDGETARY EFFECTS
Sec. 1. Budgetary Effects.
SEC. 3. <<NOTE: 1 USC 1 note.>> REFERENCES.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to ``this
Act'' contained in any division of this Act shall be treated as
referring only to the provisions of that division.
SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT.
The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House
of Representatives section of the Congressional Record on or about
December 11, 2014 by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of
the House, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of
funds and implementation of divisions A through K of this Act as if it
were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
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SEC. 5. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2015.
SEC. 6. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(a) Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available only
if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and
transmits such designations to the Congress.
(b) Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress for Overseas
Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 shall be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the
President subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such
designations to the Congress.
SEC. 7. TECHNICAL ALLOWANCE FOR ESTIMATING DIFFERENCES.
If, for fiscal year 2015, new budget authority provided in
appropriations Acts exceeds the discretionary spending limit for any
category set forth in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 due to estimating differences with
the Congressional Budget Office, an adjustment to the discretionary
spending limit in such category for fiscal year 2015 shall be made by
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the amount of the
excess but the total of all such adjustments shall not exceed 0.2
percent of the sum of the adjusted discretionary spending limits for all
categories for that fiscal year.
SEC. 8. <<NOTE: 2 USC 4501 note.>> ADJUSTMENTS TO COMPENSATION.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no adjustment shall be
made under section 610(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
(2 U.S.C. 31) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members of
Congress) during fiscal year 2015.
SEC. 9. <<NOTE: 48 USC 1492a.>> STUDY OF ELECTRIC RATES IN THE
INSULAR AREAS.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Comprehensive energy plan.--The term ``comprehensive
energy plan'' means a comprehensive energy plan prepared and
updated under subsections (c) and (e) of section 604 of the Act
entitled ``An Act to authorize appropriations for certain
insular areas of the United States, and for other purposes'',
approved December 24, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1492).
(2) Energy action plan.--The term ``energy action plan''
means the plan required by subsection (d).
(3) Freely associated states.--The term ``Freely Associated
States'' means the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic
of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
(4) Insular areas.--The term ``insular areas'' means
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
(5) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of the Interior.
(6) Team.--The term ``team'' means the team established by
the Secretary under subsection (b).
(b) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, within the Empowering
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Insular Communities activity, establish a team of technical, policy, and
financial experts--
(1) to develop an energy action plan addressing the energy
needs of each of the insular areas and Freely Associated States;
and
(2) to assist each of the insular areas and Freely
Associated States in implementing such plan.
(c) Participation of Regional Utility Organizations.--In
establishing the team, the Secretary shall consider including regional
utility organizations.
(d) Energy Action Plan.--In accordance with subsection (b), the
energy action plan shall include--
(1) recommendations, based on the comprehensive energy plan
where applicable, to--
(A) reduce reliance and expenditures on fuel shipped
to the insular areas and Freely Associated States from
ports outside the United States;
(B) develop and utilize domestic fuel energy
sources; and
(C) improve performance of energy infrastructure and
overall energy efficiency;
(2) a schedule for implementation of such recommendations
and identification and prioritization of specific projects;
(3) a financial and engineering plan for implementing and
sustaining projects; and
(4) benchmarks for measuring progress toward implementation.
(e) Reports to Secretary.--Not later than 1 year after the date on
which the Secretary establishes the team and annually thereafter, the
team shall submit to the Secretary a report detailing progress made in
fulfilling its charge and in implementing the energy action plan.
(f) Annual Reports to Congress.--Not later than 30 days after the
date on which the Secretary receives a report submitted by the team
under subsection (e), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a summary of the report of the team.
(g) Approval of Secretary Required.--The energy action plan shall
not be implemented until the Secretary approves the energy action plan.
SEC. 10. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSOLIDATED NATURAL RESOURCES ACT.
Section 6 of Public Law 94-241 <<NOTE: 48 USC 1806.>> (90 Stat.
263; 122 Stat. 854) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``December 31, 2014,
except as provided in subsections (b) and (d)'' and inserting
``December 31, 2019''; and
(2) in subsection (d)--
(A) in the third sentence of paragraph (2), by
striking ``not to extend beyond December 31, 2014,
unless extended pursuant to paragraph 5 of this
subsection'' and inserting `` `ending on December 31,
2019' '';
(B) by striking paragraph (5); and
(C) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (5).
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SEC. 11. PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES.
(a) For payments in lieu of taxes under chapter 69 of title 31,
United States Code, for fiscal year 2015, $372,000,000 shall be
available to the Secretary of the Interior.
(b) The amount made available in subsection (a) shall be in addition
to amounts made available for payments in lieu of taxes by the Carl
Levin and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2015.
DIVISION <<NOTE: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015.>> A--
AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015
TITLE III <<NOTE: Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2015.>>
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, and
the Helen Keller National Center Act, $3,709,853,000, of which
$3,335,074,000 shall be for grants for vocational rehabilitation
services under title I of the Rehabilitation Act: Provided, That the
Secretary may use amounts provided in this Act that remain available
subsequent to the reallotment of funds to States pursuant to section
110(b) of the Rehabilitation Act for innovative activities aimed at
improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities as defined in
section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act, including activities aimed
at improving the education and post-school outcomes of children
receiving Supplemental Security Income (``SSI'') and their families that
may result in long-term improvement in the SSI child recipient's
economic status and self-sufficiency: Provided further, That States may
award subgrants for a portion of the funds to other public and private,
non-profit entities: Provided further, That any funds made available
subsequent to reallotment for innovative activities aimed at improving
the outcomes of individuals with disabilities shall remain available
until September 30, 2016: Provided further, That $2,000,000 shall be
for competitive grants to support alternative financing programs that
provide for the purchase of assistive technology devices, such as a low-
interest loan fund; an interest buy-down program; a revolving loan fund;
a loan guarantee; or insurance program: Provided further, That
applicants shall provide an assurance that, and information describing
the manner in which, the alternative financing program will expand and
emphasize consumer choice and control: Provided further, That State
agencies and community-based disability organizations that are directed
by and operated for individuals with disabilities shall be eligible to
compete.
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