Sentences with phrase «annual appropriation»

MIECHV was initially created as part of the Affordable Care Act, with a five - year window that grew its annual appropriation to $ 400 million.

The annual appropriation process, at least in the form it has taken in recent years, is not suitable to support research in energy innovation.

In fact, President Obama proposes changing Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — of which NCLB is just the most recent reauthorization — to a program called «College - and Career - Ready Students,» with an annual appropriation of over $ 14 billion.

Subject to available funding, the Legislature shall provide an annual appropriation to the State Board of Education to be allocated to Florida College System institution presidents, faculty, and administrative personnel to further enhance equity initiatives and related priorities that support the mission of colleges and departments in recognition of the attainment of the equity goals and objectives.

But even that provision has met with mixed reaction, as charter advocates say it's unfair to tie charter growth to an uncertain, annual appropriation.

As such, the president anticipated a quarter - billion - dollar annual appropriation.

Last year, the Canadian government axed its $ 2 million annual appropriation, gave notice that it planned to start tearing down structures in September, shifted its staff of 16 to the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, and hired security guards to keep scientists off the site after 31 March.

NSF, whose stimulus windfall equals about half the agency's annual appropriation, will also direct much of it to approved but as - yet - unfunded grants, sources say.

«There is a lot of talk now about what can be done to avoid a boom and bust,» says Wonk, who sees «a good chance that this will reset the baseline» for NIH's annual appropriation.

The governor said the state will provide $ 254 million in operating aid to fully fund its half of the cost using $ 194 million in previously unallocated monetary settlements and the accelerated transfer of Payroll Mobility Tax revenue to the MTA by eliminating the need for the $ 60 million annual appropriation.

The spending bill combines six of the 12 annual appropriation bills for the 2010 budget year that began Oct. 1.

New York receives about $ 140 million a year from the fund's annual appropriation of about $ 526 million.

Last year, for the first time in 3 years, this body increased our annual appropriation by $ 500,000, and we used those funds to expand hours of public access, especially at libraries that had failed to meet New York State minimum standards in 2006.

Discretionary spending requires an annual appropriation bill, which is a piece of legislation.

Some of these activities are covered by an annual appropriation from Ottawa.

On - budget: Government programs that are generally subject to annual appropriations, and therefore susceptible to spending cuts or increases.

Discretionary spending: Spending decided upon by Congress through the annual appropriations process.

This is mostly done through adding work requirements into welfare programs, moving food stamps into the annual appropriations process and block granting them, and making other changes to income security programs to reduce spending.

House Appropriations Committee The House Appropriations Committee holds jurisdiction over the annual appropriations process.

Senate Appropriations Committee The Senate Appropriations Committee holds jurisdiction over the annual appropriations process.

To continue to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school meals and other federal child nutrition programs, this provision will need to appear in subsequent annual appropriations bills, or it will need to be included in the five - year child nutrition reauthorization bill in 2015.

In the context of shutdown furloughs, the term «excepted» is used to refer to employees who are funded through annual appropriations who are nonetheless excepted from the furlough because they are performing work that, by law, may continue to be performed during a lapse in appropriations.

It would convert the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into an executive agency funded by annual appropriations and would modify operations at the Federal Reserve and at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Such bills have become a regular feature of government as Congress has had difficulty completing the regular annual appropriations bills in a timely way.

And there's a case to be made that continuity in essential services requires something beyond the vagaries of annual appropriations.

But subsequent budget requests from two administrations, annual appropriations, and legislation stretched out that doubling trajectory from seven years to anywhere from 11 to more than 18 years.

Much appears to depend on Specter, who retains his long - standing devotion to NIH and who, according to The New York Times, has called $ 40 billion, rather than the current $ 30 billion — the new starting point for negotiations on NIH annual appropriations — the new baseline.

That funding could be folded into the annual appropriations bill to fund the National Institutes of Health or be part of several measures aimed at speeding medical innovation that Congress may take up after the election.

But the way the government works — as we who have been in the government have come to understand — is by annual appropriations.

The House version of 21st Century Cures includes $ 8.75 billion in so - called mandatory spending for NIH, dedicated money not subject to annual appropriations which would be provided by selling oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

But he predicts «it will be a lightning rod» for criticism in the Senate, where 60 votes are typically needed to advance annual appropriations bills.

The minibus moniker is a play on the «omnibus» tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.

Late last year, lawmakers approved 11 of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the federal government.

Among the options: moving to multiyear funding, instead of annual appropriations, and dedicating certain revenue streams to NIH.

The legislation contains full funding for fiscal year 2015 for 11 of the 12 regular annual Appropriations bills, with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The assorted cuts described above and below are facilitated by changes to the current discretionary spending caps, which dictate the size of annual appropriations each year, and which contain nearly all defense and nondefense science and technology investments.

The bill includes full Appropriations legislation and funding for the remaining 11 annual Appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2017.

It created a 10 - year pot of money — to be used for specific initiatives at NIH — that has a mandated funding stream that is not subject to the annual appropriations process.

The bill includes full Appropriations legislation and funding for 11 of the 12 annual Appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2015.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

Only a small subset of agencies are not affected by OMB's approval lever: those that are largely self - funded and obtain their budgets from non-governmental sources rather than the annual appropriations process.172 But these agencies are exceptions rather than the norm.173 The approval lever is generally applicable to and influential in both independent and executive agencies.

Congress, which had demanded the independent review, set $ 8 billion as the cost cap for development in law, which it has repeated every year in NASA's annual appropriations bill.

To ensure program continuity and expansion without relying on annual appropriations, grantees must identify a...

Rep. John A. Boehner, R - Ohio, made one thing perfectly clear last week: Any attempt to move special education funding from the «discretionary» to the «mandatory» side of the federal budget, a stratagem designed to shield special education from the annual appropriations process, would be a deal breaker on the reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

In Florida, the state funds ESAs through separate annual appropriations and private school scholarship organizations are responsible for the accounts» implementation.

While FLVS's political support was impressive, the annual appropriations funding mechanism not only was risky — it was subject to year - to - year budget decisions — but also essentially capped growth.

It comes five years after a new majority in the legislature axed annual appropriations for the Teaching Fellows program, which offered college scholarships to budding teachers in exchange for a four - year commitment to teach in North Carolina.

And it is cleaner when it comes to funding, as we just watch federal funding streams and an annual appropriations bill that has stayed relatively level - funded for much of the past few years.

«Continued inaction by Congress to resolve sequestration, to complete annual appropriations and to reconcile differences between House and Senate budget proposals means that the nation's public schools are funded at pre-2004 levels — at a time when they are educating an additional five million - plus students.