Sentences with phrase «annual appropriations acts»
Since Fiscal Year 1979, annual appropriations acts have prohibited the Peace Corps from covering abortion services for its volunteers and trainees, even in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment.
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Among them is making progress on legislation at the top of congressional priorities — appropriations bills for FY2018 (which begins on October 1) and the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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.
The General Appropriations Act provides funding for Florida's Gardiner Scholarship Program and specifies the annual amount.
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.
This discretionary grant program was not established by authorization legislation but rather the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, thus it is dependent upon annual appropriations from Congress for future rounds of funding.
Their joint annual letters to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee have been remarkably effective — for example, more than tripling funding for the Animal Welfare Act (which requires basic standards of care for millions of animals at breeding operations, laboratories, zoos, and other facilities) from $ 9 million per year in the 1990s to $ 30.8 million in FY18, despite challenging budget constraints.
MIECHV was initially created as part of the Affordable Care Act, with a five - year window that grew its annual appropriation to $ 400 million.
Its rise to a program with annual appropriations of $ 400 million came in the passage of the Affordable Care Act.