Special Report: House FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations and California Implications – August 2009
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Related Agencies – Institute of Museum & Library Services
Related Agencies – Social Security Administration
On July, 24, 2009, the House of Representatives approved the FY2010 Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. The bill passed by a vote of 264 to 153. As passed by the Committee, the bill provides $160.654 billion, compared to the President’s request of $160.706 billion, and the FY2009 allocation of $155.049 billion. The Committee has provided discretionary programs $160.7 billion, $5.6 billion above the comparable 2009 level for discretionary accounts including offsets for 2010; mandatory programs have been provided $567 billion, $48.3 billion above 2009.The following is a quick analysis of the bill from a California perspective prepared by the California Institute. The ordering of items generally reflects their appearance in the bill and does not mean to imply any relative importance.
DEPARTMENT OF LABORFor dislocated worker employment and training activities, including training and supportive services to workers affected by mass layoffs and plant closures, the Committee provides $1.4 billion, $14.1 million below the President’s request and $57 million above FY2009.
YouthBuild was provided $100 million, $14.5 million below the President’s request and $30 million above 2009, to expand the program..$50 million, the same as the President’s request, was provided for a new transitional jobs initiative based on an employment strategy to help noncustodial parents and workers who face substantial barriers to entering the workforce.
The Committee has provided $50 million, the same as the President’s request, for green jobs to prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy.The Career Pathways Innovation Fund is provided $135 million, $10 million above 2009, for new competitive grants to community colleges and partnerships with local adult education providers for career pathways to prepare workers for careers in high-demand and emerging industries. The Committee directs that approximately half of these funds, $65 million, must be used to train workers for careers in the health care sector, with a focus on nursing professions.
The Committee provides $615 million, $40 million above the President’s request and $43.5 million above 2009, to provide community service opportunities for nearly 100,000 low-income seniors.
$3.2 billion, the same as the President’s request and $423.5 million above 2009, is provided to help States process unemployment insurance claims.The Committee provides $265 million, $10 million above the President’s request and $25.7 million above 2009, to maximize employment and training opportunities for veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce, and to protect their employment rights. This amount includes $257 million for Department of Labor and $8 million in the Department of Education for a new Centers of Excellence for Veterans Success initiative to establish college and university-based support centers for veterans seeking to obtain a post-secondary education.
$1.5 billion, $28 million below the President’s request and $105 million above 2009, is provided to support up to 600 new full-time equivalent enforcement and compliance positions (an increase of 13 percent) at the Employment Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Employment Standards Administration (ESA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MHSA).
California Specific Congressionally Designated Projects: Department of LaborDepartment of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA) – Training & Employment Services (TES)
-Center for Employment Training, San Jose, CA for training dislocated workers and out-of-school youth for green jobs $350,000 (Lofgren, Zoe)
– City of East Palo Alto, CA for workforce training in green jobs $600,000 (Eshoo)
– City of Richmond, CA for the Richmond BUILD Pre-apprenticeship Construction Skills & Solar Installation Training Program $500,000 (Miller, George)
– Conservation Corps of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA for a job training program for at risk youth $225,000 (Sanchez, Linda)
-Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc., Oakland, CA for pre-apprentice construction training for solar and green jobs $275,000 (Lee)
-Duke Media Foundation, Hollywood, CA for career exploration and training for at-risk youth for jobs in filmmaking $100,000 (Watson)
-Fighting Back Partnership, Vallejo, CA for workforce recidivism services for state parolees to reduce recidivism $250,000 (Miller, George)
-Filipino-American Service Group, Los Angeles, CA for case management and job training for homeless individuals $250,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– Give Every Child A Chance, Manteca, CA for employment mentoring $500,000 (McNerney)
– Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, CA for solar panel installation training and certification for at-risk young individuals in Los Angeles $300,000 (Roybal-Allard)
-Los Angeles Community College District/Valley College, Valley Glen, CA for workforce development in energy efficiency and green technology fields $300,000 (Berman)
– People for the Parks, Venice, CA for a program to train at-risk youth to maintain and operate sustainable parks $165,000 (Becerra)
-West Los Angeles College, Culver City, CA for the Pathways to 21st Century Careers program $600,000 (Watson)
-Youth Radio, Oakland, CA for training of at-risk youth in media
production, digital technology
and broadcast engineering $250,000 (Lee)
DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
$530 million, $1.6 million above the President’s request and $137 million above 2009, is provided to support the training of students across the health professions and nursing fields. Within this total, the bill includes a $92 million increase for nurse training.
The Committee provides $75 million, the same as the President’s request and 2009 for State Health Access Grants. A second year of grants for this new program is an important transition to national health care reform. States can use this funding to expand coverage for segments of their population to test ideas before a national coverage system takes effect.
National Institutes of Health
NIH is provided $31.3 billion, $500 million above the President’s request and $942 million above 2009, for biomedical research.
Centers for Disease Control$6.7 billion, $38 million above the President’s request and $67 million above 2009, is provided for the discretionary public health programs administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Increases are provided for a number of CDC programs, including:
– $53 million increase to support testing of up to 600,000 persons for HIV and to link HIV positive individuals with health services;
– $14 million increase to ensure continued collection of accurate core data on the health status of the U.S. population and the use of health services in order to gauge the success of health systems reform;
– $11 million increase for public health research and surveillance to reduce the approximately 170,000 deaths per year in the U.S. caused by infectious disease; and
– $10 million increase for global immunization, which CDC estimates will lead to 25,000 fewer global measles-related deaths in fiscal year 2010.
$1 billion, $22 million above the President’s request and $39 million above 2009, for mental health services programs administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Increases are provided for a number of mental health services programs, including a:
– $17 million increase for Children’s Mental Health to provide 11,000 additional children who have mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders with community-based care and supports;
– $8 million increase for State homelessness grants to provide an estimated 11,000 additional homeless and seriously mentally ill individuals with community-based support services; and
– $7 million increase to double an initiative that integrates primary and behavioral health care for an estimated 3 million Americans with severe mental illnesses.
Substance abuse prevention and treatment programs are provided $2.4 billion, $46 million above 2009 and $3 million above the President’s request, to be administered by SAMHSA. Increases are provided for SAMHSA’s criminal justice portfolio, as follows:
– $35 million increase for treatment drug courts to provide 5,200 additional individuals involved in juvenile, family, or adult drug courts with needed substance abuse treatment and recovery support services, including the provision of social services for an estimated 870 children with methamphetamine-addicted parents; and
– $15 million increase for the ex-offender re-entry program to provide 1,800 additional ex-offenders with substance abuse treatment services upon their return to the community.
$204 million, $23 million above the President’s request and $34 million above 2009, is provided for Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) research and prevention. The Committee bill includes:
– $5 million total for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Secretary to coordinate and integrate HAI-related activities across the Department and continue a national media campaign for health care providers and consumers launched in fiscal year 2009.
$11 million above 2009 for CDC’s emerging infectious diseases portfolio, which includes HAIs, for expanded surveillance, public health research, and prevention activities and $5 million above 2009 to expand the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network for increased HAI surveillance in hospitals.
– $54 million above 2009 within Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for enhanced State inspections in nursing homes and other medical facilities where HAIs are rising, giving inspectors’ greater opportunities to identify infection control problems. The Committee also directs CMS to include additional infection control measures in its hospital performance reporting system, Hospital Compare, and its “pay for performance” and “pay for reporting” systems.
– $18 million above 2009 in AHRQ for nationwide implementation of evidence-based HAI prevention training in over 5,000 hospitals.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance$5.1 billion, $1.9 billion above the President’s request and the same as 2009, is provided for the LIHEAP Program.
Head Start is provided $7.2 billion, the same as the request and $122 million above 2009.
Services for the Elderly
$1.5 billion, $37 million above the President’s request and 2009, to boost nutrition, transportation, and other supportive services for elderly Americans.
California Specific Congressionally Designated Projects: Health & Human Services
Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) –Child Abuse Prevention:
-County of Contra Costa, Martinez, CA for an initiative for children and adolescents exposed to domestic violence $350,000 (Tauscher; McNerney)
-University of California, Merced/The Great Valley Center, Merced, CA for child abuse prevention education services $300,000 (Cardoza)
Social Services:
-Asian Pacific Women, Los Angeles, CA for a domestic violence prevention and education initiative $50,000 (Schiff)
-Beyond Shelter, Los Angeles, CA for a crisis intervention demonstration project $400,000 Waters
-Chabad of South Bay, Lomita, CA for a project to improve services for youth and families in crisis $370,000 (Harman)
-City of Emeryville, CA for early childhood development, counseling, and related services $250,000 (Lee)
– City of San Jose, CA for a pilot program to evaluate and assess the Smart Start childcare model $284,000 (Honda)
– First 5 Alameda County, San Leandro, CA for its children’s screening, assessment, referral, and treatment initiative $500,000 (Stark)
– Homeless Prenatal Program, San Francisco CA for case management and supportive services $400,000 (Pelosi)
– Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco, CA for homeless and runaway youth services $300,000 (Pelosi)
– Monterey County Probation Department, Salinas, CA for the Silver Star Gang Prevention and Intervention Program $750,000 (Farr)
– Salvation Army San Bernardino Center for Worship and Service, San Bernardino, CA for the Support Family Services Program $160,000 (Lewis)
– Santa Clara Family Health Plan, Campbell, CA for a program to transfer medically fragile and severely developmentally disabled individuals from an institutional setting $300,000 (Honda)
– SingleStop USA, San Francisco, CA for a program to increase low-income households’ access to social services $100,000 (Pelosi)
– YWCA of Monterey County, Monterey, CA for expansion of direct services and prevention programs to combat domestic and gang violence $250,000 (Farr)
Administration on Aging (AOA):
– City of Fremont, CA for training, coordination, and outreach to address the needs of seniors $150,000 (Stark)
– City of Long Beach, CA for a program to coordinate senior services and activities within the region $100,000 (Richardson)
– County of Ventura, CA for an elder abuse prevention and treatment program $654,000 (Gallegly)
– Family Caregiver Alliance, San Francisco, CA for a National Resource Center on Family Caregiving $500,000 (Pelosi)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
– Alameda County Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, Oakland, CA for an HIV/AIDS prevention and testing initiative $300,000 (Lee)
– County of Marin, San Rafael, CA for research and analysis related to breast cancer incidence and mortality in the county and breast cancer screening $200,000 (Woolsey)
– Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA for a youth obesity prevention program $150,000 (Sanchez, Loretta)
– Lupus LA, Los Angeles, CA for increasing public awareness of lupus $250,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– Padres Contra El Cancer, Los Angeles, CA for educational resources and outreach programs to serve families with children with cancer $250,000 (Berman)
– Watts Healthcare Corporation, Los Angeles, CA for a project to improve breastfeeding rates $250,000 (Sanchez, Linda)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
-Research & Demonstration County of Ventura Health Care Agency, Ventura, CA for Medicaid enrollment programs $200,000 (Capps)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – Health Facilities and Services
– Arcadia Methodist Hospital, Arcadia, CA for an electronic medical records initiative $750,000 (Dreier)
– Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA for facilities and equipment $275,000 (Lee)
– California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA for nursing curriculum development, including purchase of equipment $195,000 (Gallegly)
– California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA for facilities and equipment $100,000 (Bono Mack)
– California State University, Bakersfield, CA for purchase of equipment $150,000 (McCarthy)
– California State University, Long Beach, Department of Nursing, Long Beach, CA for nursing programs $200,000 (Rohrabacher)
– Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (Pelosi)
– Clinica Sierra Vista, Bakersfield, CA for facilities and equipment $550,000 (Costa)
– Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, Inc., Brawley, CA for facilities and equipment $400,000 (Filner)
– Community Health Alliance of Pasadena, Pasadena, CA for facilities and equipment $100,000 (Schiff)
– Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (Bono Mack)
– El Proyecto del Barrio Inc., Arleta, CA for facilities and equipment for a community health clinic in Winnetka, CA $300,000 (Sherman)
– Frank R. Howard Foundation, Willits, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (Thompson)
– Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA for facilities and equipment $400,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Valencia, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (McKeon)
– Indian Health Center of Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA for facilities and equipment $300,000 (Honda)
– Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (Richardson)
– Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA for health professions training $300,000 (Waters)
– Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Capps)
– Petaluma Health Center, Petaluma, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Woolsey)
– Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Schiff)
– Redlands Community Hospital, Redlands, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Lewis)
– Riverside Community College District, Riverside, CA for facilities and equipment $150,000 (Bono Mack; Calvert)
– Riverside County Regional Medical Center, Moreno Valley, CA for facilities and equipment $400,000 (Calvert)
– Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, San Clemente, CA for an electronic medical records initiative $150,000 (Calvert)
– San Antonio Community Hospital, Upland, CA for facilities and equipment $750,000 (Dreier)
– San Francisco Human Services Agency, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment for the Child Advocacy Center $350,000 (Pelosi)
– San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment for health professions training $500,000 (Pelosi)
– San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital, Banning, CA for facilities and equipment $340,000 (Lewis)
– San Luis Obispo County Community College District, San Luis Obispo, CA for facilities and equipment $100,000 (McCarthy)
– San Ysidro Health Center, San Ysidro, CA for facilities and equipment $250,000 (Filner)
– Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, San Jose, CA for facilities and equipment $292,000 (Honda)
– St. Bernardine Medical Center, San Bernardino, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Lewis)
– St. Bernardine Medical Center, San Bernardino, CA for facilities and equipment for an MRI system $500,000 (Baca)
– St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Pelosi)
– St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, CA for facilities and equipment $350,000 (Thompson)
-University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA for facilities and equipment $3,400,000 (Calvert; Baca; Bono Mack; Lewis)
– University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA for facilities and equipment for the surgery and emergency services pavilion $375,000 (Matsui)
-University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA for health professions training $500,000 (Davis)
– Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys, CA for facilities and equipment $300,000 (Berman)
– Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA for facilities and equipment $300,000 (Rohrabacher)
– White Memorial Medical Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles, CA for facilities and equipment $500,000 (Roybal-Allard)
Office of the Secretary (OS)-Research & Demonstration (including Minority & Women’s Health)
– South Central Family Health Center, Los Angeles, CA for a community diabetes management initiative $100,000 (Becerra)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Mental Health:
– American Combat Veterans of War, San Diego, CA for mental health services for returning veterans $175,000 (Filner)
– Foothill Family Service, Pasadena, CA for mental health services to children ages 0-5 and parenting education that supports the services provided to the children $200,000 (Napolitano)
– Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services, Pasadena, CA for mental health and emotional support services for children of the terminally ill during the illness and after the death $100,000 (Schiff)
– Pacific Clinics, Arcadia, CA for mental health and suicide prevention programs for adolescents $500,000 (Napolitano)
– Young & Healthy, Pasadena, CA for mental health care for children who are uninsured or underinsured $100,000 (Schiff)
Substance Abuse Prevention:
– Betty Ford Institute, Palm Springs, CA for a substance abuse prevention and training initiative $250,000 (Bono Mack)
Substance Abuse Treatment:
– San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA for mental health and substance abuse services for homeless veterans $750,000 (Pelosi)
$545 million, the same as 2009, is provided to assist approximately 13,000 schools across the country with chronically poor academic performance.
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) – $446 million, $41 million below the President’s request and $349 million above 2009, is provided.
Charter Schools – $256 million, $12 million below the President’s request and $40 million above the fiscal year 2009, is provided to support the start-up of over 1,300 new charter schools in fiscal year 2010. The bill also includes new accountability measures to ensure that new charter schools are successful.
$146 million, more than tripling the 2009 funding level, is provided to help struggling adolescents build their literacy skills, start a new early reading comprehensive initiative, and improve the integration of reading initiatives across the Department of Education.
The High School Graduation Initiative is provided $50 million to target assistance on high school “dropout factories” – schools that disproportionately contribute to the nation’s dropout crisis, as proposed by the Administration.
$11.5 billion, the same as the President’s request, building on $11.3 billion in the Recovery Act is provided to support programs under the Individuals With Disabilities Act.
Adult education programs are provided $628 million, the same as the President’s request and $74 million above 2009, through Adult Basic Literacy Education State Grants.
Pell Grants
In fiscal year 2009, the Committee provided a $619 increase in the maximum Pell award, to $5,350. The bill maintains the discretionary portion of the maximum Pell Grant award at $4,860, which, combined with a mandatory supplement of $690, will support a $5,550 maximum Pell Grant in fiscal year 2010, an increase of $200 over the 2009 award level.
The TRIO and GEAR UP programs are provided $868 million and $333 million respectively. The Committee has provided $20 million above the fiscal year 2009 funding level and the budget request for each program.
California Specific Congressionally Designated Projects: Department of EducationElementary & Secondary Education (includes FIE)
– Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation, San Diego, CA for an after-school science education program, which may include equipment and technology $200,000 (Davis)
– California State University, Northridge, CA for teacher training and professional development $400,000 (Sherman)
– Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA for an outreach program to encourage minorities to consider health care careers $250,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– City of Bell, CA for an after-school program, which may include equipment and technology $200,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– City of Fairfield, CA for an after-school and job-skills training program $350,000 (Tauscher)
– City of La Habra, CA for the Young at Art program $148,000 (Miller, Gary)
– City of Newark, CA for an after-school program $50,000 StarkCity of La Habra, CA for the Young at Art program $148,000 (Miller, Gary)
– Costa Child Care Council, Concord, CA for an $100,000 (Miller, George)
– East Los Angeles Classic Theater, Los Angeles, CA for an arts education program $150,000 (Roybal-Allard)
– East Whittier City School District, Whittier, CA for support services for at-risk students, which may include equipment and technology $225,000 (Sanchez, Linda)
– Eden Housing, Hayward, CA for a technology training program, which may include equipment and technology $100,000 (Eshoo)
– Franklin McKinley School District, San Jose, CA for an academic enrichment and college preparation program, which may include equipment and technology $180,000 (Honda)
– Girls Incorporated of Alameda County, San Leandro, CA for a literacy program for young girls, which may include equipment and software $250,000 (Lee)
– Hope Through Housing Foundation, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, for an academic tutoring and enrichment initiative $350,000 (Miller, Gary; Tauscher)
– Leadership Excellence, Inc., Oakland, CA for a mentoring program for at-risk youth $250,000 (Lee)
– Merced County Association of Governments, Merced, CA to develop a college preparatory program at Buhach Colony High School $425,000 (Cardoza)
– Orange County Department of Education, Costa Mesa, CA for an Internet safety training program $400,000 (Sanchez, Loretta; Royce)
– Pasadena Educational Foundation, Pasadena, CA for its Early College High School initiative $100,000 (Schiff)
– Project Cornerstone, San Jose, CA for education and enrichment activities $226,000 (Honda)
– Resource Area For Teachers, San Jose, CA for teacher training and professional development $200,000 (Honda)
– Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA for a science, technology, engineering and mathematics initiative, including curriculum development and purchase of equipment $325,000 (Calvert)
– San Jose Unified School District, San Jose, CA for a longitudinal data system $250,000 (Honda)
– Springboard for Improving Schools, San Francisco, CA for teacher training and professional development in one or more school districts in the 20th Congressional district $150,000 (Costa)
– Springboard for Improving Schools, San Francisco, CA for the Improving Student Achievement in the Palmdale, CA Elementary School District program $150,000 (McKeon)
– Springboard Schools, San Francisco, CA for teacher training and professional development in the Santa Ana Unified School District $150,000 (Sanchez, Loretta)
– We Care San Jacinto, San Jacinto, CA for an after school tutoring program $100,000 (Lewis)
– YWCA of the Harbor Area and South Bay, San Pedro, CA for an early childhood education program $300,000 (Harman)
Higher Education (includes FIPSE)
– California Baptist University, Riverside, CA for purchase of equipment $300,000 (Calvert)
– California State University, Fullerton, CA for curriculum development associated with the Vietnamese language and culture program $350,000 (Royce)
– California State University, Fullerton, CA for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics and Science $300,000 (Royce)
– California State University, Sacramento, CA for equipment and technology for science laboratories $350,000 (Matsui)
– City College of San Jose, CA for its California Construction College to train students for careers in construction management, which may include equipment $368,000 (Honda)
– College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA for the University Center Consortium, including curriculum development $100,000 (McKeon)
– Kern Community College District, Bakersfield, CA for purchase of equipment $250,000 (McCarthy)
– Los Angeles City College Foundation, Los Angeles, CA for the Los Angeles City College nursing program $450,000 (Becerra)
– Riverside Community College District, Riverside, CA for curriculum development $600,000 (Calvert)
– San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA for a competency-based early childhood education and training initiative, which may include equipment and technology $350,000 (Speier)
– San Jose State University Research Foundation, San Jose, CA for an interdisciplinary Center for Global Innovation and Immigration, including curricula development and student research $220,000 (Lofgren)
– San Luis Obispo County Community College District, San Luis Obispo, CA for purchase of equipment $350,000 (McCarthy)
– San Mateo County Community College District, San Mateo, CA for the University Center Consortium initiative to expand academic programs and the number of students pursuing postsecondary education $350,000 (Speier)
– Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA for a teacher training initiative, including purchase of equipment $350,000 (Rohrabacher)
Rehabilitation Services & Disability Research
– AbilityFirst, Pasadena, CA for programs to provide employment assistance for individuals with disabilities $100,000 (Schiff)
– Best Buddies, San Francisco, CA for mentoring programs for persons with intellectual disabilities $250,000 (Pelosi)
– Southern California Rehabilitation Services, Downey, CA for computer and Internet training for individuals with disabilities, which may include equipment $100,000 (Roybal-Allard)
Related Agencies – Corporation for National and Community Service
The Committee provides the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) $1 billion, $90 million below the President’s request and $169 million above 2009. This funding, together with Recovery Act funds, will increase the number of AmeriCorps members by 15,000 volunteers, from 74,000 to nearly 89,000, and the number of Senior Volunteers by more than 9,000, from 473,000 to 482,000.Related Agencies – Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Committee provides $541 million, $40 million above the President’s request and $50 million above 2009, for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This amount includes:
$440 million for a fiscal year 2012 advance appropriation;
$36 million for digital conversion grants;
$25 million to complete the public radio satellite replacement and interconnection project; and
$40 million for one-time fiscal stabilization grants to forestall layoffs and cutbacks in essential programming, recognizing the financial challenges confronting more than 1,000 public broadcasting stations in the current economic downturn.
Related Agencies – Institute of Museum & Library Services
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 and the National Museum of African American History and Culture Act, the Committee provides $275,688,000.California Specific Congressionally Designated Projects – Institute of Museum & Library Services – Museums & Libraries
– Aerospace Museum of California Foundation, Inc., McClellan, CA for maintenance of collections $930,000 (Lungren)– Alameda County Library Foundation, Fremont, CA for technology and equipment for the Castro Calley Library $300,000 (Lee)
– Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, San Jose, CA for education programs $120,000 (Lofgren, Zoe)
– City of Chino Hills, CA for library facility improvements $250,000 (Miller, Gary)
– City of Desert Hot Springs, CA for preservation of collections at the Cabot’s Pueblo Museum $100,000 (Lewis)
– City of San Diego, CA for books, technology, education and outreach programs for the Skyline Hills Branch Library $25,000 (Filner)
– City of Yucaipa, CA for expanded library collections and technology upgrades $100,000 (Lewis)
– Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA for a technology initiative for educational outreach $250,000 (Lee)
– Town of Jamestown, Jamestown, CA for books and materials for the Jamestown County Library $100,000 (Clyburn)
Related Agencies – Social Security Administration
The Committee provides $11.4 billion, $993 million above 2009, for a limitation on administrative
expenses for SSA.