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Labor, Health and Human Services, and

Education: FY2022 Appropriations

This report offers an overview of actions taken by Congress and the President to provide

FY2022 appropriations for accounts funded by the Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill. This

bill includes all accounts funded through the annual appropriations process at the

Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Education (ED). It also provides annual

appropriations for most agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services

(HHS), with certain exceptions (e.g., the Food and Drug Administration is funded via

the Agriculture bill). The LHHS bill also provides funds for more than a dozen related

agencies, including the Social Security Administration (SSA).

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Specialist in Social Policy

Karen E. Lynch,

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Specialist in Social Policy

This report primarily focuses on regular FY2022 LHHS discretionary funding enacted during the annual

appropriations process. Totals in the report tables do not include emergency-designated funds.

Regular Appropriations

FY2022 LHHS Omnibus: On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (FY2022 LHHS

omnibus; H.R. 2471) was signed into law by the President (P.L. 117-103). The FY2022 LHHS omnibus provided

full-year appropriations for all 12 annual appropriations acts in Divisions A-L. Annual discretionary LHHS

appropriations totaled $214.2 billion. This amount is 7.9% more than FY2021 enacted and 15.7% less than the

FY2022 President’s budget request. The omnibus also provided $1.102 trillion in mandatory funding, for a

combined LHHS total of $1.316 trillion. The distribution of discretionary funding was as follows:

 DOL: $13.2 billion, 5.2% more than FY2021.

 HHS: $108.6 billion, 12.0% more than FY2021.

 ED: $76.4 billion, 3.9% more than FY2021.

 Related Agencies: $16.0 billion, 3.3% more than FY2021.

FY2022 LHHS Senate Action: The FY2022 LHHS bill did not receive subcommittee, full committee, or initial

floor action in the Senate. Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released a majority draft

of the LHHS bill and accompanying draft report language on October 18, 2021. These draft numbers are not

presented in this report. In addition, on October 25, Senator Murray, Chair of the Senate Appropriations LHHS

Subcommittee, introduced an FY2022 LHHS bill (S. 3062). This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations

Committee. Because S. 3062 did not receive any congressional action, this report does not discuss this measure.

FY2022 LHHS House Action: On July 15, 2021, the House Appropriations Committee voted to report the

FY2022 LHHS appropriations bill, 33-25; the measure was subsequently reported to the House on July 19 (H.R.

4502; H.Rept. 117-96). The measure was approved in subcommittee, via voice vote, on July 12, 2021. As reported

by the full committee, the bill would have provided $254.4 billion in discretionary LHHS funds, a 28.1% increase

from FY2021 enacted levels. This amount was 0.2% more than the FY2022 President’s request. In addition, the

House committee bill would have provided an estimated $1.102 trillion in mandatory funding, for a combined

total of $1.356 trillion for LHHS as a whole. The distribution of discretionary funding was as follows:



DOL: $14.7 billion, 17.4% more than FY2021.

HHS: $119.8 billion, 23.6% more than FY2021.

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 ED: $102.8 billion, 39.8% more than FY2021.

 Related Agencies: $17.0 billion, 9.8% more than FY2021.

The House version of LHHS appropriations was initially considered on the floor as part of a consolidated

appropriations package and passed the House (219-208), as amended, on July 31, 2021 (Division A of H.R. 4502).

Of the amendments offered, 47 were adopted and 9 were rejected. Because there is no publicly available source

that estimates the account- or subaccount-level budgetary effects of the amendments adopted to Division A, this

report provides analysis of the House Committee-reported version of the LHHS bill. For information on the LHHS

amendments offered during floor consideration, see Appendix B.

FY2022 President’s Budget Request: The full FY2022 President’s budget request was submitted to Congress on

May 28, 2021. (The President had previously submitted to Congress an outline of his discretionary funding

priorities for FY2022 on April 9, 2021.) The President requested $254.0 billion in discretionary funding for

accounts funded by the LHHS bill, which is an increase of 27.9% from FY2021 levels. In addition, the President

requested $1.102 trillion in annually appropriated mandatory funding, for a total of $1.355 trillion for LHHS as a

whole. The distribution of discretionary funding was as follows:

 DOL: $14.3 billion, 14.2% more than FY2021.

 HHS: $120.0 billion, 23.7% more than FY2021.

 ED: $102.8 billion, 39.8% more than FY2021.

 Related Agencies: $16.9 billion, 9.0% more than FY2021.

Emergency-Designated Appropriations

Over the course of FY2022, five laws were enacted providing FY2022 emergency-designated appropriations for

accounts typically funded in the LHHS bill.



Division B of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938; P.L. 117-159, June 25, 2022)

provided a total of $1.6 billion in FY2022 for several programs within HHS and ED related to

community mental and behavioral health services, pediatric health care, school attendance and

engagement, and school-based mental health service;

Title IV of the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R. 7691; P.L. 117128, May 21, 2022) provided a total of $1.0 billion to HHS agencies, mostly for resettlement

assistance for eligible Ukrainians in the United States;

Division B of the Further Extending Government Funding Act (H.R. 6119; P.L. 117-70,

December 3, 2021) provided a total of $1.3 billion for public health and support services for

Afghan arrivals and refugees;

Division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684; P.L. 117-58, November 15,

2021) provided $100 million in FY2022 for the HHS Low Income Home Energy Assistance

Program, and rescinded $353 million in previously enacted emergency funding from the

Education Stabilization Fund; and

Divisions A and C of the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance

Act (H.R. 5305; P.L. 117-43, September 30, 2021) provided a total of $4.2 billion for HHS

spending related to shelter and support services for unaccompanied minors (Division A), and

public health and support services for Afghan arrivals and refugees (Division C).

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Contents

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1

Report Roadmap and Useful Terminology ...................................................................................... 1

Scope of the Report ................................................................................................................... 2

Important Budget Concepts....................................................................................................... 2

Mandatory vs. Discretionary Budget Authority .................................................................. 2

Total Budget Authority Provided in the Bill vs. Total Budget Authority Available

in the Fiscal Year.............................................................................................................. 3

Status of FY2022 LHHS Appropriations ........................................................................................ 4

FY2022 Emergency-Designated Appropriations ...................................................................... 4

FY2022 Annual LHHS Appropriations ..................................................................................... 5

FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act .......................................................................... 5

FY2022 Continuing Appropriations ................................................................................... 7

Prior Congressional Action on an LHHS Bill ..................................................................... 7

FY2022 President’s Budget Request......................................................................................... 9

FY2021 LHHS Omnibus (Division H, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, H.R.

133; P.L. 116-260) .................................................................................................................. 9

Summary of FY2022 LHHS Appropriations .................................................................................. 11

Department of Labor (DOL) ......................................................................................................... 14

About DOL ............................................................................................................................. 15

FY2022 DOL Appropriations Overview ................................................................................. 15

Selected DOL Highlights ........................................................................................................ 16

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)............................................................. 16

Employment Service ......................................................................................................... 17

Wage and Hour Division (WHD)...................................................................................... 17

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...................................................................................... 18

Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) .................................................................. 18

Labor-Related General Provisions .................................................................................... 18

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)....................................................................... 22

About HHS .............................................................................................................................. 22

FY2022 HHS Appropriations Overview ................................................................................. 23

Special Public Health Funding Mechanisms ........................................................................... 25

Public Health Service Evaluation Tap............................................................................... 25

Prevention and Public Health Fund .................................................................................. 27

Selected HHS Highlights by Agency ...................................................................................... 28

HRSA ................................................................................................................................ 28

CDC .................................................................................................................................. 28

NIH ................................................................................................................................... 30

SAMHSA .......................................................................................................................... 31

AHRQ ............................................................................................................................... 31

CMS .................................................................................................................................. 32

ACF ................................................................................................................................... 32

ACL .................................................................................................................................. 33

Restrictions Related to Certain Controversial Issues .............................................................. 34

Department of Education (ED) ...................................................................................................... 41

About ED ................................................................................................................................ 41

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FY2022 ED Appropriations Overview .................................................................................... 42

Selected ED Highlights ........................................................................................................... 43

Education for the Disadvantaged ...................................................................................... 43

Safe Schools and Citizenship Education........................................................................... 44

Higher Education .............................................................................................................. 44

Related Agencies ........................................................................................................................... 47

FY2022 Related Agencies Appropriations Overview ............................................................. 47

Selected Related Agencies Highlights..................................................................................... 48

SSA Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) ........................................................ 49

Corporation for National and Community Service ........................................................... 49

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ......................................................................... 49

Figures

Figure 1. FY2022 Enacted LHHS Appropriations .......................................................................... 6

Figure 2. FY2022 Enacted LHHS Appropriations by Title ........................................................... 14

Figure 3. FY2022 Enacted HHS Appropriations by Agency......................................................... 25

Tables

Table 1. Status of Full-Year LHHS Appropriations Legislation, FY2022 ....................................... 5

Table 2. LHHS Appropriations Overview by Bill Title, FY2021-FY2022 ................................... 12

Table 3. DOL Appropriations Overview ....................................................................................... 16

Table 4. Detailed DOL Appropriations .......................................................................................... 19

Table 5. HHS Appropriations Overview........................................................................................ 23

Table 6. HHS Appropriations Totals by Agency ........................................................................... 35

Table 7. HHS Discretionary Appropriations for Selected Programs or Activities,

by Agency .................................................................................................................................. 38

Table 8. ED Appropriations Overview .......................................................................................... 42

Table 9. Detailed ED Appropriations ............................................................................................ 45

Table 10. Related Agencies Appropriations Overview .................................................................. 48

Table 11. Detailed Related Agencies Appropriations .................................................................... 50

Table A-1. LHHS Discretionary FY2021 and FY2022 Enacted Levels, and FY2022

House 302(b) Suballocations ..................................................................................................... 56

Table A-2. LHHS Appropriations Overview, by Bill Title: FY2021-FY2022............................... 57

Table B-1. LHHS House Floor Amendments Offered to H.R. 4502 ............................................. 60

Appendixes

Appendix A. Budget Enforcement Activities ................................................................................ 52

Appendix B. House Floor Amendments Offered to Division A of H.R. 4502 .............................. 60

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Author Information........................................................................................................................ 65

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Introduction

This report provides an overview of FY2022

appropriations actions for accounts traditionally funded

in the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor,

Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related

Agencies (LHHS). This bill provides discretionary and

mandatory appropriations to three federal departments:

the Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of

Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department

of Education (ED). In addition, the bill provides annual

appropriations for more than a dozen related agencies,

including the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Scope of the Report:

Emergency Funding and

Mandatory Funding Related

to COVID-19

This report primarily focuses on regular

FY2022 LHHS discretionary funding

enacted during the annual appropriations

process. The emergency discretionary

funding that was enacted for FY2021 or

FY2022 is generally not included in the

budgetary figures discussed or table totals

presented in the main body of the report.

(Such spending is presented below the

table totals and is in addition to regular

appropriations.) In addition, during

FY2021, mandatory appropriations were

enacted for certain LHHS-related

accounts for COVID-19 pandemic

response, including in the American

Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (P.L. 117-2).

These mandatory funds are also not

included in this report.

Discretionary funds represent less than one-fifth of the

total funds appropriated in the annual LHHS bill.

Nevertheless, the LHHS bill is typically the largest single

source of discretionary funds for domestic nondefense

federal programs among the various appropriations bills.

(The Department of Defense bill is the largest source of

discretionary funds among all federal programs.)

Because the appropriations process both provides and

controls discretionary funding (concepts discussed

further in the “Mandatory vs. Discretionary Budget Authority” section), the bulk of this report is

focused on these funds.

The LHHS bill typically is one of the more controversial of the regular appropriations bills

because of the size of its funding and the scope of its programs, as well as various related social

policy issues addressed in the bill, such as restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion and

for research on human embryos, stem cells, and gun violence.

Congressional clients may consult the LHHS experts list in CRS Report R42638, Appropriations:

CRS Experts, for information on which analysts to contact at the Congressional Research Service

(CRS) with questions on specific agencies and programs funded in the LHHS bill.

Report Roadmap and Useful Terminology

This report is divided into several sections. The opening section provides an explanation of the

scope of the LHHS bill (and hence, the scope of this report) and an introduction to important

terminology and concepts that carry throughout the report. Next is a series of sections describing

major congressional actions on FY2022 appropriations and (for context) a review of the

conclusion of the FY2021 appropriations process. This is followed by a high-level summary and

analysis of appropriations for FY2022, compared to FY2021 funding levels. The body of the

report concludes with overview sections for each of the major titles of the bill: DOL, HHS, ED,

and Related Agencies (RA). These sections provide selected highlights from FY2022 proposed

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funding levels compared to FY2021. (Note that the distribution of funds is sometimes illustrated

by figures, which in all cases are based on the FY2022 enacted levels.1)

Appendix A provides a summary of budget enforcement activities for FY2022. This includes

information on mandatory spending sequestration pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011

(BCA; P.L. 112-25), discretionary spending budget enforcement pursuant to the FY2022 budget

resolution, the House LHHS subcommittee spending allocation, and current-year spending levels.

This is followed by Appendix B, which provides an overview of the LHHS floor amendments

that were offered in the House during its consideration of H.R. 4502.

Scope of the Report

This report focuses on appropriations to agencies and accounts that are subject to the jurisdiction

of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittees of the

House and Senate appropriations committees (i.e., accounts traditionally funded via the LHHS

bill). Department “totals” provided in this report do not include funding for accounts or agencies

that are traditionally funded by appropriations bills under the jurisdiction of other subcommittees.

The LHHS bill provides appropriations for the following federal departments and agencies:



the Department of Labor;

most agencies at the Department of Health and Human Services, except for the

Food and Drug Administration (funded through the Agriculture appropriations

bill), the Indian Health Service (funded through the Interior-Environment

appropriations bill), and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

(also funded through the Interior-Environment appropriations bill);

the Department of Education; and

more than a dozen related agencies, including the Social Security Administration,

the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Corporation for Public

Broadcasting, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Labor

Relations Board, and the Railroad Retirement Board.

Note also that funding totals displayed in this report do not reflect amounts provided outside of

the annual appropriations process. Certain direct spending programs, such as Social Security and

parts of Medicare, receive funding directly from their authorizing statutes; such funds are not

reflected in the totals provided in this report because they are not provided through the annual

appropriations process (see related discussion in the “Important Budget Concepts” section).

Important Budget Concepts

Mandatory vs. Discretionary Budget Authority2

The LHHS bill includes both discretionary and mandatory budget authority. While all

discretionary spending is subject to the annual appropriations process, only a portion of

mandatory budget authority is provided in appropriations measures.

1 The dollars and percentages in each figure also are generally illustrative, except as noted, of the parallel distribution

of funds enacted in FY2021 and proposed by the FY2022 President’s budget and in the FY2022 House committee bill.

2 For definitions of these and other budget terms, see U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), A Glossary of

Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, GAO-05-734SP, September 1, 2005, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-

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Mandatory programs funded through the annual appropriations process are commonly referred to

as appropriated entitlements. In general, appropriators have little control over the amounts

provided for appropriated entitlements; rather, the authorizing statute controls the program

parameters (e.g., eligibility rules, benefit levels) that entitle certain recipients to payments. If

Congress does not appropriate the money necessary to meet these commitments, entitled

recipients (e.g., individuals, states, or other entities) may have legal recourse.3

Most mandatory spending is not provided through the annual appropriations process, but rather

through budget authority provided by the program’s authorizing statute (e.g., Social Security

benefits payments). The funding amounts in this report do not include budget authority provided

outside of the appropriations process. Instead, the amounts reflect only those funds, discretionary

and mandatory, that are provided through appropriations acts.

As displayed in this report, mandatory amounts for the FY2022 President’s budget submission

reflect current-law (or current services) estimates; they generally do not include the President’s

proposed changes to a mandatory spending program’s authorizing statute that might affect total

spending. (In general, such proposals are excluded from this report, as they typically would be

enacted in authorizing legislation.)

The report focuses most closely on discretionary funding because discretionary funding receives

the bulk of attention during the appropriations process. (While the LHHS bill includes more

mandatory funding than discretionary funding, the appropriators generally have less flexibility in

adjusting mandatory funding levels than discretionary funding levels.)

Mandatory and discretionary spending is subject to budget enforcement processes that include

sequestration. In general, sequestration involves largely across-the-board reductions that are made

to certain categories of discretionary or mandatory spending. However, the conditions that trigger

sequestration, and how it is carried out, differ for each type of spending. This is discussed further

in Appendix A.

Total Budget Authority Provided in the Bill vs. Total Budget Authority

Available in the Fiscal Year

Budget authority is the amount of money a federal agency is legally authorized to commit or

spend. Appropriations bills may include budget authority that becomes available in the current

fiscal year, in future fiscal years, or some combination. Amounts that become available in future

fiscal years are typically referred to as advance appropriations.

Unless otherwise specified, appropriations levels displayed in this report refer to the total amount

of budget authority provided in an appropriations bill (i.e., “total in the bill”), regardless of the

year in which the funding becomes available.4 In some cases, the report breaks out current-year

05-734SP. (Terms of interest may include appropriated entitlement, direct spending, discretionary, entitlement

authority, and mandatory.)

3 Sometimes appropriations measures include amendments to laws authorizing mandatory spending programs and

thereby change the amount of mandatory appropriations needed. Because such amendments are legislative in nature,

they may violate parliamentary rules separating authorizations and appropriations. For more information, see CRS

Report R42388, The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction.

4 Such figures include advance appropriations provided in the bill for future fiscal years, but do not include advance

appropriations provided in prior years’ appropriations bills that become available in the current year.

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appropriations (i.e., the amount of budget authority available for obligation in a given fiscal year,

regardless of the year in which it was first appropriated).5

As the annual appropriations process unfolds, the amount of current-year budget authority is

measured against 302(b) allocation ceilings (budget enforcement caps for appropriations

subcommittees that traditionally emerge following the budget resolution process, see Appendix

A). The process of measuring appropriations against these spending ceilings takes into account

scorekeeping adjustments, which are made by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reflect

conventions and special instructions of Congress.6 Unless otherwise specified, appropriations

levels displayed in this report do not reflect additional scorekeeping adjustments. (Those

scorekeeping adjustments are displayed at the bottom of Table 2.)

Status of FY2022 LHHS Appropriations

FY2022 Emergency-Designated Appropriations

Over the course of FY2022, five bills were signed into law providing FY2022 emergencydesignated appropriations for accounts typically funded in the LHHS bill.



Division B of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938, P.L. 117-159, June

25, 2022) provided a total of $1.6 billion in FY2022 for several purposes or

programs within HHS and ED related to community mental and behavioral

health services, pediatric health care, school attendance and engagement, and

school-based mental health services.7

Title IV of the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R.

7691, P.L. 117-128, May 21, 2022) provided $54 million to the CDC for medical

support, screening, and related public health activities related to the situation in

Ukraine, including for populations displaced from Ukraine, and $900 million to

ACF for resettlement assistance for Ukrainian refugees, Ukrainian parolees, and

other eligible Ukrainians in the United States.

Division B of the Further Extending Government Funding Act (H.R. 6119; P.L.

117-70, December 3, 2021) contained the Additional Afghanistan Supplemental

Appropriations Act, 2022, which provided $8 million to the CDC for medical

support, screening, and related public health activities for Afghan arrivals and

refugees, and $1.3 billion to ACF for resettlement assistance for Afghan arrivals

and refugees.8

5 Such figures exclude advance appropriations for future years, but include advance appropriations from prior years that

become available in the given fiscal year.

6 For more information on scorekeeping, see CRS Report 98-560, Baselines and Scorekeeping in the Federal Budget

Process. See also a discussion of key scorekeeping guidelines included in the joint explanatory statement

accompanying the conference report to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (H.Rept. 105-217, pp. 1007-1014).

7 See Table 3 in CBO, cost estimate, “The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act would provide funding to encourage

enactment of state laws aimed at controlling access to guns and to support a variety of other initiatives to enhance

school safety, mental health programs, and violence prevention,” June 22, 2022, https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?

file=2022-06/S2938.pdf.

8 See the summary of these provisions from the House Appropriations Committee majority staff, H.R. 6119, Further

Extending Government Funding Act Section-by-Section Summary, https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/

democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/

Further%20Extending%20Government%20Funding%20Act%20Summary.pdf.

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

Division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684; P.L. 117-58,

November 15, 2021) provided $100 million in FY2022 for the HHS Low Income

Home Energy Assistance Program,9 and rescinded $353 million in previously

enacted emergency funding from the Education Stabilization Fund.

Divisions A and C of the Extending Government Funding and Delivering

Emergency Assistance Act (H.R. 5305; P.L. 117-43, September 30, 2021)

provided $4.2 billion in emergency-designated funding, as follows:10

 Division A, which contained the first CR for FY2022, provided $2.5 billion

(§141) to the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for

shelter and support services for unaccompanied minors referred to HHS,

including funding to expand the capacity of state-licensed shelters.

 Division C, which contained the Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations

Act, 2022, provided $1.7 billion to ACF for resettlement assistance for

Afghan arrivals and refugees, and $21.5 million to the HHS Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for medical support, screening, and

related public health activities for Afghan arrivals and refugees.

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FY2022 Annual LHHS Appropriations

Table 1 provides a timeline of major legislative actions for full-year LHHS proposals, which are

discussed in greater detail below.

Table 1. Status of Full-Year LHHS Appropriations Legislation, FY2022

Subcommittee

Approval

House

7/12/21

voice

vote

Senate

Resolution of House and

Senate Differences

Full Committee

Approval

House

H.R. 4502

H.Rept.

117-96

7/15/21

33-25

Senate

House

Initial

Passage

Senate

Initial

Passage

H.R. 4502, Division A

7/29/21

219-208

Conf.

Report

House

Final

Passage

Senate

Final

Passage

H.R. 2471,

Division H

3/9/22

361-69

H.R. 2471,

Division H

3/10/22

68-31

Public

Law

P.L. 117103

3/15/22

Source: CRS Appropriations Status Table.

FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act

On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (FY2022 LHHS omnibus; H.R.

2471) was signed into law by the President (P.L. 117-103). The FY2022 omnibus provided full9 Division J of P.L. 117-58 further provided to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program advance

appropriations of $100 million for each of FY2023 through FY2026, for a total of $500 million for the program with all

fiscal years taken into account.

10 See the summary of these provisions from House Appropriations Committee majority staff, H.R. 5305, Extending

Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act: Section-by-Section Summary,

https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/Summary_0.pdf.

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year appropriations for all 12 annual appropriations acts in Divisions A-L.11 (Full-year LHHS

appropriations were enacted in Division H.) Prior to its enactment, the final version of the

measure was approved by the House on March 9. (The vote to approve the portion that contained

LHHS appropriations was 260-171.)12 The bill was approved by the Senate (68-31) on March 10.

See Figure 1 for a breakdown of FY2022 discretionary and mandatory LHHS appropriations

enacted in the FY2022 LHHS omnibus.13 Annual discretionary LHHS appropriations totaled

$214.2 billion. This amount is 7.9% more than FY2021 enacted and 15.7% less than the FY2022

President’s budget request. The omnibus also provided $1.102 trillion in mandatory funding, for a

combined LHHS total of $1.316 trillion.

Figure 1. FY2022 Enacted LHHS Appropriations

Source: Amounts in this figure are generally drawn from or calculated based on data contained in the

explanatory statement accompanying the FY2022 LHHS omnibus (P.L. 117-103), available in the Congressional

Record, vol. 168, no. 42, book IV, March 9, 2022, pp. H2668-H2915. Enacted totals for FY2022 do not include

emergency-designated appropriations. For consistency with source materials, amounts in this figure generally do

not reflect mandatory spending sequestration, where applicable, nor do they reflect any transfers or

reprogramming of funds pursuant to executive authorities. CRS calculations do, however, include LHHS funding

provided to HHS pursuant to the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255), as amended.

Notes: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Amounts in this figure (1) reflect all budget authority

appropriated in the bill, regardless of the year in which funds become available (i.e., totals do not include

advances from prior-year appropriations, but do include advances for subsequent years provided in this bill); (2)

have generally not been adjusted to reflect scorekeeping; (3) comprise only those funds provided for agencies

11 The FY2022 omnibus was originally intended to carry additional supplemental appropriations related to the COVID-

19 pandemic in Division M, but Division M was omitted prior to floor consideration.

12 The special rule, H.Res. 973, provided for the consideration of an amendment consisting of the FY2022 omnibus (as

contained in House Rules Committee Print 117-35) to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2471. H.Res. 973 also provided

for the House to adopt the amendment in two votes: the first on Divisions B, C, F, X, Z, titles 2 and 3 of division N, and

the second on the remaining divisions and titles. The House adopted Divisions B, C, F, X, Z, titles 2 and 3 of division

N by a vote of 361-69, and adopted the remaining divisions and titles by a vote of 260-171. The subsequent motion that

the House agree to the Senate amendment with an amendment was agreed to by a voice vote.

13 While the percentages in this figure were calculated based on amounts in the FY2022 LHHS omnibus, they are

generally also illustrative—within a few percentage points—of the share of mandatory and discretionary funds in

FY2021 and under the FY2022 President’s budget and the FY2022 House committee bill.

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and accounts subject to the jurisdiction of the LHHS subcommittees of the House and Senate appropriations

committees; and (4) do not include appropriations that occur outside of appropriations bills.

FY2022 Continuing Appropriations

Between the start of FY2022 and the enactment of full-year annual appropriations, FY2022

LHHS appropriations were provided by a series of CRs. The first CR was signed into law on

September 30, 2021 (Division A of H.R. 5305; P.L. 117-43). The measure had previously been

introduced by the House Appropriations Committee chair, Representative DeLauro, on September

21, and was passed by the House that same day, 220-211. On September 30, the Senate took up

and passed the measure with an amendment, 65-35,14 which was subsequently agreed to by the

House, 254-175.

The first CR provided continuing appropriations for all 12 annual appropriations acts (including

LHHS) through December 3, 2021. In general, the CR funded discretionary programs at the same

rate and under the same conditions as in FY2021 (§101) and annually appropriated entitlements at

their current law levels (§111).15 It also included several anomalies that are specific to LHHS

accounts or related activities (§§138-149).

A second CR was enacted extending the provisions of the first CR with some additional

anomalies (for LHHS, see Section 162) through February 18, 2022 (Division A of H.R. 6119; P.L.

117-70, December 3, 2021). The measure had previously been introduced by Representative

DeLauro on December 2, and passed the House (221-212) and the Senate (69-28) that same day.

A third CR was enacted extending the provisions on the second CR with some additional

anomalies (none of which were LHHS-related) through March 11, 2022 (Division A of H.R.

6617; P.L. 117-86, February 18, 2022). The measure had been previously introduced by

Representative DeLauro on February 7. It passed the House (272-182) on February 8 and the

Senate (65-27) on February 17.

A fourth CR was enacted extending the provisions of the third CR with some additional

anomalies (not LHHS-related) through March 15, 2022 (H.J.Res 75; P.L. 117-95, March 11,

2022). The measure had been previously introduced by Representative DeLauro on March 8. It

passed the House (voice vote) on March 8 and the Senate (voice vote) on March 10.

Prior Congressional Action on an LHHS Bill

FY2022 LHHS Action in the Senate

The FY2022 LHHS bill did not receive subcommittee, full committee, or initial floor action in the

Senate. Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released a majority draft

of the LHHS bill and accompanying draft report language on October 18, 2021. According to the

chair, the purpose of this release was to further negotiations toward enacting all 12 annual

appropriations bills prior to when the CR was to expire on December 3.16 These draft numbers

are not presented in this report.

14 No substantive changes were made by the Senate amendment to the CR provisions in Division A of H.R. 5305.

15 For an estimate of the discretionary appropriations contained in Division A of H.R. 5305, see Table 1-H and 1-S in

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Estimate for H.R. 5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering

Emergency Assistance Act as Passed by the House of Representatives on September 21, 2021, https://www.cbo.gov/

system/files/2021-09/57491-CBO-Estimate-for-HR5305.pdf.

16 The text of the Senate majority draft LHHS bill and accompanying committee report is linked to the press release,

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In addition, on October 25, Senator Murray, Chair of the Senate Appropriations LHHS

Subcommittee, introduced an FY2022 LHHS bill (S. 3062). This bill was referred to the Senate

Appropriations Committee.17 Because S. 3062 did not receive any congressional action, this

report does not discuss this measure.

FY2022 LHHS Action in the House (Division A, H.R. 2740)

The House LHHS subcommittee approved the draft LHHS bill on July 12, 2021, by a voice vote.

On July 15, 2021, the House Appropriations Committee voted (33-25) to report the LHHS bill;

the measure was subsequently reported to the House on July 19 (H.R. 4502; H.Rept. 117-96).

As reported by the full committee, the bill would provide $254.4 billion in discretionary LHHS

funds, a 28.1% increase from FY2021 enacted levels. This amount would be 0.2% more than the

FY2022 President’s request. In addition, the House committee bill would provide an estimated

$1.102 trillion in mandatory funding, for a combined total of $1.356 trillion for LHHS as a whole.

(Note that these totals are based only on amounts of non-emergency appropriations that would

have been provided by the House committee bill and do not include emergency-designated funds,

which are in addition to the regular annual appropriations.)

Later in July, LHHS appropriations were initially considered on the House floor as part of a

consolidated appropriations package and passed the House (219-208), as amended, on July 29,

2021 (Division A of H.R. 4502). This package would provide appropriations for six other

appropriations acts in addition to LHHS.18 Floor action was regulated by the terms of a special

rule (H.Res. 555). A total of 56 amendments to the LHHS title of the bill were made in order for

consideration on the floor.19 This rule also provided the authority for the chair of the

Appropriations Committee or her designee to offer any of the amendments made in order en bloc

(i.e., in groups of amendments to be disposed of together).20 All but two LHHS amendments were

considered in this manner.21 When counted as 56 separate amendments, 47 were adopted and 9

were rejected.

Because there is no publicly available source that estimates the account- or subaccount-level

budgetary effects of the amendments adopted to Division A, this report provides analysis of the

House Committee-reported version of the LHHS bill. For information on the LHHS amendments

offered during floor consideration, see Appendix B.

“Chairman Leahy Releases Remaining Nine Senate Appropriations Bills,” October 18, 2021,

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/chairman-leahy-releases-remaining-nine-senate-appropriationsbills. See also “Shelby: Democrats’ Partisan Bills Threaten FY22 Appropriations Process,” October 18, 2021,

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/shelby-democrats-partisan-bills-threaten-fy22-appropriations-process.

17 The text of S. 3062 as introduced was generally the same as the draft LHHS bill released by the chair of the Senate

Appropriations Committee on October 18, discussed above.

18 Those appropriations acts were Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial

Services and General Government, Interior and Environment, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and

Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.

19 For a list of these LHHS amendments (numbered 1-56) and the text of each that was made in order, see pages 8-13

and 30-38 of H.Rept. 117-109.

20 For further information about en bloc authority in the context of House floor consideration of appropriations

measures, see CRS Report R46841, Changes in the House of Representatives’ Initial Consideration of Regular

Appropriations Measures, 113th-116th Congresses.

21 For the en bloc amendments proposing changes to the LHHS division of the bill, see consideration of amendments en

bloc nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Congressional Record, daily edition, Vol. 167, No. 131 (July 27, 2021), pp. H4055-H4073.

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FY2022 President’s Budget Request

The President’s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year is due to be submitted to Congress by

the first Monday in February. However, the FY2022 budget was submitted during a year in which

a presidential transition occurred (on January 20, 2021). Recent Presidents have not submitted

detailed budget proposals until April or May of their first year in office, although each has

advised Congress regarding the general contours of their economic and budgetary policies in

special messages submitted to Congress prior to that submission.22 This delay allows time to

prepare a proposal that reflects the priorities of the new Administration.

On April 9, President Biden submitted to Congress an outline of his discretionary funding

priorities for FY2022.23 This preliminary document provided early highlights for numerous policy

areas, including several funded in the LHHS bill. The full budget request was submitted on May

28, almost four months after its due date.24

The President requested $254.0 billion in discretionary funding for accounts funded by the LHHS

bill, which is an increase of 27.9% from FY2021 levels. In addition, the President requested

$1.102 trillion in annually appropriated mandatory funding, for a total of $1.355 trillion for

LHHS as a whole.

FY2021 LHHS Omnibus (Division H, Consolidated Appropriations

Act, 2021, H.R. 133; P.L. 116-260)

On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 was signed into law by the

President (H.R. 133, P.L. 116-260). P.L. 116-260 provided full-year appropriations for all 12

annual appropriations acts in Divisions A-L, and supplemental appropriations for COVID-19

pandemic relief in Division M.25 (Full-year LHHS appropriations were enacted in Division H,

referred to as “the FY2021 LHHS omnibus.”) Prior to its enactment, the final version of the

measure was approved by the House on December 21. (The vote to approve the portion that

contained LHHS appropriations was 359-53.26) It was approved by the Senate (92-6) later that

same day.

LHHS discretionary appropriations in the FY2021 LHHS omnibus totaled $198.5 billion. This

amount was 1.6% more than FY2020 enacted and 11.0% more than the FY2021 President’s

budget request. The omnibus also provided $980.0 billion in mandatory funding, for a combined

LHHS total of $1.178 trillion. (Note that these totals are based only on amounts of non22 See CRS Insight IN11655, Budget Submission After a Presidential Transition: Contextualizing the Biden

Administration’s FY2022 Request.

23 Office of Management and Budget (OMB), The President’s FY2022 Discretionary Request, April 9, 2021,

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fy-2022-discretionary-request/.

24 See https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/.

25 P.L. 116-260 also contained additional COVID-19 pandemic response provisions in Division N, but this division is

considered authorizing legislation, rather than appropriations legislation, and is thus beyond the scope of this report.

For further discussion, see the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate for Division N, released on January 14, 2021,

at https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-01/PL_116-260_div_N.pdf. In addition, Divisions O-FF of P.L. 116-260

contained miscellaneous authorizing provisions that are also beyond the scope of this report.

26 The special rule, H.Res. 1271, provided for the consideration of an amendment consisting of the final text for

enactment (as contained in House Rules Committee Print 116-68) to the Senate amendment to H.R. 133. H.Res. 1271

also provided for the House to adopt the amendment in two votes: the first on Divisions B, C, E, and F, and the second

on the remaining divisions. The House adopted Divisions B, C, E, and F by a vote of 327-85, and adopted the

remaining divisions by a vote of 359-53. The subsequent motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment with an

amendment was agreed to without objection.

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emergency appropriations provided by the FY2021 LHHS omnibus and do not include

emergency-designated or supplemental funds, which were provided in addition to the annual

appropriations. Division H also enacted $1.6 billion in emergency-designated budget authority, of

which $925 million was for DOL in Title I, and $638 million was for HHS in Title II, which is not

reflected in the above figures, consistent with the conventions for displaying emergencydesignated budget authority in this report.)

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Summary of FY2022 LHHS Appropriations

Dollars and Percentages in this Report

Amounts displayed in this report are typically rounded (e.g., to the nearest million), as labeled. Dollar and

percentage changes discussed in the text are based on unrounded amounts.

Unless otherwise specified, appropriations levels displayed in this report refer to the total amount of budget

authority provided in an appropriations bill (i.e., “total in the bill”), regardless of the year in which the funding

becomes available. For FY2022 enacted, amounts for HHS include $1.6 billion in regular discretionary

appropriations enacted as part of the second continuing resolution for FY2022, P.L. 117-70, for the

Unaccompanied Alien Children program.

Throughout this report, the FY2022 House Appropriations Committee-reported LHHS bill is commonly referred

to as the House “committee bill.” (This report does not contain estimates of the House-passed version of Division

A of H.R. 4502, as there is no publicly available source that estimates the account- and subaccount-level budgetary

effects of the adopted amendments. However, information on the LHHS amendments offered during floor

consideration can be found in Appendix B.)

Amounts for the FY2021 Enacted, FY2022 Request, and FY2022 Enacted columns are generally drawn from or

calculated based on data contained in the explanatory statement accompanying the FY2022 LHHS omnibus (P.L.

117-103), available in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 42, book IV, March 9, 2022, pp. H2668-H2915.

Amounts in the FY2021 House Committee column are generally drawn from or calculated based on data

contained in the committee report (H.Rept. 117-96) accompanying H.R. 4502. The amounts shown for

emergency-designated appropriations provided in Title II of P.L. 117-31, Divisions A and C of P.L. 117-43, Division

J of P.L. 117-58, Division B of P.L. 117-70, Title IV of P.L. 117-128, and Division B of P.L. 117-159, are based on

CRS analysis of the texts of those laws.

In general, the enacted totals (“Total BA in the Bill”) in this report do not include emergency-designated

appropriations. An exception to this rule is made in Table A-1, which includes FY2021 and FY2022 enacted

emergency-designated funds in the “Adjusted Appropriations” totals, as scored by the Congressional Budget

Office. In addition, as applicable, other tables in this report include, at the bottom, a separate line or lines for

emergency-designated appropriations; these lines are shown for informational purposes and the amounts displayed

are not included in the table totals.

For consistency with source materials, amounts in this report generally do not reflect mandatory spending

sequestration, where applicable, nor do they reflect any transfers or reprogramming of funds pursuant to

executive authorities, except as noted.27 CRS calculations do, however, include LHHS funding provided to HHS

pursuant to the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255), as amended.

The descriptions of the LHHS appropriations in this report frequently reference “report language,” which

Congress may use to further specify funding or to communicate a range of directives to the agency. Each regular

appropriations bill reported from committee is usually accompanied by a written committee report, and the final

explanatory text may be used to reconcile any differences between those reports. For example, earlier report

language may address certain issues in ways that are difficult to reconcile harmoniously with the final enacted text.

In these instances, the explanatory text normally seeks to clarify how the affected agency is to proceed. On the

other hand, if the original committee language is ultimately acceptable to congressional negotiators, the

explanatory statement might be silent due to an expectation that the agency will follow the original directive. For

further information, see CRS Report R44124, Appropriations Report Language: Overview of Components and

Development.

Table 2 displays FY2022 discretionary and mandatory LHHS budget authority proposed and

enacted, by bill title, along with FY2021 enacted levels. The amounts shown in this table reflect

27 The general practice for CRS reports on the LHHS bill has been to reflect conventions used in source materials.

These conventions have varied over the years. For instance, CRS reports on LHHS appropriations for FY2012-FY2015

generally relied on source materials that adjusted appropriations amounts in the prior-year column to reflect

sequestration, reestimates of mandatory spending, transfers, reprogramming, and other adjustments for comparability.

However, the FY2016 version of this report broke from that practice due to differing display conventions in source

documents, and did not reflect any such adjustments (except sequestration for the Prevention and Public Health Fund

[PPHF]). The FY2017 version of this report differed from both of these prior practices, in that it reflected a smaller

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total budget authority provided in the annual LHHS bill (i.e., all funds appropriated in the bill,

regardless of the fiscal year in which the funds become available), not total budget authority

available for the current fiscal year. (For a comparable table showing current-year budget

authority, see Table A-2.) Note that the totals in this table do not include emergency-designated

appropriations; those amounts are displayed separately at the bottom of the table and are in

addition to regular appropriations.

Table 2. LHHS Appropriations Overview by Bill Title, FY2021-FY2022

(total budget authority provided in the bill, in billions of dollars)

FY2021

Enacted

FY2022

Request

FY2022

House

Cmte.

(H.R. 4502)

13.9

15.5

16.0

14.4

Discretionary

12.5

14.3

14.7

13.2

Mandatory

1.4

1.2

Title II: HHS

1,016.6

1,159.6

1,159.4

1,148.2

Discretionary

97.0

120.0

119.8

108.6

Mandatory

919.6

1,039.6

Title III: Education

77.2

106.5

80.1

Discretionary

73.5

102.8

76.4

Mandatory

3.7

70.8

73.8

74.0

73.0

Discretionary

15.5

16.9

17.0

16.0

Mandatory

55.3

57.0

Total BA in the Bill

1,178.5

1,355.5

1,355.9

1,315.7

Discretionary

198.5

254.0

254.4

214.2

Mandatory

980.0

1,101.5

P.L. 116-260, Division H

1.6

—

P.L. 116-260, Division M

154.9

—

P.L. 117-31, Title II

0.0a

—

P.L. 117-43, Divisions A and C

—

4.2

P.L. 117-58, Division J

—

0.1

P.L. 117-70, Division B

—

1.3

P.L. 117-128, Title IV

—

1.0

P.L. 117-159, Division B

—

3.0

Bill Title

Title I: Labor

Title IV: Related Agencies

FY2022

Enacted

Emergency Funding (not in above totals)

subset of transfers (generally concentrated at the National Institutes of Health) and other adjustments for comparability

(e.g., program moves from one account to another), but not reprogramming of funds or mandatory sequestration

(except sequestration of the PPHF). The FY2018-FY2021 versions of this report, however, relied on source materials

that generally did not reflect any transfers or other budgetary adjustments pursuant to administrative authorities except

PPHF sequestration. For FY2022, the source materials used for this report continue this most recent approach.

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FY2021

Enacted

FY2022

Request

FY2022

House

Cmte.

(H.R. 4502)

Advances for Future Years

(provided in current bill)b

197.6

210.7

210.8

210.7

Advances from Prior Years

(for use in current year)b

189.0

197.6

Additional Scorekeeping Adjustmentsc

-22.8

-25.4

-14.7

-15.0

Bill Title

FY2022

Enacted

Memoranda (non-emergency funds only):

Source: Amounts in this table for the FY2021 Enacted, FY2022 Request, and FY2022 Enacted columns are

generally drawn from or calculated based on data contained in the explanatory statement accompanying the

FY2022 LHHS omnibus (P.L. 117-103), available in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 42, book IV, March 9,

2022, pp. H2668-H2915. Amounts in the FY2021 House Committee column are generally drawn from or

calculated based on data contained in the committee report (H.Rept. 117-96) accompanying H.R. 4502. Enacted

totals (“Total BA in the Bill”) for FY2021 or FY2022 do not include emergency-designated appropriations. For

consistency with source materials, amounts in this figure generally do not reflect mandatory spending

sequestration, where applicable, nor do they reflect any transfers or reprogramming of funds pursuant to

executive authorities.

Notes: BA = Budget Authority. Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Amounts in this table (1) reflect

all BA appropriated in the bill, regardless of the year in which funds become available (i.e., totals do not include

advances from prior-year appropriations, but do include advances for subsequent years provided in this bill); (2)

have generally not been adjusted to reflect scorekeeping; (3) comprise only those funds provided (or requested)

for agencies and accounts subject to the jurisdiction of the LHHS subcommittees of the House and Senate

appropriations committees; and (4) do not include appropriations that occur outside of appropriations bills. No

amounts are shown for Title V, because this title consists solely of general provisions.

a. P.L. 117-31 provided $25 million in supplemental appropriations for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance

account at HHS for specified purposes related to Afghan special immigrants, which rounds to $0.0 in billions

(the unit of measure used in this table).

b. Totals in this table are based on budget authority provided in the bill (i.e., they exclude advance

appropriations from prior bills and include advance appropriations from this bill made available in future

years). The calculation for total budget authority available in a given fiscal year is as follows: Total BA in the

Bill, minus Advances for Future Years, plus Advances from Prior Years. FY2022 advance appropriations

enacted in prior fiscal years are listed in the FY2022 Request and FY2022 House Cmte. columns.

c. Totals in this table have generally not been adjusted for scorekeeping. (To adjust for scorekeeping, add this

line to the total budget authority.)

Figure 2 displays discretionary and mandatory LHHS funding levels enacted for FY2022, by bill

title. (While the dollars and percentages discussed in this section were calculated based on the

FY2022 enacted amounts, they are generally also illustrative—within several percentage points—

of the share of funds directed to each bill title in FY2021, and under the FY2022 President’s

budget and House committee bill.)

As this figure demonstrates, HHS accounts for the largest share of total FY2022 LHHS

appropriations: $1.148 trillion, or 87.3%. This is due to the large amount of mandatory funding

included in the HHS appropriation, the majority of which is for Medicaid grants to states and

payments to health care trust funds. After HHS, ED and the Related Agencies represent the nextlargest shares of total LHHS funding, accounting for 6.1% and 5.5%, respectively. (The majority

of the ED appropriations each year are discretionary, while the bulk of funding for the Related

Agencies goes toward mandatory payments and administrative costs of the Supplemental Security

Income program at the Social Security Administration.) DOL accounts for the smallest share of

total LHHS funds, 1.1%.

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The overall composition of LHHS funding is noticeably different when comparing only

discretionary appropriations. HHS accounts for a comparatively smaller share of total

discretionary appropriations (50.7%), while ED accounts for a relatively larger share (35.7%).

Together, these two departments represent the majority (86.4%) of discretionary LHHS

appropriations. DOL and the Related Agencies account for the remaining discretionary funds, at

6.2% and 7.5% of the total, respectively.

Figure 2. FY2022 Enacted LHHS Appropriations by Title

(budget authority in billions of dollars unless otherwise indicated)

Source: Amounts in this figure are generally drawn from or calculated based on data contained in the

explanatory statement accompanying the FY2022 LHHS omnibus (P.L. 117-103), available in the Congressional

Record, vol. 168, no. 42, book IV, March 9, 2022, pp. H2668-H2915. Enacted totals for FY2022 do not include

emergency-designated appropriations. For consistency with source materials, amounts in this figure generally do

not reflect mandatory spending sequestration, where applicable, nor do they reflect any transfers or

reprogramming of funds pursuant to executive authorities. CRS calculations do, however, include LHHS funding

provided to HHS pursuant to the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255), as amended.

Notes: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. Amounts in this figure (1) reflect all BA appropriated in

the bill, regardless of the year in which funds become available (i.e., totals do not include advances from prioryear appropriations, but do include advances for subsequent years provided in this bill); (2) have generally not

been adjusted to reflect scorekeeping; (3) comprise only those funds provided for agencies and accounts subject

to the jurisdiction of the LHHS subcommittees of the House and Senate appropriations committees; and (4) do

not include appropriations that occur outside of appropriations bills.

Department of Labor (DOL)

Note that all amounts in this section are based on regular LHHS appropriations only. Amounts in

this section do not include mandatory funds provided outside of the annual appropriations process

(e.g., direct appropriations for Unemployment Insurance benefits payments). All amounts in this

section are rounded (e.g., to the nearest million), as labeled. The dollar changes and percentage

changes discussed in the text are based on unrounded amounts. For consistency with source

materials, amounts do not reflect sequestration or reestimates of mandatory spending programs,

where applicable.

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About DOL

DOL is a federal department comprised of multiple entities that provide services related to

employment and training, worker protection, income security, and contract enforcement. Annual

LHHS appropriations laws direct funding to all DOL entities (see the text box).29 The DOL

entities fall primarily into two main functional areas—workforce development and worker

protection. First, there are several DOL

entities that administer workforce employment

DOL Entities Funded via the

and training programs—such as the Workforce

LHHS Appropriations Process

Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) state

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

formula grant programs, Job Corps, and the

Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Employment Service—that provide direct

Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

funding for employment activities or

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

administration of income security programs

(OFCCP)

(e.g., for the Unemployment Insurance

Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)

benefits program). Also included in this area is Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP)

the Veterans’ Employment and Training

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Service (VETS), which provides employment

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)

services specifically for the veteran

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

population. Second, there are several agencies

Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)

that provide various worker protection

Departmental Management (DM)28

services. For example, the Occupational

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),

the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

provide different types of regulation and oversight of working conditions. DOL entities focused

on worker protection provide services to ensure worker safety, adherence to wage and overtime

laws, and contract compliance, among other duties. In addition to these two main functional

areas, DOL’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collects data and provides analysis on the labor

market and related labor issues.

FY2022 DOL Appropriations Overview

Table 3 displays FY2022 enacted and proposed funding levels for DOL, along with FY2021

levels. The totals in this table do not include emergency supplemental appropriations. Those

amounts are displayed separately, along with the law in which they were enacted, at the bottom of

the table and are in addition to regular appropriations. (Although not technically supplemental

appropriations, the bottom of the table also includes emergency-designated discretionary funding

proposed or enacted in annual LHHS measures.)

Discretionary funds represent the majority of DOL appropriations, accounting for 90% or more of

FY2021 and FY2022 enacted levels. The FY2022 LHHS omnibus increased discretionary

appropriations for DOL by $653 million (+5.2%) compared to the FY2021 LHHS omnibus.

Relative to the FY2021 LHHS omnibus, discretionary DOL appropriations would have increased

28 Departmental Management includes the DOL salaries and expenses, Veterans Employment and Training Service

(VETS), IT Modernization, and the Office of the Inspector General.

29 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is funded primarily through insurance premiums and related fees

from companies covered by the PBGC. For further information, see CRS In Focus IF10492, An Overview of the

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

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by $2.2 billion (+17.4%) under the FY2022 House committee bill and $1.8 billion (14.3%) under

the FY2022 President’s budget request.

Table 3. DOL Appropriations Overview

(in billions of dollars)

FY2021

Enacted

FY2022

Request

FY2022

House

Cmte.

(H.R.

4502)

Discretionary

12.5

14.3

14.7

13.2

Mandatory

1.4

1.2

13.9

15.5

16.0

14.4

0.9

—

Funding