Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 2.djvu/156

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107 STAT. 1108 PUBLIC LAW 103-112 —OCT. 21, 1993 tation) in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system. SEC. 303. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the tremsportation of any student to a school other than the school which is nearest the student's home, except for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carnr out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. The prohibition described in this section does not include the establishment of magnet schools. School prayer. SEC. 304. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer ana meditation in the public schools. This title may be cited as the "Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1994". TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES ACTION OPERATING EXPENSES For expenses necessary for Action to carry out the provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended, $205,097,000. CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as authorized Dy the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 1996, $312,000,000, of which $7,000,000 shall be for Ready to Learn activities consistent with the purposes outlined in Public Law 102-545: Provided, That no fimas made available to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entert£dnment for Government officials or employees: Provided further. That none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support any program or activity from which any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, or is discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex. FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor- Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171-180, 182-183), inclumng hire of passenger motor vehicles; and for expenses necessanr for the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the functions vestea in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95-454 (5 U.S.C. chapter 71), $30,241,000.