Human Services. Education and related agencies appropriations bill. This amendment would simply transfer $50.000 in outlays from one migrant education program to another. This amendment would also transfer $1.000.000 in budget authority. The High School Equivalency Program. authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act. makes grants available to community agencies to help migrant students return to school and receive graduation equivalency diplomas. In last years Higher Education Act reauthorization bill. the HEP Program was amended to require a 3year grant award cycle. Therefore. in fiscal year 1987 the Department of Education completed a new competition for continuing awards for the HEP Program.