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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1735 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To coordinate Federal research and development efforts fo-
cused on modernizing mathematics in STEM education 
through mathematical and statistical modeling, including 
data-driven 
and 
computational 
thinking, 
problem, 
project, and performance-based learning and assessment, 
interdisciplinary exploration, and career connections, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1665 
AN ACT 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency considers severe local impact in 
making a recommendation to the President for a major 
disaster declaration. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disaster Declaration 
Improvement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL IMPACT. 
In making recommendations to the President regard-
ing a major disaster declaration, the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall give great-
er weight and consideration to severe local impact or re-
cent multiple disasters. Further, the Administrator shall 
make corresponding adjustments to the Agency’s policies 
and regulations regarding such consideration. Not later 
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, 
the Administrator shall report to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate on the changes made to 
regulations and policies and the number of declarations 
that have been declared based on the new criteria. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 3, 2017. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1665 
AN ACT 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency considers severe local 
impact in making a recommendation to the 
President for a major disaster declaration.
A BILL 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency considers severe local impact in 
making a recommendation to the President for a major 
disaster declaration. 
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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1665 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
considers severe local impact in making a recommendation to the Presi-
dent for a major disaster declaration. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 22, 2017 
Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois (for himself and Mrs. BUSTOS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency considers severe local impact in 
making a recommendation to the President for a major 
disaster declaration. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disaster Declaration 
Improvement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL IMPACT. 
In making recommendations to the President regard-
ing a major disaster declaration, the Administrator shall 
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give greater weight and consideration to severe local im-
pact. Further, the Administrator shall make cor-
responding adjustments to the Agency’s policies and regu-
lations regarding such consideration. Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this section, the Adminis-
trator shall report to the Committees on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate on the changes made to regulations 
and policies and the number of declarations that have been 
declared based on the new criteria. 
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IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1665 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 4, 2017 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency considers severe local impact in 
making a recommendation to the President for a major 
disaster declaration. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disaster Declaration 
Improvement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL IMPACT. 
In making recommendations to the President regard-
ing a major disaster declaration, the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall give great-
er weight and consideration to severe local impact or re-
cent multiple disasters. Further, the Administrator shall 
make corresponding adjustments to the Agency’s policies 
and regulations regarding such consideration. Not later 
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, 
the Administrator shall report to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate on the changes made to 
regulations and policies and the number of declarations 
that have been declared based on the new criteria. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 3, 2017. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Union Calendar No. 56 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1665 
[Report No. 115–99] 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
considers severe local impact in making a recommendation to the Presi-
dent for a major disaster declaration. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 22, 2017 
Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois (for himself and Mrs. BUSTOS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
APRIL 28, 2017 
Additional sponsors: Mr. KINZINGER, Mr. BOST, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. LAHOOD, 
Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana, and Mr. BARLETTA 
APRIL 28, 2017 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 22, 2017] 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disaster Declaration 
Improvement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL IMPACT. 
In making recommendations to the President regard-
ing a major disaster declaration, the Administrator of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall give greater 
weight and consideration to severe local impact or recent 
multiple disasters. Further, the Administrator shall make 
corresponding adjustments to the Agency’s policies and reg-
ulations regarding such consideration. Not later than 1 
year after the date of enactment of this section, the Admin-
istrator shall report to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate on the changes made to regulations and 
policies and the number of declarations that have been de-
clared based on the new criteria. 
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Union Calendar No. 56 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1665 
[Report No. 115–99] 
A BILL 
To ensure that Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency considers severe local 
impact in making a recommendation to the 
President for a major disaster declaration. 
APRIL 28, 2017 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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(16) INFLUENCER
MARKETING.—The term 
‘‘influencer marketing’’ means a practice by which a 
company compensates an individual who is consid-
ered by the company to have the potential to review, 
promote, or sell a product or service online to an in-
tended target audience. 
(17) INTERACTIVE
COMPUTER
SERVICE.—The 
term ‘‘interactive computer service’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 230(f) of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f)). 
(18) LARGE COVERED PLATFORM.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘large cov-
ered platform’’ means a hosting service— 
(i) that disseminates to the public in-
formation; and 
(ii) to which a designation by the 
Commission under subparagraph (B) ap-
plies. 
(B) DESIGNATION.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Commission 
shall verify, at least every 2 years, whether 
the number of average monthly active 
users in the United States of each hosting 
service provided by a provider described in 
paragraph (22) is equal to or greater than 
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the number described in subparagraph 
(D). On the basis of the verification, the 
Commission shall adopt a decision desig-
nating the service as a large covered plat-
form for the purposes of this Act (if the 
number of average monthly active users of 
the service in the United States is equal to 
or greater than the number described in 
subparagraph (D)), or terminating such 
designation (if the number of average 
monthly active users of the service in the 
United States is less than the number de-
scribed in subparagraph (D) and a pre-
vious designation under this subparagraph 
applies to the service), and communicate 
such decision, without undue delay, to the 
provider. 
(ii) APPLICABILITY.—A designation 
under this subparagraph shall apply, or 
cease to apply, beginning on the date that 
is 4 months after the publication of the 
designation on, or the removal of the des-
ignation from, the list under subparagraph 
(C). 
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(e)(1) Section 726(a)(1) of title 11, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after ‘‘first,’’ the following: 
‘‘in payment of any unpaid fees, costs, and expenses of 
a special trustee appointed under section 1186, and then’’. 
(2) Section 1129(a) of title 11, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after paragraph (16) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(17) In a case under subchapter V, all payable 
fees, costs, and expenses of the special trustee have 
been paid or the plan provides for the payment of 
all such fees, costs, and expenses on the effective 
date of the plan. 
‘‘(18) In a case under subchapter V, confirma-
tion of the plan is not likely to cause serious adverse 
effects on financial stability in the United States.’’. 
(f) Section 322(b)(2) of title 11, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘The’’ and inserting ‘‘In cases 
under subchapter V, the United States trustee shall rec-
ommend to the court, and in all other cases, the’’. 
SEC. 3. LIQUIDATION, REORGANIZATION, OR RECAPITAL-
IZATION OF A COVERED FINANCIAL COR-
PORATION. 
Chapter 11 of title 11, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘SUBCHAPTER V—LIQUIDATION, REORGANIZA-
TION, OR RECAPITALIZATION OF A COV-
ERED FINANCIAL CORPORATION 
‘‘§ 1181. Inapplicability of other sections 
‘‘Sections 303 and 321(c) do not apply in a case 
under this subchapter concerning a covered financial cor-
poration. Section 365 does not apply to a transfer under 
section 1185, 1187, or 1188. 
‘‘§ 1182. Definitions for this subchapter 
‘‘In this subchapter, the following definitions shall 
apply: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘Board’ means the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘bridge company’ means a newly 
formed corporation to which property of the estate 
may be transferred under section 1185(a) and the 
equity securities of which may be transferred to a 
special trustee under section 1186(a). 
‘‘(3) The term ‘capital structure debt’ means all 
unsecured debt of the debtor for borrowed money for 
which the debtor is the primary obligor, other than 
a qualified financial contract and other than debt se-
cured by a lien on property of the estate that is to 
be transferred to a bridge company pursuant to an 
order of the court under section 1185(a). 
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‘‘SUBCHAPTER V—LIQUIDATION, REORGANIZATION, OR RECAPITALIZATION OF 
A COVERED FINANCIAL CORPORATION 
‘‘1181. Inapplicability of other sections. 
‘‘1182. Definitions for this subchapter. 
‘‘1183. Commencement of a case concerning a covered financial corporation. 
‘‘1184. Regulators. 
‘‘1185. Special transfer of property of the estate. 
‘‘1186. Special trustee. 
‘‘1187. Temporary and supplemental automatic stay; assumed debt. 
‘‘1188. Treatment of qualified financial contracts and affiliate contracts. 
‘‘1189. Licenses, permits, and registrations. 
‘‘1190. Exemption from securities laws. 
‘‘1191. Inapplicability of certain avoiding powers. 
‘‘1192. Consideration of financial stability.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 5, 2017. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1667 
AN ACT 
To amend title 11 of the United States Code in 
order to facilitate the resolution of an insolvent 
financial institution in bankruptcy.
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1752 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Works and Economic Development 
Act of 1965 to provide for a high-speed broadband de-
ployment initiative. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1767 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that educational assistance 
paid under Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance pro-
grams to an individual who pursued a program or course of education 
that was suspended or terminated for certain reasons shall not be 
charged against the entitlement of the individual, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2023 
Mrs. RAMIREZ (for herself and Mr. LEVIN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that 
educational assistance paid under Department of Vet-
erans Affairs educational assistance programs to an indi-
vidual who pursued a program or course of education 
that was suspended or terminated for certain reasons 
shall not be charged against the entitlement of the indi-
vidual, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1792 
AN ACT 
To amend the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1668 
To establish the Bureau of Land Management Foundation as a charitable 
and nonprofit corporation to encourage, accept, obtain, administer, and 
use private gifts, devises, and bequests for the benefit of activities and 
services of the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 22, 2017 
Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia (for himself and Mr. LOWENTHAL) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To establish the Bureau of Land Management Foundation 
as a charitable and nonprofit corporation to encourage, 
accept, obtain, administer, and use private gifts, devises, 
and bequests for the benefit of activities and services 
of the Bureau of Land Management, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bureau of Land Man-
agement Foundation Act’’. 
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952) shall be increased by the accumulated post-1986 de-
ferred foreign income of such corporation determined as 
of the close of such taxable year. 
‘‘(b) REDUCTION IN AMOUNTS INCLUDED IN GROSS 
INCOME OF UNITED STATES SHAREHOLDERS OF SPECI-
FIED FOREIGN CORPORATIONS WITH DEFICITS IN EARN-
INGS AND PROFITS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a taxpayer 
which is a United States shareholder with respect to 
at least one deferred foreign income corporation and 
at least one E&P deficit foreign corporation, the 
amount which would (but for this subsection) be 
taken into account under section 951(a)(1) by rea-
son of subsection (a) as such United States share-
holder’s pro rata share of the subpart F income of 
each deferred foreign income corporation shall be re-
duced (but not below zero) by the amount of such 
United States shareholder’s aggregate foreign E&P 
deficit which is allocated under paragraph (2) to 
such deferred foreign income corporation. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION OF AGGREGATE FOREIGN E&P 
DEFICIT.—The aggregate foreign E&P deficit of any 
United States shareholder shall be allocated among 
the deferred foreign income corporations of such 
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I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 166 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize and modernize 
the provision of partial hospitalization services under the Medicare Pro-
gram, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2017 
Mr. HASTINGS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize 
and modernize the provision of partial hospitalization 
services under the Medicare Program, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Outpatient Mental 
Health Modernization Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. ALLOWABLE PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1861(ff)(2) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(ff)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (H) by striking ‘‘, and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (I) as sub-
paragraph (J); 
(3) in subparagraph (J), as redesignated by 
paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘(but in no event to in-
clude meals and transportation)’’; 
(4) by inserting after subparagraph (H) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) nutritional planning, meals, and trans-
portation, and’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘The guidelines established under the pre-
ceding sentence shall not allow for nutritional plan-
ning, meals, and transportation to be considered as 
meeting the minimum number of services require-
ment in order to receive payment for such items and 
services.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to services furnished on or after 
January 1, 2018. 
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United States shareholder in an amount which bears 
the same proportion to such aggregate as— 
‘‘(A) such United States shareholder’s pro 
rata share of the accumulated post-1986 de-
ferred foreign income of each such deferred for-
eign income corporation, bears to 
‘‘(B) the aggregate of such United States 
shareholder’s pro rata share of the accumulated 
post-1986 deferred foreign income of all de-
ferred foreign income corporations of such 
United States shareholder. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS
RELATED
TO
E&P
DEFI-
CITS.—For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) AGGREGATE
FOREIGN
E&P
DEF-
ICIT.—The term ‘aggregate foreign E&P deficit’ 
means, with respect to any United States share-
holder, the aggregate of such shareholder’s pro 
rata shares of the specified E&P deficits of the 
E&P deficit foreign corporations of such share-
holder. 
‘‘(B) E&P DEFICIT
FOREIGN
CORPORA-
TION.—The term ‘E&P deficit foreign corpora-
tion’ means, with respect to any taxpayer, any 
specified foreign corporation with respect to 
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SEC. 3. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than January 1, 2018, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall convene 
a Behavioral Health Advisory Committee (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’) composed of 
stakeholders in the behavioral health community. 
(b) DUTIES.—The Advisory Committee shall address 
issues relating to— 
(1) discrimination against the chronically men-
tally ill, elderly, and United States veterans as it re-
lates to receiving treatment for mental illness; 
(2) the establishment of conditions of participa-
tion for community mental health centers (as de-
fined in paragraph (3)(B) of section 1861(ff) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(ff))) that pro-
vide partial hospitalization services (as defined in 
paragraph (1) of such section) under the Medicare 
Program under title XVIII of such Act; and 
(3) other matters to be determined jointly by 
the Secretary and the Advisory Committee. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than January 1, 
2019, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in 
consultation with the Advisory Committee, shall imple-
ment conditions of participation for community mental 
health centers (as so defined) that provide partial hos-
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pitalization services (as so defined) under the Medicare 
Program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act. 
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