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(1) Subsection (a)(2)(C) is amended—
(A) in clause (i)—
(i) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘COM-
MERCIAL’’ after ‘‘SINGLE’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘commercial’’ after 
‘‘a single’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘(47 CFR 76.51)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(section 76.51 of title 47, 
Code of Federal Regulations)’’; 
(B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘47 of the 
Code’’ and inserting ‘‘47, Code’’; 
(C) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘if the sat-
ellite carrier’’ and inserting ‘‘if a satellite car-
rier or cable system’’; and 
(D) in clause (iv)(II), by inserting ‘‘U.S. 
Television Household Estimates by’’ after ‘‘ac-
cording to’’. 
(2) Subsection (a)(2)(B)(i) is amended in the 
last sentence by striking ‘‘under paragraph (3)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘authorized under paragraph (3)’’. 
(3) Subsection (a)(3) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘Commission, to be’’ and all that follows 
through the end and inserting ‘‘Commission to 
be significantly viewed, as defined in section
76.5 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, 
as in effect on April 15, 1976.’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (C)(i) in the last sen-
tence, by inserting ‘‘otherwise’’ after ‘‘specifi-
cally stated’’. 
(4) Subsection (a)(4)(E) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(E) 
OTHER
PROVISIONS
NOT
AF-
FECTED.—Subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) 
shall not affect the applicability of the statutory 
license to secondary transmissions authorized 
under paragraphs (3) and (12).’’. 
(5) Subsection (a)(4)(F) is amended— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘(C) 
or (D)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) or (B)’’; and 
(B) in the last sentence, by inserting ‘‘oth-
erwise’’ after ‘‘specifically stated’’. 
(6) Subsection (a)(14) is amended in the last 
sentence, by inserting ‘‘otherwise’’ after ‘‘specifically 
stated’’. 
(7) Subsection (c)(1) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘notice’’ after ‘‘shall 
cause’’;
(ii) by inserting ‘‘and distributors’’ 
after ‘‘paid by satellite carriers’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘analog transmission’’ 
and inserting ‘‘analog transmissions’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C) in the second sen-
tence—
(i) by striking ‘‘distributors and copy-
right’’ and inserting ‘‘distributors, and 
copyright’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘royalty fee’’ and in-
serting ‘‘royalty fees’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (D)—
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘that a 
parties thereto’’ and inserting ‘‘that are 
parties thereto’’; and 
(ii) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ‘‘sub-
paragraph (E)’’ and inserting ‘‘subpara-
graph (F)’’; and 
(D) in subparagraph (F)—
(i) in clause (i)—
(I) by striking ‘‘royalty fee’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘distributors’’ 
and inserting ‘‘royalty fees to be paid 
by satellite carriers and distributors 
for the secondary transmission of the
527 
a product that is fully or primarily motor 
operated. 
‘‘(D) The term ‘active mode’ means the 
mode of operation when an external power sup-
ply is connected to the main electricity supply 
and the output is connected to a load. 
‘‘(E) The term ‘no-load mode’ means the 
mode of operation when an external power sup-
ply is connected to the main electricity supply 
and the output is not connected to a load.’’ 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(52) The term ‘detachable battery’ means a 
battery that is contained in a separate enclosure 
from the product and is intended to be removed or 
disconnected from the product for recharging.’’. 
(b) Section 323 of the Energy Policy and Conserva-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 6293) is amended in subsection (b) 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(17) Test procedures for class A external 
power supplies shall be based upon the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency’s ‘Test Method for 
Calculating the Energy Efficiency of Single-Voltage 
External AC–DC and AC–AC Power Supplies’, Au-
gust 11, 2004, provided that the test voltage speci-
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IA 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 57 
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United 
States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education 
relating to accountability and State plans under the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2017 
Mr. ROKITA submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of 
title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by 
the Department of Education relating to accountability 
and State plans under the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the De-
partment of Education relating to accountability and 
State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (published at 81 Fed. Reg. 86076 (No-
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primary analog transmissions of net-
work stations and superstations under 
subsection (b)(1)(B)’’; and 
(II) in the last sentence, by strik-
ing ‘‘arbitrary’’ and inserting ‘‘arbi-
tration’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘fair 
market value of secondary transmissions’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fair market value of such 
secondary transmissions’’; 
(iii) in clause (iii)—
(I) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘2004;’’ and inserting ‘‘2004,’’; and 
(II) by striking all that follows 
subclause (I) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(II) is made by the Librarian 
under section 802(f) as in effect on 
the day before such date of enact-
ment, 
shall be effective as of January 1, 2005.’’; 
and 
(iv) in clause (iv)—
(I) by striking ‘‘(iii)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘clause (iii)’’; and
(II) by striking ‘‘distributors and 
copyright owners,’’ and inserting ‘‘dis-
tributors, and copyright owners’’. 
(8) Subsection (c)(2) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 
298.3(b)(1)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘section 
258.3(b)(1)’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘ac-
cordance with to’’ and inserting ‘‘accordance 
with’’. 
(9) Subsection (a)(15)(A) is amended by strik-
ing the comma after ‘‘television station’’. 
(10) Subsection (a)(16)(B) is amended by in-
serting a comma after ‘‘Alaska if’’. 
(11) Subsection (d)(12) is amended by striking 
‘‘low power television as defined’’ and inserting ‘‘low 
power television station as defined’’.
Union Calendar No. 36
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1037
[Report No. 109–75] 
A BILL 
To make technical corrections to title 17, United 
States Code. 
MAY 10, 2005
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1741 
AN ACT 
To require the Attorney General to make competitive grants 
to eligible State, tribal, and local governments to estab-
lish and maintain certain protection and witness assist-
ance programs. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
H. R. 4618
One Hundred Eighth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twentieth day of January, two thousand and four
An Act
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 West
Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, as the ‘‘Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial
Post Office Building’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
The facility of the United States Postal Service located at
10 West Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, shall be known
and designated as the ‘‘Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial Post Office
Building’’.
SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper,
or other record of the United States to the facility referred to
in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Anthony
I. Lombardi Memorial Post Office Building’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
and reissued in a form that complies with section 1405(d) 
of that Act (as added by subsection (a)(2) of this section). 
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109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1038
AN ACT
To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a
judge to whom a case is transferred to retain ju-
risdiction over certain multidistrict litigation
cases for trial, and for other purposes.
109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1038
AN ACT
To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge
to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over
certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1215
AN ACT 
To provide for the implementation of a Green Chemistry 
Research and Development Program, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Multidistrict Litigation
Restoration Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION.
Section 1407 of title 28, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in the third sentence of subsection (a), by
inserting ‘‘or ordered transferred to the transferee
or other district under subsection (i)’’ after ‘‘termi-
nated’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(i)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and except as pro-
vided in subsection (j), any action transferred under this
section by the panel may be transferred for trial purposes,
by the judge or judges of the transferee district to whom
the action was assigned, to the transferee or other district
in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the
parties and witnesses.
‘‘(2) Any action transferred for trial purposes under
paragraph (1) shall be remanded by the panel for the de-
termination of compensatory damages to the district court
from which it was transferred, unless the court to which
the action has been transferred for trial purposes also
finds, for the convenience of the parties and witnesses and
in the interests of justice, that the action should be re-
tained for the determination of compensatory damages.’’.
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO MULTIPARTY, MULTI-
FORM TRIAL JURISDICTION ACT OF 2002.
Section 1407 of title 28, United States Code, as
amended by section 2 of this Act, is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(j)(1) In actions transferred under this section when
jurisdiction is or could have been based, in whole or in
part, on section 1369 of this title, the transferee district
court may, notwithstanding any other provision of this
section, retain actions so transferred for the determination
of liability and punitive damages. An action retained for
the determination of liability shall be remanded to the dis-
trict court from which the action was transferred, or to
the State court from which the action was removed, for
the determination of damages, other than punitive dam-
ages, unless the court finds, for the convenience of parties
and witnesses and in the interest of justice, that the action
should be retained for the determination of damages.
‘‘(2) Any remand under paragraph (1) shall not be
effective until 60 days after the transferee court has
issued an order determining liability and has certified its
intention to remand some or all of the transferred actions
for the determination of damages. An appeal with respect
to the liability determination and the choice of law deter-
mination of the transferee court may be taken during that
60-day period to the court of appeals with appellate juris-
diction over the transferee court. In the event a party files
such an appeal, the remand shall not be effective until the
appeal has been finally disposed of. Once the remand has
become effective, the liability determination and the choice
of law determination shall not be subject to further review
by appeal or otherwise.
‘‘(3) An appeal with respect to determination of puni-
tive damages by the transferee court may be taken, during
the 60-day period beginning on the date the order making
the determination is issued, to the court of appeals with
jurisdiction over the transferee court.
‘‘(4) Any decision under this subsection concerning
remand for the determination of damages shall not be re-
viewable by appeal or otherwise.
‘‘(5) Nothing in this subsection shall restrict the au-
thority of the transferee court to transfer or dismiss an
action on the ground of inconvenient forum.’’.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) SECTION 2.—The amendments made by section
2 shall apply to any civil action pending on or brought
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4653
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the medical 
expenses of a child with special needs shall be allowable as a medical 
expense deduction without regard to the 7.5 percent adjusted gross 
income threshold. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 23, 2004
Mr. TANCREDO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
that the medical expenses of a child with special needs 
shall be allowable as a medical expense deduction without 
regard to the 7.5 percent adjusted gross income thresh-
old.
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 ‘‘Compassionate Assist-
ance for Parents with Children with Special Needs Act 
of 2004’’.
SEC. 2. ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME THRESHOLD IN MED-
ICAL EXPENSE DEDUCTION NOT TO APPLY 
TO MEDICAL EXPENSES FOR CHILDREN WITH 
SPECIAL NEEDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 213 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to medical, dental, etc., ex-
penses) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(f) ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME THRESHOLD NOT TO 
APPLY
TO EXPENSES
FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL 
NEEDS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The adjusted gross income 
threshold in subsection (a) shall not apply to ex-
penses for the medical care of a child with special 
needs. 
‘‘(2) CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.—For pur-
poses of paragraph (1), the term ‘child with special 
needs’ means any dependent of the taxpayer—
‘‘(A) who has not attained the age of 18 
as of the close of the calendar year in which the 
taxable year of the taxpayer begins, and 
‘‘(B) who is considered to be disabled 
under section 1614(a)(3) of the Social Security 
Act.’’
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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(b) SECTION 3.—The amendment made by section 3
shall be effective as if enacted in section 11020(b) of the
Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act of 2002
(Public Law 107–273; 116 Stat. 1826 et seq.).
Passed the House of Representatives April 19, 2005.
Attest:
Clerk.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Green Chemistry Re-
search and Development Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘green chemistry’’ means chem-
istry and chemical engineering to design chemical 
products and processes that reduce or eliminate the 
use or generation of hazardous substances while pro-
ducing high quality products through safe and effi-
cient manufacturing processes; 
(2) the term ‘‘Interagency Working Group’’ 
means the interagency working group established 
under section 3(c); and 
(3) the term ‘‘Program’’ means the Green 
Chemistry Research and Development Program de-
scribed in section 3. 
SEC. 3. GREEN CHEMISTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish a 
Green Chemistry Research and Development Program to 
promote and coordinate Federal green chemistry research, 
development, demonstration, education, and technology 
transfer activities. 
(b) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.—The activities of the Pro-
gram shall be designed to—
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vember 29, 2016)), and such rule shall have no force or 
effect. 
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(1) provide sustained support for green chem-
istry research, development, demonstration, edu-
cation, and technology transfer through—
(A) merit-reviewed competitive grants to 
individual investigators and teams of investiga-
tors, including, to the extent practicable, young 
investigators, for research and development; 
(B) grants to fund collaborative research 
and development partnerships among univer-
sities, industry, and nonprofit organizations; 
(C) green chemistry research, development, 
demonstration, and technology transfer con-
ducted at Federal laboratories; and 
(D) to the extent practicable, encourage-
ment of consideration of green chemistry in—
(i) the conduct of Federal chemical 
science and engineering research and de-
velopment; and 
(ii) the solicitation and evaluation of 
all proposals for chemical science and engi-
neering research and development; 
(2) examine methods by which the Federal Gov-
ernment can create incentives for consideration and 
use of green chemistry processes and products;
(3) facilitate the adoption of green chemistry 
innovations; 
(4) expand education and training of under-
graduate and graduate students, and professional 
chemists and chemical engineers, including through 
partnerships with industry, in green chemistry 
science and engineering; 
(5) collect and disseminate information on 
green chemistry research, development, and tech-
nology transfer, including information on—
(A) incentives and impediments to develop-
ment and commercialization; 
(B) accomplishments; 
(C) best practices; and 
(D) costs and benefits; 
(6) provide venues for outreach and dissemina-
tion of green chemistry advances such as symposia, 
forums, conferences, and written materials in col-
laboration with, as appropriate, industry, academia, 
scientific and professional societies, and other rel-
evant groups; 
(7) support economic, legal, and other appro-
priate social science research to identify barriers to 
commercialization and methods to advance commer-
cialization of green chemistry; and
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1745 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide liability 
protections for volunteer practitioners at health centers 
under section 330 of such Act. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act of 2002 
(Public Law 107–273; 116 Stat. 1826 et seq.). 
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(8) provide for public input and outreach to be 
integrated into the Program by the convening of 
public discussions, through mechanisms such as cit-
izen panels, consensus conferences, and educational 
events, as appropriate. 
(c) INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP.—The President 
shall establish an Interagency Working Group, which shall 
include representatives from the National Science Founda-
tion, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, and any other agency that the President may des-
ignate. The Director of the National Science Foundation 
and the Assistant Administrator for Research and Devel-
opment of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
serve as co-chairs of the Interagency Working Group. The 
Interagency Working Group shall oversee the planning, 
management, and coordination of the Program. The Inter-
agency Working Group shall—
(1) establish goals and priorities for the Pro-
gram, to the extent practicable in consultation with 
green chemistry researchers and potential end-users 
of green chemistry products and processes; and 
(2) provide for interagency coordination, includ-
ing budget coordination, of activities under the Pro-
gram.
(d) AGENCY BUDGET REQUESTS.—Each Federal 
agency and department participating in the Program 
shall, as part of its annual request for appropriations to 
the Office of Management and Budget, submit a report 
to the Office of Management and Budget which identifies 
its activities that contribute directly to the Program and 
states the portion of its request for appropriations that 
is allocated to those activities. The President shall include 
in his annual budget request to Congress a statement of 
the portion of each agency’s or department’s annual budg-
et request allocated to its activities undertaken pursuant 
to the Program. 
(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 2 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Interagency 
Working Group shall transmit a report to the Committee 
on Science of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate. This report shall include—
(1) a summary of federally funded green chem-
istry research, development, demonstration, edu-
cation, and technology transfer activities, including 
the green chemistry budget for each of these activi-
ties; and
IB 
Union Calendar No. 10 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1038 
[Report No. 109–24] 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case 
is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation 
cases for trial, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2005 
Mr. SENSENBRENNER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
MARCH 17, 2005 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge 
to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over 
certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, and for 
other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Multidistrict Litigation 
Restoration Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION. 
Section 1407 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in the third sentence of subsection (a), by 
inserting ‘‘or ordered transferred to the transferee 
or other district under subsection (i)’’ after ‘‘termi-
nated’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(i)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and except as pro-
vided in subsection (j), any action transferred under this 
section by the panel may be transferred for trial purposes, 
by the judge or judges of the transferee district to whom 
the action was assigned, to the transferee or other district 
in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the 
parties and witnesses. 
‘‘(2) Any action transferred for trial purposes under 
paragraph (1) shall be remanded by the panel for the de-
termination of compensatory damages to the district court 
from which it was transferred, unless the court to which 
the action has been transferred for trial purposes also 
finds, for the convenience of the parties and witnesses and