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HR 2668 PCS 
ing ‘‘December 31, 2013’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2014’’. 
(b) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) 
REPORTING
BY
EMPLOYERS.—Section 
1514(d) of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 
2013’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2014’’. 
(2) REPORTING BY INSURANCE PROVIDERS.— 
Section 1502(e) of the Patient Protection and Af-
fordable Care Act is amended by striking ‘‘2013’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2014’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect as if included in the provision 
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to 
which they relate. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 17, 2013. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 145 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2668 
AN ACT 
To delay the application of the individual health in-
surance mandate, to delay the application of the 
employer health insurance mandate, and for 
other purposes. 
JULY 24, 2013 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 266 
To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to certain tort claims 
arising out of the criminal misconduct of confidential informants, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2013 
Mr. LYNCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to 
certain tort claims arising out of the criminal misconduct 
of confidential informants, 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 ‘‘Justice for Victims 
of Confidential Informant Crime Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. TORT CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THE CRIMINAL MIS-
CONDUCT OF A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2401(b) of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘A tort claim’’ and inserting 
‘‘(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) In the case of a claim arising out of the 
conduct of an employee of the Government with re-
spect to the criminal misconduct of a Government 
informant, paragraph (1) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘three years and six months’ for ‘two 
years’.’’. 
(b) RETROACTIVE EFFECT.—The amendments made 
by this section shall apply with respect to any claim that— 
(1) accrued on or after May 1, 1981; and 
(2) in the case of a claim that accrued before 
the date of enactment of this Act, is presented not 
later than one year after that date. 
(c) PRECLUSION OF CERTAIN DEFENSES OR BARS.— 
The Government may not assert a defense or a bar, based 
on the doctrine of res judicata or collateral estoppel, to 
a claim that— 
(1) accrued before the date of enactment of this 
Act; and 
(2) to which the amendments made by this sec-
tion apply. 
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‘‘(aa) in the case of a program with a
participation rate below 10 percent for
1994, 10 percent; and
‘‘(bb) in the case of a program with a
participation rate between 10 percent and
50 percent for 1994, the program’s partici-
pation rate for 1994 plus 2 percent; and
‘‘(II) for any succeeding year that the pro-
gram is operated, the program’s participation
rate for the preceding year plus 2 percent.
‘‘(B) The participation rates required under clauses
(i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall not exceed 50 per-
cent.
‘‘(C) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘par-
ticipation rate’ means the percentage of able-bodied indi-
viduals receiving general welfare assistance who are par-
ticipating in a workfare program.
‘‘(5) Within 5 years after the date of the enactment
of this subsection, the Secretary shall conduct a review
of State and local participation rates and submit to Con-
gress a report containing any of the Secretary’s rec-
ommendations with respect to the participation rate re-
quirements of paragraph (4).’’.
of 1971 (as added by subsection (a)) which are filed after 
the expiration of the 90-day period which begins on the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ENGAGING IN COVERED POLITICAL 
ACTIVITIES BY SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANIZA-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(C)(i) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply 
to an entity for a taxable year if the total ex-
penditures of such entity for the taxable year 
for covered political activity exceed the lesser 
of— 
‘‘(I) 10 percent of the total expendi-
tures of such entity for the taxable year, or 
‘‘(II) $10,000,000. 
‘‘(ii) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to 
an entity for a taxable year unless its governing 
instrument includes provisions the effects of 
which are to prohibit the expenditures of the 
entity for a covered political activity from ex-
ceeding the threshold specified in clause (i). 
‘‘(iii) For purposes of this subparagraph, 
the term ‘covered political activity’ means— 
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‘‘(I) any activity described in para-
graphs (1) through (3) of section 325(c) of 
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 
1971; and 
‘‘(II) any payment by the entity to 
any other entity described in this para-
graph or to an organization described in 
paragraph (6) which the payor entity 
knows, or has reason to know, will be used 
directly or indirectly by the payee entity or 
organization for any activity referred to in 
subclause (I). 
‘‘(iv) Clause (i) shall not apply for a tax-
able year for which the 10 percent threshold 
specified in clause (i)(I) is exceeded by not 
more than a de minimis amount if the Sec-
retary determines that the reason for exceeding 
the threshold was not willful and is due to rea-
sonable cause. 
‘‘(v) The Secretary shall prescribe such 
regulations as may be necessary or appropriate 
to prevent the avoidance of clause (i), including 
regulations relating to a direct or indirect 
transfer of all or part of the assets of an entity 
to an entity controlled (directly or indirectly) by 
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the same person or persons who control the 
transferor entity.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act or amendment made by 
this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment 
to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitu-
tional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made 
by this Act, and the application of the provisions and 
amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be 
affected by the holding. 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2671 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the deductibility 
of charitable contributions to agricultural research organizations, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 11, 2013 
Mr. NUNES (for himself, Mr. KIND, Mr. COLE, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. MARCHANT, 
Mr. DENHAM, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. PETERSON, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. 
VALADAO, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. LAMALFA, 
Mr. LANKFORD, and Mr. BLUMENAUER) 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 
for the deductibility of charitable contributions to agri-
cultural research organizations, 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 ‘‘Charitable Agricultural 
Research Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEDUCTIBILITY OF CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS 
TO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZA-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 170(b)(1)(A) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end of clause (vii), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the end of 
clause (viii), and by inserting after clause (viii) the fol-
lowing new clause: 
‘‘(ix) an agricultural research organi-
zation directly engaged in the continuous 
active conduct of agricultural research (as 
defined in section 1404 of the Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 
Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)) in conjunc-
tion with a land-grant college or university 
(as defined in such section) or a non-land- 
grant college of agriculture (as defined in 
such section), and during the calendar year 
in which the contribution is made such or-
ganization is committed to spend such con-
tribution for such research before January 
1 of the fifth calendar year which begins 
after the date such contribution is made,’’. 
(b) EXPENDITURES TO INFLUENCE LEGISLATION.— 
Section 501(h)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) 
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as subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively, and by insert-
ing after subparagraph (D) the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(E) section 170(b)(1)(A)(ix) (relating to 
agricultural research organizations),’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to contributions made on and after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2673 
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide that residential mortgage 
loans held on portfolio qualify as qualified mortgages for purposes of 
the presumption of the ability to repay requirements under such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 11, 2013 
Mr. BARR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide that residen-
tial mortgage loans held on portfolio qualify as qualified 
mortgages for purposes of the presumption of the ability 
to repay requirements under such Act. 
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 ‘‘Portfolio Lending and 
Mortgage Access Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LOANS HELD ON PORTFOLIO TREATED AS QUALI-
FIED MORTGAGES. 
Section 129C(b)(2) of the Truth in Lending Act (15 
U.S.C. 1639c(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(F) LOANS HELD ON PORTFOLIO.—The 
term ‘qualified mortgage’ includes a residential 
mortgage loan made by a creditor so long as 
such loan appears on the balance sheet of such 
creditor.’’. 
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‘‘(A) the amount of payments so used or 
not remitted, as appropriate; and 
‘‘(B) interest on any such amounts (at a 
rate determined by the Commission). 
‘‘(2) OTHER
ACTION
NOT
PRECLUDED.—Any 
action by the Commission in accordance with this 
subsection shall not preclude enforcement pro-
ceedings by the Commission in accordance with sec-
tion 309(a), including a referral by the Commission 
to the Attorney General in the case of an apparent 
knowing and willful violation of this title. 
‘‘SEC. 545. ELECTION CYCLE DEFINED. 
‘‘In this title, the term ‘election cycle’ means, with 
respect to an election for an office, the period beginning 
on the day after the date of the most recent general elec-
tion for that office (or, if the general election resulted in 
a runoff election, the date of the runoff election) and end-
ing on the date of the next general election for that office 
(or, if the general election resulted in a runoff election, 
the date of the runoff election).’’. 
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HR 1530 PP
‘‘(1) In the case of a military installation not
approved for closure pursuant to a base closure law,
the Defense Environmental Restoration Account es-
tablished under section 2703(a) of this title.
‘‘(2) In the case of an installation approved for
closure pursuant to such a law, the Department of
Defense Base Closure Account 1990 established under
section 2906(a) of the Defense Base Closure and Re-
alignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public
Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).’’.
(2)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), the total amount
of funds made available under section 2705(g) of title 10,
United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), for fiscal
year 1996 may not exceed $4,000,000.
(B) Amounts may not be made available under sub-
section (g) of such section 2705 after March 1, 1996, unless
the Secretary of Defense prescribes the regulations required
under subsection (d) of such section, as amended by sub-
section (a).
(e) DEFINITION.—Such section is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(h) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘base clo-
sure law’ means the following:
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retary shall, in accordance with 
clause (iii), establish and have in 
place a process to allow an indi-
vidual VBP eligible professional 
or a group practice consisting of 
not more than 10 VBP eligible 
professionals to elect, with re-
spect to a performance period for 
a year, for such individual VBP 
eligible professional or all such 
VBP eligible professionals in such 
group practice, respectively, to be 
a virtual group under this sub-
paragraph with at least one other 
such individual VBP eligible pro-
fessional or group practice mak-
ing such an election. 
‘‘(iii) 
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
process under clause (ii) shall 
provide that— 
‘‘(I) 
an 
election 
under 
such clause, with respect to a 
performance period, shall be 
made before the beginning of 
such performance period and 
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reference to another candidate for the 
same office, in any broadcast using the 
rights and conditions of access under this 
Act, unless such reference meets the re-
quirements of subparagraph (C) or (D).’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A)(i)’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘If a candidate’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(i) FOR
CANDIDATES.—If a can-
didate’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(ii) FOR PARTY NATIONAL COMMIT-
TEES.—If the national committee of a po-
litical party makes a reference described in 
subparagraph (A)(ii) in any broadcast that 
does not meet the requirements of sub-
paragraph (C) or (D), such national com-
mittee shall not be entitled to receive the 
rate under paragraph (1)(A) for such 
broadcast or any other broadcast in con-
nection with the campaign of the candidate 
during any portion of the 45-day and 60- 
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day periods described in paragraph (1)(A), 
that occur on or after the date of such 
broadcast.’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘A candidate’’ and in-
serting ‘‘A television broadcast’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘, in the case of a tele-
vision broadcast,’’; and 
(iii) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or the 
national committee of a political party’’ 
after ‘‘authorized committee’’; 
(D) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘A candidate’’ and in-
serting ‘‘A radio broadcast’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘, in the case of a 
radio broadcast,’’; and 
(E) in subparagraph (E), by inserting ‘‘or 
national committee’’ after ‘‘candidate)’’. 
(b) PREEMPTION; AUDITS.—Section 315 of the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 315) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (g); 
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (f); and 
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113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2678 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 10360 Southwest 186th Street in Miami, Flor-
ida, as the ‘‘Larcenia J. Bullard Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. LARCENIA J. BULLARD POST OFFICE BUILD-
ING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 10360 Southwest 186th Street 
in Miami, Florida, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Larcenia J. Bullard Post Office Building’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Larcenia J. Bullard 
Post Office Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 
2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2678 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Post-
al Service located at 10360 Southwest 186th 
Street in Miami, Florida, as the ‘‘Larcenia J. 
Bullard Post Office Building’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) the hydropower industry currently employs 
approximately 300,000 workers across the United 
States; 
(2) hydropower is the largest source of clean, 
renewable electricity in the United States; 
(3) as of the date of enactment of this Act, hy-
dropower resources, including pumped storage facili-
ties, provide— 
(A) nearly 7 percent of the electricity gen-
erated in the United States; and 
(B) approximately 100,000 megawatts of 
electric capacity in the United States; 
(4) only 3 percent of the 80,000 dams in the 
United States generate electricity, so there is sub-
stantial potential for adding hydropower generation 
to nonpowered dams; and 
(5) according to one study, by utilizing cur-
rently untapped resources, the United States could 
add approximately 60,000 megawatts of new hydro-
power capacity by 2025, which could create 700,000 
new jobs over the next 13 years. 
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SEC. 3. PROMOTING SMALL HYDROELECTRIC POWER 
PROJECTS. 
Subsection (d) of section 405 of the Public Utility 
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2705) is 
amended by striking ‘‘5,000’’ and inserting ‘‘10,000’’. 
SEC. 4. PROMOTING CONDUIT HYDROPOWER PROJECTS. 
(a) APPLICABILITY OF, AND EXEMPTION FROM, LI-
CENSING REQUIREMENTS.—Section 30 of the Federal 
Power Act (16 U.S.C. 823a) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(a)(1) A qualifying conduit hydropower facility shall 
not be required to be licensed under this part. 
‘‘(2)(A) Any person, State, or municipality proposing 
to construct a qualifying conduit hydropower facility shall 
file with the Commission a notice of intent to construct 
such facility. The notice shall include sufficient informa-
tion to demonstrate that the facility meets the qualifying 
criteria. 
‘‘(B) Not later than 15 days after receipt of a notice 
of intent filed under subparagraph (A), the Commission 
shall— 
‘‘(i) make an initial determination as to wheth-
er the facility meets the qualifying criteria; and 
‘‘(ii) if the Commission makes an initial deter-
mination, pursuant to clause (i), that the facility 
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meets the qualifying criteria, publish public notice of 
the notice of intent filed under subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) If, not later than 45 days after the date of publi-
cation of the public notice described in subparagraph 
(B)(ii)— 
‘‘(i) an entity contests whether the facility 
meets the qualifying criteria, the Commission shall 
promptly issue a written determination as to wheth-
er the facility meets such criteria; or 
‘‘(ii) no entity contests whether the facility 
meets the qualifying criteria, the facility shall be 
deemed to meet such criteria. 
‘‘(3) For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘conduit’ means any tunnel, 
canal, pipeline, aqueduct, flume, ditch, or similar 
manmade water conveyance that is operated for the 
distribution of water for agricultural, municipal, or 
industrial consumption and not primarily for the 
generation of electricity. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘qualifying conduit hydropower 
facility’ means a facility (not including any dam or 
other impoundment) that is determined or deemed 
under paragraph (2)(C) to meet the qualifying cri-
teria. 
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‘‘(C) The term ‘qualifying criteria’ means, with 
respect to a facility— 
‘‘(i) the facility is constructed, operated, or 
maintained for the generation of electric power 
and uses for such generation only the hydro-
electric potential of a non-federally owned con-
duit; 
‘‘(ii) the facility has an installed capacity 
that does not exceed 5 megawatts; and 
‘‘(iii) on or before the date of enactment of 
the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 
2013, the facility is not licensed under, or ex-
empted from the license requirements contained 
in, this part. 
‘‘(b) Subject to subsection (c), the Commission may 
grant an exemption in whole or in part from the require-
ments of this part, including any license requirements con-
tained in this part, to any facility (not including any dam 
or other impoundment) constructed, operated, or main-
tained for the generation of electric power which the Com-
mission determines, by rule or order— 
‘‘(1) utilizes for such generation only the hydro-
electric potential of a conduit; and 
‘‘(2) has an installed capacity that does not ex-
ceed 40 megawatts.’’; 
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