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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4037 
To prohibit offering homebuilding purchase contracts that contain in a single 
document both a mandatory arbitration agreement and other contract 
provisions, and to prohibit requiring purchasers to consent to a manda-
tory arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to entering into 
a homebuilding purchase contract. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2005 
Mr. GONZALEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To prohibit offering homebuilding purchase contracts that 
contain in a single document both a mandatory arbitra-
tion agreement and other contract provisions, and to 
prohibit requiring purchasers to consent to a mandatory 
arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to enter-
ing into a homebuilding purchase contract. 
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 ‘‘American Homebuyers 
Protection Act’’.
SEC. 2. MANDATORY ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No person engaged in the con-
struction of new houses may require a purchaser to enter 
into a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition 
precedent to entering into a contract for the purchase of 
a new house. 
(b) SEPARATE DOCUMENTS REQUIRED.—No person 
engaged in the construction of new houses may offer a 
purchaser a contract for the purchase of a new house 
which includes an agreement on mandatory arbitration 
unless such agreement is a separate document which con-
tains only language pertaining to the mandatory arbitra-
tion agreement. The separate document containing the 
mandatory arbitration agreement shall also contain the 
following statement: ‘‘By Agreeing to Binding Arbitration 
You Are Giving Up Your Right To Go To Court’’. 
(c) ARBITRATOR.—The mandatory arbitration agree-
ment shall not name an independent arbitrator and shall 
contain a procedure that adequately guarantees the pur-
chaser an opportunity to participate in the selection of an 
arbitrator which shall occur only after a dispute regarding 
the homebuilding contract has arisen. 
(d) ENFORCEMENT.—If any person violates sub-
section (a), (b), or (c), the agreement on mandatory arbi-
tration will be of no effect. 
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I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4039 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an exception 
to the reduction in unused medical residency positions for small family 
practice residency programs under the Medicare Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2005 
Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
for an exception to the reduction in unused medical 
residency positions for small family practice residency 
programs under the Medicare Program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO THE MEDICARE REDUCTION IN 
UNUSED MEDICAL RESIDENCY POSITIONS 
FOR SMALL FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1886(h)(7)(A)(i) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(h)(7)(A)(i)) is 
amended— 
(1) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘subclause 
(II)’’ and inserting ‘‘subclauses (II) and (III)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
clause: 
‘‘(III) EXCEPTION
FOR
SMALL 
FAMILY
PRACTICE
RESIDENCY
PRO-
GRAMS.—This subparagraph shall not 
apply to a hospital located in a rural 
area 
(as 
defined 
in 
subsection 
(d)(2)(D)(ii)) or a hospital located in 
an urban area that is not a large 
urban area (as defined for purposes of 
subsection (d)) with an osteopathic or 
allopathic family practice program 
where the number of residents in-
cluded in the otherwise applicable 
resident limit does not exceed 20.’’. 
(b) BUDGET NEUTRALITY.—To the extent that pay-
ments for direct graduate medical education costs under
subsection (h) of section 1886 of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395ww) and for the indirect medical edu-
cation cost adjustment under subsection (d)(5)(B) of such 
section are increased as a result of the amendments made 
by subsection (a), the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall reduce the standardized amount calculated 
pursuant to subsection (d) of such section in such amount 
so that the aggregate expenditures under title XVIII of 
such Act are not increased as a result of such amend-
ments. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of section 422 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108–173). 
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for its own profit or for that of its members’’ 
before the semicolon at the end. 
(c) REVISION
OF
DISCLOSURE
REQUIRE-
MENT.—Section 405(a) of the Credit Repair Or-
ganizations Act (15 U.S.C. 1679c) is amended 
by striking everything after the heading of the 
disclosure statement contained in such section 
and inserting the following new text of the dis-
closure statement: 
‘‘ ‘You have a right to dispute inac-
curate information in your credit report 
by contacting the credit bureau directly. 
However, neither you nor any ‘‘credit re-
pair’’ company or credit repair organiza-
tion has the right to have accurate, cur-
rent, and verifiable information removed 
from your credit report. The credit bureau 
must remove accurate, negative informa-
tion from your report only if it is over 7 
years old. Bankruptcy information can be 
reported for 10 years. 
‘‘ ‘You have a right to obtain a free 
copy of your credit report once every 12 
months from each of the nationwide con-
sumer reporting agencies. To request your 
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free annual credit report, you may go to 
www.annualcreditreport.com, or call 877– 
322–8228, or complete the Annual Credit 
Report Request Form and mail it to: An-
nual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. 
Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348–5281. You 
can obtain additional copies of your cred-
it report from a credit bureau, for which 
you may be charged a reasonable fee. 
There is no fee, however, if you have been 
turned down for credit, employment, in-
surance, or a rental dwelling because of 
information in your credit report within 
the preceding 60 days. The credit bureau 
must provide someone to help you inter-
pret the information in your credit file. 
You are entitled to receive a free copy of 
your credit report if you are unemployed 
and intend to apply for employment in the 
next 60 days, if you are a recipient of pub-
lic welfare assistance, or if you have rea-
son to believe that there is inaccurate in-
formation in your credit report due to 
fraud. 
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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 657 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for forgiveness of certain 
overpayments of retired pay paid to deceased retired members of the 
Armed Forces following their death. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 24, 2007 
Mr. JONES of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for for-
giveness of certain overpayments of retired pay paid to 
deceased retired members of the Armed Forces following 
their death. 
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 ‘‘Military Retiree Sur-
vivor Comfort Act’’. 
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‘‘ ‘You have a right to sue a credit re-
pair organization that violates the Credit 
Repair Organization Act. This law pro-
hibits deceptive practices by credit repair 
organizations. 
‘‘ ‘You have the right to cancel your 
contract with any credit repair organiza-
tion for any reason within 3 business days 
from the date you signed it. 
‘‘ ‘Credit bureaus are required to fol-
low reasonable procedures to ensure that 
the information they report is accurate. 
However, mistakes may occur. 
‘‘ ‘You may, on your own, notify a cred-
it bureau in writing that you dispute the 
accuracy of information in your credit 
file. The credit bureau must then reinves-
tigate and modify or remove inaccurate or 
incomplete information. The credit bu-
reau may not charge any fee for this serv-
ice. Any pertinent information and copies 
of all documents you have concerning an 
error should be given to the credit bureau. 
‘‘ ‘If the credit bureau’s reinvestigation 
does not resolve the dispute to your satis-
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faction, you may send a brief statement to 
the credit bureau, to be kept in your file, 
explaining why you think the record is in-
accurate. The credit bureau must include 
a summary of your statement about dis-
puted information with any report it 
issues about you. 
‘‘ ‘The Federal Trade Commission reg-
ulates credit bureaus and credit repair 
organizations. For more information con-
tact: 
‘‘ ‘Federal Trade Commission 
‘‘ ‘Washington, D.C. 20580 
‘‘ ‘1–877–FTC-HELP 
‘‘ ‘(877 382–4357) 
‘‘ ‘www.ftc.gov.’ ’’. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to amend the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for secure financial 
data, and for other purposes.’’. 
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ployment-related programs not in-
cluded under the integrated workforce 
program; 
‘‘(VII) the region, in carrying out 
the integrated workforce development 
program, will comply with require-
ments under this title relating to wage 
and labor standards (including non-
displacement 
provisions), 
grievance 
procedures and judicial review, and 
nondiscrimination; 
‘‘(G) an assurance that each local work-
force board and chief elected official included in 
the region that will carry out the integrated 
workforce development plan has approved the 
plan; 
‘‘(H) information on the community and 
economic development programs, if any, that 
will provide a portion of funds that will be inte-
grated to carry out the strategies described in 
subparagraph (E), in accordance with the re-
quirements of paragraph (6), including— 
‘‘(i) identification of the included com-
munity and economic development pro-
grams; 
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I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 403 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Hope Scholarship 
Credit to be used for elementary and secondary expenses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2005 
Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, 
Mrs. MUSGRAVE, and Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida) 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 allow the 
Hope Scholarship Credit to be used for elementary and 
secondary expenses. 
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 ‘‘Hope Plus Scholarship 
Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. HOPE SCHOLARSHIP CREDIT AVAILABLE FOR ELE-
MENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL 
EXPENSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section 25A of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE FOR HOPE SCHOLARSHIP 
CREDIT.—In the case of the Hope Scholarship Cred-
it, the term ‘qualified tuition and related expenses’ 
shall include ‘qualified elementary and secondary 
education 
expenses’ 
(as 
defined 
in 
section 
530(b)(4)); except that— 
‘‘(A) such term shall include a contribution 
or gift to the school (other than the home 
school) at which dependents of the taxpayer are 
attending, and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘school’ shall include a home 
school.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2004. 
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Union Calendar No. 270 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4127 
[Report No. 109–453, Parts I, II, and III] 
A BILL 
To protect consumers by requiring reasonable secu-
rity policies and procedures to protect computer-
ized data containing personal information, and to 
provide for nationwide notice in the event of a se-
curity breach. 
JUNE 2, 2006 
Reported from the Committee on Financial Services with 
amendments; committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered 
to be printed 
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I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 452 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine 
the suitability and feasibility of designating the Soldiers’ Memorial Mili-
tary Museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, as a unit of the National 
Park System. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2005 
Mr. CLAY (for himself, Mr. CARNAHAN, and Mr. SKELTON) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
study to determine the suitability and feasibility of desig-
nating the Soldiers’ Memorial Military Museum located 
in St. Louis, Missouri, as a unit of the National Park 
System. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STUDY REGARDING 
THE SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL MILITARY MU-
SEUM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows:
(1) The Soldiers’ Memorial is a tribute to all 
veterans located in the greater St. Louis area, in-
cluding Southern Illinois. 
(2) The current annual budget for the memorial 
is $185,000 and is paid for exclusively by the City 
of St. Louis. 
(3) In 1923, the City of St. Louis voted to 
spend $6,000,000 to purchase a memorial plaza and 
building dedicated to citizens of St. Louis who lost 
their lives in World War I. 
(4) The purchase of the 7 block site exhausted 
the funds and no money remained to construct a 
monument. 
(5) In 1933, Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann ap-
pealed to citizens and the city government to raise 
$1,000,000 to construct a memorial building and 
general improvement of the plaza area and the con-
struction of Soldiers’ Memorial began on October 
21, 1935. 
(6) On October 14, 1936, President Franklin 
D. Roosevelt officially dedicated the site. 
(7) On Memorial Day in 1938, Mayor 
Dickmann opened the building to the public. 
(b) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Interior shall carry 
out a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4040 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction 
for certain attorney fees shall be fully allowable in computing both 
taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2005 
Mr. HERGER 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 deduction for certain attorney fees shall be 
fully allowable in computing both taxable income and 
alternative minimum taxable income. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. CERTAIN ATTORNEY FEES DEDUCTIBLE IN 
COMPUTING TAXABLE INCOME AND ALTER-
NATIVE MINIMUM TAXABLE INCOME. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 67 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to 2-percent floor 
on miscellaneous itemized dedections) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (11), by striking the 
period at the end of paragraph (12) and inserting ‘‘, and’’, 
and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(13) any deduction under section 212 (relating 
to deduction for expenses for production of income) 
for attorney fees, paid by, or on behalf of the tax-
payer in connection with damages received (whether 
by suit or agreement or whether as lump sums or 
periodic payments) by such taxpayer.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to attorney fees paid after the date 
of enactment of this Act, with respect to damages received 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 4128
AN ACT 
To protect private property rights.
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4128
AN ACT 
To protect private property rights.
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 ‘‘Private Property 
Rights Protection Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EMINENT DOMAIN ABUSE BY 
STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No State or political subdivision 
of a State shall exercise its power of eminent domain, or 
allow the exercise of such power by any person or entity 
to which such power has been delegated, over property to 
be used for economic development or over property that 
is subsequently used for economic development, if that 
State or political subdivision receives Federal economic de-
velopment funds during any fiscal year in which it does 
so. 
(b) INELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL FUNDS.—A viola-
tion of subsection (a) by a State or political subdivision 
shall render such State or political subdivision ineligible 
for any Federal economic development funds for a period 
of 2 fiscal years following a final judgment on the merits 
by a court of competent jurisdiction that such subsection 
has been violated, and any Federal agency charged with 
distributing those funds shall withhold them for such 2-
year period, and any such funds distributed to such State 
or political subdivision shall be returned or reimbursed by 
such State or political subdivision to the appropriate Fed-
eral agency or authority of the Federal Government, or 
component thereof. 
(c) OPPORTUNITY TO CURE VIOLATION.—A State or 
political subdivision shall not be ineligible for any Federal 
economic development funds under subsection (b) if such 
State or political subdivision returns all real property the 
taking of which was found by a court of competent juris-
diction to have constituted a violation of subsection (a) 
and replaces any other property destroyed and repairs any 
other property damaged as a result of such violation. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON EMINENT DOMAIN ABUSE BY THE 
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
The Federal Government or any authority of the Fed-
eral Government shall not exercise its power of eminent 
domain to be used for economic development. 
SEC. 4. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION. 
(a) CAUSE OF ACTION.—Any owner of private prop-
erty who suffers injury as a result of a violation of any 
provision of this Act may bring an action to enforce any 
provision of this Act in the appropriate Federal or State 
court, and a State shall not be immune under the eleventh 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States from 
any such action in a Federal or State court of competent 
jurisdiction. In such action, the defendant has the burden 
to show by clear and convincing evidence that the taking
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4041 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction 
for certain flood-related attorney fees shall be fully allowable in com-
puting both taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2005 
Mr. HERGER 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 deduction for certain flood-related attorney fees 
shall be fully allowable in computing both taxable income 
and alternative minimum taxable income. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. CERTAIN FLOOD-RELATED ATTORNEY FEES 
DEDUCTIBLE IN COMPUTING TAXABLE IN-
COME AND ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAXABLE 
INCOME. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 67 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to 2-percent floor
on miscellaneous itemized dedections) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (11), by striking the 
period at the end of paragraph (12) and inserting ‘‘, and’’, 
and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(13) any deduction under section 212 (relating 
to deduction for expenses for production of income) 
for attorney fees, paid by, or on behalf of the tax-
payer to the extent such attorney fees are in connec-
tion with damages received (whether by suit or 
agreement or whether as lump sums or periodic pay-
ments) by such taxpayer as a result of a natural dis-
aster which is a flood.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to attorney fees paid after the date 
of enactment of this Act, with respect to damages received 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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Secretary shall consider the status of the 
consensus data elements set for reporting 
clinical trial results of the World Health 
Organization when issuing the regulations 
under this subparagraph. 
‘‘(vii) PUBLIC
MEETING.—The Sec-
retary shall hold a public meeting no later 
than 18 months after the date of the en-
actment of the Food and Drug Administra-
tion Amendments Act of 2007 to provide 
an opportunity for input from interested 
parties with regard to the regulations to be 
issued under this subparagraph. 
‘‘(E) SUBMISSION OF RESULTS INFORMA-
TION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided in clause (iii), (iv), (v), and (vi) the 
responsible party for an applicable clinical 
trial that is described in clause (ii) shall 
submit to the Director of NIH for inclu-
sion in the registry and results data bank 
the clinical trial information described in 
subparagraph (C) not later than 1 year, or 
such other period as may be provided by 
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