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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 55 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communica-
tions Commission to conduct an annual inquiry on the availability of 
advanced telecommunications capability in broadband deserts, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2019 
Mr. RUSH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the 
Federal Communications Commission to conduct an an-
nual inquiry on the availability of advanced telecommuni-
cations capability in broadband deserts, 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 ‘‘Connecting Broadband 
Deserts Act of 2019’’. 
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taries, and restore and preserve 
aquatic living resources; 
‘‘(ee) to promote individual 
stewardship and assist individ-
uals, community-based organiza-
tions, businesses, local govern-
ments, and schools to undertake 
initiatives to achieve the goals 
and commitments of the Chesa-
peake Bay Agreement; or 
‘‘(ff) to provide technical as-
sistance 
to 
agricultural 
pro-
ducers, foresters, and other eligi-
ble entities through technical in-
frastructure, including activities, 
processes, tools, and agency func-
tions needed to support delivery 
of technical services, such as 
technical standards, resource in-
ventories, training, data, tech-
nology, monitoring, and effects 
analyses; 
‘‘(II) a commitment to dedicate 
not less than 20 percent of a grant to 
a Chesapeake Bay State under this 
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‘‘(D) FULL APPROVAL REQUIRED.—A new 
or revised watershed implementation plan shall 
not be treated as meeting the requirements of 
this section until the Administrator approves 
the entire new or revised plan. 
‘‘(E) CORRECTIONS.—In any case in which 
the Administrator determines that the action of 
the Administrator approving, disapproving, con-
ditionally approving, or promulgating any new 
or revised watershed implementation plan was 
in error, the Administrator— 
‘‘(i) may, in the same manner as the 
approval, disapproval, conditional approval, 
or promulgation, revise the action of the 
Administrator, as appropriate, without re-
quiring any further submission from the 
Chesapeake Bay State; and 
‘‘(ii) shall make the determination of 
the Administrator, and the basis for that 
determination, available to the public. 
‘‘(F) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of 
a State watershed implementation plan shall 
take effect upon the date of approval of the 
plan. 
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SEC. 120. DELAYED REPAYMENT FOR SMALL BUSINESS 
CONCERNS IN AREAS WITH HIGH UNEMPLOY-
MENT. 
Section 506 of title V of division A of the American 
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111– 
5) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN AREAS WITH 
HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT.— 
‘‘(1) INCREASE LOAN LIMITS.—Notwithstanding 
subsection (d), a loan made under this section to a 
small business concern in what the Administrator 
determines to be an area with high unemployment 
may not exceed $75,000. 
‘‘(2) DELAYED REPAYMENT.—Notwithstanding 
subsection (g), repayment for a loan made under 
this section after the date of the enactment of the 
Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 
2009 to a small business concern described in para-
graph (1) shall not begin until 18 months after the 
final disbursement of funds is made.’’. 
SEC. 121. SBA SECONDARY MARKET LENDING AUTHORITY 
MADE PERMANENT. 
Section 509 of title V of division A of the American 
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111– 
5) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (e); and
higher education, basin commission, or 
interstate agency), for the purpose of mon-
itoring the ecosystem of freshwater tribu-
taries to the Chesapeake Bay; or 
‘‘(ii) the States of Delaware or Mary-
land, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the 
District of Columbia, or a designee (such 
as a soil conservation district, nonprofit or-
ganization, local government, institution of 
higher education, basin commission, or 
interstate agency) for the purpose of moni-
toring the Chesapeake Bay, including the 
tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay. 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—In making implemen-
tation grants to each of the Chesapeake Bay States 
for a fiscal year under this subsection, the Adminis-
trator shall ensure that not less than— 
‘‘(A) 10 percent of the funds available to 
make such grants are made to the States of 
Delaware, New York, and West Virginia; and 
‘‘(B) 20 percent of the funds available to 
make such grants are made to Chesapeake Bay 
States for the sole purpose of providing tech-
nical assistance to agricultural producers and 
foresters to access conservation programs and 
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other resources devoted to improvements in 
water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and the 
tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. 
‘‘(3) PROPOSALS.— 
‘‘(A) IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—A Chesapeake 
Bay State may apply for a grant under 
this subsection for a fiscal year by submit-
ting to the Administrator a comprehensive 
proposal to implement programs and 
achieve the goals established under the 
Chesapeake Bay Agreement. 
‘‘(ii) IMPLEMENTATION
GRANT
CON-
TENTS.—A proposal under clause (i) shall 
include— 
‘‘(I) a description of proposed ac-
tions that the Chesapeake Bay State 
commits to take within a specified 
time period that are designed— 
‘‘(aa) to achieve and main-
tain all applicable water quality 
standards, including standards 
necessary to support the aquatic 
living resources of the Chesa-
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peake Bay and related tributaries 
and to protect human health; 
‘‘(bb) to restore, enhance, 
and protect the fish, shellfish, 
wildlife, and other living re-
sources of the Chesapeake Bay 
and related tributaries, habitats 
of those species and resources, 
and ecological relationships to 
sustain all fisheries and provide 
for a balanced ecosystem; 
‘‘(cc) to restore, enhance, 
and protect those habitats and 
natural areas that are vital to the 
survival and diversity of the liv-
ing resources of the Chesapeake 
Bay and related tributaries; 
‘‘(dd) to develop, promote, 
and achieve sound land use prac-
tices that protect and restore wa-
tershed resources and water qual-
ity, reduce or maintain reduced 
pollutant loadings for the Chesa-
peake Bay and related tribu-
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(ii) provide in such notice for a public 
comment period of 30 days; and 
(iii) make available for public inspec-
tion and copying during normal business 
hours any comment received by the agency 
during such comment period. 
(B) REVIEW OF COMMENTS.—After review 
of comments received during the comment pe-
riod, the Secretary may approve for dissemina-
tion by the proposing agency a final version of 
such physical activity guidance along with an 
explanation of the basis and purpose for the 
final guidance which addresses significant and 
substantive comments as determined by the 
proposing agency. 
(C) ANNOUNCEMENT.—Any such final 
physical activity guidance to be disseminated 
under subparagraph (B) shall be announced in 
a notice published in the Federal Register, be-
fore public dissemination along with an address 
where copies may be obtained. 
(D) NOTIFICATION OF DISAPPROVAL.—If 
after the 30-day period for comment as pro-
vided under subparagraph (A)(ii), the Secretary 
disapproves a proposed physical activity guid-
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ance, the Secretary shall notify the Federal 
agency submitting such guidance of such dis-
approval, and such guidance may not be issued, 
except as provided in subparagraph (E). 
(E) REVIEW OF DISAPPROVAL.—If a pro-
posed physical activity guidance is disapproved 
by the Secretary under subparagraph (D), the 
Federal agency proposing such guidance may, 
within 15 days after receiving notification of 
such disapproval under subparagraph (D), re-
quest the Secretary to review such disapproval. 
Within 15 days after receiving a request for 
such a review, the Secretary shall conduct such 
review. If, pursuant to such review, the Sec-
retary approves such proposed physical activity 
guidance, such guidance may be issued by the 
Federal agency. 
(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) The term ‘‘physical activity guidance 
for the general population’’ does not include 
any rule or regulation issued by a Federal agen-
cy. 
(B) The term ‘‘identified population sub-
groups’’ shall include, but not be limited to, 
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groups based on factors such as age, sex, race, 
or physical disability. 
(c) EXISTING AUTHORITY NOT AFFECTED.—This 
section does not place any limitations on— 
(1) the conduct or support of any scientific or 
medical research by any Federal agency; or 
(2) the presentation of any scientific or medical 
findings or the exchange or review of scientific or 
medical information by any Federal agency. 
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(x) Any other facility or provider of 
long-term care services under such titles as 
the participating State determines appro-
priate. 
(B) 
DIRECT
PATIENT
ACCESS
EM-
PLOYEE.—The term ‘‘direct patient access em-
ployee’’ means any individual who has access to 
a patient or resident of a long-term care facility 
or provider through employment or through a 
contract with such facility or provider and has 
duties that involve (or may involve) one-on-one 
contact with a patient or resident of the facility 
or provider, as determined by the State for pur-
poses of the nationwide program. Such term 
does not include a volunteer unless the volun-
teer has duties that are equivalent to the duties 
of a direct patient access employee and those 
duties involve (or may involve) one-on-one con-
tact with a patient or resident of the long-term 
care facility or provider. 
(7) EVALUATION AND REPORT.— 
(A) EVALUATION.—The Inspector General 
of the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices shall conduct an evaluation of the nation-
wide program. Such evaluation shall include—
SEC. 2. TOLLING OF TIMING OF REVIEW FOR APPEALS OF 
FINAL DECISIONS OF BOARD OF VETERANS’ 
APPEALS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 7266(a) of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘In order’’ and inserting ‘‘(1) 
Except as provided in paragraph (2), in order’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2)(A) The 120-day period described in paragraph 
(1) shall be extended upon a showing of good cause for 
such time as justice may require. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of this paragraph, it shall be con-
sidered good cause if a person was unable to file a notice 
of appeal within the 120-day period because of the per-
son’s service-connected disability.’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 
7266(a) of such title, as added by subsection (a), 
shall apply to a notice of appeal filed with respect 
to a final decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals 
that was issued on or after July 24, 2008. 
(2) REINSTATEMENT.—Any petition for review 
filed with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims 
that was dismissed by such Court on or after July 
24, 2008, as untimely, shall, upon the filing of a pe-
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agers, or a Dietetic Technician, Registered meeting the 
requirements of the Commission on Dietetic Registration 
or have equivalent military, academic, or other qualifica-
tions (as specified by the Secretary).’’. 
(b) MEDICAID.—Section 1919(b)(4)(A) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r(b)(4)(A)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘With respect to meeting 
the staffing requirement imposed by the Secretary to carry 
out clause (iv), the full-time director of food services of 
the facility, if not a qualified dietitian (as defined in sec-
tion 483.35(a)(2) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, 
as in effect as of the date of the enactment of this sen-
tence), shall be a Certified Dietary Manager meeting the 
requirements of the Certifying Board for Dietary Man-
agers, or a Dietetic Technician, Registered meeting the 
requirements of the Commission on Dietetic Registration 
or have equivalent military, academic, or other qualifica-
tions (as specified by the Secretary).’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5602 
AN ACT 
To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the 
Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ana-
lyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require 
the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domes-
tic terrorism.
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subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the Ad-
ministrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services, shall pay the amount determined under 
paragraph (2) directly to an eligible dually-certified 
facility for the purpose of providing funding to reim-
burse such facility for furnishing quality care to 
Medicaid-eligible individuals. 
(2) DETERMINATION OF PAYMENT AMOUNTS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graphs (B) and (C), the payment amount deter-
mined under this paragraph for a year for an 
eligible dually-certified facility shall be an 
amount determined by the Secretary as re-
ported on the facility’s latest available Medicare 
cost report. 
(B) LIMITATION ON PAYMENT AMOUNT.— 
In no case shall the payment amount for an eli-
gible dually-certified facility for a year under 
subparagraph (A) be more than the payment 
deficit described in paragraph (3)(D) for such 
facility as reported on the facility’s latest avail-
able Medicare cost report. 
(C) 
PRO-RATA
REDUCTION.—If 
the 
amount available for obligation under sub-
section (a) for a year (as reduced by allowable
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5619 
AN ACT 
To authorize a pilot program to expand and intensify surveil-
lance of self-harm in partnership with State and local 
public health departments, to establish a grant program 
to provide self-harm and suicide prevention services in 
hospital emergency departments, and for other purposes.
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vision B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
of 2009 (Public Law 111–5) to such States and the Dis-
trict for calendar quarters during such fiscal years for 
which such subsections apply.’’. 
(d) WAIVERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1902(j) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(j)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘American Samoa and the 
Northern Mariana Islands’’ and inserting 
‘‘Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the 
Northern Mariana Islands, and American 
Samoa’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘American Samoa or the 
Northern Mariana Islands’’ and inserting 
‘‘Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the 
Northern 
Mariana 
Islands, 
or 
American 
Samoa’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply beginning with fiscal 
year 2011. 
(e) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 
provide nonmonetary technical assistance to the govern-
ments of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the 
Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa in up-
grading their existing computer systems in order to antici-
I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5646 
To provide for the creation of the Missing Armed Forces Personnel Records 
Collection at the National Archives, to require the expeditious public 
transmission to the Archivist and public disclosure of Missing Armed 
Forces Personnel records, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2020 
Mr. PAPPAS (for himself and Mr. FULCHER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To provide for the creation of the Missing Armed Forces 
Personnel Records Collection at the National Archives, 
to require the expeditious public transmission to the Ar-
chivist and public disclosure of Missing Armed Forces 
Personnel records, 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 ‘‘Bring Our Heroes 
Home Act’’. 
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tition by an adversely affected person filed not later 
than six months after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, be reinstated upon a showing that the peti-
tioner had good cause for filing the petition on the 
date it was filed. 
Æ 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Every Person Counts 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CENSUS DATA COLLECTION. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Section 141(b) of title 13, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘United 
States.’’ and inserting ‘‘United States, and shall tabulate 
the total number of persons in each State.’’. 
(b) PROHIBITION.—Section 141(a) of such title 13 
is amended by striking ‘‘as necessary.’’ and inserting ‘‘as 
necessary, except that in no event may the Secretary in-
clude any question or otherwise elicit any information re-
garding United States citizenship or immigration status.’’. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be considered to permit or require the exclusion, 
from any decennial census of population, of— 
(1) any person on the basis of age; 
(2) personnel in the Armed Forces serving 
abroad; 
(3) Federal employees (and their dependents) 
stationed abroad; or 
(4) any other persons outside of the United 
States (besides those under paragraph (2) or (3)) 
who can be traced to the State of their usual place 
of residence, as determined by the Secretary of Com-
merce. 
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(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this Act, the term 
‘‘census of population’’ has the meaning given such term 
by section 141(g) of such title 13. 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3857 
To amend subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, 
to make service performed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund 
instrumentality after 1965 and before 1987 creditable for retirement 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 20, 2009 
Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia (for himself, Mr. WOLF, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. 
REYES) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United 
States Code, to make service performed as an employee 
of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality after 1965 
and before 1987 creditable for retirement 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 ‘‘Nonappropriated Fund 
Equity Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CREDITABILITY OF SERVICE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8332 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(p)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), upon application 
to the Office of Personnel Management, any individual 
who is an employee or Member on the date of the enact-
ment of this subsection, and who has on such date 5 or 
more years of creditable civilian service under this section 
(exclusive of service for which credit is allowed under this 
subsection) shall be allowed credit for service performed, 
after December 31, 1965, and before January 1, 1987, 
as an employee described in section 2105(c). 
‘‘(2)(A) An employee or Member may, with respect 
to any period of service for which such employee or Mem-
ber is allowed credit under this subsection, deposit to the 
credit of the Fund an amount equal to the deductions 
from basic pay which would have been required under sec-
tion 8334(a) if such service were service as an employee. 
‘‘(B) An employee or Member who makes the deposit 
described in subparagraph (A) shall be allowed full retire-
ment credit for the period of service involved. 
‘‘(C) If an employee or Member does not make the 
deposit or makes less than the full amount of the deposit 
described in subparagraph (A), retirement credit shall be 
allowed, but the resulting annuity shall be reduced in a 
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(1) The first sentence of the first undesignated 
paragraph of section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act 
(12 U.S.C. 241) is amended by striking ‘‘fourteen 
years’’ and inserting ‘‘7 years’’. 
(2) The 2nd sentence of the 2nd undesignated 
paragraph of section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act 
(12 U.S.C. 242) is amended by striking ‘‘fourteen 
years’’ the 2nd place such term appears and insert-
ing ‘‘7 years’’. 
(3) The ultimate sentence of the 2nd undesig-
nated paragraph of section 10 of the Federal Re-
serve Act (12 U.S.C. 242) is amended by striking 
‘‘fourteen years’’ and inserting ‘‘7 years’’. 
(b) INCREASE IN POST-SERVICE RESTRICTION.—The 
first sentence of the 2nd undesignated paragraph of sec-
tion 10 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 242) is 
amended by striking ‘‘two years’’ and inserting ‘‘4 years’’. 
(c) ONGOING SERVICE
ON BOARD REQUIREMENT 
FOR CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN.— 
(1) CHAIRMAN.—The 3rd sentence of the 2nd 
undesignated paragraph of section 10 of the Federal 
Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 242) is amended by striking 
‘‘one shall be designated’’ the 1st place such term 
appears and inserting ‘‘a member who is currently 
serving on the Board and has already served at least 
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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5671 
AN ACT 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the 
United States Merchant Mariners of World War II, in 
recognition of their dedicated and vital service during 
World War II. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,