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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4373
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to limit disclosure of consumer
reports on an employee which are obtained in connection with allegations
of illegal conduct.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 3, 2000
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services
A BILL
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to limit disclosure
of consumer reports on an employee which are obtained
in connection with allegations of illegal conduct.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FAIR CREDIT REPORTING ACT.
(a) SECTION 604.—Section 604(b) of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681b(b)) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘(5) APPLICATION.—Paragraphs (2)(A) and
(3)(A) do not apply with respect to a consumer re-
port for an employee which is obtained for the pur-
poses of investigating allegations of a violation of the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age
Discrimination Act of 1975, the Older Americans
Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination in Employment
Act of 1967, title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 or analogous State and local laws.’’.
(b) SECTION 606.—Section 606 of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681d) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘(e) Subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d)(1) do not apply
with respect to a consumer report for an employee which
is obtained for the purposes of investigating allegations
of a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Older
Americans Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination in Em-
ployment Act of 1967, title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 or analogous State and local laws.’’.
(c) SECTION 609.—Section 609(a)(1) of the Fair
Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681g) is amended by
adding before the period at the end the following: ‘‘or, in
the case of a consumer report for an employee which is
obtained for the purposes of investigating allegations of
a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,
the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Older Americans
Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
tract lying seaward of the zone defined and governed
by section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands
Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)), or lying within such zone
but to which section 8(g) does not apply, the geo-
graphic center of which lies within a distance of 200
miles from any part of the coastline of any coastal
State, including bonus bids, rents, royalties (includ-
ing payments for royalty taken in kind and sold),
net profit share payments, and related late-payment
interest from natural gas and oil leases issued pur-
suant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Such term does not include any revenues from a
leased tract or portion of a leased tract that is lo-
cated in a geographic area subject to a leasing mora-
torium on January 1, 1999, unless the lease was
issued prior to the establishment of the moratorium
and was in production on January 1, 1999.
(13) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary
of the Interior or the Secretary’s designee, except as
otherwise specifically provided.
(14) The term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Conservation
and Reinvestment Act Fund established under sec-
tion 5.
of 1967, title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or analo-
gous State and local laws by that employee, to require
prior to any adverse action or in any case, not later than
30 days after the commencement of an investigation or
after such date upon request, disclosure of more than a
summary containing the nature and substance of the in-
formation (i.e. information which is meaningful and gen-
uine that serves as a basis of the decision to investigate
but is not so specific as to identify witnesses or otherwise
inhibit the investigation) in the consumer’s file at the time
of the request for the consumer report’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4374
To provide for the appointment of 2 additional Federal district judges for
the Western District of Texas.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 3, 2000
Mr. SMITH of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide for the appointment of 2 additional Federal
district judges for the Western District of Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGES FOR THE WEST-
ERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall appoint, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 2 addi-
tional district judges for the western district of Texas.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—In order that the table
contained in section 133(a) of title 28, United States
Code, reflects the change in the total number of perma-
nent district judgeships authorized under subsection (a),
such table is amended in the item relating to Texas by
striking ‘‘10’’ after ‘‘Western’’ and inserting ‘‘12’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums
as may be necessary to carry out this Act, including such
sums as may be necessary to provide appropriate space
and facilities for the judicial positions created by this Act.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4376
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit certain members of the
Individual Ready Reserve to participate in the Servicemembers’ Group
Life Insurance program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 4, 2000
Mr. STUMP (for himself, Mr. EVANS, Mr. QUINN, and Mr. FILNER) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit certain
members of the Individual Ready Reserve to participate
in the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE IN-
DIVIDUAL 
READY 
RESERVE 
FOR
SERVICEMEMBERS’ GROUP LIFE INSURANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1965(5) of title 38,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-
paragraph (D);
(2) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (B); and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(C) a person who volunteers for assign-
ment to a mobilization category in the Indi-
vidual Ready Reserve, as defined in section
12304(i)(1) of title 10; and’’.
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—(1) 
Section
1967(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by
striking ‘‘section 1965(5)(B) of this title’’ each place it
appears and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (B) or (C) of sec-
tion 1965(5) of this title’’.
(2) Section 1968(a) of such title is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘section 1965(5)(B) of this title’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (B) or (C) of section
1965(5) of this title’’.
(3) Section 1969(a)(2)(A) of such title is amended
by striking ‘‘section 1965(5)(B) of this title’’ and inserting
‘‘subparagraphs (B) or (C) of section 1965(5) of this
title’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section take effect on October 1, 2000.
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local governments and substantially facilitates inter-
state and foreign commerce;
(4) the benefits of wireless communications in
emergencies will be enhanced by the development of
state-wide plans to coordinate the efforts of local
public safety, fire service, and law enforcement offi-
cials, emergency dispatch providers, emergency med-
ical service providers on end-to-end emergency com-
munications infrastructures; and
(5) the construction and operation of seamless,
ubiquitous, and reliable wireless telecommunications
systems promote public safety and provide imme-
diate and critical communications links among mem-
bers of the public, emergency medical service provid-
ers and emergency dispatch providers, public safety,
fire service and law enforcement officials, and hos-
pital emergency and trauma care facilities.
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to encour-
age and facilitate the prompt deployment throughout the
United States of a seamless, ubiquitous, and reliable end-
to-end infrastructure for communications, including wire-
less communications, to meet the Nation’s public safety
and other communications needs.
database provided by a State or designated database pro-
vider. The home service provider shall reflect changes
made to such database during a calendar quarter not later
than 30 days after the end of such calendar quarter for
each State that issues notice of the availability of an elec-
tronic database reflecting such changes under subsection
(b).
‘‘§ 120. Procedure if no electronic database provided
‘‘(a) SAFE HARBOR.—If neither a State nor des-
ignated database provider provides an electronic database
under section 119, a home service provider shall be held
harmless from any tax, charge, or fee liability in such
State that otherwise would be due solely as a result of
an assignment of a street address to an incorrect taxing
jurisdiction if, subject to section 121, the home service
provider employs an enhanced zip code to assign each
street address to a specific taxing jurisdiction for each
level of taxing jurisdiction and exercises due diligence at
each level of taxing jurisdiction to ensure that each such
street address is assigned to the correct taxing jurisdic-
tion. If an enhanced zip code overlaps boundaries of taxing
jurisdictions of the same level, the home service provider
must designate one specific jurisdiction within such en-
hanced zip code for use in taxing the activity for such en-
hanced zip code for each level of taxing jurisdiction. Any
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to the functions of the Chief Financial Officer under sec-
tion 901(c) of title 31, United States Code (as added by
subsection (a)).
(2) The personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, prop-
erty, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed,
held, used, arising from, available or to be made available,
of any office the functions, powers, or duties of which are
transferred under paragraph (1) shall also be so trans-
ferred.
(f) SEPARATE BUDGET REQUEST.—Section 1105(a)
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting
after paragraph (30) the following new paragraph:
‘‘(31) a separate statement of the amount of
appropriations requested to carry out the provisions
of the Presidential and Executive Office Financial
Accountability Act of 1999.’’.
(g) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
Section 503(a) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘respectively.’’
and inserting ‘‘respectively (excluding any officer
designated or appointed under section 901(c)).’’; and
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 437
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY 12, 1999
Received
FEBRUARY 22, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs
AN ACT
To provide for a Chief Financial Officer in the Executive
Office of the President.
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 ‘‘Presidential and Exec-
utive Office Financial Accountability Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER IN THE EXECUTIVE OF-
FICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 901 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing:
‘‘(c)(1) There shall be within the Executive Office of
the President a Chief Financial Officer, who shall be des-
ignated or appointed by the President from among individ-
uals meeting the standards described in subsection (a)(3).
The position of Chief Financial Officer established under
this paragraph may be so established in any Office (in-
cluding the Office of Administration) of the Executive Of-
fice of the President.
‘‘(2) The Chief Financial Officer designated or ap-
pointed under this subsection shall, to the extent that the
President determines appropriate and in the interest of
the United States, have the same authority and perform
the same functions as apply in the case of a Chief Finan-
cial Officer of an agency described in subsection (b).
‘‘(3) The President shall submit to Congress notifica-
tion with respect to any provision of section 902 that the
President determines shall not apply to a Chief Financial
Officer designated or appointed under this subsection.
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‘‘(4) The President may designate an employee of the
Executive Office of the President (other than the Chief
Financial Officer), who shall be deemed ‘the head of the
agency’ for purposes of carrying out section 902, with re-
spect to the Executive Office of the President.’’.
(b) PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 90
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-
dent shall communicate in writing to the Chairman of the
Committee on Government Reform of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Chairman of the Committee on Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate a plan for implementation
of the provisions of, including the amendments made by,
this Act.
(c) DEADLINE FOR APPOINTMENT.—The Chief Fi-
nancial Officer designated or appointed under section
901(c) of title 31, United States Code (as added by sub-
section (a)), shall be so designated or appointed not later
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(d) PAY.—The Chief Financial Officer designated or
appointed under such section shall receive basic pay at the
rate payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule under
section 5315 of title 5, United States Code.
(e) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—(1) The President
may transfer such offices, functions, powers, or duties
thereof, as the President determines are properly related
‘‘(2) determine that the assignment of a taxing
jurisdiction by a home service provider under section
121 does not reflect the correct taxing jurisdiction
and give binding notice to the home service provider
to change the assignment on a prospective basis
from the date of notice of determination if—
‘‘(A) if the taxing jurisdiction making such
determination is not a State and such taxing
jurisdiction obtains the consent of all affected
taxing jurisdictions within the State before giv-
ing such notice of determination; and
‘‘(B) the home service provider is given an
opportunity to demonstrate in accordance with
applicable State or local tax, charge, or fee ad-
ministrative procedures that the assignment re-
flects the correct taxing jurisdiction.
‘‘§ 123. Determination of Place of Primary Use.
‘‘(a) PLACE OF PRIMARY USE.—A taxing jurisdiction
may require a home service provider to be responsible for
obtaining and maintaining the customer’s place of primary
use (as defined in section 125). Subject to section 122,
and if the home service provider’s reliance on information
provided by its customer is in good faith, a taxing jurisdic-
tion shall—
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4381
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that income aver-
aging for farmers shall be applied by taking into account negative taxable
income during the base period years.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 4, 2000
Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for himself and Mr. NUSSLE) 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 income averaging for farmers shall be applied by
taking into account negative taxable income during the
base period years.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NEGATIVE BASE PERIOD TAXABLE INCOME
TAKEN 
INTO 
ACCOUNT 
UNDER 
INCOME
AVERAGING FOR FARMERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1301 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to averaging of farm income)
is amended by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
(d) and by inserting after subsection (b) the following new
subsection:
‘‘(c) NEGATIVE BASE PERIOD TAXABLE INCOME
TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.—In the case of any prior taxable
year referred to in subsection (a)(2), any excess of—
‘‘(1) the deductions allowed by this chapter for
such taxable year reduced by the net operating loss
(as defined in section 172(c)) for such year, over
‘‘(2) the gross income for such year,
shall be taken into account as negative taxable income.’’
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall take effect as if included in the amend-
ments made by section 933 of the Taxpayer Relief Act
of 1997.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4385
To amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to the Federal preemp-
tion of State law concerning the regulation of marine and ocean naviga-
tion, safety, and transportation by States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 4, 2000
Mr. METCALF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to
the Federal preemption of State law concerning the regu-
lation of marine and ocean navigation, safety, and trans-
portation by States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. STANDARDS.
Section 3703 of title 46, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
‘‘(d) PRESERVATION OF STATE AUTHORITY.—Noth-
ing in this chapter, or any other provision of law, preempts
the authority of a State to adopt additional standards re-
garding maintenance, operation, equipping, personnel
qualification, or manning of vessels to which the regula-
tions under subsection (a) apply.’’.
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In the Senate of the United States,
October 4 (legislative day, September 22), 2000.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 4386) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend title XIX of the
Social Security Act to provide medical assistance for certain
women screened and found to have breast or cervical cancer
under a federally funded screening program, to amend the
Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act with respect to surveillance and information
concerning the relationship between cervical cancer and the
human papillomavirus (HPV), and for other purposes.’’, do
pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Breast and Cervical
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000’’.
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the purchased services into a mobile tele-
communications service; and
‘‘(B) does not include a serving carrier
with which a home service provider arranges for
the services to its customers outside the home
service provider’s licensed service area.
‘‘(11) SERVING
CARRIER.—The term ‘serving
carrier’ means a facilities-based carrier providing
mobile telecommunications service to a customer
outside a home service provider’s or reseller’s li-
censed service area.
‘‘(12) TAXING JURISDICTION.—The term ‘tax-
ing jurisdiction’ means any of the several States, the
District of Columbia, or any territory or possession
of the United States, any municipality, city, county,
township, parish, transportation district, or assess-
ment jurisdiction, or any other political subdivision
within the territorial limits of the United States with
the authority to impose a tax, charge, or fee.
‘‘§ 125. Nonseverability
‘‘If a court of competent jurisdiction enters a final
judgment on the merits that—
‘‘(1) is based on Federal law;
‘‘(2) is no longer subject to appeal; and
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‘‘(8) PLACE OF PRIMARY USE.—The term ‘place
of primary use’ means the street address representa-
tive of where the customer’s use of the mobile tele-
communications service primarily occurs, which must
be—
‘‘(A) the residential street address or the
primary business street address of the cus-
tomer; and
‘‘(B) within the licensed service area of the
home service provider.
‘‘(9) PREPAID
TELEPHONE
CALLING
SERV-
ICES.—The term ‘prepaid telephone calling service’
means the right to purchase exclusively tele-
communications services that must be paid for in
advance, that enables the origination of calls using
an access number, authorization code, or both,
whether manually or electronically dialed, if the re-
maining amount of units of service that have been
prepaid is known by the provider of the prepaid
service on a continuous basis.
‘‘(10) RESELLER.—The term ‘reseller’—
‘‘(A) means a provider who purchases tele-
communications services from another tele-
communications service provider and then re-
sells, uses as a component part of, or integrates
(iii)(I) the good is a good covered by
Annex 4–A or 5–A of the Agreement;
(II)(aa) each of the nonoriginating mate-
rials used in the production of the good under-
goes an applicable change in tariff classification
specified in such Annex as a result of produc-
tion occurring entirely in the territory of Mo-
rocco or the United States, or both; or
(bb) the good otherwise satisfies the re-
quirements specified in such Annex; and
(III) the good satisfies all other applicable
requirements of this section.
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—A good described in
paragraph (1)(B)(ii) is an originating good only if
the sum of—
(A) the value of each material produced in
the territory of Morocco or the United States,
or both, and
(B) the direct costs of processing oper-
ations performed in the territory of Morocco or
the United States, or both,
is not less than 35 percent of the appraised value of
the good at the time the good is entered into the ter-
ritory of the United States.
(c) CUMULATION.—
(1) ORIGINATING GOOD OR MATERIAL INCOR-
PORATED
INTO
GOODS
OF
OTHER
COUNTRY.—An
originating good or a material produced in the terri-
tory of Morocco or the United States, or both, that
is incorporated into a good in the territory of the
other country shall be considered to originate in the
territory of the other country.
(2) MULTIPLE PROCEDURES.—A good that is
grown, produced, or manufactured in the territory of
Morocco or the United States, or both, by 1 or more
producers, is an originating good if the good satis-
fies the requirements of subsection (b) and all other
applicable requirements of this section.
(d) VALUE OF MATERIALS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the value of a material produced in the
territory of Morocco or the United States, or both,
includes the following:
(A) The price actually paid or payable for
the material by the producer of such good.
(B) The freight, insurance, packing, and
all other costs incurred in transporting the ma-
terial to the producer’s plant, if such costs are
not included in the price referred to in subpara-
graph (A).
SECTION 1. WAIVER OF CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PERIOD
FOR 
SCHOOL 
GOVERNANCE 
CHARTER
AMENDMENT ACT OF 2000.
Notwithstanding section 303 of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act or any provision of the School Gov-
ernance Charter Amendment Act of 2000, the School Gov-
ernance Charter Amendment Act of 2000 shall take effect
upon the date such Act is ratified by a majority of the
registered qualified electors of the District of Columbia
voting in a referendum held to ratify such Act.
Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2000.
Attest:
Clerk.