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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commercial Advertise-
ment Loudness Mitigation Act’’ or the ‘‘CALM Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RULEMAKING ON LOUD COMMERCIALS REQUIRED. 
(a) REGULATION REQUIRED.—Within 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall prescribe pursuant to the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) a 
regulation that is limited to incorporating by reference and 
making mandatory (subject to any waivers the Commis-
sion may grant pursuant to subsection (b)(2)) the ‘‘Rec-
ommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and 
Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television’’ (A/ 
85), and any successor thereto, approved by the Advanced 
Television Systems Committee, only insofar as such rec-
ommended practice concerns the transmission of commer-
cial advertisements by a television broadcast station, cable 
operator, or other multichannel video programming dis-
tributor. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(1) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall prescribe that the regula-
tion adopted pursuant to subsection (a) shall become 
effective 1 year after the date of its adoption. 
(2) WAIVER.—For any television broadcast sta-
tion, cable operator, or other multichannel video pro-
gramming distributor that demonstrates that obtain-
ing the equipment to comply with the regulation 
adopted pursuant to subsection (a) would result in 
financial hardship, the Federal Communications 
Commission may grant a waiver of the effective date 
set forth in paragraph (1) for 1 year and may renew 
such waiver for 1 additional year. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘television broadcast station’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 325 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325); and 
(2) the terms ‘‘cable operator’’ and ‘‘multi-
channel video programming distributor’’ have the 
meanings given such terms in section 602 of Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522). 
Passed the House of Representatives December 15, 
2009. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1084 
AN ACT 
To require the Federal Communications Commis-
sion to prescribe a standard to preclude commer-
cials from being broadcast at louder volumes 
than the program material they accompany.
I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1084 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard 
to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than 
the program material they accompany. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2009 
Ms. ESHOO (for herself, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. 
SUTTON, Mr. SIRES, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
BISHOP of New York, Ms. WATSON, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN 
of California, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. HARE, 
Mr. HONDA, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. 
DICKS, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. LEE of California, and Ms. LORETTA 
SANCHEZ of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to pre-
scribe a standard to preclude commercials from being 
broadcast at louder volumes than the program material 
they accompany. 
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 ‘‘Commercial Advertise-
ment Loudness Mitigation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. RULEMAKING ON LOUD COMMERCIALS REQUIRED. 
(a) REGULATION REQUIRED.—Within one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall prescribe pursuant to the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) a 
regulation that provides, in connection with any video pro-
gramming that is broadcast or that is distributed by any 
multichannel video programming distributor, that— 
(1) advertisements accompanying such video 
programming shall not be excessively noisy or stri-
dent; 
(2) such advertisements shall not be presented 
at modulation levels substantially higher than the 
program material that such advertisements accom-
pany; and 
(3) the average maximum loudness of such ad-
vertisements shall not be substantially higher than 
the average maximum loudness of the program ma-
terial that such advertisements accompany. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
terms ‘‘video programming’’ and ‘‘multichannel video pro-
gramming distributor’’ have the meanings given such 
terms in section 602 of Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 522). 
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IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1084 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 16, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to pre-
scribe a standard to preclude commercials from being 
broadcast at louder volumes than the program material 
they accompany. 
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 ‘‘Commercial Advertise-
ment Loudness Mitigation Act’’ or the ‘‘CALM Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RULEMAKING ON LOUD COMMERCIALS REQUIRED. 
(a) REGULATION REQUIRED.—Within 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall prescribe pursuant to the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) a 
regulation that is limited to incorporating by reference and 
making mandatory (subject to any waivers the Commis-
sion may grant pursuant to subsection (b)(2)) the ‘‘Rec-
ommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and 
Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television’’ (A/ 
85), and any successor thereto, approved by the Advanced 
Television Systems Committee, only insofar as such rec-
ommended practice concerns the transmission of commer-
cial advertisements by a television broadcast station, cable 
operator, or other multichannel video programming dis-
tributor. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(1) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall prescribe that the regula-
tion adopted pursuant to subsection (a) shall become 
effective 1 year after the date of its adoption. 
(2) WAIVER.—For any television broadcast sta-
tion, cable operator, or other multichannel video pro-
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gramming distributor that demonstrates that obtain-
ing the equipment to comply with the regulation 
adopted pursuant to subsection (a) would result in 
financial hardship, the Federal Communications 
Commission may grant a waiver of the effective date 
set forth in paragraph (1) for 1 year and may renew 
such waiver for 1 additional year. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘television broadcast station’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 325 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325); and 
(2) the terms ‘‘cable operator’’ and ‘‘multi-
channel video programming distributor’’ have the 
meanings given such terms in section 602 of Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522). 
Passed the House of Representatives December 15, 
2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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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 ‘‘Mandatory Veteran 
Specialist Training Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ONE-YEAR PERIOD FOR TRAINING OF NEW DIS-
ABLED 
VETERANS’ 
OUTREACH 
PROGRAM 
SPECIALISTS AND LOCAL VETERANS’ EM-
PLOYMENT REPRESENTATIVES BY NATIONAL 
VETERANS’ 
EMPLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
SERVICES INSTITUTE. 
(a) ONE-YEAR PERIOD.—Section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of 
title 38, United States Code is amended by striking 
‘‘three-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘one-year period’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) APPLICABILITY TO NEW EMPLOYEES.—The 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to a State employee assigned to perform the 
duties of a disabled veterans’ outreach program spe-
cialist or a local veterans’ employment representative 
under chapter 41 of such title who is so assigned on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) APPLICABILITY TO PREVIOUSLY-HIRED EM-
PLOYEES.—In the case of such a State employee 
who is so assigned on or after January 1, 2006, and
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require the State 
to require, as a condition of a grant or contract 
under which funds are made available to the State 
in order to carry out section 4103A or 4104 of title 
38, United States Code, each such employee to satis-
factorily complete the training described in section 
4102A(c)(8)(A) of such title by not later than the 
date that is one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2009. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1088 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide 
for a one-year period for the training of new dis-
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists and 
local veterans’ employment representatives by 
National Veterans’ Employment and Training 
Services Institute.
SEC. 2. ONE-YEAR PERIOD FOR TRAINING OF NEW DIS-
ABLED 
VETERANS’ 
OUTREACH 
PROGRAM 
SPECIALISTS AND LOCAL VETERANS’ EM-
PLOYMENT REPRESENTATIVES BY NATIONAL 
VETERANS’ 
EMPLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
SERVICES INSTITUTE. 
(a) ONE-YEAR PERIOD.—Section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of 
title 38, United States Code is amended by striking 
‘‘three-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘one-year period’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) APPLICABILITY TO NEW EMPLOYEES.—The 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to a State employee assigned to perform the 
duties of a disabled veterans’ outreach program spe-
cialist or a local veterans’ employment representative 
under chapter 41 of such title who is so assigned on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) APPLICABILITY TO PREVIOUSLY-HIRED EM-
PLOYEES.—In the case of such a State employee 
who is so assigned on or after January 1, 2006, and 
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require the State 
to require, as a condition of a grant or contract 
under which funds are made available to the State 
in order to carry out section 4103A or 4104 of title 
38, United States Code, each such employee to satis-
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factorily complete the training described in section 
4102A(c)(8)(A) of such title by not later than the 
date that is one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1088 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 20, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a 
one-year period for the training of new disabled veterans’ 
outreach program specialists and local veterans’ employ-
ment representatives by National Veterans’ Employment 
and Training Services Institute. 
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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 ‘‘Mandatory Veteran 
Specialist Training Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ONE-YEAR PERIOD FOR TRAINING OF NEW DIS-
ABLED 
VETERANS’ 
OUTREACH 
PROGRAM 
SPECIALISTS AND LOCAL VETERANS’ EM-
PLOYMENT REPRESENTATIVES BY NATIONAL 
VETERANS’ 
EMPLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
SERVICES INSTITUTE. 
(a) ONE-YEAR PERIOD.—Section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of 
title 38, United States Code is amended by striking 
‘‘three-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘one-year period’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) APPLICABILITY TO NEW EMPLOYEES.—The 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to a State employee assigned to perform the 
duties of a disabled veterans’ outreach program spe-
cialist or a local veterans’ employment representative 
under chapter 41 of such title who is so assigned on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) APPLICABILITY TO PREVIOUSLY-HIRED EM-
PLOYEES.—In the case of such a State employee 
who is so assigned on or after January 1, 2006, and 
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before the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require the State 
to require, as a condition of a grant or contract 
under which funds are made available to the State 
in order to carry out section 4103A or 4104 of title 
38, United States Code, each such employee to satis-
factorily complete the training described in section 
4102A(c)(8)(A) of such title by not later than the 
date that is one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mandatory Veteran 
Specialist Training Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ONE-YEAR PERIOD FOR TRAINING OF NEW DIS-
ABLED 
VETERANS’ 
OUTREACH 
PROGRAM 
SPECIALISTS AND LOCAL VETERANS’ EM-
PLOYMENT REPRESENTATIVES BY NATIONAL 
VETERANS’ 
EMPLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
SERVICES INSTITUTE. 
(a) ONE-YEAR PERIOD.—Section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of 
title 38, United States Code is amended by striking 
‘‘three-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘one-year period’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) APPLICABILITY TO NEW EMPLOYEES.—The 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to a State employee assigned to perform the 
duties of a disabled veterans’ outreach program spe-
cialist or a local veterans’ employment representative 
under chapter 41 of such title who is so assigned on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) APPLICABILITY TO PREVIOUSLY-HIRED EM-
PLOYEES.—In the case of such a State employee 
who is so assigned on or after January 1, 2006, and 
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require the State 
to require, as a condition of a grant or contract 
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under which funds are made available to the State 
in order to carry out section 4103A or 4104 of title 
38, United States Code, each such employee to satis-
factorily complete the training described in section 
4102A(c)(8)(A) of such title by not later than the 
date that is one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 54 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1088 
[Report No. 111–110] 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide 
for a one-year period for the training of new dis-
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists and 
local veterans’ employment representatives by 
National Veterans’ Employment and Training 
Services Institute. 
MAY 14, 2009 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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total amount of the payments made for the tax-
able year involved. 
(3) DETERMINATION OF SHORTAGE AREAS.— 
For purposes of this subsection, an area shall be de-
termined to be an area with a shortage of pediatric 
rheumatologists based on the ratio of the number of 
children who reside in such area who are in need of 
services of a pediatric rheumatologist to the number 
of pediatric rheumatologists who furnish services 
within 100 miles of the area. 
(4) PERIODIC ASSESSMENTS.— 
(A) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
Secretary 
of 
Health and Human Services shall periodically 
assess— 
(i) the extent to which the loan repay-
ment program under this section is needed; 
and 
(ii) the extent to which the program is 
effective in increasing the number of pedi-
atric rheumatologists nationally and the 
number of pediatric rheumatologists in 
areas 
with 
a 
shortage 
of 
pediatric 
rheumatologists. 
In the case that the Secretary determines, pur-
suant to an assessment under this subpara-
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(1) by amending the heading to read as follows: 
‘‘GUARANTEED ISSUE OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH 
INSURANCE COVERAGE; UNIFORM PREMIUMS’’; 
(2) by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) GUARANTEED ISSUE.—Subject to the suc-
ceeding subsections of this section, each and every 
health insurance issuer that offers health insurance 
coverage (as defined in section 2791(b)(1)) in the in-
dividual market to individuals residing in an area 
may not, with respect to an eligible individual (as 
defined in subsection (b)) residing in the area who 
desires to enroll in individual health insurance cov-
erage— 
‘‘(A) decline to offer such coverage to, or 
deny enrollment of, such individual; or 
‘‘(B) impose any preexisting condition ex-
clusion (as defined in section 2701(b)(1)(A)) 
with respect to such coverage. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION OF UNIFORM PREMIUM.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each and every health 
insurance issuer that offers health insurance 
coverage in the individual market in a State— 
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graph, that there is no longer a need for the 
loan repayment program, such program shall be 
terminated as of a date specified by the Sec-
retary. 
(B) ANNUAL REPORTS.—The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall annually re-
port to Congress on the periodic assessments 
conducted under subparagraph (A). 
(5) FUNDING.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of car-
rying out this subsection, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services may reserve, from 
amounts appropriated for the Health Resources 
and Services Administration for the fiscal year 
involved, such amounts as the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
(B) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts 
made available to carry out this section shall re-
main available until the expiration of the second 
fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year for 
which such amounts were made available. 
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(2) In the case of an individual who is a mem-
ber of the Armed Forces at the time of the provision 
of benefits under this section, either one day of ad-
ministrative absence or payment of an amount not 
to exceed $200, as selected by the Secretary con-
cerned, for each day the individual would have quali-
fied for a day of administrative absence as described 
in subsection (a) during the period specified in that 
subsection. 
(c) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN FORMER MEMBERS.— 
A former member of the Armed Forces is not eligible 
under this section for the benefits specified in subsection 
(b)(1) if the former member was discharged or released 
from the Armed Forces under other than honorable condi-
tions. 
(d) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS OF BENEFITS.— 
Not more than 40 days of benefits may be provided to 
a member or former member of the Armed Forces under 
this section. 
(e) 
FORM
OF
PAYMENT.—The 
paid 
benefits 
providable under subsection (b) may be paid in a lump 
sum or installments, at the election of the Secretary con-
cerned. 
(f) CONSTRUCTION WITH OTHER PAY AND LEAVE.— 
The benefits provided a member or former member of the 
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Armed Forces under this section are in addition to any 
other pay, absence, or leave provided by law. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Post-Deployment/Mobilization 
Respite Absence program’’ means the program of a 
military department to provide days of administra-
tive absence not chargeable against available leave to 
certain deployed or mobilized members of the Armed 
Forces in order to assist such members in reinte-
grating into civilian life after deployment or mobili-
zation. 
(2) The term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 101(5) of title 
37, United States Code. 
(h) TERMINATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The authority to provide 
benefits under this section shall expire on the date 
that is one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
(2) CONSTRUCTION.—Expiration under this 
subsection of the authority to provide benefits under 
this section shall not affect the utilization of any day 
of administrative absence provided a member of the 
Armed Forces under subsection (b)(2), or the pay-
ment of any payment authorized a member or 
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former member of the Armed Forces under sub-
section (b), before the expiration of the authority in 
this section. 
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under the second sentence of this subsection) in 
contravention of the guarantees of subsection 
(f)(2)’’; and 
(C) in paragraphs (1)(B) and (5) of sec-
tion 4(a), by striking ‘‘or (in the case of a State 
or subdivision which sought a declaratory judg-
ment under the second sentence of this sub-
section) that denials or abridgments of the right 
to vote in contravention of the guarantees of 
subsection (f)(2) have occurred anywhere in the 
territory of such State or subdivision’’. 
SEC. 4. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT FOR CERE-
MONIES FOR ADMISSION OF NEW CITIZENS. 
Section 337(d) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1448(d)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘All public ceremonies in 
which the oath of allegiance is administered pursuant to 
this section shall be conducted solely in the English lan-
guage.’’. 
SEC. 5. NONPREEMPTION. 
This Act (and the amendments made by this Act) 
shall not preempt any law of any State. 
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