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sources available to such Department or agency: Provided,
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to dis-
tribute or make available any commercially published in-
formation or material to a prisoner when it is made known
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that such information or material is sexu-
ally explicit or features nudity.
SEC. 616. Of the funds appropriated in this Act
under the heading ‘‘OFFICE OF JUSTICE PRO-
GRAMS—STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIST-
ANCE’’, not more than ninety percent of the amount to
be awarded to an entity under part Q of title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
shall be made available to such an entity when it is made
known to the Federal official having authority to obligate
or expend such funds that the entity that employs a public
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safety officer (as such term is defined in section 1204 of
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who
retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered
as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury
sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emer-
gency situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined
by State law) with the same or better level of health insur-
ance benefits that are paid by the entity at the time of
retirement or separation.
SEC. 617. Of the funds in this Act appropriated for
a municipal or county jail, State or Federal prison, or
other similar facility for the confinement of individuals in
connection with crime or criminal proceedings, not more
than 90 percent of the funds otherwise authorized to be
made available to any such municipal or county jail, State
or Federal prison, or other similar facility, may be made
available when it is made known to the Federal official
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the
authorities of such jail, prison, or other facility have not
reported to the Attorney General each death of any indi-
vidual who dies in custody in that jail, prison, or facility,
and the circumstances that surround that death.
SEC. 618. The amount provided in this Act for
‘‘Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—Salaries
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and Expenses’’ is increased by $7,000,000, and the
amount provided for Small Business Administration, Dis-
aster Loan Program Account for administrative expenses
is reduced by $8,000,000.
SEC. 619. (a) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO
ISSUE CERTAIN PATENTS.—None of the funds made
available in this Act may be used by the Patent and
Trademark Office to issue a patent when it is made known
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that the patent is for any invention or
discovery of a technique, method, or process for perform-
ing a surgical procedure (defined as a treatment for curing
or preventing disease, injury, illness, disorder, or deform-
ity by operative methods, in which human tissue is cut,
burned, or vaporized by the use of any mechanical means,
laser, or ionizing radiation, or the penetration of the skin
or body orifice by any means), performing a medical proce-
dure (defined as a nonsurgical, nondiagnostic procedure
for curing or preventing a disease, injury, illness, disorder,
or deformity), or making a medical diagnosis (defined as
the identification of a medical condition or a disease or
disorder of a body).
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The limitation established in sub-
section (a) shall not apply to the issuance of a patent when
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it is made known to the Federal official having authority
to obligate or expend such funds that—
(1) the patent is for a machine, manufacture,
or composition of matter, or improvement thereof,
that is itself patentable subject matter, and the tech-
nique, method, or process referred to in subsection
(a) is performed by or is a necessary component of
the machine, manufacture, or composition of matter;
or
(2) the patent is for a new use of a composition
of mattter or biotechnological process.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 1996.
Attest:
Clerk.