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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 753 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that publicly 
owned treatment works monitor for and report sewer overflows, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2009 
Mr. BISHOP of New York (for himself and Mr. LOBIONDO) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure 
that publicly owned treatment works monitor for and 
report sewer overflows, 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 ‘‘Sewage Overflow Com-
munity Right-to-Know Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1362) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
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‘‘(26) TREATMENT WORKS.—The term ‘treat-
ment works’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
tion 212.’’. 
SEC. 3. MONITORING, REPORTING, AND PUBLIC NOTIFICA-
TION OF SEWER OVERFLOWS. 
Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(r) SEWER OVERFLOW MONITORING, REPORTING, 
AND NOTIFICATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.—After the last 
day of the 180-day period beginning on the date on 
which regulations are issued under paragraph (4), a 
permit issued, renewed, or modified under this sec-
tion by the Administrator or the State, as the case 
may be, for a publicly owned treatment works shall 
require, at a minimum, beginning on the date of the 
issuance, modification, or renewal, that the owner or 
operator of the treatment works— 
‘‘(A) institute and utilize a feasible meth-
odology, technology, or management program 
for monitoring sewer overflows to alert the 
owner or operator to the occurrence of a sewer 
overflow in a timely manner; 
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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2862 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to conduct a national suicide prevention media campaign, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 754 
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor 
of George Henry White. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2009 
Mr. BUTTERFIELD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage 
stamp in honor of George Henry White. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. GEORGE HENRY WHITE COMMEMORATIVE 
POSTAGE STAMP. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Postmaster General shall 
issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George 
Henry White. 
(b) SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS.—Such stamp— 
(1) shall be issued in the denomination used for 
first class mail up to one ounce in weight; 
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(2) shall bear such designs as the Postmaster 
General shall determine; and 
(3) shall be placed on sale as soon as prac-
ticable after the date of the enactment of this Act 
and shall be sold for such period thereafter as the 
Postmaster General shall determine. 
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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2878 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out 
a Native VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities 
Pilot Program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
‘‘(2) provide resources that will reduce dispari-
ties in access to appropriate diagnosis, assessment, 
and treatment. 
‘‘(f) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.—The Secretary may 
make awards of grants, cooperative agreements, and con-
tracts to public agencies and private nonprofit organiza-
tions to assist with the development and implementation 
of the public awareness campaign under this section. 
‘‘(g) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—Not later than the 
end of fiscal year 2012, the Secretary shall prepare and 
submit to the Congress a report evaluating the effective-
ness of the public awareness campaign under this section 
in educating the general public with respect to the matters 
described in subsection (b). 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and 
$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 30, 
2009. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 756 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act with 
respect to pain care.
‘‘(2) MANDATORY ACTIONS.—If the appropriate 
person referred to in paragraph (1) does not carry 
out the actions described in that paragraph with re-
spect to an article within the time period and in the 
manner prescribed by the Secretary, the Secretary— 
‘‘(A) shall issue an order requiring the per-
son— 
‘‘(i) to immediately cease distribution 
of the article; and 
‘‘(ii) to immediately make the notifica-
tion described in paragraph (1)(B); and 
‘‘(B) may take control or possession of the 
article. 
‘‘(3) NOTICE TO CONSUMERS AND HEALTH OF-
FICIALS.—The Secretary shall, as the Secretary de-
termines to be necessary, provide notice of the find-
ing of the Secretary under paragraph (1) to con-
sumers to which the article was, or may have been, 
distributed and to appropriate State and local health 
officials. 
‘‘(c) HEARINGS ON ORDERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
a person subject to an order under subsection (b)(2) 
with an opportunity for a hearing on— 
‘‘(A) the actions required by the order; and 
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(3) identify barriers to appropriate pain care, 
including— 
(A) lack of understanding and education 
among employers, patients, health care pro-
viders, regulators, and third-party payors; 
(B) barriers to access to care at the pri-
mary, specialty, and tertiary care levels, includ-
ing barriers— 
(i) specific to those populations that 
are disproportionately undertreated for 
pain; 
(ii) related to physician concerns over 
regulatory and law enforcement policies 
applicable to some pain therapies; and 
(iii) attributable to benefit, coverage, 
and payment policies in both the public 
and private sectors; and 
(C) gaps in basic and clinical research on 
the symptoms and causes of pain, and potential 
assessment methods and new treatments to im-
prove pain care; and 
(4) establish an agenda for action in both the 
public and private sectors that will reduce such bar-
riers and significantly improve the state of pain care 
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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2930 
AN ACT 
To enhance protections of Native American tangible cultural 
heritage, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
‘‘(A) appropriate assessment, diagnosis, 
treatment, and management options for all 
types of pain and pain-related symptoms; and 
‘‘(B) conditions for which no treatment op-
tions are yet recognized; and 
‘‘(7) other issues the Secretary deems appro-
priate. 
‘‘(c) CONSULTATION.—In designing and imple-
menting the public awareness campaign required by this 
section, the Secretary shall consult with organizations rep-
resenting patients in pain and other consumers, employ-
ers, physicians including physicians specializing in pain 
care, other pain management professionals, medical device 
manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. 
‘‘(d) COORDINATION.— 
‘‘(1) LEAD OFFICIAL.—The Secretary shall des-
ignate one official in the Department of Health and 
Human Services to oversee the campaign established 
under this section. 
‘‘(2) AGENCY
COORDINATION.—The Secretary 
shall ensure the involvement in the public awareness 
campaign under this section of the Surgeon General 
of the Public Health Service, the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 
such other representatives of offices and agencies of 
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the Department of Health and Human Services as 
the Secretary determines appropriate. 
‘‘(e) UNDERSERVED AREAS AND POPULATIONS.—In 
designing the public awareness campaign under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) take into account the special needs of geo-
graphic areas and racial, ethnic, gender, age, and 
other demographic groups that are currently under-
served; and 
‘‘(2) provide resources that will reduce dispari-
ties in access to appropriate diagnosis, assessment, 
and treatment. 
‘‘(f) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.—The Secretary may 
make awards of grants, cooperative agreements, and con-
tracts to public agencies and private nonprofit organiza-
tions to assist with the development and implementation 
of the public awareness campaign under this section. 
‘‘(g) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—Not later than the 
end of fiscal year 2012, the Secretary shall prepare and 
submit to the Congress a report evaluating the effective-
ness of the public awareness campaign under this section 
in educating the general public with respect to the matters 
described in subsection (b). 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
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to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and 
$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.’’. 
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IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 756 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 31, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
pain care. 
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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Institute of Medicine Conference on Pain. 
Sec. 3. Pain research at National Institutes of Health. 
Sec. 4. Pain care education and training. 
Sec. 5. Public awareness campaign on pain management. 
SEC. 2. INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE CONFERENCE ON PAIN. 
(a) CONVENING.—Not later than June 30, 2010, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to 
enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine of 
the National Academies to convene a Conference on Pain 
(in this section referred to as ‘‘the Conference’’). 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Conference 
shall be to— 
(1) increase the recognition of pain as a signifi-
cant public health problem in the United States; 
(2) evaluate the adequacy of assessment, diag-
nosis, treatment, and management of acute and 
chronic pain in the general population, and in identi-
fied racial, ethnic, gender, age, and other demo-
graphic groups that may be disproportionately af-
fected by inadequacies in the assessment, diagnosis, 
treatment, and management of pain; 
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A BILL 
To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to 
provide for the establishment of pediatric research consortia. 
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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2954 
AN ACT 
To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify 
retirement plan rules, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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‘‘(2) provide resources that will reduce dispari-
ties in access to appropriate diagnosis, assessment, 
and treatment. 
‘‘(f) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.—The Secretary may 
make awards of grants, cooperative agreements, and con-
tracts to public agencies and private nonprofit organiza-
tions to assist with the development and implementation 
of the public awareness campaign under this section. 
‘‘(g) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—Not later than the 
end of fiscal year 2012, the Secretary shall prepare and 
submit to the Congress a report evaluating the effective-
ness of the public awareness campaign under this section 
in educating the general public with respect to the matters 
described in subsection (b). 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and 
$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 30, 
2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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Union Calendar No. 380 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 758 
[Report No. 111–640] 
A BILL 
To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act 
to provide for the establishment of pediatric re-
search consortia. 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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‘‘(12) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
section, there shall be no reduction under this subsection 
in the widow’s or widower’s insurance benefit of an indi-
vidual for any month in which such individual is under 
a disability (as defined in section 223(d)); and none of 
the provisions of this subsection shall apply with respect 
to such benefit even though such benefit may have been 
so reduced prior to the onset of such disability.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE AND REDETERMINATION OF BEN-
EFITS. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to monthly insurance benefits payable under title 
II of the Social Security Act for months after the month 
in which this Act is enacted. The Commissioner of Social 
Security (without the necessity of any application there-
for) shall redetermine the amount of any widow’s or wid-
ower’s insurance benefit which is payable for the month 
in which this Act is enacted in order to reflect such 
amendments as provided in the preceding sentence. 
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‘‘(g) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—Not later than the 
end of fiscal year 2012, the Secretary shall prepare and 
submit to the Congress a report evaluating the effective-
ness of the public awareness campaign under this section 
in educating the general public with respect to the matters 
described in subsection (b). 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and 
$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 17 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 756 
[Report No. 111–47] 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act with 
respect to pain care. 
MARCH 23, 2009 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 757 
To redesignate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located 
at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, as the ‘‘George H. W. 
Bush and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon 
Federal Building’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2009 
Mr. CONAWAY (for himself, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. CARTER, Mr. OLSON, 
Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. KLINE of Minnesota, Mr. BOUSTANY, 
Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. ROONEY, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. HARPER, Ms. GRANGER, 
Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. HALL of 
Texas, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, 
Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Mr. BUR-
GESS, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, 
Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. REYES, 
Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. 
SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. PAUL, Mr. AL GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. EDWARDS of Texas, and Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To redesignate the Federal building and United States 
Courthouse located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, 
Texas, as the ‘‘George H. W. Bush and George W. 
Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Fed-
eral Building’’. 
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. REDESIGNATION. 
The Federal building and United States Courthouse 
located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, known 
as the George Mahon Federal Building, shall be known 
and designated as the ‘‘George H. W. Bush and George 
W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon 
Federal Building’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the Federal 
building and United States Courthouse referred to in sec-
tion 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘George 
H. W. Bush and George W. Bush United States Court-
house and George Mahon Federal Building’’. 
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OMB shall determine, and the applicable Presi-
dential order under section 254 shall implement, the 
percentage reduction that shall apply, with respect 
to the health insurance programs under title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act— 
‘‘(A) in the case of parts A and B of such 
title, to individual payments for services fur-
nished during the one-year period beginning on 
the first day of the first month beginning after 
the date the order is issued (or, if later, the 
date specified in paragraph (4)); and 
‘‘(B) in the case of parts C and D, to 
monthly payments under contracts under such 
parts for the same one-year period; 
such that the reduction made in payments under 
that order shall achieve the required total percentage 
reduction in those payments for that period. 
‘‘(2) UNIFORM
REDUCTION
RATE; MAXIMUM 
PERMISSIBLE REDUCTION.—Reductions in payments 
for programs and activities under such title XVIII 
pursuant to a sequestration order under section 254 
shall be at a uniform rate across all such programs 
and activities subject to such order. 
‘‘(3) TIMING
OF
APPLICATION
OF
REDUC-
TIONS.— 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pediatric Research 
Consortia Establishment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL PEDIATRIC RESEARCH CONSORTIA. 
Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285g et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 452H. NATIONAL PEDIATRIC RESEARCH CONSORTIA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of NIH, acting 
through the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Na-
tional Institute of Child Health and Human Development 
and in collaboration with all other Institutes of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health that support pediatric research, 
may, subject to the availability of funds, award grants, 
contracts, or cooperative agreements to public or nonprofit 
private entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, 
establishing, and providing basic operating support for up 
to 20 national pediatric research consortia. The Director 
of NIH shall take unmet research needs into account when 
making awards under this section. 
‘‘(b) RESEARCH.—Research conducted under this 
section shall supplement, but not replace, research that 
is otherwise conducted or supported as part of the com-
prehensive pediatric research portfolio of entities receiving 
awards under subsection (a). Consortia established under 
subsection (a) shall, in the aggregate, conduct basic, clin-
ical, behavioral, social, or translational research to meet 
unmet research needs, as well as training in and dem-
onstration of advanced diagnostic and treatment methods 
relating to pediatrics, as appropriate. 
‘‘(c) COORDINATION OF CONSORTIA REPORTS.—The 
Director of NIH shall— 
‘‘(1) as appropriate, provide for the coordina-
tion of information among consortia established 
under subsection (a) and ensure regular communica-
tion between such consortia; and 
‘‘(2) require the periodic preparation of reports 
on the activities of the consortia and the submission 
of the reports to the Director. 
‘‘(d) ORGANIZATION OF CONSORTIUM.—Each consor-
tium established under subsection (a) shall be formed from 
a collaboration of cooperating institutions with a lead in-
stitution, meeting such requirements as may be prescribed 
by the Director of NIH, including participation in a net-
work of such consortia. 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION.—Payments under subsection (a) 
shall not exceed $2,500,000 per year for each consortium 
in the first 5-year cycle. 
‘‘(f) DURATION
OF PAYMENTS.—Payments under 
subsection (a) for a consortium may be provided under 
this section for a period of 5 years and may be extended
for additional periods of 5 years each, with enhanced fund-
ing opportunities based on a review of the operations by 
an appropriate scientific review.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 30 
(legislative day September 29), 2010. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 758 
AN ACT 
To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act 
to provide for the establishment of pediatric re-
search consortia.