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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2385
To require that the General Accounting Office study and report on possible
connections between the recurring incidence of violence by postal employ-
ees and workplace-related frustrations experienced by postal workers gen-
erally.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 29, 1999
Mr. TRAFICANT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Government Reform
A BILL
To require that the General Accounting Office study and
report on possible connections between the recurring inci-
dence of violence by postal employees and workplace-
related frustrations experienced by postal workers gen-
erally.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. STUDY AND REPORT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The General Accounting Office
shall conduct a study to determine the extent to which
the incidence of seemingly random yet recurrent violence
on the part of employees and former employees of the
United States Postal Service might be related to the levels
of workplace-related problems and frustrations experi-
enced by postal workers generally.
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In conducting the study, the
General Accounting Office shall investigate—
(1) the number of formal or informal pro-
ceedings brought by postal employees in recent years
in which supervisor abuse or other similar mistreat-
ment by the Postal Service was alleged, and how
those proceedings were resolved;
(2) the degree of postal employee satisfaction or
dissatisfaction with the different procedures and
mechanisms available to them for having their work-
place-related frustrations and complaints heard and
resolved, particularly any procedures or mechanisms
provided pursuant to collective bargaining; and
(3) the number of violent incidents committed
by employees or former employees of the Postal
Service in recent years, and whether workplace-re-
lated problems or frustrations may have been a con-
tributing factor.
(c) SPECIFIC MATTERS.—The matters to be inves-
tigated under subsection (b)(1) shall specifically include
discrimination on the basis of gender, race, or disability;
sexual harassment; retaliatory assignments; and irregular-
ities in hiring, training, promotions, and disciplinary ac-
tions.
(d) REPORT.—The General Accounting Office shall
transmit to the Congress and the United States Postal
Service, within 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, a report containing the findings and conclusions of
its study, together with recommendations for any legisla-
tion or administrative actions which it considers appro-
priate.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2386
To amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act to prohibit the imposition
of fees for any check returned due to insufficient funds for payment,
other than a fee imposed on the maker of the check, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 29, 1999
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services
A BILL
To amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act to prohibit
the imposition of fees for any check returned due to
insufficient funds for payment, other than a fee imposed
on the maker of the check, 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 ‘‘Fairness for Check
Cashers Act’’.
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pend a portion of the Federal funds received under
section 102 or 103 in accordance with this title.
(2) PROJECT FUNDS.—The term ‘‘project funds’’
means all funds an eligible county elects under sec-
tions 102(d)(1)(B)(i) and 103(c)(1)(B)(i) to reserve
for expenditure in accordance with this title.
(3) 
RESOURCE
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE.—The
term ‘‘resource advisory committee’’ means an advi-
sory committee established by the Secretary concerned
under section 205, or determined by the Secretary
concerned to meet the requirements of section 205.
(4) RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term
‘‘resource management plan’’ means a land use plan
prepared by the Bureau of Land Management for
units of the Federal lands described in section 3(1)(B)
pursuant to section 202 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) or a
land and resource management plan prepared by the
Forest Service for units of the National Forest System
pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16
U.S.C. 1604).
(5) SECRETARY
CONCERNED.—The term ‘‘Sec-
retary concerned’’ means—
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2388
For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Robert L. Stockwell, United
States Army.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 29, 1999
Mr. MOORE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Robert L.
Stockwell, United States Army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PAYMENT FOR SERVICE AND RELATED EX-
PENSES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall pay to Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Robert L. Stock-
well, United States Army, of Overland Park, Kansas,
$40,665 as payment for services (while in a retired status)
as Program Manager of the Private Office Independent
Outreach Program in Brussels, Belgium, during 1993 and
1994. For purposes of section 911 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, such payment shall be treated as foreign
earned income within the meaning of such section.
(b) PAYMENT
FOR MOVING
AND INTEREST EX-
PENSES.—In addition to the payment provided for in sub-
section (a), out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay
to Lieutenant Colonel Stockwell—
(1) $21,838 for moving expenses incurred by
Lieutenant Colonel Stockwell in conjunction with
holding such position; and
(2) $10,000 for interest expenses incurred by
Lieutenant Colonel Stockwell in conjunction with
holding such position.
SEC. 2. WAIVER OF PAYMENT FOR TUITION.
Any liability of Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Robert
L. Stockwell to the United States for tuition for his chil-
dren to attend school while he was performing the service
described in section 1 is hereby extinguished.
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and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning
Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a)); and
(B) the Oregon and California Railroad
grant lands revested in the United States by
the Act of June 9, 1916 (Chapter 137; 39 Stat.
218), Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands recon-
veyed to the United States by the Act of Feb-
ruary 26, 1919 (Chapter 47; 40 Stat. 1179),
and subsequent additions to such lands.
(2) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Advi-
sory Committee’’ means the Forest Counties Pay-
ments Committee established by section ll.
(3) ELIGIBILITY PERIOD.—The term ‘‘eligibility
period’’ means the period beginning on October 1,
1985, and ending on September 30, 1999.
(4) ELIGIBLE
COUNTY.—The term ‘‘eligible
county’’ means a county that received one or more
50-percent payments during the eligibility period.
(5) ELIGIBLE
STATE.—The term ‘‘eligible
State’’ means a State that received one or more 25-
percent payments during the eligibility period.
(6) FULL PAYMENT AMOUNT.—The term ‘‘full
payment amount’’ means the amount calculated for
each eligible State and eligible county under section
4.
(7) 25-PERCENT
PAYMENTS.—The term ‘‘25-
percent payments’’ means the payments to States
required by the 6th paragraph under the heading of
‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ in the Act of May 23, 1908
(35 Stat. 260; 16 U.S.C. 500), and section 13 of the
Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963; 16 U.S.C.
500).
(8) 50-PERCENT
PAYMENTS.—The term ‘‘50-
percent payments’’ means the payments that are the
sum of the 50-percent share otherwise paid to a
county pursuant to title II of the Act of August 28,
1937 (Chapter 876; 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. 1181f),
and the payment made to a county pursuant to the
Act of May 24, 1939 (chapter 144; 53 Stat. 753; 43
U.S.C. 1181f-1 et seq.).
(9) SAFETY NET PAYMENTS.—The term ‘‘safety
net payments’’ means the payments to States and
counties required by sections 13982 and 13983 of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993
(Public Law 103–66; 16 U.S.C. 500 note; 43 U.S.C.
1181f note).
SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF FULL PAYMENT AMOUNT FOR
ELIGIBLE STATES AND COUNTIES.
(a) CALCULATION REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the
Treasury shall calculate for each eligible State and eligible
(7) Congress enacted in 1937 and subsequently
amended a law that requires 50 percent of the reve-
nues derived from the revested and reconveyed grant
lands be paid to the counties in which those lands
are situated to be used as are other county funds.
(8) For several decades during the dramatic
growth of the American economy, counties depend-
ent on and supportive of the Federal lands received
and relied on increasing shares of these revenues to
provide educational opportunities for the children of
residents of these counties.
(9) In recent years, the principal source of
these revenues, Federal timber sales, has been
sharply curtailed and, as the volume of timber sold
annually from most of the Federal lands has de-
creased precipitously, so too have the revenues
shared with the affected counties.
(10) This decline in shared revenues has se-
verely impacted or crippled educational funding in,
and the quality of education provided by, the af-
fected counties.
(11) In the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1993, Congress recognized this trend and amelio-
rated its adverse consequences by providing an alter-
native annual safety net payment to 72 counties in
Oregon, Washington, and northern California in
which Federal timber sales had been restricted or
prohibited by administrative and judicial decisions to
protect the northern spotted owl.
(12) The authority for these particular safety
net payments is expiring and no comparable author-
ity has been granted for alternative payments to
counties elsewhere in the United States that have
suffered similar losses in shared revenues from the
Federal lands and in the educational funding those
revenues provide.
(13) Although such alternative payments are
not an adequate substitute for the revenues, wages,
purchasing of local goods and services, and social
opportunities that are generated when the Federal
lands are managed in a manner that encourages rev-
enue-producing activities, they are critically needed
now to stabilize educational funding in the affected
counties.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to arrest the decline in, and stabilize, the
revenues derived from National Forest System lands
and revested and reconveyed grant lands that the
Federal Government shares with counties in which
these Federal lands are situated;
(2) to assist the local governments that are so
dependent on and supportive of the Federal lands to
restore the quality of education that they were able
to provide to the children of residents of these coun-
ties before the recent severe reductions in or curtail-
ments of revenue-producing activities on those lands;
(3) to provide this temporary relief in a form
that will neither encourage the long-term reliance on
appropriations, nor discourage the management of
the Federal lands in a manner that will generate
revenues, to meet the Federal Government’s statu-
tory obligations to the counties that contain these
lands; and
(4) to facilitate the development by the Federal
Government and the counties and school districts
which benefit from the shared Federal land revenues
of a long-term method to generate payments to
States and counties that would avoid the need to
provide further temporary relief.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) FEDERAL
LANDS.—The term ‘‘Federal
Lands’’ means—
(A) lands within the National Forest Sys-
tem, as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest
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SEC. 203. SUBMISSION OF PROJECT PROPOSALS BY PAR-
TICIPATING COUNTIES.
(a) SUBMISSION OF PROJECT PROPOSALS TO SEC-
RETARY CONCERNED.—
(1) 
PROJECTS
FUNDED
USING
PROJECT
FUNDS.—Not later than September 30, 2001, and
each September 30 thereafter through 2009, each
participating county shall submit to the Secretary
concerned a description of any projects that the
county proposes the Secretary undertake using any
project funds reserved by the county during the
three-fiscal year period consisting of the fiscal year
in which the submission is made and the preceding
two fiscal years. A participating county does not
have to submit all of its project proposals for a year
at the same time.
(2) PROJECTS
FUNDED
USING
SPECIAL
AC-
COUNTS.—Until September 30, 2007, a partici-
pating county may also submit to the Secretary con-
cerned a description of any projects that the county
proposes the Secretary undertake using amounts in
a special account in lieu of or in addition to the
county’s project funds.
(3) JOINT
PROJECTS.—Participating counties
may pool their project funds and jointly propose a
project or group of projects to the Secretary con-
(5) To accord a measure of compensation to the
affected counties for their loss of future revenues and
for the critical services they provide, Congress deter-
mined that the Federal Government should share with
these counties a portion of the revenues the United
States receives from these Federal lands.
(6) Congress enacted in 1908 and subsequently
amended a law that requires 25 percent of the reve-
nues derived from National Forest System lands be
paid to States for use by the counties in which the
lands are situated for the benefit of public schools and
roads.
(7) Congress enacted in 1937 and subsequently
amended a law that requires 50 percent of the reve-
nues derived from the revested and reconveyed grant
lands be paid to the counties in which those lands are
situated to be used as are other county funds.
(8) For several decades during the dramatic
growth of the American economy, counties dependent
on and supportive of the Federal lands received and
relied on increasing shares of these revenues to pro-
vide educational opportunities for the children of resi-
dents of these counties.
(9) In recent years, the principal source of these
revenues, Federal timber sales, has been sharply cur-
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TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such
sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
SEC. 402. TREATMENT OF FUNDS AND REVENUES.
Funds appropriated pursuant to the authorization of
appropriations in section 401, funds transferred to a Sec-
retary concerned under section 206, and revenues de-
scribed in section 208(a) shall be in addition to any other
annual appropriations for the Forest Service and the Bu-
reau of Land Management.
SEC. 403. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
Section 6903(a)(1) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) 
by 
redesignating 
subparagraphs 
(D)
through (J) as subparagraphs (E) through (K), re-
spectively; and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
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‘‘(D) the Secure Rural Schools and Com-
munity Self-Determination Act of 1999;’’.
Passed the House of Representatives November 3,
1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
(A) by inserting after ‘‘device)’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘or any violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or drug trafficking
crime—’’ and inserting ‘‘, drug trafficking
crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act—’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking ‘‘or
drug trafficking crime’’ and inserting ‘‘, drug traf-
ficking crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2390
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create
small, manageable, accountable classrooms with qualified teachers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 30, 1999
Mr. MARTINEZ (for himself, Mr. CLAY, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California,
Mr. KILDEE, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PAYNE, Mrs. MINK of Hawaii, Mr. AN-
DREWS, Mr. ROEMER, Mr. SCOTT, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. ROMERO-
BARCELO´, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York,
Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. KIND, Ms. SANCHEZ, Mr. FORD, Mr. KUCINICH, and
Mr. WU) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 to create small, manageable, accountable class-
rooms with qualified teachers.
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 ‘‘Smart Classrooms
Act’’.
SEC. 2. SMART CLASSROOMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6601 et
seq.) is amended—
(1) by striking the heading for title II and in-
serting the following:
‘‘TITLE II—SMART
CLASSROOMS’’;
(2) by striking sections 2001 through 2003;
(3) by striking parts A, B, and D;
(3) by redesignating part C as part D; and
(4) by inserting after the title heading the fol-
lowing:
‘‘PART A—QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN EVERY
CLASSROOM
‘‘Subpart 1—Findings; Purpose; Authorization of
Appropriations
‘‘SEC. 2001. FINDINGS.
‘‘The Congress finds as follows:
‘‘(1) All students can learn and achieve to high
standards.
‘‘(2) States that have shown the most success
in improving student achievement are those that
have developed challenging content and student per-
formance standards, have aligned curricula and as-
sessments with those standards, have prepared edu-
are not a ground for imposing a sentence outside the ap-
plicable guidelines range.’’.
SEC. 5. ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR PERSONS COMMITTING
OFFENSES WHILE ARMED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 924(c)(1) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘device)’’ the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘or 
any 
violation 
of 
section
274(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or drug trafficking
crime—’’ and inserting ‘‘, drug trafficking
crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act—’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking ‘‘or
drug trafficking crime’’ and inserting ‘‘, drug traf-
ficking crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsection (a) shall take effect 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and shall apply to offenses com-
mitted after the termination of such 90-day period.
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In addition to funds otherwise
available for such purpose, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Immigration and Naturalization Service
of the Department of Justice such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out section 1 and to cover the operating
expenses of the Service and the Department in conducting
undercover investigations of alien smuggling activities and
in prosecuting violations of section 274(a)(1)(A) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (relating to alien smug-
gling), resulting from the increase in personnel under sec-
tion 1.
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to subsection (a) are authorized to re-
main available until expended.
SEC. 7. ALIEN SMUGGLING DEFINED.
In sections 1 and 6, the term ‘‘alien smuggling’’
means any act prohibited by paragraph (1) or (2) of sec-
tion 274(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1324(a)).
Passed the House of Representatives October 3,
2000.
Attest:
Clerk.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 238
To amend section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose
mandatory minimum sentences, and increase certain sentences, for bring-
ing in and harboring certain aliens and to amend title 18, United
States Code, to provide enhanced penalties for persons committing such
offenses while armed.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 6, 1999
Mr. ROGAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality
Act to impose mandatory minimum sentences, and in-
crease certain sentences, for bringing in and harboring
certain aliens and to amend title 18, United States Code,
to provide enhanced penalties for persons committing
such offenses while armed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 
1. 
MANDATORY 
MINIMUM 
SENTENCES 
FOR
BRINGING 
IN 
AND 
HARBORING 
CERTAIN
ALIENS.
Section 274(a)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(B)) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(B)(i) Except as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii),
a person who violates subparagraph (A) shall—
‘‘(I) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of sub-
paragraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense
was done for the purpose of commercial advantage
or private financial gain, be fined under title 18,
United States Code, imprisoned not less than 2
years nor more than 10 years, or both;
‘‘(II) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II) be fined under title 18,
United States Code, imprisoned not less than 1 year
nor more than 5 years, or both;
‘‘(III) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation
to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as
defined in section 1365 of title 18, United States
Code) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any per-
son, be fined under title 18, United States Code, im-
prisoned not less than 5 years nor more than 25
years, or both; and
‘‘(IV) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of
any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for
any term of years or for life (but not less than 20
years), fined under title 18, United States Code, or
both.
‘‘(ii) In the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)
after 1 prior conviction for any other violation of subpara-
graph (A) has become final, the minimum term of impris-
onment shall be not less than two times the minimum term
specified in clause (i).
‘‘(iii) In the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)
after 2 or more prior convictions for any other violations
of subparagraph (A) have become final, the minimum
term of imprisonment shall be not less than five times the
minimum term specified in clause (i).’’.
SEC. 2. ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR PERSONS COMMITTING
OFFENSES WHILE ARMED.
Section 924(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)—
(12) Despite suffering disproportionate rates of
illness, death, and disability, minorities have not
been proportionately represented in many clinical re-
search trials, except in studies of behavioral risk fac-
tors associated with negative stereotypes.
(13) Culturally sensitive approaches to research
are needed to encourage minority participation in re-
search studies.
(14) There is a national need for minority sci-
entists in the field of biomedical, clinical, and health
services research.
(15) In 1990, only 3.3 percent of all United
States medical school faculties were underrep-
resented minority persons.
(16) Only 1 percent of full professors were
underrepresented minority persons in 1990.
(17) The proportion of underrepresented mi-
norities in higher rank academic ranks, such as pro-
fessors and associated professors, actually decreased
from 1980 to 1990.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR RE-
SEARCH ON DOMESTIC HEALTH DISPARITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part E of title IV of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287 et seq.), as amended
by section 601 of the Departments of Labor, Health and