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month period for which such report is made, includ-
ing—
(A) the purpose of each joint venture;
(B) the identity of each party described in
section 6(a)(1) of such Act, and
(C) the identity and nationality of each
person described in section 6(a)(3) of such Act;
and
(2) a list of cases and proceedings, if any,
brought during such period under the antitrust laws
by the Department of Justice, and by the Federal
Trade Commission, with respect to joint ventures for
which notice was filed under such section at any
time.
(c) TRIENNIAL REPORT
BY
THE ATTORNEY GEN-
ERAL.—In the 30-day period beginning at each 3-year in-
terval after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attor-
ney General, after consultation with such other agencies as
may be appropriate, shall submit to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Commit-
tee on the Judiciary of the Senate—
(1) a description of the technological areas of re-
search, development, and production most commonly
pursued by joint ventures for which notice was filed
under section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Re-
search and Production Act of 1993 during the 3-year
period for which such report is made, and an analy-
sis of the trends in the competitiveness of United
States industry in such areas; and
(2) an update of the report submitted by the At-
torney General under subsection (d) to reflect changes
in foreign law’s antitrust treatment of joint ventures.
(d) REVIEW OF ANTITRUST TREATMENT UNDER FOR-
EIGN LAWS.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Attorney General, after consultation
with such other agencies as may be appropriate, shall sub-
mit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate a report on the antitrust treatment of United States
businesses that are parties to joint ventures under the law
of each foreign nation whose domestic businesses filed notice
under section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research
and Production Act of 1993 at any time.
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1314
To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of the United States Code to permit each
party to a sales and service contract to accept or reject arbitration
as a means of settling disputes under the contract.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 11, 1993
Mr. BRYANT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of the United States Code
to permit each party to a sales and service contract
to accept or reject arbitration as a means of settling
disputes under the contract.
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 title may be cited as the ‘‘Voluntary Arbitration
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. ELECTION OF ARBITRATION.
(a) SALES AND SERVICE CONTRACTS.—Chapter 1 of
title 9 of the United States Code is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following new section:
‘‘§ 17. Sales and service contracts
‘‘(a) Whenever a sales and service contract provides
for the use of arbitration to resolve a controversy arising
out of or relating to the contract, each party to the con-
tract shall have the option, after the controversy arises
and before both parties commence an arbitration proceed-
ing, to reject arbitration as the means of settling the
controversy. Any such rejection shall be in writing.
‘‘(b) In making an award in any controversy arising
out of or relating to a sales and service contract, the arbi-
trator shall provide the parties to the contract with a writ-
ten explanation of the factual and legal basis for the award
and any such award may be vacated by a court order as
provided in section 10 or whenever the court referred to
in section 10 finds that the arbitrator disregarded the law
of the State or jurisdiction in which the retailer’s facilities
are located.
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘sales and service contract’ means
a contract under which any person (including any
manufacturer, importer, or distributor) sells any
product to any other person for resale to an ultimate
purchaser and authorizes such other person to repair
and service such product, and
(2) the term ‘retailer’ means any person au-
thorized to resell any product to an ultimate pur-
chaser and to repair and service such product under
a sales and service contract.’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
chapter 1 of title 9, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following new item:
‘‘17. Sales and service contracts.’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by section 1 shall apply to
contracts entered into, amended, altered, modified, re-
newed, or extended after the date of the enactment of this
Act.
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Franchise business relationships represent a
large and growing segment of the nation’s retail and
service businesses and are replacing more traditional
forms of small business ownership in the American
economy.
(2) Because franchising remains a relatively
new form of business relationship, existing law has
not evolved sufficiently to protect prospective
franchisees adequately from misrepresentation in the
sale of franchise businesses or from fraudulent or in-
adequately structured franchise opportunities.
(3) Most prospective franchisees lack bargain-
ing power and generally invest substantial amounts
to obtain a franchise business when they are unfa-
miliar with operating a business, with the business
being franchised and with industry practices in fran-
chising.
(4) Franchisees may suffer substantial losses
when the franchisor, or the franchisor’s representa-
tive, do not provide truthful or complete information
regarding the franchise opportunity, the prior busi-
ness experience of the franchisor or the details of
the franchisor-franchisee relationship.
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plied in favor of or against any party to a franchise agree-
ment as reciprocal and equally applicable to the other
party to the agreement and to provide an identical or simi-
lar benefit, impose an identical or similar duty, or apply
an identical or similar restriction on such other party to
the agreement, provided that such reciprocal application
is consistent with the laws of the State in which the fran-
chise business is located.
(2) A court shall apply any provision contained in a
franchise agreement which purports to restrict the ability
of one party to compete with the other party during the
term of the franchise agreement reciprocally to the extent
deemed fair and appropriate.
(d)(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2)
of this subsection, nothing contained in this Act shall limit
the right of a franchisor and a franchisee to agree to arbi-
tration, mediation or other nonjudicial resolution of a dis-
pute, either in advance or after a dispute arises: Provided,
That the standards and protections applied in any binding
nonjudicial procedure agreed to by the parties are not less
than the requirements set forth in this Act.
(2) Any stipulation or provision of a franchise agree-
ment requiring use of arbitration or other nonjudicial res-
olution to resolve disputes arising under the agreement
shall not apply to bar an action brought in a United States
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fits which would flow from equitable franchise relation-
ships.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITED ACTIONS.
(a) In connection with the promotion, sale, licensing,
performance, enforcement and termination of any fran-
chise agreement, or of an agreement for any relationship
which is represented either orally or in writing to be a
franchise, it shall be unlawful for a franchisor or
subfranchisor, either directly or indirectly through any of-
ficer, employee, agent, representative or attorney:
(1) to engage in an act, practice, course of busi-
ness, or pattern of conduct which operates or is in-
tended to operate as a fraud or deceit upon any per-
son;
(2) to employ unlawful or deceptive acts or
practices in the operation of the franchisor’s enter-
prise or method of business;
(3) to discriminate among franchisees on the
basis of race, sex, religion, disability or national ori-
gin, except that, and then only to the extent that,
any discrimination between franchisees is reasonable
and is related to a program under which franchises
are made available to a class of persons who may
have been denied franchise opportunities in the past
section (a), this title shall supersede any State law to the 
extent that such law— 
‘‘(1) regulates a rental-purchase agreement as a 
security interest, credit sale, retail installment sale, 
conditional sale or any other form of consumer credit, 
or that imputes to a rental-purchase agreement the 
creation of a debt or extension of credit; or 
‘‘(2) requires the disclosure of a percentage rate 
calculation, including a time-price differential, an 
annual percentage rate, or an effective annual per-
centage rate. 
‘‘(c) RELATION
TO FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 
ACT.—No provision of this title shall be construed as lim-
iting, superseding, or otherwise affecting the applicability 
of the Federal Trade Commission Act to any merchant or 
rental-purchase transaction. 
‘‘SEC. 1019. EFFECT ON GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. 
‘‘No civil liability or criminal penalty under this title 
may be imposed on the United States or any of its depart-
ments or agencies, any State or political subdivision, or 
any agency of a State or political subdivision. 
‘‘SEC. 1020. COMPLIANCE DATE. 
‘‘Compliance with this title shall not be required until 
6 months after the date of the enactment of the ‘Consumer 
Rental Purchase Agreement Act’. In any case, merchants 
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Union Calendar No. 405 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1588 
[Report No. 112–565] 
A BILL 
To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to 
assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of 
rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures 
of all costs to consumers under such agreements, 
to provide certain substantive rights to con-
sumers under such agreements, and for other 
purposes. 
JUNE 29, 2012 
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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opportunities required to be filed annually
under subsection (a);
(B) establish categories of statistical infor-
mation for annual data compilation and analy-
sis, including but not limited to: total numbers
of franchisors and franchise businesses, types of
franchise 
businesses, 
number 
of 
foreign
franchisors, annual growth in franchisors and
franchise businesses, turnover in franchise own-
ership and numbers of franchise failures;
(C) consult with Congress, the Federal
Trade Commission, the North American Securi-
ties Administrators Association and other inter-
ested organizations in identifying additional
categories of statistical information for pur-
poses of data compilation and analysis that:
(i) involve issues or information of po-
tential interest to the public, or of specific
concern to Federal and State regulatory
agencies; and
(ii) are obtainable from disclosure ma-
terials filed in accordance with subsection
(a) and from other public sources of infor-
mation; and
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1318
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of a certain entry of warp
knitting machines as free of certain duties.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 11, 1993
Mr. COBLE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
A BILL
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of a certain
entry of warp knitting machines as free of certain duties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RELIQUIDATING ENTRY OF WARP KNITTING
MACHINES.
Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other provision of law, upon
proper request filed with the appropriate customs officer
before the 180th day after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall—
(1) liquidate or reliquidate as duty free Entry
No. 100–3022436–3, made on July 12, 1989 at the
port of Charleston, South Carolina; and
(2) refund any duties paid with respect to such
entry.
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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1590 
To provide for the disposition of the Space Shuttle Discovery upon retirement. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas (for herself, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GON-
ZALEZ, Mr. DOGGETT, and Mr. CHAFFETZ) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To provide for the disposition of the Space Shuttle Discovery 
upon retirement. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY. 
The Space Shuttle Discovery shall be placed on dis-
play at the Space Center Houston in Houston, Texas, for 
a period of 15 years after retirement of the shuttle from 
service, after which time it shall be returned to Wash-
ington, DC. 
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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1592 
To limit United States assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the 
Palestinian Authority unilaterally declares a Palestinian state. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Ms. BERKLEY (for herself and Mr. ENGEL) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To limit United States assistance to the Palestinian Author-
ity if the Palestinian Authority unilaterally declares a 
Palestinian state. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE 
TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. 
No funds made available for assistance to the Pales-
tinian Authority may be obligated or expended if the 
President determines and certifies to Congress that the 
Palestinian Authority has unilaterally declared a Pales-
tinian state. 
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210
(1) IN GENERAL.—All Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corporation employees assigned to the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation on the day before en-
actment of this Act, including liquidation-grade, gen-
eral-grade, and general-grade term employees, who
are performing liquidation, resolution or other func-
tions transferred pursuant to this Act, shall be
transferred to the Administrator 60 days after es-
tablishment of the Agency.
(2) JOINT IDENTIFICATION.—The Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation and the Administrator
shall jointly identify which Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corporation-assigned employees are performing
liquidation, resolution, or other transferred func-
tions.
(c) TDPOB EMPLOYEES TO BE TRANSFERRED.—
All employees of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight
Board on the day before enactment of this Act shall be
transferred to the Administrator 60 days after the estab-
lishment of the Agency.
(d) RIGHTS OF TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this section, each employee transferred pur-
suant to this section shall be transferred to a sub-
stantially similar position in an office within the
I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1594 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that installment 
sales treatment shall not fail to apply to property acquired for conserva-
tion purposes by a State or local government or certain tax-exempt 
organizations merely because purchase funds are held in a sinking or 
similar fund pursuant to State law. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Mr. BISHOP of New York (for himself and Mr. HANNA) 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 clarify 
that installment sales treatment shall not fail to apply 
to property acquired for conservation purposes by a State 
or local government or certain tax-exempt organizations 
merely because purchase funds are held in a sinking 
or similar fund pursuant to State law. 
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 ‘‘Open Space Preserva-
tion Promotion Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Land conservation and farmland preserva-
tion is an important national goal that allows farm-
ers to continue to farm on their land, and allows 
communities to protect invaluable natural resources 
for future generations. 
(2) Farmland in metropolitan and frequently 
high-cost communities is estimated to account for 
one-third of all farms, and 18 percent of this Na-
tion’s farmland. 
(3) In many urban fringe areas farmland is 
rapidly disappearing, and the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture estimates that approximately 95 million 
acres of farmland will be taken over by sprawl and 
urban growth in the coming years. 
(4) Farmers and landowners generally receive a 
significantly reduced payment for the sale of devel-
opment rights and conservation easements than they 
would receive by selling the land to the private sec-
tor for development. In many instances, however, 
these sales are treated the same under the tax code. 
(5) In areas where State law requires debt as-
sumed by a municipality to be structured in the 
form of a sinking fund, farmers and landowners may 
be discouraged from selling the development rights 
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(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (C), 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 
subparagraph (E), 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) $800,000 in the case of taxable years 
beginning in 2013, and’’, and 
(D) in subparagraph (E), as so redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting 
‘‘2013’’. 
(b) 
COMPUTER
SOFTWARE.—Section 
179(d)(1)(A)(ii) is amended by striking ‘‘2013’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2014’’. 
(c) ELECTION.—Section 179(c)(2) is amended by 
striking ‘‘2013’’ and inserting ‘‘2014’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2012. 
TITLE II—ALTERNATIVE 
MINIMUM TAX RELIEF 
SEC. 201. TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF INCREASED ALTER-
NATIVE MINIMUM TAX EXEMPTION AMOUNT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 55(d) is 
amended— 
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of their land for conservation purposes. Since sales 
to State and local governments will be in the form 
of a sinking fund, a seller may not be able to pay 
capital gains taxes in full when the seller will not re-
ceive cash payments until a future date. 
(6) In urban fringe areas, many communities 
have made a concerted effort to purchase develop-
ment rights to land. The land remains private, but 
the community gains by preserving open spaces and 
enjoying environmental benefits. Communities will 
greatly benefit by the Federal Government taking 
steps to assist municipalities in the purchase of de-
velopment rights. 
SEC. 3. USE OF SINKING FUND BY STATE OR LOCAL GOV-
ERNMENT NOT TO PREVENT INSTALLMENT 
SALES TREATMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of section 453(f) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to pay-
ment) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) PAYMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
paragraph (4), the term ‘payment’ does not in-
clude the receipt of evidences of indebtedness of 
the person acquiring the property (whether or 
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not payment of such indebtedness is guaranteed 
by another person). 
‘‘(B) TREATMENT OF SINKING AND SIMI-
LAR FUNDS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.—Noth-
ing in this section or the regulations thereunder 
shall be construed as treating a seller of prop-
erty to a qualified organization (as defined in 
section 170(h)(3)) as receiving a payment by 
reason of the fact that some or all of the funds 
for such purchase are made (as required by 
State law) to a sinking or similar fund if the 
property is being acquired by such organization 
exclusively for conservation purposes (as de-
fined in section 170(h)(4)).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1322
To provide for the minting and circulation of one dollar coins, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 11, 1993
Mr. KOLBE (for himself, Mr. TORRES, Mr. POSHARD, Mr. HYDE, Mr. MONT-
GOMERY, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. MINETA, Mr. STUMP, Mr. SABO, Mr. MOAK-
LEY, Mr. DREIER, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. PACK-
ARD, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. HAYS, Mr. PORTER, Mr. COX, Mr. LAFALCE,
Mr. BLACKWELL, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCDADE, Mr. MURTHA, Mr.
WELDON, Mr. PETRI, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. FAWELL, Mr. SAXTON, Mr.
PENNY, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. WHEAT, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. ZELIFF, Mr.
HALL of Ohio, Mr. PICKETT, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr.
HANCOCK, Mr. WALSH, Mr. EMERSON, Mr. DORNAN, Mrs. VUCANOVICH,
Mr. HASTERT, Mr. BATEMAN, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. HOB-
SON, Mr. SARPALIUS, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. HEFNER, Mr.
GREENWOOD, Mr. MORAN, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. GORDON, Mr. SISISKY, Mr.
RAVENEL, Mr. EVANS, Mr. KLUG, Mr. PARKER, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr.
FROST, Mr. RIDGE, Mr. CLEMENT, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr.
NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. BORSKI, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE of Vir-
ginia, Mr. WILSON, Mr. CRANE, Mr. EWING, Mr. BACCHUS of Florida,
Mr. OXLEY, Mr. BREWSTER, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr.
CARDIN, Mr. TORKILDSEN, Mr. VENTO, Mr. BEVILL, Mr. ROSE, Mr.
SANTORUM, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. UPTON, Mr. BLILEY, Mr. MFUME, Mr.
PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. INHOFE, Mr.
SWETT, Mr. HOCHBRUECKNER, Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina, Mr.
LANCASTER, Mr. MOORHEAD, Mr. RICHARDSON, Mr. SUNDQUIST, Mr.
TORRICELLI, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. SCHAEFER, Mr. GRANDY, Mr. STOKES,
and Mr. SHAW) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs