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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3056
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to take
certain actions to improve airline security, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 5, 2001
Mr. TRAFICANT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration to take certain actions to improve airline security,
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 ‘‘Flight Deck and Air-
craft Integrity Enhancement Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. IMPROVED FLIGHT DECK INTEGRITY MEASURES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as possible after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration shall issue an order (without re-
(6) authorizing the pilot and copilot to each
carry a handgun (as defined in section 921(a) of
title 18, United States Code) after training in the
use of such handgun by the United States Marshals
Service; and
(7) prohibiting an air carrier from refusing to
hire, 
discharging, 
or 
otherwise 
discriminating
against any pilot or copilot, with respect to com-
pensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employ-
ment, who chooses not to carry a handgun under
paragraph (6).
(b) COMMUTER AIRCRAFT.—The Administrator shall
investigate means of securing the flight deck of aircraft
operating under the authority of part 135 of title 14, Code
of Federal Regulations, that are engaged in interstate or
intrastate air transportation that do not have a fixed door
with a lock between the passenger compartment and the
flight deck and issue such an order as the Secretary deems
appropriate (without regard to the provisions of chapter
5 of title 5, United States Code) to ensure the inacces-
sibility, to the greatest extent feasible, of the flight deck
while the aircraft is so engaged.
(c) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—A pilot or copilot
who chooses not to carry a handgun under subsection
(a)(6) shall not be liable in any action for failing to carry
a handgun under subsection (a)(6).
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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3059
To provide for retiree health care by allowing steel companies a partial
refund of net operating loss carryforwards.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 9, 2001
Mrs. JONES of Ohio (for herself, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. STUPAK, and Mr.
TOOMEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To provide for retiree health care by allowing steel companies
a partial refund of net operating loss carryforwards.
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 ‘‘Retiree Health Assist-
ance Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. PARTIAL REFUND OF CERTAIN STEEL COMPANY
NET OPERATING LOSS CARRYFORWARDS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—If any eligible taxpayer makes an
election under this section, such taxpayer shall be treated
as having made a payment of the tax imposed by chapter
1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for each taxable
year ending after December 31, 2001, in an amount equal
to the qualified direct cost (as defined in section
419(c)(3)) for the preceding taxable year of post-retire-
ment medical and life insurance benefits provided by the
taxpayer.
(b) LIMITATION.—The amount treated as paid under
subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed the
excess (if any) of—
(1) 35 percent of the taxpayer’s existing quali-
fied carryovers, over
(2) the aggregate amount treated as paid under
subsection (a) for all prior taxable years.
(c) ELIGIBLE TAXPAYER.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘eligible taxpayer’’ means any taxpayer
whose principal trade or business for the taxpayer’s first
taxable year ending after December 31, 2001, is the pro-
duction of steel from raw materials.
(d) EXISTING QUALIFIED CARRYOVERS.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘existing qualified
carryovers’’ means the aggregate of the amounts which
are net operating loss carryovers under section 172(b) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to the taxpayer’s first
taxable year ending after December 31, 2001, to the ex-
tent such carryovers are attributable to net operating
losses arising in taxable years beginning before January
1, 1996, and for which the taxpayer’s principal trade or
business was the production of steel from raw materials.
(e) SPECIAL RULES.—
(1) REDUCTION
IN
CARRYOVERS.—If a tax-
payer elects the application of this section, such tax-
payer’s existing qualified carryovers shall be reduced
to zero.
(2) ELECTION.—An election under this section
may be made only on or before the due date (includ-
ing extensions) for filing the return of tax imposed
by chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
for the taxpayer’s first taxable year ending after De-
cember 31, 2001. Such an election, once made, shall
be irrevocable.
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grantees after a period of not more than 12 years after the
end of the grant for purposes and uses consistent with the
original grant: Provided further, That funds appropriated
for section 680(a)(2) of the Community Services Block
Grant Act, as amended, shall be available for financing con-
struction and rehabilitation and loans or investments in
private business enterprises owned by community develop-
ment corporations.
Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section
429A(e), part B of title IV of the Social Security Act shall
be reduced by $6,000,000.
Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section
413(h)(1) of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by
$15,000,000.
PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES
For carrying out section 430 of the Social Security
Act, $305,000,000. In addition, for such purposes,
$70,000,000 to carry out such section.
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION
ASSISTANCE
For making payments to States or other non-Federal
entities under title IV–E of the Social Security Act,
$4,885,200,000.
For making payments to States or other non-Federal
entities under title IV–E of the Social Security Act, for the
first quarter of fiscal year 2003, $1,754,000,000.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be
used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for
the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in
order to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school
system, or for the transportation of students or teachers
(or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation)
in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any
school or school system.
SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act
shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the trans-
portation of any student to a school other than the school
which is nearest the student’s home, except for a student
requiring special education, to the school offering such
special education, in order to comply with title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section
an indirect requirement of transportation of students in-
cludes the transportation of students to carry out a plan
involving the reorganization of the grade structure of
schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools,
or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clus-
tering. The prohibition described in this section does not
include the establishment of magnet schools.
‘‘(C) RATIO OF 80 PERCENT OR MORE.—If
the ratio for any calendar quarter determined
under subparagraph (A) or (B) would (but for
this subparagraph) be 80 percent or more, such
ratio for such quarter shall be 100 percent.
‘‘(D) RATIO OF 20 PERCENT OR LESS.—If
the ratio for any calendar quarter determined
under subparagraph (A) or (B) would (but for
this subparagraph) be 20 percent or less, such
ratio for such quarter shall be zero.
‘‘(E) LOOK-THRU OF PARTNERSHIPS.—For
purposes of this paragraph, a qualified invest-
ment entity which holds a partnership interest
shall be treated (in lieu of holding a partnership
interest) as holding its proportionate share of
the assets held by the partnership.
‘‘(3) TREATMENT OF RETURN OF CAPITAL DIS-
TRIBUTIONS.—Except as otherwise provided by the
Secretary, a distribution with respect to stock in a
qualified investment entity which is not a dividend
and which results in a reduction in the adjusted
basis of such stock shall be treated as allocable to
stock acquired by the taxpayer in the order in which
such stock was acquired.
ber 1, 2002, and shall remain available through September
30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003: Provided, That
$9,500,000 shall be for Recording for the Blind and
Dyslexic to support the development, production, and cir-
culation of recorded educational materials.
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Tech-
nology Act of 1998, and the Helen Keller National Center
Act, $2,942,117,000, of which $60,000,000 shall remain
available through September 30, 2003: Provided, That the
funds provided for title I of the Assistive Technology Act
of 1998 (‘‘the AT Act’’) shall be allocated notwithstanding
section 105(b)(1) of the AT Act: Provided further, That
each State shall be provided $50,000 for activities under
section 102 of the AT Act: Provided further, That
$40,000,000 shall be used to support grants for up to 3
years to States under title III of the AT Act, of which
the Federal share shall not exceed 75 percent in the first
year, 50 percent in the second year, and 25 percent in
the third year, and that the requirements in section
301(c)(2) and section 302 of that Act shall not apply to
such grants.
‘‘(I) $6,000,000 in total obliga-
tions under paragraph (1); and
‘‘(II) $6,000,000 in total obliga-
tions under paragraph (4); and
‘‘(ii) with respect to a small business
concern that is not located in an area de-
scribed in clause (i) and that is eligible for
assistance 
under 
paragraph 
(4),
$5,000,000 in total obligations under para-
graph (4).
‘‘(B) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Adminis-
trator may, at the discretion of the Adminis-
trator, waive the aggregate loan amounts estab-
lished under subparagraph (A).
‘‘(6) EXTENDED
APPLICATION
PERIOD.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Admin-
istrator shall accept applications for assistance
under paragraphs (1) and (4) until September 10,
2002, with respect to small business concerns ad-
versely affected by the terrorist attacks perpetrated
against the United States on September 11, 2001.
‘‘(7) LIMITATION
ON
SALES
OF
LOANS.—No
loan made under paragraph (1) or (4) made with re-
spect to adverse impact as a result of the terrorist
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of which $163,452,000, together with not to exceed
$773,283,000 of the amount which may be expended from
said trust fund, shall be available for obligation for the
period July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2003, to fund ac-
tivities under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, in-
cluding the cost of penalty mail authorized under 39
U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made available to States in lieu of
allotments for such purpose: Provided, That to the extent
that the Average Weekly Insured Unemployment (AWIU)
for fiscal year 2002 is projected by the Department of
Labor to exceed 2,622,000, an additional $28,600,000
shall be available for obligation for every 100,000 increase
in the AWIU level (including a pro rata amount for any
increment less than 100,000) from the Employment Secu-
rity Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust
Fund: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this
Act which are used to establish a national one-stop career
center system, or which are used to support the national
activities of the Federal-State unemployment insurance
programs, may be obligated in contracts, grants or agree-
ments with non-State entities: Provided further, That
funds appropriated under this Act for activities authorized
under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, and title III
of the Social Security Act, may be used by the States to
fund integrated Employment Service and Unemployment
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ber 1, 2002, and shall remain available through September
30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003: Provided, That
$9,500,000 shall be for Recording for the Blind and
Dyslexic to support the development, production, and cir-
culation of recorded educational materials.
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise pro-
vided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Tech-
nology Act of 1998, and the Helen Keller National Center
Act, $2,942,117,000, of which $60,000,000 shall remain
available through September 30, 2003: Provided, That the
funds provided for title I of the Assistive Technology Act
of 1998 (‘‘the AT Act’’) shall be allocated notwithstanding
section 105(b)(1) of the AT Act: Provided further, That
each State shall be provided $50,000 for activities under
section 102 of the AT Act: Provided further, That
$40,000,000 shall be used to support grants for up to 3
years to States under title III of the AT Act, of which
the Federal share shall not exceed 75 percent in the first
year, 50 percent in the second year, and 25 percent in
the third year, and that the requirements in section
301(c)(2) and section 302 of that Act shall not apply to
such grants.
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Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding cost alloca-
tion principles prescribed under Office of Management
and Budget Circular A–87.
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND
OTHER FUNDS
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust
Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the
Social Security Act, as amended, and to the Black Lung
Disability Trust Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; and
for nonrepayable advances to the Unemployment Trust
Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United
States Code, and to the ‘‘Federal unemployment benefits
and allowances’’ account, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2003, $464,000,000.
In addition, for making repayable advances to the
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal
year after September 15, 2002, for costs incurred by the
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal
year, such sums as may be necessary.
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
For expenses of administering employment and train-
ing programs, $113,356,000, including $5,934,000 to ad-
minister welfare-to-work grants, together with not to ex-
ceed $48,507,000, which may be expended from the Em-
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ployment Security Administration Account in the Unem-
ployment Trust Fund.
PENSION AND WELFARE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the Pension and Welfare
Benefits Administration, $109,866,000.
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is author-
ized to make such expenditures, including financial assist-
ance authorized by section 104 of Public Law 96–364,
within limits of funds and borrowing authority available
to such Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make
such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal
year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C.
9104), as may be necessary in carrying out the program
through September 30, 2002, for such Corporation: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $11,690,000 shall be available
for administrative expenses of the Corporation: Provided
further, That expenses of such Corporation in connection
with the termination of pension plans, for the acquisition,
protection or management, and investment of trust assets,
and for benefits administration services shall be consid-
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ered as non-administrative expenses for the purposes here-
of, and excluded from the above limitation.
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the Employment Stand-
ards Administration, including reimbursement to State,
Federal, and local agencies and their employees for inspec-
tion services rendered, $367,650,000, together with
$1,981,000 which may be expended from the Special Fund
in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d) and 44(j) of the
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act: Pro-
vided, That $2,000,000 shall be for the development of
an alternative system for the electronic submission of re-
ports as required to be filed under the Labor-Management
Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended, and
for a computer database of the information for each sub-
mission by whatever means, that is indexed and easily
searchable by the public via the Internet: Provided further,
That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to accept, re-
tain, and spend, until expended, in the name of the De-
partment of Labor, all sums of money ordered to be paid
to the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with the terms
of the Consent Judgment in Civil Action No. 91–0027 of
the United States District Court for the District of the
Northern Mariana Islands (May 21, 1992): Provided fur-
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ther, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to estab-
lish and, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, collect and
deposit in the Treasury fees for processing applications
and issuing certificates under sections 11(d) and 14 of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29
U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for processing applications
and issuing registrations under title I of the Migrant and
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C.
1801 et seq.).
SPECIAL BENEFITS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and ex-
penses (except administrative expenses) accruing during
the current or any prior fiscal year authorized by title 5,
chapter 81 of the United States Code; continuation of ben-
efits as provided for under the heading ‘‘Civilian War Ben-
efits’’ in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act,
1947; the Employees’ Compensation Commission Appro-
priation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War
Claims Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 per-
cent of the additional compensation and benefits required
by section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’
Compensation Act, as amended, $121,000,000 together
with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to
the subsequent year appropriation for the payment of
compensation and other benefits for any period subse-
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quent to August 15 of the current year: Provided, That
amounts appropriated may be used under section 8104 of
title 5, United States Code, by the Secretary of Labor to
reimburse an employer, who is not the employer at the
time of injury, for portions of the salary of a reemployed,
disabled beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of re-
imbursements unobligated on September 30, 2001, shall
remain available until expended for the payment of com-
pensation, benefits, and expenses: Provided further, That
in addition there shall be transferred to this appropriation
from the Postal Service and from any other corporation
or instrumentality required under section 8147(c) of title
5, United States Code, to pay an amount for its fair share
of the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary
determines to be the cost of administration for employees
of such fair share entities through September 30, 2002:
Provided further, That of those funds transferred to this
account from the fair share entities to pay the cost of ad-
ministration of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act,
$36,696,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as
follows: (1) for the operation of and enhancement to the
automated data processing systems, including document
imaging, 
and 
conversion 
to 
a 
paperless 
office,
$24,522,000; (2) for medical bill review and periodic roll
management, $11,474,000; (3) for communications rede-
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sign, $700,000; and (4) the remaining funds shall be paid
into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may require that any person fil-
ing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits under chapter
81 of title 5, United States Code, or 33 U.S.C. 901 et
seq., provide as part of such notice and claim, such identi-
fying information (including Social Security account num-
ber) as such regulations may prescribe.
ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS
COMPENSATION PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act,
$136,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to trans-
fer to any Executive agency with authority under the En-
ergy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act,
including within the Department of Labor, such sums as
may be necessary in fiscal year 2002 to carry out those
authorities: Provided further, That the Secretary may re-
quire that any person filing a claim for benefits under the
Act provide as part of such claim, such identifying infor-
mation (including Social Security account number) as may
be prescribed.
(10) 2 members appointed by the President
from among individuals who are especially well
qualified to serve by virtue of their education, train-
ing, and experience in the financial services industry.
(b) CONTINUATION OF MEMBERSHIP.—If a member
was appointed to the Commission as a Member of Con-
gress or by virtue of such member’s position in the House
of Representatives, the Senate, or a Federal agency and
the member ceases to be a Member of Congress or to serve
in any such position that member may continue as a mem-
ber for not longer than the 30-day period beginning on
the date that member ceases to be a Member of Congress
or serve in such position.
(c) TERMS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each member shall be ap-
pointed for the life of the Commission.
(2) VACANCIES.—Any member appointed to fill
a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the
term for which the member’s predecessor was ap-
pointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of
that term. A member may serve after the expiration
of that member’s term until a successor has taken
office.
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broadband services or next generation broadband
services, but only if such packet switching is the
last in a series of such functions performed in
the transmission of a signal to a subscriber or
the first in a series of such functions performed
in the transmission of a signal from a sub-
scriber.
‘‘(D) MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING
EQUIPMENT.—Multiplexing and demultiplexing
equipment shall be taken into account under sub-
paragraph (A) only to the extent it is deployed
in connection with equipment described in sub-
paragraph (B) and is uniquely designed to per-
form 
the 
function 
of 
multiplexing 
and
demultiplexing packets or cells of data and mak-
ing associated application adaptions, but only if
such multiplexing or demultiplexing equipment
is located between packet switching equipment
described in subparagraph (C) and the sub-
scriber’s premises.
‘‘(14) QUALIFIED EXPENDITURE.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified ex-
penditure’ means any amount—
‘‘(i) chargeable to capital account with
respect to the purchase and installation of