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SEC. 8. REPORTS REQUIRED.
(a) REPORT ON REIMBURSEMENT RATES.—Not later
than February 1, 2001, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to Congress a report on the use of authority under
section 1097b of title 10, United States Code, to provide
reimbursement to health care providers at rates higher
than otherwise authorized, but not exceeding an amount
equal to 115 percent of CHAMPUS maximum allowable
charges. The report shall include—
(1) a description of the rate and incidence of
the use of such authority, the locations with respect
to which the authority was exercised, and the proce-
dures for which the authority was exercised; and
(2) an analysis of the adequacy of such author-
ity to improve efficiency in the provision of health
care services under the TRICARE program network,
particularly with respect to rural and remote areas.
(b) REPORT ON COMPARISON OF RATES CHARGED
FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES.—Not later than February 1,
2001, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress
a study on how the maximum allowable rates charged for
the 100 most commonly performed medical procedures
under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the
Uniformed Services and Medicare compare with usual and
customary commercial insurance rates for such procedures
in each TRICARE Prime catchment area.
(c) REPORT
ON
MANDATORY
REIMBURSEMENT
FLOOR.—Not later than February 1, 2001, the Comp-
troller General shall submit to Congress a report providing
an analysis of whether the use of a mandatory floor of
70 percent of usual and customary rates for reimburse-
ment to health care providers under the TRICARE pro-
gram, rather than a ceiling of an amount equal to 115
percent of CHAMPUS maximum allowable charges, would
assist in providing a more robust health care network.
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Union Calendar No. 553
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4419
[Report No. 106–771, Part I]
To prevent the use of certain bank instruments for Internet gambling, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 10, 2000
Mr. LEACH (for himself, Mr. LAFALCE, Mrs. ROUKEMA, and Mr. BAKER) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Banking and Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the
Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
JULY 20, 2000
Reported from the Committee on Banking and Financial Services with
amendments
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
JULY 20, 2000
Referral to the Committee on the Judiciary extended for a period ending not
later than September 22, 2000
JULY 21, 2000
Referral to the Committee on the Judiciary extended for a period ending not
later than September 29, 2000
SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
Additional sponsor: Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin
SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
The Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee of
the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 10, 2000]
A BILL
To prevent the use of certain bank instruments for Internet
gambling, 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 ‘‘Unlawful Internet Gam-
bling Funding Prohibition Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Internet gambling is primarily funded
through personal use of bank instruments, including
credit cards and wire transfers.
(2) The National Gambling Impact Study Com-
mission in 1999 recommended the passage of legisla-
tion to prohibit wire transfers to Internet gambling
sites or the banks which represent them.
(3) Internet gambling is a major cause of debt
collection problems for insured depository institutions
and the consumer credit industry.
(4) Internet gambling conducted through offshore
jurisdictions has been identified by United States law
HR 441 RFS
‘‘(i) The facility meets all the requirements of
paragraph (6).
‘‘(ii) The employment of the alien will not ad-
versely affect the wages and working conditions of
registered nurses similarly employed.
‘‘(iii) The alien employed by the facility will be
paid the wage rate for registered nurses similarly
employed by the facility.
‘‘(iv) The facility has taken and is taking timely
and significant steps designed to recruit and retain
sufficient registered nurses who are United States
citizens or immigrants who are authorized to per-
form nursing services, in order to remove as quickly
as reasonably possible the dependence of the facility
on nonimmigrant registered nurses.
‘‘(v) There is not a strike or lockout in the
course of a labor dispute, the facility did not lay off
and will not lay off a registered nurse employed by
the facility within the period beginning 90 days be-
fore and ending 90 days after the date of filing of
any visa petition, and the employment of such an
alien is not intended or designed to influence an
election for a bargaining representative for reg-
istered nurses of the facility.
HR 441 EAS
section 203(b)(2)(B) except that the
alien is required to have worked full
time as a physician for an aggregate of
three years (not including time served
in the status of an alien described in
section 101(a)(15)(J)) before a visa
can be issued to the alien under section
204(b) or the status of the alien is ad-
justed to permanent resident under sec-
tion 245.’’.
SEC. 6. FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF CER-
TAIN INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING FIRMS.
Section 206(a) of the Immigration Act of 1990 (8
U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) CLARIFICATION
OF TREATMENT
OF CERTAIN
INTERNATIONAL
ACCOUNTING
AND
MANAGEMENT
CON-
SULTING FIRMS.—In applying sections 101(a)(15)(L) and
203(b)(1)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and
for no other purpose, in the case of a partnership that is
organized in the United States to provide accounting or
management consulting services and that markets its ac-
counting or management consulting services under an
internationally recognized name under an agreement with
a worldwide coordinating organization that is collectively
owned and controlled by the member accounting and man-
parties and an opportunity for a hearing on the complaint
within 60 days of the date of the determination.
‘‘(iv) If the Secretary of Labor finds, after notice and
opportunity for a hearing, that a facility (for which an
attestation is made) has failed to meet a condition attested
to or that there was a misrepresentation of material fact
in the attestation, the Secretary shall notify the Attorney
General of such finding and may, in addition, impose such
other administrative remedies (including civil monetary
penalties in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per nurse
per violation, with the total penalty not to exceed $10,000
per violation) as the Secretary determines to be appro-
priate. Upon receipt of such notice, the Attorney General
shall not approve petitions filed with respect to a facility
during a period of at least one year for nurses to be em-
ployed by the facility.
‘‘(v) In addition to the sanctions provided for under
clause (iv), if the Secretary of Labor finds, after notice
and an opportunity for a hearing, that a facility has vio-
lated the condition attested to under subparagraph (A)(iii)
(relating to payment of registered nurses at the prevailing
wage rate), the Secretary shall order the facility to provide
for payment of such amounts of back pay as may be re-
quired to comply with such condition.
institution prohibiting such institution from continuing to
engage in any of the following activities:
‘‘(1) Extending credit, or facilitating an exten-
sion of credit, electronic fund transfer, or money
transmitting service with the actual knowledge that
any person is violating section 3(a) of the Unlawful
Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act in con-
nection with such extension of credit, electronic fund
transfer, or money transmitting service.
‘‘(2) Paying, transferring, or collecting on any
check, draft, or other instrument drawn on any depos-
itory institution with the actual knowledge that any
person is violating section 3(a) of the Unlawful Inter-
net Gambling Funding Prohibition Act in connection
with such check, draft, or other instrument.’’.
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to prevent the
use of certain bank instruments for unlawful Internet
gambling, and for other purposes.’’.
Union Calendar No. 553
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4419
[Report No. 106–771, Part I]
A BILL
To prevent the use of certain bank instruments for
Internet gambling, and for other purposes.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
The Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed
to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union, and ordered to be printed
insurance, advertising, and sales staff sala-
ries, commissions, or expenses.
(2) GOOD.—The term ‘‘good’’ means any mer-
chandise, product, article, or material.
(3) GOOD WHOLLY THE GROWTH, PRODUCT, OR
MANUFACTURE OF MOROCCO, THE UNITED STATES,
OR
BOTH.—The term ‘‘good wholly the growth,
product, or manufacture of Morocco, the United
States, or both’’ means—
(A) a mineral good extracted in the terri-
tory of Morocco or the United States, or both;
(B) a vegetable good, as such a good is
provided for in the HTS, harvested in the terri-
tory of Morocco or the United States, or both;
(C) a live animal born and raised in the
territory of Morocco or the United States, or
both;
(D) a good obtained from live animals
raised in the territory of Morocco or the United
States, or both;
(E) a good obtained from hunting, trap-
ping, or fishing in the territory of Morocco or
the United States, or both;
(F) a good (fish, shellfish, and other ma-
rine life) taken from the sea by vessels reg-
istered or recorded with Morocco or the United
States and flying the flag of that country;
(G) a good produced from goods referred
to in subparagraph (F) on board factory ships
registered or recorded with Morocco or the
United States and flying the flag of that coun-
try;
(H) a good taken by Morocco or the
United States or a person of Morocco or the
United States from the seabed or beneath the
seabed outside territorial waters, if Morocco or
the United States has rights to exploit such
seabed;
(I) a good taken from outer space, if such
good is obtained by Morocco or the United
States or a person of Morocco or the United
States and not processed in the territory of a
country other than Morocco or the United
States;
(J) waste and scrap derived from—
(i) production or manufacture in the
territory of Morocco or the United States,
or both; or
(ii) used goods collected in the terri-
tory of Morocco or the United States, or
both, if such goods are fit only for the re-
covery of raw materials;
(K) a recovered good derived in the terri-
tory of Morocco or the United States from used
goods and utilized in the territory of that coun-
try in the production of remanufactured goods;
and
(L) a good produced in the territory of
Morocco or the United States, or both,
exclusively—
(i) from goods referred to in subpara-
graphs (A) through (J), or
(ii) from the derivatives of goods re-
ferred to in clause (i),
at any stage of production.
(4) INDIRECT MATERIAL.—The term ‘‘indirect
material’’ means a good used in the growth, produc-
tion, manufacture, testing, or inspection of a good
but not physically incorporated into the good, or a
good used in the maintenance of buildings or the op-
eration of equipment associated with the growth,
production, or manufacture of a good, including—
(A) fuel and energy;
(B) tools, dies, and molds;
(4) The rich biodiversity of marine organisms 
provides society with essential food resources, a 
promising source of marine products with commer-
cial and medical potential, and an important con-
tribution to the national economy. 
(5) The oceans and the Great Lakes drive cli-
mate and weather factors causing severe weather 
events and threatening the health of coastal eco-
systems and communities by creating or affecting 
both natural and manmade coastal hazards such as 
hurricanes, tsunamis, erosion, oil spills, harmful 
algal blooms, and pollution, which can each pose 
threats to human health and safety. 
(6) Each year, the Coast Guard relies on ocean 
information to save 4,380 people, conducts over 
65,000 rescue missions, and carries out more than 
11,680 environmental cleanups and responses to pol-
lution. 
(7) Safeguarding homeland security requires 
improved monitoring of the Nation’s ports and 
coastline, including the ability to track vessels and 
to provide rapid response teams with real-time envi-
ronmental conditions necessary for their work. 
(8) Advances in sensing technologies and sci-
entific understanding have made possible long-term
companying documentation) and each such petition filed
by the facility.
‘‘(ii) The Secretary of Labor shall establish a process,
including reasonable time limits, for the receipt, investiga-
tion, and disposition of complaints respecting a facility’s
failure to meet conditions attested to or a facility’s mis-
representation of a material fact in an attestation. Com-
plaints may be filed by any aggrieved person or organiza-
tion (including bargaining representatives, associations
deemed appropriate by the Secretary, and other aggrieved
parties as determined under regulations of the Secretary).
The Secretary shall conduct an investigation under this
clause if there is reasonable cause to believe that a facility
fails to meet conditions attested to. Subject to the time
limits established under this clause, this subparagraph
shall apply regardless of whether an attestation is expired
or unexpired at the time a complaint is filed.
‘‘(iii) Under such process, the Secretary shall provide,
within 180 days after the date such a complaint is filed,
for a determination as to whether or not a basis exists
to make a finding described in clause (iv). If the Secretary
determines that such a basis exists, the Secretary shall
provide for notice of such determination to the interested
parties and an opportunity for a hearing on the complaint
within 60 days of the date of the determination.
SEC. 327. COMPENSATION AUTHORITY.
For purposes of section 123 of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2133), any import relief provided by the Presi-
dent under this subtitle shall be treated as action taken
under chapter 1 of title II of such Act.
SEC. 328. BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
The President may not release information which is
submitted in a proceeding under this subtitle and which
the President considers to be confidential business infor-
mation unless the party submitting the confidential busi-
ness information had notice, at the time of submission,
that such information would be released, or such party
subsequently consents to the release of the information.
To the extent a party submits confidential business infor-
mation to the President in a proceeding under this sub-
title, the party also shall submit a nonconfidential version
of the information, in which the confidential business in-
formation is summarized or, if necessary, deleted.
Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 2004.
Attest:
Clerk.
shall cooperate with the General Accounting Office to pro-
vide periodic evaluations of the program. 
‘‘§ 8991. Jurisdiction of courts 
‘‘The district courts of the United States have origi-
nal jurisdiction, concurrent with the United States Court 
of Federal Claims, of a civil action or claim against the 
United States under this chapter after such administrative 
remedies as required under section 8983(d) have been ex-
hausted, but only to the extent judicial review is not pre-
cluded by any dispute resolution or other remedy under 
this chapter. 
‘‘§ 8992. Administrative functions 
‘‘(a) The Office shall prescribe regulations to carry 
out this chapter. The regulations may exclude an employee 
on the basis of the nature and type of employment or con-
ditions pertaining to it. 
‘‘(b) The Office shall, as appropriate, provide for co-
ordinated enrollment, promotion, and education efforts as 
appropriate in consultation with each qualified company. 
The information under this subsection shall include infor-
mation relating to the vision benefits available under chap-
ter 89, including the advantages and disadvantages of ob-
taining additional coverage under this chapter.’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4420
To reauthorize the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation
Commission, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 10, 2000
Mr. MURTHA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
A BILL
To reauthorize the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage
Preservation Commission, 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. COMMISSION EXTENDED TO TWENTY YEARS.
Section 104 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to establish
in the Department of the Interior the Southwestern Penn-
sylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, and for other
purposes’’, approved November 19, 1988 (Public Law
100–698) is amended—
(1) in the flush material at the end of sub-
section (a), by striking ‘‘10 years’’ and inserting ‘‘20
years’’; and
(2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘10 years’’
and inserting ‘‘20 years’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 105 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to establish
in the Department of the Interior the Southwestern Penn-
sylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, and for other
purposes’’, approved November 19, 1988 (Public Law
100–698) is amended by inserting ‘‘for each of fiscal years
2001 through 2010’’ after ‘‘$3,000,000’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendment made by section 1 shall be deemed
to have taken effect on November 18, 1998.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4421
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exclusion
of gain on sale of a principal residence shall apply to certain farmland
sold with the principal residence.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 10, 2000
Mr. WATKINS 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 provide
that the exclusion of gain on sale of a principal residence
shall apply to certain farmland sold with the principal
residence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXCLUSION FOR FARMLAND SOLD WITH PRIN-
CIPAL RESIDENCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 121 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to exclusion of gain from sale
of principal residence) is amended by redesignating sub-
sections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h),
respectively, and by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(e) EXCLUSION TO APPLY TO FARMLAND SOLD
WITH RESIDENCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, as part of the sale or
exchange of the taxpayer’s principal residence, the
taxpayer also transfers qualified farmland to the
transferee of such residence, this section shall apply
to gain on the sale or exchange of such farmland in
the same manner as if such farmland were part of
the taxpayer’s principal residence.
‘‘(2) QUALIFIED FARMLAND.—For purposes of
this subsection, the term ‘qualified farmland’ means
any land (and structures located thereon) if—
‘‘(A) such land is contiguous to the tax-
payer’s principal residence, and
‘‘(B) throughout the 10-year period ending
on the date of the sale or exchange—
‘‘(i) such land and structures were
owned by the taxpayer or a member of the
taxpayer’s family and used as a farm for
farming purposes by the taxpayer or a
member of the taxpayer’s family, and
‘‘(ii) there was material participation
by the taxpayer or a member of the tax-
payer’s family in the operation of such
farm.
Terms used in subparagraph (B) which are also
used in section 2032A shall have the respective
meanings given such terms in section 2032A.’’
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall apply to sales and exchanges after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4422
For the relief of Vijai Rajan.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 10, 2000
Mr. COX introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
For the relief of Vijai Rajan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NATURALIZATION FOR VIJAI RAJAN.
Notwithstanding section 337(a), or any other provi-
sion of title III, of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.), Vijai Rajan shall be considered
to be a naturalized citizen of the United States as of the
date of the enactment of this Act and shall be furnished
by the Attorney General with a certificate of naturaliza-
tion.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4423
To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the authority of
probation officers and pretrial services officers to carry firearms.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 11, 2000
Mr. BARR of Georgia (for himself, Mr. DOOLITTLE, and Mr. COBLE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to
the authority of probation officers and pretrial services
officers to carry firearms.
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 ‘‘Probation Officers’
Protection Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. NEW AUTHORITY FOR PROBATION AND PRETRIAL
SERVICES OFFICERS.
(a) SECTION 3603 AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (9) of
section 3603 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(9) be authorized to carry firearms upon satis-
factorily completing any safety and proficiency train-
ing or testing proscribed by the Director of the Ad-
ministrative Office of the United States Courts;
and’’.
(b) SECTION 3154 AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (13) of
section 3154 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(13) be authorized to carry firearms upon sat-
isfactorily completing any safety and proficiency
training or testing proscribed by the Director of the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts.’’.
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