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‘‘(e) SCHOLARSHIPS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph 
(3), a scholarship provided to a student for a school 
year under a written contract under the Scholarship 
Program shall consist of payment to, or (in accord-
ance with paragraph (2)) on behalf of, the student 
of the amount of the tuition of the student in such 
school year. 
‘‘(2) PAYMENTS TO SCHOOLS.—The Secretary 
may contract with an institution of higher education 
described in subsection (b)(1)(A), in which a partici-
pant in the Scholarship Program is enrolled, for the 
payment to the educational institution of the 
amounts of tuition and other reasonable educational 
expenses described in paragraph (1). Payment to 
such an educational institution may be made without 
regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 
U.S.C. 529). 
‘‘(3) LIMITATION ON REVENUE INCREASE.—In 
no case shall the Secretary provide a scholarship 
under this section with respect to a student for a 
school year for an institution of higher education de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1)(A) if the percentage of 
revenues of the institution that such institution re-
ceives from tuition for the year (taking into account 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1412 
To increase public confidence in the justice system and address any 
unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2009 
Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. 
FUDGE, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. GRIJALVA, 
Ms. CLARKE, Mr. HINCHEY, and Mr. GUTIERREZ) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To increase public confidence in the justice system and ad-
dress any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in 
the criminal process. 
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 ‘‘Justice Integrity Act 
of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) the pursuit of justice requires the fair appli-
cation of the law; 
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(2) racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal 
process have contributed to a growing perception of 
bias in the criminal justice system; 
(3) there are a variety of possible causes of dis-
parities in criminal justice statistics among racial 
and ethnic groups and these causes may differ 
throughout the United States, including crime rates, 
racial discrimination, ethnic and cultural insen-
sitivity, or unconscious bias, as well as other factors; 
(4) the Nation would benefit from an under-
standing of all factors causing a disparate impact on 
the criminal justice system; and 
(5) programs that promote fairness will in-
crease public confidence in the criminal justice sys-
tem, increase public safety, and further the pursuit 
of justice. 
SEC. 3. PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
establish a pilot program in 10 United States districts in 
order to promote fairness, and the perception of fairness, 
in the Federal criminal justice system, and to determine 
whether legislation is required. 
(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.— 
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paragraph which is not a multiple of $100 shall be 
rounded to the next lowest multiple of $100.’’. 
(2) Subparagraph (A) of section 402(l)(4) of 
such Code (defining eligible retirement plan) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) ELIGIBLE RETIREMENT PLAN.—For 
purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘eligible re-
tirement plan’ means a plan described in— 
‘‘(i) subsection (c)(8)(B)(iii) (and is a 
governmental plan within the meaning of 
section 414(d)), 
‘‘(ii) subsection (c)(8)(B)(iv) (and is 
maintained by an employer which is a 
State, a political subdivision of a State, or 
an agency or instrumentality of a State or 
political subdivision of a State), 
‘‘(iii) subsection (c)(8)(B)(v), or 
‘‘(iv) subsection (c)(8)(B)(vi) (and is 
maintained by an employer which is a 
State, a political subdivision of a State, or 
an agency or instrumentality of a State or 
political subdivision of a State).’’. 
(3) Subparagraph (C) of section 402(l)(4) of 
such Code (as redesignated by this Act) is amend-
ed— 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1413 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain public employ-
ees a deduction for distributions from governmental plans for health 
and long-term care insurance, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2009 
Mr. CROWLEY (for himself and Mr. MCHUGH) 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 allow cer-
tain public employees a deduction for distributions from 
governmental plans for health and long-term care insur-
ance, 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 ‘‘Healthcare Enhance-
ment for Local Public Servants Act of 2009’’. 
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itoring to determine the nature and extent of any radiation 
released into the atmosphere shall be carried out by— 
(1) the Secretary of Energy, using— 
(A) all available monitoring systems of the 
Department of Energy located on or off the test 
site; and 
(B) any other complementary monitoring 
system located off the test site that is made 
available to the Secretary by the head of any 
other element of the Federal Government; and 
(2) the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, using one or more monitoring 
systems and in consultation with the head of any 
other element of the Federal Government with a 
monitoring system located off the test site. 
(b) DOE ASSESSMENT OF CONTAINMENT.—For each 
test, the Secretary of Energy shall assess and evaluate the 
containment of radiation, both before and after the test. 
(c) MONITORING STATIONS.—The Secretary of En-
ergy shall ensure that, not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, there shall be at least 
one monitoring station that is established and operational 
in each county of the State of Utah that has requested 
such a monitoring station as of that date. 
(d) EPA MONITORING.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The monitoring under sub-
section (a)(2) by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall use a combination of 
temporary ground sensors, permanent ground sen-
sors, and airborne sensors. 
(2) REAL-TIME MONITORING REQUIRED.—Any 
sensors required by paragraph (1) that operate by 
gathering air particulates shall have real-time moni-
toring capabilities. 
(3) PLACEMENT.—The Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall determine 
the locations for the sensors required by paragraph 
(1) in consultation with the Administrator of the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
the head of any other element of the Federal Gov-
ernment with a suitable monitoring system located 
off the test site, and the head of any other element 
of the Federal Government that the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency considers 
appropriate. The determinations shall be based on 
proximity to major agricultural zones, population 
centers, public water resources, and areas with high 
levels of fallout from previous tests. 
(e) PUBLIC NOTICE OF MONITORING DATA.—The 
Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental 
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(B) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as 
subparagraph (G); and 
(C) by adding after subparagraph (E) the 
following: 
‘‘(F) effective for the first full calendar 
year beginning after December 31, 2010, and 
for each calendar year thereafter, a Multilingual 
Services Expenses Report, which shall include— 
‘‘(i) a summary and analysis of the 
multilingual services accounting informa-
tion (as defined in section 904 of this title) 
prepared by each agency Chief Financial 
Officer under section 902(a)(6)(E) of this 
title; 
‘‘(ii) a description of any changes to 
the existing financial management struc-
ture of the Federal Government needed to 
establish an integrated individual agency 
accounting of all multilingual services (as 
defined in section 904 of this title) con-
ducted by each agency; and 
‘‘(iii) any other information the Direc-
tor considers appropriate to fully inform 
the Congress and the agency Chief Finan-
cial Officers regarding the accounting of 
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all multilingual services provided by the 
Federal Government; and’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 3517. Multilingual Services Accounting Guidelines. 
‘‘Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this section, the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall issue guidance that each agency 
Chief Financial Officer shall follow in compiling the multi-
lingual services accounting information required under 
section 902(a)(6)(E) of this title.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of chapter 35 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating 
to section 3516 the following: 
‘‘3517. Multilingual Services Accounting Guidelines.’’. 
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oped by a military department or defense agency for a 
major defense acquisition program are independent and 
whether their independence or lack thereof affects their 
ability to generate reliable cost estimates. 
SEC. 103. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR THE JOINT 
CAPABILITIES INTEGRATION AND DEVELOP-
MENT SYSTEM. 
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR PROGRAM.—The Secretary of 
Defense shall ensure that the Department of Defense de-
velops and implements a program to manage performance 
in establishing joint military requirements pursuant to 
section 181 of title 10, United States Code. 
(b) LEADERS.—The Secretary of Defense shall des-
ignate an officer identified or designated as a joint quali-
fied officer to serve as leader of a joint effort to develop 
the performance management program required by sub-
section (a). The Secretary shall also designate an officer 
from each Armed Force to serve as leader of the effort 
within the Armed Force concerned. Officers designated 
pursuant to this section shall have the seniority and au-
thority necessary to oversee and direct all personnel en-
gaged in establishing joint military requirements within 
the Joint Staff or within the Armed Force concerned. 
(c) MATTERS COVERED.—The program developed 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall:
(1) Measure the following in relation to each 
joint military requirement: 
(A) The time a requirements document 
takes to receive validation through the require-
ments process. 
(B) The quality of cost information associ-
ated with the requirement and the extent to 
which cost information was considered during 
the requirements process. 
(C) The extent to which the requirements 
process established a meaningful level of pri-
ority for the requirement. 
(D) The extent to which the requirements 
process considered trade-offs between cost, 
schedule, and performance objectives. 
(E) 
The 
quality 
of 
information 
on 
sustainment associated with the requirement 
and the extent to which sustainment informa-
tion was considered during the requirements 
process. 
(F) Such other matters as the Secretary 
shall determine appropriate. 
(2) Achieve, to the maximum extent practicable, 
the following outcomes in the requirements process:
I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1421 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide Medicaid coverage 
of drugs prescribed for certain research study child participants. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2009 
Mr. SHUSTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide 
Medicaid coverage of drugs prescribed for certain re-
search study child participants. 
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 ‘‘Nino’s Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MEDICAID COVERAGE OF DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR 
RESEARCH STUDY CHILD PARTICIPANTS. 
(a) MANDATORY COVERAGE
IF STATE PROVIDES 
DRUG COVERAGE.— 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1418 
To eliminate the exemption from State regulation for certain securities 
designated by national securities exchanges. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2009 
Mr. MEEKS of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To eliminate the exemption from State regulation for certain 
securities designated by national securities exchanges. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SCOPE OF EXEMPTION FROM STATE SECURI-
TIES REGULATION. 
Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 
U.S.C. 77r(b)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or the American Stock 
Exchange, or listed, or authorized for listing, on 
the National Market System of the Nasdaq 
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Stock Market (or any successor to such enti-
ties)’’ and inserting ‘‘, the American Stock Ex-
change or the Nasdaq Stock Market (or any 
successor to such entities)’’; and 
(B) by inserting before the semicolon the 
following: ‘‘, except that a security listed, or au-
thorized for listing, on the New York Stock Ex-
change, the American Stock Exchange or the 
Nasdaq Stock Market (or any successor to such 
entities) shall not be a covered security if the 
exchange adopts listing standards pursuant to 
section 19(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934 (15 U.S.C. 78s(b)) that designates a tier 
or segment of such securities as securities that 
are not covered securities for purposes of this 
section and such security is listed, or authorized 
for listing, on such tier or segment’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘covered’’ 
after ‘‘applicable to’’. 
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(A) Timeliness in delivering capability to 
the warfighter. 
(B) Mechanisms for controlling require-
ments creep. 
(C) Responsiveness to fact-of-life changes 
occurring after the approval of a requirements 
document, including changes to the threat envi-
ronment, the emergence of new capabilities, or 
changes in the resources estimated to procure 
or sustain a capability. 
(D) The development of the personnel 
skills, capacity, and training needed for an ef-
fective and efficient requirements process. 
(E) Such other outcomes as the Secretary 
shall determine appropriate. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION.—The program required by 
subsection (a) shall be developed and initially implemented 
not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act and shall apply to requirements documents enter-
ing the requirements process after the date of initial im-
plementation. 
(e) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the initial implementation of the program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the steps taken to develop
SEC. 2. SUNSET OF FEDERAL LAWS REQUIRING PENALTIES 
FOR WITHDRAWALS FROM TRANSACTION OR 
TIME ACCOUNTS. 
Any provision of any Federal law, other than the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes, or requires 
the imposition of, any penalty on any consumer for with-
drawing or transferring funds from any transaction ac-
count (as defined in section 19(b)(1)(C) of the Federal 
Reserve Act) or any savings or time deposit, and any regu-
lation prescribed under any such law, shall cease to be 
effective as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. SUNSET OF FEDERAL LAWS REQUIRING FINANCIAL 
INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE STATEMENTS OF 
ACCOUNTS EXCEPT AT THE REQUEST OF THE 
CONSUMER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the Truth in 
Lending Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the Truth 
in Savings Act, and any other provision of Federal law 
that requires a creditor, depository institution, or credit 
union to provide periodic statements of accounts, after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, no creditor, depository 
institution, or credit union shall be required to provide 
periodic statements of account to any customer unless the 
customer has notified the creditor, depository institution, 
or credit union that the customer elects to receive such 
statements. 
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(b) NOTICE
TO CONSUMERS
OF OPTIONS.—Each 
creditor, depository institution, or credit union shall estab-
lish a procedure for notifying customers of their right to 
elect to receive statements of account and the method for 
implementing such election. If the creditor, depository in-
stitution, or credit union has the capacity to offer state-
ments of account electronically, the creditor, depository in-
stitution, or credit union shall use the notification proce-
dure established under the preceding sentence to make the 
consumer aware of the existence of the option to receive 
an electronic statement. 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1423 
To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts 
received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the 
maximum amount of the exclusion. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2009 
Mr. STARK (for himself and Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross 
income for amounts received under qualified group legal 
services plans and to increase the maximum amount 
of the exclusion. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. EXCLUSION FOR AMOUNTS RECEIVED UNDER 
QUALIFIED GROUP LEGAL SERVICES PLANS 
RESTORED AND MADE PERMANENT. 
(a) INCREASE OF EXCLUSION.—Subsection (a) of 
section 120 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relat-
ing to exclusion by employee for contributions and legal 
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graphs (B), (C), and (D) of section 1902(gg)(1)’’ 
after ‘‘patients)’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by inserting ‘‘or 
subsection (a)’’ after ‘‘1902(aa)’’; and 
(4) in subsection (d), in the flush language fol-
lowing paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘for purposes of 
clause (4) of the first sentence of section 1905(b)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘for purposes of the first sentence of 
section 1905(b) (and, in the case of medical assist-
ance furnished to an individual described in section 
1902(aa), for purposes of clause (4) of such sen-
tence)’’. 
(c) NOTICE OF MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR RESEARCH 
STUDY CHILD PARTICIPANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, in consultation with 
the Director of the Institutes of Health and State 
Medicaid Directors, shall— 
(A) develop a written notice for child par-
ticipants in research studies (as defined in sec-
tion 1902(gg)(3) of the Social Security Act, as 
added by subsection (a)(2)(B)) conducted or 
funded (in whole or in part) by the National In-
stitutes of Health who are likely to eligible for 
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medical assistance for a drug, biological prod-
uct, or insulin prescribed for such participants 
as a result of participation in such a study (in-
cluding any such drug, product, or insulin that 
is self-administered) in accordance with para-
graph (10)(A)(i)(VIII) or (74) of section 
1902(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396a(a)) (as added by subsection (a)), of the 
availability of such assistance; and 
(B) establish procedures for making such 
notice available to the child participants 
through physicians participating in such re-
search studies or such other means as the Sec-
retary determines appropriate. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
year 2010 and each fiscal year thereafter such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this subsection. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section apply to medical assistance for items and serv-
ices furnished on or after the date of enactment of this 
Act, without regard to whether final regulations to carry 
out such amendments have been promulgated. 
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services provided by employer) is amended by striking the 
last sentence. 
(b) RESTORATION
AND PERMANENCE
OF EXCLU-
SION.—Section 120 of such Code (relating to amounts re-
ceived under qualified group legal services plans) is 
amended by striking subsection (e) and by redesignating 
subsection (f) as subsection (e). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2008. 
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