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(7) 1 additional bankruptcy judgeship for the 
southern district of Ohio. 
(b) VACANCIES.— 
(1) DISTRICTS WITH SINGLE APPOINTMENTS.— 
Except as provided in paragraph (2), the first va-
cancy occurring in the office of bankruptcy judge in 
each of the judicial districts set forth in subsection 
(a)— 
(A) occurring 5 years or more after the ap-
pointment date of the bankruptcy judge ap-
pointed under subsection (a) to such office, and 
(B) resulting from the death, retirement, 
resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge, 
shall not be filled. 
(2) MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA.—The 1st 
and 2d vacancies in the office of bankruptcy judge 
in the middle district of Florida— 
(A) occurring 5 years or more after the re-
spective 1st and 2d appointment dates of the 
bankruptcy judges appointed under subsection 
(a)(2), and 
(B) resulting from the death, retirement, 
resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge, 
shall not be filled.
(c) 
ELIGIBILITY
FOR
SUBSEQUENT
APPOINT-
MENTS.—A judge holding office in any of the districts 
enumerated in subsection (a) shall, at the expiration of 
the term of the judge (other than by reason of paragraph 
(1)(B) or (2)(B) of subsection (b)) be eligible for re-
appointment as a bankruptcy judge in that district. 
SEC. 204. CONVERSION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY BANK-
RUPTCY JUDGESHIPS. 
(a) JUDGESHIPS AUTHORIZED BY PUBLIC LAW 102– 
361.—The following temporary bankruptcy judgeships au-
thorized by the following paragraphs of section 3(a) of 
Public Law 102–361, as amended by section 307 of Public 
Law 104–317 (28 U.S.C. 152 note), are converted to per-
manent bankruptcy judgeships under section 152(a)(2) of 
title 28, United States Code: 
(1) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the district of Delaware authorized by paragraph 
(3). 
(2) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the southern district of Illinois authorized by para-
graph (4). 
(3) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the district of Puerto Rico authorized by paragraph 
(7).
(b) JUDGESHIPS AUTHORIZED BY PUBLIC LAW 109– 
8.—The following temporary bankruptcy judgeships au-
thorized by the following subparagraphs of section 
1223(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Con-
sumer Protection Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–8), are 
converted to permanent bankruptcy judgeships under sec-
tion 152(a)(2) of title 28, United States Code: 
(1) The 4 temporary bankruptcy judgeships for 
the district of Delaware authorized by subparagraph 
(C). 
(2) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the southern district of Georgia authorized by sub-
paragraph (E). 
(3) One of the 3 temporary bankruptcy judge-
ships for the district of Maryland authorized by sub-
paragraph (F). 
(4) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the eastern district of Michigan authorized by sub-
paragraph (G). 
(5) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the district of New Jersey authorized by subpara-
graph (I). 
(6) The temporary bankruptcy judgeship for 
the northern district of New York authorized by sub-
paragraph (K).
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3914 
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2 Benzylthio-nicotinic acid. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 
Mr. LAHOOD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2 Benzylthio-nicotinic 
acid. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. 2 BENZYLTHIO-NICOTINIC ACID. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 99 of 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is 
amended by inserting in numerical sequence the following 
new heading: 
‘‘ 
9902.05.70 
2 Benzylthio-nicotinic acid 
(CAS No. 112811–90–2) 
provided for in subheading 
2930.90.4950) .....................
Free 
No change 
No change 
On or before 
12/31/2009 
’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) applies to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
Æ
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4264 
AN ACT 
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs spinal cord 
injury center in Tampa, Florida, as the ‘‘Michael Bili-
rakis Department of Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Injury 
Center’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3293
AN ACT
To amend the law that authorized the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial to authorize the placement within the site of
the memorial of a plaque to honor those Vietnam vet-
erans who died after their service in the Vietnam war,
but as a direct result of that service.
the sale of any securities issued under chapter 31 of title 
31, United States Code, and the purposes for which secu-
rities may be issued under such chapter are extended to 
include any purchase of such Trust Fund obligations 
under this subsection. 
SEC. 5. APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is hereby appropriated to the Trust Fund an 
amount sufficient to pay to the general fund of the Treas-
ury the difference between— 
(1) the market value of the outstanding repay-
able advances, plus accrued interest, and 
(2) the proceeds from the obligations issued by 
the Trust Fund to the Secretary of the Treasury 
under section 4(a)(1). 
SEC. 6. PREPAYMENT OF TRUST FUND OBLIGATIONS. 
The Trust Fund is authorized to repay any obligation 
issued to the Secretary of the Treasury under subsections 
(a)(1) and (b) of section 4 before its maturity date by pay-
ing a prepayment price that would, if the obligation being 
prepaid (including all unpaid interest accrued thereon 
through the date of prepayment) were purchased by a 
third party and held to the maturity date of such obliga-
tion, produce a yield to the third-party purchaser for the 
period from the date of purchase to the maturity date of 
such obligation substantially equal to the Treasury yield
on outstanding marketable obligations of the United 
States having a comparable maturity to this period. 
SEC. 7. EXTENSION OF EXCISE TAX LEVELS. 
Paragraph (2) of section 4121(e) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to reduction in amount of 
tax) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) 
TEMPORARY
INCREASE
TERMINATION 
DATE.—For purposes of paragraph (1), the tem-
porary increase termination date is the first January 
1 following a determination by the Secretary that 
there are— 
‘‘(A) no outstanding obligations of the 
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund held by the 
Secretary; and 
‘‘(B) no unpaid interest on such obliga-
tions.’’. 
Æ
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3313
AN ACT
To amend section 119 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act to reauthorize the program for
Long Island Sound, and for other purposes.
which it would have been submitted had this title 
been in full force and effect at the time that the ap-
peal or other proceeding was filed with the court of 
appeals. 
SEC. 311. TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT OF CIRCUIT JUDGES 
AMONG CIRCUITS. 
Section 291 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) The chief judge of the Ninth Circuit may, in the 
public interest and upon request by the chief judge of the 
Twelfth Circuit, designate and assign temporarily any cir-
cuit judge of the Ninth Circuit to act as circuit judge in 
the Twelfth Circuit. 
‘‘(d) The chief judge of the Twelfth Circuit may, in 
the public interest and upon request by the chief judge 
of the Ninth Circuit, designate and assign temporarily any 
circuit judge of the Twelfth Circuit to act as circuit judge 
in the Ninth Circuit.’’. 
SEC. 312. TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT OF DISTRICT JUDGES 
AMONG CIRCUITS. 
Section 292 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) The chief judge of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may in the public interest—
HR 4519 RFS 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘State High Risk Pool 
Funding Extension Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR OPERATION OF 
STATE 
HIGH 
RISK 
HEALTH 
INSURANCE 
POOLS. 
Section 2745 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 300gg–45) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 2745. RELIEF FOR HIGH RISK POOLS. 
‘‘(a) SEED GRANTS TO STATES.—The Secretary shall 
provide from the funds appropriated under subsection 
(d)(1)(A) a grant of up to $1,000,000 to each State that 
has not created a qualified high risk pool as of the date 
of enactment of the State High Risk Pool Funding Exten-
sion Act of 2005 for the State’s costs of creation and ini-
tial operation of such a pool. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS FOR OPERATIONAL LOSSES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a State that 
has established a qualified high risk pool that— 
‘‘(A) restricts premiums charged under the 
pool to no more than 200 percent of the pre-
mium for applicable standard risk rates; 
‘‘(B) offers a choice of two or more cov-
erage options through the pool; and 
‘‘(C) has in effect a mechanism reasonably 
designed to ensure continued funding of losses
‘‘(1) upon request by the chief judge of the 
Twelfth Circuit, designate and assign 1 or more dis-
trict judges within the Ninth Circuit to sit upon the 
Court of Appeals of the Twelfth Circuit, or a divi-
sion thereof, whenever the business of that court so 
requires; and 
‘‘(2) designate and assign temporarily any dis-
trict judge within the Ninth Circuit to hold a district 
court in any district within the Twelfth Circuit. 
‘‘(g) The chief judge of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Twelfth Circuit may in the public inter-
est— 
‘‘(1) upon request by the chief judge of the 
Ninth Circuit, designate and assign 1 or more dis-
trict judges within the Twelfth Circuit to sit upon 
the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, or a divi-
sion thereof, whenever the business of that court so 
requires; and 
‘‘(2) designate and assign temporarily any dis-
trict judge within the Twelfth Circuit to hold a dis-
trict court in any district within the Ninth Circuit. 
‘‘(h) Any designations or assignments under sub-
section (f) or (g) shall be in conformity with the rules or 
orders of the court of appeals of, or the district within,
as applicable, the circuit to which the judge is designated 
or assigned.’’. 
SEC. 313. ADMINISTRATION. 
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit as con-
stituted on the day before the effective date of this title 
may take such administrative action as may be required 
to carry out this title and the amendments made by this 
title. Such court shall cease to exist for administrative pur-
poses 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 314. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as provided in section 304(c), this title and 
the amendments made by this title shall take effect 12 
months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 401. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for each of 
fiscal years 2006 through 2009 such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this Act, including such sums as may 
be necessary to provide appropriate space and facilities for 
the judicial positions created by this Act. Funds appro-
priated pursuant to this section in any fiscal year shall 
remain available until expended. 
Æ
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Medicare 
Seniors from being Confused due to Abusive Marketing 
(Prevent Medicare SCAMs) Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. STRICTER PENALTIES FOR MA–PD PLANS AND 
MEDICARE 
PRESCRIPTION 
DRUG 
PLANS 
THAT VIOLATE MARKETING REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 1857(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395w–27(g)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) DETERMINATIONS
RELATED
TO
VIOLA-
TIONS
OF
MARKETING
REQUIREMENTS
OF
MA–PD 
PLANS AND PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLANS.—For pur-
poses of paragraphs (2) and (3), in the case that the 
Secretary makes a determination under paragraph 
(1)(E)(ii) or subsection (c)(2) because an MA–PD 
plan under this part or a prescription drug plan 
under part D is in violation of an applicable require-
ment relating to marketing and such a violation in-
volves mail, phone calls, emails, or pieces of other 
marketing material or communication specified by 
the Secretary, each piece of mail, each phone call, 
each email, and each piece of other marketing mate-
rial or communication involved shall represent a sep-
arate determination of such a violation.’’.
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 391 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey the remaining water supply 
storage allocation in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional 
Water Association. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2005 
Mr. LEACH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey the remaining 
water supply storage allocation in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, 
to the Rathbun Regional Water Association. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. RATHBUN LAKE, IOWA. 
(a) CONVEYANCE.—The Secretary of the Army shall 
convey the remaining water supply storage allocation in 
Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water As-
sociation (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Water Asso-
ciation’’).
(b) CONSTRUCTION
OF VISITORS CENTER COM-
PLEX.—Notwithstanding the Water Supply Act of 1958 
(43 U.S.C. 390b), the Water Association shall pay for the 
water supply storage allocation to be conveyed under sub-
section (a) by constructing a regional lighthouse visitors 
center complex on Federal lands at Rathbun Lake. 
(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Before conveying the 
water supply storage allocation under subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the Water 
Association under which the Water Association shall agree 
to— 
(1) in accordance with designs approved by the 
Chief of Engineers, construct a visitors center com-
plex that has a value equal to or greater than the 
amount that otherwise would be paid to the Federal 
Government for the costs of the water supply stor-
age under the Water Supply Act of 1958 (43 U.S.C. 
390b); 
(2) be responsible for operating and maintain-
ing the visitors center complex; 
(3) pay all operation and maintenance costs al-
located to the water supply storage space; 
(4) use any revenues generated at the visitors 
center complex that are above those required to op-
erate and maintain or improve the complex to under-
take, subject to the approval of the Chief of Engi-
neers, activities that will improve the quality of the 
environment in the Rathbun Lake watershed area; 
and 
(5) such other terms and conditions as the Sec-
retary considers necessary to protect the interests of 
the United States. 
Æ
(B) 2 additional circuit judges for the ninth 
circuit court of appeals, whose official duty sta-
tion shall be in California. 
(2) VACANCIES.— 
(A) EIGHTH CIRCUIT.—The first vacancy in 
the office of circuit judge in the eighth circuit 
court of appeals, occurring 10 years or more 
after the confirmation date of the judge named to 
fill the circuit judgeship created in that circuit 
by paragraph (1)(A) shall not be filled. 
(B) NINTH CIRCUIT.—The first 2 vacancies 
in the office of circuit judge in the ninth circuit 
court of appeals, occurring 10 years or more 
after judges are first confirmed to fill both tem-
porary circuit judgeships created by paragraph 
(1)(B) shall not be filled. 
(c) TABLE OF JUDGESHIPS.—In order that the table 
contained in section 44 of title 28, United States Code, will, 
with respect to each judicial circuit, reflect the changes in 
the total number of permanent circuit judgeships authorized 
under subsection (a) of this section, such table is amended 
to read as follows: 
Number of 
‘‘Circuits 
Judges 
District of Columbia ..........................................................................
First ....................................................................................................
Second .................................................................................................
Third ...................................................................................................
Fourth .................................................................................................
SEC. 3. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF MEDICARE PRESCRIP-
TION DRUG PLANS AND MA–PD PLANS THAT 
HABITUALLY RECEIVE INTERMEDIATE SANC-
TIONS. 
Section 1860D–4(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 13953– 
104(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF MEDICARE PRE-
SCRIPTION DRUG PLANS AND MA–PD PLANS WITH 
HABITUAL VIOLATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For 2008 and each 
succeeding year, not later than the notice and 
posting date described in subparagraph (C) for 
such a year, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) provide written notice to each 
part D eligible individual of the prescrip-
tion drug habitual sanctions information 
described in subparagraph (B); and 
‘‘(ii) post such information on the of-
ficial public Internet site of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services and 
the official public Internet site of the Cen-
ters of Medicare & Medicaid Services. 
‘‘(B) 
PRESCRIPTION
DRUG
HABITUAL 
SANCTIONS
INFORMATION.—For purposes of 
subparagraph (A), the prescription drug habit-
347 
Bank under this section, the Director shall notify the Bank 
of its determination and the facts and circumstances upon 
which such determination is based. The Bank may contest 
that determination in a hearing before the Director, in 
which all issues shall be determined on the record pursuant 
to section 554 of title 5, United States Code.’’. 
SEC. 
1215. 
STUDY 
AND 
REPORT 
TO 
CONGRESS 
ON 
SECURITIZATION OF ACQUIRED MEMBER AS-
SETS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Director shall conduct a study on 
securitization of home mortgage loans purchased or to be 
purchased from member financial institutions under the 
Acquired Member Assets programs. In conducting the study, 
the Director shall establish a process for the formal submis-
sion of comments. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study shall encompass— 
(1) the benefits and risks associated with 
securitization of Acquired Member Assets; 
(2) the potential impact of securitization upon 
liquidity in the mortgage and broader credit markets; 
(3) the ability of the Federal Home Loan Bank 
or Banks in question to manage the risks associated 
with such a program;
the enactment of this Act in taxable years ending after 
such date. 
Æ
(A) by inserting ‘‘article III;’’ after ‘‘section 
9, clauses 2 and 3;’’ and 
(B) by striking ‘‘That all offenses against 
the laws of the United States’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘section 22(b) of this Act or’’ and 
inserting ‘‘That all offenses against the laws of 
the Virgin Islands which are prosecuted’’. 
(3) JURISDICTION.—Section 21 of the Revised 
Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1611) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 21. JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE VIRGIN 
ISLANDS. 
‘‘(a) JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE VIRGIN 
ISLANDS.—The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall 
be vested in such trial and appellate courts as may have 
been or may hereafter be established by local law. The local 
courts of the Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction over all 
causes of action in the Virgin Islands over which any court 
established by the Constitution and laws of the United 
States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. 
‘‘(b) PRACTICE
AND PROCEDURE.—The rules gov-
erning the practice and procedure of the courts established 
by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and 
duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds,
and the times and places of holding court shall be governed 
by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts.’’. 
(4) INCOME TAX MATTERS.—Section 22 of the 
Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 
1612) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 22. JURISDICTION OVER INCOME TAX MATTERS. 
‘‘The United States District Court for the District of 
the Virgin Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all 
criminal and civil proceedings in the Virgin Islands with 
respect to the income tax laws applicable to the Virgin Is-
lands, except the ancillary laws relating to the income tax 
enacted by the legislature of the Virgin Islands. Any act 
or failure to act with respect to the income tax laws appli-
cable to the Virgin Islands which would constitute a crimi-
nal offense described in chapter 75 of subtitle F of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986 shall constitute an offense against 
the Government of the Virgin Islands and may be pros-
ecuted in the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands 
by the appropriate officers thereof in the United States Dis-
trict Court for the District of the Virgin Islands without 
the request or consent of the United States attorney for the 
Virgin Islands.’’. 
(5) APPELLATE JURISDICTION.—Section 23A of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 
U.S.C. 1613a) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘District Court of the Vir-
gin Islands’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘United States District Court for the District of 
the Virgin Islands’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘pursuant 
to section 24(a) of this Act: Provided, That no 
more than one of them may be a judge of a court 
established by local law.’’ and inserting ‘‘pursu-
ant to chapter 13 of title 28, United States Code, 
or a recalled senior judge of the former District 
Court of the Virgin Islands. The chief judge of 
the United States Court of Appeals for the Third 
Circuit may assign to the appellate division a 
judge of a court of record of the Virgin Islands, 
except that no more than 1 of the judges sitting 
in the appellate division at any session may be 
a judge of a court established by local law.’’. 
(r) ADDITIONAL REFERENCES.—Any reference in any 
provision of law to the ‘‘District Court of the Virgin Is-
lands’’ shall, on and after the effective date of this section, 
be deemed to be a reference to the United States District 
Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. 
(s) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall take effect at the end of 
the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment