datamatters24/research-document-archive huggingface dataset:
(2) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘such
nonprofit organization,’’ after ‘‘such political sub-
division,’’.
(e) GRANTS
AND LOANS.—Section 7 of the
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102 Stat. 4554)
is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection
(j); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the follow-
ing;
‘‘(i) GRANTS AND LOANS.—The Commission may ad-
minister any grant or loan from amounts—
‘‘(1) appropriated to the Commission for the
purpose of providing a grant or loan; or
‘‘(2) donated or otherwise made available to the
Commission for the purpose of providing a grant or
loan.’’.
SEC. 6. DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION.
Section 8(b) of the Delaware and Lehigh National
Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102
Stat. 4556) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph
(1) by inserting ‘‘, cultural, natural, recreational, and
secenic’’ after ‘‘interpret the historic’’.
SEC. 7. TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION.
Section 9(a) of the Delaware and Lehigh National
Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102
Stat. 4556) is amended by striking ‘‘5 years after the date
of enactment of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘10 years after
the date of enactment of the Delaware and Lehigh Na-
tional Heritage Corridor Act Amendments of 1997’’.
SEC. 8. DUTIES OF OTHER FEDERAL ENTITIES.
Section 11 of the Delaware and Lehigh National Her-
itage Corridor Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102
Stat. 4557) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph
(1) by striking ‘‘the flow of the Canal or the natural’’ and
inserting ‘‘the historic, cultural, natural, recreational, or
scenic’’.
SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) COMMISSION.—Section 12(a) of the Delaware and
Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 (Public
Law 100–692; 102 Stat. 4558) is amended by striking
‘‘$350,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$650.000’’.
(b) MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN.—Section 12 of the
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Act of
1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102 Stat. 4558) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To implement the manage-
ment action plan created by the Commission, there
is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 1998 through 2007.
‘‘(2) 
LIMITATION
ON
EXPENDITURES.—
Amounts made available under paragraph (1) shall
not exceed 50 percent of the costs of implementing
the management action plan.’’
SEC. 10. LOCAL AUTHORITY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Cor-
ridor Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–692; 102 Stat. 4552)
is amended—
(1) by redesignating section 13 or section 14;
and
(2) by inserting after section 12 the following:
‘‘SEC. 13. LOCAL AUTHORITY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY.
‘‘The Commission shall not interfere with—
‘‘(1) the private property rights of any person;
or
‘‘(2) any local zoning ordinance or land use
plan of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any
political subdivision of Pennsylvania.’’.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2959
To provide a civil claim for individuals who are victims of crimes motivated
by actual or perceived race, color, gender, religion, national origin, eth-
nicity, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1993
Mr. NADLER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide a civil claim for individuals who are victims
of crimes motivated by actual or perceived race, color,
gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orienta-
tion, or physical or mental disability.
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 ‘‘Bias Crimes Com-
pensation Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. CIVIL RIGHTS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) bias-motivated crimes of violence constitute
crimes in violation of the victim’s right to be free
from discrimination on the basis of actual or per-
ceived race, color, gender, religion, national origin,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, or physical or mental
disability;
(2) State and Federal criminal laws do not ade-
quately protect against the bias element of bias-mo-
tivated crimes of violence, which separates these
crimes from acts of random violence, nor do those
laws adequately provide victims of bias-motivated
crimes of violence the opportunity to vindicate their
interests;
(3) existing bias and discrimination in the
criminal justice system often deprive victims of bias-
motivated crimes of violence of equal protection of
the laws and the redress to which they are entitled;
(4) bias-motivated crimes of violence have a
substantial adverse effect on interstate commerce, by
deterring potential victims from traveling interstate,
from engaging in employment in interstate business,
and from transacting with business, and in places
involved, in interstate commerce;
(5) bias-motivated crimes of violence have a
substantial adverse effect on interstate commerce, by
$500,000, 50 percent or more of the prof-
its or capital interests in the facilities to be
financed thereby (or in the entity owning
the facilities) are owned either by an In-
dian tribe, a subdivision thereof, a corpora-
tion chartered under section 17 of the In-
dian Reorganization Act of 1934 (25
U.S.C. 477) or section 3 of the Oklahoma
Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. 503), individual
enrolled members of an Indian Tribe, an
entity wholly-owned by any of the fore-
going, or any combination thereof.
‘‘(ii) EMPLOYMENT TEST.—It is rea-
sonably expected (at the time of issuance
of the obligations) that for each $100,000
of net proceeds of the issue at least 1 em-
ployee rendering services at the financed
facilities is an enrolled member of an In-
dian tribe or the spouse of an enrolled
member of an Indian tribe.
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section—
‘‘(A) INDIAN
TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian
tribe’ means any Indian tribe, band, nation,
pueblo, or other organized group or community,
$100,000, punitive damages, injunctive relief, declaratory
relief, or any combination thereof.
(d) LIMITATION, PROCEDURE, AND RULE OF CON-
STRUCTION.—
(1) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this section enti-
tles an individual to a claim under subsection (c) for
random acts of violence unrelated to bias or for acts
that cannot be demonstrated, by a preponderance of
the evidence, to be bias-motivated crimes of violence.
(2) NO PRIOR CRIMINAL ACTION.—Nothing in
this section requires a prior criminal complaint,
prosecution, or conviction to establish the necessary
elements of a claim under subsection (c).
(3) CONCURRENT JURISDICTION.—The Federal
and State courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction
over actions brought pursuant to this section.
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Neither section
1367 of title 28 of the United States Code nor sub-
section (c) of this section shall be construed, by rea-
son of a claim arising under such subsection, to con-
fer on the courts of the United States supplemental
jurisdiction of any State law claim seeking the estab-
lishment of a divorce, alimony, equitable distribution
of marital property, or child custody decree.
(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘bias-motivated’’ means committed
because of, on the basis of, and due to (at least in
part) an animus based on, actual or perceived race,
color, gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sex-
ual orientation, or physical or mental disability of
the victim;
(2) the term ‘‘crime of violence’’ means—
(A) an act or series of acts that would con-
stitute State or Federal offense of a kind de-
scribed in section 16 of title 18, United States
Code, and punishable by a maximum term of
imprisonment exceeding one year, but excludes
an offense against property that presents no se-
rious risk of physical or mental disability injury
to an individual; or
(B) one or more actions that would con-
stitute such offense but for the relationship be-
tween the person who takes such actions and
the individual against whom such actions are
taken;
whether or not such offense or such actions result in
criminal charges, prosecution, or conviction and
whether or not such actions were taken within the
United States or the special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States;
(3) the term ‘‘disability’’ has the meaning given
it in section 3(2) of the Americans With Disabilities
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102(2)); and
(4) the term ‘‘special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States’’ has the meaning
given such term in section 7 of title 18, United
States Code.
(f) LIMITATION ON REMOVAL.—Section 1445 of title
28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(e) A civil action in any State court arising under
section 2 of the Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 1993
may not be removed to any district court of the United
States.’’.
(g) AUTHORITY TO AWARD ATTORNEY’S FEE.—Sec-
tion 722(b) of the Revised Statutes of the United States
(42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is amended by inserting ‘‘section 2
of the Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 1993,’’ after
‘‘Public Law 92–318,’’.
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or activity on participants, schools, communities,
and youth served by the program or activity.
(3) MENTORING PROGRAM OF THE YEAR.—The
Attorney General shall, on an annual basis, based on
the most recent evaluation under this subsection and
such other criteria as the Attorney General shall es-
tablish by regulation—
(A) designate 1 program or activity as-
sisted under this Act as the ‘‘Juvenile
Mentoring Program of the Year’’; and
(B) publish notice of such designation in
the Federal Register.
(b) REPORTS.—
(1) GRANT RECIPIENTS.—Each entity receiving
a grant under this Act or under section 228B of the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5667e–2) (as amended by this Act)
shall submit to the evaluating organization entering
into the contract under subsection (a)(1), an annual
report regarding any program or activity assisted
under this Act or under section 228B of the Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
(42 U.S.C. 5667e–2) (as amended by this Act).
Each report under this paragraph shall be submitted
at such time, in such a manner, and shall be accom-
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2960
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
to clarify the preemption of State law by such title with respect to
causes of action for damages for personal or financial injury or wrongful
death resulting from failures to provide benefits under employee welfare
benefit plans providing health care benefits.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1997
Mr. NORWOOD (for himself, Mr. GANSKE, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr.
PAUL, and Mr. TOWNS) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Secu-
rity Act of 1974 to clarify the preemption of State law
by such title with respect to causes of action for damages
for personal or financial injury or wrongful death result-
ing from failures to provide benefits under employee wel-
fare benefit plans providing health care benefits.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
The Act may be cited as the ‘‘Responsibility in Man-
aged Care Act of 1997’’.
raising event for a State, district, or local committee 
of a political party, and shall not allow Federal can-
didates and officeholders to participate in or solicit 
funds at any other fundraising event where non-Fed-
eral funds are raised. 
SEC. 206. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in section 205, 
this title and the amendments made by this title shall take 
effect on the date that is 6 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
(b) TERMINATION OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION COM-
MISSION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of, or 
amendment made by, this Act, the members of the Federal 
Election Commission shall be removed from office on the 
date described in subsection (a). 
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SEC. 2. PRESERVATION AGAINST ERISA PREEMPTION OF
CERTAIN STATE CAUSES OF ACTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 514(b) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C.
1144(b)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (9) as para-
graph (10); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(9)(A) Subsection (a) shall not apply to any cause
of action to recover damages for personal or financial in-
jury or wrongful death against any person that provides
insurance or administrative services to or for an employee
welfare benefit plan maintained to provide health care ben-
efits.
‘‘(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to any cause
of action against an employer or other plan sponsor un-
less—
‘‘(i) the employer or other plan sponsor exer-
cised discretionary authority to review and make de-
cisions on claims for plan benefits, and
‘‘(ii) the exercise by such employer or other
plan sponsor of such authority resulted in personal
or financial injury or wrongful death.
‘‘(C) A person that provides insurance or administra-
tive services to or for an employee welfare benefit plan
shall not have a right of recovery or indemnity against
an employer or other plan sponsor for damages recovered
pursuant to a cause of action referred to in subparagraph
(A).’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsection (a) shall apply to causes of action arising on
or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2961
To permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to
enter into cooperative research and development agreements for environ-
mental protection.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1997
Mr. OLVER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Science
A BILL
To permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency to enter into cooperative research and develop-
ment agreements for environmental protection.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO COOPERATIVE RE-
SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS.
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency may, subject to section 2, enter into cooperative
research and development agreements with colleges and
universities, environmental protection agencies of the sev-
eral States, and nonprofit organizations to participate in
‘‘(A) to meet obligations to policyholders 
with respect to known claims and reasonably 
anticipated claims; or 
‘‘(B) to pay other obligations in the normal 
course of business. 
‘‘(7) COVERED LAWS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘covered 
laws’ means the laws, rules, regulations, agree-
ments, and orders governing the insurance busi-
ness pertaining to— 
‘‘(i) individual health insurance cov-
erage issued by a health insurance issuer; 
‘‘(ii) the offer, sale, rating (including 
medical 
underwriting), 
renewal, 
and 
issuance of individual health insurance cov-
erage to an individual; 
‘‘(iii) the provision to an individual in 
relation to individual health insurance cov-
erage of health care and insurance related 
services; 
‘‘(iv) the provision to an individual in 
relation to individual health insurance cov-
erage of management, operations, and in-
vestment activities of a health insurance 
issuer; and 
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doing business to determine the issuer’s finan-
cial condition, if— 
‘‘(i) the State insurance commissioner 
of the primary State has not done an ex-
amination within the period recommended 
by the National Association of Insurance 
Commissioners; and 
‘‘(ii) any such examination is con-
ducted in accordance with the examiners’ 
handbook of the National Association of 
Insurance Commissioners and is coordi-
nated to avoid unjustified duplication and 
unjustified repetition; 
‘‘(D) to comply with a lawful order 
issued— 
‘‘(i) in a delinquency proceeding com-
menced by the State insurance commis-
sioner if there has been a finding of finan-
cial impairment under subparagraph (C); 
or 
‘‘(ii) in a voluntary dissolution pro-
ceeding; 
‘‘(E) to comply with an injunction issued 
by a court of competent jurisdiction, upon a pe-
tition by the State insurance commissioner al-
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2964
To provide for reviews of criminal records of applicants for participation
in shared housing arrangements, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1997
Ms. SANCHEZ (for herself, Mr. TORRES, Mr. MARTINEZ, and Mr. SNYDER)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary
A BILL
To provide for reviews of criminal records of applicants for
participation in shared housing arrangements, 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 ‘‘Older and Disabled
Americans Protection Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. BACKGROUND CHECKS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A shared housing referral service,
as determined for the purpose of this section by the Attor-
ney General, may request the Attorney General to conduct
including, upon request, information on whether or
not specific drugs are covered.
‘‘(6) Use of voluntary or mandatory arbitration.
‘‘(7) Procedures for receiving emergency care
and out-of-network services when those services are
not available in the network and information on the
coverage of emergency services, including—
‘‘(A) the appropriate use of emergency
services, including use of the 911 telephone sys-
tem or its local equivalent in emergency situa-
tions and an explanation of what constitutes an
emergency situation;
‘‘(B) the process and procedures for ob-
taining emergency services; and
‘‘(C) the locations of (i) emergency depart-
ments, and (ii) other settings, in which physi-
cians and hospitals provide emergency services
and post-stabilization care.
‘‘(8) How to contact agencies that regulate the
plan or issuer.
‘‘(9) How to contact consumer assistance agen-
cies, such as ombudsmen programs.
‘‘(10) How to obtain covered services.
‘‘(11) How to receive preventive health services
and health education.
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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5440 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain regulated 
companies to elect out of the public utility property energy investment 
tax credit limitation in the case of solar energy property. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2016 
Mr. RICE of South Carolina 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 regulated companies to elect out of the public utility 
property energy investment tax credit limitation in the 
case of solar energy property. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ELECTION OUT OF PUBLIC UTILITY PROPERTY 
LIMITATION WITH RESPECT TO SOLAR EN-
ERGY PROPERTY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 50(d) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘At the election of a taxpayer with respect to 
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public utility property, paragraph (2) shall not apply to 
energy property (as defined in section 48(a)(3)) which 
uses solar energy and is placed in service by the taxpayer 
after December 31, 2015. Such election shall be made on 
a property-by-property basis on a timely filed return for 
the taxable year in which such property is placed in serv-
ice, and once made, may be revoked only with the consent 
of the Secretary. No such election may be made by the 
taxpayer if such election is required by a State or political 
subdivision thereof, by any agency or instrumentality of 
the United States, or by a public service or public utility 
commission or other similar body of any State or political 
subdivision thereof.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to property placed in service after 
December 31, 2015. 
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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5441 
To prohibit the National Endowment for the Arts to use funds to make 
grants for Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2016 
Mr. SALMON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To prohibit the National Endowment for the Arts to use 
funds to make grants for Literature Fellowships: Trans-
lation Projects. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS BY THE 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FOR 
GRANTS FOR LITERATURE FELLOWSHIPS: 
TRANSLATION PROJECTS. 
No funds available to the National Endowment for 
the Arts may be used to make grants for Literature Fel-
lowships: Translation Projects. 
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2965
To reduce the amount of the annual contribution of the United States to
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1997
Mr. SANDLIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To reduce the amount of the annual contribution of the
United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Security Investment program.
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 ‘‘NATO Infrastructure
Fair Share Act’’.
SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
SECURITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM.
Section 2806 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (c), the
amount of the United States’ contributions for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment pro-
gram may not exceed $140,000,000 during each of fiscal
years 1999 through 2001.’’.
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