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the parents to make informed decisions re-
garding such students; and 
(iv) ensure that a student can con-
tinue to attend an eligible public charter 
school if the public charter school the stu-
dent was attending in the previous school 
year is no longer an eligible public charter 
school; 
(F) disseminating to public schools under 
the jurisdiction of the eligible entity, in a man-
ner consistent with section 444 of the General 
Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g) 
(commonly known as the ‘‘Family Educational 
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’’), the best 
practices learned by awarding subgrants to eli-
gible public charter schools under this Act, with 
particular emphasis on the best practices with 
respect to— 
(i) focusing on closing the achieve-
ment gap; and 
(ii) successfully serving the education 
needs of low-income students. 
(3) CHARTER
SCHOOL
INFORMATION.—The 
number of— 
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roe Memorial Foundation for use for the following pur-
poses: 
(1) Development of the reconstructed birthplace 
of the 5th President, associated farm buildings, and 
a visitor and education center at the James Monroe 
Birthplace in Westmoreland County, Virginia. 
(2) Continuing support of that facilities de-
scribed in paragraph (1), including the acquisition of 
land originally owned by the Monroe Family. 
(3) Supporting education programs about 
President James Monroe, the Monroe Doctrine, in-
cluding an online library. 
(4) Collecting and preserving artifacts and his-
torical items related to President Monroe, the Mon-
roe Doctrine, and his era which was known as ‘‘The 
Era of Good Feelings’’. 
(c) AUDITS.—The James Monroe Memorial Founda-
tion shall be subject to the audit requirements of section 
5134(f)(2) of title 31, United States Code, with regard 
to the amounts received by such Foundation under sub-
section (b). 
(d) LIMITATION.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 
no surcharge may be included with respect to the issuance 
under this Act of any coin during a calendar year if, as 
of the time of such issuance, the issuance of such coin 
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would result in the number of commemorative coin pro-
grams issued during such year to exceed the annual 2 
commemorative coin program issuance limitation under 
section 5112(m)(1) of title 31, United States Code (as in 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act). The Sec-
retary of the Treasury may issue guidance to carry out 
this subsection. 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 432 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow parents of murdered 
children to continue to claim the deduction for the personal exemption 
with respect to such child. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2009 
Mr. POE of Texas 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 par-
ents of murdered children to continue to claim the deduc-
tion for the personal exemption with respect to such 
child. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ALLOWANCE OF PERSONAL EXEMPTION FOR 
MURDERED CHILDREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section 152 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to other defi-
nitions and rules) is amended by redesignating paragraph 
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(7) as paragraph (8) and inserting after paragraph (6) 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
MURDERED
CHIL-
DREN.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Solely for purposes of 
determining the deduction under section 151(c), 
a child of the taxpayer who is determined by 
law enforcement authorities to have been the 
victim of a homicide (as determined under State 
law) committed by someone other than the tax-
payer— 
‘‘(i) shall be treated as meeting the 
requirement of subsection (c)(1)(B) with 
respect to the taxpayer for the applicable 
period, if such child had, for the taxable 
year which included the date of the death 
of such child, the same principal place of 
abode as the taxpayer for more than one- 
half of the portion of such year before the 
date of such death, and 
‘‘(ii) shall be treated as a qualifying 
relative of the taxpayer for the applicable 
period, if such child was (without regard to 
this paragraph) a qualifying relative of the 
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taxpayer for the portion of the taxable year 
before the date of such death. 
‘‘(B) APPLICABLE PERIOD.—For purposes 
of this paragraph, the term ‘applicable period’ 
means, with respect to any child of the tax-
payer, each taxable year of the taxpayer ending 
after the date of the death of such child and be-
ginning before the earlier of— 
‘‘(i) the date which is 5 years after 
the date of such death, or 
‘‘(ii) the date that such child would 
have attained the age of 18.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply with respect to deaths in taxable 
years ending after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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† HR 4337 EAS 
‘‘(II) SPECIAL RULE FOR NONCAL-
ENDAR YEAR TAXPAYERS.—In the case 
of any taxable year which does not 
begin and end in the same calendar 
year, if the post-December reported 
amount equals or exceeds the excess re-
ported amount for such taxable year, 
subclause (I) shall be applied by sub-
stituting 
‘post-December 
reported 
amount’ 
for 
‘aggregate 
reported 
amount’ 
and 
no 
excess 
reported 
amount shall be allocated to any divi-
dend paid on or before December 31 of 
such taxable year. 
‘‘(iv) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of 
this subparagraph— 
‘‘(I) REPORTED
EXEMPT-INTER-
EST DIVIDEND AMOUNT.—The term ‘re-
ported 
exempt-interest 
dividend 
amount’ means the amount reported to 
its shareholders under clause (i) as an 
exempt-interest dividend. 
‘‘(II) 
EXCESS
REPORTED 
AMOUNT.—The term ‘excess reported 
amount’ means the excess of the aggre-
SEC. 1025. ACRYLIC OR MODACRYLIC SYNTHETIC STAPLE 
FIBERS, NOT CARDED, COMBED, OR OTHER-
WISE PROCESSED FOR SPINNING, RAW WHITE 
(UNDYED). 
Subchapter II of chapter 99 is amended by inserting 
in numerical sequence the following new heading: 
‘‘ 
9902.40.15 
Acrylic staple fibers con-
taining 85 percent or more 
by weight of acrylonitrile 
units and 2 percent or more 
but not over 3 percent of 
water, raw white (undyed), 
crimped, with an average 
decitex of 1.1 (plus or minus 
10 percent) and fiber length 
of 38 mm (plus or minus 10 
percent) (provided for in sub-
heading 5503.30.00) .............
Free 
No change 
No change 
On or before 
12/31/2012
’’. 
SEC. 1026. CERTAIN SYNTHETIC STAPLE FIBERS THAT ARE 
NOT 
CARDED, 
COMBED, 
OR 
OTHERWISE 
PROCESSED FOR SPINNING, CONTAINING 85 
PERCENT 
OR 
MORE 
OF 
ACRYLONITRILE 
UNITS. 
Subchapter II of chapter 99 is amended by inserting 
in numerical sequence the following new heading: 
‘‘ 
9902.40.16 
Acrylic staple fibers 
(polyacrylonitrile staple) con-
taining 85 percent or more 
by weight of acrylonitrile 
units and 2 percent or more 
but not over 3 percent of 
water, non-pigmented (ecru), 
crimped, with an average 
decitex of 2.2 (plus or minus 
10 percent), and fiber length 
of 50 mm (plus or minus 10 
percent) (provided for in sub-
heading 5503.30.00) .............
Free 
No change 
No change 
On or before 
12/31/2012
’’.
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shall be treated as the same type of dividend as a capital 
gain dividend.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply to distributions in taxable years begin-
ning after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 305. RETURN OF CAPITAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF REGU-
LATED INVESTMENT COMPANIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 316 is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) CERTAIN
DISTRIBUTIONS
BY
REGULATED 
INVESTMENT
COMPANIES
IN
EXCESS
OF
EARNINGS 
AND PROFITS.—In the case of a regulated investment 
company that has a taxable year other than a cal-
endar year, if the distributions by the company with 
respect to any class of stock of such company for the 
taxable year exceed the company’s current and accu-
mulated earnings and profits which may be used for 
the payment of dividends on such class of stock, the 
company’s current earnings and profits shall, for 
purposes of subsection (a), be allocated first to dis-
tributions with respect to such class of stock made 
during the portion of the taxable year which precedes 
January 1.’’.
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this 
section shall apply to distributions made in taxable years 
beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 306. DISTRIBUTIONS IN REDEMPTION OF STOCK OF A 
REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPANY. 
(a) REDEMPTIONS TREATED AS EXCHANGES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 302 
is amended by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6) and by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) REDEMPTIONS BY CERTAIN REGULATED IN-
VESTMENT
COMPANIES.—Except to the extent pro-
vided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary, sub-
section (a) shall apply to any distribution in redemp-
tion of stock of a publicly offered regulated investment 
company (within the meaning of section 67(c)(2)(B)) 
if— 
‘‘(A) such redemption is upon the demand 
of the stockholder, and 
‘‘(B) such company issues only stock which 
is redeemable upon the demand of the stock-
holder.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) 
of section 302 is amended by striking ‘‘or (4)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(4), or (5)’’.
the time of granting or approval of the prospective 
relief, that correction of the violation will take longer 
than those time periods.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (e) by striking paragraphs (2), 
(3), and (4). 
SEC. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to all 
cases currently pending in Federal court and any such 
cases filed on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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(2) a recommendation or recommendations re-
garding how the Foundation should set priorities for 
mid-scale instrumentation across disciplines and 
Foundation research directorates; 
(3) a recommendation or recommendations re-
garding the appropriateness of expanding existing 
programs, including the Major Research Instrumenta-
tion program or the Major Research Equipment and 
Facilities Construction program, to support more in-
strumentation at the mid-scale; 
(4) a recommendation or recommendations re-
garding the need for and appropriateness of a new, 
Foundation-wide program or initiative in support of 
mid-scale 
instrumentation, 
including 
any 
rec-
ommendations regarding the administration of and 
budget for such a program or initiative and the ap-
propriate scope of instruments to be funded under 
such a program or initiative; and 
(5) any recommendation or recommendations re-
garding other options for supporting mid-scale re-
search instrumentation at the Foundation. 
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cured upon completion the review and approval 
of the plans and specifications, sufficiency of 
design, life safety, and code compliance by 
qualified, licensed, and independent architects 
and engineers. 
‘‘(f) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Funding appropriated for 
construction projects carried out under this title 
shall be included in funding agreements as annual or 
semiannual advance payments at the option of the 
Indian tribe. 
‘‘(2) ADVANCE
PAYMENTS.—The Secretary 
shall include all associated project contingency funds 
with each advance payment, and the Indian tribe 
shall be responsible for the management of such con-
tingency funds. 
‘‘(g) NEGOTIATIONS.—At the option of the Indian 
tribe, construction project funding proposals shall be nego-
tiated pursuant to the statutory process in section 105, 
and any resulting construction project agreement shall be 
incorporated into the funding agreement as addenda. 
‘‘(h) FEDERAL REVIEW AND VERIFICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall have— 
‘‘(A) at least 1 opportunity to review and 
verify, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that
rencies’ for ‘commodities’ therein)’’ after ‘‘subsection 
(b)(2)(A)’’. 
(2) Paragraph (4) of section 7704(d) is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘(determined by substituting ‘foreign 
currencies’ for ‘commodities’ therein)’’ after ‘‘section 
851(b)(2)(A)’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 202. SAVINGS PROVISIONS FOR FAILURES OF REGU-
LATED INVESTMENT COMPANIES TO SATISFY 
GROSS INCOME AND ASSET TESTS. 
(a) ASSET TEST.—Subsection (d) of section 851 is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘A corporation which meets’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—A 
corporation 
which 
meets’’, and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULES REGARDING FAILURE TO 
SATISFY
REQUIREMENTS.—If paragraph (1) does 
not preserve a corporation’s status as a regulated in-
vestment company for any particular quarter—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a regu-
lated investment company which elects the appli-
cation of this paragraph for any calendar 
year— 
‘‘(i) the distributed amount with re-
spect to such company for such calendar 
year shall be increased by the amount on 
which qualified estimated tax payments are 
made by such company during such cal-
endar year, and 
‘‘(ii) the distributed amount with re-
spect to such company for the following cal-
endar year shall be reduced by the amount 
of such increase. 
‘‘(B) QUALIFIED
ESTIMATED
TAX
PAY-
MENTS.—For purposes of this paragraph, the 
term ‘qualified estimated tax payments’ means, 
with respect to any calendar year, payments of 
estimated tax of a tax described in paragraph 
(1)(B) for any taxable year which begins (but 
does not end) in such calendar year.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this 
section shall apply to calendar years beginning after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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SEC. 404. INCREASE IN REQUIRED DISTRIBUTION OF CAP-
ITAL GAIN NET INCOME. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B) of section 
4982(b)(1) is amended by striking ‘‘98 percent’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘98.2 percent’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply to calendar years beginning after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
TITLE V—OTHER PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. REPEAL OF ASSESSABLE PENALTY WITH RESPECT 
TO LIABILITY FOR TAX OF REGULATED IN-
VESTMENT COMPANIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part I of subchapter B of chapter 
68 is amended by striking section 6697 (and by striking 
the item relating to such section in the table of sections of 
such part). 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
860 
is 
amended by striking subsection (j). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 502. MODIFICATION OF SALES LOAD BASIS DEFERRAL 
RULE FOR REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPA-
NIES. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Subparagraph (C) of section 
852(f)(1) is amended by striking ‘‘subsequently acquires’’
† HR 4337 EAS 
and inserting ‘‘acquires, during the period beginning on the 
date of the disposition referred to in subparagraph (B) and 
ending on January 31 of the calendar year following the 
calendar year that includes the date of such disposition,’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this 
section shall apply to charges incurred in taxable years be-
ginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Attest: 
Secretary.
‘‘(ee) A description of the 
most prevalent types of modifica-
tion in work activities or hours of 
participation that were included 
in the modified employability 
plans. 
‘‘(ff) A description of the 
qualifications of the staff who de-
termined whether individuals had 
a disability, of the staff who de-
termined that individuals needed 
modifications to their work re-
quirements, and of the staff who 
developed the modified employ-
ability plans. 
‘‘(II) REPORT BY SECRETARY.— 
The Secretary shall submit an annual 
report to Congress entitled ‘Efforts in 
State TANF Programs to Promote 
and Support Employment for Individ-
uals with Disabilities’ not later than 
July 31 of each fiscal year that in-
cludes information on State efforts to 
engage individuals with disabilities in 
work activities for the preceding fiscal 
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year. The report shall include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(aa) The number of indi-
viduals for whom each State has 
developed a modified employ-
ability plan. 
‘‘(bb) The types of physical 
and mental impairments that 
provided the basis for the dis-
ability determination, and wheth-
er the individual with the dis-
ability was an adult recipient or 
minor child head of household, a 
child, or a non-recipient family 
member. 
‘‘(cc) The types of modifica-
tions that States have included in 
modified employability plans. 
‘‘(dd) The extent to which 
individuals with a modified em-
ployability plan are participating 
in work activities. 
‘‘(ee) An analysis of the ex-
tent to which the option to estab-
lish such modified employability 
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plans was a factor in States’ 
achieving or not achieving the 
minimum 
participation 
rates 
under subsection (a) for the fis-
cal year. 
‘‘(iv) DEFINITIONS.— 
‘‘(I) DISABILITY.—For purposes 
of this subparagraph, the term ‘dis-
ability’ means a mental or physical 
impairment, 
including 
substance 
abuse or addiction, that— 
‘‘(aa) constitutes or results 
in a substantial impediment to 
employment; or 
‘‘(bb) 
substantially 
limits 
one or more major life activities. 
‘‘(II) MODIFIED
WORK
ACTIVI-
TIES.—For purposes of this subpara-
graph, the term ‘modified work activi-
ties’ means activities the State has de-
termined will help the recipient be-
come employable and which are not 
subject to and do not count against 
the 
limitations 
and 
requirements 
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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 835 
AN ACT 
To impose criminal sanctions on certain persons involved 
in international doping fraud conspiracies, to provide 
restitution for victims of such conspiracies, and to re-
quire sharing of information with the United States Anti- 
Doping Agency to assist its fight against doping, and 
for other purposes.
(1) abridges the rights of any owner of public 
or private property, including the right to refrain 
from participating in any plan, project, program, or 
activity conducted within the National Heritage 
Area; 
(2) requires any property owner to permit pub-
lic access (including access by Federal, State, Tribal, 
or local agencies) to the property of the property 
owner, or to modify public access or use of property 
of the property owner under any other Federal, 
State, Tribal, or local law; 
(3) alters any duly adopted land use regulation, 
approved land use plan, or other regulatory author-
ity of any Federal, State, Tribal, or local agency, or 
conveys any land use or other regulatory authority 
to any local coordinating entity, including develop-
ment and management of energy, water, or water-re-
lated infrastructure; 
(4) authorizes or implies the reservation or ap-
propriation of water or water rights; 
(5) diminishes the authority of the State to 
manage fish and wildlife, including the regulation of 
fishing and hunting within the National Heritage 
Area; or 
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(including capital gain dividends paid 
after the close of the taxable year de-
scribed in section 855). 
‘‘(III) 
POST-DECEMBER
RE-
PORTED
AMOUNT.—The term ‘post- 
December reported amount’ means 
the aggregate reported amount deter-
mined by taking into account only 
dividends paid after December 31 of 
the taxable year. 
‘‘(iv) ADJUSTMENT FOR DETERMINA-
TIONS.—If there is an increase in the ex-
cess described in subparagraph (A) for the 
taxable year which results from a deter-
mination (as defined in section 860(e)), 
the company may, subject to the limita-
tions of this subparagraph, increase the 
amount of capital gain dividends reported 
under clause (i). 
‘‘(v) SPECIAL RULE FOR LOSSES LATE 
IN THE CALENDAR YEAR.—For special rule 
for certain losses after October 31, see 
paragraph (8).’’. 
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