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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3699
AN ACT
To revise certain grants for continuum of care
assistance for homeless individual and families.
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3699
AN ACT
To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance
for homeless individual and families.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN HOMELESS ASSIST-
ANCE GRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the No-
tice of Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Home-
less Assistance Programs for fiscal year 2001, or any ac-
tion taken in furtherance of such Notice, the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development shall not award a
grant pursuant to such Notice to Liberty Center for the
Homeless Incorporated in excess of $459,600. If an award
has been made to such Center in excess of such amount
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall modify the award and distribute the amounts in ex-
cess of $459,600 to other applicants from the Jackson-
ville, Florida, Continuum of Care in the order listed in
the project priority chart contained in their application.
Passed the House of Representatives February 12,
2002.
Attest:
Clerk.
H. R. 3699
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
An Act
To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance for homeless individual
and families.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 
1. 
TREATMENT 
OF 
CERTAIN 
HOMELESS 
ASSISTANCE
GRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Notice of
Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance
Programs for fiscal year 2001, or any action taken in furtherance
of such Notice, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
shall not award a grant pursuant to such Notice to Liberty Center
for the Homeless Incorporated in excess of $459,600. If an award
has been made to such Center in excess of such amount before
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall modify
the award and distribute the amounts in excess of $459,600 to
other applicants from the Jacksonville, Florida, Continuum of Care
in the order listed in the project priority chart contained in their
application.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3699
To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance for homeless
individual and families.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Mr. CRENSHAW (for himself and Ms. BROWN of Florida) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance
for homeless individual and families.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN HOMELESS ASSIST-
ANCE GRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the No-
tice of Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Home-
less Assistance Programs for fiscal year 2001, or any ac-
tion taken in furtherance of such Notice, the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development shall not award a
grant pursuant to such Notice to Liberty Center for the
Homeless Incorporated in excess of $459,600. If an award
has been made to such Center in excess of such amount
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall modify the award and distribute the amounts in ex-
cess of $459,600 to other applicants from the Jackson-
ville, Florida, Continuum of Care in the order listed in
the project priority chart contained in their application.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3699
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY 13, 2002
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs
AN ACT
To revise certain grants for continuum of care assistance
for homeless individual and families.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
HR 3699 RFS
SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN HOMELESS ASSIST-
ANCE GRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the No-
tice of Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Home-
less Assistance Programs for fiscal year 2001, or any ac-
tion taken in furtherance of such Notice, the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development shall not award a
grant pursuant to such Notice to Liberty Center for the
Homeless Incorporated in excess of $459,600. If an award
has been made to such Center in excess of such amount
before the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall modify the award and distribute the amounts in ex-
cess of $459,600 to other applicants from the Jackson-
ville, Florida, Continuum of Care in the order listed in
the project priority chart contained in their application.
Passed the House of Representatives February 12,
2002.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 369
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for
elementary and secondary school teachers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 31, 2001
Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. BAKER, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. BISHOP,
Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. ISAKSON, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. MILLER of Florida,
Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. SCHAFFER, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. UDALL of New
Mexico, and Mr. UPTON) 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
a tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers.
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 ‘‘Teacher Tax Cut Act
of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR TEACHERS OF ELEMENTARY OR SEC-
ONDARY SCHOOLS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart A of part IV of sub-
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (relating to nonrefundable personal credits) is
amended by inserting after section 25A the following new
section:
‘‘SEC. 25B. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACH-
ERS.
‘‘(a) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT.—In the case of an eli-
gible individual, there shall be allowed as a credit against
the tax imposed by this chapter for a taxable year an
amount equal to $1,000.
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in
subparagraph (B), for purposes of subsection
(a), the term ‘eligible individual’ means an indi-
vidual who—
‘‘(i) is a teacher in an elementary or
secondary school, and
‘‘(ii) is employed on a full-time basis
for an academic year ending during the
taxable year.
‘‘(B) 
EXCLUDED
INDIVIDUALS.—Such
term does not include an individual who is em-
ployed, on a full-time basis for such academic
year, as other staff, as that term is defined in
section 14101(20) of the Elementary and Sec-
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3700
To designate the Federal building located at 5130 West North Avenue in
Chicago, Illinois, as the ‘‘Lenora Stewart Federal Building’’.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois (for himself and Mr. RUSH) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To designate the Federal building located at 5130 West
North Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the ‘‘Lenora Stew-
art Federal Building’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
The Federal building located at 5130 West North Av-
enue in Chicago, Illinois, shall be known and designated
as the ‘‘Lenora Stewart Federal Building’’.
SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document,
paper, or other record of the United States to the Federal
building referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be
a reference to the ‘‘Lenora Stewart Federal Building’’.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3702
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit
against income tax for increasing employment.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Ms. HART 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 em-
ployers a credit against income tax for increasing em-
ployment.
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 ‘‘Job Creation Tax
Credit Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. CREDIT FOR INCREASING EMPLOYMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart D of part IV of sub-
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (relating to business related credits) is amended by
adding at the end the following new section:
‘‘SEC. 45G. CREDIT FOR INCREASING EMPLOYMENT.
‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.—For purposes of section 38,
the increased employment credit for any taxable year shall
be an amount equal to 50 percent of the excess of—
‘‘(1) the aggregate unemployment insurance
wages paid during the calendar year ending during
such taxable year, over
‘‘(2) 102 percent of the aggregate unemploy-
ment insurance wages paid during the preceding cal-
endar year.
‘‘(b) MINIMUM PRECEDING YEAR WAGES.—For pur-
poses of determining the amount of the credit under sub-
section (a) with respect to any calendar year, the amount
described in subsection (a)(2) shall be deemed to be not
less than 50 percent of the amount of such wages paid
during such preceding calendar year.
‘‘(c) TOTAL WAGES MUST INCREASE.—The amount
of the credit determined under this section for any taxable
year shall not exceed the amount which would be deter-
mined for such year under subsection (a) (without regard
to subsection (b)) if—
‘‘(1) the aggregate amounts taken into account
as unemployment insurance wages were determined
without any dollar limitation, and
‘‘(2) ‘105 percent’ were substituted for ‘102
percent’ in subsection (a).
‘‘(I) The sufficiency of all relevant scientific in-
formation and assumptions in the petition relating
to the taxonomy, population models, and supportive
biological and ecological information regarding the
species that is the subject of the petition.
‘‘(II) Whether the methodology and analysis
supporting the petition meet the standards of the
academic and scientific community.
‘‘(III) Whether the petition is supported by
clear and convincing evidence/provides clear and con-
vincing evidence that the petitioned action may be
warranted? see section 4(b)(3)(B) of ESA.
‘‘(IV) Whether the review board concurs in the
finding of the Secretary under paragraph (3)(A).
‘‘(B)(i) If, within 30 days after the Secretary pub-
lishes a finding under paragraph (3)(B)(ii) or (iii), any
person submits to the Secretary in writing a request for
an independent scientific review of the data upon which
such finding is based, the Secretary shall appoint and con-
vene an independent review board to conduct such review.
‘‘(ii) Within 90 days after the date the Secretary con-
venes the independent review board, the board shall pro-
vide to the Secretary its findings regarding the following:
‘‘(I) The sufficiency of all relevant scientific in-
formation and assumptions that are the basis for the
‘‘(d) $100,000 PER YEAR LIMITATION ON CREDIT.—
The amount of the credit determined under this section
for any employer with respect to any calendar year shall
not exceed $100,000.
‘‘(e) UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE
WAGES.—For
purposes of this section, the term ‘unemployment insur-
ance wages’ has the meaning given to the term ‘wages’
by section 3306(b).
‘‘(f) SPECIAL RULES.—Rules similar to the following
rules shall apply for purposes of this section:
‘‘(1) Section 51(f) (relating to remuneration
must be for trade or business employment).
‘‘(2) Section 51(h)(1) (relating to special rules
for agricultural labor and railway labor).
‘‘(3) Section 52 (relating to special rules for
work opportunity credit).
‘‘(4) Section 41(f) (relating to adjustments for
certain acquisitions, etc.).
‘‘(g) OTHER SPECIAL RULES.—
‘‘(1) CHANGE
IN
STATUS
FROM
SELF-EM-
PLOYED TO EMPLOYEE.—If—
‘‘(A) during any calendar year an indi-
vidual has net earnings from self-employment
(as defined in section 1402(a)) which are attrib-
utable to a trade or business, and
‘‘(B) for any portion of the succeeding cal-
endar year such individual is an employee of
such trade or business,
then, for purposes of determining the credit allow-
able for a taxable year beginning in such succeeding
calendar year, the employer’s aggregate unemploy-
ment insurance wages for the calendar year pre-
ceding the calendar year referred to in paragraph
(1) shall be increased by an amount equal to so
much of the net earnings referred to in subpara-
graph (A) as does not exceed $7,000.
‘‘(2) $50,000 LIMITATION
IN
THE
CASE
OF
MARRIED
INDIVIDUALS
FILING
SEPARATE
RE-
TURNS.—In the case of a husband or wife who files
a separate return, the limitation under subsection
(d) shall be $50,000 in lieu of $100,000. This sub-
section shall not apply if the spouse of the taxpayer
has no interest in a trade or business for the taxable
year of such spouse which ends within or with the
taxpayer’s taxable year.’’.
(b) DENIAL OF DOUBLE BENEFIT.—Subsection (a)
of section 280C of such Code is amended by inserting
‘‘45G(a),’’ after ‘‘45A(a),’’.
(c) CREDIT TREATED AS BUSINESS CREDIT.—Sub-
section (b) of section 38 of such Code is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘plus’’ at the end of paragraph (14), by striking the
period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting ‘‘, plus’’,
and by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(16) the increased employment credit deter-
mined under section 45G(a).’’.
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter I
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘Sec. 45G. Credit for increasing employment.’’.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 2002.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3703
To authorize the President to distribute liquidated assets frozen pursuant
to Executive Order 13224 and similar Executive orders to the victims
and surviving family members of the terrorist attacks that occurred
on September 11, 2001, and to certain other charitable funds established
as a result of those attacks.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Mr. HOEKSTRA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on International Relations, 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 juris-
diction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To authorize the President to distribute liquidated assets
frozen pursuant to Executive Order 13224 and similar
Executive orders to the victims and surviving family
members of the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sep-
tember 11, 2001, and to certain other charitable funds
established as a result of those attacks.
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 ‘‘Restoring Justice to
the Victims of Terrorism Act’’.
SEC. 2. USE OF ASSETS FROZEN PURSUANT TO EXECUTIVE
ORDER.
If and when the President vests and liquidates assets
frozen pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September
23, 2001, or subsequent Executive orders issued as a re-
sult of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the
assets so vested and liquidated shall be deposited in a sep-
arate account in the Treasury. The President may dis-
tribute amounts from the account to—
(1) the victims and surviving family members of
the terrorist attacks that occurred in the State of
New York, State of Pennsylvania, and the State of
Virginia on September 11, 2001; and
(2) the United Way and the New York Commu-
nity Trust September 11th Fund, the American Red
Cross, the Twin Towers Orphans’ Fund, and the
Twin Towers Fund.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3704
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction to
individuals for credit card interest.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Mr. MEEKS of New York 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 a
deduction to individuals for credit card interest.
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 ‘‘Consumer Credit Card
Compensation and Economic Incentive Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. ALLOWANCE OF DEDUCTION FOR INDIVIDUALS FOR
CREDIT CARD INTEREST.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 163(h)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to dis-
allowance of deduction for personal interest) is amended
by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subparagraph (E), by
striking the period and inserting ‘‘, and’’ at the end of
subparagraph (F), and by adding at the end the following
new subparagraph:
‘‘(G) interest paid on amounts charged to
a credit card during taxable years beginning
after December 31, 2001, and before January
1, 2007.’’.
(b) LIMITATION.—Section 163(h) of such Code is
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(6) LIMITATION
ON
CREDIT
CARD
INTER-
EST.—The amount of interest which may be taken
into account for purposes of paragraph (2)(G) may
not exceed $5,000 for any taxable year.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning after De-
cember 31, 2001.
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‘‘(b) MAXIMUM CREDIT.—The credit allowed by sub-
section (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed $3,000
($1,500 in the case of a married individual (as determined
under section 7703) filing a separate return).
‘‘(c) QUALIFIED SCHOOL MATERIALS CONTRIBU-
TION.—For purposes of this section—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified school
materials contribution’ means, with respect to any
taxable year, the amount which would (but for sub-
section (e)) be allowable as a deduction under sec-
tion 170 for—
‘‘(A) any cash contribution to any elemen-
tary or secondary school if such contribution is
designated to be used solely to acquire qualified
school materials,
‘‘(B) any contribution of qualified school
materials to any elementary or secondary
school, and
‘‘(C) any cash contribution to a school ma-
terials organization.
‘‘(2) ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL.—
The term ‘elementary or secondary school’ means
any 
organization 
described 
in 
section
170(b)(1)(A)(ii) which provides education solely at
or below the 12th grade.
between the reviewers, if any, and the response of the Sec-
retary to the report.
‘‘(H) The report of each independent scientific review
board required under this paragraph shall be included in
the official record of any regulation with respect to which
the board is convened and shall be available for public re-
view 30 days before the close of the period for comment
on the regulation.’’.
(e) 
LIMITATION
ON
RE-PETITION.—Secretary
4(b)(3) (16 U.S.C. 1533(b)(3)) is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(G) If the Secretary determines pursuant to a peti-
tion that addition of a species to either of the lists under
subsection (c) is not warranted, another petition regarding
that species may not be considered by the Secretary for
one year.’’.
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be made (or revoked) at any time before the expira-
tion of the 3-year period beginning on the last date
prescribed by law for filing the return for such tax-
able year (determined without regard to extensions).
‘‘(f) COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT.—In the case of
any taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 2002,
each dollar amount contained in subsection (b) shall be
increased by an amount equal to—
‘‘(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by
‘‘(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined
under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which
the taxable year begins, by substituting ‘calendar
year 2001’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph
(B) thereof.
If any increase determined under the preceding sentence
is not a multiple of $10, such increase shall be increased
to the next highest multiple of $10. In the case of a mar-
ried individual (as determined under section 7703) filing
a separate return, the preceding sentence shall be applied
by substituting ‘$5’ for ‘$10’ each place it appears.
‘‘(g) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall prescribe
regulations to carry out this section, including regulations
providing for claiming the credit under this section on
Form 1040EZ.’’
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3708
To continue the Department of Agriculture program that promotes the use
of certain agricultural commodities to produce bioenergy and to expand
the program to include animal fats, animal by-products, and oils as
eligible agricultural commodities under the program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 7, 2002
Mr. THUNE (for himself and Mr. BOSWELL) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To continue the Department of Agriculture program that
promotes the use of certain agricultural commodities to
produce bioenergy and to expand the program to include
animal fats, animal by-products, and oils as eligible agri-
cultural commodities under the 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 ‘‘Bioenergy Investment
and Opportunity Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. BIOENERGY PROGRAM TO PROMOTE INDUSTRIAL
CONSUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL COMMOD-
ITIES FOR PRODUCTION OF BIOENERGY.
(a) CONTINUATION OF PROGRAM.—Through fiscal
year 2011, the Secretary of Agriculture shall continue the
Department of Agriculture program under chapter 1424
of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, under which the
Secretary makes payments to producers of bioenergy from
agriculturally derived sources to encourage increased pur-
chases of eligible agricultural commodities for the purpose
of expanding production of such bioenergy and supporting
the construction of new production capacity.
(b) PAYMENT BASIS; EVIDENCE.—The Secretary
shall make payments under the program based on the in-
crease in the bioenergy production of an eligible producer
compared to the producer’s bioenergy production of the
previous year. To be eligible to receive a payment under
the program, a bioenergy producer shall submit to the Sec-
retary such records as the Secretary may require to indi-
cate the increased purchases and utilization of eligible ag-
ricultural commodities for the production of bioenergy.
(c) PAYMENT LIMITATION.—The amount of funds
that any single producer may obtain under the program
in a fiscal year may not exceed five percent of the total
amount expended under the program in that year or
$10,000,000, whichever is less.
(d) ELIGIBLE
AGRICULTURAL
COMMODITY
DE-
FINED.—For purposes of the program, the term ‘‘eligible
agricultural commodity’’ means—
(1) barley, corn, grain sorghum, oats, rice,
wheat, soybeans, sunflower seed, canola, crambe,
rapeseed, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, and cel-
lulosic crops, such as switchgrass and short rotation
trees, grown on farms in the United States for the
purpose of producing bioenergy.
(2) animal fats, animal by-products, and oils
from animals raised in the United States; and
(3) any other agricultural commodity or com-
modity by-product produced in the United States
that the Secretary determines is suitable for use in
bioenergy production.
(e) FUNDING.—The Secretary may use up to
$200,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration each fiscal year to make payments under the pro-
gram.
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