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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6498 
To secure the promise of personalized medicine for all Americans by expand-
ing and accelerating genomics research and initiatives to improve the 
accuracy of disease diagnosis, increase the safety of drugs, and identify 
novel treatments, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 15, 2008 
Mr. KENNEDY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To secure the promise of personalized medicine for all Ameri-
cans by expanding and accelerating genomics research 
and initiatives to improve the accuracy of disease diag-
nosis, increase the safety of drugs, and identify novel 
treatments, 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 ‘‘Genomics and Person-
alized Medicine Act of 2008’’. 
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(1) by striking ‘‘any officer or director’’ and in-
serting ‘‘any person who is, or at the time of the al-
leged misconduct was, an officer or director’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘such officer or director’’ and 
inserting ‘‘such person’’. 
(f) OFFICER OR DIRECTOR OF AN INVESTMENT COM-
PANY.—Section 36(a) of the Investment Company Act of 
1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–35(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘a person serving or acting’’ and 
inserting ‘‘a person who is, or at the time of the al-
leged misconduct was, serving or acting’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘such person so serves or acts’’ 
and inserting ‘‘such person so serves or acts, or at 
the time of the alleged misconduct, so served or 
acted’’. 
SEC. 4. SCOPE OF EXEMPTION FROM STATE SECURITIES 
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 
Stock Market (or any successor to such enti-
ties)’’ and inserting ‘‘, the American Stock Ex-
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House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate a report regarding implementation 
of this Act, including— 
(1) information concerning assistance and fund-
ing to host countries and international organizations 
and nongovernmental organizations pursuant to sec-
tion 5, and accountability reports regarding how 
such funds are being expended; 
(2) information concerning measures taken by 
the United States to increase its capabilities to proc-
ess Iraqi IDPs and refugees for resettlement and the 
number of those IDPs and refugees resettled under 
section 6; 
(3) an evaluation of the effectiveness of meas-
ures implemented by agencies of the Government of 
Iraq to provide direct assistance to vulnerable popu-
lations in Iraq, including IDPs, and Iraqi refugees 
in neighboring countries; and 
(4) information concerning progress on the im-
plementation of the long-term comprehensive strat-
egy described in section 4(2). 
SEC. 9. VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN IRAQ DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘vulnerable populations in Iraq’’ 
includes Iraqis from ethnically mixed families, women at 
risk, unaccompanied children and adolescents, the elderly, 
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Iraqis with serious medical needs, survivors of violence or 
torture, Iraqis who are members of religious or other mi-
nority groups, including Chaldo Assyrian Christians, 
Sabian Mandaens, Yazidis, Jews, and Baha’is, and any 
other group determined to vulnerable by the Secretary of 
State in consultation with the UNHCR. 
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‘‘(c) STATE
PLAN
FOR
TRANSITIONAL
ASSIST-
ANCE.—A State plan for transitional assistance is de-
scribed by this subsection if the plan— 
‘‘(1) provides for expanded education opportuni-
ties for individuals who are, or were formerly, in fos-
ter care, including streamlining and coordinating 
education financing opportunities and providing 
counseling and assistance to such individuals for the 
purpose of ensuring completion of their academic 
goals; 
‘‘(2) provides for job training opportunities for 
individuals who are, or were formerly, in foster care; 
‘‘(3) provides, primarily through expanding ac-
cess to and investment in community colleges, for 
expanded post-secondary education and job training 
opportunities that lead to a certificate, for individ-
uals who are working in, or had worked in, declining 
sectors of the economy, as defined by the Secretary, 
and who want to pursue a new career in a sector of 
the economy with the potential for high wages and 
high growth, as defined by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(4) provides a subsidy for the use of public 
transportation by— 
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‘‘(A) individuals qualifying for benefits or 
services under title XX, including the Federal- 
State Unemployment Insurance Program; and 
‘‘(B) individuals participating in programs 
under the Workforce Investment Act. 
‘‘(d) ALLOTMENT.—The allotment for a fiscal year 
for a State receiving an allotment for such fiscal year shall 
be an amount equal to— 
‘‘(1) the amount appropriated for such fiscal 
year under subsection (f), multiplied by 
‘‘(2) the ratio by which the population of the 
State bears to the population of all the States receiv-
ing an allotment for such fiscal year as determined 
by the Secretary (on the basis of the most recent 
data available from the Department of Commerce). 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) IN
FOSTER
CARE.—The term ‘in foster 
care’ means, with respect to an individual, an indi-
vidual who is under the care and placement respon-
sibility of the State agency responsible for admin-
istering a plan, in connection with such individual, 
under part B or part E of title IV. 
‘‘(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1256 
AN ACT 
To protect the public health by providing the Food and 
Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate 
tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, 
to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, 
the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal 
Employees’ Retirement System, and for other purposes.
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 649 
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that annuities 
paid by States to blind veterans shall be disregarded in determining 
supplemental security income benefits. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 24, 2007 
Mr. REYNOLDS (for himself, Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. MCNULTY, 
Mr. MURTHA, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. DELAHUNT, 
Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mrs. 
MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. HIGGINS, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, 
Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, 
Mr. SESTAK, Mr. ALTMIRE, Mr. ARCURI, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCHUGH, 
and Mr. WALSH of New York) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide 
that annuities paid by States to blind veterans shall 
be disregarded in determining supplemental security in-
come 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Blind Veterans Fair-
ness Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. STATE ANNUITIES FOR BLIND VETERANS TO BE 
DISREGARDED 
IN 
DETERMINING 
SUPPLE-
MENTAL SECURITY INCOME BENEFITS. 
(a) INCOME DISREGARD.—Section 1612(b) of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1382a(b)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(22); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (23) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(24) any annuity paid by a State to the indi-
vidual (or such spouse) on the basis of the individ-
ual’s being a veteran (as defined in section 101 of 
title 38, United States Code) and blind, if a law of 
such State providing for such an annuity was in ef-
fect on the date of the enactment of this para-
graph.’’. 
(b) RESOURCE DISREGARD.—Section 1613(a) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1382b(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(14); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (15) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (15) the fol-
lowing: 
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(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The Attorney General shall periodi-
cally solicit applications for grants under this 
section by publishing a request for applications 
in the Federal Register and by posting such a 
request on the website of the Department of 
Justice.’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-
section (a), the Attorney General shall give preference to 
national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to 
patients, and families of patients, with Alzheimer’s disease 
and related dementias.’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
2015.’’. 
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‘‘(16) for the month of receipt and every month 
thereafter, any annuity paid by a State to the indi-
vidual (or such spouse) on the basis of the individ-
ual’s being a veteran (as defined in section 101 of 
title 38, United States Code) and blind, if a law of 
such State providing for such an annuity was in ef-
fect on the date of the enactment of this para-
graph.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to benefits paid for months begin-
ning after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 64 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an independent 
panel to assess the homeland security needs of the National Capital Region. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2007 
Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish 
an independent panel to assess the homeland security 
needs of the National Capital Region. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. HOMELAND SECURITY NEEDS OF NATIONAL 
CAPITAL REGION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF INDEPENDENT PANEL.— 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish an 
independent panel to assess the homeland security needs 
of the National Capital Region. 
(b) DUTIES OF PANEL.—The panel shall— 
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(1) evaluate the definition of National Capital 
Region used by the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity to determine whether the definition should be 
modified to include additional areas, including juris-
dictions in the States of Maryland and Virginia 
along Interstate Routes 270, 95, and 66; 
(2) determine whether jurisdictions in the 
States of Maryland and Virginia along Interstate 
Routes 270, 95, and 66 should be taking actions to 
prepare for the possibility of a terrorist attack in the 
National Capital Region, including the construction 
of facilities to accommodate the needs of the Na-
tional Capital Region in the event of a terrorist at-
tack; and 
(3) if the panel determines under paragraph (2) 
that actions should be taken by jurisdictions along 
Interstate Routes 270, 95, and 66, make rec-
ommendations for appropriate funding to permit the 
actions to be taken as expeditiously as possible. 
(c) COMPOSITION OF PANEL.—The panel shall in-
clude representatives of the jurisdictions that comprise the 
National Capital Region and the jurisdictions to be consid-
ered for inclusion in the National Capital Region under 
subsection (b)(1). 
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(d) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of the first meeting of the panel, 
the panel shall transmit to the Secretary and Congress 
a report containing the recommendations of the panel. 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2781 
AN ACT 
To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
segments of the Molalla River in Oregon, as components 
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
296 
respect to transactions in the capital stock of a Fed-
eral Home Loan Bank; 
(3) section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934, and related Commission regulations, with 
respect to the transfer of the securities of a Federal 
Home Loan Bank; and 
(4) the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. 
(b) MEMBER EXEMPTION.—The members of the 
Federal Home Loan Bank System shall be exempt from 
compliance with sections 13(d), 13(f), 13(g), 14(d), and 
16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and related 
Commission regulations, with respect to ownership of or 
transactions in the capital stock of the Federal Home 
Loan Banks by such members. 
(c) EXEMPTED AND GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.— 
(1) CAPITAL STOCK.—The capital stock issued 
by each of the Federal Home Loan Banks under 
section 6 of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act are— 
(A) exempted securities, within the mean-
ing of section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 
1933; and 
(B) exempted securities, within the mean-
ing of section 3(a)(12)(A) of the Securities Ex-
change Act of 1934, except to the extent pro-
vided in section 38 of that Act. 
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‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means the 50 
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United 
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year to 
the Secretary an amount from the Transitional Assistance 
Trust Fund equal to 90 percent of the total amount depos-
ited into the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund pursuant 
to section 2201 during the previous fiscal year to carry 
out this section.’’. 
SEC. 3. SAFE INTERNET GAMBLING PRACTICES PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish a national program to be 
known as the ‘‘Safe Internet Gambling Practices Pro-
gram’’. The Safe Internet Gambling Practices Program 
shall— 
(1) promote responsible Internet gambling be-
havior; and 
(2) promote the awareness of unsafe Internet 
gambling practices. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year to 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services an amount 
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from the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund equal to the 
amount deposited in the Transitional Assistance Trust 
Fund during the previous fiscal year not otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated under section 2202(f) of title XXII 
of the Social Security Act for such year to carry out this 
section. 
Æ 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Missing Alzheimer’s 
Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MISSING ALZHEIMER’S 
DISEASE PATIENT ALERT PROGRAM. 
Section 240001 of the Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is 
amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
shall award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations 
to assist such organizations in paying for the costs of plan-
ning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, 
proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients 
with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and other 
missing elderly individuals.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘competitive’’ after ‘‘to re-
ceive a’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The Attorney General shall periodi-
cally solicit applications for grants under this
section by publishing a request for applications 
in the Federal Register and by posting such a 
request on the website of the Department of 
Justice.’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-
section (a), the Attorney General shall give preference to 
national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to 
patients, and families of patients, with Alzheimer’s disease 
and related dementias.’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
2015.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 17, 
2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6503 
AN ACT 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law En-
forcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing 
Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program.
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6503 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 
to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 15, 2008 
Ms. WATERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Dis-
ease Patient Alert 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 ‘‘Missing Alzheimer’s 
Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MISSING ALZHEIMER’S 
DISEASE PATIENT ALERT PROGRAM. 
Section 240001 of the Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is 
amended— 
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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
shall award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations 
to assist such organizations in paying for the costs of plan-
ning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, 
proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients 
with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and other 
missing elderly individuals.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘competitive’’ after ‘‘to re-
ceive a’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The Attorney General shall periodi-
cally solicit applications for grants under this 
section by publishing a request for applications 
in the Federal Register and by posting such a 
request on the website of the Department of 
Justice.’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
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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 ‘‘Missing Alzheimer’s 
Disease Patient Alert Program Reauthorization of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE MISSING ALZHEIMER’S 
DISEASE PATIENT ALERT PROGRAM. 
Section 240001 of the Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14181) is 
amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) GRANT.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations to carry out this section, the Attorney General, 
through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
shall award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations 
to assist such organizations in paying for the costs of plan-
ning, designing, establishing, and operating locally based, 
proactive programs to protect and locate missing patients 
with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and other 
missing elderly individuals.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘competitive’’ after ‘‘to re-
ceive a’’; and 
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‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-
section (a), the Attorney General shall give preference to 
national nonprofit organizations that have a direct link to 
patients, and families of patients, with Alzheimer’s disease 
and related dementias.’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
2015.’’. 
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