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(1) The head of each Federal agency or depart-
ment shall submit to the chairman and ranking 
member of each committee specified in paragraph 
(2) on a quarterly basis a report that includes the 
following: 
(A) A list of audits or other reports issued 
during the applicable quarter that describe con-
tractor costs in excess of $1,000,000 that have 
been identified as unjustified, unsupported, 
questioned, or unreasonable under any contract, 
task or delivery order, or subcontract. 
(B) The specific amounts of costs identi-
fied as unjustified, unsupported, questioned, or 
unreasonable and the percentage of their total 
value of the contract, task or delivery order, or 
subcontract. 
(C) A list of audits or other reports issued 
during the applicable quarter that identify sig-
nificant or substantial deficiencies in the per-
formance of any contractor or in any business 
system of any contractor under any contract, 
task or delivery order, or subcontract. 
(2) The report described in paragraph (1) shall 
be submitted to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representa-
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tives, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate, and other committees of jurisdic-
tion. 
(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an agency 
or department with respect to a calendar quarter if 
no audits or other reports described in paragraph 
(1) were issued during that quarter. 
(b) SUBMISSION OF INDIVIDUAL AUDITS.—The head 
of each Federal agency or department shall provide, within 
14 days after a request in writing by the chairman or 
ranking member of any of the committees described in 
subsection (a)(2), a full and unredacted copy of any audit 
or other report described in subsection (a)(1). 
TITLE VI—ELIMINATION OF SCHIP SHORTFALL 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES 
STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE FUND 
For an additional amount to provide additional allot-
ments to remaining shortfall States under section 
2104(h)(4) of the Social Security Act, as inserted by sec-
tion 6001, such sums as may be necessary, but not to ex-
ceed $750,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, to remain avail-
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able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided 
under this heading is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th 
Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representa-
tives by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
SEC. 6001. ELIMINATION OF REMAINDER OF SCHIP FUND-
ING SHORTFALLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007. 
(a) ELIMINATION
OF
REMAINDER
OF
FUNDING 
SHORTFALLS, TIERED MATCH, AND OTHER LIMITATION 
ON EXPENDITURES.—Section 2104(h) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1397dd(h)), as added by section 
201(a) of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act 
of 2006 (Public Law 109–482), is amended— 
(1) in the heading for paragraph (2), by strik-
ing ‘‘REMAINDER
OF
REDUCTION’’ and inserting 
‘‘PART’’; and 
(2) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS TO ELIMINATE RE-
MAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR 2007 FUNDING SHORT-
FALLS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—From the amounts 
provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the 
Secretary shall allot to each remaining shortfall 
State described in subparagraph (B) such 
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amount as the Secretary determines will elimi-
nate the estimated shortfall described in such 
subparagraph for the State for fiscal year 2007. 
‘‘(B) REMAINING SHORTFALL STATE DE-
SCRIBED.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), 
a remaining shortfall State is a State with a 
State child health plan approved under this title 
for which the Secretary estimates, on the basis 
of the most recent data available to the Sec-
retary as of the date of the enactment of this 
paragraph, that the projected Federal expendi-
tures under such plan for the State for fiscal 
year 2007 will exceed the sum of— 
‘‘(i) the amount of the State’s allot-
ments for each of fiscal years 2005 and 
2006 that will not be expended by the end 
of fiscal year 2006; 
‘‘(ii) the amount of the State’s allot-
ment for fiscal year 2007; and 
‘‘(iii) the amounts, if any, that are to 
be redistributed to the State during fiscal 
year 2007 in accordance with paragraphs 
(1) and (2).’’. 
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 2104(h) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397dd(h)) (as so added), is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘subject to 
paragraph (4)(B) and’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘subject to 
paragraph (4)(B) and’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ‘‘and (3)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(3), and (4)’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and (3)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(3), and (4)’’. 
TITLE VII—MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE AND 
SMALL BUSINESS TAX RELIEF 
CHAPTER 1 
SEC. 7101. SHORT TITLE. 
This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Minimum 
Wage Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 7102. MINIMUM WAGE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, not less than— 
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‘‘(A) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th 
day after the date of enactment of the Fair 
Minimum Wage Act of 2007; 
‘‘(B) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months 
after that 60th day; and 
‘‘(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months 
after that 60th day;’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 7103. APPLICABILITY OF MINIMUM WAGE TO THE 
COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MAR-
IANA ISLANDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6 of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206) shall apply to the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(b) TRANSITION.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 
the minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands under section 6(a)(1) of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) 
shall be— 
(1) $3.55 an hour, beginning on the 60th day 
after the date of enactment of this Act; and 
(2) increased by $0.50 an hour (or such lesser 
amount as may be necessary to equal the minimum 
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