datamatters24/research-document-archive huggingface dataset:
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that health insurance benefits available to Federal 
employees should be sufficient to promote the health and 
productivity of all Federal workers and to support the re-
cruitment and retention of a highly qualified workforce. 
To help achieve these goals, Congress should evaluate the 
supplemental plans established under the Federal Em-
ployee Dental and Vision Benefits Enhancement Act of 
2004 to determine the options for and feasibility of pro-
viding an employer contribution. 
SEC. 7. REQUIREMENT TO STUDY HEALTH BENEFITS COV-
ERAGE FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN WHO 
ARE FULL-TIME STUDENTS. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Office of Personnel Management shall sub-
mit to Congress a report describing and evaluating options 
whereby benefits under chapter 89 of title 5, United 
States Code, could be made available to an unmarried de-
pendent child under 25 years of age who is enrolled as 
a full-time student at an institution of higher education 
as defined under section 101 of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 
SEC. 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 
on the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to
facility to determine whether adequate protective
measures have been implemented to protect children
in the facility against the dangers associated with
windows and interior furnishings in the event of a
natural disaster or terrorist attack, including the
deadly effect of flying glass.’’.
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ties located in public buildings under the control of the
General Services Administration.
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 ‘‘Baylee’s Law’’.
SEC. 
2. 
SAFETY 
AND 
SECURITY 
OF 
CHILDREN 
IN
CHILDCARE FACILITIES.
The Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 601
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 
22. 
SAFETY 
AND 
SECURITY 
OF 
CHILDREN 
IN
CHILDCARE FACILITIES.
‘‘(a) WRITTEN NOTICE
TO PARENTS
OR GUARD-
IANS.—
‘‘(1) INITIAL NOTIFICATION.—Before the enroll-
ment of any child in a childcare facility located in
a public building under the control of the Adminis-
trator, the Administrator shall provide to the par-
ents or guardians of the child a written notification
containing—
‘‘(A) an identification of the current ten-
ants in the public building; and
‘‘(B) the designation of the level of secu-
rity of the public building.
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION OF NEW TENANTS.—After
providing a written notification to the parents or
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 451
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
to provide for a sequestration of all budgetary accounts for fiscal year
2000 (except Social Security, Federal retirement, and interest on the
debt) equal to 5 percent of the OMB baseline.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 2, 1999
Mr. CAMPBELL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Budget
A BILL
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 to provide for a sequestration of all
budgetary accounts for fiscal year 2000 (except Social
Security, Federal retirement, and interest on the debt)
equal to 5 percent of the OMB baseline.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SPECIAL FISCAL YEAR 2000 SEQUESTRATION
TO REDUCE BUDGETARY ACCOUNTS.
Part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Defi-
cit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding after section
253 the following new section:
‘‘SEC. 253A. SPECIAL FISCAL YEAR 2000 SEQUESTRATION.
‘‘(a) SEQUESTRATION.—Notwithstanding sections
255 and 256, on the 15th day after the last general appro-
priation bill is enacted into law for fiscal year 2000 or
a continuing resolution is enacted into law through the
end of that fiscal year (whichever is applicable), there shall
be a sequestration equivalent to 5 percent of the OMB
baseline for that fiscal year. On that day the President
shall issue an order fully implementing this sequestration.
This order shall be effective on issuance.
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as provided by
paragraph (2), each account of the United States
shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by
multiplying the level of budgetary resources in that
account at that time by the uniform percentage nec-
essary to carry out subsection (a). All obligational
authority reduced under this section shall be done in
a manner that makes such reductions permanent.
‘‘(2) EXEMPT ACCOUNTS.—No order issued to
carry out this section may—
‘‘(A) reduce benefits payable under the old-
age, survivors, and disability insurance program
established under title II of the Social Security
Act;
‘‘(B) reduce benefits payable under any
program providing retirement benefits for mem-
bers of the uniformed services or officers or em-
ployees of the United States; or
‘‘(C) reduce payments for net interest (all
of major functional category 900).’’.
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entry into force, on or after January 1, 2005, of the 
Agreement with respect to the United States. 
SEC. 102. RELATIONSHIP OF THE AGREEMENT TO UNITED 
STATES AND STATE LAW. 
(a) RELATIONSHIP
OF AGREEMENT
TO UNITED 
STATES LAW.—
(1) UNITED STATES LAW TO PREVAIL IN CON-
FLICT.—No provision of the Agreement, nor the ap-
plication of any such provision to any person or cir-
cumstance, which is inconsistent with any law of the 
United States shall have effect.–
(2) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act shall 
be construed—
(A) to amend or modify any law of the 
United States, or 
(B) to limit any authority conferred under 
any law of the United States, 
unless specifically provided for in this Act. 
(b) RELATIONSHIP
OF
AGREEMENT
TO
STATE 
LAW.—
(1) LEGAL CHALLENGE.—No State law, or the 
application thereof, may be declared invalid as to 
any person or circumstance on the ground that the 
provision or application is inconsistent with the 
Agreement, except in an action brought by the
United States for the purpose of declaring such law 
or application invalid. 
(2) DEFINITION OF STATE LAW.—For purposes 
of this subsection, the term ‘‘State law’’ includes—
(A) any law of a political subdivision of a 
State; and 
(B) any State law regulating or taxing the 
business of insurance. 
(c) EFFECT OF AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO PRI-
VATE REMEDIES.—No person other than the United 
States— 
(1) shall have any cause of action or defense 
under the Agreement or by virtue of congressional 
approval thereof; or 
(2) may challenge, in any action brought under 
any provision of law, any action or inaction by any 
department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 
United States, any State, or any political subdivision 
of a State, on the ground that such action or inac-
tion is inconsistent with the Agreement. 
SEC. 103. IMPLEMENTING ACTIONS IN ANTICIPATION OF 
ENTRY INTO FORCE AND INITIAL REGULA-
TIONS. 
(a) IMPLEMENTING ACTIONS.—
(1) PROCLAMATION
AUTHORITY.—After the 
date of the enactment of this Act—
(A) the President may proclaim such ac-
tions, and 
(B) other appropriate officers of the 
United States Government may issue such reg-
ulations, 
as may be necessary to ensure that any provision of 
this Act, or amendment made by this Act, that takes 
effect on the date the Agreement enters into force 
is appropriately implemented on such date, but no 
such proclamation or regulation may have an effec-
tive date earlier than the date the Agreement enters 
into force. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE OF CERTAIN PROCLAIMED 
ACTIONS.—Any action proclaimed by the President 
under the authority of this Act that is not subject 
to the consultation and layover provisions under sec-
tion 104 may not take effect before the 15th day 
after the date on which the text of the proclamation 
is published in the Federal Register. 
(3) WAIVER OF 15-DAY RESTRICTION.—The 15-
day restriction in paragraph (2) on the taking effect 
of proclaimed actions is waived to the extent that 
the application of such restriction would prevent the
(5) The historic hotels in Glacier National
Park, operated under concession agreements with
the National Park Service, are essential for public
use and enjoyment of the Park.
(6) Public consumers deserve safe hotels in Gla-
cier National Park that can meet their basic needs
and expectations.
(7) The historic hotels in Glacier National Park
are significantly deteriorated and need substantial
repair.
(8) Repairs of the hotels in Glacier National
Park have been deferred for so long that, absent any
changes to the Federal law governing conces-
sionaires and the availability of historic tax credits
up to 39.5 years, the remodeling costs for the hotels
exceed the capacity of the hotel concessionaire to fi-
nance them out of hotel revenues.
(9) The remodeling costs are so high that the
concessionaire will need to finance the cost of those
repairs by borrowing the remodeling expenses and
repaying them over time out of net hotel income,
which by current law is limited to 20 year concession
agreements.
(10) The current season of operation for hotels
is about 4 months because the developed areas lack
‘‘(B) executed or traded on an electronic
trading facility.
‘‘(4) An agreement, contract, or transaction de-
scribed in paragraph (3) of this subsection shall be
subject to—
‘‘(A) sections 5a (to the extent provided in
section 5a(g)), 5b, 5d, and 12(e)(2)(B);
‘‘(B) sections 4b and 4o and the regula-
tions of the Commission pursuant to section
4c(b) proscribing fraud in connection with com-
modity option transactions to the extent the
agreement, contract, or transaction would oth-
erwise be subject to such sections and regula-
tions;
‘‘(C) sections 6(c) and 9(a)(2), to the ex-
tent such sections prohibit manipulation of the
market price of any commodity in interstate
commerce and to the extent the agreement, con-
tract, or transaction would otherwise be subject
to such sections; and
‘‘(D) such rules and regulations as the
Commission may prescribe if necessary to en-
sure timely dissemination by the electronic trad-
ing facility of price, trading volume, and other
trading data to the extent appropriate, if the
factors used by the Secretary in selecting diseases
for inclusion on the list. The Secretary shall periodi-
cally review the list and make any revisions deter-
mined by the Secretary to be appropriate.
‘‘(2) SELECTION OF DISEASES.—For purposes
of awards under subsection (a), the Secretary
shall—
‘‘(A) identify serious diseases for which
there are no cures and serious diseases for
which there are no means of prevention; and
‘‘(B) from among such diseases, select dis-
eases whose cure or prevention should be na-
tional priorities in the opinion of the Secretary,
taking into account factors regarding mortality,
morbidity, and economic effects, and such other
factors as the Secretary determines to be appro-
priate.
‘‘(c) AMOUNT OF AWARD.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An award under subsection
(a) may not be made in an amount exceeding
$10,000,000,000, subject to paragraph (2).
‘‘(2) OFFSET OF TAX LIABILITY.—After deter-
mining the amount of an award under subsection (a)
(referred to in this paragraph as the ‘selected
amount’), the Secretary shall increase the selected
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4522
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a presumption of service
connection for certain specified diseases and disabilities in the case of
veterans who were exposed during military service to carbon tetrachloride.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 23, 2000
Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a pre-
sumption of service connection for certain specified dis-
eases and disabilities in the case of veterans who were
exposed during military service to carbon tetrachloride.
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 ‘‘Veterans Carbon Tet-
rachloride Benefits Act’’.
Commission determines that the electronic trad-
ing facility performs a significant price dis-
covery function for transactions in the cash
market for the commodity underlying any
agreement, contract, or transaction executed or
traded on the electronic trading facility.
‘‘(5) An electronic trading facility relying on the
exemption provided in paragraph (3) shall—
‘‘(A) notify the Commission of its intention
to operate an electronic trading facility in reli-
ance on the exemption set forth in paragraph
(3), which notice shall include the following:
‘‘(i) the name and address of the facil-
ity and a person designated to receive com-
munications from the Commission;
‘‘(ii) the commodity categories that
the facility intends to list or otherwise
make available for trading on the facility
in reliance on the exemption set forth in
paragraph (3);
‘‘(iii) certifications that—
‘‘(I) no executive officer or mem-
ber of the governing board of, or any
holder of a 10 percent or greater eq-
uity interest in, the facility is a person
SEC. 2. PRESUMPTIONS OF SERVICE CONNECTION WITH
RESPECT TO EXPOSURE TO CARBON TETRA-
CHLORIDE.
Section 1112 of title 38, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(d)(1) For the purposes of section 1110 of this title,
and subject to the provisions of section 1113 of this title,
in the case of a veteran who served for ninety days or
more in active military, naval, or air service and who while
in such service was exposed to carbon tetrachloride, any
disease or disability specified in paragraph (2) becoming
manifest in such veteran shall be considered to have been
incurred in or aggravated by such service, notwithstanding
that there is no record of evidence of such disease during
the period of such service.
‘‘(2) Diseases and disabilities referred to in para-
graph (1) are the following:
‘‘(A) Depleted vision or floater cataracts.
‘‘(B) Hearing impairments such as high-pitch
ringing, sensitivity to loud noises, and loss of hear-
ing.
‘‘(C) Memory losses such as lapses of recall,
dates, numbers, and inverting numbers and letters.
‘‘(D) Growths.
‘‘(E) Swelling of hands or feet.
‘‘(F) Aching bones or joints throughout the
body (not associated with arthritis).
‘‘(G) Loss of hair.
‘‘(H) Deterioration of nervous system.
‘‘(I) Pulmonary edema.
‘‘(J) Hemorrhagic congestion.’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4523
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to permit a producer
to lock in a loan deficiency payment rate for a portion of a crop.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 23, 2000
Mr. SMITH of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to permit
a producer to lock in a loan deficiency payment rate
for a portion of a crop.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FLEXIBLE LOAN PAYMENT RATE FOR LOAN DE-
FICIENCY PAYMENTS.
Section 135 of the Agricultural Market Transition
Act (7 U.S.C. 7235) is amended by striking subsection
(b) and inserting the following:
‘‘(b) COMPUTATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), a loan deficiency payment under this sec-
tion shall be computed by multiplying—
‘‘(A) the loan payment rate determined
under subsection (c) for the loan commodity; by
‘‘(B) the quantity of the loan commodity
that the producers on a farm are eligible to
place under loan but for which the producers
forgo obtaining the loan in return for payments
under this section.
‘‘(2) ALTERNATIVE COMPUTATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—During the period be-
ginning on the date on which the Secretary de-
termines that a fall- or spring-planted loan
commodity is beginning to be harvested in the
United States and ending on the date on which
the producers on a farm begin harvesting the
loan commodity, the producers on the farm may
make an irrevocable election to have a loan defi-
ciency payment for the loan commodity under
this section computed in accordance with this
paragraph on an amount not to exceed 85 per-
cent of the quantity of the loan commodity for
a crop year that the producers on the farm will
be eligible to place under loan for that crop
year.
‘‘(B) AMOUNT.—A loan deficiency payment
under this paragraph shall be computed by
multiplying—
‘‘(i) the loan payment rate determined
under subsection (c) for the loan com-
modity, as of the date of the election by
the producers on a farm under subpara-
graph (A); by
‘‘(ii) the quantity of the loan com-
modity that the producers on the farm
elect to have computed under subpara-
graph (A).
‘‘(C) NOTICE.—Not later than 10 days
after making the determination described in
subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall publicize
the determination through means determined
appropriate by the Secretary.
‘‘(D) TIMING
OF
PAYMENT.—The pro-
ducers on a farm shall receive a loan payment
under this paragraph after—
‘‘(i) the total quantity of loan com-
modity on the farm is harvested; and
‘‘(ii) sufficient documentation regard-
ing the total quantity of loan commodity
harvested has been provided to the Sec-
retary.’’.
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4524
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to increase the number
of farmers eligible for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans or loan
deficiency payments and the amount of production for which such loans
and payments are available.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 23, 2000
Mr. SMITH of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to increase
the number of farmers eligible for nonrecourse marketing
assistance loans or loan deficiency payments and the
amount of production for which such loans and payments
are available.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY FOR NONRECOURSE MARKETING
ASSISTANCE LOANS AND LOAN DEFICIENCY
PAYMENTS.
(a) ELIGIBLE PRODUCTION.—Section 131(b) of the
Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7231(b)) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PRODUCTION.—Any production of a
loan commodity shall be eligible for a marketing assistance
loan under subsection (a).’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 131 of the
Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7231) is
amended by striking subsection (d).
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4527
To authorize the President to present a gold medal on behalf of the Congress
to the Navajo Code Talkers in recognition of their contributions to
the Nation.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 23, 2000
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. UDALL of Colorado) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking
and Financial Services
A BILL
To authorize the President to present a gold medal on behalf
of the Congress to the Navajo Code Talkers in recogni-
tion of their contributions to the Nation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Honoring the Navajo
Code Talkers Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Em-
pire attacked Pearl Harbor and war was declared by
Congress the following day.
(2) The military code, developed by the United
States for transmitting messages, had been deci-
phered by the Japanese and a search by United
States military intelligence was made to develop new
means to counter the enemy.
(3) The United States Government called upon
the Navajo Nation to support the military effort by
recruiting and enlisting 29 Navajo men to serve as
Marine Corps radio operators; the number of enlist-
ees later increased to over 350.
(4) At the time, the Navajos were second-class
citizens, and they were a people who were discour-
aged from using their own language.
(5) The Navajo Marine Corps radio operators,
who became known as the Navajo Code Talkers,
were used to develop a code using their language to
communicate military messages in the Pacific.
(6) To the enemy’s frustration, the code devel-
oped by these Native Americans proved to be un-
breakable and was used extensively throughout the
Pacific theater.
(7) The Navajo language, discouraged in the
past, was instrumental in developing the most sig-
nificant and successful military code of the time. At
Iwo Jima alone, the Navajo Code Talkers passed
over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period.
(A) So successful were they, that military
commanders credited the code with saving the
lives of countless American soldiers and the
successful engagements of the United States in
the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan,
Iwo Jima, and Okinawa;
(B) So successful were they, that some
Code Talkers were guarded by fellow marines
whose role was to kill them in case of imminent
capture by the enemy; and
(C) So successful were they, that the code
was kept secret for 23 years after the end of
World War II.
(8) Following the conclusion of World War II,
the Department of Defense maintained the secrecy
of the Navajo code until it was declassified in 1968;
only then did a realization of the sacrifice and valor
of these brave Native Americans emerge from his-
tory.
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The President is
authorized to present to each of the original 29 Navajo
Code Talkers, or a surviving family member, on behalf of
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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4530
To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration to establish a New Markets
Venture Capital Program, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 24, 2000
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ (for herself, Mr. TALENT, Mr. KING, Ms. MILLENDER-
MCDONALD, Mrs. KELLY, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. ENGLISH, Mrs.
MCCARTHY of New York, Mrs. BONO, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. SWEENEY,
Mr. HINOJOSA, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr.
UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. MOORE, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. GON-
ZALEZ, Mr. PHELPS, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. BAIRD, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr.
UDALL of Colorado, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. KANJORSKI, and Mr. BARRETT
of Wisconsin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Small Business
A BILL
To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to
direct the Administrator of the Small Business Adminis-
tration to establish a New Markets Venture Capital Pro-
gram, 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 ‘‘New Markets Venture
Capital Program Act of 2000’’.