to entities that are eligible under paragraph (2) and 
that are directly impacted by the exploration for or 
production of oil and gas on the Coastal Plain under 
this title. 
(2) ELIGIBLE
ENTITIES.—The North Slope 
Borough, the City of Kaktovik, and any other bor-
ough, municipal subdivision, village, or other com-
munity in the State of Alaska that is directly im-
pacted by exploration for, or the production of, oil 
or gas on the Coastal Plain under this title, as de-
termined by the Secretary, shall be eligible for finan-
cial assistance under this section. 
(b) USE
OF
ASSISTANCE.—Financial assistance 
under this section may be used only for— 
(1) planning for mitigation of the potential ef-
fects of oil and gas exploration and development on 
environmental, social, cultural, recreational, and sub-
sistence values; 
(2) implementing mitigation plans and main-
taining mitigation projects; 
(3) developing, carrying out, and maintaining 
projects and programs that provide new or expanded 
public facilities and services to address needs and 
problems associated with such effects, including fire- 
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fighting, police, water, waste treatment, medivac, 
and medical services; and 
(4) establishment of a coordination office, by 
the North Slope Borough, in the City of Kaktovik, 
which shall— 
(A) coordinate with and advise developers 
on local conditions, impact, and history of the 
areas utilized for development; and 
(B) provide to the Committee on Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate an annual report on the status of co-
ordination between developers and the commu-
nities affected by development. 
(c) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any community that is eligi-
ble for assistance under this section may submit an 
application for such assistance to the Secretary, in 
such form and under such procedures as the Sec-
retary may prescribe by regulation. 
(2) NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH COMMUNITIES.—A 
community located in the North Slope Borough may 
apply for assistance under this section either directly 
to the Secretary or through the North Slope Bor-
ough. 
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(3) APPLICATION ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall work closely with and assist the North Slope 
Borough and other communities eligible for assist-
ance under this section in developing and submitting 
applications for assistance under this section. 
(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Im-
pact Aid Assistance Fund. 
(2) USE.—Amounts in the fund may be used 
only for providing financial assistance under this 
section. 
(3) DEPOSITS.—Subject to paragraph (4), there 
shall be deposited into the fund amounts received by 
the United States as revenues derived from rents, 
bonuses, and royalties from Federal leases and lease 
sales authorized under this title. 
(4) LIMITATION
ON
DEPOSITS.—The total 
amount in the fund may not exceed $11,000,000. 
(5) INVESTMENT
OF
BALANCES.—The Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in the 
fund in interest bearing government securities. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To pro-
vide financial assistance under this section there is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary from the Coastal 
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Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund 
$5,000,000 for each fiscal year. 
SEC. 413. ANWR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TRUST FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST FUND.—There is es-
tablished in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund 
to be known as the ‘‘ANWR Alternative Energy Trust 
Fund’’, consisting of such amounts as may be transferred 
to the ANWR Alternative Energy Trust Fund as provided 
in section 409. 
(b) EXPENDITURES FROM ANWR ALTERNATIVE 
ENERGY TRUST FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Amounts in the ANWR Al-
ternative Energy Trust Fund shall be available with-
out further appropriation to carry out specified pro-
visions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–58; in this section referred to as 
‘‘EPAct2005’’) and the Energy Independence and 
Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140; in this 
section referred to as ‘‘EISAct2007’’), as follows: 
To carry out the provisions of: 
The following percentage 
of annual receipts to the 
ANWR Alternative Energy 
Trust Fund, but not to ex-
ceed the limit on amount 
authorized, if any: 
EPAct2005: 
Section 210 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 242 .....................................
1.0 percent 
Section 369 .....................................
2.0 percent 
Section 401 .....................................
6.0 percent 
Section 812 .....................................
6.0 percent 
Section 931 .....................................
19.0 percent 
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To carry out the provisions of: 
The following percentage 
of annual receipts to the 
ANWR Alternative Energy 
Trust Fund, but not to ex-
ceed the limit on amount 
authorized, if any: 
Section 942 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 962 .....................................
3.0 percent 
Section 968 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 1704 ...................................
6.0 percent 
EISAct2007: 
Section 207 .....................................
15.0 percent 
Section 607 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Title VI, Subtitle B ........................
3.0 percent 
Title VI, Subtitle C ........................
1.5 percent 
Section 641 .....................................
9.0 percent 
Title VII, Subtitle A .......................
15.0 percent 
Section 1112 ...................................
1.5 percent 
Section 1304 ...................................
6.0 percent. 
(2) APPORTIONMENT
OF
EXCESS
AMOUNT.— 
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any amounts allo-
cated under paragraph (1) that are in excess of the 
amounts authorized in the applicable cited section or 
subtitle of EPAct2005 and EISAct2007 shall be re-
allocated to the remaining sections and subtitles 
cited in paragraph (1), up to the amounts otherwise 
authorized by law to carry out such sections and 
subtitles, in proportion to the amounts authorized by 
law to be appropriated for such other sections and 
subtitles. 
TITLE V—REDUCTION IN 
FEDERAL WORKFORCE 
SEC. 501. REDUCTION IN FEDERAL WORKFORCE. 
(a) DEFINITION.—For the purpose of this section— 
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(1) the term ‘‘total number of Federal employ-
ees’’ means the total number of Federal employees 
in all agencies; 
(2) the term ‘‘Federal employee’’ means an em-
ployee as defined by section 2105 of title 5, United 
States Code; and 
(3) the term ‘‘agency’’ means an Executive 
agency as defined by section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code, excluding the Government Account-
ability Office. 
(b) LIMITATION.—The President, through the Office 
of Management and Budget (in consultation with the Of-
fice of Personnel Management), shall take appropriate 
measures to ensure that, effective beginning in fiscal year 
2015, the total number of Federal employees (as deter-
mined under subsection (c)) shall not exceed 90 percent 
of the total number of Federal employees as of September 
30, 2011 (as so determined). 
(c) MONITORING AND NOTIFICATION.—The Office of 
Management and Budget (in consultation with the Office 
of Personnel Management)— 
(1) shall continuously monitor all agencies and 
make a determination, as of September 30, 2011, 
and the last day of each quarter of each fiscal year 
beginning thereafter, as to whether or not the total 
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(1) EMERGENCIES.—This section may be 
waived upon a determination by the President 
that— 
(A) the existence of a state of war or other 
national security concern so requires; or 
(B) the existence of an extraordinary 
emergency threatening life, health, public safe-
ty, property, or the environment so requires. 
(2) AGENCY
EFFICIENCY
OR
CRITICAL
MIS-
SION.—This section may be waived, with respect to 
a particular position or category of positions in an 
agency, upon a determination by the President that 
the efficiency of the agency or the performance of a 
critical agency mission so requires. 
(f) REPLACEMENT RATE.—To the extent necessary 
to achieve the workforce reduction required by subsection 
(b), the Office of Management and Budget (in consulta-
tion with the Office of Personnel Management) shall take 
appropriate measures to ensure that agencies shall ap-
point no more than 1 employee for every 3 employees retir-
ing or otherwise separating from Government service after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. This subsection 
shall cease to apply after September 30, 2014. 
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(g) COUNTING RULE.—For purposes of this Act, any 
determination of the number of employees in an agency 
shall be expressed on a full-time equivalent basis. 
(h) LIMITATION
ON PROCUREMENT
OF SERVICE 
CONTRACTS.—The President, through the Office of Man-
agement and Budget (in consultation with the Office of 
Personnel Management), shall take appropriate measures 
to ensure that there is no increase in the procurement of 
service contracts by reason of the enactment of this Act, 
except in cases in which a cost comparison demonstrates 
that such contracts would be to the financial advantage 
of the Government. 
(i) REGULATIONS.—Any regulations necessary to 
carry out this Act may be prescribed by the President or 
his designee. 
TITLE 
VI—REPEAL 
OF 
EM-
PLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE 
MANDATE 
SEC. 601. REPEAL OF EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE MAN-
DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 43 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended by striking section 4980H. 
(b) REPEAL
OF RELATED REPORTING REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Subpart D of part III of subchapter A of chap-
ter 61 of such Code is amended by striking section 6056. 
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(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Subparagraph (B) of section 6724(d)(1) of 
such Code is amended by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end 
of clause (xxiii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
clause (xxiv) and inserting ‘‘or’’, and by striking 
clause (xxv). 
(2) Paragraph (2) of section 6724(d) of such 
Code is amended by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (FF), by striking ‘‘, or’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (GG) and inserting a period, and by 
striking subparagraph (HH). 
(3) The table of sections for chapter 43 of such 
Code is amended by striking the item relating to sec-
tion 4980H. 
(4) The table of sections for subpart D of part 
III of subchapter A of chapter 61 of such Code is 
amended by striking the item relating to section 
6056. 
(5) Section 1513 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act is amended by striking sub-
section (c). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, the amendments made by 
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this section shall apply to months and other periods 
beginning after December 31, 2013. 
(2) REPEAL
OF
STUDY
AND
REPORT.—The 
amendment made by subsection (c)(5) shall take ef-
fect on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
TITLE VII—SECRET BALLOT 
PROTECTION ACT 
SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Ballot Protec-
tion Act’’. 
SEC. 702. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) the importance of a secret ballot election 
has been recognized by the United States for over 
100 years; 
(2) the fundamental democratic right to choose 
by secret ballot is the only method that ensures a 
choice free of coercion, intimidation, irregularity, or 
illegality; 
(3) the recognition of a labor organization by 
way of a private agreement, rather than a secret bal-
lot election supervised by a neutral third party, 
threatens an employee’s right, codified in the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act, to choose whether or not 
to be represented by a labor organization; and 
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(4) preserving workers’ right to choose whether 
or not to be represented by a labor organization 
through a secret ballot election is important to the 
strength of the national economy. 
SEC. 703. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT. 
(a) RECOGNITION OF REPRESENTATIVE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(a)(2) of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)(2)) is 
amended by inserting before the colon the following: 
‘‘or to recognize or bargain collectively with a labor 
organization that has not been selected by a major-
ity of employees in a unit appropriate for such pur-
poses in a secret ballot election conducted by the 
National Labor Relations Board in accordance with 
section 9’’. 
(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-
gaining relationships that were recognized before the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) ELECTION REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(b) of the National 
Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)), as amend-
ed by subsection (c) of this section, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (6); 
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(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (7) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) to cause or attempt to cause an employer 
to recognize or bargain collectively with a represent-
ative of a labor organization that has not been se-
lected by a majority of employees in a unit appro-
priate for such purposes in a secret ballot election 
conducted by the National Labor Relations Board in 
accordance with section 9.’’. 
(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-
gaining relationships that were recognized before the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) SECRET BALLOT ELECTION REQUIRED.—Section 
9(a) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
159(a)), is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(a)’’; 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘designated or selected’’ 
the following: ‘‘by a secret ballot election conducted 
by the National Labor Relations Board in accord-
ance with this section’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) The secret ballot election requirement of 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-
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TITLE VIII—FEDERAL RULES OF 
CIVIL PROCEDURE IMPROVE-
MENTS 
SEC. 801. ATTORNEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 
Rule 11(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 
is amended— 
(1) by amending the first sentence to read as 
follows: ‘‘If a pleading, motion, or other paper is 
signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon mo-
tion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the 
attorney, law firm, or parties that have violated this 
subdivision or are responsible for the violation, an 
appropriate sanction, which may include an order to 
pay the other party or parties for the reasonable ex-
penses incurred as a direct result of the filing of the 
pleading, motion, or other paper, that is the subject 
of the violation, including a reasonable attorney’s 
fee.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)(A)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Rule 5’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘corrected.’’ and inserting ‘‘Rule 
5.’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the court may award’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the court shall award’’; and 
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(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘shall be lim-
ited to what is sufficient’’ and all that follows 
through the end of the paragraph (including sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B)) and inserting ‘‘shall be suf-
ficient to deter repetition of such conduct or com-
parable conduct by others similarly situated, and to 
compensate the parties that were injured by such 
conduct. The sanction may consist of an order to 
pay to the party or parties the amount of the rea-
sonable expenses incurred as a direct result of the 
filing of the pleading, motion, or other paper that is 
the subject of the violation, including a reasonable 
attorney’s fee.’’. 
SEC. 802. APPLICABILITY OF RULE 11 TO STATE CASES AF-
FECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 
In any civil action in State court, the court, upon mo-
tion, shall determine within 30 days after the filing of such 
motion whether the action substantially affects interstate 
commerce. Such court shall make such determination 
based on an assessment of the costs to the interstate econ-
omy, including the loss of jobs, were the relief requested 
granted. If the court determines such action substantially 
affects interstate commerce, the provisions of Rule 11 of 
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply to such 
action. 
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SEC. 803. PREVENTION OF FORUM-SHOPPING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), a per-
sonal injury claim filed in State or Federal court may be 
filed only in the State and, within that State, in the county 
(or if there is no State court in the county, the nearest 
county where a court of general jurisdiction is located), 
or Federal district in which— 
(1) the person bringing the claim, including an 
estate in the case of a decedent and a parent or 
guardian in the case of a minor or incompetent— 
(A) resides at the time of filing; or 
(B) resided at the time of the alleged in-
jury; 
(2) the alleged injury or circumstances giving 
rise to the personal injury claim allegedly occurred; 
(3) the defendant’s principal place of business 
is located, if the defendant is a corporation; or 
(4) the defendant resides, if the defendant is an 
individual. 
(b) 
DETERMINATION
OF
MOST
APPROPRIATE 
FORUM.—If a person alleges that the injury or cir-
cumstances giving rise to the personal injury claim oc-
curred in more than one county (or Federal district), the 
trial court shall determine which State and county (or 
Federal district) is the most appropriate forum for the 
claim. If the court determines that another forum would 
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be the most appropriate forum for a claim, the court shall 
dismiss the claim. Any otherwise applicable statute of limi-
tations shall be tolled beginning on the date the claim was 
filed and ending on the date the claim is dismissed under 
this subsection. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘personal injury claim’’— 
(A) means a civil action brought under 
State law by any person to recover for a per-
son’s personal injury, illness, disease, death, 
mental or emotional injury, risk of disease, or 
other injury, or the costs of medical monitoring 
or surveillance (to the extent such claims are 
recognized under State law), including any de-
rivative action brought on behalf of any person 
on whose injury or risk of injury the action is 
based by any representative party, including a 
spouse, parent, child, or other relative of such 
person, a guardian, or an estate; 
(B) does not include a claim brought as a 
class action; and 
(C) does not include a claim against a 
debtor in a case pending under title 11 of the 
United States Code that is a personal injury 
tort or wrongful death claim within the mean-
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ing of section 157(b)(5) of title 28, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘person’’ means any individual, 
corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, 
society, joint stock company, or any other entity, but 
not any governmental entity. 
(3) The term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and any other 
territory or possession of the United States. 
(d) APPLICABILITY.—This section applies to any per-
sonal injury claim filed in Federal or State court on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 804. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in section 402 or in the amendments made 
by section 401 shall be construed to bar or impede the 
assertion or development of new claims or remedies under 
Federal, State, or local civil rights law. 
SEC. 805. THREE-STRIKES RULE FOR SUSPENDING ATTOR-
NEYS WHO COMMIT MULTIPLE RULE 11 VIO-
LATIONS. 
(a) MANDATORY SUSPENSION.—Whenever a Federal 
district court determines that an attorney has violated 
Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court 
shall determine the number of times that the attorney has 
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