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IV 
House Calendar No. 139 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 697 
[Report No. 112–545] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5973) making appropriations 
for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2013, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 5972) making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 21, 2012 
Ms. FOXX, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; 
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5973) making 
appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies pro-
grams for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, 
and for other purposes; and providing for consideration 
of the bill (H.R. 5972) making appropriations for the 
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes. 
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‘‘(4) Review existing standards in mathematics 
and science developed by professional organizations. 
‘‘(5) Review State standards in mathematics 
and science as of the date of enactment of the 
Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for 
Kids Act and consult and work with entities that are 
developing, or have already developed, such State 
standards. 
‘‘(6) Review the reports, views, and analyses of 
a broad spectrum of experts, including classroom 
educators, and of the public, as such reports, views, 
and analyses relate to mathematics and science edu-
cation, including reviews of blue ribbon reports, ex-
emplary practices in the field, and recent reports by 
government agencies and professional organizations. 
‘‘(7) Review scientifically rigorous studies that 
examine the relationship between— 
‘‘(A) the sequences of secondary school- 
level mathematics and science courses; and 
‘‘(B) student achievement. 
‘‘(8) Ensure that steps are taken in the devel-
opment of the voluntary American education content 
standards to recognize the needs of students who re-
ceive special education and related services under 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 
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(2) The table of sections for subpart C of part 
IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 36 and inserting 
the following new items: 
‘‘Sec. 36. Unpaid child support. 
‘‘Sec. 37. Overpayments of tax.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2007. 
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SEC. 2. SPECIAL RESOURCE STUDY. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Interior shall con-
duct a special resource study of the Harry S Truman 
Birthplace State Historic Site in Lamar, Missouri. 
(b) CONTENTS.—In conducting the study under sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall— 
(1) evaluate the national significance of the site 
and surrounding area; 
(2) determine the suitability and feasibility of 
adding the birthplace site as part of the Harry S 
Truman National Historic Site or of designating the 
site as a separate unit of the National Park System; 
(3) consider other alternatives for preservation, 
protection, and interpretation of the site by Federal, 
State, or local governmental entities, or private and 
nonprofit organizations; 
(4) consult with interested Federal, State, or 
local governmental entities, private and nonprofit or-
ganizations or any other interested individuals; and 
(5) identify cost estimates for any Federal ac-
quisition, development, interpretation, operation, and 
maintenance associated with the alternatives. 
(c) APPLICABLE LAW.—The study required under 
subsection (a) shall be conducted in accordance with sec-
tion 8 of Public Law 91–383 (16 U.S.C. 1a–5). 
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(d) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
on which funds are first made available for the study 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall 
submit to the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate a report containing 
the results of the study and any conclusions and rec-
ommendations of the Secretary. 
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under this title for fiscal year 2007 on 
the basis of the May 2006 estimates; 
or 
‘‘(III) a State whose projected 
total Federal payments under this 
title for fiscal year 2007, as deter-
mined on the basis of the November 
2006 estimates certified by the State 
to the Secretary, exceeded all amounts 
available to the State for expenditure 
for fiscal year 2007 (including any 
amounts paid, allotted, or redistrib-
uted to the State in prior fiscal 
years), the amount of the projected 
total Federal payments to the State 
under this title for fiscal year 2007, 
as determined on the basis of the No-
vember 2006 estimates certified by 
the State to the Secretary, 
multiplied by the annual adjustment deter-
mined under subparagraph (B) for fiscal 
year 2008. 
‘‘(iv) The projected total Federal pay-
ments to the State under this title for fis-
cal year 2008, as determined on the basis 
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‘‘(IV) REMAINDER OF STATE AL-
LOTMENTS
THAT
ARE
UNEXPENDED 
BY
THE
END
OF
THE
PERIOD
OF 
AVAILABILITY BEGINNING WITH THE 
FISCAL YEAR 2006 ALLOTMENTS.—On 
October 1 of each of fiscal years 2009 
through 2012, the total amount of al-
lotments made to States under sub-
section (b), (c), or (i) for the second 
preceding fiscal year (third preceding 
fiscal year in the case of the fiscal 
year 2006 allotments) and remaining 
after the application of subclause (III) 
that are not expended by September 
30 of the preceding fiscal year. 
‘‘(V) 
UNEXPENDED
TRANSI-
TIONAL COVERAGE BLOCK GRANT FOR 
NONPREGNANT CHILDLESS ADULTS.— 
On October 1, 2009, any amounts set 
aside under section 2111(a)(3) that 
are not expended by September 30, 
2009. 
‘‘(VI) EXCESS
CHIP
CONTIN-
GENCY FUNDS.— 
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‘‘(3) CRITERIA FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL RE-
VIEW.—In determining whether section 1028B 
should apply to the records listed in paragraph (2), 
the Attorney General shall consider the following: 
‘‘(A) The cost or burden to the general 
public, businesses, commercial enterprises, non- 
profit organizations, and to Federal, State, and 
local governments of complying with section 
1028B. 
‘‘(B) The benefit to the general public, 
businesses, commercial enterprises, non-profit 
organizations, and to Federal, State, and local 
governments if the Attorney General were to 
determine that section 1028B should apply to 
such records.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—The chapter 
analysis for chapter 47 of title 18, United States 
Code (as amended by section 3(a)(2)), is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1028B 
the following: 
‘‘1028C. Display, sale, or purchase of public records containing Social Security 
numbers.’’. 
(b) STUDY AND REPORT ON SOCIAL SECURITY NUM-
BERS IN PUBLIC RECORDS.— 
(1) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall conduct a study and prepare a 
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‘‘(II) UNOBLIGATED
NATIONAL 
ALLOTMENT.— 
‘‘(aa) FISCAL
YEARS
2008 
THROUGH
2011.—On December 
31 of fiscal year 2008, and on 
December 31 of each succeeding 
fiscal year through fiscal year 
2011, the portion, if any, of the 
amount appropriated under sub-
section (a) for such fiscal year 
that is unobligated for allotment 
to a State under subsection (c) or 
(i) for such fiscal year or set 
aside under subsection (a)(3) or 
(b)(2) of section 2111 for such 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(bb) FIRST HALF OF FIS-
CAL
YEAR
2012.—On December 
31 of fiscal year 2012, the por-
tion, if any, of the sum of the 
amounts appropriated under sub-
section (a)(15)(A) and under sec-
tion 103 of the Children’s Health 
Insurance Program Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2007 for the period 
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H. R. 1105—61 
(11) $18,000,000 is for a national grant program the pur-
pose of which is to assist State and local law enforcement 
to locate, arrest and prosecute child sexual predators and 
exploiters, and to enforce sex offender registration laws 
described in section 1701(b) of the 1968 Act, of which: 
(A) $5,000,000 is for sex offender management assist-
ance as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act and the Violent 
Crime Control Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322); and 
(B) $1,000,000 is for the National Sex Offender Public 
Registry; 
(12) $16,000,000 is for expenses authorized by part AA 
of the 1968 Act (Secure our Schools); and 
(13) $25,000,000 is for Paul Coverdell Forensic Science 
Improvement Grants under part BB of title I of the 1968 
Act. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not elsewhere specified in this title, 
for management and administration of programs within the Office 
on Violence Against Women, the Office of Justice Programs and 
the Community Oriented Policing Services Office, $174,000,000, 
of which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be available for the Office 
on Violence Against Women; not to exceed $130,000,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Justice Programs; not to exceed 
$30,000,000 shall be available for the Community Oriented Policing 
Services Office: Provided, That, notwithstanding section 109 of title 
I of Public Law 90–351, an additional amount, not to exceed 
$21,000,000 shall be available for authorized activities of the Office 
of Audit, Assessment, and Management: Provided further, That 
the total amount available for management and administration 
of such programs shall not exceed $195,000,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made available 
in this title for official reception and representation expenses, a 
total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Justice in this title shall be available to the Attorney 
General for official reception and representation expenses. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the 
mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, 
or in the case of rape: Provided, That should this prohibition be 
declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this 
section shall be null and void. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall 
be used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any 
way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall remove the 
obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort 
services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service out-
side the Federal facility: Provided, That nothing in this section 
in any way diminishes the effect of section 203 intended to address 
the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau 
of Prisons. 
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice
report on Social Security numbers in public records. 
In developing the report, the Comptroller General 
shall consult with the Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts, State and local governments 
that store, maintain, or disseminate public records, 
and other stakeholders, including members of the 
private sector who routinely use public records that 
contain Social Security numbers. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States shall submit to Congress 
a report on the study conducted under paragraph 
(1). The report shall include a detailed description 
of the activities and results of the study and rec-
ommendations for such legislative action as the 
Comptroller General considers appropriate. The re-
port, at a minimum, shall include— 
(A) a review of the uses of Social Security 
numbers in non-Federal public records; 
(B) a review of the manner in which public 
records are stored (with separate reviews for 
both paper records and electronic records); 
(C) a review of the advantages or utility of 
public records that contain Social Security 
numbers, including the utility for law enforce-
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(1) IN GENERAL.—If, within 90 days after con-
summation of the land exchange under this Act, the 
Secretary receives a request from the Town for con-
veyance of one or more of the properties identified 
in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of this paragraph, 
the Secretary shall convey to the Town for a price 
equal to market value, as appraised under section 
5— 
(A) the approximately 30 acres of land lo-
cated in Pinal County, Arizona, occupied on the 
date of enactment of this Act by the Fairview 
Cemetery and depicted on the map entitled 
‘‘Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Con-
servation Act of 2005—Federal Parcel-Fairview 
Cemetery’’, dated January 2005; 
(B) the reversionary interest and any re-
served mineral interest of the United States in 
the approximately 265 acres of land located in 
Pinal County, Arizona, depicted on the map en-
titled ‘‘Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and 
Conservation Act of 2005—Federal Rever-
sionary Interest-Superior Airport’’, dated Janu-
ary 2005; and 
(C) all or a portion of the approximately 
181 acres of land located in Pinal County, Ari-
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply to plan years ending after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
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108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3389
AN ACT
To amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act
of 1980 to permit Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Awards to be made to nonprofit organizations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(2) SMOKING ARTICLE STANDARDS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may 
adopt smoking article standards in addition to 
those in paragraph (1) if the Administrator 
finds that a smoking article standard is appro-
priate for the protection of the public health. 
(B) DETERMINATIONS.— 
(i) CONSIDERATIONS.—In making a 
finding described in subparagraph (A), the 
Administrator shall consider scientific evi-
dence concerning— 
(I) the risks and benefits to the 
users of smoking articles of the pro-
posed standard; and 
(II) that the standard is reason-
ably likely to result in measurable and 
substantial reductions in morbidity 
and mortality among individual to-
bacco users. 
(ii) ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.— 
In the event that the Administrator makes 
a determination, set forth in a proposed 
smoking article standard in a proposed 
rule, that it is appropriate for the protec-
tion of public health to require the reduc-
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ties to be treated as qualified entities for pur-
poses of this subsection, which criteria shall re-
quire such an entity to have at all times capital 
sufficient to satisfy the terms of the reinsurance 
contracts and shall include such other industry 
and credit rating standards as the Secretary 
considers appropriate; 
(B) not less than 30 days before the begin-
ning of each regional auction during which any 
reinsurance coverage under this Act is to be 
made available, the Secretary shall publish in 
the Federal Register the reserve prices and 
terms for contracts for such reinsurance cov-
erage that are to be made available during the 
auction; 
(C) the Secretary shall provide qualified 
entities a period of not less than 10 days (which 
shall terminate not less than 20 days before the 
beginning of the auction) to submit to the Sec-
retary a written expression of interest in pro-
viding reinsurance coverage in lieu of the cov-
erage otherwise to be made available under this 
Act by the Secretary; 
(D) the Secretary shall provide any quali-
fied entity submitting an expression of interest 
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in the civil action may be joined in the civil action 
without regard to the residence of the person. 
(f) LIMITATION ON STATE ACTION WHILE FEDERAL 
ACTION IS PENDING.—If the Commission (or other appro-
priate Federal agency under section 3) has instituted a 
civil action or an administrative action for violation of this 
Act, no State attorney general, or official or agency of a 
State, may bring an action under this subsection during 
the pendency of that action against any defendant named 
in the complaint of the Commission or the other agency 
for any violation of this Act alleged in the complaint. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Federal 
Trade Commission; 
(2) the term ‘‘covered entity’’ means a sole pro-
prietorship, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, 
cooperative, association, or other commercial entity, 
and any charitable, educational, or nonprofit organi-
zation, that acquires, maintains, or utilizes sensitive 
personal information; and 
(3) the term ‘‘social security number’’ means a 
social security number that contains more than 5 
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digits of the full 9-digit number assigned by the So-
cial Security Administration. 
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SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.
Section 17(c)(1) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3711a(c)(1)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(F) Nonprofit organizations.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives March 3,
2004.
Attest:
Clerk.
pay for grade GS–14 of the General Schedule under 
section 5332 of title 5, United States Code. 
‘‘(4) DUTIES.—The Director shall be respon-
sible for administering the grant program authorized 
under section 202 of the United States-China Mar-
ket Engagement and Export Promotion Act (relat-
ing to Chinese business education programs) and 
any other similar or related program of the Office.’’. 
SEC. 202. GRANTS FOR CHINESE BUSINESS EDUCATION 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Administrator of 
the Small Business Administration, acting through the Di-
rector of China Program Grants in the Office of Inter-
national Trade, shall make grants to institutions of higher 
education, or combinations of such institutions, to pay the 
Federal share of the cost of planning, establishing, and 
operating education programs described in subsection (b) 
to— 
(1) develop and enhance student skills, aware-
ness, and expertise relating to business in China; 
and 
(2) prepare students to promote the competi-
tiveness of and opportunities for United States small 
business concerns in China. 
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(b) EDUCATION PROGRAMS DESCRIBED.—Education 
programs described in this subsection are academic pro-
grams of study relating to business in China, including 
undergraduate and graduate level degrees, courses, or 
seminars on— 
(1) the economy of China; 
(2) trade and commerce in China; 
(3) new and expanding export opportunities for 
United States small business concerns in China; and 
(4) the economic, commerce, and trade relations 
between the United States and China. 
(c) APPLICATION.—A small business concern desiring 
a grant under this section shall submit an application at 
such time, in such manner, and containing such informa-
tion as the Director of China Program Grants may re-
quire. 
(d) DURATION OF GRANTS.—A grant under this sec-
tion shall be for an initial period not to exceed 2 years. 
The Director of China Program Grants may renew such 
grant for additional 2-year periods. 
(e) FEDERAL SHARE.— 
(1) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of 
the cost of an education program described in sub-
section (b) shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost 
of such program. 
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(2) NON-FEDERAL
SHARE.—The non-Federal 
share of the cost of an education program described 
in subsection (b) may be provided either in cash or 
in kind. 
(f) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘institu-
tion of higher education’’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1001). 
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tion or elimination of an additive, con-
stituent (including a smoke constituent), or 
other component of a smoking article be-
cause the Administrator has found that the 
additive, constituent, or other component is 
harmful, any party objecting to the pro-
posed standard on the ground that the 
proposed standard will not reduce or elimi-
nate the risk of illness or injury may pro-
vide for the Administrator’s consideration 
scientific evidence that demonstrates that 
the proposed standard will not reduce or 
eliminate the risk of illness or injury. 
(3) CONTENT
OF
SMOKING
ARTICLE
STAND-
ARDS.—A smoking article standard established 
under this section for a smoking article— 
(A) may include provisions that are appro-
priate for the protection of the public health, 
including provisions, where appropriate— 
(i) for ‘‘tar’’ and nicotine yields of the 
product; 
(ii) for the reduction of other constitu-
ents, including smoke constituents, or 
harmful components of the product; or 
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