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Union Calendar No. 318
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 860
[Report No. 105–503, Part I]
To authorize appropriations to the Department of Transportation for surface
transportation research and development, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mrs. MORELLA (for herself and Mr. BROWN of California) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science
APRIL 29, 1998
Reported with an amendment and referred to the Committees on Commerce
and Transportation and Infrastructure for a period ending not later than
June 2, 1998 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amend-
ment reported from the Committee on Science as fall within their juris-
diction pursuant to clause 1(e) and (q) of rule X, respectively
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
JUNE 2, 1998
Referral to the Committees on Commerce and Transportation and
Infrastructure extended for a period ending not later than June 3, 1998
JUNE 3, 1998
Additional sponsors: Mr. FORBES, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas,
and Ms. STABENOW
JUNE 3, 1998
The Committees on Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure dis-
charged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
to the United States any property, real or personal, in-
volved in the violation or in the conspiracy, and any other
property traceable to such property.’’.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 861
To authorize a farmer or rancher whose bid for reenrollment of land into
the conservation reserve is rejected to unilaterally extend the contract
for a final year.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mr. MORAN of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To authorize a farmer or rancher whose bid for reenrollment
of land into the conservation reserve is rejected to unilat-
erally extend the contract for a final year.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF CERTAIN EXPIRING
CONSERVATION RESERVE CONTRACTS.
(a) 
EXTENSION
AUTHORIZED.—Notwithstanding
section 727 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–180; 110 Stat.
1600), in the case of a conservation reserve program con-
tract described in subsection (b), the owner or operator
of a farm or ranch who is the party to the contract may
extend the contract for one year if the owner or operator
agrees to accept a rental rate not to exceed the lower of—
(1) the existing rental rate under the contract;
or
(2) the maximum county rental rate established
by the Secretary of Agriculture for the county in
which the land covered by the contract is located.
(b) ELIGIBLE CONTRACTS DESCRIBED.—A conserva-
tion reserve program contract referred to in subsection (a)
means a contract that—
(1) was entered into under subchapter B of
chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Se-
curity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.);
(2) expires in 1997; and
(3) covers land, regarding which the Secretary
of Agriculture rejects a bid to reenroll the land in
the conservation reserve.
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izing a demonstration project which is designed
to identify and address parental substance abuse
problems that endanger children and result in
the placement of children in foster care, includ-
ing through the placement of children with their
parents in residential treatment facilities (in-
cluding residential treatment facilities for post-
partum depression) that are specifically designed
to serve parents and children together in order to
promote family reunification and that can en-
sure the health and safety of the children in such
placements.
‘‘(C) If an appropriate application therefor
is submitted, the Secretary shall consider author-
izing a demonstration project which is designed
to address kinship care.
‘‘(4) LIMITATION
ON
ELIGIBILITY.—The Sec-
retary may not authorize a State to conduct a dem-
onstration project under this section if the State fails
to provide health insurance coverage to any child
with special needs (as determined under section
473(c)) for whom there is in effect an adoption assist-
ance agreement between a State and an adoptive par-
ent or parents.
SEC. 108. FINANCIAL ASSURANCES.
(a) NO NET COST TO THE GOVERNMENT.—The Sec-
retary shall take such actions as may be necessary to en-
sure that minting and issuing coins under this title will
not result in any net cost to the United States Govern-
ment.
(b) PAYMENT FOR COINS.—A coin shall not be issued
under this title unless the Secretary has received—
(1) full payment for the coin;
(2) security satisfactory to the Secretary to in-
demnify the United States for full payment; or
(3) a guarantee of full payment satisfactory to
the Secretary from a depository institution whose
deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corporation or the National Credit Union Ad-
ministration Board.
TITLE II—CIRCULATING COINS
SEC. 201. AUTHORITY TO REDESIGN HALF DOLLAR CIR-
CULATING COINS.
Section 5112(d) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after the 6th sentence the following:
‘‘At the discretion of the Secretary, half dollar coins mint-
ed after December 31, 1996, and before July 31, 1998,
may bear the same design as the commemorative coins
minted under title I of the Marian Anderson Centennial
Commemorative Coin Act, as established under section
103 of that Act.’’.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 865
To provide that Kentucky may not tax compensation paid to a resident
of Tennessee for services as a Federal employee at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mr. BRYANT (for himself and Mr. TANNER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide that Kentucky may not tax compensation paid
to a resident of Tennessee for services as a Federal
employee at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF STATE AUTHORITY TO TAX
COMPENSATION PAID TO CERTAIN FEDERAL
EMPLOYEES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 111 of title 4, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.—’’ be-
fore ‘‘The United States’’ the first place it appears,
and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b) TREATMENT
OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
AT
FORT CAMPBELL.—Pay and compensation paid by the
United States for personal services as an employee of the
United States at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, shall be sub-
ject to taxation by the State of Kentucky or any political
subdivision thereof only if such employee is a resident of
such State or political subdivision.’’
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall apply to pay and compensation paid
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 866
To provide that Members of the House of Representatives may return unused
amounts from the Members’ Representational Allowance to the Treasury
for deficit reduction.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mr. CAMP introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on House Oversight
A BILL
To provide that Members of the House of Representatives
may return unused amounts from the Members’ Rep-
resentational Allowance to the Treasury for deficit reduc-
tion.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RETURN OF UNUSED AMOUNTS FROM THE
HOUSE 
OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
MEMBERS’
REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCE TO THE
TREASURY FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.
Notwithstanding any other law, or any rule or other
authority, a Member of the House of Representatives may
return to the Treasury, to be used for deficit reduction,
any amount remaining in the Members’ Representational
Allowance of the Member at the end of the session of Con-
gress or other period for which the allowance is made
available.
SEC. 2. PUBLICATION REQUIREMENT.
After each session of Congress or other period for
which the Members’ Representational Allowance is made
available, there shall be published in the Congressional
Record a statement showing, with respect to such session
or period, the amount returned by each Member under
section 1 and the total returned by all Members.
SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.
The Committee on House Oversight of the House of
Representatives shall have authority to prescribe regula-
tions to carry out this Act.
SEC. 4. DEFINITION.
As used in this Act, the term ‘‘Member of the House
of Representatives’’ means a Representative in, or a Dele-
gate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.
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(2) in subsection (c)—
(A) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (3) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) a State agency that is administering a pro-
gram operated under a State plan under subpart 1
of part B, or a State plan approved under subpart
2 of part B or under part E.’’.
SEC. 107. CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECKS FOR PROSPECTIVE
FOSTER 
AND 
ADOPTIVE 
PARENTS 
AND
GROUP CARE STAFF.
(a) 
REQUIREMENT
FOR
CRIMINAL
RECORDS
CHECKS.—Section 471(a) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 671(a)), as amended by section 5591(b) of the Bal-
anced Budget Act of 1997, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(18);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (19) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(20) provides procedures for Federal and State
criminal records checks for any prospective foster or
adoptive parent and any other adults residing in the
household of such parent, and any employee of a resi-
dential child-care institution before the foster parent
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 867
AN ACT
To promote the adoption of children in foster care.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
for fiscal year 1997, the Secretary may use data
from a source or sources other than that specified
in subparagraph (A) that the Secretary finds to
be of equivalent completeness and reliability, as
reported by a State by November 30, 1997, and
approved by the Secretary by March 1, 1998.
‘‘(3) NO WAIVER OF AFCARS REQUIREMENTS.—
This section shall not be construed to alter or affect
any requirement of section 479 or any regulation pre-
scribed under such section with respect to reporting of
data by States, or to waive any penalty for failure
to comply with the requirements.
‘‘(d) ADOPTION INCENTIVE PAYMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the adoption incentive payment payable to
a State for a fiscal year under this section shall be
equal to the sum of—
‘‘(A) $4,000, multiplied by amount (if any)
by which the number of foster child adoptions in
the State during the fiscal year exceeds the base
number of foster child adoptions for the State for
the fiscal year; and
‘‘(B) $2,000, multiplied by the amount (if
any) by which the number of special needs adop-
tions in the State during the fiscal year exceeds
Sec. 7. Use of parent locator service in termination of parental rights proceed-
ings.
Sec. 8. Reports on performance of States in protecting children.
Sec. 9. Authority to approve more child protection demonstration projects.
Sec. 10. Technical assistance.
Sec. 11. Adoption bonus for States.
Sec. 12. Effective date.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF THE REASONABLE EFFORTS RE-
QUIRED TO BE MADE BEFORE PLACING A
CHILD IN FOSTER CARE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 471(a)(15) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(15)) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(15)(A) provides that—
‘‘(i) except as provided in clauses (ii) and
(iii), reasonable efforts shall be made—
‘‘(I) before a child is placed in foster
care, to prevent or eliminate the need to
remove the child from the child’s home;
and
‘‘(II) to make it possible for the child
to return home;
‘‘(ii) in a case involving aggravated cir-
cumstances (as defined by the State and ap-
proved by the Secretary) such as a case in
which the child has been abandoned, tortured,
chronically abused, or sexually abused, in which
a parent of the child has been found by a court
of competent jurisdiction to have engaged in
SEC. 9. AUTHORITY TO APPROVE MORE CHILD PROTEC-
TION DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
Section 1130(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1320a–9(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘10’’ and inserting
‘‘15’’.
SEC. 10. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall provide technical assistance to as-
sist States and local communities to reach their targets
for increased numbers of adoptions and, to the extent that
adoption is not possible, alternative permanent place-
ments, for children in foster care.
(b) LIMITATIONS.—The technical assistance provided
under subsection (a) shall support the goal of encouraging
more adoptions out of the foster care system, when adop-
tions promote the best interests of children, and shall in-
clude the following:
(1) The development of best practice guidelines
for expediting termination of parental rights.
(2) Models to encourage the use of concurrent
planning.
(3) The development of specialized units and
expertise in moving children toward adoption as a
permanency goal.
(4) The development of risk assessment tools to
facilitate early identification of the children who will
be at risk of harm if returned home.
(5) Models to encourage the fast tracking of
children who have not attained 1 year of age into
foster and adoptive placements.
(c) LIMITATIONS
ON AUTHORIZATION
OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS.—To carry out this section, there are author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health and
Human Services not to exceed $10,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 1998 through 2000.
SEC. 11. ADOPTION BONUS FOR STATES.
Part E of title IV of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 670–679) is amended by inserting after section
473 the following:
‘‘SEC. 473A. ADOPTION BONUS.
‘‘(a) GRANT AUTHORITY.—To the extent of available
appropriations, the Secretary shall make a grant to each
State, for each fiscal year for which the State is a bonus-
eligible State, in an amount equal to the adoption bonus,
and shall make the grant in the immediately succeeding
fiscal year.
‘‘(b) BONUS-ELIGIBLE STATE.—A State is a bonus-
eligible State for a fiscal year if—
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 867
To promote the adoption of children in foster care.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mr. CAMP (for himself, Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut, and Mr. SHAW) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means
A BILL
To promote the adoption of children in foster care.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Adoption Promotion Act of 1997’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Clarification of the reasonable efforts required to be made before plac-
ing a child in foster care.
Sec. 3. Earlier status reviews and permanency hearings.
Sec. 4. Notice of reviews and hearings; opportunity of parties to be heard.
Sec. 5. States required to initiate proceedings to terminate parental rights for
certain children in foster care.
Sec. 6. Report and recommendations on kinship care.
(2) The ground water overdraft problem in the
Pajaro Valley has resulted in seawater intrusion and
water quality degradation.
(3) Agricultural production is the leading indus-
try in the Pajaro Valley, with gross receipts of more
than $460,000,000 in 1994.
(4) The Pajaro Valley Water Management
Agency (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Agency’’)
was established by the State of California and the
citizens of the Pajaro Valley to eliminate the ground
water overdraft and preserve agricultural production.
(5) The Agency was directed by California stat-
ute to develop a comprehensive plan to stabilize
ground water supplies in an economically and envi-
ronmentally acceptable manner.
(6) The Agency has drafted and approved a
comprehensive plan, entitled the ‘‘Basin Manage-
ment Plan’’ and dated November 1993, which will,
when implemented, stabilize the water resources of
the basin and address the problems of overdraft and
seawater intrusion by emphasizing water conserva-
tion and by developing supplemental sources of
water.
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(b) DISCRETIONARY CAP ADJUSTMENT FOR ADOP-
TION INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.—
(1) 
SECTION
251
AMENDMENT.—Section
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding
at the end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(I) ADOPTION
INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS.—
Whenever a bill or joint resolution making ap-
propriations for fiscal year 1999, 2000, 2001,
or 2002 is enacted that specifies an amount for
adoption incentive payments for the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services—
‘‘(i) the adjustments for new budget
authority shall be the amounts of new
budget authority provided in that measure
for adoption incentive payments, but not to
exceed $15,000,000; and
‘‘(ii) the adjustment for outlays shall
be the additional outlays flowing from such
amount.’’.
(2) SECTION 606 AMENDMENT.—Section 606 of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(f) ADOPTION
INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS
ADJUST-
MENT.—
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—(A)(i) When the Committee
on Appropriations reports an appropriation measure
for fiscal year 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, or 2003 that
specifies an amount for adoption incentive payments
for the Department of Health and Human Services,
or when a conference committee submits a con-
ference report thereon, the chairman of the Commit-
tee on the Budget of the Senate or House of Rep-
resentatives (whichever is appropriate) shall—
‘‘(I) make adjustments for the amounts of
new budget authority provided by that appro-
priation measure for such payments, which
shall be the amount of new budget authority
provided in that measure for adoption incentive
payments, but not to exceed $15,000,000; and
‘‘(II) make adjustment for outlays, which
shall be in an amount equal to the additional
outlays flowing from such amount.
‘‘(ii) If the adjustments referred to in the pre-
ceding sentence are made for an appropriations
measure that is not enacted into law, then the chair-
man of the Committee on the Budget of the House
of Representatives shall, as soon as practicable, re-
verse those adjustments.
$13,120,000 shall be for activities specified under section
2003(b)(2), all of which shall be for prevention service
demonstration grants under section 510(b)(2) of title V
of the Social Security Act, as amended, without applica-
tion of the limitation of section 2010(c) of said title XX:
Provided further, That of this amount, $25,000,000 shall
be for advancing health care information technology na-
tionally, 
including 
demonstration 
project 
grants;
$52,838,000 shall be for minority AIDS prevention and
treatment activities; $14,847,000 shall be for an Informa-
tion Technology Security and Innovation Fund for De-
partment-wide activities involving cybersecurity, informa-
tion technology security, and related innovation projects;
and $5,000,000 shall be to assist Afghanistan in the devel-
opment of maternal and child health clinics, consistent
with section 103(a)(4)(H) of the Afghanistan Freedom
Support Act of 2002.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector
General, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles for
investigations, in carrying out the provisions of the Inspec-
tor General Act of 1978, as amended, $40,323,000: Pro-
vided, That of such amount, necessary sums are available
for providing protective services to the Secretary and in-
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 869
To require a parent who is delinquent in child support to include his unpaid
obligation in gross income, and to allow custodial parents a bad debt
deduction for unpaid child support payments.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 27, 1997
Mr. COX of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To require a parent who is delinquent in child support to
include his unpaid obligation in gross income, and to
allow custodial parents a bad debt deduction for unpaid
child support payments.
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 ‘‘Child Support Enforce-
ment Act’’.
SEC. 2. NO EFFECT ON RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect—
(1) the right of an individual or State to receive
any child support payment; or
(2) the obligation of an individual to pay child
support.
SEC. 3. INCLUSION IN INCOME OF AMOUNT OF UNPAID
CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 108 of the Internal Reve-
nue Code of 1986 (relating to discharge of indebtedness
income) is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(h) UNPAID CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this chap-
ter, any taxable unpaid child support payments of a
taxpayer for any taxable year shall be treated as
amounts includible in gross income of the taxpayer
for the taxable year by reason of the discharge of in-
debtedness of the taxpayer.
‘‘(2) TAXABLE UNPAID CHILD SUPPORT PAY-
MENTS.—For purposes of this subsection, the term
‘taxable unpaid child support payments’ means pay-
ments—
‘‘(A) which were applicable child support
payments which the taxpayer was required to
pay under a support instrument for the support
of a child of the taxpayer, and
‘‘(B) with respect to which the notice re-
quirements of paragraph (3) are met.
‘‘(3) NOTICE REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—During January of
the second calendar year following a calendar
year in which there begins a taxable year for
which a deduction allowed under section 166(f)
was claimed, the eligible taxpayer shall send a
notice (in such form as the Secretary may pre-
scribe) to the individual who failed to make
payments which contains—
‘‘(i) the amount of the applicable child
support payments for such taxable year,
and
‘‘(ii) notice that the individual is re-
quired to include such amount in gross in-
come for the taxable year beginning in the
preceding calendar year.
‘‘(B) NOTICE
BY
SECRETARY.—If notice
cannot be provided under subparagraph (A) be-
cause the address is not known to the eligible
taxpayer, the Secretary shall send such notice if
the address is available to the Secretary.
‘‘(C) ADDRESS UNKNOWN.—If notice can-
not be provided under subparagraph (A) or (B)
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(A) striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting
‘‘Subject to subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e),
the Secretary’’; and
(B) inserting ‘‘(in this section referred to
as the ‘Convention’)’’ after ‘‘1973’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
sections:
‘‘(d)(1) The Secretary of the Interior may not nomi-
nate any lands owned by the United States for inclusion
on the World Heritage List pursuant to the Convention,
unless—
‘‘(A) the Secretary finds with reasonable basis
that commercially viable uses of the nominated
lands, and commercially viable uses of other lands
located within 10 miles of the nominated lands, in
existence on the date of the nomination will not be
adversely affected by inclusion of the lands on the
World Heritage List, and publishes that finding;
‘‘(B) the Secretary has submitted to the Con-
gress a report describing—
‘‘(i) natural resources associated with the
lands referred to in subparagraph (A); and
‘‘(ii) the impacts that inclusion of the nom-
inated lands on the World Heritage List would
have on existing and future uses of the nomi-