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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 347
To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms
in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement
of such right.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 19, 1999
Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and
to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and
to provide for the enforcement of such right.
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 ‘‘Citizens’ Self-Defense
Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
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(1) Police cannot protect, and are not legally
liable for failing to protect, individual citizens, as
evidenced by the following:
(A) The courts have consistently ruled that
the police do not have an obligation to protect
individuals, only the public in general. For ex-
ample, in Warren v. District of Columbia Met-
ropolitan Police Department, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C.
App. 1981), the court stated: ‘‘[C]ourts have
without exception concluded that when a mu-
nicipality or other governmental entity under-
takes to furnish police services, it assumes a
duty only to the public at large and not to indi-
vidual members of the community.’’.
(B) Former Florida Attorney General Jim
Smith told Florida legislators that police re-
sponded to only 200,000 of 700,000 calls for
help to Dade County authorities.
(C) The United States Department of Jus-
tice found that, in 1989, there were 168,881
crimes of violence for which police had not re-
sponded within 1 hour.
(D) Currently, there are about 150,000 po-
lice officers on duty at any one time.
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(2) Citizens frequently must use firearms to de-
fend themselves, as evidenced by the following:
(A) Every year, more than 2,400,000 peo-
ple in the United States use a gun to defend
themselves against criminals—or more than
6,500 people a day. This means that, each year,
firearms are used 60 times more often to pro-
tect the lives of honest citizens than to take
lives.
(B) Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases,
more than 192,000 are by women defending
themselves against sexual abuse.
(C) Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use
their guns to defend themselves every year, 92
percent merely brandish their gun or fire a
warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less
than 8 percent of the time, does a citizen kill
or wound his or her attacker.
(3) Law-abiding citizens, seeking only to pro-
vide for their families’ defense, are routinely pros-
ecuted for brandishing or using a firearm in self-
defense. For example:
(A) In 1986, Don Bennett of Oak Park, Il-
linois, was shot at by 2 men who had just sto-
len $1,200 in cash and jewelry from his subur-
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(i) the extent to which the current system
for controlling the export of aerospace goods,
services, and technologies reflects an adequate
balance between the need to protect national se-
curity and the need to ensure unhindered access
to the global marketplace; and
(ii) the adequacy of United States and mul-
tilateral trade laws and policies for maintaining
the international competitiveness of the United
States aerospace industry.
(E) Policies governing taxation, particularly
with a view to assessing the impact of current tax
laws and practices on the international competitive-
ness of the aerospace industry.
(F) Programs for the maintenance of the na-
tional space launch infrastructure, particularly with
a view to assessing the adequacy of current and pro-
jected programs for maintaining the national space
launch infrastructure.
(G) Programs for the support of science and en-
gineering education, including current programs for
supporting aerospace science and engineering efforts
at institutions of higher learning, with a view to de-
termining the adequacy of those programs.
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ban Chicago service station. The police arrested
Bennett for violating Oak Park’s handgun ban.
The police never caught the actual criminals.
(B) Ronald Biggs, a resident of Goldsboro,
North Carolina, was arrested for shooting an
intruder in 1990. Four men broke into Biggs’
residence one night, ransacked the home and
then assaulted him with a baseball bat. When
Biggs attempted to escape through the back
door, the group chased him and Biggs turned
and shot one of the assailants in the stomach.
Biggs was arrested and charged with assault
with a deadly weapon—a felony. His assailants
were charged with misdemeanors.
(C) Don Campbell of Port Huron, Michi-
gan, was arrested, jailed, and criminally
charged after he shot a criminal assailant in
1991. The thief had broken into Campbell’s
store and attacked him. The prosecutor plea-
bargained with the assailant and planned to use
him to testify against Campbell for felonious
use of a firearm. Only after intense community
pressure did the prosecutor finally drop the
charges.
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(4) The courts have granted immunity from
prosecution to police officers who use firearms in the
line of duty. Similarly, law-abiding citizens who use
firearms to protect themselves, their families, and
their homes against violent felons should not be sub-
ject to lawsuits by the violent felons who sought to
victimize them.
SEC. 3. RIGHT TO OBTAIN FIREARMS FOR SECURITY, AND
TO USE FIREARMS IN DEFENSE OF SELF,
FAMILY, OR HOME; ENFORCEMENT.
(a) REAFFIRMATION OF RIGHT.—A person not pro-
hibited from receiving a firearm by Section 922(g) of title
18, United States Code, shall have the right to obtain fire-
arms for security, and to use firearms—
(1) in defense of self or family against a rea-
sonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful
infliction of serious bodily injury;
(2) in defense of self or family in the course of
the commission by another person of a violent felony
against the person or a member of the person’s fam-
ily; and
(3) in defense of the person’s home in the
course of the commission of a felony by another per-
son.
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(b) FIREARM DEFINED.—As used in subsection (a),
the term ‘‘firearm’’ means—
(1) a shotgun (as defined in section 921(a)(5)
of title 18, United States Code);
(2) a rifle (as defined in section 921(a)(7) of
title 18, United States Code); or
(3) a handgun (as defined in section 10 of Pub-
lic Law 99–408).
(c) ENFORCEMENT OF RIGHT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—A person whose right under
subsection (a) is violated in any manner may bring
an action in any United States district court against
the United States, any State, or any person for
damages, injunctive relief, and such other relief as
the court deems appropriate.
(2) AUTHORITY TO AWARD A REASONABLE AT-
TORNEY’S FEE.—In an action brought under para-
graph (1), the court, in its discretion, may allow the
prevailing plaintiff a reasonable attorney’s fee as
part of the costs.
(3) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.—An action may
not be brought under paragraph (1) after the 5-year
period that begins with the date the violation de-
scribed in paragraph (1) is discovered.
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I
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3480
To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to expand enrollment
of children under the Medicaid and State children’s health insurance
program (SCHIP) through the expanded use of presumptive eligibility.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 18, 1999
Mr. KLINK (for himself and Ms. DEGETTE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Commerce
A BILL
To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act
to expand enrollment of children under the Medicaid
and State children’s health insurance program (SCHIP)
through the expanded use of presumptive eligibility.
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 ‘‘Medicaid and SCHIP
Presumptive Eligibility Expansion Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL ENTITIES QUALIFIED TO DETERMINE
MEDICAID PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY FOR
LOW-INCOME CHILDREN.
Section 1920A(b)(3)(A)(i) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1396r–1a(b)(3)(A)(i)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or (II)’’ and inserting ‘‘, (II)’’;
and
(2) by inserting before the semicolon the fol-
lowing: ‘‘eligibility of a child for medical assistance
under the State plan under this title, or eligibility of
a child for child health assistance under the program
funded under title XXI, (III) is an elementary school
or secondary school, as such terms are defined in
section 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801), an ele-
mentary or secondary school operated or supported
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a State child sup-
port enforcement agency, a child care resource and
referral agency, or a State office or private con-
tractor that accepts applications for or administers
a program funded under part A of title IV or that
determines eligibility for any assistance or benefits
provided under any program of public or assisted
housing that receives Federal funds, including the
program under section 8 or any other section of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437
Sec. 2. NICE drug benefit program.
‘‘PART D—NICE DRUG BENEFIT PROGRAM
‘‘Sec. 1860A. Establishment of NICE drug benefit program.
‘‘Sec. 1860B. Requirements for offering NICE drug benefit coverage.
‘‘Sec. 1860C. Enrollment process for NICE drug benefit coverage.
‘‘Sec. 1860D. Financial assistance to obtain NICE prescription drug cov-
erage
‘‘Sec. 1860E. NICE Board.
‘‘Sec. 1860F. NICE Trust Fund.
Sec. 3. Conforming changes to medigap.
Sec. 4. Provision of information on NICE drug benefit program under health
insurance information, counseling, and assistance grants.
SEC. 2. NICE DRUG BENEFIT PROGRAM.
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395 et seq.) is amended by redesignating part D as part
E and by inserting after part C the following new part:
‘‘PART D—NICE DRUG BENEFIT PROGRAM
‘‘ESTABLISHMENT OF NICE DRUG BENEFIT PROGRAM
‘‘SEC. 1860A. (a) IN GENERAL.—Under this part,
the NICE Board (established under section 1860E) shall
provide for a NICE drug benefit program under which—
‘‘(1) all eligible medicare beneficiaries shall be
provided access to NICE prescription drug coverage
(meeting the conditions of section 1860B) through
either enrollment in a Medicare+Choice plan, enroll-
ment in a NICE medicare supplemental policy, or
coverage under a group health plan; and
‘‘(2) there is financial assistance provided under
section 1860D for beneficiaries who voluntarily ob-
tain such coverage, with such assistance varying de-
pending upon the income of such beneficiaries.
et seq.), or (IV) any other entity the State so
deems’’.
SEC. 
3. 
APPLICATION 
OF 
PRESUMPTIVE 
ELIGIBILITY
UNDER SCHIP AND WAIVER OF STATE MATCH
FOR OUTREACH IF ELECT PRESUMPTIVE ELI-
GIBILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102 of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1397bb) is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) APPLICATION
OF PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY
PROVISIONS.—A State may elect to apply the provisions
of section 1920A under this title in the same manner as
the State may elect to apply such provisions under title
XIX.’’.
(b) WAIVER OF STATE MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—
Section 2105 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397ee) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘subject to
subsection (g),’’ after ‘‘For purposes of subsection
(a),’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(g) WAIVER OF STATE MATCHING REQUIREMENT
FOR OUTREACH SERVICES IF STATE ELECTS TO USE
PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY FOR BOTH MEDICAID AND
SCHIP.—The enhanced FMAP with respect to child
health assistance for outreach services described in section
2102(c)(1) for a State shall be 100 percent for a calendar
quarter if the State has both—
‘‘(1) elected to apply the provisions of section
1920A under title XIX for the entire calendar quar-
ter; and
‘‘(2) elected under section 2102(d) to apply the
provisions of section 1920A under this title for the
entire calendar quarter.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section take effect on the date of the enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION OF USE OF SCHIP FUNDS TO PRO-
VIDE ENROLLING CENTERS WITH INCEN-
TIVES TO ENROLL LOW-INCOME CHILDREN.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2105 of such Act (42
U.S.C. 1397ee), as amended by section 3, is further
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(h) TREATMENT OF ENROLLMENT INCENTIVES.—
Reasonable expenditures to enrolling centers to provide an
incentive to enroll targeted low-income children under this
title shall be treated as reasonable costs incurred by the
State to administer the plan for purposes of subsection
(a)(2)(D).’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) applies to expenditures made on or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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I
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3481
To impose a 2-year moratorium on the issuance of new Federal licenses
to deal in firearms.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 18, 1999
Mrs. LOWEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To impose a 2-year moratorium on the issuance of new
Federal licenses to deal in firearms.
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 ‘‘Firearms Proliferation
Prevention Act’’.
SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON ISSUANCE OF NEW FEDERAL
FIREARMS DEALER LICENSES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 923 of
title 18, United States Code, the Secretary of the Treas-
ury may not issue a new license to deal in firearms during
the 2-year period that begins with the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
(b) INAPPLICABILITY OF HEARING REQUIREMENT.—
The first sentence of section 923(f)(2) of title 18, United
States Code, shall not apply to any application for a new
license to deal in firearms that is denied pursuant to sub-
section (a) of this section.
(c) FIREARM DEFINED.—In this section, the term
‘firearm’ has the meaning given the term in section
921(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code.
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SECTION 1. ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN ANTI-TERRORISM
JUDGMENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act’’.
(b) DEFINITION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1603(b) of title 28,
United States Code, is amended—
(A) in paragraph (3) by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘; and’’;
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2),
and (3) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), re-
spectively;
(C) by striking ‘‘(b)’’ through ‘‘entity—’’
and inserting the following:
‘‘(b) An ‘agency or instrumentality of a foreign state’
means—
‘‘(1) any entity—’’; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) for purposes of sections 1605(a)(7) and
1610 (a)(7) and (f), any entity as defined under
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), and
subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) shall not
apply.’’.
(2) TECHNICAL
AND
CONFORMING
AMEND-
MENT.—Section 1391(f)(3) of title 28, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘1603(b)’’ and
inserting ‘‘1603(b)(1)’’.
(c) 
ENFORCEMENT
OF
JUDGMENTS.—Section
1610(f) of title 28, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘(in-
cluding any agency or instrumentality or such
state)’’ and inserting ‘‘(including any agency or
instrumentality of such state)’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
moneys due from or payable by the United States (includ-
ing any agency or instrumentality thereof) to any state
against which a judgment is pending under section
1605(a)(7) shall be subject to attachment and execution
with respect to that judgment, in like manner and to the
same extent as if the United States were a private per-
son.’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), upon deter-
mining on an asset-by-asset basis that a waiver is nec-
essary in the national security interest, the President may
waive this subsection in connection with (and prior to the
enforcement of) any judicial order directing attachment in
aid of execution or execution against any property subject
‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS.—Upon receipt
of reports under paragraph (1), the Commission
shall—
‘‘(A) immediately transmit complete copies
of the reports to the Secretary of the Treasury,
the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board,
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
and other appropriate regulatory agencies; and
‘‘(B) subject to paragraph (4), make the
reports widely available to the public.
‘‘(4) CONFIDENTIALITY
OF
PROPRIETARY
IN-
FORMATION.—Proprietary information contained in
reports shall be treated as follows:
‘‘(A) If, in preparing a complete and accu-
rate report under paragraph (1), an unregis-
tered hedge fund includes in the report propri-
etary information concerning investment strate-
gies or positions, such proprietary information
may, consistent with the regulations prescribed
by the Commission, be segregated in a con-
fidential section of the report that shall not be
available to the public under paragraph (3)(B).
‘‘(B) Nothing in this subsection shall au-
thorize the Commission to withhold information
from Congress, or prevent the Commission from
complying with a request for information from
any other Federal department or agency re-
questing the information for purposes within
the scope of its jurisdiction, or complying with
an order of a court of the United States in an
action brought by the United States or the
Board.
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section:
‘‘(A) UNREGISTERED HEDGE FUND.—The
term ‘unregistered hedge fund’—
‘‘(i) means any pooled investment ve-
hicle, or group or family of pooled invest-
ment vehicles, that—
‘‘(I) has total assets under man-
agement of $1,000,000,000 or more;
and
‘‘(II) is excepted from the defini-
tion of investment company by section
3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7), or is a foreign com-
pany that would be required to obtain
an order of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission under section
7(d) if it made a public offering of its
securities by use of the mails and
means or instrumentalities of inter-
state commerce; but
‘‘(ii) does not include a commodity
pool operator or futures commission mer-
chant (as such terms are defined under
section 1a of the Commodity Exchange Act
(7 U.S.C. 1a)).
‘‘(B) APPROPRIATE
REGULATORY
AGEN-
CIES.—The term ‘appropriate regulatory agen-
cies’ means each of the agencies that is an ap-
propriate regulatory agency under section
3(a)(34) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.’’.
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108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4840
AN ACT
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
simplify the taxation of businesses.
108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4840
AN ACT
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify
the taxation of businesses.
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 ‘‘Tax Simplification for
America’s Job Creators Act of 2004’’.
SEC. 2. 2-YEAR EXTENSION OF INCREASED EXPENSING FOR
SMALL BUSINESS.
Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 179 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 are each amended by
striking ‘‘2006’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘2008’’.
SEC. 3. INDEXING OF GROSS RECEIPTS TEST FOR CASH
METHOD OF ACCOUNTING.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 448(c) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(4) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT OF GROSS RE-
CEIPTS TEST.—In the case of any taxable year be-
ginning in a calendar year after 2003, the
$5,000,000 dollar amount in paragraph (1) shall be
increased by an amount equal to—
‘‘(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by
‘‘(B) the cost-of-living adjustment deter-
mined under section 1(f)(3) for such calendar
year by substituting ‘calendar year 2002’ for
‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B)
thereof.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Sex Crimes
Wiretapping Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF INTERCEPTION OF COMMU-
NICATIONS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SEX-
UAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
(a) CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.—Section 2516(1)(c) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 2252A (relating to material constituting or containing
child pornography),’’ after ‘‘2252 (sexual exploitation of
children),’’.
(b) TRANSPORTATION FOR ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIV-
ITY.—Section 2516(1) of title 18, United States Code, as
amended by section 3 of this Act, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
(o);
(2) by inserting after paragraph (o) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(p) a violation of section 2422 (relating to
coercion and enticement) or section 2423 (relat-
ing to transportation of minors) of this title, if,
in connection with that violation, the sexual ac-
tivity for which a person may be charged with
a criminal offense would constitute a felony of-
fense under chapter 109A or 110, if that activ-
ity took place within the special maritime and
territorial jurisdiction of the United States; or’’;
and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (p) as para-
graph (q).
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT ELIMINATING DUPLICA-
TIVE PROVISION.
Section 2516(1) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking the first paragraph (p); and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
(o).
Passed the House of Representatives October 3,
2000.
Attest:
Clerk.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3484
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that certain sexual crimes
against children are predicate crimes for the interception of communica-
tions, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 18, 1999
Mr. MCCOLLUM (for himself, and Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that
certain sexual crimes against children are predicate
crimes for the interception of communications, 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 ‘‘Child Sex Crimes
Wiretapping Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF INTERCEPTION OF COMMU-
NICATIONS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SEX-
UAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
(a) CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.—Section 2516(1)(c) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 2252A (relating to material constituting or containing
child pornography),’’ after ‘‘2252 (sexual exploitation of
children),’’.
(b) COERCION
AND ENTICEMENT
TO ENGAGE
IN
PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY.—
Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting ‘‘section 2422 (relating to coercion
and enticement),’’ after ‘‘section 2321 (relating to traf-
ficking in certain motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts),’’.
(c) TRANSPORTATION OF MINORS TO ENGAGE IN
PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY.—
Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after the matter added to that sec-
tion by subsection (b) of this section the following: ‘‘sec-
tion 2423 (relating to transportation of minors)’’.
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT ELIMINATING DUPLICA-
TIVE PROVISION.
Section 2516(1) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking the first paragraph (p); and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
(o).
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