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sions, consistent with the order of precedence set forth in 
section 8342(c) of title 5, United States Code, under 
which a survivor of an individual who performed service 
described in section 8332(b)(18) of such title (as amended 
by section 1) shall be allowed to submit an application on 
behalf of and to receive any lump-sum payment that would 
otherwise have been payable to the decedent under sub-
section (b) or (c). Such an application shall not be valid 
unless it is filed within 2 years after the effective date 
of this Act or 1 year after the date of the decedent’s death, 
whichever is later. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING. 
(a) LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS.—Any lump-sum pay-
ments under section 2 shall be payable out of the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund. 
(b) UNFUNDED LIABILITY.—Any increase in the un-
funded liability of the Civil Service Retirement System at-
tributable to the enactment of this Act shall be financed 
in accordance with section 8348(f) of title 5, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 4. REGULATIONS AND SPECIAL RULE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, 
in consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence, 
shall prescribe any regulations necessary to carry out this
Act. Such regulations shall include provisions under which 
rules similar to those established pursuant to section 201 
of the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Act of 1986 
shall be applied with respect to any service described in 
section 8332(b)(18) of title 5, United States Code (as 
amended by section 1) that was subject to title II of the 
Social Security Act. 
(b) OTHER REGULATIONS.—The Director of Central 
Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Office 
of Personnel Management, shall prescribe any regulations 
which may become necessary, with respect to any retire-
ment system administered by the Director of Central In-
telligence, as a result of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of any application 
for any benefit which is computed or recomputed taking 
into account any service described in section 8332(b)(18) 
of title 5, United States Code (as amended by section 1), 
section 8345(i)(2) of such title shall be applied by deeming 
the reference to the date of the ‘‘other event which gives 
rise to title to the benefit’’ to refer to the effective date 
of this Act, if later than the date of the event that would 
otherwise apply. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the terms ‘‘unfunded liability’’, ‘‘survivor’’, 
and ‘‘survivor annuitant’’ have the meanings given 
to them by section 8331 of title 5, United States 
Code; and 
(2) the term ‘‘annuity’’, as used in subsections 
(b) and (c) of section 2, includes a survivor annuity. 
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the first 
fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1757 
To provide that a person who brings a product liability action in a Federal 
or State court for injuries sustained from a product that is not in 
compliance with a voluntary or mandatory standard issued by the Con-
sumer Product Safety Commission may recover treble damages, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2005 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide that a person who brings a product liability 
action in a Federal or State court for injuries sustained 
from a product that is not in compliance with a voluntary 
or mandatory standard issued by the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission may recover treble damages, 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. DAMAGE RECOVERIES. 
(a) TREBLE DAMAGES.—Any person who brings a 
product liability action in a Federal or State court for in-
juries sustained from the use of a product that is not in 
compliance with a voluntary or mandatory standard issued 
by the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall recover 
treble damages. 
(b) NOTICE.—Within 90 days of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commis-
sion shall reissue each voluntary and mandatory standard 
the Commission has for a product with a notice notifying 
manufacturers of such products of the treble damage pro-
vision of subsection (a). 
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1086
To increase the availability of credit to small businesses by eliminating impedi-
ments to securitization and facilitating the development of a secondary
market in small business loans, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 24, 1993
Mr. BAKER of Louisiana (Mr. LEACH, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mr. SAM JOHNSON
of Texas, Mr. MCCANDLESS, Mr. KING, Mr. PRYCE, Mr. LINDER, Mr.
HUFFINGTON, Mr. NUSSLE, and Mr. GRAMS) introduced the following
bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Energy and Com-
merce, Banking and Finance, Ways and Means, and Education and
Labor
A BILL
To increase the availability of credit to small businesses
by eliminating impediments to securitization and facili-
tating the development of a secondary market in small
business loans, 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 ‘‘Small Business Loan
Securitization and Secondary Market Enhancement Act of
1993’’.
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1758 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide penalties for open air 
drug markets, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2005 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide penalties 
for open air drug markets, 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 ‘‘Open Air Drug Market 
Penalty Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. PENALTIES FOR OPEN AIR DRUG MARKETS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part D of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 841 et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
H. Res. 208
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
July 31, 1997.
Resolved, That the following named Members be, and
that they are hereby, elected to the following standing com-
mittees of the House of Representatives:
COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Mr. Weygand.
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY: Ms. McKinney.
Attest:
Clerk.
‘‘OPEN AIR DRUG MARKETS 
‘‘SEC. 423. (a) Whoever commits a specified Federal 
drug offense, knowing that at least one other has com-
mitted a specified Federal drug offense— 
‘‘(1) within 500 feet of the place the offense 
under this section takes place; and 
‘‘(2) within a 48-hour period; 
shall, in addition to any penalty imposed for the specified 
Federal drug offense, be imprisoned 5 years. 
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
court shall not place on probation or suspend the sentence 
of any person convicted for a violation of this section, nor 
shall the term of imprisonment imposed under this sub-
section run concurrently with any other term of imprison-
ment, including that imposed for the specified Federal 
drug offense. 
‘‘(c) As used in this section, the term ‘specified Fed-
eral drug offense’ means a Federal offense— 
‘‘(1) of which an element is the distribution or 
attempted distribution of a controlled substance; and 
‘‘(2) for which the maximum term of imprison-
ment that may be imposed equals or exceeds 5 
years.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
and Control Act of 1970 is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 422 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 423. Open air drug markets.’’. 
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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3713 
To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial 
forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against 
any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the depor-
tation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps 
on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and 
survivors of such persons. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 1, 2007 
Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. NADLER, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, 
and Mr. SHAYS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide 
an impartial forum for claims brought by United States 
citizens and others against any railroad organized as 
a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of 
United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration 
camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, 
and by the heirs and survivors of such persons. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1278 
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to limit the exemption for 
asset protection trusts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2005 
Mr. EMANUEL (for himself, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. WATT, and Mr. CONYERS) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to limit the 
exemption for asset protection trusts. 
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 ‘‘Billionaire’s Loophole 
Elimination Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ASSET PROTECTION TRUSTS. 
Section 548 of title 11, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e)(1) The trustee may avoid a transfer of an inter-
est of the debtor in property made by an individual debtor
within 10 years before the date of the filing of the petition 
to an asset protection trust if the amount of the transfer 
or the aggregate amount of all transfers to the asset pro-
tection trust within such 10-year period exceeds $125,000, 
to the extent that the debtor’s beneficial interest in the 
trust does not become property of the estate by reason 
of section 541(c)(2). 
‘‘(2) An asset protection trust is a trust settled by 
the debtor, in which the debtor has a direct or indirect 
beneficial interest or under which the trustee may dis-
tribute property to or for the benefit of the debtor, and 
as to which a restriction on the voluntary or involuntary 
transfer of the debtor’s beneficial interest in the trust is 
enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law. For pur-
poses of this subsection, the following are not asset protec-
tion trusts: 
‘‘(A) Retirement funds to the extent that those 
funds are in a fund or account that is exempt from 
taxation under section 401, 403, 408, 408A, 414, 
457, or 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986. 
‘‘(B) Charitable trusts.
‘‘(C) Qualified trusts under section 529 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and other edu-
cational trusts, funds, or accounts.’’. 
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I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1759 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the use of educational 
assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to pay Federal student loans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2005 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the 
use of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI 
Bill to pay Federal student loans. 
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 ‘‘GI Bill Flexibility 
Act’’.
SEC. 2. USE OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE UNDER THE 
MONTGOMERY GI BILL TO PAY FEDERAL STU-
DENT LOANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 30 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
section 3020 the following new section: 
‘‘§ 3020A. Use of educational assistance benefits for 
the repayment of Federal student loans 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of this chapter, upon completion of an approved 
course of education, an individual entitled to educational 
assistance under this subchapter may apply amounts of 
educational assistance otherwise available to the individual 
under section 3015 of this title to repay some or all of 
any Federal student loan balance owed by the individual. 
‘‘(b) PAYMENT METHODOLOGY.—The Secretary shall 
make payments in such form (whether lump-sum or 
monthly payments) and in such amounts as the individual 
may elect for the repayment of a Federal student loan of 
such an individual. 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS.—In no event shall 
payment of educational assistance under this section ex-
ceed the amount of the individual’s available entitlement 
under this chapter. 
‘‘(d) ARRANGEMENTS
TO MAKE PAYMENTS.—The 
Secretary shall enter into such arrangements, and shall
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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4210 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
401 Washington Avenue in Weldon, North Carolina, as the ‘‘Dock M. 
Brown Post Office Building’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2007 
Mr. BUTTERFIELD
(for himself, Mr. PRICE
of North Carolina, Mr. 
ETHERIDGE, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. SHULER, Mr. WATT, Mr. 
MILLER of North Carolina, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. MCINTYRE, and Mr. 
COBLE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 401 Washington Avenue in Weldon, North 
Carolina, as the ‘‘Dock M. Brown Post Office Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DOCK M. BROWN POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 401 Washington Avenue in 
Weldon, North Carolina, shall be known and designated 
as the ‘‘Dock M. Brown Post Office Building’’. 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—No Federal agency 
shall acquire a light duty motor vehicle or me-
dium duty passenger vehicle that is not a low 
greenhouse gas emitting vehicle. 
‘‘(B) SPECIAL RULE FOR VEHICLES PRO-
VIDED
BY
FUNDS
CONTAINED
IN
MEMBERS’ 
REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCE.—If any por-
tion of a Members’ Representational Allowance 
is used to provide any individual with a vehicle 
described in paragraph (1), including providing 
an individual with a vehicle under a long-term 
lease, the House of Representatives shall be 
considered to have acquired the vehicle for pur-
poses of paragraph (1). 
‘‘(C) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph— 
‘‘(i) the term ‘Federal agency’ in-
cludes any office of the legislative branch; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the term ‘Members’ Representa-
tional Allowance’ means the allowance de-
scribed in section 101(a) of the House of 
Representatives 
Administrative 
Reform 
Technical 
Corrections 
Act 
(2 
U.S.C. 
57b(a)).
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under the Child Care and Development Block 
Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.). 
‘‘(4) Nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued to provide the Early Learning Council with 
authority to alter the provisions of this Act. 
‘‘(5) Funds made available under this section 
shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other 
Federal, State, and local funds that would otherwise 
be expended to carry out the purposes of this sec-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 12. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS AND STAND-
ARDS. 
Section 644 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 
9839(f)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(1) STANDARDS.—’’ 
after ‘‘(a)’’; and 
(B) by inserting after the 3d sentence the 
following: 
‘‘(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—Each Head Start agency 
shall make available to the public a report published at 
least once in each fiscal year that discloses the following 
information from the then most recently concluded fiscal 
year, except that reporting such information shall not re-
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Braille Flag 
Memorial Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) There are more than 175,000 blind vet-
erans. 
(2) The Department of Defense estimates that 
16 percent of the members of the Armed Forces who 
have been injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom and 
Operation Enduring Freedom have severe vision loss 
as a result of their injuries. 
(3) The American Braille tactile flag was cre-
ated by the Kansas Braille Transcription Institute 
in Wichita, Kansas, to allow blind Americans and 
blind veterans to experience the American flag. 
(4) Arlington National Cemetery, visited by ap-
proximately 4,000,0000 people annually, is a na-
tional place of remembrance and honor for the Na-
tion’s veterans. 
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prescribe such regulations, as may be necessary to carry 
out this section. 
‘‘(e) FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘Federal student loan’ means any loan 
made under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.). ’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
of subchapter II of chapter 30 of such title is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 3020 the 
following new item: 
‘‘3020A. Use of educational assistance benefits for the repayment of Federal 
student loans.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to educational assistance paid for 
months beginning on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF PLACEMENT OF AN AMERICAN 
BRAILLE TACTILE FLAG IN ARLINGTON NA-
TIONAL CEMETERY HONORING BLIND MEM-
BERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, VETERANS, 
AND OTHER AMERICANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Army is au-
thorized to place in Arlington National Cemetery an 
American Braille tactile flag in Arlington National Ceme-
tery honoring blind members of the Armed Forces, vet-
erans, and other Americans. 
(b) APPROVAL OF DESIGN AND SITE.—The Secretary 
of the Army shall have exclusive authority to approve an 
appropriate design and site within Arlington National 
Cemetery for the memorial authorized under subsection 
(a). 
Passed the House of Representatives February 14, 
2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 175 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the use 
of qualified family caregivers in the provision of home health aide services 
under the Medicare Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2005 
Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
for the use of qualified family caregivers in the provision 
of home health aide services under the Medicare Pro-
gram. 
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 ‘‘Family Caregiver Se-
curity Act of 2005’’.
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1872 
To require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs, to develop and implement a secure electronic method 
of forwarding the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty 
(DD Form 214) to the appropriate office of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for the State or other locality in which a member of the Armed 
Forces will first reside after the discharge or release of the member 
from active duty. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 2, 2009 
Mr. SPACE (for himself, Mr. FILNER, Mr. WALZ, and Mr. NYE) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to develop and imple-
ment a secure electronic method of forwarding the Cer-
tificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD 
Form 214) to the appropriate office of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for the State or other locality in 
which a member of the Armed Forces will first reside 
after the discharge or release of the member from active 
duty. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1875 
AN ACT 
To establish the Emergency Trade Deficit Commission. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SEC. 2. PROVISION OF QUALIFIED FAMILY CAREGIVER 
SERVICES UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1891(a) of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395bbb(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7)(A) The agency permits an individual who is 
under its care to have home health aide services or per-
sonal care assistant services provided by a qualified family 
caregiver (as defined in subparagraph (B)) under an ap-
proved plan of care and provides for payment for the serv-
ices of the caregiver, regardless of whether the caregiver 
is an employee of the agency, at a rate comparable to the 
rate otherwise paid for such services provided by other 
qualified personnel. In addition, in the case of such a care-
giver the agency shall provide for appropriate training and 
oversight of such services by a registered nurse in the 
same or similar manner to that provided in the case of 
such services furnished by another qualified individual and 
shall provide the caregiver, as part of the plan of care, 
with educational information and resources related to fam-
ily caregiver health and wellness. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘quali-
fied family caregiver’ means, with respect to the provision 
of home health aide services or personal care assistant 
services to an individual, an individual who is a family 
caregiver (as defined in section 372(2) of the National