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available to the Secretary for activities authorized under 
sections 426–426c of title 7, United States Code, under 
this or any other Act, to enter into cooperative agree-
ments, with a State, political subdivision, or agency there-
of, a public or private agency, organization, or any other 
person, to lease aircraft if the Secretary determines that 
the objectives of the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 
interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying out 
the programs administered by the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services; and (2) all 
parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment of 
these objectives; award of a cooperative agreement author-
ized by the Secretary may be made for an initial term not 
to exceed 5 years. 
SEC. 751. Of the unobligated balances in the Local 
Television 
Loan 
Guarantee 
Program 
account, 
$88,000,000, are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 752. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be used 
to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out 
section 9010 of Public Law 107–171, the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002, in excess of 
$100,000,000. 
SEC. 753. The matter under the heading ‘‘Rural 
Community Advancement Program’’ in division A—Agri-
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certification under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), 
the Secretary shall replace any patient self-sched-
uling appointment system developed by the Sec-
retary that is in use with a commercially available, 
off-the-shelf online patient self-scheduling system 
that includes the capabilities specified in subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 
requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be car-
ried out using amounts otherwise authorized. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 
2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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certification under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), 
the Secretary shall replace any patient self-sched-
uling appointment system developed by the Sec-
retary that is in use with a commercially available, 
off-the-shelf online patient self-scheduling system 
that includes the capabilities specified in subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 
requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be car-
ried out using amounts otherwise authorized. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 
2016. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4352 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry 
out a pilot program establishing a patient self- 
scheduling appointment system, and for other 
purposes.
I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4353 
To extend the exemption of small banks and savings associations from classi-
fication as a financial entity for purposes of the swaps clearing require-
ments of the Commodity Exchange Act to their holding companies. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2016 
Mr. EMMER of Minnesota introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To extend the exemption of small banks and savings associa-
tions from classification as a financial entity for purposes 
of the swaps clearing requirements of the Commodity 
Exchange Act to their holding companies. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SMALL BANK HOLDING COMPANY CLEARING 
EXEMPTION. 
Section 2(h)(7)(C) of the Commodity Exchange Act 
(7 U.S.C. 2(h)(7)(C)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
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‘‘(iv) HOLDING COMPANIES.—A deter-
mination made by the Commission under 
clause (ii) shall, with respect to small 
banks and savings associations, also apply 
to their respective bank holding company 
(as defined in section 2 of the Bank Hold-
ing Company Act of 1956), or savings and 
loan holding company (as defined in sec-
tion 10 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 
1933), if the total consolidated assets of 
the holding company are no greater than 
the asset threshold set by the Commission 
in determining small bank and savings as-
sociation eligibility under clause (ii).’’. 
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SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION REGARDING STATE LAWS. 
Nothing in this Act shall affect the implementation 
of State laws, including State enabling Acts. 
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and private interests pursuant to the cooperative
agreement referred to in paragraph (4).
(8) The Bureau of Land Management has com-
pleted the engineering and design phase of the Na-
tional Historic Trails Interpretive Center, and the
National Historic Trails Foundation, Inc. is ready
for Federal financial and technical assistance to con-
struct the Center pursuant to the cooperative agree-
ment referred to in paragraph (4).
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are the fol-
lowing:
(1) To recognize the importance of the historic
trails that passed through the Casper, Wyoming,
area as a distinctive aspect of American heritage
worthy of interpretation and preservation.
(2) To assist the city of Casper, Wyoming, and
the National Historic Trails Foundation, Inc. in es-
tablishing the National Historic Trails Interpretive
Center to memorialize and interpret the significant
role of those historic trails in the history of the
United States.
(3) To highlight and showcase the Bureau of
Land Management’s stewardship of public lands in
Wyoming and the West.
‘‘(B) may not receive controlled substances 
at any location not so designated. 
‘‘(2) MOVEMENT
AND
DELIVERY.—The reg-
istrant emergency medical services agency may move 
or deliver controlled substances within the possession 
of such agency between any locations of such agen-
cy. A registrant emergency medical services agency 
shall not be treated as a distributor of controlled 
substances under this Act by reason of such move-
ment or distribution. 
‘‘(3) STORAGE.—Such agency— 
‘‘(A) may store controlled substances at 
any location of the agency designated by the 
agency for such storage; and 
‘‘(B) may not store controlled substances 
at any location not so designated. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘emergency medical services’ 
means emergency medical response, and emergency 
mobile medical services, provided outside of a med-
ical facility. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘emergency medical services 
agency’ means an organization providing emergency 
medical services, including such organizations that— 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Administrative Leave 
Reform Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 63 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 6330. Limitation on administrative leave 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—During any calendar year, an 
employee may not be placed on administrative leave, or 
any other paid non-duty status without charge to leave, 
for more than 14 total days for reasons relating to mis-
conduct or performance. After an employee has been 
placed on administrative leave for 14 days, the employing 
agency shall return the employee to duty status, utilizing 
telework if available, and assign the employee to duties 
if such employee is not a threat to safety, the agency mis-
sion, or Government property. 
‘‘(b) EXTENDED ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an agency finds that an 
employee is a threat to safety, the agency mission, 
or Government property and upon the expiration of 
the 14-day period described in subsection (a), an 
agency head may place the employee on extended ad-
ministrative leave for additional periods of not more 
than 30 days each.
‘‘(2) REPORT.—For any additional period of 30 
days granted to the employee after the initial 30-day 
extension, the agency head shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 
House of Representatives, the agency’s authorizing 
committees of jurisdiction of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate a report, not later than 5 business days after 
granting the additional period, containing— 
‘‘(A) title, position, office or agency sub-
component, job series, pay grade, and salary of 
the employee on administrative leave; 
‘‘(B) a description of the work duties of 
the employee; 
‘‘(C) the reason the employee is on admin-
istrative leave; 
‘‘(D) an explanation as to why the em-
ployee is a threat to safety, the agency mission, 
or Government property; 
‘‘(E) an explanation as to why the em-
ployee is not able to telework or be reassigned 
to another position within the agency; 
‘‘(F) in the case of a pending related inves-
tigation of the employee—
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4359 
AN ACT 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Fed-
eral employees may not be placed on administrative leave 
for more than 14 days during any year for misconduct 
or poor performance, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
‘‘(i) the status of such investigation; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the certification described in sub-
section (c)(1); and 
‘‘(G) in the case of a completed related in-
vestigation of the employee— 
‘‘(i) the results of such investigation; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the reason that the employee re-
mains on administrative leave. 
‘‘(c) EXTENSION PENDING RELATED INVESTIGA-
TION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an employee is under a 
related investigation by an investigative entity at the 
time an additional period described under subsection 
(b)(2) is granted and, in the opinion of the inves-
tigative entity, additional time is needed to complete 
the investigation, such entity shall certify to the ap-
plicable agency that such additional time is needed 
and include in the certification an estimate of the 
length of such additional time. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The head of an agency may 
not grant an additional period of administrative 
leave described under subsection (b)(2) to an em-
ployee on or after the date that is 30 days after the
completion of a related investigation by an investiga-
tive entity. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following 
definitions apply: 
‘‘(1) INVESTIGATIVE ENTITY.—The term ‘inves-
tigative entity’ means an internal investigative unit 
of the agency granting administrative leave, the Of-
fice of Inspector General, the Office of the Attorney 
General, or the Office of Special Counsel. 
‘‘(2) RELATED INVESTIGATION.—The term ‘re-
lated investigation’ means an investigation that per-
tains to the underlying reasons an employee was 
placed on administrative leave.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall begin to apply 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(c) RULES
OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall be construed 
to— 
(1) supersede the provisions of chapter 75 of 
title 5, United States Code; or 
(2) limit the number of days that an employee 
may be placed on administrative leave, or any other 
paid non-duty status without charge to leave, for 
reasons unrelated to misconduct or performance.
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 6329 the following new item: 
‘‘6330. Limitation on administrative leave.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 26, 2016. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4359 
AN ACT 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide 
that Federal employees may not be placed on ad-
ministrative leave for more than 14 days during 
any year for misconduct or poor performance, 
and for other purposes.
I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4359 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Federal employees 
may not be placed on administrative leave for more than 14 days during 
any year for misconduct or poor performance, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 11, 2016 
Mr. CHAFFETZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Fed-
eral employees may not be placed on administrative leave 
for more than 14 days during any year for misconduct 
or poor performance, 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 ‘‘Administrative Leave 
Reform Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 63 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 6329. Limitation on administrative leave 
‘‘During any calendar year, an employee may not be 
placed on administrative leave, or any other paid non-duty 
status without charge to leave, for more than 14 total days 
for reasons relating to misconduct or performance.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall begin to apply 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(c) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall be construed to 
limit the number of days that an employee may be placed 
on administrative leave, or any other paid non-duty status 
without charge to leave, for reasons unrelated to mis-
conduct or performance. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 6328 the following new item: 
‘‘6329. Limitation on administrative leave.’’. 
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sion of law, the President may, in accordance with
this section, sell to any eligible purchaser any
concessional loan or portion thereof made before
January 1, 1995, pursuant to the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, to the government of any eligible
country as defined in section 702(6) of that Act or
on receipt of payment from an eligible purchaser, re-
duce or cancel such loan or portion thereof, only for
the purpose of facilitating—
(A) debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-develop-
ment swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps; or
(B) a debt buyback by an eligible country
of its own qualified debt, only if the eligible
country uses an additional amount of the local
currency of the eligible country, equal to not
less than 40 percent of the price paid for such
debt by such eligible country, or the difference
between the price paid for such debt and the
face value of such debt, to support activities
that link conservation and sustainable use of
natural resources with local community develop-
ment, and child survival and other child devel-
opment, in a manner consistent with sections
707 through 710 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, if the sale, reduction, or cancellation
tive jurisdiction of the Secretary that are suitable 
for disposal. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) IDENTIFIED FEDERAL LANDS.—The term 
‘‘identified Federal lands’’ means the parcels of Fed-
eral land under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
Secretary that were identified as suitable for dis-
posal in the report submitted to Congress by the 
Secretary on May 27, 1997, pursuant to section 
390(g) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–127; 110 
Stat. 1024), except the following: 
(A) Lands not identified for disposal in the 
applicable land use plan. 
(B) Lands subject to a Recreation and 
Public Purpose conveyance application. 
(C) Lands identified for State selection. 
(D) Lands identified for Indian tribe allot-
ments. 
(E) Lands identified for local government 
use. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
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(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 6329 the following new item: 
‘‘6330. Limitation on administrative leave.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 26, 2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 435 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in 
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, 
Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for dis-
posal, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2015 
Mr. CHAFFETZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal 
lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, 
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, pre-
viously identified as suitable for disposal, 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. SALE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LANDS PRE-
VIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS SUITABLE FOR DIS-
POSAL. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2015’’. 
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(b) COMPETITIVE SALE OF LANDS.—The Secretary 
shall offer the identified Federal lands for disposal by 
competitive sale for not less than fair market value as de-
termined by an independent appraiser. 
(c) EXISTING RIGHTS.—The sale of identified Fed-
eral lands under this section shall be subject to valid exist-
ing rights. 
(d) PROCEEDS OF SALE OF LANDS.—All net pro-
ceeds from the sale of identified Federal lands under this 
section shall be deposited directly into the Treasury for 
reduction of the public debt. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 4 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources of the Senate— 
(1) a list of any identified Federal lands that 
have not been sold under subsection (b) and the rea-
sons such lands were not sold; and 
(2) an update of the report submitted to Con-
gress by the Secretary on May 27, 1997, pursuant 
to section 390(g) of the Federal Agriculture Im-
provement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 
104–127; 110 Stat. 1024), including a current in-
ventory of the Federal lands under the administra-
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‘‘(1) the term ‘employee’ means an employee 
(as that term is defined in section 7541(1)) who has 
received written notice of removal from the civil 
service under subchapter V of chapter 75; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘mandatory leave’ means, with re-
spect to an employee, an absence with pay but with-
out duty during which such employee— 
‘‘(A) shall be charged accrued annual leave 
for the period of such absence; and 
‘‘(B) may not accrue any annual leave 
under section 6303 for the period of such ab-
sence. 
‘‘(b) Under regulations prescribed by the Office of 
Personnel Management, an agency may place an employee 
on mandatory leave for misconduct, neglect of duty, mal-
feasance, or such cause as would promote the efficiency 
of the service. 
‘‘(c) If an agency determines that an employee should 
be placed on mandatory leave under subsection (b), such 
leave shall begin no earlier than the date on which the 
employee received written notice of a removal under sub-
chapter V of chapter 75. 
‘‘(d) If a final order or decision is issued in favor 
of such employee with respect to removal under sub-
chapter V of chapter 75 by the agency, the Merit Systems
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4361 
AN ACT 
To amend section 3554 of title 44, United States 
Code, to provide for enhanced security of Federal 
information systems, and for other purposes.
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culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 
2004, title III—Rural Development Programs, in Public 
Law 108–199 is amended by striking ‘‘$1,750,000 shall 
be for grants to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 
1921 et seq.); and not less than $2,000,000 shall be avail-
able for grants in accordance with section 310B(f) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act’’ and in-
serting ‘‘and not less than $2,000,000 shall be available 
for grants in accordance with section 310B(f) of the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount appropriated in this ac-
count, $1,750,000 shall be for grants to the Delta Re-
gional Authority (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) for any Rural 
Community Advancement Program purpose’’. 
SEC. 754. Of the unobligated balances available in 
the Rural Housing Assistance Grant Program account, 
$1,000,000 is hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 755. Of the unobligated balances available in 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program account, 
$3,000,000 is hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 756. Funds made available under section 1240I 
and section 1241(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 in 
fiscal years 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 shall remain 
available until expended to cover obligations made in fiscal
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years 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively: Provided, 
That unobligated funds that are available at the end of 
each fiscal year are returned to the Treasury. 
SEC. 757. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act for the Food and Drug 
Administration may be used under section 801 of the Fed-
eral Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent an indi-
vidual not in the business of importing a prescription drug 
within the meaning of section 801(g) of such Act, whole-
salers, or pharmacists from importing a prescription drug 
which complies with sections 501, 502, and 505. 
SEC. 758. Section 502(h)(6)(C) of the Housing Act 
of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(6)(C)) is amended by adding, 
‘‘, plus the guarantee fee as authorized by subsection 
(h)(7)’’ after the phrase, ‘‘whichever is less’’, in each of 
paragraphs (i) and (ii). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005’’.
Union Calendar No. 350
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4766
[Report No. 108–584] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De-
velopment, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2005, and for other purposes. 
JULY 7, 2004
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed