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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2701 
To promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection 
of sales and use taxes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2011 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. WELCH, and Mr. SHULER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To promote simplification and fairness in the administration 
and collection of sales and use taxes. 
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 
‘‘Main Street Fairness Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Consent of Congress. 
Sec. 3. Findings. 
Sec. 4. Authorization to require collection of sales and use taxes. 
Sec. 5. Determinations by governing board and judicial review of such deter-
minations. 
Sec. 6. Minimum simplification requirements. 
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Sec. 7. Limitation. 
Sec. 8. Expedited judicial review. 
Sec. 9. Definitions. 
Sec. 10. Severability. 
Sec. 11. Sense of Congress on digital goods and services. 
SEC. 2. CONSENT OF CONGRESS. 
Congress consents to the Streamlined Sales and Use 
Tax Agreement. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) States should be encouraged to simplify 
their sales and use tax systems. 
(2) As a matter of economic policy and basic 
fairness, similar sales transactions should be treated 
equally, without regard to the manner in which sales 
are transacted, whether in person, through the mail, 
over the telephone, on the Internet, or by other 
means. 
(3) Congress may facilitate such equal taxation 
consistent with the United States Supreme Court’s 
decision in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota. 
(4) States that voluntarily and adequately sim-
plify their tax systems should be authorized to cor-
rect the present inequities in taxation through re-
quiring sellers to collect taxes on sales of goods or 
services delivered in-state, without regard to the lo-
cation of the seller. 
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the taxes imposed by chapter 24 of
such Code.
(3) INCOME TAX TREATMENT.—If—
(A) subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) ap-
plies to any educational assistance referred to
in such paragraph provided to any employee,
and
(B) such employee included such assistance
in his taxable income for purposes of the tax
imposed by chapter 1 of such Code,
the amendments made by subsection (a) shall not
apply to such assistance for purposes of such chap-
ter 1, but the amount included in the gross income
of such employee by reason of wages received from
the employer referred to in subparagraph (A) of
paragraph (2) during 1993 shall be reduced in the
manner provided in such subparagraph (A).
SEC. 14102. TARGETED JOBS CREDIT.
(a) PERMANENT EXTENSION OF CREDIT.—
(1) I N GENERAL.—Subsection (c) of section 51
(relating to amount of targeted jobs credit) is
amended by striking paragraph (4).
(2) E FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made
by paragraph (1) shall apply to individuals who
begin work for the employer after June 30, 1992.
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‘‘(2) each participating State, at the option of
the State under section 2156, is permitted to obtain
additional quantities of pediatric vaccines (subject to
limits in such contracts regarding quantities)
through purchasing the vaccines from the manufac-
turers at the price negotiated by the Secretary for
the quantities specified in paragraph (1).
The Secretary shall enter into the initial negotiations
under the preceding sentence not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1993.
‘‘(b) NEGOTIATION OF PURCHASE PRICE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In negotiating the prices at
which pediatric vaccines will be purchased from a
manufacturer under subsection (a), the Secretary
shall negotiate a price that provides a reasonable
profit for the manufacturer.
‘‘(2) CERTAIN FACTORS.—
‘‘(A) In determining a reasonable profit for
a manufacturer under paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary shall consider the following factors:
‘‘(i) The costs of the manufacturer in
researching, developing, and producing the
pediatric vaccine involved.
condom distribution programs in their correctional 
facilities. The cities of New York, San Francisco, 
Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Philadelphia also 
allow condom distribution in their correctional facili-
ties. However, these States and cities operate fewer 
than 1 percent of all correctional facilities. 
(10) A 2007 report by the Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases and the 
University of California, San Francisco, found that 
the proportion of European prison systems allowing 
condoms rose from 53 percent in 1989 to 81 percent 
in 1997. The same report also found that no prison 
system allowing the distribution of condoms had re-
versed their decision, and no prison system reported 
an increase in sexual activity among incarcerated 
persons as a result of a decision to allow condom 
distribution. 
(11) In 2000 and 2001, researchers surveyed 
300 incarcerated persons and 100 correctional offi-
cers at the Central Detention Facility, a correctional 
facility operated by the District of Columbia at 
which condoms are available. Researchers found that 
both incarcerated persons and correctional officers 
generally supported the condom distribution pro-
gram and considered it to be important. Further-
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(5) REMOTE SALE.—The term ‘‘remote sale’’ 
means a sale of goods or services attributed to a 
particular Member State with respect to which a 
seller does not have adequate physical presence to 
establish nexus under the law existing on the day be-
fore the date of the enactment of this Act so as to 
allow such Member State to require, without regard 
to the authority granted by this Act, the seller to 
collect and remit taxes covered by this Act with re-
spect to such sale. 
(6) REMOTE SELLER.—The term ‘‘remote sell-
er’’ means any seller who makes a remote sale. 
(7) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American 
Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
any other territory or possession of the United 
States. 
(8) STREAMLINED SALES AND USE TAX AGREE-
MENT.—The term ‘‘Streamlined Sales and Use Tax 
Agreement’’ (or ‘‘the Agreement’’) means the 
multistate agreement with that title adopted on No-
vember 12, 2002, as in effect on the date of the en-
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actment of this Act and unless the context otherwise 
indicates as further amended from time to time. 
SEC. 10. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, an amendment made by 
this Act, or the application of such provision or amend-
ment to any person or circumstance is held to be unconsti-
tutional, the remainder of this Act, the amendments made 
by this Act, and the application of the provisions of such 
to any person or circumstance shall not be affected there-
by. 
SEC. 11. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DIGITAL GOODS AND 
SERVICES. 
It is the sense of Congress that each Member State 
that is a party to the Agreement should work with other 
Member States that are also parties to the Agreement to 
prevent double taxation in situations where a foreign coun-
try has imposed a transaction tax on a digital good or 
service. 
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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2702 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the scope of the provision 
commonly referred to as the ‘‘Wire Act’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2011 
Mr. GIBSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the scope 
of the provision commonly referred to as the ‘‘Wire Act’’, 
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 ‘‘Wire Clarification Act 
of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. SCOPE OF SO-CALLED ‘‘WIRE ACT’’. 
Section 1084 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(f) CLARIFICATION OF SCOPE.—This section, sub-
chapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code 
(enacted into law by the Unlawful Internet Gambling En-
forcement Act of 2006), and any other provision of Fed-
eral law that establishes criminal penalties for any activity 
involved in placing, receiving or otherwise transmitting a 
bet or wager shall not apply to any bet or wager that is 
permissible under the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 
(15 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.).’’. 
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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2703 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the 
uniformed services are entitled to refractive eye surgery. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2011 
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut (for himself and Mr. ROONEY) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that mem-
bers of the uniformed services are entitled to refractive 
eye surgery. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PROVISION OF REFRACTIVE EYE SURGERY. 
(a) REFRACTIVE EYE SURGERY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Chapter 55 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
section 1074l the following new section: 
‘‘§ 1074m. Provision of refractive eye surgery 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Under regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary, members of the uniformed services entitled 
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to medical care under section 1074 of this title shall also 
be entitled to refractive eye surgery, as medically appro-
priate. 
‘‘(b) PRIVATE FACILITY.—(1) In accordance with 
section 1074(c) of this title, the Secretary shall ensure 
that a member of a uniformed service entitled to refractive 
eye surgery under subsection (a) who is not located near 
a military medical treatment facility that provides reason-
able access to such surgery, as determined by the Sec-
retary, may receive such surgery at a private facility lo-
cated near the member. 
‘‘(2) In determining under paragraph (1) whether a 
military medical treatment facility provides reasonable ac-
cess to refractive eye surgery, the Secretary shall take into 
account— 
‘‘(A) whether the facility provides such surgery; 
and 
‘‘(B) if the facility provides such surgery, the 
waiting period required to receive such surgery. 
‘‘(c) REFRACTIVE EYE SURGERY DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘refractive eye surgery’ means an appro-
priate corrective eye surgery, including laser-assisted in 
situ keratomileusis (commonly referred to as ‘LASIK’) 
and photorefractive keratectomy (commonly referred to as 
‘PRK’).’’. 
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(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1074l 
the following new item: 
‘‘1074m. Provision of refractive eye surgery.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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‘‘(ii) The costs of the manufacturer in
researching and developing new or im-
proved vaccines (pediatric or otherwise).
‘‘(iii) The costs of shipping and han-
dling pediatric vaccines in compliance with
the agreement under subsection (c).
‘‘(iv) Such other factors as the Sec-
retary determines to be appropriate.
‘‘(B) With respect to factors considered
under subparagraph (A), the Secretary may
enter into a contract under subsection (a) only
if the manufacturer involved provides to the
Secretary such information regarding the fac-
tors as the Secretary determines to be appro-
priate.
‘‘(3) CONFIDENTIALITY.—With respect to infor-
mation provided to the Secretary by a manufacturer
under paragraph (2), the following applies:
‘‘(A) The Secretary shall maintain the con-
fidentiality of the information, with provision
for reasonable disclosures.
‘‘(B) For purposes of section 552(b)(4) of
title 5, United States Code, the information
shall be considered to be trade secrets and com-
504
‘‘(D) Any contraindications regarding ad-
ministration of the vaccine to particular medical
categories of children.
‘‘(E) Such other guidelines as the Sec-
retary determines to be appropriate with re-
spect to administering the vaccine to children.
‘‘(2) VARIATIONS IN MEDICAL PRACTICE.—In
establishing and revising a schedule under para-
graph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that, in the
case of the pediatric vaccine involved, the schedule
provides for the full range of variations in medical
judgment regarding the administration of the vac-
cine, subject to remaining within medical norms.
‘‘(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—
‘‘(A) The schedule specified in subpara-
graph (B) is deemed to be the schedule main-
tained under paragraph (1).
‘‘(B) The schedule specified in this sub-
paragraph is the schedule that, for purposes of
paragraph (1), is established (and periodically
reviewed and as appropriate revised) by the ad-
visory 
committee 
specified 
in 
subsection
(a)(2)(B).
‘‘(c) GENERALLY APPLICABLE RULES OF CONSTRUC-
TION.—
(ii) in paragraph (8)—
(I) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after
‘‘(8)’’;
(II) by striking ‘‘if such prepay-
ment is not made later than Septem-
ber 30, 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘except
for any prepayment penalty provided
for in a loan agreement entered into
before the date of the enactment of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1993’’; and
(III) by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(B) If a borrower prepays part or all of a loan
made under this section, then, notwithstanding sec-
tion 407(b), the Governor of the telephone bank
shall—
‘‘(i) use the full amount of the prepayment
to repay obligations of the telephone bank is-
sued pursuant to section 407(b) before October
1, 1991, to the extent any such obligations are
outstanding; and
‘‘(ii) in repaying such obligations, first
repay the advances bearing the greatest rate of
interest.’’; and
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts made avail-
able under paragraph (1) are authorized to remain avail-
able until expended. 
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act: 
(1) COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION.—The term 
‘‘community organization’’ means a public health 
care facility or a nonprofit organization which pro-
vides health- or STI-related services according to es-
tablished public health standards. 
(2) COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION.— 
The term ‘‘comprehensive sexuality education’’ 
means sexuality education that includes information 
about abstinence and about the proper use and dis-
posal of sexual barrier protection devices and which 
is— 
(A) evidence-based; 
(B) medically accurate; 
(C) age and developmentally appropriate; 
(D) gender and identity sensitive; 
(E) culturally and linguistically appro-
priate; and 
(F) structured to promote critical thinking, 
self-esteem, respect for others, and the develop-
ment of healthy attitudes and relationships. 
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(3) CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.—The term ‘‘cor-
rectional facility’’ means any prison, penitentiary, 
adult detention facility, juvenile detention facility, 
jail, or other facility to which persons may be sent 
after conviction of a crime or act of juvenile delin-
quency within the United States. 
(4) INCARCERATED PERSON.—The term ‘‘incar-
cerated person’’ means any person who is serving a 
sentence in a correctional facility after conviction of 
a crime. 
(5) SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION.—The 
term ‘‘sexually transmitted infection’’ or ‘‘STI’’ 
means any disease or infection that is commonly 
transmitted through sexual activity, including HIV/ 
AIDS, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, genital her-
pes, viral hepatitis, and human papillomavirus. 
(6) SEXUAL BARRIER PROTECTION DEVICE.— 
The term ‘‘sexual barrier protection device’’ means 
any FDA-approved physical device which has not 
been tampered with and which reduces the prob-
ability of STI transmission or infection between sex-
ual partners, including female condoms, male 
condoms, and dental dams. 
(7) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ includes the 
District of Columbia, American Samoa, the Com-
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monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, 
Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. 
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SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF BILLFISH. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No person shall offer for sale, sell, 
or have custody, control, or possession of for purposes of 
offering for sale or selling billfish or products containing 
billfish. 
(b) PENALTY.—For purposes of section 308(a) of the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1858(a)), a violation of this section shall 
be treated as an act prohibited by section 307 of that Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1857). 
(c) EXEMPTIONS FOR TRADITIONAL FISHERIES AND 
MARKETS.— 
(1) Subsection (a) does not apply to billfish 
caught by U.S. vessels and landed in the State of Ha-
waii or Pacific Insular Areas as defined in section 
3(35) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802(35)). 
(2) Subsection (a) does not apply to billfish 
landed by foreign vessels in the Pacific Insular Areas 
when the foreign caught billfish is exported to non- 
U.S. markets or retained within the Pacific Insular 
Areas for local consumption. 
(d) BILLFISH DEFINED.—In this section the term 
‘‘billfish’’— 
(1) means any fish of the species— 
(A) Makaira nigricans (blue marlin); 
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neration not included in wages by reason of section 
3121(a)(1).’’. 
(5) Subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of section 
3125 of such Code are each amended by striking the 
last sentence. 
(6) Section 6413 of such Code is amended by 
striking subsection (c). 
(7) Section 643(d)(1) of such Code is amended 
by striking ‘‘31(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘31(b)’’. 
(8) Subsection (c) of section 230 of the Social 
Security Act is amended by striking ‘‘and sections 
1402, 3121, 3122, 3125, 6413, and 6654 of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) The amendments made by subsections (a), 
(b), and (d) shall apply with respect to remuneration 
paid after December 31, 2011. 
(2) The amendments made by subsection (c) 
shall apply to taxable years beginning after Decem-
ber 31, 2011. 
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II 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2706 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 
Received 
AN ACT 
To prohibit the sale of billfish. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Billfish Conservation 
Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States carefully regulates its 
domestic fisheries for billfish and participates in 
international fishery management bodies in the At-
lantic and Pacific. 
(2) Global billfish populations have declined sig-
nificantly, however, because of overfishing primarily 
through retention of bycatch by non-United States 
commercial fishing fleets. 
(3) Ending the importation of foreign-caught 
billfish for sale in the United States aligns with U.S. 
management measures of billfish and protects the 
significant economic benefits to the U.S. economy of 
recreational fishing and marine commerce and the 
traditional cultural fisheries. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY. 
The Congress enacts this Act pursuant to clause 3 
of section 8 of article I of the Constitution. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF BILLFISH. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No person shall offer for sale, 
sell, or have custody, control, or possession of for purposes
of offering for sale or selling billfish or products con-
taining billfish. 
(b) PENALTY.—For purposes of section 308(a) of the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage-
ment Act (16 U.S.C. 1858(a)), a violation of this section 
shall be treated as an act prohibited by section 307 of 
that Act (16 U.S.C. 1857). 
(c) EXEMPTIONS FOR TRADITIONAL FISHERIES AND 
MARKETS.— 
(1) Subsection (a) does not apply to billfish 
caught by US fishing vessels and landed in the State 
of Hawaii or Pacific Insular Areas as defined in sec-
tion 3(35) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Con-
servation 
and 
Management 
Act 
(16 
U.S.C. 
1802(35)). 
(2) Subsection (a) does not apply to billfish 
landed by foreign fishing vessels in the Pacific Insu-
lar Areas when the foreign caught billfish is ex-
ported to non-US markets or retained within Hawaii 
and the Pacific Insular Areas for local consumption. 
(d) BILLFISH DEFINED.—In this section the term 
‘‘billfish’’— 
(1) means any fish of the species— 
(A) Makaira nigricans (blue marlin); 
(B) Kajikia audax (striped marlin);
(C) Istiompax indica (black marlin); 
(D) Istiophorus platypterus (sailfish); 
(E) Tetrapturus angustirostris (shortbill 
spearfish); 
(F) Kajikia albida (white marlin); 
(G) Tetrapturus georgii (roundscale spear-
fish); 
(H) Tetrapturus belone (Mediterranean 
spearfish); and 
(I) Tetrapturus pfluegeri (longbill spear-
fish); and 
(2) does not include the species Xiphias gladius 
(swordfish). 
Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 
2012. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2706 
AN ACT 
To prohibit the sale of billfish.