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‘‘(iii)(I) The licensee may personally deliver the fire-
arm to the prospective transferee at a location other than
the business premises of the licensee, without regard to
whether the location is in the State specified on the license
of the licensee, or may ship the firearm by common carrier
to the prospective transferee.
‘‘(II) The registrant may personally deliver the fire-
arm to a prospective transferee who is a resident of the
State of which the registrant is a resident, or may ship
the firearm by common carrier to such a prospective trans-
feree.
‘‘(3) An instant check registrant who agrees to assist
a person who is not licensed under section 923 in com-
plying with subsection (c) with respect to the transfer of
a firearm shall—
‘‘(A) enter the name, age, address, and other
identifying information on the transferee (or, if the
transferee is a corporation or other business entity,
the identity and principal and local places of busi-
ness of the transferee) as the Secretary may require
by regulation into a separate bound record;
‘‘(B) record the unique identification number
provided by the system on a form specified by the
Secretary;
provided to labor market areas with respect to which a
regional private industry council has been established
under this section in accordance with the same terms and
conditions applicable to amounts provided to service deliv-
ery areas under this Act.
‘‘(f) JOB TRAINING PLAN.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—No funds appropriated to
carry out this part for any fiscal year may be pro-
vided to any labor market area under this section ex-
cept pursuant to a job training plan for two program
years that, to the extent practicable, meets the re-
quirements contained in section 104 of this Act.
‘‘(2) REVIEW AND APPROVAL.—Consistent with
the requirements contained in section 105 of this
Act, not less than 120 days before the beginning of
the first of the two program years covered by the job
training plan—
‘‘(A) the proposed plan or summary there-
of shall be published;
‘‘(B) the proposed plan shall be made
available for review and comment to all appro-
priate individuals and entities;
‘‘(C) the proposed plan shall be reasonably
available to the general public through such
means as public hearings and local news facili-
ties;
‘‘(D) the final plan, or a summary thereof,
shall be published not later than 80 days before
the first of the two program years and shall be
submitted to each Governor;
‘‘(E) the final plan shall be submitted to
the Secretary; and
‘‘(F) the Secretary shall approve or dis-
approve the final plan not later than 30 days
after the date on which the plan is submitted.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C.
1501 note) is amended by inserting after the item relating
to section 456 the following:
‘‘Sec. 457. Regional private industry councils.’’.
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sisted under this paragraph, a number of dwell-
ing units may be made available for occupancy
by elderly persons who are not very low-income
persons in a number such that the ratio that
the number of dwelling units in the project so
occupied bears to the total number of units in
the project does not exceed the ratio that the
amount from non-Federal sources provided for
the project pursuant to this paragraph bears to
the sum of the capital advances provided for the
project under this paragraph and all supple-
mental amounts for the project provided pursu-
ant to this paragraph.’’.
SEC. 302. ELIGIBILITY OF FOR-PROFIT LIMITED PARTNER-
SHIPS.
Section 202(k)(4) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12
U.S.C. 1701q(k)(4)) is amended by adding after and
below subparagraph (C) the following new sentence:
‘‘Such term includes a for-profit limited partnership
the sole general partner of which is an organization
meeting the requirements under subparagraphs (A),
(B), and (C) and a corporation wholly owned by an
organization meeting the requirements under sub-
paragraphs (A), (B), and (C).’’.
fraud; and (vi) their consumer protection rights
under Federal law;
‘‘(B) provides such other information as
the Secretary considers necessary to protect
such residents against fraudulent telemarketing;
and
‘‘(C) disseminates the information provided
by appropriate means, and in determining such
appropriate means, the Secretary shall consider
on-site presentations at federally assisted hous-
ing, public service announcements, a printed
manual or pamphlet, an Internet website, and
telephone outreach to residents whose names
appear on ‘mooch lists’ confiscated from fraud-
ulent telemarketers.’’.
SEC. 342. COMMISSION ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND
HEALTH CARE FACILITY NEEDS IN THE 21ST
CENTURY.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a
commission to be known as the Commission on Affordable
Housing and Health Care Facility Needs in the 21st Cen-
tury (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’.
(b) STUDY.—The duty of the Commission shall be to
conduct a study that—
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and
Families into the 21st Century Act’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Regulations.
Sec. 3. Effective date.
TITLE I—CONVERSION OF FINANCING AND REFINANCING FOR
SECTION 202 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY
Sec. 101. Conversion of financing
Sec. 102. Prepayment and refinancing.
TITLE 
II—AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
FOR 
SUP-
PORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY AND PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES
Sec. 201. Supportive housing for elderly persons.
Sec. 202. Supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
Sec. 203. Service coordinators and congregate services for elderly and disabled
housing.
TITLE III—EXPANDING HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE
ELDERLY AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Subtitle A—Housing for the Elderly
Sec. 301. Matching grant program.
Sec. 302. Eligibility of for-profit limited partnerships.
Sec. 303. Mixed funding sources.
Sec. 304. Authority to acquire structures.
Sec. 305. Mixed-income occupancy.
Sec. 306. Use of project reserves.
Sec. 307. Commercial activities.
Sec. 308. Mixed finance pilot program.
Sec. 309. Grants for conversion of elderly housing to assisted living facilities.
Sec. 310. Grants for conversion of public housing projects to assisted living fa-
cilities.
Sec. 311. Use of section 8 assistance for assisted living facilities.
Sec. 312. Annual HUD inventory of assisted housing designated for elderly per-
sons.
Sec. 313. Treatment of applications.
Subtitle B—Housing for Persons With Disabilities
Sec. 321. Matching grant program.
Sec. 322. Eligibility of for-profit limited partnerships.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2023
To provide a schedule for production of elements for a national missile
defense system.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 7, 1999
Mr. MCINTOSH (for himself, Mr. PITTS, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. ENGLISH,
Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. BLILEY, Mrs. CHENOWETH, Mr. SOUDER, Mr.
ISTOOK, and Mr. SESSIONS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To provide a schedule for production of elements for a
national missile defense system.
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 ‘‘American People Pro-
tection Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States possesses various tech-
nologies that are inherently useful for defending
against ballistic missiles.
(2) The executive branch has heretofore man-
aged the development of these technologies in ways
that have delayed the availability of missile defense
for the United States while raising the cost and re-
ducing the usefulness of individual devices.
SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE.
(a) PROTOTYPE FOR NAVY THEATER WIDE SYS-
TEM.—The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Di-
rector of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, shall
produce before or during the year 2001 a prototype inter-
ceptor missile for the Navy Theater Wide system, with an
interceptor velocity of 4.5 kilometers per second or great-
er. The Theater Wide system shall be designed—
(1) so that the system’s interceptor missiles
each have the capability to receive information from
the Space-Based Infrared Sensors (SBIRS)-low sat-
ellite network, allowing them to proceed to terminal
homing; and
(2) so as to operate with systems that sub-
stitute for the radar from which the interceptor is
launched.
(b) PRODUCTION
OF INITIAL SBIRS-LOW SAT-
ELLITE.—The Secretary of Defense, acting through the
Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,
shall produce before or during the year 2002 the first sat-
ellite of the Space-Based Infrared Sensors (SBIRS)-low
system. That satellite shall include—
(1) a long-wave infrared sensor for viewing the
coldest warheads; and
(2) software capable of communicating with in-
dividual interceptors.
(c) SPACE-BASED
LASER
IN-FLIGHT
EXPERI-
MENT.—The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Di-
rector of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, shall
conduct before or during the year 2003 an in-flight experi-
ment of the Space-Based laser.
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 45 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Defense, acting through the Director of the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization, shall submit to Congress a
report describing the specific funding required, and any
regulatory relief required, to carry out each of subsections
(a), (b), and (c) within the time period stated in that sub-
section.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2026
To enforce the guarantees of the first, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments
to the Constitution of the United States by prohibiting certain devices
used to deny the right to participate in certain elections.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 7, 1999
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on House Administration
A BILL
To enforce the guarantees of the first, fourteenth, and fif-
teenth amendments to the Constitution of the United
States by prohibiting certain devices used to deny the
right to participate in certain elections.
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 ‘‘Voter Freedom Act
of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following
findings:
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2027
To require that candidates who receive campaign financing from the Presi-
dential Election Campaign Fund agree not to participate in multi-
candidate forums that exclude candidates who have broad-based public
support.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 7, 1999
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on House Administration
A BILL
To require that candidates who receive campaign financing
from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund agree
not to participate in multicandidate forums that exclude
candidates who have broad-based public support.
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 Debate Act of
1999’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVE
CAMPAIGN FINANCING FROM THE PRESI-
DENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND AGREE
NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN MULTICANDIDATE
FORUMS THAT EXCLUDE CANDIDATES WITH
BROAD-BASED PUBLIC SUPPORT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In addition to the requirements
under subtitle H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
in order to be eligible to receive payments from the Presi-
dential Election Campaign Fund, a candidate shall agree
in writing not to appear in any multicandidate forum with
respect to the election involved unless the following indi-
viduals are invited to participate in the multicandidate
forum:
(1) Each other eligible candidate under such
subtitle.
(2) Each individual who is qualified in at least
40 States for the ballot for the office involved.
(b) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Federal Election Com-
mission determines that a candidate—
(1) has received payments from the Presidential
Election Campaign Fund; and
(2) has violated the agreement referred to in
subsection (a);
the candidate shall pay to the Treasury an amount equal
to the amount of the payments so made.
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this Act, the term
‘‘multicandidate forum’’ means a meeting—
(1) consisting of a moderated reciprocal discus-
sion of issues among candidates for the same office;
and
(2) to which any other person has access in per-
son or through an electronic medium.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2029
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that
Federal agencies consult with State agencies and county and local govern-
ments on environmental impact statements.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 7, 1999
Mr. RADANOVICH (for himself, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. HERGER, Mr. SKEEN, Mr.
SESSIONS, Mrs. CHENOWETH, Mr. HILL of Montana, Mr. STUMP, Mr.
WALDEN of Oregon, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. SCHAFFER, Mr. ISTOOK, Mr.
CHAMBLISS, and Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources
A BILL
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
to require that Federal agencies consult with State agen-
cies and county and local governments on environmental
impact statements.
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 ‘‘State and Local Gov-
ernment Participation Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. CONSULTATION WITH STATE AGENCIES AND COUN-
TY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ON ENVIRON-
MENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.
Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) is amended
in the first sentence after clause (v) by striking ‘‘the com-
ments of any Federal agency which has’’ and by inserting
‘‘any comments submitted by any Federal agency, State
agency, county government, or local government that
has’’.
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of general local government for any fiscal year in a total
amount that exceeds the sum of the following amounts:
‘‘(1) 100 percent of the amount that the State
or qualified unit of general local government cer-
tifies, as the Secretary shall require, that the State
or qualified unit will contribute for such fiscal year,
or has contributed since January 1, 1999, for the
purposes under section 262(a).
‘‘(2) 50 percent of the amount that the State
or qualified unit of general local government certifies
will be or have been so contributed from Federal
sources.
‘‘(b) TREATMENT OF PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS.—
Any portion of amounts contributed after January 1,
1999, that are counted for purposes of meeting the appli-
cable requirement under subsection (a) for a fiscal year
may not be counted for such purposes for any subsequent
fiscal year.
‘‘(c) TREATMENT OF TAX CREDITS.—Tax credits
provided under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 and proceeds from the sale of tax-exempt revenue
bonds, by any State, county, or local government entity,
which are subject to volume limitation under Federal law,
shall not be considered non-Federal sources for purposes
of this section.
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of this section that may be distributed from any project
assisted under a contract for rental assistance renewed
under any provision of this section to the owner of the
project. This subsection may not be construed to provide
for, allow, or result in the release or termination, for any
project, of any low- or moderate-income use restrictions
that can not be eliminated by unilateral action of the
owner of the project.
‘‘(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Expiring contracts
for moderate rehabilitation assistance under section
8(e)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as in
effect before October 1, 1991, shall be subject to renewal
under the provisions of this section and such renewal con-
tract may not be considered, construed, or administered
as providing moderate rehabilitation assistance under such
section 8(e)(2), except that the Secretary may provide
such assistance in a manner, and subject to such rules
and procedures, as the Secretary may designate. If the
owner of a project with such an expiring contract requests
renewal of the contract, the Secretary shall renew the ex-
piring contract, subject to the provisions of this section,
within 6 months of the date of such expiration, notwith-
standing whether any tenant-based rental assistance has
been provided to tenants of the project. This subsection
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actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a re-
port to the Congress containing the quantitative re-
sults of the analysis and an enumeration of any
project or administrative benefits of such actions.
SEC. 102. PREPAYMENT AND REFINANCING.
(a) APPROVAL OF PREPAYMENT OF DEBT.—Upon
request of the project sponsor of a project assisted with
a loan under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (as
in effect before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act), the Secretary shall ap-
prove the prepayment of any indebtedness to the Secretary
relating to any remaining principal and interest under the
loan as part of a prepayment plan under which—
(1) the project sponsor agrees to operate the
project until the maturity date of the original loan
under terms at least as advantageous to existing and
future tenants as the terms required by the original
loan agreement or any rental assistance payments
contract under section 8 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (or any other rental housing assist-
ance programs of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, including the rent supplement
program under section 101 of the Housing and
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s))
relating to the project; and
(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting after
‘‘very low-income person’’ the following: ‘‘or a
low-income person (to the extent such occu-
pancy is made available pursuant to subsection
(i)(1)(B))’’;
(2) in subsection (d)(1), by inserting after ‘‘el-
derly persons’’ the following: ‘‘, and low-income el-
derly persons to the extent such occupancy is made
available pursuant to subsection (i)(1)(B),’’; and
(3) in subsection (k)—
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3)
through (8) as paragraphs (4) through (9), re-
spectively; and
(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the
following new paragraphs:
‘‘(3) LOW-INCOME.—The term ‘low-income’ has
the same meaning given the term ‘low-income fami-
lies’ under section 3(b)(2) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(2)).
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‘‘(C) on completion of the functions required by
paragraph (1)(B) to be performed by the registrant
with respect to the transfer, notify the transferor
that the registrant has performed such functions;
and
‘‘(D) on completion of the background check by
the system, retain a record of the background check
as part of the permanent business records of the
registrant.
‘‘(4) This section shall not be construed to permit or
authorize the Secretary to impose recordkeeping require-
ments on any vendor who is not licensed under section
923.
‘‘(d) If, at a gun show or the curtilage area of a gun
show, a person who is not licensed under section 923
makes an offer to another person who is not licensed
under section 923 to sell, transfer, or exchange a firearm
that is accessible to the person at the gun show or in the
curtilage area of the gun show, and such other person,
at the gun show or the curtilage area of the gun show,
indicates a willingness to accept the offer, it shall be un-
lawful for such other person to receive the firearm from
the person if the recipient knows that the firearm has been
transferred to the recipient in violation of this section.’’.
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon;
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) that is a violation of section 522 (relating
to the recruitment of persons to participate in crimi-
nal gang activity);
‘‘(4) that is a violation of section 844, 875, or
876 (relating to extortion and threats), section 1084
(relating to gambling), section 1955 (relating to
gambling), or chapter 73 (relating to obstruction of
justice);
‘‘(5) that is a violation of section 1956 (relating
to money laundering), to the extent that the viola-
tion of such section is related to a Federal or State
offense involving a controlled substance (as that
term is defined in section 102 of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)); or
‘‘(6) that is a violation of section 274(a)(1)(A),
277, or 278 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A), 1327, or 1328) (relating
to alien smuggling); and
SEC. 4. STUDY.
The Attorney General shall submit to the Congress
the results of a study to determine the impact of this Act.
The Attorney General shall carry out the study required
by subsection (a) and shall submit the results of such
study not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives August 3,
1999.
Attest:
Clerk.
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the performance of involuntary sterilization as a method 
of family planning or to coerce or provide any financial 
incentive to any person to undergo sterilizations. None of 
the funds made available to carry out part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay 
for any biomedical research which relates in whole or in 
part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions or 
involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning. 
None of the funds made available to carry out part I of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be 
obligated or expended for any country or organization if 
the President certifies that the use of these funds by any 
such country or organization would violate any of the 
above provisions related to abortions and involuntary steri-
lizations. 
EXPORT FINANCING TRANSFER AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 519. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-
tion other than for administrative expenses made available 
for fiscal year 2005, for programs under title I of this 
Act may be transferred between such appropriations for 
use for any of the purposes, programs, and activities for 
which the funds in such receiving account may be used, 
but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically 
provided, shall be increased by more than 25 percent by 
any such transfer: Provided, That the exercise of such au-
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thority shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be obligated or expended for Liberia, Serbia, Sudan, 
or Zimbabwe except as provided through the regular noti-
fication procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 
SEC. 521. For the purpose of this Act, ‘‘program, 
project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the appropria-
tions Act account level and shall include all appropriations 
and authorizations Acts earmarks, ceilings, and limita-
tions with the exception that for the following accounts: 
Economic Support Fund and Foreign Military Financing 
Program, ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall also be 
considered to include country, regional, and central pro-
gram level funding within each such account; for the devel-
opment assistance accounts of the United States Agency 
for International Development ‘‘program, project, and ac-
tivity’’ shall also be considered to include central, country, 
regional, and program level funding, either as: (1) justified 
to the Congress; or (2) allocated by the executive branch 
in accordance with a report, to be provided to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations within 30 days of the enactment 
of this Act, as required by section 653(a) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961.