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of the Department of Defense to determine which such 
equipment— 
(1) would be appropriate for use by farmers 
through an equipment sharing program; and 
(2) could be used in an equipment sharing pro-
gram without jeopardizing military readiness. 
(b) PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall establish a pilot program under which the Sec-
retary shall lend equipment of the Department iden-
tified pursuant to the survey carried out under sub-
section (a) to eligible farmers. 
(2) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to borrow 
equipment under the pilot program, a farmer shall— 
(A) be a new and beginning farmer, as de-
termined by the Secretary; and 
(B) submit to the Secretary an application 
containing such information and assurances as 
the Secretary may require. 
(3) LOCATION.—The Secretary shall carry out 
the pilot program at locations determined by the 
Secretary. 
(4) DURATION.—The authority to carry out a 
pilot program under this section shall terminate on 
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(4) by striking ‘‘(B) any’’ and inserting ‘‘(2) 
any’’; and 
(5) by striking ‘‘(C) advice’’ and inserting ‘‘(3) 
advice’’. 
SEC. 12. AGENCY PREPARATION OF GUIDES. 
Section 212(a)(5) the Small Business Regulatory En-
forcement Fairness Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) AGENCY PREPARATION OF GUIDES.—The 
agency shall, in its sole discretion, taking into ac-
count the subject matter of the rule and the lan-
guage of relevant statutes, ensure that the guide is 
written using sufficiently plain language likely to be 
understood by affected small entities. Agencies may 
prepare separate guides covering groups or classes of 
similarly affected small entities and may cooperate 
with associations of small entities to distribute such 
guides. In developing guides, agencies shall solicit 
input from affected small entities or associations of 
affected small entities. An agency may prepare 
guides and apply this section with respect to a rule 
or a group of related rules.’’. 
SEC. 13. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
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shall complete and publish a study that examines whether 
the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Ad-
ministration has the capacity and resources to carry out 
the duties of the Chief Counsel under this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives February 5, 
2015. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Union Calendar No. 8 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 527 
[Report No. 114–12, Part I] 
To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as 
the Regulatory Flexibility Act), to ensure complete analysis of potential 
impacts on small entities of rules, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2015 
Mr. CHABOT (for himself, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. MARINO, Mr. COLLINS of 
Georgia, Mr. HANNA, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and Mr. 
KNIGHT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Busi-
ness, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
FEBRUARY 2, 2015 
Additional sponsors: Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. PETERSON, Mr. SESSIONS, 
Mr. TIPTON, Mr. COLLINS of New York, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. KING of 
Iowa, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mrs. LOVE, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. HARDY, Mr. 
HULTGREN, Mr. KLINE, and Mr. CUELLAR 
FEBRUARY 2, 2015 
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary 
FEBRUARY 2, 2015 
The Committee on Small Business discharged; committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (com-
monly known as the Regulatory Flexibility Act), to en-
sure complete analysis of potential impacts on small enti-
ties of rules, and for other purposes. 
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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 Regu-
latory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION AND EXPANSION OF RULES COV-
ERED BY THE REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY 
ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 601 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) RULE.—The term ‘rule’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 551(4) of this title, ex-
cept that such term does not include a rule per-
taining to the protection of the rights of and benefits 
for veterans or a rule of particular (and not general) 
applicability relating to rates, wages, corporate or fi-
nancial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, 
facilities, appliances, services, or allowances therefor 
or to valuations, costs or accounting, or practices re-
lating to such rates, wages, structures, prices, appli-
ances, services, or allowances.’’. 
(b) INCLUSION
OF RULES WITH INDIRECT EF-
FECTS.—Section 601 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
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141 
‘‘(A) a minimum of 4 key factors, if avail-
able, that adversely affected the credit score or 
educational credit score, except that if one of 
the key factors consists of the number of 
enquiries made with respect to a consumer re-
port, that factor shall be provided to the con-
sumer in addition to the factors required by 
this subparagraph; 
‘‘(B) to the extent possible, specific actions 
a consumer could take with respect to each key 
factor listed in subparagraph (A) to improve 
the consumer’s credit score or educational cred-
it score; 
‘‘(C) a minimum of 4 key factors, if avail-
able, that positively affected the credit score or 
educational credit score; 
‘‘(D) the range of possible credit scores or 
educational credit scores under the credit scor-
ing model used; 
‘‘(E) the distribution of credit scores or 
educational credit scores among consumers who 
are scored under the same credit scoring model 
by the consumer reporting agency, and using 
the same scale as that of the score that is pro-
vided to a creditor or consumers— 
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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5280 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program to lend 
Department of Defense farm equipment to eligible farmers, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 18, 2016 
Ms. GRAHAM (for herself and Mr. YOHO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot 
program to lend Department of Defense farm equipment 
to eligible farmers, 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. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FARM EQUIPMENT 
SHARING PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) SURVEY OF DOD EQUIPMENT.—Not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Agriculture, shall conduct a survey of the equipment 
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the date that is three years after the date of the 
commencement of the pilot program. 
(5) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the 
termination of the pilot program under this sub-
section, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the pilot program that includes the rec-
ommendations of the Secretary with respect to the 
extension and expansion of the program. 
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(c) ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX.—Clause (i) of sec-
tion 55(b)(1)(A) of such Code (relating to amount of ten-
tative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers) is amend-
ed—
(1) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘26 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘24.7 percent’’, and
(2) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘28 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘26.6 percent’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 1997.
SEC. 3. JOINT RETURN STANDARD DEDUCTION TWICE
THAT OF SINGLE RETURN.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 63(c) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the stand-
ard deduction) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘$5,000’’
and inserting ‘‘twice the amount in effect under sub-
paragraph (C)’’, and
(2) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘$2,500’’
and inserting ‘‘the amount in effect under subpara-
graph (C)’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsection (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 1997.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2720
To repeal the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 23, 1997
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To repeal the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DAVIS-BACON ACT.
(a) REPEAL.—The Act of March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C.
276a et seq.) (commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon
Act) is repealed.
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any law to a
wage requirement of the Act of March 3, 1931, shall after
the date of the enactment of this Act be null and void.
SEC. 2. COPELAND ACT.
Section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934 (40 U.S.C.
276c) (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Copeland Act’’) is
repealed.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by sections 1 and 2 shall take
effect 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act
but shall not affect any contract in existence on such date
of enactment or made pursuant to invitation for bids out-
standing on such date of enactment.
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2721
To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 23, 1997
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans.
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 ‘‘Second Amendment
Protection Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF FEDERAL HARASSMENT PERIOD.
Public Law 103–159 is hereby replaced, and any pro-
visions of law amended or repealed by such Act are re-
stored or revived as if such Act has not been enacted.
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL GUN BAN.
Title XI of Public Law 103–322 is hereby repealed,
and any provisions of law amended or repealed by such
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title are restored or revived as if such title had not been
enacted.
SEC. 4. REPEAL OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL DISTINCTION.
(a) Section 201 of title 11 of Public Law 90–618 is
amended by striking ‘‘which the Secretary finds is gen-
erally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting pur-
poses,’’ and ‘‘which the owner intends to use solely for
sporting purposes.’’
(b) Public Law 90–351, as amended, is amended as
follows:
(1) In section 902, strike ‘‘which the Secretary
finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable
for sporting purposes,’’ ‘‘which the owner intends to
use solely for sporting, recreational, or cultural pur-
poses,’’ ‘‘a projectile which the Secretary finds is
primarily intended to be used for sporting pur-
poses,’’ ‘‘devoted to the collection, competitive use,
or other sporting use of firearms in the community,’’
‘‘determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be
particularly suitable for sporting purposes and,’’
‘‘(A) determined by the Secretary to be generally
recognized as particularly suitable for sporting pur-
poses, or determined by the Department of Defense
to be a type of firearm normally classified as a war
souvenir, and (B),’’ ‘‘and is generally recognized as
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particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to
sporting purposes,’’ and ‘‘provided that such hand-
guns are generally recognized as particularly suitable
for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes;’’.
(2) Strike ‘‘lawful sporting purposes’’ and in-
serting in lieu thereof ‘‘lawful purposes’’.
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The provisions of this Act shall take effect imme-
diately upon enactment.
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viously deleted or modified information is 
accurate or complete and a description of 
the procedure for the consumer to make 
such an appeal pursuant to subsection (h); 
and 
‘‘(v) a statement that the consumer 
has the right to add a narrative statement, 
free of charge, to the consumer’s file dis-
puting the accuracy or completeness of the 
disputed information and a description of 
the process to add such a narrative state-
ment pursuant to subsection (b). 
‘‘(6) EXPEDITED DISPUTE RESOLUTION.—If a 
consumer reporting agency determines that the in-
formation provided by the consumer is sufficient to 
substantiate that the item of information is inac-
curate, incomplete, or cannot be verified by the per-
son who furnished such information, and the con-
sumer reporting agency deletes or modifies such in-
formation within 3 business days of receiving notice 
of the dispute, the consumer reporting agency shall 
be exempt from the requirements of paragraph (4), 
if the consumer reporting agency provides to the 
consumer— 
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thorize the alternative trustee (or appoint an alter-
native trustee if one has not been appointed under
such subsection and authorize him) to assume trust-
eeship of the personal retirement account, and pro-
vide for its liquidation, in accordance with the provi-
sions of this section, and a transfer of its assets to
a successor personal retirement account, in accord-
ance with paragraph (2).
(2) TRANSFER
TO
SUCCESSOR
ACCOUNT.—In
any case in which a personal retirement account is
terminated under this section, the Commission shall
provide by regulation for procedures under which se-
lection for the account holder of an appropriate suc-
cessor personal retirement account is facilitated and
a trustee-to-trustee transfer of the balance in the
terminated account to the successor account is
made. Whenever an alternative trustee appointed
under this section is exercising trusteeship authority
over a personal retirement account with discretion as
to the date upon which transfer of the assets from
the account to a successor account is to be per-
formed, the alternative trustee shall notify the Com-
mission at least 10 days before the date on which he
proposes to perform such transfer.
(d) TRUSTEESHIP WITHOUT TERMINATION.—If the
Commission and the financial institution agree that trust-
eeship over the personal retirement account should be as-
sumed by an alternative trustee appointed under this sec-
tion and agree to the appointment of an alternative trustee
without proceeding in accordance with the requirements
of subsection (c), the alternative trustee shall have the
power described in subsection (e)(1) of this section and,
in addition to any other duties imposed on the alternative
trustee under law or by agreement between the Commis-
sion and the financial institution, the alternative trustee
is subject to the duties described in subsection (e)(3).
(e) POWERS AND DUTIES OF ALTERNATIVE TRUST-
EE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—An alternative trustee ap-
pointed under subsection (b) shall have the power—
(A) to do any act authorized by documents
governing the personal retirement account or
this title to be done by the financial institution
as trustee of the account;
(B) to require the transfer of all (or any
part) of the assets and records of the account
to himself as trustee;
(C) to invest any assets of the account
which he holds in accordance with the docu-
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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2723
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase
in taxes on Social Security benefits.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 23, 1997
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal
the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security benefits.
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 ‘‘Social Security Bene-
ficiary Tax Reduction Act’’.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF INCREASE IN TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY
BENEFITS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 86(a) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to social se-
curity and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits) is amended
by adding at the end the following new sentence:
‘‘This paragraph shall not apply to any taxable year
beginning after December 31, 1998.’’
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Paragraph (3) of section 871(a) of such
Code is amended by striking ‘‘85 percent’’ in sub-
paragraph (A) and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’.
(2)(A) Subparagraph (A) of section 121(e)(1)
of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (Public
Law 98–21) is amended—
(i) by striking ‘‘(A) There’’ and inserting
‘‘There’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘(i)’’ immediately following
‘‘amounts equivalent to’’; and
(iii) by striking ‘‘, less (ii)’’ and all that
follows and inserting a period.
(B) Paragraph (1) of section 121(e) of such Act
is amended by striking subparagraph (B).
(C) Paragraph (3) of section 121(e) of such Act
is amended by striking subparagraph (B) and by re-
designating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).
(D) Paragraph (2) of section 121(e) of such
Act is amended in the first sentence by striking
‘‘paragraph (1)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (1)’’.
of FICO credit scores, and the marketing prac-
tices of some credit score sellers may perpetuate 
consumers’ confusion about credit scores. Con-
sumers may be purchasing an educational credit 
score or subscribing to a credit monitoring serv-
ice sold by CRAs without realizing the limita-
tions and usefulness of these products and serv-
ices. 
(C) A September 2012 Bureau report ti-
tled 
‘‘Analysis 
of 
Differences 
between 
Consumer- 
and 
Creditor-Purchased 
Credit 
Scores’’ found different types of scores, such as 
those provided by FICO, VantageScore, or 
other educational scores, vary greatly. The re-
port noted that consumers do not know before 
they purchase a score from a CRA whether this 
score will closely track or vary significantly 
from the score sold to creditors or lenders. Due 
to this lack of transparency and the resulting 
consumer confusion, the Bureau recommended 
that companies selling scores to consumers in-
form them that the scores that they are pur-
chasing can vary, sometimes substantially, from 
the scores that are sold to and used by creditors 
and lenders. Absent increased transparency a 
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(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 1998.
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for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union and
for related programs, $560,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2006: Provided, That the provisions of
such chapters shall apply to funds appropriated by this
paragraph: Provided further, That funds made available for
the Southern Caucasus region may be used, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, for confidence-building
measures and other activities in furtherance of the peaceful
resolution of the regional conflicts, especially those in the
vicinity of Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabagh: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
$8,000,000 should be available only to meet the health and
other assistance needs of victims of trafficking in persons:
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading, $20,000,000 shall be made available solely for as-
sistance for the Russian Far East: Provided further, That
of the funds appropriated under this heading, $6,000,000
should be made available for an emergency operations cen-
ter in Kazakhstan: Provided further, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, funds appropriated under this
heading in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations
for foreign operations, export financing, and related pro-
grams, that are made available pursuant to the provisions
of section 807 of Public Law 102–511 shall be subject to
a 6 percent ceiling on administrative expenses: Provided
981(b)(2) apply to the seizure of 
the property; and 
‘‘(II) if the party meets the require-
ments described in subsection (b), authorize 
counsel to represent the party or insure that 
the party is represented by an attorney for 
the Legal Services Corporation, as applica-
ble, in accordance with that subsection; and 
‘‘(ii) the burden of proof is on the Govern-
ment to establish that at the time the property 
was seized— 
‘‘(I) if the property was seized pursu-
ant to a warrant described in the matter 
preceding subparagraph (A) of section 
981(b)(2), the warrant was supported by 
probable cause; or 
‘‘(II) if the property was seized with-
out a warrant described in subclause (I)— 
‘‘(aa) sufficiently detailed facts re-
garding the seizure of the property; 
and 
‘‘(bb) an exception described in 
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 
981(b)(2) applies to the seizure of the 
property. 
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‘‘(i) the requirements described in subpara-
graphs (A) through (E) of subsection (f)(1) are met; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the Government did not meet the burden 
of proof described in subparagraph (C)(ii).’’. 
SEC. 3. REPRESENTATION. 
Section 983(b) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ‘‘judicial’’; 
and 
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘judicial 
civil forfeiture proceeding under a civil forfeiture 
statute is financially unable to obtain representation 
by counsel, and the property subject to forfeiture is 
real property that is being used by the person as a 
primary residence’’ and inserting ‘‘civil forfeiture 
proceeding under a civil forfeiture statute is finan-
cially unable to obtain representation by counsel’’. 
SEC. 4. BURDEN OF PROOF. 
Section 983(c) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘a preponder-
ance of the evidence’’ and inserting ‘‘clear and con-
vincing evidence’’; and 
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