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(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on April 1, 2012. 
SEC. 402. EXTENSION OF HIGHWAY-RELATED TAXES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) Each of the following provisions of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 
‘‘March 31, 2012’’ and inserting ‘‘June 30, 2012’’: 
(A) Section 4041(a)(1)(C)(iii)(I). 
(B) Section 4041(m)(1)(B). 
(C) Section 4081(d)(1). 
(2) Each of the following provisions of such 
Code is amended by striking ‘‘April 1, 2012’’ and in-
serting ‘‘July 1, 2012’’: 
(A) Section 4041(m)(1)(A). 
(B) Section 4051(c). 
(C) Section 4071(d). 
(D) Section 4081(d)(3). 
(b) EXTENSION OF TAX, ETC., ON USE OF CERTAIN 
HEAVY VEHICLES.—Each of the following provisions of 
such Code is amended by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting 
‘‘2013’’: 
(1) Section 4481(f). 
(2) Subsections (c)(4) and (d) of section 4482. 
(c) FLOOR STOCKS REFUNDS.—Section 6412(a)(1) 
of such Code is amended— 
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I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4238 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain programs 
for individuals with traumatic brain injury, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2012 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself and Mr. PLATTS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize cer-
tain programs for individuals with traumatic brain in-
jury, 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 ‘‘Traumatic Brain In-
jury Act of 2012’’ or the ‘‘TBI Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ACT REAUTHORIZA-
TION. 
(a) PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INJURIES.— 
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I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3231
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit tax-exempt financing
of certain transportation facilities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 6, 1993
Mr. TUCKER (for himself, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. WATERS, Mr. HORN,
Mr. BECERRA, and Ms. HARMAN) 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 permit
tax-exempt financing of certain transportation facilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That (a) subsection (c) of section 142 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3), and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(2) RELATED TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Transportation facili-
ties (including trackage and rail facilities) used
in connection with the transport of cargo or
passengers to or from a facility described in
paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) shall be
treated as facilities described in paragraph (1)
or (2) but only so long as, during the period
that any tax-exempt private activity bond issued
to provide such facilities is outstanding, at least
80 percent of the use of such facilities (deter-
mined on an annual basis) is in connection with
the transport of cargo or passengers to or from
a facility described in paragraph (1) or (2) of
subsection (a).
‘‘(B) GOVERNMENTAL
OWNERSHIP
RE-
QUIREMENT.—For purposes of subparagraph
(A) of subsection (b)(1), facilities described in
subparagraph (A) of this paragraph leased by a
governmental unit shall be treated as owned by
such governmental unit if the requirements of
clauses (i) and (iii) of subsection (b)(1)(B) are
satisfied. Rules similar to the rules of the pre-
ceding sentence shall apply to management con-
tracts and similar types of operating or use
agreements.’’
(b) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Section 
31104(i)(1)(H) of title 49, United States Code, is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘(H) $183,108,000 for the period begin-
ning on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 
30, 2012.’’. 
(c) 
GRANT
PROGRAMS.—Section 
4101(c) 
of 
SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1715) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘2011 and 
$15,000,000 for the period beginning on October 1, 
2011, and ending on March 31, 2012.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2011 and $22,500,000 for the period beginning 
on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 2012.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘2011 and 
$16,000,000 for the period beginning on October 1, 
2011, and ending on March 31, 2012.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2011 and $24,000,000 for the period beginning 
on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 2012.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘2011 and 
$2,500,000 for the period beginning on October 1, 
2011, and ending on March 31, 2012.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2011 and $3,750,000 for the period beginning 
on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 2012.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘2011 and 
$12,500,000 for the period beginning on October 1, 
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(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall
apply to obligations issued after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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2011, and ending on March 31, 2012.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2011 and $18,750,000 for the period beginning 
on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 2012.’’; 
and 
(5) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘2011 and 
$1,500,000 for the period beginning on October 1, 
2011, and ending on March 31, 2012.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2011 and $2,250,000 for the period beginning 
on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 2012.’’. 
(d) 
HIGH-PRIORITY
ACTIVITIES.—Section 
31104(k)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘2011 and $7,500,000 for the period begin-
ning on October 1, 2011, and ending on March 31, 2012,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2011 and $11,250,000 for the period be-
ginning on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 30, 
2012,’’. 
(e) 
NEW
ENTRANT
AUDITS.—Section 
31144(g)(5)(B) of title 49, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘and up to $14,500,000 for the period be-
ginning on October 1, 2011, and ending on March 31, 
2012,’’ and inserting ‘‘and up to $21,750,000 for the pe-
riod beginning on October 1, 2011, and ending on June 
30, 2012,’’. 
(f) OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.—Section 4127(e) of 
SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1741) is amended by striking 
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‘‘(B) PART YEARS.—In the case of an indi-
vidual who receives a qualified governmental
pension with respect to a period of less than a
full taxable year, the maximum individual social
security benefit for such individual for such
year shall be reduced as provided in regulations
prescribed by the Secretary to properly cor-
respond to such period.
‘‘(5) STATE OR LOCAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.—
The term ‘State or local retirement system’ means
any pension, annuity, retirement, or similar fund or
system established by a State, any political subdivi-
sion of a State, or the District of Columbia.’’
(b) Subparagraph (A) of section 86(b)(2) of such
Code (defining modified adjusted gross income) is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘137,’’ before ‘‘911’’.
(c) The table of sections for part III of subchapter
B of chapter 1 of such Code (relating to items specifically
excluded from income) is amended by redesignating the
item relating to section 137 as section 138 and by insert-
ing after the item relating to section 136 the following
new item:
‘‘Sec. 137. Certain pensions and annuities under State or local re-
tirement systems.’’
(d) The amendments made by this Act shall apply
to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3233
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to take such actions as may be
necessary to control the infestation of southern pine beetles currently
ravaging wilderness areas in the State of Texas.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 6, 1993
Mr. WILSON introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to take such actions
as may be necessary to control the infestation of south-
ern pine beetles currently ravaging wilderness areas in
the State of Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ACTIONS TO CONTROL THE SOUTHERN PINE
BEETLE IN WILDERNESS AREAS IN TEXAS.
(a) ACTIVE CONTROL REQUIRED.—Notwithstanding
section 4(c) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(c))
and section 4(a) of the Texas Wilderness Act of 1984
(Public Law 98–574; 98 Stat. 3051), the Secretary of Ag-
riculture shall undertake active measures—
(1) to control the infestation of the southern
pine beetle in the five wilderness areas in the State
of Texas designated in section 2 of the Texas Wil-
derness Act of 1984; and
(2) to prevent the spread of the southern pine
beetle from such wilderness areas to adjacent private
forest lands.
(b) TYPES OF CONTROL MEASURES.—Measures un-
dertaken to control the infestation of southern pine beetles
in wilderness areas in the State of Texas may include the
use of salvage harvesting of timber stands that—
(1) are already substantially damaged by the
southern pine beetle; or
(2) will prevent the spread of the southern pine
beetle to healthy stands of timber.
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3234
To provide a comprehensive program of adjustment assistance to workers
displaced as a result of any program, project, or activity carried out
under Federal law.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 6, 1993
Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Mr. BROWN of California, Mr. TUCKER, Mr.
STARK, Mr. FILNER, Mr. TORRES, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. SANDERS, Mr.
NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. DICKS, Ms. FURSE, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD,
Mr. EDWARDS of California, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. BERMAN,
Mr. FAZIO, Mr. FARR of California, Mr. BEILENSON, Ms. PELOSI, Mr.
CONYERS, Mr. BISHOP, and Mr. WYNN) introduced the following bill;
which was referred jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means, Edu-
cation and Labor, and Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide a comprehensive program of adjustment assist-
ance to workers displaced as a result of any program,
project, or activity carried out under Federal law.
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 ‘‘Displaced Worker
Retraining Act of 1993’’.
(2) by striking subsection (c) and redesignating
subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (c) and (d),
respectively.
SEC. 116. RELOCATION OF UTILITY FACILITIES.
Section 123(a) of title 23, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘on any Federal-aid system’’
and inserting ‘‘eligible for assistance under this
chapter’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘Federal-aid highway projects
for which Federal funds are obligated subsequent to
April 16, 1958,’’ and inserting ‘‘such project’’.
SEC. 117. ADVANCES TO STATES.
Section 124(a) of title 23, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘projects on any of the Federal-aid
systems, including the Interstate System, he’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘a project eligible for assistance under this title, the
Secretary’’.
SEC. 118. EMERGENCY RELIEF.
(a) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The first sentence of
section 125(b) of title 23, United States Code, is amended
by striking all preceding ‘‘Provided’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘The Secretary may expend funds from the emer-
gency fund herein authorized for projects for repair or re-
and injury prevention standard shall be promulgated not 
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The safe patient handling, mo-
bility, and injury prevention standard shall require the use 
of engineering and safety controls to perform handling of 
patients and the elimination of injuries from manual han-
dling of patients by direct-care registered nurses and all 
other health care workers, through the development of a 
comprehensive program, to include the use of mechanical 
technology and devices to the greatest degree feasible. 
Where the use of mechanical technology and devices is not 
feasible, the standards shall require the use of alternative 
controls and measures, including trained, designated lift 
teams, to minimize the risk of injury to nurses and health 
care workers resulting from the manual handling of pa-
tients. The standard shall apply to all health care employ-
ers, shall generally align with interprofessional national 
safe patient handling, mobility, and injury prevention 
standards, and shall include the following: 
(1) PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT.—A requirement 
that each health care employer shall develop and im-
plement a safe patient handling, mobility, and injury 
prevention program within 6 months of the date of 
promulgation of the final standard, which program 
shall include hazard identification, risk assessments, 
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(2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) COST
SHARE
DETERMINATIONS.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 
later than 60 days after the date on which an 
applicant submits a complete application for a 
matching requirement waiver under this para-
graph the Secretary shall either approve or dis-
approve the application.’’. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—Section 70107(i) of title 46, 
United States Code, is amended by adding after para-
graph (4) the following: 
‘‘(5) RELEASE OF FUNDS.—To the maximum 
extent practicable, the Secretary shall complete all 
necessary programmatic reviews and release grant 
funds awarded under this section to the appropriate 
entity not later than 180 days after the date on 
which an applicant submits a complete application. 
‘‘(6) PERFORMANCE
PERIOD.—The Secretary 
shall utilize a period of performance of not less than 
3 years for expenditure of grant funds awarded 
under this section. 
‘‘(7) EXTENSION DETERMINATIONS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, not later than 
60 days after the date on which an applicant sub-
(1) Each special message transmitted under
this Act shall be transmitted to the House or Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on the same day, and
shall be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Rep-
resentatives if the House is not in session, and to
the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate if the Sen-
ate is not in session. Each special message so trans-
mitted shall be referred to the appropriate commit-
tees of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Each message shall be printed as a document of
each House.
(2) Any special message transmitted under this
Act shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal
Register published after such transmittal.
(c) 
REFERRAL
OF
RESCISSION
DISAPPROVAL
BILLS.—Any rescission disapproval bill introduced with
respect to a special message shall be referred to the appro-
priate committees of the House of Representatives or the
Senate, as the case may be.
(d) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.—
(1) Any rescission disapproval bill received in
the Senate from the House shall be considered in
the Senate pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
(2) Debate in the Senate on any rescission dis-
approval bill and debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more
than ten hours. The time shall be equally divided be-
tween, and controlled by, the majority leader and the
minority leader or their designees.
(3) Debate in the Senate on any debatable mo-
tions or appeal in connection with such bill shall be
limited to one hour, to be equally divided between,
and controlled by the mover and the manager of the
bill, except that in the event the manager of the bill
is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time
in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the mi-
nority leader or his designee. Such leaders, or either
of them, may, from the time under their control on
the passage of the bill, allot additional time to any
Senator during the consideration of any debatable
motion or appeal.
(4) A motion to further limit debate is not de-
batable. A motion to recommit (except a motion to
recommit with instructions to report back within a
specified number of days not to exceed one, not
counting any day on which the Senate is not in ses-
sion) is not in order.
(e) POINTS OF ORDER.—
(1) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the
House of Representatives to consider any rescission
disapproval bill that relates to any matter other than
the rescission budget authority transmitted by the
President under this Act.
(2) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the
House of Representatives to consider any amend-
ment to a rescission disapproval bill.
(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by a vote of three-
fifths of the members duly chosen and sworn.
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and control measures in relation to patient care du-
ties and patient handling. 
(2) TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT PURCHASE 
AND MANAGEMENT.—A requirement that, within 2 
years of the date of promulgation of the final stand-
ard, each health care employer shall purchase, use, 
maintain, and make accessible to health care work-
ers, such safe patient handling equipment, tech-
nology, and accessories as the Secretary determines 
appropriate. 
(3) HEALTH CARE WORKER PARTICIPATION.—A 
requirement that each health care employer shall ob-
tain input from health care workers, to include di-
rect care registered nurses, health care workers, 
their representatives, and their collective bargaining 
agents, in developing and implementing the safe pa-
tient handling, mobility, and injury prevention pro-
gram, including the purchase of technology and 
equipment and necessary accessories. 
(4) DATA TRACKING AND REVIEW.—A require-
ment that each health care employer shall establish 
a review program to analyze data relevant to the im-
plementation of the employers’ safe patient handling, 
mobility, and injury prevention program, and shall 
account for circumstances where safe patient han-
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tory institutions to follow in selecting customers
for an exemption under this subsection.
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The guidelines may in-
clude a description of the types of businesses or
an itemization of specific businesses for which
no exemption will be granted under this sub-
section to any depository institution.
‘‘(5) ANNUAL REVIEW.—The Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe regulations requiring each
depository institution to—
‘‘(A) review, at least once each year, the
qualified business customers of such institution
with respect to whom an exemption has been
granted under this subsection; and
‘‘(B) upon the completion of such review,
resubmit information about such customers,
with such modifications as the institution deter-
mines to be appropriate, to the Secretary for
the Secretary’s approval.
‘‘(f) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MANDATORY AND
DISCRETIONARY EXEMPTIONS.—
‘‘(1) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY OF DEPOSITORY
INSTITUTIONS.—No depository institution shall be
subject to any penalty which may be imposed under
this subchapter for the failure of the institution to
IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4240 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 16, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 
2004, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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file a report with respect to a transaction with a cus-
tomer for whom an exemption has been granted
under subsection (d) or (e) unless the institution—
‘‘(A) files false or incomplete information
to the Secretary with respect to the transaction
or the customer engaging in the transaction; or
‘‘(B) has reason to believe at the time the
exemption is granted or the transaction is en-
tered into that the customer or the transaction
does not meet the criteria established for grant-
ing such exemption.
‘‘(2) COORDINATION
WITH
OTHER
PROVI-
SIONS.—Any exemption granted by the Secretary of
the Treasury under section 5318(a) in accordance
with this section, and any transaction which is sub-
ject to such exemption, shall be subject to any other
provision of law applicable to such exemption, in-
cluding—
‘‘(A) the authority of the Secretary, under
section 5318(a)(5), to revoke such exemption at
any time; and
‘‘(B) any requirement to report, or any au-
thority to require a report on, any possible vio-
lation of any law or regulation or any suspected
criminal activity.
‘‘(g) DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘depository institution’ has
the meaning given to such term in section 19(b)(1)(A) of
the Federal Reserve Act.’’.
(b) REPORT REDUCTION GOAL; REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In implementing the amend-
ment made by subsection (a), the Secretary of the
Treasury shall seek to reduce, within a reasonable
period of time, the number of reports required to be
filed in the aggregate by depository institutions pur-
suant to section 5313(a) of title 31, United States
Code, by at least 30 percent of the number filed dur-
ing the year preceding the date of the enactment of
this Act.
(2) INTERIM
REPORT.—The Secretary of the
Treasury shall submit a report to the Congress not
later than the end of the 180-day period beginning
on the date of the enactment of this Act on the
progress made by the Secretary in implementing the
amendment made by subsection (a).
(3) ANNUAL
REPORT.—The Secretary of the
Treasury shall submit an annual report to the Con-
gress after the end of each of the first 5 calendar
years which begin after the date of the enactment of
this Act on the extent to which the Secretary has re-
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ter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘2012’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2017’’. 
SEC. 9. ASSISTANCE PROVIDED OUTSIDE OF NORTH 
KOREA. 
Section 203(c)(1) of the North Korean Human 
Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7833(c)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$20,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$5,000,000’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2005 through 2012’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2013 through 2017’’. 
SEC. 10. ANNUAL REPORTS. 
Section 305(a) of the North Korean Human Rights 
Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7845(a)) is amended, in the mat-
ter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘2012’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2017’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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