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such section 804, the Secretary shall, 
under subsection (e)(3)(C)(i) of such sec-
tion 804, estimate the total price of drugs 
imported under subsection (a) of such sec-
tion 804 into the United States by reg-
istered importers during— 
(I) fiscal year 2009 to be 
$1,000,000,000; and 
(II) fiscal year 2010 to be 
$10,000,000,000. 
(iii) FISCAL
YEAR
2010
ADJUST-
MENT.— 
(I) REPORTS.—Not later than 
February 20, 2010, registered import-
ers shall report to the Secretary the 
total price and the total volume of 
drugs imported to the United States 
by the importer during the 4-month 
period from October 1, 2009, through 
January 31, 2010. 
(II) 
REESTIMATE.—Notwith-
standing subsection (e)(3)(C)(ii) of 
such section 804 or clause (ii), the 
Secretary shall reestimate the total 
price of qualifying drugs imported 
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Calendar No. 101
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 63
[Report No. 103–63]
AN ACT
To establish the Spring Mountains National
Recreation Area in Nevada, and for other purposes.
JUNE 22, 1993
Reported with amendments
a State and a fiscal year is the amount equal 
to the product of— 
‘‘(i) $1,000; and 
‘‘(ii) the excess of— 
‘‘(I) the number of foster child 
adoptions in the State in the fiscal 
year; over 
‘‘(II) the product (rounded to the 
nearest whole number) of— 
‘‘(aa) the highest ever foster 
child adoption rate determined 
for the State; and 
‘‘(bb) the number of chil-
dren in foster care under the su-
pervision of the State on the last 
day of the preceding fiscal year. 
‘‘(C) PRO RATA ADJUSTMENT IF INSUFFI-
CIENT FUNDS AVAILABLE.—For any fiscal year, 
if the total amount of increases in adoption in-
centive payments otherwise payable under this 
paragraph for a fiscal year exceeds the amount 
available for such increases for the fiscal year, 
the amount of the increase payable to each 
State under this paragraph for the fiscal year 
shall be— 
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session, each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
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terms in section 801 of the Public Health Service 
Act. 
(3) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 677 
To provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy 
of Sciences to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing 
in admitting and graduating the number of nurses sufficient to meet 
the health care needs of the United States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 24, 2007 
Mr. HOLT (for himself, Mr. MCNULTY, Ms. BORDALLO, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, 
Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, 
Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas, and Mr. CONYERS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine of the 
National Academy of Sciences to identify constraints en-
countered by schools of nursing in admitting and grad-
uating the number of nurses sufficient to meet the health 
care needs of the United States, 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 ‘‘Nursing School Capac-
ity Act of 2007’’. 
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cluding the name and address of the em-
ployer or employers who submitted the rel-
evant Social Security account number, the 
relevant Social Security account number 
submitted by the employer or employers, 
and the relevant name and date of birth of 
the employee submitted by the employer or 
employers. 
‘‘(iii) The Secretary in consultation 
with the Commissioner of Social Security, 
shall establish procedures to permit an in-
dividual who contests a tentative or final 
nonverification notice, or seeks to verify 
the individual’s own employment, to con-
tact the appropriate agency and, in a time-
ly manner, correct or update the informa-
tion used by the system. 
‘‘(iv) The Secretary shall prescribe a 
system to register employer participation 
prior to the date the employer is required 
or permitted to submit information with 
respect to an employee. 
‘‘(E) 
UPDATING
INFORMATION.—The 
Commissioner of Social Security and the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall update their 
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‘‘(3) RETENTION OF VERIFICATION FORM AND 
VERIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—After completion of 
such form in accordance with paragraphs (1) 
and (2), the person or entity must— 
‘‘(i) retain a paper, microfiche, micro-
film, or electronic version of the form and 
make it available for inspection by officers 
of the Department of Homeland Security, 
the Special Counsel for Immigration-Re-
lated Unfair Employment Practices, or the 
Department of Labor during a period be-
ginning on the date of the hiring, recruit-
ing, or referral of the individual or the 
date of the completion of verification of a 
previously hired individual and ending— 
‘‘(I) in the case of the recruiting 
or referral of an individual, 3 years 
after the date of the recruiting or re-
ferral; 
‘‘(II) in the case of the hiring of 
an individual, the later of— 
‘‘(aa) 3 years after the date 
of such hiring; or 
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‘‘(bb) 1 year after the date 
the individual’s employment is 
terminated; and 
‘‘(III) 
in 
the 
case 
of 
the 
verification of a previously hired indi-
vidual, the later of— 
‘‘(aa) 3 years after the date 
of the completion of verification; 
or 
‘‘(bb) 1 year after the date 
the individual’s employment is 
terminated; 
‘‘(ii) make an inquiry, as provided in 
paragraph (7), using the verification sys-
tem to seek verification of the identity and 
employment eligibility of an individual, by 
not later than the end of 3 working days 
(as specified by the Secretary of Homeland 
Security) after the date of the hiring or in 
the case of previously hired individuals, the 
date specified in paragraph (8)(B), or be-
fore the recruiting or referring commences; 
and 
‘‘(iii) not commence recruitment or re-
ferral of the individual until the person or 
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entity receives verification under clause (i) 
or (ii) of subparagraph (D).. 
‘‘(B) INITIAL RESPONSE.—The verification 
system shall provide verification or a tentative 
nonverification of an individual’s identity and 
employment eligibility within 3 working days of 
the initial inquiry. If providing verification or 
tentative nonverification, the verification system 
shall provide an appropriate code indicating 
such verification or such nonverification. 
‘‘(C) SECONDARY VERIFICATION PROCESS 
IN CASE OF TENTATIVE NONVERIFICATION.—In 
cases of tentative nonverification, the Secretary 
shall specify, in consultation with the Commis-
sioner of Social Security, an available secondary 
verification process to confirm the validity of in-
formation provided and to provide a final 
verification or nonverification within 10 working 
days 
after 
the 
date 
of 
the 
tentative 
nonverification. When final verification or 
nonverification is provided, the verification sys-
tem shall provide an appropriate code indicating 
such verification or nonverification. 
‘‘(D) 
VERIFICATION
OR 
NONVERIFICATION.— 
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† HR 1256 EAS 
(44) The Food and Drug Administration is a 
regulatory agency with the scientific expertise to iden-
tify harmful substances in products to which con-
sumers are exposed, to design standards to limit expo-
sure to those substances, to evaluate scientific studies 
supporting claims about the safety of products, and to 
evaluate the impact of labels, labeling, and adver-
tising on consumer behavior in order to reduce the 
risk of harm and promote understanding of the im-
pact of the product on health. In connection with its 
mandate to promote health and reduce the risk of 
harm, the Food and Drug Administration routinely 
makes decisions about whether and how products may 
be marketed in the United States. 
(45) The Federal Trade Commission was created 
to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive acts or 
practices, and to regulate unfair methods of competi-
tion. Its focus is on those marketplace practices that 
deceive or mislead consumers, and those that give 
some competitors an unfair advantage. Its mission is 
to regulate activities in the marketplace. Neither the 
Federal Trade Commission nor any other Federal 
agency except the Food and Drug Administration 
possesses the scientific expertise needed to implement
scribed in this paragraph is a State with a State 
child health plan approved under this title for which 
the Secretary estimates, on the basis of the most re-
cent data available to the Secretary, that the Fed-
eral share amount of the projected expenditures 
under such plan for such State for fiscal year 2009 
will exceed the sum of— 
‘‘(A) the amount of the State’s allotments 
for each of fiscal years 2007 and 2008 that will 
not be expended by the end of fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(B) the amount, if any, that is to be re-
distributed to the State during fiscal year 2009 
in accordance with subsection (i); and 
‘‘(C) the amount of the State’s allotment 
for fiscal year 2009. 
‘‘(3) ALLOTMENTS.—In addition to the allot-
ments provided under subsections (b) and (c), sub-
ject to paragraph (4), of the amount available for 
the additional allotments under paragraph (1) for 
fiscal year 2009, the Secretary shall allot— 
‘‘(A) to each shortfall State described in 
paragraph (2) not described in subparagraph 
(B), such amount as the Secretary determines 
will eliminate the estimated shortfall described 
in such paragraph for the State; and 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6787 
To amend Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expand the areas 
of Federal land on which hazardous fuel reduction projects may be 
conducted under that Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 1, 2008 
Mr. WALDEN of Oregon (for himself, Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, Mr. BISHOP 
of Utah, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. 
REHBERG, and Mr. SIMPSON) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee 
on Natural Resources, 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 
A BILL 
To amend Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to ex-
pand the areas of Federal land on which hazardous fuel 
reduction projects may be conducted under that Act. 
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 ‘‘Healthy Forests Res-
toration Amendments Act of 2008’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF FEDERAL LAND ELIGIBLE FOR HAZ-
ARDOUS FUEL REDUCTION PROJECTS. 
Section 102(a) of the Healthy Forests Restoration 
Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6512(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘condition 
class 3 Federal land’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal land’’; 
and 
(2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and in-
serting the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(3) Federal land that is described as condition 
class 2 or condition class 3; 
‘‘(4) Federal land on which there is windthrow, 
blowdown, or ice storm damage or an infestation of 
disease or insects; and’’. 
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‘‘§ 1543. Forgery and unlawful production of a pass-
port 
‘‘(a) FORGERY.—Any person who knowingly— 
‘‘(1) forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely 
makes any passport; or 
‘‘(2) transfers any passport knowing it to be 
forged, counterfeited, altered, falsely made, stolen, 
or to have been produced or issued without lawful 
authority, 
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 
15 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) UNLAWFUL PRODUCTION.—Any person who 
knowingly and without lawful authority— 
‘‘(1) produces, issues, authorizes, or verifies a 
passport in violation of the laws, regulations, or 
rules governing the issuance of the passport; 
‘‘(2) produces, issues, authorizes, or verifies a 
United States passport for or to any person knowing 
or in reckless disregard of the fact that such person 
is not entitled to receive a passport; or 
‘‘(3) transfers or furnishes a passport to any 
person for use by any person other than the person 
for whom the passport was issued or designed, 
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 
15 years, or both.’’. 
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SEC. 3. OPTION FOR QUALIFYING STATES TO RECEIVE THE 
ENHANCED PORTION OF THE SCHIP MATCH-
ING RATE FOR MEDICAID COVERAGE OF CER-
TAIN CHILDREN. 
Section 2105(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1397ee(g)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ‘‘subject 
to paragraph (4),’’ after ‘‘Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law,’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) OPTION FOR CERTAIN ALLOTMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) PAYMENT OF ENHANCED PORTION OF 
MATCHING
RATE
FOR
CERTAIN
EXPENDI-
TURES.—In the case of expenditures described 
in subparagraph (B), a qualifying State (as de-
fined in paragraph (2)) may elect to be paid 
from the State’s allotment made under section 
2104 for any fiscal year (beginning with fiscal 
year 2009) (insofar as the allotment is available 
to the State under subsection (e) of such sec-
tion) an amount each quarter equal to the addi-
tional amount that would have been paid to the 
State under title XIX with respect to such ex-
penditures if the enhanced FMAP (as deter-
mined under subsection (b)) had been sub-
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stituted for the Federal medical assistance per-
centage (as defined in section 1905(b)). 
‘‘(B) EXPENDITURES
DESCRIBED.—For 
purposes of subparagraph (A), the expenditures 
described in this subparagraph are expenditures 
made after the date of the enactment of this 
paragraph and during the period in which funds 
are available to the qualifying State for use 
under subparagraph (A), for the provision of 
medical assistance to individuals residing in the 
State who are eligible for medical assistance 
under the State plan under title XIX or under 
a waiver of such plan and who have not at-
tained age 19, and whose family income equals 
or exceeds 133 percent of the poverty line but 
does not exceed the Medicaid applicable income 
level.’’. 
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(b) DEFINITION.—Section 303 of the Energy Con-
servation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6832) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(17) The term ‘IECC’ means the International 
Energy Conservation Code.’’. 
TITLE V—FEDERAL RENEWABLE 
ELECTRICITY STANDARD 
SEC. 501. FEDERAL RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY STANDARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title VI of the Public Utility Reg-
ulatory Policies Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 610. FEDERAL RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY STANDARD. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) BIOMASS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘biomass’ 
means each of the following: 
‘‘(i) Cellulosic (plant fiber) organic 
materials from a plant that is planted for 
the purpose of being used to produce en-
ergy. 
‘‘(ii) Nonhazardous, plant or algal 
matter that is derived from any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(I) An agricultural crop, crop 
byproduct or residue resource.
nurse-midwife, or a physician assistant (as the case 
may be)’’ after ‘‘physician’’ each place it appears; 
(B) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘or clin-
ical nurse specialist’’ and inserting ‘‘clinical nurse 
specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or physician as-
sistant’’; 
(C) in the third sentence— 
(i) by striking ‘‘physician certification’’ 
and inserting ‘‘certification’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘(or on January 1, 2009, 
in the case of regulations to implement the 
amendments made by section 2 of the Home 
Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 
2008)’’ after ‘‘1981’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘a physician who’’ and in-
serting ‘‘a physician, nurse practitioner, clinical 
nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or phy-
sician assistant who’’; and 
(D) in the fourth sentence, by inserting ‘‘, 
nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified 
nurse-midwife, or physician assistant’’ after ‘‘physi-
cian’’. 
(2) Section 1835(a) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395n(a)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
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‘‘(iii) if the program is for teachers in 
rural school districts, may be conducted 
through distance education. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to im-
prove the performance of students in the study of foreign 
languages by encouraging States, institutions of higher 
education, elementary schools, and secondary schools to 
participate in programs that— 
‘‘(1) upgrade the status and stature of foreign 
language teaching by encouraging institutions of 
higher education to assume greater responsibility for 
improving 
foreign 
language 
teacher 
education 
through the establishment of a comprehensive, inte-
grated system of recruiting and advising such teach-
ers; 
‘‘(2) focus on education of foreign language 
teachers as a career-long process that should con-
tinuously stimulate teachers’ intellectual growth and 
upgrade teachers’ knowledge and skills; 
‘‘(3) bring foreign language teachers in elemen-
tary schools and secondary schools together with lin-
guists or higher education foreign language profes-
sionals to increase the subject matter knowledge and 
improve the teaching skills of teachers through the 
use of more sophisticated resources that institutions 
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SEC. 934. PREEMPTION. 
It is the sense of the Congress that States and local 
political subdivisions are not preempted from the enact-
ment and enforcement of immigration-related laws and or-
dinances that do not directly conflict with Federal immi-
gration laws. 
TITLE X—NO IN-STATE TUITION 
FOR ILLEGALS 
SEC. 1001. ENSURING ENFORCEABILITY. 
Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1623) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘on the basis of residence 
within a State (or a political subdivision)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘unless a citizen’’ and all 
that follows through the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘unless every citizen or national of the 
United States is entitled to such a benefit (in 
no less an amount, duration, and scope) with-
out regard to whether the citizen or national is 
a resident of the State or has attended or grad-
uated from a school in the State.’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and 
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(3) by inserting the following after subsection 
(a): 
‘‘(b) ENFORCEMENT THROUGH CIVIL ACTION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any citizen or national of the 
United States who is attending or is enrolled to attend 
a postsecondary educational institution alleged to be in 
violation of subsection (a) may commence a civil action 
on his own behalf against any official of the State entity 
that governs such postsecondary educational institutions 
or of the educational institution itself to enforce the terms 
of subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) RELIEF.—The court shall provide all ap-
propriate relief, including damages equal to the 
monetary value of any benefit provided to an illegal 
alien but denied to the citizen or national of the 
United States, and shall award attorneys’ fees and 
costs to a citizen or national of the United States 
who establishes a violation of subsection (a) to the 
satisfaction of the court. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORITY.—This subsection is enacted 
pursuant to section 5 of the14th amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States.’’. 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6790 
To ensure that amounts made available for mortgage loss mitigation coun-
seling in areas having the highest foreclosure rates are used in such 
areas. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 1, 2008 
Mr. CARDOZA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To ensure that amounts made available for mortgage loss 
mitigation counseling in areas having the highest fore-
closure rates are used in such areas. 
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 ‘‘Expanding Access to 
Foreclosure Counseling Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. COUNSELING INTERMEDIARIES. 
The third proviso of section 2305 of the Housing and 
Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–289; 
122 Stat. 2654) is amended in clause (1) by inserting 
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after ‘‘highest home foreclosure rates,’’ the following: ‘‘or, 
in the case of any of such 100 metropolitan statistical 
areas not having adequate counseling intermediaries and 
legal organizations that provide legal assistance in such 
area, provide legal assistance in areas near such metropoli-
tan statistical area and have the capacity to provide such 
assistance in such metropolitan statistical area,’’. 
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