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IV 
House Calendar No. 182 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1225 
[Report No. 111–458] 
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 
4872) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13). 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 25, 2010 
Ms. SLAUGHTER, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to 
the bill (H.R. 4872) to provide for reconciliation pursu-
ant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13). 
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution, it 
shall be in order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill 
(H.R. 4872) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title 
II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13), with the Senate amendments 
thereto, and to consider in the House, without intervention 
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‘‘(d) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—For purposes of the ap-
plication of Federal civil rights laws, all assistance pro-
vided using amounts in the Capital Magnet Fund shall be 
considered Federal financial assistance. 
‘‘(e) ELIGIBLE GRANTEES.—A grant under this section 
may be made, pursuant to such requirements as the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall establish for experience and 
success in attracting private financing and carrying out 
the types of activities proposed under the application of the 
grantee, only to— 
‘‘(1) a Treasury certified community develop-
ment financial institution; or 
‘‘(2) a nonprofit organization having as 1 of its 
principal purposes the development or management of 
affordable housing. 
‘‘(f) ELIGIBLE USES.—Grant amounts awarded from 
the Capital Magnet Fund pursuant to this section may be 
used for the purposes described in paragraphs (1) and (2) 
of subsection (c), including for the following uses: 
‘‘(1) To provide loan loss reserves. 
‘‘(2) To capitalize a revolving loan fund. 
‘‘(3) To capitalize an affordable housing fund. 
‘‘(4) To capitalize a fund to support activities 
described in subsection (c)(2). 
‘‘(5) For risk-sharing loans.
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‘‘(g) APPLICATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall provide, in a competitive application proc-
ess established by regulation, for eligible grantees 
under subsection (e) to submit applications for Cap-
ital Magnet Fund grants to the Secretary at such 
time and in such manner as the Secretary shall deter-
mine. 
‘‘(2) CONTENT OF APPLICATION.—The applica-
tion required under paragraph (1) shall include a de-
tailed description of— 
‘‘(A) the types of affordable housing, eco-
nomic, and community revitalization projects 
that support or sustain residents of an affordable 
housing project funded by a grant under this sec-
tion for which such grant amounts would be 
used, including the proposed use of eligible 
grants as authorized under this section; 
‘‘(B) the types, sources, and amounts of 
other funding for such projects; and 
‘‘(C) the expected time frame of any grant 
used for such project. 
‘‘(h) GRANT LIMITATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any 1 eligible grantee and 
its subsidiaries and affiliates may not be awarded
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more than 15 percent of the aggregate funds available 
for grants during any year from the Capital Magnet 
Fund. 
‘‘(2) GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY.— 
‘‘(A) GOAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall seek to fund activities in geographically di-
verse areas of economic distress, including metro-
politan and underserved rural areas in every 
State. 
‘‘(B) DIVERSITY DEFINED.—For purposes of 
this paragraph, geographic diversity includes 
those areas that meet objective criteria of eco-
nomic distress developed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, which may include— 
‘‘(i) the percentage of low-income fami-
lies or the extent of poverty; 
‘‘(ii) the rate of unemployment or 
underemployment; 
‘‘(iii) extent of blight and disinvest-
ment; 
‘‘(iv) projects that target extremely 
low-, very low-, and low-income families in 
or outside a designated economic distress 
area; or
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‘‘(c) STATE CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH 
BUILDING CODES.—(1) Each State shall, not later than 
3 years after a certification under subsection (b), certify 
that it has achieved compliance with the certified building 
energy code. Such certification shall include documenta-
tion of the rate of compliance based on independent in-
spections of a random sample of the new and renovated 
buildings covered by the code in the preceding year. 
‘‘(2) A State shall be considered to achieve compli-
ance under paragraph (1) if— 
‘‘(A) at least 90 percent of new and renovated 
buildings covered by the code in the preceding year 
substantially meet all the requirements of the code; 
or 
‘‘(B) the estimated excess energy use of new 
and renovated buildings that did not meet the code 
in the preceding year, compared to a baseline of 
comparable buildings that meet the code, is not more 
than 10 percent of the estimated energy use of all 
new and renovated buildings covered by the code in 
the preceding year. 
‘‘(d) FAILURE TO MEET DEADLINES.—(1) The Sec-
retary shall permit extensions of the deadlines for the cer-
tification requirements under subsections (b) and (c) of 
this section for up to 1 year if a State can demonstrate
IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1227 
Remembering the victims of the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal 
Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and supporting the goals and 
ideals of the National Week of Hope. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 25, 2010 
Ms. FALLIN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Remembering the victims of the attack on the Alfred P. 
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 
and supporting the goals and ideals of the National 
Week of Hope. 
Whereas, on April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m., a terrorist deto-
nated a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal 
Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 
Whereas this was one of the worst terrorist attacks ever to 
occur on United States soil, taking the lives of 168 peo-
ple and injuring more than 850 others, many of them 
United States Government employees who worked in the 
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building; 
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108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2984
AN ACT
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the
requirement that processors be members of an agency
administering a marketing order applicable to pears.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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that it has made a good faith effort to comply with such 
requirements and that it has made significant progress in 
doing so. 
‘‘(2) Any State for which the Secretary has not ac-
cepted a certification by a deadline under subsection (b) 
or (c) of this section, with any extension granted under 
paragraph (1), is out of compliance with this section. 
‘‘(3) In any State that is out of compliance with this 
section, a local government may be in compliance with this 
section by meeting the certification requirements under 
subsections (b) and (c) of this section. 
‘‘(e) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—(1) The Secretary 
shall provide technical assistance, including building en-
ergy analysis and design tools, building demonstrations, 
and design assistance and training to enable the national 
model building energy codes and standards to meet the 
targets in subsection (a)(1). 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall provide technical assistance 
to States to implement the requirements of this section, 
including procedures for States to demonstrate that their 
code provisions achieve equivalent or greater energy sav-
ings than the national model codes and standards, and to 
improve and implement State residential and commercial 
building energy efficiency codes or to otherwise promote 
the design and construction of energy efficient buildings.
108TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2989
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Departments of
Transportation and Treasury, and independent
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2004, and for other purposes.
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‘‘(f) AVAILABILITY
OF INCENTIVE FUNDING.—(1) 
The Secretary shall provide incentive funding to States to 
implement the requirements of this section, and to im-
prove and implement State residential and commercial 
building energy efficiency codes, including increasing and 
verifying compliance with such codes. In determining 
whether, and in what amount, to provide incentive funding 
under this subsection, the Secretary shall consider the ac-
tions proposed by the State to implement the requirements 
of this section, to improve and implement residential and 
commercial building energy efficiency codes, and to pro-
mote building energy efficiency through the use of such 
codes. 
‘‘(2) Additional funding shall be provided under this 
subsection for implementation of a plan to achieve and 
document at least a 90 percent rate of compliance with 
residential and commercial building energy efficiency 
codes, based on energy performance— 
‘‘(A) to a State that has adopted and is imple-
menting, on a Statewide basis— 
‘‘(i) a residential building energy efficiency 
code that meets or exceeds the requirements of 
the 2006 IECC, or any succeeding version of 
that code that has received an affirmative de-
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(ii) is assigned by protocols established 
by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing Sys-
tem and Registry and the Federal banking 
agencies to facilitate electronic tracking of 
loan originators and uniform identification 
of, and public access to, the employment 
history of and the publicly adjudicated dis-
ciplinary and enforcement actions against 
loan originators; and 
(iii) shall not be used for purposes 
other than those set forth under this title. 
(B) RESPONSIBILITY OF STATES.—To the 
greatest extent possible and to accomplish the 
purpose of this title, States shall use unique 
identifiers in lieu of social security numbers. 
SEC. 1504. LICENSE OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the existence of a licens-
ing or registration regime, as the case may be, an indi-
vidual may not engage in the business of a loan originator 
without first— 
(1) obtaining, and maintaining annually— 
(A) a registration as a registered loan origi-
nator; or 
(B) a license and registration as a State-li-
censed loan originator; and
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mation contained in the Nationwide Mortgage Licens-
ing System and Registry. 
(5) The State loan originator supervisory au-
thority has established a mechanism to assess civil 
money penalties for individuals acting as mortgage 
originators in their State without a valid license or 
registration. 
(6) The State loan originator supervisory au-
thority has established minimum net worth or surety 
bonding requirements that reflect the dollar amount of 
loans originated by a residential mortgage loan origi-
nator, or has established a recovery fund paid into by 
the loan originators. 
(e) TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PERIOD.—The Sec-
retary may extend, by not more than 24 months, the 1- 
year or 2-year period, as the case may be, referred to in 
subsection (a) for the licensing of loan originators in any 
State under a State licensing law that meets the require-
ments of sections 1505 and 1506 and subsection (d) if the 
Secretary determines that such State is making a good faith 
effort to establish a State licensing law that meets such re-
quirements, license mortgage originators under such law, 
and register such originators with the Nationwide Mortgage 
Licensing System and Registry.
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termination from the Secretary under sub-
section (a)(2)(A)(i); and 
‘‘(ii) a commercial building energy effi-
ciency code that meets or exceeds the require-
ments of the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004, or 
any succeeding version of that standard that 
has received an affirmative determination from 
the Secretary under subsection (a)(2)(A)(i); or 
‘‘(B) in a State in which there is no Statewide 
energy code either for residential buildings or for 
commercial buildings, or where State codes fail to 
comply with subparagraph (A), to a local govern-
ment that has adopted and is implementing residen-
tial and commercial building energy efficiency codes, 
as described in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) Of the amounts made available under this sub-
section, the Secretary may use amounts required, not ex-
ceeding $500,000 for each State, to train State and local 
officials to implement codes described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(4)(A) There are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out this subsection— 
‘‘(i) $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
through 2012; and 
‘‘(ii) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 
2013 and each fiscal year thereafter.
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SEC. 1509. BACKUP AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A NATION-
WIDE MORTGAGE LICENSING AND REGISTRY 
SYSTEM. 
If at any time the Secretary determines that the Na-
tionwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry is fail-
ing to meet the requirements and purposes of this title for 
a comprehensive licensing, supervisory, and tracking sys-
tem for loan originators, the Secretary shall establish and 
maintain such a system to carry out the purposes of this 
title and the effective registration and regulation of loan 
originators. 
SEC. 1510. FEES. 
The Federal banking agencies, the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, the Secretary, and the Nationwide Mortgage 
Licensing System and Registry may charge reasonable fees 
to cover the costs of maintaining and providing access to 
information from the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing Sys-
tem and Registry, to the extent that such fees are not 
charged to consumers for access to such system and registry. 
SEC. 1511. BACKGROUND CHECKS OF LOAN ORIGINATORS. 
(a) ACCESS TO RECORDS.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, in providing identification and processing 
functions, the Attorney General shall provide access to all 
criminal history information to the appropriate State offi-
cials responsible for regulating State-licensed loan origina-
tors to the extent criminal history background checks are
personal property for a period not in excess of one year 
to any organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, 
United States Code, or any other youth, social, or fra-
ternal non-profit organization as may be approved by the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or his designee, on 
a case-by-case basis. 
SEC. 8071. None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated 
funds activity of the Department of Defense that procures 
malt beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for 
resale (including such alcoholic beverages sold by the 
drink) on a military installation located in the United 
States unless such malt beverages and wine are procured 
within that State, or in the case of the District of Colum-
bia, within the District of Columbia, in which the military 
installation is located: Provided, That in a case in which 
the military installation is located in more than one State, 
purchases may be made in any State in which the installa-
tion is located: Provided further, That such local procure-
ment requirements for malt beverages and wine shall 
apply to all alcoholic beverages only for military installa-
tions in States which are not contiguous with another 
State: Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other 
than wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and
IV 
House Calendar No. 119 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 591 
[Report No. 112–416] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to improve patient access 
to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing 
the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery 
system. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 20, 2012 
Mr. NUGENT, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; 
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to improve 
patient access to health care services and provide im-
proved medical care by reducing the excessive burden 
the liability system places on the health care delivery 
system. 
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 
rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee 
of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 5) to improve patient access to 
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required under the laws of the State for the licensing of such 
loan originators. 
(b) AGENT.—For the purposes of this section and in 
order to reduce the points of contact which the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation may have to maintain for purposes 
of subsection (a), the Conference of State Bank Supervisors 
or a wholly owned subsidiary may be used as a channeling 
agent of the States for requesting and distributing informa-
tion between the Department of Justice and the appropriate 
State agencies. 
SEC. 1512. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION. 
(a) SYSTEM CONFIDENTIALITY.—Except as otherwise 
provided in this section, any requirement under Federal or 
State law regarding the privacy or confidentiality of any 
information or material provided to the Nationwide Mort-
gage Licensing System and Registry or a system established 
by the Secretary under section 1509, and any privilege aris-
ing under Federal or State law (including the rules of any 
Federal or State court) with respect to such information 
or material, shall continue to apply to such information 
or material after the information or material has been dis-
closed to the system. Such information and material may 
be shared with all State and Federal regulatory officials 
with mortgage industry oversight authority without the loss
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of privilege or the loss of confidentiality protections pro-
vided by Federal and State laws. 
(b) 
NONAPPLICABILITY
OF
CERTAIN
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Information or material that is subject to a privi-
lege or confidentiality under subsection (a) shall not be sub-
ject to— 
(1) disclosure under any Federal or State law 
governing the disclosure to the public of information 
held by an officer or an agency of the Federal Govern-
ment or the respective State; or 
(2) subpoena or discovery, or admission into evi-
dence, in any private civil action or administrative 
process, unless with respect to any privilege held by 
the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Reg-
istry or the Secretary with respect to such informa-
tion or material, the person to whom such informa-
tion or material pertains waives, in whole or in part, 
in the discretion of such person, that privilege. 
(c) COORDINATION WITH OTHER LAW.—Any State 
law, including any State open record law, relating to the 
disclosure of confidential supervisory information or any 
information or material described in subsection (a) that is 
inconsistent with subsection (a) shall be superseded by the 
requirements of such provision to the extent State law pro-
vides less confidentiality or a weaker privilege.
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‘‘(v) any other criteria designated by 
the Secretary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(3) LEVERAGE OF FUNDS.—Each grant from 
the Capital Magnet Fund awarded under this section 
shall be reasonably expected to result in eligible hous-
ing, or economic and community development projects 
that support or sustain an affordable housing project 
funded by a grant under this section whose aggregate 
costs total at least 10 times the grant amount. 
‘‘(4) 
COMMITMENT
FOR
USE
DEADLINE.— 
Amounts made available for grants under this section 
shall be committed for use within 2 years of the date 
of such allocation. The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
recapture into the Capital Magnet Fund any amounts 
not so used or committed for use and allocate such 
amounts in the first year after such recapture. 
‘‘(5) PROHIBITED
USES.—The Secretary shall, 
by regulation, set forth prohibited uses of grant 
amounts awarded under this section, which shall in-
clude use for— 
‘‘(A) political activities; 
‘‘(B) advocacy; 
‘‘(C) lobbying, whether directly or through 
other parties; 
‘‘(D) counseling services;
108TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2989
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transpor-
tation and Treasury, and independent agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 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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2257) is amended by striking ‘‘$55,000,000’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$75,000,000’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives August 1, 
2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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House Calendar No. 121 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 595 
[Report No. 112–422] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3309) to amend the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 to provide for greater transparency and efficiency 
in the procedures followed by the Federal Communications Commission. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 26, 2012 
Mr. WEBSTER, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3309) to amend 
the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for greater 
transparency and efficiency in the procedures followed 
by the Federal Communications Commission. 
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 
rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee 
of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 3309) to amend the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 to provide for greater transparency and 
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108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2991
AN ACT
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to author-
ize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in
the Inland Empire regional recycling project and
in the Cucamonga County Water District recy-
cling project.
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purposes of this section, in accordance with 
paragraph (2). 
(2) OFE CERTIFICATION.—To be certified by the 
Office of Financial Education for purposes of this sec-
tion, an eligible organization shall be— 
(A) a housing counseling agency certified by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment under section 106(e) of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1968; 
(B) a State, local, or tribal government 
agency; 
(C) a community development financial in-
stitution (as defined in section 103(5) of the 
Community Development Banking and Finan-
cial Institutions Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4702(5)) 
or a credit union; or 
(D) any collaborative effort of entities de-
scribed in any of subparagraphs (A) through 
(C). 
(d) AUTHORITY FOR PILOT PROJECTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall authorize not more than 5 pilot project grants 
to eligible organizations under subsection (c) in order 
to—