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‘‘SEC. 1004. COMMISSION TERMINATION DATE. 
‘‘The ‘Commission termination date’ is the first date 
following the expiration of the 60-day period that begins 
on the date of the enactment of this subtitle. 
‘‘Subtitle B—Transfer of Certain 
Authorities 
‘‘SEC. 1011. TRANSFER OF ELECTION ADMINISTRATION 
FUNCTIONS TO FEDERAL ELECTION COMMIS-
SION. 
‘‘There are transferred to the Federal Election Com-
mission (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘FEC’) 
the following functions of the Commission: 
‘‘(1) The adoption of voluntary voting system 
guidelines, in accordance with part 3 of subtitle A 
of title II. 
‘‘(2) The testing, certification, decertification, 
and recertification of voting system hardware and 
software by accredited laboratories, in accordance 
with subtitle B of title II. 
‘‘(3) The maintenance of a clearinghouse of in-
formation on the experiences of State and local gov-
ernments in implementing voluntary voting system 
guidelines and in operating voting systems in gen-
eral. 
‘‘(4) The development of a standardized format 
for reports submitted by States under section 102(c)
(ii) by striking ‘‘that part to supple-
ment funds made available under part B 
of’’; 
(B) in paragraph (24)(A), by striking 
‘‘part A of title VI’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
109A’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(25) COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY.—The 
State plan shall describe how the designated State 
agency will carry out the provisions of section 109A, 
including— 
‘‘(A) the criteria such agency will use to 
award grants under such section; and 
‘‘(B) how the activities carried out under 
such grants will be coordinated with other serv-
ices provided under this title.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 109A. COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—A State shall use not less than 
one-half of one percent of the payment the State received 
under section 111 for a fiscal year to award grants to eligi-
ble entities to create practical job and career readiness and 
training programs, and to provide job placements and ca-
reer advancement. 
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‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under this 
section, an eligible entity shall submit an application to 
a designated State agency at such time, in such manner, 
and containing such information as such agency shall re-
quire. Such application shall include, at a minimum— 
‘‘(1) a plan for evaluating the effectiveness of 
the program; 
‘‘(2) a plan for collecting and reporting the 
data and information described under subparagraphs 
(A) through (C) of section 101(a)(10), as deter-
mined appropriate by the designated State agency; 
and 
‘‘(3) a plan for providing for the non-Federal 
share of the costs of the program. 
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES.—An eligible entity receiving a grant 
under this section shall use the grant funds to carry out 
a program that provides one or more of the following. 
‘‘(1) Job development, job placement, and ca-
reer advancement services for individuals with dis-
abilities. 
‘‘(2) Training in realistic work settings in order 
to prepare individuals with disabilities for employ-
ment and career advancement in the competitive 
market. 
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SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT THE SECRETARY OF VET-
ERANS AFFAIRS MAKE TUITION PAYMENTS 
FOR VETERANS ENROLLED IN INSTITUTIONS 
OF HIGHER LEARNING WHO ARE RECEIVING 
ASSISTANCE 
UNDER 
THE 
POST-9/11 
EDU-
CATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM BY NOT 
LATER THAN THE TUITION DUE DATE FOR 
THE QUARTER, SEMESTER, OR TERM. 
(a) PAYMENT OF TUITION BY FIRST DAY OF QUAR-
TER, SEMESTER, OR TERM.—Section 3313(d)(1) of title 
38, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ‘‘, and shall be paid not later than the 
date on which the tuition payment is due, as estab-
lished by the institution of higher learning’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘In determining the amount of a payment de-
scribed in this paragraph, the Secretary shall take 
into consideration any waiver of, or reduction in, tui-
tion and fees and any scholarship or other Federal, 
State, institutional, or employer-based aid or assist-
ance that is made or awarded as of the date on 
which the tuition payment is due. In the event that 
any such waiver, reduction, scholarship, aid, or as-
sistance is made or awarded after such date, the in-
stitution of higher learning shall repay to the Sec-
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retary an amount equal to the amount of such waiv-
er, reduction, scholarship, aid, or assistance.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to payments of edu-
cational assistance made for a quarter, semester, or term 
that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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‘‘(3) Providing individuals with disabilities with 
such support services as may be required in order to 
maintain the employment and career advancement 
for which the individuals have received training. 
‘‘(d) AWARDS.—Grants under this section shall— 
‘‘(1) be awarded for a period not to exceed 5 
years; and 
‘‘(2) be awarded competitively. 
‘‘(e) ELIGIBLE ENTITY DEFINED.—For the purposes 
of this section, the term ‘eligible entity’ means a for-profit 
business, alone or in partnership with one or more of the 
following— 
‘‘(1) community rehabilitation providers; 
‘‘(2) Indian tribes; and 
‘‘(3) tribal organizations. 
‘‘(f) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a pro-
gram under this section shall not exceed 80 percent of the 
costs of the program. 
‘‘(g) ELIGIBILITY
FOR SERVICES.—An individual 
shall be eligible for services provided under a program 
under this section if the individual is determined under 
section 102(a)(1) to be eligible for assistance under this 
title.’’. 
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SEC. 302. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE III. 
Title III of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 
771 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 301(a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4); 
and 
(C) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (3); 
(2) in section 302(g)— 
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘And In- 
Service Training’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (3); 
(3) by striking sections 304 and 305; and 
(4) by redesignating section 306 as section 304. 
SEC. 303. REPEAL OF TITLE VI. 
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 701 et 
seq.) is amended by repealing title VI. 
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striking ‘‘during the period beginning October 1, 1988, and
ending September 30, 1993’’ and inserting ‘‘1988 through
1998’’.
(b) LIMITATION.—Such section is further amended by
striking ‘‘and 17A of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘7B, 16, and
17A’’.
SEC. 4. INSPECTION AND WEIGHING FEES; INSPECTION
AND WEIGHING IN CANADIAN PORTS.
(a) INSPECTION AUTHORITY.—Section 7 of the United
States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79) is amended—
(1) in subsection (f)(1)(A)(vi), by striking ‘‘or
other agricultural programs operated by’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘of’’; and
(2) in the second sentence of subsection (i), by
inserting before the period at the end ‘‘or as otherwise
provided by agreement with the Canadian Govern-
ment’’.
(b) WEIGHING AUTHORITY.—Section 7A of such Act
(7 U.S.C. 79a) is amended—
(1) in the second sentence of subsection (c)(2), by
inserting after ‘‘shall be deemed to refer to’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘ ‘official weighing’ or’’;
(2) in the second sentence of subsection (d), by
inserting before the period at the end ‘‘or as otherwise
(b) AMOUNT OF SERIES TRANSITION PAYMENT.—
The series transition payment for a vessel under sub-
section (a) is equal to the difference of—
(1) the estimated cost of completing construc-
tion of the vessel, as included in the application for
assistance submitted under section 305; minus
(2) a reasonable estimate of the cost of con-
structing the vessel under similar plans and speci-
fications in a foreign shipyard that is considered by
the Secretary of Transportation to be a fair and rep-
resentative example for purposes of determining the
payment.
SEC. 304. SERIES CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense
shall, for each series of vessels for which assistance
is approved under section 302, enter into a series
construction agreement with the owner of the ship-
yard in which the series of vessels will be con-
structed, under which the Secretary is required to
pay the owner assistance in accordance with a sched-
ule established under paragraph (2).
(2) SCHEDULE FOR PAYMENTS.—An agreement
under this subsection shall establish a schedule for
the payment of assistance under the agreement, that
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provided by agreement with the Canadian Govern-
ment’’; and
(3) in the first sentence of subsection (i), by in-
serting before the period at the end ‘‘or as otherwise
provided in section 7(i) and subsection (d)’’.
SEC. 5. INSPECTION AND WEIGHING PILOT PROGRAM.
(a) INSPECTION AUTHORITY.—Section 7(f)(2) of the
United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79(f)(2)) is
amended by inserting before the period at the end the follow-
ing: ‘‘, except that the Administrator may conduct pilot
programs to allow more than one official agency to carry
out inspections within a single geographical area without
undermining such objectives’’.
(b) WEIGHING AUTHORITY.—The second sentence of
section 7A(i) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 79a(i)) is amended by
inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, except
that the Administrator may conduct pilot programs to
allow more than one official agency to carry out the weigh-
ing provisions within a single geographic area without un-
dermining such objectives’’.
SEC. 6. LICENSING OF INSPECTORS.
Section 8 of the United States Grain Standards Act
(7 U.S.C. 84) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
number of Federal employees exceeds the maximum 
number allowable under subsection (b); and 
(2) whenever a determination under paragraph 
(1) is made that the total number of Federal em-
ployees exceeds the maximum number allowable 
under subsection (b), shall provide written notice to 
that effect to the President and Congress within 14 
days after the last day of the quarter to which such 
determination relates. 
(d) COMPLIANCE.—Whenever, with respect to the 
quarter ending on September 30, 2014, or any subsequent 
quarter, the Office of Management and Budget provides 
written notice under subsection (c)(2) that the total num-
ber of Federal employees exceeds the maximum number 
allowable under subsection (b), no agency may thereafter 
appoint any employee to fill any vacancy within such agen-
cy until the Office of Management and Budget provides 
written notice to the President and Congress of a deter-
mination under subsection (c)(1) that the total number 
of Federal employees no longer exceeds the maximum 
number allowable under subsection (b). Any notice under 
the preceding sentence shall be provided within 14 days 
after the last day of the quarter to which the determina-
tion relates. 
(e) WAIVER.— 
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‘‘(7) CYBERSECURITY
PROVIDER.—The term 
‘cybersecurity provider’ means a non-governmental 
entity that provides goods or services intended to be 
used for cybersecurity purposes. 
‘‘(8) CYBERSECURITY PURPOSE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘cybersecu-
rity purpose’ means the purpose of ensuring the 
integrity, confidentiality, or availability of, or 
safeguarding, a system or network, including 
protecting a system or network from— 
‘‘(i) a vulnerability of a system or net-
work; 
‘‘(ii) a threat to the integrity, con-
fidentiality, or availability of a system or 
network or any information stored on, 
processed on, or transiting such a system 
or network; 
‘‘(iii) efforts to deny access to or de-
grade, disrupt, or destroy a system or net-
work; or 
‘‘(iv) efforts to gain unauthorized ac-
cess to a system or network, including to 
gain such unauthorized access for the pur-
pose of exfiltrating information stored on, 
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I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2688
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to revise the reserve
stock level for Burley tobacco.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 21, 1993
Mr. BOUCHER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to revise
the reserve stock level for Burley tobacco.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REVISION OF RESERVE STOCK LEVEL FOR
BURLEY TOBACCO.
(a) REVISION.—Section 301(b)(14)(D) of the Agri-
cultural 
Adjustment 
Act 
of 
1938 
(7 
U.S.C.
1301(b)(14)(D)) is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘50,000,000
pounds’’ and inserting ‘‘100,000,000 pounds’’; and
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘15 percent’’ and
inserting ‘‘20 percent’’.
(b) APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.—The amend-
ments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to
marketing years for Burley tobacco beginning after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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(A) in paragraph (1) of the first sentence,
by inserting after ‘‘and is employed’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘(or is supervised under a contractual ar-
rangement)’’; and
(B) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘No
person’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as otherwise pro-
vided in sections 7(i) and 7A(d), no person’’;
(2) in the first proviso of subsection (b), by strik-
ing ‘‘independently under the terms of a contract for
the conduct of any functions involved in official in-
spection’’ and inserting ‘‘under the terms of a con-
tract for the conduct of any functions’’; and
(3) in subsection (d)—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘Persons employed’’
the following: ‘‘or supervised under a contractual
arrangement’’; and
(B) by inserting after ‘‘including persons
employed’’ the following: ‘‘or supervised under a
contractual arrangement’’.
SEC. 7. PROHIBITED ACTS.
Section 13(a)(11) of the United States Grain Stand-
ards Act (7 U.S.C. 87b(a)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(11) violate section 5, 6, 7, 7A, 7B, 8, 11, 12, 16,
or 17A;’’.
(7) MATERNITY CARE HOME.—The term ‘‘ma-
ternity care home’’ means a physician-led practice, 
or advanced practice nurse-, certified nurse-midwife- 
, certified midwife, or physician assistant-led prac-
tice in those States in which State law does not re-
quire direct supervision of licensed advanced practice 
nurses, certified nurse-midwives, certified midwives, 
or physician assistants providing services in a hos-
pital, practice, health or birth center, or clinic par-
ticipating as maternity care home under the pro-
gram that uses practice innovations and coordina-
tion agreements with other providers to improve the 
management and coordination of maternity care that 
meets the following standards: 
(A) The practice, health or birth center, 
clinic, or hospital is able to provide or coordi-
nate maternity care for women, including pre-
conception care, prenatal care, family planning, 
medical care, mental and behavioral health 
care, and screening, that, at a minimum, in-
cludes at least 3 of the following, and may in-
clude all of the following: 
(i) An initial health assessment and 
development of a maternity care plan. 
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that American prisoners of war are still being held
in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
(19) An October 1979 Defense Intelligence
Agency report states that Le Dinh, a credible former
North Vietnamese intelligence officer who had been
involved with American prisoners during the Viet-
nam conflict, said that he heard ‘‘at staff meetings
that about 700 Americans still remained in Viet-
nam’’, constituting a strategic asset that could be
used to force the United States to pay reparations
to North Vietnam.
(20) Among recently declassified United States
documents from the ‘‘Cold Spot’’ intelligence pro-
gram conducted in Laos and North Vietnam during
the Vietnam conflict are documents that discuss 112
American prisoners of war still in North Vietnam
after Operation Homecoming in March 1973.
(21) Between the spring of 1971 and the fall of
1972 a series of United States intelligence docu-
ments from North Vietnam, Burma, and Taiwan in-
dicate that a large number of American prisoners of
war were transferred from North Vietnam to the
Yunnan province in China under joint Vietnamese/
Chinese control.
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TITLE I—TERMINATION OF TAX-
PAYER FINANCING OF PRESI-
DENTIAL 
ELECTION 
CAM-
PAIGNS 
SECTION 101. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF 
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. 
(a) TERMINATION OF DESIGNATION OF INCOME TAX 
PAYMENTS.—Section 6096 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(d) TERMINATION.—This section shall not apply to 
taxable years beginning after December 31, 2010.’’. 
(b) TERMINATION OF FUND AND ACCOUNT.— 
(1) TERMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 
CAMPAIGN FUND.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 95 of subtitle 
H of such Code is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 9014. TERMINATION. 
‘‘The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with 
respect to any presidential election (or any presidential 
nominating convention) after the date of the enactment 
of this section, or to any candidate in such an election.’’. 
(B) TRANSFER OF EXCESS FUNDS TO GEN-
ERAL
FUND.—Section 9006 of such Code is 
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IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3463 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 5, 2011 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and 
Administration 
AN ACT 
To reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating 
taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and 
party conventions and by terminating the Election As-
sistance Commission. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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of all remains described in subparagraph (B),
or both, is not possible.
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‘‘SEC. 2343. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for each of 
fiscal years 2013 through 2018— 
‘‘(1) $28,500,000 for grants under section 
2341; and 
‘‘(2) $1,500,000 for programs under section 
2342.’’. 
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of character essential for the preservation and 
improvement of constitutional democracy; 
‘‘(B) identifying techniques that succeed 
with traditionally underserved student popu-
lations; and 
‘‘(C) evaluation of teachers’ knowledge and 
the adequacy of the teaching facility. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION OF ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘eligible entity’ means a nonprofit edu-
cational organization.’’; and 
(2) by redesignating sections 2345 and 2346 as 
sections 2342 and 2343, respectively. 
(b) CONFORMING CHANGES.— 
(1) Section 2342 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6715), 
as redesignated by subsection (a)(2), is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘organizations de-
scribed in section 2343(a)(3)’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘organizations expe-
rienced in the development of curricula and 
programs in civics and government edu-
cation and economic education for students 
in 
elementary 
schools 
and 
secondary 
schools in countries other than the United 
States’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘use funds made avail-
able under grants or contracts under sec-
tion 2343 to’’; 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the 
Center for Civic Education, the National Coun-
cil on Economic Education, and organizations 
described in section 2343(a)(3)’’ and inserting 
‘‘an entity specified in subsection (a)’’; 
(C) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘de-
scribed in section 2343’’ and inserting ‘‘speci-
fied in subsection (a)’’; and 
(D) in subsection (f)(2), by striking ‘‘the 
Center for Civic Education, the National Coun-
cil on Economic Education, or organizations de-
scribed in section 2343(a)(3)’’ and inserting 
‘‘an entity specified in subsection (a)’’. 
(2) The table of contents of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended by striking the 
items relating to sections 2341 through 2346 and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘2341. Civic learning grants. 
‘‘2342. Cooperative civic education and economic education exchange programs. 
‘‘2343. Authorization of appropriations.’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
2343 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 6716), as redesignated by 
subsection (a)(2), is amended to read as follows: 
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