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lic of Vietnam above the levels existing on July 11, 1995,
unless the President certifies within 60 days, based upon
all information available to the United States Government
that the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
is cooperating in full faith with the United States in the
following four areas:
(1) Resolving discrepancy cases, live sightings
and field activities,
(2) Recovering and repatriating American re-
mains,
(3) Accelerating efforts to provide documents
that will help lead to fullest possible accounting of
POW/MIA’s.
(4) Providing further assistance in implement-
ing trilateral investigations with Laos.
SEC. 610. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be used for any United Nations undertaking
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds (1) that the Unit-
ed Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission, (2)
that such undertaking will involve United States Armed
Forces under the command or operational control of a for-
eign national, and (3) that the President’s military advi-
sors have not submitted to the President a recommenda-
tion that such involvement is in the national security inter-
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ests of the United States and the President has not sub-
mitted to the Congress such a recommendation.
SEC. 611. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to provide the following amenities or per-
sonal comforts in the Federal prison system—
(1) in-cell television viewing except for prisoners
who are segregated from the general prison popu-
lation for their own safety;
(2) the viewing of R, X, and NC–17 rated mov-
ies, through whatever medium presented;
(3) any instruction (live or through broadcasts)
or training equipment for boxing, wrestling, judo,
karate, or other martial art, or any bodybuilding or
weightlifting equipment of any sort;
(4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates,
or heating elements; or
(5) the use or possession of any electric or elec-
tronic musical instrument.
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available in title
II for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion under the heading ‘‘Fleet Modernization, Shipbuild-
ing and Conversion’’ may be used to implement sections
603, 604, and 605 of Public Law 102–567.
SEC. 613. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for ‘‘USIA Television Marti Program’’
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under the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act or any
other program of United States Government television
broadcasts to Cuba, when it is made known to the Federal
official having authority to obligate or expend such funds
that such use would be inconsistent with the applicable
provisions of the March 1995 Office of Cuba Broadcasting
Reinventing Plan of the United States Information Agen-
cy.
SEC. 614. Any costs incurred by a Department or
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such Department or agency: Provided,
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to dis-
tribute or make available any commercially published in-
formation or material to a prisoner when it is made known
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to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that such information or material is sexu-
ally explicit or features nudity.
SEC. 616. Of the funds appropriated in this Act
under
the
heading
‘‘OFFICE
OF
JUSTICE
PRO-
GRAMS—STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIST-
ANCE’’, not more than ninety percent of the amount to
be awarded to an entity under part Q of title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
shall be made available to such an entity when it is made
known to the Federal official having authority to obligate
or expend such funds that the entity that employs a public
safety officer (as such term is defined in section 1204 of
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who
retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered
as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury
sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emer-
gency situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined
by State law) with the same or better level of health insur-
ance benefits that are paid by the entity at the time of
retirement or separation.
SEC. 617. Of the funds in this Act appropriated for
a municipal or county jail, State or Federal prison, or
other similar facility for the confinement of individuals in
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connection with crime or criminal proceedings, not more
than 90 percent of the funds otherwise authorized to be
made available to any such municipal or county jail, State
or Federal prison, or other similar facility, may be made
available when it is made known to the Federal official
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the
authorities of such jail, prison, or other facility have not
reported to the Attorney General each death of any indi-
vidual who dies in custody in that jail, prison, or facility,
and the circumstances that surround that death.
SEC. 618. The amount provided in this Act for
‘‘Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—Salaries
and Expenses’’ is increased by $7,000,000, and the
amount provided for Small Business Administration, Dis-
aster Loan Program Account for administrative expenses
is reduced by $8,000,000.
SEC. 619. (a) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO
ISSUE CERTAIN PATENTS.—None of the funds made
available in this Act may be used by the Patent and
Trademark Office to issue a patent when it is made known
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that the patent is for any invention or
discovery of a technique, method, or process for perform-
ing a surgical procedure (defined as a treatment for curing
or preventing disease, injury, illness, disorder, or deform-