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I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1864 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow 
local educational agencies to use Federal funds for programs and activi-
ties that address chronic absenteeism. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 3, 2017 
Mr. RYAN of Ohio (for himself and Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to allow local educational agencies to use Federal 
funds for programs and activities that address chronic 
absenteeism. 
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 ‘‘Chronic Absenteeism 
Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Students who are chronically absent— 
meaning they miss 10 percent or more of the school 
year—are more likely to experience hardships later 
in life and 68 percent less likely than their peers to 
graduate. 
(2) The Department of Education’s Office of 
Civil Rights Data Collection found that over 6.8 mil-
lion students were chronically absent during the 
2013–2014 school year. This makes up 14 percent 
of all students. 
(3) Chronically absent students are more likely 
to become high school drop outs. This leaves them 
prone to living in poverty, suffering from diminished 
health, and being involved in the criminal justice 
system later in life. Nineteen percent of high school 
students are chronically absent. 
(4) The Department of Education has found 
that, ‘‘Chronic absenteeism is widespread’’ and ‘‘Re-
search suggests the reasons for chronic absenteeism 
are as varied as the challenges our students and 
families face—including poor health, limited trans-
portation, and a lack of safety—which can be par-
ticularly acute in disadvantaged communities and 
areas of poverty.’’. 
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imum criteria as a condition of being considered for 
employment; 
‘‘(2) rely on the wage history of a prospective 
employee in determining the wages for such prospec-
tive employee, except that an employer may rely on 
wage history if it is voluntarily provided by a pro-
spective employee, after the employer makes an offer 
of employment with an offer of compensation to the 
prospective employee, to support a wage higher than 
the wage offered by the employer; 
‘‘(3) seek from a prospective employee or any 
current or former employer the wage history of the 
prospective employee, except that an employer may 
seek to confirm prior wage information only after an 
offer of employment with compensation has been 
made to the prospective employee and the prospec-
tive employee responds to the offer by providing 
prior wage information to support a wage higher 
than that offered by the employer; or 
‘‘(4) discharge or in any other manner retaliate 
against any employee or prospective employee be-
cause the employee or prospective employee— 
‘‘(A) opposed any act or practice made un-
lawful by this section; or 
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H. R. 1865 
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen 
An Act 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of such 
Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive 
computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sexual 
exploitation of children or sex trafficking, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Allow States and Victims to 
Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 230; commonly known as the ‘‘Communications Decency 
Act of 1996’’) was never intended to provide legal protection 
to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution 
and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale 
of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims; 
(2) websites that promote and facilitate prostitution have 
been reckless in allowing the sale of sex trafficking victims 
and have done nothing to prevent the trafficking of children 
and victims of force, fraud, and coercion; and 
(3) clarification of such section is warranted to ensure 
that such section does not provide such protection to such 
websites. 
SEC. 3. PROMOTION OF PROSTITUTION AND RECKLESS DISREGARD 
OF SEX TRAFFICKING. 
(a) PROMOTION
OF PROSTITUTION.—Chapter 117 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2421 
the following: 
‘‘§ 2421A. Promotion or facilitation of prostitution and reck-
less disregard of sex trafficking 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever, using a facility or means of inter-
state or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign 
commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer 
service (as such term is defined in defined in section 230(f) the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f))), or conspires or 
attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the 
prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, impris-
oned for not more than 10 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) AGGRAVATED VIOLATION.—Whoever, using a facility or 
means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate
‘‘(6) to ensure vigorous enforcement against 
providers and users of interactive computer services 
of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating 
to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking, 
including through the availability of a civil remedy 
for victims of sex trafficking.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘section 1591 of such 
title (relating to sex trafficking),’’ after 
‘‘title 18, United States Code,’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘impair the enforce-
ment of section’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘impair the enforcement of, or 
limit the availability of victim restitution 
under— 
‘‘(A) section’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘statute.’’ and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘statute; or 
‘‘(B) any State criminal statute that pro-
hibits— 
‘‘(i) sexual exploitation of children; 
‘‘(ii) sex trafficking of children; or 
‘‘(iii) sex trafficking by force, threats 
of force, fraud, or coercion.’’; 
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I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1866 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow certain biodiesel 
and alternative fuel tax credits for fuels derived from animal fats. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 3, 2017 
Mr. WEBER of Texas 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 disallow 
certain biodiesel and alternative fuel tax credits for fuels 
derived from animal fats. 
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 ‘‘Stop Animal Fat Tax 
Credits Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. DISALLOWANCE OF BIODIESEL AND ALTERNATIVE 
FUEL CREDITS FOR FUELS DERIVED FROM 
ANIMAL FATS. 
(a) BIODIESEL FUELS CREDIT.— 
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(1) 
DEFINITION
OF
BIODIESEL.—Section 
40A(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
amended by striking ‘‘or animal’’. 
(2) DEFINITION OF AGRI-BIODIESEL.—Section 
40A(d)(2) of such Code is amended by striking ‘‘, 
and from animal fats’’. 
(3) DEFINITION OF RENEWABLE DIESEL.—Sec-
tion 40A(f)(3) of such Code is amended by inserting 
‘‘(other than animal fats)’’ after ‘‘biomass’’. 
(b) ALTERNATIVE FUEL MIXTURES CREDIT.—The 
last sentence of subsection (d)(2) of section 6426 of such 
Code is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or any’’ and inserting ‘‘any’’; 
and 
(2) by inserting before the period at the end ‘‘, 
or any fuel derived from animal fats’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to fuel sold or used 
after December 31, 2016. 
Æ 
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I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1868 
To provide that providers of broadband Internet access service shall be subject 
to the privacy rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission 
on October 27, 2016. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 4, 2017 
Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mr. PALLONE, and Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Penn-
sylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide that providers of broadband Internet access serv-
ice shall be subject to the privacy rules adopted by the 
Federal Communications Commission on October 27, 
2016. 
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 ‘‘Restoring American 
Privacy Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF BROADBAND CUS-
TOMERS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pro-
vider of broadband Internet access service (as defined in 
section 8.2 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations) shall 
be subject to— 
(1) the Report and Order in the matter of pro-
tecting the privacy of customers of broadband and 
other telecommunications services that was adopted 
by the Federal Communications Commission on Oc-
tober 27, 2016 (FCC 16–148); and 
(2) the rules adopted in such Report and Order. 
Æ 
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in connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
$3,406,137,000. 
TITLE II 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Army, as authorized 
by law, $38,483,846,000 (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced 
by $5,600,000) (reduced by $6,000,000): Provided, That not 
to exceed $12,478,000 can be used for emergencies and ex-
traordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or au-
thority of the Secretary of the Army, and payments may 
be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential mili-
tary purposes. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine 
Corps, as authorized by law, $45,980,133,000 (reduced by 
$598,000) (reduced by $7,000,000): Provided, That not to 
exceed $15,055,000 can be used for emergencies and extraor-
dinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or author-
ity of the Secretary of the Navy, and payments may be 
made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military 
purposes. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as au-
thorized by law, $6,885,884,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as author-
ized by law, $38,592,745,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$7,699,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of 
the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made 
on his certificate of necessity for confidential military pur-
poses. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of activities and agencies 
of the Department of Defense (other than the military de-
partments), as authorized by law, $33,771,769,000 (in-
creased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced 
by $100,000) (increased by $100,000) (reduced by
A BILL 
To designate the Veterans Memorial and Museum in Colum-
bus, Ohio, as the National Veterans Memorial and Mu-
seum, and for other purposes. 
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and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et 
seq.), whether characterized as the Edward Byrne 
Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assist-
ance Programs, the Local Government Law Enforce-
ment Block Grants Program, the Edward Byrne Me-
morial Justice Assistance Grant Program, or other-
wise. 
(c) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 
program referred to in subsection (b)(2) to a State for 
failure to fully comply with subsection (a) shall be reallo-
cated under that program to States that have not failed 
to comply with such subsection. 
SEC. 3. INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF LAW ENFORCEMENT USE 
OF DEADLY FORCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a State or unit of 
local government that received a grant award under sub-
part 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.), 
if that State or unit of local government fails by the end 
of a fiscal year to enact or have in effect an independent 
prosecution of law enforcement law, the Attorney General 
shall reduce the amount that would otherwise be awarded 
to that State or unit of local government under such grant 
program in the following fiscal year by 20 percent. 
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(b) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 
program referred to in subsection (a) to a State for failure 
to be in compliance with this section shall be reallocated 
under that program to States that are in compliance with 
this section. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘deadly force’’ means that force 
which a reasonable person would consider likely to 
cause death or serious bodily harm. 
(2) The term ‘‘independent prosecution of law 
enforcement law’’ means a statute requiring the ap-
pointment of an independent prosecutor to conduct 
any criminal investigation and prosecution in 
which— 
(A) one or more of the possible defendants 
is a law enforcement officer; 
(B) one or more of the alleged offenses in-
volves the law enforcement officer’s use of dead-
ly force in the course of carrying out that offi-
cer’s duty; and 
(C) the law enforcement officer’s use of 
deadly force resulted in a death or injury. 
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(3) The term ‘‘independent prosecutor’’ means, 
with respect to a criminal investigation or prosecu-
tion, a prosecutor who— 
(A) does not live or work in the same 
county as the county in which the alleged crime 
was committed; and 
(B) would not be involved in the prosecu-
tion in the ordinary course of that prosecutor’s 
duties. 
Æ 
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cation’s student grievance procedures, in-
cluding each individual who is responsible 
for resolving complaints of reported domes-
tic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, 
stalking, or sexual misconduct policy viola-
tions; and 
‘‘(ii) each employee of an institution 
of higher education who has responsibility 
for conducting an interview with a victim 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sex-
ual assault, stalking, or sexual misconduct 
policy violations. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Such training shall in-
clude— 
‘‘(i) information on working with and 
interviewing persons subjected to domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking; 
‘‘(ii) information on particular types 
of conduct that would constitute domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking, regardless of gender, including 
same-sex incidents of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; 
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providing emergency consular assistance due to a 
lack of consular access. 
(9) The Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices for 2015 of the Department of State stat-
ed ‘‘With the exception of a few highly controlled 
trips, the Chinese government also denied multiple 
requests by foreign diplomats for permission to visit 
the TAR.’’. 
(10) Tibetan-Americans, attempting to visit 
their homeland, report having to undergo a discrimi-
natory visa application process, different from what 
is typically required, at the Chinese embassy and 
consulates in the United States, and often find their 
requests to travel denied. 
(11) The Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices for 2016 of the Department of State stat-
ed ‘‘The few visits to the TAR by diplomats and 
journalists that were allowed were tightly controlled 
by local authorities.’’. 
(12) A September 2016 article in the Wash-
ington Post reported that ‘‘The Tibet Autonomous 
Region . . . is harder to visit as a journalist than 
North Korea.’’. 
(13) The Government of China has failed to re-
spond positively to requests from the Government of 
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II 
Calendar No. 701 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1872 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
NOVEMBER 29, 2018 
Reported by Mr. CORKER, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To promote access for United States diplomats and other 
officials, journalists, and other citizens to Tibetan areas 
of the People’s Republic of China, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Reciprocal Access to 
Tibet Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR 
FORCE 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
research, development, test and evaluation, including main-
tenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities 
and equipment, $33,874,980,000 (increased by $5,000,000) 
(increased by $6,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (re-
duced by $30,000,000) (increased by $30,000,000), to re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 
DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments), nec-
essary for basic and applied scientific research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation; advanced research projects as 
may be designated and determined by the Secretary of De-
fense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, 
and operation of facilities and equipment, $20,698,353,000 
(reduced by $16,000,000) (reduced by $12,000,000) (reduced 
by $2,500,000) (reduced by $12,500,000) (increased by 
$20,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000) (reduced by 
$4,135,000) 
(increased 
by 
$4,135,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$27,500,000) (increased by $10,000,000), to remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 2019: Provided,
IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1872 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To promote access for United States diplomats and other 
officials, journalists, and other citizens to Tibetan areas 
of the People’s Republic of China, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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HR 1872 RFS
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reciprocal Access to 
Tibet Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Government of the People’s Republic of 
China does not grant United States diplomats and 
other officials, journalists, and other citizens access 
to China on a basis that is reciprocal to the access 
that the Government of the United States grants 
Chinese diplomats and other officials, journalists, 
and citizens. 
(2) The Government of China imposes greater 
restrictions on travel to Tibetan areas than to other 
areas of China. 
(3) Officials of China have stated that Tibet is 
open to foreign visitors. 
(4) The Government of China is promoting 
tourism in Tibetan areas, and at the Sixth Tibet 
Work Forum in August 2015, Premier Li Keqiang 
called for Tibet to build ‘‘major world tourism des-
tinations’’. 
(5) The Government of China requires for-
eigners to obtain permission from the Tibet Foreign 
and Overseas Affairs Office or from the Tibet Tour-
ism Bureau to enter the Tibet Autonomous Region, 
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(1) The Government of the People’s Republic of 
China does not grant United States diplomats and 
other officials, journalists, and other citizens access 
to China on a basis that is reciprocal to the access 
that the Government of the United States grants 
Chinese diplomats and other officials, journalists, 
and citizens. 
(2) The Government of China imposes greater 
restrictions on travel to Tibetan areas than to other 
areas of China. 
(3) Officials of China have stated that Tibet is 
open to foreign visitors. 
(4) The Government of China is promoting 
tourism in Tibetan areas, and at the Sixth Tibet 
Work Forum in August 2015, Premier Li Keqiang 
called for Tibet to build ‘‘major world tourism des-
tinations’’. 
(5) The Government of China requires for-
eigners to obtain permission from the Tibet Foreign 
and Overseas Affairs Office or from the Tibet Tour-
ism Bureau to enter the Tibet Autonomous Region, 
a restriction that is not imposed on travel to any 
other provincial-level jurisdiction in China. 
(6) The Department of State reports that— 
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