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ing such communication as the President of the United 
States shall be pleased to make to them. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 29, 
2019. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
H. R. 1722 
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
An Act 
To require the head of each executive agency to establish and implement a policy 
under which employees shall be authorized to telework, 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 ‘‘Telework Enhancement Act 
of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. TELEWORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part III of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after chapter 63 the following: 
‘‘CHAPTER 65—TELEWORK 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘6501. Definitions. 
‘‘6502. Executive agencies telework requirement. 
‘‘6503. Training and monitoring. 
‘‘6504. Policy and support. 
‘‘6505. Telework Managing Officer. 
‘‘6506. Reports. 
‘‘§ 6501. Definitions 
‘‘In this chapter: 
‘‘(1) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘employee’ has the meaning 
given that term under section 2105. 
‘‘(2) EXECUTIVE
AGENCY.—Except as provided in section 
6506, the term ‘executive agency’ has the meaning given that 
term under section 105. 
‘‘(3) TELEWORK.—The term ‘telework’or ‘teleworking’ refers 
to a work flexibility arrangement under which an employee 
performs the duties and responsibilities of such employee’s 
position, and other authorized activities, from an approved 
worksite other than the location from which the employee would 
otherwise work. 
‘‘§ 6502. Executive agencies telework requirement 
‘‘(a) TELEWORK ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this chapter, the head of each executive agency 
shall— 
‘‘(A) establish a policy under which eligible employees 
of the agency may be authorized to telework; 
‘‘(B) determine the eligibility for all employees of the 
agency to participate in telework; and
I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1722 
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing a telework pro-
gram that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours 
worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 25, 2009 
Mr. SARBANES (for himself, Mr. WOLF, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Mr. 
LYNCH, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, and Mr. 
RUPPERSBERGER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing 
a telework program that allows employees to telework 
at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every 2 
administrative workweeks, 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 ‘‘Telework Improve-
ments Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. TELEWORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part III of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 63 the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘CHAPTER 65—TELEWORK 
‘‘6501. Definitions. 
‘‘6502. Governmentwide telework requirement. 
‘‘6503. Implementation. 
‘‘6504. Telework Managing Officer. 
‘‘6505. Evaluating telework in agencies. 
‘‘6506. Continuity of operations. 
‘‘§ 6501. Definitions 
‘‘For purposes of this chapter— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ means an Executive 
agency (as defined by section 105), except as pro-
vided in section 6506(c); 
‘‘(2) the term ‘telework’ or ‘teleworking’ refers 
to a work arrangement under which an employee 
regularly performs the duties and responsibilities of 
such employee’s position, and other authorized ac-
tivities, from home or another worksite removed 
from the employee’s regular place of employment; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘continuity of operations’, as used 
with respect to an agency, refers to measures de-
signed to ensure that functions essential to the mis-
sion of the agency can continue to be performed dur-
ing a wide range of emergencies, including localized 
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(iii) The text of the provision of law 
defining the criminal offense for which the 
person is required to be registered under 
this section. 
(iv) A current photograph of the per-
son. 
(v) A set of fingerprints and palm 
prints of the person. 
(vi) A photocopy of a valid driver’s li-
cense or identification card issued to the 
person by a jurisdiction. 
(vii) Any other information required 
by the Attorney General. 
(2) PROVIDED
BY
JURISDICTION
OF
CONVIC-
TIONS IN CASE OF CONVICTIONS BEFORE DATE OF 
ENACTMENT AND FAILURES TO NOTIFY.—Each ju-
risdiction in which a criminal arsonist or criminal 
bomber described in subclause (I) or (II) of sub-
section (c)(4)(B)(i) was convicted shall ensure that 
the following information is provided to the National 
Registry: 
(A) The name of the criminal arsonist or 
criminal bomber (including any alias used by 
the person).
port under this subsection with respect to the Govern-
ment Accountability Office. 
‘‘(b) REPORTS BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) EVALUATIONS OF REPORTS BY DIRECTOR OF 
OPM.—Not later than 6 months after the Director sub-
mits a report under subsection (a), the Comptroller 
General shall review the report and submit a report 
to the appropriate committees of Congress. The report 
shall evaluate the compliance of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management and agencies with this chapter 
and address the overall progress of agencies in car-
rying out this chapter, and shall include such other 
information and recommendations as the Comptroller 
General considers appropriate. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 
OFFICE.—The Comptroller General shall submit a re-
port with respect to the Government Accountability 
Office in the same manner and in accordance with 
the same requirements applicable to a report sub-
mitted by the Director with respect to any other agen-
cy under subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate committees 
of Congress’ means— 
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Managing Officer, and Congress in understanding 
the test program and the impact of the program. 
‘‘(d) No more than 10 test programs under this sec-
tion may be conducted simultaneously. 
‘‘(e) The authority to conduct test programs under 
this section shall expire 7 years after the date of the enact-
ment of the Telework Improvements Act of 2010. 
‘‘(f) In this section, the term ‘appropriate committees 
of Congress’ means the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Sec. 5711 Authority for telework travel expense test programs’’. 
SEC. 5. TELEWORK RESEARCH. 
(a) RESEARCH BY OPM ON TELEWORK.—The Direc-
tor of the Office of Personnel Management shall— 
(1) conduct studies on the utilization of 
telework by public and private sector entities that 
identify best practices and recommendations for the 
Federal government; 
(2) review the outcomes associated with an in-
crease in telework, including the effects of telework 
on energy consumption, the environment, job cre-
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ation and availability, urban transportation patterns, 
and the ability to anticipate the dispersal of work 
during periods of emergency; and 
(3) make any studies or reviews performed 
under this subsection available to the public. 
(b) USE OF CONTRACT TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH.— 
The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may 
carry out subsection (a) pursuant to a contract entered 
into by the Director using competitive procedures. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 14, 2010. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
By DEBORAH M. SPRIGGS, 
Deputy Clerk. 
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(1) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—The term ‘‘Board 
of Trustees’’ means the Board of Trustees of the In-
surance Fund. 
(2) COVERED
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘covered 
agency’’, when used with respect to a State, means 
the State agency referred to in paragraph (1) of sec-
tion 102(b), or the Commissioner of Social Security 
if the Commissioner is carrying out the State Family 
and Medical Insurance Program in the State under 
paragraph (2) of such section. 
(3) DOMESTIC PARTNER.—The term ‘‘domestic 
partner’’ means— 
(A) the person recognized as the domestic 
partner of the employee under any domestic 
partner registry or civil union laws of the State 
or political subdivision of a State where the em-
ployee resides; 
(B) a same-sex spouse as determined 
under the applicable law of the State or polit-
ical subdivision of a State where the employee 
resides; or 
(C) in the case of an unmarried employee 
who lives in a State where a person cannot 
marry a person of the same sex under the laws 
of the State, a single, unmarried adult person 
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Union Calendar No. 269 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1722 
[Report No. 111–474] 
A BILL 
To improve teleworking in executive agencies by de-
veloping a telework program that allows employ-
ees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours 
worked in every 2 administrative workweeks, and 
for other purposes. 
MAY 4, 2010 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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671 
HR 1 EAS 
as part of submission of the initial bid under section 
1854(a)(1)(A)(iv), identifying— 
‘‘(A) whether each eligible professional de-
scribed in paragraph (2), with respect to such 
organization is a meaningful EHR user (as de-
fined in section 1848(o)(2)) for a year specified 
by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(B) whether each eligible hospital described 
in subsection (m)(1), with respect to such organi-
zation, is a meaningful EHR user (as defined in 
section 1886(n)(3)) for an applicable period 
specified by the Secretary. 
‘‘(7) POSTING ON WEBSITE.—The Secretary shall 
post on the Internet website of the Centers for Medi-
care & Medicaid Services, in an easily understand-
able format, a list of the names, business addresses, 
and business phone numbers of— 
‘‘(A) each qualifying MA organization re-
ceiving an incentive payment under this sub-
section for eligible professionals of the organiza-
tion; and 
‘‘(B) the eligible professionals of such orga-
nization for which such incentive payment is 
based.’’.
I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1726 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a rule with respect 
to border security searches of electronic devices, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 26, 2009 
Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California (for herself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. GON-
ZALEZ, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Mr. CARNAHAN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. MORAN 
of Virginia, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. LEE of Cali-
fornia, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. PAUL, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. MILLER of 
North Carolina, and Mr. FILNER) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue 
a rule with respect to border security searches of elec-
tronic devices, 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 ‘‘Border Security 
Search Accountability Act of 2009’’. 
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amended by adding at the end the following new 
item: 
‘‘Sec. 45R. Environmental remediation credit.’’. 
(2) The table of sections for part III of sub-
chapter B of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 139A the 
following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 139C. Remediation contributions by potentially responsible parties.’’. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2009. 
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‘‘(5) COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REQUIRED.— 
The Federal banking agencies shall prescribe regula-
tions requiring depository institutions to establish 
and maintain procedures reasonably designed to as-
sure and monitor the compliance of such depository 
institutions, the subsidiaries of such institutions, 
and the employees of such institutions or subsidi-
aries with the requirements of this section and the 
registration procedures established under section 
1507 of the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mort-
gage Licensing Act of 2008.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 2 of the Truth in Lending Act is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 129 the fol-
lowing new items: 
‘‘129A. Fiduciary duty of servicers of pooled residential mortgages. 
‘‘129B. Residential mortgage loan origination.’’. 
SEC. 103. PROHIBITION ON STEERING INCENTIVES. 
Section 129B of the Truth in Lending Act (as added 
by section 102(a)) is amended by inserting after sub-
section (b) the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) PROHIBITION ON STEERING INCENTIVES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For any mortgage loan, the 
total amount of direct and indirect compensation 
from all sources permitted to a mortgage originator
istry of criminal arsonists, and a notification pro-
gram, maintained by a jurisdiction. 
(4) CRIMINAL OFFENSE.—The term ‘‘criminal 
offense’’ means a Federal State, local, tribal, for-
eign, or military offense (to the extent specified by 
the 
Secretary 
of 
Defense 
under 
section 
115(a)(8)(C)(i) of Public Law 105–119 (10 U.S.C. 
951 note)) or other criminal offense. 
(5) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’ includes 
an individual who is self-employed or works for any 
other entity, whether compensated or not. 
(6) FIRE
SAFETY
OFFICER.—The term ‘‘fire 
safety officer’’ means an individual serving in an of-
ficial capacity as a firefighter, fire investigator, or 
other arson investigator, as defined by the jurisdic-
tion for the purposes of this section. 
(7) JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘jurisdiction’’ 
means any of the following: 
(A) A State. 
(B) The District of Columbia. 
(C) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
(D) Guam. 
(E) American Samoa. 
(F) The Northern Mariana Islands. 
(G) The United States Virgin Islands. 
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(H) To the extent provided and subject to 
the requirements of subsection (o), a federally 
recognized Indian tribe. 
(8) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement officer’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Street Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796b). 
(9) RESIDES.—The term ‘‘resides’’ means, with 
respect to an individual, the location of the individ-
ual’s home or other place where the individual habit-
ually lives. 
(10) STUDENT.—The term ‘‘student’’ means an 
individual who enrolls in or attends an educational 
institution (whether public or private), including a 
secondary school, trade or professional school, and 
institution of higher education. 
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upon consummation will be, subject to protection 
under an anti-deficiency law, the creditor or mort-
gage originator shall provide a written notice to the 
consumer describing the protection provided by the 
anti-deficiency law and the significance for the con-
sumer of the loss of such protection before such loan 
is consummated. 
‘‘(3) NOTICE
BEFORE
REFINANCING
THAT 
WOULD CAUSE LOSS OF PROTECTION.—In the case 
of any residential mortgage loan that is subject to 
protection under an anti-deficiency law, if a creditor 
or mortgage originator provides an application to a 
consumer, or receives an application from a con-
sumer, for any type of refinancing for such loan that 
would cause the loan to lose the protection of such 
anti-deficiency law, the creditor or mortgage origi-
nator shall provide a written notice to the consumer 
describing the protection provided by the anti-defi-
ciency law and the significance for the consumer of 
the loss of such protection before any agreement for 
any such refinancing is consummated.’’. 
(d) POLICY REGARDING ACCEPTANCE OF PARTIAL 
PAYMENT.—Section 129C of the Truth in Lending Act 
is amended by inserting after subsection (l) the following
‘‘(5) OTHER DEFINITIONS RELATING TO MORT-
GAGE
ORIGINATOR.—For purposes of this sub-
section, a person ‘assists a consumer in obtaining or 
applying to obtain a residential mortgage loan’ by, 
among other things, advising on residential mort-
gage loan terms (including rates, fees, and other 
costs), preparing residential mortgage loan packages, 
or collecting information on behalf of the consumer 
with regard to a residential mortgage loan. 
‘‘(6) RESIDENTIAL
MORTGAGE
LOAN.—The 
term ‘residential mortgage loan’ means any con-
sumer credit transaction that is secured by a mort-
gage, deed of trust, or other equivalent consensual 
security interest on a dwelling or on residential real 
property that includes a dwelling, other than a con-
sumer credit transaction under an open end credit 
plan or a reverse mortgage or, for purposes of sec-
tions 129B and 129C and section 128(a) (16), (17), 
and (18), and 128(f) and any regulations promul-
gated thereunder, an extension of credit relating to 
a plan described in section 101(53D) of title 11, 
United States Code. 
‘‘(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’, when 
used in connection with any transaction or person
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(c) HEALTH CARE CONTRACT DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘health care contract’’ means a contract 
in an amount greater than the simplified acquisition 
threshold for the acquisition of any of the following: 
(1) Medical supplies. 
(2) Health care services and administration, in-
cluding the services of medical personnel. 
(3) Durable medical equipment. 
(4) Pharmaceuticals. 
(5) Health care-related information technology. 
TITLE IV—INDUSTRIAL BASE 
SEC. 401. EXPANSION OF THE INDUSTRIAL BASE. 
(a) PROGRAM TO EXPAND INDUSTRIAL BASE RE-
QUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish a pro-
gram to expand the industrial base of the Department of 
Defense to increase the Department’s access to innovation 
and the benefits of competition. The program shall be lim-
ited to firms within the national technology and industrial 
base (as defined in section 2500(1) of title 10, United 
States Code). 
(b) IDENTIFYING AND COMMUNICATING WITH NON-
TRADITIONAL
SUPPLIERS.—The program established 
under subsection (a) shall use tools and resources available 
within the Federal Government and available from the pri-
vate sector, to provide a capability for identifying and 
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(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and 
Federal branches and Federal agencies of for-
eign banks’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal branches 
and Federal agencies of foreign banks, and sav-
ings associations the deposits of which are in-
sured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration’’; 
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 
(4) as paragraphs (2) and (3); 
(3) 
in 
section 
306(b)(2) 
(12 
U.S.C. 
2805(b)(2)), by striking ‘‘Director of the Office of 
Thrift Supervision’’ and inserting ‘‘Comptroller of 
the Currency’’; and 
(4) in section 307 (12 U.S.C. 2806)— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘the 
Comptroller of the Currency,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘Director of the Office of 
Thrift Supervision’’ each place that term ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Comptroller of the Cur-
rency’’. 
(u) COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT OF 1977.— 
Section 803(1) of the Community Reinvestment Act of 
1977 (12 U.S.C. 2902(1)) is amended— 
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‘‘(II) in the case of a transaction 
for less than $20,000, the lesser of 8 
percent 
of 
the 
total 
transaction 
amount or $1,000; or 
‘‘(iii) the credit transaction documents 
permit the creditor to charge or collect pre-
payment fees or penalties more than 36 
months after the transaction closing or 
such fees or penalties exceed, in the aggre-
gate, more than 2 percent of the amount 
prepaid. 
‘‘(B) INTRODUCTORY RATES TAKEN INTO 
ACCOUNT.—For 
purposes 
of 
subparagraph 
(A)(i), the annual percentage rate of interest 
shall be determined based on the following in-
terest rate: 
‘‘(i) In the case of a fixed-rate trans-
action in which the annual percentage rate 
will not vary during the term of the loan, 
the interest rate in effect on the date of 
consummation of the transaction. 
‘‘(ii) In the case of a transaction in 
which the rate of interest varies solely in 
accordance with an index, the interest rate 
determined by adding the index rate in ef-
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the extent that it provides additional remedies against any 
assignee, securitizer, or securitization vehicle for a viola-
tion of subsection (a) or (b) of section 129C of such Act 
or any other State law the terms of which address the 
specific subject matter of subsection (a) (determination of 
ability to repay) or (b) (requirement of a net tangible ben-
efit) of section 129C of such Act, and the remedies de-
scribed in section 129C(d) shall constitute the sole rem-
edies against any assignee, securitizer, or securitization 
vehicle for such violations. 
(b) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—No provision of this 
section shall be construed as limiting— 
(1) the application of any State law, or the 
availability of remedies under such law, against a 
creditor for a particular residential mortgage loan 
regardless of whether such creditor also acts as an 
assignee, securitizer, or securitization vehicle for 
such loan; 
(2) the application of any State law, or the 
availability of remedies under such law, against an 
assignee, securitizer, or securitization vehicle under 
State law, other than a provision of such law the 
terms of which address the specific subject matter of 
subsection (a) (determination of ability to repay) or 
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