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PROBLEM: SECTION 1. REPEAL OF THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.

    (a) Repeal.--The Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 
et seq.) is repealed.
    (b) Transfers in Connection With Repeal.--Notwithstanding the 
proviso in section 10(a)(4) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 
U.S.C. App. 460(a)(4)), the Office of Selective Service Records shall 
not be reestablished upon the repeal of such Act. The assets, 
contracts, property, and records held by the Selective Service System, 
and the unexpended balances of any appropriations available to the 
Selective Service System, shall be transferred to the Administrator of 
General Services upon the repeal of such Act. The Director of the 
Office of Personnel Management shall assist officers and employees of 
the Selective Service System to transfer to other positions in the 
executive branch.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Title 5.--Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) by striking out section 3328;
                    (B) in section 3551--
                            (i) by striking out ``, on release from 
                        duty within the time limits specified in 
                        section 9(g) of the Military Selective Service 
                        Act of 1967 (50 U.S.C. App. 459(g)),''; and
                            (ii) by striking out the second sentence; 
                        and
                    (C) in section 5102(b), by striking out ``, 
                including positions'' and all that follows through 
                ``those positions''.
            (2) Title 8.--The Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1101 et seq.) is amended--
                    (A) in section 101(a)(19) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(19))--
                            (i) by striking out ``section 3(a) of the 
                        Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as 
                        amended (54 Stat. 885; 55 Stat. 844), or under 
                        section 4(a) of the Selective Service Act of 
                        1948, as amended (62 Stat. 605; 65 Stat. 76) or 
                        under''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``sections or'';
                    (B) in section 241(a)(2)(D)(iii) (8 U.S.C. 
                1251(a)(2)(D)(iii)), by striking out ``the Military 
                Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.) 
                or'';
                    (C) in section 245(a)(4) (8 U.S.C. 1255a(a)(4))--
                            (i) by adding ``and'' at the end of 
                        subparagraph (B);
                            (ii) by striking out ``, and'' at the end 
                        of subparagraph (C) and inserting in lieu 
                        thereof a period; and
                            (iii) by striking out subparagraph (D); and
                    (D) in section 315(b) (8 U.S.C. 1426(b)), by 
                inserting ``former'' before ``Selective Service 
                System''.
            (3) Title 10.--Title 10, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in section 511(b), by striking out ``, and who 
                is not under orders to report for induction into an 
                armed force under the Military Selective Service Act 
                (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.),'';
                    (B) in section 511(d), by striking out ``and who is 
                not under orders to report for induction into an armed 
                force under the Military Selective Service Act (50 
                U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.), except as provided in section 
                6(c)(2)(A) (ii) and (iii) of such Act,'';
                    (C) in section 512(a)--
                            (i) by striking out ``or under the Military 
                        Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et 
                        seq.),'' in the first sentence; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``or under the 
                        Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 
                        451 et seq.)'' in the third sentence;
                    (D) in section 513--
                            (i) in subsection (a), by striking out 
                        ``(except as provided in subsection (c))''; and
                            (ii) by striking out subsection (c);
                    (E) by striking out paragraph (7) of section 
                523(b);
                    (F) in section 595(a)--
                            (i) by striking out ``or under the Military 
                        Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et 
                        seq.),'' in the first sentence; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``or under the 
                        Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 
                        451 et seq.)'' in the third sentence;
                    (G) in section 641(1)--
                            (i) by inserting ``or'' at the end of 
                        subparagraph (E);
                            (ii) by striking out subparagraph (F); and
                            (iii) by redesignating subparagraph
                    (G) as subparagraph (F);
                    (H) in section 651(a), by striking out ``, other 
                than a person deferred under the next to the last 
                sentence of section 6(d)(1) of the Military Selective 
                Service Act (50 U.S.C App. 456(d)(1))'';
                    (I) in section 1007--
                            (i) by striking out ``who is assigned to 
                        the Selective Service System or'';
                            (ii) by striking out ``assignment or''; and
                            (iii) by striking out ``assigned to the 
                        Selective Service System or'' in the section 
                        heading;
                    (J) in the table of contents at the beginning of 
                chapter 51, by striking out the item relating to 
                section 1007 and inserting in lieu thereof the 
                following new item:

``1007. Commissioned officers: retention in active status while serving 
                            as United States property and fiscal 
                            officers.''; and
                    (K) in section 1475(a)(5), by striking out ``who--
                '' and all that follows through the period and 
                inserting in lieu thereof ``who has been provisionally 
                accepted for that duty.''.
            (4) Title 22.--Section 23 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 
        2520) is repealed.
            (5) Title 26.--Section 3121(n)(5) of the Internal Revenue 
        Act of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 3121(n)(5)) is amended by striking out 
        ``service--'' and all that follows through ``or air service;'' 
        and inserting in lieu thereof ``service who has been 
        provisionally accepted for such duty;''.
            (6) Title 28.--Section 631(j) of title 28, United States 
        Code, is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by 
                striking out ``A magistrate who is inducted'' and all 
                that follows through ``with such forces'' and inserting 
                in lieu thereof ``A magistrate who is ordered to active 
                duty with the Armed Forces of the United States''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking out ``receives a 
                certificate of service under section 9(a) of the 
                Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (50 U.S.C. App. 
                459(a)), or''.
            (7) Title 29.--The Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 
        1501 et seq.) is amended--
                    (A) by striking out section 604 (29 U.S.C. 1504); 
                and
                    (B) by striking out subsection (b) of section 426 
                (29 U.S.C. 1696).
            (8) Title 37.--Title 37, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in section 301(a), by striking out the last 
                sentence; and
                    (B) in section 308e(1), by striking out ``or under 
                section 6(d)(1) of the Military Selective Service Act 
                (50 U.S.C. App. 456(d)(1)'' both places it appears.
            (9) Title 38.--Title 38, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in section 2021(a)--
                            (i) by striking out ``the Military 
                        Selective Service Act (or under any prior or 
                        subsequent corresponding law)'' and inserting 
                        in lieu thereof ``a law providing for such 
                        induction''; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``a certificate 
                        described in section 9(a) of the Military 
                        Selective Service Act (relating to the 
                        satisfactory completion of military service)'' 
                        and inserting in lieu thereof ``a certificate 
                        relating to the satisfactory completion of 
                        military service''; and
                    (B) in section 2024(a)--
                            (i) by striking out ``the provisions of the 
                        Military Selective Service Act (or prior or 
                        subsequent''; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``Armed Forces)'' and 
                        inserting in lieu thereof ``Armed Forces''.
            (10) Title 42.--(A) Section 210(m) of the Social Security 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 410(m)) is amended by striking out ``service--'' 
        and all that follows through ``or air service;'' and inserting 
        in lieu thereof ``service who has been provisionally accepted 
        for such duty;''.
            (B) Section 1007(b) of the Legal Services Corporation Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 2996f(b)) is amended by striking out paragraph (10) 
        and inserting in lieu thereof the following new paragraph:
            ``(10) to provide legal assistance with respect to any 
        proceeding or litigation arising out of desertion from the 
        Armed Forces.''.
    (d) Effective Date.--This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, 
shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SOLUTION: Repeals the Military Selective Service Act. 
Bars the reestablishment of the Office of Selective Service Records. 
Requires:  (1) the transfer to the Administrator of General Services of the assets, property, and records held by, and the unexpended balances of any appropriations available to, the Selective Service System (SSS); and (2) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to assist SSS officers and employees in transferring to other positions in the executive branch. 
Amends the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Act to bar the use of LSC funds to provide legal assistance with respect to any proceeding or litigation arising out of desertion from the armed forces.

PROBLEM: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bus Utility and Safety in School 
Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) school transportation issues remain a concern for 
        parents, local educational agencies, lawmakers, the National 
        Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National 
        Transportation Safety Board, and the Environmental Protection 
        Agency;
            (2) millions of children face potential future health 
        problems because of exposure to noxious fumes emitted from 
        older school buses;
            (3) many rural local educational agencies are operating 
        outdated, unsafe school buses that are failing inspection, 
        resulting in a depletion of the school bus fleets of the local 
        educational agencies; and
            (4) many rural local educational agencies are unable to 
        afford newer and safer buses.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to establish within the 
Department of Education a Federal cost-sharing program to assist rural 
local educational agencies with older, unsafe school bus fleets in 
purchasing newer, safer school buses.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Rural local educational agency.--The term ``rural local 
        educational agency'' means a local educational agency, as 
        defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801), with respect to which--
                    (A) each county in which a school served by the 
                local educational agency is located has a total 
                population density of fewer than 10 persons per square 
                mile;
                    (B) all schools served by the local educational 
                agency are designated with a school locale code of 7 or 
                8, as determined by the Secretary of Education; or
                    (C) all schools served by the local educational 
                agency have been designated, by official action taken 
                by the legislature of the State in which the local 
                educational agency is located, as rural schools for 
                purposes relating to the provision of educational 
                services to students in the State.
            (2) School bus.--The term ``school bus'' means a vehicle 
        the primary purpose of which is to transport students to and 
        from school or school activities.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Education.

SEC. 4. GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--From amounts made available under subsection (e) 
for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall provide grants, on a competitive 
basis, to rural local educational agencies to pay the Federal share of 
the cost of purchasing new school buses.
    (b) Application.--
            (1) In general.--Each rural local educational agency that 
        seeks to receive a grant under this Act shall submit to the 
        Secretary for approval an application at such time, in such 
        manner, and accompanied by such information (in addition to 
        information required under paragraph (2)) as the Secretary may 
        require.
            (2) Contents.--Each application submitted under paragraph 
        (1) shall include--
                    (A) documentation that, of the total number of 
                school buses operated by the rural local educational 
                agency, not less than 50 percent of the school buses 
                are in need of repair or replacement;
                    (B) documentation of the number of miles that each 
                school bus operated by the rural local educational 
                agency traveled in the most recent 9-month academic 
                year;
                    (C) documentation that the rural local educational 
                agency is operating with a reduced fleet of school 
                buses;
                    (D) a certification from the rural local 
                educational agency that--
                            (i) authorizes the application of the rural 
                        local educational agency for a grant under this 
                        Act; and
                            (ii) describes the dedication of the rural 
                        local educational agency to school bus 
                        replacement programs and school transportation 
                        needs (including the number of new school buses 
                        needed by the rural local educational agency); 
                        and
                    (E) an assurance that the rural local educational 
                agency will pay the non-Federal share of the cost of 
                the purchase of new school buses under this Act from 
                non-Federal sources.
    (c) Priority.--
            (1) In general.--In providing grants under this Act, the 
        Secretary shall give priority to rural local educational 
        agencies that, as determined by the Secretary--
                    (A) are transporting students in a bus manufactured 
                before 1977;
                    (B) have a grossly depleted fleet of school buses; 
                or
                    (C) serve a school that is required, under section 
                1116(b)(9) of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
                Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6316(b)(9)), to provide 
                transportation to students to enable the students to 
                transfer to another public school served by the rural 
                local educational agency.
    (d) Payments; Federal Share.--
            (1) Payments.--The Secretary shall pay to each rural local 
        educational agency having an application approved under this 
        section the Federal share described in paragraph (2) of the 
        cost of purchasing such number of new school buses as is 
        specified in the approved application.
            (2) Federal share.--The Federal share of the cost of 
        purchasing a new school bus under this Act shall be 75 percent.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this Act--
            (1) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
            (2) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
        2007 through 2011.

SOLUTION: Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide grants, on a competitive basis, to rural local educational agencies (LEAs) to pay the federal share (75%) of costs of purchasing new school buses. Requires the Secretary, in providing such grants, to give priority to rural LEAs that: (1) are transporting students in a bus manufactured before 1977; (2) have a grossly depleted fleet of school buses; or (3) serve a school required by law to provide transportation to students to enable them to transfer to another public school served by the rural LEA.

PROBLEM: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Appropriations Transparency Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. OUT OF SCOPE EARMARKS OR TAX EARMARKS IN CONFERENCE REPORTS.

    (a) In General.--In the House of Representatives or the Senate, a 
point of order may be made by any Member against consideration of a 
conference report that includes any earmark or tax earmark not 
committed to conference by either House. The point of order shall be 
made and voted on separately for each item in violation of this 
section.
    (b) Disposition.--If the point of order against a conference report 
under subsection (a) is sustained, then--
            (1) the earmark or tax earmark in such conference report 
        shall be deemed to have been struck;
            (2) when all other points of order under this section have 
        been disposed of--
                    (A) the House or Senate, as applicable, shall 
                proceed to consider the question of whether the House 
                or Senate should recede from its amendment to the 
                Senate bill or House bill, or its disagreement to the 
                amendment of the Senate or the House, and concur with a 
                further amendment, which further amendment shall 
                consist of only that portion of the conference report 
                not deemed to have been struck;
                    (B) the question shall be debatable; and
                    (C) no further amendment shall be in order; and
            (3) if the House or the Senate, as applicable, agrees to 
        the amendment, then the bill and the House amendment thereto, 
        or the bill and the Senate amendment thereto, shall be returned 
        to the Senate or the House for its concurrence in the amendment 
        of the House or the Senate.
    (c) Waiver and Appeal.--This section may be waived or suspended in 
the House of Representatives or the Senate only by an affirmative vote 
of a majority of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. In the Senate, an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its Members, duly chosen and sworn, 
shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a 
point of order raised under this section.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--As used in this Act:
            (1) The term ``earmark'' means a provision in a bill or 
        conference report--
                    (A) with respect to an appropriation bill or 
                conference report thereon providing or recommending an 
                amount of budget authority for a contract, loan, loan 
                guarantee, grant, or other expenditure with or to a 
                non-Federal entity, if--
                            (i) such entity is specifically identified 
                        in the bill; or
                            (ii) if the discretionary budget authority 
                        is allocated outside of the statutory or 
                        administrative formula-driven or competitive 
                        bidding process and is targeted or directed to 
                        an identifiable entity, specific State, or 
                        Congressional district; or
                    (B) with respect to a measure other than that 
                specified in subparagraph (A) or conference report 
                thereon providing authority, including budget 
                authority, or recommending the exercise of authority, 
                including budget authority, for a contract, loan, loan 
                guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure 
                with or to a non-Federal entity, if--
                            (i) such entity is specifically identified 
                        in the bill;
                            (ii) if the authorization for, or provision 
                        of, budget authority, contract authority loan 
                        authority or other expenditure is allocated 
                        outside of the statutory or administrative 
                        formula-driven or competitive bidding process 
                        and is targeted or directed to an identifiable 
                        entity, specific State, or Congressional 
                        district; or
                            (iii) if such authorization for, or 
                        provision of, budget authority, contract 
                        authority, loan authority or other expenditure 
                        preempts statutory or administrative State 
                        allocation authority.
            (2)(A) The term ``tax earmark'' means any revenue-losing 
        provision that provides a Federal tax deduction, credit, 
        exclusion, or preference to only one beneficiary (determined 
        with respect to either present law or any provision of which 
        the provision is a part) under the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 in any year for which the provision is in effect;
            (B) for purposes of subparagraph (A)--
                    (i) all businesses and associations that are 
                members of the same controlled group of corporations 
                (as defined in section 1563(a) of the Internal Revenue 
                Code of 1986) shall be treated as a single beneficiary;
                    (ii) all shareholders, partners, members, or 
                beneficiaries of a corporation, partnership, 
                association, or trust or estate, respectively, shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    (iii) all employees of an employer shall be treated 
                as a single beneficiary;
                    (iv) all qualified plans of an employer shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    (v) all beneficiaries of a qualified plan shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary;
                    (vi) all contributors to a charitable organization 
                shall be treated as a single beneficiary;
                    (vii) all holders of the same bond issue shall be 
                treated as a single beneficiary; and
                    (viii) if a corporation, partnership, association, 
                trust or estate is the beneficiary of a provision, the 
                shareholders of the corporation, the partners of the 
                partnership, the members of the association, or the 
                beneficiaries of the trust or estate shall not also be 
                treated as beneficiaries of such provision.
            (3) The term ``revenue-losing provision'' means any 
        provision that is estimated to result in a reduction in Federal 
        tax revenues (determined with respect to either present law or 
        any provision of which the provision is a part) for any one of 
        the two following periods--
                    (A) the first fiscal year for which the provision 
                is effective; or
                    (B) the period of the 5 fiscal years beginning with 
                the first fiscal year for which the provision is 
                effective; and
            (4) The terms used in paragraphs (2) and (3) shall have the 
        same meaning as those terms have generally in the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986, unless otherwise expressly provided.
    (b) Clarification.--For purposes of this Act--
            (1) government-sponsored enterprises, Federal facilities, 
        and Federal lands shall be considered Federal entities;
            (2) to the extent that the non-Federal entity is a State, 
        unit of local government, territory, an Indian tribe, a foreign 
        government or an intergovernmental international organization, 
        the provision shall not be considered an earmark unless the 
        provision also specifies the specific purpose for which the 
        designated budget authority is to be expended;
            (3) the term ``budget authority'' shall have the same 
        meaning as such term is defined in section 3 of the 
        Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622); and
            (4) an obligation limitation shall be treated as budget 
        authority.

SOLUTION:
Appropriations Transparency Act of 2007 - Allows a point of order to be made by any Member in the House of Representatives or the Senate against consideration of a conference report that includes any earmark or tax earmark not committed to conference by either chamber.

Defines "tax earmark" as any revenue-losing provision that provides a federal tax deduction, credit, exclusion, or preference to only one beneficiary (determined with respect to either present law or any provision of which the provision is a part) under the Internal Revenue Code in any year for which the provision is in effect.