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Input: Consider Input: 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outdated, unsafe school buses that are failing inspection,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.

Output: 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.

Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Independent Ethics Commission Act of
2007''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF INDEPENDENT ETHICS COMMISSION.

(a) Establishment.--There is established an independent ethics
commission within the House of Representatives to be known as the
Independent Ethics Committee (in this Act referred to as the
''Commission'').
(b) Membership and Terms of Office.--(1) The Commission shall
consist of 9 commissioners, 4 appointed by the Speaker and 4 by the
minority leader of the House, and one selected by the affirmative vote
of two-thirds of the 8 appointed commissioners for a term of 5 years.
No commissioner may serve for more than 5 years.
(2) Commissioners shall be appointed for terms of 5 years, except
that of the commissioners first appointed, 2 appointed by the Speaker
and 2 by the minority leader shall be for 3-year terms and 2 appointed
by the Speaker and 2 by the minority leader shall be for 4-year terms
as designated by the Speaker and the minority leader at the time of
appointment.
(c) Qualifications.--Only former Federal judges shall be eligible
for appointment to the Commission.
(1) Disqualifications for appointments.--
(A) Lobbying.--No individual who has been a
lobbyist registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act
of 1995 or engages in, or is otherwise employed in,
lobbying of the Congress or who is an agent of a
foreign principal registered under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act within the 4-year period immediately
preceding appointment shall be eligible for appointment
to, or service on, the Commission.
(B) Incompatible office.--No member of the
Commission appointed under subsection (b) may be a
Member of the House of Representatives or Senator.
(2) Vacancies.--A vacancy on the Commission shall be filled
in the manner in which the original appointment was made.
(d) Compensation.--Members shall each be entitled to receive the
daily equivalent of the maximum annual rate of basic pay in effect for
Level III of the Executive Schedule for each day (including travel
time) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties
vested in the Commission.
(e) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Commission shall
constitute a quorum.
(f) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call a majority of
its members.

SEC. 3. DUTIES OF COMMISSION.

(a) Duties.--The Commission is authorized--
(1) to receive, monitor, and oversee financial disclosure
and other reports filed by Members of the House and officers
and employees of the House under the Ethics in Government Act
of 1978, and reports filed by registered lobbyists under the
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995;
(2) to investigate any alleged violation, by a Member,
officer, or employee of the House of Representatives, of any
rule or other standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of
such Member, officer, or employee under House rules in the
performance of his duties or the discharge of his
responsibilities;
(3) to present a case of probable ethics violations to the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of
Representatives;
(4) to make recommendations to the Committee on Standards
of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives that it
report to the appropriate Federal or State authorities any
substantial evidence of a violation by a Member, officer, or
employee of the House of Representatives of any law applicable
to the performance of his duties or the discharge of his
responsibilities, which may have been disclosed in an
investigation by the Office;
(5) to provide information and informal guidance to
Members, officers and employees of the House of Representatives
regarding any rules and other standards of conduct applicable
to such individuals in their official capacities, and develop
and carry out periodic educational briefings for Members,
officers, and employees of the House of Representatives on
those laws, rules, regulations, or other standards; and
(6) to give consideration to the request of any Member,
officer, or employee of the House of Representatives for a
formal advisory opinion or other formal ruling, subject to the
review of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the
House of Representatives, as applicable, with respect to the
general propriety of any current or proposed conduct of such
Member, officer, or employee and, with appropriate deletions to
assure the privacy of the individual concerned, to publish such
opinion for the guidance of other Members, officers, and
employees of the House of Representatives.

SEC. 4. POWERS OF COMMISSION.

(a) Hearings and Evidence.--The Commission may for the purpose of
carrying out this Act--
(1) hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and
places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, administer
such oaths; and
(2) subject to subsection (b), require, by subpoena or
otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and
the production of such books, records, correspondence,
memoranda, papers, and documents, as the Commission may
determine advisable.
(b) Subpoenas.--A subpoena may be issued only with a majority of
the Commission.
(c) Obtaining Information.--Upon request of the Commission, the
head of any agency or instrumentality of the Government shall furnish
information deemed necessary by the Commission to enable it to carry
out its duties.
(d) Referrals to the Department of Justice.--Whenever the
Commission has reason to believe that a violation of the Lobbying
Disclosure Act of 1995 may have occurred, that matter may be referred
to the Department of Justice for it to investigate.
(e) General Audits.--The Commission shall have the authority to
conduct general audits of filings under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of
1995.

SEC. 5. INVESTIGATIONS AND INTERACTION WITH THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT.

(a) Notification.--Whenever the Commission determines that there
are sufficient grounds to conduct an investigation--
(1) the Commission shall notify the Committee on Standards
of Official Conduct of this determination;
(2) the applicable committee may overrule the determination
of the Commission if, within 10 legislative days--
(A) the committee by an affirmative, roll-call vote
of two-thirds of the full committee votes to overrule
the determination of the Commission;
(B) the committee issues a public report detailing
its reasoning for overruling the Commission;
(C) the vote of each member of the committee on
such roll-call vote is included in the report;
(D) dissenting members are allowed to issue their
own report detailing their reasons for disagreeing with
the majority vote; and
(E) if the committee votes to overrule the
determination of the Commission pursuant to
subparagraph (B), the Commission may publish and make
available to the general public a report detailing the
reasons that the Commission concluded there were
sufficient grounds to conduct an investigation.
(b) Conducting Investigations.--(1) If the Commission determines
that there are sufficient grounds to conduct an investigation and his
determination is not overruled under subsection (a)(5), the Commission
shall conduct an investigation to determine if probable cause exists
that a violation occurred.
(2) As part of an investigation, the Commission may--
(A) administer oaths;
(B) issue subpoenas;
(C) compel the attendance of witnesses and the production
of papers, books, accounts, documents, and testimony; and
(D) take the deposition of witnesses.
(3) If a person disobeys or refuses to comply with a subpoena, or
if a witness refuses to testify to a matter, he may be held in contempt
of Congress.
(c) Presentation of Case to House Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct.--(1) If the Commission determines, upon conclusion of
an investigation, that probable cause exists that an ethics violation
has occurred, the Commission shall notify the Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct of the House of Representatives of this determination.
(2) The committee may overrule the determination of the Commission
if, within 10 legislative days--
(A) the committee by an affirmative, roll-call vote of two-
thirds of the full committee votes to overrule the
determination of the Commission;
(B) the committee issues a public report detailing its
reasoning for overruling the Commission;
(C) the vote of each member of the committee on such roll-
call vote is included in the report; and
(D) dissenting members are allowed to issue their own
report detailing their reasons for disagreeing with the
majority vote.
(3) If the committee votes to overrule the determination of the
Commission pursuant to paragraph (2), the Commission may publish and
make available to the general public a report detailing the reasons
that he concluded there were sufficient grounds to present such case to
the committee.
(4)(A) If the Commission determines there is probable cause that an
ethics violation has occurred and the Commission's determination is not
overruled, the Commission shall present the case and evidence to the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of
Representatives to hear and make a determination pursuant to its rules.
(B) The committee shall vote upon whether the individual who is the
subject of the investigation has violated any rules or other standards
of conduct applicable to that individual in his official capacity. Such
votes shall be a roll-call vote of the full committee, a quorum being
present. The committee shall issue a public report which shall include
the vote of each member of the committee on such roll-call vote.
Dissenting members may issue their own report detailing their own
reasons for disagreeing with the majority vote.
(d) Sanctions.--Whenever the Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct of the House of Representatives finds that an ethics violation
has occurred the Commission shall recommend appropriate sanctions to
the committee and whether a matter should be referred to the Department
of Justice for investigation.

SEC. 6. PROCEDURAL RULES.

(a) Majority Approval.--No report or recommendation relating to the
official conduct of a Member, officer, or employee of the House of
Representatives shall be made by the Commission, and no investigation
of such conduct shall be undertaken by the Commission, unless approved
by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Commission.
(b) Investigations.--Except in the case of an investigation
undertaken by the Commission on its own initiative, the Commission may
undertake an investigation relating to the official conduct of an
individual Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives
only--
(1) upon receipt of a complaint, in writing and under oath,
made by or submitted to a Member of the House of
Representatives and transmitted to the Commission by such
Member, or
(2) upon receipt of a complaint from the chairman of the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of
Representatives, in writing and under oath, made by that
committee.
(c) Prohibition of Certain Investigations.--No investigation shall
be undertaken by the Commission of any alleged violation of a law,
rule, regulation, or standard of conduct not in effect at the time of
the alleged violation.
(d) Disclosure.--No information or testimony received, or the
contents of a complaint or the fact of its filing, shall be publicly
disclosed by any member of the Commission or staff of the Commission
unless specifically authorized in each instance by a vote of the
Commission.

SEC. 7. STAFF OF COMMISSION.

The Commission may appoint and fix the compensation of such staff
as the Commission considers necessary to perform its duties. The
Commission shall be appointed jointly by the Speaker and minority
leader and shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the rate of basic pay
payable for Level III of the Executive Schedule.

SEC. 8. AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE HOUSE TO CHANGE THE DUTIES OF
THE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT.

(a) House Rules Amendments.--Clause 3 of rule XI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives is amended as follows:
(1) In paragraph (a), strike subparagraphs (1), (2), and
(3), and redesignate subparagraphs (4), (5), and (6), as
subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively.
(2)(A) Paragraph (b)(1) is amended by striking ''(A)'', by
striking ''a resolution, report, recommendation, or'' and
inserting ''an'', and by striking '', or, except as provided in
subparagraph (2), undertake an investigation'', and by striking
subdivision (B).
(B) Paragraph (b) is further amended by striking
subparagraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) and by redesignating
subparagraphs (6) and (7) as subparagraphs (2) and (3),
respectively.
(3) Strike paragraphs (j) (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), (p), and
(q).
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 803 of the Ethics Reform Act of
1989 (2 U.S.C. 29d) is amended by striking subsections (c) and (d).

SEC. 9. ACTION ON COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS.

(a) Printing of Reports in Congressional Record.--Upon receipt by
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of
Representatives of any report of the Commission, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall have the report printed in the
Congressional Record.
(b) House Consideration of Independent Ethics Commission
Recommendations.--Within 14 calendar days after a report referred to in
subsection (a) is printed in the Congressional Record, that portion of
the report recommending action by the House of Representatives
respecting any alleged violation, by a Member, officer, or employee of
the House of Representatives, of any law, rule, regulation, or other
standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of such Member, officer,
or employee in the performance of his duties or the discharge of his
responsibilities shall be introduced (by request) in the House by the
Speaker of the House, for himself and the minority leader of the House
in the form of a resolution. This resolution shall constitute a
question of privilege under rule IX of the Rules of the House of
Representatives. Any Member favoring the resolution may call it up as a
question of privilege but only on the third day after the calendar date
upon which such Member announces to the House his intention to do so.

SEC. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE.

This Act shall take effect upon the date of its enactment, except
that sections 3, 4, and 8 shall not take effect immediately prior to
noon January 3, 2009.

Output: Independent Ethics Commission Act of 2007 - Establishes within the House of Representatives an Independent Ethics Commission composed only of former federal judges.

Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Crackdown on Deadbeat Dealers Act of
2003''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds that--
(1) a small number of licensed firearms dealers account for
a large proportion of the firearms traced from crimes;
(2) in 1998, 1.2 percent of licensed firearms dealers--
1,020 of the approximately 83,200 licensed retail firearms
dealers and pawnbrokers--accounted for over 57 percent of the
crime guns traced to licensed firearms dealers; and
(3) in 1998, just over 450 licensed firearms dealers had
traced to them 10 or more guns that were used in crimes within
3 years after they sold the guns.

SEC. 3. INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ALLOWED COMPLIANCE INSPECTIONS OF
FIREARMS DEALERS.

Section 923(g)(1)(B)(ii)(I) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by striking ''once'' and inserting ''3 times''.

SEC. 4. INCREASING PENALTIES ON FIREARMS LICENSEES.

Section 924(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code is amended by
striking ''one year'' and inserting ''5 years''.

SEC. 5. SERIOUS RECORDKEEPING OFFENSES THAT AID GUN TRAFFICKING.

Section 924(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking the period and inserting ''; but if the violation is in
relation to an offense under subsection (a)(6) or (d) of section 922,
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or
both.''.

SEC. 6. SUSPENSION OF FIREARMS DEALER'S LICENSE AND CIVIL PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATIONS OF THE GUN CONTROL ACT.

Subsections (e) and (f) of section 923 of title 18, United States
Code, are amended to read as follows:
''(e) The Attorney General may, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, suspend or revoke any license issued under this section, or
may subject the licensee to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000
per violation, if the holder of the license has willfully violated any
provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation prescribed by the
Attorney General under this chapter or fails to have secure gun storage
or safety devices available at any place in which firearms are sold
under the license to persons who are not licensees (except that in any
case in which a secure gun storage or safety device is temporarily
unavailable because of theft, casualty loss, consumer sales, backorders
from a manufacturer, or any other similar reason beyond the control of
the licensee, the dealer shall not be considered to be in violation of
the requirement to make available such a device). The Attorney General
may, after notice and opportunity for hearing, suspend or revoke the
license of, or assess a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 on, a
dealer who willfully transfers armor piercing ammunition. The Attorney
General may at any time compromise, mitigate, or remit the liability
with respect to any willful violation of this chapter or any rule or
regulation prescribed by the Attorney General under this chapter. The
Attorney General's actions under this subsection may be reviewed only
as provided in subsection (f).
''(f)(1) Any person whose application for a license is denied and
any holder of a license which is suspended or revoked or who is
assessed a civil penalty shall receive a written notice from the
Attorney General stating specifically the grounds upon which the
application was denied or upon which the license was suspended or
revoked or the civil penalty assessed. Any notice of a suspension or
revocation of a license shall be given to the holder of the license
before the effective date of the suspension or revocation.
''(2) If the Attorney General denies an application for a license,
or suspends or revokes a license, or assesses a civil penalty, the
Attorney General shall, upon request by the aggrieved party, promptly
hold a hearing to review the denial, suspension, revocation, or
assessment. In the case of a suspension or revocation of a license, the
Attorney General shall, on the request of the holder of the license,
stay the effective date of the suspension or revocation. A hearing
under this paragraph shall be held at a location convenient to the
aggrieved party.
''(3) If after a hearing held under paragraph (2) the Attorney
General decides not to reverse the decision to deny an application or
suspend or revoke a license or assess a civil penalty, the Attorney
General shall give notice of the decision to the aggrieved party. The
aggrieved party may at any time within 60 days after the date notice is
given under this paragraph file a petition with the United States
district court for the district in which party resides or in which the
party's principal place of business is located for a de novo judicial
review of the denial, suspension, revocation, or assessment. In a
proceeding conducted under this subsection, the court may consider any
evidence submitted by the parties to the proceeding whether or not such
evidence was considered at the hearing held under paragraph (2). If the
court decides that the Attorney General was not authorized to deny the
application or to suspend or revoke the license or to assess the civil
penalty, the court shall order the Attorney General to take such action
as may be necessary to comply with the judgment of the court.''.

SEC. 7. TERMINATION OF FIREARMS DEALER'S LICENSE UPON FELONY
CONVICTION.

Section 925(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking ''until any conviction pursuant to the indictment becomes
final'' and inserting ''until the date of any conviction pursuant to
the indictment''.

SEC. 8. HIRING AND TRAINING OF ADDITIONAL INSPECTORS FOR THE BUREAU OF
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES.

(a) Limitations on Authorization of Appropriations.--For the hiring
and training of 500 additional inspectors for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of the Department of Justice, there
are authorized to be appropriated--
(1) not more than $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and
(2) not more than $55,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005
through 2008.
(b) Availability of Appropriations.--Amounts appropriated under
subsection (a) are authorized to remain available until expended.
Output: Crackdown on Deadbeat Dealers Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to increase the number of allowed inspections for compliance with record-keeping requirements by firearms dealers to not more than three times (currently, once) during any 12-month period.Increases penalties for: (1) knowingly making false statements or furnishing false or misrepresented identification regarding any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm or ammunition; or (2) making false entries in, or failing to properly maintain, required firearms records.Authorizes the Attorney General to suspend a firearms dealer's license and to assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for firearms violations, including failure to have secure gun storage or safety devices (current penalties are limited to license revocation).Permits any licensed firearms dealer who is indicted for a felony to continue to operate until the date of conviction (currently, until the conviction becomes final).Authorizes appropriations for the hiring and training of 500 additional inspectors for the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.