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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Child welfare service providers, both individuals and
        organizations, have the inherent, fundamental, and inalienable
        right to free exercise of religion protected by the United
        States Constitution.
            (2) The right to free exercise of religion for child
        welfare service providers includes the freedom to refrain from
        conduct that conflicts with their sincerely held religious
        beliefs.
            (3) Most States provide government-funded child welfare
        services through various charitable, religious, and private
        organizations.
            (4) Religious organizations, in particular, have a lengthy
        and distinguished history of providing child welfare services
        that predates government involvement.
            (5) Religious organizations have long been and should
        continue contracting with and receiving grants from
        governmental entities to provide child welfare services.
            (6) Religious organizations cannot provide certain child
        welfare services, such as foster-care or adoption placements,
        without receiving a government contract, grant or license.
            (7) Religious organizations display particular excellence
        when providing child welfare services.
            (8) Children and families benefit greatly from the child
        welfare services provided by religious organizations.
            (9) Governmental entities and officials administering
        federally funded child welfare services in some States,
        including Massachusetts, California, Illinois, and the District
        of Columbia, have refused to contract with religious
        organizations that are unable, due to sincerely held religious
        beliefs or moral convictions, to provide a child welfare
        service that conflicts, or under circumstances that conflict,
        with those beliefs or convictions; and that refusal has forced
        many religious organizations to end their long and
        distinguished history of excellence in the provision of child
        welfare services.
            (10) Ensuring that religious organizations can continue to
        provide child welfare services will benefit the children and
        families that receive those federally funded services.
            (11) States also provide government-funded child welfare
        services through individual child welfare service providers
        with varying religious and moral convictions.
            (12) Many individual child welfare service providers
        maintain sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions
        that relate to their work and should not be forced to choose
        between their livelihood and adherence to those beliefs or
        convictions.
            (13) Because governmental entities provide child welfare
        services through many charitable, religious, and private
        organizations, each with varying religious beliefs or moral
        convictions, and through diverse individuals with varying
        religious beliefs or moral convictions, the religiously
        impelled inability of some religious organizations or
        individuals to provide certain services will not have a
        material effect on a person's ability to access federally
        funded child welfare services.
            (14) The activities of funding and administering these
        child welfare services substantially affect interstate
        commerce.
            (15) Taking adverse actions against child welfare service
        providers that are unable, due to their sincerely held
        religious beliefs or moral convictions, to provide certain
        services (or provide services under certain circumstances)
        substantially affects interstate commerce.
            (16) The provisions of this Act are remedial measures that
        are congruent and proportional to protecting the constitutional
        rights of child welfare service providers guaranteed under the
        Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
            (17) Congress has the authority to pass this Act pursuant
        to its spending clause power, commerce clause power, and
        enforcement power under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment
        to the United States Constitution.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are as follows:
            (1) To prohibit governmental entities from discriminating
        or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service
        provider on the basis that the provider declines to provide a
        child welfare service that conflicts, or under circumstances
        that conflict, with the sincerely held religious beliefs or
        moral convictions of the provider.
            (2) To protect child welfare service providers' exercise of
        religion and to ensure that governmental entities will not be
        able to force those providers, either directly or indirectly,
        to discontinue all or some of their child welfare services
        because they decline to provide a child welfare service that
        conflicts, or under circumstances that conflict, with their
        sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.
            (3) To provide relief to child welfare service providers
        whose rights have been violated.

SEC. 3. DISCRIMINATION AND ADVERSE ACTIONS PROHIBITED.

    (a) In General.--The Federal Government, and any State that
receives Federal funding for any program that provides child welfare
services under part B or E of title IV of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 621 et seq., 671 et seq.) (and any subdivision, office or
department of such State) shall not discriminate or take an adverse
action against a child welfare service provider on the basis that the
provider has declined or will decline to provide, facilitate, or refer
for a child welfare service that conflicts with, or under circumstances
that conflict with, the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or
moral convictions.
    (b) Limitation.--Subsection (a) does not apply to conduct forbidden
by paragraph (18) of section 471(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(18)).

SEC. 4. FUNDS WITHHELD FOR VIOLATION.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall withhold from a
State 15 percent of the Federal funds the State receives for a program
that provides child welfare services under part B or E of title IV of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 621 et seq., 671 et seq.) if the
State violates section 3 when administering or disbursing funds under
such program.

SEC. 5. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.

    (a) In General.--A child welfare service provider aggrieved by a
violation of section 3 may assert that violation as a claim or defense
in a judicial proceeding and obtain all appropriate relief, including
declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and compensatory damages, with
respect to that violation.
    (b) Attorneys' Fees and Costs.--A child welfare service provider
that prevails in an action by establishing a violation of section 3 is
entitled to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
    (c) Waiver of Sovereign Immunity.--By accepting or expending
Federal funds in connection with a program that provides child welfare
services under part B or E of title IV of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 621 et seq., 671 et seq.), a State waives its sovereign immunity
for any claim or defense that is raised under this section.

SEC. 6. SEVERABILITY.

    If any provision of this Act, or any application of such provision
to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the
remainder of this Act and the application of the provision to any other
person or circumstance shall not be affected.

SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the
amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st
fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this
Act, and the withholding of funds authorized by section 4 shall apply
to payments under parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 621 et seq., 671 et seq.) for calendar quarters beginning on
or after such date.
    (b) Exception.--If legislation (other than legislation
appropriating funds) is required for a governmental entity to bring
itself into compliance with this Act, the governmental entity shall not
be regarded as violating this Act before the 1st day of the 1st
calendar quarter beginning after the first regular session of the
legislative body that begins after the date of the enactment of this
Act. For purposes of the preceding sentence, if the governmental entity
has a 2-year legislative session, each year of the session is deemed to
be a separate regular session.

SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Child welfare service provider.--The term ``child
        welfare service provider'' includes organizations,
        corporations, groups, entities, or individuals that provide or
        seek to provide, or that apply for or receive a contract,
        subcontract, grant, or subgrant for the provision of, child
        welfare services. A provider need not be engaged exclusively in
        child welfare services to be considered a child welfare service
        provider for purposes of this Act.
            (2) Child welfare services.--The term ``child welfare
        services'' means social services provided to or on behalf of
        children, including assisting abused, neglected, or troubled
        children, counseling children or parents, promoting foster
        parenting, providing foster homes or temporary group shelters
        for children, recruiting foster parents, placing children in
        foster homes, licensing foster homes, promoting adoption,
        recruiting adoptive parents, assisting adoptions, supporting
        adoptive families, assisting kinship guardianships, assisting
        kinship caregivers, providing family preservation services,
        providing family support services, and providing time-limited
        family reunification services.
            (3) State.--The term ``State'' includes each of the 50
        States, the District of Columbia, any commonwealth, territory
        or possession of the United States, and any political
        subdivision thereof, and any Indian tribe, tribal organization,
        or tribal consortium that has a plan approved in accordance
        with section 479B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 679c)
        or that has a cooperative agreement or contract with one of the
        50 States for the administration or payment of funds under part
        B or E of title IV of the Social Security Act.
            (4) Funding; funded; funds.--The terms ``funding'',
        ``funded'', or ``funds'' include money paid pursuant to a
        contract, grant, voucher, or similar means.
            (5) Adverse action.--The term ``adverse action'' includes,
        but is not limited to, denying a child welfare service
        provider's application for funding, refusing to renew the
        provider's funding, canceling the provider's funding, declining
        to enter into a contract with the provider, refusing to renew a
        contract with the provider, canceling a contract with the
        provider, declining to issue a license to the provider,
        refusing to renew the provider's license, canceling the
        provider's license, terminating the provider's employment, or
        any other adverse action that materially alters the terms or
        conditions of the provider's employment, funding, contract, or
        license.

Output: Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the federal government, and any state or local government that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct), from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service provider that declines to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. The prohibition also applies to Indian tribal organizations or consortia that have an approved foster care and adoption assistance plan or that have an agreement with a state for the administration of funds under part B or part E of the SSAct. The bill bars such prohibition from applying to SSAct requirements that forbid state entities from denying or delaying adoption or foster care placements on the basis of an adoptive parent's or a child's race, color, or national origin.  The Department of Health and Human Services must withhold 15% of the federal funds that such a state, local, or tribal entity receives for such programs if the state, local, or tribal entity violates this bill.  An aggrieved child welfare service provider may assert such an adverse action violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain all appropriate relief (including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs).


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Five-Star Generals Commemorative
Coin Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the United States Army Command and General Staff
        College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (in this Act referred to as
        the ``CGSC'') has, in its many evolutionary forms, served this
        Nation consistently and well for 127 years, since its founding
        in 1881;
            (2) the CGSC has played a decisive role in the education
        and training of officers, particularly in their field grade
        years of service, in times of war and peace, since its
        establishment;
            (3) the CGSC has had a salutatory effect on many fields of
        battle by providing its officer student bodies the necessary
        skills of battle management, leadership development, and the
        most modern and effective command and staff action procedures,
        all of which have been key to this Nation's success in its many
        conflicts which, thereby, have preserved its freedoms and way
        of life;
            (4) the CGSC does not have a commemorative coin cast in
        celebrating its long and honorable history, displaying its
        heritage, and serving as a reminder to the holder of such coins
        of the service to the Nation its graduates have provided in war
        and peace;
            (5) the CGSC is the Nation's largest and oldest military
        staff college, and continues to educate officers of all
        branches of the United States Armed Forces, select members of
        civilian government, and officers from many friendly and allied
        nations from around the globe;
            (6) located squarely in the American heartland, the CGSC
        will continue to serve as a beacon of light to the proposition
        of intellectual curiosity and professional military excellence
        in the development of its students, and serve as a link to
        American citizenry grateful for the sacrifices, some in the
        fullest measure of duty and devotion to the Nation, made by its
        graduates;
            (7) the United States Army Command and General Staff
        College Foundation, Inc. (in this Act referred to as the
        ``Foundation'') is dedicated to promoting excellence in the
        faculty and students of the CGSC, and to seek new ways to
        educate and remind citizens of the capable and selfless service
        of United States military officers, and to imbue in them a
        sense of pride in those who bear the burden of military
        leadership in the Nation's wars and in times of peace;
            (8) the Foundation is a nongovernmental, member-based, and
        publicly supported nonprofit organization that is entirely
        dependent on funds from members, donations, and grants for its
        functions and supports exclusively the CGSC;
            (9) the Foundation uses funding to provide the Margin of
        Excellence to the programs and activities of the CGSC in
        support of the educational needs of the general officer corps
        of the Armed Forces, and the faculty and staff attendant
        thereto;
            (10) in 2006, the Secretary of the Army accepted the first
        Foundation gift in support of the CGSC;
            (11) the Foundation is actively engaged in the initial
        stages of its first capital campaign to support the CGSC;
            (12) the 5 Five-Star Generals who attended or taught at the
        CGSC at Fort Leavenworth are Douglas MacArthur, George C.
        Marshall, Henry ``Hap'' Arnold, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Omar
        N. Bradley;
            (13) Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army--
                    (A) was a distinguished soldier, scholar, and
                strategist who gave 61 years of service to his country;
                    (B) commanded the 42d Division in World War I, and
                later served as the Chief of the Army General Staff;
                    (C) prior to retirement, was the Military Advisor
                to the Commonwealth of the Philippines;
                    (D) in 1941, was recalled to active duty as
                Commanding General, United States Army, Far East;
                    (E) was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic
                defense of the Philippines;
                    (F) after being ordered to depart the Philippines
                by the President, inspired the world with his
                statement, ``I shall return'';
                    (G) led forces under his command to defeat those of
                the Empire of Japan;
                    (H) after accepting the Japanese surrender,
                directed the highly successful reconstruction of the
                Japanese nation, and served as the first commander of
                United Nations Forces during the Korean War; and
                    (I) son of General Arthur MacArthur, spent time as
                a child at Fort Leavenworth and taught as a Captain in
                the Field Engineering School, and served as the
                adjutant, quartermaster, and commanding officer of the
                3d Engineer Battalion (later reflagged as the 2d
                Engineer Battalion);
            (14) George C. Marshall, General of the Army--
                    (A) entered the Army from the Virginia Military
                Institute in 1902;
                    (B) during a long career of public service,
                distinguished himself as a leader, tactician,
                strategist, statesman and, truly, as the ``Organizer of
                Victory'';
                    (C) in World War I, was regarded as 1 of the most
                talented staff officers in the United States Army;
                    (D) after World War I, and after many long and
                challenging duties during the interwar years, was
                appointed United States Army Chief of the General Staff
                in 1939;
                    (E) during World War II, achieved recognition as
                one of America's greatest military leaders;
                    (F) as chief strategist of World War II, materially
                assisted in directing the Allied Powers to victory;
                    (G) in 1947, was appointed Secretary of State;
                    (H) had an outstanding career as a statesman,
                proving equal to his brilliant military career;
                    (I) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his
                conception and implementation of the European Recovery
                Program, and, subsequently, served as the Secretary of
                Defense for 1 year; and
                    (J) graduated from the United States Army School of
                the Line in 1907 and the United States Army Staff
                College in 1908, followed by instructor duty at Fort
                Leavenworth in 1909 and 1910;
            (15) Henry H. ``Hap'' Arnold, General of the Army--
                    (A) is the only officer in the history of the
                United States to earn the ranks of General of the Army
                and General of the Air Force;
                    (B) a graduate of the United States Military
                Academy at West Point in 1907 and received his pilot
                training in 1911 from the Wright brothers in Dayton,
                Ohio;
                    (C) became 1 of the Nation's strongest advocates
                for air power, and personally held numerous records and
                trophies for flying achievements, including the first
                delivery of United States mail by air, and many
                accomplishments in and from the air in the World Wars,
                particularly in World War II, were heavily influenced
                by his genius;
                    (D) as a result of his contributions, gave a third
                dimension to battles of World War II through massed air
                power, sweeping the skies of the enemy and denying to
                the enemy mobility on the ground;
                    (E) received a citation which reads in part: ``from
                conception to execution, General Arnold's leadership
                guided the mightiest air force in history''; and
                    (F) was at Fort Leavenworth as a student at the
                CGSC from 1928 through 1929;
            (16) Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army--
                    (A) in 1915, began a career of distinguished public
                service, reaching the highest positions of military and
                civil leadership in the United States;
                    (B) during World War II, as Commander in Chief,
                Allied Expeditionary Force, led the invasion of North
                Africa and the defeat of the German forces on that
                continent;
                    (C) in 1944, as Supreme Allied Commander, Allied
                Expeditionary Force, was instructed ``You will enter
                the continent of Europe, and, in conjunction with other
                United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart
                of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces'';
                    (D) in accomplishing that mission, commanded the
                largest combination of land, sea, and air forces in
                history;
                    (E) following World War II, was instrumental in the
                development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization;
                    (F) after his brilliant military career, he was
                elected 34th president of the United States;
                    (G) served at Fort Leavenworth from 1917 through
                1918 as a tactical instructor officer for a course for
                lieutenants, and in 1925 through 1926, was a student at
                the CGSC, from which he was the honor graduate of his
                class; and
            (17) Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army--
                    (A) throughout his distinguished military career,
                was recognized as an exceptional leader, tactician, and
                educator;
                    (B) as Commandant of the Infantry School, developed
                the officer candidate program, through which more than
                45,000 leaders of United States combat forces in World
                War II were commissioned;
                    (C) during World War II, successfully commanded a
                division, corps, Army, and Army Group;
                    (D) while commanding II Corps, was instrumental in
                defeating German forces in North Africa and Sicily;
                    (E) reached a peak in his successful career as a
                field commander when, as commander of the 12th Army
                Group, which contained the largest number of Americans
                to ever serve under 1 commander, he greatly assisted in
                the liberation of Europe;
                    (F) became the Army Chief of Staff in 1948 and the
                first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949;
                and
                    (G) was at Fort Leavenworth as a student at the
                CGSC, from 1928 through 1929.

SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS.

    (a) Denominations.--In recognition and celebration of the Five-Star
Generals' attendance and graduation from the CGSC, and notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in
this Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall mint and issue the
following coins:
            (1) $5 gold coins.--Not more than 100,000 $5 coins, which
        shall--
                    (A) weigh 8.359 grams;
                    (B) have a diameter of 0.850 inches; and
                    (C) contain 90 percent gold and 10 percent alloy.
            (2) $1 silver coins.--Not more than 500,000 $1 coins, which
        shall--
                    (A) weigh 26.73 grams;
                    (B) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and
                    (C) contain 90 percent silver and 10 percent
                copper.
            (3) Half dollar clad coins.--Not more than 750,000 half
        dollar coins, which shall--
                    (A) weigh 11.34 grams;
                    (B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and
                    (C) be minted to the specifications for half dollar
                coins contained in section 5112(b) of title 31, United
                States Code.
    (b) Legal Tender.--The coins minted under this Act shall be legal
tender, as provided in section 5103 of title 31, United States Code.
    (c) Numismatic Items.--For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of
title 31, United States Code, all coins minted under this Act shall be
considered to be numismatic items.

SEC. 4. DESIGN OF COINS.

    (a) Design Requirements.--
            (1) In general.--The design of the coins minted under this
        Act shall include the portraits of Generals George C. Marshall,
        Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry ``Hap'' Arnold,
        and Omar N. Bradley.
            (2) Designations and inscriptions.--On each coin minted
        under this Act, there shall be--
                    (A) a designation of the value of the coin;
                    (B) an inscription of the year ``2013''; and
                    (C) inscriptions of the words ``Liberty'', ``In God
                We Trust'', ``United States of America'', and ``E
                Pluribus Unum''.
    (b) Selection.--The design for the coins minted under this Act
shall --
            (1) be selected by the Secretary, after consultation with
        the Command and General Staff College Foundation, and the
        Commission of Fine Arts; and
            (2) be reviewed by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF COINS.

    (a) Quality of Coins.--Coins minted under this Act shall be issued
in uncirculated and proof qualities.
    (b) Mint Facilities.--For each of the 3 coins minted under this
Act, at least 1 facility shall be used to strike proof quality coins,
while at least 1 other facility shall be used to strike the
uncirculated quality coins.
    (c) Period for Issuance.--The Secretary may issue coins minted
under this Act only during the 1-year period beginning on January 1,
2013.

SEC. 6. SALE OF COINS.

    (a) Sale Price.--The coins issued under this Act shall be sold by
the Secretary at a price equal to the sum of--
            (1) the face value of the coins;
            (2) the surcharge provided in section 7(a) with respect to
        such coins; and
            (3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins (including
        labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead expenses,
        marketing, and shipping).
    (b) Bulk Sales.--The Secretary shall make bulk sales of the coins
issued under this Act at a reasonable discount.
    (c) Prepaid Orders.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary shall accept prepaid orders
        for the coins minted under this Act before the issuance of such
        coins.
            (2) Discount.--Sale prices with respect to prepaid orders
        under paragraph (1) shall be at a reasonable discount.

SEC. 7. SURCHARGES.

    (a) In General.--All sales of coins minted under this Act shall
include a surcharge as follows:
            (1) A surcharge of $35 per coin for the $5 coin.
            (2) A surcharge of $10 per coin for the $1 coin.
            (3) A surcharge of $5 per coin for the half dollar coin.
    (b) Distribution.--Subject to section 5134(f) of title 31, United
States Code, all surcharges received by the Secretary from the sale of
coins issued under this Act shall be promptly paid by the Secretary to
the Command and General Staff College Foundation to help finance their
support of the CGSC.
    (c) Audits.--The Command and General Staff College Foundation shall
be subject to the audit requirements of section 5134(f)(2) of title 31,
United States Code, with regard to the amounts received by the
Foundation under subsection (b).
    (d) Limitation.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), no surcharge may
be included with respect to the issuance under this Act of any coin
during a calendar year if, as of the time of such issuance, the
issuance of such coin would result in the number of commemorative coin
programs issued during such year to exceed the annual 2 commemorative
coin program issuance limitation under section 5112(m)(1) of title 31,
United States Code (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act).
The Secretary of the Treasury may issue guidance to carry out this
subsection.

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Five-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins in recognition of five United States Army Five-Star Generals: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry "Hap" Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Requires the design of the coins to include portraits of the generals.

Restricts the issuance of such coins to calendar 2013.

Requires specified surcharges in the sale of such coins, which shall be paid promptly to the Command and General Staff College Foundation to help finance its support of the College.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Payment Reauthorization Act
of 1994''.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF ANNUAL FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996.
    Section 503 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and
Governmental Reorganization Act (sec. 47-3406.1, D.C. Code) is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) There is authorized to be appropriated as the annual Federal
payment to the District of Columbia for fiscal year 1996
$660,000,000.''.
SEC. 3. PERFORMANCE AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
    (a) In General.--Subpart 2 of part D of title IV of the District of
Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act is
amended--
        (1) in the heading for such subpart, by striking ``Audit'' and
    inserting ``Audits and Accountability Requirements''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new section:

                ``performance and financial accountability

    ``Sec. 456. (a) Performance Accountability Plan.--
        ``(1) Submission of annual plan.--Not later than March 1 of
    each year (beginning with 1995), the Mayor shall develop and submit
    to the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of
    Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the
    Senate, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
    Representatives and the Senate, and the Comptroller General a
    performance accountability plan for all departments, agencies, and
    programs of the government of the District of Columbia for the
    subsequent fiscal year.
        ``(2) Contents of plan.--The performance accountability plan
    for a fiscal year shall contain the following:
            ``(A) A statement of measurable, objective performance
        goals established for all significant activities of the
        government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year
        (including activities funded in whole or in part by the
        District but performed in whole or in part by some other public
        or private entity) that describe an acceptable level of
        performance by the government and a superior level of
        performance by the government.
            ``(B) A description of the measures of performance to be
        used in determining whether the government has met the goals
        established under subparagraph (A) with respect to an activity
        for a fiscal year. Such measures shall analyze the quantity and
        quality of the activities involved, and shall include measures
        of program outcomes and results.
            ``(C) The title of the District of Columbia management
        employee most directly responsible for the achievement of each
        goal and the title of such employee's immediate supervisor or
        superior.
        ``(3) Description of activities subject to court order.--In
    addition to the material included in the performance accountability
    plan for a fiscal year under paragraph (2), the plan shall include
    a description of the activities of the government of the District
    of Columbia that are subject to a court order during the fiscal
    year and the requirements placed on such activities by the court
    order.
    ``(b) Performance Accountability Report.--
        ``(1) Submission of report.--Not later than March 1 of each
    year (beginning with 1997), the Mayor shall develop and submit to
    the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of
    Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the
    Senate, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
    Representatives and the Senate, and the Comptroller General a
    performance accountability report on activities of the government
    of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending on the
    previous September 30.
        ``(2) Contents of report.--The performance accountability
    report for a fiscal year shall contain the following:
            ``(A) For each goal of the performance accountability plan
        submitted under subsection (a) for the year, a statement of the
        actual level of performance achieved compared to the stated
        goal for an acceptable level of performance and the goal for a
        superior level of performance.
            ``(B) The title of the District of Columbia management
        employee most directly responsible for the achievement of each
        goal and the title of such employee's immediate supervisor or
        superior.
            ``(C) A statement of the status of any court orders
        applicable to the government of the District of Columbia during
        the year and the steps taken by the government to comply with
        such orders.
        ``(3) Evaluation of report.--The Comptroller General, in
    consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and
    Budget, shall review and evaluate each performance accountability
    report submitted under this subsection and not later than April 15
    of each year shall submit comments on such report to the Committee
    on the District of Columbia of the House of Representatives, the
    Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committees
    on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
    ``(c) Financial Accountability Plan and Report.--
        ``(1) Development and submission.--Not later than March 1 of
    each year (beginning with 1995), the Mayor shall develop and submit
    to the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of
    Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the
    Senate, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
    Representatives and the Senate, and the Comptroller General a 5-
    year financial plan for the government of the District of Columbia
    that contains a description of the steps the government will take
    to eliminate any differences between expenditures from, and
    revenues attributable to, each fund of the District of Columbia
    during the first 5 fiscal years beginning after the submission of
    the plan.
        ``(2) Report on compliance.--
            ``(A) Submission of report.--Not later than March 1 of
        every year (beginning with 1997), the Mayor shall submit a
        report to the Committee on the District of Columbia of the
        House of Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs
        of the Senate, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
        Representatives and the Senate, the Comptroller General, and
        the Director of the Congressional Budget Office on the extent
        to which the government of the District of Columbia was in
        compliance during the preceding fiscal year with the applicable
        requirements of the financial accountability plan submitted for
        such fiscal year under this subsection.
            ``(B) Evaluation of report.--The Comptroller General, in
        consultation with the Director of the Congressional Budget
        Office, shall review and evaluate the financial accountability
        compliance report submitted under subparagraph (A) and not
        later than April 15 of each year shall submit comments on such
        report to the Committee on the District of Columbia of the
        House of Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs
        of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the
        House of Representatives and the Senate.
    ``(d) Quarterly Financial Reports.--
        ``(1) Submission of quarterly financial reports.--Not later
    than fifteen days after the end of every calendar quarter
    (beginning with a report for the quarter beginning October 1,
    1994), the Mayor shall submit to the Committee on the District of
    Columbia of the House of Representatives, the Committee on
    Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Subcommittees on the
    District of Columbia of the Committees on Appropriations of the
    House of Representatives and the Senate, a report on the financial
    and budgetary status of the government of the District of Columbia
    for the previous quarter.
        ``(2) Contents of report.--Each quarterly financial report
    submitted under paragraph (1) shall include the following
    information:
            ``(A) A comparison of actual to forecasted cash receipts
        and disbursements for each month of the quarter, as presented
        in the District's fiscal year consolidated cash forecast which
        shall be supported and accompanied by cash forecasts for the
        general fund and each of the District government's other funds
        other than the capital projects fund and trust and agency
        funds.
            ``(B) A projection of the remaining months cash forecast
        for that fiscal year.
            ``(C) Explanations of (i) the differences between actual
        and forecasted cash amounts for each of the months in the
        quarter, and (ii) any changes in the remaining months forecast
        as compared to the original forecast for such months of that
        fiscal year.
            ``(D) The effect of such changes, actual and projected, on
        the total cash balance of the remaining months and for the
        fiscal year.
            ``(E) Explanations of the impact on meeting the budget, how
        the results may be reflected in a supplemental budget request,
        or how other policy decisions may be necessary which may
        require the agencies to reduce expenditures in other areas.
            ``(F) An aging of the outstanding receivables and payables,
        with an explanation of how they are reflected in the forecast
        of cash receipts and disbursements.
            ``(G) For each department or agency, the actual number of
        full-time equivalent positions, the actual number of full-time
        employees, the actual number of part-time employees, and the
        actual number of temporary employees, together with the source
        of funding for each such category of positions and
        employees.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--The table of contents of the District of
Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act is
amended--
        (1) in the item relating to subpart 2 of part D of title IV, by
    striking ``Audit'' and inserting ``Audits and Accountability
    Requirements''; and
        (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 455 the
    following new item:
``Sec. 456. Performance and financial accountability.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and
                                               President of the Senate.

Output:
Federal Payment Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to authorize $660 million to be appropriated as the Federal payment to the District of Columbia (DC) for FY 1996.
Requires the Mayor, by March 1 of each year, to develop and submit to specified congressional committees and the Comptroller General:  (1) a performance accountability plan for all departments, agencies, and programs of the DC government for the subsequent fiscal year, including a description of the activities that are subject to a court order and the requirements placed on such activities by such order; and (2) a performance accountability report on activities of DC government during the fiscal year ending the previous September 30.
Directs the Comptroller General to review and evaluate each performance accountability report and submit comments to those congressional committees.
Requires the Mayor, by March 1 of each year, to develop and submit to specified congressional committees and the Comptroller General:  (1) a five-year financial plan for the DC government that describes steps the government will take to eliminate any differences between expenditures from, and revenues attributable to, each DC fund during the first five fiscal years beginning after submission of the plan; and (2) a report on the extent to which the DC government was in compliance during the preceding fiscal year with the applicable requirements of such plan (beginning with 1997).
Directs the Comptroller General to review and evaluate the financial accountability compliance report and submit comments to such congressional committees.
Requires the Mayor to submit quarterly financial reports on the financial and budgetary status of the DC government for the previous quarter.


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entitled ``Joint Resolution to approve the
`Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
in Political Union with the United States of America', and for other
purposes'' approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), is
amended--
            (1) by adding at the end the following new sections:

``SEC. 7. LABELING OF TEXTILE FIBER PRODUCTS.

    ``(a) In General.--No textile fiber product shall have a stamp,
tag, label, or other means of identification or substitute therefor on
or affixed to the product stating `Made in USA' or otherwise stating or
implying that the product was made or assembled in the United States
unless--
            ``(1) each individual providing direct labor in production
        of such textile fiber product was paid a wage equal to or
        greater than the wage set by section 8;
            ``(2) the product was produced or manufactured in
        compliance with all Federal laws relating to labor rights and
        working conditions, including, but not limited to, the National
        Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of
        1970, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938;
            ``(3) the factory or other business concern producing or
        manufacturing the product, as certified by the Secretary of
        Labor, has full-time employees in nonmanagerial positions who
        are citizens or nationals of the United States, aliens lawfully
        admitted into the United States for permanent residence,
        citizens of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the
        Federated States of Micronesia, aliens admitted into the United
        States as refugees under section 207 of the Immigration and
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), or aliens granted asylum in
        the United States under section 208 of that Act (8 U.S.C.
        1158), in the following percentages: 25 percent within 6 months
        after the date of the enactment of this section, 50 percent
        within 1 year after such date of enactment, and 75 percent
        within 18 months after such date of enactment; and
            ``(4) the factory or other business concern producing or
        manufacturing the product does not employ individuals under
        conditions of indentured servitude.
    ``(b) Result of Noncompliance.--A textile fiber product which is
stamped, tagged, labeled, or otherwise identified in violation of
subsection (a) shall be deemed to be misbranded for purposes of the
Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (15 U.S.C. 70 et seq.).
    ``(c) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term `direct
labor' includes any work provided to prepare, assemble, process,
package, or transport a textile fiber product, but does not include
supervisory, management, security, or administrative work.

``SEC. 8. MINIMUM WAGE.

    ``Section 503(c) of the foregoing Covenant shall be construed and
applied as if it read as follows:
    ```(c) The minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act
of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), shall apply to the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, except that--
            ```(1) through December 31, 1999, the minimum wage
        applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
        shall be $3.55 per hour;
            ```(2) on January 1, 2000, and on July 1 and January 1 of
        each year thereafter, the minimum wage applicable to the
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be $0.50 per
        hour more than the minimum wage that was applicable to the
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for the preceding
        6-month period until the minimum wage applicable to the
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is equal to the
        minimum wage rate set forth in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair
        Labor Standards Act of 1938; and
            ```(3) after the minimum wage applicable to the
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is equal to the
        minimum wage rate set forth in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair
        Labor Standards Act of 1938, pursuant to paragraph (2), the
        minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern
        Mariana Islands shall increase as necessary to remain equal to
        the minimum wage rate set forth in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair
        Labor Standards Act of 1938.'

``SEC. 9. CONDITIONS FOR DUTY-FREE AND QUOTA-FREE TREATMENT.

    ``(a) Conditions.--No product of the Northern Mariana Islands may
enter the customs territory of the United States duty-free or not
subject to quota as the product of an insular possession, unless--
            ``(1) each individual providing direct labor in production
        of the product was paid a wage equal to or greater than the
        wage set by section 8;
            ``(2) the product was produced or manufactured in
        compliance with all Federal laws relating to labor rights and
        working conditions, including, but not limited to, the National
        Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of
        1970, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938;
            ``(3) the factory or other business concern producing or
        manufacturing the product, as certified by the Secretary of
        Labor, has full-time employees in nonmanagerial positions who
        are citizens or nationals of the United States, aliens lawfully
        admitted into the United States for permanent residence,
        citizens of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the
        Federated States of Micronesia, persons admitted into the
        United States under section 207 of the Immigration and
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), or aliens granted asylum in
        the United States under section 208 of that Act (8 U.S.C.
        1158), in the following percentages: 25 percent within 6 months
        after the date of the enactment of this section, 50 percent
        within 1 year after such date of enactment, and 75 percent
        within 18 months after such date of enactment;
            ``(4) the factory or other business concern producing or
        manufacturing the product does not employ individuals under
        conditions of indentured servitude; and
            ``(5) the Commissioner of Customs has certified that the
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is taking adequate
        measures--
                    ``(A) to prevent unlawful transshipment of goods
                that is carried out by rerouting, false declaration
                concerning country or place of origin, falsification of
                documents, evasion of United States rules of origin, or
                any other means; and
                    ``(B) to prevent being used as a transit point for
                the shipment of goods in violation of the Agreement on
                Textiles and Clothing referred to in section 101(d)(4)
                of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act or any other
                applicable trade agreement.
    ``(b) Penalties Against Exporters.--If the President determines,
based on sufficient evidence, that an exporter has willfully falsified
information regarding the country of origin, manufacture, processing,
or assembly of a product of the Northern Mariana Islands for which
duty-free or quota-free treatment is claimed, then the President shall
deny to such exporter, and any successors of such exporter, for a
period of 2 years, duty-free and quota-free treatment for such product.
    ``(c) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term `direct
labor' includes any work provided to prepare, assemble, process,
package, or transport a product, but does not include supervisory,
management, security, or administrative work.''; and
            (2) by adding after the new sections added by paragraph
        (1), the following new section:

``SEC. 10. APPLICABILITY OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.

    ``Section 506 of the foregoing Covenant shall be construed and
applied as if it included at the end the following subsection:
    ```(e)(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the provisions of the
Immigration and Nationality Act shall apply to the Northern Mariana
Islands as if the Northern Mariana Islands were a State (as defined in
section 101(a)(36) of such Act), and a part of the United States (as
defined in section 101(a)(38) of such Act). Such Act shall supersede
and replace all laws, provisions, or programs of the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands relating to the admission and removal of
aliens from the Northern Mariana Islands.
    ```(2)(A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) and subject to subparagraph
(C), if the Secretary of Labor, upon receipt of a joint recommendation
of the Governor and Legislature of the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, finds that exceptional circumstances exist with
respect to the inability of employers in the Northern Mariana Islands
to obtain sufficient work-authorized labor, the Attorney General may
establish a specific number of employment-based immigrant visas to be
made available during the following fiscal year under this paragraph
and section 203(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
    ```(B) Upon notification by the Attorney General that a number has
been established pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Secretary of State
may allocate up to that number of visas without regard to the numerical
limitations set forth in sections 202 and 203(b)(3)(B) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act. Visa numbers allocated under this
subparagraph shall be allocated first from the number of visas
available under section 203(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, or, if such visa numbers are not available, from the number of
visas available under section 203(b)(5) of such Act.
    ```(C) The authority of the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State under subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall expire at the end of the
4th fiscal year following the first fiscal year for which the Attorney
General establishes a number pursuant to subparagraph (A).
    ```(D) Persons granted employment-based immigrant visas under this
paragraph may be admitted initially at a port-of-entry in the Northern
Mariana Islands, or at a port-of-entry in Guam, for the purpose of
immigrating to the Northern Mariana Islands, as lawful permanent
residents of the United States.
    ```(E) Any immigrant visa issued pursuant to this paragraph shall
be valid only for application for initial admission to the Northern
Mariana Islands. The admission of any alien pursuant to such an
immigrant visa shall be an admission for lawful permanent residence and
employment only in the Northern Mariana Islands during the first 3
years after such admission. Such admission shall not authorize
permanent residence or employment in any other part of the United
States during such 3-year period. An alien admitted for permanent
residence pursuant to this paragraph shall be issued appropriate
documentation identifying the person as having been admitted pursuant
to the terms and conditions of this paragraph, and shall be required to
comply with a system for the registration and reporting of aliens
admitted for permanent residence under this subsection, to be
established by the Attorney General under chapter 7 of title II of the
Immigration and Nationality Act.
    ```(F) Nothing in this paragraph shall preclude an alien who has
obtained lawful permanent resident status pursuant to this paragraph
from applying, if otherwise eligible under this section and under the
Immigration and Nationality Act, for an immigrant visa or admission as
a lawful permanent resident under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
    ```(G) Any alien admitted under this paragraph, who violates the
provisions of this paragraph, or who is found removable or inadmissible
under section 237(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, or
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4)(A), (4)(B), (6), (7), (8), or (9) of
section 212(a) of such Act, shall be removed pursuant to chapter 4 of
title II of such Act.
    ```(H) The Attorney General may establish by regulation a procedure
by which an alien who has obtained lawful permanent resident status
pursuant to this paragraph may apply for a waiver of the limitations on
the terms and conditions of such status. The Attorney General may grant
the application for waiver, in the discretion of the Attorney General,
if: (1) the alien is not in removal proceedings, (2) the alien has been
a person of good moral character for the preceding 5 years, (3) the
alien has not violated the terms and conditions of the alien's
permanent resident status, and (4) the alien would suffer exceptional
and extremely unusual hardship were such terms and conditions not
waived.
    ```(I) The limitations on the terms and conditions of an alien's
permanent residence set forth in this paragraph shall expire at the end
of 3 years after the alien's admission to the Northern Mariana Islands
as a permanent resident and the alien is thereafter fully subject to
the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Following the
expiration of such limitations, the permanent resident alien may engage
in any lawful activity, including employment, anywhere in the United
States.
    ```(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), paragraphs (1)
and (2) shall take effect after the expiration of the 3-month period
beginning on the date of the enactment of the United States-
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act.
    ```(B) With respect to an alien who, as of the last day of the 3-
month period beginning on the date of the enactment of the United
States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act, is
authorized by the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands (pursuant
to the immigration laws of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands) to enter into and remain temporarily in the Northern Mariana
Islands in order to perform temporary service or labor in the Northern
Mariana Islands (and any relatives of the alien if, authorized to
accompany or follow to join the alien), paragraphs (1) and (2) shall
apply to the alien beginning after the earlier of the following dates:
            ```(i) The date on which such authorization expires (such
        authorization not being subject to extension or renewal by the
        Government of the Northern Mariana Islands after the expiration
        of the 3-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of
        the United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human
        Dignity Act).
            ```(ii) The date that is 2 years after the date of the
        enactment of the United States-Commonwealth of the Northern
        Marianas Human Dignity Act.
    ```(4) When deploying personnel to enforce the provisions of this
section, the Attorney General shall coordinate with, and act in
conjunction with, State and local law enforcement agencies to ensure
that such deployment does not degrade or compromise the law enforcement
capabilities and functions currently performed by immigration
officers.'.''.

SEC. 4. AUTHORITY OF CUSTOMS SERVICE TO BOARD SHIPS.

    Section 467 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1467) is amended
by striking ``or the Virgin Islands,'' each place it appears and
inserting ``, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands,''.

SEC. 5. STUDY; REPORT.

    (a) Study.--A study shall be conducted of the extent of human
rights violations and labor rights violations in the Northern Mariana
Islands, including the use of forced or indentured labor, and any
efforts being taken by the Government of the United States or the
Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to address or prohibit such
violations.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall transmit to the
Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on the
results of the study required by subsection (a).
    (c) Consultation.--Appropriate local government officials, law
enforcement agencies, and nongovernmental organizations active in
instituting and protecting human and labor rights may be consulted when
conducting the study and preparing the report required by this section.

SEC. 6. EFFECT ON OTHER LAW.

    The provisions of the amendments made by paragraph (1) of section 3
shall be in addition to, but shall not otherwise modify, the
requirements of the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (15
U.S.C. 70 et seq.).

SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATES.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the
amendments made by this Act shall take effect 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Immigration.--
            (1) In general.--The amendment made by paragraph (2) of
        section 3 shall take effect after the expiration of the 3-month
        period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Exception.--With respect to an alien who, as of the
        last day of the 3-month period beginning on the date of the
        enactment of this Act, is authorized by the Government of the
        Northern Mariana Islands (pursuant to the immigration laws of
        the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) to enter into
        and remain temporarily in the Northern Mariana Islands in order
        to perform temporary service or labor in the Northern Mariana
        Islands (and any relatives of the alien if, authorized to
        accompany or follow to join the alien), such amendment shall
        apply to the alien beginning after the earlier of the following
        dates:
                    (A) The date on which such authorization expires
                (such authorization not being subject to extension or
                renewal by the Government of the Northern Mariana
                Islands after the expiration of the 3-month period
                beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act).
                    (B) The date that is 2 years after the date of the
                enactment of this Act.

SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Output:
United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act - Amends Federal law to prohibit the affixation of the "Made in the USA" label to a textile fiber product from the Northern Mariana Islands unless: (1) each worker producing such product was paid a minimum wage equal to or greater than a specified amount; (2) the product was manufactured in compliance with all Federal labor laws, including, but not limited to, the National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; (3) the factory or other business producing the product has full-time employees in nonmanagerial positions who are U.S. citizens or nationals, aliens lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence, citizens of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia, aliens admitted into the United States as refugees, or aliens granted asylum in the United States, in specified percentages; and (4) the factory or other business producing the product does not employ individuals under conditions of indentured servitude.
(Sec. 3) Applies to the Northern Mariana Islands: (1) the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as modified by this Act (requires a minimum wage through December 31, 1999, of $3.55 per hour, adjusted semiannually thereafter in $.50 increments until it equals the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938); and (2) the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Prohibits any product of the Northern Mariana Islands from entering the customs territory of the United States duty-free or not subject to quota as a product of an insular possession unless specified requirements relating to fair labor practices and country of origin are met.  Requires the President, for a two-year period, to deny an exporter duty-free and quota-free treatment if it is determined that such exporter has willfully falsified information regarding the country of origin of a product of the Northern Mariana Islands for which such treatment is claimed.
(Sec. 4) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize the inspection by the Customs Service of any vessel from a foreign port or from a place in any U.S. territory or possession arriving at a port or place in the Northern Mariana Islands (currently, the United States or the Virgin Islands)
(Sec. 5) Requires a study of the extent of human and labor rights violations in the Northern Mariana Islands, including any efforts being taken by the united States or the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to address or prohibit such violations.  Requires a report on the results of the study to specified congressional committees.
(Sec. 8) Authorizes appropriations.


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SECTION 1. REDUCTION OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP VOTING INTEREST OWNERSHIP
              REQUIREMENT.

    Title IV of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. App. 1371-
1389) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 420. REDUCTION OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP VOTING INTEREST OWNERSHIP
              REQUIREMENT.

    ``(a) General Rule.--Notwithstanding the requirement of section
101(16) of this Act that at least 75 percent of the voting interests of
an air carrier be owned or controlled by persons who are citizens of
the United States or of one of its possessions, a person who is not a
citizen of the United States may purchase voting interests of a
corporation or association which is, or owns or controls, an air
carrier without regard to whether or not such purchase would result in
the corporation or association failing to meet such voting interest
requirement of section 101(16) if the Secretary of Transportation finds
that--
            ``(1) after the purchase--
                    ``(A) the president, chairman of the board of
                directors, chief operating officer, and two-thirds or
                more of the board of directors of the corporation or
                association which is, or owns or controls, the air
                carrier would be citizens of the United States or one
                of its possessions; and
                    ``(B) at least 51 percent of the voting interests
                of the air carrier would be owned or controlled by
                persons who are citizens of the United States or one of
                its possessions; and
            ``(2) the purchase is in the public interest.
    ``(b) Factors to Consider for Public Interest Finding.--The
Secretary, in making the finding required by subsection (a)(2), shall
consider the following:
            ``(1) The financial condition of the air carrier and the
        importance of the purchase to the carrier's ability to survive
        and effectively compete.
            ``(2) The effect of the purchase on the employees of the
        air carrier.
            ``(3) The effect of the purchase on competition in
        interstate, overseas, and foreign air transportation.
            ``(4) Whether the laws and regulations of the foreign
        country of which the purchaser is a citizen would permit a
        citizen of the United States to acquire, under similar terms
        and conditions, the same percentage of stock of a person who
        provides in such foreign country transportation by aircraft of
        persons or property as a common carrier as the percentage of
        stock which the person making the purchase would have in the
        air carrier after the purchase.
            ``(5) The extent to which the purchaser is owned,
        controlled, or subsidized by a government of a foreign country.
            ``(6) The extent to which a person who is not a citizen of
        the United States or one of its possessions would, after the
        purchase, have the power to exercise control over the air
        carrier.
            ``(7) The extent to which the foreign country of which the
        purchaser is a citizen permits air carriers to have access to
        its aviation markets equivalent to the access that the foreign
        citizen would have to the aviation markets of the United States
        after the purchase.
    ``(c) Application.--
            ``(1) Submission.--A person interested in making a purchase
        with respect to which subsection (a) applies must submit an
        application with respect to such purchase to the Secretary. The
        application must be in such form and contain such information
        as the Secretary may, by regulation, require.
            ``(2) Approval or disapproval.--Within 90 days after an
        application meeting the requirements of paragraph (1) and any
        regulations issued thereunder is submitted to the Secretary,
        the Secretary shall approve the application, approve the
        application subject to such conditions or modifications as the
        Secretary determines appropriate to carry out the objectives of
        this section, or disapprove the application.
            ``(3) Presidential review.--
                    ``(A) Presentation.--The approval, with or without
                conditions or modifications, of any application under
                this section shall be presented to the President for
                review.
                    ``(B) Disapproval; conditions.--The President shall
                have the right to disapprove or impose conditions on
                the application solely on the basis of national defense
                considerations including the effect of the purchase on
                the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program. Any such
                disapproval or conditions shall be issued in a public
                document, setting forth the reasons for the disapproval
                or conditions to the extent national security permits,
                within 30 days after submission of the Secretary's
                action to the President.
                    ``(C) Effect of disapproval.--Any action of the
                Secretary disapproved by the President under this
                paragraph shall be null and void.
                    ``(D) Effect of expiration of time limit; judicial
                review.--Any action of the Secretary not disapproved
                within the 30-day period referred to in subparagraph
                (B) shall take effect as an action of the Secretary,
                not the President, and as such shall be subject to
                judicial review as provided in section 1006 of this
                Act.''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    The table of contents contained in the first section of the Federal
Aviation Act of 1958 is amended by adding at the end of the matter
relating to title IV of such Act the following:

``Sec. 420. Reduction of U.S. citizenship voting interest ownership
                            requirement.
                                  ``(a) General rule.
                                  ``(b) Factors to consider for public
                                        interest finding.
                                  ``(c) Application.''.

Output: Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize foreign persons to purchase more than a specified percentage of the voting interests of a U.S. air carrier.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Freedom to Invest Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY DIVIDENDS RECEIVED DEDUCTION ALLOWED FOR 2011 OR
              2012.

    (a) Election.--Subsection (f) of section 965 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to election) is amended to read as
follows:
    ``(f) Election.--The taxpayer may elect to apply this section to--
            ``(1) the taxpayer's last taxable year which begins before
        the date of the enactment of this subsection, or
            ``(2) the taxpayer's first taxable year which begins during
        the 1-year period beginning on such date.
Such election may be made for a taxable year only if made on or before
the due date (including extensions) for filing the return of tax for
such taxable year.''.
    (b) Limitation.--Paragraph (1) of section 965(b) of such Code is
amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--The amount of dividends taken into
        account under subsection (a) shall not exceed the sum of the
        current and accumulated earnings and profits described in
        section 959(c)(3) for the year a deduction is claimed under
        subsection (a), without diminution by reason of any
        distributions made during the election year, for all controlled
        foreign corporations of the United States shareholder.''.
    (c) Failure To Maintain Employment Levels.--Paragraph (4) of
section 965(b) of such Code (relating to limitations) is amended to
read as follows:
            ``(4) Reduction in benefits for failure to maintain
        employment levels.--
                    ``(A) In general.--If, during the period consisting
                of the calendar month in which the taxpayer first
                receives a distribution described in subsection (a)(1)
                and the succeeding 23 calendar months, the taxpayer
                does not maintain an average employment level at least
                equal to the taxpayer's prior average employment, an
                additional amount equal to $25,000 multiplied by the
                number of employees by which the taxpayer's average
                employment level during such period falls below the
                prior average employment (but not exceeding the
                aggregate amount allowed as a deduction pursuant to
                subsection (a)(1)) shall be taken into income by the
                taxpayer during the taxable year that includes the
                final day of such period.
                    ``(B) Average employment level.--For purposes of
                this paragraph, the taxpayer's average employment level
                for a period shall be the average number of full-time
                United States employees of the taxpayer, measured at
                the end of each month during the period.
                    ``(C) Prior average employment.--For purposes of
                this paragraph, the taxpayer's `prior average
                employment' shall be the average number of full-time
                United States employees of the taxpayer during the
                period consisting of the 24 calendar months immediately
                preceding the calendar month in which the taxpayer
                first receives a distribution described in subsection
                (a)(1).
                    ``(D) Full-time united states employee.--For
                purposes of this paragraph--
                            ``(i) In general.--The term `full-time
                        United States employee' means an individual who
                        provides services in the United States as a
                        full-time employee, based on the employer's
                        standards and practices; except that regardless
                        of the employer's classification of the
                        employee, an employee whose normal schedule is
                        40 hours or more per week is considered a full-
                        time employee.
                            ``(ii) Exception for changes in ownership
                        of trades or businesses.--Such term does not
                        include--
                                    ``(I) any individual who was an
                                employee, on the date of acquisition,
                                of any trade or business acquired by
                                the taxpayer during the 24-month period
                                referred to in subparagraph (A); and
                                    ``(II) any individual who was an
                                employee of any trade or business
                                disposed of by the taxpayer during the
                                24-month period referred to in
                                subparagraph (A) or the 24-month period
                                referred to in subparagraph (C).
                    ``(E) Aggregation rules.--In determining the
                taxpayer's average employment level and prior average
                employment, all domestic members of a controlled group
                shall be treated as a single taxpayer.''.
    (d) Threshold Period.--Section 965 of such Code is amended by
striking ``June 30, 2003'' each place it occurs and inserting ``June
30, 2010''.
    (e) Base Period.--Paragraph (2) of subsection 965(c) of such Code
is amended by inserting at the end of subparagraph (A) the following
flush sentence: ``For purposes of this paragraph, taxable years shall
not include any year for which an election under section 965 was in
effect.''.
    (f) Indebtedness Determination Date.--Subparagraph (B) of section
965(b)(3) of such Code is amended by striking ``October 3, 2004'' and
inserting ``January 19, 2011''.
    (g) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Subsection 965(c) of such Code, as amended by
        subsection (e), is amended by striking paragraph (1) and
        redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs
        (1), (2), (3), and (4), respectively.
            (2) Paragraph 965(c)(4) of such Code, as redesignated by
        paragraph (1), is amended to read as follows:
            ``(4) Controlled groups.--All United States shareholders
        which are members of an affiliated group filing a consolidated
        return under section 1501 shall be treated as one United States
        shareholder.''.
    (h) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to taxable years ending on or after the date of the enactment of
this Act.

Output: Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the election allowed to a U.S. corporation to deduct dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation to the corporation's last taxable year beginning before the enactment of this Act or the first taxable year beginning during the one-year period beginning on such enactment date, and (2) reduce the amount of such tax deduction for corporations that fail to maintain specified employment levels for full-time U.S. employees.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Belated Thank You to the Merchant
Mariners of World War II Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. MONTHLY BENEFIT FOR WORLD WAR II MERCHANT MARINERS AND
              SURVIVORS UNDER TITLE 46, UNITED STATES CODE.

    (a) Monthly Benefit.--Chapter 112 of title 46, United States Code,
is amended--
            (1) by inserting after the table of sections the following
        new subchapter heading:

      ``SUBCHAPTER I--BURIAL AND CEMETERY BENEFITS FOR VETERANS'';

and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subchapter:

                    ``SUBCHAPTER II--MONTHLY BENEFIT

``Sec. 11211. Monthly benefit
    ``(a) Payment.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall pay to each
individual issued a certificate of honorable service pursuant to
section 11213(b) of this title a monthly benefit of $1,000.
    ``(b) Surviving Spouses.--
            ``(1) Payment to surviving spouses.--Subject to paragraph
        (2), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall pay to the
        surviving spouse of each individual issued a certificate of
        honorable service pursuant to section 11213(b) of this title a
        monthly benefit of $1,000.
            ``(2) Exclusion.--No benefit shall be paid under paragraph
        (1) to a surviving spouse of an individual issued a certificate
        of honorable service pursuant to section 11213(b) unless the
        surviving spouse was married to such individual for not less
        than one year.
    ``(c) Retroactive Eligibility for Benefits.--The Secretary of
Veterans Affairs shall pay--
            ``(1) to each individual issued a certificate of honorable
        service under to section 11213(b) of this title the monthly
        benefit described in subsection (a) as if such individual had
        received such certificate of honorable service on the date of
        the enactment of the Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners
        of World War II Act of 2007; and
            ``(2) to each surviving spouse issued a certificate of
        honorable service on behalf of a deceased individual under
        section 11213(e) of this title the monthly benefit described in
        subsection (b)(1) as if such surviving spouse had received such
        certificate of honorable service on the date of the enactment
        of Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II
        Act of 2007.
    ``(d) Exemption From Taxation.--Payments of benefits under this
section are exempt from taxation as provided in section 5301(a) of
title 38.
``Sec. 11212. Qualified service
    ``For purposes of this subchapter, an individual shall be
considered to have engaged in qualified service if, between December 7,
1941 and December 31, 1946, the individual--
            ``(1) was a member of the United States merchant marine
        (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport
        Service) serving as a crewmember of a vessel that was--
                    ``(A) operated by the War Shipping Administration
                or the Office of Defense Transportation (or an agent of
                such Administration or Office);
                    ``(B) operated in waters other than--
                            ``(i) inland waters;
                            ``(ii) the Great Lakes; and
                            ``(iii) other lakes, bays, and harbors of
                        the United States;
                    ``(C) under contract or charter to, or property of,
                the Government of the United States; and
                    ``(D) serving the Armed Forces; and
            ``(2) while serving as described in paragraph (1), was
        licensed or otherwise documented for service as a crewmember of
        such a vessel by an officer or employee of the United States
        authorized to license or document the person for such service.
``Sec. 11213. Certificate of honorable service
    ``(a) Application for Service Certificate.--An individual seeking
benefits under section 11211 of this title shall submit an application
for a certificate of honorable service--
            ``(1) to the Secretary of Transportation; or
            ``(2) in the case of an individual who was a member of the
        Army Transport Service or the Naval Transport Service, to the
        Secretary of Defense.
    ``(b) Issuance of Service Certificate.--The Secretary who receives
an application under subsection (a) shall issue a certificate of
honorable service to the applicant if, as determined by that Secretary,
the individual engaged in qualified service described in section 11212
of this title and meets the standards referred to in subsection (d) of
this section.
    ``(c) Timing for Certification.--A Secretary receiving an
application under subsection (a) shall act on the application not later
than one year after the date of that receipt.
    ``(d) Standards Relating to Service.--In making a determination
under subsection (b), the Secretary acting on the application shall
apply the same standards relating to the nature and duration of service
that apply to the issuance of a discharge from service under honorable
conditions under section 401(a)(1)(B) of the GI Bill Improvement Act of
1977 (Public Law 95-202; 38 U.S.C. 106 note).
    ``(e) Surviving Spouses.--The surviving spouse of a deceased
individual who engaged in qualifying service described in section 11212
may submit an application for a certificate of honorable service under
subsection (a) and be issued such a certificate on behalf of such
individual under subsection (b) for the purpose of receiving benefits
under section 11211(b) of this title.
``Sec. 11214. Surviving spouse defined
    ``In this subchapter, the term `surviving spouse' has the meaning
given such term in section 101 of title 38, except that in applying the
meaning in this subchapter, the term `veteran' means an individual who
performed qualified service described in section 11212 of this title.
``Sec. 11215. Authorization of appropriations
    ``There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of
carrying out this subchapter.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Subsection (c) of section 11201 of
title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``chapter'' and inserting
        ``subchapter''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``this chapter'' both
        places it appears and inserting ``this subchapter''.
    (c) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 112 of title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting at the beginning the following new item:

      ``subchapter i--burial and cemetery benefits for veterans'';

and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

                    ``subchapter ii--monthly benefit

``11211. Monthly benefit.
``11212. Qualified service.
``11213. Certificate of honorable service.
``11214. Surviving spouse defined.
``11215. Authorization of appropriations.''.

Output: Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly benefit of $1,000 to certain honorably-discharged veterans of the U.S. Merchant Marine who served between December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946 (or to their survivors). Includes service in the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service. Exempts from taxation benefits paid under this Act.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Regulatory Review Act
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) a vibrant and growing small business sector is critical
        to creating jobs in a dynamic economy;
            (2) uniform Federal regulatory and reporting requirements
        in many instances have imposed on small business concerns and
        other small entities unnecessary and disproportionately
        burdensome demands, including legal, accounting, and consulting
        costs;
            (3) since 1980, under chapter 6 of title 5, United States
        Code (commonly known as the ``Regulatory Flexibility Act''),
        Federal agencies have been required to recognize and take
        account of the differences in the scale and resources of
        regulated entities, but have failed to do so;
            (4) a recent report prepared for the Office of Advocacy of
        the Small Business Administration found that in 2004, the per-
        employee cost of Federal regulations for firms with fewer than
        20 employees was $7,647, 44.8 percent more than the $5,282 per-
        employee cost faced by businesses with 500 or more workers;
            (5) Federal agencies have failed to analyze and uncover
        less costly alternative regulatory approaches, despite the fact
        that the Regulatory Flexibility Act requires them to do so; and
            (6) the regulatory playing field for small business
        concerns should be leveled, making it easier for them to comply
        with complex regulations.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``Board'' means the Public Company Accounting
        Oversight Board established under section 101 of the Sarbanes-
        Oxley Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7211);
            (2) the term ``Commission'' means the Securities and
        Exchange Commission; and
            (3) the term ``small business concern'' has the same
        meaning as in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
        632).

SEC. 4. REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS REQUIRED.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, before the Commission
approves any final rule of the Board in accordance with section 107(b)
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7217(b)), the Commission
shall conduct and complete an analysis of such rule in accordance with
section 604 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 5. SMALL BUSINESS COMPLIANCE GUIDE REQUIRED.

    The Commission shall publish the small business compliance guide,
as required by section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) on the same date as the date
of publication of the final rule (or as soon as possible after that
date) issued to carry out section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(15 U.S.C. 7262).

SEC. 6. STUDY AND REPORT ON EFFECTS ON SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.

    (a) Assessment of Effects on Small Business.--
            (1) In general.--Two years after the date on which final
        rules are published by the Board to carry out section 404 of
        the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7262), the
        Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an
        assessment of the impact on small business concerns of such
        rules and prepare a report on such assessment.
            (2) Content.--The assessment and report required by this
        section shall--
                    (A) quantify how both the regulatory requirements
                of the Commission and the auditing requirements of the
                Board are affecting small business concerns;
                    (B) be modeled on the investigation of the Advisory
                Committee on Smaller Public Companies of the Commission
                into the regulatory burdens posed by the rules of the
                Commission;
                    (C) include an assessment of the costs and time
                commitments imposed on small business concerns by the
                requirements of the Commission and the Board, and an
                estimate of whether or not such costs of compliance are
                expected to decrease or increase in the future;
                    (D) document how the Commission and the Board
                worked together, since issuing the final compliance
                guide described in section 5, to help small business
                concerns comply with their regulatory requirements; and
                    (E) include recommendations and regulatory
                alternatives on how to simplify or improve the process
                of compliance with Commission and Board requirements
                for small business concerns.
    (b) Availability of Report.--Upon completion of the report required
by this section, such report shall be--
            (1) submitted to the Committee on Small Business and
        Entrepreneurship of the Senate, the Committee on Small Business
        of the House of Representatives, and the Small Business
        Administration; and
            (2) made available to the public.

Output:
Small Business Regulatory Review Act of 2007 - Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), before approving any final rule of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (established under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), to conduct and complete a regulatory flexibility analysis of such rule.

Requires the SEC to publish the small business compliance guide (as required under the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996) on the same date as the publication of the final rule issued to carry out a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act concerning management of internal controls for financial reporting.

Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an assessment of the impact on small businesses of such rules.