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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``FERS Buyback Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. CREDITABILITY OF SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 8411(b) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (3);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) subject to section 8411(i), service as a temporary or
        intermittent employee not otherwise creditable for purposes of
        this chapter, performed after December 31, 1988, and before
        January 1, 1997, of at least 1 year's duration (whether
        performed over a continuous period or otherwise), but only if
        the individual performing such service later becomes subject to
        this chapter, and such service is not credited for purposes of
        any benefit under any other retirement system established by a
        law of the United States (disregarding the Social Security Act
        and chapter 83 of this title).''.
    (b) Deposit Requirement.--Section 8411 of title 5, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i)(1) An employee or Member shall, with respect to any service
described in subsection (b)(5) performed by such employee or Member, be
required to deposit to the credit of the Fund an amount equal to 1.3
percent of basic pay for such service.
    ``(2) Any deposit under paragraph (1) made more than 5 years after
the later of--
            ``(A) October 1, 1997, or
            ``(B) the date on which the employee or Member making the
        deposit first becomes an employee or Member following the
        period of temporary or intermittent service for which such
        deposit is due,
shall include interest on such amount, computed in the manner described
in subsection (f)(3) and compounded annually beginning on the date of
the expiration of the 5-year period.
    ``(3) If the deposit under paragraph (1) is not made or if less
than the entire amount of such deposit is made--
            ``(A) service of the employee or Member described in
        subsection (b)(5) shall be fully creditable; but
            ``(B) any annuity under this chapter based on the service
        of such employee or Member shall be reduced in a manner similar
        to that described in section 8418(b).''.

SEC. 3. PROVISIONS RELATING TO PERSONS WHO HAVE SEPARATED.

    (a) In General.--The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe
regulations under which credit for service, as described in section
8411(b)(5) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by this Act,
which was performed by an individual who has separated from Government
service may be obtained.
    (b) Requirements.--Under the regulations, credit shall not be given
under this section unless appropriate written application is submitted,
not later than December 31, 1999, in such form and manner as the
regulations require.
    (c) Recomputation of Annuity.--
            (1) In general.--Any annuity or survivor annuity payable as
        of when an application under this subsection is submitted shall
        be recomputed to take into account any service described in
        section 8411(b)(5) of title 5, United States Code (performed by
        the individual on whose service the annuity is based),
        effective with respect to amounts accruing for months beginning
        more than 30 days after the date on which such application is
        submitted.
            (2) Condition.--If the full amount of the deposit required
        under section 8411(i) of such title 5 is not timely made
        (before such deadline as the Office shall by regulation
        prescribe) with respect to any service as to which the
        application under paragraph (1) relates, an appropriate
        reduction shall be made in the recomputed annuity in accordance
        with paragraph (3) of such section 8411(i). Interest shall not
        be included as part of any deposit under this subsection.

SEC. 4. NOTIFICATION AND OTHER DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
              MANAGEMENT.

    (a) Notice.--The Office of Personnel Management shall take such
action as may be necessary and appropriate to inform individuals of any
rights they might have as a result of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Assistance.--The Office shall, on request, assist any
individual in obtaining from any department, agency, or other
instrumentality of the United States any information in the possession
of such instrumentality which may be necessary to verify the
entitlement of such individual to have any service credited under
section 8411(b)(5) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by this
Act, or to have an annuity recomputed under section 3(c).
    (c) Information.--Any department, agency, or other instrumentality
of the United States which possesses any information with respect to an
individual's performance of any service described in such section
8411(b)(5) shall, at the request of the Office, furnish such
information to the Office.

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FERS Buyback Act of 1997 - Amends Federal law concerning government organization and employees to make certain temporary Federal service creditable for retirement purposes.
Sets forth provisions relating to persons who have separated from Government service.


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SECTION 1. TRAUMATIC INJURY PROTECTION.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 1965, by adding at the end the following:
            ``(11) The term `activities of daily living' means the
        inability to independently perform 2 of the 6 following
        functions:
                    ``(A) Bathing.
                    ``(B) Continence.
                    ``(C) Dressing.
                    ``(D) Eating.
                    ``(E) Toileting.
                    ``(F) Transferring.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1980A. Traumatic injury protection
    ``(a) A member who is insured under subparagraph (A)(i), (B), or
(C)(i) of section 1967(a)(1) shall automatically be issued a traumatic
injury protection rider that will provide for a payment not to exceed
$100,000 if the member, while so insured, sustains a traumatic injury
that results in a loss described in subsection (b)(1). The maximum
amount payable for all injuries resulting from the same traumatic event
shall be limited to $100,000. If a member suffers more than 1 such loss
as a result of traumatic injury, payment will be made in accordance
with the schedule in subsection (d) for the single loss providing the
highest payment.
    ``(b)(1) A member who is issued a traumatic injury protection rider
under subsection (a) is insured against--
            ``(A) total and permanent loss of sight;
            ``(B) loss of a hand or foot by severance at or above the
        wrist or ankle;
            ``(C) total and permanent loss of speech;
            ``(D) total and permanent loss of hearing in both ears;
            ``(E) loss of thumb and index finger of the same hand by
        severance at or above the metacarpophalangeal joints;
            ``(F) quadriplegia, paraplegia, or hemiplegia;
            ``(G) burns greater than second degree, covering 30 percent
        of the body or 30 percent of the face; and
            ``(H) coma or the inability to carry out the activities of
        daily living resulting from traumatic injury to the brain.
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `quadriplegia' means the complete and
        irreversible paralysis of all 4 limbs;
            ``(B) the term `paraplegia' means the complete and
        irreversible paralysis of both lower limbs; and
            ``(C) the term `hemiplegia' means the complete and
        irreversible paralysis of the upper and lower limbs on 1 side
        of the body.
    ``(3) In no case will a member be covered against loss resulting
from--
            ``(A) attempted suicide, while sane or insane;
            ``(B) an intentionally self-inflicted injury or any attempt
        to inflict such an injury;
            ``(C) illness, whether the loss results directly or
        indirectly;
            ``(D) medical or surgical treatment of illness, whether the
        loss results directly or indirectly;
            ``(E) any infection other than--
                    ``(i) a pyogenic infection resulting from a cut or
                wound; or
                    ``(ii) a bacterial infection resulting from
                ingestion of a contaminated substance;
            ``(F) the commission of or attempt to commit a felony;
            ``(G) being legally intoxicated or under the influence of
        any narcotic unless administered or consumed on the advice of a
        physician; or
            ``(H) willful misconduct as determined by a military court,
        civilian court, or administrative body.
    ``(c) A payment under this section may be made only if--
            ``(1) the member is insured under Servicemembers' Group
        Life Insurance when the traumatic injury is sustained;
            ``(2) the loss results directly from that traumatic injury
        and from no other cause; and
            ``(3) the member suffers the loss not later than 90 days
        after sustaining the traumatic injury, except, if the loss is
        quadriplegia, paraplegia, or hemiplegia, the member suffers the
        loss not later than 365 days after sustaining the traumatic
        injury.
    ``(d) Payments under this section for losses described in
subsection (b)(1) will be made in accordance with the following
schedule:
            ``(1) Loss of both hands, $100,000.
            ``(2) Loss of both feet, $100,000.
            ``(3) Inability to carry out activities of daily living
        resulting from traumatic brain injury, $100,000.
            ``(4) Burns greater than second degree, covering 30 percent
        of the body or 30 percent of the face, $100,000.
            ``(5) Loss of sight in both eyes, $100,000.
            ``(6) Loss of 1 hand and 1 foot, $100,000.
            ``(7) Loss of 1 hand and sight of 1 eye, $100,000.
            ``(8) Loss of 1 foot and sight of 1 eye, $100,000.
            ``(9) Loss of speech and hearing in 1 ear, $100,000.
            ``(10) Total and permanent loss of hearing in both ears,
        $100,000.
            ``(11) Quadriplegia, $100,000.
            ``(12) Paraplegia, $75,000.
            ``(13) Loss of 1 hand, $50,000.
            ``(14) Loss of 1 foot, $50,000.
            ``(15) Loss of sight one eye, $50,000.
            ``(16) Total and permanent loss of speech, $50,000.
            ``(17) Loss of hearing in 1 ear, $50,000.
            ``(18) Hemiplegia, $50,000.
            ``(19) Loss of thumb and index finger of the same hand,
        $25,000.
            ``(20) Coma resulting from traumatic brain injury, $50,000
        at time of claim and $50,000 at end of 6-month period.
    ``(e)(1) During any period in which a member is insured under this
section and the member is on active duty, there shall be deducted each
month from the member's basic or other pay until separation or release
from active duty an amount determined by the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs as the premium allocable to the pay period for providing
traumatic injury protection under this section (which shall be the same
for all such members) as the share of the cost attributable to provided
coverage under this section, less any costs traceable to the extra
hazards of such duty in the uniformed services.
    ``(2) During any month in which a member is assigned to the Ready
Reserve of a uniformed service under conditions which meet the
qualifications set forth in section 1965(5)(B) of this title and is
insured under a policy of insurance purchased by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs under section 1966 of this title, there shall be
contributed from the appropriation made for active duty pay of the
uniformed service concerned an amount determined by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs (which shall be the same for all such members) as the
share of the cost attributable to provided coverage under this section,
less any costs traceable to the extra hazards of such duty in the
uniformed services. Any amounts so contributed on behalf of any member
shall be collected by the Secretary of the concerned service from such
member (by deduction from pay or otherwise) and shall be credited to
the appropriation from which such contribution was made in advance on a
monthly basis.
    ``(3) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall determine the premium
amounts to be charged for traumatic injury protection coverage provided
under this section.
    ``(4) The premium amounts shall be determined on the basis of sound
actuarial principles and shall include an amount necessary to cover the
administrative costs to the insurer or insurers providing such
insurance.
    ``(5) Each premium rate for the first policy year shall be
continued for subsequent policy years, except that the rate may be
adjusted for any such subsequent policy year on the basis of the
experience under the policy, as determined by the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs in advance of that policy year.
    ``(6) The cost attributable to insuring such member under this
section, less the premiums deducted from the pay of the member's
uniformed service, shall be paid by the Secretary of Defense to the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This amount shall be paid on a monthly
basis, and shall be due within 10 days of the notice provided by the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to the Secretary of the concerned
uniformed service.
    ``(7) The Secretary of Defense shall provide the amount of
appropriations required to pay expected claims in a policy year, as
determined according to sound actuarial principles by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.
    ``(8) The Secretary of Defense shall forward an amount to the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs that is equivalent to half the
anticipated cost of claims for the current fiscal year, upon the
effective date of this legislation.
    ``(f) The Secretary of Defense shall certify whether any member
claiming the benefit under this section is eligible.
    ``(g) Payment for a loss resulting from traumatic injury will not
be made if the member dies not more than 7 days after the date of the
injury. If the member dies before payment to the member can be made,
the payment will be made according to the member's most current
beneficiary designation under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, or
a by law designation, if applicable.
    ``(h) Coverage for loss resulting from traumatic injury provided
under this section shall cease at midnight on the date of the member's
separation from the uniformed service. Payment will not be made for any
loss resulting from injury incurred after the date a member is
separated from the uniformed services.
    ``(i) Insurance coverage provided under this section is not
convertible to Veterans' Group Life Insurance.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 19 of
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item
relating to section 1980 the following:

        ``1980A. Traumatic injury protection.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect on the first day
of the first month beginning more than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act.

Output:
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to require that a member insured under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program be automatically issued a traumatic injury protection rider that will provide a payment of up to $100,000 per event if the member, while so insured, sustains a traumatic injury that results in: (1) a loss of sight, limbs, movement, speech, or hearing; (2) certain burns; or (3) a coma or the inability to carry out certain daily living activities. Provides coverage exceptions, including attempted suicide or self-inflicted injury, committing or attempting to commit a felony, being legally intoxicated, or willful misconduct. Provides specific payment amounts with respect to each type of injury or loss.

Requires the payment, while a member is serving on active or reserve duty, of premiums for such additional coverage.

Terminates such coverage upon separation from the Armed Forces.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Help Extract Animals from Red Tape
Act of 2016'' or the ``HEART Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. REDUCED NOTICE PERIOD.

    Section 983(a)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(vi) With respect to an animal seized
                        under section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act or
                        under section 1955 of this title, clauses (i),
                        (ii), (iii), and (v), shall be applied by
                        substituting `30-days' for `60-days'.''.

SEC. 3. BOND HEARING PROCEDURES.

    Section 983(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:
            ``(5)(A) If an animal is seized under section 26 of the
        Animal Welfare Act or under section 1955 of this title, the
        Government may, not later than 21 days after a claim is filed
        under paragraph (2) or (4), petition in United States district
        court for a bond hearing relating to that claim. Upon filing
        the petition, the Government shall give the person claiming an
        interest in the animal actual notice of the hearing. The court
        shall, except upon good cause shown, commence that hearing not
        later than 15 days after the date that the person receives the
        notice required under this subparagraph.
            ``(B) Not later than 5 days prior to the hearing date, the
        Government shall provide an accounting of the costs already
        incurred, and the estimated reasonable and anticipated costs of
        future care for the animal per day, to both the court and the
        person claiming an interest in the animal.
            ``(C)(i) Unless the person claiming an interest in the
        animal shows good cause not to require a bond, the court shall
        order that person to post a bond.
            ``(ii) The amount of the bond shall be that amount the
        court determines sufficient to reimburse all reasonable and
        anticipated costs of caring for the animal from the date of
        seizure to a date the court deems appropriate, unless the court
        determines the person claiming an interest in the animal is
        financially unable to post a bond in that amount. In that case,
        the court may set the amount of the bond to cover partial
        payment of those costs.
            ``(iii) In determining whether the person claiming an
        interest in the animal has an inability to pay a bond, the
        court shall consider--
                    ``(I) the income, earning capacity, and financial
                resources of the person claiming an interest in the
                animal;
                    ``(II) the actual cost of care for the animal prior
                to seizure of the animal by the person claiming an
                interest in the animal, including but not limited to
                food, vaccinations, veterinary expenses, and licenses;
                and
                    ``(III) such other factors as the court deems
                appropriate.
            ``(iv) If the court does not order the posting of a bond,
        or orders a bond in an amount that would only cover partial
        payment of these costs, the court shall state on the record the
        reason for that action.
            ``(D) If the person claiming an interest in the animal
        fails to post the bond as ordered by the end of the 15th day
        beginning after the date of the issuance of the order, the
        court may order the immediate forfeiture to the Government of
        the seized animal to which the order applies.
            ``(E) If a bond is posted under this subparagraph, the
        seizing agency or the United States Marshals Service may draw
        from the bond the actual reasonable costs incurred in caring
        for the seized animal.
            ``(F) Any unspent portion of the bond shall be returned to
        the person claiming an interest in the animal upon resolution
        of the forfeiture proceedings.
            ``(G) If the person claiming an interest in the animal
        posts a bond and prevails in the forfeiture proceedings--
                    ``(i) that person shall be entitled to receive the
                full amount that person posted as a bond under this
                subparagraph; and
                    ``(ii) the Government shall reimburse any amount
                drawn under subparagraph (E) necessary to provide that
                full amount.
            ``(H) In this subparagraph, the term `reasonable and
        anticipated costs' includes food, boarding, veterinary care
        (including humane euthanasia where appropriate), transport, and
        any other costs the court deems necessary to provide care to
        the seized animal.
            ``(I) Nothing in this subparagraph prevents, in lieu of
        posting security or proceeding to a forfeiture hearing, the
        voluntary permanent relinquishment of an animal by its owner
        to--
                    ``(i) an animal control or animal shelter;
                    ``(ii) an animal protection organization; or
                    ``(iii) the Government.
            ``(J) The testimony of a person at a hearing held under
        this subsection is not admissible against that person in any
        criminal proceeding, except in a prosecution for perjury, and
        does not waive that person's right against self-
        incrimination.''.

Output: Help Extract Animals from Red Tape Act of 2016 or the HEART Act of 2016 This bill amends the federal criminal code to modify the general rules that govern civil forfeiture proceedings. Specifically, it adds requirements with respect to the seizure of an animal involved in animal fighting.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Homeowners' Relief and Neighborhood
Stabilization Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY MORTGAGE RELIEF.

    (a) Use of TARP Funds.--Using the authority available under
sections 101(a) and 115(a) of division A of the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5211(a), 5225(a)), the Secretary
of the Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development $3,000,000,000, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall credit such amount to the Emergency Homeowners'
Relief Fund, which such Secretary shall establish pursuant to section
107 of the Emergency Housing Act of 1975 (12 U.S.C. 2706), as such Act
is amended by this section, for use for emergency mortgage assistance
in accordance with title I of such Act.
    (b) Reauthorization of Emergency Mortgage Relief Program.--Title I
of the Emergency Housing Act of 1975 is amended--
            (1) in section 103 (12 U.S.C. 2702)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking ``have indicated'' and all
                        that follows through ``regulation of the
                        holder'' and inserting ``have certified'';
                            (ii) by striking ``(such as the volume of
                        delinquent loans in its portfolio)''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``, except that such
                        statement'' and all that follows through
                        ``purposes of this title''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by inserting ``or medical
                conditions'' after ``adverse economic conditions'';
            (2) in section 104 (12 U.S.C. 2703)--
                    (A) in subsection (b), by striking ``, but such
                assistance'' and all that follows through the period at
                the end and inserting the following: ``. The amount of
                assistance provided to a homeowner under this title
                shall be an amount that the Secretary determines is
                reasonably necessary to supplement such amount as the
                homeowner is capable of contributing toward such
                mortgage payment, except that the aggregate amount of
                such assistance provided for any homeowner shall not
                exceed $50,000.'';
                    (B) in subsection (d), by striking ``interest on a
                loan or advance''and all that follows through the end
                of the subsection and inserting the following: ``(1)
                the rate of interest on any loan or advance of credit
                insured under this title shall be fixed for the life of
                the loan or advance of credit and shall not exceed the
                rate of interest that is generally charged for
                mortgages on single-family housing insured by the
                Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under title
                II of the National Housing Act at the time such loan or
                advance of credit is made, and (2) no interest shall be
                charged on interest which is deferred on a loan or
                advance of credit made under this title. In
                establishing rates, terms and conditions for loans or
                advances of credit made under this title, the Secretary
                shall take into account a homeowner's ability to repay
                such loan or advance of credit.''; and
                    (C) in subsection (e), by inserting after the
                period at the end of the first sentence the following:
                ``Any eligible homeowner who receives a grant or an
                advance of credit under this title may repay the loan
                in full, without penalty, by lump sum or by installment
                payments at any time before the loan becomes due and
                payable.'';
            (3) in section 105 (12 U.S.C. 2704)--
                    (A) by striking subsection (b);
                    (B) in subsection (e)--
                            (i) by inserting ``and emergency mortgage
                        relief payments made under section 106'' after
                        ``insured under this section''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``$1,500,000,000 at any
                        one time'' and inserting ``$3,000,000,000'';
                    (C) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), and (e)
                as subsections (b), (c), and (d), respectively; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new
                subsection:
    ``(e) The Secretary shall establish underwriting guidelines or
procedures to allocate amounts made available for loans and advances
insured under this section and for emergency relief payments made under
section 106 based on the likelihood that a mortgagor will be able to
resume mortgage payments, pursuant to the requirement under section
103(5).'';
            (4) in section 107--
                    (A) by striking ``(a)''; and
                    (B) by striking subsection (b);
            (5) in section 108 (12 U.S.C. 2707), by adding at the end
        the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Coverage of Existing Programs.--The Secretary shall allow
funds to be administered by a State that has an existing program that
is determined by the Secretary to provide substantially similar
assistance to homeowners. After such determination is made such State
shall not be required to modify such program to comply with the
provisions of this title.'';
            (6) in section 109 (12 U.S.C. 2708)--
                    (A) in the section heading, by striking
                ``authorization and'';
                    (B) by striking subsection (a);
                    (C) by striking ``(b)''; and
                    (D) by striking ``1977'' and inserting ``2011'';
            (7) by striking sections 110, 111, and 113 (12 U.S.C. 2709,
        2710, 2712); and
            (8) by redesignating section 112 (12 U.S.C. 2711) as
        section 110.

SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM.

    Using the authority made available under sections 101(a) and 115(a)
of division A of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12
U.S.C. 5211(a), 5225(a)), the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer
to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development $1,000,000,000, and
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall use such amounts
for assistance to States and units of general local government for the
redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes, in accordance with the
same provisions applicable under the second undesignated paragraph
under the heading ``Community Planning and Development--Community
Development Fund'' in title XII of division A of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5; 123 Stat. 217) to
amounts made available under such second undesignated paragraph, except
as follows:
            (1) Notwithstanding the matter of such second undesignated
        paragraph that precedes the first proviso, amounts made
        available by this section shall remain available until
        expended.
            (2) The 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 15th provisos of such
        second undesignated paragraph shall not apply to amounts made
        available by this section.
            (3) Amounts made available by this section shall be
        allocated based on a funding formula for such amounts
        established by the Secretary in accordance with section 2301(b)
        of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C.
        5301 note), except that--
                    (A) notwithstanding paragraph (2) of such section
                2301(b), the formula shall be established not later
                than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this
                Act;
                    (B) the Secretary may not establish any minimum
                grant amount or size for grants to States;
                    (C) the Secretary may establish a minimum grant
                amount for direct allocations to units of general local
                government located within a State, which shall not
                exceed $1,000,000; and
                    (D) each State and local government receiving grant
                amounts shall establish procedures to create
                preferences for the development of affordable rental
                housing for properties assisted with amounts made
                available by this section.
            (4) Paragraph (1) of section 2301(c) of the Housing and
        Economic Recovery Act of 2008 shall not apply to amounts made
        available by this section.
            (5) Section 2302 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act
        of 2008 shall not apply to amounts made available by this
        section.
            (6) The fourth proviso from the end of such second
        undesignated paragraph shall be applied to amounts made
        available by this section by substituting ``2013'' for
        ``2012''.
            (7) Notwithstanding section 2301(a) of the Housing and
        Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the term ``State'' means any
        State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the
        Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern
        Mariana Islands, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and
        other territory or possession of the United States for purposes
        of this section and title III of division B of such Act, as
        applied to amounts made available by this section.
            (8)(A) None of the amounts made available by this section
        shall be distributed to--
                    (i) any organization which has been convicted for a
                violation under Federal law relating to an election for
                Federal office; or
                    (ii) any organization which employs applicable
                individuals.
            (B) In this paragraph, the term ``applicable individual''
        means an individual who--
                    (i) is--
                            (I) employed by the organization in a
                        permanent or temporary capacity;
                            (II) contracted or retained by the
                        organization; or
                            (III) acting on behalf of, or with the
                        express or apparent authority of, the
                        organization; and
                    (ii) has been convicted for a violation under
                Federal law relating to an election for Federal office.

Output:
Homeowners' Relief and Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) $3 billion from Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), to be credited to the Emergency Homeowners' Relief Fund for use for emergency mortgage assistance.

Allows mortgage assistance if the mortgagor has incurred a substantial reduction in income as a result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to medical conditions.

Caps the aggregate amount of emergency mortgage assistance provided to a homeowner at $50,000.

Revises conditions and terms of repayment of such assistance to state that: (1) the rate of interest on any loan or advance of credit insured shall be fixed for the life of the loan or advance of credit and shall not exceed the rate of interest generally charged for mortgages on single-family housing insured by the HUD Secretary; (2) interest shall not be charged on interest which is deferred on a loan or advance of credit; and (3) an eligible homeowner who receives a grant or an advance of credit may repay the loan in full, without penalty at any time before the loan becomes due and payable.

Repeals the limitation on mortgage insurance granted by the Secretary to any financial institution to 40% of the total amount of loans and advances the institution makes.

Directs the HUD Secretary to allow funds to be administered by a state with an existing program that provides substantially similar assistance to homeowners.

Amends the Emergency Housing Act of 1975 to reauthorize the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program through FY2011.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to HUD $1 billion for assistance to states and local governments for redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Zone Protection Act of
1996''.

SEC. 2. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STATE COASTAL PROGRAMS.

    (a) Reauthorization of Program.--Section 305(a) of the Coastal Zone
Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1454(a)) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``1991, 1992, and 1993'' and inserting ``1997,
    1998, and 1999''; and
        (2) by striking ``two'' and inserting ``four''.
    (b) Termination of Program.--
        (1) In general.--Section 305 of the Coastal Zone Management Act
    of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1454) is amended--
            (A) by striking subsection (a);
            (B) by striking ``(b)''; and
            (C) by amending the heading to read as follows:

               ``submittal of state program for approval''.

        (2) Conforming amendments.--Section 308(b)(2)(B) of the Coastal
    Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1457(b)(2)(B)) is amended--
            (A) in clause (iv) by adding ``and'' after the semicolon;
            (B) by striking clause (v); and
            (C) by redesignating clause (vi) as clause (v).
        (3) Effective date.--This subsection shall take effect on
    October 1, 1999.

SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION ASSISTANCE FOR COASTAL ZONE ENHANCEMENT.

    Section 309(b) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16
U.S.C. 1456b(b)) is amended--
        (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Subject to''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) In addition to any amounts provided under section 306, and
subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary may make
grants under this subsection to States for implementing program changes
approved by the Secretary in accordance with section 306(e).
    ``(B) Grants under this paragraph to implement a program change may
not be made in any fiscal year after the second fiscal year that begins
after the approval of that change by the Secretary.''.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR GRANTS.

    Section 318 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
1464) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``Sec. 318.'' and all that follows through
    subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``Sec. 318. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary, to remain available until expended--
        ``(1) for grants under sections 306, 306A, and 309--
            ``(A) $47,600,000 for fiscal year 1997;
            ``(B) $49,000,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
            ``(C) $50,500,000 for fiscal year 1999; and
        ``(2) for grants under section 315--
            ``(A) $4,400,000 for fiscal year 1997;
            ``(B) $4,500,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
            ``(C) $4,600,000 for fiscal year 1999.'';
        (2) by striking subsection (b); and
        (3) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) in order as
    subsections (b) and (c).

SEC. 5. COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND.

    (a) Authorization for Administrative Expenses.--Section
308(b)(2)(A) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
1456a(b)(2)(A)) is amended to read as follows:
        ``(A) Expenses incident to the administration of this title, in
    an amount not to exceed for each of fiscal years 1997, 1998, and
    1999 the higher of--
            ``(i) $4,000,000; or
            ``(ii) 8 percent of the total amount appropriated under
        this title for the fiscal year.''.
    (b) Authorization for Program Development Grants.--Section
308(b)(2)(B)(v) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
1456a(b)(2)(B)(v)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(v) program development grants as authorized by section
        305, in an amount not to exceed $200,000 for each of fiscal
        years 1997, 1998, and 1999; and''.

SEC. 6. MATCHING REQUIREMENT.

    Section 315(e)(3) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16
U.S.C. 1461(e)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subparagraph:
    ``(C) Notwithstanding subparagraphs (A) and (B), financial
assistance under this subsection provided from amounts recovered as a
result of damage to natural resources located in the coastal zone may
be used to pay 100 percent of the costs of activities carried out with
the assistance.''.

SEC. 7. AQUACULTURE IN THE COASTAL ZONE.

    The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 is amended--
        (1) in section 306A(b) (16 U.S.C. 1455a(b)) by adding at the
    end of the following:
        ``(4) The development of a coordinated process among State
    agencies to regulate and issue permits for aquaculture facilities
    in the coastal zone.''; and
        (2) in section 309(a) (16 U.S.C. 1456b(a)) by adding at the end
    the following:
        ``(9) Adoption of procedures and policies to evaluate and
    facilitate the siting of public and private aquaculture facilities
    in the coastal zone, which will enable States to formulate,
    administer, and implement strategic plans for marine
    aquaculture.''.

SEC. 8. APPEALS TO THE SECRETARY.

    The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 is amended by adding at the
end the following new section:

                        ``appeals to the secretary

    ``Sec. 319. (a) Notice.--The Secretary shall publish in the Federal
Register a notice indicating when the decision record has been closed
on any appeal to the Secretary taken from a consistency determination
under section 307(c) or (d). No later than 90 days after the date of
publication of this notice, the Secretary shall--
        ``(1) issue a final decision in the appeal; or
        ``(2) publish a notice in the Federal Register detailing why a
    decision cannot be issued within the 90-day period.
    ``(b) Deadline.--In the case where the Secretary publishes a notice
under subsection (a)(2), the Secretary shall issue a decision in any
appeal filed under section 307 no later than 45 days after the date of
the publication of the notice.
    ``(c) Application.--This section applies to appeals initiated by
the Secretary and appeals filed by an applicant.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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

Output: Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1996 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize annual grants to States to develop coastal zone management programs.  Limits each State to four (currently, two) grants.  Terminates the grant program after FY 1999. Authorizes grants to States to implement program changes. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) administering State management programs; (2) resource management improvement grants; (3) coastal zone enhancement grants; (4) grants under the National Estuarine Research Reserve System; (5) expenses incidental to the administration of the Act; and (6) such program development grants. Allows grants (relating to national estuarine reserves or educational or interpretive activities) provided from amounts recovered as a result of damage to coastal zone natural resources to be used to pay 100 percent of the costs of the activities carried out with the grants. Allows resource management improvement grants to be used for the development of a coordinated process among State agencies to regulate and issue permits for coastal zone aquaculture facilities. Allows coastal zone enhancement grants to be used to evaluate and facilitate the siting of public and private coastal zone aquaculture facilities. Establishes consistency determination appeal procedures.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Iran Nonproliferation Enforcement
Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. SANCTIONS APPLICABLE UNDER THE IRAN NONPROLIFERATION ACT OF
              2000.

    (a) Application of Certain Measures.--Section 3 of the Iran
Nonproliferation Act of 2000 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Application of Measures.--Subject to sections 4 and 5, the
President shall apply, for a period of not less than 2 years, the
measures described in subsection (b) with respect to--
            ``(1) each foreign person identified in a report submitted
        pursuant to section 2(a);
            ``(2) all successors, subunits, and subsidiaries of each
        such foreign person; and
            ``(3) any entity (if operating as a business enterprise)
        that owns more than 50 percent of, or controls in fact, any
        such foreign person and any successors, subunits, and
        subsidiaries of such entity.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) Executive order no. 12938 prohibitions.--The measures
        set forth in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 4 of
        Executive Order 12938.'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking ``to that foreign person'';
                        and
                            (ii) by striking ``to that person'';
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ``to that
                person''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new
                paragraphs:
            ``(4) Investment prohibition.--Prohibition of any new
        investment by a United States person in property, including
        entities, owned or controlled by--
                    ``(A) that foreign person;
                    ``(B) any entity (if operating as a business
                enterprise) that owns more than 50 percent of, or
                controls in fact, such foreign person; or
                    ``(C) any successor, subunit, or subsidiary of such
                entity.
            ``(5) Financing prohibition.--Prohibition of any approval,
        financing, or guarantee by a United States person, wherever
        located, of a transaction by--
                    ``(A) that foreign person;
                    ``(B) any entity (if operating as a business
                enterprise) that owns more than 50 percent of, or
                controls in fact, such foreign person; or
                    ``(C) any successor, subunit, or subsidiary of such
                entity.
            ``(6) Financial assistance prohibition.--Denial by the
        United States Government of any credit, credit guarantees,
        grants, or other financial assistance by any department,
        agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government to--
                    ``(A) that foreign person;
                    ``(B) any entity (if operating as a business
                enterprise) that owns more than 50 percent of, or
                controls in fact, such foreign person; and
                    ``(C) any successor, subunit, or subsidiary of such
                entity.''; and
            (3) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
    ``(d) Publication in Federal Register.--
            ``(1) In general.--The application of measures pursuant to
        subsection (a) shall be announced by notice published in the
        Federal Register.
            ``(2) Content.--Each notice published pursuant to paragraph
        (1) shall include the name and address (where known) of each
        person or entity to whom measures have been applied pursuant to
        subsection (a).''.
    (b) National Security Waiver.--Section 4 of such Act is amended to
read as follows:

``SEC. 4. WAIVER ON BASIS OF NATIONAL SECURITY.

    ``(a) In General.--The President may waive the imposition of any
sanction that would otherwise be required under section 3 on any person
or entity 15 days after the President determines and reports to the
Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that such waiver
is essential to the national security of the United States.
    ``(b) Written Justification.--The determination and report of the
President under subsection (a) shall include a written justification--
            ``(1) describing in detail the circumstances and rationale
        supporting the President's conclusion that the waiver is
        essential to the national security of the United States; and
            ``(2) identifying--
                    ``(A) the name and address (where known) of the
                person or entity to whom the waiver is applied pursuant
                to subsection (a);
                    ``(B) the specific goods, services, or
                technologies, the transfer of which would have required
                the imposition of measures pursuant to section 3 if the
                President had not invoked the waiver authority under
                subsection (a); and
                    ``(C) the name and address (where known) of the
                recipient of such transfer.
    ``(c) Form.--The written justification shall be submitted in
unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.''.

Output: Iran Nonproliferation Enforcement Act of 2005 - Amends the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 to: (1) make sanctions mandatory, and impose a minimum two-year sanction; (2) subject controlling and subsidiary companies of a foreign person to sanctions; (3) expand sanctions to include prohibitions on U.S. investment, financing, and financial assistance; and (4) expand the justification requirements for a presidential national security waiver of sanctions.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Voter Protection Hotline Act of
2011''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) At the Federal, State, and local levels, government
        funding supports well-intentioned voter hotlines that are not
        fully utilized because of a lack of access to information on
        such programs by the public at-large. All 50 states and the
        District of Columbia have at least one voter hotline in
        addition to an unprecedented amount of privately funded voter
        hotlines, all with different telephone numbers. The
        multiplicity of resources makes it difficult for voters to
        identify the correct hotline for their needs, which may result
        in voters who have immediate or urgent needs abandoning their
        effort to vote.
            (2) The Department of Justice has declared that a national
        telephone number or hotline on voting information is an
        important tool to facilitate the voting process, and has
        established a hotline through which individuals may obtain this
        kind of information. Notwithstanding the existence of the
        hotline, voting irregularities were still rampant, as evidenced
        by a number of problems that occurred during the 2008 election
        cycle, including the following:
                    (A) Virginia voters who registered through the
                Department of Motor Vehicles or via third party groups
                reported never receiving a registration card. In other
                cases, they arrived at their polling places only to
                find their names missing from the voter rolls. Some
                voters did not fill out their registration paperwork
                correctly, but were not notified of this until well
                after the registration deadline of October 6. There
                were reports in one location all seven voting machines
                in the building had failed and that there were no paper
                ballots available. Voters at that polling place waited
                in line for an extraordinary 7 hours and 15 minutes to
                vote.
                    (B) St. Louis voters who had submitted change of
                address forms several weeks prior to Election Day found
                that these forms had not been processed by Election
                Day.
                    (C) On December 2, the New York Post reported that
                more than 3,500 voter registration forms were shipped
                to the New York City Board of Elections on September
                10, only to sit in a box until November 6, 2 days after
                the election. Of these voters, those who cast
                provisional ballots had their votes counted, but it is
                unclear how many other voters were turned away at the
                polls.
                    (D) Pennsylvania voters in cities reported not
                receiving absentee ballots by Election Day. This caused
                additional problems at polling places on Election Day,
                as some of those who feared their votes would go
                uncounted took time away from family obligations, work,
                or struggled with a disability to get to their polling
                place. Upon arrival, they were told they would be
                unable to vote in person since they had already
                requested an absentee ballot.
                    (E) Voters at poorly prepared poll locations in Los
                Angeles County and elsewhere in California began
                reporting ballot shortages in the early afternoon on
                Election Day. Many people who went to the wrong polling
                place were incorrectly instructed to vote provisionally
                instead of being sent to the correct location. At one
                polling place, provisional ballots were handed out
                because so many voters were unaware that their poll
                location had changed and had gone to the wrong
                location. In other places, voters were not offered
                provisional ballots even when they were warranted, for
                example, when paper ballots were requested or when
                regular ballots were running out. In all, nearly
                1,000,000 people voted by provisional ballot in
                California.
                    (F) Wait times of 6 hours were reported for early
                voting in Franklin County, Ohio, leading to people
                leaving the line without voting. Wait times of between
                2 and 10 hours were reported during early voting at
                multiple Georgia locations.
            (3) The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution protects
        the right of citizens to vote, yet every election cycle, the
        voting rights of thousands of citizens are denied or abridged
        due to factors ranging from misinformation to wholesale
        intimidation. For example:
                    (A) In the 2004 presidential election, voters
                reported receiving calls telling them to report to the
                polls to vote the day after Election Day, that the
                polling location had changed, and that they would only
                be allowed to vote if they brought four separate forms
                of identification to the poll. In 2008, in southern
                Virginia and at George Mason University in the northern
                part of the state, official-looking fliers ``informed''
                voters that, because of projected high turnout,
                Democrats should wait and vote on November 5, 2008, the
                day after the election. North Carolina voters
                complained of misleading calls that provided inaccurate
                information regarding absentee ballot deadlines.
                    (B) Michigan poll workers were often unaware that
                Michigan voters who did not have a government-issued
                photo ID could vote after signing an affidavit.
                    (C) In 2008, fliers distributed and posted in a
                west Philadelphia neighborhood claimed that any
                violation as simple as an unpaid parking ticket would
                render citizens ineligible to vote and subject to
                arrest at the polls. A flier disseminated on the campus
                of Drexel University in Philadelphia warned that
                undercover officers would be present at the polls,
                looking for voters with outstanding warrants or parking
                violations.
                    (D) In Virginia, Michigan and Colorado, students
                were told that if they registered to vote where they
                went to school (instead of at their parents' address)
                they could lose their healthcare, financial aid, and
                jeopardize their parent's taxes, all false claims.
                    (E) In 2008, the non-profit group Minnesota
                Majority, pretending to be from the Secretary of
                State's office, made calls to voters questioning their
                registrations in a supposed attempt to uncover voting
                irregularities.
                    (F) Twelve Ohio counties released sample paper
                ballots that split the presidential contest over two
                columns for the November election. A study found that
                this particular layout often confuses voters and causes
                them to double-vote, which ultimately disqualifies the
                ballot.

SEC. 3. VOTER INFORMATION HOTLINE.

    (a) Establishment and Operation of Telephone Service.--The Attorney
General, in consultation with State election officials, shall establish
and operate a toll-free telephone service, using a telephone number
that is accessible throughout the United States and that uses easily
identifiable numerals, through which individuals throughout the United
States--
            (1) may obtain information on voting in elections for
        Federal office, including information on how to register to
        vote in such elections, the hours of operation of polling
        places, and how to obtain absentee ballots; and
            (2) may report information to the Attorney General on
        problems encountered in registering to vote or voting,
        including incidences of voter intimidation or suppression.
    (b) Voter Hotline Task Force.--
            (1) Appointment by attorney general.--The Attorney General
        shall appoint individuals (in such number as the Attorney
        General considers appropriate) to serve on a Voter Hotline Task
        Force to provide ongoing analysis and assessment of the
        operation of the telephone service established under this Act,
        and shall give special consideration in making appointments to
        the Task Force to individuals who represent civil rights
        organizations.
            (2) Eligibility.--An individual shall be eligible to serve
        on the Task Force under this subsection if the individual meets
        such criteria as the Attorney General may establish, except
        that an individual may not serve on the task force if the
        individual has been convicted of any criminal offense relating
        to voter intimidation or voter suppression.
            (3) Term of service.--An individual appointed to the Task
        Force shall serve a single term of 2 years. A vacancy in the
        membership of the Task Force shall be filled in the same manner
        as the original appointment.
            (4) No compensation for service.--Members of the Task Force
        shall serve without pay, but shall receive travel expenses,
        including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with
        applicable provisions under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title
        5, United States Code.
    (c) Bi-Annual Report to Congress.--Not later than March 1 of each
odd-numbered year, the Attorney General shall submit a report to
Congress on the operation of the telephone service established under
this Act during the previous 2 years, and shall include in the report--
            (1) a compilation and description of the reports made to
        the hotline by individuals citing instances of voter
        intimidation or suppression; and
            (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of the service in
        making information available to all households in the United
        States with telephone service.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Authorization.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Attorney General for fiscal year 2011 and each succeeding fiscal year
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
    (b) Set-Aside for Outreach.--Of the amounts appropriated to carry
out this Act for a fiscal year pursuant to the authorization under
subsection (a), not less than 15% shall be used for outreach activities
to make the public aware of the availability of the telephone service
established under this Act.

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Voter Protection Hotline Act of 2011 - Directs the Attorney General (AG) to establish and operate a toll-free telephone service, using a telephone number accessible throughout the United States using easily identifiable numerals, through which individuals may: (1) obtain information on voting in elections for federal office, including how to register to vote, the hours of operation of polling places, and how to obtain absentee ballots; and (2) report problems encountered in registering to vote or voting, including incidences of voter intimidation or suppression.

Requires the AG to: (1) appoint individuals to a Voter Hotline Task Force, giving special consideration to individuals representing civil rights organizations, for ongoing analysis and assessment of the telephone service's operation; and (2) submit a report to Congress each odd-numbered year concerning voter intimidation or suppression reports made to the hotline and assessing the availability of the service to all U.S. households with telephone service.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Corps of Engineers River Stewardship
Independent Investigation and Review Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Corps of
        Engineers River Stewardship Independent Investigation and
        Review Commission established under section 3(a).
            (2) Indian tribe.--The term ``Indian tribe'' has the
        meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b).
            (3) Session day.--The term ``session day'' means a day on
        which both Houses of Congress are in session.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--As soon as practicable after the date of enactment
of this Act, the President shall establish a commission to be known as
the ``Corps of Engineers River Stewardship Independent Investigation
and Review Commission''.
    (b) Membership.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission shall be composed of not to
        exceed 22 members, and shall include--
                    (A) individuals appointed by the President to
                represent--
                            (i) the Department of the Army;
                            (ii) the Department of the Interior;
                            (iii) the Department of Justice;
                            (iv) environmental interests;
                            (v) hydropower interests;
                            (vi) flood control interests;
                            (vii) recreational interests;
                            (viii) navigation interests;
                            (ix) the Council on Environmental Quality;
                        and
                            (x) such other affected interests as are
                        determined by the President to be appropriate;
                    (B) 6 governors from States representing different
                regions of the United States, as determined by the
                President; and
                    (C) 6 representatives of Indian tribes representing
                different regions of the United States, as determined
                by the President.
            (2) Date of appointments.--The appointment of a member of
        the Commission shall be made not later than 180 days after the
        date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Term; Vacancies.--
            (1) Term.--A member shall be appointed for the life of the
        Commission.
            (2) Vacancies.--A vacancy on the Commission--
                    (A) shall not affect the powers of the Commission;
                and
                    (B) shall be filled in the same manner as the
                original appointment was made.
    (d) Initial Meeting.--Not later than 30 days after the date on
which all members of the Commission have been appointed, the Commission
shall hold the initial meeting of the Commission.
    (e) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call of the
Chairperson.
    (f) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Commission shall
constitute a quorum, but a lesser number of members may hold hearings.
    (g) Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall select a Chairperson
        and Vice Chairperson from among the members of the Commission.
            (2) No corps representative.--The Chairperson and the Vice
        Chairperson shall not be representatives of the Department of
        the Army (including the Corps of Engineers).

SEC. 4. INVESTIGATION OF CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

    Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Commission shall complete an investigation and submit to Congress a
report on the management of rivers in the United States by the Corps of
Engineers, with emphasis on--
            (1) compliance with environmental laws in the design and
        operation of river management projects, including--
                    (A) the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16
                U.S.C. 661 et seq.);
                    (B) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C.
                1531 et seq.); and
                    (C) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
                (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);
            (2) compliance with the cultural resource laws that protect
        Native American graves, traditional cultural properties, and
        Native American sacred sites in the design and operation of
        river management projects, including--
                    (A) the National Historic Preservation Act (16
                U.S.C. 470 et seq.);
                    (B) the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of
                1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.);
                    (C) the Native American Graves Protection Act and
                Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.);
                    (D) Executive Order 13007 (61 Fed. Reg. 26771;
                relating to Indian sacred sites);
                    (E) identification of opportunities for developing
                tribal cooperative management agreements for erosion
                control, habitat restoration, cultural resource
                protection, and enforcement;
                    (F) review of policy and guidance regarding
                nondisclosure of sensitive information on the
                character, nature, and location of traditional cultural
                properties and sacred sites; and
                    (G) review of the effectiveness of government-to-
                government consultation by the Corps of Engineers with
                Indian tribes and members of Indian tribes in cases in
                which the river management functions and activities of
                the Corps affect Indian land and Native American
                natural and cultural resources;
            (3) the quality and objectivity of scientific,
        environmental, and economic analyses by the Corps of Engineers,
        including the use of independent reviewers of analyses
        performed by the Corps;
            (4) the extent of coordination and cooperation by the Corps
        of Engineers with Federal and State agencies (such as the
        United States Fish and Wildlife Service) and Indian tribes in
        designing and implementing river management projects;
            (5) the extent to which river management studies conducted
        by the Corps of Engineers fairly and effectively balance the
        goals of public and private interests, such as wildlife,
        recreation, navigation, and hydropower interests;
            (6) whether river management studies conducted by the Corps
        of Engineers should be subject to independent review;
            (7) whether river planning laws (including regulations)
        should be amended; and
            (8) whether the river management functions of the Corps of
        Engineers should be transferred from the Department of the Army
        to a Federal civilian agency.

SEC. 5. POWERS.

    (a) Hearings.--The Commission may hold such hearings, sit and act
at such times and places, take such testimony, and receive such
evidence as the Commission considers advisable to carry out this Act.
    (b) Information From Federal Agencies.--
            (1) In general.--The Commission may secure directly from a
        Federal department or agency such information as the Commission
        considers necessary to carry out this Act.
            (2) Provision of information.--On request of the
        Chairperson of the Commission, the head of the department or
        agency shall provide the information to the Commission.
    (c) Postal Services.--The Commission may use the United States
mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other
departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
    (d) Gifts.--The Commission may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or
donations of services or personal property.

SEC. 6. COMMISSION PERSONNEL MATTERS.

    (a) Compensation of Members.--
            (1) Non-federal employees.--A member of the Commission who
        is not an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall
        be compensated at a rate equal to the daily equivalent of the
        annual rate of basic pay prescribed for level IV of the
        Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States
        Code, for each day (including travel time) during which the
        member is engaged in the performance of the duties of the
        Commission.
            (2) Federal employees.--A member of the Commission who is
        an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall serve
        without compensation in addition to the compensation received
        for the services of the member as an officer or employee of the
        Federal Government.
    (b) Travel Expenses.--A member of the Commission shall be allowed
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates
authorized for an employee of an agency under subchapter I of chapter
57 of title 5, United States Code, while away from the home or regular
place of business of the member in the performance of the duties of the
Commission.
    (c) Staff.--
            (1) In general.--The Chairperson of the Commission may,
        without regard to the civil service laws (including
        regulations), appoint and terminate an executive director and
        such other additional personnel as are necessary to enable the
        Commission to perform the duties of the Commission.
            (2) Confirmation of executive director.--The employment of
        an executive director shall be subject to confirmation by the
        Commission.
            (3) Compensation.--
                    (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph
                (B), the Chairperson of the Commission may fix the
                compensation of the executive director and other
                personnel without regard to the provisions of chapter
                51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United
                States Code, relating to classification of positions
                and General Schedule pay rates.
                    (B) Maximum rate of pay.--The rate of pay for the
                executive director and other personnel may not exceed
                the rate payable for level V of the Executive Schedule
                under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code.
    (d) Detail of Federal Government Employees.--
            (1) In general.--An employee of the Federal Government may
        be detailed to the Commission without reimbursement.
            (2) Civil service status.--The detail of the employee shall
        be without interruption or loss of civil service status or
        privilege.
    (e) Procurement of Temporary and Intermittent Services.--The
Chairperson of the Commission may procure temporary and intermittent
services in accordance with section 3109(b) of title 5, United States
Code, at rates for individuals that do not exceed the daily equivalent
of the annual rate of basic pay prescribed for level V of the Executive
Schedule under section 5316 of that title.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2005, to remain
available until expended.

SEC. 8. TERMINATION OF COMMISSION.

    The Commission shall terminate on the date on which the Commission
submits the report to Congress under section 4(a).

Output: Corps of Engineers River Stewardship Independent Investigation and Review Act - Directs the President to establish the Corps of Engineers River Stewardship Independent Investigation and Review Commission. Directs the Commission to investigate and report to Congress on management of U.S. rivers by the Corps, with emphasis on: (1) compliance, in the design and operation of river management projects, with environmental laws and with the cultural resource laws that protect Native American graves, traditional cultural properties, and Native American sacred sites; (2) the quality and objectivity of scientific, environmental, and economic analyses; (3) the extent of coordination and cooperation with Federal and State agencies in designing and implementing river management projects; (4) the extent to which river management studies balance the goals of public and private interests and whether such studies should be subject to independent review; (5) whether river planning laws and regulations should be amended; and (6) whether the river management functions of the Corps should be transferred to a Federal civilian agency.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Health Center and Primary
Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 10503(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
        and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) $5,110,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
                    ``(G) $5,410,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
                    ``(H) $5,790,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
                    ``(I) $6,620,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
                    ``(J) $7,510,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
                    ``(K) $8,460,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;
                    ``(L) $9,490,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
                    ``(M) $10,590,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
                    ``(N) $11,780,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
                    ``(O) $12,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; and
                    ``(P) for fiscal year 2028, and each subsequent
                fiscal year, the amount appropriated for the preceding
                fiscal year adjusted by the product of--
                            ``(i) one plus the average percentage
                        increase in costs incurred per patient served;
                        and
                            ``(ii) one plus the average percentage
                        increase in the total number of patients
                        served; and''.
    (b) Capital Projects.--In addition to amounts otherwise
appropriated under section 10503(b) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)), there is authorized to be
appropriated, and there is appropriated, for the community health
centers program under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 254b) for capital projects, $18,600,000,000 for fiscal year
2017.
    (c) Limitation.--Amounts otherwise appropriated for community
health centers may not be reduced as a result of the appropriations
made under this section.
    (d) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated under this section
shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS.

    (a) In General.--Section 10503(b)(2) of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) $850,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
                    ``(G) $893,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
                    ``(H) $938,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
                    ``(I) $985,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
                    ``(J) $1,030,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
                    ``(K) $1,090,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;
                    ``(L) $1,100,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
                    ``(M) $1,200,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
                    ``(N) $1,300,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
                    ``(O) $1,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; and
                    ``(P) for fiscal year 2028, and each subsequent
                fiscal year, the amount appropriated for the preceding
                fiscal year adjusted by the product of--
                            ``(i) one plus the average percentage
                        increase in the costs of health professions
                        education during the prior fiscal year; and
                            ``(ii) one plus the average percentage
                        change in the number of individuals residing in
                        health professions shortage areas designated
                        under section 333 of the Public Health Service
                        Act during the prior fiscal year, relative to
                        the number of individuals residing in such
                        areas during the previous fiscal year.''.
    (b) Limitation.--Amounts otherwise appropriated for National Health
Service Corps may not be reduced as a result of the appropriations made
under this section.
    (c) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated under this section
shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 4. TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 340H(g) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 256h(g)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``2015 and'' and inserting ``2015,''; and
            (2) by striking the period and inserting ``, $176,000,000
        for fiscal years 2018 and 2019, $184,000,000 for fiscal year
        2020, $194,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, $203,000,000 for
        fiscal year 2022, $214,000,000 for fiscal year 2023,
        $224,000,000 for fiscal year 2024, $235,000,000 for fiscal year
        2025, $247,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, $260,000,000 for
        fiscal year 2027, and for fiscal year 2028, and each subsequent
        fiscal year, the amount appropriated for the preceding fiscal
        year adjusted by the greater of the annual percentage increase
        in the medical care component of the consumer price index for
        all urban consumers (U.S. city average) as rounded up in an
        appropriate manner, or the percentage increase for the fiscal
        year involved under section 2(a)(11).''.
    (b) Limitation.--Amounts otherwise appropriated for Teaching Health
Centers may not be reduced as a result of the appropriations made under
this section.
    (c) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated under this section
shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 5. NURSE PRACTITIONER RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5316 of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act is amended by striking subsection (i) and inserting
the following:
    ``(i) Appropriations.--In addition to amounts otherwise
appropriated, there is authorized to be appropriated, and there is
appropriated to carry out this section--
            ``(1) $35,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
            ``(2) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
            ``(3) $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
            ``(4) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
            ``(5) $55,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
            ``(6) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2023;
            ``(7) $65,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
            ``(8) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
            ``(9) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
            ``(10) $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; and
            ``(11) for fiscal year 2028, and each subsequent fiscal
        year, the amount appropriated for the preceding fiscal year
        adjusted by the greater of the annual percentage increase in
        the medical care component of the consumer price index for all
        urban consumers (U.S. city average) as rounded up in an
        appropriate manner, or the percentage increase for the fiscal
        year involved under section 10503(b)(1)(P) of the Patient
        Protection and Affordable Care Act.''.
    (b) Limitation.--Amounts otherwise appropriated for Nurse
Practitioner Residency Training Programs may not be reduced as a result
of the appropriations made under this section.
    (c) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated under this section
shall remain available until expended.

Output: Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2017 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make appropriations for and extend indefinitely: (1) enhanced funding for the community health centers program and the National Health Service Corps, and (2) grants for federally qualified health centers and nurse-managed health centers to train family nurse practitioners to become primary care providers. The bill makes appropriations for capital projects under the community health centers program. The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make appropriations for and extend indefinitely a program that pays teaching health centers to establish or expand graduate medical residency training programs.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Access to Contraceptives
Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) A deepening crisis in developing countries with respect
        to the availability of contraceptives needed for family
        planning, safe motherhood services, HIV/AIDS prevention, and
        other vital reproductive health care threatens the health and
        lives of millions of people.
            (2) In the next ten to fifteen years, the largest-ever
        generation of young people will enter their reproductive years.
        For example, the number of women of reproductive age is
        projected to double in Nigeria in the next 25 years. This
        demographic shift, combined with increased demand for modern
        methods of family planning, will increase worldwide the number
        of people who desire to use contraception by 40 percent.
            (3) The gap between the need for contraceptives and funding
        for such contraceptives is projected to reach hundreds of
        millions of United States dollars annually by 2015.
            (4) According to estimates based on national surveys, more
        than 200 million women in developing countries wish to delay or
        end childbearing but do not have access to modern
        contraceptives.
            (5) An estimated 40 percent of married couples in Haiti, 36
        percent of married couples in Ethiopia, and 32 percent of
        married couples in Pakistan do not have access to
        contraceptives. In each of these countries, average birth rates
        among women are two to three times average birth rates in the
        United States.
            (6) Access to family planning and contraceptives is
        essential in reducing unintended pregnancies and, as a result,
        reducing rates of abortion.
            (7) The provision of modern contraceptives to the more than
        200 million women in developing countries who desire such
        contraceptives would avert approximately 52 million pregnancies
        each year, and as a result, would prevent an estimated 23
        million unplanned births, 22 million induced abortions, 7
        million spontaneous abortions, 1.4 million infant deaths,
        142,000 pregnancy-related deaths, and 505,000 children from
        losing their mothers.
            (8) In January 2001, the White House reaffirmed President
        George W. Bush's commitment to United States family planning
        assistance efforts, stating that ``[the President] knows that
        one of the best ways to prevent abortion is by providing
        quality voluntary family planning services''.
            (9) Experiences in a number of countries in recent years
        indicate that when long-term, effective family planning methods
        are available, abortion rates decline, sometimes drastically.
        For example, between 1988 and 2001, the use of modern
        contraceptives increased in Russia by 74 percent, while the
        abortion rate declined by 61 percent. Similar experiences in
        Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Chile, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, and
        Romania have shown that increased use of contraceptives is
        accompanied by a decline in abortion rates.
            (10) In addition to reducing unintended pregnancies and
        abortions, condoms are a vital component in limiting the spread
        of HIV/AIDS. Consequently, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is
        contributing to an increased demand for reproductive health
        supplies.
            (11) The vast majority of HIV infections are sexually
        transmitted and condoms are currently the only contraceptive
        that can protect against this form of HIV transmission. Condoms
        remain an important intervention in multisectoral approaches to
        HIV/AIDS prevention, along with programs that promote
        abstinence and monogamy.
            (12) In sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV prevalence rates can
        reach 40 percent of the adult population and women constitute
        60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS, donors provide an
        average of only 4.6 condoms per adult male annually.
            (13) Family planning services, reinforced by dependable
        supplies of contraceptives, are also a crucial tool in reducing
        HIV infections transmitted between infected pregnant women and
        their infants, a number that reached 800,000 in 2002. The
        provision of family planning services, information, and
        counseling can reduce the number of infants infected with HIV
        by 35 to 45 percent.
            (14) In addition to reducing rates of abortion and HIV/
        AIDS, access to contraceptives and other reproductive health
        care services saves the lives of mothers and children by
        helping women avoid high risk pregnancies. An increase in the
        use of contraceptives, which allow women to space the births of
        their children over safe intervals, have been proven to reduce
        maternal and child mortality.
            (15) Complications resulting from pregnancy and childbirth
        are the leading causes of death and disability for women in
        developing countries, resulting in more than 500,000 deaths
        each year. Almost one-third of maternal deaths and illnesses
        related to pregnancy could be avoided if women in developing
        countries had access to modern, safe, and effective
        contraceptives and other reproductive health care services.
            (16) Access to contraceptives and other reproductive health
        care services are also needed to help ease growing population
        pressures on cropland, freshwater, and other finite natural
        resources. In many biologically rich areas, there is little or
        no access to the health services that allow women and couples
        to space or limit births. Consequently, the population in these
        ecologically sensitive areas is growing nearly 40 percent
        faster than that of the world as a whole.
            (17) The shortfall in reproductive health care services is
        chronic and growing. The cost of contraceptives needed for
        family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in developing countries
        is projected to increase from $954 million in 2002 to $1.8
        billion in 2015. In spite of this upward trend in the cost of
        contraceptives, donor support for contraceptives in 2002,
        $197.5 million, was less than 20 percent of current overall
        funding needs.
            (18) The consequences of the shortfall in reproductive
        health care services are devastating. For every shortfall of $1
        million in funding for contraceptives, an estimated 360,000
        additional unintended pregnancies, 150,000 additional induced
        abortions, 800 additional maternal deaths, and 11,000
        additional infant deaths occur.
            (19) Although the United States should be commended for its
        leadership role with respect to the availability of
        reproductive health services in developing countries, United
        States support for such services, including funding, has not
        kept pace with the increase in demand for contraceptives, which
        has resulted from the large number of youth entering
        reproductive age and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Since 1995, United
        States bilateral assistance for international family planning
        programs has decreased by 35 percent (adjusted for inflation)
        despite an increase of more than 225 million women of
        reproductive age worldwide.
            (20) In addition to the shortfall in funding by the United
        States for reproductive health care services, United States
        policy restrictions have reduced donations of contraceptives
        for developing countries.
            (21) Widely shared goals of reducing the need for abortion
        and reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS are unlikely to be achieved
        when United States-donated contraceptives are subject to policy
        restrictions, such as the Mexico City Policy, that limit access
        to such contraceptives.
            (22) The Mexico City Policy, which was reinstated in 2001,
        limits access to contraceptives by prohibiting United States
        family planning assistance to foreign nongovernmental
        organizations that use funding from any source to provide
        abortion services, counseling, or referral or to lobby to make
        abortion legal or more available in their own country.
            (23) The Mexico City Policy has exacerbated the existing
        shortage of contraceptives by ending shipments of United
        States-donated contraceptives to 16 developing countries in
        Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and denying contraceptives to
        leading family planning agencies in another 12 countries.
            (24) As an example, the Mexico City Policy has forced eight
        family planning clinics serving thousands of poor women in
        Kenya to close. Consequently, women's access to contraceptives,
        gynecologic and obstetric care, screening, and treatment for
        sexually transmitted infections, and voluntary counseling and
        testing for HIV/AIDS in Kenya has been severely disrupted.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to authorize assistance to
provide contraceptives in developing countries in order to prevent
unintended pregnancies, abortions, and the transmission of sexually
transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE TO PROVIDE CONTRACEPTIVES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    Section 104 of Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b) is
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new
        subsection:
    ``(g) Assistance to Provide Contraceptives in Developing
Countries.--
            ``(1) Assistance.--The President, acting through the
        Administrator of the United States Agency for International
        Development, shall furnish assistance to provide contraceptives
        in developing countries in order to prevent unintended
        pregnancies, abortions, and the transmission of sexually
        transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
            ``(2) Eligibility of nongovernmental organizations.--
        Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulation, or
        policy, in determining eligibility for assistance to provide
        contraceptives in developing countries under this subsection, a
        nongovernmental organization shall not be subject to
        requirements relating to the use of non-United States
        Government funds that are more restrictive than requirements
        relating to the use of non-United States Government funds that
        apply to foreign governments with respect to eligibility for
        assistance under this subsection.
            ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--
                    ``(A) In general.--There are authorized to be
                appropriated to the President to carry out this
                subsection $150,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
                2007 and 2008.
                    ``(B) Additional authorities.--Amounts appropriated
                pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under
                subparagraph (A)--
                            ``(i) may be referred to as the
                        `Reproductive Health Supplies Fund';
                            ``(ii) are authorized to remain available
                        until expended; and
                            ``(iii) are in addition to amounts
                        otherwise available for such purposes.''.

Output:
Ensuring Access to Contraceptives Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to furnish assistance to provide contraceptives in developing countries in order to prevent unintended pregnancies, abortions, and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.

States that a nongovernmental organization shall not be subject to eligibility requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. government funds that are more restrictive than those that apply to a foreign government.