[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2148 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2148

          To reestablish the Office of Technology Assessment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2001

 Mr. Holt (for himself, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. 
 Moran of Virginia, Mr. Olver, Mr. Shays, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Engel, Mr. 
 Smith of Washington, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. McDermott, Ms. 
McCarthy of Missouri, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Solis, Mr. Honda, Mr. Kildee, 
   Mr. Hoeffel, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. 
   Greenwood, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Allen, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Doggett, Ms. 
 Baldwin, Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Hoyer, Mrs. Biggert, Mr. Wu, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
  Nadler, and Mr. Pascrell) introducted the following bill; which was 
                  referred to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
          To reestablish the Office of Technology Assessment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AMENDMENT.

    The first section of the Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (2 
U.S.C. 471 note) is amended by striking ``Technology Assessment Act of 
1972'' and inserting ``Office of Technology Assessment Reestablishment 
Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 12(a) of the Office of Technology Assessment 
Reestablishment Act of 2001 (as so renamed by section 1 of this Act) (2 
U.S.C. 481(a)) is amended by striking ``$5,000,000 in the aggregate for 
the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1973, and June 30, 1974, and 
thereafter such sums as may be necessary'' and inserting ``$20,000,000 
for each of the fiscal years 2002 through 2007''.
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