[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 1469

                        Offered By: Mr. Goodling

       Amendment No. 16: Page 2, after line 23, insert the 
     following new section:


 prohibition of funds for new national testing program in reading and 
                              mathematics

       Sec. 3003. None of the funds made available in this or any 
     other Act for fiscal year 1997 or any prior fiscal year for 
     the Fund for the Improvement of Education under the heading 
     ``DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATON--Education Research, Statistics, and 
     Improvement'' may be used to develop, plan, implement, or 
     administer any national testing program in reading or 
     mathematics.

                               H.R. 1469

                        Offered By: Mr. Goodling

       Amendment No. 17: Page 2, after line 23, insert the 
     following new section:


   prohibition of funds for national testing program in reading and 
                              mathematics

       Sec. 3003. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to develop, plan, implement, or administer any 
     national testing program in reading or mathematics.

                               H.R. 1469

                        Offered By: Mr. Goodling

       Amendment No. 18: Page 51, after line 23, insert the 
     following new section:


   prohibition of funds for national testing program in reading and 
                              mathematics

       Sec. 3003. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to develop, plan, implement, or administer any 
     national testing program in reading or mathematics.

                               H.R. 1469

                         Offered By Mr. Kennedy

       Amendment No. 19: Page 28, after line 23, insert the 
     following new chapter:

                               CHAPTER 7A

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                     National Institutes of Health


           national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For an additional amount for ``National Institute on 
     Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism'', $2,000,000, to be derived by 
     transfer from the amount provided in this Act for ``Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency--Disaster Relief''.

                               H.R. 1469

                         Offered By Mr. LaHood

       Amendment No. 20: In the item under the heading 
     ``Conservation Reserve Program'' in title I of the bill, 
     strike out ``None of the funds'' and all that follows through 
     ``That the Secretary'' and insert ``The Secretary of 
     Agriculture''.

                               H.R. 1469

                         Offered By: Ms. Norton

       Amendment No. 21: Page 51, after line 23, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. 3003. (a) Chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, 
     is amended by adding after subchapter V the following:

      ``SUBCHAPTER VI--LEAVE TRANSFER IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES

     ``Sec. 6391. Authority for leave transfer program in 
       disasters and emergencies

       ``(a) For the purpose of this section--
       ``(1) `employee' means an employee as defined in section 
     6331(a); and
       ``(2) `agency' means an Executive agency.
       ``(b) In the event of a major disaster or emergency, as 
     declared by the President, that results in severe adverse 
     effects for a substantial number of employees, the President 
     may direct the Office of Personnel Management to establish an 
     emergency leave transfer program under which any employee in 
     any agency may donate unused annual leave for transfer to 
     employees of the same or other agencies who are adversely 
     affected by such disaster or emergency.
       ``(c) The Office shall establish appropriate requirements 
     for the operation of the emergency leave transfer program 
     under subsection (b), including appropriate limitations on 
     the donation and use of annual leave under the program. An 
     employee may receive and use leave under the program without 
     regard to any requirement that any annual leave and sick 
     leave to a leave recipient's credit must be exhausted before 
     any transferred annual leave may be used.
       ``(d) A leave bank established under subchapter IV may, to 
     the extent provided in regulations prescribed by the Office, 
     donate annual leave to the emergency leave transfer program 
     established under subsection (b).
       ``(e) Except to the extent that the Office may prescribe by 
     regulation, nothing in section 7351 shall apply to any 
     solicitation, donation, or acceptance of leave under this 
     section.
       ``(f) The Office shall prescribe regulations necessary for 
     the administration of this section.''.
       (b) The analysis for chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

      ``SUBCHAPTER VI--LEAVE TRANSFER IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES

``6391. Authority for leave transfer program in disasters and 
              emergencies.''.

                               H.R. 1486

                         Offered By: Mr. Vento

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of title XVII insert the 
     following new section:

     SEC. 1717. REPORTS AND POLICY CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS 
                   VIOLATIONS IN LAOS.

       Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees in the appropriate form on the 
     allegations of persecution and abuse of the Hmong and Laotian 
     refugees who have returned to Laos. The report shall include:
       (1) An investigation, including documentation of 
     independent monitors of individual cases of persecution 
     forwarded to the State Department, of the Lao Government's 
     treatment of Hmong and Laotian refugees who have returned to 
     Laos.
       (2) The steps the State Department will take to continue to 
     monitor any systematic human rights violations by the 
     Government of Laos.
       (3) The actions which the State Department will take to 
     ensure the cessation of human rights violations.