[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 13, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5456-H5459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 1691

                         Offered By Mr. Conyers

               (Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute)

       Amendment No. 1: Strike all after the enacting clause and 
     insert the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Religious Liberty Protection 
     Act of 1999''.

     SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS EXERCISE.

       (a) General Rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a 
     government shall not substantially burden a person's 
     religious exercise--
       (1) in a program or activity, operated by a government, 
     that receives Federal financial assistance; or
       (2) in any case in which the substantial burden on the 
     person's religious exercise affects, or in which a removal of 
     that substantial burden would affect, commerce with foreign 
     nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes;

     even if the burden results from a rule of general 
     applicability.
       (b) Exception.--A government may substantially burden a 
     person's religious exercise if the government demonstrates 
     that application of the burden to the person--
       (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental 
     interest; and
       (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that 
     compelling governmental interest.
       (c) Remedies of the United States.--Nothing in this section 
     shall be construed to authorize the United States to deny or 
     withhold Federal financial assistance as a remedy for a 
     violation of this Act. However, nothing in this subsection 
     shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise affect any 
     right or authority of the Attorney General or the United 
     States or any agency, officer, or employee thereof under 
     other law, including section 4(d) of this Act, to institute 
     or intervene in any action or proceeding.

     SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

       (a) Procedure.--If a claimant produces prima facie evidence 
     to support a claim alleging a violation of the Free Exercise

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     Clause or a violation of a provision of this Act enforcing 
     that clause, the government shall bear the burden of 
     persuasion on any element of the claim; however, the claimant 
     shall bear the burden of persuasion on whether the challenged 
     government practice, law, or regulation burdens or 
     substantially burdens the claimant's exercise of religion.
       (b) Land Use Regulation.--
       (1) Limitation on land use regulation.--
       (A) Where, in applying or implementing any land use 
     regulation or exemption, or system of land use regulations or 
     exemptions, a government has the authority to make 
     individualized assessments of the proposed uses to which real 
     property would be put, the government may not impose a 
     substantial burden on a person's religious exercise, unless 
     the government demonstrates that application of the burden to 
     the person is in furtherance of a compelling governmental 
     interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering 
     that compelling governmental interest.
       (B) No government shall impose or implement a land use 
     regulation in a manner that does not treat religious 
     assemblies or institutions on equal terms with nonreligious 
     assemblies or institutions.
       (C) No government shall impose or implement a land use 
     regulation that discriminates against any assembly or 
     institution on the basis of religion or religious 
     denomination.
       (D) No government with zoning authority shall unreasonably 
     exclude from the jurisdiction over which it has authority, or 
     unreasonably limit within that jurisdiction, assemblies or 
     institutions principally devoted to religious exercise.
       (2) Full faith and credit.--Adjudication of a claim of a 
     violation of the Free Exercise Clause or this subsection in a 
     non-Federal forum shall be entitled to full faith and credit 
     in a Federal court only if the claimant had a full and fair 
     adjudication of that claim in the non-Federal forum.
       (3) Nonpreemption.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
     preempt State law that is equally or more protective of 
     religious exercise.

     SEC. 4. JUDICIAL RELIEF.

       (a) Cause of Action.--A person may assert a violation of 
     this Act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and 
     obtain appropriate relief against a government. Standing to 
     assert a claim or defense under this section shall be 
     governed by the general rules of standing under article III 
     of the Constitution.
       (b) Attorneys' Fees.--Section 722(b) of the Revised 
     Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 
     1998,'' after ``Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993,''; 
     and
       (2) by striking the comma that follows a comma.
       (c) Prisoners.--Any litigation under this Act in which the 
     claimant is a prisoner shall be subject to the Prison 
     Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (including provisions of law 
     amended by that Act).
       (d) Authority of United States to Enforce This Act.--The 
     United States may sue for injunctive or declaratory relief to 
     enforce compliance with this Act.
       (e) Persons Who May Raise a Claim or Defense.--A person who 
     may raise a claim or defense under subsection (a) is--
       (1) an owner of a dwelling described in section 803(b) of 
     the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3603(b)), with respect to a 
     prohibition relating to discrimination in housing;
       (2) with respect to a prohibition against discrimination in 
     employment--
       (A) a religious corporation, association, educational 
     institution (as described in 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(e)), or 
     society, with respect to the employment of individuals who 
     perform duties such as spreading or teaching faith, other 
     instructional functions, performing or assisting in 
     devotional services, or activities relating to the internal 
     governance of such corporation, association, educational 
     institution, or society in the carrying on of its activities; 
     or
       (B) an entity employing 5 or fewer individuals; or
       (3) any other person, with respect to an assertion of any 
     other claim or defense relating to a law other than a law--
       (A) prohibiting discrimination in housing and employment, 
     except as described in paragraphs (1) and (2); or
       (B) prohibiting discrimination in a public accommodation.

     SEC. 5. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

       (a) Religious Belief Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act shall 
     be construed to authorize any government to burden any 
     religious belief.
       (b) Religious Exercise Not Regulated.--Nothing in this Act 
     shall create any basis for restricting or burdening religious 
     exercise or for claims against a religious organization, 
     including any religiously affiliated school or university, 
     not acting under color of law.
       (c) Claims to Funding Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act 
     shall create or preclude a right of any religious 
     organization to receive funding or other assistance from a 
     government, or of any person to receive government funding 
     for a religious activity, but this Act may require government 
     to incur expenses in its own operations to avoid imposing a 
     burden or a substantial burden on religious exercise.
       (d) Other Authority To Impose Conditions on Funding 
     Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act shall--
       (1) authorize a government to regulate or affect, directly 
     or indirectly, the activities or policies of a person other 
     than a government as a condition of receiving funding or 
     other assistance; or
       (2) restrict any authority that may exist under other law 
     to so regulate or affect, except as provided in this Act.
       (e) Governmental Discretion in Alleviating Burdens on 
     Religious Exercise.--A government may avoid the preemptive 
     force of any provision of this Act by changing the policy 
     that results in the substantial burden on religious exercise, 
     by retaining the policy and exempting the burdened religious 
     exercise, by providing exemptions from the policy for 
     applications that substantially burden religious exercise, or 
     by any other means that eliminates the substantial burden.
       (f) Effect on Other Law.--In a claim under section 2(a)(2) 
     of this Act, proof that a substantial burden on a person's 
     religious exercise, or removal of that burden, affects or 
     would affect commerce, shall not establish any inference or 
     presumption that Congress intends that any religious exercise 
     is, or is not, subject to any other law.
       (g) Broad Construction.--This Act should be construed in 
     favor of a broad protection of religious exercise, to the 
     maximum extent permitted by its terms and the Constitution.
       (h) Severability.--If any provision of this Act or of an 
     amendment made by this Act, or any application of such 
     provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be 
     unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, the amendments 
     made by this Act, and the application of the provision to any 
     other person or circumstance shall not be affected.

     SEC. 6. ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE UNAFFECTED.

       Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect, 
     interpret, or in any way address that portion of the first 
     amendment to the Constitution prohibiting laws respecting an 
     establishment of religion (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Establishment Clause''). Granting government funding, 
     benefits, or exemptions, to the extent permissible under the 
     Establishment Clause, shall not constitute a violation of 
     this Act. As used in this section, the term ``granting'', 
     used with respect to government funding, benefits, or 
     exemptions, does not include the denial of government 
     funding, benefits, or exemptions.

     SEC. 7. AMENDMENTS TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 5 of the Religious Freedom 
     Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-2) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``a State, or subdivision 
     of a State'' and inserting ``a covered entity or a 
     subdivision of such an entity'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``term'' and all that 
     follows through ``includes'' and inserting ``term `covered 
     entity' means''; and
       (3) in paragraph (4), by striking all after ``means,'' and 
     inserting ``any exercise of religion, whether or not 
     compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief, 
     and includes (A) the use, building, or conversion of real 
     property by a person or entity intending that property for 
     religious exercise; and (B) any conduct protected as exercise 
     of religion under the first amendment to the Constitution.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 6(a) of the Religious 
     Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-3(a)) is 
     amended by striking ``and State''.

     SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this Act--
       (1) the term ``religious exercise'' means any exercise of 
     religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a 
     system of religious belief, and includes (A) the use, 
     building, or conversion of real property by a person or 
     entity intending that property for religious exercise; and 
     (B) any conduct protected as exercise of religion under the 
     first amendment to the Constitution;
       (2) the term ``Free Exercise Clause'' means that portion of 
     the first amendment to the Constitution that proscribes laws 
     prohibiting the free exercise of religion and includes the 
     application of that proscription under the 14th amendment to 
     the Constitution;
       (3) the term ``land use regulation'' means a law or 
     decision by a government that limits or restricts a private 
     person's uses or development of land, or of structures 
     affixed to land, where the law or decision applies to one or 
     more particular parcels of land or to land within one or more 
     designated geographical zones, and where the private person 
     has an ownership, leasehold, easement, servitude, or other 
     property interest in the regulated land, or a contract or 
     option to acquire such an interest;
       (4) the term ``program or activity'' means a program or 
     activity as defined in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 606 of 
     the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-4a);
       (5) the term ``demonstrates'' means meets the burdens of 
     going forward with the evidence and of persuasion; and
       (6) the term ``government''--
       (A) means--
       (i) a State, county, municipality, or other governmental 
     entity created under the authority of a State;
       (ii) any branch, department, agency, instrumentality, 
     subdivision, or official of an entity listed in clause (i); 
     and
       (iii) any other person acting under color of State law; and
       (B) for the purposes of sections 3(a) and 5, includes the 
     United States, a branch, department, agency, instrumentality 
     or official of

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     the United States, and any person acting under color of 
     Federal law.

                               H.R. 1691

                         Offered By: Mr. Nadler

               (Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute)

       Amendment No. 2: Strike all after the enacting clause and 
     insert the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Religious Liberty Protection 
     Act of 1999''.

     SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS EXERCISE.

       (a) General Rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a 
     government shall not substantially burden a person's 
     religious exercise--
       (1) in a program or activity, operated by a government, 
     that receives Federal financial assistance; or
       (2) in any case in which the substantial burden on the 
     person's religious exercise affects, or in which a removal of 
     that substantial burden would affect, commerce with foreign 
     nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes;

     even if the burden results from a rule of general 
     applicability.
       (b) Exception.--A government may substantially burden a 
     person's religious exercise if the government demonstrates 
     that application of the burden to the person--
       (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental 
     interest; and
       (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that 
     compelling governmental interest.
       (c) Remedies of the United States.--Nothing in this section 
     shall be construed to authorize the United States to deny or 
     withhold Federal financial assistance as a remedy for a 
     violation of this Act. However, nothing in this subsection 
     shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise affect any 
     right or authority of the Attorney General or the United 
     States or any agency, officer, or employee thereof under 
     other law, including section 4(d) of this Act, to institute 
     or intervene in any action or proceeding.

     SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

       (a) Procedure.--If a claimant produces prima facie evidence 
     to support a claim alleging a violation of the Free Exercise 
     Clause or a violation of a provision of this Act enforcing 
     that clause, the government shall bear the burden of 
     persuasion on any element of the claim; however, the claimant 
     shall bear the burden of persuasion on whether the challenged 
     government practice, law, or regulation burdens or 
     substantially burdens the claimant's exercise of religion.
       (b) Land Use Regulation.--
       (1) Limitation on land use regulation.--
       (A) Where, in applying or implementing any land use 
     regulation or exemption, or system of land use regulations or 
     exemptions, a government has the authority to make 
     individualized assessments of the proposed uses to which real 
     property would be put, the government may not impose a 
     substantial burden on a person's religious exercise, unless 
     the government demonstrates that application of the burden to 
     the person is in furtherance of a compelling governmental 
     interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering 
     that compelling governmental interest.
       (B) No government shall impose or implement a land use 
     regulation in a manner that does not treat religious 
     assemblies or institutions on equal terms with nonreligious 
     assemblies or institutions.
       (C) No government shall impose or implement a land use 
     regulation that discriminates against any assembly or 
     institution on the basis of religion or religious 
     denomination.
       (D) No government with zoning authority shall unreasonably 
     exclude from the jurisdiction over which it has authority, or 
     unreasonably limit within that jurisdiction, assemblies or 
     institutions principally devoted to religious exercise.
       (2) Full faith and credit.--Adjudication of a claim of a 
     violation of the Free Exercise Clause or this subsection in a 
     non-Federal forum shall be entitled to full faith and credit 
     in a Federal court only if the claimant had a full and fair 
     adjudication of that claim in the non-Federal forum.
       (3) Nonpreemption.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
     preempt State law that is equally or more protective of 
     religious exercise.

     SEC. 4. JUDICIAL RELIEF.

       (a) Cause of Action.--A person may assert a violation of 
     this Act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and 
     obtain appropriate relief against a government. Standing to 
     assert a claim or defense under this section shall be 
     governed by the general rules of standing under article III 
     of the Constitution.
       (b) Attorneys' Fees.--Section 722(b) of the Revised 
     Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 
     1998,'' after ``Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993,''; 
     and
       (2) by striking the comma that follows a comma.
       (c) Prisoners.--Any litigation under this Act in which the 
     claimant is a prisoner shall be subject to the Prison 
     Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (including provisions of law 
     amended by that Act).
       (d) Authority of United States to Enforce This Act.--The 
     United States may sue for injunctive or declaratory relief to 
     enforce compliance with this Act.
       (e) Persons Who May Raise a Claim or Defense.--A person who 
     may raise a claim or defense under subsection (a) is--
       (1) an owner of a dwelling described in section 803(b) of 
     the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3603(b)), with respect to a 
     prohibition relating to discrimination in housing;
       (2) with respect to a prohibition against discrimination in 
     employment--
       (A) a religious corporation, association, educational 
     institution (as described in 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(e)), or 
     society, with respect to the employment of individuals who 
     perform duties such as spreading or teaching faith, other 
     instructional functions, performing or assisting in 
     devotional services, or activities relating to the internal 
     governance of such corporation, association, educational 
     institution, or society in the carrying on of its activities; 
     or
       (B) an entity employing 5 or fewer individuals; or
       (3) any other person, with respect to an assertion of any 
     other claim or defense relating to a law other than a law--
       (A) prohibiting discrimination in housing and employment, 
     except as described in paragraphs (1) and (2); or
       (B) prohibiting discrimination in a public accommodation.

     SEC. 5. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

       (a) Religious Belief Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act shall 
     be construed to authorize any government to burden any 
     religious belief.
       (b) Religious Exercise Not Regulated.--Nothing in this Act 
     shall create any basis for restricting or burdening religious 
     exercise or for claims against a religious organization, 
     including any religiously affiliated school or university, 
     not acting under color of law.
       (c) Claims to Funding Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act 
     shall create or preclude a right of any religious 
     organization to receive funding or other assistance from a 
     government, or of any person to receive government funding 
     for a religious activity, but this Act may require government 
     to incur expenses in its own operations to avoid imposing a 
     burden or a substantial burden on religious exercise.
       (d) Other Authority To Impose Conditions on Funding 
     Unaffected.--Nothing in this Act shall--
       (1) authorize a government to regulate or affect, directly 
     or indirectly, the activities or policies of a person other 
     than a government as a condition of receiving funding or 
     other assistance; or
       (2) restrict any authority that may exist under other law 
     to so regulate or affect, except as provided in this Act.
       (e) Governmental Discretion in Alleviating Burdens on 
     Religious Exercise.--A government may avoid the preemptive 
     force of any provision of this Act by changing the policy 
     that results in the substantial burden on religious exercise, 
     by retaining the policy and exempting the burdened religious 
     exercise, by providing exemptions from the policy for 
     applications that substantially burden religious exercise, or 
     by any other means that eliminates the substantial burden.
       (f) Effect on Other Law.--In a claim under section 2(a)(2) 
     of this Act, proof that a substantial burden on a person's 
     religious exercise, or removal of that burden, affects or 
     would affect commerce, shall not establish any inference or 
     presumption that Congress intends that any religious exercise 
     is, or is not, subject to any other law.
       (g) Broad Construction.--This Act should be construed in 
     favor of a broad protection of religious exercise, to the 
     maximum extent permitted by its terms and the Constitution.
       (h) Severability.--If any provision of this Act or of an 
     amendment made by this Act, or any application of such 
     provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be 
     unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, the amendments 
     made by this Act, and the application of the provision to any 
     other person or circumstance shall not be affected.

     SEC. 6. ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE UNAFFECTED.

       Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect, 
     interpret, or in any way address that portion of the first 
     amendment to the Constitution prohibiting laws respecting an 
     establishment of religion (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Establishment Clause''). Granting government funding, 
     benefits, or exemptions, to the extent permissible under the 
     Establishment Clause, shall not constitute a violation of 
     this Act. As used in this section, the term ``granting'', 
     used with respect to government funding, benefits, or 
     exemptions, does not include the denial of government 
     funding, benefits, or exemptions.

     SEC. 7. AMENDMENTS TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 5 of the Religious Freedom 
     Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-2) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``a State, or subdivision 
     of a State'' and inserting ``a covered entity or a 
     subdivision of such an entity'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``term'' and all that 
     follows through ``includes'' and inserting ``term `covered 
     entity' means''; and
       (3) in paragraph (4), by striking all after ``means,'' and 
     inserting ``any exercise of religion, whether or not 
     compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief, 
     and includes (A) the use, building, or conversion of real 
     property by a person or entity intending that property for 
     religious exercise; and (B) any conduct protected as exercise 
     of religion under the first amendment to the Constitution.''.

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       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 6(a) of the Religious 
     Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-3(a)) is 
     amended by striking ``and State''.

     SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this Act--
       (1) the term ``religious exercise'' means any exercise of 
     religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a 
     system of religious belief, and includes (A) the use, 
     building, or conversion of real property by a person or 
     entity intending that property for religious exercise; and 
     (B) any conduct protected as exercise of religion under the 
     first amendment to the Constitution;
       (2) the term ``Free Exercise Clause'' means that portion of 
     the first amendment to the Constitution that proscribes laws 
     prohibiting the free exercise of religion and includes the 
     application of that proscription under the 14th amendment to 
     the Constitution;
       (3) the term ``land use regulation'' means a law or 
     decision by a government that limits or restricts a private 
     person's uses or development of land, or of structures 
     affixed to land, where the law or decision applies to one or 
     more particular parcels of land or to land within one or more 
     designated geographical zones, and where the private person 
     has an ownership, leasehold, easement, servitude, or other 
     property interest in the regulated land, or a contract or 
     option to acquire such an interest;
       (4) the term ``program or activity'' means a program or 
     activity as defined in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 606 of 
     the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-4a);
       (5) the term ``demonstrates'' means meets the burdens of 
     going forward with the evidence and of persuasion; and
       (6) the term ``government''--
       (A) means--
       (i) a State, county, municipality, or other governmental 
     entity created under the authority of a State;
       (ii) any branch, department, agency, instrumentality, 
     subdivision, or official of an entity listed in clause (i); 
     and
       (iii) any other person acting under color of State law; and
       (B) for the purposes of sections 3(a) and 5, includes the 
     United States, a branch, department, agency, instrumentality 
     or official of the United States, and any person acting under 
     color of Federal law.

                               H.R. 2415

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanford

       Amendment No. 1: Page 14, line 23, strike ``$17,500,000'' 
     and insert ``$12,000,000''.

                               H.R. 2415

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanford

       Amendment No. 2: Page 15, strike lines 19 and 20, and 
     insert ``$1,500,000 for the fiscal year 2000.''.

                               H.R. 2415

                        Offered By: Mr. Sanford

       Amendment No. 3: Page 21, line 25, strike ``such sums as 
     may be necessary'' and insert ``$8,000,000''.

                               H.R. 2466

                       Offered By: Ms. Slaughter

       Amendment No. 16: Page 71, line 19, insert ``(reduced by 
     $20,000,000)'' after the dollar figure.
       
       Page 87, line 19, insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)'' 
     after the dollar figure.
       
       Page 88, line 18, insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)'' 
     after the dollar figure.

                               H.R. 2466

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 17: Page 87, line 19, insert ``(reduced by 
     $2,087,500)'' after the dollar figure.

                               H.R. 2466

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 18: Page 87, line 25, insert the following 
     before the period:

     , except that 95 percent of such amount shall be allocated 
     among the States on the basis of population for grants under 
     section 5(g) notwithstanding sections 5(g)(3) and 
     11(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act

                               H.R. 2466

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 19: At the end of the bill add the following:
                 TITLE    --STUDY OF FORT KING, FLORIDA

     SEC. ____01. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

       The Congress finds that--
       (1) the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, is an important 
     period of conflict in the history of the Nation and lasted 
     longer than any other armed conflict in which the Nation 
     participated, except the Vietnam War;
       (2) Fort King, in central Florida, played an important 
     historic role in the Second Seminole War as the site of the 
     outbreak of hostilities between the United States Government 
     and the Seminole Indians of Florida, who were led by Seminole 
     Indian Chief Osceola;
       (3) Fort King represents a unique site for exploration and 
     interpretation of the attack that ignited the Second Seminole 
     War on December 28, 1835; and
       (4) Fort King and the surrounding area contain materials 
     and artifacts used in the attack and in the life of the 
     Seminole Indians.

     SEC. ____02. REQUIREMENT OF STUDY.

       The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this title 
     referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall conduct a study to 
     identify potential means to preserve, develop, and interpret 
     Fort King, in central Florida, and the surrounding area. As 
     part of the study, the Secretary shall propose alternatives 
     for cooperation in the preservation and interpretation of 
     Fort King and shall provide recommendations with respect to 
     the suitability and feasibility of establishing Fort King as 
     a unit of the National Park System.

     SEC. ____03. FINDINGS INCLUDED IN STUDY.

       The study required by section ____02 shall contain, but 
     need not be limited to, findings with respect to--
       (1) the role played by Fort King in the Second Seminole 
     War;
       (2) identification of the historical, cultural, and 
     archaeological material found in Fort King and the 
     surrounding area relating to life at the time of and 
     preceding the Second Seminole War;
       (3) the types of Federal, State, and local programs that 
     are available to preserve and develop Fort King and the 
     surrounding area and to make the fort and the surrounding 
     area accessible for public use and enjoyment; and
       (4) the potential use of, and coordination with, Federal, 
     State, and local programs to manage, in the public interest, 
     the historical and cultural resources found at and around 
     Fort King.

     SEC. ____04. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.

       The Secretary shall submit a report detailing the results 
     of the study required by section ____02 to the committees of 
     jurisdiction of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.

                               H.R. 2466

                         Offered By: Mr. Weldon

       Amendment No. 20: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. ____. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     no funds made available under this Act may be expended to 
     approve class III gaming on Indian lands by any means other 
     than a Tribal-State compact entered into between a State and 
     a tribe.
       (b) For the purposes of this section, the terms ``class III 
     gaming'', ``Indian lands'', and ``Tribal-State compact'' 
     shall have the meaning given those terms in the Indian Gaming 
     Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.).

                               H.R. 2466

                           Offered By: Mr. Wu

       Amendment No. 21: Page 57, line 8, after the period add the 
     following: ``Of the funds made available by this paragraph, 
     $196,885,000 shall be for timber sales management, 
     $120,475,000 shall be for wildlife and fisheries habitat 
     management, and $40,165,000 shall be for watershed 
     improvements.''.

                        Offered By: Mr. Hoeffel

       Amendment No. 1: Page 97, after line 13, insert the 
     following:


   study on use of antiques firearms in crime; report to the congress

       Sec. ____. (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) recent events in Norristown, Pennsylvania have focused 
     the region's attention on the issue of antique firearms and 
     their use in violent crimes;
       (2) antique firearms are not subject to the same laws that 
     regulate conventional firearms; and
       (3) statistics on the use of antique firearms in crime are 
     not consistently gathered, and crime perpetrated with antique 
     firearms is not tracked.
       (b) Study.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall collect 
     statistics on the use of antique firearms in crime, and shall 
     conduct a study on the use of antique firearms in crime. For 
     purposes of this section, the term ``antique firearms'' has 
     the meaning given the term in section 921(a)(16) of title 18, 
     United States Code.
       (c) Report.--Within 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
     Senate a written report on the statistics collected and the 
     results of the study conducted under subsection (b).

                               H.R. 2490

                    Offered By: Mr. Moran of Kansas

       Amendment No. 2. At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following new 
     section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to implement any sanction imposed unilaterally by the 
     United States on private commercial sales of food or any 
     other agricultural product (excluding Federal direct or 
     guaranteed credit transactions) to a foreign country.

                               H.R. 2490

                         Offered By: Mr. Tiahrt

            (Page & line nos. refer to Full Committee Print)

       Amendment No. 3: Page 97, after line 13, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 647. None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
     other Act may be used by the United States Postal Service to 
     implement, administer, or enforce the provisions of part 111 
     of title 39 of the Code of Federal Regulations (relating to 
     delivery of mail to a commercial mail receiving agency), 
     other than as last in effect before April 26, 1999.