[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 125 (Thursday, September 23, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8629]
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. 2506

                        Offered By: Mr. Andrews

       Amendment No. 12: Page 16, after line 15, insert the 
     following subsection:
       (c) Certain Linkages Regarding Health Information.--
     Initiatives under subsection (a) shall include the 
     establishment, through a site maintained by the Director on 
     the telecommunications medium known as the World Wide Web, of 
     linkages that enable users of the site to obtain information 
     from consumer satisfaction agencies or other entities that 
     perform evaluations regarding the quality of health care, 
     including more than one link to entities that evaluate health 
     maintenance organizations, and including a link to the 
     National Committee for Quality Assurance.

                               H.R. 2506

                        Offered By: Mr. McGovern

       Amendment No. 13: Page 12, after line 14, insert the 
     following subparagraph:
       (C) The conduct of research to develop recommendations for 
     a national strategy to alleviate the shortage of licensed 
     pharmacists.
       Page 12, line 15, strike ```(C)'' and insert `` `(D)''.

                               H.R. 2506

                        Offered By: Mr. Stearns

       Amendment No. 14: Page 21, after line 8, insert the 
     following subsection:
       (d) Certain Technologies and Practices Regarding Survival 
     Rates for Cardiac Arrest.--The innovations in health care 
     technologies and clinical practice that are promoted under 
     subsection (a) shall include promoting the placement in 
     public buildings of automatic external defibrillators as a 
     means of improving the survival rates of individuals who 
     experience cardiac arrest in such buildings. Activities under 
     the preceding sentence shall include the development of 
     recommendations regarding the placement of such devices in 
     Federal buildings, including recommendations on training, 
     maintenance, and medical oversight, and on coordinating with 
     the system for emergency medical services.

                               H.R. 2506

                       Offered By: Mr. Traficant

       Amendment No. 15: Page 46, after line 2, insert the 
     following section:

     SEC. 4. BUY AMERICAN PROVISIONS.

       (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--No funds authorized 
     pursuant to this Act may be expended by an entity unless the 
     entity agrees that in expending the assistance the entity 
     will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 
     1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly known as the ``Buy 
     American Act'').
       (b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
       (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In 
     the case of any equipment or products that may be authorized 
     to be purchased with financial assistance provided under this 
     Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities receiving 
     such assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase 
     only American-made equipment and products.
       (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing 
     financial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of 
     Transportation shall provide to each recipient of the 
     assistance a notice describing the statement made in 
     paragraph (1) by the Congress.