[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 27418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           NURSING RELIEF FOR DISADVANTAGED AREAS ACT OF 1999

  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, on October 22, the Senate passed by 
unanimous consent the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 
1999. The Senate agreed, also by unanimous consent, to an amendment of 
mine added to that legislation. My amendment made a technical 
clarification to the L visa program. Unfortunately, an ``Interpretation 
of Technical Amendment'' at the end of my remarks on my amendment was 
inadvertently left out of the Congressional Record. I ask unanimous 
consent it be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                 Interpretation of Technical Amendment

       ``Collective'' and ``collectively'' refer to a relationship 
     between the accounting and management consulting firms or the 
     elected members (partners, shareholders, members, employees) 
     of the various accounting and management consulting firms, 
     inclusive of both accounting service firms and management 
     consulting service firms or the elected members (partners, 
     shareholders, members, employees) thereof.
       An entity shall be considered to be ``marketing its 
     services under the same internationally recognized name 
     directly or indirectly under an agreement'' if it engages in 
     a trade or business and markets its trade or business under 
     the same internationally recognized name and one of the 
     following direct or indirect relationships apply to the 
     entity:
       (a) It has an agreement with the worldwide coordinating 
     organization, or
       (b) It is a parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate 
     relationship to an entity which has an agreement with a 
     qualifying worldwide coordinating organization, or
       (c) It is majority owned by members of such entity with an 
     agreement and/or the members of its parent, subsidiary or 
     affiliate entities, or
       (d) It is indirectly party to one or more agreements 
     connecting it to the worldwide coordinating organization, as 
     shown by facts and circumstances.
       This provision is intended to provide the basis of 
     continued L visa program eligibility for those worldwide 
     coordinating organizations which may in the future divide or 
     spin-off parallel business units which may independently plan 
     to associate with a non-collective worldwide coordinating 
     organization.

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