[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

  The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the 
first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

           By Mr. BIDEN:
       S. 3252. A bill to establish a national center on volunteer 
     and provider screening to reduce sexual and other abuse of 
     children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. McCONNELL (for himself and Mr. Byrd):
       S. 3253. A bill to authorize Department of Energy programs 
     to develop and implement an accelerated research and 
     development program for advanced clean coal technologies for 
     use in coal-based electricity generating facilities and to 
     amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide financial 
     incentives to encourage the retrofitting, repowering, or 
     replacement of coal-based electricity generating facilities 
     to protect the environment and improve efficiency and 
     encourage the early commercial application of advanced clean 
     coal technologies, so as to allow coal to help meet the 
     growing need of the United States for the generation of 
     reliable and affordable electricity; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 3254. A bill to provide assistance to East Timor to 
     facilitate the transition of East Timor to an independent 
     nation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
           By Mr. DASCHLE (for Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. 
             Moynihan, and Mr. Schumer)):
       S. 3255. A bill to amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to 
     apply the medicaid disproportionate share hospital payment 
     transition rule to public hospitals in all States; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mrs. LINCOLN:
       S. 3256. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture 
     to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative 
     sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita 
     National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or 
     exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative 
     sites; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry.
           By Mr. HARKIN:
       S. 3257. A bill to establish a Chief Labor Negotiator in 
     the Office of the United States Trade Representative; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. HARKIN (for himself, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Kennedy 
             , Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. 
             Lieberman, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
             Feingold, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
             Dodd, Mr. Kerry, and Mr. Baucus):
       S. 3258. A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act 
     and the Railway Labor Act to prevent discrimination based on 
     participation in labor disputes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MOYNIHAN:
       S. 3259. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide a rehabilitation credit for certain expenditures 
     to rehabilitate historic performing arts facilities; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. HARKIN (for himself and Mr. Smith of Oregon):
       S. 3260. A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to 
     establish the conservation security program; to the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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