[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11574-11576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               AMENDMENTS

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

                               H.R. 4461

                        Offered By: Mrs. Clayton

       Amendment No. 31: Page 48, after line 25, insert the 
     following:


                 national rural development partnership

       For the National Rural Development Partnership established 
     in the Department of Agriculture, $5,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                               H.R. 4635

                         Offered By: Mr. Berry

       Amendment No. 44: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to implement any rule, regulation, or administrative 
     directive on effluent limitations relating to aquaculture, 
     including but not limited to rules, regulations or 
     administrative directives which require disclosure of 
     financial information to the Environmental Protection Agency 
     or any other Federal department or agency.

                               H.R. 4635

                         Offered By: Mr. Berry

       Amendment No. 45: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to implement any rule, regulation, or administrative 
     directive on effluent limitations relating to aquaculture 
     that requires disclosure of financial

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     information to the Environmental Protection Agency or any 
     other Federal department or agency.

                               H.R. 4635

                    Offered By: Ms. Brown of Florida

       Amendment No. 46: Page 30, line 20, after the dollar 
     amount, insert the following: ``(increased by 
     $395,000,000)''.
       Page 30, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $395,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 4635

                        Offered By: Mr. Edwards

       Amendment No. 47: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. (a) The amount provided in title I for ``VETERANS 
     HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--Medical Care'' is hereby increased by 
     $500,000,000, and the amount provided in title I for 
     ``VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--Medical and Prosthetic 
     Research'' is hereby increased by $65,000,000.
       (b) Any reduction for a taxable year beginning before 
     January 1, 2003, in the rate of tax on estates under the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is enacted during 2000 
     shall not apply to a taxable estate in excess of $20,000,000.

                               H.R. 4635

                         Offered By: Mr. Roemer

        Amendment No. 48: Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount 
     insert the following: ``(reduced by $2,100,000,000) 
     (increased by $300,000,000)''.
       Page 73, line 18, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $290,000,000) (increased by 
     $20,000,000) (increased by $6,000,000) (increased by 
     $49,000,000)''.
       Page 77, line 1, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $405,000,000)''.
       Page 77, line 22, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $62,000,000)''.
       Page 78, line 5, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $34,700,000)''.
       Page 78, line 21, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $5,900,000)''.

                               H.R. 4690

                         Offered By: Mr. Allen

       Page 72, line 3, before the period insert ``; Provided 
     further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 may be available for 
     diplomatic activities designed to encourage North Korea to 
     terminate its ballistic missile program''.

                               H.R. 4690

                        Offered By: Mr. Capuano

       Amendment No. 3: Page 107, after line 12, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 624. (a) Within 60 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal 
     Communications Commission shall conduct a study on the area 
     code crisis in the United States. Such study shall examine 
     the causes and potential solutions to the growing number of 
     area codes in the United States, including the following:
       (1) Shortening the lengthy timeline for implementation of 
     the Federal Communications Commission's recent order 
     mandating 1,000 number block pooling.
       (2) Repealing the wireless carrier exemption from the 
     Federal Communications Commission's 1,000 number block 
     pooling order.
       (3) The issue of rate center consolidation and possible 
     steps the Commission can take to encourage or require States 
     or telecommunications companies, or both, to undertake plans 
     to deal with this issue.
       (4) The feasibility of technology-specific area codes 
     reserved for wireless or paging services or data phone lines.
       (5) Strengthening the sanctions against telecommunications 
     companies that do not address number use issues.
       (6) The possibility of single number block pooling as a 
     potential solution to the area code crisis.
       (7) The costs and technological issues surrounding adding 
     an additional digit to existing phone numbers and potential 
     ways to minimize the impact on consumers.
       (b) Within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
     the Federal Communications Commission shall submit to the 
     Congress a report on the results of the study required by 
     subsection (a).

                               H.R. 4690

                        Offered By: Mr. Largent

       Amendment No. 4: Page 2, line 9, after ``expended'' insert 
     ``, and of which $5,000,000 shall be expended by the Criminal 
     Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, for the 
     hiring and training of staff, travel, and other necessary 
     expenses, to prosecute obscenity cases, including those 
     arising under chapter 71 of title 18, United States Code''.

                               H.R. 4690

                         Offered By: Mrs. Lowey

       Amendment No. 5: Page 32, line 14, after the dollar amount, 
     insert the following: ``(increased by $150,000,000)''.
       Page 33, line 2, before the comma, insert the following: 
     ``$150,000,000 shall be for the State and Local Gun 
     Prosecutors program, for discretionary grants to State, 
     local, and tribal jurisdictions and prosecutors' offices to 
     hire up to 1,000 prosecutors to work on gun-related cases.''

                               H.R. 4690

                          (En Bloc Amendments)

                  Offered By: Mrs. Maloney of New York

       Amendment No. 6: Page 40, line 7, after the dollar amount, 
     insert the following: ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 45, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 45, line 19, after ``activities;'', insert the 
     following: ``of which $5,000,000 is for activities related to 
     the planning of a census of Americans abroad, to be taken by 
     December 31, 2003;''.

                               H.R. 4690

                        Offered By: Mr. McGovern

       Amendment No. 7: In title I, in the item relating to 
     ``General Administration--telecommunications carrier 
     compliance fund'', after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,479,000)''.
       In title V, in the item relating to ``Small Business 
     Administration--salaries and expenses'', after the second 
     dollar amount insert ``(increased by $4,479,000)''.

                               H.R. 4690

                         Offered By: Mr. Oxley

       Amendment No. 8: Page 89, line 22, insert before the period 
     the following: ``: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     made available in this Act may be used to implement or 
     enforce the Federal Communications Commission's report and 
     order entitled `In the Matter of Creation of Low Power Radio 
     Service' (MM Docket No. 99-25, FCC 00-19), adopted January 
     20, 2000, or to issue any license or permit pursuant to such 
     report and order.''.

                               H.R. 4690

                         Offered By: Mr. Rush.

       Amendment No. 9: In title I, in the item relating to 
     ``Federal Bureau of Investigation--Salaries and Expenses'', 
     after the aggregate dollar amount, insert the following: 
     ``(reduced by $8,500,000)''.
       In title I, in the item relating to ``Office of Justice 
     Programs--Weed and Seed Program Fund'', after the aggregate 
     dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by 
     $8,500,000)''.

                               H.R. 4690

                          Offered By: Mr. Rush

       Amendment No. 10: In title I, in the item relating to 
     ``Federal Bureau of Investigation--Salaries and Expenses'', 
     after the aggregate dollar amount, insert the following: 
     ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''.
       In title I, in the item relating to ``Community Oriented 
     Policing Services'', after the 1st and 6th dollar amounts, 
     insert the following: ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 4690

                          Offered By: Mr. Rush

       Amendment No. 11: At the end of the bill (preceding the 
     short title), insert the following:

                 TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS

       Small Business Administration

              program for investment in microentrepreneurs


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the PRIME Act (as added 
     by section 725 of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (Pub. L. 106-
     102)), to be derived by transfer from the aggregate amount 
     provided in this Act under the heading ``National Oceanic And 
     Atmospheric Administration--Operations, Research, and 
     Facilities'' (and the amount specified under such heading for 
     the National Weather Service), $15,000,000.

                               H.R. 4690

                         Offered By: Mr. Weiner

       Amendment No. 12: Beginning on page 32, strike line 11 and 
     all that follows through page 33, line 14, and insert the 
     following:

     For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and 
     Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Public Law 103-322 (``the 1994 
     Act''), $1,335,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the Attorney General may transfer any of these 
     funds, and balances for programs funded under this heading in 
     fiscal year 2000, to the ``State and Local Law Enforcement 
     Assistance'' account, to be available for the purposes stated 
     under this heading: Provided further, That administrative 
     expenses associated with such transferred amounts may be 
     transferred to the ``Justice Assistance'' account. Of the 
     amounts provided:
       (1) for Public Safety and Community Policing Grants 
     pursuant to title I of the 1994 Act, $650,000,000 as follows: 
     not to exceed $36,000,000 for program management and 
     administration; $20,000,000 for programs to combat violence 
     in schools; $25,000,000 for the matching grant program for 
     Law Enforcement Armor Vests pursuant to section 2501 of part 
     Y of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 
     as amended; $17,000,000 for program support for the Court 
     Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of 
     Columbia; $45,000,000 to improve tribal law enforcement 
     including equipment and training; $20,000,000 for National 
     Police Officer Scholarships; and

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     $30,000,000 for Police Corps education, training, and service 
     under sections 200101-200113 of the 1994 Act;
       (2) for crime-fighting technology, $350,000,000 as follows: 
     $70,000,000 for grants to upgrade criminal records, as 
     authorized under the Crime Identification Technology Act of 
     1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601; $15,000,000 for State and local 
     forensic labs to reduce their convicted offender DNA sample 
     backlog; $35,000,000 for State, Tribal and local DNA 
     laboratories as authorized by section 1001(a)(22) of the 1968 
     Act, as well as improvements to State, Tribal and local 
     forensic laboratory general forensic science capabilities; 
     $10,000,000 for the National Institute of Justice Law 
     Enforcement and Corrections Technology Centers; $5,000,000 
     for DNA technology research and development; $10,000,000 for 
     research, technical assistance, evaluation, grants, and other 
     expenses to utilize and improve crime-solving, data sharing, 
     and crime-forecasting technologies; $6,000,000 to establish 
     regional forensic computer labs; and $199,000,000 for 
     discretionary grants, including planning grants, to States 
     under section 102 of the Crime Identification Technology Act 
     of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601), of which up to $99,000,000 is for 
     grants to law enforcement agencies, and of which not more 
     than 23 percent may be used for salaries, administrative 
     expenses, technical assistance, training, and evaluation;
       (3) for a Community Prosecution Program, $200,000,000, of 
     which $150,000,000 shall be for grants to States and units of 
     local government to address gun violence ``hot spots'';
       (4) for grants, training, technical assistance, and other 
     expenses to support community crime prevention efforts, 
     $135,000,000 as follows: $35,000,000 for a youth and school 
     safety program; $5,000,000 for citizens academies and One 
     America race dialogues; $35,000,000 for an offender re-entry 
     program; $25,000,000 for a Building Blocks Program, including 
     $10,000,000 for the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety 
     Initiative; $20,000,000 for police integrity and hate crimes 
     training; $5,000,000 for police recruitment; and $10,000,000 
     for police gun destruction grants (Department of Justice 
     Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted by section 1000(a)(1) of 
     the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-
     113)).



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June 20, 2000