[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE


                          Enrolled Bill Signed

  At 1:27 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has 
signed the following enrolled bill:

       H.R. 4665. An act to require the Secretary of Commerce to 
     conduct an assessment and analysis of the outdoor recreation 
     economy of the United States, and for other purposes.

  The enrolled bill was subsequently signed by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Hatch).
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  At 4:45 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, without amendment:

       S. 1808. An act to require the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security to conduct a Northern Border threat analysis, and 
     for other purposes.
       S. 1915. An act to direct the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security to make anthrax vaccines available to emergency 
     response providers, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 3286. An act to encourage effective, voluntary private 
     sector investments to recruit, employ, and retain men and 
     women who have served in the United States military with 
     annual presidential awards to private sector employers 
     recognizing such efforts, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4757. An act to expand the eligibility for headstones, 
     markers, and medallions furnished by the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs for deceased individuals who were awarded 
     the Medal of Honor and are buried in private cemeteries, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 5160. An act to amend title 40, United States Code, to 
     include as part of the buildings and grounds of the National 
     Gallery of Art any buildings and other areas within the 
     boundaries of any real estate or other property interests 
     acquired by the National Gallery of Art.
       H.R. 5166. An act amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     permit veterans to grant access to their records in the 
     databases of the Veterans Benefits Administration to certain 
     designated congressional employees, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5422. An act to ensure funding for the National Human 
     Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5458. An act to provide for coordination between the 
     TRICARE program and eligibility for making contributions to a 
     health savings account, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5600. An act to direct the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs to carry out a pilot program to provide access to 
     magnetic EEG/EKG-guided resonance therapy to veterans.
       H.R. 5843. An act to establish a grant program at the 
     Department of Homeland Security to promote cooperative 
     research and development between the United States and Israel 
     on cybersecurity.
       H.R. 5877. An act to amend the Homeland Security Act of 
     2002 and the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act 
     of 2014 to promote cooperative homeland security research and 
     antiterrorism programs relating to cybersecurity, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 6135. An act to designate the Federal building and 
     United States courthouse located at 719 Church Street in 
     Nashville, Tennessee, as the ``Fred D. Thompson Federal 
     Building and United States Courthouse''.
       H.R. 6323. An act to name the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs health care system in Long Beach, California, the 
     ``Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center''.

  The message further announced that the House agrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3471) to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to make certain improvements in the provision of automobiles and 
adaptive equipment by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  The message also announced that the House agrees to the following 
concurrent resolutions, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 40. Concurrent resolution encouraging reunions 
     of divided Korean American families.
       H. Con. Res. 165. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of Congress and reaffirming longstanding United States 
     policy in support of a direct bilaterally negotiated 
     settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and opposition 
     to United Nations Security Council resolutions imposing a 
     solution to the conflict.

  The message further announced that the House passed the following 
bills, with amendment, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       S. 546. An act to establish the Railroad Emergency Services 
     Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation 
     (RESPONSE) Subcommittee under the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency's National Advisory Council to provide 
     recommendations on emergency responder training and resources 
     relating to hazardous materials incidents involving 
     railroads, and for other purposes.
       S. 2577. An act to protect crime victims' rights, to 
     eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA and other forensic 
     evidence samples to improve and expand the forensic science 
     testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime 
     laboratories, to increase research and development of new 
     testing technologies, to develop new training programs 
     regarding the collection and use of forensic evidence, to 
     provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate 
     the innocent, to support accreditation efforts of forensic 
     science laboratories and medical examiner offices, to address 
     training and equipment needs, to improve the performance of 
     counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Clerk of the House be directed to 
return to the Senate the resolution (H. Con. Res. 122) supporting 
efforts to stop the theft, illegal possession or sale, transfer, and 
export of tribal cultural items of American Indians, Alaska Natives, 
and Native Hawaiians in the United States and internationally, together 
with all accompanying papers, in compliance with a request of the 
Senate for the return thereof, to make a technical correction in the 
engrossment of the aforesaid resolution.

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