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“AMENDMENTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H5196-H5197 on July 6, 2004.
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AMENDMENTS
Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Sanders
Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new title:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to make an application under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, library Internet records, bookseller sales records, or bookseller customer lists.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Sanders
Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new title:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to make an application under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, library Internet records, book sales records, or book customer lists.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Sanders
Amendment No. 3: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new title:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to make an application under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, library Internet records, bookseller sales records, or bookseller customer lists.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Otter
Amendment No. 4: Insert before the short title at the end the following:
TITLE VIII--NOTICE OF SEARCH WARRANTS
Sec. 801. Section 3103a of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``may have an adverse result (as defined in section 2705)'' and inserting ``will endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result in flight from prosecution, or result in the destruction of or tampering with the evidence sought under the warrant''; and
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a reasonable period'' and all that follows and inserting ``seven calendar days, which period, upon application of the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, or an Associate Attorney General, may thereafter be extended by the court for additional periods of up to seven calendar days each if the court finds, for each application, reasonable cause to believe that notice of the execution of the warrant will endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result in flight from prosecution, or result in the destruction of or tampering with the evidence sought under the warrant.''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(c) Reports.--(1) On a semiannual basis, the Attorney General shall transmit to Congress and make public a report concerning all requests for delays of notice, and for extensions of delays of notice, with respect to warrants under subsection (b).
``(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to the preceding six-month period--
``(A) the total number of requests for delays of notice with respect to warrants under subsection (b);
``(B) the total number of such requests granted or denied; and
``(C) for each request for delayed notice that was granted, the total number of applications for extensions of the delay of notice and the total number of such extensions granted or denied.''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Tancredo
Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program under the heading
``DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE--Office of Justice Programs--state and local law enforcement assistance'' may be used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373).
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Farr
Amendment No. 6: Insert before the short title at the end the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used to prevent the States of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, or Washington from implementing State laws authorizing the use of medical marijuana in those States.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Paul
Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for the American Community Survey.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Paul
Amendment No. 8: Insert before the short title at the end of the bill the following title:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used--
(1) to take any legal action against a physician for prescribing or administering a drug not included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances under section 202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act for the purpose of relieving or managing pain; or
(2) to threaten legal action in order to prevent a physician from prescribing or administering such a drug for such purpose.
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used--
(1) to take any legal action against a person for acts relating to the prescribing or administering by a physician of such a drug for such purpose; or
(2) to threaten any legal action against a person in order to prevent the person from engaging in acts relating to the prescribing or administering by a physician of such a drug for such purpose.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Paul
Amendment No. 9: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to pay expenses for any United States contribution to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Paul
Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to pay any United States contribution to the United Nations or any affiliated agency of the United Nations.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Kucinich
Amendment No. 11: Page 57, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $1,000,000)
(increased by $1,000,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Kucinich
Amendment No. 12: Page 57, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $250,000)
(increased by $250,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Kucinich
Amendment No. 13: Page 57, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $50,000)
(increased by $50,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas
Amendment No. 14: Page 2, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $1,000,000)''.
Page 84, line 11, after the first dollar amount, insert
``(increased by $1,000,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas
Amendment No. 15: Page 2, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.
Page 26, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
Page 28, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas
Amendment No. 16: Page 8, beginning on line 4, strike
``Attorneys.'' and insert ``Attorneys: Provided further, That in using funds made available under this heading to prosecute crimes described in section 274(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324(a)), priority shall be given to cases in which the offense was part of an ongoing commercial organization or enterprise; the aliens were transported in groups of 10 or more; and the aliens were transported in a manner that endangered their lives or the aliens presented a life-threatening health risk to people in the United States.''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Oxley
Amendment No. 17: Page 5, line 20, after the first dollar amount, insert the following: ``, of which $2,605,000 shall be for 25 positions to investigate and prosecute adult obsenity and child exploitation crimes,''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Oxley
Amendment No. 18: Page 5, line 20, after the first dollar amount, insert the following: ``, of which $2,605,000 shall be for the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section,''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Oxley
Amendment No. 19: Page 5, line 20, after the first dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $2,605,000)
(increased by $2,605,000)''.
H.R. 4754
Offered By: Mr. Akin
Amendment No. 20: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:
TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used in contravention of the provisions of subsections (e) and (f) of section 301 of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003
(Public Law 108-25; 22 U.S.C. 7631(e) and (f)).
