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Official portrait of Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]

Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]

United States · Official source

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  • D · D · present
  • · House of Representatives · present

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 620 (105th)failed

An amendment, printed as amendment No. 2 in House Report 105-531, to permit all financial activities, except for insurance underwriting and real estate development, to be performed through a bank operating subsidiary structure. The amendment revises the consumer protection language under the bill to ensure that the stronger of state or federal consumer protection law prevails. The amendment also mandates that the Government Accounting Office conduct an annual antitrust study.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 860 (103rd)passed

An amendment to make reductions in the bill's authorization for venture capital funding under the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) and Specialized Small Business Investment Company (SSBIC) programs. The amendment decreases the bill's authorization of the SBIC participating security program for $500 million to $400 million in FY 1995; from $750 million to $650 million in FY 1996; and from $1.125 billion to $900 million in FY 1997. The amendment decreases the bill's authorization of the SBIC debenture program from $230 million to $200 million in FY 1995; from $350 million to $210 million in FY 1996; and from $500 million to $220 million in FY 1997. The amendment decreases the bill's authorization of the SSBIC preferred stock program from $33 million to $23 million in FY 1995; from $39 million to $24 million in FY 1996; and from $45 million to $25 million in FY 1997. The amendment also decreases the bill's authorization of the SSBIC guarantee program from $55 million to $44 million in FY 1995; from $55 million to $46 million in FY 1996; and from $55 million to $48 million in FY 1997.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 689 (99th)passed

An amendment to permit the EPA to make up to $2.5 million in grants to the State of New York to acquire private property in the Love Canal Emergency Declaration Area. All private property in the area is to be acquired. The amendment requires a habitability and land use study of the area. The amendment requires that the funds be used only if the State is to take possession of the property, and that purchase shall be based on the fair market value of the property prior to the emergency declaration.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 1064 (98th)passed

An amendment to add that in determining priorities among releases and threatened releases under the National Contingency Plan and in carrying out remedial action the Administrator shall establish a high priority for acquisition of all properties (including nonowner occupied residential, commercial, public, religious, and vacant properties) in the area which, prior to 3/22/80, the President determined an emergency to exist because of the released hazardous substances and in which owner occupied residences have been acquired pursuant to such determination. This applies to Love Canal properties.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 458 (107th)failed

An amendment in the nature of a substitute numbered 5 printed in House Report 107-418 to replace the regulatory structure in the bill with one that requires establishment of a public regulator with specified duties and authority; to modify definitions of non-audit services to make the two bans on non-audit services included in the bill effective; to provide for approval of non-audit services by the audit committee; to replace the executive responsibility provisions in the bill to require executive certification of financial statements; to improve the ability of the SEC to bar officers and directors from future service in public companies; to enable the SEC to obtain disgorgement of stock bonuses from executives who have falsified financial statements; to place limits on analyst conflicts of interest and improve corporate governance by giving audit committees oversight of auditors; and to establish an independent nominating committee for independent directors.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 203 (98th)passed

Amendments en bloc: (1) to prohibit the use of funds for relocation of an industrial or commercial establishment if that move would result in significant unemployment in the area of the original location; (2) to direct the Commerce Department to study the costs of financing construction of necessary public facilities (roads, sewers, ports, bridges, waterways and airports) so as to give the Congress an idea of the infrastructure needs of the country, and the ability of state and local governments to meet these needs; (3) to change the definition of an Indian tribe to include tribes recognized by the state where located; (4) to earmark $2 million of the $15 million authorized in FY'84 for evaluation and demonstration programs to be used for a study of the state and local financing needs for construction and rehabilitation.

United States · United States Congress

Bill· HRH.R. 5621 (107th)referred

Federal Credit Union Services Expansion Act of 2002

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 2002

Federal Credit Union Services Expansion Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act (FCUA) to exempt from the numerical limitation on credit union membership: (1) a Federal credit union merger approved by the National Credit Union Administration Board as of August 7, 1998; and (2) student groups, if certain financial education materials are furnished. Instructs the Board to prescribe criteria for continued membership of certain member groups in community charter conversions. Includes electronic fund transfers among the services available to persons in the field of membership (but not members). Raises the ceiling on member business loans. Amends the Small Business Act (SBA) to allow credit union participation in SBA guaranteed loan programs. Amends the FCUA to declare that if a credit union provides debt management and counseling services it may expand its membership in underserved communities that show both: (1) significant unmet needs for affordable short-term credit from depository institutions; and (2) a high concentration of noninsured commercial credit facilities offering high-cost credit and money transfer services. Amends the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994, with respect to business loans to credit union members, to extend the meaning of insured credit union to include a nonprofit organization owned collectively by insured credit unions. Amends the FCUA to prescribe guidelines governing: (1) investments for the credit union's own account; (2) conversion of insured credit unions to mutual savings banks; (3) member participation in credit union decisions to terminate share insurance; and (4) membership and activities of insured state-chartered credit unions.

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