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Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-33]

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 603 (97th)failed

An amendment to exempt health related research and research and development from the provisions of the bill. The amendment specifically exempts programs covered by the Public Health Service Act; the Comprehensive Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act; the Drug Abuse, Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act; certain titles of the Social Security Act; and any health related research program of the Department of Health and Human Services or its entities.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 279 (97th)open

An amendment to increase funds for Assistant Secretary of Health, salaries and expenses from 140,039,000 dollars to 142,039,000 dollars, with the stipulation that 2,000,000 dollars shall be available to carry out section 309 of the Public Health Service Act. The amendment also reduces funds: National Institutes of Health research resources and general research support grants from 191,965,000 dollars to 191,465,000 dollars, NIH John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in Health Sciences from 9,589,000 dollars to 9,089,000 dollars, the NIH National Library of Medicine, from 46,252,000 dollars to 45,752,000 dollars, and NIH Office of the Director from 36,502,000 dollars to 36,002,000 dollars.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 1097 (98th)passed

Amendments en bloc to 1) provide that permits health care students to leave full time programs for up to two years to engage in activities related to health care professions to continue to be exempt from immediate repayment of loans due to interrupted educations, 2) language conforming to the reduction in funds from a previous amendment (HA1095), 3) reduce funds for the National Health Service Corps Programs by 5 million dollars for each of the three years funded in the bill, 4) reduce funds for Health Maintenance Organizations + Migrant + Community Health Centers by 116 million dollars over four fiscal years, and 4) prohibits the requirement that health maintenance organizations include organ transplants to qualify under the Public Health Services Act (Title XIII).

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 1095 (98th)passed

Amendments en bloc to strike the 79 million dollars in funds provided for programs under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act for the fiscal year ending 9/30/88. The amendment also permits the Secretary to enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy which previously received federal financial assistance under section 802 of the Health Professionals Educational Assistance Act of 1975, if they meet certain criteria.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 903 (98th)passed

An amendment to provide for a Bone Marrow Registry demonstration and study. The amendment directs the Secretary of HHS to establish a bone marrow registry of voluntary donors of bone marrow. The registry is to be confidential and must be established within 12 months of passage of the bill. A study is to be made of the registry to determine if it is needed and appropriate. The study is to be presented to Congress within two years of establishment of the registry.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 885 (98th)open

An amendment (no. 52) to provide guidelines and flexible continuous residence standards for legislation. The Attorney General is required to publish guidelines that "liberally construe" the requirements for eligibility for legalization and which permit the use of affidavits of witnesses to establish continuous residence. It states that brief and casual trips abroad or trips due to emergency or extenuating circumstances outside the control of the alien are not to be considered as breaches of the continuous residence requirements. Absences up to 30 days shall not constitute the sole reason for denial of legalization.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 419 (99th)passed

An amendment striking language in the bill that requires the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to conduct a study of potential methane gas risks for the proposed rail alignment of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and adds language that prohibits funding of that project until the District establishes an independent committee of experts to study the entire Metro Rail route system for potential hazards associated with methane gas. The results of the study must be incorporated into the District's plans for construction of the rail system.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 390 (100th)passed

An amendment to provide a one-time opportunity for defaulters to reenter the National Health Service Corps in order to fulfill their service obligation, and to be forgiven all or part of the financial penalties they owe the Federal Government. The amendment would encourage reentry by permitting defaulters to serve in less remote locations than most NHSC personnel, but they would have to serve for longer periods of time or repay part of the amount owed to the Federal Government.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 12 (103rd)open

A substitute amendment to the Bliley amendment to restore the original language of the bill on fetal tissue research, and to add an additional requirement that attending physicians certify that abortions in which fetal tissue is donated were performed in accordance with applicable state law. The amendment would also require HHS to submit annual reports to Congress describing all fetal tissue transplant research activities conducted or funded by NIH.

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