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1. H.J.RES.38 : Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second amendment relating to Presidential term limits.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/4/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

2. H.R.601 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit local educational agencies to waive the reimbursement of the agency otherwise required for an alien to be accorded nonimmigrant status to study at a public secondary school administered by the agency.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/5/1997)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

3. H.R.602 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Attorney General to provide for special consideration concerning the English language requirements with respect to the naturalization of individuals over 65 years of age.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/5/1997)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

4. H.R.675 : To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Education with respect to eligibility standards for short-term educational programs.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/11/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 2/21/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning.

5. H.R.676 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/11/1997)      Cosponsors (44)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/14/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

6. H.R.719 : To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow children who meet certain criteria to attend a school that receives funds under part A of title I of such Act.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/12/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

7. H.R.720 : To terminate the international military education and training (IMET) program for Indonesia.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/12/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House International Relations
Latest Major Action: 2/12/1997 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

8. H.R.721 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to correct the treatment of tax-exempt financing of professional sports facilities.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/12/1997)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/12/1997 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

9. H.R.761 : To amend title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to extend the 1-year transition from disqualification for a current welfare recipient while the recipient's naturalization application is pending.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/13/1997)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/25/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

10. H.R.821 : To provide for an increase in the supplemental security insurance benefit standard for long-term care recipients based on the cost of living adjustment.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/25/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

11. H.R.871 : To provide rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for victims of domestic violence to enable such victims to relocate.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/27/1997)      Cosponsors (34)
Committees: House Banking and Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 3/14/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

12. H.R.1014 : To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize public housing agencies to establish rental payment amounts for assisted families that do not discourage members of such families from obtaining employment, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 3/11/1997)      Cosponsors (24)
Committees: House Banking and Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 3/28/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

13. H.R.1237 : To provide retrospective application of an amendment made by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 pertaining to the applicability of mandatory minimum penalties in certain cases.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/8/1997)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 4/11/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

14. H.R.1238 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the period during which a court has exclusive authority to administer the oath of allegiance to an applicant for naturalization from 45 days to 5 days.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/8/1997)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 4/11/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

15. H.R.1239 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to waive the requirement that an applicant for naturalization take an oath of renunciation and allegiance in cases where the applicant is unable to understand its meaning because of a disability or mental impairment.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/8/1997)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 4/11/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

16. H.R.1328 : To prohibit the importation of goods produced abroad with child labor, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/15/1997)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House International Relations; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/29/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

17. H.R.1566 : To amend the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 relating to the exclusion from the United States of certain aliens.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 5/8/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House International Relations
Latest Major Action: 5/22/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

18. H.R.1723 : To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the restrictions on foreign students added by such Act inapplicable to students lawfully present in the United States on the effective date of the restrictions in cases where a public school or adult education program evidences a desire for such result.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 5/22/1997)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/10/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

19. H.R.1724 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate certain restrictions on foreign students added by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 5/22/1997)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/4/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

20. H.R.1782 : To provide for the medical use of marijuana.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/4/1997)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/18/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

21. H.R.1880 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the qualifications for a country to be designated as a visa waiver pilot program country.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/12/1997)      Cosponsors (16)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/20/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

22. H.R.1915 : To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that consensual sexual activity between adults shall not be a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/17/1997)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House National Security
Latest Major Action: 10/10/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

23. H.R.2052 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to cancellation of removal and waiver of exclusion for certain long-term resident aliens.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/25/1997)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 7/1/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

24. H.R.2111 : To reduce the amounts allocated for payments pursuant to production flexibility contracts entered into under the Agricultural Market Transition Act.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 7/8/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 7/14/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities.

25. H.R.2172 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the restrictions on foreign student study at a public elementary or secondary school inapplicable in cases where the school evidences a desire for such result, and to prohibit the use of Federal funds to pay the cost of such study.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 7/16/1997)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 7/24/1997 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

26. H.R.2272 : To amend title 18, United States Code, to eliminate the prohibitions on the transmission of abortion related matters, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 7/25/1997)      Cosponsors (17)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 7/31/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

27. H.R.2425 : -- Private Bill; For the relief of Lawrence E. Hall, Jr. and Nancy T. Hall.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 9/5/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/5/1997 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

28. H.R.2522 : To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in programs receiving Federal financial assistance.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 9/23/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/26/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

29. H.R.2549 : To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly periodic payments exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated implementation of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 amount.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 9/25/1997)      Cosponsors (52)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 9/25/1997 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

30. H.R.2761 : To provide benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 10/29/1997)      Cosponsors (27)
Committees: House Government Reform and Oversight; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 11/5/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.

31. H.R.2802 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the exclusion from gross income for damage awards for emotional distress.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 11/4/1997)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 11/4/1997 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

32. H.R.2845 : To amend the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to provide that daylight savings time end on the first Sunday after the first Monday in November each year.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 11/6/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 11/14/1997 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials.

33. H.R.3287 : To authorize United States participation in a quota increase and the New Arrangements to Borrow of the International Monetary Fund, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 2/26/1998)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Banking and Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 3/17/1998 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy.

34. H.R.3436 : To amend Public Law 96-87 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands for inclusion in the Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 3/11/1998)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/13/1998 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.

35. H.R.3739 : To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow for distribution of the lump sum death payment, in the absence of a widow or widower or surviving children, to any other person as certified by the deceased worker to the Commissioner of Social Security.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 4/28/1998)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1998 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

36. H.R.4070 : To restore veterans tobacco-related benefits as in effect before the enactment of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/17/1998)      Cosponsors (26)
Committees: House Veterans' Affairs; House Budget
Latest Major Action: 6/17/1998 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

37. H.R.4539 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a Board of Visa Appeals within the Department of State to review decisions of consular officers concerning visa applications, revocations and cancellations.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 9/10/1998)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/17/1998 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

38. H.R.4743 : To reauthorize the Public Safety and Community Policing Grants, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 10/8/1998)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 10/19/1998 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

39. H.AMDT.59 to H.R.2 Amendment sought to give public housing agencies the discretion not to implement family self-sufficiency agreement requirements unless sufficient funds are appropriated to cover the costs of such implementation.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 5/6/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1997 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Frank (MA) amendment (A009) Failed by recorded vote: 168 - 253 (Roll no. 104).

40. H.AMDT.62 to H.R.2 Amendment sought to establish as a monthly rent for a family, as determined by the public housing agency, an amount that does not exceed the greatest of either 30 percent of the monthly adjusted income of the family or 10 percent of the monthly income of the family.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 5/6/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 5/7/1997 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Frank (MA) amendment (A012) Failed by recorded vote: 172 - 252 (Roll no. 106).

41. H.AMDT.193 to H.R.1119 Amendment limits the U.S. share of payments for the cost of NATO expansion to 10 percent of the total cost or $2 billion whichever is less; and if at any time the U.S. share exceeds 10 percent, then no funds may be expended until the percentage is reduced to 10 percent.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 6/23/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 6/23/1997 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Frank (MA) amendment (A010) as modified Agreed to by voice vote.

42. H.AMDT.217 to H.R.1775 Amendment sought to reduce by 0.7 percent the total amount authorized to be appropriated for intelligence activities with the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund excepted from this reduction.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 7/9/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 7/9/1997 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Frank (MA) amendment (A006) Failed by recorded vote: 182 - 238 (Roll no. 255).

43. H.AMDT.404 to H.R.1370 Amendment sought to require community work requirements for members of boards of directors of firms receiving assistance from the Export-Import Bank.
Sponsor: Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] (introduced 9/30/1997)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 9/30/1997 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Frank (MA) amendment (A002) Failed by voice vote.

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