Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
Latest action · Nov 29, 2001 Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12216)
Progress
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- IntroducedJul 20, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) general administration, including for a Joint Automated Booking System, office-automation expenses of specified organizations, conversion to narrowband communications, port security, administrative review and appeals, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of the Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for the antitrust activities, the Offices of U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service (including for replacement aircraft and Federal prisoner detention), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) radiation exposure compensation administrative expenses and payment to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (8) the Immigration and Naturalization Service; (9) the Federal prison system; (10) Office of Justice programs, including for State and local law enforcement assistance and the Executive Office for Weed and Seed; and (11) community oriented policing services, including for juvenile justice programs and public safety officers' benefits.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 109) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose a three dollar entry fee on cruise ship passengers if the passenger's journey originated in: (1) Mexico; (2) Canada; (3) a State, territory, or possession of the United States; or (4) any adjacent island.
(Sec. 111) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to make sums from the Crime Victims Fund available for a Victim Notification System.
Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2002 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) minority business development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology-Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (18) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (19) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (20) the fisheries finance program account; and (21) departmental management, including the Office of Inspector General.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court, including for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners, and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2002 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the Asia Foundation; (14) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (15) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (16) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Hawaii; and (17) the National Endowment for Democracy.
Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2002 for international broadcasting operations (including broadcasting to Cuba) and capital improvements.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
(Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
(Sec. 404) Enacts into law S. 787 (Conflict Diamonds Act of 2001) of the 107th Congress (as introduced on April 26, 2001).
(Sec. 405) Bars funds appropriated for the United Nations (UN) to be used by it for the promulgation or enforcement of any treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing the UN, or any of its specialized agencies or affiliated organizations, to tax any aspect of the Internet or international currency transactions.
(Sec. 406) Bars funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act for FY 2002 or any fiscal year thereafter to be obligated or expended for: (1) the operation of a U.S. consulate or diplomatic facility in Jerusalem unless it is under the supervision of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel; and (2) the publication of any official Government document which lists countries and their capital cities unless it identifies Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
(Sec. 408) Requires the Secretary of State, upon request of the citizen, to record his or her place of birth as Israel for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in the city of Jerusalem.
Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the: (1) Maritime Administration for maritime security, operations and training, and the maritime guaranteed loan program; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on Ocean Policy; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (6) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (7) Federal Communications Commission; (8) Federal Maritime Commission; (9) Federal Trade Commission; (9) Legal Services Corporation; (10) Marine Mammal Commission; (11) United States Securities and Exchange Commission; (12) Small Business Administration, including amounts for the Office of Inspector General and business and disaster loans; (13) State Justice Institute; and (14) United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on the use of, such funds.
Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
(Sec. 604) Establishes in the Department of Justice the position of Deputy Attorney General for Combating Terrorism, who shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires the Deputy Attorney General, together with the Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to develop a National Strategy for Combating Domestic Terrorism. Makes appropriations.
(Sec. 605) Declares that, unless the Appropriations Committee of both Houses of Congress are notified in advance, none of the funds provided under this Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in FY 2002, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes office, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions, activities presently performed by Federal employees.
Declares that, unless the Appropriations Committee of both Houses of Congress are notified in advance, none of the funds provided under this Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in FY 2002, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,00 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers by ten percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress.
(Sec. 606) Amends Federal law to increase the amount of funds available to automate or otherwise improve the immigration inspection process at airports.
(Sec. 608) Amends specified Federal law to make permanent a prohibition against the obligation or expenditure of funds it appropriates to increase any salary of any Federal judge or Justice of the Supreme Court, except as may be authorized.
(Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to: (1) enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion when such guidelines do not differ from proposed guidelines of October 1, 1993; (2) pay for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts until the President makes a specified certification; or (3) provide specified personal comforts in the Federal prison system.
(Sec. 610) Prohibits the funds made available by this Act from being used for any United Nations (UN) undertaking when: (1) it is a peacekeeping mission; (2) it will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national; and (3) the President's military advisors have not submitted to the President a recommendation that such involvement is in U.S. national security interests and the President has not submitted to Congress such a recommendation.
(Sec. 614) Prohibits the use of funds by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to make available to a prisoner commercially published information or material that is sexually explicit or features nudity.
(Sec. 616) Bars funds appropriated under any law from being used for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with any criminal background check system that implements requirements under the Federal criminal code in connection with certain restrictions on the transfer of firearms; or (2) any such system that does not result in the destruction of information submitted by persons determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
(Sec. 617) Delays the obligation of amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victim Fund in any fiscal year in excess of a certain amount from being available for obligation until the following fiscal year.
(Sec. 618) Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of State and the Department of Justice from being available for the purpose of granting either immigrant or nonimmigrant visas, or both, consistent with the Secretary's determination under applicable provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents under such provisions.
(Sec. 619) Bars funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act from being used to transport a maximum or high security prisoner other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.
(Sec. 620) Amends the Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 to redefine the terms of service for certain Government financed attorneys.
(Sec. 621) Extends for an additional five years the Federal law entitled "An Act to approve a governing international agreement between the United States and the Republic of Poland, and for other purposes."
Directs the Pacific State Marine Fisheries Commission to report to specified congressional committees on the health and management of the Dungeness Crab fishery.
Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds a specified amount of unobligated balances of the Department of State earmarked for contributions for international peacekeeping activities.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Appropriations Committee | Markup Jul 19, 2001Reported as an original measure Jul 20, 2001 |
| Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee | Hearings Jun 28, 2001 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 29, 2001Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12216)
- Jul 20, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jul 20, 2001Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hollings. With written report No. 107-42.
- Jul 20, 2001Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 95.
- Jul 19, 2001Committee on Appropriations ordered to be reported an original measure.
- Jun 28, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 107-325.
- May 17, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral.
- May 15, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral.
- May 3, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral.
- May 1, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral.
- Apr 26, 2001Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S12216 | Harry Reid D-NV | Nov 29, 2001 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-325 | DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2002480 pages | Appropriations Committee | Apr 26, 2001–Jun 28, 2001 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL30926 | State Department and Related Agencies FY2002 Appropriations Archived | Report | Feb 1, 2002 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2500 | Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 | Companion bill | Nov 28, 2001 |
Titles 15
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2002
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2002
- Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate for portions of this bill
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2002
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2002
- Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2002
- Popular Titles
- Justice Department FY2002 Appropriations bill
- Appropriations bill FY2002, Commerce, Justice, State
- Commerce Department FY2002 Appropriations bill
- State Department FY2002 Appropriations bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Administration of criminal justice
- Administration of justice
- Administration of juvenile justice
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- Alaska
- Alcohol and youth
- Aliens
- Alliances
- Alzheimer's disease
- Ambulances
- Americans employed in foreign countries
- Angola
- Annuities
- Antitrust law
- Appellate courts
- Appropriations
- Arabs
- Arizona
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Arrest
- Artificial satellites
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Atmospheric research
- Automobile theft
- Bankruptcy
- Block grants
- Border patrols
- Boundaries
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
- Buy American
- California
- Canada
- Capital cities
- Capital investments
- Capital punishment
- Census
- Child abuse
- Child health
- China
- Citizen participation in crime prevention
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil Service pensions
- Civil War
- Coastal zone
- Collection of accounts
- Collective security agreements
- College students
- Colleges
- Columbia River development
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Commission on Civil Rights
- Community health services
- Community policing
- Compensation (Law)
- Computer security measures
- Computers and government
- Conferences
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction costs
- Corporate mergers
- Correctional institutions
- Correctional personnel
- Counterintelligence
- Courthouses
- Courts of special jurisdiction
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Crimes against the elderly
- Crimes against women
- Criminal aliens
- Criminal investigation
- Criminal justice information
- Criminal justice information systems
- Cuba
- Cultural relations
- Customs administration
- Data banks
- Delinquency prevention
- Democracy
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Justice
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transportation
- Detention of persons
- Diamonds
- Disabled
- Disaster loans
- Distance education
- District courts
- DNA fingerprints
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug courts
- Drug law enforcement
- Drug traffic
- East Asia
- EBB Terrorism
- Economic development
- Economic statistics
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational counseling
- Educational exchanges
- Electric appliances
- Electronic data interchange
- Elementary and secondary education
- Embassies
- Emergency Management
- English language
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Equipment and supplies
- Estuarine area conservation
- Europe
- Evidence (Law)
- Ex-offenders
- Executive reorganization
- Export controls
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal aid to youth services
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal employees
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Ferries
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fingerprints
- Firearms
- Firearms owners
- Fishery agreements
- Fishery management
- Fishing boats
- Foreign fishing
- Foreign service
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Forensic medicine
- Forfeiture
- Foundations
- Gangs
- Gifts
- Government aircraft
- Government corporations
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publications
- Government service contracts
- Government trust funds
- Government vehicles
- Great Lakes
- Habeas corpus
- Halfway houses
- Harbors
- Hawaii
- Health
- High technology
- Higher education
- Historic sites
- History
- Housing and Community Development
- Identification devices
- Identification of criminals
- Immigration
- Import restrictions
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Indian law enforcement
- Indian women
- Informers
- Inspectors general
- Insurgency
- Intellectual property
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International broadcasting
- International claims
- International cooperation
- International military forces
- Israel
- Jewelry trade
- Judicial compensation
- Judicial officers
- Juries
- Jurisdiction
- Juvenile corrections
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Laboratories
- Latin America
- Law
- Law enforcement officers
- Legal education
- Legal fees
- Legal services
- Legal Services Corporation
- Liberia
- Louisiana
- Maintenance and repair
- Maps
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine Mammal Commission
- Materials research
- Methamphetamine
- Mexico
- Middle East and North Africa
- Mineral industries
- Minorities
- Minority business enterprises
- Missing persons
- Motion pictures
- Musical instruments
- NATO countries
- Naturalization
- New Mexico
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nuclear weapons
- Ocean policy
- Oceanographic research
- Oceanographic research ships
- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- Older women
- Oregon
- Organized crime
- Pacific Ocean
- Packaging
- Palestinians
- Parole
- Passports
- Patents
- Peacekeeping forces
- Physical education and training
- Poland
- Police
- Police communication systems
- Police training
- Political violence
- Pornography
- President and foreign policy
- Presidential appointments
- Presidential pardons
- Prison labor
- Prison violence
- Prisoners
- Prisoners' rights
- Prisons
- Probation officers
- Prosecution
- Public defenders
- Public housing
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public prosecutors
- Radiation victims
- Radio broadcasting
- Radio spectrum allocation
- Railroads
- Rape
- Recruiting of employees
- Rehabilitation of criminals
- Religion
- Religious liberty
- Repatriation
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- Rescission of appropriated funds
- Research and development
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Restrictive trade practices
- Retiree health benefits
- Rural crime
- Salaries
- Salmon
- Salmon fisheries
- Scholarships
- School security
- School violence
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Security measures
- Sex crimes
- Sex offenders
- Shellfish fisheries
- Shipbuilding
- Shipbuilding subsidies
- Sierra Leone
- Small Business Administration
- Smuggling
- Social Welfare
- South Carolina
- Space activities
- Sports and Recreation
- State courts
- State laws
- Supreme Court
- Supreme Court justices
- Surveying
- Survivors' benefits
- Taiwan
- Technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Telecommunication industry
- Telecommunication rates
- Telecommunication systems
- Telemarketing
- Television
- Terrorism
- Texas
- Trade agreements
- Trade negotiations
- Trademarks
- Transfer of employees
- Transportation and Public Works
- Treaties
- Trusts and trustees
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Undercover operations
- United Nations
- Vaccines
- Veterans' employment
- Victims of crimes
- Video tape recording
- Video tapes in courtroom proceedings
- War relief
- Washington State
- Water Resources Development
- Witnesses
- Women
- Women's education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 20, 2001Placed on Calendar Senate
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