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[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1995]
[Wednesday, September 20, 1995 (118), Para 118.16 Recorded Vote]
[Page 1410]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

para.118.16  recorded vote

  A recorded vote by electronic device was ordered in the Committee of 
the Whole on the following amendment submitted by Mrs. LOWEY:

       At the end of title III of the bill, insert the following:

     SEC. 354. OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES BY INTOXICATED MINORS

       ``(a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Sec. 161. National standard to prohibit the operation of 
       motor vehicles by intoxicated minors

       ``(a) Witholding of Apportionments for Non-compliance.--
       ``(1) Fiscal year 1999.--The Secretary shall withhold 5 
     percent of the amount required to be appropriated to any 
     State under each of paragraphs (1), (3), and (5) of section 
     104(b) of October 1, 1998, if the State does not meet the 
     requirement of paragraph (3) on such date.
       ``(2) Thereafter.--The Secretary shall withhold 10 percent 
     (including any amounts withheld under paragraph (1)) of the 
     amount required to be apportioned to any State under each of 
     paragraphs (1), (3), and (5) of section 104(b) on October 1, 
     1999, and on October 1 of each fiscal year thereafter, if the 
     State does not meet the requirement of paragraph (3) on such 
     date.
       ``(3) Requirement.--A State meets the requirements of this 
     paragraph if the State has enacted and is enforcing a law 
     that makes unlawful throughout the State the operation of a 
     motor vehicle by an individual under the age of 21 who has a 
     blood alcohol concentration of 0.02 percent or greater.
       ``(b) Period of Availability; Effect of Compliance and 
     Noncompliance.--
       ``(1) Period of availability of withheld funds.--
       ``(A) Funds withheld on or before september 30, 2000.--Any 
     funds withheld under subsection (a) from apportionment to any 
     State on or before September 30, 2000, shall remain available 
     until the end of the third fiscal year following the fiscal 
     year for which such funds are authorized to be a 
     appropriated.
       ``(B) Funds withheld after september 30, 2000.--No funds 
     withheld under this section from apportionment to any State 
     after September 30, 2000, shall be available for 
     apportionment to such State.
       ``(2) Apportionment of withheld funds after compliance.--
     If, before the last day of the period of which funds withheld 
     under subsection (a) from apportionment are to remain 
     available for apportionment to State under paragraph (1), the 
     State meets the requirement of subsection (a)(3), the 
     Secretary shall, on the first day on which the State meets 
     such requirement, apportion to the State the funds withheld 
     under subsection (a) that remain available for apportionment 
     to the State.
       ``(3) Period of availability of subsequently apportioned 
     funds.--Any funds apportioned pursuant to paragraph (2) shall 
     remain available for expenditure until the end of the third 
     fiscal year following the fiscal year in which such funds are 
     so apportioned. Sums not obligated at the end of such period 
     shall lapse or, in the case of funds apportioned under 
     section 104(b)(5), shall lapse and be made available by the 
     Secretary for projects in accordance with section 118.
       ``(4) Effect of noncompliance.--If, at the end of the 
     period for which funds withheld under subsection (a) from 
     apportionment are available for apportionment to a State 
     under paragraph (1), the State does not meet the requirement 
     of subsection (a)(3), such funds shall lapse or, in the case 
     of funds withheld from apportionment under section 104(b)(5), 
     such funds shall lapse and be made available by the Secretary 
     for projects in accordance with section 118.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end of 
     the following:

``161. National standard to prohibit the operation of motor vehicles by 
              intoxicated minors.''.

       Conform the table of contents of the bill accordingly.

It was decided in the

Yeas

223

affirmative

Nays

203
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