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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 564

To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund,

the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund,

and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included in the

totals of the budget of the United States Government as submitted

by the President or the congressional budget.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 18, 1995

Mr. KIM (for himself and Mr. SHUSTER) introduced the following bill; which

was referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

and, in addition, to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,

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

DECEMBER 6, 1995

The Committee on Government Reform and Oversight discharged

DECEMBER 6, 1995

Rereferred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee

on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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

A BILL

To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway

Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the

Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included in the totals
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of the budget of the United States Government as submitted by the President or the congressional budget.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infrastructure Protec5 tion Act of 1995’’.

6 SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPER7 ATIONS.

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The receipts and disbursements

9 of the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust

10 Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor

11 Maintenance Trust Fund allocable to the transportation12 related operations of each such Trust Fund—

13 (1) shall not be included in the totals of—

14 (A) the budget of the United States Gov15 ernment as submitted by the President, or

16 (B) the congressional budget, and

17 (2) shall be exempt from any general budget

18 limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and

19 net lending (budget outlays) of the United States

20 Government.

21 (b) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPERATIONS.—For

22 purposes of subsection (a), the transportation-related op23 erations—
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1 (1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the dis2 bursements, and the receipts allocable to such dis3 bursements, under—

4 (A) paragraph (1) of section 9503(c) of

5 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to

6 expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for

7 the Federal-aid highway program), and

8 (B) paragraph (3) of section 9503(e) of

9 such Code (relating to expenditures from the

10 Mass Transit Account);

11 (2) of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund are

12 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

13 disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section

14 9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re15 lating to expenditures from the Airport and Airway

16 Trust Fund for the airport and airway program);

17 (3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are

18 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

19 disbursements, under section 9506(c) of the Internal

20 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

21 from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for naviga22 tion construction and rehabilitation projects on in23 land waterways); and

24 (4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are

25 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such
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1 disbursements, under section 9505(c) of the Internal

2 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

3 from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for oper4 ation and maintenance of those portions of the Saint

5 Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained by the

6 Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

7 and harbors and inland harbors within the United

8 States).

9 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply to

10 fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1995.

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