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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

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

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,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infrastructure Protec3 tion Act of 1995’’.

4 SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPER5 ATIONS.

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

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

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

9 Maintenance Trust Fund allocable to the transportation10 related operations of each such Trust Fund—

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

12 (A) the budget of the United States Gov13 ernment as submitted by the President, or

14 (B) the congressional budget, and

15 (2) shall be exempt from any general budget

16 limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and

17 net lending (budget outlays) of the United States

18 Government.

19 (b) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPERATIONS.—For

20 purposes of subsection (a), the transportation-related op21 erations—

22 (1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the dis23 bursements, and the receipts allocable to such dis24 bursements, under—

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

26 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to
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1 expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for

2 the Federal-aid highway program), and

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

4 such Code (relating to expenditures from the

5 Mass Transit Account);

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

7 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

8 disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section

9 9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re10 lating to expenditures from the Airport and Airway

11 Trust Fund for the airport and airway program);

12 (3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are

13 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

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

15 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

16 from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for naviga17 tion construction and rehabilitation projects on in18 land waterways); and

19 (4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are

20 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

21 disbursements, under section 9505(c) of the Internal

22 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

23 from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for oper24 ation and maintenance of those portions of the Saint

25 Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained by the
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1 Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

2 and harbors and inland harbors within the United

3 States).

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

5 fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1995.

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