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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1898

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

APRIL 28, 1993

Mr. KIM introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the

Committees on Government Operations and Public Works and Transportation

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,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infrastructure Protec5 tion Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPER2 ATIONS.

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

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

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

6 Maintenance Trust Fund allocable to the transportation7 related operations of each such Trust Fund—

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

9 (A) the budget of the United States Gov10 ernment as submitted by the President, or

11 (B) the congressional budget, and

12 (2) shall be exempt from any general budget

13 limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and

14 net lending (budget outlays) of the United States

15 Government.

16 (b) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPERATIONS.—For

17 purposes of subsection (a), the transportation-related op18 erations—

19 (1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the dis20 bursements, and the receipts allocable to such dis21 bursements, under—

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

23 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to

24 expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for

25 the Federal-aid highway program), and
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1 (B) paragraph (3) of section 9503(e) of

2 such Code (relating to expenditures from the

3 Mass Transit Account);

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

5 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

6 disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section

7 9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re8 lating to expenditures from the Airport and Airway

9 Trust Fund for the airport and airway program);

10 (3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are

11 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

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

13 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

14 from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for naviga15 tion construction and rehabilitation projects on in16 land waterways); and

17 (4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are

18 the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such

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

20 Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures

21 from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for oper22 ation and maintenance of those portions of the Saint

23 Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained by the

24 Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
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1 and harbors and inland harbors within the United

2 States).

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

4 fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1993.

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