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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1901

To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust

Fund will not be included in the totals of the congressional budget

or the budget of the United States Government as submitted by the

President, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APRIL 28, 1993

Mr. LEWIS of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly

to the Committees on Public Works and Transportation, Government Operations, and Rules

A BILL

To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Airport

and Airway Trust Fund will not be included in the

totals of the congressional budget or the budget of the

United States Government as submitted by the President, and for other purposes.

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 ‘‘Airport and Airway

5 Trust Fund Integrity Act of 1993’’.

6 SEC. 2. AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND OPERATIONS.

7 (a) BUDGETARY TREATMENT.—
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1 (1) EXCLUSION OF TRUST FUND FROM ALL

2 BUDGETS.—

3 (A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any

4 other provision of law, the receipts and dis5 bursements of the Airport and Airway Trust

6 Fund allocable to the transportation-related op7 erations of such Trust Fund shall not be count8 ed as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or

9 deficit or surplus for purposes of—

10 (i) the budget of the United States

11 Government as submitted by the President,

12 (ii) the congressional budget, or

13 (iii) the Balanced Budget and Emer14 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

15 (B) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPER16 ATIONS.—For purposes of subparagraph (A),

17 the transportation-related operations of the Air18 port and Airway Trust Fund are the disburse19 ments, and the receipts allocable to such dis20 bursements, under paragraph (1) of section

21 9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

22 (relating to expenditures from the Airport and

23 Airway Trust Fund for the airport and airway

24 program).
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1 (2) EXCLUSION OF TRUST FUND FROM CON2 GRESSIONAL BUDGET.—Section 301(a) of the Con3 gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding

4 at the end the following: ‘‘The concurrent resolution

5 shall not include the outlays and revenue totals of

6 the Airport and Airway Trust Fund allocable to the

7 transportation-related operations of such Trust

8 Fund (as described in section 2(a)(1)(B) of the Air9 port and Airway Trust Fund Integrity Act of 1991)

10 in the surplus or deficit totals required by this sub11 section or in any other surplus or deficit totals re12 quired by this title.’’.

13 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS AND LIMITATIONS

14 TO THE BUDGET PROCESS.—

15 (1) EXEMPTION FROM SEQUESTRATION

16 ORDER.—Section 255(g)(1)(A) of the Balanced

17 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

18 (2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting

19 after the undesignated paragraph relating to the ad20 ministration of territories the following new undesig21 nated paragraph:

22 ‘‘Airport and Airway Trust Fund (69–

23 8106–0–7–402; 69–8107–0–7–402; 69–8108–

24 0–7–402; 69–8104–0–7–402);’’.
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1 (2) LIMITATIONS ON CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

2 PROCESS.—Section 310 of the Congressional Budget

3 and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended

4 by adding at the end the following new subsection:

5 ‘‘(h) LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE AIRPORT AND

6 AIRWAY TRUST FUND.—Notwithstanding any other provi7 sion of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or the

8 House of Representatives to consider—

9 ‘‘(1) any concurrent resolution on the budget

10 for any fiscal year, or any amendment thereto or

11 conference report thereon, that assumes or contains

12 in the aggregate totals or functional categories pro13 vided for by section 301(a) any amount of budget

14 authority or budget outlays from the Airport and

15 Airway Trust Fund,

16 ‘‘(2) any concurrent resolution on the budget

17 for any fiscal year, or any amendment thereto or

18 conference report thereon, that contains reconcili19 ation instructions with respect to the Airport and

20 Airway Trust Fund, or

21 ‘‘(3) to consider any reconciliation bill or rec22 onciliation resolution reported pursuant to a concur23 rent resolution on the budget agreed to under sec24 tion 301 or 304, or a resolution pursuant to section

25 285A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Defi-
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1 cit Control Act of 1985, or any amendment thereto

2 or conference report thereon, that contains rec3 ommendations with respect to the Airport and Air4 way Trust Fund.’’.

5 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section (including the

6 amendments made by this section) shall take effect Octo7 ber 1, 1994, except that the amendments made by sub8 section (b)(1) shall take effect on March 15, 1994.

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