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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 205
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 7, 1997
Mr. KIM introduced the following bill; which was referred 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 Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction 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 Mainte-
nance Trust Fund shall not be included in the totals
of the budget of the United States Government as sub-
mitted by the President or the congressional budget.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infrastructure Protec-
tion Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPER-
ATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The 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 allocable to the transportation-
related operations of each such Trust Fund—
(1) shall not be included in the totals of—
(A) the budget of the United States Gov-
ernment as submitted by the President, or
(B) the congressional budget, and
(2) shall be exempt from any general budget
limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and
net lending (budget outlays) of the United States
Government.
(b) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPERATIONS.—For
purposes of subsection (a), the transportation-related op-
erations—
(1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the dis-
bursements, and the receipts allocable to such dis-
bursements, under—
(A) paragraph (1) of section 9503(c) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to
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expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for
the Federal-aid highway program), and
(B) paragraph (3) of section 9503(e) of
such Code (relating to expenditures from the
Mass Transit Account);
(2) of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund are
the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such
disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section
9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re-
lating to expenditures from the Airport and Airway
Trust Fund for the airport and airway program);
(3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are
the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such
disbursements, under section 9506(c) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures
from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for naviga-
tion construction and rehabilitation projects on in-
land waterways); and
(4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are
the disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such
disbursements, under section 9505(c) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures
from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for oper-
ation and maintenance of those portions of the Saint
Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained by the
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Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
and harbors and inland harbors within the United
States).
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply to
fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1997.
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