Title: Investing in America: Rebuilding America's Airport Infrastructure Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Investing in America: Rebuilding America's Airport Infrastructure Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2021 and revises the Airport Improvement Program. Specifically, the bill: (1) eliminates the federal cap on passenger facility charges (local user fees) of $4.50 per enplanement; and (2) with respect to large hub airports that increase such charges beyond $4.50 per enplanement, provides for corresponding reductions in program grant funding.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1265 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1265

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to make modifications to the 
passenger facility charge program administered by the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

Mr. DeFazio (for himself and Mr. Massie) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to make modifications to the 
passenger facility charge program administered by the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Investing in America: Rebuilding 
America's Airport Infrastructure Act''.

SEC. 2. PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGES.

    Section 40117(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``of $1, $2, or $3'' and 
        inserting ``in any amount'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (4);
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) as 
        paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively;
            (4) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking ``specified in paragraphs (1) and 
                (4)'' and inserting ``specified in paragraph (1)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``imposed under paragraph (1) or 
                (4)'' and inserting ``imposed under paragraph (1)''; 
                and
            (5) in paragraph (6)(A) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking ``specified in paragraphs (1), (4), 
                and (6)'' and inserting ``specified in paragraphs (1) 
                and (5)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``imposed under paragraph (1) or 
                (4)'' and inserting ``imposed under paragraph (1)''.

SEC. 3. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

    (a) Funding.--Section 48103(a) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``$3,350,000,000'' and all that follows before the 
period at the end and inserting ``$2,950,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2021''.
    (b) Apportionments.--Section 47114 of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``$3,200,000,000'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``$2,950,000,000''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ``paragraph (3)'' 
                and inserting ``paragraph (4)'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
                paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively;
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Special rule for certain large hub airports.--Subject 
        to paragraph (4), and in lieu of the reduction under paragraph 
        (1), an amount that would be apportioned under this section 
        (other than amounts apportioned under subsection (c)(2)) in a 
        fiscal year to the sponsor of an airport having at least 1.0 
        percent of the total number of boardings each year in the 
        United States and for which a charge of more than $4.50 is 
        imposed in the fiscal year under section 40117 shall be reduced 
        by an amount equal to--
                    ``(A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), 100 
                percent of the projected revenues from the charge in 
                the fiscal year but not by more than 100 percent of the 
                amount that otherwise would be apportioned under this 
                section; or
                    ``(B) with respect to an airport in Hawaii, 100 
                percent of the projected revenues from the charge in 
                the fiscal year but not by more than 100 percent of the 
                excess of--
                            ``(i) the amount that otherwise would be 
                        apportioned under this section; over
                            ``(ii) the amount equal to the amount 
                        specified in clause (i) multiplied by the 
                        percentage of the total passenger boardings at 
                        the applicable airport that are comprised of 
                        interisland passengers.'';
                    (D) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated) by 
                striking ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
                (1) or (2)''; and
                    (E) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``.25 percent'' and 
                                inserting ``1.0 percent''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``paragraph (1)'' 
                                and inserting ``paragraph (2)''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking 
                        ``fiscal year 2004'' and inserting ``fiscal 
                        year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter''.
    (c) Use of Apportioned Amounts.--Section 47117(e)(1)(C) of title 
49, United States Code, is amended by striking ``$3,200,000,000'' and 
inserting ``$2,950,000,000''.
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