Title: Honor the Heroes Act of 2019
Policy area: Law

Summary:
Honor the Heroes Act of 2019
This bill modifies the funding and administration of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
The bill provides appropriations for the fund in specified amounts through FY2025, whereas current law provides such appropriations as may be necessary through FY2092. Additionally, beginning in FY2020, the bill redirects to the fund a portion of the annual discretionary budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Labor, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Commerce.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4511 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4511

To extend authorization for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund 
       of 2001 through fiscal year 2025, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2019

Mr. Arrington introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy 
and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Science, 
    Space, and Technology, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, 
Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Oversight and 
 Reform, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend authorization for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund 
       of 2001 through fiscal year 2025, 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 ``Honor the Heroes Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. SEPTEMBER 11TH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND OF 2001.

    (a) Authorization and Funding.--Section 410 of the Air 
Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 
note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``such sums as may be 
        necessary for fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter 
        through fiscal year 2092'' and inserting ``$11,991,000,000 for 
        fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal 
        year 2025''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (e).
    (b) Extending Filing Deadline.--Section 405(a)(3)(B) of the Air 
Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 
note) is amended by striking ``October 1, 2090'' and inserting ``5 
years after the date of enactment of the Honor the Heroes Act of 
2019''.
    (c) Compensation Reduced by Special Master Due to Lack of 
Funding.--Section 406(d)(2)(C)(ii) of the Air Transportation Safety and 
System Stabilization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended by striking 
``each year thereafter'' and inserting ``not less than once every 5 
years thereafter''.
    (d) Adjustment of Gross Income Limitation.--Section 
405(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Air Transportation Safety and System 
Stabilization Act (40 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``In considering'' and inserting the 
        following:
                                    ``(I) In general.--Subject to 
                                subclause (II), in considering'' ; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(II) Adjustment.--The Special 
                                Master shall adjust the amount of the 
                                limitation under subclause (I) not more 
                                frequently than once every 2 years to 
                                reflect the percentage by which the 
                                Consumer Price Index for All Urban 
                                Consumers published by the Department 
                                of Labor for the month of October 
                                immediately preceding the date of 
                                adjustment exceeds the Consumer Price 
                                Index for All Urban Consumers published 
                                by the Department of Labor for the 
                                month of October that immediately 
                                precedes the date that is 2 years 
                                before the date of adjustment.''.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

    (a) In General.--For fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, the discretionary budget authority provided to each of the 
following for fiscal year 2019 shall be reduced by 3 percent, with the 
reduction applied proportionately to each account:
            (1) The Environmental Protection Agency.
            (2) The Department of the Interior.
            (3) The Department of Labor.
            (4) The Department of Housing and Urban Development.
            (5) The Department of Commerce.
    (b) Deposit Into Fund.--An amount equal to the total amount of any 
reduction under subsection (a) shall be deposited into the Victim 
Compensation Fund established under section 410 of the Air 
Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 
note).
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 410(b) of the Air Transportation 
Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) An amount equal to the total amount of any reduction 
        under section 3 of the Honor the Heroes Act of 2019.''.
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