Title: Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act
This bill provides a discretionary spending limit adjustment for full utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to ensure that funds are used to support navigation and maintain federally authorized harbors.
The bill makes certain amounts in the trust fund available, without appropriation, to pay
The discretionary spending adjustment in a given fiscal year may not exceed the amount within the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund on the last day of the fiscal year that is two years prior to such fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2396 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2396

 To provide for the use of funds in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
for the purposes for which the funds were collected and to ensure that 
funds credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used to support 
                  navigation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2019

 Mr. DeFazio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Budget, 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 provide for the use of funds in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
for the purposes for which the funds were collected and to ensure that 
funds credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used to support 
                  navigation, 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 ``Full Utilization of the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND TO SUPPORT NAVIGATION.

    Section 210 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 
U.S.C. 2238) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``authorization of 
        appropriations'' and inserting ``funding for navigation''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Adjustments to Discretionary Spending Limits.--Amounts made 
available from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under this section or 
section 9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be made 
available in accordance with section 251(b)(2)(G) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.''.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Section 330 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (26 
U.S.C. 9505 note; 106 Stat. 4851) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and annually thereafter,'' and 
                inserting ``and annually thereafter concurrent with the 
                submission of the President's annual budget request to 
                Congress,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Public Works and Transportation'' 
                and inserting ``Transportation and Infrastructure''; 
                and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1) by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(D) A description of the expected expenditures 
                from the trust fund to meet the needs of navigation for 
                the fiscal year of the budget request.''.

SEC. 4. HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT 
              ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
                    ``(G) Harbor maintenance trust fund.--
                            ``(i) In general.--If a bill or joint 
                        resolution making appropriations for a fiscal 
                        year is enacted that specifies an amount for 
                        harbor maintenance activities, then the 
                        adjustments for that fiscal year shall be the 
                        total of such amount in that Act for such 
                        purpose for that fiscal year, but may not 
                        exceed the total amount within the Harbor 
                        Maintenance Trust Fund under subsection (a) of 
                        section 9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
                        1986 on the last day of the fiscal year that is 
                        two years prior to that fiscal year.
                            ``(ii) Limitation.--The adjustment under 
                        clause (i) with respect to an amount made 
                        available for harbor maintenance activities may 
                        only be made if such amount--
                                    ``(I) is derived solely from funds 
                                in such Trust Fund; and
                                    ``(II) is made available for 
                                expenditures described under subsection 
                                (c) of such section 9505.''.
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