Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part III

Bill: 108-hr-4635
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
American Samoa
Animals
Authorization
Boats and boating
Boundaries
Bridges
Bus drivers
Canada
Coast guard
Commuting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Curricula
Data banks
Department of Transportation
Disabled
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric vehicles
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water pollution control
Fishing
Fishing boats
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Guam
Higher education
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway use tax
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Information networks
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Interstate highway system
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Light rail transit
Limited access highways
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Mexico
Minorities
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
National parks
Native Americans
New Jersey
Northern Mariana Islands
Passenger ships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Railroad engineering
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Research and development
Research centers
Road construction
Scenic byways
Science, Technology, Communications
Seat belts
Shipbuilding
Ships
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Subways
Tax evasion
Taxation
Technological innovations
Terminals (Transportation)
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Trails
Transportation and the aged
Transportation and the disabled
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Truck drivers
Trucking
Trucks
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
Virgin Islands
Washington State
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, authorizations for Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and Federal transit programs.
 
Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend through July 31, 2004, funding for national outreach and communications programs related to sport fishing and boating safety. 
 
Amends the Federal Transit Act of 1998 and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to authorize increased appropriations for programs through July 31, 2004, from the Highway Trust Fund Mass Transit Account.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize until August 1, 2004, expenditures for obligations under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from the following Accounts: (1) the Highway Trust Fund; (2) the Mass Transit Account; and (3) the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund.

action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 

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This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, authorizations for Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and Federal transit programs. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 31, 2004.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 31, 2004, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund.
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 31, 2004.
 
Prohibits a State from obligating after July 31, 2004, any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project until the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to make specified funds available from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for administrative expenses of the Federal-aid highway program for FY 2004.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) Federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) surface transportation research; (12) the technology deployment program; (13) training and education; (14) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (15) Intermodal Transportation System standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (16) university transportation research; (17) metropolitan planning; (18) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (19) the Alaska highway program; (20) Operation Lifesaver; (21) the bridge discretionary program; (22) interstate maintenance; (23) recreational trails administrative costs; and (24) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants. 
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 31, 2004. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for Federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, bus and bus facilities grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, the National Transit Institute, and national planning and research programs), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; and (4) continuation of a crash causation study. 
 
(Sec. 10) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until August 1, 2004, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.

action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, authorizations for Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and Federal transit programs. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 31, 2004.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 31, 2004, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund.
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 31, 2004.
 
Prohibits a State from obligating after July 31, 2004, any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project until the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to make specified funds available from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for administrative expenses of the Federal-aid highway program for FY 2004.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) Federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) surface transportation research; (12) the technology deployment program; (13) training and education; (14) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (15) Intermodal Transportation System standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (16) university transportation research; (17) metropolitan planning; (18) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (19) the Alaska highway program; (20) Operation Lifesaver; (21) the bridge discretionary program; (22) interstate maintenance; (23) recreational trails administrative costs; and (24) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants. 
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 31, 2004. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for Federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, bus and bus facilities grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, the National Transit Institute, and national planning and research programs), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; and (4) continuation of a crash causation study. 
 
(Sec. 10) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until August 1, 2004, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.

action_date: 2004-06-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, authorizations for Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and Federal transit programs. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 31, 2004.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 31, 2004, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund.
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 31, 2004.
 
Prohibits a State from obligating after July 31, 2004, any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project until the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to make specified funds available from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for administrative expenses of the Federal-aid highway program for FY 2004.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) Federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) surface transportation research; (12) the technology deployment program; (13) training and education; (14) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (15) Intermodal Transportation System standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (16) university transportation research; (17) metropolitan planning; (18) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (19) the Alaska highway program; (20) Operation Lifesaver; (21) the bridge discretionary program; (22) interstate maintenance; (23) recreational trails administrative costs; and (24) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants. 
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 31, 2004. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 31, 2004, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for Federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, bus and bus facilities grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, the National Transit Institute, and national planning and research programs), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through July 31, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; and (4) continuation of a crash causation study. 
 
(Sec. 10) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until August 1, 2004, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-263.
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-263.
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-06-30
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 6/24/2004 S7347)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 6/24/2004 S7347)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 418 - 0 (Roll no. 288). (text: CR H4779-4782)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 418 - 0 (Roll no. 288).(text: CR H4779-4782)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4822-4823)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4635.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4778-4785)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Science, 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.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Science, 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.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Science, 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.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Science, 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.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Science, 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.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-263