Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3783
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
American Samoa
Animals
Aquatic ecology
Authorization
Boats and boating
Boundaries
Bridges
Commuting
Construction costs
Data banks
Department of Transportation
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
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
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Guam
Higher education
Highspeed ground transportation
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway use tax
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Interstate highway system
Labor and Employment
Light rail transit
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
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 safety
Research and development
Research grants
Road construction
Scenic byways
Science, Technology, Communications
Seat belts
Ships
Sports and Recreation
Subways
Tax evasion
Tax rates
Taxation
Technological innovations
Terminals (Transportation)
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Trails
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Trucking
Trucks
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
Virgin Islands
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-10
text: 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004 - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through June 30, 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 June 30, 2004, funding for national outreach and communications programs related to sport fishing and boating safety. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize until July 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: 2004-02-11
text: 

(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 - Extends Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs, and authorizes appropriations, through June 30, 2004. 
 
(Sec. 2) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend the off-system bridge set-aside through June 30, 2004.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA21) to extend to June 30, 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 June 30, 2004.
 
Prohibits a State from obligating after June 30, 2004, any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project until the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.
 
Considers any obligation of certain obligation authority distributed under this Act to be an obligation for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 2004 under the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to prohibit any transfer by certain States after February 29, 2004, from unobligated amounts apportioned for: (1) the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program; and (2) the surface transportation program. 
 
(Sec. 4) Makes specified funds available from the Highway Trust Fund for administrative expenses of the Federal-aid highway program for FY 2004.
 
(Sec. 5) Extends the authorization of appropriations under TEA21 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 June 30, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified non-discrimination program.
 
(Sec. 6) Extends the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants; (3) certain highway safety programs; (4) highway safety research and development (R&D); (5) occupant protection incentive grants; (6) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (6) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 7) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through June 30, 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. 8) Extends through June 30, 2004, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for Federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization; (2) formula grants; (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research, including university transportation research; (6) the job access and reverse commute program; (7) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (8) urbanized area formula grants; (9) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (10) the advanced technology pilot project; (11) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (12) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through April 30, 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. 10) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through June 30, 2004, the authorization for the use of the Highway Trust Fund and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434.
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-02-12
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 24). (text: CR H465-468)
action_date: 2004-02-11
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): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 24).(text: CR H465-468)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H478)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2004-02-11
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: 2004-02-11
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3783.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H465-473)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2004-02-10
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: 2004-02-10
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: 2004-02-10
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: 2004-02-10
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: 2004-02-10
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: 2004-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-10
text: Introduced in House