To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to exempt payments made to States and counties under such Act from any reduction pursuant to a sequestration order and to reimburse those States and counties that returned a portion of their January 2013 payment because of sequestration, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-3886
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2014-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Forests, forestry, trees
Infrastructure development
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
State and local finance
State and local taxation
Transportation programs funding
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: 
Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (the Act) to exempt from any presidential sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) funds made available under the Act or derived from the other authorized funding sources for the purpose of making payments to eligible states and counties containing certain federal lands (payments in lieu of federal payment of state property taxes). 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, using authorized payment sources, to reimburse each state or county that, in response to a presidential sequestration order issued during FY2013, repaid some of the payment it received during FY2013 either by: (1) returning a portion of it to the Secretary, (2) having funds deducted from other amounts due the state or county under the Act, or (3) providing some combination of returning and deducting funds. Requires the Secretary to waive the repayment requirement for any state or county that did not repay the required portion of the payment it received during FY2013 despite such order.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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.
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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.
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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.
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Introduced in House