Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5313
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2016-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Foreign and international corporations
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Indian social and development programs
Public utilities and utility rates
Racial and ethnic relations
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Taxation of foreign income
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-24
text: 

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; (2) modify the definition of subpart F income (i.e., income of a controlled foreign corporation earned outside the United States that is not tax-deferred) to include income of a controlled foreign corporation derived from a foreign country; and (3) transfer that income to the fund.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must allocate funds from the trust fund to specified clean water programs and drinking water programs, including the grant programs authorized or established by this bill.
 
The bill amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) by authorizing the EPA to make grants for providing technical assistance concerning water and sanitation infrastructure and drinking water systems to rural and small municipalities and tribal governments. The EPA must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields.
 
The bill revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF.
 
The bill revises the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring the EPA to establish a program to make grants to local educational agencies for: (1) installing, repairing, or replacing the infrastructure necessary for drinking water coolers, drinking water fountains, or bottle filling station; and (2) testing the quality of drinking water at schools in such local education agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2016-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2016-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2016-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2016-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2016-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-05-24
text: Introduced in House