Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act

Bill: 115-hr-2479
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2017-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alabama
Alternative and renewable resources
American Samoa
Atmospheric science and weather
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Child health
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Computer security and identity theft
Department of Energy
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic development
Educational facilities and institutions
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Florida
Georgia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Guam
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Indian social and development programs
Industrial facilities
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Labor standards
Land use and conservation
Libraries and archives
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Medical education
Mental health
Metals
Minority health
Motor fuels
North Carolina
Northern Mariana Islands
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Research and development
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
South Carolina
State and local finance
Strategic materials and reserves
Tax-exempt organizations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-17
text: 

Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act

 
This bill authorizes appropriations for the nation's infrastructure, including appropriations for:
 
 
secure broadband internet access, with a prioritization on expanding broadband access in unserved areas;
 
drinking water improvements, such as appropriations for the drinking water state revolving fund and programs for reducing lead in drinking water;
 
the electric power grid, with a focus on grid modernization, security, resiliency, and efficiency;
 
energy efficiency in buildings, including homes and schools;
 
incentives for natural gas distribution companies to improve the public safety and environmental performance of the natural gas distribution system (e.g., pipeline replacements); 
 
the deployment of renewable energy systems;
 
the incorporation of clean energy into community development and revitalization efforts;
 
 revitalization of brownfield sites (commercial properties that are hindered from reuse or redevelopment due to the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant);
 
hospital infrastructure, with a prioritization given to projects that include cybersecurity;
 
outpatient health care facilities in the Indian Health Service; and
 
the improvement, renovation, or modernization of the infrastructure at clinical laboratories, teaching health centers, or behavioral health care centers.
 
 
 In addition, the bill reauthorizes funding for: (1) a diesel emissions reduction program for certain diesel vehicles or fleets, (2) ensuring the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is operated and maintained in an environmentally sound manner; and (3) establishing a Southeast Refined Product Reserve to mitigate the impacts of a severe energy supply interruption in the Southeast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2017-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-17
text: Introduced in House