Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act

Bill: 113-hr-1432
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cotton, Tom [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-09
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations

Aviation and airports

Budget deficits and national debt

Department of Transportation

Executive agency funding and structure

Transportation programs funding

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act - Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 to increase funding to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for air traffic organization activities. Allocates certain appropriations for contract tower program for contract towers in operation as of February 1, 2013.</p> <p>Specifies offsetting rescissions from FY2013 FAA appropriations for facilities and equipment and for research, engineering, and development.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1432 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 9, 2013 Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mr. Hudson , and Mr. Braley of Iowa ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, to modify the amounts appropriated for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act . 2. Modification of Federal Aviation Administration funding (a) In general Title VIII of Division F of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, is amended by adding at the end the following: 1811. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Operations shall be $9,703,395,000: Provided , That the amounts specified in the matter under the heading Federal Aviation Administration—Operations in title I of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (division C of Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 645) shall be applied to funds appropriated by this division— (1) by substituting $7,492,738,000 for $7,442,738,000 ; and (2) by substituting $10,350,000 shall be for the contract tower cost-sharing program and not less than $130,500,000 shall be for the contract tower program for contract towers in operation as of February 1, 2013 for $10,350,000 shall be for the contract tower cost-sharing program . . (b) Offsetting rescissions Of amounts appropriated for fiscal years before fiscal year 2013 that remain available for obligation as of the date of the enactment of this Act and that are not designated an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the following amounts are rescinded from the following accounts: (1) Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Facilities and Equipment , $23,861,002. (2) Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Research, Engineering, and Development , $26,183,998.