A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to reduce the funding available for a State under the national highway performance program and the surface transportation program if the State issues a license plate that contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.

Bill: 114-s-1689
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2015-06-25
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Licensing and registrations

Motor vehicles

National symbols

Racial and ethnic relations

Roads and highways

State and local government operations

Transportation programs funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-25
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the amounts apportioned to a state under the national highway performance program and the surface transportation program to be reduced by 5% for: (1) each fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act in which the state issues a license plate that contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America; and (2) each fiscal year beginning with the second fiscal year after enactment of this Act in which the state allows such a license plate issued before the fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act to be displayed on a motor vehicle registered in the state.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1689 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 25, 2015 Mr. Brown introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To amend title 23, United States Code, to reduce the funding available for a State under the national highway performance program and the surface transportation program if the State issues a license plate that contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.

1. Reduction of apportionment for certain Federal-aid highway programs Section 104 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) Reduction of apportionment for certain Federal-Aid highway programs The amount apportioned to a State under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) shall be reduced by an amount equal to 5 percent of those funds— (1) effective beginning on October 1 of the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, for each fiscal year in which the State issues a license plate that contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America; and (2) effective beginning on October 1 of the second fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, for each fiscal year in which the State allows a license plate described in paragraph (1) and issued by the State before the first fiscal year referred to in that paragraph to be displayed on a motor vehicle registered in the State. .