116 HR 2705 IH: Water Infrastructure Trust Fund Act of 2019
U.S. House of Representatives
2019-05-14
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I116th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 2705IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESMay 14, 2019Mr. Blumenauer (for himself and Mr. Katko) introduced the following bill; which was 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 concernedA BILLTo establish a Water Infrastructure Trust Fund, and for other purposes.

 1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund Act of 2019. 2.Establishment and funding of Water Infrastructure Trust Fund (a)Water Infrastructure Trust Fund (1)In generalSubchapter A of chapter 98 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to establishment of trust funds) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

						9512.Water Infrastructure Trust Fund
 (a)Creation of trust fundThere is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund, consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to such fund as provided in this section or section 9602(b).
 (b)Transfers to trust fundThere are hereby appropriated to the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the fees received in the Treasury before January 1, 2025, under section 2(b) of the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund Act of 2019.
 (c)ExpendituresExcept as provided by subsection (d), amounts in the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund shall be available, without further appropriation, as follows:
 (1)50 percent of the amounts shall be available to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for making capitalization grants under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381).
 (2)50 percent of the amounts shall be available to the Administrator for making capitalization grants under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12).
 (d)Limitation on expendituresAmounts in the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund may not be made available for a fiscal year unless the funds appropriated to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund through annual capitalization grants is not less than the average of the annual amounts provided in capitalization grants under section 601 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) and section 1452 of the Safe Water Drinking Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) for the 5-fiscal-year period immediately preceding such fiscal year..
 (2)Clerical amendmentThe table of sections for subchapter A of chapter 98 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

							Sec. 9512. Water Infrastructure Trust Fund..
				(b)Voluntary labeling system
 (1)In generalThe Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, manufacturers, producers, and importers, shall develop and implement a program under which the Secretary provides a label designed in consultation with manufacturers, producers, and importers suitable for placement on products to inform consumers that the manufacturer, producer, or importer of the product, and other stakeholders, participates in the Water Infrastructure Trust Fund and is contributing to America’s clean water.
 (2)FeeThe Secretary shall provide a label for a fee of 3 cents per unit. Amounts received by the Secretary shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.
 (c)Effective dateThe amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
			3.EPA Study on Water Pricing
 (a)StudyThe Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with participation by the States, shall conduct a study to—
 (1)assess the affordability gap faced by low-income populations located in urban and rural areas in obtaining services from clean water and drinking water systems; and
 (2)analyze options for programs to provide incentives for rate adjustments at the local level to achieve full cost or true value pricing for such services, while protecting low-income ratepayers from undue burden.
 (b)ReportNot later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report on the results of the study required under subsection (a).


		I
		111th CONGRESS
		2d Session
		H. R. 6480
		IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

			December 2, 2010
			Mr. Carnahan
			 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
			 Committee on Ways and
			 Means

		A BILL
		To suspend temporarily the duty on certain work boots for
		  women.

		1.Certain work boots for
			 women
			(a)In
			 generalSubchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff
			 Schedule of the United States is amended by inserting in numerical sequence the
			 following new heading:

								9902.64.01Work footwear for women with outer soles of rubber, plastics,
						leather or composition leather and uppers of leather, incorporating a
						protective toe cap of materials other than metal, covering the ankle to a
						height greater than 6″ (provided for in subheading 6403.91.90.15)
						FreeNo changeNo changeOn or before
						12/31/2012

					.
			(b)Effective
			 dateThe amendment made by subsection (a) applies to articles
			 entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day
			 after the date of the enactment of this Act.


113 HR 828 IH: Decrease Spending Now Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2013-02-26
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I
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 828
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 26, 2013
Mr. Price of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Flores, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Scalise) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

A BILL
To rescind $45 billion of unobligated discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Decrease Spending Now Act.
2.Rescission of unobligated discretionary appropriations
(a)In generalOf the unobligated balances of discretionary appropriations on the date of enactment of this Act, $45,000,000,000 is rescinded.
(b)Implementation
(1)In generalThe Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine which appropriation accounts the rescission under subsection (a) shall apply to and the amount that each such account shall be reduced by pursuant to such rescission.
(2)ReportNot later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress listing the accounts reduced by the rescission in subsection (a) and the amounts rescinded from each such account.
(c)ExceptionsThe rescission under subsection (a) shall not apply to the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Social Security Administration.


116 SRES 110 IS: Keeping guns out of classrooms.
U.S. Senate
2019-03-14
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		III
		116th CONGRESS
		1st Session
		S. RES. 110
		IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

			March 14, 2019
			Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mrs. Murray) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

		RESOLUTION
		Keeping guns out of classrooms.

 Whereas Congress has consistently made clear that it is unlawful for Federal funds to be used for training or arming school personnel with firearms;
 Whereas Congress passed the STOP School Violence Act of 2018 (title V of division S of Public Law 115–141) in response to the shooting in Parkland, Florida, and amended part AA of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10551 et seq.) to specify that No amounts provided as a grant [for school security under such part] may be used for the provision to any person of a firearm or training in the use of a firearm.;
 Whereas section 4102 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7113), as added by section 4101 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (Public Law 114–95; 129 Stat. 1970), defines drug and violence prevention in schools as including the creation … of a school environment that is free of weapons;
 Whereas existing research demonstrates that training or arming school personnel with firearms will not make schools safer;
 Whereas an analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of active shooters between 2000 and 2013 found that trained law enforcement suffered casualties in 21 of the 45 incidents in which officers engaged the shooter to end the threat;
 Whereas a survey of gun violence on school campuses showed that out of 225 incidents of gun violence between 1999 and 2018, trained armed personnel or school resource officers failed to disarm an active shooter 223 times;
 Whereas proposed and existing programs to train or arm school personnel with firearms require significantly less training than law enforcement officers receive;
 Whereas research demonstrates that increased gun access and possession are not associated with protection from violence and a greater prevalence of guns increases the likelihood of gun violence;
 Whereas a greater prevalence of guns in schools creates undue risk of students gaining unauthorized access to firearms and the potential for unintentional shootings and school staff using guns in situations that do not warrant lethal force;
 Whereas students of color, students with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups would experience a disparate impact of programs that arm school personnel as those students are disproportionately disciplined and arrested;
 Whereas heightened policing within public school spaces decreases a student’s sense of safety and the associated anticipation of violence leads to increased anxiety, fear, and depression;
 Whereas 73 percent of teachers in the United States do not want to carry guns in school and 58 percent say arming personnel would make schools less safe, according to a Gallup poll from March 2018;
 Whereas the majority of parents of school-aged children oppose arming school personnel, according to surveys;
 Whereas, as of March 2019, there is no evidence supporting the value of arming school personnel; Whereas the broad consensus among participants in the listening tour for the final report of the Federal Commission on School Safety released in December 2018 was disagreement with programs that would arm school personnel, according to transcripts; and
 Whereas, in that final report, the Department of Education endorsed the use of Federal funds to train personnel to use firearms: Now, therefore, be it

 That it is the sense of the Senate that Federal funds shall not be used to train or arm school personnel with firearms.


		I
		112th CONGRESS
		1st Session
		H. R. 964
		IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

			March 9, 2011
			Mr. Bishop of New
			 York (for himself, Mr.
			 McNerney, Mr. Walz of
			 Minnesota, Mr. McIntyre,
			 Mr. Braley of Iowa,
			 Mr. Yarmuth, and
			 Mr. Chandler) introduced the following
			 bill; which was referred to the Committee
			 on Energy and Commerce

		A BILL
		To protect consumers from price-gouging of gasoline and
		  other fuels, and for other purposes.

		1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the
			 Federal Price Gouging Prevention
			 Act.
		2.Unconscionable pricing
			 of gasoline and other petroleum distillates during emergencies
			(a)Unconscionable
			 pricing
				(1)In
			 generalIt shall be unlawful
			 for any person to sell, at wholesale or at retail in an area and during a
			 period of an international crisis affecting the oil markets proclaimed under
			 paragraph (2), gasoline or any other petroleum distillate covered by a
			 proclamation issued under paragraph (2) at a price that—
					(A)is unconscionably
			 excessive; and
					(B)indicates the
			 seller is taking unfair advantage of the circumstances related to an
			 international crisis to increase prices unreasonably.
					(2)Energy emergency
			 proclamation
					(A)In
			 generalThe President may issue a proclamation of an
			 international crisis affecting the oil markets and may designate any area
			 within the jurisdiction of the United States, where the prohibition in
			 paragraph (1) shall apply. The proclamation shall state the geographic area
			 covered, the gasoline or other petroleum distillate covered, and the time
			 period that such proclamation shall be in effect.
					(B)DurationThe proclamation—
						(i)may not apply for
			 a period of more than 30 consecutive days, but may be renewed for such
			 consecutive periods, each not to exceed 30 days, as the President determines
			 appropriate; and
						(ii)may include a
			 period of time not to exceed 1 week preceding a reasonably foreseeable
			 emergency.
						(3)Factors
			 consideredIn determining whether a person has violated paragraph
			 (1), there shall be taken into account, among other factors—
					(A)whether the amount charged by such person
			 for the applicable gasoline or other petroleum distillate at a particular
			 location in an area covered by a proclamation issued under paragraph (2) during
			 the period such proclamation is in effect—
						(i)grossly exceeds
			 the average price at which the applicable gasoline or other petroleum
			 distillate was offered for sale by that person during the 30 days prior to such
			 proclamation;
						(ii)grossly exceeds the price at which the same
			 or similar gasoline or other petroleum distillate was readily obtainable in the
			 same area from other competing sellers during the same period;
						(iii)reasonably reflected additional costs, not
			 within the control of that person, that were paid, incurred, or reasonably
			 anticipated by that person, or reflected additional risks taken by that person
			 to produce, distribute, obtain, or sell such product under the circumstances;
			 and
						(iv)was substantially attributable to local,
			 regional, national, or international market conditions; and
						(B)whether the quantity of gasoline or other
			 petroleum distillate the person produced, distributed, or sold in an area
			 covered by a proclamation issued under paragraph (2) during a 30-day period
			 following the issuance of such proclamation increased over the quantity that
			 that person produced, distributed, or sold during the 30 days prior to such
			 proclamation, taking into account usual seasonal demand variations.
					(b)DefinitionsAs
			 used in this section—
				(1)the term
			 wholesale, with respect to sales of gasoline or other petroleum
			 distillates, means either truckload or smaller sales of gasoline or petroleum
			 distillates where title transfers at a product terminal or a refinery, and
			 dealer tank wagon sales of gasoline or petroleum distillates priced on a
			 delivered basis to retail outlets; and
				(2)the term retail, with respect
			 to sales of gasoline or other petroleum distillates, includes all sales to end
			 users such as motorists as well as all direct sales to other end users such as
			 agriculture, industry, residential, and commercial consumers.
				3.Enforcement by
			 the Federal Trade Commission
			(a)Enforcement by
			 FTCA violation of section 2
			 shall be treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act
			 or practice prescribed under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade
			 Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). The Federal Trade Commission shall
			 enforce this Act in the same manner, by the same means, and with the same
			 jurisdiction as though all applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade
			 Commission Act were incorporated into and made a part of this Act. In enforcing
			 section 2 of this Act, the Commission shall give priority to enforcement
			 actions concerning companies with total United States wholesale or retail sales
			 of gasoline and other petroleum distillates in excess of $10,000,000,000 per
			 year.
			(b)Civil
			 penalties
				(1)In
			 generalNotwithstanding the
			 penalties set forth under the Federal Trade Commission Act, any person who
			 violates section 2 with actual knowledge or knowledge fairly implied on the
			 basis of objective circumstances shall be subject to—
					(A)a civil penalty of
			 not more than 3 times the amount of profits gained by such person through such
			 violation; or
					(B)a civil penalty of
			 not more than $100,000,000.
					(2)MethodThe
			 penalties provided by paragraph (1) shall be obtained in the same manner as
			 civil penalties obtained under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
			 (15 U.S.C. 45).
				(3)Multiple
			 offenses; mitigating factorsIn assessing the penalty provided by
			 subsection (a)—
					(A)each day of a
			 continuing violation shall be considered a separate violation; and
					(B)the court shall take into consideration,
			 among other factors, the seriousness of the violation and the efforts of the
			 person committing the violation to remedy the harm caused by the violation in a
			 timely manner.
					4.Criminal
			 penalties
			(a)In
			 generalIn addition to any
			 penalty applicable under section 3, any person who violates section 2 shall be
			 fined under title 18, United States Code, in an amount not to exceed
			 $500,000,000.
			(b)EnforcementThe criminal penalty provided by subsection
			 (a) may be imposed only pursuant to a criminal action brought by the Attorney
			 General or other officer of the Department of Justice. The Attorney General
			 shall give priority to enforcement actions concerning companies with total
			 United States wholesale or retail sales of gasoline and other petroleum
			 distillates in excess of $10,000,000,000 per year.
			5.Enforcement at
			 retail level by State attorneys general
			(a)In
			 generalA State, as parens
			 patriae, may bring a civil action on behalf of its residents in an appropriate
			 district court of the United States to enforce the provisions of section 2 of
			 this Act, or to impose the civil penalties authorized by section 3(b)(1)(B),
			 whenever the attorney general of the State has reason to believe that the
			 interests of the residents of the State have been or are being threatened or
			 adversely affected by a violation of this Act or a regulation under this Act,
			 involving a retail sale.
			(b)NoticeThe
			 State shall serve written notice to the Federal Trade Commission of any civil
			 action under subsection (a) prior to initiating such civil action. The notice
			 shall include a copy of the complaint to be filed to initiate such civil
			 action, except that if it is not feasible for the State to provide such prior
			 notice, the State shall provide such notice immediately upon instituting such
			 civil action.
			(c)Authority To
			 interveneUpon receiving the notice required by subsection (b),
			 the Federal Trade Commission may intervene in such civil action and upon
			 intervening—
				(1)be heard on all
			 matters arising in such civil action; and
				(2)file petitions for
			 appeal of a decision in such civil action.
				(d)ConstructionFor
			 purposes of bringing any civil action under subsection (a), nothing in this
			 section shall prevent the attorney general of a State from exercising the
			 powers conferred on the attorney general by the laws of such State to conduct
			 investigations or to administer oaths or affirmations or to compel the
			 attendance of witnesses or the production of documentary and other
			 evidence.
			(e)Venue; service
			 of processIn a civil action brought under subsection (a)—
				(1)the venue shall be
			 a judicial district in which—
					(A)the defendant
			 operates;
					(B)the defendant was
			 authorized to do business; or
					(C)the defendant in
			 the civil action is found;
					(2)process may be
			 served without regard to the territorial limits of the district or of the State
			 in which the civil action is instituted; and
				(3)a person who
			 participated with the defendant in an alleged violation that is being litigated
			 in the civil action may be joined in the civil action without regard to the
			 residence of the person.
				(f)Limitation on
			 State action while Federal action is pendingIf the Federal Trade
			 Commission has instituted a civil action or an administrative action for
			 violation of this Act, no State attorney general, or official or agency of a
			 State, may bring an action under this subsection during the pendency of that
			 action against any defendant named in the complaint of the Federal Trade
			 Commission or the other agency for any violation of this Act alleged in the
			 complaint.
			(g)Enforcement of
			 State LawNothing contained in this section shall prohibit an
			 authorized State official from proceeding in State court to enforce a civil or
			 criminal statute of such State.
			6.Effect on other
			 laws
			(a)Other authority
			 of Federal Trade CommissionNothing in this Act shall be
			 construed to limit or affect in any way the Federal Trade Commission’s
			 authority to bring enforcement actions or take any other measure under the
			 Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) or any other provision of
			 law.
			(b)State
			 lawNothing in this Act preempts any State law.