Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004
Latest action · Feb 25, 2004 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 10, 2004
- Passed HouseFeb 11, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004 - Extends Federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs, and authorizes appropriations, through June 30, 2004.
(Sec. 2) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend the off-system bridge set-aside through June 30, 2004.
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA21) to extend to June 30, 2004, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund.
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation.
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through June 30, 2004.
Prohibits a State from obligating after June 30, 2004, any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project until the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.
Considers any obligation of certain obligation authority distributed under this Act to be an obligation for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 2004 under the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004.
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to prohibit any transfer by certain States after February 29, 2004, from unobligated amounts apportioned for: (1) the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program; and (2) the surface transportation program.
(Sec. 4) Makes specified funds available from the Highway Trust Fund for administrative expenses of the Federal-aid highway program for FY 2004.
(Sec. 5) Extends the authorization of appropriations under TEA21 for: (1) Federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) surface transportation research; (12) the technology deployment program; (13) training and education; (14) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (15) Intermodal Transportation System standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (16) university transportation research; (17) metropolitan planning; (18) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (19) the Alaska highway program;(20) Operation Lifesaver; (21) the bridge discretionary program; (22) interstate maintenance; (23) recreational trails administrative costs; and (24) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
Extends through June 30, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified non-discrimination program.
(Sec. 6) Extends the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants; (3) certain highway safety programs; (4) highway safety research and development (R&D); (5) occupant protection incentive grants; (6) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (6) the National Driver Register.
(Sec. 7) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 to extend through June 30, 2004, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; and (4) continuation of a crash causation study.
(Sec. 8) Extends through June 30, 2004, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for Federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization; (2) formula grants; (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research, including university transportation research; (6) the job access and reverse commute program; (7) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (8) urbanized area formula grants; (9) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (10) the advanced technology pilot project; (11) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (12) the New Jersey urban core project.
(Sec. 9) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through April 30, 2004. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972.
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
(Sec. 10) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through June 30, 2004, the authorization for the use of the Highway Trust Fund and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 24 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass | Passed421–0 | Feb 11, 2004 |
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Feb 10, 2004 |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred Feb 11, 2004 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 10, 2004 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 10, 2004 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Feb 11, 2004 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Feb 10, 2004 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2004Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434.
- Feb 24, 2004Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- Feb 12, 2004Received in the Senate.
- Feb 11, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
- Feb 11, 2004Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
In the Congressional Record 4
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E259 | Gene Green D-TX | Feb 26, 2004 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1608 | Mitch McConnell R-KY | Feb 25, 2004 |
| Senate · Extensions | Debate and remarks E197, S1529 | Harry Reid D-NV, James L. Oberstar D-MN, William H. Frist R-TN | Feb 24, 2004 |
| House | Debate and remarks H465–H473Text printed H465–H468Recorded votes H478enact | Don Young R-AK, Earl Blumenauer D-OR, Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC, Elijah E. Cummings D-MD, James L. Oberstar D-MN, John D. Dingell D-MI, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Steven C. LaTourette R-OH, Thomas E. Petri R-WI, William O. Lipinski D-IL | Feb 11, 2004 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3850 | Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004 | Related bill | Feb 29, 2004 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide an extension of highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004
- Popular Titles
- TEA21 bill
- TEA-21 bill
- Highway Trust Fund Programs Extension bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Alaska
- American Samoa
- Animals
- Aquatic ecology
- Authorization
- Boats and boating
- Boundaries
- Bridges
- Commuting
- Construction costs
- Data banks
- Department of Transportation
- Driver licenses
- Drug abuse
- Drunk driving
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee training
- Energy
- Environmental education
- Environmental Protection
- Excise tax
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Fishing
- Fuel cells
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Guam
- Higher education
- Highspeed ground transportation
- Highway finance
- Highway maintenance
- Highway use tax
- Housing and Community Development
- Indian lands
- Infrastructure
- Intermodal transportation
- Interstate highway system
- Labor and Employment
- Light rail transit
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine pollution
- Marine safety
- Marine terminals
- Mass rapid transit
- Metropolitan areas
- Minorities
- Motor buses
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Motor vehicle safety
- National parks
- Native Americans
- New Jersey
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Passenger ships
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Puerto Rico
- Railroad engineering
- Railroad safety
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Road construction
- Scenic byways
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Seat belts
- Ships
- Sports and Recreation
- Subways
- Tax evasion
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Terminals (Transportation)
- Traffic accidents and safety
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic engineering
- Trails
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation engineering
- Transportation planning
- Transportation research
- Trucking
- Trucks
- Urban affairs
- Urban transportation
- Virgin Islands
- Washington State
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- Wildlife refuges
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2004Placed on Calendar Senate
- Feb 11, 2004Engrossed in House
- Feb 10, 2004Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.