Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017
Latest action · Apr 11, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
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.
- IntroducedMar 22, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; (2) modify the definition of subpart F income (i.e., income of a controlled foreign corporation earned outside the United States that is not tax-deferred) to include income of a controlled foreign corporation derived from a foreign country; and (3) transfer to the fund revenues from the newly included subpart F income.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture must allocate funds from the trust fund to specified clean water programs, drinking water programs, and water well systems.
The bill amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the EPA to make grants for providing technical assistance concerning water and sanitation infrastructure and drinking water systems to rural and small municipalities and tribal governments. The EPA must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields.
The bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas.
The bill revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF.
The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the EPA to make grants to local educational agencies for: (1) infrastructure to ensure that drinking water in schools is lead free, and (2) testing drinking water in schools for lead.
Cosponsors 40
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 22, 2017 to Oct 24, 2017, with 22 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-MI | Brenda L. Lawrence | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Original | Mar 22, 2017 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 11, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
- Mar 24, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
- Mar 23, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Mar 22, 2017Introduced in House
- Mar 22, 2017Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5609 | Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018 | Related bill | May 22, 2018 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Child health
- Congressional oversight
- Education programs funding
- Educational facilities and institutions
- Elementary and secondary education
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental Protection
- Foreign and international corporations
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Indian social and development programs
- Labor-management relations
- Metals
- Public utilities and utility rates
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Rural conditions and development
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local finance
- Taxation of foreign income
- Water quality
- Water resources funding
- Water use and supply
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 22, 2017Introduced in House
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