Investing In America: Unlocking the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act
Latest action · Apr 6, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
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.
- IntroducedApr 5, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Investing In America: Unlocking the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act
This bill amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 and the Internal Revenue Code to make certain amounts in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund equivalent to port use tax receipts available for its statutorily prescribed purposes without further appropriation, including for expenditures to pay 100% of the eligible operations and maintenance costs of specified portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway and up to 100% of the eligible operations and maintenance costs assigned to commercial navigation of all U.S. harbors and inland harbors.
Trust fund receipts and disbursements shall:
- not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of the federal budget, the congressional budget, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010;
- be exempt from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on government expenditures and net lending (budget outlays); and
- be available only for the statutorily prescribed purposes of such fund.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 5, 2017.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Apr 5, 2017 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 6, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Apr 5, 2017Introduced in House
- Apr 5, 2017Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 5, 2017Introduced in House
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